ah ah ah this is the w news life from berlin. you case? prime minister bars johnson agrees to resign after an open revolt within his own party. holden, 50 members of johnston's government, have stood down, sending him a clear message that his time in downing street is over. he's expected to make a statement shortly will bring that to you. live. russian forces pummeled delegates

across these things. ukraine. president blood of mister lansky says ukrainian forces fighting to secure the entire don best region as the praises weapons sent by allies. and the trial opens in one of the worst disasters on italy's highways. in 2018. the motor on the bridge in genoa collapse. thousands of people 59 defendants face challenges of mass. ah, i've been visible and welcome in breaking news. britain's 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, stepped down, citing a lack of competence in johnson's leadership. to say, johnson may resign as conservative party leader, but stay on as prime minister until

a new leader is installed. it bring an end to an unprecedented standoff that threatened to paralyzed the british government to go math budget to speaker, and correspond barbara visa is in london. so barbara, boris johnson was suddenly looking very lonely in the end. was it a indeed he is completely lonely because says since wednesday, all his old political friends image archie off his ministers and people who had been star supporters for the last 3 years left him one after the other. and in the end, it went so quickly that you could hardly follow it. you counted till 50515253. they kept on coming, saying enough is enough. this is the end. forrest johnson. you need to understand that you have to stand down. and finally they got through to him because it last night the evening said no, i'm not going to resign. there was the surreal scene yesterday afternoon in

parliament going. he was talking to a committee and entered, telling parliamentarians know that that's what a prime minister does. he stays in office and he governs, but it had become totally untenable. in the end, he simply didn't have the people to fill his own cabinet any more. and so he must have understood, during the course of last night and this morning that he really did have to step down. even though when he came into the office he dreamt about staying on for election after election till after 2030. he said even of just 10 days ago, now those who are pipe dreams, this is the end for barbara johnson. and despite the scandals and lies his combative and chaotic approach to governing johnson had done so well, it wriggling out of political controversy. that was the point and they used to call him the greased pig latiere in london because he sort of slipped through and,

and sort of managed to wiggle his way out of whatever scandal arose. and as you mentioned, it's been a long row of scandals. the most notable probably at the party gate scandal at the locked on parties that where they're being head and down in at the same time during the height of the corona crisis, when the rest of the country was sort of stuck in their own apartments and people dying in hospital lonely without their families at their side. at the same time, there was drinking and partying and music in downing street, which was strictly forbidden, under rules that boris johnson had made himself. and after that there was an outpouring of public anger. people saying, yeah, there's one rule for us and there's another rule for the, the party and 4 bars. johnson in downing street for the people who govern us. and that is something that went on really badly in the end. the straw that broke the camel's back was

a sort of minor sex scandal. one of his m pizza trusted was being a whip in the conservative party here in parliament or well, was groping a one night last week, some junior conservative party members, and he denied it. he laid again and it was the lie is in the end and, and become elation off of all these scandals that it brought him down and did now, johnson who's feeling lonely, i'm sure, but willy get his last wish to at least stay on as caretaker prime minister until the tories elect and you leader it doesn't look very likely at all, ben, because his own party is furious. he can't even fill his own cabinet post, sir, because says so many people have left now and it would be politically completely suicidal to now step back up and say ok, i've had 2nd thoughts. i'll sort of go was bars johnson till the end after all. and

that would be madness for any a politician here in westminster. and so he really has lost his grip on office. and there is many major and senior party voices who now say this, it's over. we want in you, we are want elections up within the party, the choosing a new candidate to, to become prime minister as soon as possible, even before this summer break. and not have this long. drawn out, agony was boris johnson clinging on and dawning street and sort of then finally, maybe in early october leaving office. so the majority of conservative m. p. 's. they want to quick and fast cut. bob visa will be talking to you throughout the day . thanks for bringing us the latest on that breaking news. love to winning a resounding majority at the last you k election in december 2019 boris johnson lasted just 3 years as prime minister. back then he stood on a platform to get brakes done. long before he became leda,

he made no secret of the fact that he wanted the top shop in british politics. in hind sight, forest, johnson's fate was predestined. as the maverick mayor of london, he relished chaos. getting stuck on a zip wire. and barging his way around the world. this time taking out a school boy in japan. it was all part of a carefully constructed image. i wrote that he hoped, would lead to beggar things. and when britain debated its membership of the european union, he seized his chance, flying the flag for the leave campaign a take back control of this country and our democracy and our economy. after that success downing street seemed inevitable. but he would have to wait another 3

years before ousting theresa. may i have just been to see her majesty the queen. however breton, were still fiercely debated over europe. this is again, dreadful dog. this is of the pleasant bed. what with johnson called an election. and was back to his own stunts. the voters lapped it up, sending him back to downing street with an 80 seats majority. he promised to we make written one months later, hoover 19 struck i've developed mild symptoms of the corona viruses to say he was hospitalized. and the pandemic forced him to get tough with the public. if you don't follow the rules, the police will have the powers to him. at lita remarriage, he had to fight his own advice with allegations of numerous parties in his offices

including this guard and get together while the country was unlocked on the pressure on him who by the way, se, now go to do a decent thing and resign the name of god go. throughout his career, maurice johnson played by his own rules. in the end, it was that which led to his downfall and were expecting bars. johnson, to make a statement shortly after he agreed that he'll resign, as british prime minister, will bring that to you live as soon as he addresses the public to the war in ukraine. now, russia says one of its warplanes struck ukraine. snake island in the black sea overnight. it had come shortly after ukrainian troops claimed to have raised their flag over the strategically important island. after declaring full control of the once russia has begun, stepping up its assault on the neighboring done, yet screeching. the city of flow yonce has become

a main target for russian shelling, but other towns across ukraine's east are also being bombarded miss austro heath on wednesday, destroying university. ukrainian both is a digging in with new defensive lines. officials say western supplies weapons are starting to make a difference on the banfield dw correspondent expire raising keith. he had this update for us on the back and forth over snake island and the russian offensive in the dumbass. sherburne will take 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 worship 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, or 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 through only about 2 or 3 people allegedly killed. that, you know, russia is winning important symbolic victories, but strategically irrelevant the rest of the war as you just described, taking place in the east of the country where the ukrainians have reposition themselves in order to defend the nets. province. pretty got giving up on the hads . avoiding getting caught in the cauldron, the russians were trying to capture them within, in order to capture soldiers to kill as many as possible. so taking up positions to defend the strategically important towns of soviets in particular. president lynch, he says heavy weapons in the west are now working at full capacity. let's listen

into body. had to say that is to be july efficient, usable. 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 to see how 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. 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 you cranes 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 stalins, old victim quantity has a quality all of its own. so they've just been shelling and shelling 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, been exploited there and keep with an update on the war and ukraine. thank you. is a quick look at some other stories making use around the world. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for a raid on a prison in the nigerian capital of buddha. police searching for hundreds of inmates on the run after some $900.00 escaped. officials say militants used explosives to blast their way in to free feller, members, one god was killed. protest as incident, have held another knight time sitting against military bull. it's after the leader of sedans, main civilian block rejected promises by the army. he says he doesn't believe crew

leaders will make way for a civilian government. protesters have kept out the demonstrations despite security forces cracking down a russian flag, cargo ship suspected of carrying stolen, ukrainian grain, has been allowed to leave the turkish porto cutter, sou ukraine's foreign minister, expressed outrage over the decision and summon talkies. ambassador keith had asked anchorage to detain the ship and investigate the alleged theft. the prevalent denies any boat doing fans of you. west basketball sa, brittany griner, have held a public rally, calling for her safe return from moscow. mine is being held for a full month on what russia says, a drunk charges. us president joe biden, his o grind, his wife is working on getting her freedom and need her home. and both at he abortion and pro choice protest is in the us have demonstrated outside mississippi's only abortion clinic on the last day before it closes for good. it's

ceasing operations after the state band, all abortions in the wake of the u. s. supreme court decision revoking women's constitutional rights to abortion. climate change is threatening food production around the world and is predicted to put millions of people into poverty. one region is central india, which is where, where farmers and getting into terrible debt at the moment, partly because of crop loss is caused by irregular weather patterns. and it's driving many to suicide. di w's, madeira chandry, has mo, from the region of it out about there are div when he thought, all 3 can't hold back her tears. she lost her husband paneled us. 2 years ago. he took poison. the reason, a debt of rupees, one 150000, just a little more than 1800 euros. he was a farmer, and he took a loan for farming, which he could not be bad for this. lackland ain't been not. and i never thought he

could take such a step and go away. before he took his life, he used to be tense, irritable that he used to keep to himself and the day took his life. he said nothing at all to anyone who should get it. that is his surprise, wellness of it. never even out a fear of the farm with the help of her son. she says, teams have become more difficult since palm does die. she's not alone in her grief . in the past decades, tens of thousands of farmers, most of whom thought cotton have taken their lives in the double region of central indiana. this area has come to be called the graveyard of farmers. it will be that the farmers often have to borrow money to buy seeds and fertilizer drop failures or pool yield means they can not be the money back into the fall into a cycle of debt and misery. they say they're not getting enough support from the government. irish pug, a farm actor with an a family himself is trying to help down there. he says,

the cost of cultivation is increasing. at the same time erratic monsoon dreams and the vagaries linked to climate change are adding to the farm with distress. been by the end, okay. by day a farmer's debt keeps increasing me, but if he starts feeling depressed america, after that, he begins to question why he's alive. if he is not able to properly nourish that us and educate his children. i'd say that his her are mad about to get, but i know with the yogi chunk on the line will green knows that depression when our husband died by suicide in 2015, unable to be back his bomb date of repeat 50000 or about 600 euros developer nodes and but on 31 i said to helen life, nobody should go through what i faced of my children suffered, they couldn't complete education would be there will lead to fin, court name will need why can't i got some financial head from the government more

do not manage to get the meager steve compensation to families of farmers who die based insight. band me though in the navy i had to struggle lot. i went to your thirty's multiple times for the compensation, but they kept refusing either addressed that her husband did not talk to her in detail about his financial problems. and maybe she could have helped her hopes and ambitions. i'm not big. now, she just wants to. so life, so she can bring up her son. it was the worst accident in the history of italian most ways. almost 4 years ago, the brandy bridge collapsed in genoa in northern italy. now $59.00 people are facing charges over their role in the collapse the claim. dozens of lives are accused of negligence. after a report found inspections on the bridge had been inadequate. the trial has opened in general, was lodges court and is likely to last more than a year. 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 already quickly, 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 better kazi, a keep ferguso for a living to with a judge in 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 up unit that 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 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, elemental density. and i would have been 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 bridge is collapse and they want to be compensated. this neighborhood board is the sight of where the bridge collapsed and the locals here had 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. let's bring it, christine, who's following the trial for us. what can we expect from his progress day spend you're going to hear the prosecution go after specifically, some of those directors are who were working for the company that was in charge of

looking after this bridge. the allegation, the prosecution is leveling against some of these directors as that they were aware of the risk of this bridge collapsing. that it was clear that this bridge required a specific maintenance because of how old the bridges because of the increased traffic volumes. and of course, where the chain of our patterns changing. this was a bridge that needed a lot of work and maintenance, but that these directors didn't do the necessary investment. i in this maintenance opting for, for cheapest solutions, rather than making the full commitment financially to actually do that. and the prosecution alleges the reason they did what that was, that they were thinking in the interest of preserving dividends for shareholders. so that's going to be one aspect of it and then there are a private lawyers who are representing individuals and, and companies will say as result of that bridge, having come down the disruption because it was difficult to get in and around. they have lost income. they've lost business and they are seeking compensation for the losses they say they have incurred as

a result of the 2 years at the bridge was not available. that will be our will business back story to all of this. tell me about the defendants of bay admitted to any of these charges but some of the defense lawyers are positive about the fact that says these charges are going to go to fall away. for example, one of the defense lawyers was quoted and local media saying the charges against his client would fall away like an autumn leaf at no head. no one has really has faced trial up until this point and, and it, we have to point out that the companies themselves because they've paid our compensation of and made agreements reached agreements with the prosecutors off as some victims have been compensated. so the company's aunt on trial necessary, but the prosecution has gone for certain individuals. for example, the chief executive officer who was running the company who was in charge of the company that was looking after the bridges at the time. so he has since been removed from office and replaced that the wealthy italian family that had a big stake in that company was forced to sell it. but what the victims really want,

especially the people who lost loved ones is justice. and it's unclear if this particular cry try it was going to deliver that justice. but the fact that it has gone to trial that a judge ordered this trial, they say is a positive step forward. has anything changed since the bridge collapse as far as infrastructure goes in italy? then i can tell you that this tragedy really opened a national conversation and of course it, it, it highlighted that that, that the state of infrastructure notches here in italy. but i have to point out across europe as well, when you have bridges are all over this continent effectively in, in very bad shape. but here in the country, there was a conversation, not just about that, the state of infrastructure and, but just how the public servants are not doing the work that they ought to be doing . and there was a lot of anger in the sense that there, there is nobody that's been held to account. italy has had about 15 bridge collapses. of course, the general bridge collapse was the most tragic among those collapses. but it did

open, enforced a national conversation. there has been some work done after that, but certainly a lot more needs to be done here on that front. been dw corresponding. christina, we were thank you very much for your reporting, for gentle with around a 1000000 muslim pilgrims visiting mecca for the 1st hodge in 2 years without strict pandemic restrictions for the last 2 years. saudi authorities limited access to only a small number of saudi residence. according to the koran, old muslims capable of going on the hut should do so at least once in a lifetime. at his land's most sacred sight, the crowds of finally back off to 2 years without pilgrims from abroad. the hedge is getting back to normal. but while mosques and social distancing route some restrictions do remain touching or kissing the kaba is still banned, and visitors had to be vaccinated and tested against the karone of ours. as well as

under 65. for the pilgrims fortunate enough to be able to come being here is often a dream come true. i like with i've been dreaming of this day for ever 12 years. i've been saving money for 3 years. i was supposed to come last year, but couldn't because of the corona virus likely to play with pilgrim's coming from europe, america and australia this year were forced to use a much criticized lottery system where trip packages started at around $6000.00. according to the saudi authorities, the new system protects visitors from scans and varying prices. but the new hurdles didn't dissuade this man who spent the last 11 months walking to mecca from the u. k. ah, what have you done?

well, i cried when i 1st arrived. mark, it's like it's an unbelievable feeling which leaves me at a loss for words. i feel serene and very close to god. with so much spirituality a has jani color below last panel, dollar. but wall around a 1000000 pilgrims may be back in mecca that still some ways to go before the hatch returns to its true pre pandemic scale. we'd like to return to our top story. now. britain's embattled prime minister bars johnson has agreed to resign. following an open revolt from his fellow conservatives, is expected to make a statement to the public shortly. more than 50 ministers, including senior members of his team, have stepped down, citing a lack of confidence in johnson's leadership. so say johnson may resign as conservative party leader, but stay on as prime minister until a new leader was installed. it had bring an end to an unprecedented standoff that

threatened to paralyzed the british government, tomas budget smith, the speaker and women. let's go over to our correspond barbara beesley. she's standing by london. barbara. ah, tell me what, how much of a shock was this to you today or did it not come to you as a shock at all? no, it really didn't come as a shock because as since richie soon i kissed chancellor of the checkout and his health minister, one of the most notable members of his parliaments since those 2 big beasts, if i may say so, stepped down on wednesday. it was pretty clear that bar is johnson was on a, on a slippery slope, that this was just the beginning of the end. and it was clear that he had somehow it exasperated his own tore members as so much and particularly his own parliamentarians, by lying to them again and again by telling most folks of fibbs making excuses and pretending to have forgotten something that then it turned had clearly happening to

say that these suddenly felt that they wouldn't want to go on like this anymore. it is. it's a collective sort of thing. you know, someone makes the at the beginning, then people are, will feel, yes, this is the moment we have to end this. we can carry on like this, and it was just like a stampede out of heard the offices in downing street and off of course, or out of his cabinet because the people were really ready to say enough is enough . we are going, you have to step down prime minister and it took him 2 days to understand this and to finally accepted them while we wait for the statement from my boss johnson, what kind of prime minister will he go down in history? yes he will have a much lesser place in history than he would have wanted for himself, because there's certain grandiosity as part of his character. he thinks he is the

one of the biggest and most notable upon chickens off his time. and in the end, what is he, what will he be leaving? not much. he did get breakfast done in a certain way that was in his slogan during his election campaign in 2019. but it's also still lingering on it's not really done because that of all northern island problem is carrying on. he got into numerous baths, was france, about fishing, about refugees and migrants crossing the channel. and he is not well liked among other european leaders because they have found that he is not trustworthy, that he doesn't keep his word that you can't really trust his straightness, his, his, the way that he learns his policy. and the way we will then implemented is so he has not many friends and on the international stage, and no tears will be wept for him there. and what will he leave really is the general.