neighborhood in buffalo, new york. according to officials. the government has been arraigned on first degree murder and is being held without bail. his next court appearance is scheduled for thursday. a senior law enforcement official told reporters that the parents of the suspect are distraught and are cooperating, and they say the suspect recently purchased weapons used. which included a semiautomatic rifle, a hunting rifle and a shotgun. 11 of the victims are black, into our white, according to officials. investigators say the gunman livestreamed the massacre on social media service twitch and that he was motivated by racial hate. this was pure evil. straight-up racially motivated hate crime, from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors, as the mayor said, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us. a racist alleged manifesto was posted a line under the suspect s name on thursday night. sources tell nbc news that
his offensive, despite the fact that it looks like the russian army may have lost about a third of its ground combat forces. erin maclachlan is in kyiv, ukraine. erin, this news about finland officially announcing its intent to join nato is significant. what is the next step for finland? hey, maria teresa. you re right, it is a big deal, especially considering that four years finland has exercise neutrality when it comes to being a member of the nato alliance. and, if it does join, it will effectively double the size of the alliances border with russia. now, today s announcement follows what s seems like a very tense conversation between russian president vladimir putin and his finish counterpart, yesterday. in which putin told the finished president that joining nato would be a, quote, mistake. the finnish president responding, saying that the fed led security situation has changed markedly, given russia s war in ukraine. which finland is firmly against