TITLE: Qatar desperate to bolster MILITARY plan new Russian missile air defence system
SENTENCE 1: In June 2017, Qatar was given 10 days to cut ties with Iran, shut down a Turkish base and close the state funded broadcaster Al-Jazeera or face unspecified consequences in an ultimatum by Saudi Arabia.
SENTENCE 2: Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah is quoted as saying: “Talks about the subject are at an advanced stage.”  He added that Qatar was also negotiating purchases of military hardware for Qatari ground troops.
SENTENCE 3: The news comes after tensions escalated between Qatar and Saudi Arabia last year.

Bias label: moderately
Annotator rationales:
If you frame Qatar’s military actions as ‘desperate’, you introduce emotional bias that influences how readers interpret the situation. Countries regularly invest in military defense systems for strategic reasons, but labeling this as desperation without evidence of urgency or distress risks sensationalizing the event.
 If you state that the news comes after tensions escalated without specifying the nature or severity of those tensions, then you risk creating an impression of direct causality that may not be fully supported by evidence.