what she says about the jury after they sided with ex-husband johnny depp. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening the words of some of donald trump s closest legal and campaign advisers formed what the january 6th committee believes is a powerful narrative about the ex-president s false claims of a fraudulent and stolen election. day two of the hearings kept the focus on mr. trump witness after witness describing a president who ignored clear evidence of his election defeat, adopting baseless conspiracy that aides told him were completely nuts. his former attorney general bill barr saying president trump had become detached from reality another aide saying mr. trump took advice from an inebriated rudy giuliani to declare victory in spite of the results the committee focused today on establishing what it describes as the big lie, that it says mr. trump used to create a movement that ended in the riot of january 6th. garrett haake is covering th
Through the first line of russian defences. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has been working with the bbc verify team to determine whether ukraine is making any significant process. Ukraines big Counter Offensive in the south is making progress, but how far have their troops really got and can they break through russias defences to turn the tide of this war . Lets just remind ourselves. The Dark Red Area is the area occupied by Russian Forces. The purple area is ground that the ukrainians have recaptured. The russian defences consist of two major lines, each composed of several interlocking obstacles trenches, anti tank devices, minefields, all covered by artillery. The ukrainians have had to spend most of the last three months picking their way through minefields like this one. You can see the hidden mines circled in red here. And theyre doing this on foot, sometimes at night, often underfire, hence the slow progress to date. Theyre also having to find their way through obsta
storms dylan dreyer was following it all what are you looking at it s all connected. you have these extreme temperatures with high humidity and it s triggering some significant storms just moving east of cincinnati and also had some north of chicago. derechos are also possible with these storms which i basically a long track storm that stays on the ground for a long period of time and produces very gusty winds. we could see wind gusts over 75 miles per hour, very large hail, isolated tornados especially in that dark red area, as well and look how expansive the heat advisories, watches and warnings are. 100 million people impacted by this heat, and we are looking for several days of record breaking high temperatures with your heat indices up around 110 degrees. in st. louis, cincinnati will feel like 111 and then as we go into wednesday we re going to continue with this extreme heat as temperatures remain close to 100 degrees and, lester, it look like it s going to last unfortunately
kept climbing. and this is really unusual. the dark red area is far warmer than average. and scientists say that it s human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, that s made this far more likely. our analysis of the temperatures that we re seeing in the western side of north america just wouldn t have been feasible in the natural course of events. we ve analysed the climate that you would expect without emissions of greenhouse gases, and you just don t see these sorts of extraordinary temperatures that we re seeing at the moment. the next big worry is farmland, and whether crops will survive the punishing temperatures. the heatwave won t last forever, but it is a reminder of what climate change can really mean. david shukman, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, this is the scene live in beijing, we will have more on the celebrations from there as china marks the
the rising temperatures bring all kinds of dangers. the extreme heat we re seeing in the west is not only a risk amplifier for wildfires, it s a threat in and of itself. people are hurting. it s more dangerous for kids to play outside. roads are buckling under the heat. again, i need not tell all of you. so, what s causing this heat? well, there s a vast dome of high pressure above western canada. it s like a lid in the atmosphere, trapping warm air and pushing it down where it gets even hotter. and the heat is held in place by the path of the jet stream, so temperatures have kept climbing. and this is really unusual. the dark red area is far warmer than average. and scientists say that it s human activity, the burning of fossilfuels, that s made this far more likely. my analysis of the temperatures that we are seeing in the western side of north america just wouldn t have been feasible in the natural course of events.