on the scene that i was a nurse back who what i am doing is not all that different from helping others. the speaker of parliament in cyprus resigns after an al-jazeera investigation uncovers a cash for passport scam. well i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up to u.s. nationals were released in yemen and then exchange with hundreds of hooty fighters . thailand's government arrests process leaders but it poses a state of emergency after a night of demonstrations. and a curfew is declared across parts of france as europe battles another wave of

coronavirus. will start same critical stand where president sort of jeenbekov has resigned after weeks of protests and said that he would step down but only after a rerun of the parliamentary election let's take you live now to east and kurdistan is a call is where i was there was charles stratford is a well that charles why has the president decided to go now. well he has been flip flopping changing his statements over the last couple of weeks over say those rigged elections that were canceled by the central election commission those elections held on october the 4th we didn't hear anything from the president for a long time he was blamed as being part and parcel of those elections

being rigged we then had a statement we understand as a result of pressure put on him by the russians very concerned about instability in one of the former soviet states and a country that russia has a lot of influence over we had a statement then saying from him that he was prepared to resign that changed again once we had the endorsement of this new prime minister the man that was freed from jail by his supporters in the wake of those rigged elections during protests a man called mr mr. power off went to power if was finally endorsed by parliament only a couple of days ago the president said that he would resign after a new cabinet was formed a cabinet was formed by sheer power off and he then said that he was going to resign. new elections we understand that last night there were heated discussions between the new prime minister the speaker of the house and the president we

understand from our sources in bishkek that the new prime minister's supporters were threatening to storm the president's building if indeed he hadn't resigned by 830 last night so. then reached out to his supporters and said look calm down there were more discussions the smalling between the prime minister powerful the president and the house speaker and now the president has resigned and he's released a statement in the last hour or so again an indication of just how tense the situation is here he said call on all sides not to provoke and not to be provoked from. peace in kyrgyzstan and unity of the nation is above everything i'm not holding on to power i don't want to be the president who makes blood flow so. a major development here the small winning but not one that was unforeseen but the words from the president. on an indication of how tense the situation remains the.

stratford reporting live there from east and stan chance many thanks indeed speaker of parliament in cyprus the maîtresse salukis has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal. investigation found that senior politicians were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for citizenship the government has now abolished the program let's go live to nicosia zeros david harrison who is part of the investigating team is with us and david what part in this scandal did the speaker of parliament play. this bigger part of it a very key role and he is the 2nd most powerful man in cyprus until today today because boris announces he's actually the most powerful man in cyprus because the president is. is acting president and deeply to keep the most popular man in the it

would add. to that chinese passport the last. point it was. any couple of weeks it was just. it is the. 3rd i'm sorry we're going to have to leave the sound between nicosia and here is breaking up quite badly we'll come back to you a little bit later if we can if we can solve the problem. the rebels in yemen have released to us citizens in exchange for $250.00 of the fighters the release to peace of since arrived in yemen's capital sanaa after transiting through oman the white house says that humanitarian workers sandra lowly and businessman michael

good have been released and the remains of a 3rd american have been written. reports now from some. here we are still waiting for they are viable of the 1st plane for the prez nurse which is the 1st office will deal to be scourged by both parties now the hope these are going to receive 483 prisoners of war and the saudi backed and also the international you could not as the government receive poor 100 prisoners of war this is the as i mentioned the 1st operational deal between both sides and previous both sides have agreed to release 15000 prisoners of war during the stalk home agreement which i was signed in 2018 but this deal has witnessed many setbacks this is the fish of the 1st step before implementing

the good part of the president or her. business deal is expected to pave the way for implementing the whole package of the stockholm agreement which also includes a humanitarian aspect in order to release all release the ban on the whole day does seaports which is an important support for yemenis specially in the. areas under the houthi control or the sun i government control over the past year more than a 1000000 people of fled from northwestern syria it's happened as russian and syrian forces intensify their strikes now a human rights group says that dozens of those attacks appear to have targeted civilians al-jazeera scarcella has high on reports. a year of strikes on nuclear path cause widespread destruction and suffering. in

a new report human rights watch says syrian and russian forces launched an awful attacks on civilians an apparent strategy believes to deliberately drive out entire neighborhoods. it really is hard to imagine that all of these attacks were iranians and the syrian army is then able to walk into a completely empty area and retake it without any fight whatsoever. 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 it was them from my son did under the rubble the latest ceasefire in syria signed by

russia and turkey in march has led to relative calm in clip the last rebel controlled 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 u.n. general assembly to take action to help open the to 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 locus of the young. we're going to weather update next here on out is there are them clamping down on the sands nicaragua's government passes a new law or tightening its grip on the media and human rights activists. over the clock running down u.s. president donald trump makes another stop on the campaign trail in a state that's critical to his re-election. i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast we have seen further spells of very heavy rain into a good part of vietnam seen some very heavy rain to enter the philippines 121 millimeters of rain in the last 24 hours some more western weather just moving into the south china seas could even see

a tropical storm developing here formation alert has been issued as west the weather is likely to just make its way into the central parts of vietnam sliding away from the philippines but quite a rash of showers still remaining in place as we go through the next couple days. said northern vietnam has seen flooding recently is going to be central vietnam pushing across into cambodia that will see the wettest of the weather as because into the weekend cher was well disposed of rain into thailand and then the usual rash of each of the showers there to malaysia and also into indonesia frustrated it is somewhat dry and bright several the data to the southeast that is not the case we've got more blustery showers rattling their way in tasmania saying some rather wet weather for a time i will make its way back in across the victoria southern parts of new south wales sweater weather there too into south australia so making its way further is 1st we have rain state and snow making its way to new zealand.

as protests rage across america more black lives are lost despite promises of police reform faultlines hears from those demanding justice the truth accountability transparency that's what i desire from the city and desperately need to change i have no faith in a situation that needs to be reminded not to help the moment of reckoning racism in police in america on a. color again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour kurdistan's

president sort of jeenbekov has resigned after weeks of protests he said that he would only step down after a rerun of the parliamentary election sunday is chop off was appointed prime minister on wednesday. speaker of parliament in cyprus has resigned after an hour out 0 investigation into a cash for passports scandal to beatrice salukis other senior politicians were implicated in the selling of cypriot citizenship to criminals. to the rebels and you haven't released to us citizens in exchange for $250.00 of their fighters more prisoner swaps are expected in the coming hours. thousands of anti-government protesters in thailand been cleared from outside the prime minister's office in bangkok the government declared an emergency in the early morning hours and by and large gatherings rights groups say that at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of others have been arrested scott hyper reports. police leave

a long night out front of thailand's seat of power government house as street cleaners wash away what was left behind by the thousands of anti-government protesters from the night before several 100 protesters camped out overnight and just before 5 am they were pushed out with calls from protest leaders for calm they left peacefully but later in the day some of the most high profile protest leaders were arrested the protester clearing operation was given the green light when an emergency decree was announced at 4 am saying that gatherings of more than 5 people was now illegal. the decree cited that the protests were illegal public gatherings causing chaos and disorder and threatening state security part of the justification for that decree was this hundreds of protesters using a 3 finger salute as the motorcade of queens to teach past by the salute has become a symbol of the protests the calls for government and monarchy reform i do daily a life that even me will be prime minister. would not result.

in higher than because. you know problems. being. focused it has moved on now from stockholm. you want to stay still to. be decisive when i want to reform or not as we are now in new territory with the protests is directly in strongly calling for reform in the monarchy the government no doubt is feeling immense pressure from the palace the protests have grown well beyond a movement led by students many others have joined who also feel that their voice is not being heard by those in power but even with the top leaders of the movement arrested protesters say they'll carry on with their car for change it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. there's been more violence between taliban fighters and government troops in afghanistan parts of a military base were destroyed after

a car bomb exploded in wardak province not far from the capital kabul security officials say that 4 taliban fighters were killed all 4 members of the afghan forces were injured. there's been fighting in the southern province of helmand no injuries were reported on wednesday night but the violence is happening in the backdrop of peace negotiations that are underway in qatar or than 30000 people have fled to the provincial capital lashkar gar 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 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 2. on sunday it is collated and helmand that jericho are no more than when we left our homes our 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 a civilians while 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 5 families which is about $35.00 people out importantly being displaced and this displacement lead to additional leads from their site for shelter for work and sanitation. and also not knowing when they will 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 an unprovoked taliban offensive they claim to have killed the taliban's operational chief at home and along with dozens of feiss using u.s. airstrikes and a ground assault to 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 lashkar gah. 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. who is imposing sanctions on 6 russian officials for the poisoning of kremlin critic alexina valley to deputy defense ministers of the head of the domestic spy agency are among those the european european union is targeting their assets will be frozen or they would be able to travel to the e.u. is still recovering in berlin it fell on a flight to moscow from siberia in august russia denies being behind the attack there is a follow on is director of the center for russia europe and asia studies says the sanctions should be effective. i think that they're proportional they're reasonable and they're actually focused on the people who were closely involved with this so they won't be able to travel to europe and their attitude could be frozen in addition they're also saying actually the institute where this compound was created the novacek compound so i think it's an important sign though because it's very

difficult for the 27 you member states to all get together and become same page we saw recently with their attempts to have sanctions and they couldn't get it passed because of one member state cyprus was blocking and so this is a good sign that they were able to all come together and have these proportional focus targeted sanctions the president of france or money or mccraw has announced a curfew for paris and 8 other cities to combat the rapid spread of covert 19 but he said travel restrictions or national lockdown would hit the economy too hard the bottle reports from paris. french president emanuel macro 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 progressive the reopen at that stage and. 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 barclays like this one in the city have been getting longer and what 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 of her attending university events and welcome parties every station distancing by wearing masks but it sometimes that doesn't stop if you're in a crowded place and stop going to a lecture the scene is the 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 or for me and now i'm a lot more like conscious of it my craw hopes the curfew will help ease pressure on hospitals in paris intensive care beds capacity the problem says this epidemiology just 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. the population and that can be done both using p.c.r. test with group testing where you put in one tube those samples from 20 or 30 people. also with the test so that's what's being done in the countries where the virus has been contained for some new restrictions will deal yet another blow to an already ailing economy for others they'll be welcomed as a sign that often months of urging people to live with the virus the president is

hardening his tone the al-jazeera paris at least 36 states in the u.s. are reporting rising numbers of corona virus cases around 50000 new infections a been reported each day for the past few days the virus is infected born 7800000 americans are led to the deaths of 216000. u.s. president donald trump has been campaigning in iowa a state considered critical to his re-election he continues to downplay the coronavirus citing his son's recovery as proof that it's not a danger to most children trumps wife melania earlier said that 14 year old barron contracted the virus but a sense tested negative parent says it positive within like 2 seconds it was baron is just fine now he's tested negative right because it happens people have it it does get the kids back to school we got to get the kids back to school in the

back. i get into. the state of texas has broken records for early voter turnout in a presidential election some areas they only doubled the 1st state turnout compared to the previous vote and 2016 people formed long queues around polling stations across the state it's not yet clear how the higher numbers will affect the result. after more than 2 years of clamping down on dissents nicaragua's government is now targeting institutions like the media the ruling party is rolling out legislation that could in danger independent media outlets john holdren reports. the. new law proposed by the ruling nicaraguan party could be used as another powerful tool against free speech in the country says the opposition and several international organizations it establishes a punishment of 2 to 4 years in prison for anyone who spreads what it cools the

information online the worry is that it could simply be used to censor any reporting the autocratic government doesn't like. so in practice this is giving the government the sort of legal capacity to determine what information is true and what's false and in a country where independent media are already facing a lot of censorship and intimidation against the government this could be really dangerous for the journalists working for those outlets that another proposal would force non-governmental organizations which get money from outside the country to register as foreign agents and agree not to interfere in internal affairs it comes off to many n.g.o.s have already been closed down and some of what their offices ransacked. is just one of the human rights defenders has had to flee to neighboring costa rica he says the new law mozart fresh danger to america is a. misnomer n.g.o.s will have to declare their activities every month and also

braced for the names ages and contact details of those taking part they'll also have to reveal donors observers say there's a political element to this too and that the government wants to crack down on n.g.o.s that help fund the nicaraguan opposition president daniel take has been clamping down on the center for the last couple of years you but by and marches off to widespread protests against him in 2018 there have been since then anyone who's dead to take to the streets has faced rosman arrest and attacks by police and paramilitaries. and things have only worsened under code that critics accuse the government of trying to muddy the facts will painting a rosy picture of the viruses progress that isn't it going to explode because the situation gave us 2 problems defaced is the harassment and prosecution the lack of access to public information that we already had but on top of that the risk of reporting on to his situation because they started charging journalists with

defamation for informing up a paucity of covered cases in the country because it was 1st lady or saudi of money yo. also the government's official spokes person she didn't agree to our interview request. meanwhile the countdown continues to elections in 2021 the opposition says there's even less hope now that they'll be in any way free and fair john homan out to see them a wildfire is threatening homes de los angeles is hot and dry weather conditions worsen in california fires have already destroyed hundreds of properties and killed or injured dozens of people this here emergency crews are being deployed from across the state well unusually high temperatures around the world have made september the hottest since records began in $1818.00 siberia the middle east and parts of south america were particularly hot the extreme weather has led to droughts wildfires a rise in sea levels as ice melts the data was confirmed by the u.s.

national oceanic and atmospheric administration average as a whole this was the warmest on record with a temperature departures from average week 97 degree celsius or 1.35 degrees. entry average on the last 10 warmest september so we seem to have occurred i do however some informants have occurred in the last 7 years while stuff and is a climate change expert at the australian national university he says the world leaders just aren't doing enough to prevent further temperature rises. 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 variability this is indeed climate change driving what we're seeing today here in australia just 8 or 9 months ago we had bushfires

chalo when you see foreigners droughts in other parts of the so it's so a little bit. i'm nerving to see a 1 point one degree rise will have a temperature driving this much change around the world the dead and that is the way the climate system works i think we're already committed to experiencing least $1.00 degrees that's already built in trunk test emissions and 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 2 degree the upper tiers don't get that then 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 the overall action around the world is nowhere near enough or fast enough to meet the parents call it targets

a forest fire on mount kilimanjaro and tons of tanzania is burning for a 3rd day firefighters trying to contain it with the help of hundreds of volunteers the high altitude dry weather conditions and strong winds are making it difficult to put out the fire which is threatening the alpine ecological zone which is mostly inhabited by birds and reptiles at least $46.00 people have died in heavy rain and floods that are affecting large areas of vietnam and cambodia tropical storms and seasonal rains of inundated tens of thousands of homes rescuers and seize up in working to help move thousands of people. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for the get here in doha the headlines and i'll just hear a kyrgyzstan's president sort of jeenbekov has resigned after weeks of protests he had said that he would only step down after a rerun of the parliamentary election al-jazeera child.