23 Feb 12
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not? It's a question explored by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes who's there in the wake of this week's election. Who wants to venture seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? Rebecca Morelle tells us four competing teams are developing submarines to do just that. Christchurch in New Zealand is still far from rebuilt a year after the devastating earthquake there. Joanna Lester talks of a city centre in ruins and communities torn apart. The French province of Brittany has a great deal going for it but not, as Robert Colls has been telling us, much in the way of job opportunities. And Frank Gardner's taken to the skies off the coast of Somalia to see how an international force is dealing with the threat posed by pirates.
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| 0:02.8 | This is from our own correspondent. |
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| 0:18.4 | presenting the BBC Radio 4 edition here's Kate 80. |
| 0:22.8 | Today a new president for Yemen, but will he do anything |
| 0:25.8 | to halt the spreading influence of Al-Qaeda? |
| 0:28.7 | Communities broken up, city centre in ruins, |
| 0:31.4 | whole neighborhoods abandoned. |
| 0:33.2 | That's Christchurch, New Zealand, a year after the earthquake. |
| 0:37.1 | We take to the skies looking for pirates off the Horn of Africa, |
| 0:40.8 | see jellyfish dancing off the Bahamas, and visit Brittany, a part of the world which |
| 0:45.7 | has nearly everything except jobs. |
| 0:49.3 | So it looks like farewell then to President Ali Abdullah Sala, who ruled Yemen for 33 years. |
| 0:55.2 | He agreed to stand down after this week's election, in which the Vice President |
| 0:59.6 | Abdabu Mansour-Hadi was the only candidate. The poll was accompanied by outbreaks of violence. |
| 1:06.2 | At least nine people were killed. There'd been a call for a boycott of the vote by separatists |
| 1:11.1 | in the south of the country. Polling stations in the southern city of |
| 1:14.8 | Aidan were forced to close early, but voting in the capital Sunnis passed off |
| 1:19.4 | peacefully. The United States which has declared Yemen to be the number one center for Al-Qaeda activity in the world |
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