Mike Hanna is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years' experience He's received awards from the Royal Television Society(RTS) and the British Academy. He is also a recipient of the Bayeux War Correspondents Award and the US Cable ACE Award. He has been honored by New York Association of Black Journalists and in 1995 was awarded the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.
While incidents such as the forcible end to demonstrations last Friday might suggest Tunisia has lost the spark that began the region's historic uprisings, the larger desire for democracy remains as strong as ever.
The frontline west of Ajdabia in eastern Libya has been sealed off for the past month, with only military traffic allowed into the area, however an Al Jazeera team was given exclusive and this is what they found.
<P>In her first public response, Hillary Clinton argued strongly that no matter how sensitive the information from diplomats, it did not reflect the views of the US government. Policy, she said, is made in Washington, not by those reporting from the field.</P>
<P>Once given an international forum, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman made the most of it. Lieberman dismissed the “land for peace” policy that has been the basis of negotiations for decades; in its place, he suggests “an exchange of populated territory”.</P>
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<P>Whatever the primary reason for former US President George Bush launching the war - his predecessor is ending it because it costs too much.</P>
