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Mansoor al Jamri, editor of the independent Al Wasat newspaper in Bahrain tells Al Jazeera that the Formula One will be a "milestone in the history of the events that we have been going through since last year".

Jamri goes on to say that the problem in Bahrain is not a matter of security, rather "the problem is about political demands ... stopping the divisive policies, the discrimination".

British police on Tuesday arrested two activists who had occupied the rooftop of Bahrain's Embassy in a protest against the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers.

The BBC and Britain's The Independent newspaper both identified one of the protesters as Mushaima's son, Ali.The BBC said the other man is 30-year-old Moosa Satrawi.

British police would not identify the demonstrators or say whether they are from Bahrain.

The two men, who had scaled the building Monday and threatened to jump off its roof, were taken into custody Tuesday after they surrendered and were not immediately charged, said London's Metropolitan Police. [Source: AP]

Two protesters got on to the roof of the Bahraini embassy in London on Monday and unveiled a banner in support of Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja, a jailed activist on hunger strike.

The pair also waved the Bahrain flag from the top of the building in the plush Belgrave Square, which houses several embassies.

"We were made aware at 1:35pm (1235 GMT) of two protesters on the roof of the Bahraini embassy in Belgrave Square," a police spokesman told AFP.

"Officers are in attendance and local road closures are in place."

Al-Khawaja, a Shia activist, was sentenced with other opposition activists to life in jail over an alleged plot to topple the Sunni monarchy during a month-long protest a year ago. 

[Source: AFP]

American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs, her employer The Sunday Times says. 

Colvin and a group of other journalists had all followed the local custom of removing their footwear before entering a building in the besieged city which was being used as a rebel press centre, it said. 

The journalists were on the ground floor of the building when the upper floors were hit by rockets, the paper said in the first full account of how the attack happened.

Although they were initially unhurt, Colvin ran to the hall to get her shoes back from where she had left them.

As she reached it, a rocket landed at the front of the building, burying her and French photographer Remi Ochlik in debris and killing them both, the paper says.

Colvin's mother Rosemarie told CNN on Saturday that her daughter would likely be buried in Syria, saying it had been too risky for aid workers attempting to retrieve her remains.

"We were told yesterday that today was probably the last day" for recovering the body, she told the network. 

British photographer Paul Conroy, who was working with Colvin at the time, and French reporter Edith Bouvier were wounded in the attack. Conroy's wife on Sunday urged Britain's Foreign Office to reconsider its decision not to send anyone to rescue her husband after it deemed the mission  too dangerous.

"I would like it if somebody in that embassy was to say 'forget the protocol, I'm going and I'm going to get them out' - but I know that is not going to happen," Kate Conroy told BBC Radio 4. "I have had quite a heated conversation with an MP and he has been absolutely categoric with me that that's not going to happen."

Britain summoned Syria's ambassador to London on Wednesday to demand that Syrian authorities facilitate "immediate arrangements for the repatriation of the journalists' bodies," as well as medical treatment for Conroy.

[AFP]