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josh lederman joins us this morning.ing about how this accident actually unfolded? >> we are now in the grim stage of this catastrophe where family members are showing up to identity the bodies of loved ones going from hospital to hospital to see if possibly their relatives are among the lucky ones who survived. according to a preliminary report from railroad officials that nbc news has seen, this is incident was caused by a signal failure that was given to the express, a high-speed train that was traveling at about 80 miles per hour. it had been given the signal to enter the main track line. for some reason, that signal was changed and instead that train was diverted into a parallel track known as the loop line which is often used to store trains to let them park while other trains are passing by. in fact, there was a parked train on that loop line, it was a cargo train holding heavy iron other which explains why it was so catastrophic when this passenger train hit it at full speed and caused many of the cars to derail

nbc news correspondent josh lederman joins with the latest. u, josh. >> reporter: today was the first day -- absolutely. today was the first day that evidence was presented in this case, and the prosecutor really started off by trying to get the jury to get out of the mindset of thinking of kevin spacey as a big movie star that they know from all of these movies and tv shows that they've loved, to say, look, yes, he is a movie star but it is also a man who has enjoyed sexually assaulting other men, and that is the way that the prosecutor wants the jurors to look at kevin spacey throughout this trial. we heard from several of the people who have accused kevin spacey today. under the law they're allowed to remain anonymous, but they detailed a number of different allegations in which after meeting kevin spacey they say that the actor groped them inappropriately, sometimes during social events, sometimes in one case where one of the actors reached out to kevin spacey for advice. we also heard about one incident in which a person who knew kevin spa

josh lederman has those details. >> reporter: tonight american michael travis leake is facing up to aozen years or more in russian prison seen today on state television locked in a cage in court in moscow russian state media saying he is accused of large scale drug dealing involving young people but giving few details. pro kremlin media releasing this video they say shows leake after his arrest >> i am not admitting to any guilt, and i do not believe that i have done what i've been accused of, because i don't know what i've been accused of >>>> reporter:r: nbc cannnnot verify y when thehe video wasas made or r if leake e was under r duress he is belilieved to bebe in his early 50s s and has lived in russia foror years ♪ well-known in moscow's rock music band, he has been the frontman for one band and the producer for three others in 2014, leake was being interviewed for anthony bourdain's "parts unknown" about russia's rock scene when a mic malfunctioned. >> the kbg is blocking your signal >> listening to it. >> i'm quite sure they are. believe it or not. i'm quite sure you've had som

let's go to josh lederman who is following the latest what more do we know about the liberated village? >> reporter: good morning, frances. we just got confirmation this morning from the deputy defense minister of ukraine that ukraine does now control a village in the key zaporizhzhia region not far from that nuclear power plant we've been speaking about for months in one of the four areas of ukraine that russia has illegally annexed. the village is one of eight settlements that ukraine says it's been able to take so far in the two weeks of its kousht offensive which has really seen modest progress but not the kind of overwhelming momentum that many of ukraine's allies had hoped they would see from this long promised push by ukraine to retake territory the defense ministry in ukraine saying it's about 43 square miles that ukraine has been able to liberate from russian control in their counteroffensive so far, but president zelenskyy in his evening address describing this as a real methodical campaign, saying step by step, inch by inch, mile by mile they are working to retake this terri

accused of drug-related charges according to a russian court statement the telegram well go now to josh lederman for the details. >> reporter: america michael travis leake is facing up to a dozen years or more in russian prison seen today on state television locked in a cage in court in moscow russian state media saying he is accused of large scale drug dealing involving young people but giving few details pro kremlin media releasing this video they say shows leake after his arrest >> i am not admitting to any guilt, and i do not believe that i have done what i've been accused of, because i don't know what i've been accused of. >> reporter: nbc cannot verify when the video was made or if leake was under duress leake, believeved d to be e in s early 50s, has lived in russia for years. ♪ well-known in moscow's rock music band, he has been the frontman for one band and the producer for three others. in 2014, leake was being interviewed for anthony bourdain's "parts unknown" about russia's rock scene when a mic malfunctioned. >> it's the kgb. they're blocking your season >> listening to it. >> i'm q

accused of drug-related charges according to a russian court statement via telegram we go now to josh lederman for details. >> reporter: american michael travis leake is facing up to a dozen years or more in russian prison, seen on state television locked in a cage in court in moscow russian state media saying he is accused of large scale drug dealing but giving few details releasing this video they say shows leake after his arrest. >> i am not admit to go any guilt and i do not believe i am done what i've been accused because i don't know what i've been accused of. >> reporter: nbc news cannot verify w when the vivideo was me or if leake was under distress he has lived in russia for years. he has been the front man for one band and the producer for three others in 2014 leake was being interviewed for anthony bourdain's parts unknown about russia's rock scene when a mic malfunctions. >> the kgb, they're blocking your signal. i'm quite sure you have had someone on your tail the entire time you've been here. >> reporter: new fears of whether russia may be detaining americans to use as leverage a

josh lederman is outside london's high court for us. as pushing back hard against the publisher's lawyer during cross-examination. take us through what happened in take us through what happened in court today. >> repa much more grounded prince harry. at times he was interrupting the lawyer from the "mirror" who was cross-examining him so much so, the lawyer said i'm the one that asks the question, not you. the central question in the trial that was hammered home today was whether this allegation that prince harry's phones and voice mails were hackeds is mere speculation or a provable fact, whether it's enough for prince harry to say, look, there's information that made its way into tabloid articles about me that was very damming and embarrassing that could only have been obtained through illegal means such as hacking or whether he has to actually prove specific instances. here is the voice mail. here is the evidence. here is the call log that proves that that happened, and, in fact, he was asked under cross-examination by the attorney, i

nbc news correspondent josh lederman joins us now from london with more on what we heard today, josh,talked about while he was on the stand. there are a lot of tough questions from the publisher's lawyer. >> reporter: very tough questions that prince harry had to answer under cross-examination as he laid out in deeply personal terms, ellison, how he experienced what he called acute paranoia, an inability to trust anybody because of this alleged hacking of his voice mails starting, he says, when he was a teenager. but the lawyers for the tabloid really pushed back saying that prince harry cannot prove that any of this reporting was obtained through illegal means pointing out a few specific instances where things that harry says were obtained illegally actually were already known publicly or printed in other newspapers and early on in the cross-examination he was asked by the tabloid's lawyer whether he had read every single one of the nearly 150 articles that he says included reporting obtained illegally, prince harry says he can't remember if he read every single one of them and for t

you see the video there, and nbc news correspondent josh lederman is here with that. there's a lot of fingerpointing from both sides. how are u.s. and chinese officials explaining what happened in this part of the ocean, the south china sea? >>. >> reporter: well, ellison, what china's military is say is that what you see is officers. saying what its forces do are professional and safe. they said if the u.s. wants to avoid close calls like this, all they have to do is stop flying its planes and sailing its navy ships into areas that are close to chinese waters and skies that are near china's air space. now the u.s. obviously has a very different point of view about that saying they have every right to be doing freedom of navigation through these areas that are in international waters and air space, but we actually just heard at the white house from national security spokesman john kirby pushing back on china's assertions. watch. >> there was absolutely no need for the pla to act as aggressively as they did. it won't be long before somebody gets hurt. that's the concer

here's part of a report by nbc's josh lederman on the mistreat serious rise of these incidents. >> it'scks, at least three boats sinking in these recent weeks. researchers saying orca encounters in the area have been increasing since 2020. more than 20 interactions recorded just this month. last year, 207. including this one, in the strait of gibraltar. an orca scene chewing on a piece of the boat. now, marine researchers are asking, why? >> we're gonna ask that question right now, joining me is wildlife conservationist and documentarian and a good friend of ours, jeff core when. jeff, here's the good news. no serious injuries to include so far, unless you include the votes does this behavior described in the nbc news piece, was there any suggestion, these attacks may be coordinated between pods of workers? >> well, good afternoon to you, my dear friend alex. greetings from beautiful belize in central america. we're watching an amazing conservation exhibit. let's get to the coast of spain, what is this curious and potentially treacherous behavior? alex, as we know, orcas or -- wales, in