by the houses of parliament and therefore it was denying the house of parliament the ability to do its jussi then the most serious question of all was this lawful deed boris johnson have the right to do this was he acting lawfully and unanimously these justices all decided no he wasn't so effectively this the suspension of parliament is void it has no effect that's what lady hale was saying there but now it is up to the speakers of the houses of parliament the house of commons and the house of lords so work out what happens next but effectively this means that i she just said parliament is still in session and it's been brought up at any and boris johnson has said that he will respect whatever the court decides the ball is in his court no. he certainly is it was quite a damning statement to the supremes court judge brenda hale said saying that parliament has not been perogue basically saying that the strategy has a chance of rivals claim he has implemented. was really to make sure that m.p.'s were out of the way to push forward with the possibility of a new deal brags that this will co

parliament is currently in recess. prime ministers questions will not be seen tonight. on monday, british house of commons speaker john perko delivered a statement announcing his resignation after serving 10 years in that position. he told members of parliament that he plans to step down as speaker by october 31. following his remarks, labor party liebert jeremy corbyn delivered tribute remarks, thinking mr. bercow for his leadership. >> order. i will come to points of order in due time. i should bear those honorable members in mind. colleagues, i would like to make a personal statement to the house. after the 2017 election, i promised my wife and children that it would be my last. this is a pledge that i intend to keep. if the house votes tonight for an early general election, my tenure as speaker m.p. will end when this parliament ends. if the house does not so vote, i have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic course of action will be to stand down at the close of business on thursday, october 31. [laughter] [applause] mr. bercow: least disruptive because that date will fal

the british parliament house has approved a bill that blocks the u.k.from crashing out of the european union without a deal it will now become law on monday a decision is another setback for prime minister boris johnson who's struggling to gain support for his bid to call an early election. 2 palestinians have been killed and several others injured during more clashes or goals as a forger with his right demonstrations all demanding an end to israel's 12 here blockade of the gaza strip. right there is the latest headlines here on al-jazeera coming up next to libya unspeakable crime i'm back in 25 minutes. there is no such thing as a clean war war allows every kind of atrocity. rape is a shocking but increasingly common consequence of war. collateral damage. a side effect of the fight. but there's evidence that it is now used as a military strategy. of all war crimes great is the most difficult to cover making it the perfect crime. in bosnia rwanda that there are critics republic of congo and syria women and children have usually been the main targets but

johnson is heading home after the supreme court declared he at the done norfleet by suspending parliament house of commons will resume on wednesday there are now calls for him to resign but he's standing defiant valen the brags that will go ahead on the 31st of october obviously this is a verdict that we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices who found i don't think that. it's right but we will go ahead and course paul will come back i do think there's a good case for getting on with the queen's speech anyway more do that but the most important thing is we get on and deliver breaks it on october 31st and this clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to frustrate that into it and to stop that i think i'd be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective which of the people delivered more difficult to get on this is how u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn reacted at the major party conference this is an extraordinary and precarious moment in our country's history. the prime minister has been found to have acted

if the house breaks tonight for an early general election, my tenure as speaker and m.p. will end when this parliament ends. , ithe house does not so vote have included that the least sruptive and most democratic course of action would be for me to stand down at the close of usiness on thursday, october 1. [applause] mr. bercow: least disruptive because of that date will fall shortly after the votes on the queen's speech expected on 21st and 22nd october. the week or so after that may be quite lively and it would be best to have an experienced gure in the chair for that short period. most democratic because it will held when ballot is all the members have some .nowledge of the candidates this is far preferable to a contest and beginning of apparel will not new m.p.'s be similarly informed and may ind themselves vulnerable to .ndue institutional influence [cheers] mr. bercow: we would not want anyone to be whipped senseless, would we? [laughter] mr. bercow: throughout my time sought to i have increase the relative authority which i egislature for will make absolutely no apology any anyone anywhere at t

for house votes tonight an early general election, my tenure as speaker m.p. will end when this parliament ends. if the house does not so vote, i have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic will be to tion stand down at the close of business on thursday, october 1. [laughter] least disruptive because that date will fall shortly after the votes on the green speech expected on 21st and 22nd, october. it will be best to have an experienced figure in the chair. most democratic because it will -- balance balanced is held when all members have some knowledge of the andidates. this is far preferable to a contest at the beginning of a parliament when new m.p.'s will not be similarly informed and may find themselves vulnerable undue institutional influence. would not want anyone to be with senseless, would we? [laughter] roughout my time as speaker, i have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature for which i will make absolutely no apology for nyone anywhere at anytime. to deploy a perhaps dangerous phrase, i have also sought to be the back benchers' backstop.

the british parliament upper house has approved a bill that blocks the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. without a deal it will now become law on monday the decision is another setback for prime minister boris johnson who's struggling to gain support for his spade to call an early election. 2 palestinians have been killed and several others injured during more clashes on gaza's border with israel demonstrators are demanding an end to israel's 12 year blockade of the gaza strip. the indian space agency has lost communication with its chandra and 2 lunar mission just before the unmanned probe was about to land on the moon the agency's chairman told a room of distraught scientists and prime minister narendra modi that data is being analyzed india hopes to become the 4th nation to land on the moon after russia the u.s. and china. quicker might even find much more about many of the stories we're covering by going to our web site usually dress al-jazeera dot com out to syria dot com. headlines here on al-jazeera coming out next just counting the cost the news cont

s parliament is due to resume at any moment after m.p.'s were ordered back to the house of commons the supreme court ruled that prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament was on lawful he has just arrived back at 10 downing street up cutting short his trip to the u.n. in new york is expected to address parliament in the next few hours. the u.n. general assembly gets underway again in a couple of hours on the sidelines of the summit france's president emmanuel macor is pushing for a meeting between iran's leader hassan rouhani and president donald trump and believe me. we've now we think the president again. is about to put the relations between the u.s. and iran became even more tense following attacks on 2 major oil facilities in saudi arabia this month washington says that iran was behind the attacks toronto denies that craw is urging the countries to pursue the go see a chef our correspondent jonah hill reports now from the united nations in new york . there has been a flurry of activity involving a number of leaders meeting separately here in new y

johnson is heading home after the supreme court declared he acted unlawfully by suspending parliament the house of commons will resume on wednesday now calls for him to resign but he's standing defiant van that brags that it will go ahead on october 31st. obviously this is a. we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices who find i don't think that. it's right but we will go ahead and course paul will come back i do think there's a good case for getting on with the queen's speech anyway move do that but the most important things we get on and deliver breaks it on october 31st and this clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to frustrate that and to and to stop that i think be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective which we the people want delivered more difficult but will get on and this is how u.k. opposition leader jeremy coburn reacted at the labor party conference this is an extraordinary and precarious moment in our country's history the prime minister has been found to have acted illegally when he t

united nations is heading home of the supreme court declared he acted unlawfully by suspending parliament house of commons will resume on wednesday there are no calls for him to resign but he's standing defiant in the brags that will go ahead on the 31st of all time but. obviously this is a verdict that we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices who find i don't think that. it's right but we will go ahead and course paul will come back i do think there's a good case for getting on with the queen's speech anyway move do that but the most important thing is we get home and leave a break to it on october 31st and this is clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to defrost straight that into it and to stop that i think i'd be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective which of the people delivered more difficult to get on an earthquake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least $25.00 people and injuring hundreds more the $5.00 magnitude quakes epicenter was close the city of near poor in pakistan the minister o

down and pass downing street and then perhaps on to the house of parliament we don't know but it's downing street full of journalists ready to work to to show questions of the prime minister if he does actually come to downing street rather than to the house of parliament. yes there are a fair few journalists here and camera crews and so on but a lot of people down at parliament where there are also a good number of pro and anti protesters as there.

well from one moving story to another one is set to be another dramatic day in the british parliament the house of commons after the prime minister boris johnson suffered a defeat over his breakfast strategy mr johnson has in effect expelled 21 m.p.'s from his own party after they voted against him to seize control of the parliamentary agenda and in just the last hour or so a scottish court has now ruled that mr johnson's planned suspension of parliament is legal so he can do it now here's how things are expected to unfold later today mr johnston will 1st have to face m.p.'s in the house of commons during what's expected to be a road to the prime minister's question time but the real showdown is what comes after that in the afternoon m.p.'s will vote on a motion which would block a no deal bricks it on october the 31st further delaying the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. by 3 months that takes us to the end of january next year mr johnson is threatening a snap election if the vote goes against him meanwhile the u.k.'s brecht's that negotiating team is to resume talks in brussels neve barker takes a l

next monday is it possible that you could call for fresh elections again yes on monday and in parliament house to vote windows the suspension of parliament begin so suspension bottom will happen at the end of the towards the middle of the end of next week i don't actually know is when there is no more business but it will between between the 9th and the 12th of september which is between monday and thursday night so there would be time theoretically next week for another vote to hold a general election yes that would be possible in your prediction and much of my prediction would be is if the new or against new deal has been approved by the house of lords i think palma next week will give johnson his 2 thirds majority and then we'll be looking as u.k. general election at some point later not type john where there's always we appreciate your insights i think you. hong kong's chief executive kerri lamb has bound it in the demands of pro-democracy protesters today she withdrew that controversial extradition bill that sparked months of turmoil in the territory the proposal allows the suspects to be

prime minister the bill to block a new deal breaks it will become more having been approved by parliament house. and the indian prime minister consoles his country's top scientists after they lose contact with an ambitious mission to the moon just minutes before the studio allowed. to many he will always be the hero who led zimbabwe to freedom from white minority rule but others regard him as a corrupt dictator and let the country to economic disaster welcome the garveys death at the age of 95 has seen tributes pouring in from across the world but also harsh criticism as people remember one of africa's most divisive leaders how to abseil hamid looks back at his life. deliberate who turned into a tyrant the man who destroyed a promising country through his determination to cling onto power and adored by some but the indian despised by many in zimbabwe although widely admired across africa as a hero who fought colonialism and stood up to the west. 965. mrs white settlers declare independence from britain an event that they find robert mugabe's life and still holds. country. the black majority res

britain's upper chamber of parliament the house of lords has blocked or has passed a bill to block a no deal bret's it's only 31st of october in another blow to the british prime minister boris johnson opposition parties have again refused to grant him an election. when the bombs the government is warning that the death toll from hurricane dorian will be staggering at least 30 people are confirmed dead and hundreds possibly thousands of missing an international humanitarian effort is underway to help those affected by the u.n. estimates that 70000 people are in immediate need of aid the storm has now made landfall in the united states. under this rubble lie homes or blister rated lives cut short the extent of hurricane dorian's havoc is slowly beginning to america and so 2 stories of survivors clinging on whatever. sure. sure. others here are frantically trying to get out of the airport departure lounge is overwhelmed. what . they told us that the previous the pregnancy from the elderly people who were supposed 1st preference. we have to let me see are you still have elderly people y

going back home at the moment but before we had hundreds of people coming here marching to the parliament house south africa trying to address the politicians and trying to tell them how argent their needs is to take action on the global climate crisis how they call it and as he has mentioned earlier cape town was not the only place in south africa where these protests happens today also in jerks and to durban we have seen similar events taking place but i did hear turn to 1st 1st time the impact of climate change it had a huge drought how do you experience that. right i mean last year cape town was almost the 1st big city on earth to run dry because of this massive draws back then water was rationed only 50 liters per person per day it was the big topic everybody talked about it and although the situation has improved by now the dams reach a level of about 80 percent water is still a topic there are still some restrictions on going you can't just fill a swimming pool as water here that's still forbidden and the town tennessee and cape town are saying this water scarcity will remain in the futu

it now is in the upper house of parliament, the house of lords.law, and here you have a live feed coming in from the house of lords. just to explain to some of you outside of the uk, in what we might call a democratic curiosity, the lords are appointed rather than elected. there are over 800 of them. most of them have been appointed for life. a minority still inherit their titles, and yes, you heard some people within —— with influence within the uk's democratic processes have inherited that power, and we are seeing all sorts of procedural manoeuvres being brought forward in the house of lords. this is its website. members who back brexit have unleashed around 90 amendments. if you have the energy, you can read it all online. according to the rules, each of these are momentous to be debated and there is no provision for cutting debates short. that is widely seen as a filibuster operation to try to run down the clock so this bill can't become law for parliament is suspended on monday, because remember the reason everything has become so focused thi

fortune's opportune bar of parliament the house of lords has passed a bill to block a no deal bragg's it on the 31st of october it's another blow to prime minister boris johnson whose call for elections just for britain is due to leave the european union was widely opposed. german chancellor angela merkel has been holding talks with chinese premier li could charm in beijing they discussed commerce a growing trade war between china and the u.s. market also raised the issue of hong kong saying there needs to be a peaceful solution to pro democracy protests. well this is the news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines at d w dot com or follow us on twitter at he doesn't use. well to say cheers for eco india the environment magazine and. cause. a female of. the women in the indian states in her rush trying to becoming landowners. in marjah alitalia a sustainable approach to land. and environment i'm stephanie civil. next d w. i n where the real power resides. i come from dirt lots of people in fact. more than a 1000000000 digits of blood nonsense democracy maybe that's one r

the rebel alliance believes that they have the numbers to win thank you john hall outside the house of parliament in westminster we move around to emma hayward who live in london with the protests going on behind you what sort of mood is there with everything that's going on today. come all this is so much more than being about price it or no deal price that it is about austerity boris johnson the conservative party and the future of britain i'm really this demonstration is about democracy that is what people are telling me the plans of her again upon him in those days simply undemocratic i spoke to one man earlier who come to britain in the seventy's he said he was raised by racism he said when it came to the bricks that burned he wasn't even that bothered whether. only but he said he came here tonight to defend parliament. do you think the demonstrations are actually having any impact at all m.r. i mean yesterday when boris johnson was speaking outside number 10 you could hear the chants of stop the. protesters believe they are having an impact. at this. i think i think they are having some kin

in yet another blow to british prime minister boris johnson parliament house rejected his latest move to call the general election as the u.k. appears still on course for exiting the e.u. next month but with the status of a deal in doubt. and a russian journalist who was part of an historic prisoner swap with ukraine speaks to us about his detention in here. with stupid to deny that it's a political process and my release and it ended like that because there was a change of administration. to. a warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with many care and. one year as president donald trump has confirmed negotiations with the taliban have been scrapped it had been hoped they would bring america's longest war to an end trump blames the insurgent groups recent attack in kabul which left an american soldier dead. they thought that that it killed people in order to put themselves in a little better to go shares a position where they did that they killed 12 people one happened to be a great american soldier you can't do that can't do that with me so they're dead as far as i'm concern

that he has to step down at the end of october . 8th but house tonight for an early general election my tenure as. and he will. win this parliament and. the house does not say but i have concluded that the least disruptive. and most democratic course of action. would be for me to stand down at the clues of business almost thursday. for 31st. speaker of the house of parliament john bucca quentin pale explain to us the significance of what just happened why would the n.p.c. clapping that doesn't matter that the speaker is stepping down it doesn't matter because he's been a huge champion for a problem and in its known running battle over breakfast with the government after all not just the johnson government but to reason may's government before have again and again tried to push through the brakes at process with i'm giving parliament a chance to disagree or have it say and john bercow is the man who's made sure that that actually that the government didn't get away with it so he is tested by many within the government just gunna i think by actually putting in his resignation today he's chosen the very day that boris johnson has pr

around parliament square in westminster, there are hidden power lines, a triangle of authorityjoining the housesment, the government, focused on 10 downing steet, and thejudiciary and the supreme court. today the justices explained that a fundamental principle of british democracy is that the prime minister is accountable to parliament. they also stated that the courts had supervised the lawfulness of government for centuries. established in 2009 to replace the law lords as the uk's most seniorjudicial body, today saw the supreme court beginning to flex its constitutional muscles. this is probably the biggest day in the history of the supreme court so far. with this unanimous judgment, the judges have really sat down a marker about their role as a constitutional court, as a check on government and a defender of parliamentary sovereignty. and although this will have profound repercussions for brexit, it's really much bigger than that. this is about how our parliamentary democracy works. booing traitor! the supreme court is crossing the line, meddling in politics, downing street suggested, but the

house, on the 15th of october. it's under the terms of the fixed—term parliaments act. two thirds majority for that. as you been hearing from the opposition, it doesn't look like he's going to get the votes. here with me now is brigid fowler, a senior researcher at the political research group the hansard society and joe twyman, director of polling company deltapoll. it seemed, listening to the opposition benches, that they aren't going to support this evening. what other options might boris diaw have if he wanted to force an election? —— boris johnson. if he wanted to force an election? -- boris johnson. there are two ways, one is winning a motion such as that that he has tabled this evening. the other is for somebody to move a motion of no—confidence in the government and to win a motion of no confidence in the government, and for the house of commons to fail to pass for a fortnight a motion of confidence and then you end up with a general election triggered by default. that's another route, in theory. obviously that was conceived as something the opposition would do,

johnson is heading home after the supreme court declared he acted unlawfully by suspending parliament the house of commons will resume on wednesday and there are now calls for him to resign but he started the fight obviously this is a verdict that we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices who found i don't think that. it's right but we will go ahead and course paul you come back i do think there's a good case for getting on with the queen's speech anyway move do that by the way support please we get home and leave a breakthrough on october 31st and this clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to defrost straight that into it to stop that i think i'd be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective which of the people delivered more difficult to get on an earthquake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least $25.00 people and injuring hundreds more the $5.00 magnitude quakes epicenter was close to the city of metaphor in pakistan administered kashmir well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-j

this parliament, must either stand aside and let the government get brexit done, or bring a vote of confidence and finally face the day of reckoning with the voters. i commend this statement to the house. [cheering] >> thank you. thank you mr. speaker. forink the prime minister an advanced copy of his statements. unfortunately, it was like his illegal shutting down of parliament. effect and should be quashed. of the supreme was 10there, mr. speaker minutes of bluster from a prime minister who thinks that he is above the law. speaker, is, mr. not fit for the office which he holds. speaker, i am glad to see so many colleagues back here doing what they were elected to do, holding the government to account for its failings. whether it is the attempts to shut down democracy, its sham andit negotiations, chaotic inadequate no deal preparations, allegations of corruption, failure on climate change, failure to step in to save mr.as cook, this government speaker is failing the people of britain and the people of britain know it. speaker: order. i said that the prime minister should not beast shouted down, the same goes for the leader of the opposition, let me say to people bellowing, stop it,

and flood walls has left by the most powerful hearken to ever hit the island the british parliament's upper house has approved a bill that blocks the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. without a deal it will now become law on monday the decision is another setback for prime minister boris johnson who's struggling to gain support for his bid to call an early election. 2 palestinians have been killed and several others injured during more clashes on gaza's border with israel demonstrators altamont again and israel's tovey a blockade of the gaza strip. process have been taking place in northern syria against continuing russian asteroids on what demonstrators say is the international community silence when 500 people have been killed in italy province over the last 4 months russian backed syrian forces tried to capture the country's last rebel held stronghold. india's prime minister narendra modi has joined his country's top the storm has as they prepare to land a spacecraft on the moon's unexplored south pole chandrayaan 2 was launched in july and eventually reached an orbit around 100 kilometers fr

if he does not go, parliament house to remove borisjohnson as prime minister. e green outside saying it will resume sitting from 11:30am. what do you think should be first order of business? we know we face a challenge in so much as we passed a law to stop us leaving the european union. we have to take our responsibilities to make sure he cannot wiggle out of that. we have to hold him to account for what he has done here, why did he act without authority to shut parliament down? we need to hold him to account, many other things we need to discuss. quite simply, i think we have to make sure we make it absolutely crystal clear we are not leaving the european union on a no deal this marriage witness it. make sure the mechanisms are put in place, then we need to have an election as quickly as possible. let's re m ove election as quickly as possible. let's remove —— leaving the european union on a no deal basis. we can hear from union on a no deal basis. we can hearfrom liberal union on a no deal basis. we can hear from liberal democrat leader joe swenson. —— jo swin

that's why britain's upper chamber of parliament the house of lords has passed a bill to block a no deal breakfast on the 31st of october in another blow to the prime minister bars johnson opposition parties have again refused to grant an early election. but colombia has been hosting a summit to boost protection for the amazon rain forest latin american countries that share the amazon discussed measures to preserve the river basin but they clashed over cooperation and sovereignty and he was cold after researching wildfires in the region this year caused a global outcry. i have a government in the bahamas is warning that the death toll from hurricane dorian will be staggering at least 30 people are confirmed dead and hundreds possibly thousands missing an international humanitarian effort has begun the u.n. estimates that 70000 people in immediate need the storm has now made landfall in the united states. under this rubble lie homes or blistery to lives cut short the extent of hurricane dorian's havoc is slowly beginning to america and so 2 stories of survivors clinging on what i want. to

britain's upper chamber of parliament the house of lords has passed a bill to block a no deal back set on october 1st and then another blow to prime minister barak some opposition policies again refused to grant him an early election. and greasy but with huge smiles the small town of basra in southern spain has celebrated its beloved and unusual festival like some more us with $15000.00 participants is the poems the celebration takes place annually in a frenzy of block paint throwing the tradition is believed to date back to the late 15th century. now hearken dorian is speeding towards canada off to making landfall in the u.s. states of north and south carolina for costas expects it to bring hurrican force winds to parts of nova scotia late on saturday it has already left a trail of devastation in the bahamas thousands of people have been fleeing the islands by boat plane and cruise ship to escape the catastrophic health of the storm the death toll is now at $43.00 that it is expected to grow significantly. in shock and in pain people on the bahamas are desperately trying to leave the

britain's upper chamber of parliament the house of lords has passed a bill to block a no deal brags that on october 31st in another blow to prime minister boris johnson opposition parties have again refused to grant him an early election. dirty but with huge smiles the small town of boss sun southern spain has celebrated its beloved and unusual festival the custom motorists with $1500.00 participants the celebration takes place annually and a frenzy of black paint throwing the tradition is believed to date back to the late 15th century. turkey is increasingly calling into question a 2016 deal with brussels aimed at reducing the flow of migrants into the e.u. president reject type aired on as threatening to quote open the gates to allow syrian refugees to leave chunky for western countries if unger a dozen receive more support for plans to resettle up to a 1000000 refugees in northern syria turkey is warning that in light of ongoing finding in syria's rebel stronghold of it live it could see even more migrants coming across its border that these people so you there protesting out of anger

now some of the other stories making news around the world fortunes up a chain of parliament the house of lords has passed a deal to block a no deal gregg's it on the 31st of october and another blow to prime minister boris johnson opposition parties have again ruled out granting him until early election. on kong police have again fied kid gas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy protesters demonstrations have been continuing for 14 weeks the latest violence comes off to hong kong's leader formally withdrew a bill allowing extraditions to mainland china the original sugar for the unrest. the german chancellor angela merkel has called for a peaceful solution to the months of protests in hong kong merkel has been meeting chinese premier li kidd china and beijing they also discussed calm us and the growing trade deal between china and the us. pope francis has arrived in madagascar during a tour of east africa earlier in mozambique the pontiff denounced business and political corruption francis said it was paradoxical that so many people live in poverty despite mozambique's abundant natural

an effect of the suspension of parliament was on the fundamentals of democracy and had an extreme effect on the fundamentals of democracy. already the speaker of the houseme because the courtjustices here say the order to suspend parliament never took place, wasn't void and therefore doesn't have any effect so that parliament can reopen right now. let's hear what lady howe said a short time ago. this prolonged suspension of parliamentary democracy took place in quite exceptional circumstances. the fundamental change that was due to ta ke fundamental change that was due to take place in the constitution of the united kingdom on the 31st of october. parliament and in particular the house of commons as the elected representatives of the people has a right to a voice in how that change comes about. the effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme. nojustification on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme. no justification for taking action with such an extreme effect has been put before the court. the only evidence of why it was taken is the memorandum from nikki da costa of 15th august. this explains why holding the queen speech to open a

britain's upper chamber of parliament the house of lords has passed a bill to block a no deal brokered on october 31st and another blow to prime minister boris johnson the opposition parties have again refused to grant him an early election. pope francis has arrived in madagascar as part of a tour around africa earlier and mozambique the pontiff denounced business and political corruption francis said it was quote paradoxical that so many people live in poverty despite mozambique's abundant natural resources in the bahamas the government is warning that the death toll from hurricane dorian might substantially increase at least 30 people are confirmed dead and hundreds possibly thousands are missing an international humanitarian effort is underway the u.n. estimates that 70000 people are in new media need of aid the storm has now made landfall in the united states. under this rubble lie holmes oh blistery to life's cut short the extent of hurricane dorian's havoc is slowly beginning to america and so 2 stories of survivors slinging whatever what one joke to show well once for life well

around parliament square in westminster, there are hidden power lines, a triangle of authority joining the houses focused on 10 downing steet, and the judiciary and the supreme court. today the justices explained that a fundamental principle of british democracy is that the prime minister is accountable to parliament. they also stated that the courts had supervised the lawfulness of government for centuries. established in 2009 to replace the law lords as the uk's most seniorjudicial body, today saw the supreme court beginning to flex its constitutional muscles. this is probably the biggest day in the history of the supreme court so far. with this unanimous judgment, the judges have really set down a marker about their role as a constitutional court, as a check on government and as a defender of parliamentary sovereignty. and although this will have some repercussions for brexit, it's really much bigger than that. this is about how our parliamentary democracy works. booing traitor! the supreme court is crossing the line, meddling in politics, downing street has suggested. but the justices were ad

britain's upper chamber of parliament the house of lords has passed a bill to block a no deal brags that on october 31st and another blow to prime minister boris johnson opposition parties have again refused to grant him an early election. pope francis has arrived in madagascar as part of a tour around east africa earlier in mozambique the pontiff denounced business and political corruption francis said it was quote paradoxical that so many people live in poverty despite mozambique's abundant natural resources. dirty and greasy but with huge smiles the small town of basra and southern spain has celebrated its beloved and unusual festival the custom ordered us with $1500.00 participants the celebration takes place annually in a frenzy of black paint throwing the tradition is believed to date back to the late 15th century. turkey is increasingly calling into question a 2016 deal with brussels aimed at reducing the flow of migrants into the e.u. president. as threatening to quote open the gates to allow syrian refugees to leave turkey for western countries if ankara doesn't receive more sup

that the prime minister could move his own piece of legislation in the house of commons basically overriding effects in parliament sacked and calling for election october the 15th that would require a simple majority in the house of commons not the 2 thirds fifths and found that is a form with that is that labor party could amend it and put all sorts of clues in and he's already one of them that's one option he could have another go at the motion that he's boards today and maybe allow some movement on this piece of legislation so it gets through the week's journal equals the ins requirement. the other thing he could do though bizarrely enough is ultimately call a vote of no confidence in himself and order his own in peace to vote that they have no confidence in the government if he does not just before parliament is suspended next week they won't be time for the queen to send somebody else to place the government and then he'll get a general election that way so their various options have all bizarre but one way or the other i think it's going to happen we expect that this legislation will make its way through do

the european union in october without a divorce deal has passed its first major hurdle in parliament. the house of commons voted today to approve the bill in principle, sending it off for further debate and another vote today. pro brexit lawmakers are threatening to stop it by filibustering. boris johnson says britain must leave the eu on october 31 with or without a deal. the leaders of russia and india say the ties between their countries are strong. the russian president and indian prime minister spoke at a news conference today on the sidelines of the eastern economic forum in russia a red putin calls india one of his country's key partners. afghanistan is exposing concerns about the u.s. ending its longest war. afghanistan is morning april u.s. troop withdrawal that moves too quickly and without forcing the taliban to meet certain conditions, could lead to total civil war. show the draft to officials this week, saying it only needs president trump's approval. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries

, the theatre of boris johnson's return to the uk, waiting on his arrival back here to the houses of parliamentme now, the former conservative, now liberal democrat mp, sarah wollaston. thank you for coming, we haven't got long because you have to be in houses four 11:30am. gives an idea whatjo swinson houses four 11:30am. gives an idea what jo swinson is houses four 11:30am. gives an idea whatjo swinson is going to say? setting out our plans for the future. i am utterly that to jo swinson to talk about. we're here to hold the government to account. it has been running france brittany. borisjohnson has has been running france brittany. boris johnson has been has been running france brittany. borisjohnson has been in power two months but only had five days being held to account in parliament, so there is a lot of catching up. we we re there is a lot of catching up. we were chatting about urgent question. the first will be from joanna cherry, which is going to be about the legal advice. that was at the heart of the supreme court case. there are questions the lib dems wa nt a nswered there are que

my question to the prime minister is, this house is in his eyes.e i accept the bill that parliament has passed. accept your duty as prime until the 17th of october and negotiate the extension to deliver. again, this yet government has been defeated by a majority in the house of commons against a no deal brexit. the passage of the bill tonight to block no deal is not just for democracy but yet, for common sense. and to the members of parliament across these benches, who worked tirelessly to build consensus for this legislation to pass and remove the cliff edge catastrophe, mr. speaker, the prime minister should not be talking about surrender. he should be congratulating members of parliament that have stood up for all our national interests. accuserime minister to simplyent of surrender lacks dignity, prime minister. parliament has once again displayed its will. the prime minister must show respect for democracy and agree to abide by the will of parliament and the new deal. if you wish to intervene rather than shouting at me, i will give you the conversation. shouting] >> i've been liste

house well we are aware. that the motion has no out of. the majority were. out of the fixed parliament's fact this is about defending our democracy ahead of the latest political drama demonstrators in parliament square denounce boris johnson's actions accusing him of engineering a no deal grex it by claiming they're all still chances of a deal when there's no progress whatsoever boris johnson may have only been in power for 6 weeks but he doesn't have control right now. nevertheless you've only got to listen to the demonstrators here to realize the central issue is about trust and the opposition want to be absolutely sure there's a couple bottom guarantee he can't play any tricks if there is an election the 2nd largest opposition party is also against an immediate election people don't trust johnson when he says he really wants a deal we all suspect that he wants no deal and we also want to make sure that he's not able to use his proxy of powers as the prime minister to create some tricks and allow the country to crash out another day of unprecedented moves with involvement and with it s

there is ample time for him to carry out the instructions of the house of parliament, the house of commonstraordinary. a cabinet secretary would resign, and virtually every top civil servant would go. the attorney general would have to resign, after pointing out that he is behaving in a way that is com pletely is behaving in a way that is completely improper and indeed the entire mechanism of government would ground to a halt. you are confident there is no legal loophole by which borisjohnson there is no legal loophole by which boris johnson can ignore there is no legal loophole by which borisjohnson can ignore this legislation? i cannot think of one. i have two sata you that in this case it is the law of the land. -- i have to say to you. in terms of taking stock this week, which you expect boris johnson taking stock this week, which you expect borisjohnson to be able to continue for much longer? there is speculation he could even resign over the coming days? i've no idea what he wants to do. the sensible thing is to realise the policy he has been pursuing these last six weeks was doomed

it is about the abuse of power by a government seeking to shut down parliament. this house must respect the scottish parliament, and in particular, the mandate that scottish government has for a referendum on independence. [cheering] it is scotland's right to do this. not the right of the prime minister or any other of westminster. to tell scotland that our votes do not matter, that we cannot determine when scotland votes. mr. speaker, an election is coming. i invite scotland to send a message to westminster is scotland's right to choose. it shows that the snp is set to win a majority of westminster seats in any election. make no mistake, mr. speaker. we relish an election. we want to stop brexit for good. we want to stop the tories, to stop this prime minister, and most importantly, we want to give the people their choice to decide their own future. however, mr. speaker, we will not be party to the prime minister's game and allow the prime minister to use an election to force a no-deal brexit through the back door. simply put, the snp cannot support this motion tonight bec

parliament business. there were protesters outside the houses of parliament, both pro and anti—brexit, and emotions were runningris johnson, who suffered a major defeat, conservative party rebels joining forces with opposition members to seize control of commons business, to introduce legislation to prevent resin leaving without a deal at the end of october. while that was going on inside the houses of parliament, these were the protests on both sides outside. hello there. this week? weather is looking fairly benign. that's because we've got atlantic influence, so a mix of conditions. a bit of sunshine, some cloud. generally temperatures around the seasonal average or a little bit below. and in fact, wednesday looks like one of those ways where the temperatures will be below average. and it will be windy as well so that will make you feel even cooler. and the reason is because we but this area of low pressure moving down from the north—west around our area of high pressure. two weather fronts on it, one bringing rain in the south—east, this next one bringing plenty of showers to scotland and northern ireland th