Boston terrorism arrest
A man has been charged with terrorism-related offenses that include plotting to kill people in an American shopping mall, the US Justice Department says. Tarek Mehanna, 27, was held in Sudbury, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Matthew Bell reports.
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