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The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports. The station claims to be the first global high-definition television network. Al Jazeera English is the world's first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview. Instead of being run under central command, news management rotates around broadcasting centers in Doha, London and Washington D.C. Complete news bulletins from Kuala Lumpur stopped on 30 September 2010 and have been replaced by news from Doha, with news inserts from Kuala Lumpur ending in early 2011. Al Jazeera English is one of the few foreign media outlets to have agencies in Gaza and Harare. The network's stated objective is "to give voice to untold stories, promote debate, and challenge established perceptions." |
![Eyjafjallajokull - pronounced ay-uh-fyat-luh-yoe-kuutl-ul - is the name of Iceland's volcano that threw up plumes of ash clouds causing airspaces across Europe to close down. Icelanders have frequently pointed out the rest of the world's mispronunciations of the volcano's name, which has been described as "strange" even by native Icelanders. Eliza Geirsdottir Newman, an Icelandic musician, sang an exclusive song to Al Jazeera to helped clarify the word's correct pronunciation. [April 19, 2010]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tEEXY6HrQ6Y/0.jpg)
![A former Eritrean prison guard says at least 15 former high-ranking government officials and journalists have died in jail due to inhumane conditions. Eyob Bhata Habtemariam, who managed a team of up to 10 guards in two jails for political prisoners for over nine years, is seeking refuge in neighbouring Ethiopia. He told Al Jazeera that inmates at the Eritrean jails had been subjected to extreme temperatures and provided with inadequate food, water or medical attention. The detainees were arrested in a government crackdown on dissenting officials and journalists accused of plotting a coup in 2001. Eritrea has not commented on Habtemariam's accusations. Andrew Simmons reports from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. [May 6, 2010]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mJ3_MlTstiY/0.jpg)
