From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The campaign is over, but donald trump was back on the trail today, this time to run a victory lap and celebrate an early success in his pledge to keep american jobs from leaving the country. In his first public event since the election, mr. Trump appeared at the carrier plant in indianapolis t over a thousand jobs previously earmarked to leave the country, in the u. S. The deal is raising high expectations, as well as some eyebrows, over whether what worked with carrier can reverse a decades long tide of vanishing manufacturing jobs. Nbcs Kristen Welker has details. Reporter president elect donald trump taking a victory lap in indiana. Hi, everybody. Reporter touting a carrier, from getting shipped to mexico. Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not gonna happen. Reporter the deal gives the heating and air conditioning company, 7 million in
Good evening, welcome to bbc news. The government has defended its decision to allow hundreds of thousands of students in england to return to university for the new term, despite several outbreaks of coronavirus on campuses. Thousands of students have had to be confined to their rooms, but the culture secretary, oliver dowden, says its important their studies arent sacrificed because of the virus. But a member of the governments advisory body modelling the spread of the pandemic, says the consequences of allowing students back have been entirely predictable. Dan johnson reports now, from manchester. For the student in need, theres one Emergency Service that always delivers. Parents have stepped in when supermarket slots ran out. Its just really rough at the moment, and were really disheartened by the whole entire situation. These first year Nursing Student say theyre already rationing food. People wanted to drop out, were not getting the right uni experience. And were not talking abou
Only target. State media report that one strike killed 25 members of a kurdish militia. The ypg. Turkey considers them to be a terror group. In the same area turkishbacked units are destroying to clear villages of kurdish forces. State media says that 13 such villages were cleansed. Nick peyton walsh is near the border. The president clear in the speech in this border city of gaza. They will fight both isis and the syrian kurds with the same determination. They hunt out isis cells in this city. Really it appeared the focus of the speech was to mourn those lives lost in a recent wedding bombing here that killed over 50. Isis took responsibility for that. At the same time to thank the city for the support it gave him during the recent failed coup attempt. Where is the Turkish Military and serbian rebels. Fast movements today. We heard from the deputy Prime Minister, the desire for them to move along the border to a town that could potentially have a lot of the border in control of turkey
Right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The campaign is over, but donald trump was back on the trail today, this time to run a victory lap and celebrate an early success in his pledge to keep american jobs from leaving the country. In his first public event since the election, mr. Trump appeared at the carrier plant in indianapolis to trumpet a deal to keep over a thousand jobs previously earmarked to leave the country, in the u. S. The deal is raising high expectations, as well as some eyebrows, over whether what worked with carrier can reverse a decades long tide of vanishing manufacturing jobs. Nbcs Kristen Welker has details. Reporter president elect donald trump taking a victory lap in indiana. Hi, everybody. Reporter touting a deal to save more than a thousand jobs at carrier, from getting shipped to mexico. Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not gonna happen. R
Bestarmed, most dangerous terrorist group in the world has lost its biggest city, the selfdeclared caliphate, the socalled Islamic State is no more. Isis still holds some territory including the city of raqqah in syria, but that is not a state. And raqqah is now surrounded on all sides. Defeating the Islamic State is perhaps the biggest accomplishment of American Foreign policy in years. But there were no big announcements from the white house, no Mission Accomplished moment. If you watched our reports from here, you already know that iraqi troops did most of the ground fighting. The same iraqi army that once fled from isis stood up, fought hard, and won. But make no mistake. That only happened because american troops were deeply involved in this battle at every stage. As we will show you tonight, american fire power cleared the path for iraqi soldiers, and the americans provided a constant stream of intelligence, logistics, and planning. It wouldnt have happened without us. The questi