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ah, i bring gov to our viewers watching on p b as in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome, british prime minister boys johnson is awaiting the result of a confidence vote that could see him removed from office. the results of that vote being announced right now. listening in favor of having confidence embarrass. johnston's leader was 211 folks and a vote against was a 148 votes. and therefore, i can announce the parliamentary policy does have come in there. you hear it right there. we've got the results in 211. law makers,

loading in saver. they do have confidence bores johnson's leadership. a 148. however, same. they do not. let's go now to london. and our responded charlotte chilson pill. she is standing by. live there. charl. let me just go to you right now. talk us through these numbers here, 211. yes, a 148. no. absolutely. those results just breaking. now. i apologize. fast of even handsome background noise behind me at the moment. there are some protesters here. you might hear them throughout this. yes, the numbers, this was fairly pretty close. this will certainly be very bruising for the prime minister. that had been so much talk ahead of this vote about the fact that

even if he did survive, the question would be by what margin and what would that mean going forward? and i think we now have our answer that this could be a very damaging for him. it could mean that you have more questions from members of his own party. i think that's what these numbers certainly indicate that this isn't going to go away. this a party gate scandal, the scandal that essentially is one of the key factors in triggering this vote, this assertion that said those who are making laws, the prime minister himself broke the laws around the cove. it restrictions, i that this will continue to don't him into the future. i think that's her. this suddenly means that there will be big questions going forward. although i think it really must be stated very clearly. that if there's one thing we know about the prime minister, he's very unlikely to resign, he will continue to go forwards. but with this boat hanging over his head, i mean,

he does have a reputation of being able to go from one crisis to the next is seemingly made of teflon, but this definitely gets through the tough one. i mean, a 148 voting against them. maybe they would've needed a 181 for this. no carbon it's vote to have gone through. i mean, this margin is, is really, it is shocking in a way. are we looking at a boris johnson foreign minister after this announcement being mortally wounded in his political power thereof. indeed, even members of his own party, who suggested that just the very nature of holding a vote like this would result him in him being mortally wounded. they've referenced past precedence of other prime ministers who faced these no confidence vote. he left the various reasons a short time after the most recent example being the former prime minister,

theresa may who won the confidence vote, then resigned within oh, that's office within months. now you have this very close result for the prime minister. it could indeed really see that he is, as you say, potentially, mortally wounded going forward. if l was put us in context force, we haven't even had this tenure boards johnson 3 years yet, but he was elected on an unprecedented conservative victory, the largest in decades. and now we're looking at this confidence vote that he survived, but the numbers are not impressive. no, i mean, i'm just picking up on those numbers of the shot at that talking about to resume, i mean to resume had a 133 tory m p 's vote against us at boris johnson's just had a, a 148 detroit conservative m p 's vote against him. so that's 41 percent of

his own party have voted against him. that is not good for the prime minister. i think anything, anything was going to be bad with him. however, you spinet, anything over a 100, was going to be bad, a 148 is very bad. and it's, as he said, he won a victory, a huge switch. we had an 80 c majority back in 2019 and it's like he has squandered that majority that he has managed to turn 4041 percent of his own party against him, wanting him to step down as prime minister. what. what does he do moving forward now, if he knows that he doesn't have the, the legitimacy of the odds of these 41 percent of his own conservatives. what can you do call early elections and say, yeah let's, let's find out if the will of the people is doable. well, i wouldn't put it past him and he did change the voting. the rules are when you could have an election just a few months ago. because it should be not for another 2 years. so he could do that

however new, so nose and the people behind him, crunching the numbers, know that he is not popular out there and they've got to a bi election. so 2 local elections coming up in june and they are very worried that they could with that they could lose both of those making the situation even worse. so i think for him to go to the polls and quote, a general election would be a very dangerous idea. he's a why ability. now, too many of these m. p 's, you have to face these local elections coming up. well, that's what that many of them are feeling, which is why they have turned out and voted to 9. an interesting, you know, that was a secret ballot. so we don't know who voted for what, but looking at the numbers before, they were more numbers, more m p 's you had said they had voted for forest johnson tonight, according to some of the agencies like reuters than have actually voted for him. so i think, you know, we don't know the exact numbers, we don't know who or we don't know exactly who has voted and who hasn't. but

remember, people can say i support or is johnson. and then in the secret ballot can do something completely. i mean, you know, you've covered westminster for a long time, so talk us through what, you know, what's the labor thinking right now? but what are they also thinking in the conservative party? is there an obvious person arrived devoris johnson in the port? he would like to replace. okay, so your 1st question, les, but this is the best result they could actually ask for. they want maurice johnson to stay so that they can go into that election and all the way through say, you can't trust this man. he broke the law, he was fined by the police, and he has misled parliament for who could stand against forrest johnson. that of course, there are a number of employees who have been vying for that position. only one has properly come forward. as somebody who was criticizing today, that's jeremy hunt. he stood against devoris johnson in 2019 for that leadership election. and he is again,

would be somebody who's very likely to throw his hat into the ring. however, that that vacancy it at the moment is not open, but that is not to say it won't be opened in the next few months. one thing to add to if i can, is that i'm under the current conservative party rules that cannot be another confidence vote within the policy for the prime minister for another 12 months. now there is the possibility that they could change those rules, and even at the head of the that particular committee parliamentary committee has said technically they could change the rules or maybe something would change, but it could be now the forest johnson is looking fairly safe within his party for the next 12 months. so 12 months of, of, of what the, just going to be. it still me. yeah. what i mean, just before going out, what do you expect or is you jordans? what do you expect boys johnson to do tomorrow morning? i think that he will probably go out actually on the steps of downing street tonight and say, i have secured victory. i'm,

we need to put this behind us. i'm have listened to the m p. 's. we're going forward. forget it. and that is what he's going to do. he's bullish and he does not want to ever be forced out of number 10. let me, uh sure, what was your prediction? i mean, i'm sure boards never thought that people would be able to say you look worse than teresa made tonight. no, indeed. and i'm sure that will be very, very painful for boris johnson. but i just to echo what alex is saying. i think what he really will be trying to do now in the coming days and weeks is essentially saying that this vote is now drawn a line underneath the scandal that's been dogging him over the last month that it is now time to move on. it's on the undoubtedly he will say that the time now is to focus on the other priorities that are facing this country at the moment. in charlotte, one more question, before we run out of time, we know the polls say the boys, johnson is very unpopular,

extremely popular in many areas. what's this vote going to do to the general mood? he was booed in public this past weekend. he was big at the queen size, jubilee celebrations over the weekends. his supports is pointing out that there were some chiz there as well. i mean, the facts is that this boat does indeed, is alex alluded to moments ago. it does essentially, according to the current rules, draw a line under this forward, the prime minister. technically, he doesn't to a conjugate face and other votes of no confidence for a year now. so almost regardless of what vote is saying, and they have been expressing even over the last month, this discontent with the scandal, this party gate scandal and his handling all that essentially i said there is very little that can be done now at the general election still a long while away. it's woo though. still continue to talk him going forward. yeah,

it's looking like a hollow victory that is for sure child chilson pill in london. alex here in the studio to both of thank i want to go now 2 developments in the war in ukraine. ukrainian president zalinski to day visited troops who are holding off russian forces in the east of the country. now it's only the 2nd time zalinski has been seen outside keith since the war began just over a 100 days ago. he toward several towns close to the front line of the don't bass region where intense battles are being fault. a village near the front line and don bus after russian missile strike. an elderly woman was killed the latest victim in a war that has lost it over a 100 days. continues to inflict misery on the people of ukraine.

ikea, how am i supposed to feel it might be lifted peacefully normally wouldn't the street was peaceful if nothing. he'll value, nothing cure and yet they bombed us back prior but endured 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 a visit to the front. ukraine's president vladimir polanski has also been to the frontlines and don boss a risky move to raise the murat of soldiers subjected to a relentless russian a. 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 criminal defined response mobile to look at the booth. jim,

i can only add that the longer the range of weapons. yes. that lie. the further we will move the front lines away from our territory. deline on which neo nazis couldn't threaten the russian federation was intimacies, good. in a war marked by russian setbacks and stiff ukraine resistance, it won't be easy to back. such words with action will be w as nick connelly. he is in odessa and he told me more about the difficulties. ukrainian forces are now up against why think more than being out, man, they've been outgunned and that's in large part because those western weapons deliveries that ukraine has been asking for with ever greater intensity in recent weeks and months are just not getting there as fast as ukraine needs them to be there. obviously with has been an announcement recent days that britain would follow america's lead in sending those rocket launchers. but before they actually are trained, the ukrainian military is able to use those and they actually reached on bass. that

still going to be a question of a few further weeks. so definitely a very difficult situation there. and we're getting reports of ukrainian commanders having to basically think twice before they use any shilling any basically ammunition, because even they have the equipment, they have the manpower, they just don't have that depth. and ammunition that the russians have, where the russians can use $5.00 to $10.00 or even more shells, the grains, everything about every single shot. that's a very difficult situation there. as for the actual situation, several minutes, we don't quite know how much of the city crystal controls reports. not that they only control one industrial area on the edge of town. and this has been, some, has been predicted basic weeks now the ukraine would lose control the city, but for now ukrainian still holding on to bridge evidence of it of it. and, you know, considering all of that, we have these images of the ukrainian president visit. he areas near the front lines in don bass, that is 8. a deering move for a wartime president. it's also a dangerous move isn't while he was,

he thought that the booster morale among the ukrainian troops was worth it. and you know, these are times where in very high profile, ukrainian and military volunteers, people who have a big media profile are ending up with severe, wounding one very high profile. recruit to day reports, the heat loss, and i in the fighting. there's definitely a need to rally the troops to show that yet he is no more concerned by security. they would be there showing their willingness to fight against an opponent that has more in the way weapons and more way of manpower. i think also to import thinking that he's really trying to push that contrast with adam putin, who, as you'll remember, puts his guests at the end of a very, very long table, is scared of covey. let alone enemy weapons. so volume is lensky showing that he is the opposite. he is, the one who is not scared of his own troops is not scared of leading it, leaving his presidential palace to go to the front lines and want to ask you about these russian state media reports that had confirmed the death of one of moscow's

top generals, what more do we know about their when deeds are among catoosa, according to russian sources is the 4th general. they've lost in ukraine. the u. s . and western intelligence says, i say that there are more than 10 pence lee as much as many as 15 russian generals have lost their lives in russia. he knew in ukraine rather in these 3 months of war . and that is a sign saying that every one of russian military failure, that basically the russian military is so hierarchical and so are unable to react quickly to events on the ground. they have to send their generals to command in the front lines in place where they're most likely to get a shot at get killed. because basically there isn't the freedom for the younger officers and the people's lower down in the command chain to really take decisions . are on the flies, that's really a sign that russia is struggling and there, and a lot of pressure from the command back in moscow to get some kind of results. so that pooty has something to show for all these tens of thousands of russian losses in ukraine. and at least maybe capture several of the nets after mario paul. and

basically no big winds for the russians in recent weeks. that really is starting to put pressure on those commanders to take risks that they otherwise wouldn't do. w's mccully with the latest to night from odessa, as we begin another week, more than a 100 days into this war. nick, thank i will return yelled at our top story. breaking news. british prime minister boris johnson have survived a confidence vote called by his own conservative impedes, but the margin of victory. shockingly small, the final vote. 211. for johnson, a 148 against ticket, listened to when the results were announced, it rang, i can report as returning officer, 359 ballots were cast. no school that is that the vote in favor of having confidence embarrass. johnston's leader was 211 votes and a vote against was a 148 votes. and therefore, i can announce,

parliamentary policy does have come with the cheery they are, but they were booing the prime minister this weekend during the jubilee celebrations in london. and i want to pull my colleagues here alex forest wiley. alex is covered westminster, extensively. we have had here many times, covering a couple of other british prime ministers and it seems with each one they've all be conservative. when there has been a vote of confidence. the results have been more and more dire. and that's where we are tonight. but this in a kind of a historical context for okay, well i'm so that, that's just i remember what the numbers are in favor of boris johnson, today's tory and peace. bating up saying that they have confidence in boys johnson, 211 against a 148. so 59 percent of the conservative party. those are the m p. 's are backing

maurice johnson, but a whopping 41 percent. almost half the almost half. this is not good without proper restaurants and certainly not well downing street and those people behind him a will have wanted. if you remember to resume back in 2018 was also forced to have face a confidence vote. and she also won it, but she faced, i had a number that the number of rebels against her 133. so fewer rebels against to reason may them went on to step down a few months later. so fewer fewer rebels for to resume than for boris johnson and margaret thatcher. who am hopefully some people will still remember she was still conservative, prime minister in 1992 face to a confidence vote as well. and she had a 147 rabble and he's so boys johnson has haven,

has even exceeded that number. so even the iron lady, so this is dire for boris johnson. what, how ever he spins it. how ever downing street spins it. it is dire for boris johnson. it is great news for those opposition parties who want to face boris johnson at the next election, but want him wounded and he is wounded. but unlike theresa, maybe even like margaret thatcher voice johnson has proven himself to be an expert at spinning things in his favor. what's he going to do with this is going to come out and say, are one is going to say one here they, they said before the, even if it's just by one vote, he has one. we will put it behind him. however, they would know they would not have wanted these numbers. it is a, you know, he has exceeded, he's got a confidence, but such a divided party here. and somehow he has got to go forward with them for another

year, 2 years. it's that the next election in the u. k. is supposed to be in 2024. so 2 years of this divided party. if you're going to be able to get important votes through parliament, all these and p is now going to vote against him. and this is very, very difficult for, i mean, how can he wheeled any power with it now because this is the secret ballot and it's worse than he expected. so he's going to always be looking over his shoulder. can he trust anyone? well, i think it's very difficult for him to trust anyone, and i think that's the whole problem with the system that the conservative party has in place. that i think the problem, though, on a wide level for british politics is it's all becoming a pantomime. we've had this now for years. we had it with bricks. it, we had it them with when to resume was prime minister. and boris johnson was the one who wanted to out the way. he was the one who in the and got her out of the way he took over. now he's faced the same no confidence vote. and this is,

this is the problem is that they're facing a cost of living crisis. obviously it's global. it's very severe in the u. k. and yet they're back in a situation where a huge number of conservative m. p 's and many, many boat is across the country. do not want forest johnson as their primary, but they can't hold the directly. they can't hold the prime minister accountable. right. and he now because of conservative party rules, he is safe now for the next 12 months unless they change the rules and conservative employee. okay. i won't that like he is, there is a possibility. even the head of that committee said that, that technically it is possible for them to do that. but at the moment it looks like he is safe from another leadership challenge for at least 12 months. but that does not make it any easier for him because somehow he's got to get them all back on side, even though so many m. p 's publicly came out against him, and many, many more have secretly voted against and so, so it has to, it has to become even more uncomfortable for him. i think it will become more

uncomfortable because he wanted to just put the whole party gate situation. this part is going on in number 10, downing street during the lockdown strict locked at lockdown. he wanted to put it behind him. he felt he'd been vindicated by an internal report that had been done, and many others do not believe that. do not agree with him. and i think what's worse, is it so many voters of say that they do not have trust in the prime. so let's say people say the door have drawers in the prime minister boards, johnson jose. okay, within this, put it back to the people. again, let's call early elections and get this issue solved once and for all there is a possibility that he could do that because they changed the rules just a few months ago to say that it's up to the prime minister. now to say when he wants that to be elect an election, however, i do not think he is strong enough to do that. and i think that the people behind him he will be crunching. the numbers will fill the same and be very concerned that if he goes back and says we're going to have an election that the conservative

party could lose and that he will be blamed for that. but it is exactly what the labor party and the other opposition parties hoping for. so if i understand you correctly, your bidding on another 2 years of stagnation that there's when i'm honestly not sure it can go on for 2 years, i think particularly with the cost of living crisis. all i can say is at the moment he survive, but he is very, very winded. now is forrest one. he was always excellent analysis on this is, you know, with the foreign minister. it gets even more suspenseful. that's for sure. thank you. all right, so let's recap this top story that we've been talking about this evening. british prime minister boars, johnson had survived a new confidence vote brought by lawmakers from his own conservative party. he won by 211 votes against him, a 141, meaning that he remains in office,

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