I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.