She is the mother of two young children.Ezra Albrecht Nikolaus Nour is three.Caspar Hugo Augustus Idris is just 14 months old.She lives in London and is married to Philipp von Bernoff, a successful fund manager.She is currently risking her life.Reporter Clarissa Ward, 41, currently reports for the news channel CNN around the clock from Kabul - the city, which has been firmly in the hands of the Taliban for days.Dogged with a Nikab, warning shots are constantly fired by somewhere.Ward was afraid of briefly when a shot falls again, her interview with a Taliban continues confidently, with a friendly smile."Sorry," she says.He interrupts them: "First veil your face."
They are scenes that are oppressive and at the same time impressive - because they show how little this woman can be intimidated.Even though it is in one of the most threatening regions in the world.Working for journalists has become life -threatening in Afghanistan.As the organization "Reporter Without Borders" reports, at least three journalists have been murdered since the beginning of the year.The homepage says: "In 2018 alone, at least 15 media professionals died with several bombings.Journalists are threatened by various parties to the conflict (...) Women are particularly at risk."
"How do you want to protect women?"
Clarissa Ward remains on site anyway.Your credo: "I don't think of any hypotheses.I'm interested in reality."She mingles in groups of Talibanaters and is looking for the conversation - and the discussion."How do you want to protect women? Many are afraid that they can no longer go to school or work," she wants to know about one of the men."You can live on your life," replies, "but you will have to cover your faces." -" Why? " -" Because it is an Islamic rule."
In a blog post for "Women for Women International", she writes: "Being a woman is the greatest capital for me as a war reporter, since 50% of the population is often inaccessible to my male reporter colleagues in my work environment.Women are the adhesive of the community.You have a completely different perspective on war, politics and life."
Clarissa Ward: her career.
The American grew up in Manhattan and later studied at Yale University in New Haven.A year after her completion, in 2002, she did an internship in the Moscow office of CNN - inspired by the reporting on the terrorist attacks from 11.September 2001.In 2003 she started working at Fox News in New York.She started her career at the foreign news with many major events: the Tsunami in Thailand 2004, the death of politician Jassir Araraft, also in 2004, and that of Pope Johannes Paul II., 2005.After reporting on this from America, she was already on site in 2006 in the Lebanon War and during the procedure against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
"I love my job.I can be traveling and eyewitness from historic moments.I basically believe in both the good and evil.If you do this work, you can see the worst of humanity, but also the best.As a journalist, I had the privilege, the strength, resilience and generosity of the human mind under the most terrible circumstances - it is inspiring beyond any faith, "said six languages - French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic andMandarin.So far, she has brought her job to many parts of the world: from October 2007 she was ABC ABC News in Moscow, three years later she moved to Beijing.Stations followed in Syria and Ukraine, among others.
The double mother has already received numerous awards and prizes for her missions: seven Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, two Edward R.Murrow Awards for outstanding journalism,...The list is longer.
Wedding, two children and a life in extreme.
The journalist met her husband, Philipp von Bernstorff in 2007 at a dinner party in Moscow.love at first sight.In 2016 the two married in London.The 41-year-old bought her wedding dress six days before the wedding, made it herself and hair herself.
In 2018 her son Ezra Albrecht Nikolaus Niche was born.2020 then Caspar Hugo Augustus Idris.She says of her first pregnancy: "I have decided to deal with it easily - and for the time being nothing to say at work.I was worried, it could change the perception of my colleagues on me.I wondered: 'What would be if after twelve years in which I jumped out of helicopter in war areas, learned languages and got to know people from all social classes, now only a privileged, pregnant white lady who was in a general department storeoverpriced stroller? '"That's why Ward also agreed when it was offered to travel to Greenland for a documentary about climate change.She remembers: "A mild summer night had minus 10 degrees Celsius there.Our guide told us that we would sleep in tents.In addition to the height and the icy cold, I had to struggle with one of the most common side effects of pregnancy: urge to urinate, which constantly forced me to leave my sleeping bag."
After Alaska flew to Saint Martin in the Caribbean to report on the consequences of hurricane Irma."We ate from canned goods and rinsed our mouths with sea water.On the third day, my husband Philipp sent me an article that said that Saint Martin mosquitoes with the Zika virus, which can be very dangerous for pregnant women.'Now it's a little late,' I replied."
Next stop: The border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims had fled from the brutal approach of the Burmese military and the paramilitaries.At that point was fifth month pregnant.A few weeks later, Ward, now a pregnant, started another mission: a trip to Yemen to report on the great famine through the civil war.
Rarely has your job break.Even if she knows: "You need space, you need a normal life.I have an incredibly guilty conscience when I am enjoying myself when I know what is happening in the world at the same time.But you have to be able to accept joy without feelings of guilt, to recognize the privilege, not to live in a conflict zone and to appreciate love, friends and family - whatever you enjoy."
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