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. Two years after hundreds of thousands of rohingyas were driven out of myanmar, all traces of where they lived are being erased from the landscape. We have a special report. 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. However i say, by way of explanation for those 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. Leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn. With me is our News Reporter gareth barlow. So the government lost that election, they wanted a snap election, they wanted a snap election but lost the vote. Is that significant quest significant yes. It is the six vote that the government of borisjohnson has tabled and has lost. The opposition parties have said they dont trust the government. They dont want the government to dictate the time and terms of a general election. They wa nt terms of a general election. They want one at some point but wont let the government of borisjohnson to decide when it takes place. We saw mps from across the political spectrum, including some conservative mps either voting against or abstaining, meaning that the government did not get the required numbers to call a snap general election. Is a Nodeal Brexit off the table nao . No, not yet. While there is legislation to force the Prime Minister to ask an extension to force the deadline if he doesnt get an agreement later in october, there is potentially wiggle room. There is no blueprint for the point in which british politics is now in. Potentially, the Prime Minister could write that letter asking for that extension, fulfil his requirements in law, and then follow it up with another letter saying ignore the first one, didnt really m ea n saying ignore the first one, didnt really mean it, dont really want to, can we still leave nonetheless. Or could he possibly find an eu member state to veto against any you legislation that would allow that extension and a delay in the deadline. We heard over the weekend the French Foreign minister say he wasnt really a fan of an extension. But it is unlikely, really, the eu would an extension. Parliament is a sitting now, it is prorogued, even though it is a very tense time. Very tense. What will they be doing were not sat in the chamber for the next five weeks . They will be busy campaigning for the general election that does not yet have a date, has not been tabled. It is coming though. There will also be having Party Conferences as well. While parliament in itself is suspended there is no suspension of politics here in the uk. If anything, it will get more and more intense as parties now go to the people and start engaging them increasingly so to try to get the public to decide who they wa nt to get the public to decide who they want in government in the future. Gareth barlow taking us through all of those points. And for the latest developments on this story, you can go to our website for all aspects of brexit. 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. 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 the United States relationship with north korea are 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. Well, a little earlier i spoke to frances brown, who is a fellow with carnegies democracy, conflict, and governance programme. Shes also served under both the obama and trump administrations. I asked her about north korea offering to restart talks just as theyve conducted yet another missile test. Mixed signals once again from the north koreans. I think the question here is not is north korean willing to meet, which trump wants again, as you know, weve already had two negotiations with the us, its between these two sides as well as a dmz meeting just earlier this year. I think the question is what will happen at the summit . 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 Trumps strategy seems to be he is quite unpredictable. But in north koreas case, could that work, 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 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 penchant 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. Weve seen 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 that. He would love to claim victory in afghanistan and about the taliban. 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 envoys and negotiators, 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 but i have to confess i believe this episode over the weekend has really set back those talks and the prospect for that peace. 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 world news. The latest headlines mps have defeated the british governments call for a general election parliaments 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 Rakhine 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. As we heard earlier, north korea has said that its 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 also said it will 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 book shop 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 s