case, is to call the defendant himself to testify. margaret: plus, hunter biden s daughter takes the stand. what she said that made her father emotional. the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us. i m margaret brennan in for norah o donnell. the prosecution rested in the federal gun trial of hunter biden. his eldest daughter took the stand today to testify in his defense. naomi biden told the jury about visiting her father while he was in rehab, just weeks before the gun purchase at the center of the case. she said, he seemed like the clearest i had seen him since my uncle died. and then, i told him i was so proud of him. an emotional moment that came after prosecutors wrapped their case with testimony from law enforcement officials, who spoke about drug residue and text messages between hunter biden and his alleged dealers. cbs s scott macfarlane was inside the courtroom and will start us off tonight. reporter: 30-year-old n
presidential rival, donald trump, mr biden flatly rejected isolationism. he said the rangers who fought in normandy 80 years ago would undoubtedly want the us to stand up to vladimir putin s aggression in europe. well, i m here to tell you that with them gone, the wind we hear coming off this ocean will not fade it will grow louder. as we gather here today, it s notjust to honour those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day, june 6, 1944, it s to listen to the echoes of their voices, to hear them, because they are summoning us, and they re summoning us now. they ask us what will we do? they re not asking us to scale these cliffs, but they re asking us to stay true to what america stands for. they re not asking us to give or risk our lives, but they are asking us to care for others and our country more than ourselves. they re not asking us to do theirjob. they re asking us to do our job, to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy, to stand up to aggression a
about his efforts to get sober before buying the gun at the center of the case. the outrage in israel. the u.n. adding it and hamas to a blacklist of those who harm children in war zones. new body cam video from the arrest of the world s number one golfer, scottie scheffler. what it reveals. and team usa stunning the world with a historic win. is america catching cricket fever? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. in this season of extremes and heightened weather danger we ve witnessed these last several weeks, it s now the crippling heat we re watching tonight taking hold across a wide stretch of the southern tier putting 21 million people under heat alerts today. in the past 24 hours, triple-digit temperatures being recorded in places that include phoenix and las vegas. near record high temperatures could occur as far east as miami. tonight, first responders are adopting some of the lessons from last year s deadly summ
and this is america s late news, fox news @ night . breaking tonight, brand-new video of a california retail store manager fighting back against a shoplifter and wait until you hear the accused shoplifter start saying the manager is the one breaking the law. that manager who was not about to give in is live onset with us in minutes. and president biden s border crisis now overwhelming our nation s schools, costing taxpayers a bunch of money, costing our kids their education. plus this. i feel very confident that this is going to be a hard-fought race but when the chips are down the american people will show up just like those kids did 80 years ago. trace: democrats now comparing voting for joe biden to storming the beaches of normandy. but we begin with the alleged threat to democracy and the senior national correspondent kevin corke live in dc with more on that. good evening. reporter: good evening trace. former fbi deputy director says the intelligence community is w
all sport voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. i m alice morrison, an adventurer and writer. i ve cycled across africa and run across the sahara. now i m on the trail of a mysterious and forgotten arabian civilisation the nabataeans. are we standing in the birthplace of written arabic? i think i would say that, yes. they were nomads who forged a rich civilisation here in the harsh desert conditions of western arabia from the fourth century bce. they ruled for around three centuries until they were swallowed up by the roman empire. now all that s left are the enigmatic remains of their great desert cities of petra and hegra in modern dayjordan and saudi arabia. and this is where i have come to explore, to find out how they survived and thrived here, who they were, and even what they looked like. i want to search for clues about their world. i ll investigate their ancient sites, delvin