our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m fax foster. there s deep uncertainty on capitol hill i will let you know. i do not expect there will be a vote as planned. e. jean carroll walking into the manhattan courthouse. she s suing trump for battery. she believes in this department store back in the 90s that he, in fact, raped her. a deadly suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed. u.s. officials are reaching out to the 13 u.s. service people who were killed. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, april 26th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where a crucial vote to raise the national debt limit could come as soon as today. republican leaders aren t sure if they have enough support in their own party to get the plan through the house. the bill could cut trillions in government spending over the next ten years. u.s. president joe
serious foreign policy challenges from china to russia to ukraine and a sputtering economy here at home. his poll numbers are not good. even a majority of democrats tell pollsters he should not run for a second term. but the campaign is launched. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president hasn t yet commented on his own re-election bid. reporters weren t allowed close enough today to ask. and officials wouldn t weigh in on what factored into his decision-making citing the hatch act. but the white house calculus seems to be that biden can win voter support in 2024 the same way did he in 2020. with a campaign that happens mostly online. >it s time to finish the job. finish the job. the president s first audience since announcing re-election bid giving a warm election. [chanting four more years] but this campaign isn t shaping up to be about what biden has but
intent rocket bombardment from across the lebanese border. london s metropolitan police diverts dozens of its serious crime officers to investigate their own colleagues as it tries to expel hundreds of corrupt officers. live from our studios in singapore. this is bbc news. newsday. at eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 8pm in washington where the white house has released a report which says little more could have been done to prevent the taliban takeover of afghanistan. the review commissioned by president biden does admit the us should have started evacuating kabul earlier be a spokesman blamed the chaotic withdrawal on a deal that donald trump did with the taliban. the taliban. transitions matter- the taliban. transitions matter. that the taliban. transitions matter. that is - the taliban. transitions matter. that is the - the taliban. transitionsi matter. that is the first lesson learned here and the incoming administration wasn t afforded much of one.
disability campaigners raised concerns about the lyrics. hello and welcome to the programme. president biden says an american drone strike has killed the al-qaeda leader, ayman al zawahiri. he said the operation, which he authorised, took place in the afghan capital kabul on saturday. mr biden described ayman al zawahiri as having been deeply involved in the september the eleventh attacks as well as earlier attacks on us embassies in africa and the uss cole in the late nineties. zawahiri, who succeeded osama bin laden as al-qaeda chief, was on the fbi s most wanted terrorist list. this is what president biden announced a short time ago on saturday at my direction, the united states successfully concluded an airstrike in kabul, afghanistan, that killed the emir of al-qaeda, ayman al zawahiri. ayman al zawahiri was bin laden s leader, he was with him all the whole time, he was his number two man and deputy at the time of the terrorist attack on 9/11. he was deeply involved in t
to absorb indefinite isolation to re impose their orthodoxy. but is that a sustainable strategy? my guest is fawzia koofi, former deputy speaker of the afghan parliament, now a democracy activist in exile. is there any glimmer of light in afghanistan s darkness? fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s good to be with you. well, it s great to have you in this studio. i m sure you wish you were speaking to me from kabul, from afghanistan, but you have been in exile since the taliban returned to power. how difficult for you is that separation from your country? extremely difficult. i never actually wished, i never hoped, to leave the country that gave me the identity, a country that i did not only invest my time, but i invested my blood to make it a better country for everyone. it has been a very difficult decision for me to leave afghanistan. i actually was in kabulfor a few weeks after the taliban takeover with the hope that things will get to a situation where we c