arthel: hi eric hello everyone i am arthel neville. the former president posting the claim on a social media platform, truth social commerce illegal leaks point to his arrest on tuesday. all eyes now on mr. trump s homes in florida and new york city. so what does the d.a. say? looks very late so that let s go to nay for expanding by the newsroom with all of this hell of nay s request after making the announcement truth social this morning president trump is now going after president joe biden on his true social counseling the president is surrounded by quote evil and sinister people. trump is also very critical of manhattan district attorney alvin bragg s office is investigating this hush money case. president trump posted on true social with no crime being able to be proven and the fully debunked by numerous other prosecutors fairytale company for in weight leading republican candidate former president of the united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week
swift t as she kicks off her first tour in five years. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for being with us on this friday night. in what is at least for this moment mostly symbolic act, an arrest warrant was issued today for russian president vladimir putin now formally charged by the international criminal court for war crimes in ukraine. the court says putin bears individual responsibility for the unlawful transfer of children from occupied areas of ukraine to russia while there is little expectation of putin ending up in custody any time soon, the charges were nonetheless welcome by ukraine s president zelenskyy, who thanked the court for its willingness to really bring those who are guilty to justice. tonight putin s spokesman dismissed the warrant saying, we do not recognize this court. erin mclaughlin reports from kyiv. reporter: tonight russian president vladimir putin now wanted for alleged war crimeses ththe int
heartbreaking images continuing to come out of turkey and syria this morning. rescuers there doing their best to dig through tons of debris hoping, looking for survivors after monday s massive 7.8 earthquake and the number of incredibly strong aftershocks. i wanted to warn you, and we have shown you them before, but the images that you are about to see are disturbing. as of this moment, at least 5,000 people that we know of have been killed, including this 15-year-old, and her father sitting distraught clutching her hand after she was crushed under layers of rubble. that poor man and little girl and did not survive with conditions brutal and stuck outside under freezing temperatures and waiting for some help to come. translator: i have two nephews in the wreckage behind me, and at 2:00 yesterday, building collapsed and hundreds more buildings like this, and thousands under the rubble, and the turkish authorities won t let them save us by our means, but they won t send any
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
the train derailment emergency in ohio. authorities release toxic chemicals from tanker cars. the race to recover that suspected chinese spy balloon shot down off the south carolina coast. the military saying the debris field is roughly 15 football fields by 15 football fields wide. what can the u.s. learn from the remnants? president biden on the eve of the state of the union address. our new reporting on last-minute changes to his speech. a day after she made grammy history, tickets to beyonce s new tour on sale. and the father, the daughter, and the bucket list in inspiring america. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for joining us. powerful and dangerous aftershocks have continued to rattle parts of turkey near the syria border where the death toll has climbed above 3,000 after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake. as we begin tonight, let me warn you, some of the videos are terrifying. multiple-story buildings crashing into