that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence not a progressive country, by the way. just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, how were they able to get this done? reporter: well, the secret is it wasn t even that difficult. there were these two mass shootings last month. they were extremely rare. people were outraged. they took to the streets. but they weren t just dismissed as tragedies, dismissed as part of a problem that is too difficult to confront. the people got together. the government got together. lawmakers from a variety of political parties put their differences aside, and they radically changed the entire country s relationship wit
legislation following a pair of deadly mass shootings, proving that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence not a progressive country, by the way. just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, how were they able to get this done? reporter: well, the secret is it wasn t even that difficult. there were these two mass shootings last month. they were extremely rare. people were outraged. they took to the streets. but they weren t just dismissed as tragedies, dismissed as part of a problem that is too difficult to confront. the people got together. the government got together. lawmakers from a variety of political parties put their differences aside, a
hello, everyone. good to be with you, i m chris jansing, the death toll from this weekend s extreme weather across the south has risen to six. half a million people remain without power across multiple states after a series of vicious storms and tornadoes and the extreme heat isn t letting up either we re on the ground in texas where temperatures have soared above 120 degrees in some spots. how residents are coping. and secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his two-day visit to china, but how much progress was actually made in his high stakes meeting with president xi jinping meanwhile in florida, we have movement in the classified documents case what a magistrate judge just blocked donald trump from doing, and what options his legal team could be weighing to put the trial off for as long as possible and juneteenth celebrations underway across the country. how states are marking this federal holiday. but we begin with the dangerous storms in the south thatch l
infamous snapchat video taken by paul murdaugh that puts alec at the scene of the crime that night. despite his denial that he had been there. four minutes later the state would have you believe that alec murdaugh up and blew his son s brains out of his head and murders his wife, after having that conversation about bubba having a chicken. there s nothing on that tape that indicates there s any strife, any conflict, any anger, any planning, anybody being afraid, anybody running, anybody scurrying. nothing. maggie, paul, and alec down at the kennel. that s it. and john stood up after the defense to offer the rebuttal, meadors was brought on my the south carolina attorney general s office. maybe he got angry at paul. maybe he got angry, he started all of this. and maybe he just lost it. maybe he just lost it. maybe it looked like a suicide, and then maggie came and he had to shoot her. maybe he just lost it. the jury set to begin deliberations any moment. as judge clifton
languages. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it is a restless night in kyiv after the ukrainian capital came under a barrage of russian missiles that struck across the country earlier today, killing nearly a dozen. officials say at least 84 cruise missiles and 24 drones were used in today s attacks that russia calls an act of revenge after accusing ukraine of being behind the weekend explosion that destroyed parts of a major bridge and critical supply route connecting russia to annexed crimea the russian strikes hitting ukraine s energy infrastructure, plunging many cities into an unsettling darkness president biden condemning russia, saying it destroyed targets with no military purpose the attack comes as vladimir putin faces growing pressure at home to take a harder stand against ukraine, which has made major gains on the battlefield recently tonight we have teams on the ground both inside ukraine and in moscow let s start with cal perr