Journalists on the front line

This week journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in the Syrian city of Homs while reporting on atrocities being committed against civilians by government forces. Their deaths have highlighted the dangers war correspondents face reporting on situations of conflict. Lydia O’Kane spoke to the Director of Information at Reporters Without Borders, Gilles Lordet about the risks involved for correspondents and what they can do to prepare.

He says “There is a different kind of training depending on the country where you are from. There is one in France and Italy, there is a very good one in the UK training to prepare you to war zone and to prepare you to security mechanism to protect you from risk, but you cannot be one hundred per cent protected from the risk you take."

Gilles Lordet also thinks that journalists are been targeted by the Syrian regime, especially Syrian journalists. Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview.