http://www.outtherenews.com/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://www.outtherenews.com/images/images/OTNlogo2004b.gif http://www.outtherenews.com/ feedback@outtherenews.com http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=156 What does the future hold after after the British have handed over responsibility for security in the Iraqi city? The Iraqi and British governments are talking up a return to normality. But many people who live here tell a different story – or a city ruled by brutal militias, battling for power. Watch the film This story was broadcast on Channel 4 News Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=155 Fancy a tie owned by Saddam Hussein - or his sunglasses? How memorabilia from the Iraqi dictator is now being sold on the internet. Paul Eedle reports for Channel 4 News. Play video (7':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=154 The Petraeus Report Produced by Out There News for Channel 4 News' special coverage The report into the US army's Baghdad 'surge' has been received positively by Baghdad - but from a government that's falling apart. Kylie Morris reports from Baghdad. Play video (3':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=153 The Petraeus Report As part of Channel 4 News' sepcial coverage of the Petraeus Report, the Out There News Iraqi crew visits the suburb of Karrada - an area held up by the Americans as a showcase for the surge. There have been security improvements - but life there is still far from normal. Play video (4':00") Special Coverage on Channel 4 News Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=152 Iraq has oil reserves that could rival Saudi Arabia's, yet millions of people are living a hand-to-mouth existence, as the country's regions and ethnic groups fight over their share of the riches. The new oil law would allow the big foreign oil companies into Iraq and kickstart the economy, but has been subverted by sectarian interests. Play video (6':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=151 For less than £10 a day, hundreds of Iraqis have put their lives on the line as interpreters for the British Army in Basra. Many have now fled, having received death threats. We track down and meet 4 Iraqi translators, in exile, and living in fear... Jonathan Miller reports. Play video (9':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=150 Iraq is in a state of civil war. A closer look at two sectarian strongholds - Sunni Adhamiya and the Shia suburb of Sadr City - shows few signs that the US army and the Iraqi regime have much popular support. The story begins at 'The Graveyard of Betrayal' in Adhamiya, where, according to the residents, those slain by Shia militias are buried...Paul Eedle reports. Play video (8':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=149 A special report on the millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in their country. Where is the coalition of the willing when it comes to their care? From illegal asylum seekers living in the slums of Jordan, to the family of an Iraqi barber who managed to escape to Sweden, but live in constant worry over the family they left back home...Jonathan Miller reports. Produced by Out There News for Channel 4 News. Play video (13':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=148 In Pakistan's lawless tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, al-Qaida and the Taliban have carved out safe havens since the Americans drove them out of Afghanistan. But local tribal fighters are now battling to expel foreign Qaeda militants. Journalists are mostly banned from the tribal areas but a group of local reporters brave the road out to the battle zone. Paul Eedle reports. Play video (6':10") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=146 An Out There News Production for Current TV Hania opened an art house cinema in Beirut 2 days before the war started last July... She put all her money and hope into this project – which, with the war, took an unexpected turn: the cinema turned to a refugee center for displaced people, mostly kids; and Hania is now projecting films for the children and conducting drawing workshops to help them through the war... Play the film (5':53") http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=145 When the US and Britain invaded Iraq three years ago and Saddam Hussein was deposed, the country was said to have been freed from fear. But despotism has been replaced by desperation. Throughout 2006 - our crew of Iraqi journalists has been reporting for Channel 4 News. Their powerful work gives us a portrait of the year that's seen Baghdad, a capital city, slide out of control into chaos. Play video (10':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=144 Internet footage of beheadings has become a vital weapon in al-Qaeda's jihad against the West. Paul Eedle's film for Channel 4 investigates this powerful propaganda machine and its impact on young Arabs and Muslims in the UK. Producer/Director: Paul Eedle Watch Excerpt Watch the entire film (46':00") More info http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=143 Sectarian violence is forcing vast numbers of Iraqis to flee the country to seek shelter in Syria and Jordan. Umm Ghaith, a hairdresser, has lived in Baghdad all her life. But with the security situation getting worse by the day, she has no option but to take her sons, and flee to Syria... This story was recently broadcast on Channel 4 News Play video (8':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=142 The invasion of Iraq three years ago was meant to replace the tyranny of Saddam Hussein's police station with freedom from fear and violence. We spend some time in one of the slums of Baghdad - not a nice place for children to grow up...Three women living in this shanty town have talked to us about their lives and the challenges of survival. Broadcast on Channel 4 News... Play video (6':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=147 A pro-Hizbullah Lebanese Shia from the South tells us about how this war has literally "hit close to home". http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=141 Out There News looks back at the life of one of the victims of the violence raging in Iraq. Sarmad Ghazi was a painter. One Thursday, when he was due to visit his parents, he heard an explosion in his neighbourhood of Karrada in Baghdad, and rushed to help the victims. That's when he became a victim himself, struck down in a car bombing. Broadcast on Channel 4 News... Play video (6':00") Transcript and more http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=140 We offer you exclusive material filmed in the immediate aftermath of the Anfal campaign and hear from the survivors. This report includes archive filmed in 1989 of Saddam Hussein visiting a village which had been targeted. We also visit survivors of the campaign and listen to their testimonies... Broadcast on Channel 4 News… Play video (6':00")Transcript and more Buy from Journeyman Pictures http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=139 A journey through memories of Beirut, filmed by Zeina just before the bombs started falling... Click Here to watch the film Screenings... Arab Film Festival - Beirut, Lebanon Raindance Film Festival - London Sheffield International Documentary FIlm Festival SEE Festival - Brighton MINI Film Festival - Dubai Birds Eye View - London...Nominated for Best International Short Lebanon Film Week at the Filmmusem Potsdam in Berlin Women's Art International Festival - Kendal, England Shorts & Shawarma... an evening of Lebanese short films at the Cine Lumiere in London LIBERTAS Dubrovnik International Film Festival Rooftops Film Festival - New York RUSHES Soho Shorts Festival - London AMAL 007 International Euro Arab Film Festival - Official Selection Portable Film Festival - Australia 11th Arab Film Festival - San Francisco Arab Film Week at MedScreen - Barcelona SECONDFEST in Second Life Channel 4 News - UK Channel 4's 3 Minute Wonder (3MW) FourDocs & 3 MW's SNAP! at the Bethnal Green Working Man's Club - London Check out I Remember Lebanon on FourDocs And now also on the BBC Film Network http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=138 A journey filmed by Zeina just before the bombs started falling... Click here to watch http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=137 Marianne was a TV presenter, promoting new Lebanese designers. Now...Listen to her story on our 'War Diaries' http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=134 A life wrecked by the new war in Lebanon... Here's Zeid's life before the bombing: he started a rock band, satirised the government, looked forward to the future... Click Here to watch Zeid's Little BombFollow Zeid's story, 10 days into the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, as him and the band play a benefit gig to raise money for refugees...Staying Alive.Click Here to watch Staying Alive http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=133 Jihad captures the aftermath of one of the fiercest battles between Hizbullah guerillas and the IDF. Full story and slide show http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=130 Jihad is a Lebanese-American who works for the UN De-mining Commission in Southern Lebanon, slowly removing the thousands of mines left over from Lebanon's wars of the 1970s and 1980s - years of confrontation between Palestinan guerrillas and Israel, and later Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim militias and Israel. Now he's struggling to help distraught refugees pouring in from villages being pounded by Israeli forces, and organising the evacuation of the lucky ones with foreign passports. http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=129 A pro-Hizbullah Lebanese Shia from the South tells us about how this war has literally "hit close to home". http://www.outtherenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=128 David Bedein from the Israeli Resource News Agency in Jerusalem analyses international and Arab media coverage of the latest Israel/Lebanon war.