In 1990, Jones went to London as the ABC's current affairs correspondent. He covered the collapse of the USSR in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the fall of Kabul to the Mujahadin and the collapse of apartheid.
In 1990, Jones traveled to London as the ABC's current events journalist. He reported on pivotal moments including the Soviet Union's dissolution in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War, the conflict in Yugoslavia, the fall of Kabul to the Mujahideen, and the end of apartheid.