Authorities in the bahamas defend their response to hurricane dorian. We report from the abaco islands, where tens of thousands are still desperate for help. Myanmar steps up efforts to repatriate rohigya refugees. But hundreds of thousands whove fled to bangladesh refuse to return. And as the long awaited sequel to the handmaids tale is published, author Margaret Atwood tells the bbc her storys closer to reality than ever. In another day of high drama the British Parliament has again rejected the Prime Ministers call for a snap general election. Its the sixth defeat for borisjohnson, in a little over a week. In a fiery final debate before parliament is controversially suspended for five weeks, mrjohnson insisted that he would not ask the eu for an extension to the date of brexit, in spite of a law passed by mps compelling him to do so. Opposition leaders accused the Prime Minister of trying to call an election to secure a no deal brexit by stealth. This is how the result was announced. The ayes to the right 293. The noes to the left 46. Thats less than last time. Yes. For us. Not for you. The ayes to the right 293. The noes to the left 46. So the ayes have it, the ayes have it. Hear, hear. Some in the chamber laughing there. The Prime Minister said the opposition was simply afraid they would lose the election. And the exchanges continued after the vote. I will go to that crucial summit in brussels on october 17th and no matter how many devices this parliament invents to tie my hands, i will strive, mr speaker, to get an agreement in the national interest. This government will not delay brexit any further. We will not allow the emphatic verdict of the referendum to be slowly suffocated by further calculated drift and paralysis. The one thing the Prime Minister didnt say was that he was going to obey the law of this country. He did not say he acknowledged or accepted three votes that have taken place in this parliament and, under his request, the house is now due, apparently, this evening, to be prorogued for one of the longest prorogations in history, simply in order to avoid any questioning of what he is doing or not doing, simply to avoid discussion about yellowhammer, particularly to avoid any discussion about the proposals he has or hasnt or do or dont exist that have been put to the european union. Mr speaker, this government is a disgrace and the way the Prime Minister operates is a disgrace. With me is our News Reporter gareth barlow. Co ntroversially, controversially, parliament is no longer sitting, even though it is a crucial time. Jeremy corbyn saying disgrace. In 2016, it was just four days, in 2013, it was 13 days, this year, 2a working days. Its worth remembering we have a minority government in power. This is the Million Dollar question, but what will happen exponentially . We know that parliament wont sit for the next five weeks, they will return on october 14 where we will have the queens speeds. The government will use that to lay out its plans for next if things like the nhs or for its plans for next if things like the nhs orfor police. The government says the suspension is really necessary because there is still business as usual, there is still business as usual, there is still a country to run. During the next five weeks while we dont have a general election tabled on the cards, all the parties will be busy laying out their position, looking to the public and saying you need to get ready to decide who you want in power, who you want to take the next steps. There is not going to be a general election at this point, probably sometime soon. Still a very divided country, though. What we sing in public . We are seeing people protesting outside westminster, for example. These lines of barricades being thrown at them, buttons by officers. But on is that the country was very much perfectly divided during the referendum, a8 5296, if divided during the referendum, a8 52 , if anything it has gotten or in transit, just in parliament, but also in the public. Gareth barlow taking us do that, thank you very much. Dont forget for all the latest developments on the story you can go to our websites. Just go to bbc. Com news or download the bbc news app. Officials in the bahamas have defended their response to hurricane dorian, saying they are dealing with the disaster. At least 45 people were killed last week, and aid agencies say tens of thousands of people in the worst hit areas, still have no access to food or clean water. Aleem maqbool reports now from the abaco islands, one of the worst hit areas. With little left to stay for after the hurricane, theres a clamour now to get off this devastated island. The airstrips opened on abaco, and though the planes keep coming, theyjust cant match demand. Theres not enough. Theres nothing to do, so. All you can do is try to find better. Marsh harbor close by, though, is nowjust and obliterated and empty town. People who were here during the hurricane say those shipping containers were lifted up by the winds and the powerful tidal surges, and smashed into peoples homes, and pushed further and further back. And the stories of loss and of those who are missing are everywhere. Around here was the home of ebma francoise. We were going to accompany him back to the spot for the first time, but when we got to the edge of the town, he froze. You dont want to go there . No. Why dont you want to go there . Because you see how i smell . You see how it is. You could smell, you dont know what you smell there. It looks like something, people are still in there i know, so there are plenty of people dead. Plenty people dead. Among the ghosts here for ebma is that of his girlfriend, lisa. Her body was found, but the stench ebma talks of suggests many still havent been. Eva survived with her children, but three of her cousins are still missing. Shes reluctant to fly out to the bahamian capital, nassau. They tell people to go nassau, i dont know nothing about nassau. Because i aint got no family in nassau there, because my kids need to go to school. I aint got nothing, i lost all my things. I aint got nothing in my life. It is the poorest who have been affected most by the hurricane, mainly from abacos haitian community. Many of them and feel the prospects are bleak, whether they stay or go. Aleem maqbool, bbc news, on the abaco islands of the bahamas. In his first comments since cancelling a meeting with the taliban President Trump has said talks with the group are dead. He said he cancelled talks due to be held over the weekend at camp david because the militants killed a us service member. Mr trump explained his decision. We had a meeting scheduled. It was my idea, and it was my idea to terminate it. I didnt even i didnt discuss it with anybody else. When i heard very simply that they killed one of our soldiers and 12 other innocent people, i said theres no way im meeting on that basis, theres no way im meeting. While talks maybe at an end there for now with the United States, the relationship with north korea is continuing. Pyongyang has said its willing to hold denuclearisation talks with washington in late september the first concrete offer of talks since the summit between donald trump and kimjong un broke down in hanoi in february. From washington we can speak to Frances Brown who is a fellow with carnegies democracy, conflict, and governance programme. Previously she served under both the obama and trump administrations. Thank you so much for your time. First of all, what is going on with north korea . First of all, what is going on with north korea . Theyve first of all, what is going on with north korea . Theyve offered to restart thoughts but they are firing missiles as well . Mixed signals once again from the north koreans. I think the question here is not is north korean willing to meet, which trump once again, as you know, weve already had two negotiations in good us, its between these two sides as well as a dmd meeting just earlier this year. I think the question is what will happen at the summit dmz meeting, both the hanoi summit and the singapore summit really ended with very little to show for it. The question im watching now is will there be anything that actually amounts to any thoughts that come from this . We saw from afghanistan that donald trump was make strategy seems to be he is quite unpredictable. But in north koreas case, could that works, getting the other side to come to him . Certainly. I think in any diplomatic negotiation, some element of creativity when a previous approach hasnt worked, i think there is a lot to be said for that. I think the challenge when we talk about north korea and his negotiations is to actually get specific outcomes you need a fair actually get specific outcomes you need afairamount actually get specific outcomes you need a fair amount of preparation, you need a lot of painstaking details to be worked out by senior and middle level officials ahead of time. Im not sure if the president s benson for unpredictability will really work with those requirements. Talking about specific outcomes, how much is Donald TrumpsForeign Policy response or strategy trying to deal with conflict and how much is it about talking to his domestic audience . I think weve seen this administration is very driven by domestic considerations. Within this from mike pompeo and we certainly see it from the president himself. I think its no secret the president would like to claim a big win, claim a big deal when he runs for re election next year, and here in the us as you probably know, the election season is already under way. So i think hes mindful about. He would love to claim victory in afghanistan and acted soon. And with north korea, if it were as easy as making a real estate deal, i think he would make the deal tomorrow and claim victory. On afghanistan, do you think we will see some sort of peace deal under Donald Trumps time as president . So its a really open question and i think what we saw over the weekend has set the prospects for that. We have seen over the last year under special envoyis over the last year under special envoy is an negotiators envoys, a tremendous amount of progress towards patching out an initial deal between the us and the taliban. This doesnt mean it will be a deal that ends the afghan war entirely, it would be a specific bargain between those two parties, but it would be an important start. So we did see a lot of progress by i have to confess i believe this episode over the weekend has really sat back those talks and the prospect for that piece. And Frances Brown, thank you so piece. And Frances Brown, thank you so much for that. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come a concert in koreas demilitarized zone. How culture hopes to ease tensions between north and south. George w bush freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be defended. The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible. Bishop tutu now becomes spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here, of the blacks in soweto township, as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice enough of blood and tears. Enough translation the difficult decision we reached together was one that required great and exceptional courage. Its an exodus of up to 60,000 people caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. Iam free this is bbc news. The latest headlines mps have defeated the british governments call for a general election. Parliament has now been controversially suspended for more than a month. Authorities in the bahamas have defended their response to hurricane dorian. Aid still hasnt reached tens of thousands in the worst hit areas. Two years after more than 700,000 Muslim Rohingyas fled from a savage military operation, they remain stuck in overcrowded camps in bangladesh. A second attempt to start repatriating the refugees failed last month when none of the 3,500 rohingyas selected would agree to go, citing fears for their safety. The government of myanmar says it is committed to bringing them back. However, our correspondent Jonathan Head was able to find evidence that, far from welcoming the rohingyas back, the authorities in Rakhine State have been erasing all trace of their villages. The border post in northern rhakine state. An immigration officer shows us lists of the Rohingya Refugees his government had approved last month. They want the world to understand how ready they are to have at least some of them back, though so far, theyve had no takers. Well, weve been allowed to come right up here to the border with bangladesh, and its through these rusting gates that myanmar Officials Say they were expecting hundreds, even thousands, of Rohingya Refugees to come under the latest repatriation scheme. But, of course, without any promises of citizenship, without any real investigation into the abuses they suffered, and most of all, without any reassurances about what kind of future they have, we know that at the moment none of the rohingyas over there on that side of the border are willing to make this crossing. If significant numbers of Rohingya Refugees do decide to come back, this is where theyre likely to spend at least their first two months. It is a transit camp, and as you can see, it would be pretty basic living. Its also fenced in, with watchtowers and armed police, and its unlikely theyll be free to come and go. But most of them will not be able to go back to their villages, because theyve notjust been destroyed by the violence of two years ago, but theyve continued to be demolished even since then. In fact, this very camp is built on the site of what was an intact rohingya village that was then bulldozed. Satellite images show two relatively undamaged settlements at the end of 2017, which within a few months are flattened to make way for the transit camp. Yet the camp administrator seems unaware of this. Why did you destroy the village, the muslim village that was here, to build this camp . Theres no village in this area, he said. There are no villages where we built the camp. Two years ago, at the height of the military campaign against the rohingyas, i was able to film a muslim neighbourhood called myo thu gyi, which had just been burnt. Today, on exactly the same stretch of road, theres a newly constructed government complex instead. Myo thu gyi has completely vanished. We were also shown a relocation camp where returning refugees are expected to live, closely monitored by the security forces. There is a large new Police Barracks close by. Here, two satellite images show that a rohingya village was demolished to make way for it. Well, this is perhaps the strangest part of this tightly controlled government trip. Theyve brought us to a village called inn din, which is notorious for a massacre of ten muslim men in september 2017, and for which two reuters journalists went to prison after investigating it. Now, theyve brought us here showing us scenes of ordinary life to stress that it is all peaceful and harmonious now with the non muslim population. But if you come over here, behind this barbed wire fence is where the muslims used to live. Theres no trace of them now. Theyve constructed some kind of government barracks behind there, and its quite clear that the muslims are never coming back here. Police targeted members of a dutch persons family before killing himself. The pope has held mass on the island of mauritius. It took place on a terrorist hillside. Mauritius was the last stop on his three nation african tour. He also visited madagascar and mozambique. As we heard earlier, north korea has said that it is ready to resume Nuclear Talks with the United States. It comes exactly a year after the leaders of north and south korea signed a Historic Deal to take steps to demilitarise the border between them. Since then, relations have soured, so it may come as a surprise that the south has held a peace concert on the demilitarised border between the two koreas. The bbcs laura bicker was there. For world renowned cellist yo yo ma, this is a dream come true playing at the border between the two koreas. Culture allows us to dream together, and together, we can achieve the impossible. This makeshift stage at dorasan train station is the last stop in the south. Beyond lie lines of barbed wire and fields of landmines which make up the dmz. Just last year, there were discussions to change that. Last september, south koreas president moon and north koreas kimjong un declared to Work Together towards disarmament. The two sides destroyed watchtowers along the heavily fortified border, and removed landmines. But in recent months, harsher signals have come from pyongyang. Theyve tested missile after missile. Injune, there was this surprise meeting between donald trump and mr kim. Each month since, the us has said talks would follow in coming days or weeks, but theres been nothing. The north has said it would no longer talk to the south. So, as crowd pleasing as this concert may be, is it in vain . Translation if we keep trying, i believe one day we will be unified. So, for some, the dream continues. There are those in the south who cling to the hope that, even if the north is not talking, it is at least listening. Laura bicker, bbc news, the dmz. One of the years most eagerly awaited novels has been released at midnight in london. There were queues round the block at one bookshop in central london. The testaments is Margaret Atwoods sequel to the handmaids tale. It returns to the fictional world where women are little more than slaves, recently brought to a new audience on television. Our arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been speaking with the author. The world, as she sees it, can be a terrifying place, and in a career spanning five decades, Margaret Atwoods vision is as disturbing as ever. Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but ive been given one while still alive. So starts her latest novel, the testaments, in which she returns to the nightmare future she created in the handmaids tale. Blessed be the fruit. May the lord open. 30 years after she wrote it, the Television Adaptation brought the book to a vast, new audience. In the novel, america is ruled by religious fundamentalists, and women are reduced to sexual slavery. Margaret atwood thinks its message of oppression has never felt more relevant. Young women of reproductive age are always in the minority in any society. They feel that theyre on the verge of having decisions made about them, and about their entire future and fate and body and health, that they have not been able to decide. And, after the election of donald trump, the handmaids tale took on a new resonance. In america and beyond, women have adopted the striking uniform worn by characters in the novel to protest against laws restricting their rights. Its a brilliant demonstration strategem, because you cant kick them out because theyre not saying anything. Theyre sitting very modestly. And you cant kick them out because theyre dressed improperly. Theyre all covered up. But everybody looking at them knows what they mean. There is so much hype, fanfare, associated with the testaments. I apologise. Well, do you feel any pressure at all . No, it is a book. Its not regime change. Its not riots in moscow. Its not brexit, dare i say. So it is actually a book. The wait may be over, but no danger, then, of Margaret Atwood getting caught up in the excitement. But, at the age of 79, having written 50 books and winning more than 100 literary prizes, perhaps thats not surprising. Rebecca jones, bbc news. And you can get a lot more on our website on all that has been happening with brexit. You can reach me on twitter. Im regedahmadbbc. Hello. Weather wise, yesterday certainly wasnt the most shining of starts to the new week. It was cloudy, it was pretty wet for many of us, and also it felt on the chilly side. Today, we flip the coin. Its much drier, it should be much brighter, and consequently, it will also feel warmer. This area of low pressure is the area responsible for the wet weather yesterday. Thats off into the continent. Today, we have a little ridge of High Pressure. We start off with quite a bit of cloud around, perhaps some patchy mist and fog. Could be a problem through the morning rush hour across the midlands, but that will lift, and theres a lot of sunshine to be had through the afternoon. However, you dont need to look too closely to observe theres quite a significant change approaching Northern Ireland come the end of the afternoon. This weather front is part of an area of low pressure that is actually ex hurricane dorian. So it is nowhere near hurricane strength as it makes its way to the uk, lets be clear about that. But it will be a very windy night, as that deep area of low pressure rolls across us, weather fronts will slide their way southwards. Rain around, but mild into wednesday. Through wednesday day, the centre of the low stays to the north of the uk. The isobars stay closely packed together. Much of the rain will sweep away south eastwards. We should actually be left with quite a bit of sunshine by the time we get into the second half of the day, but the strong westerly wind will feed quite a few showers into western scotland. And the wind will be particularly gusty, so potentially even disruptive, as gusts could touch up to 40 115 mph for exposed areas to the north and west of the uk. But the temperatures already starting to look healthier than they did at the start of the week. Were into the low 20s in the south east. Wednesday into thursday, we get another little area of low pressure running across us. This is ex Tropical Storm gabrielle. Again, basicallyjust quite a deep area of low pressure. It will bring some windy weather perhaps to the south and west in western exposures for a time. The biggest difference, though, is the tropical area it pulls up to the south of it on thursday. So wet for northrthern ireland, wet for scotland, windy potentially, especially for the likes of wales and south west england. Especially for the likes of wales and the south west of england. But look how the temperatures get bolstered as we pull in the warm, humid air from the south. That then sets us up for the remainder of the week and to take us into the weekend, with High Pressure building from the south west. We feed that warmer air north across the uk. We should settle the weather down quite nicely, as well. Friday and on into the weekend, there should be a lot of dry weather around, some pleasant spells of sunshine, and a return as well of some warmer weather. This is bbc news. The headlines in britain, mps have again rejected government efforts to call a snap general election. Its the sixth defeat for the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, in little over a week. Parliament has now been suspended until mid october. Authorities in the bahamas have defended their response to hurricane dorian. Aid still hasnt reached tens of thousands in the worst hit area. People whove remained in Marsh Harbour in the abaco islands say there hasnt even been a concerted attempt to recover bodies. President trump says us talks with the Afghan Taliban are dead. The decision to scrap negotiations came in response to last weeks militant attack that killed 12 people, including an american soldier. The taliban said americans will lose the most for cancelling