ah, british prime minister boys johnson appeared before number 10, downing street to day and delivered the message i am resigning. but just not right now. johnson says he'll wait perhaps several months until his conservative party has chosen a new prime minister of this is the boars. johnson that the world knows so will bullish, bombastic stretching time and the truth to cling to power for is johnson made me promising to step down, but for now, it looks like he's planning on staying put. i'm burned gulf in berlin. this is the day. ah, sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. a bad time isn't

a serious lay. the herd instinct is popular in the hud moves. it, moves lies off to life. how can you actually trust anyone who can reply to god only knows are brilliant and darwinian system will produce another leader sinner. he is an ordinance pertain and tripoli. that is to be at the bay tex. bring this fast to an end. we need to change a fresh stop in politics. no one is remotely indispensable. that them the brain also coming up western weapons for ukraine. they're now helping keep them fight back against the advancing russian army. but will they ever be enough to win back last territory? boredom was that we are fighting for our entire south. so the entire ukrainian dumbass slough. if oak upon the occupy shouldn't think their time in this land is long, long, all the superiority of their a tillery eternal leech. ah,

was our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states, and to all of you around the world? welcome, we begin the day with the resignation of boys johnson to be continued. it was just about 12 noon to day when that black door at number 10 downing street opened, making way for a politician who had to do what no politician ever wants to do. throw in the towel, boys. johnson emerged after 48 hours that had seen dozens upon dozens of resignation in his own government. another scandal throwing doubt on johnson's honesty, had proven too much for too many. as boris johnson approached the podium and began speaking, it became clear, this prime minister may be on his way out. but this departure will take place according to boris johnson. ty, a moment's long delayed,

finally becomes unavoidable. good afternoon, everybody. 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 empties that the process of choosing that new leader should begin. now without saying resign, johnson said he would stay on until a new leader is in place. he lamented his conservative colleagues. eccentric push to change, prime minister, i mean economic challenges, but as we seen a westminster at the heard instinct is powerful when the heard moves, it moves, and by friends in politics, no one is remotely indispensable. watched by his wife and staff, johnson recalled his landslide election when in 2019 his completion of briggs and passage through the corona virus pandemic. i know that there will be many people

who are relieved and perhaps quite of you will also be disappointed. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them the brakes. thank you very much. johnson speech closest one chapter, but opens the door to a period of political uncertainty, the opposition and some in his own party say he should leave office immediately in his to go completely done of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. his inflicted lives, fraud and chaos in the country. and, you know, we're stuck with a function of a government which isn't functioning in the middle of a cost of living crisis. but johnson has made a career of hanging on to power and wriggling out of trouble. i've developed mile, his careless start to the pandemic, so im hospitalized with cove at 19 assistant. he survived that and later outrage at

parties held in his office during lockdown. booze from the public at the queen's jubilee in early june with followed by a vote of confidence in parliament which he won, but was left damaged and missed. the tipping point came after revelations about sexual misconduct within his party, leading to high level ministerial resignations. johnson remain defiance pricing interesting to the job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances when you get handed to can also mandate is the key? no, that's only for so long after quitting is conservative party leda. the clock is now ticking on johnson's period as prime minister o my 1st gift, the name is richard whitman. he is a professor in international relations at the university of kent. he's also a fellow at chatham house, which is a british think tank professor house, which is a british think tank professor. it's good to have you on the day,

boris johnson. he says that he'll resign once his party has chosen a successor. can we be absolutely sure that there is no way back for him? well, i don't think we could ever rule. right. i mean, he's an extraordinary politician, but i think the, the rules and asset for choosing his replacement. i think that what we've already seen over the last extraordinary 48 hours is that there is no real backing for him left within the parliamentary party. so even if he wanted to continue in office, even if he engaged in some shenanigans or he would certainly friedman who would act . so i think yes it we, it, marian backing on the process to, to choose his replacement. and what about this idea of boris johnson staying on as a caretaker, if he does, he have any credibility left me? is he going to be able to get any business done will,

if you look to his 2 predecessors, submissive may and, and her predecessor of mr. cameron, and he, both of them acted as care take his after they've taken the decision to resign. so it's not unusually in the british system for this to happen. i think the issue or i, mr. johnson is, is really tied up with he's, he's reliability, but also his honesty and whether he would use that period is caretaker in some way to try to track it away. that would be inappropriate. but at the, the time time where the process is going to be accelerated, it's going to happen much more quick beans the case normally. so the idea is that really we would have this process settled within the, the party itself within about 3 weeks. and then moving on to a 6 week process for 2 candidates going forward to the, to the party electorate. your, the financial times is reporting tonight that there should be a new prime minister as early as the 1st week in february. does that sound

realistic to you? i think we'll see, i think we'll see it much earlier to be frank. and the way that the process works is that it is a fairly low bar to come forward as a candidate, but you get whittled down very, very quickly. and as i say, these are the 2 leading candidates, the 2 who are left standing. i go forward for a vote of the, the party, the, the, the members of the party, and that's going to be a 6 week process. so they, most commentators think it's going to take about 2 weeks really. and once the process is underway to see it. finally settled, and then as i say, actually actually the electron occupant, the interesting thing, of course, you've got to appeal to 2 constituencies. festival you've got to when you're in peace and then you go to whenever your party at lodge and, and that means i think you got had different qualities and, and had different kind of appeal to, to satisfy success in both of those stages of the process. i'd like for us to

listen into boris shots and talking about what he believes his legacy is or will be take a listen. and of course, i am immensely proud of the achievement of this government from getting rented done to settling our relations with the continent for over half a century, reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in parliament. get to your soul through the pandemic. delivering the faust is vaccine remarked in europe, the faust is exit from locked down. and in the last few months, leading the west in standing up to putins aggression and ukraine. professor whitman, boris johnson claims, do you have got breaks it done and to have returned that the power of law making to the british parliament, how much of that is true and how much of that is nonsense or the

unquestionably he remembered as the it's a prime minister who did see the u. k that leave the u. n. and drove that process forward, which means that that's a mixed legacy because of course, a significant proportion of the, the public believe that that's a mistake. and therefore will always view him critically. but for supporters of bricks that they will give credit to him for seeing that processed through. and i think that's the thing that will always attach itself to him as well as school says is, is his behavior as prime minister. and he's conduct, which is seems to be inappropriate. i think on the other issues that he mentioned. i think it's more complicated, you know, the vaccine question. i think many dispute whether it was conducted in the way that he suggests, if you look at, for example, the way that the, the locked down or, and the, the management, the current process. in general. there's significant criticism that because of the

number of deaths in, in the u. k. so gave very, very mixed legacy on ukraine. i think that he inherited the situation which the u. k. had been supportive of the ukranian government, but i think it's probably fair to say that he's energy animus and dynamism really made a difference in terms of conveying the sense that the u. k. should get behind i suppose for ukraine, but that will act, leave him. so i think bricks it will be his legacy. and as i say, apart from that, i think very, very mixed record. and i suspect you will also diminish cross time, frankly. and he'll be a bit of a foot married in history, i think as, as a prime minister, it's interesting you say that there were some comparisons made today in the united states between donald trump and boars. johnson and the, the commentator saying 1st donald trump's, donald trump lost an election now boris johnson has to resign. do you agree that

there is an error of transit when it populism ending? now i think mister johnson certainly appeared to adopt some of the characteristics of mr. trump, we've seen this over the last 24 hours or so where, you know, he's, he's claimed, if you like he's, he's base. he's from the size of the vote that he got in the election, which is not how british elections work under all parliamentary system. so i think there are some echoes of that, but i think he was far more constrained in terms of what he could do just because of a cabinet system of government because of the nature of the civil service that we have, which he's not full of political appointees, but i think that clean, he was strong from the same school of political campaigning which used to present very complicated issues in very simple ways at which perhaps

were effective as a campaigning device. but does nothing to to help sort of manage the complexity among politics. so in that way i would, i would see them as is very similar in campaigning, but as i say, pretty different political child context, which both of them came to power. yeah, i heard one commentators say today that he campaigned like the president doug, but he forgot to govern like a prime minister. professor richard whitman, it's good to have your time in your insights to night. thank you. ah, we're now to the war in ukraine. russia says one of its warplanes and struck ukraine's snake island in the black sea crania troops claimed to have raised their flag over the outpost after recapturing it. and after declaring full control of lu hans, russia had stepped up its assault on the neighboring. don't ask region. the city of

soviets can become a major target for russian shilling, but other towns across ukraine's east are also being bombarded wednesdays all the destruction of a university in her heath, and a missiles straw dw sneak spicer is covering events on the ground in ukraine. he has more on the capture and recapture of snake island is pretty murky. brent, you know the kremlin is communicating, i think symbolically here saying that they killed some ukrainian soldiers while they tried to plant the flag. the ukrainian defense ministry has provided video of the planting of the flag that the kremlin has made all kinds of claims before, rather implausible. for example, they took out a whole cadre of ukrainian generals and commanders in one fell swoop, and 10 of those m triple 7 american howitzers in the same strike. and we know they have some targeting problems. and so there is a messaging from the kremlin,

which is for a domestic audience that doesn't necessarily correspond to the facts on the ground . and i think it's fair to say that because there's no video evidence provided there's all kinds of video, but everything in this conflict. but i think is really the takeaway here is that the kremlin c snake on that is something really symbolic. because as we heard in that report, it was where the soldiers held out, acted defiantly towards a russian war ship, which was the moscow, the flagship of the russian black sea fleet, which was sunk by ukrainian miss heil a little bit later. so there's a lot of wild shame or embarrassment around the snake island story if you will. and so the kremlin seems to be coming back and trying to sort of put a new spin on events that was the spice to reporting their ukrainian officials say that western supplied weapons are making a difference in the efforts to fight back against the russian advance. here is ukrainian president voldemort zalinski that is to reach latisha newson. finally,

it is felt that the western artillery, the weapons we received from our partners have started working very effectively. the accuracy is exactly what we needed. and defenders inflict very noticeable strikes on depots and other locations that are important for the occupies logistics . and this significantly reduces the offensive potential of the russian army. their losses will only increase every week as will the difficulty of re supplying them either you'll post that change was cynthia cook is director of the defense industrial initiatives group. she's also a senior fellow with the center for strategic and international studies in washington, dc. miss cook, it's good to have you on the program. you know, we just heard the ukrainian president talking about the difference that western weapons are making. let me ask you, can these weapons, can they do any more than just slow down the rush in advance?

they can, western weapons will enable you crane to have a significant impact on rushes ability to advance by attacking their capabilities, their ammunition depots, air systems. there are people that are russian soldiers and so forth. so it is at this point, a war of both sides grinding against each other. and the question is, can the weapons that the west supply ukraine enable them to push back against the russians grinding forward? and the answer is yes. do you think more could be done to provide ukraine with the soviet style weapon read that it's armed forces are already trained to use? i mean, is that a possibility? well that you crane's allies don't have a deep bench of soviet era or style weapons to provide ukraine, and they're really the only place ukraine could get it from those from is russia

and russia not sending them over what ukraine needs is. modern western style weapons to push back against russia's capabilities because the weapons of the west are in fact more capable than what russia is. brade the fight. i was told earlier this week by a military analyst in washington that the weapons coming from the united states are being drawn from us reserves, as well as from u. k. reserves. nope. if that's the case, then that tells me that there must be a finite number of weapons to draw from it. is that true or is the sky? the limit, if we find other ways to manufacture these weapons? so there's 2 questions here. one is how deep is the united states and you case and other allies bench in terms of the weapons,

it supplies to ukraine and for the united states, it has a global military role. so it does have quite a bit of stocks of different weapons. and this guy is not the limit because you know that it is not infinite, but at the same time neither are the russian stocks they. it appears that the war so far has impacted a lot of their their you know, you crazy. brought down aircraft has sunk ships, has destroyed tanks and other land vehicles, so they don't have infinite stocks either. the 2nd question is one of search capacity, and that is a, that is a great question. if you look at the history of military manufacturing, there are times when the department of defense has gotten industry to stand up and bring additional capabilities to the fight that can't happen instantaneously,

but it can happen. well, are we looking at the situation then? if i'm hearing you correctly, if the united states is europe, or are we in a position, not only to provide weapons almost indefinitely, but also to provide a surge of weapons needed to eventually push back russian forces? i mean, is it just a matter of out producing and out surging the russians? well, that is the long game. and the shorter run support will have to come from existing stocks. weapons ok. you as president ger by. he says that he'll support ukraine for as long as it takes ukraine says victory can only mean the expulsion of russian forces from ukraine. i'm just wondering how one can both of these statements co exist. ukraine

faces an existential threat. it already, it already gave up territory in 2014, and if whatever territory it gives up, now, it's not clear that russia will be satisfied. they could rebuild their military and come back to the fight in 3 years in 5 years. so it really is in ukraine's interest to push back on russia as hard as they they can. that said, neither side is really in a strong enough position to get what they want right now. so i think we can see the war continue going on for the next months. cynthia cook with the center for strategic and international studies in washington. miss cook, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you very much. ah. the democratic republic of congo, and we're one to have agreed to de escalate tensions. the 2 countries have been in

disputes since the m 23 rebel group resumed fighting against conga, leaves troops near the rwandan border. the rebels have killed scores of civilians and displaced tens of thousands of people. they say they will not respect any sci fi. d, w correspondent, mario mueller traveled to eastern congo for us. she followed 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 the 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 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, backed 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 more expertise of how do you explain the resurgence of m. 23, with big caliber weapons with equipment which can destroy plains sale. that is the m $23.00 capable of buying missiles and long range mortars. thus, did the mortar, apple render this? al venmo let a king a claims randers goal is to occupy

a d r c his territory and exploit its mineral riches lebrans. this was the law. 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 u. s. 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 anywhere tutsis from a wonder if the uniforms over 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 their 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 log on won't gain 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 for the days of miss john, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter either at dw news, you can follow me on twitter at brent golf t. v. every member, whatever happens between now and then, tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then, if

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