She was also the first journalist to interview Dr Rihad Taha, a top Iraqi scientist, known as Dr Germ, for her part in Saddam Hussein's bacterial weapons programme.

PERSONAL: Born July 16, 1954, in Exeter, Devon, England; daughter of Aubrey and Olive Corbin; married John Maples (a politician), 1987; children: Tom, Rose. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American military and governmental offices, most notably the U. In November 2018, Corbin wrote and presented a major investigation into the Russian Novichok nerve agent attack in Salisbury on the former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. French and English: nickname meaning ‘little crow raven’ possibly applied to a black haired man from Old French Middle English corbin a diminutive of corb ‘raven’ (Anglo-Norman French corbin corfbin ‘crow raven’). Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics.Corbin has been reporting in 2020 on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom for Panorama and her documentary "On the NHS Frontline" recounts how a hospital in the hotspot of the Midlands coped with COVID-19 during the peak of the epidemic.

Q. Khan, in The Nuclear Super Market (2004) and later reported from the tribal area of Waziristan on the impact of America's secret drone war in Pakistan. Her report from Syria of human rights abuses against children and women in the town of Dera'a resulted in cases being brought before the International Court of Justice against members of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.On 1 October 2014, BBC Two broadcast Rwanda: The Untold Story, a documentary presented by Corbin, which contained a controversial account of the Rwandan genocide [1] [2] In particular, it presented evidence alleging President Paul Kagame was involved in shooting down the plane of his predecessor Juvénal Habyarimana, an event which is partly blamed for causing the 1994 genocide. Corbin’s documentary is pegged to the annual meeting of the board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to reset the Doomsday Clock – the bane of my life as a child, but now merely a point of detached interest and mostly as a design classic. At the end of the Gulf War, I entered Kuwait with the first Allied troops and reported the first documentary from there just five days after liberation. er work means she has consistently delivered in the most difficult and dangerous of circumstances while upholding the highest journalistic and ethical standards. In 2016 in a BBC film "Kill the Christians" she charted the destruction of Christian communities by ISIS, the Islamic State across the Middle East from Iraq to Syria and their exodus to Iraqi Kurdistan and the Lebanon.

SIDELIGHTS: Jane Corbin, a noted British news correspondent, has placed herself on the front lines of some of the most troubling international news stories making headlines during the late twentieth century and beyond. She is also an author and broadcaster who has covered politics and conflicts in the region for more than 30 years for the BBC. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. This is the device used since 1947 – two years after the dropping of atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima – to represent how close we are to destroying ourselves. My work is regularly shown in Africa and the Far and Middle East on the BBC's World Service Television.Jane Corbin is a Correspondent for BBC with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 Video Magazine.