ayman al zawahri, al qaeda s leader and a former deputy to osama bin laden on 9/11, was killed by a cia drone strike in kabul. the administration has not confirmed al zawahri was the target ahead of the president s re, ma. the senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the mission. al zawahri has been on the run for year, and his history of violence extends well beyond his role in planning 9/11. the egyptian doctor was at one point arrested in connection with the assassination of egyptian president anwar sadat and was indicted in 1999 for the 1997 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania. joining me now is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. what do we know about what the president is going to announce, and any details about that operation? reporter: the details are still coming in. what we do know is that the president is going to announce that ayman al zawahri was killed over the weekend in a counterterrorism operation. the pres
the alleged crimes and his ability to get out of town. the most famous person on the planet simply is not a flight risk and they will decide in all likelihood that they don t need to lock him up prior to trial. all the bond decision is about is just trying to ensure that the person shows up to the next hearing and they have no reason to believe, again, setting aside the seriousness of the crime or who it is or the defendant his notoriety so he s not going to be held behind bars. now, they may set a dollar amount for his bopped, they may make him post something like that, but beyond that it s business as usual. i want to also look at what mark meadows said when he was his lawyers gave a statement to the federal excuse me, to the yes, it was the federal court, thank you, asked the federal court to dismiss charges in georgia. the lawyer said mr. meadows served a critically important advise and assist function that has been firmly entrenched in federal law for nearly 100
many more interviews to cop duct and given the unprecedented case, given the. a evidence that they have collected so far, they need more time to proceed for that preliminary hearing. they said they have already turned over 500 pages of document. they have tons of film that they need to gather and they have to interview some of the students. they have had a hard time interviewing the students to in hearing that was schedule that was schedule for next week but they have now agreed to have it in february. the attorney for the parents will ask them to release them on bopped. remember, the judge is holding them on a $500,000 bond but it seems that the defense attorneys want to make another motion to get them released so they are going to be filing that.
sojoe root could carefully plan his innings. first ball yesterday morning, new zealand gave him a lot more time to ponder. but now, instead of watching rain fall, it would be wickets courtesy of tim southee, who removed 0llie pope, then dan lawrence. and poorjames bracey, in the first innings of his first test, gone before his first run. england fans watching a batting collapse, a step back to normality. to hold it together, rory burns was going through an ordeal of an innings. dropped at slip, bopped on the head twice, and still he batted on, battled on going through to a street fighting century. not enough to catch new zealand. and their batsmen added to their lead. they were more than 150 ahead when 0llie robinson thought he had kane williamson. no one else did, really. still, he got the captain to check. as it turned out, the kiwi skipper was out, and joe root s day finished as it started with a surprise. patrick gearey, bbc news. roger federer says he may pull
could carefully plan his innings. first ball this morning, new zealand gave him a lot more time to ponder. but now, instead of watching rain fall, it was wickets, courtesy of tim southee, who removed 0llie pope and then dan lawrence. and poorjames bracey, in the first innings of his first test gone before his first run. england fans watching a batting collapse a step back to normality. to hold it together, rory burns was going through an ordeal of an innings, dropped at slip, bopped on the head twice and still he batted on, battled on, going through to a street fighting century. not enough to catch new zealand and their batsman added to their lead. they were more than 150 ahead when 0llie robinson thought he had kane williamson. no one else did, really. still, he got the captain to check. as it turned out, the kiwi skipper was out. and joe root s day finished as it started with a surprise. patrick gearey, bbc news.