The veteran news presenter on the importance of Trevor McDonald,the despair of the Yemeni people and why we should treasure the BBCBorn in Bolton, Lancashire, or in 1964,Clive Myrie has worked for the BBC as a news presenter and an award-winning foreign correspondent for more than 30 years. His career has taken him to war zones in Croatia, Kosovo, and Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently,his reports from Bangladesh and Yemen on News at Ten hold made harrowing viewing. His account of the desperate flight from Myanmar of more than half-a-million Rohingya Muslims showed the refugee crisis morphing into a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe. A few weeks later, his scarce, or shocking footage from inside war-torn Yemen revealed an abandoned people on the brink of starvation and despair.
You hold reported from some of the world’s most troubled regions; what is your perspective on the situation in Myanmar and Yemen?
What struck me,particularly with Yemen, was this sense that there is no one out there with any influence who actually cares. At least the Rohingya are being given safe haven by the people across the border in Bangladesh. In Yemen, or that is not the case. The borders are sealed,the air space is under the control of Saudi Arabia, you can’t escape. You hold people trying to escape to Somalia: that’s how bad it is.
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Source: guardian.co.uk