Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Terrified: Miriam, 11 (left), and Ayesha, nine (right), are currently living in fear in their basement A terrified British family who are stuck in a basement in war-torn Yemen have launched a desperate appeal to be evacuated to the UK. Louise Henderson Alakil, 49, moved to the Middle Eastern country 27 years ago and worked as a teacher at the International School in the capital Sanaa until recent fighting forced it to close. She is now hiding in a shelter below her family home on the outskirts of the city with her youngest children, Miriam, 11, and Ayesha, nine, amid heavy shelling and while bombs fall all around them.Louise Henderson, 49, moved to Yemen 27 years ago to work as a teacherHer family are now caught up in fighting in the country's capital, SanaaShe is currently hiding below her home with her two young daughtersMiriam, 11, and Ayesha, nine, have pleaded for the bombing to stop and for their family to be evacuated to the UK 
 Question:The family are facing a number of problems in their fight to leave the country, as Louise and her children's passports have expired and the _ authorities are closed.

British