Alex Thomson
Tense times in Damascus as fighting erupts again
Alex Thomson and his team have a close encounter at a Syrian checkpoint.
Alex Thomson and his team have a close encounter at a Syrian checkpoint.
Bizarrely, the Syrian regime will happily allow you to film its dead soldiers but makes filming living ones all but impossible.
Ahead of his departure from Syria where the battle to oust President Bashar al-Assad rages, Channel 4 News’ chief correspondent Alex Thomson delivers his final dispatch.
Alex Thomson, chief correspondent at Channel 4 News, reports from Syria where UN monitors are stationed.
A band of brand new, out-of-nowhere, self-styled TV news reporters has sprung up in besieged Syrian cities. Their sudden emergence is a startling new phenomenon of the 11-month-long Syrian revolt. It is nothing short of a media revolution.