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ready british media are reporting that the u. k is promised to, boris johnson has agreed to resign. he's faced a growing rebellion within his ruling. conservative party, over a series of scoundrels. more than 50 members of his government. have resigned this week. hello, i'm adrian finnegan. this is al jazeera live from doha. let's go live to downing street in london. how to serious pull brandon? is there waiting, pulled for something to happen? we understand that the prime minister is going to resign to day. perhaps it took us through what's happened to get us to this point so far. one. yeah, i think it's a lot more than just media reports now, downing street has basically let it be known that the prime minister will make a statement to the country today. he's had a talk with graham brady,

who is the chairman of the influential 1922 committee. that is the the committee of back bench m p 's, non government m p 's conservative m p. 's, effective reactive shop steward for them. the prime minister has agreed that he will step down to the expectation is that forest johnson will resign as prime minister of the united kingdom this morning, or at least by around lunch time. he will remain as prime minister until the autumn . that is, at least what he wishes and the leadership race to replace him will take place over the course of the summer months. the intention being that that will be a replacement leader of the conservative party and the prime minister in place before the conservative party conference convenes in october. i'll give you some reaction to some of the announcements already. george freeman,

the science minister, or former science minister, chris assigned, spent for just this morning. he said johnson needs to hand in the fields office. apologize to her majesty the queen and adviser to call for can't take a prime minister to take over from today. george freeman, clearly not happy about the prospect of florence johnson continuing in office in name, at least through to the autumn. another for my minister reacted on the unnamed minutes the same. johnson's behavior over the last 48 hours with the reckless and erratic he can't be trusted through to the awesome god knows what he will do. i wrote a book into another form. a minister said johnson had bowed to the inevitable device. ellwood, i, chairman of the defense committee, said he was glad that you also recognized the damage that was being done. not just to the party brown, but also to the international stock of the u. k. and finally, estimate kissed on the leader of the opposition labor party as issued a lengthy statement and an utterly biting scathing statement. a saying that this resignation was good news to the country that it should have happened

a long time ago. johnson was always unfit for office. he has been responsible for lies, scandal on fraud, on an industrial scale. on all of those who have been complicit should be utterly ashamed. a reference that to those members of boris johnson's cabinet, cabinet ministers who chose not to resign, who choose to continue to support him. when more than 50 others, 50 other members of the government chose to resign. in principle, to pull the prime minister is going to resign. why would that be a general election? well, because that doesn't need to be a general election. what bar is johnson? excuse me, one of his excuses for not necessarily wanting to go was because that would be then course for the labor party. i'm a liberal democrat, the opposition party especially to a, to the new conservative meter, not having

a mandate. the last general election was in 2019 under the current terms of the, the rules that there are that doesn't have to be another one until 20, 25 february 2075. and that for that, you know, we've seen it before with other leadership elections where leaders transition from onto the roof and talking to the other. i haven't had to be a general election. they can continue because the elections already done enough that the prime minister don't forget. and we spoke about this a little earlier this morning, is selected not by the country. it's not a presidential system. prime minister is selected by the conservative party. they remain the biggest party in parliament such they can choose who the prime minister is, who leads them. that if that's the reason why that necessarily have to be a general election just because the prime minister changes for took us through once again. why? the prime minister has been pressured into residing

this is a long and in some way sordid catalogue of missteps. untruths. as we heard from kiss, sama, lies, and scandal and forward. thinking back many months, we can go all the way back. let's take the oh and pass us on the fast. for example, where i bought a johnson in 2020 chose to try to rewrite the rules of parliament in order to defend a close friend and a member of government own patterson, who had been found guilty by internal processes, by column entry processes of lobbying and accepting money in contravention of the rules, forest, johnson ordered his m. p. 's to support her and partisan unfilled the outcry with such that he realized it was trying to defend the indefensible and, and he withdrew to support non profits and eventually had to quit. and he lost his

seat as an m p b. then for example, party game, where members of staff and forest jones and himself here in the midst of the conversion of virus pandemic holding gatherings, parties in direct contravention. so the rules that the rest of the u. k were following lockdown rules for johnson himself, was issued with a fixed penalty. notice becoming the 1st prime minister is actually to be found guilty of a criminal record to be found guilty of a criminal offense. while in office, even that didn't bring him to the conclusion that he felt it should resign, he decided to make an apology. he said, i see what's happened on the i'm going to fix it. he shuffled his top team and his advisors. he changed some of the staff and down the street, but he decided that he was going to carry on on the store. that's really broken. the camel's back in the past week is a member of the government, a deputy chief where it's one of the people who are responsible party discipline.

michael, chris pincher, who was very drunk in a private recalls and club. and essentially sexual assault is a male stucco to males and they don't want to sexual advances towards them. the question was, well, how on earth did christ pincher deck to have that role when actually he had had complaints about him previously when he was base with the foreign office bars. jones is that all i have no idea that these complaints have been made about him, but then down the street was forced to change its story about that and say, well actually, well, we thought the clients knew about them, but they will result. in fact, they were result because of health. and it turns out that far as johnson had been brief in person about those complaints. so his denials of knowledge essentially were proved to be false. and for the end piece, and i spent the last 2 days reading the resignation, letters of m p a for m p. member, the governor junior ministers, cabinet ministers,

they've all mentioned work like the integrity, honesty, evaporative bar, johnson no longer has the trust or the respect of the party. and the reason why is because they don't believe he has integrity, honesty, how to various pull brenda reporting lives there from downing street in london the moment to pull many thanks. indeed, just down the road from downing street to the u. k, as parliament is in session, that is expected to be urgent question about the functioning of government with more than 50 govern, administers, having resigned in the last 48 hours, chris wilkins is managing partner at oddly consultancy. he was strategy director and chief speech writer for the former prime minister resume. he joins us now live from london. good to have with us, chris before we talk about boys johnson, just a quick question about about whether government can continue in the current circumstances, particularly now if there's going to be a leadership election over the summer. well,

it's really important that government does continue, and at the moment the mathematics a, it's not for people who designed legislation in the house comes in, poor stakes, are simply went ministers to to take it on. and so at the moment, know things are pretty much going to hold. and so what needs to happen now is that the premise to need to is it basically, and i would say he's gonna step aside any steps right now. the need to be can take a promise to come in, the people who designed even their roles back whilst this leisure contest takes place. that is no way to do it. there is a process for leadership contest and need to pursue that. but right now, promise to needs to not try and cling on the next few weeks. he's going to need to go now. so managers can come back and government can continue. the reports promise to johnson has spoken to the queen as a courtesy though, because he intends to stay on as private as to a through the transition. that's not the right thing to do as far as you're

concerned. it's not the right thing to do in terms of this crisis. it's being a case of violence always being behind the been always will being balanced into decisions $24.00 or 48 hours later. and that's where we all again, he now things he can stay and i was, he stepped me aside, but cling on to office until september. october was denisia contested place. it's not going to happen and he's delusional. if he thinks it is and, and just had he made a decision yesterday, when he was approached by grant brady the lead to the considered back benches. if he decided then stuff side it may have been possible. but after what he did last night trying to cling on, i don't think the part where it, they want him to go now bring in a can take a leader and then have the contrast. and i think it just needs to why is that? is there any one among the current crop of conservative party m p. 's that could unite the party behind them and lead?

oh man, there will be a host of candidates and i think it will be good to have a contest. and yes, i think there are range of people and ranges, high caliber, a cabinet ministers to take over, and the people who will be in the more junior. i'm not, in a sense concerned about them. i think there'll be some good candidates. i think there'll be a good discussion about the future of the party, but we're here not because there isn't massive disagreements over policy, not because they're not master disagreements over the direction of the government or in the situation simply because of the finances, character fuels and the fact that the party wouldn't want that anymore. so i think once he's gone is then perfectly possible for the party to unite around a positive policy agenda. but with a leader who has a different character and it's more suited to little the leader of the opposition labor party, customer said that johnson was or was unfit for office. how do you think? what damage has johnson's premier ship done to your party?

could it when, if there were a general election in the next few weeks or months? yeah, i'm quite optimistic about that. i think one of the more things about this, given that it has been, i mean, to blend, doesn't do it justice. past 6 months. it's been a really disastrous on politics, and yet the labor party is on average 7 points ahead in the opinion polls, which is, which is nothing they should be way ahead. so it's perfectly possible the conservative party to regroup when a general election, that the prime minister has been trying to argue in boston. the pharmacy has monday to 14000000 people in the last lecture. that's not how it works. at the last section, 14000000 people voted for the conservative party, not support johnson. and that means there is a constituency in the country for conservative government, the conservative policies, conservative values em, but it will take a big effort now to reset. clear this away and draw a line and then

a forward. but it can be done there still 18 months, at least until the next young actually told chris. and i think that said, chris, you do talk about conservative values. of course, johnson may have gone but that there is a feeling, but the party itself has been hijacked by right wing populists, such as the european research group or it was a set. johnson may go, but you've still got got both people in the party. yeah, i think there needs to be a bit of a clear out. i think there was some people who came with always johnson, who frankly would not have been serving in any other administration. they were the people who supported him and he gave the job. so i think that it goes a little bit deeper than the prime minister, but honestly, if i look across the party, we have a why number of empties and there is more that, you know, it's the policy than that advice, mostly brakes. it was massively polarizing,

but there is a central view. the in that's happened is not going to be in any time soon. and there are debates around tax policy and things like that. those a healthy debate for political party have people's parties, a coalition of different interests. but i think with a strong leader who actually comes in and says the direction and effect clear and consistent. and they say here i follow jesus one doing except for has a massive instinct for survival. and i think they will come together. hind a leader who is able to do it in a way the boys johnson. despite his character flores, you haven't even been able to set up a direction phase government. that's been a big part. and if, if johnson insistent staying on his caretaker, prime minister, how damaging will be for the party that looked at this, this fighting will, will continue wanted. i think that will be a damaging thing because the longer he's, there is allies. his bosses will continue to think he's been hard done by it will

most likely to in a good he and they'll be all sorts of questions around what mandate he has to make big decisions. and it was somebody who said he's stepping down. so we are dealing with warn you, frank. big decisions need to be made about that. we have a big cost of living crisis. big economic decisions need to be made as pears time is to his basically, and that he's going, but his dance was slightly squashed in there. i'm can't take control of the things at that. so that's why i'm pretty sure the policy will make it clear today that that is not an option. we need to have a healthy leisure contest, healthy debate as take our time. that's got it right. but meanwhile, let's get government functioning again. and that means bringing back some of the people who stepped anyways. chris really got to talk to you many. thanks for your time, chris wilkins, they're managing partner at oddly consultancy. well, if morris johnson resides, it won't be an election, but an internal party votes the chooses. britain is next prime minister, conservative m p as can put themselves forward for consideration. if there are

several nominations, sitting conservative, m p 's, then hold a vote and the candidate with the lowest number is eliminated from the race. this closed door vote is repeated as many times as necessary until just 2 candidates remain. then the 2nd step, a vote by the whole party with all conservative members balloted in a postal vote to choose between the final 2 candidates. the winner of that vote takes over both the party leadership and as it as a parliamentary majority, the position of prime minister charles cunningham is set the founder of trafalgar strategy. he previously served as head of political press in downing street and director of communications for the u. k. conservative party. he joined us now live far from london. good. have you with us, giles, your reaction 1st of all to that is that boris johnson will resign today. yeah, i mean, finally he started on the right thing. we have this whole school our,

i think it's been unprecedented in british politics where he was cleaning or boy singing nails effectively. you have a prime minister. he's been in office, but not really important now that well, if that should be an open contact race before the next to him, that this leadership race track go to months and months because it won't do that much. tori hodge, but also currently the last in the country need 20 parts of thing and it needs the leadership. i've been to the point. i know the points chose to said that he intended to stay on until the concert, the part of comments, you know, to me, that position is completely unsustainable, untenable to happy go by them to the fact. if you have 5 minutes, the squatting in time for 2 months to 2 and a half months later, i'm going to say the common decisions domestically, people respect, international stakes. so yes,

it needs to be as recently switched in quick action for among current conservative party empties. are there any who could rally the posse behind them and lead? i think there is no clear thing for it hasn't been settled last time when for explicit favorites. but there is a little bit of fees on the cover table. so how we got shots this process are people that are more capable of taking mantel and moving things to actually think toy party can still quite easily with the next election to have the song, the pulse been much more due to the labor collapse and they message you to a toy class and the neighbor revival. you've got an opposition leader. he's a public common enough thing to say to keep the toys kind of polish this.

they were great things as far as much. tom, no surprise. so what were the new lead? have to do then to win over the british public. well, it's got to be a semester thing. domestic agenda. we've had a lot about leveling up. i don't really seen and click here and tangible plan about what it means to them out of the street, how it should be implemented. it's got the economic map we are facing. so very short inflation, 10 percent going to cost living crisis is going to be a plan with that, i think will say most the really nice the message out the rest of the common to good place in fast patients, foster's innovation to the very dynamic economy. because people will be

a moment thinking what the hell is being in that country. how much damage has johnson leadership done to your party? can it ever be truly united, given the various factions that exist within it? or will it always be squabbling about about the future direction for not just the u . k. but for the party itself? no, i think it can be united. absolutely. all parties are series of character congregations, of course, for the united that we need to choose the white figure figure. we choose what countenance represents the different trust. but i suspect will be a movement for me to 1st was, was not a stereotypical politician. he was free flowing, say the least. i think it was a little force, much more of a steady hand from

a tenant. now someone needs to return to someone who can call collected to message to the public as well. good. 30 charles. many thanks for being with us, john kenning of that in london at sat take a look at what else is happening in the world right now. more than 400 prisoners are on the run in nigeria after an attack on a detention facility that was claimed by i saw more than 800 inmates escaped from the correctional center and a boucher, at least 3 prisoners and a security officer were killed, leading figures from the iceland poke her arm armed groups are believed to be among those still on blues. the people who came to do with the records, we believe that it was out of 11. am with leslie there. because we have festival number we'll put on that. and eventually

with more now from out 0, i'm at address who's at a boucher apart from iso claiming responsibility. the government says it's still looking for their escape prisoners. but the question is, how far have they gone and how easy will it be for them to recover the prisoners? we're talking about $6.00 to $3.00 or $64.00. hardon bulk was commanded, including the chief bomb maker, and one of the fear, fear commanders on the battle on the battlefield. yes, but what i'm fighters, and i feel i swear, support is maybe surrendering and been all peace of the country. but these are the foot soldiers we talking about people who've been recruited or forced to fight for the group, but on wednesday night, what we sole, if keep of people convicted of atrocities in the north east in other parts of the

country. and these are members of islip and book water. um these people are on the news and that brings us to the next question. what's the mood like around a boucher where this incident happen? there is fear and concern that these people may be high but eating with a larger community. and there could be, it could be possible that probably in the next few weeks, or months or even years to come, there will still be living with this people and the threat of bomb attacks and the capital that have been that has, that has disappeared for more than 5 or 6 years now, will return in the capital. the presidents of the democratic republic of congo underwent have agreed to de escalate tension surrounding the m $23.00 homes group. upon police, government accuses were wenda of banking. the rebels who've been attacking civilians and it's north key the province during talks that i go to the to leaders agreed to the immediate and unconditional withdraw of the rebels from inside the democratic republic of congo. how serious nicholas huck is monitoring developments

from senegal. there was usually customary joint communicate made when 2 heads of states meet and gather like this. but for the african union appointed mediator, the president of angola who was hosting president regard may of rhonda and the president of the d. r. c. this was a success. why? well, because both heads of states agreed at least in word, to de escalate tensions between the 2 countries of recognizing that there was tensions, especially specifically in the border area now can shop accuses kigali of supporting the m 23. a rebel group that's active in its eastern border in the north key area. and that has been increasing attacks taking over villages in the north kiva area. rhonda accuses kinshasa of firing inside its territory and fermenting divisions there. so there is a recognition that tensions are running high it not only that there's a roadmap,

put in place. both leaders will meet again on the 12th of july to discuss ways to relieve these tensions. and to address these arm groups, there is 120 arm groups in the border area in the area. and that's rich and minerals, minerals that use to power the camera that i'm using to talk to you right now. that's used in mobile phones. it's, it's these minerals that are fueling the violence in the arm groups in this region . it seems that the 2 leaders want to discuss this further and find a way out and a roadmap to end the violence in these regions. foreign ministers from the world's leading economies and gathering and indonesia for talks under the shadow of the war in ukraine. for some of them. the g 20 meeting will be the 1st encounter with russia's foreign minister. since russia's invasion, i was just here was robert bride reports now from the island of bali. holding the presidency of the g. 20 ended easiest president, joker. we,

dodo has positioned himself at the center of global events after meeting with the leaders of the g 7. last week. he undertook shuttle diplomacy between the competence in the ukraine war, seeing for himself, the destruction in the town of a pin, outside the capital cave, saying that it's very sad, a lot of houses and infrastructure are broken. we hope no other ukraine cities would be ravaged because the war then to moscow for talks with russian president vladimir putin as a leading force in the so called non aligned movement of nations. indonesia believes it could act as a bridge between the 2 sides of participation in, hey, tanya, in meeting will be a very valuable opportunity for the russian government to address based on position to the rest of the world. and which is not only advantages to put in government, russia, but it may be quite conducive to all warring party in the ukraine

crisis. russia foreign minister said a good lover of is due to hold bilateral meetings with some of his counterparts, but significantly not with us secretary of state and city lincoln. the last time the 2 met was in a tense encounter in january when love rob gave his assurance, russia had no plans to invade ukraine. a month before a day, just that the g 20 came into being in part to deal with the fallout from economic crises that the g 7 couldn't handle on its own, especially in recent times, this gathering takes place as the world is now facing the perfect storm of global challenges, the ukraine war threatens a worldwide food crisis and didn't denisia like many countries is heavily reliant on grain from the region. the war is also helping push up energy costs that are driving inflation. added to that ongoing tensions in the indo pacific with china

increasingly confronting its neighbors, a nato at its last meeting, promising to push back. in this idyllic island setting the world is looking for solutions to some nightmarish scenarios with any signs of progress being welcome right now. human rights watch is accusing taliban forces of committing atrocities in eastern afghanistan and operations talk as an eyesore splinter group report. since the business were committed in the 2 eastern provinces of kona and 9, the organization accuses the total amount of carrying out abductions and summary executions. of alleged members of the islamic state of correson province. the report says people accused of sheltering or supporting members of had their homes rated and suffered beatings and detention since volleyball and take over. last year . resident say they found the bodies of more than $100.00 men, dumped in canals on other locations. patricia grossman. grossman rather is the

associate director of asia as human rights watch and an author of the report. she says the taliban government fails to hold its forces accountable. we 1st began to hear about these kinds of search operations and detention last fall. but what this report provides evidence of is the, the number of bodies that have turned up, and the accounts from residents who been looking for their relatives who were detained. some point apple, the told on peg over. and it was subsequently disappeared. and we have your relatives who been searching among the bodies in these canals to find that relative who's been picked up at the tell about months ago. they do not want the i s k p to gain any further ground in afghanistan. but unfortunately, there's adopting counterterrorism. tactics which are very likely to lead to more revenge and more recruitment by s k p because whole communities have been targeted in these grades and that's likely just.