extraordinary. the generally held view is that the johnson administration is now so terrified of nigel farage as breck's it party that despises the european union but it will no longer brook any dissent it was faraj who status in british politics forced the bracks referendum in the 1st place and now it seems he is driving the conservative party to adopt his views. consequently today's conservative party finds itself at war with the european union and with itself its legacy and relationship with its most famous son the irony isn't lost on anyone that after the 2nd world war churchill gave all of his most famous speeches in which he called for the creation of a united states of europe and working together economically and socially for the greater good that phrase united states of europe is used by brick sitters including those inside the johnson ministration as the biggest insults of all. the.

new found love of the european union from those terrified of bricks it is now forced johnson into a corner and could easily lead to his resignation in the coming weeks the conservative party has a lot of thinking to do lawrence lee al jazeera london. the writer is director of the center for brain studies at birmingham city university he says johnson is running out of options and may be forced to resign. if you really want to put it in context the previous significance of this is the implosion of a conservative party if that can clog the river have the longest serving in the a storage conservative group is life has made it clear he would rather support jeremy corbin as labor leader. prime minister at least and keep our phones than pat really is that severe the out so this is there is not a parliamentary mechanism i think our thoughts get the election he wants next up the bill the pen amendment to get the extension from brussels to into general use a sort of minimum looks set to become law on monday so he's really a face the 2 options he can either be signed and go to the queen and ask him to

form through us very cool to try and form a government in the belief or who are more vital or great for in effect if he continues to go down the line that you were refused because you know across from extensive across the beyond the sea is really running out of breath i think you know he's now facing the corruption resigning for i.b.m. and corporate cohen define for majority to stave off in a bit of a moment an election. in hong kong thousands of protesters marched to the u.s. consulate they want u.s. politicians to pass a human rights legislation allowing sanctions to be imposed on hong kong leaders and show you some live pictures right now from our hong kong this is a short distance from the u.s. consulate protesters we understand have been blocking roads and windows of been smashed and there's been damage to a least one metro station there are large crowds have been gathered milling around

the surrounding streets they have been lined with banks jewelry shops and some of the big top brand shopping arcades these protests of course continuing despite the decision by the chief executive kerry lamb to completely. shelve the controversial extradition law which is of course what started all of these protests in hong kong almost 3 months ago now. we now have divvied up all in line for a say in hong kong so did you know what more. those protests earlier they were we understand they were peaceful but. seem to have changed but what's the latest. well have them just minutes ago there were hundreds of riot police right on this very street dispersing protesters of protesters ran away and now these are very different protesters from what we saw earlier today earlier today we saw that

peaceful march to the u.s. consulate this very area where that peaceful protests started at been taken over by the young radical protesters we've grown so used to seeing they came here to talk on financial centers started banda lising the train stations started putting up barricades which were just taken down just a few minutes ago by riot police have also set public property on friar riot police marched to this area the protesters ran away apparently to other areas in the city other major districts in the city cousin. and as you mentioned the 10s of thousands turning out to march to the u.s. consulate tell us more about what's what exactly it is that they are demanding from the u.s. . that's right has been tens of thousands peacefully march i'd like to stress to the u.s. consulate that's about a kilometer away from here they were calling on the u.s.

to push through a bill that would give them greater powers to monitor hong kong's autonomy and hong kong's freedoms that would give even the u.s. power to sanction to punish officials both in hong kong and china by not allowing are banning them from traveling to the u.s. and freezing their assets in the u.s. now they marched peacefully as i said to the u.s. consulate this was one of the largest marches we have seen in recent weeks there was a cross-section of people young and old people with families even little children many of them saying that this is essential for hong kong's future as they face the extradition bill or removing that extradition bill isn't enough anymore because they have seen the power off beijing tightening its aton a tightening its grip on all gone and they also feel that the hong kong government isn't looking out for their best interests where is this crowd heading right now as we look at these live pictures there. so

has them as i said there was a large crowd what right where that where i am this is hong kong's financial center in about 24 hours this is going to be or less than 24 hours morning with the rush hour will take place people becoming here for work this place has been completely vandalized train stations mashed fire set on public property barriers pulled down these protesters all dispersed as soon as they saw the riot believe hundreds of them marched down this very story they are said to be coming to other areas of hong kong further down behind me is an area called admiralty that's another financial center of hong kong and further down from that is the main shopping district where you'll see a lot of hong kong people doing some sunday night shopping eating out there are said to be heading that way to try and disrupt the normalcy of the city and as we're talking to you we're looking at this wide shot now of quite

a large number of protesters gathered in one of those shopping areas though walking in one direction right now quite a. large number of them. give us a sense of what their intentions are here it looks quite peaceful. the moment. so far it looks peaceful it looks like their appetite for confrontation yes and what we have seen in recent weeks they immediately dispersed as soon as the wife police started walking in unlike before where they stood against the riot police with their umbrellas this time they were telling each other the police are coming let's all run and they were telling everyone to keep safe and they just ran away from the police the police meanwhile themselves came here dismantled barriers and then you themselves stop where they stop themselves from chasing those protesters so it seems that the appetite on both sides for

a confrontation. and has been somewhat dampens now the police have also been acting rather restraints previously a scene like this we would have seen the tear gas warning come out we would have seen the water cannon trucks come out but right now what we are seeing just further down there is the police all i mean they're waiting at the moment for the protesters next move i'm just going to point to my camera so the lights my camera brand into the light ahead of me and there we have a whole row of rights police standing there we'll go find out what it is that is happening over there but what i can tell you is that protesters have now dispersed that move from the area also has and i we spoke to the protesters earlier when they were vandalizing those train station breaking down windows and i asked them why are you doing this and they said it's because people have been arrested today i cannot verify that but that's what the protesters that told me that is why they're showing

their anger on the streets saying that the protests earlier today were peaceful and now they feel that once again the government has over it's not listening to the peaceful protesters of hong kong so they've had to take this kind of action i also want to point out that that extradition bill is no longer the focus of these protests that's been taken off the table but for the past few weeks that wasn't even the main issue anymore the main issue is how police have behaved during these protests not just the protesters but also the police have been accusing or had been accused of using excessive force not just on the protesters but also the people in the vicinity of these protests that call against the police for an investigation into how the police have been handling these protests it's not just from the protesters but the wider hong kong public are calling for an investigation into the government's response to these protests and into the police. all right dave you

will leave it there for now diego pollen live for us there in hong kong where that latest round of protests against the government there are taking place. thousands of people are abandoning their destroyed homes in the bahamas following hurricane dorian the u.s. coast guard is helping with the rescue efforts moving people from the worst affected areas including the islands of grand bahama an article to the capital nasa others have been taken to florida in the united states at the u.n. says 70000 people need help and supplies aid is difficult to distribute though because of destroyed piers runways and roads at least 43 people died but that's number expected to rise as the recovery crews reach the devastated areas as it has a muddled up along reports from freeport. floodwaters have finally receded on the island of grand bahama. presidents of this part of the country this

means coming to terms with the devastation left over from hurricane dorian. on the eastern end of the island more than 80 percent of homes were destroyed. this high school near free ports tourist district has been transformed into a shelter for the displaced many here have lost everything to the hurricane even their loved ones so i lost my home as well and. decided to stay back home. from what i have say and heard everything is like completely gone so. you know as you guys you know. are going and i you know know any player they have but. about 80 people are staying at this shelter freeport remains without electricity and the heat is almost unbearable but there is food and water and doctors on site to provide medical attention to anyone who needs it by i really thank god for life right now on i

thank god for the u.s. coast gods and participated you guys and i you know bringing us food and clothes and water and stuff. the search operations continue for hundreds of people still missing but the destruction from the storm is so widespread that even with the assistance of the united states coast guard and border patrol there are still places in the country that rescue teams have yet to reach one of the biggest challenges in delivering disaster relief to survivors of hurricane dorian has been limited access to the areas worst hit by the storm only up until a few days ago this airplane for example along with freeport airport were sitting under at least 2 meters of flood waters. it's been several days since the storm passed many of the people we've met seem to still be in shock but nonetheless grateful to be alive when it was not below. freeport bahamas. a

u.s. sent turkish troops started patrolling a so-called buffer zone in northwest syria because crossed the turkish border into an area that used to be controlled by u.s. backed kurdish forces turkey's boosting its military presence of along its border with syria and is pushing displaced syrians to return home. is in hot near the turkish syrian border. the start of joint patrols between the u.s. and turkish military is are being seen as a positive step this because both the americans on the charts were unable to see eye to eye as to how to operate within syria over the past year or even longer than that turkey has always insisted that it needed to establish some sort of safe zone up until up to maybe 30 kilometers inside syria essentially to ensure that there was a safe space for displaced syrians but more importantly flying career as it's had.

often said was that in order to ensure that it could target what it described as terrorist organizations namely groups like isis but also kurdish separatists who have used that to her yet to launch attacks against turkey inside its own borders now these patrols are still extremely limited they're only in the 1st few kilometers within the syrian side of the turkey syria border as i mentioned turkey wants to go much deeper up through even the you afraid eastern side of the euphrates river inside syria the americans have resisted that's what's made things even more complicated is the fact that washington has it given tactical support and to according to some reports even military support to some of these kurdish groups that's turkey considers to be terrorist organizations and that was one of the points of contention but as of sunday the fact that these joint patrols have started to. after. threats by. turkish

government. no choice but to open the borders for you for more syrian refugees to flee their. continues to target civilians. inside syria. in a few moments we'll have. a way with the weather still ahead. we are in the so-called wild west of nigeria where government leaders are trying a new approach to end killing and kidnapping. the u.s. agency charged with making sure no foreign power interferes with the 2020 presidential election effectively shut down. in the slow lane will tell you why the drivers were upset i'll try. to qualify.

can you believe harken dorian is still a relevant still. fall. and has to exist but this is where it was making its. landfall on the hatteras there after banks of north carolina spends all day yesterday zipping up the atlantic affecting all the atlantic coastal states of the u.s. and then finally arrived in canada in nova scotia over halifax its strength and this is the tropics now strengthen to a category 2 hurricane as it hit halifax gusts of 150 kilometers per hour waves of 50 meters and raincoats of a $170.00 millimeters now you may think this is quite extraordinary actually halifax was hit by a concrete to hurrican in 2003 so this isn't

a stranger to hurricanes it has happened before although it was in this century that clearly that's going to cause certain amount of damage sounds of people without power a crane was destroyed or brought out as you say 100 year old trees have been uprooted and there was damage once again it all the harbors along the atlantic coast of nova scotia that this was the 7th landfall then they went north across prince edward island it's no longer a hurricane but sort of install in different. weather sponsored cantata. big storms generate thousands of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives hold to separate the spin from the facts. the misinformation from the journalism how careful must you choose your words but some tough stuff has to be said for some critics have to be made the listening post

on al-jazeera. al jazeera. and for us. hello again you're watching. top stories this hour donald trump has canceled secret

meetings for sunday with the taliban leaders because of a suicide bomb attack in kabul that killed 12 people including a u.s. soldier the afghan president appears to welcome his decision. another british government minister has quit to protest prime minister barak's jonson's breaks its strategy to leave the e.u. without a deal amber rudd was the work and pensions secretary. the standoff between protesters and police underway in hong kong central district protesters blocked the entrances to the metro station there and sprayed graffiti on the walls thousands marched peacefully to the u.s. consulate in hong kong to call on washington to take a more active role in the crisis. swarms of locusts are usually viewed as a threat to farmers' crops but in yemen where millions threatened with famine because of the civil war locusts are being caught in eaten as a valuable source of nutrition muhammad a lot has more from the capital sanaa.

saudi warplanes have been the main threats from the sky during for years or for swarms of locusts are new threats to farmers fields they are also being welcomed by hungry young. yemenis from all walks of life. are hunting insects. minerals yemenis have enjoyed eating locusts for centuries locusts eating green leaves of crops so the odd snack especially in these days of war children leave their bowl games behind to play catch instead it's more difficult to catch lockouts during the day. farmers who wait until night to collect them in large quantities from their fields. but their families and friends do not eat much they

sell. the prices of locusts snacks is significantly lower even donate some for needy people so this one came to the capitol where they had a sack of flour costs to help pay for families basic needs are made the quarter and times of war it's difficult to earn a living i collected these insects to sell them and buy some wheat to feed my children lockers are considered a major threat to crops in many countries. the united nations 13000000 yemenis are become on the verge of famine 7000000 of them don't know when the next meal or so free food is considered by many here as heaven's. well looking now while locusts have become a source of food in yemen this is the world's largest food crisis that's what the

world food program is calling it in its latest report on the country more than 20000000 people or 70 percent of yemen's population would be facing life threatening shortages of food if it wasn't for international assistance the main reason is the war which is limiting people's ability to get food 65 percent of those facing catastrophic shortages live in areas that have experienced the worst fighting i mean other is the regional communications officer at the world food programme she joins us now via skype from cairo thanks very much for being with us so talk to us a little bit more about this report and how are things going so bad that people are having to actually eat locusts now. well it is true that yemen is the west unitarian crisis in the world and continues to be the world food program is providing full distance to 11000000 people and aiming to reach 12000000 people every month. in terms of the locust infestation this is not something new to yemen

or this area of the world and humans get the 1st swarms of locusts same as the rectory and sudan and oman traditionally as there does pay locusts have been eaten in. these spots of the world. through centuries so this is not something that is driven by the food crisis or the hunger but the biggest worry now is the food production which has sort of shrunken. significantly since the war intensified in 2015. points especially fuel has increased in 2018 by 200 percent so a lot of people who depended on fishery or i'd like agriculture production. of agricultural as for that for their livelihoods they have lost their jobs because

they don't have the money to get the seeds or the money to get the fuel also a lot of the cultivated land was left barren although yemen does not depend entirely on local food production depends almost entirely on food imports and that is why the war has as said in fact on people's ability to purchase food and on people's ability to get the food they need and that is why the world food program's assistance is of utmost importance to. the millions that mr in the country and and to what extent has any food been good in getting inside yemen and being delivered to people who needed the most given all of the challenges of the war right now. well as obvious be continues to reach the world food program continues to reach around as i said nearly $12000000.00 people each month and this is despite significant operational challenges including

the complexity of the war and the different areas where we have to reach and we continue to call for unimpeded access to all areas so that food assistance can reach the most vulnerable and especially we are also providing nutritional assistance special foods to tackle. malnutrition amongst children nursing and pregnant mothers and this of course is a life saving mandate that the world food program is committed to do and for that we are thankful for our donors who are helping us do that however we continue to have a. funding shortage until the end of this year by about $900000000.00 which is massive city continue this massive operation feeding nearly $12000000.00 people

each month the world food program does need. access and continuous funding could speak. thanks very much. russia's president vladimir putin has voted in a contentious regional election in moscow opposition and independent candidates are banned from the ballot in the capital and that's months of some of the largest protests seen there for years hundreds of protesters were arrested many were beaten up by riot police and some were jailed steverson is live for us now from moscow why have these local elections attracted so much attention beyond russia. yeah that's very interesting indeed because normally these regional or local elections are considered an important but they happened after these weeks of

protests here in the capital unusual a big protest as well it's considered to be the largest mass gathering and mass protests in russia for years and actually has also brought up a new face of the opposition as people are describing it with more young people also joining and students have joined in and then there was this very serious crackdown by the government which actually has even more people getting angry with the government policies so basically also interesting today that despite the fact that opposition candidates are not allowed to run which was the main reason for these protests they haven't said that they want to boycott these elections they have done the opposite they're asking people to come to the polling stations and to vote for any candidate which is not united russia the ruling party of putin what will happen basically is that they will vote for the 2nd largest party most possibly which is the communist party and in that case they want to give

a signal to the government that the opposition even though they have banned from the elections still have a voice all right step thanks for that stand on live for us in moscow. turkish newspaper has revealed new details about the murder of journalists inside saudi arabia consulate last year the report is based on suspects testimonies and statements given to saudi course in january 11 suspects were indicted in saudi arabia for show jews murdered the un human rights officers questioned the kingdom's ability to conduct a fair trial because solo has more from istanbul for the 1st time we learned about the details of those 15 good men's testimony is in saudi course those 15 men who came to istanbul to the cell the consulate building right behind me and to kill sound to journalists. based on what this turkish daily newspaper revealed in their testimonies those 15 members at mit it's how they organize this crime actually they

say that they were here to take jamal has shifted back to saudi arabia but it was an initiative by modern military to kill her mouth and he admits that he gave the order at 1st he thought about burying him in the garden of the consulate residence building but then he decided to tell the team to chop the democracy of jews by the into pieces so that they could easily take him out of the building this is the 1st time that we are hearing about their testimonies because the saudi prosecution system was a closed circuit system they shared no evidence nor details no statements by those suspects but what we know was that sold ok danny who is the number one man of the crown prince mohammad the man who was named to be the organizer of this crime was neither a witness nor a suspect in this trial he was never been to he has never been into court and we

learned that 9 of the suspects are facing death sentence the rest are facing aggravated life sentence. saudi arabia's king solomon has replaced the energy minister with one of his sons. and it puts him in one of the kingdom's most important positions and will replace the who was dismissed as chairman of the state oil company a radical a few days ago companies preparing for a much anticipated stock listing a t.v. viewers in tunisia have watched a rare event in the arab world the 1st televised election debate there only 8 of the $26.00 presidential candidates took part in the 1st of 3 debates to will vote next week for a successor to president say. he died in july after placing longtime president ben ali who was deposed in the uprising 8 years ago now after years of military action in northwest nigeria the government is choosing

dialogue to end killings and kidnapping mainly by nomadic cattle herders government leaders say they want to tackle the injustices that fueled the crisis how many drinks reports from. for the past 2 months not a single shot was fired in what was termed nigeria's wild west no one was kidnapped for ransom and no life stroke was stolen. out of this constituency back from 18 months of solve exile hunted down by bandits and vigilantes he and people in this village and now enjoying what they say are the best moments of their lives in 2 years a return to normalcy. we were on the run from law enforcement bandits and vigilantes for more than a year and a half as small as this village is at last people in the rights many have been

kidnapped including women and children a 1000 cattle and sheep was stolen from us. 2 months ago they returned who are trying to rebuild their lives for 8 years bandits mainly from the magic herdsman terrorized entire villages in northwest nigeria local vigilantes formed to protect communities became the law. the resulting violence killed more than 4000 people and displaced tens of thousands. the state government says it's moving to address what the norm what's called decades of exploitation and oppression by providing water roads and other services it's also disbanding the militias that have been accused of killing full arnie's and denying them access to basic services the process is holding for now a few months ago driving along this highway would have been extremely dangerous

even for the security forces but now a decent number of vehicles used the old killings and abductions used to happen here almost every day so for most people the relative peace they now enjoy seems and feels almost unreal. and it's not only the displaced who are happy with the turn of events in some of. the police who have been targeted in the mayhem say they realize that the force of arms cannot end the violence along. a military or security actions mr. walker or it does not accept official move from. the coveted to their grandest sign came with an idea of having a will of resolving this issue that is use in dialogue. and that has started peeling off several assault rifles and rocket launchers up and surrounded by the gunmen and soon the police a 100.