global superpowers i don't covers why the arab israeli conflict continues to this day the war in october the battle and beyond on al-jazeera. riot police in thailand march onto the streets clearing the capital of anti-government protesters and arresting at least 6 of their leaders. following down jordan this hour to 0 live from doha also coming up to u.s. citizens are set free in exchange for hundreds of who think fighters ahead of a bigger prisoner swap in efforts to end the conflict in yemen. a health emergency in france a new restrictions in england and europe grapples with a 2nd wave of the corona virus and death. and experts say the hottest september in

more than a century paved the way for more frequent heat waves. we begin with the unrest in thailand where thousands of antigovernment protesters have been cleared from outside the prime minister's office in the capital riot police marched on to the streets after the government declared an emergency in the early morning banning large gatherings tensions flared as demonstrators rallied around the democracy monument in the heart of bangkok on wednesday rights groups say at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of others have been arrested well scott hyla joins us live now from outside government house in bangkok that's been a hub for those protests scott so the streets looking pretty empty behind you now talk us through what happened earlier. definitely there any other m.t.n. even cleaned now you know about 5 hours ago that they were removed those protesters

those hardcore protesters if you call them that a few 100 of them that stayed out around the government house area overnight and then as you mentioned there and there was that emergency decree 4 am local time that allowed the riot police to clear them out because they acted law a rule that no more than 5 people can gather at one place so that's what they used to for them to leave not what had happened earlier on wednesday thousands of anti-government protesters started at democracy monument which is about a kilometer and a half away from here really big big big crowds walking down an avenue going through several police checkpoints some physical some with just police there they were negotiated some checkpoints they actually broke through even moved the bus to make their way here around the government house area then they stayed thousands of them stayed until the evening and then again as i mentioned a few 100 stayed throughout the night until they were peacefully removed by those riot police now one thing that's interesting is you know those protest leaders you

had mentioned that 6 are now have now been arrested they were speaking on makeshift stages around the government house they said to abide by the police orders and leave peacefully will be back so in other words they're planning something further down the line as we can very well expect but the most important thing was even though there's a water truck here water cannon truck the most important thing is that it ended peacefully and that was something that both sides had said that they want to happen is that to maintain peace and they were able to do that there and so what happens now with the protest movement and will these arrests be seen as a setback for it. i think right now when you look at it you know throughout this whole several months of protests and it began in july in earnest it was kind of bubbling before that but you know we've seen large scale protests at least 4 of them over these last several months there have been arrests in the past they're ongoing investigate. and there are ongoing trials for some of those arrests in the past you know we have these high profile high profile arrests

just in the last several hours so this is something that the protest movement has seen before and it hasn't stopped them so i guess you can say that no it's not going to be a major setback obviously it's going to kind of derail things for the next couple of days if those protest leaders were going to be involved in specific meetings moving forward but right now we do know that the protests other leaders are still talking and they're still communicating with their followers but right now we don't know if there's going to be another big event planned anytime real soon i would imagine after this large event and these arrests of the probably have to regroup but if it's a setback if anything it might be a very small one but they continue to move forward or i just got hired at the thai capital bangkok scott thank you well for the last 3 months demonstrators in thailand have been calling for reform they want the removal of prime minister. he's a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and won a disputed election last year that also when parliament does old and new elections

held that demanding the constitution drafted by the military be rewritten also included in their charter is an end to the intimidation of dissidents and a very sensitive demand that's been long unthinkable in thailand reform of the monarchy the king is widely revered and criticizing him and carry prison sentences of up to 15 years pub in public is an associate professor at the university of kyoto in japan he says protesters won't settle for anything less than reforms to the monarchy. they're north and that you know all this sort of them or not that has been sort of obsolete and because of their recent development in thailand that sort of allowed people to change that perception one of the main thing is when they look up to dat korean we're knocking what you're on yes they are back to kenya is not responsible he has left people and it can be you

know during during the crises of nike and adequate book prices and he means you enjoying his time in germany now becoming an issue with the german money and because of that i think for the protest it's now time to talk about a serious the fall of what happened yesterday was something quite new a sparrow in a sense that this was the 1st to protest the game almost pressed to face the issue of the not even still needing that you know these have been documented before yes there was a royal wanted that sort of around a lot of the people who get still rolls through the rain in the car and then there was some messages you know being shouted at the queen and that sort of pro-war you know just there and also the palace i believe that that led to the arrest and the crackdown at dawn this morning i don't know what's going to happen next but. the big event yesterday i didn't development happily casually what are you going to do

we can't protest that i didn't want to protest that what that would be nothing less than you know continue very far with them or not. yemen's who fees are released to u.s. citizens in exchange for $250.00 who the fighters the freed rebels have arrived in the yemen's capital sana'a via amman the white house announced that humanitarian workers sandra lowly and businessman mikhail good add have been released and the remains of a 3rd american have been returned so let's take a look at how we got here and the efforts to try and end the 5 year old conflict in yemen un brokered peace talks began in stockholm in 2018 the 2 sides signed a deal to swap about 15000 detainees but progress has been slow close to 1100 of them are expected to be exchanged on thursday who these will reportedly release close to $400.00 people including 15 saudis the coalition forces are set to free around $700.00 fighters in unilateral moves last year who these freed $290.00 prisoners and saudi arabia released

a 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions are suffering from food and medical shortages will not be a cure is a senior research at the atlantic council he says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. these 3 sitters should've never been this should have been done before they at the time the who he is claiming that they were spies but there is no evidence whatsoever that these people were working with any us intelligence agency. at any rate i think refining now and as i say this could have happened earlier. is that for donald trump administration this is a good time to bring back americans from overseas it's. one more thing he can boast about just before the us elections. from the hostess

point of view this is also a good thing because there was a move in washington to classify them as if they were this organization well obviously if there were still classified. the us government's hands would be tying the on the principle that they don't deal with terrorists so how this mean out for she told. some of the hawks who are calling war classifying the who these as that are. the french president among your mccraw as announced a wave of new restrictions in the face of soaring coronavirus cases mccrone declared a state of health emergency and nighttime curfews for a 3rd of the country including paris and must say france recalled the nearly 23000 new cases in just 24 hours more than 32000 people have died during the pandemic. and in the u.k. a hard winter is expected with the records and infections and new 3 tier system has

gone into effect with liverpool under the tightest restrictions general reports. no more talk of the coming 2nd wave political as drinkers it's arrived pubs and bars forced to shut as the city becomes england's 1st to face the highest level of new covert restrictions. away from the drunken revelry these are moments when heavily on the lives of many livable is the 1st with its hospitals filling up and critical care beds almost at capacity it won't be the last there's talk of a possible full scale nationwide lockdown for a short period at the end of the month and all the while the hidden toll is being counted the mental health of millions held in the balance people support mechanisms and their coping mechanism is just not there anymore and i think that is something that we are going to see going forward i think the mental health implications from cove it or go to for outlast the actual virus itself i think we're going to be

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normal. bills that. caroline couldn't walk on her own when she began weekly visits to the kirkland center's inclusive can finish kiran i never don't think so if you even dream of doing it when i was busy at home with my mom i used to get mom do absolutely everything for him. you know now i'm healthy moment more at home if this facility is not available for these the souls of these young adults it just gave me an influx of what that meant mental well being but what happens on the physical attributes as well. so yeah it's not what i think i'll talk to soldiers. it's good tough hope. how conscience don't fail and all that joho al-jazeera liverpool. lots more to come here and al-jazeera including thousands flee to safety families are forced on their homes after days of intense fighting in

afghanistan and a nigerian police court accused of brutality has been abolished but protests demanding justice for its victims continue more in that stay with us and. we've got much cooler red diving across north america at the moment we've seen a little bit of snow just around the canadian rockies this weather system is going to continue making its way further north woods and ace was easing across the plains through the primaries and then sinking down so temperatures in calgary and with winnipeg 345 celsius if you lucky that cold air already being felt in minneapolis all tucked in behind this band of rain this cold front which will continue to slide its way further southeast was stuck in the edge of those temperatures 15 cells is that rain gathers for d.c. and that cold air digging rights in behind really is going to fill noticeably

fresher as we go on through the next few days and what the weather still there up across the western side of kind of the towards the b.c. just one celsius in calgary the basin snow will last of course still very hot in the lamb fright 37 celsius here then as we go into the 2nd half of the week meanwhile across the caribbean it's a case of sunshine and showers as they should be i think the majority of the showers gathering across central america nicaragua costa rica st the big downpours on jurist quite a model also seeing some lively she has plenty of sunshine across the islands some wet weather too particularly wet there for the leeward islands. my name to. a place where this is can truly call it down home. not depend string you know wanted me to once you know you all ends up with money

managerial is resilient and is just for a surprising finding here yes. yes to every normal. mind nigeria. on out there. welcome back a good amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera riot police in thailand have cleared thousands of protesters from outside the prime minister's office of the government issued an emergency decree banning large gatherings 6 protest leaders have been arrested. yemen's who the rebels have released to us citizens in exchange for 250 fighters the swap is the 1st of several prisoner exchange the expected in

the coming days between the saudi coalition and the who feels. that europe is battling to contain a 2nd wave of coronavirus germany's imposing tougher measures on gatherings and mass wearing drugs introducing a nightly curfew and in the u.k. a new 3 tier system is now in force. heavy fighting is continuing in the southern afghan province of helmand between taliban fighters and government troops violence escalated on sunday despite ongoing peace talks in qatar more than 30000 people have since fled to the provincial capital of lashkar gah schalit but it's rickles. in helmand afghanistan it is hard to imagine that peace is on the horizon as negotiations between afghan politicians and the taliban stumble forward in qatar the fighting rages back home you know about this that i have my mother with night it was evening when a mortar hit our home and all my family were hurt were asking the government to

stop the war and bring peace despite the u.s. and taliban signing a withdrawal agreement in february violence is continues between the armed group and afghan government forces there isn't a been flow of territory seized in last potential live for each for the talks. on sunday it is collated and helmand that jericho are no more thing when we left our home got fighting started a mortar hit me or my brother we want peace here as you can see my hands are red with my brother a lot. each side claims to have inflicted more losses on the other because in the middle a civilians while i live in the wall in the village the situation of i was very bad we couldn't stay all these people are coming here because of fighting close to 5 families which is about $35.00 people out importantly being displaced and this displacement and lead to additional leads from that site for shelter for work and

sanitation. and also not knowing when they would be able to return back. homeland is a taliban stronghold they control about 80 percent of the province they say they are just retaking their own areas and have no plans to claim fresh government territory they promise safety for captured soldiers. that you can see the taliban are foreign from those houses but tanks so far from here one boy was killed and still he is lying on the road the afghan government and u.s. forces have coded an unprovoked taliban offensive they claim to have killed the taliban's operational chief at home and along with dozens of fighters using u.s. airstrikes and a ground assault 2 afghan military helicopters collided on tuesday killing. our visit on the visits by other high ranking government officials is an assurance that by all means we will defend. it's been more than

a month since peace talks began and don't have between the taliban and afghan political leaders each day brings a promise of peace and the certainty of sacrifice china ballasts al jazeera. china is accusing the u.s. of undermining peace and stability by sending a navy destroyer through the sea separating taiwan and mainland china the u.s. says the passage through the taiwan strait was routine but the chinese military has called the move provocative fighting of a car about continues between armenia and azerbaijan the azeris say they have destroyed missile launchers inside armenia that were targeting their cities the armenian government confirms military positions were hit but denies its forces have been firing into azerbaijan one of smith reports nothing in armenia. they'll be a memorial like this in perhaps every one of the homes of the more than $530.00 armenian men killed since fighting restarted on september the 27th.

was a 19 year old conscript sent to the front lines just as fighting with azerbaijan started . we last talked on the phone on the evening of september 26th and he said everything's all right after that we heard nothing on the 27th i wanted to go volunteer where my son was serving but i wasn't allowed then on the 30th i got a call and was told everything is finished all the young men ingeborg school yearbook are doing their compulsory military service now like almost every young man in armenia and nagorno-karabakh to my niece up to now i think he will call he will come back i don't know i can't imagine he's not with us anymore armenia's prime minister says there's been some retreats from frontline positions and the situation is what he described as quite difficult for his country. i spy in misrata right now the number of our casualties are very high don't mourn for all the

victims armenians adversary azerbaijan now has the open and full support of turkey . president. says 26 years of diplomacy have failed to resolve the conflict and it's time for armenia to return land it took in the 1991 to for. a lot of you 3 members of minsk the united states russia and france are still putting this off with their stalling tactics just give them the occupied lands. russia has rejected requests from us about john for turkey's involvement in future negotiations on the go in a car about. 6 the father of code about how jeff plays a popular mourns their dead soldiers their son was killed on the 1st day of fighting. has said. most of the as opposed to many people especially those from places close to the contact line suffer like this they've all

suffered from the armenian separatists it's not only us like hundreds of thousands of his aires this family was 1st displaced from armenian territories in earlier conflicts you have no no the fighting shouldn't stop there are so many members inconsolable like me so much blood of our soldiers if we take our lands back i'll say i didn't lose my son on both sides of this conflict the pressure on leaders not to give way is intense. for most of our john on wednesday accusations the armenians are trying to attack oil and gas pipelines the armenians saviour's areas are trying to seize nagorno-karabakh and above this angry rhetoric russia is appealing to both sides to observe the humanitarian ceasefire but it seems no one's paying attention bernard smith al-jazeera corus army now protests are continuing in cyprus against government corruption follow on al-jazeera investigation of senior politicians who were willing to sell supreme passports to convicted criminals

a scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for citizenship the government has now abolished the program. we want them. to the people they dragged into this situation and we have to defend our name people said enough is enough we feel ashamed for what we saw and we feel ashamed because these people our politicians who are supposed to serve their country this is cyprus cyprus is this people demonstrating against people who believe that they can rule this country but what they are in reality just. as politicians. and i guarantee government's decision to abolish a police squad implicated in extra judicial killings and torture has failed to placate protest is a new unit called swat was quickly formed to replace the despondent special anti robbery squad demonstrators have now been on the streets for

a week condemning police brutality and interest reports from the buddha. on the streets of a porsche a group of young men armed with clubs and other weapons arrive a busy intersection already cut off by protesters they set about smashing parked vehicles. with a cheese protest against police brutality. but the tables were turned when protests . began to retreat not all of them got away. yet you can let the running battles last of. watched by the police less than 200 meters away protest to say they're brought to the scene in 2 trucks. could lift the lid. of the. it's the demonstrators who turned around to help victims of the. this woman's

car was one of several badly damaged. the protests began peacefully in the morning as nigerians of all ages press tour their demand for accountability from government security forces nationwide rallies which started last week against in the tourist police unit implicated in extrajudicial killings and torture succeeded in getting the government to abolish the special interests. but the announcement of replacement swat unit to fight violent crimes further and get protesters. and fast we know one thinks of the we don't want them on the only because you can't get enough is enough you know how do how do the police do with violent crimes like rhetoric could not. guess are many ways to do we think there are so many ways if not by killing people and criminality can't stop to let you go you can't kill everybody the latest protest disrupted traffic and businesses in parts of a preacher don't want stricter say police reform is just a part of the argument they want to push further toward not only security agencies

accountable but to demand good governance from nigeria as elected leaders. in the country's most populous state lagos protests on largely peaceful. robin. but its attacks such as these enough by what protests to see were tugs that are raising particular concerns of instigating a new crisis in a country already dealing with several others such as the coronavirus and book. trees. of which are now scorching temperatures around the world made september the hottest since records began in $1818.00 unusually high temperatures were a call that in siberia in the middle east and in parts of south america increases many more extreme weather it's led to droughts wildfires and a rise in sea levels as ice melts what it speaks to will steffen he's

a climate change expert at the australian national university will great to have you on the program look we've seen a number of temperature records being set in the last few years and now it's been the hottest september on record let me ask you is this all down to climate change. well i certainly think the climate change is the dominant factor in all these records being broken obviously from time to time normally record set broken but we don't see the number of records the degree by which they're broken well as part of natural variability this is something bigger than normal variability this is indeed climate change driving what we're seeing today yet will and the experts tell us that just a small change in average global temperatures can lead to big changes in weather so heat waves and even drought so becoming more frequent topic. they certainly are and we're seeing it right around the world here in australia just 8 or 9 months ago we had better bushfires channel when you seen foreigners droughts in other parts of

the world so it's so a little bit. i'm nerving to see a 1 point one degree rise global average temperature driving this much change around the world the dead into that is the way the climate system works and we're little bit he's talking about carbon emissions we know that large emitters like china and the e.u. have pledged to slash emissions in the coming decades but is that going to be enough though to keep temperatures below this this magical $1.00 degree rise that people talk about. no it certainly will be not in fact i think we're already committed to experiencing at least 1.5 degrees that's already built in trunk past emissions and we can't get emissions down by the end of this decade which is what's required for 1.5 so we really need to focus on the well below to degrade the upper terrace don't get that down requires much more ambition what china said is good but it needs to move faster the united states has to move faster countries like australia we have to phase out fossil fuels as soon as possible so that the overall

action around the world is nowhere near enough or fast enough to meet the parents climate targets. and what are the chances will now that with all this extreme weather which is causing as you've been saying heat waves bigger hurricanes and this alarming rate of arctic sea ice melt that 2020 could end up as the hottest year on record it certainly could and if it isn't it's almost guaranteed that one of the next couple of years will be because temperature is rising at a very sharp rate now and we're going to see temperature records on an annual basis broken multiple times in this coming decade will steffen great to get your thoughts here not as they are thank you very much for talking to us thank you my pleasure. now let's stay with global warming because a wildfire is threatening homes near los angeles as hot and dry weather conditions continue in california massive fires have already destroyed hundreds of properties

and killed or injured dozens of people this year fire crews are being deployed from across the state with helicopters being used to dump water on the flames quick reminder you can catch up with all the news in our web site they were on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's not just 0 dot com. check of the headlines here on al-jazeera riot police in thailand have cleared thousands of protesters from outside the prime minister's office after the government issued an emergency decree banning large gatherings 6 protest leaders have been arrested scott hardly has more now from the thai capital. they lined this large avenue thousands of them late in the afternoon through the early evening they even pushed buses aside to make their way in to this area then they staged a sit in if you will for several hours on.