Ukraine fights for regional centre from Russian forces

Is the final battle to decide the fate of Eastern Ukraine underway? This is how President President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the battle for Severodonetsk.

Also Newsday will go to Berlin where yesterday a teacher was killed and many schoolchildren injured after a car hit a crowd in the German capital.

In the United States, Democrats have pushed through a gun control package. But it faces tough opposition from Republicans and looks set to fail.

And a neglected French farming community hoping to make the political establishment sit back and listen to their woes.