Tim Marshall: Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall was Editor and Foreign Correspondent for Sky News, going on to become Middle East Correspondent. Tim reported from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan wars. He spent most of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, one of the few western journalists who stayed on to report from one of the main targets of NATO bombings. Tim was in Kosovo to greet the NATO troops when they advanced into Pristina. In recent years, he covered the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. Tim was shot with bird pellet in Cairo, hit over the head with a plank of wood in London, bruised by police in Tehran, arrested by Serbian intelligence, detained in Damascus, declared persona non grata in Croatia and bombed by RAF in Belgrade.