overcome and inspiring a new generation announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. for the defense, accused murderer alex murdaugh taking the witness stand today in south carolina dramatic and at times tearful testimony from the man at the center of the country s most closely followed criminal trial murdaugh under questioning from his lawyers saying i didn t shoot my wife or son and addressing what has appeared to be some of the prosecution s strongest evidence murdaugh from the witness box admitting he lied about his whereabouts the night his wife and 22-year-old son were shot to death. chalking up the lies to opioid addiction and paranoia under cross-examination, murdaugh, a former lawyer, also admitted to stealing from clients. the prosecution has maintained the murders were part of murdaugh s attempt to escape accountability for financial misdeeds we begin tonight with catie beck reporting from walterboro, south carolina. reporter: after ne
pressure and is preparing to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. and everything, everywhere all at once leads the oscar nominations, with 11 nods. we ll look at what else has made the cut. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start the show in new zealand, where chris hipkins has just been sworn in as the country s new prime minister after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn t have enough in the tank to continue in the job. prime minister hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country s first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins labour party will face a general election in october. for more on this, i m joined by stephen hoadley, associate professor of politics and international relations at the university of auckland. it s wonderful to get you on the programme. in the first instance, perhaps you could tell us mo
i always had a few questions about it. reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. you know, i didn t know about that. it happened i was not notified about that until a later date. reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? yeah, i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy s chief of staff. there s so many. i m sure he s not thrilled about that at all. as for santos, have we gone from ridiculous lies to russian ties? the bizarre saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. hold on now. meanwhile, republicans remain focused on president biden. they re laser focused on biden and his handling of classified documents. the
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