BUCKiT® #41-Jim Bittermann: CNN Senior European Correspondent, Recounts Major News Stories from the Front Lines

It’s 1998 and news correspondent, Jim Bittermann is reporting on the famine in Sudan. One hundred people a day are dying from starvation in the filth and dust because of a civil war that would eventually claim roughly two million lives over 22 years, one of the highest civilian death tolls of any war since World War II. Bittermann, is sending daily reports about the heart breaking situation back to NBC in the US - but little does he know, his news stories are making their way to the state department and will lead directly to a major change in policy that could save civilian lives. Jim Bittermann is a multi-awarding winning, Senior International Correspondent working for CNN in Paris. For the past 50 years Jim has worked on the front line as a journalist for all the major networks and has witnessed world changing events—the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War, the war in Sudan, the Middle East process, the deployment of US troops in Somalia, major earthquakes, NATO airstrikes in Kosovo, the list goes on and on and on. Phil Keoghan caught up with Jim between assignments to sit down with him, one on one, and hear dramatic first hand accounts of the news stories which have affected us all and had a long lasting impact -- not just in the United States, but globally.