The white house says it is monitoring what it described as haitis rapidly deteriorating security situation. France has become the first country to put a womans right to an abortion in the constitution, almost 50 years after it was first decriminalised in the country. A specialjoint sitting of both houses of the French Parliament voted for the amendment. Representatives of all major and minor parties spoke in favour, saying women would no longer have to live in fear of their rights being rescinded. And the European Commission has fined apple 2 billion for violating the eus anti trust laws. The competition commissioner, margarethe vestager, said the company had, for a decade, abused its dominant position in music streaming apps, and ordered the us tech giant to remove all the restrictions, and to refrain from similar practices in the future. Apple has said it will appeal against the decision. Its going to be a defining week for the 2024 president ial elections. Tomorrow is super tuesday.
on in gaza. deadly attack, those in the south. really forces are headed that way. this is the israeli government faced with tough questions today about what it knew in when after reports from the nbc news in the new york times that intelligence about what hamas was planning, and when. also today the fallout from the historic vote in congress to remove george santos. it may have been information shared by one of his colleagues that sealed his fate. also this, our donald trump hitting the campaign trail in iowa. the will wake up two losses on his claims of immunity due to presidential and we will speak with charles blow about his new documentary, from south to power. we want to start this hour in the middle east for prime minister benjamin netanyahu wrapped up the prime as israeli forces wrap up operations in gaza. here s some of what was said. translator: we maintain a very firm negotiation under fire, from morning tonight. i discussed extensively with president biden. w
Picture of the american president. As you say, the more he tries to stop this book being published, which seems a forlorn attempt, the more he it is destined to rise in the best seller lists. It is difficult to stop it being published. There will be leaks. Everybody will try to get their hands on the book. It has reached the best seller list through pre orders. What actually is going to happen would be quite interesting. I dont know if anything new is coming out of this. He has this perception. It seems to bea he has this perception. It seems to be a confirmation that a lot of people, allegations that a lot of people, allegations that a lot of people are made against him. How he comes out of it will be interesting. It is interesting with the leaks we have seen so far, the family of donald trump say there are suggestions his daughter had a sort of plan and part to become the next president following her father. Really personal things about her describing his hairstyle and how he managed
And as weve been reporting during this eventful night on this of all days we also have the start of a ground war in the gaza strip with israeli troops invading tonight under a sky lit up by flares and incoming fire. So we begin this second half hour of the special edition of our newscast tonight with the downing of this 777. Nbcs tom costello who covers aviation for us has been covering this all day long. Tom, good evening once again. The malaysian Prime Minister said late today there was no distress call from this airline and it was flying in an ore declared safe by global Civil Aviation authorities. It left amsterdam at 1 30 p. M. Local time bound for kuala lumpur. They lost contact with the plane. Very quickly the Ukrainian Government reported that russianbacked separatists had shot down the plane using a surfacetoair missile. U. S. Intelligence and military sources confirm to nbc news that infrared satellites detected the missile laumpl and explosion. Malaysian flight 17 was a boei
Lack of humanity with respect to syria because when we talk about syria we always talk about figures. People talking about bombing shelling, family members dying, pictures in their head they cannot get rid of. Unrest grows in ferguson, missouri. Unrest in the streets, at times between a swat raid and a full scale military invasion. We look at ourselves and say, do we have the kind of country we want to live in. Mother nature doesnt have to have an appointment. We begin with the crisis in iraq and the increasing u. S. Involvement. Senior pentagon officials said, the siege of mt. Sin is broken, enabling yazidis trapped on the mountain to escape. That fold news an American Team including dozens of u. S. Officials, landed on mt. Sinjar figuring out how to get the yazidis off the mountain. The americans left safely. Supplies and a few were lifted out on Iraqi Military helicopters saving the yazidis from Islamic State extremists, who call the yazidis devil worshipers. A number of options wer