The Institute also provides media institutions with consultancies to help them develop their potential and attain their strategic plans.Acting as the eyes and ears of the Arab world, Al Jazeera Mubasher was launched in early 2005 to give viewers real-time footage of global and regional events. Some countries have publicly demanded that Al Jazeera itself be shut down.We'll keep on shedding light on the dark corners, and telling the stories that need to be told.In early June 1996, Al Jazeera’s small building in the Qatari capital of Doha started to come to life as dozens of producers, journalists and technicians gathered from all around the world. We're no longer maintaining this page. For the English-language channel, see Qatari state-funded domestic and international television broadcasterMohammed El-Nawawy, 2003. All times are ET. For years, it has had its satellite signal scrambled and re-scrambled – and its digital platforms blocked - to make sure that people couldn't watch, read or listen.Countless others in our storied halls have been detained, prosecuted on trumped-up charges, intimidated, banned, forced to leave their home countries forever - even sentenced to death. Al Jazeera provided extensive coverage of the massacre that was committed there, described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history." Construction begins on Al Jazeera headquarters in Doha (1996).New offices of Al Jazeera Arabic (left) and original building (right), circa 2016.Variations of the word "Al Jazeera" in Arabic were considered prior to the water droplet concept.Jamal Rayyan anchored the first newscast of Al Jazeera on November 1, 1996.From Al Jazeera's coverage in the late 1990s: "Where is the siege on Iraq heading? and/or its affiliates. It is based in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Al Jazeera issued a statement reiterating its commitment to "an editorial policy based on the principal of providing alternate opinions," adding that its "coverage of Moroccan issues has always been professional, balanced and accurate. A few months later, a Saudi prince invested $250 million in Snap Inc.On November 1, 2017, Al Jazeera launched an audio-first media brand, Jetty. Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West. That international channel won't be available on TV or the Internet in the U.S. once Al Jazeera America launches Tuesday. As the quagmire in Iraq broadened, media sources reported on supposed unpublished minutes of a discussion between US President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair dated April 16, 2004, where the two allegedly discussed a US air raid on Al Jazeera's headquarters in Doha.David Blunkett, a former British interior minister, revealed in his memoirs published in October 2006 that, during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he suggested to Blair that the British military should bomb the Al Jazeera television transmitter in Baghdad.On August 7, 2004, the interim Iraqi government ordered a one-month closure of Al Jazeera's Baghdad bureau. The coverage was condemned by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Years later, the US Army intelligence analyst who leaked the documents, (born Bradley Manning, now Chelsea Manning), was pardoned from her 35-year jail sentence.For four days in 2011, 23-26 January, Al Jazeera revealed to the world the "The special coverage was dedicated to exposing the inner workings of the negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. In response to an Egyptian arrest warrant, Mansour was detained for a short while at the airport in Berlin in June 2015.In June 2016, Egyptian courts sentenced one of Al Jazeera's former News Directors, Ibrahim Hilal, to death, while putting out an arrest warrant for Ayman Gaballah, the Managing Director of Al Jazeera Mubasher.In December 2016, one month after Al Jazeera broadcast a documentary on compulsory inscription in Egypt, the authorities in Cairo arrested Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian journalist working in the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha. In addition to the main Arabic channel, Al Jazeera Media Network also runs: Al Jazeera Mubasher Al-'Amma (AJMG) note