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Country and can paint then it's up to the conservative m.p.'s for us they will vote and eliminate candidate by candidate and in the end 2 candidates will stand and they those names will be sent out to the party base to the conservative members and they get to decide in the end by july 22nd who will be the next conservative leader and therefore the new prime minister of the united kingdom. in london thank you. to mali where at least 95 people have been killed in attacks in the center of the country the latest massacre going conflicts between rival communities in the west african country it happ...

Dwors from the eu. now the -- dwors from tivorce f. now the woman leading it has more trouble. >> reporter: it's going to make it much harder for whoever ends up leading the party as prime minister effectively by the end of today. the vote will take place in about eight hours' time. what theresa may requires to continue as prime minister is the support of 158 of her conservative m.p.s, that is a simple majority of all the conservatives, m.p.s, in government at the moment. that's what she'll be looking for. the key issue here is that some of the hard-line brexit-eers believe she is not deliveri...

Perhaps because she still has a few m.p.s to convince. what must she achieve tonight in that vote? she needs a simple majority of all the conservative m.p.s, the magic number is 158. if he gets that, there cannot be another challenge to our leadership contest for a year. the brexit-eers, the hardliners who want britain to get out of the european union without a deal seem to be trying to bring down her leadership. but what she has warned today if they manage to do that and bring about a leadership contest, that will delay and delay the negotiations with the prune and potentially put britain in ...

Following the general election results of last year, then at the moment there's no way you can see how this deal will get through. i'm sure she'll pull back some of those conservative m.p.s who are threatening to rebel. but particularly without getting those votes of the northern ireland m.p.s, without it looking like any labor members of parliament will get through, i predict this deal won't get through. >> it will be interesting to see what theresa may does to try to gain support here. it's not just a matter of getting parliament on board. it's also about getting business leaders on board, t...

>> no, that's one thing where i think the conservative party have slightly misplayed this. nobody seriously believes if you have a different conservative leader there would have been a radically different deal that would have come back from brussels this weekend. now, it's true that there are certain conservative m.p.s who are so annoyed with theresa may's plan that they want to try and get rid of her at this stage. but more broadly, within the conservative members of parliament, the reality is there is a view that ultimately this is the deal brussels was always going to give us. >> matthew do...