Justin Trudeau to resign as prime minister, Liberal leader [Video]

OTTAWA—Embattled by internal party strife and under attack by political opponents, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will resign as prime minister and Liberal leader after the Liberal party chooses his successor sometime in the next few months. 

Trudeau told reporters in a nationally televised news conference that although his instinct was to stay on in the face of what he called a “critical moment” for the country, the internal battles in his own party that flared into a crisis in the past three weeks made that impossible.