[01:05.23]President Obama urged the Senate to confirm Ms. Yellen straight away.

[01:09.24]In her acceptance speech, she said more work needed to be done to pull the economy away from the recession.

[01:15.36]“While we have made progress, we have farther to go.

[01:18.91]The mandate of the Federal Reserve is to serve all the American people

[01:25.26]and too many Americans still can’t find a job and worry how they will pay their bills and provide for their families.

[01:33.51]The Federal Reserve can help if it does its job effectively.”

[01:39.05]The leader of the Pakistan Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud has told the BBC he wants to hold talks with the government.

[01:47.11]In a rare interview, the militant leader who’s been blamed for thousands of killings in Pakistan and Afghanistan

[01:53.16] said the authorities had made no formal approach to his group.

[01:56.51]He said an end to American drone strikes would be necessary as part of any ceasefire.

[02:01.55]From Islamabad, Aleem Maqbool has more.

[02:04.31]The backdrop is of this huge debate in Pakistan about whether or not the government should talk to the Taliban.

[02:11.79]They came out four or five weeks ago and Nawaz Sharif the prime minister said ‘yes,

[02:16.38]we are going to pursue a strategy after talking to the Taliban.’ It was the government that made that first move.