Al Jazeera English has been nominated for the Emmy awards in both the news and current affairs categories for the second successive year.

The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will announce the winners of the 30th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards in New York on September 21.

‘Al Jazeera News Hour – Russia-Georgia War’ was chosen as a nominee in the news category for its ‘un-paralleled’ coverage of the Russia-Georgia War in 2008.

Al Jazeera’s Moscow bureau was on top of the coverage of this story three days before the fighting began and on August 8, 2008, witnessed the outbreak of hostilities on the South Ossetian border.

Al Jazeera journalists were on the front lines across the region, feeding live updates and cut packages of the events as they happened.

The entry comprises of four packages from Gori, Tskhinvali and South Ossetia and a live update from Tiblisi.

Al Jazeera English’s nomination for the current affairs section was a Witness Special – Return to Nablus.

Presented by Rageh Omaar, the special travels back to the Palestinian town of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, to complete the year-in-life observation of two schools, the Hajja Rushda girls’ school and the King Talal boy’s school, for the final months of the academic year.

The documentary tells the stories of both the teachers and students facing extraordinary circumstances of life and learning under Israeli occupation in addition to the usual stresses of running a school and facing exams.

The Witness special was directed by Tom Evans and executive produced by Ingrid Falck, both of Flashback Television in cooperation with Al Jazeera English Channel.

Al Jazeera English also received two nominations at last year’s International Emmy Awards in the category of current affairs for Witness – Red Mosque documentary and KL’s news coverage of the crackdown in Myanmar.