Transcripts For FOXNEWS Sacrifice and Survival A Story From

FOXNEWS Sacrifice and Survival A Story From the Front Line July 6, 2024

Scene of a Battle Two Dais Ago and russians move forward and theyre shutting it right now and see the shuttering and the javelins thats been left. Start with the javelins. Just outside kyiv you can see the destruction thats been leftover and the russians were here trying to push into kyiv and they were repelled and the javelin missiles left by the Ukraine Indians and the churches demolished and these images are abandoned and no sense when the russians will try again. You say we need to run away from here. Awesome, awesome, man. You can feel guilt. Three, two, one. These ukrainian soldiers are on the front line now and the russians are a few miles behind us but shut oring all the type. We speak to these guys, theyre officially optimistic. They feel they can hold back the russians and win this battle. We have a fox news alert to pass along to you and news we hate to pass along to you, but its obviously what happens sometimes in the middle of a conflict. A fox news journalist has been injured while News Gathering outside of kyiv. Very few details but teams on the ground are working as hard as they can to try and gather more information i was sitting at the Pub Drinking A Pint and reading a book on iraq. So i was at the pub pouring pints and this guy was read ago book about iraq so i went up to him and said, see youre read ago book about iraq. My names rick. I want to be a war photographer. He said, oh, thats funny. My names benji and i wanted to bwant to be a want to be a Wr Correspondent and said im going in two weeks, do you want to come . I said [ bleep ] of course i do. Rick is someone that shares my passion for Story Telling And Passion For Travel and interest in conflict and geopolitics. He was good with words, im not, but i was better than him at pictures. It was like a match made in heaven. Jot sky is falling on all sides of us at the moment and were pinned down in the harbor. Were trying to get out right now. It really isnt safe, its not a good place to b. Trying to get in and out of the city was only by boat. We were running and all the shells were falling around us and that was bad. It was a really intense relationship because youre together going somewhere thats incredibly dangerous, and you have to be on the same page about why youre doing it. From day dot we had this pact, the deal was always if one of us wants to leave, there was no questioning from the other one. Youd never second guess the other person and thats probably saved our lives on numerous occasions. Once you start telling stories and once you start appreciating the impact they have on the viewer or the reader, youve got to keep doing that. Youve got front row seats to the worlds history unfolding in front of your eyes. Its tough because you have to go places that no one else has gone to. For us that was about going closer to the enemy, further forward in the war, behind enemy lines. Yeah, [ bleep ] myself a couple of times. Grow up traveling the world and going in and out of war zones and its somewhat selfish and putting yourself on the line and alicia taught me there was more to it. My name is iow alicia and im Benjamin Halls wife. I met benji and he was a freelancer. He did Dangerous Things equationally or a dot occasionally or a lot but didnt matter because he love what had he did. We went to School Together from 47. Thats where i first met him. He was only there for a couple of years and then went to a Different School but i continued on that school. Many years laterrives wandering through london and someone came up to me and said are you benji hall . I turned around and said, yes, yes thats me. I recked his name and my first reaction was we went to School Together. She came up to me and i thought office the luckiest man on earth. I saw her and fell in love with her almost immediately. But then she played hard to get for the next two years. I then spent two years calling her, traveling around working abroad a lot. If you keep on trying, eventually you get there. The streets around us are deserted, everyone who lives here has left town and various gun battles are being fought every couple of streets. Ive always been a champion of what he does. I think its really important. There are oftentimes i wouldnt tell alicia the danger we were going into and she would find out. I knew what he was doing. Woe talked about everything and hed keep the really sad parts to himself i think. Ive always been able to do what im doing, go out there and move back to my normal life. Alicia was a big part of that. Leaving the war and going back to someone you can be normal walleye. He was going to the terrible places and terrible things are happening, he always saw the good in everything. Incredible quality. You either see the good or see the bad. Your cups half full or full and overflowinflowing and benjis he always been overflames of uicing. Overflowing. Annoyingly like that. Its worked to his advantage because he couldnt do what hes doing without being annoyingly positive. Heading up to the front lines where isis troops are trying to take over an exu. S. Operating base called cobra. I was in iraq in 2015 just as we found out alicia was pregnant. I remember talking to her father on the phone and i said look, this sin credible news, were thrilled but my job cant continue like it. I understand that now. Ive got a child on the way and this has to change well, the stock is bubbling in the pot just till they taste what weve got [ tires squeal, crash ] when owning a Small Business gets real, progressive gets you right back to living the dream. Now, where were we . [ cheering ] psst psst ahhhh. With flonase, allergies dont have to be scary. Spray Flonase Sensimist daily for nondrowsy, long lasting relief in a scentfree, gentle mist. psst psst flonase. All good. I think fundamentally benji loves adventure and loves change and hes someone that will continue to move and he was ready to start a different phase in his life, 100 . These figures are jumping up every minute. He was offered a position in the London Bureau before we had honor, our first child. Im the Fox News Bureau chief. Grew up partly in serbia in the war and had lots of experience and covering conflicts and working teams in the field ands the do London Bureau. Working with a Wonderful Group of people and great team. The weaponry on display here. Had greg of course whos been or correspondent for decades and first one i spoke to over l. Over there is the headquarters of the Political Party covering Breaking News and thats our bread and butter and were specialized in field work and coveri covering that sort of important aspect of what we do. I am tim santos, field producer of the London Bureau and the jock we do nothing is free from them negated entirely. Most of the time the team is on the field and especially in hostile environments and ill get that very early in the morning around t3 00 a. M. And local time something will happen and we have to uncover things. Be very, very confident about them because you rely on them as they rely on you. People that really sort of made it a pleasurable and enjoyable place to work were mainly pierre. Pierre and i with a plan could tell what we wanted the other to do in the middle 06 shoot or work situation. I met him, i believe summer of 2002, our first time out in the assignment in west bank and were in a car, pierre is driving and im next to shipping fehim andwest bank shut down ane other end f the road is israeli tank and the pause, freeze, and i didnt quite know what to think or do. I said pa pierre, we didnt geta shot. He saided i know, well get a shot later but right now were about to be blown up. If youre counting it, about a 500 stick jim jordan situations he helped me get out of. Tall with crazy ridiculous hair and like it had a various turns of gray and touch of black and mustache. Pierre, is the type of person everyone should strive to be. Im Michelle Wossanton and im pierrewife. I guess it was probably about 95 i think when we met. Took me three months to get him, he played hard to get. I got him eventually, i did. Michelle is the only person pierre could have married. I believe pe pierre is the only person michelle could have married. I refer to them in the kindest way as people who love to travel, they travel continents and countries. I never met someone that loves the job as much as pierre and as happy and clever as pierre and became a great friend. Sharing a bedroom with fran cessca. What happens in that room stays in that room. From the day i started at fox, we developed a relationship for the work we were doing exactly on the same page. We loved the stories. We loved meeting people and traveling with the smallest camera we could and getting to place nosoone else could go and telling the story. Got a big story and live shot and Breaking News coming on the hour and pierre would stand on the box behind them. Pretty sure ive laughed on air a few times because pierre. Benji worked with pierre for a long time. You have your main base camera man you work with out of your bureau and thats who pierre was for benji. Im trey yingst and im a fox correspondent and im based in israel. I look up to pierre a lot and thats to maintain a beautiful, Healthy Family life and also be benji to maintain a beautiful family life and maintain a top work level. Six years in london butler joined owe, loved every day and offered to move to the State Department. That was a big decision. Id never even been to dc and suddenly he said hes been offered this job in dc to be the State Department correspondent. It was a great job for him. For my perspective, best move possible. There was less war involved, and it was also forward progression. I walk through the front door of the pentagon, the river entrance and this is the entrance with incredible line and the russians had been massing their troops on the border. Pentagon knew very clearly what wassiwhat was happening ang led banks on the border with ukraine this was different than an exercise. So all that intelligence was laid out for us as journalists. Its unpredictable in some ways and relative and pr over 5 Million People have fallen in love with a portable blender. Blendjet 2 gives you icecrushing, big blender power onthego. So you can throw in your favorite ingredients and blend up a delicious smoothie anytime, anywhere. Blendjet 2 even cleans itself. Just add water, a drop of soap, recharge quickly with any usb port. Ready to fall in love . Order yours now on blendjet. Com [ ] liv. Im marianne rafferty. 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Theres a relatively constant concern this could be the real concern this could be the calm before the storm. And greg palkim from london. This is photos of ukrainian soldiers. They go and do their four weeks to six weeks and do the lives and theyll go out and news gather and send stuff back to new york and Packag Packagesd tell us the story and whats happening on the ground. One person that was there from the beginning was pierre. When he arrived on the ground in kyiv, the guy meeting him from the intercot mental Hotel Intercontinental hotel lined up with him and he sent me a photo of it. It was funny. They were going out and covering the stories and he was sending me photos and they were convinced russia was going to invade. I think every single journalist that covered war or anything would want to go to ukraine. I wanted to go to ukraine. I think the pull for everyone to go was so strong. The call came in and said we want you out there as soon as possible. Theres a Flight Leaving and could you be on it . We had discussion before hed been asked like you must really feel bad youre not there and he did. He definitely needed to go. I think alicia understood the job i was doing and even if she had some misgivings about the dangers of the war, she knew it was important. Benjis job was going to ukraine and not going to kyiv. Exodus is underway and this line sneaks back about 20, 30 miles and has taken some people four days to get this far. In lviv, the story was mainly about the people trying to flee the east. Lviv hadnt been attacked at that point, but you had millions of people trying to get to safety, trying to get to poland. Theres women and children being called forward and not enough room to get the men out but no one know where is theyre going but they want to get anywhere and many people that simply will not get out. Thats what we saw day in and day out and Train Stations overcrowded and people that couldnt walkinned and desperately trying to get on the trains and everything comin comn and some of the imagery was so similar from 75 years earlier. It sent shock waves down many peoples back. It was a great place to be as a journalist. It was a story you wanted to tell. [ Siren Blaring ]. All out war is on in europe as ukrainians wake up to air raid sirens, explosions and gunfire. I was really shocked of waking up on february 24 realizing that this is whats happening plus its my daughters birthday so ill never forget that day. Greetings. Im youngest of parliament and private in the 133rd battalion. You had all of thes various parf ukraine being under media threat and arm everybody that could carry guns and wanted to carry guns. No matter how much we prepared, nothing was enough because this was a full blown onslaught and seen as Second World War and that kind of war, only thing we could do was make the whole nation show wed fight them with everything weve got. Our boss is in new york and wanted somebody that could pick up Anchoring Shifts from kyiv and the decision was going to be bench press anyone mall. Benjamin hall. I was in lviv for ten days and kyiv was where russia was moving forwards. When he told me he was going into kyiv, he didnt really ask my permission id say. I wouldnt have said no, but i definitely reminded him that that was a little bit more risky. Some risks involved, bu whoa. Okay. Easy does it. We switched to Liberty Mutual and saved 652. They customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. With the money we saved, we thought wed try electric unicycles. Whoa careful, babe saving was definitely easier. Hey babe, i think i got it its actually. 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Taking a risk and take kyiv two weeks. We decide to take people down on kyiv. A smaller team moves faster and can be better and just less chance of people to get injured. The flip side of that of course is that it sometimes means more work for the people that are l. Trey was doing a stellar job while he was there with pierre. Trey and i worked together a few times and incredible journalists and telling any story. I was really tired and working all the time. When i heard he was coming i was like, great, we can split shifts. This will allow us to keep going because you gone want to burn out. You have a lot of practical things to think about if you have things to transmit and have fuel and water. He was there for 50 days nonstop. When brett was killed. Brett was a Documentary Film Maker that worked for the new york time and vice among others. Police say russian soldiers opened fire on his car while he was being driven across a check point. We lost another journalist and clear russians werent loo looking at their targets. It was an invasion by a nut job. The targeting of the line. Russian forces advance on the ukrainian capitol. We continued operating as we did and just a bit more cautious and careful. For years an interesting gangly guy people thinking about roles theyd have to try and resist the russians and its very clear that the work with fox gave her that meeting and trying to tell the story of whats happening in ukraine. You need people that can show you around and intel it and afternoon war zone it is can be sometimes hard to find people like that. I knew her work from various part

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