Al-Jazeera's english news-channel hits airwaves

Ten years after it started broadcasts that shook up Arab and Western leaders, Al-Jazeera today launched an English-language news channel aimed at bringing the Arab take on the news to the rest of the world.

Al-Jazeera English is available in more than 80 million homes, but so far has no major U.S. distribution, leaving viewers there unable to watch a channel branded by some as biased against the United States.