counties in. 2 u.s. hostages are released in yemen and exchange for hundreds of hooty fighters. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up calls for accountability in syria's adlib rights group says that a year long military campaign specifically targeted civilians with devastating results. thailand's government arrests protest leaders and impose a state of emergency after a night of demonstrations. at

a curfew is declared across parts of france as europe battles a 2nd wave of coronavirus. the rebels in yemen have released 2 u.s. citizens in exchange for 250 of their faces those released have since arrived in yemen's capital after transiting through oman the white house says that humanitarian work sandra lowly businessperson michael goodale could i'm sorry have been released are the remains of a 3rd american have been retirement. well here's a look at how we got here the efforts to end the 5 year long conflict u.n. brokered peace talks began in stockholm in 2018 the warring sides signed a deal to swap around $15000.00 detainees but progress has been slow nearly 1100 detainees are expected to be exchanged on thursday that ruthie's will reportedly

release around 400 people including 15 saudis coalition forces a likely to free around 700 hooty fighters last year who thinks freed 290 prisoners and saudi arabia released 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions are suffering food medical shortages the bill corey is a senior researcher at the atlantic council for studies he's also a former u.s. deputy chief of mission in yemen and says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. these 3 as it is should've never been this deal should have been done before they at the time the hooty 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 that finding 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 u.s. 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. on the principle that they don't deal with terrorists so how this may have forced old. some of the hawks who are calling war justifying the hope is as that. over the past here more than a 1000000 people fled from lib in the northwest of syria the top of those russian

and syrian forces intensified asterix a human rights group says the dozens of attacks appear to have targeted civilians as heroes caught a low price holiday on reports. and a year of strikes on your plate have caused widespread destruction and suffering. in a new report human points watch sense syrian and russian forces launch a model attacks on civilians an apparent strategy it believes to deliberately drive out entire neighborhoods it really is hard to imagine that all of these attacks that were were. we're iran yes and the syrian army is then able to walk into a completely empty area and retake it without any fight whatsoever out of there between april last year in march of this year the group documented 46 ground in airstrikes often hitting markets schools and hospitals it names 10 syrian and russian officers who may be implicated in war crimes for failing to stop or punish

those responsible when i was well i was worried when the strike hit my parents' neighborhood when we arrived at the hospital was so my mother the missile of decapitation to my sister only recognised her because of her clothes removed went to the site risk us limb from my son did under the rubble the latest ceasefire in syria signed by russia and turkey in march hands with a relative calm in clip the last breath will control the area of a 9 year war but with more than a 1000000 syrians forced to leave their homes many fear the displaced face irreversible damage on the syrian and russian forces have repeatedly said they only target rebels including myself fighters but it's hacks on civilians continued despite warnings by the united nations we are calling for the un general assembly to take its own action to urge its member states to pass sanctions on those commanders most responsible and for the un general assembly to take action to

help open the 2 very necessary for monetary and border crossings. now with much of it live in ruins and hundreds of thousands of lives ruined activists say their call for accountability for those responsible will consume the card still open so the young al-jazeera. it's been more violence between taliban fighters and government troops in afghanistan parts of a military base were destroyed after a car bomb explosion in wardak province not far from the capital kabul officials say that 4 taliban fighters were killed while 4 members of the afghan security forces were injured in the attack there's also been more fighting in the southern province of helmand no injuries were reported in the violence on wednesday night it's happening those peace negotiations between the 2 sides continue in qatar more than 30000 people a fled to the provincial capital lashkar gah al-jazeera shallop palace reports.

in helmand afghanistan it is hard to imagine that peace is on the horizon as negotiations between afghan politicians and the taliban stumble fall in qatar the fighting regions back home you know about this that i had 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 2. on sunday it is collated and helmand that today go our number for then when we left our home the fighting started a mortar hit near my brother we want peace here as you can see my hands are red with my brother's blood. each side claims to have inflicted more losses on the

other because in the middle of civilians well i live in a ball 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 $5000.00 families which is about $35.00 people out importantly being displaced and this displacement in lead to additional leads from that site for shelter for what didn't sanitation trued event and also not knowing when they would be able to return back. helmand 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 can hold out of that part that you can see the taliban are foreign from those houses but tain't so far away from here one boy was killed and still he is lying on the road the afghan government and u.s. forces have coded in 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 on. 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. thousands of anti-government protesters in thailand have been cleared from outside the prime minister's office in the capital bangkok the government declared an emergency in the early morning and burned large gatherings tension flared as demonstrators rallied around the democracy monument in the heart of bangkok on weapon state rights groups say that at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of others

put arresters al-jazeera scott hietala is in bangkok. 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 there was that emergency decree 4 am local time that allowed the riot police to to clear them out because they this inactive a law a rule that no more than 5 people would gather at one place so that's what they used to for them to leave now 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 some checkpoints they actually broke through even moved 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 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 you know 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 i want to take back to an office here and then. 6 cries of despair as the conflict of an acoa kind of escalates threatening a ceasefire brokered by russia. and with the clock running down u.s. president told trump makes another stop on the campaign trail in a state that's critical to his reelection.

however we've got some dry weather pushing into the northwest of here a pipe for the next couple of davis are very heavy right now which was a society of quite an intense area of low pressure here saw a packed ice abbas's some very strong winds coming in across the baltic states into germany through poland and some rather wet weather too just around the parts of it is not is it a general life and some very heavy right across the north of italy running across the balkans some snow coming back on the tail end of facts and that what's the weather it's not in its way a little for a switch up to as a northwest but we do have that high sinking in still quite a chilly braise it must be said 13 celsius in london with that northeasterly wind a rolling in off the north say stays dry and fog as we go on through friday this weather system getting held by by our high pressure showers low dispose of christ into central and eastern parts with more snow over the alps and some showers there

into central policy of italy and all the possible africare it stays fine and dry usual cropper showers through central africa sinking a little further south as i should do that will be some heavy downpours into southern nigeria can cause some localized flooding here cameron also seeing some big downpours the showers around iran across the west of africa pushing all the way into sierra leone. the. temperatures are on the rise global warming is taking effect. as one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases the u.s. is set to withdraw from the paris climate accord the day after the presidential election we can and we will deal with climate change but a new president reversed the decision in time face up to the climate crisis probably me shoes of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera.

well again this is our 0 loss for much of the main news this hour the rebels in yemen have released 2 u.s. citizens in exchange for $250.00 of their faces those faces have now arrived in yemen's capital sanaa after going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday. human rights watch has accused russian and syrian forces of targeting civilians and it lives the rights group says that more than a 1000000 people are forced from the area as fighting intensified over the past here on this been for the fighting between taliban fighters and government troops in afghanistan as peace talks being held in qatar parts of

a military base in wardog were destroyed in a car bomb attack. armenia and azerbaijan appear to have ignored a deal that they signed to ease tensions over the disputed region of the gold okara back both sides say the death toll is mounting al-jazeera is but it's worth reports now from chorus in our media 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 frontlines just as fighting with azerbaijan started . saumur as he did when 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. i mean as 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 misery right and all the number of our care who will do that is a very high no more. victims armenia's 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 4. 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 for turkey's involvement in future negotiations on the golan care about. the father of jeff plays a popular mourns their dead soldiers their son was killed on the 1st day of fighting. most of the 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 there is 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. john on wednesday accusations the armenians are trying to

attack or oil and gas pipelines the armenians 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 chorus armine. israel is expected to approve the construction of more subtle homes in the occupied west bank at least 2000 of them were approved on wednesday the planning committee looks set to agree around $5000.00 homes the palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time that settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to an explicit indian land that was agreed under a deal with the u.a.e. to normalize ties china is accusing the u.s. of undermining peace and stability by selling a navy destroyer between taiwan and mainland china the u.s. says the vessels passage through the taiwan strait was routine but the chinese

military has called the move provocative it comes as tension is escalating between beijing and taipei over the islands or ptolemy at least 36 states in the u.s. are reporting rising numbers of coronavirus cases in the northeast hospital beds are being filled by a virus patients around 50000 new cases have been reported each day for the past few days the virus is infected more than 7800000 people in the u.s. has led to the deaths of poor than 216000 put millions out of work at iran's coronavirus death toll is at a record high for the 3rd time this week 279 people have died almost 5000 of tested positive the government is paramount travel to and from the 5 worst hit cities including the capital tehran. the czech republic is reporting a record high of more than $1500.00 new coronavirus cases it currently has the highest per capita infection rates in europe schools have been closed students

represent 16 percent of all infections of the health ministry says the number of cases among teachers and staff is also on the riotous. president about. a curfew for paris and 8 other cities to combat the rapid spread of covert 19 in france the president stopped short of introducing travel restrictions or a national lockdown saying that they would hit the economy too hard. reports from paris french president emanuel mackerel sit france was in the grip of a 2nd wave of coronavirus he urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris an 8 hour the city's the could last until december. if we stick to this curfew for 6 weeks if we take collective responsibility for reducing our contacts we think it will be able to progress of the reopen at that stage. the curfew adds to

a raft of restrictions already in place in the country's big cities where cases of new infections are rising rapidly in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board trees like this one in the city have been getting longer and more paris health officials say is the one in 5 tests is coming back positive soon after moving to paris in september these british students fell sick with coronavirus they began having symptoms after attending university events and welcome parties every station distancing while wearing a mask but it sometimes that doesn't stop if you're in a crowded place and you haven't stopped going to lectures the c.d.c. very tired in between needy half the students in a year were infected for some recovery has been slow i mean i was covered before but even i just want to get it again before. there are a lot more like conscious of it micro hopes the curfew will help ease pressure on

hospitals in paris intensive care beds capacity. the problem says this epidemiology is that the government is taking the wrong approach relying on restrictive measures rather than whites protesting the solution would be to assign to test message really the population and that can be done both using p.c.r. test with group dusting where you put in one tube there are some pills from 20 or 30 people and also with the anti germany test so that's what's being done in the countries where the virus has been contained for some the new restrictions will deal yet another blow to an already ailing economy for others they'll be welcomed as a sign that after months of urging people to live with the virus the president is hardening his tone natasha buckler al jazeera paris russia has approved a 2nd vaccine to treat covert 19 as it also reached

a single day high by the previous vaccine the treatment was cleared for use despite not having completed large scale trials russia became the 1st country to officially approve a vaccine in august so far neither treatment is widely available to the public the us president of trump has been campaigning in iowa a state that's considered critical to his reelection he continues to downplay the coronavirus citing his son's recovery as proof that it's not a danger to most children his 14 year old son barron this report of contracted the corona virus but a sense tested negative there and says it positive within like 2 seconds it was baron is just fine now tested negative right because it happens people have it it goes get the kids back to school we got to get the kids back to school get it back . i get it back. the u.s. state of texas has broken records for early voter turnout in the presidential

election so there is nearly doubled the 1st day turnout compared to the vote in 2016 people formed long queues around polling venues across the state it's not yet clear how the higher numbers will affect the result. president trumps u.s. supreme court nominee amy kearney baratz has survived a 3rd day of confirmation hearings she's been facing tough questions from senate committee members on capitol hill helen fisher reports from capitol hill god bless you. thank you very much chairman between hours of questioning down to important votes to go got it left the senate judiciary committee almost certain her nomination will go forward each senator had just 20 minutes of questions on the 3rd day of the hearing to fill the vacancy on the u.s. supreme court but it still led to some interesting exchanges and it raises many questions there are those who suggest donald trump could face criminal charges for his conduct in office if he loses next month's election so the question could he

give himself a pardon the fire as i know that question has never been litigated that question has never risen that question may or may not arise but it's one that calls for a legal analysis of what the scope of the pardon power is so because it would be a pining on an open question when i haven't gone through the judicial process to decide it it's not want to which i can offer in view democrats also continue to push for clarity on the judge's position on the affordable care act or obamacare as it's known in the us the supreme court will to hear a case on the e.c. a one week after the election where the cover for preexisting conditions could be scrapped affecting 23000000 americans judge but it has criticised previous court decisions which protected the act but insists that doesn't mean she's already made a decision on what happens next i think you're suggesting that i have some hostility to the a.c.l.u.

which i assure you that i don't and i think senator durbin there's actually something you and i can agree on here judicial activism is banned from either side . republicans have been criticized for pushing ahead with the nomination the argument you should have waited until the election was over but the strategy to go no has led to public use to believe they will be successful very little of the time we've spent in here has concerned. her record as a judge for 20 years as a respected scholar instead much of this hearing has focused on political attacks attacked directed at president many times again judge but it refused to comment on cases and subjects that might end up in front of the supreme court even when asked if immigration policies that separated parents from children were rome there's a growing acceptance that if the democrats are going to stop this nomination it's not going to happen here in committee alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill

kyrgyzstan's president has dismissed calls to resign soren by jan because it says that he will step down only after a rerun of the parliamentary election on wednesday the president approved sunday is part of some point as prime minister been nationwide protests since the disputed election earlier this month. the e.u. is imposing sanctions on 6 russian officials allegedly responsible for poisoning kremlin critic alexina valmy to deputy defense ministers and the head of the domestic spy agency are among those the european union is targeting with asset freezes and travel bans but the is still recovering in berlin he fell ill during a flight to moscow from siberia in august russia denies being behind the attack a wildfire is threatening homes near los angeles as hot and dry weather conditions continue in california 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. scorching temperatures around the world of made september the hottest since records began in 888 unusually high temperatures were recorded of siberia in the middle east and in parts of south america the extreme weather has led to droughts wildfires a rise in sea levels as ice melts and experts say things are only going to get worse will steffen is a climate change experts at the australian national university he says that world leaders aren't doing nearly enough to prevent further temperature rises. well i certainly think the climate change is the dominant factor in all these records being broken obviously from time to time normally records are broken but we don't see the number of records the degree by which the broken well as part of natural variability this is something bigger than normal realty this is indeed climate change driving what we're seeing today here just really just 8 or 9 months ago we

had bushfires channel when you see 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 roll is global average temperature driving this much change around the world the dead into is the way the climate system works i think we're already committed to experiencing least 1.5 degrees that's already built in from test emissions and that we can't get emissions down by the end of this decade which is what's required for one point font so we really need to focus on the well below to a degree the upper tiers don't need them requires much more ambition what china said is good but it needs to move faster united states has to move faster to countries like australia we have to phase out fossil fuels as soon as possible so the overall action around the world is nowhere near enough or fast enough to meet the parents targets conservationists in colombia have released 80 endangered turtles into the

ocean they were freed on the colombian coast after being raised in a marine conservation program the country has seen a dramatic drop in its total population over the last 70 years 2 to fishing and destruction of the nesting areas. it is kids have you with us highway train for going to hear how the headlines and i was a 0 earthly reports of yemen have released 2 u.s. citizens in exchange for $250.00 of their faces the rebels who were freed have since arrived in yemen's capital sana'a after transiting through oman for the prisoner swaps are expected on thursday human rights watch has accused russian and syrian forces of deliberately targeting civilians an eclipse rights group says that more than a 1000000 people have been forced from the area as fighting intensified over the past he. has been more violence between.