so when you. did don't use your know how you know. start september 18th on d w. this is d w news live from berlin a 12 punch against forced johnson's press it plans the u.k. parliament has passed legislation that would make a no deal bret's if illegal the prime minister came out fighting but lawmakers had approved the bill which would also delayed u.k.'s exit from the european union then they rejected johnson's call for a snap election. also coming up to hurricane dorian devastates the bahamas the

scale of the disaster caused by the monster storm is becoming clearer but tens of thousands of homes destroyed in huge numbers of people without food. and hong kong's controversial extradition bill is no more chief executive terry lamb has said she's withdrawing the bill has sparked months of protests in the territory but it's unclear if this concession will satisfy demonstrators. i'm william blue cross thanks for joining the british parliament has rejected prime minister boris johnson's call for a snap election lawmakers also defied him by passing a bill to prevent a no deal breck's it would extend the october 31st deadline to leave the e.u. if an agreement can't be reached by then johnson has suffered 3 parliamentary

defeats in just 2 days. yes more setbacks for british prime minister boris johnson parliament voted to pass legislation blocking a no deal breck's it so he called for an early election. to speak oh well this is big in my view and the view of this government there was now be an election on tuesday the 15th of october. and i might be right over gentlemen to respond to decide which of us is probably this is that crucial council on thursday the 17th of october the leader of the main opposition labour party jeremy called and appealed to lawmakers not to back in the general election before october the 31st the current deadline for britain to leave the e.u. . to the enemy will mean. thank you mr speaker we also the election to die is a bit like the offer of an awful to snow white in the working queen because what

he's offering is not an apple or even election but the poison of a no dale. holding said however that he would back an election once the government took a no deal praxis off the table the moment of truth or. 10 punishments dealt another blow to the prime minister johnson needed some wins the backing afic least 434 new makers but only 298 in favour of this political gamble on the part if the british prime minister that he can win a general election and see britain leave the e.u. at the end of october is still very much up in the end. correspondent barbara faisal has been following events for us in london here's her assessment of boris johnson's options he basically has to go to the european you. and that's what is

what this bill says and has to ask for for location off the exit date and he said he doesn't want to do this is absolutely against his plans and when and then i asked will he stick to the more 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 to see one set of this under all circumstances and so he lives to do anything for the law which might come into legal force over this weekend all by the coming monday and so what look the outcome of this is still open who's going to win this power struggle in this so the mentary question for the british future is yet completely open. now for some other stories making news around the world the u.s. national transportation safety board is investigating

a boat fire that killed 34 people off the california coast all but one body has been recovered and rapid d.n.a. tests are needed to identify the victims 5 of the 6 crew are the only survivors of . italy's prime minister just of a country has announced a new cabinet to lead his populist and center left coalition the easy to my oh the leader of the populous 5 star movement has been tapped to be foreign minister hoshyar no more say a career civil servant replaces far right leader matteo salvini as interior minister. 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 nigerian cities with diplomatic tensions increasing geria has announced its boycotting the world economic forum currently meeting in cape town. in hurricane ravaged bahamas authorities and aid organizations have begun the task

of clearing debris restoring power and reaching survivors the full extent of the damage and death toll has yet to emerge but hurricane dorian is being described as one of the worst in the nation's history the legendary beauty of the bahamas liason tasha's aerial photos show the brutality with which hearken dorian battered the island chain winds strong enough to push a boat across the road and destroy the grand bahama international airport. now the focus has turned to finding survivors as. a whole the whole eastern end of the outlook is. so people right now trying to mobilize themselves boats chatzky as they have they can't get there people have been stuck. for days we haven't heard that instead it's the wee hours of the morning on monday things are pretty bad. people are nothing and i see nothing they left on the bulls

and they're back and they're going home to nothing. but the nearby florida volunteers the packing relief supplies hundreds of people have donated goods they feeling lucky to have been spared dorian's full force. and for the latest i'm joined in the studio by deed every reporter gerrard reid who's been following the story so jared what's the latest on the rescue him clean up efforts well one thing so shorts going to be very momentous because reese or in that footage basically how old dorian just was went through these communities in just basically shredded these houses the u.n. says that at the moment 70000 people are in need of immediate life saving assistance like food and water and medicine and and king's like that and as we know from natural disasters is things like number has and need rise so it's very likely

that these numbers will increase authorities say very sadly they suspects that the death toll also willing crease at the moment it's 20 people that are officially confirm to of dive but they expect many many more simply because entire communities a raid a underwater all dave being washed away and so you the big question is now where are these people who were in these communities ah they even still alive and how can rescue book is get to them complicating things of course is the fact that royds have been severely damaged as we heard in the report just now the international airport on the island of grand bahama was destroyed at the moment to u.s. the u.k. and relief ole denies ations like the red cross odds they're bringing food and medicine to people that need at they're also you airlifting people if you need to be taken just safety via helicopter on now the the bahamas they're right in the

middle the atlantic ocean there are no stranger to hurricanes and other powerful storms so how well prepared does the country seem will bahamas ease pretty used to major storms i read somewhere that between 2015 and 27 tain in there is years consecutively they were 3 category 4 storms on the on the bahama is so you their day used to is on the national emergency service this yeah told people to get prepared for because they becoming more frequent and more intense bought you have to really ask how much could they have done because these storm really destroyed how's is that even had been built to the latest our requirements building requirements in the bahamas you get the feeling from listening to the authorities that us there they used to storms boche day we're not expecting a storm as as big as this one because it spit 3 it was very intense a move very very slowly like to kill him a dozen al with for

a 24 hour was sorry there wasn't doubt much they really could do all right gerrard read thank you very much for the latest and keepers post of now pope francis has arrived in mozambique the 1st stop of a 6 day tore that includes madagascar armor rishis national disasters poverty in conflict are expected to be key themes during the papel visit mozambique is still recovering from a psych loan 6 months ago that was one of the region's worse and hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb has bowed to the demands of pro-democracy protesters and with drawn the controversial extradition bill that's bart months of intense protests in the territory the proposal would have permitted defendants be sent to courts in mainland china or for trial hello citizens while more tare lamb head already enfold lead to cliff the culture of us your bill is being did back in june on wednesday she made it formal with

a televised address 1st the government who will paul money with carolled a bill in order to fully allay public can sense the secretary for security will move a motion according to the rules of procedure when the legislative council resort. said she was fully aware the move would not satisfy everyone and she was right pro-democracy lawmakers responded to her announcement with disbelief. confessions so-called can function as the too late but then make a stand. still in hong kong if you think they should use some garden hose to put out. 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 which strongly aware that the high beijing government beijing and chinese authorities just tried hugh. as. such. withdrawal of bail and that's just the strategy for beijing hope to. reduce the number of participants. in the next few weeks 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. austrian skiing legend marcel here has announced his retirement years as widely considered the best competition skier in the world the 30 year old said he wants to spend more time with his family. the final powerful one of australia's greatest ever sportsman must sell his share retired live on prime time austrian television and even moved an election debate to this such is the esteem in which he is sure is how old he long been contemplating retirement now the time had come. because it's not a major surprise anymore today is the day i and my active career as a ski racer. this next step is going to be better and easier for me to me here should dominated the slopes trip decade

a specialist in the winding world of slalom he won multiple world championships and the overall world cup title a record 8 times all in a row olympic gold eluded him until right until the end to gold simpy on chang last year underlining his status as one of the sport's greatest despite still just being 30 and in good health patients said the rigors of combining skiing with a young family with too much. he make it on. i mean come on i wanted to play football with my little boy go climbing you know and i felt this is the time to do these things while i don't have any serious injuries. only because we have. this year's world cup season starts in austria next month but now the home crowd will have to find someone else to cheer thank the german fashion photographer peter lindbergh is dead at the age of 74 and bag was widely credited with inventing the

$980.00 super model he was famous for photographing women without heavy makeup and his iconic images made household names of models like emmy campbell christy turlington and cindy crawford in vegas survived by his wife and 4 sons. they're watching d.w. news coming up after a short break business with jenelle do. you can find the latest headlines around the clock at d w dot com or follow us on twitter at d w news. i'm scared that. that's hard and in the end it's a me you're not allowed to stay here and we will send you back. are you familiar with this. new smugglers we're alliance and the what's your story

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