al jazeera where ever you. i have never i have never attended a resignation to the central people's government hong kong's leader goes on the defensive after a leak recording reveals she said she'd quit if she could after weeks of protests. i'm sick of this is live from doha also coming up the iranian tanker blacklisted by the u.s. turns off its tracking signal deepening the mystery of where it's heading. one

of the most powerful atlanta storms ever recorded kills at least 5 people in the bahamas. the u.k. prime minister braces for legal challenges and a showdown in parliament over his brags it plans. hong kong's leader kerry lamb has dismissed the leaked all the recording of her saying she would resign if she had the choice comments were recorded during a private lunch last week and came after 3 months of anti-government protests when he reports. he seems to be no end in sight to the protests in hong kong and no sign that the government is willing to bow to any of the protesters demands but in a conversation with business leaders that was leaked to the media the city's chief executive indicated she wanted to walk away or a chance. to. show.

so. just. first thing is to. i was later in her weekly media conference kerry said it was unacceptable that the private conversation had been recorded and she sought to clarify her comments about resigning i have never i have never attended a resignation to the central people's government. i have not even contemplated to discuss a resignation. for the central people's government. the choice of not resigning is my own choice oh no no no the resignation of the chief executive was one of the key demands of the protesters when they began taking to the streets their rallies

started when the government tried to introduce an extradition bill which would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial carry lamb says the bill is did the protesters want her to officially withdraw it the leaked comments from kerry lamb come just days after another media report suggested that the central government in china had rejected a proposal by her to withdraw the extradition bill the report claimed that beijing ordered her not to agree to any of the protesters demands she also said in the lead gaudio that the government in beijing has no plans to put soldiers on the streets of hong kong to try to win the crisis and that her power is particularly limited at the moment because of the trade war between china and the united states plus how long how the chief executive who of course. was just 2 hearts is hostage for. several hours. now that hurt her

already. there are already allegations that kerry lamb leaked the audio herself to try to ease the pressure on her which she says is not true the controversy is likely to have little impact on the situation with both sides no closer to finding a resolution wayne hay al jazeera hong kong idea brown is live for us now from hong kong so a.g.m. does this we can carry lambs position is she she really on the defensive now as a result of this leak doria recording. well i think it is almost certainly highly embarrassing for her political masters in beijing as well as being embarrassing for her it's embarrassment on top of humiliation and of course what it demonstrates to the outside world is if they had any doubt that kerry lam was not really in charge of hong kong they have that confirmation now it is

a reminder if you wanted it that beijing continues to pull the political strings in this deepening political crisis as to what happens next well carol lam insists that she's going to remain chief executive she says i have my own approach for trying to deal with this protracted problem and has decided that actually going would be the worst possible option but certainly here at this demonstration on covering not far away from carrie lamb's office everyone here would be very happy if kerry were to resign also the other takeout i get from kerry lamb's comments is this if it's true that she said she wanted to withdraw the extradition bill and beijing refused or if it's also true she offered to resign and beijing refused it then it's quite clear that this crisis could have been resolved weeks months ago if beijing had allowed her to have allowed her to do what she wanted to do and of course there is more protests this tuesday in the form of this general strike what's happening there.

on. well as i say behind me is a large number of people who are taking part in the 2nd day of a 2 day strike organized by the confederation of trade unions here in hong kong in fact it's more like a half day action and they're gathering on a lawn very close to the headquarters of the local people's liberation army headquarters as well as the government complex here and you've got people here from all walks of life in hong kong people from the finance sector the insurance sector restroom. workers and they're all here to reinforce the demands of the protesters that carry a drop that highly contentious extradition bill many people here are wearing face masks they don't want to be identified because they worry about retribution from their employers because well some employers might be very understanding about their staff attending with meeting this gathering others have not and of course they

worry they could ultimately lose their jobs all right for the moment adrian brown live for us there in hong kong thanks. the iranian oil tanker that was seized after brawl to before being released has reportedly now turned off its tracking beacon the edgy and barrier one formerly known as the grace one switched off the tracker on monday shipped tracking websites have previously shown the vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading northward u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has said the u.s. has intelligence that the ship is heading to the syrian port of tartus also jabari is live for us now in iran's capital tehran for door so what do we know about this what more do we know about this tanker and where it's allegedly heading. well as i'm according to iranian officials they have not disclosed where exactly this ship is heading since it was released by the authorities in gibraltar on

august 15th this ship has made its way towards various different countries 1st greece then turkey and finally the last known location in lebanon now since then we don't know where it is currently but the raid officials have said that they have not disclose where it's going but the spike that the syrian destination of the rate that they've been accused of where this was headed they say that the e.u. sanctions against the syrian government are not recognized by the iranian officials because they haven't been endorsed by the united nations that is why they call this seizure earlier in july an act of piracy you know this was what the iranians said that the americans trying to flex their power when they put pressure of the british government to seize this vessel and the $28.00 crewmembers on board on july the 4th in the strait of gibraltar the iranians say that this was an act of hostility towards this tanker which is carrying $2100000.00 barrels of iranian crude oil worth over $130000000.00. and why why is the status of this ship

so important why will why is this so much attention on this particular tanker. well firstly because the americans have said that this is a sanctioned tanker the us treasury sanction to the green one if you're in their area one on friday because they said that what was on this vessel the funds would go to the revolutionary guards that they deem the terrorist organization in april the u.s. government has said that anybody that does the business with this vessel and what's on board this vessel will be facing heavy fines the americans have said that they are going to do everything they can to pressure the iranians to come back to the negotiating table since they withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement and we've heard just earlier today from iranian president hassan rouhani who was speaking of parliament who said that they were the number of opportunities presented to the

iranian officials to hold dialogue with the american government but the refuse then the answer will continue to be negative because the iranians say since the u.s. withdrew from the agreement last year they've imposed a series of sanctions on iran to try and pressure the iranian officials to come back to the negotiating table and the rain say that until these sanctions are lifted there will be no discussion between the 2 governments dorsal thanks for that dosage of body into. now hurrican dorrian is ravaging the northern bahamas in the caribbean at least 5 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed after made landfall as a category 5 storm it's now we can to a category 3 but it's still considered life threatening and is expected to make its way to the southeast coast of the u.s. and the gallagher reports from florida. complete devastation that it is cars mind

hurricane dorian hit the northwestern part of the bahamas as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the atlantic wind gusts reach 350 kilometers per hour roos ripped off and storm surges flooded streets and homes but this is the direct canal that's right behind us and you can see the waves are just raging as if we were at sea before the storm hit many residents decided to ignore warnings according to the red cross more than 13000 homes have since been destroyed communications are down on some of the islands even as dorian lingers as a still deadly storm. in the midst of a disturbed tragedy. in pounds of the northern bahamas. mission and focus now on this search and rescue and recovery. it's for the press for those in effect today areas and for our 1st responders it's expected dorian will remain over the bahamas until at least tuesday morning before

heading towards the u.s. is east coast. in florida mandatory evacuation orders are in place as much of the state remains under threat forecasters say the eye of dorian should run power well to the florida coast but authorities here are taking no chances but we are in a situation where the storm is stalling very close to our coast it is going to make a movement and the movement that it makes is going to have a lot of impact on floridians and so please listen to the instructions he the instructions do what you need to do to keep you in your. your family safe other states too are preparing for the worst as dorian's path is projected to bring it close to georgia and the carolinas from its formation dorian has been unpredictable it may have slowed slightly but the threat of landfall storm surges and strong winds remains this storm is still moving its massive. changes with us will. continue to move in reverse and so we're not the only thing

dorian is still a powerful storm and the u.s. is east coast is bracing itself for a days long event the predicted northern turn is the best case scenario for the entire eastern seaboard authorities here in florida are warning residents to watch forecasts closely even the slightest deviation could be deadly the main focus for now is on the bahamas any rescue efforts are being hampered by conditions on the ground but it seems that widespread destruction and loss of life is likely if dorian sticks to its predicted path millions may be spared but no one here is taking any chances and gallacher al-jazeera puts an lucie florida a spanish coast guards have rescued nearly 200 migrants in the mediterranean sea they were trying to cross from north africa to spain 72 people were saved from 3 boats in the strait of gibraltar while a larger group was rescued off the malaga coast. i still ahead when we come back

why turkey say it will press on against u.s. backed kurdish forces along its border with syria. turning back the page why the era of the virtue the book could be over. how there's a smell of autumn in the air at least in the walls in europe and this is it it's a long lasting and long running car front but the top half keeps getting renewed whereas the bottom half just adds a bit more cold to the atmosphere we shall live thunderstorms to grow and they've been doing that for several days now from italy or from tunisia up through it's really towards the alps and eastward through austria and poland and germany but the temperatures behind the tellings they can increase in the breeze means the atlantic

has given temps around about 2122 suddenly 17 directors that was on monday. it is not a great deal of change and that cool push is making it let me slowly the sort through austria again but not reaching the eastern half or 3rd of europe and certainly was temperatures on the ground right about 30 rock you get significance on the storms around the subway adriatic and southern italy but more progress then on wednesday the courses down to 25 the air behind is fine and sunny but the wind is certainly picking up for the british isles western europe typically and generally now i mention to near 08 both algeria and tunisia years in some big storms recently so it's a relief maybe on tuesday that it's warm and sunny in tunis.

very. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories hong kong's leader carrie lamb has dismissed audio recording of her saying she'd resign if he had a choice comments were recorded during a private lunch last week and came after 3 months of anti-government protests. the

iranian oil tanker seized off gibraltar before being released as your portably turned off its tracking beacon the advent daddy or one formally known as the grace one switched off the track on monday shipped tracking websites had previously shown the vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading northwards. dorian is now almost at a standstill after ravaging the northern bahamas at least 5 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed after it made landfall as a category 5 storm we can to a category 3 but it's still considered life threatening. other british pound has fallen to its lowest levels since january 2017 as the country continues to struggle with the uncertainty over plans to leave the european union one pound is now worth less than $1.20 u.s. economists say sterling could weaken even further depending on this month's

political developments in the u.k. prime minister is going to hold a cabinet meeting later today as he braces for the legal challenges and a showdown in parliament over his brags it plans the opposition will introduce legislation to block a no deal breaks it boris johnson has threatened to call a snap election if rebel m.p.'s from his own party's side. when the opposition largely reports. parliament has been on holiday for 6 weeks but boris johnson and his aides have been working flat out to make good on their vows that bret's it will happen by november with or without any agreed plan with the european union to show our friends in brussels that we are united in our purpose m.p.'s should vote with the government against cool beans pointless delay. i would everybody to know there are no circumstances in which i would ask brussels to delay. but since he

has a majority of just one in parliament it doesn't take many rebels from his own conservative party to cause him problems and they are so concerned about a no deal bricks it's that they're ignoring threats to kick them out of the parliamentary party and it seems at least some will back a plan to order the government to delay breck's it yet again i have decided that in the interests of my constituents are best represented by outlining the perils of no deal and continuing to do what i've done since 2016 which is urge the government to make a deal so that we leave the e.u. in the best possible way both for the u.k. and the e.u. if they succeed johnson has a number of options and they are all in century he could either choose to ignore the will of parliament and push on with threats it anyway and face accusations of being dictatorial or more likely because called a national election which would in effect become a 2nd referendum on the brics it is the big fundamental calculation that someone

boris johnson's company making is that currently he has the opportunity to unite busy. supporters of rex it under one ticket and the bars johnson ticket while there remain parties there were democrats the labor party the green party the nationalist parties remain completely divided and that's the big fundamental calculation that someone boris johnson's making whether or not that will pay off remains we see all this means there is enormous pressure to on the main opposition leader jeremy corbin much less personally popular than johnson on monday the former labor prime minister tony blair notably failed to offer corbin his own backing in backing away from the idea of himself as a caretaker prime minister gerry corbin is behave responsibly and if he continues to put country 1st he will benefit the country and himself he can now play a decisive role in how briggs it develops. but he should see an election before

breaks it is decided that the elephant trap the days everyone here is gearing up for what feels like one of the most important moments in modern british political history which will help determine whether brits it will happen at all and if so under what terms for some time now parliament and in particular the conservative party have been tearing themselves to pieces maybe this eventually will be the defining moment the e.u. is sitting in waiting watching for any piece of movements to clarify what will happen like everyone else want an end to this lawrence leigh al-jazeera in london. a medics of paul dozens of bodies from the rubble of a detention center in the yemeni city of them are saudi led airstrikes hit the building on sunday it was being run by hooty rebels the red cross says about 100 people were killed in one of the worst attacks in more than 4 years of war the saudi m a r t led coalition is ford who decent 2015 and face international

criticism for airstrikes that hit schools and hospitals. in syria us back early forces are continuing to slowly pull back from positions near the turkish border president richard tired threatened to send troops in to push out the y.p. gee if they didn't move but some people are worried about what the kurdish pullback means for their safety bernard smith reports from an attack here near the turkish syrian border. under the supervision of the us military syrian kurdish y p g fighters filling tunnels and defensive positions along the border with turkey. the white beauty forms the bulk of the u.s. trained and backed syrian defense force the s t f it will now pullback between 5 and 7000 kilometers although turkey is demanding a 30 kilometer buffer the surface a little people with 30 kilometer a large number and would cut us off from an important broad that leads to aleppo it is impossible the administration would accept this because of the impact on our

daily lives goodish administered northeastern syria has been relatively peaceful after y p g fighters pushed out i saw earlier in the war the u.s. considers the kurds their most important partner in the fight against isis but turkey says the y p g is allied to the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. so its long term presence along the border won't be tolerated. the p.k. k. which was formed in turkey 41 years ago is considered a terrorist group by ankara the e.u. and the us government if the fighters withdraw from the border area it will hurt us there the only force that stops corruption in the region credit cards are united states interests with those as well as the kurds we also know that the kurds are the only ones who successfully stood against isis so it's in america's interest to keep them on site the withdrawal deal was reached after turkey repeatedly warned it would send its military into northern syria to target the why p.g.

pozen let him and we want our people to live safely we know we are strong combat units and we can fight and we fear for our people but now with this agreement we can build a good life in our regions and cities. the areas the kurds have withdrawn from after now being monitored from the turkish side. president reggie brown says turkey will launch its own operation to establish a safe zone if talks with the us fail to give turkish troops full control of the area within a few weeks and while there is a joint u.s. a turkish command center there's still no agreement on the size of the zone or its command structure bernard smith al-jazeera and taqiyya and the taliban has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in afghanistan's capital that killed at least 16 people on monday 119 others were injured the blast rocked the heavily guarded green zone in kabul which houses foreign embassies and government ministries at least 8 children have been

stabbed to death at a primary school in central china local authorities say 2 students have also been injured in the attack in by yanking in a province a 14 year old man has been arrested his motive is unclear. $25.00 bodies have been recovered after a fire broke out on a diving boat off the southern coast of california 9 people are missing the u.s. coast guard says 5 crew members sleeping on the top deck of a commercial vessel were rescued rob reynolds reports from los angeles. the 1st distress call came in the dead of night a crowded boat on fire and it was released. by the time the 1st rescue vessels arrived the ship was fully engulfed in flames department crews were fighting the fire when the vessel sank 20 yards off sure in 64 feet of water. 5 people were evacuated aboard

a good samaritan pleasure craft known as the great escape the rescued people were all crew members who had jumped into the water 2 were hurt but their injuries were not life threatening the boat called the conception was anchored in the channel islands 50 kilometers off the california coast it was specially equipped to accommodate diving and was well known to diving enthusiastic in southern california dozens of passengers were asleep in the lower compartment when the fire broke out people who have been aboard the ship say it was a cramped space with bunk beds stacked 3 or 4 on top of one another the close quarters may have made escape difficult if not impossible for many of them rescuers comb the area right now they're conducting shoreline searches for any any any available survivors it's not yet known what caused the deadly fire the f.b.i. has been called in to assist with evidence recovery teams and divers officials say

the conception was in compliance with maritime safety regulations investigators will now search the charred wreckage to find out just what went wrong robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles a former 1st lady in guatemala has been arrested on corruption charges saundra torres appeared in court after she was detained for campaign finance violations connected to the 2015 election she was the presidential candidates in the vote. now america's love affair with electronic books seems to be over while print books are making a comeback for the 4th year in a row sales of ebooks are down and independent books those are enjoying a resurgence in popularity i did jocasta takes a look. it was a shared love of books that brought derek young and remained a large young together many years ago i experience his work they want to portray

meetings were going to bookstores hanging out and talking about different subjects whether his business or social justice before long the 2 were married and now they fulfilled their dream of owning their own bookstore the jewel carefully selects each title to reflect the richness of the african-american community culture has been something that's a part of our whole life my husband and i it's been imported share culture to share our history it's now have a space that really has the faces that reflect ours the stories that reflect our our legacy a nice focus like this is unique to local independently owned bookstores like mahogany books it's a reason they're thriving even as other brick and mortar retailers have suffered in this age of online shopping it appears that independent bookstores are bucking the trend the american booksellers association reports a 50 percent increase in such bookstores in the last decade and an increase in

sales of books i mean real books the kind that you can ruffle through and smell that's on the rise. for 25 years people have been talking about the death of print but it it really does have an enduring quality richard ray has got a line is executive director of the d.c. public library he says while patrons continue to check out e-books in large numbers the high prices publishers charge libraries to license those books make their offerings limited as libraries have to pay sometimes. 5 or 6 times as much as you would pay for an e-book we would have to so if you're paying $10.00 for an e-book we might pay $6070.00 or $80.00 for an e-book overall e-book sales in the u.s. market have been on the decline since 2015 authored the need around 3 green says that's not surprising she says physical books are just as important to a community as physical bookstores people want to read books we want to be able to

have relationships with authors and people who are really doing things and opening our eyes to things we want to bring lation ship with those people and that only really comes from a printed book and maybe a discussion and a place to have all of those things house together some things just can't be replaced castro al-jazeera washington. this is going to round up a lot top stories now hong kong's leader carry lam has dismissed the ordeal recording of her saying she'd resign if she had a choice a comments were recorded during a private lunch last week with business leaders jim brown has more from hong kong. what it demonstrates to the outside world is if they had any doubt that kerry was not really in charge of hong kong they have that confirmation now it is

a reminder if you want it that beijing continues to pull the political strings in this deepening political crisis as to what happens next we'll carry insists that she's going to remain chief executive she says i have my own approach for trying to deal with this protective problem and has decided that actually going would be the worst possible option but certainly here at this demonstration on covering not far away from kerry lamb's office everyone here would be very happy if kerry were to resign or the iranian oil tanker seized off gibraltar before being released has reportedly now turned off its tracking beacon the edge and daddy of one formerly known as the grace one switched off the track on monday a ship tracking websites had shown the vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading north woods dosage a bar has more from tehran pointing to a marine officials they have not disclosed where exactly this ship is heading since

it was released by the authorities interpreter on august 15th this ship has made its way towards various different countries 1st greece then turkey and finally the last known location in lebanon now since then we don't know where it is currently but the iranian officials have said that they have not disclosed where it's going but the spite that the syrian destination of the it right that they've been accused of where this was headed they say that the e.u. sanctions against the syrian government are not recognized by the iranian officials because they haven't been endorsed by the united nations hurrican dorrian is now almost at a standstill that's off the ravaging the northern bahamas at least 5 people have died it's weakened to a category 3 now but is still considered life threatening. those are the headlines you're up to date right now its inside story. with a plummeting birthrate and families moving to the city's south korea's rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools

finally getting an education on al-jazeera. yet another massacre in yemen many people are killed in an attack on a detention center by the saudi led coalition calls for accountability are growing but who can hold the coalition to account this is inside story. on has a welcome to inside story today we're looking at the latest escalation of the war in yemen saudi u.a.e. coalition has bombed a detention center in the city of them all at least 100 people have been killed the red cross says that figure is expected to rise the coalition says it attacked what it calls legitimate hooty military targets and had taken measures to protect

civilians the u.n. special envoy to yemen once the coalition to investigate and says.