on monday a bill designed to block an exit deal becomes law m.p.'s will then vote on government plans to trigger an early election that vote is expected to fail boris johnson is then obliged to write to the e.u. asking for an extension if he can present an acceptable deal to parliament by october 19th but the government says he will not request that extension. the prime minister is still promising to deliver breck's it by october 31st he says he has ideas but he has yet to share them with parliament or the media. we're dealing with a prime minister here who is going around the country saying well i may not do what the law requires now there's any other way only one other way of squaring that circle and that would be for the prime minister to resign with just hours to go before parliament shuts down for 5 weeks house of commons speaker john bercow a key figure in the backseat drama took the opportunity to announce his resignation . we grade this parliament. and our

peril here. these has be the greatest privilege on all of my professional life thank you limited ability from the conservatives he believes he's being biased against them but even he cannot distract from the fact that the prime minister has just full 2 days to come up with a new bridge to deal with a deal that brussels is yet to see charlie and how does the man didn't. make it take you live now to our series china hall he's outside parliament in westminster say where jonah just a couple of hours left of this current parliamentary session and then parliament itself has shot for 5 weeks at such a crucial time. more than a couple of hours i fear for list it could be a very late night and yes it is quite astonishing that at this as many m.p.'s have pointed out a moment of national crisis m.p.'s are being sent away rather than as some have suggested sitting day and night to try and deal with this briggs it mess let me

bring in my guest jack simpson kiddies here he's a parliamentary procedure and constitutional law expert thanks for joining us jack i've only been back these m.p.'s for a week and a day. can you remember a week and a day more turbulent than these no i can't it's absolutely astonishing i mean the thing you've got to remember is that boris johnson was elected as the leader of the conservative party precisely because he promised to take radical steps to break the impasse which to reason may. failed to do to reason may was willing to work with parliament to listen to politicians concerns about a no deal because boris promised to take radical constitutional steps and this week has been nonstop constitutional drama in parliament on the coals because of those radical steps and adding to the controversy the pro regression of parliament for 5 weeks an unusually long period of time some say just to tie its hands over bricks if the government says no standard procedure that it's clearly not standard

procedure because context is everything and we are in a constitutional crisis where they are taking to the 31st of all and it doesn't really matter. whether or not there would have been a recess or not because ultimately polman could have voted for people that could have voted to carry on sitting to put the government pressure on the real reason that people don't understand why boris wants his purgation is to avoid the screeching that would put it if he if it had been sitting jack so many questions about what might happen next not least suggestion is that the government has heads locked together in downing street desperately trying to come up with ways to avoid this new law to avoid boris johnson asking for a extension and to try and force the election that the opposition isn't going to give it at the moment yeah that's right i mean most legal experts agree that there is no wiggle room in the quasi prime minister seek an extension for. supreme court justice john was on the radio this morning saying that there was no wiggle room the

prime minister must unless you can get a deal for you before the 19th of october seek an extension from the ram if one is off and he's under a legal obligation to accept it seems to me that the government is trying to send messages that he won't but some of the governors also committed to upholding the rule of law and holding the rule of law means that you stick to what the rule says . that is the only you make of all this do you think jack johnson would have to see the irish t. shirt came back with remarkably little sign of any progress in bragg's he talks he says he won't. deal not no deal with a given one is there any chance but that's a really interesting question because it seems that parliament is sort of attempting to outmaneuver the prime minister and in the legislation they passed they said that the extension that the prime minister has to ask for will be until the 31st of generous of the 1st interesting question will be has the e.u. been watching which one assumes they have and will they grant the extension that parliament says that the prime minister gospel or they are all they give him a different day which could pose more difficulties that would bring it back to

politics bonneted would have to approve a different date there's a 2 day period or something in which they have to do that exactly i think that's the most difficult scenario if the e.u. offers an extension different from that which the government is required to offer up to the 31st of january that could maybe open up some political difficulties which some people think johnson a is trying to engineer to create ok jack let's leave it there thanks very much a long night ahead a couple of debates going on now john bercow exercising a late flourish of his powers to allow them and then a big vote on an election on october the 15th which the government all but certain to lose back to you more for the china in the coming hours thank you. when a general election is eventually called one of the tightest battles will be in the city of canterbury southeast of london in the last election in 2017 labor took it from the really conservatives for the 1st time in almost a century thanks in part to a large student vote the area was also almost evenly states in the 2016 brax that

referendum with 51 percent of people voting to leave the e.u. well brannan travelled to canterbury to gauge the need in 2019. the river star winds serenely through historic canterbury far from the political storms of westminster punters glide on crystal clear water braving september showers it's a far from typical constituency but a crucial battleground you get the students who are on the whole very very liberal usually on the on the left or center. but you also go to a fairly affluent section of canterbury. who in my experience can be quite a group of lee conservative tourism is big business here more than $7000000.00 visitors a year generating $550000000.00. uncertainty has a direct impact and we actually had a number of

a number of school groups from from europe cancel because they were concerned about chaos and delays the kalai and they're worried about having their kids stuck in traffic for hours and hours and hours in 2017 the city's 40000 strong student body helped return a labor m.p. here a shock result in a strongly conservative region with the next election date still uncertain only the conservative party has so far named its candidate and she is already knocking on doors stockpiling campaign materials and mobilizing supporters i want a general election i want to get the people of canterbury the chance to vote for a conservative because i've got a big program and i want to get on with delivering so from my point if you can't come soon enough. the timing will be crucial an early election might reduce the size of the significant student vote and tactical campaigning might also emerge. if

there's some kind of alliance be an official alliance or an unofficial alliance i think people might vote for that i think they'll be a lot of conservative voters who are not of the the mindsets. is that no deal is better than no exit what if the prime minister ploughs on regardless and ignores parliament is beginning to lose parliament isn't respected parliamentary sufferance isn't being respected by the government and it's a wholly unprecedented situation it really does draw into question the whole. idea of parliamentary democracy in britain it's quite scary to be honest the 2017 election results here in cannes really was perhaps the result of some unique factors the large student population here the lackluster campaign fought by the sitting conservative candidates but just as sources pilgrim 600 years ago came to this city seeking enlightenment political observers could do a lot worse than look to this constituency as an indicator of the results of the next general election paul brennan r.'s 0 canterbury pro-government candidates have

suffered big losses in moscow's local elections after a backlash against vladimir putin's united russia party united russia previously held 38 of the 45 seats that figure is now down to $25.00 despite their candidates technically running as independents fittings approval ratings they've also dropped after a crackdown on the opposition and a stagnation of the russian economy although it is being seen as a test for national elections in 2 years time so fast and has more now from. well everyone here in moscow still trying to make sense of what exactly has happened in these very well watched elections it's an interesting and complicated political scheme that has played out but indeed the russia united russia party the ruling party has never lost as many seats before however. they lost the monopoly basically they have still the majority in this moscow city duma. still

can basically have their influence heard but they have to deal with a lot of forces at the moment not the actual real independent opposition because they were simply banned from running in the 1st place by the communist party has grown here is significantly becoming as have never been allowed to serious opposition very much opposing the ruling party but it will mean that is more diversity in this in this moscow city do much about what it means the more is that this is the signal that despite this crackdown by the government on the opposition many people have been arrested they have been jailed for longer sentences they have been beaten up but still that they have made this voice heard through this so-called smart vote which was called for by his opposition a bigger alexy now fairly and this has basically been successful looking at those old here in moscow this means that the opposition is

a force to be reckoned with and that's some people have described it some cracks are now appearing in put in through. julius now from the russian capital is victor all of it's from the think tank said to actual politics good to have you with us on this news hour how concerned. should be about these poor results in moscow also combined with the fact that vladimir putin's personal ratings have been falling as well. well there's frustration with the economic policy of the government with branch in any form that was passed last year and 5 pillars branch they form the 3 the age for social security benefits for seniors these have been armed by poor measures and of course it was expected that the united russia would suffer the consequences not just in moscow by they also

in some other regions where they were not on the one thing and all gubernatorial elections. from the far east to see in theory of book where one by united russia candidates on the other hand in the number of local assemblies. there were there are now more members as a result of these elections there are now more members from various parliamentary opposition party is. elected then where before these elections so united russia definitely suffered some. defeats in look at assembly is and of course the change came with the election to the moscow city council the so-called moscow city duma is the most notable one because it was the most watched one sure and of course this birth dance a possible change in strategy change in tactics for united russia and also for other parliamentary party has actually had of the elections to the russian

parliament of the russian state duma coming up in 2021 you know many of the opposition candidates of course were banned were barred from taking part in the moscow local elections not of course led to the protests that we saw on the streets of the capital but how can alexina valmy and his supporters how can they capitalize now on what has happened in moscow. well the decisions that were made by the moscow city election 3 commission the were counterproductive as the actually raised awareness of the some of the opposition candidates that really did not have that why they were name recognition before this happened and to be honest in fair elections of these candidates if they were allowed to run if they were registered to tour on the would have simply lost due in the fair election to their to their

competitiveness some of them would have won but many of them if not most would have lost and so in a way the moscow city election commission shot itself in the foot by by using to register a number of these candidates and of course also the actions of some of the protests resulted from this was it was also counterproductive as that as a frustration the level of frustration of on the part of the moscow but there were some parts of moscow residents who were unhappy about the way this was handled and who came out to the polls do show their will of course only 21 percent of all with the little more than 21 percent of registered voters of the voters took to the came to the pool but this was actually the same almost the same result as far as the percentage of people voting as in the last muska city

council elections in 2004 it's back there also it was also 21 percent took part but we have seen very different results this time fix all of that ship reshape your analysis joining us live from moscow thank you thank you. italy's new coalition government is facing 2 confidence votes the alliance of the populous 5 star movement and the center left democratic party and a prime minister just seppi contest is expected to win comfortably in the lower house but it will be much closer in the senate's members of 5 stars form a coalition party the anti immigration league party have been demonstrating outside parliament alongside other rightwing groups their leader pulled out of the old coalition hoping a new election would give his party and majority but he's been sidelined by the formation of a new government. plan to go away from the vote for months but they

can't escape election forever and when the italian people vote once more we will win who will win i'm certain is my word we're not going to back down. on british airways has canceled almost all its flights those pilots go on a 2 day strike almost 150000 passengers are expected to be affected by the industrial action the 1st by the airlines pilots in its history they've rejected an 11 a half percent pay rise over 3 years which would give the highest earning pilots nearly $250000.00 a year the pilots say they want a bigger share of the company's profits. and that is it for me on the team in london now let's go back to camilla in fact thanks for listening will see felicity in the team a little later 1900 hours g.m.t. but still ahead on this news are. playing for peace on the korean border how the sound of music is coming to the demilitarized zone. and in sports we will tell you how an ancient chinese martial artist found

a new home in west africa. hello there are still showers for me every now and again along a line which you could call a frontal system so anywhere from the caucasus towards tashkent and the high ground to the himalayan plateau now those charges that rate would tend to die out but the general trend that that's an introduction of cooler weather is still that look at the breeze it's all more or less the northerly the temperature max in tehran is 29 and baghdad is 40 although nothing has changed on the shores of the mediterranean studies the breeze is lightish about 30 in beirut but that breeze has picked up down the gulf recent please don't particularly dusty hasn't changed much it's still quite high these to times in qatar bahrain and the u.a.e. and so i was still shows

a fetish there has been rain recently in sana'a in fact there's been some decent thunderstorms in the still in the forecast in western parts of yemen and also this western side which is not abnormal i mean the changing seasons he seems a pretty active weather in southern africa recently actually particular in cape town cape town at city 5 think of new september high temperature records and this cloud hints at developing rain still around madagascar or even south mozambique but cape town's come back down to a disappointing 19 degrees despite the sunshine got all the records. to strengthen the good you have to shore do good all the more with your gums to fight against corruption. dish for news heroes heroes like know who are about who refused a $50000000.00 bribe the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international

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so you're on the news are here at al jazeera and these are up stop stories at least 29 people have been killed in 2 attacks and became a fall so a state of emergency is in place in parts of the west african country britain's queen elizabeth has approved a law blocking a no deal exit from the european union at the end of october during a visit to ireland's prime minister bars johnson made a rare admission that a no deal brags it would be a failure of diplomacy. u.s. president donald trump has tweeted. the u.s. has been quote hitting our enemy harder in afghanistan over the past few days than it's done in the decades that is after the cancelling of the meeting between trump and the taliban after talks broke down because of a taliban attack in kabul speaking to al-jazeera taliban spokesman says they will stop their attacks if the us ceases military operations and goes ahead and signed an agreement if he signed an agreement with them then we have.

not to attack them and provide them up a safe passage if he. they withdraw without any peace agreement signing with us then it is our. constant order. our willing with that to attack them or not protect them it is then up to us because there is no agreement so we will attack them if you want if we see it in our interest our national interest our islamic interest. we see it not in our interest you will not. see it our interests not to attack you will not attack them that will be up to us but with it meant yes we would have obligation not to attack them these 2 things different. now protestors in the

occupied west bank have held a demonstration over the death of a palestinian prisoner activist. who had been detained on murder charges was terminally ill they're accusing israeli authorities of medical negligence after he passed away on sunday rights groups have also been calling for an investigation into the case there is no abraham now reporting from the family home in nablus in the occupied west bank. israeli authorities have rejected several appeals by the family. for him to be released early to be able to spend the last days with his family he has been diagnosed with cancer before he was arrested in 2015 and israel accuses him of being the mastermind behind killing 2 israeli settlers in the occupied west bank his brother saw him last 2 years ago and couldn't see him ever since the descent as a cancer patient his condition was improving but then he suffered from a weak heart because of the medical negligence his heart used to function at 60

percent when he was imprisoned and then it cheerier rated to less than 15 percent in recent days this is all jew to negligence there are more than 5000 palestinians in israeli jails human rights organizations say around 160 prisoners need urgent medical intervention their cues israel of denying 6 detainees the proper medical treatment. the sums that didn't come as a surprise to the family but they say what brings them more pain is that they're not able to bury him his sister to hold this is the family hopes to have him final farewell but he's one of 4 palestinians who died in israeli prisons since the beginning of the year none of them was handed over to their families for burial. iran's foreign minister is accusing israel's prime minister of hypocrisy after benjamin netanyahu accused iran of having a secret nuclear site and this site iran conducted experiments to develop. nuclear weapons this is the site we're up with this out of his phone

when he won't realize that we uncovered this site here's what they did they destroyed the site they just wiped it out what we see is a consistent pattern of the randian lies deception and violations i call on the international community to wake up to realize that iran is systematically line and i call on the international community to join president trump sanctions to exert more pressure on iran more on this story now with harry forces in west jerusalem. this isn't the 1st time that benjamin netanyahu has made a short notice on camera briefing about iran's nuclear program just last year he revealed what he said was an israeli intelligence operation a raid on a warehouse in tehran revealing what israel said was the archive of iran's nuclear weapons program going back many years this time he went on to make the bigger

revelations of this evening's announcement saying that israel had uncovered a secret iranian nuclear weapons facility in a place called abba day near is for one and he said that as soon as iran understood that israel knew what was going on there it raised the entire operation destroyed it and tried to cover it up but now this was an interesting statement on a few levels firstly that it seemed less produced there were fewer gimmicks few a graphics fewer props than benjamin netanyahu often uses in these sorts of things that seem to be a bit more hastily arranged than last year's announcement 2 was that he made it both in hebrew and in english for the hebrew audience his domestic audience the iranian issue is the number one issue in terms of security the message that netanyahu typically sends we are a week away from the israeli election and so iran security is very high on his

agenda and in english to the wider world the message is coming at a time when president trump who pulled out of the iran nuclear deal shortly after benjamin netanyahu statements on iran's nuclear archives last year it's a time when president trump himself has been raising the prospects of having talks with the iranian president rouhani and that is something that is being seen here in israel as a real threat to netanyahu is entire policy of pressuring the united states to sanction iran pull out of the deal and get wider global pressure on iran and so once again he seems to be communicating pretty directly with president trump through the means of this kind of statement about iran's alleged nuclear activity. now the u.s. is delivering more aid to people affected by hurricane dorian in the bahamas acting u.s. border chief mark morgan says he is also considering granting asylum to something

the u.n. says 70000 however need food and shelter conditions on the worst affected islands rapidly deteriorating on the line for us now from the bahamas incentive said jasmine turner darius and senator thank you for your time i know how busy you will be what's your take on the aid situation as far as aid actually getting to the people who need it thank you a well i'm just stunned now we have been. on assistance from my own caribbean cruise line they've been donating food for about 40 shelters on the island of grand bahama. it's distributed over 100000 meals awesome story and my kids. also had assistance from the u.s. coast guard from the british royal navy but of course the bahamas. islands of. received i mean devastation from the hurricane so good news about the plan can you

this is a strange question but can you cope at the moment that all the people who have come off those islands who've come into now so what sort of conditions are they facing there and as more and more people come in. well especially the advent of abaco they had to 0 evacuations on the island so there are a lot of people there are thousands of people displaced now they have been either going to their families in the capital and not far or they're going to shelters and there are some people as well in grand bahama still in shelters because they have lost forms some of them was lost they have businesses their livelihood so people are displaced and people you know experience and real hard times as a result of the storm but we are working together as a community to try and bring relief as best as we can and we're also trying as much

as we can the ministry of social services and urban development which i am a part of and the deputy director for urban renewal of grand bahama ability and right now i am on the freeport problem and we were collecting food and water to distribute the person sides were affected by the hurricane can i ask about the death toll i know that there are concerns and i think the word yesterday was that it could be staggering in the end how do you how do you prepare for that. kind of firm the amount of just close to date has been $43.00 in total there are still recovering bodies and so but to date we couldn't actually incomplete confirm the mound is $43.00 from hurricane gloria and. the spirit of the people like there i only ask i remember visiting a hurrican site myself as a reporter once and found people to be incredibly and surprisingly resilient

actually are you seeing that with the people in the bahamas. yes as you know this hurricane has been a record breaking we have never seen a hurricane on this my good to before and so people were totally taken aback by the force of tears fall of the oriental but i can tell you the behave in people we are strong people young was 1000000 people were bonded together coming together as a community trying our best to take care a of one another and look out for our neighbors so even though we have had a hard blows hit on us by dorian we're trying to gather forward and see how we can bring about our normalcy and really for our people busy senator jasmine to nigeria someone from the bahamas really do appreciate your time at such a difficult time thank you for talking to us.

well we have got briggs it updates for you now the u.k. government has suffered another defeat in parliament and we're going to go to john hull outside the houses of parliament. in london to talk us through this one john. well on a night that will end late with the prorogue ation of parliament being sent into forced recess controversially a flurry of late business including 2 debates allowed by the speaker john bercow one of which we just had a vote on the government losing that vote by a majority of 9 it's a big vote a big issue and a big loss for the government because this was a motion that looking at the details of so-called operation yellow hammer that's the government's internal report on the consequences of a no deal breaks in elements of it were leaked to the media in recent weeks this was a motion seeking to compel the government to turn over to parliament the report in

its entirety that would reveal according to the leaks at least the consequences of no deal that is known to the government with much more severe the government itself was letting on and they will now be compelled to reveal that report to parliament and the other hand over to the motion which to compel the government to hand over confidential private communications between members of the government of people working within government circles in downing street as to what the real reasons were behind the government's controversial decision to prorogue parliament tonight the government had insisted this was purely parliamentary procedure and in line with any handover of power to a new government many of the government's critics believe that it was doing so deliberately to try and muzzle parliament to prevent parliament from exercising do you. hope for from being able to look at what. government is doing it it's brakes it's strategy so on both of those issues the government compelled not to hand over

this information it is as you said big deal it's not going to happen immediately don't expect that the probation department will go ahead tonight for 5 weeks this will happen sometime after probably returns on october 14th. thank you for the update jonah how in london. the peace talks are underway in south sudan between the president and the exiled rebel leader rick mashad machar landed in juba on monday to sit with president salva kiir a meeting seen as an important step towards the implementation of a stalled peace deal number at least 400000 people have died since the country's civil war started in 2013 salva kiir removed as vice presidents. thousands of school students have been forming human chains around hong kong in solidarity with anti-government protest as authorities are condemning what they call the illegal behavior of radicals and i've warned to demonstrators to stop trying the patience of the government from friday to fight.