ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight to britain's prime minister boris johnson . how much longer can you hold on to power? the u. k. leader is refusing to resign over a series of scandals. dozens of ministers have quit. the government. johnson has

hit back by sacking a once loyal aid in just the last hour. also coming up. ukrainian defend forces are preparing for a new russian ground offensive. and the regional governor of don yes, is urging hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee. and a prison break out in nigeria suspected boca herana, islamists have stormed a prison to free fellow militants around $300.00. are still on the rock. ah, i'm bring gov. it's good to have you with us tonight. a defiant british prime minister boars, johnson says he will not resign. johnson faced off with a hostile session of parliament earlier today. his own conservatives, as well as the opposition labor party, demanding that he stepped out. johnson is under intense pressure over

a series of scandals that have repeatedly cast doubt of his honesty and his integrity. dozens of his most senior ministers and age have quit in the last 2 days and just in the last hour, johnson fired one of his most loyal aids. michael, go. won't lisa for an and battery, forrest johnson. it was a breathing question. time test on 1st opposition lead a kiss, darma called him to quit india and slammed the ministers. still supporting him. widow, come to live with the opposition, kissed alma anywhere with anything about them would be long gone from his from press in the middle of a crisis. doesn't the country look better than a set list? coughed a notting dog's lawmakers from johnson's own party, also lined up to say it was time for him to go for better. yes, including the man who until tuesday was his health minister. and at some point,

we have to conclude that enough is enough. i have concluded that the progress starts at the top and i believe that is not going to change, but, and that's means that it is for those of us in a position who have responsibility to make that change. but the prime minister vowed to carry on the moon on the pipe. franklin interesting to the job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances when he's been had it a can also man, that is the keep going on. that's a lot of it. support for the prime minister is also draining away outside of parliament with british newspapers making clear they think his days a numbered according to opinion polls. the public has also turned on him with even a majority of conservative voters. now thinking he should quit done a good job on certain things with his character. i think it shone through his don't seem to know all the doing and to survive. forces not to go. just price is still

there. so i really thing he's, he's hours now the counting the hours that say that with a bloody johnson vowing to battle on it'll be up to his party to decide just how long he has left. earlier i spoke to d, w. k corresponded bigot mars and i began by asking, hasn't she ever seen anything like this in british politics? i've never seen anything like this. i've never seen a crime minister who's so distant from all these people around him who are urging him to go. people who previously were super supportive of him from his inner circle, like his clothes, cabinet colleagues who are now turning against him, was saying, who urging him to go, which is what we know from reports. and he's just not going to he has not spoken to the public in the last hours i would say, but he has been outs and speaking to parliamentary colleagues. and what he has said is that he, he sees it as his job to fight,

to almost casting heroic figure probably in, from his point of view. somebody who doesn't want to just resign. he wants to go down fighting till the last minute. and that's what he is evidently doing at the mainland. so he's just not going in big. and he have said numerous times to day that he was elected with a strong mandate. and that is true. i mean, the margin of victory for his conservatives in the last election was, was huge. but when he says that, is he not forgetting that the current polls show that even the majority now of conservative voters think it's time for him to go is, is he blind to that reality? it seems like that it seems like that he is convinced that the people actually want him and that it's sort of parliament or his party and his colleagues are tanning against them. that's how you could interpret his behavior and lead like he said, the polls are overwhelmingly at the moment against him. he was somebody who,

who was a big vote winner for the conservative party. and he reached out to various is that the conservative party was never even able to reach out to before. but that has changed. he lost the bi election, he lost some of these are read read rule voters and, and the overwhelming majority, even of conservative writers, are saying that he really should go, but he's not listening yet. in the least, there's really no way to make him go right now. even his own conservative party, they've already had a confidence over recently he survived that. what are their options now if they are, you know, intent on getting rid of him, the best option is set to change their own party rules and this is so what seemingly is the process right now. that's what we understand that. an influential back bench committee is going to change the rules so that it's possible to challenge the prime minister again with another vote of no confidence. and from all

we know at the moment this could happen as early as next week. yeah, the clock is ticking for, for is johnson also for the u. k. or corresponded period? moss reported in lights. big a. thank you. we're now to the latest on the war in ukraine. defense forces are preparing for a ground assault by russian troops in the dawn yeske industrial region in eastern new cray. a local governor there says there is no safe place left. he is urging the remaining 350000 residence to leave. it's a desperate rush to leave my thing by it's hard, if there is a much left for them here in the city of love, yet russian shelling has demolished homes, small businesses, and hopes for aging, with dignity and security. i looked at other this with my shock here only i have no

words. yeah. lots of money, lots of resources and i said, 20 years of work. well in everything it's lost, bought it. i've no income. sure. nothing connected to the city, any mold or stopped worked with with water in sure. did you get the coil? no. yeah. i'm scared for my wife and my daughter who's 6 months pregnant, you'll natalie. they need to leave here, especially after what happened yesterday. mostly they hit the city center. this was it, the worst of church over is us law. russia has already claim victory and nearby lu hans, now the kremlin is moving the frontline of the war to the front doorstep of dun yest. emma don bos, region 2 civilians died after shelling struck a market and slum yonce. earlier this week. the local government is begging civilians all 350000 of them to evacuate. liberal to life, no more joyce livable to morrow yield. i would join the army. this isn't the 1st time war has come to us,

love yonce. it was seized by russian backed separatist and 2014 and recapture 2 and a half months later. there's no telling how long these refugees will have to stay away, or what they'll find when they return. ukraine's military is continuing the fight. as rushes forces advance. what he w corresponding to connolly he is in cave. he has the latest on the russian offensive in the don't bass reach was real fair hearing here that russia is on something of a role after weeks spent taking 70000. yes. can huge losses. they took so to that's his citizenship. it's just a matter of days of the sense that they could really pushing home that advantage that than you strategy of focusing their efforts on a pretty small section. the front lines moving away from trying to do too much what they did in the early months. this war that failed so spectacular. that's now really bringing fruits that russia is out cunning and out manning,

basically ukraine in this conflict, and that for now ukraine doesn't have the resources isn't getting the western support that it's been asking for. and that ukraine's western partners simply don't really understand the scale and the intensity of this war. and that all these deliveries are just going to be too little, too late. the only kind of little shimmer of hope, our reports and the last few days from moscow that some of these units might now be taken back into the russian kind of hinterland to take a break to re group. and now the kind of tiredness and exhaustion after months, pretty intense fighting is also being felt by the russian troops that might give care of a bit of a chance to bring those west weapons the front lines and can even things out. but nick, we know that residents have been told to leave the city of slower yonce good becomes just a day after at least 2 people were killed in a rush, an attack on a market there or a residence or the heating, the warning to leave at are the able to leave well, as far as we understand that the figures all a bit disparate,

but the majority of the pre war population of ukraine controlled, don bass, we understand have already left in the previous weeks a month. most of the people have stayed not too far away, gone a 10200 kilometers from the front lines. but as you mentioned there about 300000 people still believe to be there. and on the whole we've seen time and time again, people leaving it too late. people saying i have no where to go. i don't have resources. no one wants to host me. and basically people wait until they can hear the shelling in their own homes to leave by which time is often too dangerous and they end up either you're losing their own lives or endangered people trying to help them. so this time the government is trying to get in there earlier, be more drastic inst warnings or to put more pressure on people to get out, to avoid them losing their lives and also in danger to people who then will be at worst a worst case sent in to help them. so that's their hope now. and definitely an expectation here in care of that more cities are gonna fall to russians before ukraine is able to turn the tables and to start going back into counterfeit dec. our very own economy believes tonight from keep in ukraine. nick, as always,

thank you. in his look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. the prime minister of sri lanka has told parliament that the country is bankrupt and needs painful economic reforms. he says, acute shortages of food, fuel and medicine are likely to continue. the economic crisis has sparked a series of nationwide protests. ecuador is president guillermo law, so has replaced several ministers in response to protests over high oil prices. the changes are part of a deal to end nationwide strikes and demonstrations. several people have been killed in clashes with police. the democratic republic of congo and rwanda had said that they will engage in a process of de escalation, following a flare up of violence near their borders. negotiators agreed on a roadmap for normalizing ties. after weeks of clashes between the congolese army and the m 23 rebel group, which

d r. c accuses were wanda of supporting suspected boca, huron islam. as in nigeria have freed hundreds of inmates from a prison on the outskirts of the capital, a boucher. it's believe the attack was launched to release fellow fighters. authority save $600.00 prisoners escaped. $300.00 were re captured and one security official was killed. a jury and forces have been fighting an islamist uprising for more than a decade. tens of thousands of people have died. t w's wise interests is at the scene of that prison re. the attack happens yesterday night around 1020 pi p. m. when the gun men attack this facility behind me use in gwinnett asked for a duct shootings. a reports by the prison officials confirmed about 600 emit is kept, but they have already recaptured 300 and they're in the process of recapturing that

emit that have been freed. most of them are terrorists that i've been held here, islamist, booker, her rum on, had in criminals. and most of the political prisoners are still intact inside the facility. as the sports news now, host england of beaten austria, one nil in the 1st game of footballs, euro 2022. the tournament is said to be the most watched women's a european championship. a record 70000 fans turned up for the opening game in manchester. the tournament last 4 weeks ticket sales already topping 5 100000 more than double the number for euro 2017 beth needs scored the 1st half go for england . england are among the favorites. and before we go, here's a quick look at our top story. at this hour, british prime minister boars jaunt, define a growing clamor for him to stand down over a series of scandals. dozens of his ministers and senior 8 have quit over the last

2 days. and russia stepping up. it's a tax on ukraine's eastern don yeske region, the governor. they are urging the remaining 350000 residence to flee. you're watching the w news, my colleague, janelle de molly on as of next week w business news. i will see you tomorrow with i, she's got he, she, she thought say what grade he will be able to.