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,
Cutting. Not on my watch. He brags about getting roe v. Wade overturned. Mcconnell and i are going to keep fighting to restore roe v. Wade as the Law Of The Land again. My predecessor labels our country of revenge and retribution. I believe were a nation of hope and opportunity for everybody. Were a country of honesty, decency, faith, fairness. Thats the future were building together. Thats President Joe Biden last night drawing a slew of clear contrasts between himself and donald trump. It comes amid new polling that shows a substantial bump for the president if his predecessor is convicted in the ongoing hush money case. And speaking of that trial, the former president is turning it into a de facto Campaign Event with a whole bunch of his allies in court with him yesterday. Well show you who was there and recap the second day of testimony from his former fixer, Michael Cohen. Plus, well go through the latest effort from the Biden Administration to persuade the Israeli Government agai
Me came to that go very cool. You were alive in the sun and newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington well, roughly 87 of totality. We are just hours away from a Where Were You event the Solar Eclipse of 2020 for some 32 million americans will be in these socalled Path Of Totality this afternoon. That means from texas to maine, they will be plunged into darkness when the moon blocks out the sun for about four minutes. But if youre not lucky enough to the, in this narrow band dont worry, 99 of americans will see at least a partial eclipse. And this reminder, of course, be sure to wear those special Eclipse Glasses to avoid permanently damaging your eyes. Todays Celestial Wonder will be a site to savor. It will be another 20 years before the next total Solar Eclipse is visible. In the contiguous United States, were covering all the angles of this rare bent, including in the studio. And here, i mean, i dont know if we can take this shot for just a second here, but look at the set that are won
at least 157 people. houses are destroyed and people are digging through rubble to rescue others. and russell brand faces a fresh allegation of sexual assault. the claim is made in a civil lawsuit filed in new york and dates back to 2010. hello. i am anna foster, this is bbc news, live from jerusalem. israel s military has again urged civilians in gaza s north to leave the area. it reopened one of the strip s main highways. allowing people to drive south. strip s main highways. the road was scheduled to be open for three hours and that window was due to close just moments ago. the rafah crossing to egypt is also closed at least temporarily. no one has used the crossing so far today. we are hearing that gaza border authorities will not permit foreign passport holders to cross into egypt until the injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafah. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped gaza through the crossing in the past few days. our bbc arabic corresp
To still be here and were still fighting so while he is still fighting, we still fighting. Also, the latest in our collection blind date series, and this morning one labour and one conservative politicians sit down and took in. So for all our couples have got on but will politics get in the way . People are looking at me, talking about the community. I was in wilkinson is buying something about the other day and people said, i cant believe you are in wilkinson i said, i have to put things in my bin. I dont have people to put things in my bins hello, welcome to the programme. We until iiam. Hello, welcome to the programme. We untiliiam. We hello, welcome to the programme. We until iiam. We are live until iiam. So much coming up today on the show. We will be talking about the political song that you arent allowed to hear and why. The latest on the tickets for the one love concert in manchester to remember the victims of last weeks attack. And of course we have our latest in the series el