welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: borisjohnson resigns as conservative party leader but will stay on as caretaker prime minister. in his resignation statement, he blames his colleagues. as we've seen at westminster, the herd instinct is powerful, and when the herd moves, it moves. and, my friends, in politics, no—one is remotely indispensable. watched by his family and most loyal supporters, mrjohnson expressed regret that his premiership will end earlier than he had hoped. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the bestjob in the world. but them's the breaks. we'll take a look at who might

replace borisjohnson as the list of potential candidates grows by the hour. also coming up on newsday: foreign ministers from the 620 meet in bali to discuss the disruption to global food and energy supplies caused by russia's invasion of ukraine, with both russian and chinese diplomats attending. and an injured rafael nadal withdraws from wimbledon, missing an opportunity to achieve a new grand slam record. hello and welcome to the programme. borisjohnson is no longer leader of the conservative party but he is still british prime minister, following an extraordinary

day at westminster. about 12 hours ago he walked out of the door of number ten downing street to confirm he will resign as tory leader and that he intends to stay in charge until a successor is chosen. many of his colleagues, along with opposition parties, are deeply unhappy with that and have called on him to go immediately. remember, around this time yesterday mrjohnson was insisting he would not stand down. but after the avalanche of resignations over the past 48 hours, everything changed. our political editor chris mason begins our coverage. at breakfast time there was talk of a constitutional crisis, a prime minister who wouldn't budge, and more and more ministers resigning. butjust after 9:00am, news borisjohnson would resign today. this, the most powerful street in the country, suddenly packed. those arriving for work here capturing the moment, too.

at lunchtime, a lectern. those normally inside, outside — an audience awaits. and then a moment at once personal, political and constitutional. hi, everybody. it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party, and therefore a new prime minister. so i want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting conservative for the first time, thank you for that incredible mandate. and the reason i have fought so hard in the last few days to continue to deliver that mandate in person was notjust because i wanted to do so but because i felt it was myjob, my duty and my obligation

to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019. he fought hard and lost, his cabinet and his party abandoning him. but listen, still, to his defiance. in the past few days i've tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much. this was boris johnson forced to articulate that his imagined future here was being crushed. the boy who dreamed of being world king ejected. as we've seen at westminster, the herd instinct is powerful, and when the herd moves, it moves. and, my friends, in politics, no—one is remotely indispensable. i know that there will be many people who are relieved, and perhaps quite a few who 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's the breaks.

that's life, mrjohnson acknowledging. a painful, personal moment, a splash of history unfolding too. being prime minister is an education in itself. i've travelled to every part of the united kingdom, and in addition to the beauty of our natural world, i've found so many people possessed of such boundless british originality, and so willing to tackle old problems in new ways, that i know that even if things can sometimes seem dark now, our future together is golden. thank you all very much. what a moment. a man who won a big majority at a general election just 2.5 years ago is going, humiliated by his party. the borisjohnson era will soon be over. liar! few are indifferent to borisjohnson. a primary—colours prime minister provoking colourful reactions to the near end.

a great man brought down. a great man brought down — that's all i can say at the moment, thank you. the country will rue this day. they'll regret it like they did with thatcher. this will be a mistake. but plenty of others within the conservative party and beyond think borisjohnson should be standing down as prime minister pretty much immediately, and notjust as conservative leader. the former prime minister sir john major is among them. in a letter, he wrote... sirjohn suggested that the deputy prime minister could take over for a bit, or a caretaker prime minister could be drafted in. would theresa may fancy it?

look, i don't think... from everything i hear — and i haven't heard recently — i don't think there is going to be a caretaker prime minister in the sense of somebody else coming in to that role. and what does an 0pposition party leader do on a day like this? one option is to smile and go and watch some tennis at wimbledon, having said this about borisjohnson... he needs to go completely, none of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. he's inflicted lies, fraud and chaos in the country. and, you know, we are stuck with a government which isn't functioning. there will be an overwhelming and very widespread sense - of relief today that i borisjohnson's time as prime minister, which should probably never have been - allowed to happen in the first place, is coming to an end. l the problem is the conservative party, conservative mps, have stood by him for so long. they propped him up. they enabled him to fail

to lead our country properly. and my heart goes out to the millions of families and pensioners who've not been helped properly because his government has been so incompetent. attention now turns to those who aspire to come next in downing street — a fourth prime minister in a little over six years. are you going to make a bid for the leadership, sir? there's the former chancellor. the foreign secretary, liz truss, is likely to be in the picture. and perhaps the former cabinet ministerjeremy hunt, too, among others. a beauty pageant to lead the country is onlyjust beginning. and after the intrigue and anguish, plotting and resignations, a leader departs — soon—ish. for more analysis on this, i'm joined now by our reporter mark lobel, who is in downing street. since we last spoke this time yesterday, a lot has happened. who are the runners to replace borisjohnson?

i remember when we spoke yesterday, the lights were on at one point and then they turned off. you told us that at this point it looked like people had gone to sleep. a lot has happened in the last 2a hours, hasn't it? has happened in the last 24 hours, hasn't it?— has happened in the last 24 hours, hasn't it? you can say that again- — hours, hasn't it? you can say that again. 24 _ hours, hasn't it? you can say that again. 24 hours - hours, hasn't it? you can say that again. 24 hours these i hours, hasn't it? you can say i that again. 24 hours these days is a long time in politics. when i last spoke to you it was a defiant prime minister, confident enough to sack his close cabinet colleague michael gove. but as soon as the sun rose on downing street, in the state of three hours, there was another succession of two or three cabinet resignations. we left boris johnson three cabinet resignations. we left borisjohnson with no choice. he was forced. he didn't have enough people to fill the slots. there were around 58 slots to fill across government, so begrudgingly he came out here to the lexan and blamed the herd instinct. he said he had to go. he resigned as conservative leader, not as prime minister yet. that's coming in a few weeks' time. but he went back in. there were some joyous scenes from the photos they released of the new

cabinet, albeit temporary cabinet, albeit temporary cabinet, that's going to be taking the decisions over the next few weeks, and also some family time as well. one downing street insider told me he didn't want others around him to feel glum, but the focus moves away from these four doors now to around westminster for the next probably two months, where we will see a really intensive campaign by contenders for hisjob really intensive campaign by contenders for his job over the next — in around a week's time we will see probably quite a large field whittled down to just two tory mps and those two will go out to conservative members across the country, 200,000 of them, go and meet them, go and tell them what they are about and then hope that they will send in their postal ballot for them. so they will be electing the fourth british prime minister in around six years. fix, british prime minister in around six years. a political competition _ around six years. a political competition like _ around six years. a political competition like no - around six years. a political competition like no other, i around six years. a political| competition like no other, a leadership race, certainly, that will be closely watched not just that will be closely watched notjust in the uk but around

the world as well. talk us through the runners, in terms of who might replace him. in terms of the official runners, the attorney general was the first to throw her hat in the ring before, but the chair of the foreign affairs select committee is the second to do that. you may remember him from questioning the prime minister about the botched afghan withdrawal. he is in the centrist or left side of the conservative party, depending on how you look at these things. he has written in the telegraph that he is basically covering— although he is an outsider, he is covering in his pitch the two key areas we will be watching out for during this contest. the first �*s character. he says there needs to be a change in the knees to be more trust in government, very consistent message that he has been saying for about a year. when i interviewed him a year. when i interviewed him a year ago he said the greatest protection in democracy is and the second thing is the policies. he is saying, and this is all red meat for conservative voters, that there needs to be cut in taxes, and

he talked about the unfulfilled potential of brexit in this country, even though he initially voted remain. he will be looking at issues like inflation, energy and the union inflation, energy and the union in the uk. some other contenders that haven't confirmed that they are going to be standing gets were spotted just a few minutes' walk from here. rishi sunak, the former chancellor, and the current chancellor pressing flesh at the party. but the biggest group, even though lots of people evidentially standing, other people when told who don't know who they are going to for yet. thank you forjoining us, mark. as mark was saying, a lot of people who have been polled still do not know who they are voting for yet or might work for when that leadership race does come down to those two candidates. earlier i heard from chris curtis, head of political polling at the research agency 0pinium. he talked about what voters want to see happen next. imean, the i mean, the first thing to note

is that the public actually haven't wanted him around for quite awhile. even if you looked at opinion polls right back to the turn of 2022, we were noticing then that the majority of voters wanted the prime minister to go. you know, those numbers got a little bit worse this week, but it is clear that for some time he has been— his career has been heading in one direction and the conservative party would have struggled, really struggled, to win the next general election with him as leader. but there's obviously a much more specific question as which is given that he is now on the way out, which at that timetable be? most of our polling has shown that in this situation, voters want him out as quickly as possible. they don't want him to hold on until there's a new leader in place. the majority, in fact, want a caretaker leader in place to get borisjohnson and someone else to take over until a new leader is elected.— leader is elected. and chris, what do the _ leader is elected. and chris, what do the polls _ leader is elected. and chris, what do the polls tell - leader is elected. and chris, what do the polls tell you i leader is elected. and chris, what do the polls tell you in | what do the polls tell you in terms of who people are likely

to want to support going forward?— forward? really tricky question. _ forward? really tricky question, that, - forward? really tricky l question, that, because forward? really tricky - question, that, because most forward? really tricky _ question, that, because most of the people that we are hearing come out this evening even and say they are going to run to be conservative party leader— most of the voters i'm speaking to in the polls won't have heard of most of these people, just because most people aren't paying as much attention to politics as you or i robert we are. they haven't heard much about them. they don't know much about what they stand for. so it's very difficult at this stage to know the kind of conservative leader that will go down well with the public. i think it's probably better to start from a slightly different position and think what sort of outcomes other public focusing on? what kind of person rather than what specific person do they want. i think it is clear that they want someone who's going to bring calm back to the situation. i think there's been too much drama in politics, and i think they want somebody who's going to unite the conservative party. that's the big challenge, and conservative mps and eventually conservative members are going to have to think about who they think would be best placed to do that. �* , , , ,

that. and 'ust briefly, chris, what that. and just briefly, chris, what would _ that. and just briefly, chris, what would happen - that. and just briefly, chris, what would happen if - that. and just briefly, chris, what would happen if there | that. andjust briefly, chris, . what would happen if there was a general election right now? 0h, a general election right now? oh, the labour party would win. borisjohnson would be out of downing street and his replacement would be keir starmer. he would probably still need the support of some other parties, he might not get an outright majority, but it is very hard to see the conservative party winning an election in the short—term future. they've got a couple of years to turn this around, but they are really going to need to turn these numbers around. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: this year's wimbledon dream is over for rafael nadal as he withdraws from the tournament with an abdominal injury. central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. police say there have been many casualties, and there is growing speculation that al-qaeda was responsible. germany will be the hosts of the 2006 football world cup. they've pipped the favourites,

south africa, by a single vote. in south africa, the - possibility of losing hadn't even been contemplated. celebration parties were cancelled. i a man entered the palace through a downstairs window and made his way to the queen's private bedroom. then, he asked her for a cigarette. and, on the pretext of arranging for some to be brought, summoned a footman on duty, who took the man away. one child... ..one teacher... ..one book... ..and one pen can change the world. education is the only solution. applause this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore.

0ur headlines: borisjohnson resigns as conservative party leader, but will stay on as caretaker prime minister. in his resignation statement, he blames his colleagues. attention now turns to who might replace borisjohnson, as the list of potential candidates grows by the hour. there has been huge international reaction to borisjohnson's downfall. we will start with the white house press secretary. 0ur alliance with kingdom continues to be strong. 0ur continues to be strong. our special relationship with the people in the country will continue to endure, of that changes. there is reaction from the european union too. the eu's former chief brexit negotitator michel barnier tweeted: "the departure of borisjohnson opens a new page in relations with the uk. may it be more constructive, more respectful of commitments made, in particular regarding peace & stability in northern ireland, and more friendly with partners in the eu. because there's so much more

to be done together." ireland's prime minister, micheal martin, said: "we have now an opportunity to return to the true spirit of partnership and mutual respect hat is needed to underpin the gains of the good friday agreement." borisjohnson has found friendship in ukraine in recent months. the uk was the first european country to send arms to help it resist russia's invasion, and ukraine's government remains grateful for his support. earlier — president zelensky posted this on telegram saying that he's "expressed his sincere gratitude to the prime minister for his decisive and uncompromising support of our country from the first days of full—scale russian aggression, as well as for his leadership in defending the interests of ukraine on the international stage" it's a different mood in russia. the speaker of the russian duma said:

and a spokesperson for russian foreign ministry said: for more analysis and reactions in asia, let's speak to james crabtree, a british policy analyst in singapore who is executive director of the asia branch of the international institute for strategic studies. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme, james. we haven't heard anything official from asian government leaders yet and certainly nothing they have seen so far, but what do you think be making of all of this? in you think be making of all of this? ., , . ., this? in one sentence, not good sto in this? in one sentence, not good step in the _ this? in one sentence, not good step in the uk — this? in one sentence, not good stop in the uk previously - this? in one sentence, not good stop in the uk previously had i this? in one sentence, not good stop in the uk previously had a| stop in the uk previously had a reputation for being a reasonably pragmatic and sensible country but has staggered from one crisis to another over recent years so i think it will probably be a welcome change the new prime

minister, whoever that might be, can usher in a period of stability, but the worry will be that actually the next three orfour be that actually the next three or four months will be a period of instability given we are going to have a big leadership contest and not knowing who is going to win. contest and not knowing who is going to win-— going to win. talking about that instability _ going to win. talking about that instability and - going to win. talking about that instability and i - going to win. talking about| that instability and i wonder what you make of this. a number of countries in asia have inherited that parliamentary system from the uk and i wonder what you think these sort of signal the uk is sending about democracy, the state of democracy, the state of democracy to the rest of the world, particularly when even after a number of his colleagues asked for him to step down, ostensibly for the good of the country, initially borisjohnson good of the country, initially boris johnson refused good of the country, initially borisjohnson refused to go? i think it is much harder for think it is much harderfor western leaders to talk to the future of the world of democracies and autocracies when their own democracies at home don't appear to be performing very well whether thatis performing very well whether that is in westminster or washington and when the leaders of those democracies don't seem to be respecting the democratic

norms and principles that they talk about citing all of that makes western leadership a little bit more difficult. find little bit more difficult. and when you — little bit more difficult. and when you look _ little bit more difficult. and when you look at _ little bit more difficult. and when you look at the i little bit more difficult. and when you look at the leadership race going forward, james, i know that it is still some time yet in terms of who it might be narrowed down to, but in asia, are there any particularly palatable candidate for asian governments as they try to navigate these tricky situations of the global economic environment, inflation, the rise of china and those sorts of things? i think the primary thing that asian governments will be looking for is a strong and stable leader. the three that stand out are probably those that are most familiar, rishi sunak seems competent, the defence secretary has done a good job over ukraine and i think would be a good tip for somebody who might emerge as a front runner and liz truss, the foreign secretary who was here in the region of the prime minister summit until she cut

her trip short to go home yesterday, i think any of those three, but to be honest i think as long as the next leader appears to be more sensible, more centrist and less erratic than borisjohnson i think people will be happy. than boris johnson i think people will be happy. james crabtree there, _ people will be happy. james crabtree there, thank i people will be happy. james crabtree there, thank you i people will be happy. james| crabtree there, thank you so much forjoining us on tuesday with your thought. moving to sports now, rafael nadal has withdrawn from wimbledon after failing to recover from an abdominal injury. it ends his chances of winning a third grand slam in a row. the spanish star, who won this year's australian and french open tournaments, was due to play in the men's semi—final on friday against australia's nick kyrgios. i asked mark dreyer, the founder of, china sports insider and author of sporting superpower: an insider's view on china's quest to be the best, what this latest injury means for nadal�*s career?

i think it is desperately disappointing, he wasjust i think it is desperately disappointing, he was just two games away from yet another grand victory and a potential showdown with novak djokovic living in the final if he could get through nick kyrgios but no—one is known for his fighting qualities as much as rafael nadal so if he feels that he had to pull out a day before the game instead of leaving it to the absolute last minute to see whether he could have recovered, there is no way that he is in physical shape to place. desperately disappointing for raphael and his fans but hopefully later in the year he can be back. i want to turn to _ the year he can be back. i want to turn to another _ the year he can be back. i want to turn to another issue - the year he can be back. i want to turn to another issue that i to turn to another issue that has also been in the headlines in some shape or form at wimbledon and that is the fact that campaigners at wimbledon have been confronted by security staff for wearing t—shirts, as they understand it, asking where is peng shuai and just a reminder to viewers,

we covered the story extensively at the time, the fact that the chinese tennis star effectively disappeared from the spotlight after accusing a senior chinese official of sexual assault. what is being said about her if anything and particularly in china? . �* , anything and particularly in china? . 3 ~ , anything and particularly in china? . �*, ~ , , ., china? that's the key question, nothin: china? that's the key question, nothing is _ china? that's the key question, nothing is being _ china? that's the key question, nothing is being said _ china? that's the key question, nothing is being said about i china? that's the key question, nothing is being said about her| nothing is being said about her in china because this topic is heavily, heavily censored. her social media accounts are still there but it looks as if she wouldn't have posted or been written about for months and months so it's basically been scrubbed from the internet. the reality is, this has sort of died down and i think the campaigners are trained to keep this back on the news because the situation hasn't gone away. the women's tennis association has said that it won't return to china until they get some sort of resolution to the peng shuai situation. that is going to be very difficult because there is no way in my mind that china is going to investigate what they say has been a complete miscommunication and a

misunderstanding but the wda have been quite persistent about this, however, further down the line they are going to want to return to the chinese market, there are a number of female tennis players including one in the top 50, very exciting 19—year—old player who is i think a star of the future, potentially the next grand slam champion herself. this isn't going away anytime soon but we are not expect in any resolution just around the corner yet. any resolution 'ust around the yet.— corner yet. and 'ust briefly, will we ever i corner yet. and 'ust briefly, will we ever get]— corner yet. and just briefly, will we ever get to - corner yet. and just briefly, will we ever get to see i corner yet. and just briefly, | will we ever get to see peng shuai and public? i will we ever get to see peng shuai and public?— shuai and public? i think we will see her— shuai and public? i think we will see her again _ shuai and public? i think we will see her again but i shuai and public? i think we i will see her again but probably not eminently. is she free? well she is probably not locked up. as she free to do and act as she please? again, probably not. it is a bit of a relative term in terms of freedom of movement and freedom of what she can say. i think we will see her again but they wouldn't expect to see her travelling overseas, for example, anytime soon. . overseas, for example, anytime soon, ., ., , ., overseas, for example, anytime soon. . ., .,

soon. that was the founder of china sports _ soon. that was the founder of china sports insider _ soon. that was the founder of china sports insider speaking | china sports insider speaking to me a little earlier. that's all for now, stay with bbc world news. hello there. despite cloud dominating the weather story this week, we've been promising you sunshine. well, we gradually got there in the end on thursday. after a cloudy start, we had beautiful blue sky and sunshine by the middle of the afternoon. not quite the case, unfortunately, in the far northwest, in highland scotland. still some pretty grey cloud around. and in actual fact, this weather front�*s still going to sit there throughout the day on friday. high pressure is building in and it will gradually drift its way a little bit further eastwards and dominate the scene over the weekend, but it does mean some drizzly rain first thing in the morning to the northwest of scotland and the far north of northern ireland. as we go through the day, there will be plenty of settled, sunny weather. with light winds, temperatures are going to respond quite quickly, so highs of 21 degrees in eastern scotland, 24 perhaps into the midlands, 28 celsius the high — that's 82 fahrenheit — somewhere in the southeast.

we now have to start thinking about uv, which will be high or very high. and we haven't seen that for some time, so that's certainly worth bearing in mind if you're going to be spending any time outside. now, as i say, that high pressurejust shifts its position a little into the weekend. and areas where we've seen some low, grey cloud stubbornly sitting in the far north and west, still there on saturday but slowly improving as the weekend progresses. perhaps the cloud just retreating to the extreme north. more sunshine coming through. again, light winds for all of us, and again those temperatures responding, likely once again into the high 20s for many. so that means a warm night to come through saturday night into sunday morning. it means a repeat performance on sunday — again, dry, settled and sunny. and once again, those temperatures responding. so we might see that cloud breaking up a little more

into the far northwest of scotland. here, temperatures 16—20 the high, but highest values likely of 29 or 30 celsius somewhere in the southeast on sunday. now, it looks likely that that high pressure is going to continue to stay with us for the next few days. again, still, those weak weather fronts a bit of a nuisance for a time, but then it builds in and settles things down quite nicely. so as we go through the week ahead, some cloud from time to time in the far north. dry, settled, sunny and still pretty warm for all of us. some people will see temperatures into the low 30s.

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