The Taliban threatens to disrupt next month's election run-off in Afghanistan as President Karzai and opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah begin campaigning. Nick Paton Walsh reports.
Biography
Since becoming Asia Correspondent in September 2008, Nick obtained the first interview in seven years with the so-called Merchant of Death and alleged arms dealer, Viktor Bout.
He was also deported from Sri Lanka after reporting allegations of sexual abuse and deteriorating conditions inside the country's sprawling internment camps for displaced Tamils.
In the two years before moving to Asia, he covered the war between Russia and Georgia, and was the programme's undercover correspondent in Harare during the Zimbabwean elections.
He also covered the announcement of the US troop surge in Iraq by Washington and its implementation in Baghdad, and Mosul.
A Russian speaker, he gained an exclusive interview with Andrei Lugovoi, the Russia accused of poisoning former spy Alexander Litvinenko, on the day he was charged with murder.
He has reported from central and eastern Afghanistan, Beijing, Mumbai, Gaza, the Central African Republic, Mexico, Yakutsk, Ingushetia, and even Paris.
Nick joined Channel 4 News as foreign affairs correspondent in September 2006. Prior to that he was Moscow correspondent for the Guardian for four years. During this time he covered the Beslan and Dubrovka theatre sieges and the Georgian, Ukrainian and Kyrgyz "revolutions".
In 2006, he won Amnesty International's Gaby Rado Award for a journalist at the start of their career, and also the EU's Lorenzo Natali Award for human rights reporting.
In 2000, whilst a reporter at the Observer, he was the British Press Awards' Young Journalist of the Year.
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Nick Paton Walsh
