Richard Roth is a New York-based correspondent for CNN, reporting exclusively on the United Nations. He is the host of Diplomatic License, CNN's global program devoted to the United Nations that airs weekends on CNN International.For the past decade, Roth has reported from the U.N. headquarters in New York City on several international crises, including those in East Timor, Iraq and Libya. In 2002 and 2003, he reported extensively on the escalating tensions between the United States and Iraq, the weapons inspection process then the ensuing war with Iraq. He also has covered various U.N. global conferences concerning issues such as social development in Copenhagen, women in China and the population in Cairo.

In December 2004, Roth traveled with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annon to South Asia to cover the disaster and aftermath of the tsunami that took more than 155,000 lives in the region.

In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Roth reported on reaction from the United Nations. Additionally, he was at Ground Zero in New York City covering President George W. Bush's visit to the scene of the devastation.

Before this assignment, Roth was a CNN general assignment reporter. In 1992, Roth was the host of CNN's special report Murder by Numbers, an in-depth profile of serial killers. In 1991, he contributed to CNN's special report Europe on the Brink: A look at Western Europe's Disappearing Borders.

From 1991-1992, Roth was part of the CNN team covering the Gulf War. Most recently, Roth was portrayed in the HBO movie Live from Baghdad. He's reported from Amman, Jordan, and Baghdad, where he was deployed for 65 days, as well as from Tel Aviv during a number of Iraqi Scud missile attacks.

In 1990, Roth served as CNN's correspondent at the opening of the Berlin Wall and the overthrow of the communist governments in Czechoslovakia and Romania. In 1989, he covered the Beijing student uprising in Tiananmen Square and the ensuing Chinese government crackdown. Roth also has covered the terrorist attacks on the Achille Lauro cruise ship and at the Leonardo DaVinci Airport in Rome, both in 1985. He reported on the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., as well as the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York.

Roth joined CNN when it launched in 1980 as an assignment desk editor in the network's New York bureau. He served as CNN's New York assistant bureau chief in 1981, the Chicago bureau chief in 1982 and the Rome bureau chief from 1982-1986. Before joining CNN, Roth worked as an anchor and reporter for AP Radio and as a producer for WPIX-TV in New York.

Roth earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from New York University.