03/08/2013

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:00:27. > :00:30.The Foreign Office has confirmed that the British Embassy in Yemen is

:00:30. > :00:33.to close tomorrow and Monday because of increased concerns about

:00:33. > :00:36.security. The move comes after the United States issued a global travel

:00:36. > :00:38.alert and warned that the potential for an attack by al-Qaeda was

:00:38. > :00:48.particularly strong in the Middle East and North Africa. Rajesh

:00:48. > :00:52.

:00:52. > :00:58.Clashes on the streets of the Yemeni capital show ongoing security

:00:58. > :01:03.concerns in the country, but the US is worried a new terror plot could

:01:03. > :01:08.be brewing. So worried that it is closing its embassy in Sana'a and 20

:01:08. > :01:12.other cities across the Muslim world on Sunday. It has issued a global

:01:12. > :01:17.travel alert for US citizens and says there is a significant threat

:01:17. > :01:22.in the Middle East and North Africa. It is an al-Qaeda affiliated threat,

:01:22. > :01:29.yes. Is the threat to blow up an embassy, consulate or something

:01:29. > :01:35.else? That part of it is unspecified but the intent seems clear. The

:01:35. > :01:41.intent is to attack Western and not just US interests. US diplomats

:01:41. > :01:47.across a huge area will close on Sunday and officials fear tourist

:01:47. > :01:51.sites could also be targets. The US wants no repeat of this, the attack

:01:51. > :01:56.on its consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year. Militants killed four

:01:56. > :02:03.people including its ambassador. Written is responding to the alert,

:02:03. > :02:07.closing its embassy in Yemen for two days from tomorrow. The US and UK

:02:07. > :02:12.share a lot of intelligent and the British say it is a precautionary

:02:12. > :02:15.measure. The British has not issued a regionwide travel alert and at the

:02:15. > :02:20.moment it says just the one embassy will be closed in the next couple of

:02:20. > :02:26.days. It has said some staff have been withdrawn due to what it says

:02:26. > :02:29.are security concerns. Yemen is home to al-Qaeda's offshoot in the

:02:29. > :02:36.Arabian Peninsula. It is suspected of previous terror plots, including

:02:36. > :02:40.trying to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, and

:02:41. > :02:45.targeting the UK deputy ambassador in 2010. He escaped a suicide bomb

:02:45. > :02:50.attack on his convoy. Earlier this week, President Obama met Yemen's

:02:50. > :02:56.president and talked about al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula. This

:02:56. > :02:59.latest alert shows how potent force it thinks the threat is.

:02:59. > :03:09.Twitter has apologised to women who have experienced abuse on the social

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:03:09. > :03:12.network. Three female journalists and a Member of Parliament said they

:03:12. > :03:18.had been threatened with bomb threats and rape via the site. In

:03:19. > :03:24.the last hour, Twitter's UK General Manager, Tony Wang, wrote: With me

:03:24. > :03:29.now is our business correspondent, Joe Lynam. What is the background?

:03:29. > :03:34.Quite a few high-profile cases and women from all walks of life have

:03:34. > :03:37.been subjected to some vicious as more attacks on Twitter, most

:03:37. > :03:42.notably Caroline Criado-Perez, she had been campaigning for Jane Austen

:03:42. > :03:47.to be on the �10 note. She was subjected to awful personal abuse

:03:47. > :03:51.including rape threats. An online petition was started and it has worn

:03:51. > :03:56.through because we had the apology from the Chief Executive of

:03:56. > :04:03.Twitter. There is this new facility on Twitter whereby you can port --

:04:03. > :04:08.report abuse. I spoke to Jo Swinson, the Minister for women and

:04:08. > :04:12.equalities and chic welcome to the apology. She said there has long

:04:12. > :04:15.been -- she welcomed the apology. She said there has long been

:04:15. > :04:18.unchecked abuse and the company is right to address the seriousness of

:04:18. > :04:21.the issue. Two teenagers are appearing due

:04:21. > :04:23.before magistrates today, charged with raping a girl aged 12 in east

:04:24. > :04:27.London. The girl was attacked near garages in Walthamstow in the early

:04:27. > :04:29.hours of last Saturday morning. Police said she called a friend who

:04:29. > :04:32.came to her aid. The Local Government Secretary, Eric

:04:32. > :04:35.Pickles, has vowed to clamp down on what he called a "back-door parking

:04:35. > :04:38.tax" by councils who force residents to seek planning permission in order

:04:38. > :04:41.to charge commuters to park on their property Mr Pickles says new

:04:41. > :04:51.Government guidance will allow homeowners to rent out their drives

:04:51. > :04:52.

:04:52. > :04:56.for a single car without making a In the Second World War, many airmen

:04:56. > :04:59.were killed during flight training in the Scottish Highlands. Their

:04:59. > :05:02.bodies were taken away to be buried and the wreckage of the planes left

:05:02. > :05:07.- apart from at one site near Lochinver, which at the time was

:05:07. > :05:10.considered too remote for the bodies to be retrieved. Now a memorial has

:05:10. > :05:20.finally been placed to mark the spot where the six airmen died. Kevin

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:05:20. > :05:25.Keane reports. 2000 feet up and the headstone

:05:25. > :05:30.missing from this war grave for 70 years finally arrives. The six

:05:30. > :05:40.crewmen were buried here when their aircraft crashed on exercise in

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:05:41. > :05:45.1941. Until now, only a locally made clue has been given. It took six

:05:45. > :05:49.weeks to find the crew during a very bad winter. One of the crew actually

:05:49. > :05:53.survived, made it two or 300 metres away from the crash but

:05:53. > :05:59.unfortunately was killed. It was at a time when the war was going very

:05:59. > :06:04.badly. Hundreds crashed while being hurriedly trained on these planes,

:06:04. > :06:09.with this one exception, the bodies were removed, the wreckage left.

:06:09. > :06:13.Found by a shepherd after a wild winter storm... The logistics of

:06:13. > :06:18.creating a lasting tribute has proved a headache for many reasons.

:06:18. > :06:22.To think of a suitable memorial that was going to last and not going to

:06:22. > :06:27.require too much long-term maintenance, that was all planned.

:06:27. > :06:30.The main thing of difficulty was how to get it up here. The helicopter is

:06:30. > :06:35.now lifting off all of the heavy equipment that was brought in here

:06:35. > :06:39.to help with this job. In a few minutes, all of this has been over,

:06:39. > :06:44.but it has been months in the planning. This memorial should