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it to the whole world to experience out standing shopping and dining offers and drawing our services. be all a guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from bought. ah ah ah, this is debbie news live from berlin, british prime minister born jobs and agrees to step down following a slew of scandals. johnson admitted mistakes that prompted dozens of ministers to put his government, but he hasn't formally resigned yet. he wants to stay on until his party chooses
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a new leader. also coming up ukraine forces hoist the national flag to reclaim snake island while vladimir putin says russia is only just getting start and hopes of de escalating a conflict in central africa. we thousands of people already displaced were wanda, and the democratic republic of congo have agreed to ease tensions. the rebel fires, refuse respect to cease fire. ah and my go croft, welcome to the program. after 3 tumultuous years, british prime minister boris johnson has agreed to stepped out a mass revolt from within his conservative party. prompted his resignation. ministers and party members had enough of a series of scandals and johnson's handling of them. johnson says he wants to stay
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in office until his party and a successor. a moment 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 in that for a new prime minister. and i agree with the grand brady, the chairman of our back bench mpg, is 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 amid economic challenges, but as we seen at westminster at the heard instinct is powerful when the heard moose, it moves, and my friends in politics, no one is remotely indispensable. watched by his wife and staff,
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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 a few will also be disappointed. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. them the brakes. thank you very much. johnson speech close as 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. it is to go completely done of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. his inflicted lies, fraud and chaos in the country. and you know, we are stuck with a function of a government which isn't functioning in the middle of a cost of living crosses. but johnson has made a career of hanging on to power and wriggling out of trouble. i developed moral his
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careless stature. the pandemic saw him hospitalized with cove at 19 system. 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 were 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 remained defiance. franklin interesting to the job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances when he handed to cancel mad is the key no. only for so long. after quitting his conservative party leader, the clock is now ticking on johnson's period as prime minister. more now from d of you correspondent there must in london horse johnson has always been
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a polarizing figure. he and the u. k. there are others who have loved him for his charm and for his wits and the conservative party have really loved him because he was able to reach out to parts of the country that they were never able to reach out to his delivered a huge majority for them, but for all this, he's been a very divisive figure and they have had problems. i've questioned his integrity for very, very long time. it started really with the breaks at campaign when he and the vote leave campaign. when they claim that there were billions, basically that will be saved for breakfast and that could be poured into the health system. for example, when it's now clear that actually breaks it is a problem for the u. k. economy and actually caused the british taxpayer money, at least in the short and medium term. in the end, it was the lies. it was the lies over the party gave the photos that had emerged that showed boys, johnson and colleagues in downing street drinking while other british people,
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most of britain was complying with a very severe lock dine. but he and others in downing street were not, and he was fined in the end. and those lies accumulated. they added up. and in the end, conservative party members, the m p. 's decided that he wasn't going to be the vote winner. that he once was. and they decided to get rid of him sent over now to the war in ukraine. it's in its 5th month, and president vladimir putin told leaders of russia, parliament, which he, his party controls, that this is just the beginning. meanwhile, ukraine's forces claimed to have recaptured snake island in the black sea, racing the national flag there. russia says he retaliated with missile strikes on the outpost. the blue and yellow a few green flies above sneak island. once again, it appears this tiny strip of land became in famous after the outbreak of the wall
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after ukrainian soldiers rejected an ultimatum from a russian warship. the gleam recapture of the island comes a week after russia drew in what moscow called a goodwill gesture. but that goodwill did not last long ogle a big deal about life. i am several ukrainian service man landed on the island and took pictures with aflac berlin. russian forces immediately launched a strike as a result of which the sum of their ukrainian soldiers were killed at yahoo correctly, ronald's portion belongs store alone. snake island sits a long way from the brunt of the fighting. still centered on the dawn boss to the east. here russia has ground assault has slowed its forces or regrouping after digging lisa jans. i had of an unexpected assault on the done yet korean but the face of difficult road ahead as ukrainian troops reinforced
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defensive positions with western weapons let asking each lie efficient, usable. finally, we can feel that the western artillery, the weapons we received from our partners, have started working very effectively yet the accuracy is exactly what is needed. 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. despite the brief pause in russia's advance, muscles are still bombarding the key cities of flo vianza and cram adults for the civilians who remain here. the front lines anal, creeping dangerously close. we spoke earlier to nick spicer and kiva correspondent. they're asking about the capture and a legit recapture of stake. island, you know, the kremlin is communicating,
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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 in that report, it was where the soldiers held out, acted defiantly towards
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a russian warship, which was the moscow, the flagship of the russian black sea fleet, which was sunk by ukrainian missile a little bit later. so there's a lot of wild shame or embarrassment around the snake island home story if you will . and so the kremlin seems to be coming back and trying to sort of put a new spin on events, turned out to other stories that he news around the world. american basketball starboard greiner has pleaded guilty to russian in a russian court to drug charges. as your time olympic gold medalist was detained at moscow airport in february, thirties, there, se vate canisters containing cannabis oil are found in her luggage. so called is la mic status lame responsibility for a raid on a prison in nigeria. capital, a boucher lease researching for around $400.00 inmates still on the run, official se militants used explosives to free energy. hottest,
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the democratic republic of congo and rwanda have agreed to de escalate tensions. the 2 countries have been in dispute since the em 23 rebel group resume fighting against kimberly's troops near the royal one border. the rebels have killed scores of civilians in this place. tens of thousands of people. they say they won't respect the ceasefire to have you correspondent mario miller traveled to eastern congo and file this report. the sound of the bomb blast made that amazon he at 80 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 will bombs, but 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
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refuge at this school near goma, 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 in minority and eastern congo, and accuses the government of failing to observe a previous piece deal. kinshasa says the m 23 rebels are backed by rhonda that kigali denies the accusations or more expertise of how do you explain the resurgence of m. 23. what with big caliber weapons, with the equipment which can destroy plains or that is the m $23.00 capable of buying missiles and long range mortars that did in watts it up around the solver
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make a king. a claims rounders goal is to occupy a d. r c, his territory and exploit its mineral riches liberalism, whether 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 bomb asi, or 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 goma a tired of violence since may anti rondon protests have been held regularly across city or sea. but anywhere tutsis from a wonder, the uniforms of a london, they guns are a london, they a shooting indiscriminately local activists and goma few let down by the
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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 all well being for them, it's only important who's the guardian of fed geopolitical interest in it isn't 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 don't want going up it, we can't pass a year without hearing that somewhere around go miles liberal 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 us and on some sports news. and that's tennis. overboard continues to make history at wimbledon. only a few days ago, she became the 1st arab, an african woman to reach the semi final of the grand slam. now the nation is the
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1st to reach a final in the open era. world number 2 is find the living up to expectations after beating rival and close friend montana. maria 623661 to face russian born cousin. player. alanna, in saturdays, fine. we'll leave it there for now. but don't go anywhere because doc film takes us to chile, where toxic waste devastated city residents are now suing. over that case, crushing at the latest v dot com or just stay with us. we'll have more stop day our with our interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w business be on.

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