ayman al zawahri, al qaeda s leader and a former deputy to osama bin laden on 9/11, was killed by a cia drone strike in kabul. the administration has not confirmed al zawahri was the target ahead of the president s re, ma. the senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the mission. al zawahri has been on the run for year, and his history of violence extends well beyond his role in planning 9/11. the egyptian doctor was at one point arrested in connection with the assassination of egyptian president anwar sadat and was indicted in 1999 for the 1997 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania. joining me now is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. what do we know about what the president is going to announce, and any details about that operation? reporter: the details are still coming in. what we do know is that the president is going to announce that ayman al zawahri was killed over the weekend in a counterterrorism operation. the pres
statement expected shortly from president biden. several outlets in taiwan are reporting that nancy pelosi will visit taiwan on tuesday. beijing has warned of severe consequences if the visit goes ahead. and england women s football has been celebrating its historic victory in the euros. thousands of fans partied in trafalgar square. hello and welcome to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are shyama perera and ali mirage. tomorrow s front pages the guardian, england s lionesses celebrate their victories. many carry photos of the team s parties. another picture of pure joy on the metro as the team are dancing queen, partying and central lending london. describing her as the hope candidate. the daily mail says liz truss will end the junk food tax. all of course if she becomes conservative leader and prime minister. there is disappointment for british airways passengers as the times reports the airline has suspended the sale from short haul flights for at
doctors successfully separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains in historic virtual reality surgery. and as england s lionesses celebrate winning the euros 2022, we ll talk to gurinder chadha, director of the classic celebration of women s football bend it like beckham. now look my god, we did it! cheering live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us it s being reported that the al-qaeda chief, ayman al zawahiri, has been killed in an american drone strike conducted in kabul. zawahiri was on the fbi s first ever most wanted terrorist list issued on the ten october, 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to co ordinate alongside osama biden laden. there is no independent confirmation of this, but the white house says that president biden will give details of the counter terrorism operation in afghanistan shortly. let s get more from our correspondent i
important moment for the u.s. to tell viewers what you are learning. this is about to be a major announcement that we hear directly from president biden. we expect that president biden will be addressing the nation around 7:30 tonight. is senior administration official told us this was a counterterrorism operation of a significant al qaeda target. we are learning this was in fact, ayman al-zawahri. the senior official also noted that the successful operation did not result in any civilian casualties. keep in mind, this comes about one year after the u.s. withdrew fully from afghanistan. of the last military plane leaving afghanistan in august of last year. this will raise questions that perhaps, the president, himself, will address on how the operations were conducted, given no u.s. military prison in afghanistan. also, what the assurances are that we hear from the president, himself, on the note that there was no civilian casualties. the president has been isolating becaus
america and china s taiwan faceoff. tonight, tensions escalate ahead of speaker nancy pelosi s possible trip to the self-governed island. adam yamaguchi is there tonight as war games with uh underway. the fact we re seeing an amphibious assault suggests that the taiwanese think the chinese will take islands in the south china sea and dickerson: another supply chain log jam in the warning from the nation s businessiest port. terror shark encounters. what had swimmers racing to shore. and renning the life and careers of two americans icons and thee. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dickerson: good evening, and thank you for joining us, i m john dickerson in for norah. tonight, we are awaiting president biden, who will speak within the hour about what s being described as a successful counterterrorism strike. a seen nor administration official tells cbs news that the u.s. killed top al quaida leader aym