Hello and has him seeka in doha, the top stories on edge is eda forest johnson has pulled out of the race to become a u. K. Prime minister a decision. Theyre almost certainly paves the way for finance minister richie soon act. Johnson returned to the country on saturday, feeling speculation of a comeback. Just months after he resigned. Alan fisher has more money. Now, he is the front runner for the job is britains makes Prime Minister. But rushes to neck is preceding cautiously. A short written statement, promising integrity, professionalism and accountability, and then off to rally, support. I the only other declared candidate is cabinet minister penny more than she has backing, but as yet not enough to hit the magic mark of 100. 00 and p supporting her to get in to a run off election. I am very confident about the progress we are making and i will say to you that i am in this to win it. I think its important for our party. We have a contest. I am very confident about our numbers. And
Hello am learned. Adrian, under the top. Stories are now to 0. Russia back to authorities in the ukrainian city of how song have urged all civilians to evacuate immediately. As keeps horses advance in the region, the officials are wanting of an increased danger of massive shelling and want people to cross the ne pro river to russian occupied towns. They say thousands of already left in what ukraine is described as a mass deportation. A house on region is one of 4 ukrainian territories. Moscow illegally annexed, following separatist held referendums. Last month. Im a jammed room is in keith. He says, there are expectations of major advances in house on there has been a statement that was issued by ukraines military command regarding some of what is happening in the person region. They are saying that Russian Forces have abandoned villages in the southern parasol region that they have left shot even their catalogue. And the officers and medical personnel left the town of berry slob, whic
Im sterile than you in doha, we have the headlines, the you al jazeera, former u. K. Chancellor richie sooner has announced that he is running to become the next prime minister. Is expected to face off against former liter, boris johnson, who has yet to announce his candidacy at johnston and snack met, face to face on saturday. If need and decker has the details on that. There was some speculation that the meeting last night between the 2 men who do not get on something very well known was perhaps to strike a deal to have maybe one of them not run to figure out how to move forward for the best of the party. And indeed the country, but we got an already sent. The new deal had been struck from bars johnson this morning saying that there was no deal that he was going to run and that he was the right man. The one with the mandate basically refer back to 2019 election when he was elected to solve this issue. So weve already got a sentence that no deal was met. Now we have officially heard f
Staying in her job. It follows a chaotic 6 weeks in office, which saw her ratings the planet to record lows and brought turmoil to u. K. Economy. The new leader will be knowing within a week, under simmons reports from london. This cross was the Prime Minister of broken promises. She calls the near milltown with the markets. Nearly all her on funded plans for tax cuts were reversed. Now shes out the shortest serving Prime Minister in the u. K. History. I cannot deliver the mandates on which i was elected by the conservative party. I therefore slaten to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. Whom doing started last friday. Shed sectors finance minister, kwasic quoting, but blaming him for getting it wrong had no effect on the markets. The pound wasnt recovering on the cost of government boring was still going up to say a nervous trust walked out on question. Instead of going to say, oh no, you 5 minutes in came political, heavyweight
Email about migration. On this sir, i was sent to a personal colleague or this contributed a breach of ministerial rules. As soon as i reported the mistake right away, i then moved on to decide to use a while to decided to resign because she wanted to keep herself performing to the highest standards of office. When any of my spoke to jeremy corbin, a former leader of the u. K. Labor party, he told me, liz trust, his government is in shambles. Its a government in complete chaos. Where from one moment another you dont even know who the ministers are charged. The secular change several times the home secretary has just been replaced and the Prime Ministers apparently had a very large number of letters sent in by conservative m. P. s, who can decide her future saying they want her to go. So it is a government in chaos, but id prefer to look slightly beyond the parliamentary theatre that is going on. Now, the reality is that inequality in britain is deeper than ever before. Poverty, homeles