come again. -sorry, what was that? introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. hello i m alicia menendez the future starts now. with ali meridian thank you for joining our coverage as the world watches a crisis unfold in russia it has been a while 24 hours testing vladimir putin s hold on power. the kremlin now protecting the world and it reached a deal with the leader of a mercenary group that has gone rogue. prigozhin the leader of the mercenary group ordered his forces to return to their bases abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading towards moscow the new video showing prigozhin greeted with cheers as he left the city of hours ago. that is where he had taken control of the key russian military facility an act of retaliation after russia s military launched a missile strike on wagner group camps, the kremlin has said that prigozhin would quote go to belarus and wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted, nbc news has not independently confi
we have live reports first straight ahead also key takeaways from th january six committees intensive 800 plus-page report and we re gonna take you liv to ukraine, where there are ne taxes as president zelenskyy returns from his first trip to the united states since russia wag war. but, let s start this hour for you with the severe weathe across the country looking like less of a winte wonderland and you probabl guessed, it more like nightmare for many the dangerous storm has caused nearly 20 deaths across te states more than 1 million people are without power this christmas eve, from north carolina t maine. the big concern right now, freezing temperatures, not allowing snow and ice to mel away, to get off those roads that you see right there check out what it looks like i buffalo, new york, all of this you can imagine leading to bad news that airports, not only o the roads getting from a to b. passengers remaining strande after thousands of cancellations and delays a air
who are celebrating. amal evolve she. we begin this hour wit confirmation of one of the man major lies that the former president told the america people this time regarding his taxes. following a years-long legal and political saga be house weight and mean committee was finally able t secure donald trump s ta returns. they voted to release them t the american public this pas week despite his insistent ally s donald trump s tax returns wer not under audit when he ran fo president the first time the irs did not audit th personal tax returns of donald trump during his first two years in office. this is an important point it s interesting because besid being one of the forme presidents publicly stated reasons for not releasing hi tax returns. the irs has a program mandatin the quote mandatory review o the presidents individual ta returns. that protocol was followed for presidents barack obama and jo biden. dir us did finally follow it own rules of the forme presidents third year
She we are following the breaking news out of israel. The Israeli Military and hamas fighters are currently engaged in active battles in the gaza strip and inside israel. Earlier today, Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, declared that israel is in a state of war following a surprise both overnight attack by hamas in what is being called the worst attack in israel in 50 years, since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Overnight, hamas which controls gaza, launched an all out assault by land and see it, Infiltrating Southern Israel with at least 1000 fighters. While gaza based fighters launched more than 2200 rockets into israel. Israel said it responded with air strikes out at least 21 targets in gaza. According to local reports, at least 100 people have been killed inside of israel. We are trying to the Emergency Management services have said there are 70 people who have been killed in israel. Were getting conflicting reports on that. The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 198 palestinians ha
are actually former prisoners, they were recruited from prison with the promise of some kind of pardon by the president. it s not entirely clear whether everybody who gets that, who was recruited from the president into this private army will get to enjoy the privilege. for a lot of these men, regardless of the guarantees given by this agreement, there is a lot of uncertainty. they really do have a lot to be afraid of in modern russia. guys? it is as you said mystifying. your sense, matt, of how all of this is going to affect zelenskyy and the war in ukraine? well, i mean, the thing is on the front line the wagner group was already withdrawn. even in the past couple of weeks we weren t seeing wagner fighters fighting on the frontlines near places like bakhmut, a city that they were instrumental, really crucial and taking inches the last couple of months. so, whether or not this will actually have a visible obvious effect, it is not entirely