tokyo. a quick recap of the top story, it s day two of u.s. president barack obama s state visit to the uk. he s meeting the british prime minister, david cameron, at downs street in london. they re talking about libya, afghanistan and a lot of other issues. later, mr. obama will speak to british lawmakers, where he s expected to say the u.s. and europe have to play a leading role in global security. the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed seven police officers in peshawar. the bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives right into a police station. the explosion destroyed the three-story building. 23 people were injured. european air travel authorities say about 700 flights have been canceled wednesday. the volcanic ash cloud drifting from iceland has made airports closed in berlin and other german cities. good news, they re supposed to reopen by wednesday afternoon and iceland s official weather agency says that the grimsvotn
grounded as volcanic ash clouds a continent. and nato keeps up the pressure on moammar gadhafi. tripoli comes in for more bombing. we begin in london where the u.s. president is kicking off day two of his state visit to britain. right now barack obama is at 10 downing street for talks with british prime minister david cameron. they ve got lot on their plates, the talks mark a shift in tone for the president. tuesday was mostly about pageantry, meeting the royal family and getting the vip treatment over at buckingham palace. today it is all about politics. and washington s close ties with the uk, that s really going to be at the heart of mr. obama s address to parliament today. he s expected to say american relations with the uk and nato are essential to global security. to number 10 downing street and to our white house correspondent, brianna keeler. what is president obama s message going to be to david cameron? we re just a short distance away from 10 downing street
convoy in northwestern city of peshawar. michael holmes is here to bring us the latest on this. i guess the pakistani taliban claiming responsibility? they say it s a revenge killing for the death of osama bin laden. two u.s. consulate officials were slightly wounded. a motorcycle rider was killed there. i think nine civilians also wounded. luckily the u.s. officials were in an armored vehicle, two armored vehicles. they were slightly hurt. this is the latest in a bit of a surge of violence since bin laden s death. we ve been seeing quite of bit of that. also there was another u.s. drone attack in pakistan. what happened there? it s a bit of an uptick what we re seeing. this happened in a tribal area in north waziristan. we heard that place before. four militants said to have been killed. we ve seen 6 drone attacks in the past 15 days according to a cnn count. there s a huge source of tension between the pakistanis and united states. we re seeing more since bin
the pakistan taliban is claiming responsibility for today s suicide attack on a u.s. consulate convoy. it happened in the northwestern city of peshawar an is the latest in a surge of violence since bin laden was killed earlier this month. cnn s stan grant joins us from the pakistani capital of islamabad. stan, what is the latest that you have that you can tell us about this attack? reporter: randi, as you say, there have been a series of attacks since osama bin laden was killed. the pakistani taliban saying that they are out to eveng his death. they re trying to show that they have the fire power to do it. now american and nato targets are very high on their list. that s why we saw this convoy of u.s. vehicles from the u.s.
necessarily pointed to something specific. what they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that al qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the united states. what they re saying is, some of the information that they just got shows that al qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets. where is this intel coming from? it s coming from that treasure trove of information that those s.e.a.l. teams hauled out of osama bin laden s compound. we don t know if it specifically came from osama bin laden s journal, but we do know it did come from the effects that were found in his compound. so whenever we hear a warning like this, you wonder is there a specific time or a date where this attack might be possible. do you know anything about that? yeah. that would be what they would call actionable intelligence. in other words, they found out that so an so may be plotting an attack on this date against this ins