Russia has intensified its attacks in northeast ukraine rausing fears the city of kharkiv could soon be in range of its artillery. The border town of vovchansk has been heavily bombed. Kharkiv s governor has said russia trying to stretch the front line ukraines commander in the area has been replaced. In another sign of the growing strain on kyiv ukraine has said it will need Record Energy imports after russian attacks on infrastructure. As russia makes progress in the war, president putin is set to appoint a new defence minister, Andrey Belousov. Like his predecessor sergei shoigu, he doesnt have much experience in the field. But hes one of putins most influential economic advisers. And analysts say that may offer a clue to the russian leaders desire to fund his military ambitions. Well have more on the changes in russias defence hierachy in a moment first James Waterhouse has the latest on the fighting in ukraine. Its a front line at the moment which is more than 1000 kilometres wron
conditions in sustainable production. but who is monitoring to some contractors. and investigative documentary goes to italy and china and looks behind the glamorous facades of fashion houses. maturing her starts no membership d.w. . this is asia coming up india formally strips kashmir of semi autonomy and brings it under the control of delhi look at ongoing tensions in the disputed region and the anger over we said visit by far right you lawmakers was it all just a p.r. stunt. and protesters march on pakistan s capital to demand that the prime minister
the semi autonomy tribal areas near the border with afghanistan more than fifty people were injured in the bombing does not appear to be linked to the consulate attack in karachi. spain is threatening to throw the brakes a deal into jeopardy with a last minute objection over gibraltar spanish prime minister pedro sun just tweeted to this after speaking with britain s prime minister theresa may on thursday saying our positions remain sorel way my government will always defend the interests of spain if there are no changes we will veto brags that spain ceded control of gibraltar to britain more than three hundred years ago but still claims the tiny mediterranean on place. let s bring in our correspondent there in brussels hi gary explain what spain wants here. spain of course has seen a prime possibility here with the last minute to achieve
and adversaries around them. nick paton walsh, cnn near deir ezzor, syria. nick, thank you for the report. still ahead, spain is defending its plan to suspend catalonia s semi autonomy. next, why some catalan residents say direct rule from madrid could be good for their fur. newsroom is live from atlanta, georgia this hour, simulcast on cnn usa and cnn international this hour.
prime minister hide a body is on a two day trip to france where he ll meet the french president manuel mccollum a body s office says their talks will focus on the war against the so-called islamic state and economic cooperation between france and iraq and his presidency has backtracked on an earlier statement which server called would discuss last week s kurdish referendum in iraq. or more now let s bring in our correspondent lisa lewis in paris elise so what are the french and iraqi leaders hoping to get out of their meeting today well both sides have been saying that this meeting is on economic cooperation and how french companies can actually how to rebuild iraq and also on counterterrorism but as you said you know they ve pink elephant in the room well of you that referendum that happened not long ago where more than ninety percent of they say they ting in the semi autonomy is could regional free iraq declare that they were in favor of independence and then a knock on the french pr