For the third consecutive year, the Qatar-based channel Al-Jazeera English was nominated for an Emmy award in the News and Current Affairs categories, whose winners will be announced on September 27 in New York, reports CBS News. The international Emmys are recognize excellence in television production outside the US and are carried out by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, representing more than 50 countries.

Al-Jazeera English’s coverage on the Israel-Hamas Gaza War in January 2009 is competing with three other reports from Sky News (United Kingdom) for its coverage on the rise of Taliban forces in Pakistan, RT Channel (Russia) for its report on Barack Obama’s visit to Russia, and TV Globo (Brazil), for its broadcast on a huge power outage in Brazil.

In its News Hours show, Al-Jazeera English managed to provide unprecedented and unparalleled coverage on the conflict that took place in Gaza in 2009, thanks to reporters positioned on both sides of the border. Moreover the concerned broadcast was produced right after a ground offensive in the land on January 5, 2009, reports The Peninsula.

According to Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of the academy, the nominees "offer a fascinating window into the human drama constantly unfolding around the world in conflict zones, politics or even daily life." He emphasizes that the role of the News category is to “congratulate them for their outstanding achievements in television reporting."

Not only is Al-Jazeera is praised for the quality of its coverage, along with Al-Jazeera English, but also for its children programming on Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) that gained the best short documentary film award in Anthropology for its documentary entitled “Written in the Wind” at the Jade Kunlun Awards, 2010 World Mountain Documentary Festival of Qinghai China on August 7th, communicates Al Bawaba. The festival of Qinghai is a yearly event that celebrates credible and community-based development and environmental salvation in mountain regions.

The award-winning 26-minutes long JCC’s documentary, “Written in the Wind”, deals with ‘Silbo’, a language of whistling that is a unique wealth to La Gomera island, one of the Canari Islands. “Written in the Wind” praises the La Gomera community for its great efforts to save this particular means of communication.

JCC was previously awarded recognition by the “the Ecumenical Jury Award in Berlinale 2009 for its long documentary Aisheen Still Alive in Gaza and Al-Jazeera Golden Award for Baghdad Angel at Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, 2010.”