Three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start in brazil and a Landmark Summit to protect the amazon rainforest. The leaders of eight South American countries that share the amazon, have gathered in the city of belem. Scientists are concerned that, deforestation in the amazon may be approaching an irreversible Tipping Point. Brazils president Lula Da Silva is hoping for a co ordinated regional approach, to tackle illegal mining and logging as well as other environmental crimes. Our reporter Azadeh Moshiri looks at whats at stake in the summit. The amazon is, of course, beautiful, but its also hugely important in the fight against climate change. And thats because it stores so much carbon dioxide, which drives the Climate Crisis were currently facing. And yet the forest is under threat of deforestation. Now, 60 of it is located in brazil, which is why the country is taking the lead in hosting eight other countries in south america who share the amazon.
situation i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. plus a cnn exclusive, lawyers for former president trump allowing federal investigators to search mar-a-lago again. and newly released emails between trump and his former lawyer proving his voter fraud claims were bogus. a federal judge calling it evidence of a conspiracy to degree fraud the united states. but let s begin with the breaking news out of the u.k. liz truss resigning after six weeks, 44 days in office. our team is following this breaking story. scott mcclain is outside of 10 drowning street and richard quest is standing by as well. six weeks in office and gone after a disastrous budget plan. so what happens next? yeah, that is a great question. we ll have a new prime minister by the end of next week. i think that liz truss tried everything that she possibly could to save her premiership. that also started to go wrong from the minute that she announced her disastrous eco
hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,
the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the
during the capitol riot s 187 minutes. the brutal heat wave, almost 100 million americans under heat alert, records being broken again, the impact on farms and what could it mean for those already high food prices. plus, we re on the front lines of the wildfire battle in europe. pop icon ricky martin speaking out about his newly dismissed case and the lurid accusations from his own nephew. and while some summer flights are getting back on track, we ll tell you where the newest pain points are for flyers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, the 90 million covid cases recorded in this country through the pandemic tonight now include another american president. white house officials and president biden himself offering an upbeat assessment of his condition after a routine covid test this morning came up positive. within a few hours of the news breaking, the president tweeted, i m doing great. pictured at a desk in the white house r