they shouldn t get away with it. and any day now a texas judge could make one of the biggest rulings on abortion access since roe v. wade was overturned could a popular and fda approved abortion pill be pulled off the shelves nationwide plus, what we now know about a top college basketball star being linked to a fatal shooting and the dancing grannies hit the streets during mardi gras. why it was so much more than just a celebration announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening we begin tonight with a rare storm that hasn t been seen in california in decades. as we come on the air, millions are under life-threatening flash flood alerts after an historic system pummeled the state. just listen to this, a blizzard warning was issued for the first time ever in san bernardino county, where they saw more than 5 feet of snow other parts of the state saw hurricane-force winds and torrential rain. rescue workers raced against the clock to save stran
good evening, welcome to the programme, we have got a packed two hours for you this evening. including a special investigation tonight into the execution of an unarmed ukrainian soldier. we will tell you who he was and who was involved. and we will get the thoughts of a formerjudge who sat on the panel of the international criminal court. big developments in scotland today, where police have arrested peter murrell, nicola sturgeon s husband, in connection to the snps fundraising and finances. but we will start with the split screen events we have watching through the day, president zelensy in warsaw, emmanuel macron in beijing. it s his first visit to china in four years. and from a chinese perspective, emmanuel macron is probably the most important politician in europe. it is the french president in particular, who has continued to engage with putin to find a diplomatic solution to this war in ukraine. and they see him as the man who can push the european union towards a mor
it remains free. it remains independent. putin s first objective was to erase ukraine from the map, erase its identity. that has failed and will never succeed. secretary of state antony blinken weighing in one year since russia invaded ukraine. remarkable to see what they were doing a year ago, where they are now, what their assessment is and what s next. good morning. undaunted and undefeated ukraine still standing a year after russia invaded. ukrainian president zelenskyy is making a bold vow this morning telling his forces that 2023 will be, quote, the year of victory. the big boost, ukrainian troops are getting on the battlefield. also this hour kaitlin s sitdown with defense secretary lloyd austin. will china supply russia with weapons? how worried is the u.s.? here is a question for you. how did you sleep last night and the night before? the answer to those questions could provide a clue to your heart health. it s serious questions there. sanjay gupta will explain
before leaving warsaw this morning the president met with leaders from nato s eastern flank and reaffirmed their joint commitment quoting the white house here to, quote, stand with the ukrainian people for as long as it takes. vladimir putin was also alliance building, meeting with china s top envoy saying cooperation between their two countries is very important for, quote, stabilizing the international situation. russia wants weapons from china. the pentagon spokeswoman today warning, quote, it would certainly be a miscalculation of china to provide lethal aid to russia. president biden had a similar answer today when abc s david murer asked him. what s your message to putin on that? it s a big mistake, not very responsible. but i don t really think he s thinking of using nuclear weapons or things like that. he snled the opposite today suggesting it s a war of restoring the ocean russian and soviet empire, speaking at a concert marking tomorrow s defender of the fathe
could be enabling terrorists. and nearly 60 years after his death, the family of malcolm x say they re going to sue the cia and fbi. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. presidents putin and biden have given their competing views of the war in ukraine. president biden, who was in ukraine s capital kyiv on monday, has made a major speech in poland where he said the west s support for ukraine will not waiver . in his state of the nation address vladimir putin defended his full scale invasion, blaming the west for provoking the war, and he announced he s suspending russian participation in the major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility for fuelling the ukrainian - conflict, for its escalation, and for the growing number of victims lies fully with the we