Stephen Sackur appearing on the Nine O'Clock News in 1996.

Stephen John Sackur (born January 9, 1964) in Spilsby in Lincolnshire is a British journalist working for the BBC. He is the regular presenter of HARDtalk, the current affairs interview programme on BBC World and BBC News 24. He was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys, then at Cambridge University and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in America. The Nine OClock News is a BBC news programme which began in 1970 and ended in 2000. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Location within the British Isles Spilsby is a market town in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of about 2500. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest public broadcasting corporation in the world. ... BBC World is the British Broadcasting Corporations 24-hour international current affairs TV channel with BBC News, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interviews, and was launched in January 1995. ... BBC News 24 is BBC News 24-hour news television channel in the UK, its international counterpart being BBC World. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The John F. Kennedy School of Government is a school within Harvard University that offers graduate degrees in public policy and public administration, as well as conducting research in various subjects relating to politics and government. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... America usually means either: The Americas, the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere, usually divided into North America and South America The United States of America // People America Ferrera, a U.S. actress, of Honduran immigrant parents. ...

Previously, Stephen was the BBC's Europe correspondent and, prior to that, the BBC's Washington correspondent.

Stephen joined the BBC in 1986 as a trainee.

In 1990 he was appointed the BBC's foreign affairs correspondent. He was part of the BBC's team of correspondents covering the Gulf War and spent eight weeks with the British army when the conflict began. Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf, Sir Patrick Hine, Michel Roquejeoffre Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Hussein Kamel Strength 660,000 545,000 Casualties 345 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 - 100,000 dead, 100,000 - 300,000 wounded The 1991 Gulf War (also called the...

Stephen was also the first correspondent to break the story of the mass killing on the Basra road out of Kuwait City which marked the end of the war.

Whilst working as a correspondent for BBC Radio, he was a witness to the last days of communism, reporting on the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia and the re-unification of Germany. BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ... Non-violent protesters are fighting with flowers against armored policemen The Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) refers to a bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. ...

In 1992 Stephen became the BBC's Middle East correspondent based in Cairo and moved to Jerusalem 1995. During this time he reported on the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat. (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רָבִּין), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. ... Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) August 24 or August 4, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born in Cairo or Jerusalem (sources vary, official death certificate says Jerusalem), Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004...

Whilst preparing for a documentary on Islamic fundamentalism, Stephen lived with Hezbollah guerrillas in South Lebanon for two weeks. Hezbollah flag For other uses, see Hezbollah (disambiguation). ...

In 1997 to 2002, Stephen was appointed as the BBC's Washington correspondent. During this time he covered the scandal surrounding former US President Bill Clinton and his subsequent impeachment trial, the 2000 US presidential elections and has interviewed US President George W Bush. William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ...

In 2003, Stephen returned to Iraq just after the fall of Saddam Hussein and filed the first television pictures on Iraq's mass graves containing the bodies of thousands of victims of Saddam's regime. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, (Arabic: ), (born April 28, 1937 ), was the President of Iraq from 1979 until the United States-led invasion of Iraq reached Baghdad on April 9, 2003. ...

He was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire and studied at Cambridge University and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

External link

• BBC Newswatch profile