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From Our Own Correspondent: 23/02/2012

23/02/2012

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 23/02/2012

Is al-Qaeda giving the people of Yemen something their government is not?

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes asks whether al-Qaeda is giving the people of Yemen something their government is not.

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 for a new president. 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 and she's been on a test dive off the Bahamas with one of them. Christchurch in New Zealand is still far from rebuilt a year after the devastating earthquake there. Joanna Lester talks of a business district 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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