BBC Monitoring In its 0530 gmt newscast, announcer Muhammad Qa'ud announces the first anniversary of the launching of the Al-Aqsa Satellite Television "in light of the persecution of its employees in the occupied West Bank by the Abbas's forces." The station dedicates its 0700 gmt morning talk show to the …

BBC Monitoring Excerpt from report by Sbay media website on 26 November Kurdistan Regional Government [KRG] will deport the correspondent of Turkish Ikhlas News Agency to Turkey following the publication of a report in which it claimed that the Kurdistan Region president, Mas'ud Barzani, was accompanied - on his trip …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Dubai newspaper Gulf News website on 25 November Pakistan's most popular private satellite channel Geo Television Network is to move its base from Dubai to Hong Kong, Gulf News has learnt. "We are making arrangements to air the transmission from Hong Kong …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by independent, non-governmental Palestinian Ma'an News Agency website [Report by Editor in Chief Nasir al-Lahham: "Masked Gunmen Abduct Ma'an Journalist" - Ma'an headline] Bethlehem, 25 Nov (Ma'an) - Ma'an journalist Hafith Asakra was kidnapped on Saturday evening [24 November] by five masked gunmen …

BBC Monitoring Text of unattributed report headlined "Severe disagreements over the formation of the committee of Journalists Syndicate's office", published by Egyptian opposition Wafd Party daily newspaper Al-Wafd on 22 November Consultations over the formation of the of the committee of Journalists Syndicate's office have witnessed a severe crisis due …

BBC Monitoring Three weeks after the declaration of a state of emergency, all but one of Pakistan's private TV networks have been permitted to resume transmissions, albeit with some restrictions. The one exception is Geo TV, based in Dubai. All four of its channels - Geo TV, Geo News, Geo …

MideastWire Salman Al-Dawsari of Asharq Al-Awsat, an independent Saudi owned newspaper, wrote on November 23: "Less than a week after it took a decision to shut down to Pakistani satellite channels, the authorities in the Emirate of Dubai allowed the ARY channel to resume broadcasting while it affirmed that the …

BBC Monitoring text of report by London-based independent Quds Press web news agency, ["Abu-Zuhri Accuses Al-Jazeera of Using Double Standards in Dealing With Palestinian Affairs and Chief Editor Denies" - Quds Press headline] Gaza (Palestine) -Doha, 20 November 2007 (Quds Press) - A Hamas spokesman has complained of what he …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Iraqi TV station Al-Iraqiyah TV on 22 November The Iraqi media network has launched the Al-Fallujah FM radio in Al-Anbar Province with the aim of promoting the culture of dialogue and co-existence among all Iraqis. For their part, the citizens expressed their joy at …

BBC Monitoring Iraqi Kurdish press monitored between 5 and 20 November included reporting, but was not limited to, about a new media bill currently being discussed by the Kurdistan Region parliament. Coverage of corruption and human rights-related issues continues to be overshadowed by the ongoing Turkish-Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) crisis. …