was only weeks ago we reported to you the tragic death of two photojournalists in libya tim hetherington and chris hondros but their deaths are not the only ones according to the committee to protect journalists and human rights watch twelve journalists have been killed during the arab spring that's taken over the middle east and north africa dozens more have been detained and it's a dangerous job to bring truth from conflict zones the pictures the firsthand experiences but in the media sesay. with sex scandals and celebrity dancing shows you have to ask your journalists a very critical question is risking their life worth it it's a topic that's especially relevant for our guests earlier we caught up with sebastian younger co-director of her struggle bestselling author of the perfect storm and author of the new book out called war sebastian is covered war zones for years from sierra leone to bosnia to afghanistan it's a dangerous job so i first asked him why he does it. i think there's no way to cover a war without undergoing some of the risks that people stuck in the war have to undergo

and joining me now is tim hetherington collaborator on that academy award nominated documentary restrepo his friend and the author of the book war sebastian junger i want to thank you so much for joining us now i'm so sorry for your loss and the world's loss because obviously had intended very important and very good work and the question that i have for you. you've covered these wars you've covered these conflicts i don't know if you heard my report that you getting you know showing the mainstream media splashing arnold sortes knickers lovechild all over the headlines are these conflicts worth dying for are they worth covering in this way. i think they have to be covered and you know of course tim died in misrata libya and you know was the story he was covering that they were his life obviously not but if you take the easy sort of aggregate of all of these stories through the years the decades the bosnia is the rwanda is liberia sierra leone afghanistan you take them together. is it worth it to have a group of foreign reporters covering the story so the world can know what's happening a

partner and i want to express my condolences to you because i know that you did as frank in april tim hetherington he was in libya right and proper how did that shift your focus on what you do and how involved you will be moving forward. on some hard facts i've been covering wars is the age of ninety three and it's taken a fair about of risks in those twenty almost twenty years and jim's death really pretty much knocked me flat and. i think it made me realize i mean he's been dead a month today's been a month and it was an awful month and i made maybe realize like if i get killed. i'm going to be doing that what i feel right now to the people i'm closest to my wife my family my friends and i've never quite thought about it that way and i think. well ultimately the decision i came to was that there is going to continue working i'm going to continue covering countries that are in transition in conflict but i'm not going to continue going to shout out like about that business according to what's being reported and actually very well known is that most journalists however tranced many overseas players

wars and some are paying the ultimate price as the creator of this afghanistan war documentary tim hetherington did he was killed covering the libyan conflict last month here's a little of his film were struck. by bin and forthright details from sleeping pills in the belt. so that and i was right i think you're not sleeping and i think about it in. their brains like oh you're. going to feel sorry for you. to be exclusionary the going or the ready fingers to get the kill. and earlier i spoke to hetherington collaborator on restrepo his friend and author of this war sebastian younger and i asked him of covering wars for journalists these days is worth the risk when the mainstream media seems to care more about something like arnold. tim died in misrata libya and you know what is the story he was covering that day were his life so obviously no but if you take the sort of aggregate of all of these stories through the years through the decades the bosnia is the rwanda is liberia sierra leone afghanistan and you take them together. is it worth it to have a group of foreign reporters covering these st

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. >> let's look at the movie that was based on your writings that you and tim hetherington did that isinterplay between the u.s. soldiers and the real afghan people. let's take a look at this. i think it shows folks what goes on. >> -- the information about -- he's the owner of the cow. >> the cow, the reason why we killed it, because it ran into our team wire. and it was mangled inside the wire. so we had to kill it to put it out of its misery because if we would have got it out, it would have been useless. >> they're asking -- it was -- >> illegal? >> yeah, like a -- >> to kill it? we're not going to be able to give them the money. if money is all he came for -- >> now, this captures, in a way, the real interplay between the soldiers and the afghan people. are we winning hearts minds in this context? >> well, there's many different scenes we could have shown. you know, there were scenes where there was a lot of really good feeling and then there was that and there were worst scenes than that. ultimately, it really isn't hearts minds in a sense. we don't have to have the afghans love