official figures show that the uk economy returned to growth injanuary. and will it be michelle s moment? we talk to the malaysian star hoping to win big at the oscars. hello and welcome to bbc news. police in the german city of hamburg say several people have been killed in a shooting incident and several others were injured. the attack happened inside a meeting hall forjehovah s witnesses where an event had apparently been underway. it s believed the attacker was among the dead. tim allman has more details. a quiet street in hamburg, at around nine o clock in the evening local time. in the distance, a figure appears to have climbed up the outside of a building and is peering inside. then, after a short pause, he raises what appears to be a handgun and opens fire. not long after, armed officers arrive and are storming the building. slowly, carefully, they make their way upstairs, no idea if the gunman is waiting for them. this is kingdom hall, a place of worship for local je
to stop assailants on a ram pain. easier said than done. let s go to c.b. cot in nashville with the latest. c.b. we re in downtown nashville where in a couple hours a citywide vigil will get underway. a vigil to bring together this broken city to honor the six lives taken in the covenant school shooting. jill biden will be here and we re expecting cheryl crowe to perform. we re hearing from community members that say they re floored by the loss of life. take a listen. i think it s horrible. i think the evil that was done here is obviously made worse by the fact that there s children involved in it. so i think that s gut wrenching for everybody. a big reason why we want to come out, put flowers down and say prayers and pay our respects. nashville police say they re no longer holding news conferences and will provide any up tates on their investigation in writing. so it s not likely we ll find out the contents of the shooter s manifesto any time soon. we know from the pol
despite its record on human rights and the killing of jamal khashoggi. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this friday. and we start with our politics lead. and the fallout from the first primetime hearing of the january 6th committee, where it laid out new evidence and its attempt to prove former president trump concocted a massive conspiracy to stay in power, despite knowing he lost the 2020 election. republican congresswoman liz cheney detailing what she calls a seven-part plan by trump and his allies to steal the presidency. and she says as part of that plan, trump, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. and then became angry when advisers told him to call off the rioters. the committee also played a jarring new video showing exactly how the events of january 6th unfolded, including possible coordination between two of the far-right groups who were among the first to breach the capitol. committee chairman
on the united states. he has to show he can keep winning. neil: how much has china changed the equation here with this romance that the two leaders were striking up last week and now talk that china will be the funding backstop for russia for as long as it takes. well, i think on the surface, there s a warming relationship between russia and china. what vladimir putin got was a public relations village photo op. china is absolutely taking advantage of a beating and bloody s russia that is extremely isolated on the world stage and has nowhere to ship oil and gas. china is taking that on at reduced prices and shipping manufactured goods to russia. and china wants to straddle the relationships and not lose the commercial relationships with the west on which china is so deeply relies after the covid
46 past the hour. with fears of a russian invasion into ukraine at an all-time high, political analysts say china is keeping a close eye on the situation, as what happens there could have an impact on china s decision making, when it comes to taiwan. the warming relationship between russia and china has been in focus, especially since vladimir putin visited beijing for the opening of the winter olympics. nbc news foreign correspondent, janis mackey frayer joins me with more from beijing. janis? reporter: jose, russian president vladimir putin met with china s xi jinping at the winter olympics here. they sat on the sidelines. to have a china/russia submit in the midst of the biggest security crisis in europe in decades was telling. and what fold was a very