After leaving university , Wilson briefly became an officer in the British Army . He joined TV-am , the breakfast television franchise holder , becoming Midlands and then Scotland Correspondent for the broadcaster . He became a foreign correspondent for TV-am in November 1989 , and reported live from the scene as the Berlin Wall was demolished , following the collapse of East Germany . In 1991 , he reported from Kuwait City on the retreating armies of Saddam Hussein . He also reported from Hong Kong and South Africa . In 1993 , Wilson joined Sky News as a reporter . He reported from Bosnia , the Middle East , across Europe , Africa and in Perth , Australia . In 1998 , he became Sky News Moscow Correspondent , covering the war in Chechnya . He was also part of the award-winning Sky News team that advanced in 1999 from Macedonia into Kosovo alongside the KFOR troops , and he reported on Boris Yeltsin 's resignation on Millennium night . In January 2001 , he became Sky News Middle East Correspondent , based in Jerusalem , and was with the first wave of Western reporters to cross overland into Kabul in 2001 . He became Sky News US Correspondent in 2004 , reporting from locations across the United States on the run-up to , and outcome of , the US Presidential Election . In December 2004 , on special assignment to South East Asia , he fronted Sky news coverage in Thailand of the aftermath of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami , and in 2005 reported live on the destructive power of Hurricane Katrina from a Mississippi motel room
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Andrew Wilson (presenter)