| The channel can also be watched on the Internet | Justice Department has never finalized the demand nor made it public, the action has generated a series of reactions from RT and the Russian government |
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| RT Arabic swiftly gained a large audience in the Middle East and North Africa | Unsourced material may be challenged and removed |
| Rusiya Al-Yaum started broadcasting on 4 May 2007 | Across the Middle East and North Africa, where news consumers were polled in 15 countries, RT has a weekly TV audience of 11 million |
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| Each episode is 26-minutes in length and focuses on a various topics and their aspects from different or sometimes controversial points of view | According to figures from the Russian Ministry of Justice, TV-Novosti, the Russian state provides 176 |
The online audience of RT Spanish is ahead of Spanish-language websites of international news channels, including BBC, Euronews, France 24, and the Latin American channel TeleSur.
12| Incidents [ ] On 17 May 2015, an RT Arabic journalist was allegedly assaulted by Israeli security forces while filming celebrations in Jerusalem | In October 2018, RT Arabic became the first broadcaster of non-Arabic origin in the region to generate over one billion views on YouTube, leaving behind the Arabic versions of CNN, BBC, and DW, among others |
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| Assessment and reactions [ ] RT Arabic, along with other RT channels, has been subject to criticism for its explicit connections with the Russian government |
On 29 January 2020, RT Arabic correspondent Wafa Shabruni was badly injured from an exploded shell during a militants' weapon depot removal in the southeast Syrian province of Idlib.
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