On the day when Gordon Brown visits UK troops in Iraq, Jonathan Miller describes his embed in Hayyaniya, one of Basra's poorest areas.
Biography
Jonathan Miller's reports from Beirut during the war in Lebanon helped secure Channel 4 News its 2007 Royal Television Society award for coverage of a news event.
It follows his two RTS awards for the programme in 2006: Specialist Journalist of the Year and International News Award and the Amnesty International Media Award for television news the same year.
Jonathan has reported for Channel 4 News from conflicts in Iraq, Darfur, eastern Chad, Gaza and Lebanon; he has covered natural disasters - the Asian Tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake and Huricane Katrina - and unnatural disasters: in 2007 covering the growing Iraqi refugee crisis.
He has reported on revolutions from Georgia and Ukraine and covered the deaths of Soloban Milosevic, Yasser Arafat and Pope John Paul II.
Before joining Channel 4 News in 2003, Jonathan reported for C4's investigative strand, Dispatches, and its foreign affairs series, Unreported World.
He also directed and filmed documentaries for Channel 4 and CNN and filmed and reported for Channel 4 News through its "Indy Fund."
Previously Jonathan was a BBC correspondent in Southeast Asia.
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