On
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News 24's HARDtalk tonight (Friday 3 January), Tim Sebastian
interviews Majid Al Alawi, Bahraini Minister for Social Affairs.
After
the first democratic national elections to be held in over a quarter
of a century, Bahrain has just formed a new Government.
Dr
Majid Al Alawi, a former dissident, is one of the country's new
Ministers.
The
Government faces some tough challenges: though Bahrain is home to
the US Fifth Fleet, the King of Bahrain recently announced that
he was opposed to any unilateral military strike against Iraq.
Notes
to Editors
HARDtalk
is broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News 24, Monday to Friday at 10.30pm, and is
repeated Tuesday to Saturday at 2.30am.
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