just days before the iowa caucuses. the former new jersey governor declining to endorse any of his republican rivals, at least for now, even as he urges he supporters to choose a candidate with character. this comes as we re just now a few hours away from cnn s republican presidential debate later tonight, nikki haley and ron desantis about to come face to case for the final time before the iowa caucuses. it s a critically important test as both candidates try to close the gap with donald trump. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it s major breaking news indeed, with chris christie suspending his run tonight. the race is on for other candidates as to try to pick up his supporters. kylie atwood is with us. the remaining campaigns are clearly interested in bringing voters over to their side. what are you hearing? reporter: they are indeed. there was a hot mic moment that wasn t actually included in that speech that we
as the candidates to be the uk s next prime minister prepare to go head to head. welcome to the programme. we start with the extreme heat across europe. it s facing its worst drought in a long time. we ll look at that in a moment. but first the high temperatures are also causing big wildfires. let s go to france. there s a huge wildfire near bordeaux, in the south western region of gironde. this is what it looks like at night. thousands of hectares have been burnt. 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area, and several homes are destroyed. it s spreading so fast because it s so dry. this is the scene in the day. you can see a plane dropping chemicals used to slow the fire down. more than a thousand fire fighters are there trying to control it. let s hear from one of them. translation: for l the moment, the fire is progressing in every direction. if i may say, the wind is not steady for the moment. it will rise in the course of the day. we are told that the wind will
Candidates that don t support him and push back, they are unfit. he talked about the focus of the other campaigns, spending so much time on when are you going to drop out, instead of going after the front-runner who he sees as a threat. he also talked about his future, what he s going to do. he has doubled down, recommitted to making sure that he does everything he can to keep donald trump from the white house. look, it sucks to drop out of a campaign. it sucks. everyone saying who you are going to support, needs to give him time to sit back, back, relax and regroup. clearly his supporters will likely to go to haley, and that s in her best interest. a statement from nikki haley we just don t in reaction. chris christie has been a friend for many years. i commend him on a hard-fought campaign.
War by vladimir putin in terms of troop movements and the latest especially in mariupol to sort of pull back and just surround that steel mill, how does that reflect on the state of the russian military, do you think? well, we re seeing a reset in process right now. so you ve seen a lot of the russian forces being withdrawn north of kyiv and recommitted through belarus into eastern ukraine. essentially what we re seeing is a reset of the operation with more limited objectives. they re trying to concentrate their power to essentially encircle ukrainian forces in eastern ukraine. what we re seeing now, they are moving artillery, they are going to try to have a more conventional fight that plays to their advantages. i m curious, you ve talked about of course russia s failures as a lot of analysts have done, but you bring up a great point. they re failing to do basic things in their operations that they ve been able to do before
April, the increase will not follow the triple procedure, specifically it will be brought back a year later and they didn t have to do that, so the point of a pensioner, you d rather have an increase, a bigger one, next april than not but there are some reassurance they have recommitted. to are some reassurance they have recommitted- are some reassurance they have recommitted. to ust look back on histo a recommitted. to ust look back on history a bit. recommitted. to ust look back on history a bit. it recommitted. to just look back on history a bit, it is recommitted. to just look back on history a bit, it is still recommitted. to just look back on history a bit, it is still a recommitted. to just look back on history a bit, it is still a long - history a hit, it is still a long way from the increase of 75 p for pensioners under gordon brown which was scarring for that government and eventually pave the way for the triple lock. eventually pave the way for the triple lock-