and tsunami cut the pacific nation off from the rest of the world. and untouched by climate change: scientists discover a rare pristine coral reef off the coast of tahiti. hello. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has insisted that he will fight any challenge to his leadership of the conservative party despite another bruising day caused by the row about lockdown drinks parties at downing street. during prime minister s questions, the former brexit secretary, david davis, called on mrjohnson to step down, telling him, in the name of god, go! earlier, one of the prime minister s own backbenchers dramatically defected to the opposition labour party. but the prime minister batted away repeated calls to resign, and in a statement which pleased many, he went on to announce an end to the main covid restrictions in england. our political editor laura kuenssberg has the latest. the atmosphere in the prime ministe
now on bbc news, global questions travels to kyiv where zeinab badawi and her panel take questions from a local audience to discuss the military crisis in ukraine. hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from kyiv, the capital of ukraine. the government here has been monitoring the intense talks between russia and the west very anxiously. have the negotiations this week defused the tensions on the ukraine russia border, where moscow has been amassing troops? or is it the start of a new cold war? applause welcome to the mystetskyi arsenal cultural centre here in kyiv. let me tell you who is on my panel, who will be taking questions from the audience here. the deputy prime minister of ukraine is olha stefanishyna. although ukraine was not party to the talks this week, she has been presenting the government s position. kristina kvien is the acting ambassador for washington here in ukraine. carl bildt is a former swedish prime minister and one of europe s leadi
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. we have some pictures. these very limitied pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. the eruption itself appears to have taken out the one main underwater communications cable and there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruption m
hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. these very limited pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. they really only tell us so much, but it does seem that the tsunami or the eruption has taken out the one main underwater communications cable. there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was t