i this week ah ah, this is the w news live from the u. s. to class the death of the alleged mastermind of the $911.00 attack. my direction. united states successfully concluded nurse try and keyboard can stand and kill the mirror, a little card. to him on our president joe biden says, a drones try, can the afghan capital killed the reclusive terrorist?

come on that also coming up tensions over a possible stop. over in taiwan, taiwan, government sources say us how speak and nancy pelosi will visit the island during asia. trip. china has threatened a military response. the white house says beijing is overreact. ah, i'm and you can see mckinnon. welcome to the program. the united states says that it has killed the leader of al qaeda. i am anal though a harry and a drone strike in afghanistan. he was one of the founders of the terrorist group and had been in hiding for more than a decade. u. s. official said the cia carried out an operation on sunday, targeting the man they believe was central to planning the $911.00 attacks in

the heart of this wealthy cobble neighbourhood where many taliban leaders reside. the head of al qaeda found a hide out, but not out of washington's sides. the u. s. official says i am on als away. harry was identified on multiple occasions, spending time on the balcony of the house, where he was eventually struck early on sunday morning. now we have eliminated the mirror of our kinder. he will never again, never again allow of kingston to become a teacher. so shaven because he is gone and we're going to make sure of nothing else happens. you know campy, are launching providence united states. we're going to shoot to that won't happen. the gyptian bonds are why harry was osama bin laden's, right hand man. before late of succeeding him as head of al qaeda. but you are says he was actively involved in planning the september 11th attacks in the us,

as well as other al qaeda operations, including 2 u. s embassy bombings in east africa in 1998. and the attack on the u. s. s. cole warship in yemen. in 2000 following the strike that killed him, the taliban accused the us of violating international principles and the door agreement. but for the americans, it's the taliban who's broken? that 2020 accord by providing cover for the winery who's killing is the 1st known us strike in afghanistan since washington pulled out its troops a year ago. and the more i'm joined by journalist france, marty has been living in and reporting from afghanistan for many years. i france now you've been a cobble residency years. what was your reaction to the fact that i was that why harry was located in the capital in a well to do neighborhood of cobble? we surprised that it was the leader i am on. although you came

to me as a surprise on that all kind on members, also high ranking members have visited cobble at least and stayed there temporarily since the fall off of count us until the 20 bon was not a surprise. it has, for example, been credibly reported in several un reports or during the past year, given that he was living in such a central location, is it clear that the taliban were helping to shelter him and his family? nothing can be said were certainty, but it is really hard to imagine that no one in the taliban regime would have known about this given the location. so it is very likely that they knew apparently it was kept secret or from almost every body on the theory of to strike on sunday. i talked to a sourcing called blue with connection twitter jihad the scene. and he told me that

no one would know anything. so apparently been well place people are, hadn't any idea that he was there. okay. but if it's likely that they knew he was there, does this mean that al qaeda has been operating freely in afghanistan? since the u. s. withdrawal. done not since the u. s. wister. all on if you go back off, al keidel has never been completely eradicated. so for people who follow the subject, it was always clear that some people, some okay, i'll kind operatives are around afghanistan and how much they did. what exactly they did. that was the question mark, but that they are around that, that they are active, has already been the case before taliban takeover. again, with imo knowles, of what he, it was suspect that, that he, somewhere into i've gone a san pocket on border area with sources on this agreeing on which side of the

border that he was in call loop was certainly a surprise. but it all condos around is not a surprise at all. i'm. can you give us a sense of how this operation was different from the bin laden operation in 2011? it was completely different. here we're talking about the cia drone shooting apparently, to rockets into that house, according to u. s. officials. um it was a type of messiah that doesn't have a warhead, so there's no explosion. um, right before the impact relates protrude from the may sile and it's more or less for reading the target. so basically you shoot a bunch of iron into the target to only kill one person and not create much collateral damage in uh, bolt up ots. the been long operation was a military operation with like special forces going on the ground going inside. i'm hunting for to target. so it's completely different modus operandi. feminist france

. nazi, thanks so much. the taiwan government and its sources say that us house speaker nancy pelosi will visit the self governing island hello. see has not commented on the possible trip, but some official say that they do expect her to stop over on tuesday night. hello c is currently in malaysia. as part of her asia tor chinese government says it would view any visit to taiwan as a provocation and warned its military could take strong counter measures in response china of use taiwan as its own territory. the biden administration is understood to be against the stuff over, but says pelosi does have the right to visit the island. that the thing and for more on this let's bring in d. w correspondent suits on han, who's in taipei and good morning. there's a lot riding on this, isn't there? can we say it's pretty much a certain see that nancy pelosi will be coming to tell i pay on tuesday evening.

yes. even though tie one's foreign ministry, said it had no information to share and would not of offer additional comment according to our stores close to the government. there's a certain itinerary, shoe arrive 4 hours later, that is 1020 local time, that she will stay overnight at the hotel and tomorrow morning. she will go to the taiwanese parliament to meet the legislators. and afterwards, she will meet tony's president's high england, who will host her at a state banquet. so were watching closely. if all this would happen. can you tell us how people in taiwan feel about beijing's reaction to this visit? are they worried about it? well, people here have been listening to china's warnings closely, but most are used to it. the warnings have been there for the past 70 years. it's hard for people to believe anything breaking would happen overnight. and how it is

people have of actually miscellaneous feelings toward the policies visit. on one hand, it could be a signal to show how the u. s. would kick is promised to protect high one, should a hot what really breaks out? on the other hand, no one wants the escalation to that level. as the po shows most people still want to remain the status quo. that is to be able to live the current democratic life under the u. s. and china rivalry. understandable absolutely. we're going to come back to you in just a moment, but we're going to take a look now, how tensions between the us and china have been building for some time over the island with each side, blaming the other for the escalation. he did, he don't play with fire. i that was chinese president, she's in pings message to his u. s. counterpart joe biden. in their most recent talks, china claims the u. s. is dangerously close to crossing a line on taiwan with its messages of support for the islands. independence in may . biden broke with years of u. s. policy by promising military support. if china tried to invade are you

willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan? if it comes to that, yes, you are. that's the commitment we made. the u. s. as china is the one disrupting the status quo. over the past year, she jan ping has provoked taiwan with incursions into its air space and calls for an end to taiwanese self rule. fool ones. the historical mission of the reunification of the motherland must be and will surely be realised. negotiate a jing, seize the island as a chinese territory temporarily occupied by the political airs of those who lost the chinese civil war. 1949. since then, taiwan has governed itself, running regular military and civilian drills to prepare for a possible chinese invasion. to pass that china has laid out off is neither a free and democratic way of life. the taiwan no sovereignty for 23000000 people.

many in the west see it as a fight between democracy and authoritarianism. but that's not the only reason why the u. s. is involved. taiwan is integral to u. s. strategy to check china's power in the pacific. the taiwan strait is one of the most important shipping lanes and global trade. and the majority of the world's advanced semiconductors, used in everything from smartphones to cars. joke are made on the island, tries to relocate production line. if china successfully imposes its rule on taiwan . that would be a big blow to the u. s. and a victory for she didn't pass to y'all. he sees him, but he was, and biden unhappy both have a lot to lose. should they know a full blown war could be the worst case scenario for both their country swan could eat them. okay, can i ask you, what's the status of the taiwan? i mean, could there actually be any benefit from this kind of visit? so there is not any obvious benefit for under the current situation,

china has standards, it's military and economic pressure, anti one. there's worry that sooner or later taiwan would fall like hong kong or ukraine and it, we, if we friends of this question, the other way could tower benefit from pillows is not visiting taiwan, which china renounced the use of force against high one. the answer still no. so our son determination and solidarity from a democratic allied r. c needed for many people on this island with china doesn't change its behavior and policies. okay, a situation we're going to be watching very closely. sued some hand in taipei. thank you so much. ok, let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines around the world versus in the us state of kansas are deciding whether to remove the right to abortion from the state constitution as the 1st major balance on the issue. since the supreme court revoked the constitutional right to abortion, into those is being seen as a test case for abortion rights across the us. and protest as occupying iraq's

parliament have settled in for a 4th day. followers of the powerful cleric knocked out al serra storm the fortified government zone on saturday and had vowed to remain in the building thousands of counter protests. those have also taken to the strait, demanding that outside of supporters, leave parliament immediately. a grain shipments from ukraine have restarted after under a u. r. n. broken deal to end russia's blockade. exports of wheat, corn, and other key commodities had been halted since the start of the war in february, contributing to a global food supply shortage of the 1st cargo ship parted from odessa on monday. ukraine says 16 more vessels are waiting to follow up to 60000000 tons of grain and fertilizer could be exported over the next 5 months under the deal. and earlier we spoke to d w's. they get a show co,

who's in keith. we asked to how optimistic ukrainian authorities are about returning to normal schedule of grain deliveries. we could sense here in keith, a huge relief and that this 1st shipment went that well, but you quoted presidents the landscape is 90 address. he said, don't be overly optimistic because obviously ukraine doesn't trust the russian security guarantees, especially as russia had attacked the address a port on the hours after the great deal was signed. and it's important to say that the even more challenging part of the deal is still to come because the big question is, will the ship owners be really ready to send their ships into a heavily mind harbor in a war zone? and will they get affordable insurance? because we have heard a lot of comments by the insurance industry. they said, yeah, this the, the deal still have to worked out. we need more procedures to really assure that

the ships can go there safely and pick up the grains for the work market values, but get her, she'll kill them. that's the news at this hour. my colleague been for sale and is up next for the business update, followed by d w science magazine tomorrow. today, it looks at how scientists solve crimes both modern and pre historic. i manifest mckennon on behalf of the whole news team here. thanks for watching people and trucks injured when trying to free the citizens. more and more refugees are being turned away. families playing phone tag with st.