Asma Khalid

Fergal, mid 90's, as you mentioned, you reported from Rwanda in particular. This horrendous genocide where 800,000 people, including children, were massacred. And then around the same time, you had your own child. You wrote a quite famous audio essay called Letter to Daniel about your own son. My dear son, it is six o'clock in the morning on the island of Hong Kong.

Ajattelin, että jos taitajat tulisivat, itse tuntuisin olevani syvällä.

Fogel, sinä itse olit myöhemmin diagnoostunut PTSD-päällikkönä. Miten ja kun aloitit tunnistamaan, että olit myös vaikuttanut konfliktien kohdalla? Jos olen varma sinulle, niin mielestäni olin PTSD-päällikkönä very early age as a consequence of the environment in which I grew up.

You've talked about how difficult it was to stop going back to conflict zones because of its almost kind of compulsive nature of that kind of work. There are so many wars and conflicts happening in the world right now. Places where children don't have the choice of whether they can be there or not. They are there. Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan. What is the scale of the crisis for children around the world right now, Fogel?

Well, Fergal, thank you for bringing your insights and all of your years of reporting to us. Really appreciate it. Thank you. That was Fergal Keen, who sadly is leaving the BBC this spring after 37 years. And we want to thank Fergal for the incredible sensitive reporting he's done over all those decades. And we wish him the best of luck for what's next. We do indeed.

And so is the world.

I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

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No nyt on energiat kohdillaan.

Ja sähkösopparit.

Oomi.fi.

Mutkattomasti mukana.

Myös yrityksille.

Protein-hungry.

I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

Kun maailma on täynnä hälyä, koti kaipaa Tikkurila mutea.

Mute on syvämatta sisustusmaali.