its highest in m years. the parents of archie battersbee have lodged another appeal with the supreme court against the decision to end the 12 year old s life support treatment. a bit ofa a bit of a waiting game now, but we are hopeful that they will hopefully hear the case and we will get to put our points across. 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. hello, welcome to the programme. the leader of al-qaeda has been killed by an american drone strike, in the afghan capital kabul. ayman al zawahiri was one of the masterminds of the attacks of september 11th. us president biden, in a live televised address, said his death would help give closure to the families of the thousands of people killed on 9/11. our correspondent, secunder kermani, reports from kabul. this is the family home where it s
as we start to pick up northerly winds, it will start to turn cooler and by sunday we could even see some showers in the forecast as well, so i think saturday is looking like being the driest day of the weekend. you can see why, our area of high pressure is drifting northwards allowing these northerly winds to dig down, pushing down across the country, which will also spark off some showers. saturday the best, driest day. 20 degrees in the south. as we head into sunday, it will be more cloudy and cool it with scattered showers, more cloudy and cool it with scattered showers, particularly more cloudy and cool it with scattered showers, particularly in the east. thank you very much. that s all from the bbc news at six so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday. we put the spotlight on the rise in incidents of fan violence within football. we hear from the players football association and ask what can be d
we re watching a number of big races that will help define where this country is going, and where better to follow it all than outside of independence hall, birthplace of our declaration of independence and our constitution. most closely watched is the race for an open senator seat. pat toomey is retiring, which means this is the democrats best chance to make gains in the senate. lieutenant governor john fetorman currently leads the race against congressman connor lam, malcolm kenyatta and alex khalil. did fetterman s stroke change the calculus for voters? and what about the black vote? his opponents insist black voters haven t been adequately polled. on the right, there are seven candidates looming over all of them is donald trump. one in three gop ads aired here mentioned donald trump. and as charlie matthiasson put it, there are few states as deeply infect by donald trump s election fraud lie. the gop leaders are mehmet oz, cathy barnett and dave mccormick. trump picked o