- Stephen Sackur
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name = Stephen John Sackur
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birth_date = 9 January 1964
birth_place =Spilsby ,England
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education =Emmanuel College ,Cambridge University
occupation = Journalist
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credits =BBC , foreign affairs correspondent (1986-2003)HARDtalk , host (2004-present)
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URL =Stephen John Sackur (born
9 January 1964 ) [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1025167/bio Stephen Sackur - Biography ] ] is aBBC journalist who presentsHARDtalk , a current affairs interview programme onBBC World andBBC News 24 .Life
Stephen Sackur was born in
Spilsby ,Lincolnshire ,England , and studied atCambridge University andHarvard University 'sJohn F. Kennedy School of Government . He is married to Zina Sabbagh and has three children. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/stephensackur.shtml BBC - Press Office - Stephen Sackur ] ]Career
Sackur began working at the BBC as a trainee in 1986, and in 1990, he was appointed as one of its foreign affairs correspondents. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3510000/newsid_3517000/3517090.stm NewsWatch | Profiles | Stephen Sackur ] ] As a BBC Radio correspondent, Stephen reported on the
Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the re-unification of Germany in 1990. During theGulf War , he was part of a BBC team covering the conflict and spent eight weeks with the British Army. At the end of the war, he was the first correspondent to report the massacre of the retreating Iraqi army on the road leading out of Kuwait. Stephen was based inCairo ,Egypt between 1992 and 1995 as the BBC's correspondent in themiddle east and he later moved toJerusalem in 1995 until 1997. He covered both the death of Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin and the growth of the Palestinian Authority underYasser Arafat . Between 1997 and 2002, he was appointed the BBC's correspondent in Washington and covered theLewinsky scandal and subsequent impeachment of U.S. PresidentBill Clinton . He later covered the U.S. Presidential Election in 2000 and interviewed PresidentGeorge W. Bush . Stephen went back toIraq in 2003 after the fall ofSaddam Hussein and was the first to report Iraq's mass graves of victims of the regime.HARDtalk
In 2004, Stephen Sackur replaced veteran journalist
Tim Sebastian as the regular host of the BBC's news programHARDtalk . He has since interviewed prominent international personalities ranging from the French prime ministerJean-Pierre Raffarin , President of Iraq,Jalal Talabani , and Vice President of the European Commission,Günter Verheugen , to writers such asGore Vidal andRichard Dawkins .References
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/default.stm HARDtalk Official Site]
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