should not continue. british airways halts sales of tickets on short haul flights from heathrow for a week as disruption for travellers continues. mps are calling for non surgical cosmetic procedures like botox and fillers to be better regulated. welcome to bbc news. the leader of al-qaeda, ayman al zawahiri, has been killed in an american drone strike in afghanistan. al zawahiri was one of the masterminds behind the september 11th attacks against the united states in 2001. after years of tracking him, the cia targeted him with two missiles from a drone flying above the afghan capital kabul, killing him instantly. announcing the strike, president biden said the killing would bring closure to families of the nearly 3,000 victims of the 9/11 attacks. it comes nearly a year after the us s chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, as our washington correspondent nomia iqbal reports. after decades, america has killed one of its most wanted terrorists. my fellow americans, on saturday,
senior american official to visit the island in decades. china has warned that america would pay the price for her visit. a man has been charged under the trees and act after allegedly being found with a crossbow and the grounds of windsor castle on christmas day. adverts featuring edited model should come with warnings and nonsurgical procedures need tighter regulation. that is according to a group of mps investigating the impact of body image. a snorkeler suffered a leg injury after allegedly being hit by a blue shark off the coast of cornwall last week. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the energy company bp has recorded its second highest three monthly profit in history. between april and june is made £6.9 billion, three times the figure for the same period last year. in the oil trading performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £i performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £1 billion in uk tax this year. but the news comes as dome
interfere with the media. excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, t