Jeremy Bowen

International Editor, BBC News

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

The paperback is now out. At a time when the Middle East is once again in turmoil, immodestly I suggest you take a look at my book to see how the region ended up the way it is. Also available as an audiobook.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

Picador just sent first copies of my new book, published on 1st Sept. It follows my BBC series Our Man in the Middle East. Ridiculously proud that I took most of the photos, including the jacket. If you need one book to help you navigate the Mideast, I hope it will be this one.

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

In these globally turbulent times one man has regularly acted as a wise, thoughtful and witty guide for listeners of @BBCr4today. The former Head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger has analysed, explained and contextualised the actions of Trump, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollahs. After he first appeared in the programme I was lucky enough to get to know Alex and call him my friend. I’m desperately sad to hear the news I’ve long feared was coming. Alex has died after months trying to cheat the
prognosis he was given whe. They discovered the tumour he nicknamed “Putin”.
We’re always told not to speak of a fight with cancer because it risks implying that only those strong enough survive. I understand that. I really do but sod it. Alex fought so hard to find a treatment to give him a little longer to be with Sarah and their lovely children. And he used every last minute of the short time he did have to be with family and friends and to do what he spent a lifetime in the shadows doing - using his intelligence to understand the world, to explain it but, above all, to keep us all safe.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@sophieRblake Good news!

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@foreigncorr1 Congratulations!
Well deserved

[Ione Wells @ionewells]

@TelegraphPak @Support this video is AI generated impersonation and false, please can you take it down.

[Tom Bateman @tombateman]

“The only ‘evidence’ produced by the Israeli forces so far to support their allegations is what they themselves admit is a photoshopped image of Ali Shoeib – a blatant demonstration of their disdain for international law”

[Hugo Bachega @hugobachega]

UN experts call for investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists in Lebanon.

“[It’s] a standard… practice of Israel to target and kill journalists and then claim, without providing any credible evidence, that they were involved with armed groups”.

https://t.co/Nrjv0XNQqu

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

I’ve had loads of abuse for this, predictably, and plenty of people have accused me of supporting Hezbollah. But no one seems keen to explain why targetting the Lebanese medics who came to help the 3 TV journos was justified.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

Journalists are not legitimate targets… no matter who they work for…Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike, say broadcasters https://t.co/alSzWFLU69

[Antony Blinken @ABlinken]

(1/10) @realDonaldTrump cited me as supporting his attack on Iran and expressing regret we didn’t do it during the Biden Administration. Except I didn’t.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@ColinParryPeace @JonBenjamin19 All the best from me to you and Wendy. Faced with a dreadful loss, you’ve been the very best human beings.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@ColinParryPeace @JonBenjamin19 More power to you Colin

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@BBCSteveR @RTS_media Outstanding and very well deserved

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@MichaelRollo8 Thanks Michael !

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@leloveluck Terrible decision. You and many colleagues have done stellar work. You don’t deserve this and neither does the Post’s readership.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

This is brilliant, tremendously interesting and ends with a lovely piece of Soviet era film music.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

I’m back with another Reading Russia Weekend Extra. In this edition: what the Russian papers have been saying about the talks in Abu Dhabi and the Olympics in Milan-Cortina, plus memories of a Nato chief visiting Moscow 25 years ago. #ReadingRussia

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@ishaantharoor @washingtonpost Very bad news. Good wishes to you and all your colleagues

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@lizziejohnsonnn Disgraceful and 100% bad. Very sorry to hear you (and many colleagues) been treated so badly

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

A fitting tribute to the great man. I had a taxi driver once in the US who told me how honoured he’d been to serve Mark Tully with a whisky and soda when he was a waiter back home in India. Mark’s fans were legion.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Sad to learn of the death of former BBC foreign correspondent Sir Mark Tully. For so many years he was known as the ‘Voice of India.’ As a tribute I play one of the pieces Sir Mark selected on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs: Danny Boy.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

I have said this before, Emma Tucker, the Editor of Wall Street Journal deserves a Pulitzer. She is a Murdoch editor, leading on the facts, joining the @nytimes and Bellingcat and saying ICE is lying. PS Fox News is in the same building as her at 1211.

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

@ColinParryPeace Keep going Colin!