hello. el km to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am john vause live in lviv, ukraine. mariupol, fighters in that port city who held up a russian assault for weeks may now have just days or hours left. and i want rosemary church live at cnn head quarters in atlanta. uk prime minister pors johnson has apologized twice in two days for party gate. today, mp s debate, will he misled them and what do about it. it is 9:00 a.m. here in ukraine, where russian forces are tightening their strangle democracy hold on the port city of mare yoep. a ukrainian commander says as many as you a thousand civilians
will which will delay any referral to that committee until after the police have completed their inquiries. now, of course, by by deferring it, by putting it off to another day, he is hoping he is hoping things will have moved on by then. yeah. ministers insist that a vote should actually wait until the police have finished their investigation and civil servant sue gray has published her report but when this does eventually happen, some conservative mps have threatened to vote wp opposition or abstain. what does that signal to you as calls for boris johnson grow to resign? a lot of them don t want to put their name to a vote in defense of the prime minister. because they know that the labor party is going to use that they will put the the labor party will put their names on leaflets. this mp voted to block an
inquiry into the prime minister s conduct. and they won t want do that. backbench mps who have nothing to lose don t want to come to the aid of the prime minister in this way and so the government is very worried about the turnout for that vote. although they got a majority at 77 so they will win comfortably anyway. on his flight to india for that two-day official visit, mr. johnson said he will fight the next general election buld not say in there were any circumstances under which he would resign. what does that tell you about where he sees ail this going? the prime minister has to say they will fight the next general election, until until they are forced forced to say otherwise as tony blair was. uh, you know, it is not the end for boris johnson yet, at all. he came very close, i think, to losing his job in january. some of the mps were with very