right, now president joe biden is in el paso, texas visiting our southern border for the first time as president. amid a record-breaking surge in migration that has strained several american cities and giving republicans a line of criticism at this hour. migrant services center which is funded by fema s emergency food and shelter program, he s meeting with local officials, faith leaders, and non governmental authorizations who have been critical to supporting migrants, economic collapse in their home countries, we will check in on the presidents border tour throughout the hour. plus, with the drama of last week s protracted battle over the speakership behind us, the house is slated to take up a rules package impacted by the unprecedented concessions kevin mccarthy made to far-right members of his caucus to become speaker. of course, the question that emerges from that is how those concessions and the enduring chaos of the speakership battle will impact how this 118t
doctors successfully separate conjoined twins with shared fused brains in historic virtual reality surgery. 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 from the us it s being reported 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 issued on the ten october, 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, which he had helped to co ordinate alongside osama biden laden. there is no independent confirmation of this, but the white house says that president biden will give details of the counter terrorism operation in afghanistan shortly. let s get more from our correspondent i
Im anita vogel in new york. The u. S. Office of Palestinian Affairs confirming the rafah Border Crossing between gaza. Egypt is expected to open this hour. Once its and running, foreigners will be able to leave the besieged palestinian. While much needed aid can be brought into gaza. More than 2 million palestinians are facing shortages of food, water and medicine, which prompted President Biden to strike a deal with israel and egypt to open the rafah Border Crossing. But after the white house announced the deal to allow 20 trucks of aid to enter into gaza, there have negotiations. Israel has voiced concerns about the aid getting into the hands of hamas. Thats the gaza based Militant Group whose deadly Surprise Attack on israel earlier this month killed more than 1400 people. Some 200 people are also being held hostage. Two of them an American Mother and her teenage daughter, were released. The girls father says he spoke to his daughter and that they will be able to return to the u. S.
Yes, yes. We all right. Well have a show then. Happy wednesday, everyone. Lets get started. Earlier this morning, President Biden agreed to pairbi of debates with former president trump. Biden has listed some demands, including no Live Audience, no Third Party Candidates and a group of visiting angelse th. Standby, but no live crowd. I guess joe wanted an audience of his peers. But trump not only agreed to the two debates, he offered a third one on fox news with Martha Maccallu M and brad beyer as hosts. But not to be outdone. Biden offered a fourth debate with Walter Cronkite and peter jennings. Oh, my god. Meanwhile, President Biden had an odd moment at a galaod in d. C. Last night where he acknowledged an attendee. Listen to thisnt in a. Wheres our version . Stand up, kid . I like that dress. I dont see your gow n. Let him see your gown. Well, turns out this is who he was talking to. [ la thought. And that wasnt even the weirdest thing joe said. Watch this. They want to undo what th
Of the mehdi hasan show tonight, gop dysfunctions, driving us towards a Government Shutdown. Even House Republicans are pointing to figure at one man, Kevin Mccarthy. Plus, the white house just created the First Ever Office devoted to curbing gun violence. I will speak with former Gun Violence Activists turn gen z congressman maxwell frost. And, covid rates are on the rise, again. My conversation with americas doctor, Anthony Fauci. Good evening. At this moment, we are about six days away from a potential Government Shutdown. The first, since the start of 2019. And its a shutdown that we are facing, because House Republicans are completely dysfunctional, behaving in a pathetic way, and pushing for a completely meaningless shut down, because they want to burn the whole place down. Those are not my words, those are the words of House Republicans themselves. We are, completely dysfunctional. There needs to be a realization, that you are not going to get everything you want. And, just thro