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Mostefa Souag

HARDtalk: Mostefa Souag

16/08/2017 GMT

BBC News - HARDtalk, Mostefa Souag

Stephen Sackur interviews Mostefa Souag, Director General of Al Jazeera. 

Amidst growing criticism from Saudi Arabia and its allies, Stephen Sackur asks Mostefa Souag, Director General of Al Jazeera - do his channels have a future?

When the Al Jazeera news network was launched in Qatar in 1996 it had a seismic impact on the media landscape in the Middle East. Here was an Arab broadcaster refusing to play by local rules; ambitious, punchy and provocative in its coverage of the region and the world. Two decades on, it seems that patience is wearing thin in much of the Arab world. Saudi Arabia and its closest allies recently demanded Qatar close the network down. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur asks Mostefa Souag, Director General of Al Jazeera - do his channels have a future?

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