[2][3] He was the host of Diplomatic License (until its cancellation in January 2006), a weekly program that was devoted to United Nations affairs.
He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War.
Before CNN, he was a news anchor and reporter for AP Radio and a producer for WPIX-TV in New York City.
The book as well as the film features Roth’s brief involvement with Wiener’s crew in Baghdad which was caused by sudden withdrawal of his fellow reporter colleague Tom Murphy on safety issues.
Roth was stationed in Amman before joining Wiener and left the crew shortly before the Gulf War began, but within this time became part of an important coverage where the CNN team stepped into a messy US diplomatic mission in Baghdad and he interviewed a stranded US expatriate worker Robert Vinton.