By Oliver Poole Last Updated: 6:06pm GMT 15/11/2006
Al-Jazeera, the controversial news network of the Arab world, launched a much awaited English language service today challenging western TV news coverage with a montage of exploding buildings and dead bodies followed by an archive shot of President Bush winking at the camera.
Al-Jazeera International made its name by challenging the output of American and European broadcastersAl-Jazeera English has its own schedule and staff, among them many Western journalists including Sir David Frost and Rageh Omaar, the former BBC reporter, but has pledged to follow the Arabic channel's remit of covering world events from a Middle Eastern perspective.
"Its November 15th, a new era in television news," Semi Zeidan, said one of the two anchors of what has been billed as a new outlet for Arab and Third World concerns. Opening news segments focused on problems in Israel and Gaza, showing a scarred baby lying in hospital after being wounded in Israeli shelling and a correspondent giving a live interview in front of a destroyed Palestinian home.
The report from Gaza, which included an exclusive interview with Khaled Mishaal, the Hamas leader, was followed by links to correspondents in Sudan's Darfur region, Zimbabwe and Brazil. Breaking news focussed on a tsunami warning in Japan. advertisement
Mr Omaar appeared on screen within the first 15 minutes reporting from Tehran were he detailed Iranian cynicism at Tony Blair's offer this week to open talks with the country's theocratic government.
A film detailing the origins of the channel and its ethos was shown shortly after the opening montage, describing how the station will broadcast from four main centres in Doha, London, Washington and Kuala Lumpur and reminding viewers of the channel's controversial track record.
Al-Jazeera International made its name by challenging the output of American and European broadcasters, so much so that in the past it has been accused of being a conduit for messages from al-Qa'eda leader Osama bin Laden. Al-Jazeera correspondents have been expelled from 18 countries, among them Iraq, in separate incidents over recent years.
Further footage of destruction in the Middle East was followed by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence, announcing at a press conference that, "What al-Jazeera is doing is viscous, inaccurate and inexcusable."
America, however, despite having a large Arab immigrant population, was one of the few places in the world where almost no one was able to watch al-Jazeera English. Although the new station is available to 40 million viewers world wide it has yet to find a major US cable provider.
"...it has yet to find a major US cable provider."
Um gee I wonder why?
Posted by: 2boxers
Hmmmmmm And all this time I thought CNN was the English Al-Jazera
Posted by: CJIS
No that's just "Doom and Gloom" news
Posted by: justanotherparatrooper
I thought it was cbs
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