down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving the schools finally getting an education on al-jazeera. boris johnson loses his majority in the u.k. parliament has one of his m.p.'s the facts ahead of another crucial breck's a vote. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program hurrican dorrian grows in size but weakens as it batters the bahamas with dangerous winds and a life threatening storm surge un experts find potential war crimes on all sides in the yemen conflict and say the u.s. britain and france may be complicit and why america's love affair with e-books

appears to be ending. thank you for joining us we begin with another momentous day in british politics just a few hours ago prime minister boris johnson lost his parliamentary majority when one of his m.p.'s defected to the pro e.u. liberal democrats johnson has vowed to leave the e.u. on october 31st even if it means crashing out without a deal but dozens of m.p.'s including many from his own conservative party want to stop that they've introduced a motion to prevent a no deal breaks it which will be voted on in a couple of hours if they are successful johnson has suggested he will then push for a snap election where we're going to be live outside parliament in just a moment 1st though this report from needs bark. britain's democracy is at war. with itself. as protest as march to westminster.

returned from the summer recess used to seize control of parliamentary business and block forest. m.p.'s including prominent figures in johnson's own conservative party have joined forces with opposition m.p.'s to prevent the country leaving the e.u. without a deal on october the 31st they want to pass an emergency motion later this evening to take control of the parliamentary timetable and extend the brags that deadline one conservative m.p. defected to the opposition liberal democrats meaning johnson no longer has a majority in parliament if m.p.c. do pass a bill to prevent a no deal exit johnson says he'll have no choice but to push to hold a general election enough is enough the country wants this done and they want the referendum respected we are negotiating a deal and there are a total i know i heard it i know i'm probably getting

a deal we will leave by october 31st the circumstances reality or no deal breaks it's being called reckless by the opposition labor leader no deal mr speaker will main food shortage is reduced medical supplies and chaos at our ports not me not me saying that the government's own leaked analysis. and it warns of chaos all across the board john his decision to shut down parliament for a month beginning next week outraged his opponents they say it leaves no time to debate breaks it increasing the chances of a no deal departure johnson supporters see no deal is an important negotiating position with the e.u. but many conservative party rebels don't have ready to. to risk their jobs to prevent it there are lots of pressures on me. and i've been threatened with the selection and will be weighing up the loyalty against the national interest this is

this is painful and hard but i think we have the rights it has distorted british politics uniting all the potence dividing old alliances the country is careering towards a new brakes a climax with a question this confounded the country and the continent is whether we're approaching a breakthrough for knowledge or simply another cliffhanger. even if johnson loses to the opposition and rebels from his party this evening he still needs the backing of most m.p.'s to trigger a snap election. opposition parties and now weighing up the risks of a possible vote for now the battle lines are drawn the government and parliament are fighting for the right to determine britain's breaks in future leave barca al-jazeera london well jenna hall is live for us in westminster joe now already the prime minister has lost his majority in parliament and that may not even end up being the most important thing that happens today to him and the government to talk

us through what the next hours might look like. well the debate in parliament is raging as we speak the crucial vote proximately 2 hours away now and some pretty heated scenes inside the house of commons conservative party rebels have joined in the so-called rebel alliance bringing this motion in the 1st place who will vote against their own government later being accused of standing our against in their attempt to subvert the people's will the democracy in the referendum and try to interrupt boris johnson's promise of a no deal if no deal can be reached on the 31st of october and john bercow the speaker his decision being challenged in this debate to allow the debate in the vote to go ahead he says he will carry on unperturbed do or die he said echoing boris johnson's own promise to bring the brakes it to pass on october the

31st do or die let me bring in my guest now craig dillon is a digital strategist founder of westminster digit digital you ran boris johnson's digital campaign as part of his leadership campaign strategy what's the strategy now do you think craig the strategy is very complicated at the moment there's a lot of things at stake we don't really know what's going to happen the power is now going into the hands of parliament so what we've seen is there's a few options left but the question is what happens tonight is really going to change other things do you think they counted on losing their majority the conservatives quite so quickly definite say quickly but i think they were prepared for everything and i think one of the big issues that we face with that is that it's really put up some barriers you know the majority has already tiny and you know as you saw treason they really struggled a lot of that stuff so now having not even have a majority still is a big problem and with that tiny majority coming to office just for 5 weeks or so ago it must have been pretty clear to everybody that an election was close to what

it always the strategy doing to wind up and. these to get them to block no deal to wind up brussels to get them to refuse to negotiate and then set up an election that essentially pits the people against parliament and the e.u. i don't think boris ever went into this wanting an election and none of the parties are prepared for elections right now you know none of the in shelters in place i don't think that was the goal i think one of the goals was that we would be forced into a no deal breaks it by you know the e.u. not to go shaking things up but i don't think anyone wants an election which is why we're seeing things going a little bit shaky and a little bit we don't really know what's happening and we're starting to lose lose control of it a little bit so we what was that was there a sign of that sense of losing control this afternoon when boris johnson fielded questions many of them from his own employees and did so in a slightly stumbling way he looked quite unsure of himself from time to time was that a sign do you think of boris johnson losing control the script not going entirely

the way he planned out i think course evolution's control he always knows least but i think this is a very very tough time and he knows there's a lot of pressure on this he sees as his personal judy to deliver breaks it and i think these hurdles are being put up in his way he sees as more of a challenge than anything that he's sort of too worried about i think he believes that we can get through all of this. really about losing a general election i just don't think he wants to have one right now the public certainly don't want to have a general election if you're going reliever there thanks very much boris johnson's digital strategist there well he may not want an election that people may not want to the election something though he's going to have to give and quite possibly this side of october 31st back to you john hall outside westminster thank you were you could hear the protests there while the jono was speaking and there have been major street protests right across the u.k. and my hayward sent this update from parliament square. all the protests really

goes to show that this is no longer just then these do you have rank said there are no deal right so it is. about austerity it is about boris johnson and it is also about the future of britain what you hear a lot here the driving force for getting people out onto the streets is the word democracy they say that the punk suspension a parliament is simply undemocratic one wasn't told me that they believe that boris johnson is simply trashing the democracy will their boys is behind for that very loud down the road there is accounted administration taking place of people who believe the practice is a good idea it just goes to show that 3 years more than 3 years after the referendum this issue is still very divisive. hurrican dorrian is inching away from the bahamas after slamming into the island nation as a category 5 storm officials say they're in the midst of

a historic tragedy as reports of more deaths and widespread damage trickle out the hurrican traveled west from the u.s. virgin islands last wednesday it hit the bahamas on sunday were travelled slowly screw nourse into monday it was upgraded to a category 5 that's the highest category a storm can actually be before hitting the abaco island on tuesday dorian sat over the north of the bahamas for some time still a powerful force and it's now traveling north parallel to the florida coastline gradually weakening but actually growing in size but it could bring strong storm surges and hurricane force winds as far north as georgia and the carolinas and the gallagher reports now from florida. as hurricane dorian edges away from the bahamas a clearer picture of its devastating power is emerging grand the harbor and abaco island were hit hardest with storm surges and powerful winds this is now

a humanitarian crisis hampered by the storm slow path through the region continued heavy rains and high winds in the true extent of the damage that may not be known for days but early reports suggest the rescue and recovery operation will be huge we also understand that about 62000 people across the 2 islands will need access to clean drinking water it's not an unfamiliar thing to say in a disaster but when there's no water after a disaster that can have serious secondary impacts so that will be a priority not just for the red cross but for the government and for the u.n. system the red cross says at least $13000.00 homes have either been severely damaged or destroyed rebuilding will be a long process and saving those stranded by one of the most powerful storms recorded is a priority no matter what the form of the like. you're going to need. a lot of support. disliking doria now threatens the u.s.

east coast where preparations evacuation orders and warnings have been in place for days the storms predicted path shows no landfall in florida but a cape canaveral nasa is moot sensitive equipment as the storm edges closer georgia and the carolinas remain on high alert and many residents have heeded warnings to prepare for the worst hoping that by being so early with our preferred preparations they will all be invade it we will not have leave it to do much of florida's east coast remains under a hurricane watch in there is still a danger of high gusts of wind and storm swells coming in from the atlantic ocean but if the track stays as it is predicted the storm should be about 170 kilometers off the east coast even as it makes its way up to george. and the carolinas that is potentially good news for millions of people but everyone is being warned not to get complacent. in the next few hours and days much needed resources will pour into the bahamas even for

a nation used to dealing with powerful hurricanes this is an unprecedented situation at. indian river city florida. the southern california coast guard has suspended its search for survivors following a fire on a commercial diving boat the vessel sank after the blaze broke out before dawn on monday 5 of the crew were rescued but most of the people on board were sleeping below deck and emergency crews have now recovered 34 bodies the authorities have launched an investigation into what is one of the area's worst maritime disaster. still to come in this half hour south africa's president condemns the days of xenophobic looting as unacceptable plus. i have never attended a resignation to the central government leader kerry lamb denies she wants to resign after a week to order your recordings of her saying that she would quit if she could.

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northwest africa's temples in tunis actually rising to round up $31.00 mark as the sun places part but hurricane season the started and usually the birthplace of these things surprisingly you may think is big storms develop an ethiopian highlands or somewhere here west was through this hell they produce a lot of rain and temporary flooding to clean the air molly but when they go off shore they turn into proper areas of low pressure as i say ventured the hurricanes . over the decades millions of arabs have moved from the middle east many refugees but others economic migrants taking their skills uproot. al jazeera world meets to doctors to forge new lives are destroyed and the u.s. . never forgetting their roots. but each committed to building

a new life helping other. arabs abroad the surgeons al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.k. prime minister barak's strong suit has lost his majority ahead of a crucial vote on the motion to stop a new deal breck's one of his own m.p.'s philip reed affected to the pro e.u. liberal democrats and hurrican dorian is inching away from the bahamas after slamming into the island nation as a category 5 storm officials say they're in the midst of a historic tragedy as reports of more deaths and widespread damage trickle out.

u.n. experts have released a report saying all parties in the yemen conflict may be involved in war crimes the report accuses the saudi u.a.e. coalition of killing civilians with airstrikes and deliberately denying them aid this by them being on the brink of famine investigators are given a list of suspects to the u.n. rights chief or a burden on the reports. indiscriminate killings torture rape and using starvation as a weapon of war these are the findings of a group of united nations experts who investigated the war in yemen the parties to the conflict in yemen are responsible for an array of human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law some of these violations are likely to amount to war crimes. it's the 2nd report by a group of eminent experts who say the u.s. britain and france may be complicit in war crimes by arming and providing

intelligence to the saudi u.a.e. coalition especially so in yemen says west some bombs a consistently being used by the coalition the problem with this how do the americans and all those who match them like the united states they ignore the dimension of the warsaw short of talking to run short of probably mitigating the tension between the iranians and the americans they arenas and the saudis i think those happening in in yemen is only a proxy for probably a bigger game and why the game but the experts say there are no clean hands when it comes to the involvement of all the warring parties that includes houthi rebels the yemeni government forces supported by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates they have targeted hospitals ports water facilities markets farms and of restricted the delivery of humanitarian aid. the u.n. experts also accuse iran of backing the violence committed by the junta's one of

the most devastating air strikes targeted a wedding party in 2015 killing at least 130 people. and in august last year at least 40 children were killed when a saudi u.a.e. coalition air strike hit the pass inside. the experts are also concerned the war has taken another complex turn as the saudi backed government and the u.a.e. back separatists in the south of vying for control of yemen 2nd city aid and parties to the conflict zones seem incapable of even agreeing amongst some as to the way. the un describes the war as the world's worst humanitarian crisis and is calling on all parties the conflict including western countries to be held accountable lure about a man the al-jazeera. south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has condemned the

latest wave of xenophobic attacks in johannesburg more than 100 people have been arrested since the violence broke out on sunday many foreign owned shops were attacked but as how do what also reports local business owners were also targeted. police in south africa try again to stop writing and looting in some poor neighborhoods in and around johanna spake it's been like this since sunday some of the businesses and shops are vandalized belong to foreign nationals this is not the 1st time i have met absolute say it has been through this he says his other store in another part of the city was looted last year because it clearly something like this. how can a dragon. make something for my can release from a children's book on my finances day libya come from the like not for a crime or whatever. only for. something that you can believe criminal gangs are

responsible for the violence mario says he got a phone call only in the morning that his business was being looted but it was too dangerous for him to move now that it's relatively quiet he's come back to assess the damage i still felt people still looting as are all of you with the police presence and all that to say that it's not about. a 14 foot in the shop i'm a sort of a citizen blois said if you see people that work for me in the shop and they told me it's just to be a cumulative effect that they don't look at me and other only at the loss of a move upwards i don't know what else to say. some say the country's high unemployment rate now nearly a 30 percent white space poverty and inequality are to blame for the violence in 2008 at least 60 people were killed and more than $50000.00 forced from their homes when many foreign african nationals were tog. 4 years ago at least 7 people were

killed some to the africans feel they are competing with outsiders for scarce stops . human rights groups say anti immigrant comments made by some politicians are making things worse they said xenophobic sentiment underlying this about foreigners everything to leave we are a democracy we are a democratic society we cannot allow people to take the law into their own ends there is no country that doesn't care for a measure now this president still has condemned the attacks as in a phobic and an acceptable more than 100 people have been arrested for public violence arson and looting but in some areas the police seem overwhelmed making it easy for some people to stay in the street. zimbabwe's public sector doctors have gone on strike over pay and working conditions this comes after the government failed to meet their demand to have their wages paid to the us dollar

the strike was threatened last week with the doctors association saying its members cannot afford to report for duty. hong kong's leader has this mr leaked already a recording of her saying that she would resign if she had a choice caroline says that she never planned to quit her comments were recorded during a private lunch last week and they come after 3 months of anti-government protests when he reports from hong kong all day. or they were homegirl told only one day this seems to be no end in sight to the protests in hong kong and no sign that the government is willing to give in to any of the protesters demanding day 2 of a series of strikes got under way as you submerged of a leaked audio recording in which the city's chief executive is heard telling business leaders that she'd resign if she had a choice or a chance. this. out.

the. is. this just in the you live or charles the 1st thing is to be. at a rate. is 2. hours later in who 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 attended a resignation to the central people's government. i have not even contemplated to discuss a resignation with the central people's government. the choice of not resigning is my own choice no move though how the resignation of the chief executive was one of the key demands of the protesters when they began taking to the streets on the 1st of july protesters stormed this building the legislative council the seat of power in hong kong with kerry lamb in charge those fighting for political change

here say the chief executives leaked comments prove what they always knew. they say there's no real power residing in the building they broke into and that's why they say their fight is no longer about kerry lamb resigning it's about sending a message to china that the people of hong kong want democracy we have a puppet government controlled by the tyrannical chinese communist party and it needs fundamental change to the chinese government again reiterated its support for hong kong's administration but warned it will act if the situation worsens. the central government will never allow the chaos in hong kong to continue indefinitely if the situation in hong kong deteriorates further becomes uncontrollable and the turmoil threatens the sovereignty and security of the country the central government will not sit idly by. the controversy over kerry lamb's leaked comments

is likely to have little impact on the crisis with both sides no closer to finding a reason when hey al-jazeera hong kong members of italy's anti establishment 5 star movement have voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a government with the center left democratic party more than 79 percent supported a coalition in an online vote paving the way for a new government to take office in the coming days italy was thrown into political turmoil when the anti immigrant league party said that it was pulling out of its coalition with 5 star but the 5 star movement agreed to form a new administration with its former rivals that they were crossing party to head off an early election and keep the league out of power the prime minister does epic and there is expected to keep his job although the president and both houses of parliament will need to approve his new cabinet. america's love affair with electronic books appears to be ending for the force years sales of ebooks are dull

and print sales are up in the pen the bookstores are also experiencing a resurgence in popularity castro looks at why the paperback is making a comeback. it was a shared love of books that brought derek young and remind a large young together many years ago i experience his work going to poetry readings we're going to bookstores is hanging out i'm talking about different subjects with his business or social justice before long the 2 were married and now they fulfilled their dream of owning their own bookstore the dual carefully select each title to reflect the richness of the african-american community culture is not something that's a part of our whole life my husband and i it's been imported share a culture to share our history and i 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 of 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. qatar has revealed the official emblem for its 2022 world cup with a worldwide media campaign the image was beamed onto buildings all over the world at the same time with unveilings in kathryn's capital doha and around the arab

world as well as in europe the united states south america america africa and asia the figure of 8 is a reminder of the 8 world cup stadiums that will host the matches. much more on that and everything else we've been covering on our website al-jazeera dot com. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has lost his parliamentary majority after one of his m.p.'s the fact that to the pro e.u. liberal democrats ahead of a crucial vote johnson has vowed to leave the e.u. on october the 31st even if it means crashing out without a deal of dozens of m.p.'s including many from his own conservative party on the stop that they've introduced a motion to prevent or no deal breaks it which will be voted on later on tuesday if they are successful johnson has suggested he will push for a snap election john

a whole has been. pretty heated scenes inside the house of commons conservative party rebels who joined in the so-called rebel alliance bringing this motion in the 1st place who will vote against their own government later be accused of stunning arrogance in their attempt to subvert the people's will the democracy in the referendum and try to interrupt boris johnson's promise of a no deal if no deal can be reached on the 31st of october hurrican dorrian is inching away from the bahamas after slamming into the island nation is a category 5 storm officials say they're in the midst of a historic tragedy as reports of more deaths and widespread damage trickle out u.n. officials estimate the more than 60000 people in the northwest bahamas will need food following the catastrophic storm the strongest ever to hit the country the category 3 storm is now heading towards the southeastern united states u.n.

experts have released a report saying all parties in the yemen conflict may be involved in war crimes the report accuses the saudi u.a.e. coalition of killing civilians with airstrikes and deliberately denying them aid this fight the country being on the brink of fine and investigators have given a list of suspects to the un rights chief. south africa's president has condemned days of widespread xenophobic looting as totally unacceptable more than 100 people have been arrested in johannesburg since violence broke out on sunday targeting foreign owned shops police confirmed on tuesday that 5 people have died in the attacks more news in half an hour at the stream is coming up next thanks for watching.

i'm a democrat again i'm a journalist at the bureau the rest good journalism and your english. and i'm only going to what would you do if telling the truth meant defying your government today we meet the whistleblower who tried to stop the iraq war so share your thoughts on the matter you can tweet us and leave your comments and i live chat and you might be in the stream as well. in the lead up to the 2003 iraq war catherine uncovered a plot by the united states to spy on the united nations the goal was to uncover information about holdout delegates of the u.n. security council in an attempt to force their support for a war guns largely overlooked story is.