also in the programme: one of america s top lawmakers, nancy pelosi is reportedly expected to visit taiwan on tuesday, putting further strains on relations with china. doctors successfully separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains in historic virtual reality surgery. champions! champions! and as england s lionesses celebrate winning the euros 2022, we ll talk to gurinder chadha, director of the classic celebration of women s football, bend it like beckham. now look my god, we did it! cheering live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news: president biden has confirmed that the al-qaeda chief, ayman al zawahiri has been killed in an american drone strike conducted in kabul. zawahiri was on the fbi s first ever most wanted terrorist list following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to coordinate alongside osama bin laden. this is what presidentt biden announced a short time ago. m
hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news: president biden has confirmed that the al-qaeda chief, ayman al zawahiri has been killed in an american drone strike conducted in kabul. zawahiri was on the fbi s first ever most wanted terrorist list following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to coordinate alongside osama bin laden. this is what presidentt biden announced a short time ago. my my fellow americans, on saturday my direction, the united states successfully concluded an airstrike in kabul, afghanistan that killed the leader of al-qaeda, ayman al zawahiri. zawahiri was bin laden s leader, he was with him all the time, his number
al zawahiri has been killed in an american drone strike as you are hearing theirfrom our correspondence. in kabul and washington, lots of analysis on the site including a profile of who zawahiri was and how important he was to the al-qaeda network. you could bite all that information on our website. bite all that information on ourwebsite. 0rsimply bite all that information on our website. or simply download the bbc news at if you have not done so already. let s move away from that breaking news story and take you to a story that has been dominating headlines in asia this week. the speaker of the us house of representatives nancy pelosi is expected to visit taiwan as part of her tour of asia. that s according to several american and taiwanese media reports, although there is no official confirmation on this yet. china has warned of serious consequences if the trip to the self ruled island goes ahead. last week, president xijinping told president biden not to play with fire .
republican, and to support whoever is the nominee, you my think he would escape controversy for at least 12 hours? no, not quite. lashing out at yet another member of the media, hugh hewitt, acausing the host of let s get to dana bash. now some of trump s rivals are saying he stumbled in his answers, and this raises questions about his preparedness to be commander in chief. there are a lot of republicans running on their records, particularly on foreign policy. they tripped over themselves to get a chance to argue that the reality tv star topping the polls is not ready for primetime. when you re the front-runner, you can expect tough questions. a conservative radio host wanted to know if he s ready to be commander in cheep. to know who zawahiri and al