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
senior american official to visit the island in decades. china has warned that america would pay the price for her visit. a man has been charged under the trees and act after allegedly being found with a crossbow and the grounds of windsor castle on christmas day. adverts featuring edited model should come with warnings and nonsurgical procedures need tighter regulation. that is according to a group of mps investigating the impact of body image. a snorkeler suffered a leg injury after allegedly being hit by a blue shark off the coast of cornwall last week. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the energy company bp has recorded its second highest three monthly profit in history. between april and june is made £6.9 billion, three times the figure for the same period last year. in the oil trading performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £i performance was exceptional and it expects to pay more than £1 billion in uk tax this year. but the news comes as dome
shrinking glacier streams in the himalayas are creating a water crisis. we have a special report on getting tap water to villages. and the smart, caption glasses, allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right in front of their eyes. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, is right now in taiwan on a visit that s infuriated beijing. ms pelosi is due to visit taiwan s parliament and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. tensions are high. china considers self ruled, democratic taiwan as its own territory, and it s been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. our correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports from taiwan. the speculation has been swirling for days, but it wasn t until this moment with her plane on final approach that we were sure nancy pelosi would defy beijing and
trying to get more information about it. what can you tell us about this attack? anything more about the type of weapon that was used? and can you guarantee that no one was killed besides zawahiri? all good questions, brianna. so, look, this mission really took shape over the course of the last six, seven months. it was really sort of early this year as you heard the president say we got indications that mr. zawahiri had moved into afghanistan. so what we re able to do is stitch together some intelligence, based on the movements of his family, quite frankly, and then once we tracked them into kabul, we were able to then be able to track him and his efforts to reunite them. that led then to weeks if not several months, of making sure that we had the right guy, that this was, in fact, mr. zawahiri, and that this was in fact their residence and then, of course, developing a pattern of life. his habits, if and when he went outside, how often, on what days, for how long, all tha