the body of zimbabwe's founding father is flown back to the capital harare breaking the silence human rights activists release new evidence of abuse in behind the prisons and in sport we will reveal which boxer is behind the mask and how he managed to upset one of his main rivals. the government in the bahamas says 2 and a half 1000 people have been registered as missing after hurricane dorian last week it does say the list is an early estimate rescue workers had previously confirmed 50 people had died the category 5 hurricane hit the island more than a week ago as the strongest atlantic storm on record for with what kristi delafield with us now a spokesperson for mercy corps a global aid group which is operating in the hardest hit areas of the bahamas in freeport thank you for taking time out for us 1st of all i know how busy you'll be

. let's just say the death toll i mean and it's something you can really officially comment on but the fact that only 50 people have been confirmed dead but i mean from the devastation you've seen that death toll would surely rise. it really is tragic i mean any death is a tragedy but what we're seeing is a lot of families that are wondering where their loved ones are and it's going to take time for the authorities to to identify. and learn more about. what may end up being a really tragic that. you are from an aid group working with distributing that i'd tell me about that because from what i've read and seen it's not so much the issue of is there the aid it's how do we actually get it out to people because of the infrastructure which has been damaged. the logistical challenges here just staggering i'm here in freeport and there is no running water and many places

there's no electricity in most places we're seeing long lines at gas stations at petrol stations people are filling up tanks to take back their generators as well as for their vehicles there maybe 3 laundromats that are open long lines there and when you drive around you see peoples have put furniture out clothes out to let it dry but so much has been destroyed that people need everything and all of the systems that we as an aid agency would use to get supplies and are clogged at overcrowded and in some cases don't exist anymore so what do you do about it you just sort of do the best you can. absolutely we have brought in a water technician and we are mobilizing our team and at the amount of a that comes and it starts as a trickle and it grows and grows so we are working with local authorities to understand what they know that is needed most urgently and we have supplies shipping from dubai we have supplies shipping for panama one of the things that you

might not expect that we've been able to bring in is small solar lanterns so that while the electricity is down people have a little bit of light a little bit more safety perhaps and security but then also they have u.s.b. charger so you can charge your cell phone which is how most people are learning about where distributions of essential supplies are it's also how people are connecting with their loved ones learning where people have fled to and connecting with emergency services when they need help. this might seem like an odd question how will people spirits i often wonder i mean when you've got when you've lost everything but them maybe is a sense of community as well as people pitch together and try to database they can under the circumstances. oh absolutely i mean the people are very warm up and you know they they know that they have lost a lot but they're also really grateful you know for the help that's coming and i don't know they have ever been thanks so much and we just wish that we could be

doing more but people are gathering together and we're working mercy corps works around the world with local community groups because we really want to listen to the people who are closest to the problem we think they're closest to the solution and they know who in their community needs more help and it hasn't been reached yet and that's what we're looking for is who is the most vulnerable who is the most marginalized how can we get help to them and what specifically is that help that they need most urgently christie is a city we really do appreciate you taking the time out because you know the field from in freeport q thank you for having me now the u.k.'s prime minister is facing furious demands to get m.p.'s back to work after a scottish court ruled boris johnson suspension of parliament is on full bore in this from island new center has been percent. come out thank you yes it was a pretty dramatic ruling and judges at scotland's highest court of appeal said that

johnson's intention was to restrict parliament critics of the prime minister have been insisting that the suspension was a cynical ploy to shut down the bait about brecht johnson has vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the 31st of october a little over 2 weeks after parliament is meant to reconvene he held a live question and answer session on facebook a short while ago. louise says why can't we leave the e.u. today without a deal why wait until the 31st of october were afraid about because parliament voted that they had to have a decision on whether or not to approve a deal and. we need to get a parliamentary vote on a withdraw bill. but if we can't get it if we cannot get a new with all remain then be in no doubt we said we will leave on the 31st when

meanwhile the german chancellor has expressed optimism that the u.k. will leave the european union with a deal angela merkel says there's still every chance of an agreement as british negotiators arrive in brussels for further talks europe is on your knee you will in a few months experienced the exit of an important member of the exit of britain i am firmly convinced that we still have every chance to do it in an orderly way and the german government who work towards making this possible until the very last day back here in the u.k. the government says it is appealing the scottish ruling at to the supreme court john holt reports. opposition parties say it's a strong and important judgment while downing street has described it as disappointing a unanimous verdict by a 3 judge panel in scotland's highest court has found that on the question of prorogue parliament or its johnson did act illegally motivated it said by the improper purpose of stymieing parliament. each opinion expresses the view that the

advice given by the government to her majesty the queen to parliament from months of timber to 14th tobar was unlawful and that therefore the propagation itself is unlawful this is all provoked a storm of controversy with opposition parties demanding be immediate recall of parliament some m.p. suggesting boris johnson should resign with deliberately misleading the queen but the government is resisting both calls saying it wants to wait for the outcome of an appeal to the supreme court over there just across parliament square a pro or a geisha in a parliament the government insists is perfectly standard practice to bring to a close one parliamentary session in this case is start rickly long and to open a brand new one with a new set of legislative priorities and we have a court seeing that the predication of parliament was unlawful that it's nolan void at so it seems to me that the prime minister the government should immediately cease the unlawful predication and we call parliament immediately well of course

the government will say that that they won't act on the scottish ruling alone that's a disappointing bit predictable in light of how they conduct themselves but the supreme court will consider these matters next week and on what they say will be filing or the supreme court will in fact be considering 2 appeals the other against a decision by the english high court but it found in bars johnson's favor of the question of whether he'd abused his power in suspending all eyes then on this building next week with the government for the moment it seems content to see what happens jonah how al-jazeera london. well meg russell is the director of the constitution unit at the university college london she joins us live now via skype from cornwall mme thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so scotland's our highest court of appeal says this was a cynical ploy to shut down the bait but post on some of the times said that act

actually what it was doing was bringing an end to a very long parliamentary session and that anything else was effectively a happy coincidence as far as he was concerned i mean is that what it boils down to the intent rather than the action itself. well i think it's a bit of both because the action itself despite what boris johnson says was a highly unusual action it's very normal for parliament to be probed every year between one session and the next but normally a purgation last just a few days purgation is lasting for 5 weeks which is the longest since 1930 and of course where in the middle of a political crisis where there's plenty for the m.p.'s want to hold the government to account for we could be heading for a no deal bracks it and m.p.'s want to be quizzing the prime minister and his ministers about the negotiation strategy and about the preparations for a new deal most people agree almost everybody agrees that this is a highly unusual action the question is whether it's illegal and there you've got

some different opinions as we've heard the scottish court say that it is a dish call it didn't actually find in johnson's favor they just said that they didn't think this was a matter the judges could ultimately decide that it was a matter of a politics not more so that's really the question that will be the key question for the supremes cause i think everybody agrees it's unusual virtually everybody agrees that he has done this because he wants to evade spirits may the question is is it within his powers to do so really the so is that then the decision that the supreme court is going to face whether it's a legal or political issue. essentially yes so the english court said that this was something the politics needed to resolve because it's not actually written down in law or anywhere how long a purgation should be the question is whether it's against precedent whether it's against convention which it clearly is so the question is will the judges want to step in to reinforce precedent it's a bit of

a big step for the judges but the scottish court clearly thinks this is important and given that parliament is the very sense of our system of government only is the government because it has the confidence of parliament to be shutting down poem and at a crucial political moment is a really big and controversial step on the part of the government so it will have to say what was supreme court says this issue could get bigger actually i guess in all of this though of course time is of the essence so as you know it then goes to the supreme court assuming that that then also find that a law for it in a sense almost the point has been achieved of eating up time before reaching the fateful date of the 31st of october what can be done retro retroactively or are we just speculating a bit too far perhaps well some time will have been it's not but the supreme court is expected to meet next week so you know we may have lost a week or we can a whole or even 2 weeks upon entry sitting but we could still gain 3 to 3 and

a half weeks of sensing which otherwise we wouldn't be having because of the purgation so i think there's still a lot to play for here i mean a lot of other governments of course so in other nations there's a head of government and the head of state here in the u.k. does a slightly particular situation because the head of state is the queen something that was this cost when boris johnson 1st asked to perogue parliament could the queen play a different kind of role here or constitutionally is she very limited in what she can do she has essentially on this issue she's very limited to those another issue where she. might be able to act which is the whole question of if the forest johnson ultimately loses the confidence of the house of commons which is quite possible with all of this going on whether the queen would actually be on 2nd and i think that there she does have a bit of leeway but essentially for so long as the prime minister has the confidence of the house of commons the queen is judy bound to do as he requests

they start to make us different to some other countries for example where you have elected presidents countries like italy or island where although the president is a fairly kind of nominal head of state because they have some democratic legitimacy if the prime minister takes a very controversial decision they do in the end have some power to overrule that doesn't really apply with the queen she's a delicate position she always has to be guided by ministers in what she does so nobody is suggesting that she behaved improperly here the question is whether the advice that was given to her by the prime minister was improper and that's what the scottish court has ruled on today i guess very complicated times for everyone in the u.k. right now meg russell u.k. constitutional expert madam thank you thank you and this concerns grow over what i know the old brakes it will mean for the u.k. economy hong kong now has made a surprise bid for the london stock exchange hong kong exchanges and clearing says

the $39000000000.00 offer would read the fine global capital markets london's interest exchange board has this described the bid as unsolicited preliminary and highly conditional the proposal comes at a politically sensitive time for both kong and the u.k. with fears breaks it could weaken at london's financial sector. and the british capital is hosting europe's biggest weapons and security trade fair one of the main themes this year is how unmanned aircraft or new avi's are adapting to modern warfare and the babycakes a look at some of the technology on display. one phrase you hear a lot at this is d.s.c. eye is the unmanned revolution and one firm l 3 hour is showing off what they calling a sense for an unmanned platform can you just explain what you mean by the unmanned platform and what exactly this technology allows you to do what you're trying to do with a non-man platform is to get information from then on man platform this is an example

of an electro optical infrared sensor basically gives you very high resolution pictures either or either a photographer you or through pete so you can use it at night and be able to have it real time intelligence you can give your commanders on the battlefield make decisions faster make better decisions and where are these images coming from and these images would come from say an unmanned vehicle the sensor would be mounted on the unmanned vehicle to be able to control it from below l.t.e. harris also offers communications products where we can get their information in real time from the unmanned platform to the soldier on the ground now one reality in mode in combat is the presence of hostile jones in this american made counted judd system has already been proved effective in the field can you just tell us a bit about what makes it special and where it's been used this is has been deployed in high quantities to multiple combat zones most recently known for down

the iranians around the straits of hormuz in july this year it works on the move maritime vessels ground vessels and it's been designed specifically for end users like us marines and soldiers to be easy to use and rapidly deploy but it's not just about unmanned vehicles here on the water sites they've been demonstrating some cutting edge u. s. of these thoughts on man's surface vessels now the manufacture of be a use. system says these unmanned vessels are designed to be used fully integrated with traditional navy warships and the idea is to reduce the level of danger that sailors have to be exposed to for example whether in close contact with another boat acting suspiciously they say that these vessels could be used in anti piracy operations as well as intelligence gathering i'll have more from london a little later in the news hour now though let's go back to come. up with thank you for that u.s. congress members and user meet this week with gun violence likely to be high on the agenda and several shootings over the past few months there's been plenty of

discussion on just how it will deal with gun violence but central in this debate is the position of president on a tramp mike hanna reports in washington. the n.r.a. was one of president trump's earlier supporters pouring nearly $30000000.00 into his successful campaign a fact brought up repeatedly by the organizations leader we stood proudly with donald trump because we saw through the media deception and recognized him for who we watched the most openly pro 2nd amendment presidential candidate in history. the right to bear arms outlined in the 2nd amendment is regarded by the n.r.a. as absolute but the gun control campaign has been fueled by the sharp increase in the number of mass killings this year following back to back shootings in texas president trump made a controversial trip to el paso that critics contend it was as much a political campaign as commiseration for the 1st time though the president raised

the possibility of stronger background checks on gun buyers. but. we have. this apparently infuriated the n.r.a. which up to lobbying efforts culminating in what was reported to be a lengthy phone call between. president trump and the n.r.a. leader wayne la pierre when the president is speaking to wayne la pierre he knows he's not speaking just to wayne la pierre he's speaking to his entire membership and the millions of gun owners that he can mobilize in favor of the president should he so choose shortly off to the call president trump return to the n.r.a. playbook repeating what has been the organizations mantra the gun doesn't bow the trigger a person does that we have great men don't kill but and following yet another shooting and a dissident says

a few days later the president was disparaging about the background checks he'd advocated a matter of weeks before if you look at the last 4 or 5 going back even 5 or 6 or 7 years for the most part as strong as you make your background checks they would not have stopped and the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says no gun legislation will be considered unless it is certain president trump will approve it that's important to a lot of my members it also at the risk of repeating a history lesson is the only way we will get along the question unanswered given its relationship with president trump will be in our a need to approve any legislation to mike hanna al-jazeera washington. in the news ahead. coming up. hundreds of nigerians living in south africa fly back after a wave of attacks against foreigners and supporters well we'll see who paid the

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the news on here at al-jazeera these are our top stories iran has responded to the departure of the united states' national security adviser john paulson foreign minister jobs or if says the world should be relieved and president are some rouhani warned the u.s. against hiring what he called war mongers u.s. president don trump is promising to hit the afghan taliban harder than ever he made that comment at a ceremony to mark 18 years since the 911 attacks comes just days after he canceled peace talks with the taliban of the killing of a u.s. soldier. and a scottish court has declared a british prime minister's 5 week suspension of parliament as unlawful. the judges described the government suspension as a tactic to frustrate parliament british government said it would peel the police. but her reign has been accused of subjecting female political prisoners to shocking

treatment including sexual and psychological torture to extract confessions illegal arrests and sham trials this is been revealed in a joint report by behind us human rights activists the report shows so also an increase in the political targeting of female activists and human rights defenders since 2017 and these abuses continue to go uninvestigated swift got brigitte with us now the legal officer for americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain is the co-author of this report joining us from geneva and we thank you very much for your time. we'll talk about some of those specifics the things which are being that the treatment of these women but i was interested in the increase in political targeting of female activists in the 1st place why is that happening. sure well thank you very much for having me here to discuss this very important report this is something that took both organizations quite

a long time to compile because of all the information and all the data that we were understanding and retrieving so when it comes to the question of why this new targeting occurred there was an increase and 2017 in general there was a crackdown that occurred in bahrain widespread across both male and female sectors however when bahrain is typically discussed it is meant mostly the male prisoners that people are discussing the male human rights defenders and the male political prisoners and what we've seen with the women is perhaps and this was one of the experts that we interviewed had sort of an opinion that it's possible that the reason the women were targeted is because in a lot of cultures they're considered the most vulnerable and sometimes the most sacred and they hold the family honor so perhaps it's because if you target these women you're also targeting the men that they're connected to and that's what we've seen in multiple cases here is that women were targeted on the basis of relatives that were men who had been more politically active and so that might that might be a reason but in general across bahrain there was

a crackdown in 2017 including changes to the counterterror legislation that allowed for longer periods of pretrial detention gave back power to the national security agency to investigate and make arrests which had been stripped in 20112012 following serious allegations of abuses and the bahrain independent commission of inquiry specifically noting that that body should not be involved in arrests and interrogations and as we've seen of course in that in the report is in 2017 the 2 women that we had that were sexually assaulted it was by n.s.a. officers at the mubarak's or curity complex so you can see sort of that direct correlation there right and how do you find out a list information birgitte it's obviously not a very open society it's not the type of stuff that would be talked about fair have is it going in and talking to people who've come out or going into prisons and talking to them how does little information come out. sure in an ideal world we would have been able to speak to these women in person

face to face however access to bahrain has been essentially cut off to international monitoring and human rights organizations and even the un international human rights organizations have not been able to visit bahrain since 2015 and the united nations has repeatedly asked for visits either from the office of the high commissioner or the special procedures office's multiple mandates have requested visits and bahrain is not allowed a single special procedures office to visit since 2006 so when you're talking about lack of access that is absolutely crucial challenge that we had in drafting this report however we were able to speak to these women directly and directly in some cases specifically it was often through phone calls and voice recordings of phone calls from the prison to the organizations to their family members of course with their informed consent as to what this report might mean for them we also reviewed their court documents and medical reports we some of the women actually wrote letters that were sort of smuggled out of prison that we were able to obtain as

well but for the most part we also so it's a heavy emphasis on these individual interviews that we were able to sort of conduct across multiple months in the short little phone calls that we were able to receive as well as a heavy emphasis on. obtaining official records and documentation so we have records from the courts in bahrain we have records from the office of public prosecution and their summonses and their indictments that were brought against these women we have records from the ministry of interior ombudsman and the national institution of human rights which are meant to be independent human rights monitoring organizations and they simply aren't we actually directly engage with those offices with the consent of these women to file complaints to these offices and so we have their responses within our own records of how they were handling these abuses which was essentially dismissing them entirely sometimes ignoring them or stating that the women were just trying to make trouble or trying to avoid punishment ok for their alleged crimes that they were charging them with so that's

sort of the emphasis on documentation that we had bridget thank you for your time glad we could talk about this report with you thanks for joining us. now a prominent hong kong protester has avoided a prison sentence for his role in a demonstration 3 years ago ivan lamb the chairman of the activist group. pleaded guilty to illegal assembly over charges outside sorry clashes outside the china liaison office this was back in 2016 given a 2 week suspended sentence previously served 13 months in prison for storming the legislative council in 2014. china has summoned germany's ambassador to beijing after a leading pro-democracy activist from hong kong held talks with the german foreign minister went back to the european news center in london and barbara. and i thank you yes

a furious response from china over that meeting the chinese envoy to berlin has said that joshua wants talks with the foreign minister haykel mass will damage relations with china hong kong has been plunged into turmoil by months of pro-democracy protests wong is visiting western countries to raise awareness about the movement and says hong kong deserves them ocracy political censorship and we structure of freedom of speech just for and young generation into dissidents if we stop protesting no one will be able to hold president xi carolan and got some responsibility for their wrongdoing human rights violation police brutality well that this feud comes just days after the german chancellor angela merkel returned from a trip to china dominic cain is following the story and sent us this update from frankfurt. chinese government has reacted angrily to the news that the german

foreign minister was social democrat. has met an activist who had been in custody in hong kong. but flew to berlin it's worth pointing out that anger merkel had the similar opportunity to meet with activists but declined but mr masse did not the chinese reaction as i say is one of anger summoning the german ambassador in beijing to a meeting to account for germany's actions because the chinese government considers that hong kong although being part of one country 2 systems that the affairs of hong kong are internal affairs within china and therefore not something that foreign governments should involve themselves in certainly this is an embarrassing moment here in germany because the 2 parts of the coalition the christian democrats of the center right and the american side and the social democrats of masses cybil they are possible ground coalition interesting to note that mr marson chose to meet this activist words angle america when offered the chance declined that question

will be what happens next in this. it's going to the political crisis in spain now 600000 cattle and separatists have rallied in the regional capital barcelona calling for secession from spain and the release of their jailed leaders september 11th marks catalonians national day rally comes just a few weeks before spain supreme court is due to deliver a verdict in the high profile trial of 12 separatist leaders charged over their role in catalonia as a separatist raid in 2070 it plunge a country into its worst political crisis in decades censorship getting its color some dentists i have a feeling that the sentence was written before the trial began because everything has been a great fast and a great show i believe that the verdict is already written but even if they wanted to stop us i think there is no going back now so we must move forward including. a quarter of the hague has acquitted

a dutch doctor of all charges after she euthanized the patient with dimentia the 74 year old woman died 3 years ago after her doctor administered a fatal dose of drugs the doctor said she was following the patient's will and had consulted other doctors and the woman's family she was accused of failing to verify consent is in asia is legal under dutch law if the patient is suffering immensely and wishes that i feel it needs change is the founder of exit international a group that advocates for the right to die he explains why the case sets a precedent the problem comes up as this ever spread in this case that when you lose the ability to give a clear decision will your earlier statement when you do have mental capacity that is an advance directives.