World Links: War Crimes Hearings Begin in Cambodia, Police Academy Attacked in Lahore

lauren feeney — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:15:48 +0000

At least 20 officers and 8 gunmen are killed in a militant attack on a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

The 21st Arab League summit opens in Doha, Qatar, with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in attendance, despite the International Criminal Court’s warrant for his arrest.

Hearings begin in the case of the first Khmer Rouge leader to face a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

Japan’s Air Self-Defense Forces begin moving missile defense equipment to the north in anticipation of North Korea’s test launching of a long-range ballistic missile early next week.

Exclusive to al-Jazeera: Introduction

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:06:58 +0000

WIDE ANGLE goes behind the scenes of Al-Jazeera’s broadcast headquarters in the Arabian Gulf state of Qatar during its nonstop coverage of the war in Iraq. Watched by millions of people in the Arab world, the first Arabic all-news network had continuous access to events in Iraq. Exclusive to Al-Jazeera shows the network’s similarities to its western media counterparts — and the differences. In a tense newsroom scene, the network’s top executives defend their decision to broadcast footage of U.S. prisoners of war and uncensored images of dead coalition soldiers. The station’s English translator juggles Rumsfeld voice-overs with calls home to Iraq to check on his family. And when Tarek Ayyoub, the network’s correspondent in Baghdad, is killed by US artillery fire, the shocked Al-Jazeera staff call him “a martyr.” Exclusive to Al-Jazeera reveals that by the end of the war, the Al-Jazeera network is planning an English-language feed, grieving over a lost colleague, and four million subscribers larger.

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World Links: War Crimes Hearings Begin in Cambodia, Police Academy Attacked in Lahore

Exclusive to al-Jazeera: Introduction