experience out standing shopping and dining office and drawing our services will be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by fraud. mm ah ah, this is d, w i from berlin. britain's prime minister agrees to resign. the bar is johnson has been facing managing pressure from his own party with more than 50 members of his government quitting in the last couple of days. despite this, he says, he will stay in office until a new leader is chose. also on the program,

russian forces pummeled targets across easton, ukraine. president zalinski says ukrainian forces are fighting to secure the don bass region with extra fire power from weapons sent by west and allies. hopes for a breakthrough, for in the simmering conflict in central america with thousands already in central africa. beg your pardon? the thousands already displaced rwanda and the democratic republic of congo agree to de escalate to attention, but rebel fighters say they are not bound by the cease fire. ah, i'm feel gale a welcome to the program. but his primary subarus johnson says he is going to resign following an open result of revolt in his conservative party. dozens of ministers acquit his government in the wake of a series of scandals. the time table for choosing a new lead,

it will be announced next week, as a johnson has named a new cabinet and he tends to continue as prime minister until his successor is chosen. speaking outside his downing street headquarters, he accepted the judgment of his party. it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary, conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party. and apple, a new prime minister. and i agree with the grey brady, the chairman of our back bench and peas. that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now, and the time table will be announced next week. and dive of today appointed a cabinet to serve as i will until a new leader is in place. so i want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting conservative for the 1st time. thank you for that. incredible mandate. biggest conservative majority since 1987. the biggest chair of the vote

since 1979 straight to the u. k. a capital and where we joined that the debris corresponded to barbara vessel. welcome at barbara. so he's going, but not yet. what has to happen 1st? is party has to enter into a leadership contest, says something they can do relatively quickly if they're really set their minds to it. it's supposed to start on monday, where they will gather and figure out the rules, sir, who can participate, because they don't want to free fall like 20 candidates trampling all over each other. and only viable candidates are wanted. and i've just seen some betting firms who came out here with their eyes for who might be the new leader of the server to hardy. and our number one is ben was the man not widely? no, not a side view k, but probably well known in ukraine because he has written this defense minister and he's been very staunch in his support for ukraine and delivering lots of weapons

said to the country in the war against the flu. so he's in london number one, now the form of finance minister still figures and the lady called penny mordant, also not widely known. she's the international trade minister. save pair of hands, soto centrists. so the party might one someone a bit more straightforward, a bit more down the middle, a bit less flamboyant than they've had after this. throughout the last 3 years. it seems they're quite fed up with the particular style of forest johnson to wear someone with a little less drama that mr. johnson political adventure has been written many times before. what was it about best life scandal, but proved too much the latest scandal was just won. i mean in my mind is scandal. i mean one parliamentarians that tarry

parliamentarian know who was known for being something of a sex pastor was groping. some young tory members in one of london more better known clubs at night, the bearing drunk quite a lot of our goal. so nothing really to write home about. everyone here says in london and the straw that broke the camel's speck. because the verizon light about this again, he was asked, did, he knew the reputation of this parliamentarian and he said, not the foggiest idea. i don't know. and it was a lie because it then turned out that he has very well been informed and briefed on this man and did his deeds in the past and his behavior in the past. so this was the latest. but the most important of all the scandals that roch's premier ship probably was a voice the parties in downing street during the corona lockdown. there was really something that made the blood boil for many britons,

because they said they were partying, drinking, dancing, hurting, playing music and dining street, where we were sitting at home alone, not daring to leave our apartments. and people and family members were dying alone in hospitals. so that was really like the, the most immoral thing that he has probably done during his time in office. and that's the one that really sort of turned the public against him. thank for barbara . barbara vessel in london was to winning a residing majority at the last you k election and december 2090 parish johnson lasted 3 years as prime minister rock. then he stood on the platform of getting breaks. it done long before he became leader. he had made no secret of the fact that he wanted the top job in british politics. in hindsight, forest johnson's fate was predestined. as the maverick mayor of london, he relished chaos, getting stuck on a zip wire,

and barking his way around the world. this time taking out a school boy in japan. it was all part of a carefully constructed image that he hoped would lead to beggar things. and when breton debated its membership of the european union, he seized his chance. flying the flag for the leave campaign. as 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 opening theresa may i have just been to see her majesty the queen. however breton were still fiercely debated over europe with

what would they do? 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 remake written one month later, who with 19 strong i've developed mild symptoms of the corona, virus essay. 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 at least a remarriage. he had to fight his own advice with allegations of numerous parties in his offices, including this garden get together. while the country was unlocked down, the pressure on him grew by the week. is he now going to do the decent thing and resign the name of god go. throughout his career,

morris johnson played by his own rules. in the end, it was that which led to his downfall as get more or less from nicholas alan, he is professor of international relations and philosophy at the school of law and social sciences at royal holloway university of london. welcome to the w. is it the democratic to remove a prime minister with such a massive parliamentary majority without an election? well, under the, the usual rule is it's entirely normal for the party government party to be able to change its leader and change prime minister. the speech that bar johnson gave soft noun and talking about his own personal mandate. but the only mandate that anyone has in british politics, n p, 's on personal mandates when they're likely in their constituency. and in so far as the governing party has a mandate, it's based on it's manifesto. so it is,

democrats retains prime minister like this. of course, the opposition is going to say that we need to have a new election because there's a new prime minister before he said exactly the same thing. of course, when labor replaced the play with brown, but it's just run of the run of the normal politics. this is, this is just how it goes, right? that's rarely a good time for a country to be without a leader. but we have a war in europe, rising inflation, not just in the u. k, but around the world and international medical emergency. it hasn't quite gone away . and of course, it's devastating economic effects still being felt. this feels like a particularly bad time to lose a national leader. it's not the best time, but then britain has changed. prime ministers in the 1st world who changed prime ministers twice during the 2nd world war. and the government is not a one man show. bowers johnson is the head of government, but they're a very large number of ministers beneath him. and of course there are thousands of civil servants who get on the day to day job of actually administering government.

so it's not pepsi an opportune time. but then if a prime minister is failing to provide leadership, he needs to go over the last couple of days. there's been lots of drama within westminster. i wonder. has that sense of drama made it to the public? how did the public view this prime minister and his troubles? bo response has been well known in the public eye for many, many years. i suppose they've been holding show this shows this 3 sort of distinctive assets of his conceptions and the public festival. historically, he's generally been seen as relatively likable, much more so than competent and certainly much more so than being honest. and his reputation for honesty deteriorated some time ago. his reputation for competence deteriorated some time ago. and his likability is also diminished considerably, particularly in the wake of bart allocations. so i think

what the public is saying now what they probably think is now is where the combination of long term trends and all those 3 things that come up being scratching their heads, wondering how nurse did he stay in for so long. so suddenly think that there is the widespread sense, it is time for him to go and internationally. of course he's been primary stuff for just under a 3 years. what sort of a mark has bar johnson a made in that time? you know, she's made or sought to mark some positive, some less positive. i mean, he domestically, he got the election one in 2019 which enabled him to progress with brakes. it. he talks about bricks that being done. but of course breakfast is still progressing. it hasn't been done and there were still lots of loose and to tie up not least around the non protocol. britain's relationships with european union, he provided some leadership, of course, in the west response to the russian invasion of ukraine. i think history will

probably judge him relatively well, that respect, but domestically he's achieved very little of what he promised to do. his record on the panoramic is makes tens of thousands of excess deaths that against the very successful roll out of the vaccine. so i think his view of his histories view of him will develop over time, but he won't be regarded as great. thank you so much for joining us. and i love that clearly professor nicholas allen from that role, holloway university of london. thank you. it's good look at some more stories that making news around the world. so call this lab status claimed is responsibility for a rate of a prison and the nigerian, that capital boucher. the police are searching for on $400.00 inmates are still on the run. official site of medicines used explosives to free activists. trial

over the deadly, a 2018 bridge collapse in italian city of genoa has begun. 59 people are facing charges over the incident. the claim to 43 lives, a tragedy spark nationwide anger in italy expose the crumbling state of the country's infrastructure. russian flagged cargo ships suspected of carrying stolen, ukrainian grain has been allowed to leave a turkish port. crane's foreign ministers expressed outrage and summoned turkey's ambassador. the criminal denies any wrong doing that to the war in ukraine and russia says, one of its war planes has struck you. crane's snake island in the black sea ukrainian troops claim to raise their flag over the outpost after recapturing it. and after declaring full control of the hands, russia has stepped up its assaults on the neighboring jeanette region. the city of slogans has become a main target for russian shopping, but other towns across the grant east are also being bombarded. wednesday saw the

destruction of a university hockey and a missile strike. despite this, you trade in official se west and supplied weapons are making a difference. we can get more from nic spicer in the ukrainian capital. welcome, nick. let's start with the capture and recapture of state island. and then go on to russia's offensive in the dumbass. a fil sake on it is of course that that famous place where at the beginning of the war, a handful of ukrainian soldiers were ordered to surrendered by a work russian warship to which they responded. russian warship go yourself and they became heroes. they were arrested, they were taken off the island as prisoners, and then that war ship the flagship of the russian fleet, the mass for it was later sunk. so intense symbolism in this island, which is of not really a great strategic value. so that meaning we should attribute to this is that it's really not of any strategic significance that moscow should claim with no videos or proof that they've killed some ukrainian soldiers,

but symbolically very important. it would appear to the kremlin to be spinning this, this story they've made similar claims about wiping out 10 american howitzers the same time to capture, hating the ukrainian high command that have never really been substantiated. so i think that has to be taken with a grain of salt and to get to the war itself. as you've just been saying in the east, the ukrainians had pulled out of the one hanged province and they've come back to positions. they can better defend in the de nuts province, which is that russians next target. we know that they're already, our artillery barrage is on the town of cram a tourist in the mayor there says that they have fallen in the city center and killed some civilians. so it's a situation where the ukrainians have evaded capture by the russians. with that tactical withdraw, the russian gore as stated was to capture as many of them could, that as they could buy quickly advancing that didn't happen. so we're in a sort of a, a position war of attrition, largely wage with artillery. okay,

thanks for that mich. i'm stay with us. we're gonna hear now what president zalinski has been saying about the effect that those western heavy weapons have been having. then we'll come back to that is to be july. it should lucifer. 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 to 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 stitches and expired. i clearly these weapons making a big difference with the arm and it president zalinski was talking about the, the accuracy of his weapons. here's what he's talking about. the high mars rocket system, 4 of them delivered from united states ukraine, is accurate within one meter. the rocket systems used by the russians and ukrainian

armin's armies are accurate within 500 meters. what that means and what president zalinski was talking about is that the ukraine forces can target the weapons depos, those stacks of artillery shells that have given the russians the advantage in this war because they've really been fighting an artillery war at this point after their failed attempt to take the capital and the decimating of many of their of of their regiments. so it's really about who has the best guns the ukrainians are outgunned, but now they're getting more and more better guns which will make it a more even fight if you will. and, and provide an accurate targeting of supplies and equally commanding control structures within the russian army. behind that, behind enemy lines one are you proud of subarus johnson has been at the forefront of supporting you, cried with weapons deliveries. how has news of his impending resignation been received there? well officially, there's been expressions of regret from presidents zalinski is officer,

at least expressions of gratitude for his support as to remember that boys johnson always talked about the upcoming ukrainian victory when other ukraine, when other western leaders were talking about the need to negotiate. and so on. he was also the 1st western, one of the western leaders to come here. the most often he came twice he does is seen is delivering weapons that he promised in a timely manner. and really being the friend in need. you who showed up the friend indeed a co shows up for the friend in need. if you just talk to people in the streets is, is, as i've been doing, there is surprise or sadness, the c back poorest johnson as the most stalwart western ally that ukraine has. and people generally don't know about british domestic politics or surprise when you talk to people in the streets that he had all kinds of problems at home. so i think it's safe to say their sadness to see him go and i'll just close with this final thought fill. if you don't mind the kremlin has expressed through is spokesman, it's satisfaction that he has had to leave. he said that he has essentially got his

come up in spokesman. i spokeswoman for the foreign minister say, says the ukrainian boomerang has come back to striking thank of that nick, nick spicer and keith. rwanda and the democratic republic of congo have agreed to deescalate tensions. 2 countries have been in disputes and c. m. 23 rebel group, but resumed fighting against conklin. these troops near the random border rebels have killed scores of civilians and displaced tens of thousands of people. they say they will not respect the cease fire and fresh clashes with the congolese and military already broken out. he w correspondent, mario motor travel to easton, congo, and file this report. the sound of a bomb blast made that amazon he at edi fear for his life. it exploded near his home in the village of the honda eastern congo. he knew instantly that the m 23 rebels were coming on my visit. it was around 2 am. we were all afraid because it was not small bullets. there were bombs where we knew it was an attack. so

everybody started fleeing. he got shot in the crossfire between the m 23 rebels and the congress army. 650 families have found refuge at this school near gama. not cables. capital conditions are deplorable. people sleep in class rooms and they tell us, there is no food or medical care. 160000 people have been forced to flee since the classes began in april. the m. 23 was pushed back by the congolese army, begged by you and troops, and surrendered in 2013. but in november last year, it re merged the militia group claims to protect the totes the minority and eastern congo, and accuses the government of failing to observe a previous p. still. kinshasa says the m 23 rebels effect by rhonda. but kigali denies the accusations or more explicit also, how do you explain the resurgence of m 23 with big caliber weapons with equipment

which can destroy planes. we disable that is the m. 23 capable of buying missiles and long range mortars that did the mot. apple render this alvin, we met a king. a claims randers goal is to occupy darcy's territory and exploit its mineral riches military music with others. all rwanda is among the biggest exporters of gold and colton for thought, but there is no grain of golden, rwanda one. they keep the insecurity in congo in order to get the minerals for a cheap price, or even for free, a ball, massey, or gutter to more, according to the us treasury, more than 90 percent of congress. gold is smuggle to regional states including ronda. it also says that the gold trade is a major driver of conflict. people and gama, attired a violence since may anti round and protests have been held regularly across city or sea by anywhere tootsies from a wonder if the uniforms are

a london that guns are a london. they are shooting indiscriminately local activists and goma feel, let down by the international community. let them know that the international community doesn't say anything because they don't care about our insecurity. they don't care about our well being. for them, it's only important who's the guardian of their geopolitical interests, engineers, and that is your pointed a sentiment shared by residence and gama. not only thought our country is rich, but we don't benefit at all. we can't really say we are rich as we don't see anything of it. i feel like i'm walking a bit that we can't pass a year without hearing that somewhere around go mountain. it would be massacres or a ward take place. was it was it done? at amazon, he has had enough of war. he now only has one wish, and that is a safe home to return to, sir, on the 1000000 muslim or pilgrims of visiting mecca in the 1st open harsh

pilgrimage for 2 years. pandemic restrictions, mental authorities had previously limited access to a smaller number of saudi residents. according to the koran, all muslims who can should go to the heart at least once at his lands, most sacred sight. the crowds are finally back. after 2 years without pilgrims from abroad, the hedge is getting back to normal. but while masks and social distancing route some restrictions, do remain touching or kissing the cover 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. eloquent often have young i have been dreaming of this day for over 12 years. i do mean i have been saving money for 3 years. i was supposed to

come last year but couldn't because of the kind of iris cylinder. none of the pilgrims 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, could i do it the more can't i cried when i 1st arrived? it's an unbelievable feeling what which leaves me at a loss for words. shall i feel serene and very close to god with so much spirituality. a has viani color be lost or not either, but wall around a 1000000 pilgrim, as may be back in mecca. that still some ways to go before the hatch returns to its

true pre pandemic scale. and one of europe's most famous summer festivals is back after a 2 year pandemic hiatus. thousands of revelers are gathered, have gathered into pamplona in. busy northern spain to celebrate the return of the festival of sand, famine, best known for the davy running of the bulls to the city center. a 9 day event is accompanied by nuns stop party. the animal rights come pay this i for tradition is cruel and outdated. is reminder of our top story i took this out here on the w bar is johnson has announced that he will step down as british prime minister that he said he sat to give up the best job in the world and 50 members of his government quit in the last a couple of days over a series of scandals. this is d w. news, a life from birthday coming up next a news asia by the president of indonesia has been seeking to mediate between

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