i mean, her women into this week with this is d, w is life from berlin. britain's prime minister agrees to resign, or is johnson has been facing mounting 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 chosen. also on the program,

brushing forces pummeled targets across eastern new cray. president zalinski says ukrainian forces a fighting to secure the dumbass region with extra 5 power from weapons and by western allies. and hopes for a breakthrough in a simmering conflict in central africa with thousands already displaced rwanda and the democratic republic of congo, agree to de escalate tensions, but rebel fighters say they will not be bound by the sci fi ah, i'm sure, gail, welcome to the program but if prime minister parish johnson has an answer he'll step down after 3 tumultuous years in power and a mass revolt and the top ranks of his conservative party. dozens of ministers quit his government in the last couple of days over a series of scandals. the time table for choosing

a new leader will be announced next week. mr. johnson has named a new cabinet and says he'll continue as prime minister until his successor is chosen. speaking outside his downing street headquarters, the prime minister 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 that for a new prime minister. and i agree with the grey brady, the chairman of our back bench empties 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 company majority since 1987. the biggest chair of the vote.

since 1979 as join did only correspond to barbara vessel in london outside the houses of parliament. welcome barbara. so he's going but not yet. so talk us through what has to happen 1st? what needs to happen, of course, is that the tory party chooses the new leader and now some say they could do this relatively quickly within the next 2 weeks, up to the summer vacation. the others expect this to take a bit longer until may be the beginning of september. and they are ritual said their need to me as sort of cockers and candidates come up and then get voted out. and in the end to will sort of battle it out for the job off prime minister i looked at some metting out for him. here today came up, was the odd sod to college re, to where we're standing. and it looks as if the fe, read at the moment my britain to follow maurice johnson off is,

is the ben wall is that you 10 secretary, somebody you are is not, cannot be accused of ever having held a flamboyant speech in his life. very unstable. say a pair of hands and experian said no, dear friend, said the military, of course it might be just for people in britain, one dr. barra johnson. okay. sounds like a party going on the outside parliament. i'm hearing them saying bye bye boris. but his political obituary has been written many times before. what was it about this latest scandal, but to proved too much for his party? it's fairly simple filled either the straw that broke the camel's back was just now there is texas scandal. the jury party has suffered a string of those during the last month and even before the years before, once in a while atoria m p had to stand down because he was groping somebody

a getting too close to somebody or whatever. so there has been quite a number of knows the latest one was relatively bay, no, just the repetition of the ones before bought forest johnson laid about it. he lied about the fact that he did not know the reputation of this part particular parliamentarian who was then given some responsibility in within the parliamentary party. and then it came out to him that he did. he was in fact briefed about him that he did know his reputation. he had done it before groping people in the evening while drink out drinking was young, conservative members. so that is what happened. what the real bummer here is, of course, is party gate. the party is being held, having been held during locked down in downing street where the rest of britain was sequestered in their apartments and couldn't even go out into the street. that really sort of turned public opinion against him. but it was just another sex

scandal that finally brought him down because party members said we're fed up. we don't want to take it anymore. one of the biggest issues of his premiership has been breakfast and getting it done and dealing with the aftermath with us. i will love you leaders in brussels. see mister johnson's resignation. no tears are being shed about devoris johnson because he is being fell to somebody who's not trustworthy in his dealings with odd that you members, you always talked about our european friends and neighbors, but he never did behave in a neighborly manner. he really fell out with the president mike wrong from france. he had no friends in berlin. he had no friends anywhere in europe because he sees sorta kept poking his stick into the sore points of bricks and particularly the northern ireland problem at a time right now when everyone has other problems and everyone says, come on,

let's sit down and find a reasonable negotiated solution to this, it can be done, but bursts. johnson again, wanted to create chaos. do something flamboyant, and throw the whole deal out of the window. so no, there is. nobody is going to miss him. and what they expect now from london is somebody who is just said he straight and a man or woman of his or her word. thank you. hello, barbara. barbara vessel in london. so, after winning a resounding majority at the last u. k. election parish johnson lasted just 3 years as prime minister by then he stood on a platform of getting breaks it done. but long before he became a leader, he'd made no secret of his desire for the top job. 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. the bird that he hoped would lead to a beggar things. and when breton debated its membership of the european union, he seized his chance. flying the flag for the leaf campaign at 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 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 seat majority. he promised to we make rich him one month later, hoover 19 struck i've developed mild symptoms of the corona virus. that's 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 grew by the ac. now going to do a decent thing and resign the name of god. throughout his career, morris johnson played by his own rules. in the end,

it was that which led to his downfall. so as he democratic to remove a prime minister with such a massive parliamentary majority without an election, i put that to nicholas allen, whose professor of international relations and philosophy at the school of law and social sciences, ro, holloway, university of london. well, under the, the usual rule is it's entirely normal for a party government party to be able to change its leader and change prime minister the speech that boris johnson gave. so afternoon when it's been talking about his own personal mandate. but the only mandate that anyone has in british politics or any n p 's own personal mandates when they're likely in their constituency. i mean, so far as the governing party has a mandate, it's based on it's manifesto. so it is democratic or change 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. the tory said exactly the same thing. of course, when labor replaced the play with golden brown, but it's just run 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 june. the 1st of all, who changed? prime ministers twice during 2nd world war. and the government is not one man show . bowers johnson is the head of government, but there are a very large number of ministers beneath him. and of course, there are thousands of civil servants who get on the day to the job of actually administering government. so he's not passing opportune time. but then it's a prime minister's finding to provide leadership. he needs to go over the last

couple of days. it's been lots of drama within westminster. i wonder. has that sense of drama made it to the public? how do the public view this prime minister and his troubles for something has been well known in the public eye for many, many years. i suppose, been holding show this shows this 3 sort of distinct facets of his conceptions and in the eyes 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. he's reputation for competence deteriorated some time ago. and his likability is also diminished considerably, particularly in the wake of barty allocations. so i think what the public is saying now what they probably think is now is really 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 prime minister for just under a 3 years. what sort of a mock has bar johnson a made in that time? you know, she's made all sorts remark some positive, some less positive. i mean, he domestically, he got the election one in 2019, which enabled him to progress with bricks. it. he talks about bricks, it being done, but of course breaks it is still progressing. it hasn't been done and there were still lots of loose end to tie up, not least around the northern ireland protocol. britton'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 pandemic is mixed 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 so clearly professor nicholas allen from that role holloway university of london. thank you. will politicians across europe have been keeping close? i am parish johnson's troubles. so we asked the members of the german parliament, what they made of his downfall. this is nicole to ne, a sprinkles platonic. it's good news in britain gets a prime minister again, who's a dependable partner. her partner's member, if you look at the circus still, maurice johnson has been running on the northern ireland protocol. he is just very difficult for cooperation between the european union and the u. k. from when yawn

on coast with tanya and that's why i very much hope that you k will get a government again that the you can work with dependably in these difficult times. i think we need a fundamental shift in the attitude of the conservative party visa v. you pin union for too long. the u has been considered as the main scapegoat for all the evil that has been reg brought a bar brought upon of great britain. and i think that a closer e u. k. relationship can offer many opportunities for improving the living standards of the orig, britain, as well. of course it's, it's clear that now departed lease and therefore the government is concerned lot with maybe not in fighting, but finding a new leader. and then it's also, i think, reason of concern because i think written this is very much needed now also as an

international partner with given the, the rush of war on a crane. and i think the government, including, of course, boards, johnson, if they to very good role here. and, oh, well, the, the, the economy, it wants to be expected to be bumpy, right after breakfast. but it's not that what counts that what counts is to establish the alerts and the moral behavior or immoral behavior. he said, right, and, well, that's the receipt he got now. well, i mean, the united kingdom has taken the decision to leave the european union, which was the biggest self inflicted damage. any sovereign nation has taken an lisa my lifetime. i think this was a disastrous mistake. i think he's, we see the consequences in terms of the economic data, in terms of inflation, the terms of all the it trade flows that have really come to a standstill. and i believe that, you know, johnston's influence overall. johnson's legacy,

johnston's evaluation by historians will be, you know, rather critical. let's take a look now at small stores or making news around the world. so called islamic state has claimed responsibility for a raid on a prison in the yet nigerian capital of buddha. lisa, searching for around $400.00 inmates who are still on the run, official se militants used explosives to flee a fellow jihadists. protestors in sudan have housemother nighttime sit in the gates military rule. the main opposition leader says he doesn't believe promises that the army commanders will make way for a civilian government. activists have kept demonstrating despite crackdowns by security forces. on the trial of the deadly 2018 bridge collapse in the italian city of genoa has begun. $59.00 people facing charges of the incident, the claim $43.00 lives. the tragedy sparked widespread anger and expose the crumbling state of the national infrastructure russian flag cargo ship. the

suspected of carrying stolen ukrainian grain has been allowed to leave the turkish port. ukraine's foreign ministers expressed outrage and summoned turkey. dumbasses cabinet denies any wrong doing that of the warring ukraine and russia says, one of its warplanes has struck you. crane 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 hans, go, russia have stepped up its assaults on the neighboring de next region. the city of soviets has become a main target for russian shutting, but other towns across the east are also being bombarded. the universe in hockey was destroyed by mis. i'll strike despite this. you, cranium. officials say western supplied weapons are making a difference. let's get more from nick spicer in the ukrainian capital. welcome, nick. we'll start with the recapture. the capture and recapture of snake island and then move on to russia's offensive in the dumbass shelley. yeah,

stake island if you know alleged recapture, there's a story coming from the kremlin whereby russian forces bombarded ukrainian troops who had gone to plant the ukrainian flag on the island. it has not been confirmed ukrainians were able to do that. we have video from the ukraine defense ministry of them doing that. once the russians pulled out on june the 30th saying they were doing it as a humanitarian. it gesture, however, the truth is they were coming under constant bombardment from ukrainian artillery seek i. and i think our viewers will recall is that famous and we're a handful of ukrainian soldiers were gathered and famous. he told a russian warship that ordered them to surrender, to go yourself russian warship. they were then captured, the island was taken by russian soldiers in that war ship itself, the flagship of the russian fleet. the moscow was later sunk. so all kinds of symbolism around this little piece of land which is close to bulgaria, not massively significant, but significant. symbolically clearly,

for the kremlin to communicate about it in, in that way to be confirmed again, the rest of the war. the main battles is, of course, in the, in the east, in a bit to the south and east, which we were talking about. as you said, fell ukrainian forces have pulled out of the hats in order to better fight it down in the de net screeching where they've put up lines of defense. and a russian artillery has already started. that's been the russian tactic to just artillery. send in massive garages of artillery, basically a scorched earth policy to places they planned to take over. and they're doing that again. we hear that there has been artillery landing in the center of slow dance, and that has allegedly killed a few civilians, cremmit towards g, rather a near soviets him at his allegedly killed a few civilians. okay, thanks after that. nika, we'll get ahead now what present zalinski has been saying about the effect of western heavy weapons and then we'll come back to you. that is to reach latisha 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. 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 was touching. nic spicer and cave. clearly these weapons are making a big difference. i think they are, they're, they're, they're not present in the numbers that ukrainians would like to see. but just to take an example, there are for high mar systems rocket systems, truck born rocket launchers, the americans have delivered, and these rockets are accurate to within one meter. the rock is that the russians are using and the ukranian army has a rocket to within 500 meters. so what the ukrainians are doing is basically targeting the depos of those artillery shells that the russians have been using is

basically their main tactic. they're not sending in soldiers to take overland or just bombarding civilian areas and all kinds of military targets in order to prevent the russians from continuing with that strategy. and i think we'll see an escalation of that as the western weapons continue to arrive. so there they are decisive factors, the details of how they're used, and when they're used. understandably, the ukrainian government is not keen to share, and the russians are not particularly keen on advertising their results either. all right, thanks for that said nick, nick spicer and keith. rwanda and the democratic republic of congo have to have agreed to deescalate attentions. the 2 countries have been in disputes, and c. m. 23 rebel group resumed fighting against congress. troops near the rwandan border. rebels have killed scores of civilians displaced at tens of thousands of people. they say they will not respect the cease fire fresh clashes with the congolese military already broken out. dw correspondent ammonia will travel to

easton congo and filed this report. the sound of a bomb blast made that amazon he l e d. fear for his life. it exploded near his home in the village of ro, honda, eastern congo. he knew instantly that the m $23.00 rebels were coming up there 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 classrooms 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 are backed by rhonda. but kigali denies the accusations or what expertise of how do you explain the resurgence of m . 23. what with big caliber weapons with equipment which can destroy plains sale. that is the m $23.00 capable of buying missiles and long range morters. thus did the mot, apple render this alvin, we met a king, a claims round, as 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, bo massey, or gutted 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 c, 5 in their tutsis from a wonder if the uniforms are a london. the 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 fed geopolitical interests, engineers, and that is your pointed a sentiment shared by residence and gama. natalie 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. no luck on what going a bit. we can't pass a year without hearing that somewhere around. go moll him. 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. so american basketball star, brittany griner has pleaded guilty in a russian court to drug charges to face is up to 10 years in prison. the trial of the to time olympic gold medalist began last week. she was detained at moscow airport in february with ortiz, a vague canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. a family called on the president biden, to secure release on one of yours, west famous summer festivals. ace, back after a 2 year kogan to hyatt, us thousands of revelers are gathered in hum cloner in northern spain to celebrate

the festival of some firm in the daytime. running of the bulls through the city, the 9 day events ceased nonstop parting, but the animal rights campaign of saying that tradition is cruel and outdated. is reminder of our top story at best. our british prime minister parish johnson has announced that he will step down. he says he's sad to give up the best job in the world for them. 50 members of his government have quit. and the last couple of days over series of scandals that set you up to date small world years of the top of the our focus on you are, is up next looking at foreigners fighting in the world. and you have good with

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