ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
sandra: one of those breaking news thursday afternoons, john. also keeping our eye on nashville as hundreds gathered there to call for gun former at the state capitol. hundreds of young people from high schools all over the area, at times became very tense and confrontations with security happening as you see on the screen there. as there was a big debate and calls for gun reform. there were also those who were making the case for good guys with guns to protect the schools. so things got fiery there at the capitol building. obviously a lot of chanting happening there, and signs were up and that confrontation with security, this all went down a couple hours ago. since taking office, president biden and his team have labored to suppress viewpoints with which they disagree. and in doing so, they have infringed upon the individual freedoms of millions of americans. john: republican senator eric schmidt dropping that accusation on the weaponization of government, he was test
hello, welcome to the programme. we have got another action packed programme for you tonight. coming up, the white house says they have still had no consular access to anerican journalist evan gershkovich, who is being held by the russians on spying charges. we will speak tonight from the former soviet dissident natan sharansky, who was held in the same moscow prison in the 1970s. we will also hearfrom mark urban on his continiung investigation into russia s 331 parachute regiment, and the losses that unit has sustained in ukraine. but we start tonight with the clean up within britain s biggest police force. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, who was appointed in september, believes there are hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force who should not be in the job. and so concerned is he at the scale of the problem, that around 90 of his officers from serious and organised crime have been tasked with investigating their own. this morning, sir mark set out the plans
migrant children working illegally in slaughterhouses. we speak exclusively with a 16-year-old still on the job about the dangerous conditions he faces. e-cigarette company juul paying lawsuits claiming it marketed vaping to underage users. about to be over for tuerware what happeneto a pif american kitcn culture. ouncerthis is nbc night news with lester holt > good even welcome. sidents of anoth small american town are tonight trying to comprehend the danger they face from a noxious cloud of burning materials that have forced up to 2,000 people to flee their homes. multiple fires burning right now in richmond, indiana, on a 14-acre former factory site. the fire is fueled by plastic stored on the te the fires are spewing an ominous column of k sme. captured on weather radar and satellite images tonight u.s. environmental protection agency teams are on the ground measuring the air trying to learn the level of danger. maggie vespa is there for us tonight reporter: a bi
hazardous fumes. as many as 2,000 people evacuated within a half mile. the plant s operator previously cited for violations. what we re learning. just released the desperate 911 calls during that deadly mass shooting at a louisville bank. employees pleading for help. even the shooter s mother calling police. why she didn t think he owned a gun. tennessee officials vote to reinstate the second of two lawmakers expelled from the state legislature for protesting against gun violence. the new threat against the manhattan d.a. overseeing the new york criminal case against former president trump. what officials are saying. our investigation of undocumented migrant children working illegally in slaughterhouses. we speak exclusively with a 16-year-old still on the job about the dangerous conditions he faces. e-cigarette company juul paying almost half a billion to settle settlements saying it marketed vaping to underage users. is the party about to be over for tupperware?