[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is the double the news i from berlin, britain's prime minister agrees to resign. baris johnson has been facing a 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'll stay in office until

a new leader is chosen. also on the program, russian forces pummel targets across eastern ukraine. president zalinski says ukrainian forces are fighting to secure the don vast region with extra firepower from weapons sent by west and allies. and hoped for a break through the simmering conflict in central africa with thousands already displaced rwanda, the democratic republic of congo, agree to de escalate tensions, but rebel fighters say they will not be bound by the cease fire. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. but his prime minister barak johnson has announced that he'll step down after 3 tumultuous years in power under match 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 lady will be announced next week. mister johnson's name to new capitan says you'll continue, was prime minister until his success 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, m p 's. 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. the biggest, conservative majority since 1987,

the biggest chair of the vote. since 1979 subarus johnson, a stepping down. but not yet i asked the w correspondent, barbara fazel in london. what has to happen 1st? what needs to happen, of course, is that the tory party chooses in you 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 him in longer until maybe the beginning of september. and they are ritual said there need to be a 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 betting i'm here today, came up with the odds on to college, read where is standing. and it looks as if for their favorite at the moment my

written to follow marsan then off is, is the ben wallace, the defense secretary, somebody who has not cannot be accused of ever having held a flamboyant speech. it is my very stable, same pair of hands and experience, said the friends at the military. of course, it might be just for people in britain want. after borrowed johnson, it's barbara of iceland london will. after winning a resounding majority of the last election, maurice johnson lasted just 3 years as prime minister. back then, he stood on the platform of getting breakfast done. long before he became a leader, he 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 hitting 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 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 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 strong i've developed mild symptoms of the corona virus as 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 twin et liter 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 down. the pressure on him grew by the weak se, now go to take a 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 cable from tim bail,

his professor policy at queen mary university of london. a welcome to the w. bush. johnson says, you'll leave number 10 when a successor has been chosen or is that his decision? it's part of the course that happens in the case of touch it with over. it happened when a camera that it happened when you go from to reason. i say that is the question is whether conservative and trust him to act as a kind of can take a prime minister while they conduct a contest and can take or is someone who you would expect to do and say pretty much nothing. and just keep the ship of state afloat and doesn't really say no ideal candidate for that. right. so in this interregnum while there is a conservative leadership, a challenge and know that the runners arrives sorted out. we presume that this is

going to take was a couple of months to finally sort out. yes, because there are 2 stages that the m p 's 1st have to vote in the series of a nation balance. they come up with 2 people who then go forward to the entire membership in the country. now bring i would a thought something like a $150000.00 people. so yes, the 1st stage would be conducting fairly quickly, probably by the end of this month. but it will take a mom to possibly 2 to conduct the leadership, probably because conservative policy, as it did last time, likes the whole house things where members can actually put the candidates. that pace is actually voting a. he has survived numerous attempts to get rid of him. what was it about this latest scandal over a relatively unknown m p. that finally did for him? well, i think boris jones was in trouble anyway. and policy gave you been

a real blunt reputation. such was and i think the chris pincher, if there is a point when someone who knowingly understood to be a sex pass was really the last rule for many of his n p. i think a problem 40 more as well what you might call a smoking gun in the former civil servant room to last and making it very clear prime minister lined about not knowing about chris and pinches reputation. and i think that really worried some conservative and i think holes that oversee there is a difference in content and peace minds anyway, between breaking the law right. look down policies on the one hand and actually facilitating someone who appears to have committed, you know, some, some pretty serious offenses when a criminal or not against other people. and what is the british public a bit, do they care about morris johnson's shenanigans? oh, yes. most definitely, i mean, you know,

this is something that the british people have been paying a lot of attention to really since the party k scandal broke before christmas. last year, they said they'd be paying a lot of attention to this latest scandal force johnson's reputation as really go through the full on this. he was never that your prime minister anyway, but he's not one of the most of the problems that we've got to say. so i really do think the majority of the country will be glad to see the back of the question is whether they will want to stay behind around in downing street for another 2 or 3 months. i think that's going to be quite hard to stomach for some people who talk to you. thank you. that's very clear. professor tim bailey, from queen mary university london. take a quick look at some more stories making news around the world circle design status claim responsibility for a raid on a prison in the nigerian capital of buddha,

police are searching for around $400.00 inmates who are still on the run. official se militants use explosives to free fellow jihadists. a russian flag, cargo ship suspected of carrying stolen ukrainian grain, has been allowed to leave a turkish fort. ukraine's foreign ministers expressed outrage and summoned turkey's ambassador. the kremlin denies any wrong doing. russia says, one of its war planes has struck you cranes, a snake island in the black sea ukrainian troops, a claim to have raised their flag over the outpost after recapturing it. and after declaring full control of your hands, russia has stepped up its assault on the neighboring dynette region. the city of slow hands has become a main target for russia, sharing with other towns across the east are also being bombarded and university in khaki. it was destroyed by missiles strike, despite this ukrainian official say, western supplied weapons are making

a difference. the w. nick spicer is in the ukranian capital and i asked him about be capture and recapture of snake island? yeah, snake island if you know a ledger 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 ukrainian defense ministry of them doing at once the russians pulled out on june the 30th saying they were doing it as a humanitarian gesture. however, the truth is they were coming under constant bombardment from ukrainian artillery sake i. and i think our viewers will recall was that famous island, where a handful of ukrainian soldiers were gathered and famous. he told a russian warship that had ordered them to surrender to go yourself russian warship . they were then captured. the island was then taken by russian soldiers and that war ship itself the flagship of the russian fleet. the moscow was later sunk to 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. and in that way to be confirmed again, the rest of the war, the main battles is of course, any, any east of it this out in the east, which we were talking about. as you said, fil, 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 the russian artillery has already started. that's been the russian tactic to just artillery. send in massive barrages of artillery, basically a scorched earth policy to places they plan to take over. and they're doing that again. we hear that there has been artillery landing in the center of soviets, and that has allegedly killed a few civilian crematory, rather a near soviets him at his allegedly killed the few civilians. okay, thanks i for that make, i will get a here now, what president zelinski has been saying about the effect of west heavy weapons and

then we'll come back to let us do each leticia 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. i mix spicer in cave. clearly these weapons are making a big difference. i think they are there 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 in 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 as basically their main tactic are not sending in soldiers to take over land 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 who i said. nick nicks, piper and keith with ukraine's eastern province of lou hands, commander of russian control moscow's expected to turn. it's attached to other parts of easton, you cried for the 2nd look of ukrainian territory, but russia has now taken. so here it is, and it includes the city of at least it chanced a which was the last bastion of resistance in the loo,

hands skirt region. unless to say the next key contest in rushes will be the battle force. labianca. experts believe that russian of forces are also attempting to advance at west from the see chance towards the get town of a severe ask. so they suggest that russia is also likely to push towards a back more a from the south. let's get more. i'll miss from cynthia r cook. she's director of the defense industrial initiatives group and senior fellow in the international security program at the center for strategic and international studies in washington d. c. welcome to the w. we've heard the ukrainian president talking about the difference at weston weapons and making. does ukraine have enough of these are enough on the way to watch the term is water around it's difficult to say how much is enough, the number,

the amount of weapons that ukraine would need to fully expel russia from its soil is uncertain. the amount, the weapons that are coming in will help ukraine have the unnecessary war fighting effect in maintaining the resistance against russian forces. right? an ukraine says it's using these long range, high precision western weapons, or to target russian weapons date, dead depots. now this does that use of western weapons against russian artillery does not run the risk of escalating this conflict. i don't think so. for the most part, the russian weapons that ukraine is targeting our actually on ukraine soil. and it, even if they were across the border in russia, it's a pretty clear narrative that ukraine is doing this to protect itself. ukraine has

been pretty careful about not just launching weapons across the border into russia. i sort of more general basis even though they could, because they want to make sure that the message is that they're fighting for their freedom. they're not fighting russia for russian soil. they're fighting for ukraine . soil. you written that this will will likely end when one side decides it's costa to greats, to bear out how close are indeed far from much do you think we on it's i don't mean to have a question about that, but it's, it's not clear yet. ukraine is, in an existential fight for its survival against russia. it wants to stay as an independent country. and many countries of the west would like to see you. crane stay independent as a ballpark against russia,

and also to send the message about not attacking other nations about not having an expansionist perspective. from russia's perspective, the sanctions are having an effect, but they seem to be pulling in to have a, a russia focused economy. it's interesting that the western allies and partners are being so open about the sorts of weapons and the capabilities of the weapons that they are sending to ukraine. you think that's actually a good idea, tactically, yes, because it, it shares with it. it informs allies and partners and sends a message to the rest of the world about the kinds of capabilities that ukraine will have. and also that there, these nations support ukraine as it works towards shaking off rushes, aggression. good talking to thank you so much for joining us. a cynthia cook from the center for strategic and international studies in washington,

d. c. thank you. thank you. rwanda on the democratic republic of congo have agreed to deescalate tensions to countries of feeding disputes and c. m . 23 rebel group resumed fighting against congo. these troops near the rwandan border rebels have killed scores of civilians and displaced at tens of thousands of people. i say they will respect the sci fi and fresh clashes with the congress military already broken out. will the w correspondent, mario buller has been to easton congo on 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 clashes began in april. the m. 23 was pushed back by the congress 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 tootsie minority in eastern congo, and accuses the government of failing to observe a previous piece deal. kinshasa says the m 23 rebels are backed by rhonda. but kigali denies the accusations or more expertise or how do you explain the resurgence of m. 23. what with big caliber weapons with equipment which can destroy

planes. we design or that is the m $23.00 capable of buying missiles and long range mortars that did they walked around this alvin? we met a king, a claims randers goal is to occupy darcy's territory and exploit its mineral riches . amelia princess, whether the law, rwanda is among the biggest exporters of gold and colton or 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. i promise you all gutted more according to the u. s . treasury, more than 90 percent of congress gold is smuggled 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 anywhere tutsis from a wonder if the uniforms are a london that guns are a london, they are shooting indiscriminately,

local activists and gama 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. 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. so like i'm walking a bit, we can't pass a year without hearing that somewhere around go. martin enabled him massacres or a ward take place or was it were victor or amazon he has had enough of war. he now only has one wish, and that is a safe home to return to around a 1000000 muslim pilgrims of visiting mecca in the 1st open harsh pilgrimage for 2

years. authorities had previously limited access to saudi residence because of the pandemic. according to the koran, old muslims who can should go on the harsh, at least once, that is lambs, most sacred site, 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 are out, 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. i would often have you. 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 korean

a virus. none of the day when 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 the more can i cried when i 1st arrived? it's an unbelievable feeling what which leaves me at a loss for words. yeah, sure. i feel serene and very close to god with so much spirituality a has danny color below last palo dollar. but while 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 . morgan basketball star,

brittany griner has pleaded guilty of russian court to drug charges. the trial of the 2 time olympic gold medalist began last week. she faces up to 10 years in prison, after being detained at moscow airport in february, authority, se vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage ground his family of cold on you, as president joe biden, to secure her release. tennis algebra continues to make history at wimbledon only a few days ago. she became the 1st arab and american woman to reach the semi final of a grand slam. now that union is the 1st to reach a final in the open air. the world number 2. so finally, living up to expectations after beating rival and close friend a touch on maria. 623661. the women's wimbledon final is on saturday. is reminder of our top story this out or is johnson has confirmed he will step down

as prime minister of great britain. and he says he's sad to give up the best job in the world. 50 members of his government to quit over series of scott, coming up next a news asia on the president of indonesia wants to mediate between russia and ukraine. now in the 5th month of world visits and indonesian school, it's working to return, if dignity and happiness to people shunned by the rest of society. jared read has those stories and more news asia in just a moment, and i'll be back at the top of the i'm good with

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