work chief executives they carry lamb says she s withdrawing the bill which sparked months of violent protests in the territory but will hurt concessions be enough to appease the demonstrators and the scale of the disaster caused by hurricane dorian in the bahamas beginning to emerge tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed huge numbers of people tonight are without food. i m good to have you with us tonight in london how many punches can a prime minister take that s the question they re asking in westminster the new prime minister boris johnson has suffered yet another defeat in his battle for brights it lawmakers have just rejected his call for an early general election johnson had hoped that a snap election. could deliver
a fire that s not going to be acceptable. and there were more fires in hong kong over the weekend the city saw heavy clashes between protesters and the authorities during the 13th consecutive week of protests. demonstrators blocked roads and public transport links to the international airport causing gridlock on routes to and from one of the world s busiest transport hubs. a program ocracy activist and somewhat of a spokesman for many of the demonstrators said carrie lamb s announcement was simply an attempt to quell unrest against beijing s growing influence in the region he was drawn to aware that happens behind beijing government beijing and chinese authorities just try to stop protests by saying such. withdraw. and that s just the strategy for beijing hope to. hugh
the ends? i don t know, the president is right, we will learn a lot in the next few days. there has been an interesting reuters report for china and president xi is behind what carrie lamb is doing in hong kong. she has 0 flexibility to meet the students 5 demand was one of those demands is most important, for direct election of the leader of hong kong. you might think that is outrageous, how dare they do that in a communist country but in 1990, the ultimate aim is to have free election of the leader of hong kong. china has agreed to that. in connection with trade talks, we don t want them to make a promise and not keep them, has got to be legally binding and that is holding the chinese back. the president then punished them for that. if they get restarted now, that s a lot of really important
they had declared dead. they could be new for. they also want democracy that something they consider important but to protect against the police abuse that we been seen. investigation into some of the abuses they want retraction of the designation that is variety. on top of that they want the chief executive carrie lamb to step step down. i don t think they will get democracy. that would be the kind of thing that china if he let them happen in hong kong then that lesson might seep into the mainland. do you see any chance of that happening? protesters are very determined and when i talk to them they point out that they feel like they had beijing in a situation where if it really cracks down on the protest it would hurt the economy. they would suffer real reputational harm.
what is a really want. just as i was headed over to the studio a big group gathered outside. en going on a pretty regular basis but peak on the weekends. they had five basic demands they want the extradition bill that kicks this whole thing off fully withdrawn. they had declared dead. they could be new for. they also want democracy that something they consider important but to protect against the police abuse that we been seen. investigation into some of the abuses they want retraction of the designation that is variety. on top of that they want the chief executive carrie lamb to step step down. i don t think they will get democracy. that would be the kind of thing that china if he let them happen in hong kong then