u.k. prime minister boris johnson braces for legal challenges and a showdown in harlem and over his breaks it plans. on has a secret this is live from doha also coming up the iranian tanker blacklisted by the u.s. turns off its tracking signal deepening the mystery over where it's headed. 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 lead all the recording reveals her saying she'd quit if she could over the

protests. one of the most powerful atlanta storms ever recorded kills of least 5 people in the bahamas. but it could be an important day in british politics as the breaks it drama reaches a critical point prime minister boris johnson facing challenges on several fronts over his plans to leave the european union johnson is expected to hold a cabinet meeting this hour as he braces for a showdown in parliament m.p.'s will return from their summer breaks later on tuesday the opposition likely to introduce legislation to block a no deal breaks in a number of legal challenges to johnson's plans to suspend parliament are moving through courts across the u.k. the uncertainty has seen the british pound fault. to its lowest levels since

january 17th one pound is now worth less than $1.20 economists say the sterling could fall even further against the u.s. dollar depending on what happens politically this month lawrence lee is live for us now in london for the latest developments laurence any number of things could be happening today breaks it coming to a climax what's happening this tuesday. it is an absolutely huge day in modern british politics is there's no doubt about it it's the major question that everybody's asking is do all those opposition m.p.'s and the conservative party rebels who was so intent on blocking brick sits with or without any deal with the european union at the end of october do they have the numbers to do it's let's speak suits on break who's a spokesman for the biggest party in the u.k. liberal democrats where all you think you go if you're the analysts i think we've

got the numbers so i think it's going to be very close and we've won votes on as little as one or 2 members of parliament in the past but i think we've got the numbers. obviously your party the liberal democrats the scottish nationalists you have to assume the overwhelming majority of labor policy m.p.'s. are going to fall into line behind this is that this motion how many conservatives do you think there are steve b. building behind the scenes talks of them over the last last last few days well i hope they're going to be in double figures and i think what's happened in the last sort of 48 hours is the threat spurious johnson has made to them the arm twisting that's gone on has had the counter effects and that i think it strengthened their result to work with us to block no deal and many of those conservatives of course are people with senior ministers who understand the implications of no deal and will know that it means medicines food and fuel shortages and couldn't possibly want to inflict that on the country so just help us understand what happens if you

win tonight you do it is cool can taking control of the older paper isn't it being in control of the parliamentary timetable boris johnson has said that if that happens then he it looks like to that he'll call for an election. if you want to do that you need 2 thirds of m.p.'s to support he doesn't he's. going to support that with the liberal democrats for a start well no we wouldn't support it the country is in a huge mess brecht's it chaos has ruled the country for the last 3 years the idea that the way of resolving this is to simply kick the can down the road for another 5 weeks with a general election campaign you know that's not the solution so no we don't support it and we think what he'd actually be trying to do in this way is simply guaranteeing that will crash out of the on the 31st of all tell it but he said very plainly outside downing street last nights that if 2 thirds of m.p.'s don't support an election then he'll just 2 bricks at the end of october anyone just ignore one

of the youth vote. that's an interesting development when you have the prime minister of a country saying that he is going to disregard a law the top parliament one of paul auster where i think we're in a state of crisis like it could be in chinese food can you stop him he will be challenged through the courts he we found guilty of breaking the law by the supreme courts and then he has to make a decision his attorney general for instance needs to make a decision about whether he and his lawyer offices can continue to function within government and i would expect in those circumstances the attorney general have to hand in his resignation and say that's it i'm out of this government a government that is now going to be breaking a lot of parliament has passed this is not just ultimately leads to another general election anyway well if we run our unprecedented territory when a prime minister decides to break the law i'm not sure where that leaves us if you are so convinced in your role given that the majority of the british people now are against brics it's and certainly against no deal what they just have the election

vote just push it back to the people it's effectively a 2nd referendum anyway it is no it's not because of course tory is a may try it exactly that's when she called a general election 2 years ago she said this is an election about brecht give me. a larger number of m.p.'s so i can see a list of grabs it the election turned into a debate about whether the government going to introduce a dimentia tax or not so no we think that the only way of resolving this is through a people's votes then people will be voting on that one and only single issue but you in the labor party in particular consequent on that they want an election 1st with an option for a 2nd referendum is also that only and at what point say you and the other opposition party is going to find some joint ground on which you can stand and definitively be the government well we already found that joint ground it's what's going to happen today and tomorrow where we confident that we will defeat the government we will require boris johnson to secure an extension if he cannot get

a deal before then and if you then chooses to break the law well we'll be taking him to court for break thank you very much there you go it's nothing if not complicate it's the votes is like this is the early this evening and as tom break was saying it does look at the moment that there are sufficient numbers of conservatives or about rebels that probably do have the numbers and that then puts the u.k. in completely unknown waters but alright for the moment lawrence leigh live for us there in london now the iranian oil tanker seized after a brawl to before it was released is now reported to have turned off its tracking beacon the. diary or one formerly known as the grace one switched off its track on monday shipped tracking website had previously shown the vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading north towards the u.s. secretary of state my pompei o says they have intelligence the ship is heading to the syrian port of tartus bari joins us live now from teheran so door so what more

do we know about this tanker and where may be heading. well this is undoubtedly one of the most watched oil tankers are currently sailing in international waters the iranians have said that the destination of the ship is not syria but they have not specified where it's going the officials here have said that this vessel was seized illegally by the british government in this strait of gibraltar on july the 4th and the 28 crewmembers on board the iranians have said that since it's released on august 15th the ship is heading to an unknown location that in the contents of it which is $2100000.00 barrels of iranian crude oil worth over $130000000.00 have already been sold where they haven't specified to whom the point here point of conflict contention rather here is that the e.u. sanctions that are in place against the syrian government are not recognized by the

iranian authorities as binding because they haven't been indorsed by the united nations that is the point of dispute the issue surrounding this vessel is that the marines have said that the british government seized this vessel at the request of the american government because the united states has been trying to pressure iran into coming back to the negotiating table over the 2015 nuclear deal but since it's been released adrian area has been seen heading towards greece turkey and tripoli in love and on since last night and now it's not known where it's heading but the iranians have said that syria is not the destination but the have yet to the schools where it's going and why is the status of the this particular ship so informed why why is there so so much attention on this tanker. well that's because the iranians believe that this was a tool that was used as

a tool by the american government to try and put more pressure on iran since the united states withdrew from the nuclear deal last year they have imposed a series of sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector the united states wants iran to come back to the negotiating table because they say that the deal that they had in 2015 was not a good one and the iranians for their part say that that is never going to happen until the united states cuts back on their sanctions and lifts them all together the reigning president hassan rouhani just this morning speaking in parliament said that the united states officials have approached iranian officials in a number of. locations over the last year to try and get them to have some kind of dialogue but that is never going to happen the response will always be negative by the iranians until the united states withdraws their sanctions on iran they rein in say that the us government has waged economic terrorism on the country and just

last friday this very vessel was sanctioned by the united states treasury department so anybody that is going to be doing any business with this vessel is going to face severe sanctions by the united states so the iranians say this is the use of this war and that is not going to force them back to the negotiating table. thank you dr jabari live for us in tehran. our hong kong's leader has dismissed the lead recording of her saying he should resign if she had a choice carolan says she never planned to quit her comments were recorded during a private lunch last weekend come after 3 months of anti-government protests there when he reports was. 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 for

a charity set. cause this. shows. our our. this just in the live chat 1st thing is to create. at. least 2. hours 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 with the central people and. 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 kerry lamb says the bill is did the protesters want to 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 who knows how long how the shootings and those who are close. to hearts as hostages. the settlers. are.

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. agent brown is live for us now from hong kong say does the emergence of this recording we can carry lance position here. well i think it certainly in berra says her and the people here protesting very close to her office are certainly rejoicing in that fact this was humiliation in a sense on top of embarrassment and it was a reminder i think if you wanted it that you know kerry lamb really is in many ways according to her critics nothing more than

a puppet of beijing and this audio recording this leaked already a recording has in many ways simply reinforce to all of that kerry lamb it's quite clear it was taking her directions in this crisis from president xi jinping and the message from beijing is pretty clear do not yield anything because carry law remember according to another report from the reuters news agency last week had offered to formally withdraw this contentious extradition bill beijing over ruled out and they then overruled her desire to resign now if they had allowed her to get away it's possible that this crisis might well have been resolved several months ago the fact they haven't allowed that to happen means as i say that the response from beijing is there will be no concessions they will not talk to the protest movement that's not the style of the chinese communist party and have we heard anything new from the beijing government on what they've been saying about all this

. you know one. well yes we heard the softer noon from the hong kong and macau affairs office they gave their 4th news conference since this crisis began more than 30 weeks ago and they made some fairly strong points they said that hong kong people and its government must stand up to violence they say the masterminds of the violence must be brought to justice and you also become and in beijing once more pledged support for the hong kong government he also said that it was heartbreaking to see so many children caught up in the violence saying that so far 15 had been arrested and one of those was a 12 year old and the arrests here in hong kong have been continuing on tuesday 2 key activists have been detained and also people arrested during the past few days have been making their 1st appearances in hong kong court so another fluid. here in hong kong or adrian thanks to adrian brown live for

a say in hong kong. and as you're seeing as you just saw from the live pictures there protesters are keeping up the pressure on hong kong government with many taking part in the 2nd day of strikes violence broke out between police and some demonstrators late on monday after a day of launch only peaceful rallies across the territory thousands of university and secondary school students have joined the strike skipping their 1st day of class. all right when we come back on al-jazeera a frantic moments as a fire and go diving boat off the coast of california killing at least 25 people. weeks off the widespread flooding in sudan hundreds of thousands of people are still stranded and suffering the latest from the worst affected areas.

hello again welcome back we do want to update you one is happening with hurricane dorian right here over the grand bahama islands it is a category 3 but it is gone stationary this is been what has happened over the last 24 hours the storm is just to the north east of freeport right there but it's not just air that's been affected i want to take you down here towards nasa and show you the most current video that has come out across that area what they're dealing with also storm surge has been affecting that part of the island and we have seen with some widespread flooding across the region power outages of course are a big part of this as well and we're going to be seeing the rain come down as well as a storm surge a big problem today as we go towards the rest of the day we don't think we're going to see much improvement until we get into the evening timeframe so tonight we are looking at a category 3 storm still here on tuesday by tomorrow the storm begins to make its

way towards the north and we are going to sing its effect for parts of florida as well as into georgia by the time we get to the long term forecast here and into thursday notice a truck up the coast and starting to make a turn up here towards the northeast we could be seeing a windfall to cape hatteras into the carolinas we're going to be watching that very carefully because a storm track could be changing but by the time we get towards friday the storm system could be making its way back into the atlantic. weather sponsored by catalona. rewind returns with a new series. and brand new updates on the past about to see these documentaries. rewind continues we have to be announced back a little for the president i read about and this is the other the proudest day out by you know my life that was a real turning point for goes that give them a lot of confidence that they can beat any team in

a shoe on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour british prime minister boris johnson is set to hold a cabinet meeting this hour as he braces for a showdown in parliament over his bracelet plans the british pound is fallen to its lowest level in more than 2 and a half years on the continued uncertainty. the iranian oil tankers seized off gibraltar before being released appears to have turned off its tracking beacon the address and the area one formerly known as the grace one reportedly switched off its track on monday shipped tracking web sites and previously shown a vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading north to. hong kong's lead

a carry lammas dismissed elite audi a recording of her saying she'd resign if she had the choice lam says she never planned to quit over the protests the comments were recorded at a private luncheon last week. dorian is ravaging the northern bahamas in the caribbean at least 5 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed after it made landfall as a. it's a gray 5 storm it's now we can to a category 3 but it's still considered life threatening and it's expected to head to the southeast coast of the u.s. and get local reports from florida. complete devastation that 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 historic tragedy. down south and northern bahamas. mission and focus now on this search and rescue and recovery. for the press for those in effect interiors 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 a 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 and 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. it may have slowed slightly but the threat of land for storm surges and strong winds remains this storm is still moving its masses i would not take any chances with this one you know continue to move in reverse and so we're not thinking dorian is still a powerful storm in 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 and a 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 port st lucie florida. $25.00 bodies have been recovered after a fire broke out on a diving boat off the southern coast of california 9 people 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 is really serious so 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 rescue 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 in 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. china's foreign minister is in north korea reaffirming what he's called a close relationship between neighbors ties were strained when beijing backed u.n. sanctions on pyongyang more than 2 years ago but since then chinese president xi jinping and north korean leader kim jong un have met 5 times a china is a key ally as nuclear tensions on the korean peninsula remain in talks with the united states stuart rescue workers appalled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a detention center in the yemeni city of the model saudi u.a.e. coalition air strikes hit the building run by hooty rebels on sunday the red cross says about 100 people were killed in one of the worst attacks in more than 4 years

of war the spanish coast guard has rescued nearly 200 refugees and migrants from 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. at least 78 people have now been killed by floods in sudan 2 months of heavy rain and forced hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their homes really every state in the country is now effective . reports from north of the capital. i stand not far from the and tons of village that lies between here and the riverbed of the nile the riverbed itself is 4 kilometers from here all this land is submerged and for 20 days now people have been trying to extract their belongings from the village that has melted into water because most of the buildings there are made of mud bricks

people telling us that they have tremendous difficulties in this respect because they don't have help from outside they don't have help from organizations they have food and they have tents and other supplies at the camp but right here in this effort to extract their belongings they are alone. this camp is located some 40 kilometers north of the capital khartoum and it is hosting about $7000.00 people that's supposed to be the total of people who've been living in the area between here and the river bed the wild only here you see tents that have been provided by the sudanese military but also other tents provided by private n.g.o.s and food supplies and other donations have been coming to this place for the last 3 weeks today and also a few days ago some cargo came from qatar and other countries and here even also some private n.g.o.s and local religious brotherhoods are supplying food and

distributing as you can see the stands behind me is owned by one of the religious sects in sudan so everyone is trying to help and the situation is not really bad according to the people here but across the done a lot of damage has been brought about by the flood the floods that took place some weeks ago and until now people are still assessing the damage. zimbabwe's public sector doctors have gone on strike over pay and working conditions the government failed to meet their wage demands they had threatened to strike last week saying they couldn't afford to go to work zimbabwe is currently facing surging inflation and a deep economic crisis. protesters have taken to the streets of haiti's capital port au prince of a worsening fuel shortages haitians have been unable to get fuel for days demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president. and the calling on the government to find a solution to. our census of seal pups in the u.k.

is returned some promising results that count by scientists a london zoo found 138 pops have been born in the thames estuary this year the river thames was declared biologically dead in the 1950 s. researches say the latest seal tally is proof the waterway is now in good health. and this is al-jazeera to get a round up of the top stories british prime minister boris johnson is holding a cabinet meeting this hour as he braces for a showdown in parliament over his break supplants the british pound has fallen to its lowest level in more than 2 and a half years on the continued uncertainty. the iranian oil tanker seized off gibraltar before being released appears to have turned off its tracking beacon the adrian dariya one formerly known as the grace one reportedly switched off its

tracker on monday shipped tracking websites had previously shown the vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading north woods body has more from tehran. according to iranian officials they have not disclosed where exactly this ship is heading since it was released by the authorities injured 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 despite 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 hong kong's leader kerry lam has dismissed the need all the a recording of her saying she'd resign if she had a choice lam says she never planned to quit over the protest comments were recorded during a private lunch last week a people have gathered for a 2nd day of

a general strike in an effort to continue their pressure on the government. hurrican dorrian is now almost at a standstill after ravaging the northern bahamas at least point 5 people have died it is now we can to a category 3 storm but is still considered life threatening. zimbabwe's public sector doctors have gone on strike over pay and working conditions the government failed to meet their wage demands they had threatened to strike last week saying they couldn't afford to go to work the zimbabwe is facing surging inflation and the deep economic crisis those are the headlines you're up to date we're back in half an hour right now it's a string. what guarantees ready would you give to the people would be attending the workshop would listen i'm supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing me we

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