went down to southern london, meeting a lot of middle-class voters those coming outside.number 10 showing the focus on middle-class. i think in campaigning style, brown is not a blair. he is not at ease with the voters even though i think it is a bit more of that today that in the past. he does a committee with people in quite the same way. >> parliament whining up in a day or so and they agreed, they have agreed what bills they will get through the so-called washup. >> we are hearing the details of this. i don't recall this happening before. the government has before an election, the government has dropped three of its attacks measures that were announced in the budget a few days ago. the levy on the broadband lovely, the holiday tax, and also the 10% rise inside a tax would effectively be dropped. it will be dropped from the 30th of june unless parliament voted to reinstate it. so that's quite an interesting series of measures. at the same time, quite a number of other important measures have had to be dropped in the source trading that goes on at the time of the disill

while there have been limited flights from southern europe, more delays are expected this morning in the uk because of a new ash cloud spreading toward london. the aviation industry could lose more than $1 billion from the travel crisis. >>> al qaeda in iraq has suffered what could be a major blow after u.s. and iraqi forces killed two top figures. al masri and his deputy, baghdadi, were killed sunday in a remote corner of the anbar province. >> their deaths are potentially devastating blows to al qaeda iraq. but equally important, in my view, is this action demonstrates the improved security strength and capacity of iraqi security forces. >> the top military commander in iraq, general ray odierno, also weighed in, calling the deaths, quote, potentially the most significant blow to al qaeda in iraq since the beginning of the insurgency. we're going to be talking to general odierno coming up a little later in the show. >>> congress appears headed for a major partisan showdown over financial reform as debate begins to legislation to revamp the industry. both sides are eager to explore a lingering resentment toward wall street renewed last wee