Of that are what im only the cinema which we are dying the consumer targets of a culture of what were going to do arent. Many of yemens cultural institutions have been destroyed by the countrys on going to war but our reporter meets young people there who are determined to keep the arc alive despite the conflict. Time soon so its going to thank you for joining us britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson had vowed to take back control by taking the u. K. Out of the e. U. But now it seems he is the one losing control on wednesday night lawmakers rejected his call for a snap election they also passed a bill to prevent him from allowing the u. K. To leave the e. U. Without a deal it is a Record Number of tips defeats for a new Prime Minister and also brings the country no closer to solving its regs that crisis. Yet more setbacks for british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson parliament voted to pass legislation blocking a no deal brecks it so he called for an early election. To go well this is big in my view and the view of this government there is now be an election on tuesday the 15th of october. By the 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 Labor Party jeremy called and appealed to lawmakers not to back an early general election before october the 31st the current deadline for britain to leave the e. U. To the enemy will be. Thank you mr speaker payoff of election to die is a bit like the offer of an awful to snow white in the working queen because what hes offering is not an apple or even election but the poison of a no day old thank. You called and 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 parliaments dealt another blow to the Prime Minister johnson needed to win the backing of at least 434. 00 no makers but only 298. 00 felted in favor of this political gamble on the part of the push Prime Minister that he can win a general election and see person leave the e. U. At the end of october is still very much up india. So where do things stand now lets go to. In london good morning barrett so a trip a glow for Boris Johnson and his plans to take the u. K. Out of the e. U. What does this mean have m. P. s now blocked the chance of a no deal break that on october 31st. M. P. s have really dealt a big blow to Prime Minister johnson an absolute humiliation you have to say hes been very ruthless and pushing his agenda through he said do our dog we are going to leave at the end of october he has dismissed his own party called leagues who are threatening to rebel against me said they expelled from the conservative party they can never stand again and yet they have voted against him because emotions are really running high when it comes to brets it and its not only the public where many people are incensed about it but also m. P. s many m. P. s dont want to leave without a deal and they dont trust the Prime Minister they dont trust him with anything he says and they want to just make sure that this doesnt happen and as we know now it looks like they have the upper hand they. Look looks like theyre going to pass this bill it needs to go through the house of lords as well looks like its on its way that the m. P. s this time are going to win and Brose Johnson is there with his face. Could more shocked and still get what he wants which is an election before this break that deadline. That really depends on the politics now he didnt get his way he didnt get it. Being the strong man and threatening. Threatening his own and. Now he has to go to the opposition and he has to basically come to some agreement the opposition of course also generally always wants an election because they want to win the question is just about the time and the question is whether the opposition will agree to have the election before the 31st of october because many people here many m. P. s are saying that their 1st priority is to prevent this no do that and if there was an election before the end of october there would be the threat that still it coming could come to this nodia legs and so the question is when will the election be and will most likely find out within the next 3 days maybe the next week i would presume because we keep talking about preventing a no deal breaks it on october 31st but were talking about an extension and nothing has really changed in terms of the deal with the European Union so are m. P. s just trying to force the Prime Minister to kick the can down the road well this is of course what was johnson himself and would all these people that we want to leave the 31st of october what theyre saying theyre saying there is no agreement however. There are many of them who feel that now go back to the people it needs to be a 2nd referendum on the argument that people know no more what leaving the European Union actually means and what it what it would entail there isnt as a majority for this thoughts m. P. s are yet more under pressure than they have ever been to come to a conclusion and to actually say what they really want and do find find a Common Ground and find a solution finally to this breadth of crisis. On the ground for us in london thank you barry. Lets get a round of now some other stories making news around the world irans president Hassan Rouhani says hes taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers iran will start to develop centrifuges to speed up your rainy im enrichment under the deal iran agreed to limit its Nuclear Activities in return for the easing of economic sanctions the us withdrew from the pact last may. 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As Hurricane Dorian approaches the storm has weakened but still has dangerously high winds and is threatening to flood coastal areas in georgia and north and South Carolina gorrie left a trail of devastation in the bahamas after lashing the islands for 3 days at least 20 people are dead and it is feared the death toll will rise as rescuers reach more area. The legendary beauty of the bahamas lies in tashas aerial photos show the brutality with which hearken dorrian the island chain winds Strong Enough to push a bush 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 out has been cut out so people are right now trying to mobilize themselves boats chatzky they have they cant get there people have been stuck. For days we havent heard them since the wee hours of the morning on monday things are pretty bad. People are nothing and i say nothing. Of the bulls and theyre back and they go home to nothing. But the nearby florida volunteers the packing relief supplies hundreds of people have donated goods they feeling lucky to have been spanked dorians full force. Youre watching the news still to come culture in a time of war our correspondent meet people in yemen working to sustain cultural life while civil conflict rages around them. But 1st time kongs chief executive carrie lam says china fully backs her move to scrap a controversial extradition bill she announced on wednesday she was withdrawing the bill after months of protests lamb says she hopes the local and the unrest in the territory but prodemocracy demonstrators say it fails to satisfy their demands fellow citizens for mortar islam had already and fully declared the controversial bill is being dead back in june on wednesday she made formal with a televised address. First the government will formally withdraw the bill in order to fully allay public concerns the secretary for security will move a motion according to the rules of procedure when the Legislative Council resort. Lamb said she was fully aware the move would not satisfy everyone and she was right prodemocracy lawmakers responded to her announcement with disbelief. Carrying them at confession socalled can function as the koolaid but then make it down. Coffee and were still in hong kong we should think for if you can use some garden hose to put out a fire thats 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 worlds busiest transport hubs. Joshua approach democracy activist and somewhat of a spokesman for many of the demonstrators said kerry lambs announcement was simply an attempt to quell unrest against beijings growing influence in the region he was drawn to aware that happens behind beijing government beijing. Is just try to. Protest by saying such. Withdrawal of meal and thats just the strategy for beijing hope to. Huge number of participants. In the next few weeks one said Mainland China was particularly looking to the 1st of october Chinas National Day a day when beijing will want to avoid a repeat of scenes like these. And we have been with us shes a fellow at the Global Public policy institute and author of an analysis called why chinas wealthy elites have so much at stake in hong kong under a good morning thank you for joining us 1st of all who are we talking about here who are chinas wealthy elites so because if theyre close to a strong role off the government in chinese economics in china the wealthy elites political often also hold Political Office so we have a very close links between economic and political elites in china and they are in hong kong what position world do they play there they are mostly on the mainland but they do hold their wealth in hong kong because hong kong is an offshore Financial Center as such it has to defend the legal and Monetary System too to mainland which allows for regulatory arbitrage so that allows you to pay less tax or to be able to invest in ways that you cant if you do it from the mainland and therefore you become richer more quickly if you invest your money in hong kong so what has the unrest of the last 3 months meant for them. So obviously undress thats always a problem for any market place because investors like its safe but in particular in particular for hong kong situation is complicated for chinese wealthy elites because the political interest is so obviously into creating hong kong into the mainland as will happen in 2047 anyway but its to tool systems one country approach that actually allows for that albatross so their economic interests particularly about managing their private wealth and their political interests are actually contradictory ok so how much influence do they actually have the i assume they want to protect that privilege in that wealth how much influence they have to prevent a chinese crackdown on hong kong so thats a very difficult question to answer because the puppets of offshore finances to make ownership invisible so in the end we cannot say which individual holds their wealth in hong kong whether its like the president or his family or its lower down into ranks. But obviously it is people that are very influential in the party and so for themselves they have to find out whether the political interest prevails or their private economic interests prevails and its definitely one factor that they will consider among many others have they done so so far are they speaking together as one boys are i cannot say that but im not even sure theres a very clear. Knowledge about that mechanism but more a sense of this is threatening our private wealth than actually knowing all the mechanics its usually do lawyers and Investment Bankers coming up with these offshore strategies and can Mainland China really afford to lose hong kong as a market. Thats a very interesting question that goes far beyond private wealth because hong kong has been an international Financial Center for china for many years its the place that sort of outsourced liberalization from the mainland to hong kong many aspects of this is now in of a Financial Center so china made sure that become more independent so to speak from hong kong but hong kong remains very important internationalizing the currency all right under the under from the Global Public policy institute here in berlin thank you for your analysis this morning thank you and we turn to yemen now and an unusual story their cultural life has almost completely come to a complete halt since the beginning of the civil war 5 years ago in a place where many struggle for access to basics like food and electricity culture might not seem that important but funny for charm met people in yemen seeking a semblance of normality through the arts they say more culture could lead to less conflict. Strolling through crate are the story part of aid and its not easy for people here most are struggling to survive and young people are fed up with the limited opportunities they have due to a lack of security. They have not an act of. Yet so im still. Living in little and giving you some books and movie and what you can be the only museum in town was partially destroyed in the civil war. Cultural life in public has already been quite limited in the early ninetys when fundamentalism started to being ground with civil war in 2015 things the clicking through. This place right here is just one example. This is the all the cinema in yemen but not much is left of its former glory. What do you think of it you know something quite got about 150 volts of power. And this screen played color and black and white movies. It was beautiful it was perfectly. Good i said id. Do i used to be responsible for. He still has a key to show me around for him thinking about life before the war hes paying for it quite a nice good. People came with their wives mothers with their families and you could find a culture. And respect. People were dressed in their best clothes. It is not just because of flacco food that yemenis are dying people saw wither away without access to contra the sense that i dont like it and im good then washed out of my. Pain and i feel we are the dying that is what im only the cinema but we are dying because cinema targets my culture and art well. For moonface finneran walkout if the cinema still existed i would not be. My kind of. But these young people want to revive cultural life in yemen they are rehearsing a play to be performed in public for the 1st time in more than 4 years and even with basics like electricity hard to come by the theater is a way to vent. Turn the power on from the other line. Is it your hobby to make my life miserable what nonsense talk just. The situation the director believes that art is necessary to channel peoples emotions about the difficulties in their lives but is it the right time to talk about art. Or sport but thats not true because if everyone stopped doing what they have to do all sunk in the same situation real life expressed through art for artists in yemen its a way to promote dialogue and ultimately peace in their country and we have tons filled with us shes the head of research at the independent yemeni Polling Center good morning thanks for joining us those are Inspiring Stories of young people were vibrant culture how common are these stories you wouldnt expect but. They are not as uncommon of course the majority of yemenis do not concern themselves with art at the moment but for many young people are really the only way to contribute to shaping Society Without resorting to violence so for them a very important place. Weve seen that museums have been destroyed a cultural life cinema as we saw as well tell us about the cultural project that you yourself are working on a building in yemen yeah i am part of a project which is a magazine that focuses on cultural projects in yemen it is run by young yemenis who are based throughout the country and they cover these kinds of art initiatives including this young man who was director of the theater in aden but the magazine also publishes short stories and poetry and films and the goal is really to create this kind of platform for these people its for them to have visibility and for them to to receive the kind of support they need to to continue. The these projects and of course these kinds of initiatives initiatives give hope to the people of yemen but they also connect different parts of yemen because the division that were seeing because of the war really goes down deep to the level of the family and and these are initiatives people come together what kind of stories do you see coming out of you yeah so one story that is really fascinating to me was the story of a young woman in mccullough who. Who together with her friends did an advocacy come pain to allow breakdancers to continue dancing because it was forbidden by. The local politicians and they succeeded and these dancers are dancing again but theres so many other stories that are really worth telling and theyre. Seen as a place to to to see these stories the u. N. Calls the Current Situation in yemen the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world is it difficult to get people to focus on culture when there are other more pressing issues certainly. In. The magazine were seeing that most interest is coming from within yemen but. Of course internationally it is difficult to just get and have been for yemen at all unless there is some kind of new development in the war or. Or the humanitarian situation is getting more urgent it is really difficult to get any kind of attention for yemen right arts and culture planting a seed of hope in yemen Micah Transfield head of research at the independent yemen Polling Center thank you very much for joining us to thank you and we have a some breaking news coming into us now a german court test sentenced 2 men to 12 and 13 years in prison for child sex abuse in a case that has attracted huge Media Attention here in germany now the 2 men were tried on 450. 00 different charges including rape sexual abuse and producing and distributing child abuse images now the abuse took place at a camp site in northwest germany the victims were boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 13 and one of the men had been accused of abusing his own foster daughter and we will bring you more details on that story in the next hour. Moving on to sports now and austrian skiing legend marcel here sharon has announced his retirement at a press conference in salzburg bringing his illustrious career to an end for sure is considered the best competitions here in the world he won the overall world cup title a record 8 times and as a multiple world and olympic champion the 30 year old said he wished a step back from skiing to spend more time with his family. Ok now to a legal game of chicken playing out on an island off the french Atlantic Coast a wooster name or reese stands accused of causing Noise Pollution which led to a lawsuit after his owners refused to get rid of the crowing bird the countryside wyler say they wont be bullied by their city slicker neighbors who own a 2nd home next door on thursday a local court is expected to rule if either side has fallen afoul. A quiet lunch with morris who could be frances most famous cockerel his owner coreen fares all has lived on the island of all over all of the 35 years she points out the holiday home owned by the neighbors who is suing her they allege that morris is dawn cool at 5 am every morning is Noise Pollution madam fizeau sees this as an attack on the rural way of life. Was usually fairly fuku i said im not going to let myself be pushed around to all our elected officials back me its a big problem why people have to understand that in the city they are used to city noises but in the countryside there are other noises that have always been that and that then normal things really to come so more the case has attracted a lot of attention the feds almost have received messages of support from us far away as the us in the region. And from europe. The French Island of all or all is a popular Holiday Resort for most of the year just 7000. 00 people live here but in some of the population swells to 5 times that the court case hinges on whether the island can be classified as a rural area or a semi urban one many visitors are surprised that the case even made it to court. If i could be these people who come from paris and complain about the rooster i shouldnt even be a lawsuit i just want to beat them up its unacceptable this is all stupid. I think again its a part of daily life and hearing a rooster cry was part of life and pretty nice to hear an Animal Express themselves. Now its down to the court to decide whether morris says krai is Noise Pollution or whether its just a load of cock a doodle doo. Ok lets get a reminder now of our top story at this hour british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has suffered more major setbacks to his hard line breaks of policy lawmakers passed a bill aimed at stopping a no deal then later when jack had his call for in early elections. Coming up next focus on europe will be looking ahead to elections in russia this weekend thank you for watching. In. Europe. What unites. The 2 fires. What binds the continent to. Answer them. Stories of plunging the. Spotlight on people. Next on d w. Entering the conflict zone confronting the powerful i guess this week outside the capital taipei is cho she way has been seeking the nomination of his probation party the commons half as china pushes with increasing urgency for reunification and a time when east continue to reject its promise as his party to a conflict zone. In 60 minutes. With him had to be done because others were lions i know if i had known that the boat would be that small i never would have gone on a trip that i would not have put myself and my harrison how dangerous the part of the game to give a flavor would. Love one to the other one a little bit of that you and i have Serious Problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there but what im going to. Want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for more grants. Alone a very warm welcome to focus on europe with me peter graves and we begin this week in the u. K. Where with so much at stake duggans are already drawn although members of parliament are only just returned from this