theme you re listening to right now on making history at this year s oscars announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we re glad you re with us tonight a double murder case that has drawn national attention with a prominent south carolina family at its center is inching toward its conclusion tonight with the prosecution resting its case against alex murdaugh, but not before the jury saw for itself the family property where the former attorney allegedly shot and killed his wife and son. the jury driven to the crime scene. later in the courtroom the lead prosecutor delivered his closing arguments telling jurors murdaugh was the only one with the motive, means, and opportunity to commit the murders, and painting murdaugh as someone whose financial misdeeds were about to be exposed and killed his wife and son to buy time to figure a way out. murdaugh has denied committing the murders. catie beck has more for us tonight reporter: alex murdaugh was l
germany s public transport network will be at a near stand still today as two of the country s largest unions strike in an ongoing dispute over pay. workers walked out shortly after midnight for 2h hours. two of the country s largest unions which are demanding significant pay rises for their workers want to increase the pressure on employers ahead of another round of negotiations. there ll be all but no trains, planes or ferries in operation after workers walked out, and motorists have been warned that staff who maintain motorways and repair road damage after accidents are also on strike. damage after accidents let s are also on strike. talk about the impact of all let s talk about the impact of all of this. joining me now is christian schulz, deputy chief european economist at citi. they seem huge. what sort of impact will the strikes today across germany? impact will the strikes today across germany? well, good morning- across germany? well, good morning. everything
# 0n the chaise longue, on the chaise longue # 0n the chaise longue all day long # 0n the chaise longue.# celebrating uk music indie band wet leg and singer harry styles lead the way with four nominations each for tonight s brit awards. hello and welcome to bbc world news. the united nations aid chief has described the earthquakes that struck turkey and syria on monday as the region s worst natural disaster in a century. martin griffiths was speaking during a visit to the turkish province of kahramanmaras. the number of people confirmed dead in both countries has risen to more than 25,000. the turkish president, recep tayyip edrogan, said perhaps 80,000 people had been injured in his country, and thousands of homes have been left uninhabitable. emergency teams are still finding a few people alive in the rubble five days after the earthquakes. we ll hearfrom mr griffiths in a moment; but first, our correspondent quentin sommerville is in harem in the northwest idlib province
it was emotional in many ways, several children. i counted what appeared to be a recently newborn infant, at what point in the journey, we don t know. these migrants came here today at the naval observatory which has the vice president s residence behind that. vice president has been asked since thursday, what she thought about this, there was no response to that she waved off those questions, and her husband did respond to migrant buses arriving here and called the whole thing shameful but washington dc is a sanctuary city and the mayor talked about this yesterday. because washington dc is not a border community the city lacks infrastructure to care for the people here, probably 100 thursday, 50 we ve seen so far today. this is a large city but the infrastructure and sanctuary city cannot accommodate people being dropped off by governor abbott s office. florida governor ron desantis not going to stop these buses because it is there only mechanism to help overrun border commu
and swimming s world governing body votes to effectively ban transgender competitors like american lia thomas from taking part in women s races. after the uk promises more heavy weapons to ukraine now the new head of the british army says troops should be prepared to fight russia in europe. we want to start by bringing you some we want to start by bringing you some breaking we want to start by bringing you some breaking news we want to start by bringing you some breaking news from - we want to start by bringing you some breaking news from the i some breaking news from the elections some breaking news from the elections in some breaking news from the elections in france, some breaking news from the elections in france, coming . some breaking news from thei elections in france, coming in some breaking news from the - elections in france, coming in from reuters elections in france, coming in from reuters. , ., ., reuters. president emmanuel macron is on course