Shia Muslim rebels in Yemen have said the West's strategy to counter Al-Qaeda there almost certainly failed unless it is changed. The rebels,who oppose Al-Qaeda, said the plans to strengthen the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh against Jihadi organizations wouldn't work because its government had itself nurtured such groups. Yemeni officials denied this.
In Argentina, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has called on the Central Bank governor Martin Redrado to resign after he refused to allow the bank's reserves be used to repay government debt. Here is our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.
Argentina's government finance is stretched and President Fernandez wants to dip into Central Bank's reserves to ease the debt burden. The Central Bank governor has resisted and the president has called for his resignation. The Central Bank governor's reluctance to comply probably reflects the fact that Central Bank's reserves are usually meant for stabilizing the value of the national currency. Using Central Bank funds to finance government activities is also widely seen by economists as a policy that can cause inflation. AndArgentina has a long history of serious inflation problems.
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The outgoing United Nations special representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide has delivered a strongly word at a very negative assessment of the situation in Afghanistan to the UN Security Council. From UN headquarters in New York, our correspondent Matthew Price reports.