Synopsis:

Produced for the BBC strand Correspondent, this film goes behind the scenes at the Arabic news channel. There are a number of key moments: the day when Saddam's ministers tried to ban al-Jazeera; the al-Jazeera decision to screen images of American and British corpses; the "accidental" bombing of the hotel in Baghdad where al-Jazeera's reporters were based and the reaction of al-Jazeera staff to the death of its reporter in that blast. We see a professional (but underfunded) newsroom in operation and we witness them catching other broadcasters pirating their material. The film offers a unique insight into the Arabic view of the Coalition's invasion of Iraq.