Say the situation is desperate. And coming up at half three some highlights of the last week from the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc new us. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc new us. Senior ministers have rejected claims by their former cabinet colleague, amber rudd, that securing a new brexit deal is no longer the governments main objective. Amber rudd, who resigned last night as work and pensions secretary, said up to 90 of the governments time is now spent preparing for a no deal departure at the end of october. She described the expulsion of 21 conservative mps who oppose no deal as an assault on decency and democracy. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. Reporter morning amber. Amber rudd says that when she accepted a post in borisjohnsons cabinet she did so in good faith, believing he wanted a brexit deal, but since then she had seen little evidence that the government was putting in enough preparation to get one. There is this huge machine preparing for no deal, which is fine. You might expect in the balance between getting a deal and no deal, 50 50 in terms of work, but its not that, its like 80 , 90 of government time going into preparing for no deal and the absence of trying to work to get a deal. She says she will now sit as an independent mp instead of a conservative in response to the decision to expel 21 colleagues who voted against the government last week. I know i couldnt carry on in the conservative party at such a high level and see 21 of my colleagues, who are good, moderate people, who also want a deal, excluded from it, and ijust needed to move and stand by them. Tomorrow, the bill the 21 mps gave up their party careers for becomes law. It says that if borisjohnson cant reach an agreement by the end of an eu summit on the 19th of october, then he must ask the eu for a further delay to brexit, to january next year. Opposition parties are sceptical, though, that mrjohnson will try to get a deal. We dont believe that we can pin him down and i dont trust him an inch, and i dont think anyone does. I think weve got a Prime Minister now who says he wont even abide by the law. By the law. Ive never heard that before. Were in a situation now where no one can trust, while hes in place, what will happen. The chancellor, sajid javid, said the government is in brexit talks and would obey the law, but the uk would still leave the eu on the 31st of october. Of course we will obey the law but well look at our options. So on october 19th, after that council, the Prime Minister would ask for an extension because that is the law of this country. We will not change our policy. How does this work . It is completely baffling. We will have to wait and see. If the law says one thing, and youre saying the government is going to obey the law, but were not going to do that one thing, its very hard to see how you get out of that. The government will not change its policy. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, has said the government would test what the law required. As for boris johnson, he enters yet another crucial week one more mp down, but still insisting that brexit will happen next month. This afternoon the lord chancellor, robert buckland, has dismissed rumours that he might resign. In a tweet he said as he says he is the man in charge of the legal system in england, sending a very clear signal that he could not possibly countenance the situation. The jack laugher tomorrow, will say, it completed the statements last week. The Prime Minister doesnt like it, the question has been how he would deal with it. One suggestion coming from the former cabinet minister lord young it might not get to that stage because we could be in a situation where the government might try and change the Withdrawal Agreement, make some amendments to the one negotiated with brussels last november. Is it ten months ago, yes it is since theresa may completed negotiations in brussels and bringing that back to the commons and mps, there might be enough votes if the opposition can be brought onboard to get that threw before the, that date kicks m, threw before the, that date kicks in, so before the law and therefore the law would never be immediate needed. You might call it a british backstop, that is how the opposition see it. On the question of the irish backstop, we have lines coming out of dublin this afternoon, in the last few minutes reuters is reporting that leo varadkar, he is due to meet borisjohnson tomorrow, that he says two things, interestingly, he is in discussions as he puts it, with the European Commission on the, on this question of checks, some distance away from the irish border, that is the first thing he says, he then adds, that in the context of all of that, so let me find that line of copy for you first of all so i can quote it accurately. The irish Prime Minister is saying that these, these discussions are taking place, these are not negotiations or anything like that, they are discussions, which he is reporting on. He then adds two further interesting things, he says that within weeks or months ofa he says that within weeks or months of a no deal, let us say the uk did leave without a deal, the uk and eu would have to sit down and negotiate on would have to sit down and negotiate o n exa ctly would have to sit down and negotiate on exactly the same issues, that of course, his point there, is that these are the things which the British Government is saying no to, but they would come up again because brussels would probably insist on them before they would countenance making a free trade deal. Sooner or later we are going to have to get a deal with the uk before or after brexit. That is an interesting line coming outs of dublin he said i dont think tomorrows meeting is high stake, stakes. The key date of october, the opposition parties the put the 19th into the new law, they were fearful if there was no deal that summit the Prime Minister might give up and walk away and they want to prevent that happening. To prevent that happening. Helen catt has been explaining more about the governments options once the bill to force another brexit extension becomes law. This law, the benn bill as it is known, is due to get royal assent tomorrow. That means by law borisjohnson will be forced to ask for an extension and delay to brexit if he hasnt got a brexit deal by 19th october. You heard sajid javid there saying we wont be doing that, but also saying we will obey the law. How you square that circle isnt clear at the moment. We also heard dominic raab this morning, the foreign secretary, suggesting they would test to the limits what this law requires, so there is some sort of, lack of clarity i think about quite how the government intends to address that and to deal with the requirements that law would place on them. This has been a torrid seven days, it doesnt look like it is going to get easier for the Prime Minister tomorrow. Lord young, who resigned from the government, was on the radio this lunchtime. He said he could only see one way out, which was the Withdrawal Agreement gets amended by brussels consent, some kind of deal gets cooked up. That goes through the commons, because the opposition parties support the government on it, even if some tories and the dup wont back it, and that is the only way out, otherwise you are heading for a kind of, a situation that cant be resolved any other way. Parliament has narrowed the options for the Prime Minister. Are the opposition that confident . I think they are in a tricky place. They wont be giving borisjohnson the election he wants on october 15th, they feel they should make him go to the summit and try to get the deal. They say they want to make it impossible for a no deal brexit to happen, before they will agree to go to the polls, so it puts him in a slightly odd position to have opposition parties voting against an election, but they seem to be sticking to that, so it will be interesting to see how it pans out. What do we expect tomorrow, because this is the last day parliament is sitting for several weeks . Yes, because of that order to prorogue parliament. We dont know when that is going to happen but the queens order states it could be as soon as tomorrow, but no later than thursday, so some point in the next four days it is expected parliament will be suspended. Tomorrow we have a packed old day in the commons, there is no such thing as a quiet monday any more. First off we will see, we expect to see royal assent, the queens sign off on that bill, trying to block a no deal brexit. We will also see that attempt by boris johnson, we are expecting to try and get another early general election, it is expected he will try and do that again through the fixed term parliaments act. It is expected to fail again, because the opposition parties are saying we wont vote for that. Borisjohnson has been writing in the papers saying this is labours last chance and if it doesnt happen, the government will carry on regardless. He is adamant we will leave the eu at the end of the month. Thank you. Meanwhile, the business secretary, andrea leadsom, has said the conservatives will break convention by fielding a candidate against the commons speaker, john bercow, at the next general election. Traditionally, the major parties do not contest the speakers seat but mr bercows handling of recent brexit debates has angered ministers. Simonjones reports. Order order. In the seat for the crucial vote. The ayes to the right, 327. Noes to the left, 299. When mps backed the bill aimed at blocking a no deal brexit at the end of october. Butjohn bercow is now underfire from the business secretary. Andrea leadsom says that by allowing mps to use a procedure to trigger emergency debate as a means of taking over the timetable, he has permitted a flagrant abuse of parliamentary process. In the mail on sunday, the business secretary writes. The speaker is an mp who stands in general elections but is usually unopposed by the Major Political parties. Mrs leadsom is warning that the conservatives will defy convention and field a candidate in his constituency of buckingham in the next vote. There is no love lost between mrs leadsom and mr bercow. Last year, he was alleged to have labelled her stupid, although he said he muttered the word to describe how he felt about the way the government had scheduled commons business. He is yet to comment on the latest criticisms. Simon jones, bbc news. The liberal democrats have picked up their third mp in a week. Angela smith, who defected from the labour party earlier this year, has left the independent group for change to join up withjo swinsons party. She described the lib dems as the Strongest Party to stop brexit. years in parliament, and has launched a strong attack onjeremy corbyn. In an interview with the sunday times, he accused the labour leader of giving the green light to anti semites in the party. Hell take up the full time post as the governments anti semitism tsar. Delays are expected on British Airways flights later today ahead of a pilots strike which is due to begin at midnight. The dispute is over pay and conditions. Most ba flights taking off from the uk on monday and tuesday have been cancelled. Our Business CorrespondentKatie Prescott has the details. For the first time in the companys history, British Airways pilots are refusing to fly. The pilots union says they accepted pay freezes when ba made losses, and they now want to share in its success. They want to see a greater size of the £2 billion profit that ba made last year. Pilots have rejected their offer of an 11. 5 pay rise over the next three years, and the strike is expected to cost the company £40 million a day. But British Airways says its a generous offer thats been accepted by the rest of staff on the airline. Of course, in the middle of all of this are the passengers 300,000 of them are being affected over the next few days. They were warned about these strikes weeks ago, and the company says that most have been rebooked. But, for many, thatjourney hasnt been smooth. Got a text message out of the blue stating that my flight was cancelled, and it didnt give any explanation whatsoever itjust gave a telephone number to call, which i did do, and couldnt get through on the phone. Spent basically all evening. Didnt sleep very well because ijust thought my holiday was in ruins. Any passengers who are affected by the strikes are entitled to a refund or a rebooking with British Airways or another airline. The headlines on bbc news. After her resignation from the cabinet and the conservative whip amber rudd attacks borisjohnsons handling of brexit. British Airways Pilots prepare to go on strike for the first time in the airlines history. Another day of anger in hong kong as radical pro democracy protesters attack a metro station. In sport, england are still clinging on to the ashes but they have lost another four wickets at old trafford on the final day of the fourth test. They are 141 6, needing to bat out the rest of the day, to prevent australia retaining the famous trophy. Lewis hamilton is battling with Charles Leclerc for top spot. There are ten laps to go. Chelsea women get off to a winning start beating tottenham in front of 211,000 fa ns beating tottenham in front of 211,000 fans at Stamford Bridge and mo farah makes history at the great north run winning a record sixth successive title. More in an hours time. President trump says he has called off peace negotiations with the taliban after they admitted they were behind a recent attack that killed an american soldier in afghanistan. The bombing on thursday killed 12 people. President trump has been seeking to negotiate a us exit from afghanistan after 18 years of war. Our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet is in kabul, and gave us this update. Well, what a diplomatic bombshell by President Trump. It had been widely anticipated that any day now he would announce that there was an Historic Deal between the United States and the afghan taliban, which would begin to end americas longest war and put afghanistan on the road to peace. Instead, in these extraordinary tweets that he posted, in what was the middle of the night here in afghanistan, he revealed he had invited taliban leaders and the afghan president to his president ial retreat camp david, but now it was all off, that and the nearly year of talks with the taliban. So it is an extraordinary turn of events. President trump cited one attack which killed an american soldier, but afghans are living with almost daily attacks by the taliban, and they had welcomed this move by President Trump, saying until the taliban stop this violence, there can be no moves towards peace. Conditions in the bahamas are said to be rapidly deteriorating, six days after Hurricane Dorian ripped through the islands. Tens of thousands of people are homeless many are desperate to flee the destruction in the abaco islands and grand bahama. Cruise liners, private planes and helicopters are being used to help those still trapped. Officials believe hundreds of bodies are yet to be found in areas flattened by the storm. We are now going to speak to marva smith, a woman living in grand bahama with herfamily and their house is in ruins due to the hurricane. Hello folks, i am going to, the picture isnt great here, so i will ask you to wave at me, who ever, when i call out your name, so tatya na, can you when i call out your name, so tatyana, can you wave at me . There you are. So tatyana is in the red. Trevor, hi trevor. I think trevor, hi trevor. Ithink we, trevor, hi trevor. I think we, let us see, if you can hear us folk, hiya trevor, listen, what happened to you last week, what happened to your home . We can barely hear you but our home was destroyed, with the passing of Hurricane Dorian. The winds and the rain, the flooding especiallyjust kind of wiped the whole house out, its just a building standing, the inside has been totally destroyed. We lost everything. Our clothes, pictures, memories, everything. Furniture. My babyis memories, everything. Furniture. My baby is saying toys of. |j memories, everything. Furniture. My baby is saying toys of. I said our doors. You lost your toys, listen, the picture has come back, i hope you might be hearing me better. So, let me ask you, marva, where have you been, are you in somebody elses house, has somebody given you shelter . I can barely hear you. We are staying with grammy. Thank goodness for that, it must have been upsetting for you guys. Goodness for that, it must have been upsetting for you guyslj goodness for that, it must have been upsetting for you guys. I am sorry, didnt hear you. I was asking how difficult have the last few days been for you . Oh, it has been extremely difficult, just trying to clea n extremely difficult, just trying to clean up the house, and everything. Ican hear clean up the house, and everything. I can hear now. It has been com pletely i can hear now. It has been completely horrible, just having to go to the house daily, and clean, and, you know, we are burning generator, at my mums house, like i say, thank god she was here, and open to us, but the whole island. What has happened about your neighbours, is it the same situation for everybody there . Neighbours, is it the same situation for everybody there . |j neighbours, is it the same situation for everybody there . I am sorry, can you say that again . What has happened with your neighbours, is everyones house been destroyed . Yes, yes, the whole neighbourhood. Some were able top. Problem with sound the neighbour was destroyed. One or two homes are still standing, fairly well, but most of them are in the same condition as my house, just totally gone. Some of the roofs are off, and the whole, the whole island isa off, and the whole, the whole island is a mess. What help have you been getting, you have thank goodness got Family Support and people are doing their best, but is is there any help come from outside yet . Well, my daughters in school in georgia, the university, there is a group that is