for 13 days straight. and we will checkin for 13 days straight. and we will check in on the race for the republican nomination. the main contenders are in iowa today at an evangelical conference but the clear front runner donald trump is nowhere to be seen. first though let s start in france, where it is bastille day, marking the french revolution and as is often the case of the french president is joined is often the case of the french president isjoined by is often the case of the french president is joined by significant guest of honour. this year emmanuel macron rolled out that carpet for the indian prime minister as the two countries sealed high profile defence deals and deepen their ties. it is the latest trip from the indian leader who last month was in washington to meetjoe biden. what is behind this latest diplomatic push from new delhi. i spoke to someone from the king s college london to find out what is behind the diplomatic push. he london to find out what is beh
on that. ainsley: they work together really well. brian: hard to know who is a democrat or a republican because they think so much alike. steve: no killed. been a while on that. it s been a while since they come together. brian: maybe i missed off. i know on friday they were together i don t know what happened over the weekend. ainsley: cold out there. steve: 46 degrees. brian: not too bad. just going out today wear under arrest underarmor. steve: you mean long johns. brian: like under armor you wear it and keeps the heat in. are you wearing it right now. brian: i m fine. washington it s cold. steve: in washington, d.c. they need overarmor they come at you. that china select committee they are coming together. actually working together and mike gallagher s leadership. president biden is expected to announce his re-election bid tomorrow a new poll shows he may not have the support he was hoping for. the white house is going to host three democrats a
Now share. this photograph here, i think probably one of the last ones of prigozhin, and it says in russian, in this helm, he was the best. speaking about him in the past tense. some people have laid patches, wagner mercenary group patches, from the side of their uniforms because a lot of people that are paying their respects here today are either members of wagner or they re families of members of wagner. the organization is known for its cruelty, and this hammer here it s very heavy. pick it up. it s got wagner written on it. look, it s become a potent symbol of just how ruthless wagner was because it was with a tool like this that they executed someone they regarded as a traitor, and they filmed it happen. absolutely gruesome. but that video consolidated
Ukraine says its exp its foothold in russian defenses in the south, reportedly happening south of the village of which ukraine says it secured earlier this week, take a look at what that fighting looks like on the ground. ukraine says its troops are having more success near two villages south of there, even some pro-kremlin military bloggers are conceding russian troops are under pressure. trying tcut the land bridge between crimea and donetsk region. russia claims its while kyiv says at least one person was killed, and two others wounded in russian strikes across southern ukraine over the past day. meanwhile, russian investigators say they ve recovered ten bodies and flight data recorders from the plane crash that s believed to have killed wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin.
Involvement. and few russians dare say otherwise, at least publicly. some of my closest friends are wagner, says this man, who asked us to hide his identity at the memorial. they re just russian people, he tells me, who thought they were doing the right thing, but i can t talk for prigozhin, he adds. who do you think is responsible for his death? who killed him? no comment. these are dangerous times in russia to throw allegations around. matthew chance, cnn, st. petersburg. for more on this cnn s salma abdel aziz joins us live from london. what more are we learning. reporter: we understand that according to russian officials ten bodies have been recovered at the scene of the crash as well as the flight recorder box and that dna evidence will be