for boris in terms of the brexiteerfighting back. like a manifesto for boris in terms of the brexiteer fighting back. few things on that, i think if boris had left say even on heathrow, not last december, if he had left then and saidi last december, if he had left then and said i cannot accept this i need to ta ke and said i cannot accept this i need to take the brexit—lite best as a backbencher. idiot left over heathrow, that would have been seen as quite credible but in the end he bottled it, he went abroad. he has now decided to two to, that his resignation would be pointless, better to stay inside cabinet since the decision about heathrow was already made but you could say the same about brexit? except i am not buying that. for now, you could definitely not say it. we are talking about collective responsibility. if you are part of the cabinets, and you cannot defend a cabinet policy, you have got to go. i wonder whether he has left it a bit too late. i don't know what's oui’ a bit too late. i don't know what's our credibility he can salvage from this. from some of the tweets to

boris johnson stepping down. we look at how the markets are reacting. >> more trade tension, a meeting with angela merkel with a trade one in for president trump. of we will hear from the ceo the largest chemical company about his plan to invest in a second complex in china and how trade impacts that. ok,

the fact that boris johnson is policy about which boris johnson. .. the fact that borisjohnson is going to lead britain in the world after brexit, then when the west balkans is looking for leadership there is an empty chair. this is what baffles me, if he is about boris then surely he would give himself the most positive image and the greatest possible opportunity to present this case and for this followers to rally behind him. for a case and for this followers to rally behind him. fora long case and for this followers to rally behind him. for a long time, case and for this followers to rally behind him. fora long time, a case and for this followers to rally behind him. for a long time, a lot of brexit backbenchers have been looking at him, saying can you please stand up against what they felt was a derailment of brexit under theresa may. i suppose for them, the front page of the telegraph is really... your paper is how they perceive boris, the man of principle, the statesman, the man who not only has the intellectual heft, the historical knowledge an

johnson has done something about boris johnson he's only haven't cared about himself he's only ever done at any minute what is what he thinks that he's interested. like you just said he's resigned half an hour to go on dialysis is going to take maximum damage he's now in it for himself and i don't think the tories will fall for it so you think there's going to be a leadership conference now is that your reading of it i think you know what i think you talk too fast boy this is happening all the ones why john says decided to go now the originally decided not to not to go for say the weekend so i mean he's all maneuvers it was always going to lead to charges against may eventually a lot of people thought it was happening rather than sooner but as i say the crunch moment is not what's happening now is what happens in october when the e.u. finally has a summit which is the post the song of the great city and it may still trying to say we want the single market because it's not free moving to people they'll say you know you can't have that and then we have the real crisis in which we eith

yes, but boris isa today surprise you? yes, but boris is a surprisingly and spontaneous person. he has a deep streak of prudence. he wants to think about this but once david davis did it, he had to follow suit. he was the member of a team he no longer wanted to believe in. when we think about the timing, as you say, we have had a weekend following the chequers summit, what would have been his process of thinking overnight and this morning given what happened with david davis? he would still have thought about it carefully but he would have realised there was no future for him in the cabinet. it david davis does not believe in it, how could he? he would make himself a laughing stock. although he is capable of being a team player i think its natural place in the team is asa think its natural place in the team is as a captain, not a subordinate following a leader who actually has little credibility left either with him with the large number of people who voted brexit. it is not all about boris johnson, tory mps are not wrong when they say they are getting a lot of messages from ang

is it over for boris johnson no it certainly appears to be i mean boris johnson being elevated to the foreign office many people saw was just the rise and rise of his career but in many ways this stint in the foreign office has killed off his chances again boris has boris as everyone says he could buy him spock but it seems very unlikely that he would get the backing of enough of his own m.p.'s in a leadership race to make it into the final ballot to members if he did however there is still the possibility that the tory membership would back him and he could end up the prime minister you say at the moment he wouldn't get the backing i mean he's very popular still with the grassroots supporters of the conservative party what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion if if members of parliament are going back to their constituencies and getting criticism from from party members locally. as i said boris johnson very popular with the local body members still i mean what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion within the conservative party not just in the parliamentary one well certain

is it over for boris johnson no it certainly appears to be i mean boris johnson being elevated to the foreign office many people saw was just the rise and rise of his career but in many ways this stint in the foreign office has killed off his chances again boris has boris as everyone says he could buy him spock but it seems very unlikely that he would get the backing of enough of his own m.p.'s in a leadership race to make it into the final ballot to members if he did however there is still the possibility that the tory membership would back him and he could end up the prime minister here you say at the moment he wouldn't get the backing i mean he's very popular still with the grassroots supporters of the conservative party what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion if if members of parliament are going back to their constituencies and getting criticism from from party members locally. as i said boris johnson very popular with the local party members still i mean what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion within the conservative party not just in the parliamentary one well c

boris johnson says the brics it dream is dying as he quits as u.k. foreign secretary plunging to reason may's government into crisis. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you know with al-jazeera also coming up another four boys are rescued from a flooded cave in thailand and taken to hospital eight are now. israel shuts the main cargo crossing into gaza and till further notice a century kites flown across the border. and activists is saying that the trouble ministration is unlikely to reunite migrant children under the age of five with their parents by tuesday's court deadline. u.k. prime minister trees in may last two key cabinet ministers as disagreements over britain's strategy for leaving the european union threaten to tell a ruling conservative policy apart david davis resigned as breck's it minister he was swiftly followed by foreign secretary boris johnson who says the bracks it dream is dying paul brennan has more. on friday the british prime minister theresa may announced agreement for a breakfast strategy in which the u.k. would align itself

we heard over the weekend that boris johnson had friday. we heard over the weekend that borisjohnson had reservations about the plan but until this afternoon, he was staying in office and he said on friday that he acknowledged that his side of the argument were too few to prevail and congratulated you at least on reaching a cabinet decision on the way forward. he said, as i said then, the government now has a song to sing but the problem is that i have practised the words over the weekend and they stick in my throat. his parliamentary aide, former parliamentary aide, was on the radio a while ago saying not only that he thinks further government resignations are possible, but also saying that borisjohnson resignations are possible, but also saying that boris johnson felt resignations are possible, but also saying that borisjohnson felt he had been bounced into agreeing to the deal on friday, that the cabinet had been bounced. if that is a more widespread feeling, then the authority of theresa may is being seriously questioned. there was clea

this is a court hearing for borys herman, the man allegedly at the centre of this plot. it's a chance for him to put his case and try and explain his role in this bizarre episode. borys herman admits plotting, both with the fake assassin and a contact in russia, but his defence is that he too was playing a role and was also working with ukraine's sbu. mr herman, why should we believe that you didn't want to kill arkady babchenko? mr herman, what this ultimately boils down to is, are you working as an agent for russia? mr herman's story has changed several times and despite repeated requests from the bbc, he's been unable to back up his claim that he was working with the sbu. so what are we to make of this extraordinary tale where nothing is quite as it seems? translation: we definitely believe the operation is a success. even if you just save the life of arkady babchenko, it is a success. thanks to this operation, we've also got a list of 47 potential targets, journalists, activists past and present, citizens of the russian federation. why should i believe what you're te

were boris johnson supporters consider him a politician with genuine charisma and a popular touch but his critics say limitless ambition and would do anything to one day become prime minister but everybody agrees is one of the most distinctive figures in british politics one of the phillips takes a look back at his colorful political career. even his enemies in these days there are many would concede that boris as everyone knows him is unique for years he defied the laws of political gravity playing the clown didn't hurt him it helped him to win election then reelection his mare of london a conservative in a labor city many said a future prime minister. but then this will be advocating but leave boris johnson's surprise many colleagues by campaigning to leave the e.u. he arguably did more than anyone to ensure a victory for. the battle for bricks it was ugly it left scars many cannot forgive boris johnson for using a full statistics and his enemies say for exploiting divisions in british society what do they know the impact of the integration. when david cameron resigned after the bre

dave and christine. >> boris at the white house. joining us here this morning is political writer is harry enton. seven hours ago this was announced. this is a name new to americans. they will dig into his judicial background. what you know about the d.c. court of appeals and former clerk for anthony kennedy. he first thanked the president and talked about anthony kennedy and how he would take that role. served in the bush administration. worked on the starr investigation and strong proponent of executive power. will he energize trump's base? >> i think he will energize it enough. he is well qualified. when you are dealing with qualified nominees, those are the nominees that get confirmed overwhelmingly. >> gorsuch, as in past times, could get 90 votes. they do have 51-49 advantage and mike pence if they need it. this looks like a safe confirmation as far as getting republican votes. what about the red-state democrats that boris mentioned? will they get democrat votes? >> it is plausible. it is the same path with gorsuch. the three

borys herman admits plotting both with the fake assassin and a contact in russia. but his defence is that he too was playing a role and was also working with ukraine's sbu. why should we believe that you didn't want to kill arkady babchenko? what this ultimately boils down to is are you working as an agent for russia? mr herman's story has changed several times and despite repeated requests from the bbc, he has been unable to back up his claim, that he was working with the sbu. so what are we to make of this extraordinary tale, where nothing is quite as it seems? translation: we definitely believe the operation is a success. even if you just save the life of arkady babchenko, it is a success. thanks to this operation we have also got a list of 47 potential targets — journalists, activists past and present, citizens of the russian federation. why should i believe what you are telling me now? i went out there and i reported what your organisation told us that night. it turned out to be lies. now you are speaking to me again. is this the truth this time? this murder

why has boris johnson gone? it was convicted with his view that he has said about the european union and our relationship going forward. ina union and our relationship going forward. in a sense he could not be true to himself and stay but i think the truth is this country needs to get a deal or if there will be no deal, we need to get there, but there‘s no time to do anything else in the meantime. theresa may has lost her brexit secretary and her foreign secretary in the last 24 hours. last year, ithought it foreign secretary in the last 24 hours. last year, i thought it would bea hours. last year, i thought it would be a good idea to have a leadership election at that time, but now i do not think there is time to do a digital election and i think she would have to do what any prime minister does —— leadership election. she will just minister does —— leadership election. she willjust have to replace them. people are perfectly replaceable and that will have to happen on this occasion. do we have time? t

borisjohnson boris johnson. i did some work on this. boris johnson is boris johnson. i did some work on this. borisjohnson is still living ina this. borisjohnson is still living in a flat in a place where the foreign secretary can live. the mirror is cross he is still living there having resigned over a week ago. there is a precedent here according to the government, william hague and a labour foreign minister stayed there for several weeks after they lost theirjob. he did resign rather than was sacked, butjeremy hunt is apparently happy with his family in his home and not keen to move into a flat or his family are not there. it is something and nothing. it does not look good and it raises questions as the rollers are about boris on what he is up to. he is not breaking any terrible rules, there are precedents for this. there are all sorts of these flats dotted about and they are pretty much at the grace and favour of the prime minister and if she gets fed up with it, then the time will come when he has to move out anyway. several weeks is the will come when he has to

boris johnson stepping down. we look at how the markets are reacting. >> more trade tension, a meeting with angela merkel with a trade one in for president trump. of we will hear from the ceo the largest chemical company about his plan to invest in a second complex in china and how trade impacts that. let's take a look ahead how the markets are trading, particularly equities as we are about 30 minutes from the close of equity trading in europe. this is how it is looking. gaining for a fifth straight day, the best performance in terms of a run of gains since march 12. acrossf green looking the wheel at the industry groups. it seems in the absence of any concerning or a bad news in terms of trade, the markets are rallying, certainly when it comes to equities. outperforming come energy stocks, i.t. stocks, materials and financials. underperforming, really those defensive stocks, utilities and communications, that tells you something about the risk appetite in these markets and particularly in comparison to friday, w

boris twists the knife. and he was putting himself centrestage. a lot of fa nfa re himself centrestage. a lot of fanfare before the stricken nation speech. he sat in the same spot geoffrey howe had sat in for his famous cabinet resignation speech. putting the knife in to margaret thatcher. so a lot of build—up to this, from boris and his supporters who were around him to make him look popular. and the chamber was almost empty. no cabinet ministers there, no big labour beasts. you could argue they have enough going on. every big member of parliament has some sort of crisis within their own party or within brexit so it is understandable in some ways. and it was a strong speech whether you are a boris supporter or somebody who cannot stand him. it did not have the usual jokes, he cannot stand him. it did not have the usualjokes, he was certainly aiming for more serious rabbit has speech. people will say there was no bottom to it. no ideas it was more an attack on theresa may. he did call for a change. he did, an attack on theresa may. he did call f

before so he had met foreigners but i think what was different was with me is after i met boris on that first trip and was taken by all of it and i said i'm going to come back what can i do can i bring your equipment i think that he and seven. kind of had a feeling of course she says she's going to come back but she's not going to because i think many people before me westerners came in and said the same thing that they wanted to come back i think what surprised boris and everybody else is that i did come back and i kept coming back and i kept coming back every three months and i kept ringing them equipment and and that's why i got the nickname back then is the tractor the american tractor because i think they were amazed at how i could get things done that when i became passion. about something and had no idea i would make it happen from what i remember at least in the late soviet years america was strongly romanticized in russia it was literally perceived as the as a land of freedom so much so that. if another famous leningrad musician wrote the song goodbye america about parting ways

it got across that boris johnson had agreed to this, boris... it got across that borisjohnson had agreed to the chequers deal, and he didn't come out the cabinet until after my na m esa ke out the cabinet until after my namesake came out. so out the cabinet until after my namesake came out. so it wasn't so obvious that he should come out. there was a big criticism of the timing of his resignation, that he had only done it because david davis had only done it because david davis had jumped first and he thought we can't let david davis have all the coverage, so can't let david davis have all the coverage, so he jumped can't let david davis have all the coverage, so hejumped as can't let david davis have all the coverage, so he jumped as well. can't let david davis have all the coverage, so hejumped as well. who knows whether it really was that. this was his chance to put himself forward with lots of statesmanlike phrases, putting the boot into theresa may, not calling for a vote of no confidence or for her resignation but presenting himself as the

a little bit and what i love about boris he's exactly who he was thirty years ago and all he wanted to do thirty years ago was record albums and play as much as he could and he's never wavered he's never change thirty years later he's exactly the same and the amazing thing with that with group in chicago when i met him thirty or more than thirty years ago and when i would listen to him talk about philosophy and his his views on life and it just affected me the same thing happened two months ago with my daughter we were sitting is the partner and boris.

then boris came well over 50 hours later. it makes you think that david davis could easily see he did it because he did not believe he could bring forward brexit in all honesty but boris just looks like he is chasing the leadership bid. she announced his resignation while he was still writing the letter, trying to get the upper hand. what do you make of the david davis resignation, that was the front page this morning. i'm sure it kept you up late. yes, it did. was it expected? people had been expecting david davis to go for a little while because power had been taken out of his hands, you could even say since july last year but certainly since march this year. he has not been in charge of negotiating on our behalf and he secretary of state for getting us out of the eu. reports are that he and michel barnier were not even exchanging texts anymore so not even exchanging texts anymore so not even exchanging texts anymore so not even communicating. i think david davis was my grievance, i can see where he is coming from, he has b

you have a nice story about boris in your paper today... have a nice story about boris in your paper today. .. yes, philip hammond, the chancellor of the exchequer, was asked recently whether the fact that seven members of the government had resigned over the brexit plan, hammered out at chequers two weeks ago, was a good 01’ chequers two weeks ago, was a good or bad thing. he says in some cases, it was a good thing as it shows they are pushing the envelope a bit towards brussels and it shows that we cannot really do much more because there is so much anger over it. one of the lines he used was that two of the bogey men have been removed from the board and by the bogey men, he is talking about boris johnson and david davis, the brexit secretary. the brexiteers are pretty angry about this. philip hammond has angry about this. philip hammond has a habit of putting his foot in it... he knows how to wind them up! they see him as an arch remainers who is like victor meldrew about brexit. probably not helped by the fact your newspaper has mocked boris up to look like fungus the bogeyman!

is it over boris johnson no it certainly appears to be i mean boris johnson being elevated to the foreign office many people saw was just the rise and rise of his career but in many ways this stint in the foreign office has killed off his chances again boris has boris as everyone says he could buy him spock but it seems very unlikely that he would get the backing of enough of his own m.p.'s in a leadership race to make it into the final ballot to members if he did however there is still the possibility that the tory membership would back him and he could end up the prime minister you say at the moment he wouldn't get the backing i mean he's very popular still with the grassroots supporters of the conservative party what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion if if members of parliament are going back to their constituencies and getting criticism from from party members locally. as i said boris johnson very popular with the local party members still i mean what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion within the conservative party not just in the parliamentary one well certainly that

i think that now the foreign secretary boris johnson who's not i think we're not seeing a full blown crisis nikki i think that he had just been day to day this perhaps to reason may may have been too obviously she's not going to be a new press secretary but in paris the big the biggest beast in the tory party out there and he delayed his resignation today to about i think was about three o'clock he was locked away and i'm sure he'd been on the phone to colleagues. cool the. first thing in the sun and saying basically i think probably we. need to resign and possibly stand for leadership and try to train him so i asked the candidates usually collection of live or a kind of wrecks it that these people the tory party want and they would argue that a large percentage of the british public want to know so twenty four hours we've seen. david davis to back to secretary go his number two steve baker now the foreign secretary in south boris johnson it will we see more resignations of the day as the next day continues to think. it's interesting isn't it because we've got what you would call the

boris johnson -- >> in his resignation, boris part said teresa's may is amounted to brexit only. >> it is not too late to save brexit. we have time. -- in these negotiations. we have changed it once and we can change again. a strong independent, self-governing britain that is open to the world. not the miz rabble permanent limbo of checkers. not the deck catic disaster of ongoing harmonization with no way out and no say for the u.k. >> boris johnson. but despite the resignation and the disagreements part of the checkers agreement returned into the customs bill after brexit. but the m.p.'s didn't like that and put down amendments to the bill which the government later accepted. but that upset the remainers who thought those amendments undermine the checker's deal. it all led to some highly personal exchanges later. >> it was margaret thatcher that .hampioned free trade i believe in business. i believe in capital lism. i believe in -- capitalism. >> i worked for margaret thatcher. my honorable friend ain't no margaret tatcher. -- thatcher. i don't pretend to be able to work in margaret t

here at r t h q my name stuck on the good thanks for tuning in this hour british foreign secretary boris johnson has resigned he's the third minister to quit in just twenty four hours with all three refusing to back to recent days plans for a so-called soft abroad said. to the you stay as close as possible and it's just been announced the health secretary jeremy hunt will replace him. johnson has now published his resignation letter online he said that should have been about opportunity. but quote that dream is dulling suffocated by needless self-doubt he also claimed the country is now heading towards a somewhat bricks that the status of a colony. has the details on the shock resignation. the u.k. prime minister to resign may faced a tense meeting with tory m.p.'s and peers in parliament today as she was hoping to try and get control of her cabinet admits to all the infighting in her leadership isn't a huge risk out the moment the infighting surrounds may's idea for i think still a tainted customs arrangement that's about securing a trade deal with the u.k. leaves the next march two tho

and boris johnson it would appear we haven't heard from boris johnson just yet but let's talk to our correspondent who's outside the house is of parliament lawrence lee lawrence what a thunderbolt then we were earlier talking about chaos what does this do to the main government. well coming clearly it's a whole new level not least because boris johnson would be seen to be the most likely opponent to to reason and the man around whom all the arch breakfasters the very hard right wing would coalesce the timings absolutely extraordinary i must say boris johnson was supposed to be in the hosts summit meeting just up the road from here this afternoon that called the western balkan summit which of all things was supposed to be a way of explaining to countries like montenegro in albania how to how to join the european union and though he didn't turn up at that meeting went off he's officially residence instead held some talks advisors and now has announced twenty minutes before to resume a supposed to address the houses of parliament on her plan for what she's going to do with this new gove

getting around won't be as easy as boris johnson things boris johnson has all this is about is basically a campaign to leave him he was absolutely shocked when that results came in and most of us thought he's only campaigning to leave because he wants to get the support of the hard line breaks out here tory m.p.'s when the next leadership challenge comes and should to reason may choose to step down or should a vote of no confidence not be beyond the realms of possibility right now what's the possibility if you think there's someone new would really be able to bring the two warring sides of the party together. it just isn't possible there is no one person on either side who can unite the tory party around this issue i am the most divisive issue and it takes me back to the one nine hundred ninety s. when an then tory prime minister john major who is trying to preside over a tory party to be divided in parliament over whether or not we should join the common currency and at the end of his term you had a labor landslide and i think most property trees and money may limp home till the next ge

breaking news this hour brags that means i did it for boris johnson the u.k.'s foreign secretary quits treif amazing embattled government he's the third minister to resign in twenty four hours the latest plans for a soft. police say they are still unable to link the nerve agent used in the amesbury incident to the one used to poison a former russian double agents back in march. plus a journalist who helped whistleblower edward snowden exposed as i said and i say secrets is branded a problem puppet all because he has attended a cyber security conference in russia. and there's the world cup under its last week our correspondent goes to test the quality of women's football in russia so what i call. it should go right out of moscow for trend growth first is already i'm going to go on r t this is r t international coming to you live from the russian capital with me jacques muga welcome to the program breaking news this hour british foreign secretary boris johnson has resigned he's the third minister to quit in just twenty four hours with all three refusing to back t

has a problem i do we go along with boris johnson and. secret plan which of course have already been willing to. you know give some direction over which is that we are almost handing them our rights to protection from a death penalty sentence or we can strike them out there or currently we'll make them stateless not bring them home so why not bring our trash i'm we're not dealing with them we're not putting them in prison we're not looking to be radicalized and we decide the easy way just kill them or hand them to americans to deal with because it is it is more efficient not on their own intro last minute we're done opening to. go ahead philip we have long standing solutions that we want to hear like with so many political statements here without it without any i.q. or substance or let's deal with the the. things. we were told we will have to. really try to look at america the government having been found guilty of any crime. after they've been found we can't live until the state makes some time to make sure that the law being goes in to

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boris johnson quits the u.k. government tipping the theresa may's administration deeper into crisis. and after short but intense buildup, president trump gets set to announce his supreme court pick in a primetime event. get you started with u.s. markets which close in two hours time. abigail doolittle is tracking all the green on the screen. abigail: quite a rally we have. it averages on pace for another day. six of the last seven days, the major averages. paceow leading the way, on for its best in more than a month. small cap is doing quite well, up .5%. the rally is pretty broad here. it does come after the official start of the trade war between the u.s. and china. we have seen months of volatility but investors are buying and some are saying that there are no surprises, at least not yet. when hayden or one defensive play around, the possibility of a trade were all year is the small cap and you can syriza the gtd function in the bloomberg. 500, we see the s&p until the end of april really trading in lockstep.

boris does and he does not want it now. one of the interesting point being made is that a tory mp contacted boris to say if you do not do it now, you will never get it. this is your shot to be leader. elsewhere, we see that if that happens and we get a new prime minister, people will want another general election. there is polling to suggest that. imagine if there was to be a leadership challenge and a semifinal of a world cup in a week. i think people would ignore it. i think they would get the world cup over with first. i am not bothered by the language of boris johnson, he has a record, he is probably the most foul—mouthed politician, at least in public, that ican politician, at least in public, that i can remember. all over the papers in the stories about brexit there are other phrases creeping in which are other phrases creeping in which are much more disturbing. one tory mps said brexiteer ministers have put their careers before their country. calling them traitors. the word traitors is being used on both sides. wor

let's talk about boris johnson and his resignation. he of course has big objections to the policy that was presented to him on friday. the the focus now from brexiteers -- is the focus moved to trying to change that plan? and will they be successful? boris johnson certainly was not happy. >> yes, there is some more of this process to go. time is running out to make changes on that. she is replacing the people who are not able to get behind it and now it is going back to brussels. we are going to wait and see. i think the next thing to look for is what brussels comes back with. if they come back saying that this is the basis on which we can start negotiations, i think it is highly unlikely we will see any changes to that proposal. if it is rejected outright, this is going to reopen this debate again. much inthe ball is very europe's court right now. johnson to make trouble is borissa may -- johnson going to make trouble -- is -- going to make trouble for theresa may? you look at the younger ministers who have been mr. johnson remains ve

he is friends with boris johnson. cabinet... he is friends with boris johnson. it is staring everything up. boris johnson was praising donald trump and it would be a different sort of brexit if a donald trump figure was negotiating. concern that what trump says will move them out of the compromise. the checkers compromise —— chequers would make it difficult for a deal with the us. britain would be committed if the compromise moves ahead in the european standards. what donald trump might say is, forget those european standards and come with us. one thing that is a plus for the uk, it does spend its 296... plus for the uk, it does spend its 296. .. the plus for the uk, it does spend its 296... the uk is one of the few countries in nature that sticks to the 2% and donald trump has praised that. he even said perhaps written and spend more on defence. in the guardian, the obituary for lord carrington. you met him? i knew peter carrington quite well in the 19905 when he was the european union negotiator tried to bring peace to yugoslavia, the wars between serbia a

has a new secretary following the resignation of boris johnson who's now been replaced by jeremy hunt has been a string of departures by keep over the government's adoption of a softer approach to leaving the e.u. now the new foreign secretary jeremy hunt has been serving as the country's health secretary for the past six years he supported the remaining pain during the twenty sixth referendum he claims to have since become. as boris johnson was leaving his official residence in central london after his resignation he was bombarded with questions from reporters. the woman who was this is a girl for. most the jokes and you think the private is the devil bret's do. you think you could do a better job than the prime minister. u.k. politics is falling apart within twenty four hours we've seen the resignation of three cabinet ministers including the u.k. foreign secretary. bricks it should be about opportunity and hope we appear to be heading for a semi bricks it we are truly headed for the status of colony brought to recognize the work of the former secretary of state for accepting the eu

after the years of boris yeldson, putin stepped in and stabilized the country. he rode the wave of ever rising oil prices. translated into rising wages and soaring stock. then, in 2014, oil prices slumped. soon off came western economic sanctions. vladimir putin has navigated hard times well. he has slashed social spending, allowed the ruble to fall and his central bank has kept inflation in check. putin is a fiscal conservator. >> aspect of wealth, closer to dubai than moscow 30 years ago. just an amazing transformation. >> adding to economics, putin's secret's sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2004, after an invasion that shocked the world. >> bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small. >> vladimir putin grabbed a piece of ukraine for russia. >> that's what adolf hitler did in the 1930s. we thought those days were gone. >> but it all looked very different through russian eyes. >> i have never met a russian who accepted the notion of ukraine as a totally separate state. >> of course, many ukrainians deeply resented the invasion. but not russians.

liev boris johnson surprised many colleagues by campaigning to leave the e.u. arguably did more than anyone to ensure a victory for. the battle for brics it was ugly it left scars many cannot forgive boris johnson for using a full statistics and his enemies say for exploiting divisions in british society what do they know the impact of the immigration places hospital waiting lists. when david cameron resigned after the break to vote boris hope to become prime minister but his colleagues deserted him and he had to settle for foreign secretary he struggled against the perception that he was a diminished man representing a to finish country one thai people would love but not when he's foreign secretary not when he has a serious job to do and that's where i think been the clown playing the joke always . it just doesn't work anymore because politics is a serious business when you've got one of the big posts in a cabinet for he just doesn't like you can hack it anymore and i think he knows that he can see that he's losing control he's been written off many many times

not just boris johnson, but others. the foreign secretary is seen as quite popular with the grassroots section of the party. if they do decision decide to trigger that kind of leadership vote and leadership attack, because they know that on the downside if they do not, theresa may is in the hot seat into the post-brexit process. guy: great stuff. thank you very much indeed. anna edwards joining us from outside parliament. let's talk about what this means for investors. with us now is the director of research for bloomberg intelligence. the line is pretty clear to drop. >> -- draw. >> it is. you see all the happenings yesterday and think this is bad. stocks rally immediately and it is here and simple a pound reaction -- pure and simple a pound reaction. we saw the same thing on the back of the brexit referendum. guy: it does for the ftse 100. what about the 250? >> if you look at the average international exposure of the ftse 100 is it about -- it is about 50%. if you look at the ftse 250 it is still about 45%. guy: stil

is it over for boris johnson no it certainly appears to be i mean boris johnson being elevated to the foreign office many people saw was just the rise and rise of his career but in many ways this stint in the foreign office has killed off his chances again boris has boris as everyone says he could buy him spock but it seems very unlikely that he would get the backing of enough of his own m.p.'s in a leadership race to make it into the final ballot to members if he did however there is still the possibility that the tory membership would back him and he could end up the prime minister you say at the moment he wouldn't get the backing i mean he's very popular still with the grassroots supporters of the conservative party what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion if if members of parliament are going back to their constituencies and getting criticism from from party members locally. as i said boris johnson very popular with the local party members still i mean what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion within the conservative party not just in the parliamentary one well certai

up up or down, in or out of government, there is no—one quite like boris johnson. it is going very well. it is going well he said, hanging in the air. like his future now. borisjohnson like his future now. boris johnson helped like his future now. borisjohnson helped front like his future now. boris johnson helped front the like his future now. borisjohnson helped front the leave campaign. this is a once in a lifetime xans. after he told friends he owned brexit. becoming foreign secretary was a surprise especially to him. butting into brexit negotiations wasn't. sometimes speaking to brussels. the sums i have seen they propose to demand from this country, seem to me to be extortionate and to go whistle is an appropriate expression. and lecturing theresa may. calling the prime minister's ideas crazy in her favourite paper was pushing it. many loyalists thought so. favourite paper was pushing it. many loyalists thought solj favourite paper was pushing it. many loyalists thought so. i don't want him managing the brexit process. this is back seat driving. you could cal

he had boris nemtsov murdered in the shadow of the kremlin. >> this is personal insult. this is lousy behavior from a politician. >> that is putin's top aide and spokesman dmitry peskov. >> that's nonsense. it's nonsense. there's nothing to comment on. >> over the course of putin's time in power his regime has been accused of involvement in the deaths of many of its critics, including the journalist anna politskaya and the former kgb agent litvinenko. some russian experts say that there are doz ens more like the. and then there are those who live to tell. the man seen in the surveillance footage at a u.k. convenience store is sergei skripal who moved here eight years ago after being are released from moscow where he was convicted of selling secrets as a member of mi6. he and his daughter were found unconscious on a shopping bench in salisbury. the police concluded that the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent. and the u.k. authorities placed the blame on one person. >> it is tragic that president putin a has chosen to act in the way. >> putin shot bac

boris hnson's dreams of leadership are no secret, but his politicafortunes are dropped of late. ther way, his political fortunes are tied in to the future of theresa may's brexit , pld her hopes of coming through the crisis with her premiership intact. he has given up his post but not his platform. hardline brexiteers look to him to fight for the brexit they want to come and against the prime minister. e struggle is just beginning. laura: for more on the politicaw departures at they mean for the u.k. and for brexit i spoke earlier with christian fraser. christian, is the position of britain's prime minister under threat tonight following this latest resignation from her cabinet over brexit? toistian: no leader likes see twprominent resignations in the space of 24 hours, and that causes problems with the brexiteers in her party. that is a schism she has tried to avoid for so long. there are the mainers who say that this is the action she should have taken many months ago, taking on the brexiteers head-on and putting a proposal on the table that was serious,at th the various leade