# Mark Urban
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Mark Lee Urban (born 26 January 1961) is a British journalist, historian, and broadcaster, and is currently the Diplomatic Editor and occasional presenter for BBC Two's Newsnight.
== Education and early career ==
Urban's father came from Poland, but the son was born in England. Educated at the independent day schools Rokeby School and King's College School in Wimbledon, South London, he continued his education at the London School of Economics.
EXPLAINER: Why Russia Is Burning Through 35,000 Soldiers A Month
Ukraine’s drone campaign is reaching deeper into Russia than ever before, striking oil terminals, ships and targets around Moscow and St Petersburg. As casualties rise and attacks put growing pressure on Russia’s economy and war machine, is Ukraine beginning to change the course of the conflict?
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‘A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL’ - Iran plunged back into war
Hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough have faded as retaliatory strikes flare up once again across the Middle East. And with Donald Trump warning of further military escalation, is the world at risk of yet another economic shock?
So what’s behind the new wave of strikes in the Middle East? And coul...
What America got WRONG after 9/11 - former US diplomat
Twenty-five years after 9/11, its consequences are still shaping the world. From Tony Blair and George W Bush to Trump, MAGA and the rise of populism in Europe, how much of today’s politics can be traced back to September 11th?
In today’s episode of The Fourcast Indicators, Matt Frei and Mark Urb...
The Origins of the Tank
How did century-old 'landships' developed from agricultural tractors evolve into the armoured giants of the modern battlefield? Today, we trace the lineage of the tank, from its origins in the trenches of the First World War to Second World War behemoths and their modern battlefield descendants.F...
EXPLAINER: How America's aircraft carrier crisis reveals a military decline
America has 11 aircraft carriers. So why is the US Navy struggling to deploy more than three at once?
In this bonus video explainer, The Sunday Times’s Mark Urban examines the growing strain on America’s carrier fleet. These 100,000-ton floating airfields have long been symbols of US military pow...
SPY WARS: can Europe’s spooks handle ‘EXPLOSION’ in Russian spy attacks?
In the last few days a former German spy chief has been accused of selling state secrets, a British navy sailor has been charged with espionage and now two Latvians have been picked up near a British air base in Cambridgeshire - not to mention the mysterious goings on at RAF Fairford.
So are West...
Will Argentina INVADE the Falklands? And could Britain retake them?
Argentine President Javier Milei, has declared that the Falklands “illegal foreign occupation” and that his country needs to take them back from the UK.
But 44 years after Britain defeated Argentina in the Falklands War, could another invasion be on the cards?
And with Britain’s military much mor...
‘Ludicrous’ - Will Trump’s $1.5 TRILLION defence plan help it beat Iran?
In this special audience Q&A episode of The Fourcast Indicators, Matt Frei and Mark Urban answer your questions on the big geopolitical issues shaping our world.
They ask why the West ignored Putin's aggression for so long, why Europe can't build its own rival to Starlink and whether Donald Trump...
