A person entering the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street in New York City yesterday. Al Jazeera America launched its network yesterday, after a decade of trying to gain a firm foothold in the United States. Opening the lineup was a preview of the daily schedule, which includes news, magazine and interview programmes. One of the first in-depth reports set to air was an investigation for its “Fault Lines” programme on Bangladesh. “Fault Lines goes undercover in Bangladesh in a multi-month investigation to expose how US corporations may be putting their profits before the well-being and safety of the workers making their products,” the channel promised. The Qatar-based media group took out full-page ads in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today and kept up a barrage over social media including Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. On Facebook, Al Jazeera America called itself “the new American TV news channel that connects you to the human stories at the heart of the news