Sopel was a freelance writer and broadcaster before joining the BBC in 1983 as a reporter and producer for BBC Radio Solent . He went on to become the chief political correspondent for '' BBC News 24 '' and later spent three years as the BBC 's Paris correspondent . Stories he covered while he was in Paris included the French ban on the importation of British beef , the millennium celebrations in Paris , the oil spill in Brittany , the French presidency of the EU in 2000 and the Concorde crash in July 2000 . During the 2003 invasion of Iraq , Sopel was the BBC 's correspondent in Kuwait City
Concorde crash
Air France Flight 4590
Jon Sopel