Attack in u. S. History. The disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home the fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. Tonight, the plea to the public for help. Are there more victims . And visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. Is that a bear or a human in disguise . Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. Less than 24 hours from now and for the third time in under four months, former President Donald Trump will appear in court as a criminal defendant. This for his arraignment in washington on federal charges related to his alleged actions to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. The grand jury indictment handed up late yesterday alleging the expresident s actions amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the United States to obstruct and impede the January 6th Congressional Proceedings where the votes were tallied and certified and a conspiracy agains
A key piece of smiths case, the Pressure Trump put on his Vice President , mike pence, including a call on Christmas Day asking mr. Pence not to certify the results. Mr. Trump allegedly telling pence, quote, youre too honest. How pence reacted today. Our team in washington and our legal analysts standing by. Also tonight, the scare on capitol hill. Staffers running out of the Senate Office building after reports of an active shooter. Police later giving the allclear. What happened . The gunman who killed 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue sentenced to death for the worst antisemitic attack in u. S. History. The disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home. The fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. Tonight the plea to the public for help. Are there more victims . And visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. Is that a bear or a human in disguise . Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good
of their son. we re going to talk to evan gershkovich s freshman year college roommate in just a few minutes. we ll talk about the person he calls a, quote, exceptional friend and journalist. plus, we have breaking news to share. the man accused of shooting and killing 23 people at an el paso, texas, walmart in 2019 has just been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences on federal charges and that is just his first round of sentencing. we re going to have the very latest for you any moment when we get our nbc news reporter who s there on site for us. we begin this hour at the site where republican primary race begins, that being iowa. right now former president donald trump is hitting the campaign trail in council bluffs as he continues to campaign and fund-raise. the republican leader writing in a lengthy statement last night that the doj is going after him and claiming that special counsel jack smith, quote, purposefully omitted the presidential records act. are quote,
I am soran qurbani. 12 years ago, i smuggled my way into europe from iran. Now, i working for the bbc and i am investigating what is happening to refugees like me on that route today. We met with refugees in turkey who managed to escape, but lost everything in the process. And those trying to tackle it. Call to prayer van city, in turkey, on the border with iran and the gateway to europe for many hundreds of thousands of Afghan Refugees. For decades, people have been smuggled from afghanistan through iran, and into turkey. These undocumented migrants have been fleeing civil war, poverty and persecution. When the taliban retook power in august 2021, the numbers increased. An underground network of smugglers operate safe houses across van city for those who have just made it to turkey. Houses, flats, stables, all repurposed to hide the thousands of refugees coming in each year. Ahkmed is in his early 20s. The blood you can see is a broken nose. It happened while crossing the border into
shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, numberfive in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an