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and celebrating shakespeare s first folio, the collection that saved his plays, and his language, for us. and on newsnight at 10:30. we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to the key players on today s big stories. plus a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. we re live in ramallah, the seat of the palestinian authority, here in the west bank, territory which, under international law, is illegally occupied by israel. as you can imagine, the warfurther south in gaza is deeply worrying to palestinians here. and tonight, israel s military is claiming hamas has lost control of the north of the territory, after weeks of relentless israeli bombing. tens of thousands of civilians have been on the move today, heading south, away from israeli air strikes and shelling targeting hamas, a group designated as a terror organisation by the uk government, and responsible for killing more than 1,400 israelis and seizing over 200 hostages. we ll have the very ....
on security, and through the prism of the baltic states. as former members of the soviet union, lithuania, estonia and latvia have been sounding the alarm about the existential threat they face from russia ever since theyjoined the nato alliance two decades ago. this year, they have been the loudest voices within the european union urging allies to go further and faster, raising the alarm about the kremlin s real intentions. this past week, the russians removed buoys that were marking the border with estonia on the narva river. the russian defence ministry briefly published a plan to revise its maritime border in the baltic sea, which was then quickly deleted, the kind of tactics that put all three countries on edge. the baltic states see two possibilities on the horizon. the first, if russia were to succeed in ukraine, is that they would try to exploit a weakened west. perhaps a surprise attack in the baltic states, followed up with a credible nuclear threat. the secon ....
his private meetings with republicans, and what happened when he saw mitch mcconnell for the first time since the senator blamed him for the capitol riot. the new safety concerns for boeing. the potential problem on brand-new 787 dreamliners. nbc news investigates. the state with the highest rate of children in foster care facing allegations of horrifying abuse and a major lawsuit. and the animal advocate who turned this testing facility into a refuge for hundreds of four-legged friends. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holtevening and . good evening and welcome. we begin tonight with a major and notably unanimous ruling on reproductive rights by the u.s. supreme court. the justices upholding continued access to a widely used abortion medication. the plaintiffs in the case challenged the fda s 2000 approval of mifepristone on safety grounds. but the court today refusing to weigh in on the merits of their arguments, instead deciding the plainti ....
the decision a victory for abortion rights supporters two years after the court overturned roe v. wade. and why the fight over the abortion pill and reproductive rights is far from over. also tonight, the state of emergency in florida. millions bracing for more catastrophic flash floods, as the storms turn deadly. some areas getting a foot in a single day. president biden on the world stage. our corespondent asking would he commute his son hunter s sentence. how he answered. donald trump back on capitol hill for the first time since the january 6th attack. his private meetings with republicans, and what happened when he saw mitch mcconnell for the first time since the senator blamed him for the capitol riot. the new safety concerns for boeing. the potential problem on brand-new 787 dreamliners. nbc news investigates. the state with the highest rate of children in foster care facing allegations of horrifying abuse and a major lawsuit. and the animal advocate ....
and snail mail? about to get even slower. time to play reporter roulette. kate bolduan on capitol hill, democrats have taken another shot, extending the payroll tax cut before it expires at the end of the year. here s my if to you. if congress doesn t get it done, they can t compromise, your paycheck could be a lot lighter next year. what s the difference in this version of the plan today? reporter: in this version of the plan, this is now the kind of newest proposal to come forward, this coming from senate democrats, this keep what this proposal does is extend the payroll tax cut for employees and actually expand it so employees would be having to pay even less in the payroll tax. so it would go from 4.2% tax to 3.1% tax. a big change, though, is this proposal does not include it has dropped the payroll are tax cut employers. democrats say that was done in an effort to bring down the overall cost of the package. it s now about a third of what democrats had orig ....