bairstow has been in blistering form and was secheduled to play for welsh fire in the opening match of the competition on wednesday. he says that he s had a hectic few month s and wants to take a breather before he test series against south africa. england test capti ben stokes has also already withdrawn from the hundred to manage his workload. that s all the sport for now. we ll have more for you on the bbc news channel later on. the leader of al-qaeda has been killed by an american drone strike in the afghan capital kabul. ayman al zawa hiri had been osama bin laden s deputy, and was one of the figures behind the september the 11th attacks. president biden says his death would help bring closure to the families, of the thousands of people killed that day. our afghanistan correspondent, secunder kermani, has sent us this report.
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one of america s most wanted. ayman al zawahiri, right hand man and successor to osama bin laden. this was the drone strike that american officials say killed him as he stood on the balcony at this family home in an upmarket kabul neighbourhood. we can hear debris still being cleared up, but then we are told to stop filming. we are in the centre of the city. the house that was targeted in the drone strike is just a few minutes away, but the taliban are not allowing anyone to film nearby, insisting there is nothing to see, one even pointing his gun threateningly towards us a little earlier on. senior taliban figures must have agreed to al-qaeda s leader living here, but they have insisted in public the group no longer exists in afghanistan, so his death poses
welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. nancy pelosi, the us house speaker, lands in taiwan for a hugely controversial visit. china warns it could have serious consequences for america the white house is keen to de escalate the situation. the united states does not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. washington says the taliban broke an agreement not to allow foreign militants on afghan soil by sheltering the al-qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri, who s been killed in a us drone strike in kabul. the house that was targeted in the drone strike is just a few minutes away.
for president biden, the opportunity to kill one of america s most wanted men was fraught with risk. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera has more analysis on how the operation was carried out. so how, after years on his trail, did the us finally find the al-qaeda leader? they appear to have first tracked his family to kabul. then by the spring, they established that ayman al zawahiri himself was in a particular building which he never seemed to leave. they spent months monitoring his movements, establishing what s called pattern of life, even building small scale models of the compound. after previous disastrous mistakes in the afghan capital, washington wanted to make sure they had the right target. eventually the decision was taken to launch two missiles from a cia drone when he was out on the balcony. some