this is g w 2 slide from berlin tonight one blow after another against britain's prime minister boris johnson parliament passing legislation that would make a new deal breaks it illegal johnson came out fighting tonight but lawmakers approved a bill that also delayed this when the new kid could leave the european union and just in the last hour parliament rejected the prime minister's call for a snap elections also coming up on kong's controversial extradition bill is no more

work chief executives they carry lamb says she's withdrawing the bill which sparked months of violent protests in the territory but will hurt concessions be enough to appease the demonstrators and the scale of the disaster caused by hurricane dorian in the bahamas beginning to emerge tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed huge numbers of people tonight are without food. i'm good to have you with us tonight in london how many punches can a prime minister take that's the question they're asking in westminster the new prime minister boris johnson has suffered yet another defeat in his battle for brights it lawmakers have just rejected his call for an early general election johnson had hoped that a snap election. could deliver

a majority so that he could then fulfill his promise of leaving the european union with or without a deal at the end of next month that setback followed an earlier upset for the prime minister when mts passed a bill to stop a new deal breaks it would just get a job for october 31st and also to request a delay to rex. all rights that legislation now goes to the house of lords and has to also be approved by the queen tonight johnson slammed the bill. it's a bill of goods to be in these negotiations a bill that demands an extension at least until next year and perhaps for many more years to come and a bill to the insists acquiesce to the demands of brussels and hands control to our partners it's a bill designed to overturn the biggest democratic votes you know history to trade the 60 for an. artistic historian to london barber bay so our correspondent on the

story of forrest another exciting night there in london barbara i want to talk 1st though about this vote by lawmakers against an early election are we over or can boris johnson come back tomorrow or next week and say no let's vote again. it's not over of course this raging battle between parliament and the prime minister here and probably meant has as you said now. given him street defeats in a road for the good things on him and basically he should be somewhat punchdrunk however boris johnson is fighting on and he will be back he will for certain he will certainly try to get enough of procedure going. by we see can sort of initiate a new election felt that he needs only is simple majority box if we look at the

figures tonight this vote in the house of parliament he didn't even have that when just sit in our again. parliamentarians vote on a new election so it is not sure whether he can against the will of so many parliamentarians here pushed this election through now and also deny barbara m.p.'s they approved the bill that would stop a new deal departure from the european union so what could be boris johnson's next move then after that defeat. he basically has to go to the european union that's what is what this bill says and has to ask for for location off the bricks a date a he said he doesn't want to do that is this is absolutely against his plans and when and then i asked will he stick to the law he said yes he would sort of obey it

but i mean those are contradictory things that boris johnson said in that but it's quite clear that he does not want this he wants to avoid this under all circumstances and so he looks to do anything to stop on the law which might come into legal force you over this weekend or by the coming monday so what what. outcome of this is still out who's going to win this power struggle in this mentoring question of the british future is it yet completely oh yeah still a lot of open questions and the clock of course continues to wind down for lawmakers before parliament is suspended next week our correspondent barbara biggs along the story for us tonight in london barbara thank you well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world iran has released 7 crew members of a detained british flag ship a tanker the stand in peril the ship was taken over by iran's revolutionary guard

in the strait of hormuz back in july 2 weeks after britain seized an iranian carrier off the coast of to baltar italy's prime minister giuseppe calling day has announced a new cabinet to lead a populist and center left coalition including 5 star movement leader luigi demaio as the country's new foreign minister far right leader matteo 70 he's being replaced as interior minister by a technocrat named gian a lot more gays security has been stepped up in south africa and nigeria after attacks on foreign owned businesses in johannesburg and reprisals carried out against south african stores in nigeria and cities with diplomatic tensions increasing nigeria has announced that it's boycotting the world economic forum that's currently taking place in cape town. where they are apocalyptic scenes emerging in the bahamas as authorities begin assessing the devastation caused by hurricane dorian the most powerful storm to ever hit the country areas of the

island have been flooded and thousands of homes are now uninhabitable the main airport totally destroyed at least 7 people are confirmed dead and that figure is expected to rise dorian has lost strength but its dangerous winds continue and they're heading for the u.s. states of georgia south and north carolina. i want to get more now from journalist must be hard as he is in the cell new providence in the bahamas good evening to you tell me i mean we can only imagine what you've been seeing there in the bahamas with this with these reports of apocalyptic destruction how is the rescue effort going where your well there are rescue and relief operations underway right now here in the bahamas and they're mainly being led by the bahama defense forces but heavily assisted of course by the u.s. coast guard and the british navy who are pitching in with helicopters and boats and

rescue personnel they are reaching some of the affected areas so it specially nabucco in the northeast they're reaching some of the areas because one of the airports on the main island in the south of the island is still operational so they can they can get there and they they can they can come in and that there's evacuation efforts underway bringing that have the injured people out of there now one of the parts that there not been that they've not been able to reach its grand bahama up in the north and that's one of about 50000 people or more were affected by this devastating storm and that has received virtually no aid at all up to this point and the reason for that is is that the work and just don't have the infrastructure in place because it's all been destroyed to safely and distribute that aid and i spoke to one of the helpers from a private company today who wants to bring in water and food into grand bahama with

boats and he said at the moment it's like the blind leading the blind and that sort of gives you a sense of the chaos at the moment and the difficulties that rescuers and the relief efforts are facing i mean it is incredibly bleak picture right now and if there were a list right now what would you say is most needed tonight in the bahamas. right well i think i've been in many acute disaster situations what the people in the affected areas of course needed food clean coal clean water to prevent diseases and medical attention but one thing that is often forgotten that also extremely important is communication and that because the communications networks are down and in many parts of these affected areas especially the more remote one and that's not only important for the helpers to reach the population but it's also important for the population to reach their loved ones for example to family members who are in these affected areas could haven't been able to get

a hold of and of course they're extremely worried because they don't know what happened you see the pictures of the destruction there and you can imagine how how worried the family members are at the moment and they're reaching out on social media there are t.v. and radio programs where people can call in and just put on the record who they're missing and who they're trying to reach so that's one thing that people need here just as much as food and water grant all right of responder bustin hans's there in the bahamas giving us one of the 1st reports about the damage in the islands and the humanitarian aid that is now so badly needed busting thank you hong kong's the chief executive kerry land she has bound to the demands of pro-democracy protesters and withdrawn that controversial extradition bill that sparked months of turmoil in the country the proposal allowing for suspects to be tried in courts in mainland

china chords that are run by the communist party fellow citizens from ordinary lamb had already in foley to clear the culture of those who bill is being dead back in june and on wednesday she made it formal with a televised address. fest the government will fall many with scroll the bill in order to flee and the public consensus. the secretary for security will move a motion according to the rules of procedure when the legislative council recently . said she was fully aware the move would not satisfy everyone and she was right pro-democracy lawmakers responded to her announcement with disbelief. to carry them a confession the so-called confession has come too late but then make a stand. off and we're still in hong kong we should. use some garden hose to put out

a fire that's not going to be acceptable. and there were more fires in hong kong over the weekend the city saw heavy clashes between protesters and the authorities during the 13th consecutive week of protests. demonstrators blocked roads and public transport links to the international airport causing gridlock on routes to and from one of the world's busiest transport hubs. a program ocracy activist and somewhat of a spokesman for many of the demonstrators said carrie lamb's announcement was simply an attempt to quell unrest against beijing's growing influence in the region he was drawn to aware that happens behind beijing government beijing and chinese authorities just try to stop protests by saying such. withdraw. and that's just the strategy for beijing hope to. hugh

reduce the number of participant ah protests in the next few weeks one said mainland china was particularly looking to the 1st of october china's national day a day when beijing will want to avoid a repeat of scenes like these. and my colleague jerry john joins me now here at the big table she's been following events in hong kong. worse is good to see you i'm wondering was this do you think the decision of kerry lamb to withdraw this bill or do you think she was ordered to barbara or that she had the blessings from beijing to do this i'm sure this is that this isn't that they have been think very long time but the final approval of cos it came from beijing of course they are the to make the announcement makes you look like a puppet which is what the demonstrators have claimed during a 2nd in speaking of demonstrators the prominent pro-democracy activist joshua one he sent an open letter to the german chancellor angela merkel today asking her for help and this is what he wrote you have 1st hand

experience of the terrorise of a dictatorial government we hope that you will express your concern about our catastrophic situation and that you will convey all of the moms to the chinese government during your stay in china all right so he's saying you know what we are dealing with what does he expect from the german chancellor this is actually not the 1st time that hong kong people are trying to appeal to international leaders for how. actually in germany there have been a lot of the from rallies organized by hong kong people and i'm sure this time long is just pushing for what push a more go to the base but then of course he is expected to at least. in the end that. china should not do they still hong kong but. really say anything to see that it reaches its anything so far today iran. has said

before that freedom of speech has to be respected in hong kong but then they have been quite quiet. church and as always we appreciate your reporting thank you. you're watching news up next business news with canal stick around for that she would appreciate your company see you next up. girls to get over now live on the show that of us are also some of the must certainly the most insightful. what's a view what's able. to deliver on. her 1st day of school in the jungle. first a clue.