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
our north america correspondent barbara plett usher has been assessing what the drone strike could mean for relations between washington and kabul. well, it s a significant blow to whatever small amount of good faith might have existed in the relationship. the united states is saying that the taliban broke an agreement signed in 2020 about the conditions for us withdrawal in which the taliban committed that it would not shelter extremists. shelter extremists, and now ayman al zawahiri is killed on their on their soil. the taliban is saying the opposite. it s saying that that agreement said that the us should not strike afghanistan after it left, and now it has. but what i can say is this doesn t mean that the united states will break up all contact with the taliban because it needs that contact for practical reasons. it s negotiating the release of a us hostage, it s trying to negotiate safe passage for afghans who worked with the united states and other things. but the president has m