it will be mild. all the details later. it s thursday the 25th of january. our main story. the families of the victims of the nottingham attacks will find out today what sentence the killer will receive. valdo calocane stabbed university students grace o malley kumar and barnaby webber, both 19, before attacking 65 year old school caretaker ian coates. his guilty plea to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted by the court earlier this week. our reporter navtej johal has spoken exclusively to ian s family ahead of today s sentencing. stubborn. yeah. taught me to fish, but said i was absolutely rubbish. same. fishing, football, family. the things that ian coates loved most. he wasn t the one to constantly say i love you. but we felt that love in the family household. on the 13th ofjune last year, ian, a 65 year old caretaker, was taken from his family in a morning of horror in nottingham that left three people dead. they can t forget the moment th
britain needs to mobilize a citizens army to face the threat from russia. and in gaza, israeli tanks hita un buildings, killing nine people. the white house says the food situation is dire, as they push for a much needed humanitarian pause. good evening. russia says ukraine has deliberately shot down a military transport aircraft that was carrying dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. the plane exploded in a huge fireball close to belgorod, a russian city 25 miles from the border with ukraine. photographs that were taken shortly after, show the wreckage lying in a snowy field. the russian defence ministry said 65 ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew members and three other passengers died in the crash. the russian ministry of defence said the pows were being flown to belgorod from an airfield near moscow, and were scheduled to be exchanged later today at the border. they claim a second plane carrying around 80 pows was turned around and returned to moscow. our verify team hav
the tiny school pulling off a stunner in its first tournament appearance in 40 years announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome, everyone the u.s. tonight offering compelling evidence that russian fighter jets were the aggressors in a confrontation with an american air force drone over the black sea this week. newly declassified pentagon video from the drone s camera captured a russian warplane spraying jet fuel directly in the path of the pilotless drone. one of several close passes by russian fighters according to the pentagon, one of which resulted in a collision. part of the american aircraft s propeller sheared off, forcing the drone to crash. while american officials allow the russian pilot may have accidentally bumped the drone, they say there s no question where the orders to harass the u.s. plane came from courtney kube has more for us now from the pentagon. reporter: the dramatic new video showing the midair showdown all c
ahead this st. patrick s day friday starting with desperate measures on wall street. nearly a dozen banks teaming up to prevent this week s financial turmoil from spreading their $30 billion life line to save another major bank from potential ruin as janet yellen works to sooth the markets and reassure americans that their money is safe. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. plus major move in china s partnership with russia, announcing this morning that xi jinping will visit russia next week at the invitation of vladimir putin that comes as russia continues to search for the downed u.s. drone intercepted by a russian fire jets. why the pentagon says russia won t find anything useful even if they do track it down and rage on the streets of paris, thousands of protestors rise up over an unpopular move by macron raising the age of retirement
janet yellen today appearing before congress. what she said about the safety of american banks. the u.s. threatening to ban tiktok over national security fears. how the popular app s owner is responding. the cross-country storm, tornado warnings and hail in texas. snow in the midwest, and caught on camera, the daring flood rescue in los angeles. nbc news investigates, why is this school still open near a plant the epa says emits a toxic chemical? families demanding answers. the first big upset in march madness. the tiny school pulling off a stunner in its first tournament appearance in 40 years. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. the u.s. tonight offering compelling evidence that russian fighter jets were the aggressors in a confrontation with an american air force drone over the black sea this week. newly declassified pentagon video from the drone s camera captured a russian warplane spraying jet fuel dire