 In 2013, took a break from her work as a field journalist in the Far East to work as a relief news-anchor in Doha.Based at the main broadcast centre in Qatar, she presented news-bulletins on the flagship programme "Newshour", but also appeared as the host of studio-based discussion programmes, such as the daily programme "Inside Story", and the more specialist weekly, "Inside Syria".She also hosted, from Indonesia, an edition of the extended-interview strand "Talk to Al Jazeera".