to you, oh gee, to lose africa every friday on d w. ah ah, this is it renews life from berlin, looking for a lifeline. britain's prime minister faces a decisive confidence vote plagued by log down breaking scandals at the height of the covert crisis. war johnson could now be forced from office, as in peace from his own party trigger, a vote on his leadership. also coming up, bruce sting morale, ukraine's president visits the frontline and don bass,

where he says, troops are holding out despite being out numbered by russians and a horrific attack. and nigeria were gunman, open fire at a catholic church. dozens of worshipers, including children, have been killed by frances offers prayers for the victims. ah, hello everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us. as we come on, the air british prime minister, boars, johnson is facing a make or break vote. lawmakers from his conservative party are starting to vote right now on whether to back or sack their leader. a series of recent scandals has caused mr. johnson's popularity to plummet. the u.

kay's royal jubilee celebrations over. but boris johnson's political hangover has just begun. the british leader is facing a fight for his political survival. more than 15 percent of conservative in peace have withdrawn this support for the prime minister. enough to trigger a party leadership challenge. i notified the prime minister yesterday that the threshold had been reached and we agreed the time table for confidence i'd say vice rumors of a possible challenge have been swirling for months. driven by a series of scandals. late last year, revelations emerged that johnson and his staff had held a number of parties in breach of the you cage code 19 lockdown laws. i'm an 8 following to separate investigations. johnson became the 1st serving prime minister to be fined for breaking the law. for many conservative m. p. 's,

the so called party gate scandal was a step too far. now is very clear in january that the price should have resigned in january. it was clear that party gate was going to grow and grow and run and run while on the streets of london. many expressed a lack of trust in the embattled prime minister. i just these lie after lie after lie. i'll fly off to cover up the cover of the chain is a waste on i hope he gets no confidence because i've got my confidence in him. conservative m p 's who have come out and support have tried to focus on the big picture or economy opened up faster than other comparable colonies, particularly, or the vaccine roll out. he has shown himself to be a good, strong leader who just the big decisions, right. and he has a mandate from the british people to ranger thought. the opposition leader says that even if johnson survived the vote and said his hold over, the party has already been dramatically weakened as par,

i think history tells us that this is the beginning of the end. if you look at the previous examples of no confidence folks, even when conservative prime minister survived that he might survive, it's an ide. the damage is already done with m. p. 's due to cast their ballots in secret. the result of the vote and of johnson's political future is far from certain a very difficult moment. therefore, the british prime minister did abuse alex forest whiting is here with me. can he survived us? he can survive this, but i think the end of that report that sort of sums it up in a, in a nutshell that he is damaged, whatever happens, look, he needs a simple majority of his m p 's to back him in this confidence vote. and, and he may well get that she could get many more than that, or he could just get 180 m pays and she could go on and he is at the moment, throwing everything at those m p 's. we know he's met with them. he's trying to try to persuade them to kim. we know that he is been offering tax cuts even today. we

believe he's been offering certain m p 's jobs for when there is a wish awful anything to make sure that they support him. but of course, he could very much lose the vote. we know that a piece of very concerned about the public no longer being in love with boris johnson. and that, that is their main worry that if they go into an election with him is leader, they could lose that seat a no longer be and pay. and that is what they're up against. but whatever happens, it is not a good situation for boris johnson. it's not a good situation for mr. johnson. talked us a little bit about the process. what's happening right now? so m p, 's, conservative m p 's are currently voting on whether they have confidence in the prime minister or whether they don't. that's about 359. conservative mpg. and we will know in about 3 hours time, whether he has got that competence or whether he hasn't. and it just has to be a simple majority for him to win that. or if not, he will step down as lead

a straight away. he will not step down as prime minister until there is somebody to replace him that will come from within his party, but he would no longer be the conservative leader. is there a potential candidate that the conservative party could rally behind? well, this is played to boris johnson's advantage because no, that isn't one obvious candidate. there have been a number of names that have been mentioned and all of them have got flaws. the person who's come out to day saying it's time for change is jeremy hunt, not jeremy hunt was the m p who went against up against devoris johnson in 2019 to become leader of the conservative party. he lost. he has not been embarrassed. johnson's government, he's been on the back benches so he has been able to criticize subtly. and now he is the, according to the book, he's one of the favorites, but there are a host of other names i could throw at you because there is no obvious candidate.

there is no obvious candidate if mr. johnson wins and he survives this confidence vote and he stays on his liter. could there be another confidence about come 6 months from now? well, the rules for the conservative party at the moment on know that couldn't be on for another 12 month. however, it has been stressed that there is the possibility that they could change the rules . if m. p 's conservative m p 's voted to change the rules. so that is not absolutely clear. cut about what would happen if he did lose it and they wanted to call another vote in the future. when will we know the outcome? so we should know the outcome in a round about 3 hours time, whether it, boris johnson is still the leader of the conservative party, or whether he has basically been sacked by the conservatives. we might have a really long night did or is alex forest or whiting. thank you so much for your analysis and your background. thank you. want to turn our attention now to ukraine. present. villamor zalinski has visited troops holding off russian forces

in eastern ukraine is only the 2nd time that mister zalinski has been seen outside keith since the war began. he toward several towns close to the front line and the dumbass region were intense battles are being fought. a village near the front line and don bus after russian missile strike. an elderly woman was killed the latest victim in the war that has lost it over a 100 days. continued to affect misery on the people of ukraine. cookie a. how am i supposed to feel or my, the little peacefully nominated. the street was peaceful. yes, nothing here. well, you're nothing here. and yet they bombed us. fair. courier burton built in the battle city of several jeanette sky. ukraine claims to be pushing back russian troops. and moscow has confirmed that yet another of his generals was killed during

your visit to the front. ukraine's president followed him as the landscape has also been the front lines and don boss a risky move to raise the murat of soldiers subjected to a relentless russian or to re barrage the u. s. d u. k and germany have moved to count her russian firepower by pledging to st. ukraine rocket launchers with a range of up to 80 kilometers russians. foreign minister doubled down on the kremlin, defined response mobile to the booth, chim, than i can only add that the longer the range of weapons. yes. apply the further we will move the front line away from our territory bellini on which neo nazis couldn't threaten the russian federation of it was his good in a war marked by a russian setbacks and stiff ukrainian resistance. it won't be easy to back. such

words with action. it'll be as much he is willing, are told me. it was quite a remarkable move by mister zalinski to visit areas near the front lines. yeah. and it's a very risky her visit. of course, sir. um he was exposed basically to rush in shelling while being there so it must have implant very thorough roughly. and of course it was published only after he went there. but i, it's probably something that it was very clever of him to do because it, several times when he has shown that he's basically ready to also take some risk. for example, when he stayed in the capital, as russians were moving on on to the capital in the beginning of the war. and he has contributed a lot to morale in the country and in the army under this visit, of course is in the it is in a row with that a morale bursting visit. but at the same time, the ukrainian president says, the situation could become very difficult for ukraine if russia breakthrough in

dumbass. what's the latest? what can you tell us if it breaks through it has been, or breakthrough so far. but russia has made a lot of gains in the past few days, or they are small games that add up to something that isn't something that puts the ukrainians a lot under pressure. they're using a lot of artillery to move forward is of is a very destructive campaign, and many ukrainian soldiers are dying. now, in the danbury, the president has said up to $100.00 per day and either it's is dead decision around, for example, civil and annette score. other um, the cities and places there is not really there yet. fighting continues or with it seems like yesterday the ukrainians were able to move forward, regain parts of the city to day. it seems they're under pressure, and rushes might have the upper hand. although these informations, of course, need to be taken with caution are because there is nobody on the ground to can

objectively assess the situation. pressure is high on the ukrainian army that was met is billing her reporting from keith. let's take a look at some of the other stories in the headlines right now. in france, dozens of world war 2 veterans gathered on the beaches of normandy to mark the 78th anniversary of the d day landings. june 6th 1944 marked the starts of the western allied campaign to liberate europe from nazi germany. over 4000 allied troops were killed on the day the world's richest man, ellen musk has threatened to walk away from his deal to buy twitter. that is the boss accuses the social media company of refusing to provide data about fake accounts. twitter agreed to masks, $44000000000.00 takeover bid. in april. dozens

of worshippers were killed when gunman stormed a catholic church in nigeria. present worry and po frances have both condemned the attack. the pope offered prayers for the victims. they were celebrating the christian holiday of pentecost. it's not clear who carried out the atrocity. a religious celebration turned into a massacre. no one was spared, not even children. the assault at saint francis catholic church unfolded during the morning service. the state's bishop described a meticulously planned attack is quite unbelievable that somebody will come on. the intention was to keep everybody in the church. i'm lose running out. there will be shut from outside. just wait inside where beach shot from inside the true to burn a month to lose all the all talk duncan,

the sanctuary. this kind of the secretion is gonna be done later than usual. the attack was in a la city in a state of armando. it's a relatively peaceful region that's rarely targeted by gangs and islamist extremists. with nigeria battling a prolonged insurgency in the north. many are asking why the country self was targeted. the violence struck one week after the head of nigeria methodist church was kidnapped in the nation's south east. he has since been freed worshipers at st. francis praying their priest also returns home alive, a change of pace. now in some sports news for your katara plans to re install a sculpture immortalizing french soccer player as xena dizzy don's infamous head buck during the 2006 world cup final. the sculpture was removed in 2013 because of a joke of objections. rather in the conservative muslim state,

while the 5 meter bronze work depicts the moments in berlin, wednesday dawn head butted italy's marco mother. i see an act for which she was sent off the work who will be housed in the could tar sports museum during this year's world cup in the country then is continuous state of the news asia is our next. and i'll see at the top with someone else to the t. v. highlights selected for you every week in your inbox, subscribe. now the amount of plaster is increasing every year. many im gonna working on lunch with only were fairly holiday destinations and drowning. and plastic weiss, we, we wine at the causes.