For those who regard the al-Jazeera TV channel as a biased, anti-western mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, the announcement that it will start broadcasting 24 hours a day in English next year will be unwelcome. Its likeliest audience is Muslims (1)_____ the Middle East who do not speak Arabic. Will al-Jazeera"s reports of suffering and rage in Iraq and beyond inspire anger (2)_____ America and its (3)_____ at home, too? The new service may prove a bit less (4)_____ than its Arabic sibling. Nigel Parsons, its managing editor, says that al-Jazeera has been too strident on (5)_____ in the past, and that the English channel will (6)_____ to redress that. It will strive (7)_____ balance, credibility and authority, he says, and it will signal a new maturity for al-Jazeera, which was started by the emir of Qatar in 1996. It will broadcast its own original content—news, documentaries and talk shows—(8)_____ studios in Doha, London and Washington, (9)_____ international news beyond the Middle East. especially the developing countries often (10)_____ by existing English-language channels. A1-Jazeera is already enjoying a fresh burst of (11)_____ outside the Middle East. Around the same time that the interim government in Iraq ordered it to shut its bureau in Baghdad, westerners started watching "Control Room", a film sympathetic (12)_____ the station directed by Jehane Noujaim. At a screening in London last week an audience of local journalists laughed along (13)_____ al-Jazeera"s reporters and editors (14)_____ the (15)_____ of the American military. The biggest mystery about al-Jazeera surround its funding, which "Control Room" sadly did not (16)_____. Qatar has a new (17)_____ in the world (18)_____ to the station. That may be why the emir is willing to spend (19)_____ an English-language channel even (20)_____ the original Arabic one is probably losing money.