The best BBC News reports

John Simpson won an Emmy for his report on the liberation of Kabul in 2001.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/12/1268414206640/Simpson-goes-into-Kabul-2-001.jpg

Chie Chieson just won the award for most pointless image embed on the forum ever.

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I do think the best report has to be the piece on Ethiopia, very powerful.

The lunar eclipse? That's not even news. It's a nature programme.

For me it's Brian Hanrahan on top of the Berlin wall in November 1989, the whole Nine O'Clock News from that day is on the BBC website somewhere and it's definitely worth a watch, quite historic stuff.

It's not even that!

Brian Hanrahan during the Falkland war came up with this clever comment :"I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back"

Powerful stuff indeed...perhaps in contrast to a now famous Newsnight outside broadcast almost a year later...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8359845.stm

On the subject of the Berlin Wall, it's from a few years ago but if you haven't read Olenka Frankiel's take of the fall of the Berlin Wall then it's well worth taking a look. The bit about the camera crew confusion that lead Olenka to take a piece of the Berlin wall back to the Newsnight studio is just something you couldn't imagine happening today. For anyone interested, the article is here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8350830.stm

I meant the one in 1999 over the South West

So that'd be the Total Solar Eclipse then. A lunar eclipse is much more common.

Yes, that's a solar eclipse, and again, it was hardly a news event. Maybe something for the end of the regional news but hardly something that shook the world.

Michael Buerk and cameraman Mohammed Amin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/correspondents/newsid_2626000/2626349.stm


Mohammed Amin died aged 53 in 1996 when the hijacked 'plane in which he was flying, crashed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Amin

Mo Amin was a well known news cameraman, so much so that Al Jazeera did a series documenting his life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5d9OYhJkdc (episode 1 part 1 doesn't work for some reason)


Yes, the crash is quite famous as it was, unusually, captured on camera by someone on the beach nearby. The reason Mo died in it when so many others survived was because he was out of his seat trying to confront the hijackers and therefore didn't survive the impact.

The story of the hijacking is an interesting one. The hijackers wanted the plane to fly to Australia and worked out that the plane could hold enough fuel to get them there..... however it didn't occur to them that airlines only put what they need into the tanks! Air Crash Investigation did a programme on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VXU9u31TU