Lee Durant
@leedurant
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Camera Operator and Editor. Views if and whenever expressed are my own and not my employers.
Beirut, Lebanon.
Joined August 2009
On the #Donbas #frontline with #Ukrainian National Guard troops as they come under fire from a Russian patrol near the recently liberated town of Lyman. With @bealejonathan Produced by @thewhirlinzim @artem_bilov and @vicechat for @BBCWorld
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2 year old Ivana Skayki was playing at home in Southern Lebanon when an Israeli airstrike happened on her doorstep. She now has third degree burns on almost half her body. The strike came without warning. Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah. With @goktay @wburema @angiemrad
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I spent five days this month on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean that hosts a highly secretive UK-US military base. 'What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see' https://t.co/OicjGQmC3K
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BBC reporter gains access to the remote ocean territory despite UK and US attempts to stop her.
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“During my time on the island, I am required to wear a red visitor pass and am closely monitored at all times. My accommodation is guarded 24-hours-a-day and the men outside make a note of when I leave and return-always under escort.“ @alice_cuddy
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BBC reporter gains access to the remote ocean territory despite UK and US attempts to stop her.
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Emotional reactions from survivors and relatives of those who died in the Grenfell disaster more than seven years ago - as the inquiry report is finally released to the public. with @lucymanning @insaf_abbas
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Hunting zombie knives in a city plagued by youth violence… a brilliant but very disturbing report by @DanJohnsonNews and @westnewsprod
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The BBC joined a team trying to protect young people by getting weapons off the streets of Bristol.
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With 44 civilian deaths in one of the heaviest missile attacks since the start of Russia's invasion, and President #Zelenskyy in Washington at the #Nato summit @BBCNews @JamWaterhouse sums up a tough week for Ukraine. Produced by @4nnchor @AamirPeerzadaa & @ Anastasiia_Lev 🎥 Me
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Our Asia correspondent @CordeliaSkyNews investigates the dark reality of people smuggling in Vietnam. Read her eyewitness report 👉 https://t.co/pLApehtZcW
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Ukraine war: On the Kharkiv front as Russia advances again. With @leedurant @thewhirlinzim @vicechat @MarianaMatveic1
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High-tech drones help Ukraine's defenders - but they say they need more support from allies.
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Meet ‘The Peaky Blinders’ a team of #drone pilots helping to defend #Ukraine second largest city. @jonathanbeale Reporting from #Kherson With @thewhirlinzim @vicechat @MarianaMatveic1 & photographs by me.
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High-tech drones help Ukraine's defenders - but they say they need more support from allies.
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Ukraine's defence lines stretched as Russian troops advance…with @leedurant @thewhirlinzim @MarianaMatveic1 @vicechat
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The BBC's Jonathan Beale joins Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv as they try to shore up a weakened frontline.
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Clips from a powerful report by BBC defence correspondent @bealejonathan, producer @thewhirlinzim and camera/editor @leedurant from the frontline near #Kharkiv in #Ukraine on the #bbcnewssix - repeated at Ten tonight on the news channel.
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Ukraine’s second largest city #GrandConcertENGLOTinDC Kharkiv came under aerial bombardment last night. Pictured is air defence working and shooting down a shaheed drone over the city. On the 16th May 2024.
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On May 18th, 2023, while leading a Chinese climber toward the summit of Mount Everest, Gelje Sherpa discovered a stranded Malaysian climber on the verge of death. To save the climber’s life, Gelje persuaded his Chinese client to end his summit and descend to the Everest Base
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A heartbreaking tale of the knife crime murder of a promising young teenager called Mikey and the devastating consequences for the whole community @BBCNews
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Mikey Roynon, 16, was killed with a zombie knife. The BBC speaks to those touched by his death.
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BBC Gaza correspondent: My struggle to keep family safe while covering the war
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BBC Arabic‘s Adnan El-Bursh covered the conflict as he and his family were displaced multiple times.
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A ball of barnacles wins wildlife photo award… stunning pics again this year 📸
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The winning photographs from this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards.
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An honour to share @RadioTimes pages with great colleagues @lindseyhilsum @AlexCrawfordSky & @emmamurphyitv .. even if we don’t see gender defining our journalism. (Thanks to @leedurant for #Kyiv photo)
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Ex BBC journalist moves to another broadcaster and wins Network Television Journalist of the Year award!
“For large parts of my career, I never felt that I fitted into this industry” @SecKermani accepts the Network Television Journalist of the Year award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2024 #RTSAwards @Channel4News
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NEW from us and "most read" on the website - Mr Zakutenko's chemical has been responsible for hundreds of deaths. He even had an account promoting it on that suicide forum.
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Ukrainian Leonid Zakutenko sells a type of chemical online thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths.
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Red Bull spent a year building a custom drone to keep up with its Formula 1 car (driven by Max Verstappen) around Silverstone. The drone accelerates 2x faster than an F1 car, hitting 186 mph in just 4 seconds and a top speed of 217 mph. Red Bull's marketing team strikes again.
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