good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, july 7th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. what a moment. moments ago, boris johnson announced he s resigning as britain s prime minister. them s the breaks, he says, a defiant boris johnson, bragging about his accomplishments, his electoral mandate, but certainly not apologizing and failing or refusing to answer the biggest question, when will he actually leave? johnson says he will announce a timetable next week, but there are indications he may want to hang on for months. this only exacerbates the turmoil at the top of this key u.s. ally. his resignation is coming after just a raft, a litany of scandals and a flood of resignations in the last 48 hours, 60 officials quitting johnson s conservative party government, johnson and his speech not dressing those self-inflicted wounds that brought his government down in the end, leaving it as berman mentioned there, them s the breaks
tens of millions of households need that support, so i think that s the right approach. the uk s opposition labour party welcomes the move, but has criticised the government s response to the crisis, saying it called for a windfall tax on oil companies months ago. the chancellor, the prime minister were resisting it, and saying that it would deter investment, that it was un conservative, but it wouldn t raise enough money, but it would be silly to provide additional help. ukraine warns that russia s offensive in donbas could result in the region becoming uninhabited. a british health trust at the centre of concerns about avoidable deaths and injuries to babies has been told to make immediate improvements to its maternity services. it s been more than a0 years since abba s last tour, but they finally performed onstage again last night in digital form as abba tars. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. police in texas are facing criticism over th
community, entered the school with a handgun and possibly a rifle it appears he was killed by officers who responded to the shootings. president biden addressed the nation a short time ago more on his message in a moment this comes just ten days after the mass shooting at a supermarket in buffalo in which ten people were killed. one more horrific and stunning act of gun violence in a nation so weary from it we begin with morgan chesky in texas. reporter: lester, every update that s come in today on this story has only brought more heartbreak for this tight-knit community of only about 15,000 people. tonight, a massive law enforcement presence has descended on this small town, and it is converging on robb elementary school behind me. covered up in crime scene tape as investigators scour this area for evidence and try to find what caused thi 18-year-old gunman to go inside and open fire reporter: tonight, at least 21 live have been cut short. according to the state senator
the country, or to the south in the donetsk region, the other part of donbas. now, there was that breakaway region in donetsk called dpr, the self-proclaimed donetsk people s republic, and from there the russians are pushing farther into donbas, they re targeting cities called kramatorsk and slaviansk. local officials have been calling on residents to leave the area. most of the population in donetsk has left already around 20% of the population of the prewar population remains in donetsk, but that s more than 300,000 people. and the national railway company is putting on more carriages on to their trains to help people to evacuate. so that just speaks to how dire they think this they think the situation is, how fearful they are that the russians will