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after resisting for days, boris johnson and answers, he's stepping down as the u. k. prime minister, it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary, conservative party that there should be a new leader of that policy and apple in your private johnson says he will stick around until a new party leader is elected. but the opposition demands, he must leave immediately, needs to go. he can't clean old in this way. ah, you're watching out. is there a light from a headquarters in cell? hi, i'm getting obligated also a heads. hundreds of prisoners are on the run in nigeria after i saw a talk to jail in the capital, a boucher human rights watch accuses the taliban of committing atrocities in eastern afghanistan,

including summary executions. ah hello. after 3 days of political high drama, the u. k. prime minister boris johnson has announced he stepping down, the prime minister made a statement outside his official residence in downing street just hours ago. he said he was said to be leaving sad to be leaving the best job in the world. but he insisted he would stay on as interim prime minister until his conservative party elect a new leader. it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary, conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party. and apple, a new prime minister. and i agree with the grey brady, the chairman of our back bench and peas, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. and the time table will be announced next week. and i live today appointed a cabinet to serve as i will until

a new leader is in place. so i want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting conservative for the 1st time. thank you for that incredible mandate. the biggest, conservative majority since 1987. the biggest share of the vote since 1979. and the reason i have fought so hard in the last few days to continue to deliver that mandate in person was not just because i wanted to do so. but because i felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019. let's bring in more challenges. joining us from westminister with reaction from their rory. well, we have the resignation. don't way this was what the last few days are clearly being building towards boris johnson hanging on with his fingernails,

but see inevitably bowed to what was going to happen and he has handed in his reclamation. but do you not think that we have closure just yet, because the conservative party is now still divide dates on what happens next. and whether or johnson shoots and could be allowed to hang on as a can take a prime minister until a new one is elected by the party and the membership, or whether he should go as quickly as possible. because there are those who think that issue. what should happen most notably in the last half an hour. so john major, former prime minister has written a great and brady the chair of the $922.00 committee. saying that for assumption absolutely has to go as quickly as possible for the good of the party. it amounts to trust really does the part the trust bar, as johnson, not the poison the well not the solid ice waters. now we can speak to leon maralie,

who is the communications advisor for ministerial. i will get on to kind of johnson's laying duck aspects in a moment, but we'll just give us your view was his speech level. it was a rather disappointing speech really. i mean, if you look at what to read amazed resignation speech contained with david cameron resignation, speech contained, it was one last date that was a motion in it and partials, and didn't really have any of that. it was almost if he was blaming the media, blaming the system or his downfall rather than taking personal responsibility. and i think that is going to disappoint a lot of his bosses who maybe would like to seen a little bit more contrition, a little bit more ownership of the in self in days at dems, the brakes and new sir as if he didn't think that his own personality, his own leadership had any role in this, but exactly, and if you look at the, the situation, you know, we are 2 and a half years on from a historic general election bias. johnson $1.80 seek majority pretty much against

the odds. and yet, here we are reno resigning midway through that turn i in, in these, in the circumstances so unbelievable that we are here and it's about personality rather than policy. and i think that's the key issue. the voice johnson failed to address it was his leadership that led to this rather than any policy or particular or policy development that was at odds with his m. p. 's. so what are the dangers for the conservative party for the country and having boris johnson staying on perhaps until what october? well, i mean, well, the minute we go to government in paralysis, evidently, we've got into room caretaker, a secretaries of state in a number of different departments. we've got businesses, therefore not wanting to invest or perhaps unsure about how to invest, how to a grow the economy. and i think that is going to be difficult for the country just on a national level on a political level. the conservative party, a, dealing with a prime minister who is damaged goods, you know, the public are now adults with lot bars thompson's trying to achieve. and what does an extra 2 or 3 months give him other than

a bad reputational point of view from or from, from the public towards the party up at large. in his speech there, he'd, he did his best and he's a kind of big up. his is legacy talking about the vaccine roll out, talking about bringing the country through the pandemic are supporting ukrainian freedom. what do you think his legacy is going to be? well, let's be fair to him and he's a remarkable politician. he won an 80 st majority. he got breaks it, done to use that terminology. he did leave the country through a pandemic, unprecedented. and then he's been praised for his role in the ukrainian or in the training more so he is or can be proud of some of those achievements. but i think it's those non policy movements that have really, that had been his downfall. you know, we look back to party game clearly as the moment when it was started to fall apart for him. the impact of santa fe, where he stood by him. some of his appointments to government in crispin's case have been also leading to his downfall, sex some good things, no doubt about that. he's a remarkable politician, but ultimately he's an old style of governing is perhaps

a board and down the moronic that, that was that communications by that's fully minister related. thanks very much. all right, worry, thank you so much. well, the u. k. opposition. labor party leader care summer says the prime minister should not remain in power through the summer. he needs to go, he can't cling on. in this way. his own party have finally concluded that he's unfit to be prime minister. they can't now inflicting on the country for the next few months. it's obvious, he's unfit to be prime. mr. that's been blindingly obvious for a very, very long time. and if they don't get rid of him, then labor will step up in the national interest and bring a vote of no confidence because we can't go on with this prime minister clinging on for months and months to come, that sir crusher written it in. baba, he's joining us from outside downing street and he will talk about the reaction that's been coming in in just a moment. first, let me ask you about the statement and the address that johnson gave. how. how is

it going down? well, i mean, you just heard some analysis of, of the speech and the reaction to it. let me just bring you up to date. cabinet members now are the ones that there are now at downing street. we've seen some of them arrive in the last 10 minutes. i've seen a nadine doris, the culture media and sports m secretary, one of johnson's or biggest ally, he's really not commenting, not looking to happy or she was a yesterday as well. nadeem as a how we the new chance, sir, or who actually oh, produce the statement calling on johnson to resign? earlier on thursday before johnson stepped down as prime minister. he's arrived as well. he's one of the people being talked about as a, a leadership contender. dominic rob, now way being told in the u. k. press has ruled himself out of any leadership contest. so yet our meeting bar is johnson right now. he in his

a statement stress that he will stay on until a new leader is in position. and after that speech, his parliamentary private secretary said that there is no constitutional arrangement other than for the sitting prime minister to be in charge until there is a new leader of the conservative party. there. as you heard was that there was certain ann, from certain quarters, her disappointment in the tone in that bar. johnson effectively blamed his own m. p . 's talking about the herd mentality and talking about months of what he called sledging, suggesting that it was all a personal attack on him via the unpopularity that's reflected in the opinion polls and in those 2 by elections that the conservatives last. so that's where we're at at the moment he says he has put in place a new cabinet and he says that he can continue in the interim to carry owner not to hand over, for example, to deputy prime minister dominic rob and of him. so he heard from the opposition leader who saying that the press there to embarrass johnson simply has to go and

cannot continue through the summer. do we expect such calls or to grow louder? did not have integrity. see? oh absolutely. it's not just from the labor of positions, of course, if they wanted to bring a vote of no confidence in parliament, they would need the support of a large chunk of the conservative or empties as well. but many tory m. p. 's have been speaking in the last couple of hours saying that they really felt that boris johnson got got it wrong in his tone. and also in his time table, he says that next week, the leadership contest. oh, he rather he will announce the time table for the, for the leadership change or some of his biggest opponents within the party have been very angry. listen to john major, the former prime minister. he said that johnson staying on until the autumn would be on sustainable and unwise. say, some people will say that. and the new cabinet will restrain boris johnson and

suggesting the recent experience suggests otherwise. basically saying, boys johnson can carry on in his opinion damaging the interests of the country dominate. cummings, his former chief adviser, of course here are demanding on twitter that the party get rid of him by thursday evening and install dominic rob i as in to rem prime minister saying that if not there will be chaos will. that is not going to happen. but there are, there is a lot of unhappiness in westminster at boris johnson stubbornness as well as what he was saying in his statement. suggesting that to him the, the party were only a few points behind in the opinion polls which isn't true. suggesting that to nobody else really. oh that he needs to be the person to carry on over the summer. another slight on his colleagues perhaps. so watch this space maralie, sir. well, thank you. so last as in baba reporting from downing street wellborn's, johnson has often made divisive and controversial decisions during his time as the

you case, prime minister jonah hall has more. you'd not vote for us. he led his party to a landslide election victory in 2019. but boris johnson was to be undone, both by events in which he conspired, and also by his own character flaws that critics say made him unfit for high offers or still some has no social vision. he has, there is no moral leadership for him. it was always about becoming hyman's. they're not about being hyman's and he, i think he knows himself well enough that he knows he does not have the skills that you need to be a successful prime minister. sonya panell was a reporter working alongside johnson in the brussels bureau of the daily telegraph . she describes a man with a lot of the child in him who enjoyed getting into and out of scrapes. a man drawn to calles and the chaos means that he can win through these things. going wrongly,

all this noise, all this commotion as the person with great i dale, the wicked, the witticism. and that is what appeals to him for his johnson. the corona virus pandemic was a perfect storm of crises and calles that blew attention away from other problems. despite his promise to get brakes, it done, britain remains mud and dispute with its biggest trading part of the european union . the economy is underperforming. the cost of living, rising health and education systems faltering success with the vaccine program helped obscure johnson's own indecision and delays in following scientific advice that contributed to one of the highest death tolls. in the developed world, former chief advisor, dominic cummings, described the prime minister's leadership as erratic in decisive distracted. nobody could find a way around the problem of the problem is that just like

a shopping trolley smashing from one side to the other, the shopping trolley metaphor would quickly be seized upon by the opposition. so he's doing what he always does. crushing over to the other side of the aisle, boris johnson learned early to be self sufficient in a family of competitive siblings with a mother who suffered ill health and a father who was frequently absent. at the elite british boarding school eton he came to believe ordinary rules did not apply to him. in the infamous bullying and drinking club at oxford, the outward persona of a jovial buffoon, disguised and in an ambition for power. and as both a journalist for the times newspaper and a minister in opposition, johnson was accused of lying and fire. these then, with the qualities he brought to politics as mayor of london as foreign secretary, and then his prime minister entitlement dishonesty and indifference. this is really

the 1st time in his life where he's ever actually been held to account for the thing he's always been. so he's always been excused. there's always been reasons made for him. for his 5 behavior. there was wide support for his handling of the war in ukraine, but johnson never recovered from the scandal known as party gate. he received a police fire for attending a lockdown party in downing street, making him the 1st british prime minister to break the law while in office. a civil service report into a string of similar gatherings described a failure of leadership. eventually 148 of his own, m. p. 's, 40 percent of the parliamentary party turned against him. in a vote of no confidence on maurice johnson limped on for a bit again. but the reasons to forgive him had run out. jona, how al jazeera lot. so speak to caroline. oh, who's the ceo of the center for european policy studies is joining us from brussels to talk about reaction from brussels. welcome to al jazeera,

so will brussels be relieved, or will they welcome the news out of the united kingdom today? or will there be a sense of worry, considering there is still an ongoing confrontation with the you over trade and over the northern ireland protocol. there certainly will be a sense of course it will not say it doesn't need to comment on this, but also brussels have to consider talk to different issues over the last 6 months as we all know pretty well. but anyway, it is certainly a relieved that this protocol that on my protocol, which the foreign secretary and i'm just wanted to back to put into question to re open the no, we left close just i hope my social person wants to go and that there's not an artist not be on there again for some months ago, but we shouldn't forget to say that even if he is also his daughter, who has also brought by actually the bad thing for you is that you don't, has been in this entire peter, she and certainly from russia does unite,

and this is not, this is i think it's hopeless. it with the don't full us head. you cable have a prime minister which will be closer to the you. dunn, orest johnson. and the european commissioned vice president just last week said this in a speech, he said that a relations between london and brussels are quote in a difficult situation, which will most certainly not simply disappear and do today's events change that though, i think today's events will change of course it depends who will be appointed to see your prime minister in the name of the stance horn $630.00. she had a piece and i took them last week just supporting entirely the line, mr. norton irish question, so she may still have a hard time, but i cannot imagine she will be so or another communist who will be solely responsible and so, and ethical and so kind of an indifferent to many of these things. the sport as

johnson was and others again had insurance for breast reef. i mean there will be most likely a much more responsible prime minister and also much more important and credit contextual who are rich. we have done boys. johnson was, of course, go to jones was a fantastic man. fuel the streets, light also in cash to lensky, and do a support to warn against the russians. but it's also the overall subordinate, yukon x which is also extremely important. for example, on the sanctions which we haven't russia, sanctions which have to be applied almost in the same way of u. k as they are you. if you k doesn't buy them. of course it's an enormous loophole. if you burn multiple have kind of a very good government k. yeah, because whoever replaces johnson will really be stepping straight into an ongoing geo political crisis, as you're saying on specifically on the issue of ukraine. do you expect that the unwavering support from, from the u. k and specifically johnson towards ukraine to continue both on the

military as well as their diplomatic front. going forward with whoever takes the hell next. i think that'll be the guys of course. the next person will certainly not have the face recognition or the uh, kind of the appearance which borders johnson had for a media. but i think the political support will undoubtedly be the same. but a good thing for you is that i think the next prime minister will be in. it's certainly and all the rhetoric which we've heard over the last 3 years from but it's just the certainly on you my there will be, i think totally different. i will be much more accommodating. i will be much more in line because what we've seen over the last months and it's has come out and all the data isn't, but actually is damaging. you do case economy to great extent rather than the inflation over 3. you have it also in labor and salary as well. so it is something reached. the next government will have to reconsider and to re open certain things with you, which how he draws like, for example,

better trade accustomed to union, eventually what he calls this european economic area, food participation and to sing the market things which are at the moment, extremely important for you. k calling me. all right, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for speaking to us from brussels. thank you very much. so when boris johnson announced his resignation, he was very clear that he was not leaving his post by choice. the last few days, i've tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric, to change governments when we're delivering so much. and when we have such a vast mandate and when we're actually only a handful of points behind in the pose, even in mid term after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. and i regret and not to have been successful in those arguments. and of course it's painful and not to be able to see through so many ideas and projects myself. but as we seen at westminster,

at the hud instinct, his path. and when the hud moves, it moves, and my friends in politics, no one is remotely indispensable, and are brilliant and darwinian system will produce another leader. equally committed to taking this country forward through tough times. not just helping families to get through it, but changing and improving the way we do things cutting burdens on businesses and families and yes, cutting taxes because that is the way to generate the growth and the income we need to pay for great public services. and to that new leader, i say whether he or she may be, i say i will give you as much support as i can. and to you, the british public i know that there will be many people who are relieved. 7 and perhaps quite a few will also be disappointed. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving

up the best job in the world. but them the breaks. i want to thank carry and our children though, all members of my family who've had to put up with so much for so long. so with boris johnson's exit, who are the front runners to take over the top jobs? the former chancellor really soon alex had a high profile in the pandemic. he gained popularity as the public face of the government economic recovery planned, but concerns over his wife tax status were costly. foreign secretary lead trust is one of the most popular senior members of the party. for a previous post of international trade secretary saw her secure post breakfast trade deals. also in the running former foreign and health secretary, jeremy hunt, who was born johnson's main rival in the last leadership contest. such a java has not resign twice from boris johnson's cabinets. first, the chancellor. then on tuesday, he quit his health secretary. job aids was the 1st person of color to hold one of

the great offices of states when he was appointed home secretary in 2018. and in a while, he was immediately named as to knox, replacements as chancellor, and previously served as education secretary rory challenge joining us once again from westminster to just look ahead, rory, and tell us what this means in terms of a time table. and what happens next? well, the time table is boris johnson said in his resignation, speech will be announced next week, but essentially we have 2 more weeks left of parliament before all the m. p 's go away for that holidays and what's called recess. the party would very much like to have the field of leadership candidates whittled down to, to over the next couple of weeks. and that's then over the summer. those 2 can be put to the membership of the party at lodge with a new leader,

basically in place for the party conference in october. there are many, many people, though, within the conservative party who think that is going to be 2 drawn out that boris johnson in such tainted goods, that he can't really be trusted to stuart the party through those in 3 months. we have just heard from john major for my prime minister writing said graham brady, the, the chair of the 922 committee saying just that that he doesn't think the borrowers johnson can stay on as, as a can't like a prime minister. and we have someone else on and now who believes the same thing? george freeman, a former science minister. you resigns yesterday? is that correct? that's right. last night. yeah. so in your resignation you said the chaos in your cabinets and number 10, this month is destroying our credibility. tong guy, one, what do you think should happen for us from now? he's resigns that can carry on. he has resigned. i think that's the right thing to

do. this is a sad day and a tragedy for him, but it's more importantly a crisis for a country constitutional crisis. i think if there was a quiet summer, no great problems, internationally or home, probably be ok for him to be inter prime minister with not much going on, but that's not the situation. we face a very, very serious international crisis war in europe. a brutal and savage invasion by russia of you praying, huge geopolitical tensions as a result. big decisions to be made at home, big economic decisions to be a growth is very, very low. he talked to living crisis, big decisions and i, i just don't see how the prime minister is going to be able to step the government through the next 2 or 3 months credibly. i just don't see how he's going to get to bring that stability. not least because on economics he's on chancellor has said he doesn't have confidence in him. so p. m q's next wednesday. first question. how enough foreign minister are you going to be out to take the big decisions when your cabinet doesn't support you?

i just fear it's gone to fall. so i think he probably, he needs to hand in a seal of office. we need a can't take a prominence the through the next 3 months while we properly choose the right leader. the danger is if it's an unstable, unstable got will rush in the next 10 days and try and find one person who can take over the past track. record of us doing that in the past has been terribly bad. we need to take the time this summer to do it properly. and if we don't, ah, is there a danger that there might be more allegations that come out about pros? johnson i was speaking to a tori, m p. earlier on today he was saying that he thought there might be more skeletons in the closet the could come outside and that that would further weaken him. i think that may very well be the case and i think the point is he, sadly he carries with him a huge magnetic field force of instability and it's disruptive and divisive and,

and it's been a strength as a campaigner. it's been a huge weakness, as a prime minister in a government as the last few weeks and months are shown. and i, it's very sad, but that is where we all, i don't think we can fudge it. and i just don't see how he's going to be able to on monday at with a new cabinet. if he has a captain in their mind, right? i just don't see how that works or, and i, i, that's why i think he should resign the seals of office. and if you're international viewers, who wondering how this works? we did wiggles, don't have a presidential system, the head of state, the queen invites the leader of the largest party in parliament who can command a majority. navarez johnson has resigned his party leader and is holding the sea level faces prime minister on a temporary basis, while a new leader is chosen, which is how things worked in the past. but were in a very unusual situation in my view, a massive international and domestic crisis and a particular crisis of trust in him in one man. and i think that that means that we

need a caretaker prime minister during the summer. so who, who do you think should be the next person? okay, take a 2nd. go next leader. whatever a different point about a cat take, i think is that they want to be the future minister. they must rule themselves out of that role. i think there are several people i think dominate. rob is the deputy prime minister. could do it. i, i suspect jeremy probably could do it. i think there are various people and the job is simply to be able to represent britain on the world stage to chat a cabinet properly here, all views be the chairman of the chair of the company as it were in terms of the next leader. i think their job description is very clear. they have to firstly be able to restore public trust and they need to repair the damage that's been done. and so they have to have a very, very strong and very clear and coherent approach to integrity and office respect for the institutions of government, the due process. george, we're going to have to live with that. thanks very much. that was that jo treatment

for my soc, mr. all right, or thank you so much for a challenge. recording from westminster. ah other news more than 400 prisoners are still on the run a niger y'all after an attack on a detention facility that was claimed by iso more than 800 inmates escape from the correctional center and a boucher and at least 3 prisoners and the security officer were killed, leading figures to me. i fell and broke her arm groups are believed to be among those still on the loose. the trees has more from kusha outside than a jury and capital. a boucher truck. i just believe it's gradually being replaced by. yeah. and i'm people wondering how much some of security are medium security prison with maximum security should we just 2 kilometers from the capital would come under severe texas.