Martin Fletcher

Dec 4, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Martin Fletcher

On his six-day journey, Martin Fletcher cycled along and around the Civilian Control Zone, passing through military checkpoints and often being banned from taking photographs Credit: Ben Rice From our mountaintop observation post we enjoy a panoramic view of a vast, empty plateau flanked and dissected by hills and ridges. Elsewhere in the world such scenery would invite exploration, but not here. This is forbidden territory. We are gazing into North Korea across the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)...

Oct 16, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Martin Fletcher

Who is the world’s most famous news and current affairs interviewer? Christiane Amanpour? Katie Couric? Anderson Cooper? Piers Morgan? Let me suggest another contender for the title: Stephen Sackur, the gangly, deep-voiced host of the BBC’s television and radio programme HARDtalk, which the BBC announced it was axing this week. He is hardly a household name in Britain, where HARDtalk is screened only in the small hours of the morning, but he certainly is across the rest of the planet.

Oct 9, 2024 | msn.com | Martin Fletcher

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Oct 9, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Martin Fletcher

I was lucky. By chance I asked directions from one of the few locals, a farmer, who knew where the search site was. I followed his pick-up through the labyrinthine lanes that criss-cross the Irish border south of Newry, then half a mile down a dirt track past fields of cows and maize. There he pointed out a mechanical digger working a hundred yards away. I drove on and parked at the gate of a small, enclosed patch of rough land, scarcely two acres in total.

Jul 26, 2024 | thetimes.com | Martin Fletcher

Outside the Ukrainian embassy in Holland Park, west London, a convoy of 50 trucks, four-wheel drives, ambulances and a solitary red bus is about to depart for Ukraine. Most have been donated through the Ulez scrappage scheme. The vehicles will be used to ferry supplies to — and stricken soldiers from — the front line until they themselves are, inevitably, destroyed by Russian missiles. A man who knows all about fighting has come to speed the convoy on its way.