lyse doucet

BBC Presenter and Chief International Correspondent. Canada is my country, London is my city, but am at home in many places.

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

Thank you Gordon! ..and the great @sallyhayd 📚- and the wonderful audience at @edbookfest !

[Gordon Lawrie @thesaucers]

@bbclysedoucet Thanks for a great event at the @edbookfest today. Looking forward to tomorrow as well!
https://t.co/LIPnB47fnW

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Ana Swanson @AnaSwanson]

Here's our inside story of what really went wrong in the U.S.-Canada negotiations last weekend.

From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed

With the brilliant @MatinaStevis

https://t.co/KFjXEVd24a

[Angela M. Murphy @angelainTO]

Trade talks collapsed at last minute after U.S. commerce chief pressed for harsher terms, sources say https://t.co/k7Ad46cuYq

[Shachi Kurl @ShachiKurl]

FIRST look at Canadian reaction to the trade talk breakdown. Brings new meaning to the phrase long weekend. Also we wrote this on a plane. The wifi was just so so.

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

Thank you so much Preeta for reading and reviewing ! 📕

[Preeta Chag @ChagPreeta]

The story of Afghanistan through the lens of its most prestigious hotel, Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul which provided "a front-row seat to history.” The book captures the country's turmoil, the narration insulated within the walls of Inter-Con. Full review https://t.co/Iex3qiN3tg

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

@SimonHughes Thank you so much Simon !

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

I’ve met Imran Khan, Pakistan’s ex-PM, many times. I greatly like and admire him as a person, and hope the current leadership in Islamabad will realise how much damage his treatment in prison is doing to Pakistan’s image internationally. He clearly needs urgent medical care.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“We weren't thinking of a sort of a global shock. But now it is a global shock.” Martin Griffiths was U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. He tells me lives are being lost, as wars in Ukraine and Iran choke off critical food supplies.

[Mishal Husain @MishalHusain]

Karzai tells me he won’t send his children overseas, even though the daughters who were with him in a 2021 video will one by one be banned from going to school - it’s already happened to the eldest

https://t.co/GNwfZzNwXf

[Sina Toossi @SinaToossi]

👇This is one of the best pieces I’ve read on Iran since the war began, by Roya Izadi. She explains two core US errors: mistaking the diaspora for Iran itself & treating the Islamic Republic as a brittle personalist regime, not a deeply institutionalized post-revolutionary state.

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Great piece by @chiggi 'Why is poetry booming? It’s the only language for times of violence and chaos.' Her great book, Ukrainian Lessons, is out next month. And thank you for mentioning mine: I Brought the War With Me is out in paperback in October. https://t.co/pWkSeQGo9M

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

I've interviewed hundreds of people on Saturday Extra. I can't remember a conversation that got such a powerful listener response......

[Saad Mohseni @saadmohseni]

Barham Salih: “To save the asylum system, reform it” @barhamsalih @unhcr https://t.co/ngVemRUOkT

[Kim Ghattas @KimGhattas]

6 years, still no justice. 236 dead. 7,000 injured.
The Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020 is forever imprinted in every cell of our body. Impunity blows up in your face, literally.
If you're in Lebanon, please take part in the commemoration. Never forget.

[Mishal Husain @MishalHusain]

Legendary Pakistani climber Sher Khan has said Broad Peak was renowned as one of the safest climbs in his day & it is global warming that has led to avalanches of this kind in this place.
https://t.co/hOyoxzpzmy

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

Thank you so much Julian for reading .. and for writing about it 📕

[Julian Armstrong @Brasfort49]

I have just finished « The Finest Hotel in Kabul » by @bbclysedoucet . What a simply lovely book… strongly recommended. The characters portrayed will live with me for a long time, as will the sense of deep sadness at what has been done to their beautiful country..

[Kate Clark @KateClark66]

A brilliant report from my @AANafgh colleagues: so much insight and detail - lots of surprises.

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

important assessment of prospects for a ceasefire between Iran and US by @SanamVakil & @NeilQuilliam1 👇🏽

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

@lcmporter Thinking of you and your courage and strength ❤️❤️