US asks Qatar to ‘turn down the volume’ of Al Jazeera news coverage
by Robert Tait in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#6FXRT)
Secretary of state Antony Blinken made request of Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed during frantic trip to Doha
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has reportedly asked Qatar to moderate Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel's war against Hamas, amid concerns within the Biden administration that the channel is inflaming public opinion and heightening the risks of a wider conflict.
Blinken raised the satellite news channel's coverage with the Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, according to the website Axios, which said the US's top diplomat had disclosed the request in a meeting with US Jewish leaders.
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