ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live in from berlin tonight, the future of u. k. prime minister, boris johnson, suddenly in doubt, to senior ministers resigned today saying that they can no longer be barked of boyish johnson's government. in good conscience. also can make up to night. russia increasing its attacks in eastern ukraine. cities in the nest are coming under

constant showing resident of the city of soviet have been told to evacuate, and italy grappling with its worst route in 70 years. water levels have dropped to record lows. farmers are desperate. and authorities have now declared a state of emergency. ah, i break off is good to have you with us. will we begin this tuesday with breaking news of the future of prime minister boris johnson? suddenly in doubt, johnson is under growing pressure to night after 2 of the most senior members of his cabinet resigned to date to finance minister re she soon act has gone saying the public expects the government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. and the health minister sanchez job, it has also quipped,

concluding that he can no longer serve in good conscience from is devoris johnson. his face a series of scandals over parties held at his official residence during the national cove at 19 locked down his most recent troubles. concerned whether he knowingly appointed an m p by the name of chris pincher to a senior party position despite allegations of sexual misconduct. mister johnson now admit that was an error of judgement. take a listen. yes, i think it was a mistake and i apologize for for it. i think in hindsight it was the wrong thing to do. i apologize. everybody who's been badly affected by it. i want to go now to our u. k. corresponded big mos. she joins me by phone. she's covering this story, 4th period. how much trouble is boris johnson in right now? he is really in the, in the future shop. we haven't had anything yet. is he going to, you know,

how was his reaction to, to these resignation? but the definitely important cabinet positions and the question is now what happens next? se, if he seeing more and more resignations around the cabinet paper and around the big pos and position them, i think a situation and it's becoming really untenable. we already know that also the conservative party white by has resigned. so this could be just the beginning of more resignation. and this continues like that done. it will be very difficult for him to, to say, in powers prime minister. and because for our viewers around the world here help us understand what is that issue here? basically, we've got a case of voice. johnson who has admitted to not telling the truth when asked about this, this m p by the name of pincher, correct?

that is right, say say he was somebody you boys, johnson had passionately, a pilot appointed to a party important party position. and it has now recently emerged that there were allegations and even an investigation around these pinches behavior. and johnson had initially said that he had no knowledge that there were any other geisha or even this investigation, and he's now admitted that it was wrong. he to it, to appoint him. so it's really about it's, it's about his leadership, it's about his character and it's about him telling the truth or not. so this is why piece and, and, and minister on the cabinet table, they really will be reflecting very hard to johnson. as a prime minister is still the said that he won full if he still has been to to lead

them in the next election. and. and when, when the by the, the leader of the opposition labor party has just said that he would support a snap, a general election in the u. k. how probable is that right now knowing what we know where really the fasting to happen would be bars. johnson resigning so otherwise that would be no no in, but it made no sense to have election and we're not really at this point yet. so i really think, you know, i live on the board, although i don't want people around him are doing and, and this is whether they to follow the politics in the u. k. are really holding their breath all they're going to be more resignations. what about the front secretary for example, someone to watch the business secretary for example. this is really where. b where the, where the movement will be before we could possibly see connection and the fact

that he won a big majority in the last election. is that enough to i guess to protect him through yet another scandal i read and think so brent we've seen just just yesterday and paul came out about the about the conservative party members, how popular both johnson and he's really very, very unpopular, much more popular than other colleagues around the cabinet table who ultimately he doesn't really as a pass and as a pass analogy, he doesn't really bring much to the table at the moment for the conservative party as a whole. and for the electorate. passenger ratings are really not very good say this is why his position in a situation like this, which is very, very volatile. yes,

it's difficult indeed. d w is bigger miles for the latest on this breaking story to ministers in the u. k. government resigning tonight. barrett, thank you. now to you, the more in ukraine cities in ukraine's don't ask region are now coming under increasing russian attacks. ukrainian commanders say that they are battling russian forces and several occasions of the eastern region where ukraine still controls major cities. many residents are leaving in anticipation of a fresh russian offense. it. now officials in the city of soviet say that bombs. today's struck a market you see right there, kill you at least one person. ukraine recently retreated from the nearby city of lucy chanst with one resident saying that the city simply does not exist anymore. the streets of lisa chance have fallen quiet,

but the wreckage is everywhere. the capture of the city means that all of the lu hans region is now in russian hands and objective that moscow has coveted. since that will began, in february, ukrainian military commanders ordered their forces to pull back, rather than attempting to hold the city. for the exhausted soldiers who retreated, rushes, artillery advantage proved overwhelming. let's go for it please. let's see if there is at least 5 times more russian artillery here than what we have a glory than up to 10 times more daily within point up to $169.00, enemy positions that are active. all of the same time ukrainian forces have retreated to the don, yet sk region, which along with lu hunter, makes up the white a don bus. what them here they have been reinforcing, defensive positions for months. but russian forces have already turned the i to

what's the done yet, gretchen, particularly the major cities of slow vianza and crematory. sloppiest has been bombarded for over a week now, leaving many residents with little options, but to evacuate. yeah, pretty high. we came to the city literally 15 days to pick up my things and mount it. now we're trying to take everything we have and to me because life here has become scale, we only had time to evacuate to children long ago. i don't know. i think it's only going to get worse. i don't even know. i'm already thinking about leaving. it would be wise not to expect things to get better. those who stay behind a bracing for the worst him as the front line creeps ever closer. oh, my next guest is li, both sibyl scum. she is the deputy director of the hybrid warfare, analytical group of ukraine crisis media center. she's also an advisor to the

ukranian government. missiles gets good to have you with us. i. i want to ask you, starting out with about what another advisor to the ukranian president said to day looking at the loss in lieu. hans, the advisor said that weapons from the us or arriving the victory in lieu hans for the russians will be the only russian victory in ukraine. do you agree? i think that victory a in russia victory in logan's can the nance so, you know, maybe we lost a bunch of but not where we now conducting a defending operations and it's the we need to go offensive and we need to get more of that. and that's what we expect to, to get our western allies, russia currently,

i managed to get a better than yes, can listen chance. and you, sad and believe me, after a few months of barry, had the very high thought from bus to get just this small 2 towns. it's a not victory for them at all. and also the russians losses is extremely, extremely high. and they got more than 4000 people, but the losses for the ukrainian side or, or at least estimated to be much, much high. you're. are you seeing though that capturing cities like lucy, john higher? well, let's talk about what, what we know in terms of the cities, we know that the city of the c shanks has been taken by the russians. is it going to be harder for the russians then to take more territory? if they want to keep control of a major urban cent city, like missy shots,

i think that now what we see russia is regrouping the troops. now the threat is coming from southern regions and directions, particularly make life. and also threatens are still there in hot keep so obvious, the russia we'll try to stay there. but again, less russian forces brought so much destruction to list a chance and simpler than yet that it was basically nothing to defend their. so but you, ukraine, withdrawal of troops was pre plans and managed to take a beneficial positions for us. do you see the ukrainian military in a holding pattern right now waiting for these weapons to arrive? most of them from the u. s. once those weapons are in the hands of ukrainian forces, will they then be able to push the russians back into russia?

absolutely. if we get more weapons than we can go offensive, and so we need world artillery, we need more rocket systems. we need arms vehicle. we need more weapons to get read off. russian troops from western, from eastern and the southern regions. capable of an advisor to the ukrainian government. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. here is a quick, quick round up now and some of the other stories connected to this war. nato members have signed the protocols for sweden and finland to join the alliance. the nordic nations were invited to join. at last week's summit, all 30 native states must now ratify the process and international conference on funding. ukraine's recovery has agreed to a set of principles for rebuilding ukraine. 40 nations have signed

a declaration of support in the swiss city of legato. and ukraine's prime minister has committed to strengthening transparency and democracy and to getting rid of corruption, nga. first, we must, e k, a is holding a final online only sale in russia. the swedish furniture giant is closing its russian operations. though it says it hopes to maybe one day return. this is one of many western brands quitting russia over the war in you. great. now, to the united states, police say that the man suspected of shooting dead, at least 6 people at a 4th of july parade. in chicago had been planning the attack for weeks. the 22 year old initially escape the scene after shooting at crowds from a rooftop. he was later arrested, the se, the attack appeared to be completely random and that the gunman was not targeting

any specific groups. as to what's more, do we know about what happened? let's go now to our correspondent in washington dc. seems to misconduct. she has been covering story forrest could he be to use him. he so what else do we know? what did the police tell us about this? attack no brain officials have been releasing more details about this terrible shooting. as he said, we've learned that this was a premeditated attack. the shooter had cased the building and the area where this parade was taking place. he had women's clothing on as disguise to blend into the crowd and to be able to evade police as he was fleeing that rooftop where he had positioned himself for the shooting. and we also learned brent that he was taken into custody after a citizen actually reported seeing the suspects car. so police had put out these alerts, warning people to, to keep their eye out of course. and as a citizen, actually notice the license plates and loaded police and the suspect according to

authorities, didn't resist arrest. he is in custody awaiting charges. as for the shooting itself, more than 70 bullets were fired into the crowd and the weapon was a legally purchased fire. arm and a r 15 styled gun. and we know brent, that this is a weapon that has been used in multiple mast shootings us in recent weeks. a lot of details are still being released for him, but we should say we're seeing so many harrowing tales of witnesses on the ground. really describing absolute pandemonium. and we can't forget, there are people who were wounded, who suffered gunshot injuries, and they are being treated in the hospital as well. we heard earlier from police see me that the police apparently were not aware of this 22 year old. he did not have a criminal record, he was not on their radar. so do we have any inkling then about what would have been his motivation? so police are still coming to a lot of information to determine that motive if they have determined when they

haven't shared it with us or with the public just yet. but what we do know is that this aspect had a long and troubling trail of social media posts. brent. so there were attributes to mass shootings that he had posted at the suspected posted. he had numerous profiles on different platforms. he performed as a rapper, and he posted violet music videos and there was a violin due to video as well. one in which she depicted a stick figure in tactical gear, attacking people, also musical lyrics that were violent. so clearly the suspect had a deep digital footprint, and a lot of very troubling. there were signs here that he was in trouble. and this happening during a 4th of july parade. this was not the only shooting to take place on independence day. did she were the us wasn't yeah, it was a violent july 4th. we can brand according to the gun violence archive. there were several mass shootings over this holiday weekend at we've seen these images of people running in philadelphia when shots rang out there at

a firework. celebration 2 officers were injured in that shooting investigators. they're still trying to figure out what happened. but you know, we've been talking about the shooting in highland park in chicago itself. brent. this was a weekend where we saw at least 57 people shot. there were shootings and other cities like a no show wisconsin as well. so this is just adding to a list of masters that we've seen in the u. s. in recent weeks. unfortunately, a never ending stored she me from was gone in washington to me. thank you. corona virus cases are once again increasing around the world. portugal is one of the 1st european countries that has been hit by a new summer wave of infections. so what can others? lauren, from what portugal is going through. d w's. nicole wrists reports to night from lisbon. when catalog light thous, voice fills the air of the glue that he father in lisbon. everybody listens. the

melancholy sounds of the traditional portuguese music are once again attracting big crowds. the pandemic seems far away. there is no social distancing. no mosques, just music. oh, which, right to come back to our way of living. and of course, sometimes we have afraid when we see the news and something like that news as such as that, about the new on the concept variant be a 5. it spreading so quickly that infected numbers in portugal recently reached an old time high. but with less severe illness, still, the spike and infections brought high a cove at deaf rates among the elderly. now that case numbers are declining epidemiologists like manuel carmel gomez, are able to evaluate the severity of the last wave. if you take go, the number off goes. busy there was in to work out, then you have loop bellevue,

which is the percentage of cases beth die and look, bear with me as really my very low after or be girl. actually it's so level that the sco bearable to susan all flu or even wes karima, gomez says that then you on the chrome sub carrion's very likely evade the antibodies that people have developed at least 15 percent of cobra cases in portugal. ari infections due to the many waves fueled by new variance dividers. those lot seem to have a susan l. a. u similar, similar to others through the bloody flavors. it's throws me civility so high that even if people stop living outdoors, liking the sun, but it, then we'll still be transmission. he's hoping for a new generation of vaccines that not only prevents severe disease, but also suppressed transmission. in the meantime, it's mindful that people remain alert, which is what these tourists are doing as they enjoy wine tasting and traveling again. we waited for 2 years. have to come here we've. i think this trip was

cancelled in one way or another at least 4 times. and when we had the opportunity to come this summer, we decided it's okay. we've been vaccinated, we've been boosted. and so we were going to come regardless. and coven is very bad in washington, d. c. so each year out of maneuvering through the, the bad parts of it. as have many others, he in lisbon to italy has declared a state of emergency as millions, grapple with the worst drought in the country in 70 years. water levels have dropped to record lows in lakes and rivers in the north of the country in residence . and some areas are now facing restrictions on how much water they can use a cry for help. in the midst of an early he twist and no sign of rain, italy is facing its worth shout in decades,

the government has announced funds of over 35000000 euros to address water shortages and a state of emergency that makes it easier to access them. the emergency also allows authorities to declare water rationing residence and valona will face findings of up to 500 euros for by leading restrictions on the use of drinking water. many here don't see why this is necessary. he said it is a good idea to see every where they, water, gas, and electricity with jeff lewis to come on. i haven't connie bombay needed. we are trying to get our children to pay attention to the importance of saving water. it's their future a lot. and we must engage with this. what amanda said, our sample was, hey somebody buick and the sonya banassi. i and weston are the cities effect to turn off their water fountain. the drought has hit the agricultural and bull valley . the hardest with water level is dropping. 85 percent below normal agriculture

experts say the jour threatens a todd of national food production. it's not just the crops that are suffering. the heat is affecting animal to shannon piano. we have of installation system for the cows to help them cope better with the temperatures high low for this artist. the baton feels provided an opportunity to deliver an important message. one that the government as well as the people of italy seemed to be heating. okay, let's pull in the meteorologist now, alexander de mae. he joins me from northern italy, alexander, it's good to have you with us. do you see any relief in the forecast, especially for these parts of italy that are coping with this horrific drought and the same laws because the amount of rain since december 2021 until now has been

lost. 15 years with the month of march, the worst it has ring a bit since june. this hasn't really had an impact on the drought. also may and june have been warmer and more. and i think that it won't really rain next 14 days . so the situation only get worse, i mean what we hear in a description of the drought of the century flood of the century is, is this a 500 year drought that italy is now experiencing if that one way to characterize it? it's really dramatic and alarming at the moment did result of the shorts of rain. a test is that the accumulated volume water in the big makes like, and make my jaw and a coma is less than 50 percent when compared to the average of the last 15 years. moreover, the snowfall has also been always recorded in the last 15 years impacting to vote, the ice in glaciers and therefore to glacial become smaller and smaller as some of

the smaller glaciers might disappear completely. as we have heard earlier and to draw a little impact over food condition to result and food prices will rise, then the projection of electricity by hydro electric power plant is known by about 50 percent due to the sort of also scary springs in the salty adriatic sea has entered a record of food d correlatives, which is about 90 miles into the po river. the sea is wrecked, raising the solidity of the ridges. maint, irrigation source and maintenance as i've heard you before. but it will lead ready rationing water for civil uses and to blame drinking water. my system trips. well, alexander, if this mean this is a long term situation that italians are faced with. are there any long term solutions other?

i mean, what i hear you saying is that the future of agriculture in northern italy could be in dealt if this continues. yeah, and i think not only it's lead, as we have also heard just before is that indeed to take down the state and declare a state of emergency and regions in italy, which will go on until the end of this year. and is me in that is will get extra funds to have the heart have communities in need. and to give me a fishing safe and low term solutions would be for us. changing our habits in using energy, produce more renewable energy, says as such as solar and wind parks. and we should reduce region by lower in traffic and using digital production. if this is enough, i showed that our phase of changing is not enough and then we will not meet the $21.00 credit agreement over limiting the temperature at least $1.00. yes,

so we are likely to is more serious related problems in the near future. right. it's a sobering assessment. unfortunately, alexander the may meteorologist, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. before we go get a quick look at the top story that we are following for you. british prime minister boys johnson is undergoing pressure to quit after 2 of his most senior ministers resigned the finance minister and to help minister both saying they can no longer serve for jot. i'll see you again at the top of the with

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