with i was born in berlin, he starts july 22nd on d w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. you k leader bars johnson has agree to resign as conservative party leader. he'll stay on as prime minister until is his successor is chosen. it comes after more than 50 of his ministers, stuff down and told him his days and number 10, diamond street were numbers. also coming up on the program, russian forces continue to pummel targets across eastern ukraine. president

volunteers in lansky says ukrainian forces are fighting to secure the entire dumbass region as he praises weapons sent by western allies. the trial is set to open in one of the worst disasters on italy's highways. in 2018, the more randy bridge in general collapsed, killing dozens of people, almost 60 defendants are facing charges of manslaughter and undermining transport safety. ah, i'm pablo foley as welcome to the program. well, we've begin with breaking news that embattled prime minister bars johnson has agreed to resign following an open revolt from his fellow conservatives. more than 50 ministers, including senior members of his team, have step down, citing

a lack of confidence in johnson's leadership sources, say, johnson's ad resignation is car ad will resign as a conservative party leader, but will stay on as prime minister until a new leader is installed. bringing an end to an unprecedented standoff that is threatened to paralyze the british government with what i'm showing now by our correspondent baba vsl, who is standing by for us in london. cross over to barbara and just one second there. there you are. barbara could to see you now. barbara. yes, not barbara john. he arse johnson reportedly wants to resign. after all, it was the pressure too great. in the end, the pressure obviously was to great. we had last night reached 50 resignations of during the day yesterday. they kept coming hard and fast, and then they continued during the morning, one after the other. you left,

you lost count. it happened so quickly at that his parliamentary aids a, his, your junior minister and everybody. he still had it in his cabinet. many bags a well leaving off his and telling him it's time to go. we can't continue like this . and so who in the end made him see, since we don't know at this point in time, but somebody must have gotten through to him because already yesterday, a half a dozen of his closest ministers and to political friends had gone to downing street and said barth, johnson, this is the end we can carry on, and he didn't want to listen. he was killing to power till the last moments. now, he has resigned as head of the conservative party and he wants to stay on for a while over the summer, off in the office of prime minister. however, what the, his party likes that sort of solution because it could mean a long drawn out agony enough was, was nobody really governing because so far at the moment he couldn't even fill his

ministerial posts, that have been become vacant during the last 23 days it is unknown, so with not quite clear how this is going to pan out, we might yet see a new prime minister rather sooner than later. barbara, what's the process now? how does it work and, and where do we go going forward? so you've already mentioned some of it that there will have to be a new leadership bottle as well. and tell us a little bit about what we can expect possibly at before the new prime minister is elected. i mean, the, the leadership candidates are already lining up. the british papers are full, was pictures a at last count. they weigh about 8 of them, but let's not limit ourselves. they list my yet to grow because everybody who, when bars johnson came into office, had to secret or overt ambitions to become prime minister themselves by yet see another chance is so there is every one from his former chancellor of the

exchequer. richie sooner who is seen as one who might have relatively good chances to go through it to the health minister javi to step down on wednesday. who also is seen as is one of the top runners. and after that, the list just continues at the foreign minister list trust among them, and so on and so forth. so there is a big malay in the tory party and they all sort of jostling for the 1st spot. and that is the reason why probably the solution that bars johnson quince is considering now in suggested that he stays on over the summer. and all these leadership candidates can sort of be try to beat each other to 1st place, may not play out that way. they may want to clean a solution and trying for leadership selection next week or the week after that. on the story for us in london did of you correspondent bible fazel. thank you.

civilian evacuations are underway in ukraine's done yet screeching with russia. stepping up its attack since climbing full control of neighboring new hampshire. the city of sla yonce has become a main target for shelling, but times across. ukraine's east are being bombarded missiles, stroke heart, keith, on wednesday, destroying a university. ukrainian forces have dug in with new defensive lines. and president of volunteers landscape, said western supplied weapons. we're finally making a difference on the battlefield. where a short time ago i spoke to t w correspondent nik spicer in keith, and he had this update on the russian offensive in the don bus. well, we've had a tactical retreat that you were just explaining earlier where the training and troops who had been defending, ah, it, or their net skinless, he tanks for weeks, whereas we thought it would be a matter of days. we kept hearing. it's going to fall to morrow and they held out for a long time, evacuated, preventing another sort of mariel,

paul situation where the soldiers are taken prisoner and brought to russian stone. and they are now taking up those defensive positions. you are referring to in the den that's region, which is the region that vladimir putin needs to take in order to control the entire don bass, which he says, it's the next object. it said that earlier this week, however, their dug in really deeply and they've also managed to evade be caught in the cauldron that the germans were, pardon me. the russians were talking about catching them within. so taking a picket positions. and so the ask is you were saying preparing the velocity would also cram a tourist, which is a critical transport and rail hub. so awaiting the sort of onslaught which will come as per usual via massive artillery barrage is. and then at some point, if the russians are so inclined, street by street fighting, when they feel comfortable and safe enough to do that. next president zelinski address overnight said that heavy weapons from at western allies have finally begun

working at full capacity. did he give it any indication of how this would actually help in the war? yeah, i would say there were those that are there are working in full capacity, but it's very, we're very far from being at the full, you know, wish listed with ukrainians. want one example, there are 4 american high mars systems which are these precise percent precision guided missile systems. ukrainian $300.00 of them. what they can do, however, is fire rockets into russian occupied territory within one meter accuracy, the ukrainian rockets and russian rockets up till now have 500 meters accuracy. so you can pinpoint something very precisely what zalesky said in his it was that they were going after no surprise here, depots of ammunition because the ukrainians are massively outgunned. 1510 to one when it comes to artillery shells going one way or the other. so the logical thing is to take out those stocks of ammunition and that's what the ukrainians say they're doing,

as well as command and control centers. sort of cut the head off the sake and make it harder for the russians to control the troops. and that's been a consistent problem for them throughout this campaign. next, spicer in keith. thank you. it was the worst accident in the history of italian motorized. almost 4 years ago on august 14th 2018. the mirandi bridge collapsed in genoa in northern italy. now, $59.00 people are facing chargers over their role in the bridge collapse the claim dozens of lives. they're accused of negligence after a report found that inspections on the bridge before the tragedy were inadequate. the trial opens today in jen was largest court and is likely to last more than a year. we now have this look at the tragedy that led to the case report is by christine 11. this is the moment the mirandi bridge collapsed during a rainstorm in august 2018. most of the 43 people who were killed that day plunged

to their debts in trucks and cars as the ground dropped beneath him. it was later found that poor maintenance was the reason the most away collapse. the tragedy spoke nationwide anger here in italy and laid bare the dyess state of the country's crumbling infrastructure. it cloudy, andrea, a glare po, city, sister claudia, her 2 children and new husband lost their lives in the accident. a glare refused the compensation offered to victims. instead, she once accountability for you were right click with, i would like to see these people pay for what they did. but if this is the decision of the court, i would like to see them go to jail. when i la kendra, i would like this to be a sign that changes the course of what we're seeing, which is everybody acts like they want and it's fine. and the victims are the only ones who pay for the basic was it a kid? faggots all for a living toilet. and judge and genoa has ordered 59 people to stand trial over the

collapse of the mirandi bridge. among them are senior executives of the company that overseas italy's roads, the trial is expected to last at least a year. and special arrangements have been made at the court to accommodate the large number of people in the public gallery. his sub units are you guys will be crystal depot? as far as i know, a case like this has never been seen initially. especially as far as the consequences and the number of victims are concerned that a lot of the unity they're called the prosecution is pursuing charges of manslaughter due to the collapse of the bridge. and also a series of violations regarding the maintenance of the bridge that led to the fall of the structural, blah, blah, blah carianne's or the middle dense, you inevitable? or that the boy yell curly, the last good. it's not just the families of the dead seeking justice in this trial . there are people who say they lost income because of the bridges collapse and

they want to be compensated. this neighborhood board is the sides of way the bridge collapsed and the local syrup told me it was a real nightmare getting in and around the area in the aftermath of that accident. as a result, some businesses were forced to close. many of them have never come back. the more andy bridge was taken down and replaced by this new one, which was opened 2 years ago. while others have moved on. edna apasetti says she hopes she'll get some closure when the trial is over. while the collapse of the bridge is considered one of the greatest tragedies in italy's recent history and earlier i talked to d w correspondent christine, well, who did that report who's in general on following the trial? and i asked her what we can expect. that's right. pavilion any here. the prosecution allege that the directors of the company there was in charge of overseeing the maintenance of this bridge simply didn't invest adequately in the

financing of that repair work. instead, they opted to preserve the dividends for shareholders. you will also hear that technicians who were in charge of carrying out the routine maintenance work would for example, do site checks by standing at the bottom of the bridge and looking at the top of it with a pair of binoculars instead of doing real sorta fara, checks, so the prosecution has been relieved that it's been known for decades that this is a bridge that requires significant maintenance. it was built in 1967. it was hailed as an engineering feat at the time. but because of increased traffic volumes and weather conditions and the pollution, it was, it was clear from the very beginning that it would be a bridge that requires a lot of maintenance maintenance. that, of course, the prosecution in this case is alleging that those were in charge of overseen this bridge simply did not invest in doing their christine, have the defendants admitted any of the charges. pablo, it's not very clear at this stage what caused this bridge to collapse. of course

there different versions of, of, of that. and the reason is that on the day that this bridge collapsed, the weather conditions were extremely foggy. and so all the cctv put did you have all the it from different angles do not show the entirety of the stretch at any given point and is on the basis of this that the defendants, those are in charge of the company. for example, say there is no clear reason. it's not nobody can say what caused the bridge to collapse. you've heard for example, that some eye witnesses say that there was lightning that struck the bridge before it went down. on the basis of this ad, they are saying that they cannot really, this can't be put down to them because the, the cause of this bridge collapsing is not very clear. but we know that in the aftermath of that, for example, that the chief executive, one of the defendants in this industry off, that company was removed from his position. millions were paid out in compensation . but in terms of people actually having to face, they don't quote, this is the 1st time this will happen and the prosecution is hoping that they can

get some, some convictions for the victims. they're hoping that it's going to be jail time. exit for example, said that this has to be a turning point on this country that there's gotta be accountability and not just the victims pain for these disasters. thank you christine christine, windward, w. correspondence in general. that's all for now here on tito. the news, but don't forget, you can keep up to date on the old are breaking news development from london at, with regards to the news that british prime minister at bars johnson is to reside from the team here brilinta garcia very soon. i imagine how many portions of lunch are thrown out in the world. climate change very often stores. this is my plan, the way from just one week how much work can really get we still have time to work.