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CAIRO - Another protester was killed and some 50 others were injured in Yemen on Thursday as street protests and unrest continued in countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Thousands of anti-government protesters, who wanted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to follow Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down, clashed with police in Yemen's capital of Sanaa and southern port city of Aden on Thursday. Anti-riot policemen fired warning shots Thursday evening to break up a massive march of protesters in Aden, killing one protester and injuring about 10 others. This brought the death toll of protests in the country since Wednesday to three. Anti-riot police's random gunfire killed two young protesters during fierce clashes in Aden on Wednesday. In Sanaa, 40 protesters were injured on Thursday when some 3,000 anti-government protesters, mostly students, met pro-government backers. One policeman was seriously wounded when police tried to stop the clashes. Hundreds of anti-government protesters also took to streets in provinces of Al-Bayda, Al-Hodayda, Taiz, and Abyan. In Egypt, the situation was still unfolding on Thursday. The ruling military council has ordered to arrest three former ministers of interior, tourism and housing, as well as a former senior member of the ruling National Democratic Party, over corruption allegations. The council also announced a travel ban on 43 members from the current and ex-government. In New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday welcomed the public commitment made by Egypt "to the holding of free and transparent elections." "Those commitments must be fulfilled, there must be no turning back," he said. The ruling Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Tuesday set a period of 10 days for the constitutional amendment committee to finish its task, while reaffirming it would hand over power within six months. The council announced Sunday in No. 5 communique that they will suspend the constitution, dissolve the parliament, and form a panel to draft a new constitution for the country before submitting it to a referendum. In Bahrain, the Bahraini army issued a statement on Thursday, saying it will take all measures to keep stability of the country. Bahrain's army said troops had been deployed on the streets of the capital Manama after a wave of anti-government protests calling for political and economic reforms have erupted in the tiny Gulf country.

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A scene from the six-episode TV documentary series Wild China. Provided to China Daily

CCTV's new all-documentary channel is an attempt to build nation's image while also giving a boost to local documentary makers. Sun Li reports. At the beginning of 2011, China's national television station (CCTV) launched a 24-hour, all-documentary channel, broadcasting in both English and Chinese. The channel, CCTV-9, commenced with Wild China, an Emmy-award winning documentary and the first non-fiction program produced jointly by CCTV and BBC, in 2008. The six-episode, high-definition series explores China's perse habitat and wildlife, and is filled with fascinating images such as threatened Tibetan antelopes, or chiru, filmed in temperatures of -30 C in Tibet's Chang Tang Nature Reserve, and bumblebee-sized bats living inside a hollow bamboo stem, captured by infrared camera. Liu Wen, director of CCTV-9 calls Wild China, which has been shown in more than 60 countries around the world, an outstanding example of "building China's image through documentary", adding that this is exactly why the relatively old was selected as the opening program of a brand new channel. "The documentary channel was launched to create a vivid, multidimensional album of China," Liu says. Modeled after the United States-based Discovery channel - the world's No 1 non-fiction media with a reach of more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 180 countries CCTV-9 offers compelling cinematography across a range of genres including history, nature, science and technology, and people and places that have shaped the nation. "Many world-famous documentary channels, including Discovery, are role models for us on how to build the image of a country through non-fictional programming," Liu says. "Documentaries have proven to be effective in enhancing a country's cultural influence."

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A 2010 CCTV survey of overseas markets showed that non-fictional programs are more readily accepted than TV series in foreign markets, according to one report in the People's Daily. The survey mentions the one-hour China Time program, shown on Germany's NRWTV, that presents a variety of CCTV-produced documentaries on art, food, health and lifestyles in China. "In CCT

V-9, we now have a powerful and exclusive platform to present perse Chinese documentaries," says Professor Hu Zhifeng of the Communication University of China. "Having a dedicated documentary channel is a proactive step in strengthening the presentation of China's image." But to Liu Wen, CCTV-9 is more than a platform for presenting documentaries. "The channel also acts as an incubator for locally-produced documentaries and is a boost for China's documentary industry," he says. "A good documentary must combine artistry and commercial appeal and should stand the test of the international market." In recent years, a number of outstanding documentaries that have won domestic and international recognition have been made by CCTV producers and filmmakers. Most of these talented producers ar …… 此处隐藏：5586字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……