the last a0 years. and scientists in china are tracking a new animal based virus that s infected at least several dozen people, but say there s no need to worry. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore and 8:00 in the evening in washington where the us attorney general, merrick garland, has defended thejustice department s decision to seek a search warrant for donald trump s residence at mar a lago earlier this week. mr garland said he had personally approved the move, noting that upholding the rule of law meant applying the law evenly without fear or favour. he said the department ofjustice would make the warrant public, because of the substantial public interest. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi and justice department agents and prosecutors. i will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. the men and women of the fbi and thejustice department are dedicated, patr
how virtual reality surgery has enabled doctors to separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains. and beyonce will re record one of her new songs, replacing a word, after disability campaigners raised concerns about the lyrics. hello and welcome. more details are emerging about the us mission that s killed the leader of al-qaeda, ayman al zawahiri. after years of tracking him, armed forces sent two missiles from a drone flying above the afghan capital kabul, killing him instantly. announcing the strike, president biden said justice had been delivered . it comes nearly a year after the united states chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, as our washington correspondent nomia iqbal reports. after decades, america has killed one of its most wanted terrorists. my killed one of its most wanted terrorists- terrorists. my fellow americans, - terrorists. my fellow americans, on - terrorists. my fellow - americans, on saturday, at terrorists. my fellow americans, on saturday, a
for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi
uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t
Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. President biden, On A High Stakes visit for talks with israels Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, in tel aviv, has secured a deal, allowing aid into gaza, via egypt, bringing in much needed food, water and medicine to more than a million people. He said egypt has agreed to open the Rafah Crossing, into the territory, allowing in 20 trucks carrying aid. But mr biden s trip was overshadowed by tuesdays blast at a hospital in gaza, which the Gazan Health Ministry says killed a71 people. It has inflamed tensions and sparked protests across the region. Israel has maintained it was not responsible, saying the blast was caused by a rocket misfired by the Palestinian Militant Group islamichhad. On wednesday, us President Biden agreed with the israeli leader, saying it appears the blast was done by the other team. But hamas, palestinian authorities and other arab nations have blamed israel for the explosion which trigg