a this week who ah, this is the www slide from berlin. k prime minister doris johnson agrees to resign after an open revolt within his own party. on 50 of johnson's government have stood down sending a clear message that his time in downing street is over. also coming up, russian forces pummeled targets across eastern ukraine. president,

florida. mister lansky says ukrainian forces fighting q of the entire dumbass region as he prices weapons sent by allies. plus the trial opens in one of the worst disasters on italy's highways. in 2018, the mirandi bridge in genoa collapse, killing thousands of people. most of the defendants are facing challenges of manslaughter. ah, i've been fas all and welcome. we begin with breaking news. that embattled prime minister boris johnson has agreed to resign following an open revolt from his fellow conservatives. more than 50 ministers, including junior and senior members of his team, have step down, starting a lack of competence in johnson's leadership. sources say, johnson may resign. his conservative party leader, but stay on as a prime minister until a new leader insult. bringing an end to an unprecedented standoff. this threatened

to paralyzed the british government when they had the biggest 4 in europe. a corresponding baba visa is in london, so barbara bars, johnson hardly had any one on his side at the end. how did he get to this point? how how did he get to this point? by being boris johnson, i must say. because when he came into office 3 years ago, his critic set of this sky is not really suited to high office ill discipline, disciplined. he doesn't like to speak the truth. a he tells fibbs he has no hold on, on detail. he doesn't really pursue a very constant idea of how to govern what you once in office. and it all came true. but the point is that his own party was so in love with him because he had to sort of gotten such a huge selection when in 2019 that he thought,

yes he this man, he simply is a winner of people like him. and he smiles a lot he, he has this blustery sort of, of a jokey way of speaking and do people. and british people in particular sort of started to like that. they thought he was a likable guy. but they now found out that the faults are greater than the advantages of having somebody who is sorta can make fun of each and everything under the sun and, and neglect the very serious business of government. so it was a row of scandals that brought him, it brought him down. the most notable maybe a party gate the, the, the scandals when it turned out that during corona locked down, there were parties are being held in, in, in, in number 10 downing street. whereas the rest of the country was sort of stuck in their own apartments and didn't dare to move at that probably did the biggest damage and what broke the camel's back, the straw was then finally last week that it turned out that he had shielded

a conservative m p a who was head before been accused offer of a sexual m. it's sort of for acts against the against young men are against those people's will, sort of in re insinuations said that were not quite verified, but what struck marsan said he knew nothing about it. that was a lie. he had been informed about it and that was the end. so since wednesday, people were walking out of his cabinet and what we see to day will be the end of the much shorter rain than forest shrubs and had wanted and bars had done no such a good job of wriggling out of political controversies. but he basically has no authority any more. will anyone want him staying on as a, as a can take a prime minister until the tories elected ubida? he doesn't even have any authority a he doesn't even have

a cabinet to govern was and that may be his biggest problem. we spoke to some parliamentarians who now come flocking up here to college green right in front of westman. so we're, we're standing, and are we assoc as several of them and said, is this a, is this of the tangible? is it possible that he just stays on till after the summer? and every single one said no way, because we have this complete political vacuum, which however we have no functioning government because at this point in time, who can he convinced to sort of sit at his cabinet table? no body so far people's keep on walking out. and so he really has lost the authority and he has lost the capacity to govern and to his days are numbered. a rumor has it that he is going to step down completely and may be high hand over to, to jeremy hunter for the interim period. but we will have to see is expected to

come out. no number, 10, downing street and, and speak his mind. it'll tell the nation what he intends to do, and of course there's a lot of suspense. and when it comes to his full time success, i know there's a long list of people queuing up. is there a short list? they are chewing up, indeed. list trust the foreign minister is even set to come back early from bali where the g. 20 foreign ministers have been meeting in order to stake her claim at each and every body. and there are a sort of lining up here and trying to tell people that they should be the next, the prime minister, that they are the one who should now be chosen by the party. the, the odds probably are relatively good of for the chancellor of the exchequer. the, the one richie sooner can step down on wednesday and also for the former health minister, j. v. to because it both are seen as sort of straight talking guys,

people you can trust and people who would have the capacity to govern. but we shall see. the tory party is a fickle animal. prevailed before us in london with african use. his quick look at some other stories making use around the world. the atlantic state group has claimed responsibility for a raid on a prison in the nigerian capital of police are searching for hundreds of inmates on the run. after some 900 escaped officials, they militants used explosives to blast their way into free fellow members. one god was killed. a russian flag, cargo ship suspected of carrying stolen ukrainian grain has been allowed to leave the turkish port. kind of su crane's foreign minister expressed outrage of the decision and summoned turkey's ambassador. he had asked anchor to detain the ship and investigate the alleged theft the kremlin denies any wrong doing. russia says,

one of its war plain struck you crane snake island in the black sea overnight. it had come shortly after ukrainian troops claimed to raise their flag over the strategically important island. meanwhile, after declaring full control of nuance, russia has begun stepping up its assault on the neighboring don't yet, regent. the city of labianca has become a main target for rush and yelling, but other towns across you, crazies are also being bombarded with on struck if on wednesday, destroying university ukrainian forces and digging in with new defensive lines. officials say western supplied weapons starting to make a difference on the battlefield. let's go to the capital key when expire are standing by, nick. can you explain that dynamic right now? the back and forth over snake island is where you heard there and rushes offensive in the dumbass grinding on sherburne. while steak, ireland, 1st off,

is strategically irrelevant and symbolically hugely important for the russians. it would appear. this is the island from which the beginning of the war, ukrainian soldiers told a russian warship to go do something to itself. they were captured, their worship was later sunk. it was the moscow. it was the flagship of the russian black sea fleet. so this became very symbolic, that island, all of a sudden russian soldiers were deployed to it. they came under heavy ukrainian fire, and ultimately they left the island on the 30th of june and vladimir putin, the russian president said this was a symbolic gesture in order to facilitate the shipment of grain from the port of odessa. but it's one step of about 10 that need to be taken before that happens. it just looked like it was an indefensible island. it's close to bulgaria. so that messaging really from the kremlin is to suggest there are only about 2 or 3 people allegedly killed that, you know, russia is winning important symbolic victories, that strategically relevant the rest of the war. as you just described,

taking place in the east of the country where the ukrainians have repositioned themselves in order to defend the next province pretty, got giving up on the hats. avoiding getting caught in the cauldron, the russians were trying to capture them within, in order to capture soldiers or kill as many as possible. so taking up positions to defend the strategically important towns of soviets, in particular. presidents lensky says, heavy weapons from the west. now working at full capacity, let's listen into body, had to say that is to be july. it says should lose of the. finally, we can feel that the western artillery, the weapons we received from our partners, have started working very effectively yet the accuracy is exactly what is needed. losing our defenders inflict very noticeable strikes on depots and other locations that are important for the occupy as logistics. and this significantly reduces the offensive potential of the russian army sport. their losses will only increase every week as will the difficulty of supplying them with nick, how much of

a difference will these western weapons make? i think the ukranian president can, can be believed in this instance because the new weapons that are coming in art, as many as ukraine's have been asking for. but they're far more accurate to the weapons they've been using so far. at the american made high mars missile system is accurate to within one meter, the russians and ukrainians are using systems that are accurate within 500 meters. which is to say that if the ukrainians need to hit a big stash of you know, how it's or shells, which is what they're targeting, when they're talking about depos, they can take it out. and that's important because the russians have been pretty basically putting into practice stollins, old victim of quantity has a quality all of its own. so they've just been shelling and shelly and shelling indiscriminately. and that's how they've been able to advance if you take out those weapons supplies that it really puts the russians on the back foot. ben, it's my said they're in, keep with an update on the war and ukraine. thank you. well,

it was the worst accident in the history of italian motor weiss. almost 4 years ago, the moran, the bridge collapsed in genuine northern italy. now $59.00 people are facing changes over their role in the collapse the claim. dozens of lines. they're accused of negligence. after a report found inspections on the bridge had been inadequate. the trial was opened in genoa launches court and is likely to last more than a year. this is the moment the more andy 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 sparked nationwide anger here in italy, and laid bare the dyess state of the country's crumbling infrastructure. it cloudy and that idea, example city sister, claudia, her 2 children and new husband lost their lives in the accident. edler refused the

compensation offered to victims. instead, she once accountability for you already quickly, i would like to see these people pay for what they did. if this is the decision of the court, i would like to see them go to jail. when i look kinda, 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 bill because it, it keep fagel for a lady to with a judge. and genoa has ordered 59 people to stand trial over the collapse of the mirandi bridge, among them, a 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 subject units are you guys will be crystal de boer? 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, a human tragedy 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, korean. so the mental dense you and i would have the order that the boil corolla, the lester, dora, it's not just the fan of the dead seeking justice in this trial. there are people who say they lost income because of the bridge is 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. ah, the more andy bridge was taken down and replaced by this new one, which was opened 2 years ago. while others have moved on a glare,

percetti says she hopes she'll get some closure when the trial is over. and remind her of the breaking news. we brought you all here that you guys battled prime minister bars. johnson will resign as follows, the departure of more than 50 members of his government, including several senior members of this thing, are expecting a statement from arse jones and shortly bring that to you live 1st, dig up your business and steve beardsley. i'll be back next hour. you can always go to our website with hey, good morning speaking. how can miss passionate hatred of a people be explained.