:00:23. > :00:31.leave Yemen because of security concerns. Python strangles two
:00:31. > :00:36.Canadian children in their sleep after escaping from this pet shop.
:00:36. > :00:42.Massive flooding in Pakistan claims many lives... And we have details of
:00:42. > :00:52.who spent $250 million of his personal fortune to buy the
:00:52. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:10.nonemergency staff from its embassy in Yemen because of what the state
:01:10. > :01:20.department called the continuing potential for terrorist attacks. The
:01:20. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:33.US has now advised all citizens to leave Yemen. This, as an intercepted
:01:33. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:44.conversation between two Al-Qaeda leaders. Ayman al-Zawahiri is the
:01:44. > :01:48.man who took over the running of Al-Qaeda from some of the lard.
:01:48. > :01:53.Intercepted communications from him are thought to lay behind the most
:01:53. > :01:57.widespread closure of US diplomatic missions ever. Ayman al-Zawahiri,
:01:57. > :02:03.based in Pakistan, was reportedly in contact with this man, Nasser
:02:03. > :02:09.al-Wuhayshi, head of Al-Qaeda's most full and active affiliate Al-Qaeda
:02:09. > :02:13.on the Arabian peninsular, which is based in Yemen. Members of Congress
:02:13. > :02:17.who have been briefed about the intelligence talk of a potentially
:02:17. > :02:27.massive terrorist plot now in its final stages, possibly the most
:02:27. > :02:39.
:02:39. > :02:43.serious attack against American interests since September the 11th.
:02:43. > :02:46.Yet the timing and the target of the attack remain a mystery. We know
:02:46. > :02:50.that the threat emanates from the Arabian peninsular but it could
:02:50. > :02:53.potentially be from beyond that, or elsewhere, so we cannot be more
:02:53. > :02:56.specific which is why we have made the statements we have made.
:02:56. > :03:00.American diplomatic missions in Africa and the Middle East including
:03:00. > :03:10.the one in Yemen remain closed for the rest of the week out of what the
:03:10. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:26.US State Department is calling an abundance of caution. The Obama
:03:26. > :03:29.Administration admits that despite its success against Al-Qaeda's core
:03:29. > :03:32.leadership in recent years, affiliate groups in countries like
:03:32. > :03:35.Yemen and Somalia continued to pose a threat. The international police
:03:35. > :03:38.agency Interpol reported at the weekend that a large number of
:03:38. > :03:42.prisoners had escaped from Middle East and jails in a series of jail
:03:42. > :03:45.breaks that are thought to have been orchestrated by Al-Qaeda, as if to
:03:45. > :03:47.add to America's concerns a number of convicted Islamic terrorists are
:03:48. > :03:54.now roaming free. Staying with the threat of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, and
:03:54. > :03:59.drone strike has killed four suspected members of the group in
:03:59. > :04:08.Ma'rib province. One of the dead was a senior Al-Qaeda figure in Yemen
:04:08. > :04:18.and there have been four drone strikes in the last two weeks. I am
:04:18. > :04:18.
:04:18. > :04:22.joined by my correspondent. The fact Ayman al-Zawahiri appears to be on
:04:22. > :04:31.the Afghan border and having this level of communication intercepted,
:04:31. > :04:38.what is your reading on this? clear he is somewhere on the border
:04:38. > :04:42.since the Taliban regime was collapsed in 2001. He is there, but
:04:42. > :04:49.nobody can say a specific place, and about this contact, still I am not
:04:49. > :04:53.sure. The research I have done, I have worked on Al-Qaeda for years,
:04:53. > :04:58.and I would not think they will call, they will contact, they will
:04:58. > :05:06.chat on this type of thing and they will ask their affiliated group to
:05:06. > :05:13.attack some place in a week's time. But the Americans are indicating
:05:13. > :05:19.there was contact between him and the Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen.
:05:19. > :05:24.will not pass their chat information like this. If there was still any
:05:24. > :05:34.threat, it is creating havoc among people. It should have been dealt
:05:34. > :05:38.
:05:38. > :05:42.with secretly. Al-Qaeda achieve their goal this way. You raise an
:05:42. > :05:46.intriguing possibility that somehow the Americans, as they did before
:05:46. > :05:52.they tracked Osama Bin Laden two years ago, that somehow they may
:05:52. > :05:57.have intercepted other forms of communication by Ayman al-Zawahiri
:05:57. > :06:02.inside Pakistan. It is a big possibility. That could be a
:06:02. > :06:08.possibility, but still I am saying that it would have been good if they
:06:08. > :06:16.had dealt with it in a way that could not create problems for common
:06:16. > :06:22.people. It is good they have taken measures and nobody can say that
:06:22. > :06:31.Nasser al-Wuhayshi, who was secretary to Osama Bin Laden, he was
:06:31. > :06:37.in Pakistan and in Iran, and then he broke free from jail and went in
:06:37. > :06:42.hiding, so we see these tactics they are using but still I am not sure
:06:42. > :06:52.there is something serious. Measures should be taken, but in this way
:06:52. > :06:55.
:06:55. > :06:59.they are not operating. Thank you. snake has killed two boys in eastern
:06:59. > :07:07.Canada aged just five and seven, and they have been sleeping in an
:07:07. > :07:17.apartment above a pet store. It appears the snake had escaped. The
:07:17. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:22.boys were found dead early on Monday morning. The police investigation is
:07:22. > :07:27.still under way, it is believed the snake escaped through the
:07:27. > :07:31.ventilation system to the flat above. It's thought the boys were
:07:31. > :07:41.strangled in their beds. A friend of the boys were sleeping in another
:07:41. > :07:49.
:07:49. > :07:56.room but he The local mayor named the boys as Noah and Connor.
:07:56. > :08:02.snake is between 12 and 15 feet in length. You said it was an African
:08:03. > :08:07.python? It is an African rock python. Experts say these snakes are
:08:07. > :08:14.not normally aggressive. Snakes only constrict for food, so was it
:08:14. > :08:18.hungry? Absolutely. That doesn't mean this snake was neglected and it
:08:18. > :08:28.was not fed enough. It is natural for a snake to eat, to be full, and
:08:28. > :08:29.
:08:29. > :08:33.then potentially be hungry for a period of time before they eat.
:08:33. > :08:36.Autopsies are due to be carried out on the boys and police say they are
:08:36. > :08:39.in the early stages of an investigation and it is too early to
:08:39. > :08:42.say if charges will be brought. India's defence minister has just
:08:42. > :08:48.said five people were killed among the disputed border of Kashmir. He
:08:48. > :08:52.told parliament he blamed heavily armed terrorists and people in
:08:53. > :08:57.Pakistani army uniforms. Pakistan has categorically denied its troops
:08:57. > :09:03.were responsible. An official told the BBC India's allegations about
:09:03. > :09:07.what happened on the line of control between Pakistani and Indian
:09:07. > :09:17.administered Kashmir was baseless as no fire took place on their side.
:09:17. > :09:22.
:09:22. > :09:27.Let's go to our correspondent. was a very interesting choice of
:09:27. > :09:31.words you have described already, he said some of the men were dressed in
:09:31. > :09:36.Pakistani military uniform. Just to recap, earlier in the day the Indian
:09:36. > :09:41.army basically said its five soldiers, who were part of the
:09:41. > :09:46.patrol along the line of patrol, the southern part of the state, came
:09:46. > :09:50.under attack from what it said was a unit of elite Pakistani commandos
:09:50. > :09:57.who had breached the line of control, come inside and attacked
:09:58. > :10:02.the Indian patrol. It is something the Pakistanis have denied, it has
:10:02. > :10:06.led to a strong reaction here, and the Pakistani Deputy High
:10:06. > :10:12.Commissioner was summoned by the foreign office here in Delhi, which
:10:12. > :10:17.lodged a strong protest against the attack. If you unpack the words,
:10:17. > :10:27.there is still a huge question over what happened and who was to blame.
:10:27. > :10:32.The line of control between Indian and Pakistani at ministered Kashmir,
:10:32. > :10:38.is the line clear so anyone who crosses it knows what they are
:10:39. > :10:43.doing? It is very clear for almost the whole stretch except for a
:10:43. > :10:48.little bit in the far north-west. Most of the line of control is now
:10:48. > :10:54.fenced so it is very clear which side belongs to the Pakistani part
:10:54. > :10:58.and which side is the Indian side. Despite that, this is not the first
:10:58. > :11:05.violation that has taken place. There have been a number of attacks
:11:05. > :11:09.along the line of control, exchanges of fire between the two sides. In
:11:09. > :11:13.January this year some strong fighting which led to the deaths of
:11:13. > :11:18.some soldiers on both sides, so this is something we have come to
:11:18. > :11:22.expect. The timing is not particularly good. There is a new
:11:22. > :11:29.Pakistani government in place since June which has promised to do more
:11:29. > :11:34.to improve relations with India, but the Indian home Minister and the
:11:34. > :11:43.chief minister of Indian Kashmir both saying that incidents like this
:11:43. > :11:47.do not help improve relations with Pakistan. Thank you for joining me.
:11:47. > :11:51.Torrential monsoon is across eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed
:11:52. > :11:58.at least 100 people and destroyed hundreds of homes in Pakistan. The
:11:58. > :12:01.army is helping to drain floodwater in the worst hit regions, including
:12:01. > :12:08.Karachi. Forecasters are warning of more heavy rain over the next few
:12:08. > :12:15.days. The family shopping trip that ended
:12:15. > :12:20.in tragedy. This car was carrying a man, a woman and a child when flash
:12:20. > :12:30.floods hit the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan. All are thought
:12:30. > :12:35.to have died. The car was sinking. We heard cries, says us, save my
:12:36. > :12:41.child. We gave them sticks to hold onto but the car sank into the
:12:41. > :12:46.garbage in the meantime. Some neighbourhoods were submerged waist
:12:46. > :12:51.deep in water, sewage overflowed, scores of people were electrocuted
:12:51. > :12:59.or drowned, and the heavy rain did not spare the rest of the country.
:12:59. > :13:09.There has been flooding in the north and west, particularly the city of
:13:09. > :13:10.
:13:10. > :13:17.Peshawar. Five provinces have been badly hit. In this province of
:13:17. > :13:20.Kabul, hundreds of people have been displaced. Across the country, vast
:13:20. > :13:25.swathes of farmland has been destroyed. Dozens are thought to
:13:25. > :13:31.have died with many more missing. The rains have now begun to ease and
:13:31. > :13:37.the clean-up is well under way. In Pakistan, forecasters are warning of
:13:37. > :13:43.more thunderstorms and heavy rain over the next few days. This
:13:43. > :13:50.devastating monsoon season is not over yet.
:13:50. > :13:55.Still to come, the Washington post has been making a loss, but that
:13:55. > :14:05.hasn't stopped one billionaire from shelling out $250 million of his own
:14:05. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:11.brought more foreign politicians to Cairo. With thousands of protesters
:14:11. > :14:14.still on the streets, two leading American Senators are hoping they
:14:14. > :14:17.may be able to force a breakthrough. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are
:14:17. > :14:27.holding talks with supporters Mohammed Morsi and the army-backed
:14:27. > :14:41.
:14:41. > :14:44.interim government. From Cairo, While these very public protests
:14:44. > :14:48.continued, behind closed doors, American and European
:14:48. > :14:53.representatives are trying to smooth a path to avoid bloodshed. Diplomats
:14:53. > :15:00.hope to persuade the brotherhood to have up their demand that President
:15:00. > :15:07.Morsi be reinstated. The foreign affairs chief became the first
:15:07. > :15:11.person outside to visit the ousted president following his removal
:15:11. > :15:18.after huge popular protests against him in June. Adding to the
:15:18. > :15:22.diplomatic push, two senators who have made several trips to Egypt.
:15:23. > :15:28.They could try to exert pressure on the military to compromise by making
:15:28. > :15:37.clear that America's $1 billion in annual aid to Egypt 's armed forces
:15:37. > :15:42.could be conditional. Even as Muslim Brotherhood supporters continued to
:15:42. > :15:47.show enthusiasm for the sit in, the group is navigating its own
:15:47. > :15:52.difficult path. Ending the setting could alienate its supporters. But
:15:52. > :15:58.staying on the street could further alienate the public and increase the
:15:58. > :16:01.prospects of a violent end to A gunman in the United States has
:16:01. > :16:04.opened fire in rural Pennsylvania, killing three people and injuring
:16:04. > :16:07.several others. Police in Ross Township say the man began shooting
:16:07. > :16:14.through a wall of the municipal office. He was eventually wrestled
:16:14. > :16:17.to the ground by two bystanders and taken into custody.
:16:17. > :16:20.Lloyd's of London is offering more than $1 million for information
:16:20. > :16:24.leading to the recovery of jewels stolen from the French resort of
:16:24. > :16:27.Cannes. Last month's raid took place from an exhibition, in the middle of
:16:27. > :16:30.the day, at the prestigious Carlton Intercontinental Hotel. An armed man
:16:30. > :16:33.walked in and took the jewels worth a more than $100 million. It's one
:16:33. > :16:42.of the world's biggest jewellery thefts.
:16:42. > :16:44.This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: The United States has
:16:44. > :16:47.ordered all its citizens to leave Yemen.
:16:47. > :16:51.The State Department says there is the threat of an al-Qaeda attack.
:16:51. > :16:54.Britain has pulled out all its embassy staff.
:16:54. > :16:58.A python that escaped from a pet shop has killed two boys in the
:16:58. > :17:08.Canadian province of New Brunswick. The boys, aged five and seven, were
:17:08. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:17.staying at a friend's apartment the Washington Post for �163m. The
:17:17. > :17:22.ailing newspaper has struggled to modernise, and has been hit hard by
:17:22. > :17:24.falling advertising revenues. Mr Bezos said that he understands the
:17:25. > :17:31.Post's "critical role'' in Washington, and confirmed that he
:17:31. > :17:37.has no intention of changing the papers core values. With me now is
:17:37. > :17:42.Kevin Anderson, a freelance journalist and a digital strategist.
:17:42. > :17:49.It has to be said he has paid 1% of his fortune to buy this paper. He
:17:49. > :17:54.isn't going to be out of pocket. Someone was contemplating he could
:17:54. > :18:00.lose 100 million for 250 years, and still see the end of his fortune.
:18:00. > :18:07.This isn't just about a newspaper, this is about digital content. What
:18:07. > :18:14.is interesting is, this is about the assets which he has bought, the
:18:14. > :18:19.newspaper assets, he didn't buy the magazine, other digital assets. Just
:18:19. > :18:23.the newspapers. The Washington Post and some local newspapers around
:18:23. > :18:30.Washington. He didn't buy the digital assets. He did by the
:18:30. > :18:35.Washington Post website but not the digital side. Can you see, the New
:18:35. > :18:40.York Times has posted $75 million from its digital circulation
:18:40. > :18:50.revenues, a profit this year. Can you see them Washington Post moving
:18:50. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :18:58.in that direction? -- the Washington Post. I don't think it is too late.
:18:58. > :19:04.Most newspapers in the United States are rushing to do this. They are all
:19:04. > :19:09.moving towards this. You get a sultan number of stories free every
:19:09. > :19:16.month then you are asked to pay for an online subscription -- you get a
:19:16. > :19:20.certain number. So, I think the Washington Post, they have resisted
:19:20. > :19:26.this for a long time. But finances have pushed them in this direction
:19:26. > :19:31.now. The Boston Globe has recently been
:19:31. > :19:38.sold. Can you see a new mix where the Washington Post can monetise its
:19:38. > :19:44.brand and reputation? The New York Times, not only is it a national
:19:44. > :19:50.newspaper, it has international ambitions. The Washington Post over
:19:50. > :19:57.the last decade has moved to very much a regional and local newspaper.
:19:57. > :20:01.So, in some way, it has two reach out to its existing subscribers but
:20:01. > :20:06.even beyond that to people interested in politics in
:20:06. > :20:11.Washington. If you had 269 in, would you have bought the Washington
:20:11. > :20:21.Post? I would probably have bought a digital start up first.
:20:21. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:30.Thank you for joining us. Other Pakistan's former military ruler
:20:30. > :20:34.Pervez Musharraf has failed to make a scheduled court appearance. Police
:20:34. > :20:37.in the city of Rawalpindi said it was not safe enough to bring him to
:20:37. > :20:40.the hearing because of threats to his life. Musharraf was due to be
:20:40. > :20:42.charged with abetting the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
:20:42. > :20:46.in 2007. The leader of the Afghan Taliban,
:20:46. > :20:49.Mullah Omar, has said that they will not seek to monopolise power when
:20:49. > :20:52.foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan next year. In a speech
:20:52. > :20:55.marking the Muslim festival of Eid, he said the Taliban will try to
:20:56. > :21:02.reach an understanding with the Afghan people for what he called an
:21:03. > :21:06.inclusive government based on former US army psychiatrist, who
:21:06. > :21:11.killed 13 people in a rampage in Texas in 2009. Major Nidal Hasan
:21:11. > :21:21.admits the killings. He argues he was protecting Muslims and the
:21:21. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:26.Taliban in Afghanistan. The BBC's Nick Bryant is at Fort Hood.
:21:26. > :21:31.The makeshift memorial at Fort Hood in Texas. Outside the nondescript
:21:31. > :21:37.building which in 2009 witnessed the worst noncombat attack in history on
:21:37. > :21:42.an American military base. 13 people were fatally wounded. 30 others
:21:42. > :21:47.injured. The self-confessed shooter was Major Nidal Hasan, then an army
:21:47. > :21:55.psychiatrist about to be deployed to Afghanistan. On the day of the
:21:55. > :21:58.shooting, he allegedly shouted, Allah hu Akbar, God is Great. Then
:21:58. > :22:03.started shouting -- firing indiscriminately. He said he did it
:22:03. > :22:08.because he wanted to protect the Taliban from US forces. He will
:22:08. > :22:12.defend himself at the court-martial. What has angered the victims is the
:22:12. > :22:17.pentagram describes what happened not as an act of terrorism but an
:22:17. > :22:22.act of workplace violence. They are alarmed that the major will
:22:22. > :22:27.personally cross examine some of the people who try to kill. The nearby
:22:27. > :22:33.facility where the court-martial will take place. Encased in blast
:22:33. > :22:37.walls, turned into a virtual bunker. It is believed military
:22:37. > :22:41.prosecutors will present evidence that the American-born soldier
:22:41. > :22:49.became radicalised and was on the Internet searching for words like
:22:49. > :22:53.jihad and Taliban. If found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
:22:53. > :22:57.Taxis come in all shapes, colours, and sizes. They vary as much in
:22:57. > :22:59.looks as in price, depending where you are in the world. Six of our
:22:59. > :23:03.correspondents are comparing cab rides in various cities, and the
:23:03. > :23:07.cost of a 10-kilometre journey. On day two of On The Meter, Tulip
:23:07. > :23:17.Mazumdar samples one of London's black cabs. Gabriel Gatehouse is on
:23:17. > :23:24.
:23:25. > :23:34.terrible traffic. The good thing about Kampala is this. Hello, I am
:23:35. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:47.Gabriel. How much? I need to go to the oasis maul. 10,000. Let's go. --
:23:47. > :24:01.
:24:01. > :24:11.Oasis Mall. of this, as we weave in and out of
:24:11. > :24:48.
:24:48. > :24:57.the traffic here. But, I have a copy of the blue book right here,
:24:57. > :25:03.remember this? Why do they call it the blue book? It is lost in the
:25:03. > :25:06.mists of time, no one knows. Sometimes, the traffic is so bad,
:25:06. > :25:15.even this bike can't get through. Apart from accidents, what other
:25:15. > :25:20.kinds of problems do you face? We have thugs who steal our bikes,
:25:20. > :25:27.they end up taking our bikes, after hitting you with a hammer on the
:25:27. > :25:33.head. Seriously? You either die or you survive. It is all bad for us.
:25:33. > :25:43.One of the banes of my life, jumping the lights. The cyclists. They have
:25:43. > :25:47.
:25:47. > :25:55.pay you. Expertly driven. 10,000 shillings? Thanks a lot. That's
:25:55. > :26:05.about $4. For a five kilometre journey, this really has to be good
:26:05. > :26:05.
:26:05. > :26:15.That journey cost us $50. Thank you. Come with me, I'm about to show you
:26:15. > :26:24.
:26:24. > :26:27.look at that view. Almost worth the Tulip Mazumdar in London and Gabriel
:26:27. > :26:30.Gatehouse in Kampala. His journey has been the cheapest so far.
:26:30. > :26:33.Tulip's trip through London makes her taxi ride the most expensive,
:26:33. > :26:38.behind Athens and Tokyo. Tomorrow, we are in the Americas, to
:26:38. > :26:41.compare New York with Havana. A reminder of our top story on GMT:
:26:41. > :26:45.America has ordered all its citizens in Yemen to leave the country.