well how many people there could be a lot more bad direction is more harbor there are thousands of people that live there again estimated 13000 homes that have been leveled we are no longer able to receive updates from the government given that. we're sort of in an isolated part of the country at this point but the last we heard that was 7 confirmed dead the national emergency management agency has made it a top priority to continue their search and rescue operations there's one other concern given where we are given how isolated it is is the lack of shortages of of food shortages of water and shortages of medicine the united nations had said on tuesday evening that this is a problem that could only worsen if there is an immediate action by the international community thank you very much from treasury key. in abaco thank you money wrapping up brain us the latest on the devastation in the bahamas to munson said he want people killed in 2 back to back mass shootings in the united states one in a high of the other in texas the tax pond to debate over the need for

a national oil that will allow guns to be temporarily seized from dangerous and as it's known as a red flag will and has already been adopted by 17 states one of them is maryland from where alan fischer now reports. after yet another mass shooting in texas this weekend which killed 7 president donald trump suggested legislative change on a national level seems unlikely for the most part wrong if you make it back yet they would stop any national inaction has moved individual states to push forward with their own warts maryland is one of 17 states along with the district of columbia that have passed so-called red flag laws and they've been considered such a success that 5 more states are considering putting similar legislation on the books catherine dimmy was one of the delegates a mural into drew up the legislation that allows guns to be temporarily removed

from someone who could be a danger to themselves or others if you can't you're qualified to have a gun i have you know that's fine to have one but for those you know that shouldn't or are going to experiencing a crisis that may result in a tragedy i think we need the opportunity to be able to make a correction but in the us there's always strong opposition to anything that looks as if it may violate the 2nd amendment of the constitution regularly summarized as the right to bear arms one gun rights advocate says red flag laws don't make people safer you have a person who if your dish officer finds to be an immediate danger to himself or others and you seizes constitutionally protected property and you just leave him there you think he's a less dangerous now. you leave in there with a whole house full of vehicle but any other weapon can imagine nationally the house of representatives has already passed new gun legislation there's

a new sign the senate is about to follow suit. whose campaigning for change see public opinion is swinging behind them we have another election coming up in about a year and if this congress refuses to change the laws the american people are going to change the lawmakers the white house is planning to push new legislation but likely not background checks or red flag laws it wants to speed up the death penalty for my shooter's critics see that's not much of a deterrent for people who really expect to survive if they launch their own deadly rampage alan fischer al jazeera maryland. google has agreed to pay a record $170000000.00 fine for violating the privacy of children regulators say you tube which is owned by google illegally collected personal information about users under the age of 13 without parental consent the tech giant then use that data to target advertising the settlement is the largest ever in a children's privacy case in the united states in addition to the fine google says

it will make changes to privacy rules on you tube. a russian court has sentenced another man to 3 and a half years in prison for his involvement in recent opposition rallies 48 year old you of gainey call the lanko was charged after footage circulated online showing him throwing a rubbish bin toward police officers at a demonstration in july he has denied the charges several other protesters have been jailed this week with more still facing charges and battle in single use plastic bags is changing the way people shop in pakistan the threat of serious fines the same people switch to reusable to cut down on the estimated $15000000000.00 bags that go into landfill each year. to has more on this now from islamabad. i am an islam of watch mongol birds rejoice actually. cared for the. shopping for which there are daily if ensures that did

require people are now carrying the user by the bags and this of course is a major step already we can see a change of attitude after the government imposed heavy fines on the use of such bags and also am for stricter penalties for the manufacturer august on has joined a growing list of countries which enforce the ban on single use plastic bags according to the country's minister on climate change and the environment a population of 2000000 people in islamabad while using an average of 3 to 4 plastic bags their day but now the government wants the people to change their habits they want the more you use the bag in order to mitigate the effects on the environment here but what's interesting it's a good decision and should have been enforced a long time ago as they say it's better late than never is still not to date and

people must accept it wholeheartedly and all good decisions are placed me and there should be complete compliance then give you a plastic these days been on plastic was planned by previous government but this one is no enforcing it's strictly and this is really useful for all environment although the government of emraan honduras graw may have a clean and green project on august on real after too much involved in order to mitigate the effect of non-recyclable plastic way which is wreaking havoc across the country. so i had for you on the program the indian man who took one small step on the moon and. a right safety rules and. the rising tennis star his. final. thoughts in.

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the a. sport now or fact. thank you so much belinda bennett has had a career high of the u.s. open this was player is into the semifinals of a grand slam event for the 1st time but it has had beaten defending champion saka last time out in new york and this quarter final should be croatia dawn of that cage in straight sat i think some players are maybe a little bit afraid from the big courts for me even more motivation i dreamed of these like a little kid so now that i'm here i'm really enjoying it and especially playing in the stadium like this in front of

a crowd like this so thank you very much for everyone coming out and supporting us steve smith has had an 8th straight ashes 50 on his return to action following a concussion injury smith was forced to miss the 3rd test of being struck on the head by delivery from england fast bowler john for our shirt in the previous match the rivalry was renewed at manchester's old trafford stadium so far smith has had the upper hand finishing the day on 60 not out around half of the opening day's play was lost to rain australia lost to early wickets but recovered to reach 170 for 3 at close a 5 match series as level 11 after england's unlikely win in the last match you know we've talked about that not being an issue for us at all we're just focused on the process of winning a test match not necessarily you know the overall it's just you know taking a ball the toyman a day to toil and trying to make sure we're doing things right and i think that's what we've been doing and former barca sign captain miss ball has been appointed as

his country's new national coach missed but will also be chief selector he replaces mickey arthur whose contract was not renewed after the team failed to progress beyond the 2019 world cup group stages. colombian striker rather has been given quite a while come by the fans of his new club. thousands of gala tatts arise supporters packed the team stadium in istanbul to get an early look at the 33 year old former head logical madrid and monaco player has signed a 3 year deal with the turkish champions. and the man widely considered to be the greatest alpine skier of all time has confirmed his retirement from the sport austria's marcel her sure is stepping away from the slopes at the age of 30 or sure has dominated slalom and giant slalom events for the best part of a decade but he had to wait until pyung chang last year to collect his 1st olympic gold medals are sure has won the overall world cup title of record 8 times only 2

other skiers have topped his total of $67.00 world cup race victories are sure also has 7 world championship gold medals and 2 alleged big titles. the last 2 weeks for of course a bit serbians but i felt that were many reasons in fact it was a sum of many factors that made me make this decision imagine i'm not just switching jobs i'm changing my entire life and ending a career overnight if you ask me what the future will bring how i'm going to do well it's very exciting and. american sprinter justin gatlin has suffered an injury setback ahead of the world athletics championships the defending 100 meter title holder to injured his left by a race in zagreb on shoes day the 37 year old has just over 3 weeks to recover ahead of the championships and. former heavyweight boxing champion at any josh was says he had no doubts about a green to an immediate title rematch with mexican and. joshua on release are in

saudi arabia where new hostilities in december joshua lost his unbeaten record in a surprise loss to release in june a former olympic champion was knocked down 4 times before being stopped in the 7th round. i thought once you walk a tight rope once you cross the bridge and you walk again and you stumble you have 2 options to feel what you don't again it's above your ideas and try a 2nd time and go for the tie was again there's always the option to take time and be i let me have warm up in there they'll be able noblewoman fire after that. all a similar deep and. come have you each having a world i have to be confident and i have to take it serious we're ready for this 5 i know he's in a train really hard to try to take his bounce back and i'm going to do the same thing to retain the balance so you know december 7th it has been a bit one hell of

a show. and there was a lucky escape for american skier jenny simmons during a competition in new zealand. last a ski at the top of her run her how it also came off during the fall but the 20 year old escaped serious injury simmons said afterwards the incident had actually increased her confidence as she now knows she can handle even the toughest crash. lucky escape indeed that is all your sport for now it's now back to mary in london all right thank you farai. just so one other story to bring you now india's space program has been praised for its technological advancements not least its recent mission to the moon and now want to staged a fake when landing and convincing want to that to highlight a problem in his city and it appears to have worked by the. me posted a video online of a national study stepping across what appears to be craters on a newness surface bought it was the oss his friend in cost you walking through

a large potholes in the southern indian city of bengal nuru a out the video would prompt authorities to fix the road and it has almost 50 of the potholes have since been filled it was all for a good cause and it as if the news out i'll be back in a couple of minutes. 3 months of protests are unprecedented scale have virtually paralyzed hong kong what began as opposition to an extradition law has escalated into a broader pro-democracy antigovernment movement. so how and why has this crisis

developed what do the protesters want. in the 1st of 2 special reports people in power traces the dramatic evolution of hong kong summer of defiance on a just 0. driven by outrage and spanning generations the row hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticised repeat. creation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 20 if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rangel among the most persecuted minorities in the world. if you were in beijing looking out

the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china talked one on a josie. so the eyes have it the eyes have a. british and bays approve a bill to delay bright sets and stop the country crashing out of the new on october 31st and they've also rejected prime minister boris johnson's motion for an early election.

i know i'm maryanne demasi in london here with al jazeera also coming up they need every piece of help they can get. cries for help from the bahamas where whole areas have been decimated by hurricane dorian. and south african companies are targeted in nigeria in retaliation for attacks on like jiri and in johannesburg. on his pain and all the unprecedented day in the british parliament m.p.'s have rejected prime minister boris johnson's call for an early general election he put forward the motion off the politicians approved a bill to delay breaks it and block a no deal exit from the e.u. on october 31st well in a moment we'll cross in jonah how he's been following the day's developments for us from outside parliament 1st andrew symonds reports on the day's events. another defeat for boris johnson but with

a rebellion in his party and the opposition taking over the parliamentary timetable i used the right 327 notice the lack of 299. within minutes boris johnson was on his feet with his plan for a snap elections i don't want an action the public don't want an election the country doesn't want to election with this house president no other option than getting the public decide who they want as prime minister and i commend this motion to the hot under the opposition bill that now has to be passed by parliament upper house johnson is forced to seek an extension of the deadline that will remove it to january scuppering his dual die plan for a no deal brix it if nessus. on october 31st but labor the main opposition party isn't ready to give support to johnson's call for an election which needs

a 2 thirds majority the also the election to die is a bit like the offer of an apple to snow white in the wiki queen because what he's offering is not an apple or even election but the poison of a no deal. so mr speed i repeat i repeat what i said last night last night let this bill pass and gain royal assent then we will back at election so we do not crash out with a no deal exit from the european union. and surprisingly rude neighborhood staining johnson's attempt to get an immediate election didn't pass by having the house well we know where. that emotion has no out of. the majority were. out of the fixed parliaments fact this is

about defending our democracy the head of the latest political drama demonstrators in parliament square denounce boris johnson's actions accusing him of engineering a no deal grex it by claiming they're all still chances of a deal when there's no progress whatsoever boris johnson may have only been in power for 6 weeks but he doesn't have control right now nevertheless you've only got to listen to the demonstrators to realise the central issue is about trust on the opposition want to be absolutely sure there's a cop up on some guarantee he can't play any tricks if there is an election the 2nd largest opposition party is also against an immediate election people don't trust him when he says he really wants a deal we all suspect that he wants a new deal and we also want. make sure that he's not able to use his proxy of powers as the prime minister to create some tricks and allow the country to crash

out another day of unprecedented moves with involvement and with it still uncertainty about what the people of the united kingdom might expect from its political leadership to simmons' westminster. is outside parliament and joins us now in china you've been following the day's developments. it's been i suppose disappointing. in some ways it might actually work in his favor. certainly not unexpected by boris johnson that he would lose this motion to try and trigger a general election this evening it was always pretty clear that the labor party would not going to back he's offer of an election until the legislation at least this anti no deal legislation has passed into law that was always going to be the case so i think no disappointment for boris johnson it gave him the opportunity to

stand up in parliament and frame the terms of the election he wants to fight when it comes getting rid of or changing rather a parliament that he says has stood in the way of everything the government has tried to do all along blocking an opposition that he says he's willing to hand the direction and timing of breaks it over to the european union it's time he said for the people to decide who they want to take breaks it forward the election he wants is between an increasingly invented and angry voting public who want brigs it sorted out against a parliament and not an opposition that he will frame as being willing to delay breaks it indefinitely let me bring in my guest to unpick it all a bit jonathan lewis deputy director of the kemp campaign group british influence thanks for joining us jonathan watch our boris johnson's options now because he isn't going to give up easy no he's not for the opposition as don is trapped him they trapped him by by forcing an extension of bricks it or

a quest to extend rights it and then they trapped him by not giving him the election he wanted which would in effect of offered him a helping hand out of the whole huge which he dug himself so now boris johnson will try another way most likely to get that election. he can do that in 2 ways one is preposterous lee you might say to call a vote of no confidence in himself which requires just a single vote as a majority but then other m.p.'s could try and install another prime minister he could get the confidence of the house so that would be a very high risk move and other parties mine not allow him to do it the other thing he could do is to try and change the law but that would again have to pass through the commons and the lords and it's very unclear where he could find a majority that at least some of the moment or pursue reading just allow this piece of legislation that seeks to block no deal on october 31st to make its way through the lords get on to the statute books and then call on jeremy corbin once again to

support his his offer of an election if you have the law on the table on the books then certainly that satisfies a quite tyrian which jeremy cooper in laid out but really there has to be some wiggle room now for labor and certainly the other opposition parties to control the timetable the timetable is now the most important thing if you hold the election before this european council summit on the 17th of october it technically allows johnson the possibility to win that election then tear up the law and actually not request an extension so what the opposition should do and there's talk about here in the opposition about what they will be is about forcing the election after the extension has in fact been sought and granted and then deferring election to after 30 or. so johnson is denied his do or die pledge to leave on tax cuts for tabor and he's made much more vulnerable because he's broken the only promise you haven't

made a pretty heady game of tactics afoot then boris johnson has said he said repeatedly i don't want an election the british people don't want an election he says this is all now being forced upon him some believe though that it was always the plan for the day eat. office to get an early election absolutely and in a way you can't blame him because he had a majority one before and now he has a majority of minor scotti or something because he's throwing out 21 tory m.p.'s the problem he's always had to the election is the platform he gave if you gave them a platform of no you deal in each realizes the threat for the break the party but he assembles a coalition if you like at labor lib dems and all the other parties again said because it becomes such an important election but if he doesn't go on the platform of no deal it means that the bracks that party will be able to tear up the tory support and that can be very dangerous so really his options are very limited it's very unclear to see how johnson could ever win

a majority high stakes whichever way you look at it journalist thanks very much for joining us boris johnson didn't get his way on the motion calling a ling and election tonight expected all to play out again though in the coming days possibly as early as next week. thank you very much jan how in westminster. the bricks it battles and the app tricks roll on mass protests for and against the move continue to play out on the streets hundreds of pro and anti bricks of protesters rallied neapolitan rants day many of them waving e.u. flags activists on both sides of the leven remain divided been protesting in central london for months but many britons say they've had enough of the turbulence and anti bricks activists of lit up an english landmark with warnings about the potential consequences of leaving the european union without a deal messages were projected on to the wings of the angel of the north sculpture in northeast england where almost all areas of voted to leave it warns of potential food medicine and petrol shortages the activists also accuse prime minister barak's

johnson of backing breck's it for personal gain and the leader of the u.k.'s house of commons jacob rhys malk has come into heavy criticism often this lounging on the benches in parliament gerry chews days his story breaks it debate he was seen reclining sometimes with his eyes closed ahead of the vote on a motion to block a new deal breaks it a number of politicians branded his body language disrespectful. parken dorrian is heading towards the united states off to decimating parts of the bahamas so far 7 people have been confirmed dead but the prime minister want to the death toll is shorter rise as the country prepares for a humanitarian crisis the only half of all homes on the 2 worst affected islands were damaged or destroyed by the ark and the full scale of the catastrophe is only beginning to emerge in what's being described as a historic tragedy. all of my family over the last week.

none of them. are. terrible. people are going to take. the brunt of. the reason for my son. more now from al-jazeera who has just arrived in tragic in the bahamas that's connected to grand abaco island one of the territories devastated by hurricane dorian just to give you an idea of where we are we've just arrived in treasured he this is on the island of abaco one of the more northernmost islands of the bahamas you can see that this is pretty much ground 0 of where hurricane to worry and most affected this island nation it took 36 hours before that hurricane again it had a glory find to make it across the northernmost islands of the bahamas winds upwards of 350 kilometers per hour.