in ukraine fierce fighting continues as russian forces advance on the eastern city of bakhmut. the deputy mayor says the region is almost destroyed. and the stars behind the irish comedy the banshees 0f inisherin speak to usahead of the oscars on sunday. to feel it as colloquial and then see it go out into the world and be received by people from all sorts of, you know, the corners of the globe that we share is pretty surprising and cool. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. exactly a month after the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria, an unprecedented number of people are living without proper shelter. the united nations development programme the undp estimates that in turkey alone at least one and a half million people still inside the disaster zone are homeless. the true figure could be even higher. let s show you some live pictures from hatay in turkey which was one of the worst affected
the toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio. his administration s response to the disaster. the classified documents found at biden s home and his former office. and of course that question is the president running for re-election? also tonight, president zelenskyy marking one year at war, defiantly claiming ukraine s victory will be inevitable, saying he wants to meet with china s president xi. and we ll go to ian pannell in kyiv tonight for reaction after what president biden said this evening about f-16s. the other news this friday night, one-time prominent attorney alex murdaugh testifying in his own defense. what he acknowledged on the stand. we re also tracking the major storm. a second one now set to move right across the country. heavy snow, ice, and dangerous winds. and yet another close call tonight. a passenger plane about to land. another plane cleared for takeoff on the same runway. and one year later, from new york to paris tonight, the powerf
battlefield. now after a year of war, their powerful tributes announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank you for joining us tonight alex murdaugh s sometimes failing memory, glaring contradictions and courtroom admission that he had lied to police were all fertile ground for prosecutors today as the accused double murderer spent another day testifying in his own defense. at moments displaying flashes of anger murdaugh on trial for the murders of his wife and 22-year-old son facing more cross-examination today. the prosecution digging into the heart of its case against him. the time line of his actions around the time of the murders. confronting the former attorney with cell phone records, his own words from his initial interview with police, even the number of steps recorded by his smartphone leaving murdaugh at times struggling to provide full explanations. catie beck is covering the trial for us in walterboro, south carolina. when
that would come. and it was handled appropriately. and we are now getting a clearer picture of exactly how the u.s. response played out, at last saturday the balloon was first detected in alaska. on tuesday, it relented continental u.s. airspace, which is when the president asked for military options on wednesday, the president ordered the military to take out the balloon as soon as practicable. on friday, the president was briefed on an execution plan, and on saturday the balloon was shot down. now, the balloons eight-day track is sparking debate and political finger-pointing on capitol hill over the administration s approach. listen here. clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control, are sensitive mission weapon sites, and that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize. the president and united states military did what they did, that is my opinion, very just and very defensible. so the president
the republican presidential primary, we will look at who, and what is their chance to defeat the former president. and later on this hour, from getting cops called on her to a shout out from, of all places, yale, i m going to speak to nine-year-old bobbi wilson whose fascination with lanternflies made one neighbor suspicious but has made her family very proud. that s ahead this hour as well. we want to begin though once again with the fallout from the chinese spy balloon shot out of this guy off the carolina coast. beijing condemning the move to bring down the balloon. this is happening as u.s. senior government officials confirm the chinese balloon crossed into the u.s. at least three different times during the trump administration s. i wanna bring in msnbc national security analyst nick watt as well. george, let me start with you on this. when you are there in myrtle beach. what have you been seeing? good afternoon, yasmin. we know military operations to recover the bal