Is Al-Jazeera sacrificing staff members in order to cover the costs of launching their English language channel?

-SDH Al-Jazeera is said to be losing employees in clusters due to the fact that the network may have got in over its head with costs to launch an English language version. Staff members are outraged at the lost of benefits and a lack of pay rises. On top of all this, there is beef between the original Arabic language channel and it's newly launched English speaking sibling. Where does it all end? Sources have added that executives on the main Arabic al-Jazeera network are trying to exert more control over the English language outlet, which is mainly staffed by western journalists. One source said the al-Jazeera editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Hilal, was pushing for the English channel to take a more Islamic slant, quoting the example of the recent furore surrounding British teacher Gillian Gibbons who was arrested in Sudan for allowing her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Al-Jazeera English in 'staffing crisis' [MG]