mafia connections. welcome to the lead. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we start with our money lead and a rough day for the american economy and your wallets. gas prices hit a new record today, with the national average for one gallon reaching $4.37, according to aaa. that s up 17 cents in one week and 25 cents in a month. to make things worse, u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen was on capitol hill today where she warned this economic turbulence will continue. at the white house, president biden acknowledged americans are facing high sky-high inflation, although he tried to reassure the public, his administration is doing everything it can to bring prices down. but the president also did not lay out any new steps he plans to take, instead, spending a large part of his speech attacking republicans for what he calls their ultra maga agenda to raise taxes. mj lee starts off our coverage today from the white house. number one challenge facing families today. presid
statement expected shortly from president biden. several outlets in taiwan are reporting that nancy pelosi will visit taiwan on tuesday. beijing has warned of severe consequences if the visit goes ahead. and england women s football has been celebrating its historic victory in the euros. thousands of fans partied in trafalgar square. hello and welcome to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are shyama perera and ali mirage. tomorrow s front pages the guardian, england s lionesses celebrate their victories. many carry photos of the team s parties. another picture of pure joy on the metro as the team are dancing queen, partying and central lending london. describing her as the hope candidate. the daily mail says liz truss will end the junk food tax. all of course if she becomes conservative leader and prime minister. there is disappointment for british airways passengers as the times reports the airline has suspended the sale from short haul flights for at
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
sandra, great to have you back. sandra: great to be back. far left protestors dismayed as what they view as an ineffective response to the ruling, saying they are out of step with the mainstream of the party. the president is urging the same protestors to fight after access to abortion bills. claims his hands are tied on further action unless the democrats can pick up more seat in the midterms. all of this as the far left offers bounties on the location of supreme court justices in an effort to harass them like we saw last week with justice brett kavanaugh, forced to leave a steakhouse in washington through a back door. john: the white house refusing to condemn them, saying it is part of democracy as long as it remains peaceful. sandra: rich, a lot of the pushback is coming from the left. it is, sandra, good afternoon. look at what progressives are saying, they say more needs to come from the white house when it comes to abortion, when it comes to gun violence in
conservatives must focus on the future, closed quote, a not so veiled shot at his former boss, the former president s false claims about the 2020 election. remarkable to have a vice president who served under that president to then challenge him. a spokesman for the former president tells cnn he will use his speech today to focus on law and order. this as the justice department s inquiry into the capitol attack widens. pence s former chief of staff marc short confirmed to cnn he testified before a doj grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection, making him the highest profile witness known to have testified so far in the criminal investigation. have a listen. our secret service did a phenomenal job that day. and their job was made more complicated candidly by the fact that the capitol had been breached and they wanted to evacuate the vice president, but it has been covered the vice president didn t want the image of a 15-car motorcade fleeing the hallmark of d