We begin in the UK -- where Boris Johnson is set to become Britain's new Prime Minister. He was voted in by lawmakers and members of the Conservative party he now leads. Johnson takes over from Theresa May who resigned after failing to get her Brexit deal through parliament. Johnson campaigned for Brexit – and now it's his turn to try and take Britain out of the European Union. Jamie Owen reports from London.

It's taken a long time for Boris Johnson to get into 10 Downing Street. Getting to the top of British politics is no mean feat. If Boris Johnson has cultivated anything it's a reputation for clowning and buffoonery. But his charisma and way with words appeals to many voters.

HELEN THOMAS POLITICAL & FINANCIAL ANALYST "Boris has won because everyone is sick and tired of career politicians – beige people who took us into that financial crisis. Now, we've got someone we know who they are – they call a spade a spade – and that's the kind of people we want leading us."

JAMIE OWEN CGTN "Childhood friends recall his appearance at school drama performances – where, having failed to learn his part – he would run across the stage from pillar to pillar where he had stuck the script. Getting a laugh by not preparing is one of the criticisms levelled against him by critics here at Westminster."

Boris Johnson started his career as a journalist and was fired from his first job for making up a quote. He reported on the European Union from Brussels and was caught exaggerating and in some cases simply inventing stories. After moving into politics, Boris Johnson became London Mayor by winning over voters who didn't ordinarily vote for the Conservatives. His tenure as mayor saw the city host the Olympics - and the introduction of its popular bicycle hire scheme, though both had been signed off before he took office.

Guto Harri was at Oxford University with Mr. Johnson and worked for him when he was mayor.

GUTO HARRI FORMER ADVISOR TO BORIS JOHNSON "He is hugely intelligent, enormously charismatic, quite offbeat. He breaks the rules. He does the kind of things that people don't expect politicians or certainly didn't in the old days to do. He speaks what's on his mind."

Johnson's first chance to become Prime Minister came – and went after the Brexit referendum. He was pronounced - unfit for office by a political friend turned competitor.

Former Prime Minister Theresa May then appointed Boris Johnson as foreign secretary. Critics say his inattention to detail in that job compounded the detention of a British woman imprisoned in Iran, where she remains. The episode didn't win him friends in the foreign office.

JAMIE OWEN CGTN "Would you like to see him as prime minister?"

ALAN DUNCAN BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER "He would not be my first choice, no."

JAMIE OWENCGTN "Second choice?"

ALAN DUNCAN BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER "He may not even be in the top two."

Boris Johnson has become Britain's Prime Minister by campaigning as the outsider. Yet he is the ultimate insider – a millionaire who went to the elite school Eton as well as Oxford."

JAMIE OWEN CGTN "Mr. Johnson's first job as a leader will be to take his country out of the EU. Failure to deliver Brexit could add his name to the list of Conservative leaders who've been brought down by party divisions over Europe. A new Prime Minister doesn't mean the old problems will disappear. Jamie Owen, CGTN, Westminster."