government default just nine days away from now insiders indicating there is still a long way to go. we pressed the house speaker. the airlines facing their biggest travel test in years plus, the fight over what carriers have to pay you if there are problems, after the summer chaos one year ago. the fake image seeming to show an explosion near the pentagon racing around the world and may have briefly spooked the markets. how did it happen, and are we prepared? netflix cracking down on sharing passwords. what you need to know. and a record-breaking pilot teaching kids here in miami to soar. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from miami good evening and welcome from florida, where the center of gravity in the race for president is about to undergo a dramatic shift. governor ron desantis expected to declare his candidacy for the republican nomination tomorrow evening but nbc news has learned the long-anticipated announcemen
hello, i m sally bundock, welcome to the programme. ukraine s president zelensky is returning home from a meeting of g7 leaders injapan. he left the summit having secured further promises of financial and military support, including american made f 16 fighterjets. the commander of ukraine s ground forces says they re close to surrounding the eastern city of bakhmut. ukraine has disputed the russian claims to have taken full control of the city. russia has lost thousands of men in the assault on bakhmut many from the wagner mercenary group. our diplomtaic correspondent james landale reports from kyiv. for more than eight months, in what s now the longest battle of this war, ukrainian forces have defended bakhmut. the eastern city is now largely in ruins and largely in russian hands in particular in the hands of fighters like these from the wagner mercenary group, whose leader yevgeny prigozhin claimed to have full control here. from house to house, he said, we took the
hello and welcome to the programme. america grammy award winning singer tina turner, widely hailed as the queen of rock and roll, has died. she was 83 years old. her publicist said she had been suffering from a long illness. born anna mae bullock in the state of tennessee, she became famous in the late 1960s performing as a duo in a turbulent musical partnership with her abusive husband ike turner. as a solo artist with global hits like what s love got to do with it, the best and private dancer, she sold more than 180 million albums worldwide. her high kicking, inexhaustable energy on stage made her a defining icon of pop music in the 1980s. david sillito looks back at her life and career. # when you were a young boy # did you have a puppy # that always followed you around. 1966, river deep, mountain high. in yourface, hip shaking, sweat drenched, passionate, pop perfection. # and do i love you, my oh my # river deep, mountain high.# however, in america, the song was a flop.
into the fbi s investigation into donald trump s 2016 campaign ties to russia. special counseljohn durham found that the bureau should not have launched a probe into the campaign s alleged ties with russia. in the report, he said the agency s inquiry had lacked analytical rigor , concluding that the fbi had not possessed actual evidence of collusion between trump s campaign and russia before launching an inquiry. he also accused the fbi of repeated instances of confirmation bias . the fbi responded to durham s report, saying: former president trump responded to the report with a series of posts on his social media platform truth social. in one, he said: with me is north america correspondentjess parker. what new information to the report revealed? there are some old and some new because bill s report on 2019 by us watchdog but identified performance failures and what the fbi had done. but significantly, it didn t identify any political bias. this report differs a little b
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. with a gap between the reality of our post-january 6th politics and the republican party s alternate reality with its paranoid delusions about the deep state and the glorification of the capitol insurrection has never been wider. today s hearing on capitol hill by the so-called weaponization committee led by ohio republican jim jordan, involved, according to the republicans on that committee, fbi whistleblowers talking about supposed abuses at the bureau. that delusion was undercut by the reality before the hearing began. the washington post reported two fbi agents set to appear before a house subcommittee thursday had their security clearances revoked this morning over security concerns. that is according to a letter sent by the fbi to the house judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, mr. all