secretary of state blinken. we ask is there clear evidence to support israel s claim that hamas has a hidden command center on the hospital grounds. also tonight, the death of a jewish protester near los angeles. the professor now under arrest as wild protests erupt in san francisco and washington. the verdict in the federal trial of david depape for breaking into nancy pelosi s home and beating her husband with a hammer. the scathing house ethics report on congressman george santos, finding the republican blatantly stole campaign funds to pay for things like botox, only fans access, luxury items, and trips. what he is now saying about his future in congress. hip-hop mogul sean diddy combs accused of rape and abuse. the new lawsuit filed by his former girlfriend. and golf superstar rory mcilroy, the one in a million shot landing right in a spectator s lap. how this all played out. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome.
hello, i m sally bundock with the top business stories, and we begin with the upcoming face to face meeting between us presidentjoe biden and china s president xi jinping. the two leaders are meeting on wednesday on the side lines of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in san francisco and the world will be watching to see if they can soothe their fraught economic and diplomatic relationship. in their first face to face talks in more than a year, they are expected to discuss the ongoing trade row between the two countries, as well as washington s measures to restrict beijing s access to advanced computer chips, citing people familiar with the matter. let s discuss this with brian coulton chief economist at fitch ratings. good morning. we will talk about the cletus meeting on wednesday but today finance leaders are gathered. what is expected from them? i leaders are gathered. what is expected from them?- expected from them? i think there will expected from them? i
that the big board leader to tell us what is actually happening. pennsylvania governor josh shapiro is also going to join me later on the show. but we do want to start tonight with what was a truly surreal and wild and crazy scene and lower manhattan today. apart from the fact that the former president on trial, a big deal on itself, today began like many other court cases would. the defendant took the stand, raise, hand and swore an oath to tell nothing about the truth it was all standard in the beginning until the defendant opened his mouth. that is when things got a little crazy. suddenly the guy on the stand acted like he was at the campaign rally, not in a courtroom where he was the defendant. trump took shots at the case saying this is a very unfair trial and a disgrace. he took shots directly out the judge saying, the fraud is on the board, not me. he took shots even had attorney general letitia james calling her a political reminded trump this is not a political ral
Market action as investors wrap up another trading week. And well be getting the inside track on Global Economic challenges and the threat of protectionism words of warning from the imfs boss Christine Lagarde. All this and more with our economics correspondent andrew walker. And do you shop on the internet . Online shoppers in the uk spend more per household than consumers in any other country. We want to know what you buy online. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in france, where the shooting in paris has interrupted final campaigning in what was already being called the most unpredictable president ial election in living memory. Centrist favourite Emmanuel Macron and far right Marine Le Pen look likely to go through after sundays vote to a run off on may 7th. But they are closely followed by conservative Francois Fillon and far left candidate Jean Luc Melenchon who cant be ruled out. Socialist benoit hamon, though, is being given little chance of ma
This is one of the citys old quarters streets like these are becoming increasingly rare. This is a theater from the Nine Hundred Thirty s. Today its back in fashion thanks to its special program. The performers here are exclusively female young and pretty women like di monk her admirers are already waiting for her when she arrives and yet her career is only just starting. Fans also follow her day to day activities on social media. Today shes taking part in rehearsals with a choreographer the young women perform their singing and dancing routines several times
a week their adoring audience is mainly male. A chinese Radio Station is waiting for an interview it all go for the twenty four year old di monk was born in shanghai and started lore here she also finds life in a mega city extremely fast paced but wouldnt want to live anywhere else. Shanghai is trendy and modern. Although the word modern isnt really quite right so how much of the shanghai is magical there are the skyscrapers as we