mostefa souag, welcome to hardtalk. good day, stephen.e have to start with the threat of closure that appeared to be hanging over aljazeera just a few short days ago. the threat of course which came from saudi arabia and its allies, which demanded the closing of the aljazeera network as a condition for lifting an economic blockade on qatar. be clear with me. is there still a risk you may have to shut down? well, first of all i would like to say that aljazeera has created a new media environment in the middle east, in the arab world. there is something that is called before aljazeera and since al jazeera. the threat that these countries are targeting aljazeera is of course... any threat is a serious threat for us, but qatar has said clearly that aljazeera is not for negotiation. we don't feel any threat whatsoever in this respect. the only thing that we are sorry for is that we don't have the chance to be in the field in these countries because reporting from the field is what we do best. however, we will continue reporting about these cou