on al-jazeera its context is english storytelling around the biggest issues. aired today you should do it again. the largest prisoner swap in yemen's conflict is under way more than $1000.00 people are expected to be released. alive adrian for the again this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up kyrgyzstan's president soren by jeenbekov resigned following weeks of protests. tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of bangkok defying a ban on large gatherings and emergency measures. and the speaker of parliament in

cyprus quit his job after an al-jazeera investigation uncovered a cash for passport scandal. and as covert 19 cases search across europe the u.k. imposes new restrictions among. the largest prisoner exchange in yemen's civil war is underway and more than a 1000 detainees are being swapped between the with the rebels and the saudi u.a.e. coalition which backs yemen's government a plane carrying who it is released from captivity by the coalition has arrived and some are some 480 prisoners are expected to reach thursday. with a further 202 on friday earlier an aircraft carrying saudi u.a.e. coalition forces left the controlled capital the rebels have also released to u.s.

citizens in exchange for 250 of their fighters the white house says that humanitarian worker saddam early businessman michael good to have been released and the remains of a 3rd american have also been returned after serious hushmail about his life for us in doha can tell us more about this deal well adrian the operation is still under way planes taking off from the airport of. where. government soldiers who were detained by the who these now being flown to. and say you are in the south of the country at the same time we're seeing houthi of prisoners flowing from the saudi city of all the way to words the capital sanaa sources from both the government and the hope is are saying this expecting the operation to and by to morrow there were earlier some logistical issues that delay the start but now they are confident they say that they will be able to complete

the exchange by 2 more of 15 studies soldiers along with so that these fighters who were detained by the who these left. and they are now on their way to this saudi city of. what is going to happen next is quite important because according to the i.c.r.c. there are more than 7000 prisoners still detained by the government and by the who and the parties have not been able to come up with a consensus about how to move forward and to complete the prisoner exchange. this is good there is need for at least the atmosphere war could be next could it be. conducive towards future talks on resolving the much big issues in this conflict indeed the aiming to $1018.00 when this president exchange. agreement were struck in sweden was more of a confidence building measure that would pave the way to a serious discussions about the main issues in yemen which are basically the who

controls the coastal areas particularly how they there which is a vital lifeline for the country most of the exports coming into yemen go through the whole day to a city which is controlled by the who these are the government says the hope is should pull out from the area and the u.n. should be monitoring the seaports and then they were going to discuss issues like the hope these putting out from the capital sanaa and handed over some of their weapons to a 3rd party and then they were going to discuss the issue of the southern part of the country which is now under the control of a session is movement backed by the u.a.e. and which is adamant it wants to break away from the north that political reality has changed now because what is happening now is the hope these are getting more influence across the northern part of the country the secessionist are just on the verge of breaking away from the north and the internationally recognized government is losing ground and with the president had the based in riyadh his not able to fly

back to yemen so it will be extremely difficult for the u.n. special envoy to bring all the parties and to resume what has been blocked since 2018 they do understand that the political reality has completely changed with 2 key players now determined to have a huge say over yemen saudi arabia on one hand the united arab emirates which backs the secessionists in the south after serious. live for us in doha many thanks ashleigh. kyrgyzstan's president has resigned following weeks of political turmoil that soon and by jeenbekov have been facing daily protests since a disputed parliamentary election earlier this month the vote spot widespread demonstrations for the accusations that it was rigged in the government's favor since then some leading politicians have been forced towns there's a new prime minister and another election has been promised his chance transferred reports now from eastern kurdistan it's fair to say mr jeenbekov has been changing

his story since these rigged elections on october the 4th initially off to those elections we heard nothing from him until there was a bench really a statement given by him saying that resignation was not on the cards. and then we had another statement from him saying that he was going to resign he would resign but only after a new cabinet was formed now yesterday a new cabinet was formed by the new prime minister and it was late last night or last night we heard that he was going to resign until there were new elections we understand that there was a very heated discussions held by him and the new prime minister and speaker of parliament last night trying to negotiate mr jeenbekov departure journalists that we were with in bishkek where outside respect bishkek about 3 aus at the moment but those journalists were telling us that supporters were

threatening to storm the president's building if he hadn't resigned by 830 last night mr powell the new prime minister then calm those supporters down and today we understand there were more discussions between the prime minister the speaker and the now resigned president and he has indeed yes said that he is going to sit down . hundreds of anti-government protests as i was on the streets of bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy the government imposed its emergency measures in the early morning hours to stop months of demonstrations the political movement in thailand has been mostly led by young people and rights groups say the dawsons have been arrested our service called haida is in bangkok. it wasn't just hours ago that that emergency decree went through saying that any gathering more than 5 people is

illegal and if you look behind me over my shoulder you see that this is many more than 5 people were asked i mean probably over a 1000 people have gathered here in rajpur song area which is the high end shopping district right here in central bangkok no word went out kind of early morning that this is going to take place by some of the remaining protest organizers i'm saying remaining because at least 6 high level protest organizers were arrested early in the morning after that order went out after we saw that large protest thousands and thousands of anti-government protesters taking to the streets going from democracy minute right in front of government house there cleared out in the early morning hours after that emergency decree was issued but people still coming out this afternoon this evening early evening here in central bangkok in this shopping district flouting this order there a police kind of an accord on behind us a knisley but then slowly but surely these protesters pushed their way into this intersection and now they occupy again i would say probably a little bit more than a 1000 people here now. the speaker of parliament in cyprus demetrius salukis has

resigned in the wake of a cash for possible scandal here investigation found senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for the e.u. citizenship the government has now abolished the program. david harrison reports from because. there's been another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the suitors had been hanging on for a couple of days but we seem protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign this is serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al jazeera documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal obtain an e.u. passport the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of

ridicule with means showing him holding the now notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera there is a solution or is insists that he will be proven innocent when the attorney general's investigation is complete but for now it's another scalp for the people who say that this man is corrupt despite his objections and that he has to step down. weather update next here on al-jazeera then how the pandemic is making it harder for the elderly it's a survivor it's in bob wake. up with a clock running down the u.s. president donald trump makes another stop on the campaign trail in a state that's critical to the election. hello we've got some more right in the forecast for japan as we go on into the next couple of days for the big it's not too bad it is lousy dry and 5 lot of cloud

pushing down into central parts of china and down towards the southwest we have seen the latest a tropical storm pershore in the southwest probably as we saw $184.00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours still looking rather disturbed him more heavy rain there pushing across the northern parts of vietnam then we got the showers there into central china join that line of showers up towards just off the east coast of japan for the time being go on into saturday there you go the cloud in the right set seine will be heavy at times because eastern parts of japan at this stage is fine and dry there for the korean peninsula so some lovely sunshine coming through temperatures is so around 19 degrees celsius the sunshine so into northern areas of india but the main story of the moment remains the very heavy rain that we have seen across central parts of in the time i got to say is a very heavy rain that wetter weather pushing right across into maharastra and this system here brings in very heavy rain towards go across towards noon by that may

well develop into a tropical storm as we go on into the next couple of days pushing heavy rain towards pakistan. but. the key never convicted and yet in cost. 18 fiends. confined in his dandy in prison weakness for news the jannie of a man. who after losing his freedom in his memory. is left with concern. over the future to know if he's doing. the remanding. a new jerseyan.

well again this is our 0 let's remind you of the main news this hour the largest prisoner exchange in yemen's civil war is underway and some are all that a 1000 detainees are being swapped between the with the rebels and saudi u.a.e. coalition which backs yemen's government. kyrgyzstan's president sort of jeenbekov has announced his resignation he's been facing daily protests since a disputed parliamentary election earlier this month protesters accused the government of rigging the vote in its favor. and the speaker of parliament in cyprus to me trista lewis has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and out to sarah investigation found senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government is now polish the program. israel has approved the construction of thousands more

illegal settle homes in the occupied west bank that brings the total number of homes approved to almost $5000.00 in the past 2 days the palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time that settler homes have been over arised since israel suspended plans to addicks palestinian land as part of a deal with the u.a.e. . corona virus cases are surging across europe and countries are imposing new restrictions to curb the outbreak in the u.k. london is moving to the 2nd highest covert 19 alert level the country is reporting nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in a day a new 3 tier lockdown system has come into force in england now i know that these restrictions are difficult for people i hate to find have to bring them in but it is essential that we do bring them in both to keep people safe and to prevent greater economic damage in the future and when the virus is moving fast we cannot

stay still if we act collectively we know we can control the virus because we have done it before france has declared a public health state of emergency and imposed night curfews for paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest level since june. in germany that the only number of new cases is now the 6 month high chancellor angela merkel is an obstacle measures on gatherings and ma squaring let's take you live now to london house you know steve bucknor is the knave so the capital has moved into the the 2nd highest tier this is all rather confusing what what does that mean and how does it compare to measures that the remploy amended elsewhere in the u.k. . well as you mentioned there are 3 tiers basically very high high and moderate said london woman it past midnight on saturday move so they moderate cats agree to the high category so also does the neighboring county of essex these are the rules governing more than 9000000 people

and now mean that the different households count votes makes inside the rule of 6 the limitation of 6 people meeting outside still remains and also the 10 pm curfew that applies to bars and restaurants and how they operate remains in place as well according to my health secretary's been speaking in the house of commons discussions are ongoing between officials and central government here in london and other parts of the country particularly month just in the northwest where there have been some talks about making manchester go a notch higher from the high catch a breach of the very high category but some resistance for me opposition labor man andy burnham now over concerns about the impacts on the economy currently only the city of liverpool in the north west too is subject to the restrictions under the very high risk category meaning the all restaurants are closed

unless they serve substantial amounts of food and also a complete ban on the intermingling of households and also guidance on entering or leaving those parts of the country as well we wait to see whether or not just part of the middle and you'll show will be inevitably possibly. moved up a notch in the coming hours in all possibly days so these aren't full markdowns these are just increased restrictions even at the highest level schools will remain open why doesn't the country just have a locked out a short shop 2 week long. to debate the argument put forward by boris johnson is that the government wants to avoid the misery caused by national law down but it's been heavily promoted in argued by the likes of can't stomach the opposition labor leader that that's probably the best form of action to be able to deal with this

a short 3 or 4 week response to dealing with a virus by stopping it in its tracks what we have seen in the devolved region of northern ireland is a 4 week short circuit breaker being decided that comes into force on friday so schools will close for monday from friday though or bars and restaurants cafes will be forced to close shops won't be able to serve alcohol off the 8 pm the executive in northern ireland feel that that's the best way of dealing with a problem a similar solution may well be adopted also by wales we believe the welsh leadership are also discussing this but at the moment we all resistance to a nationwide circuit breaker approach in england but as you mentioned it is adding to a certain degree of confusion also no restrictions as to whether or not you can move from a high risk area to a low risk area so to some extent still a real risk of people who might possibly be in those high risk areas possibly facing a greater risk of contracting the infection then taking that infection to

a lower risk area so overflow of confusion or around but real resistance at the moment at least against a complete nationwide shortterm not doubting that i was there as a pocket reporting live from london need many thanks indeed. life has become difficult for millions of people in zimbabwe especially the elderly many of them had saved zeven through retirement but the 700 percent inflation rate the economic crisis of wiped out much of the savings in the pandemic is now making life even harder al-jazeera us. reports. 68 year old juliet macur has a waits for her daily food ration her sick husband can't walk to the soup kitchen that means bring home something for him to behind her is 75 year old jimmy banda his wife died some years ago his children are in south africa looking for work this ration of zimbabwe staple food sides apart from maize and vegetables must feed him

and his 4 grandchildren. have been coming here for 2 weeks at least i know my grandchildren and i have something to eat daily displaced must not close their loss of are struggling the soup kitchen feeds on average 3000 people a day samantha mohr ozaki started it when she saw families in the community going to bed hungry she says a lot of older people who live alone are regulars some will tell you that the children of her have died because of hiv and aids and some will tell you that they went to south africa and they never came back or remember them some will tell you that. here she's there but doesn't do anything for me so i have to make a plan for myself. some of these pensioners had decent jobs and diligently save for retirement but decades of inflation in zimbabwe wiped out

a savings zimbabweans are facing their worst economic crisis in a decade soaring inflation shortages of food foreign currency and now the coronavirus has made things worse we used to get assistance from come as individuals but because these individual companies they're also finding they're also facing financial challenges and therefore they also find different they are now finding it difficult to extend their hand to assist. the early. old age homes receive a monthly grant from the state and the government does go through and cash to vulnerable families in urban and rural areas but it's not in. according to the last government censors died nearly 10 years ago older people have about 6 percent of the population in zimbabwe and are some of the most eclectic. the government said it's going to introduce a universal pension scheme for older people with a struggling economy it could be months or even years before that benefit is

implemented. al-jazeera zimbabwe. 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 or 4 members of the afghan forces were injured and there's been further fighting in the southern province of helmand no injuries were reported on wednesday night but the violence is happening against the backdrop of peace to go see actions that are under way in qatar more than 30000 people have fled to the provincial capital of lashkar gah since the violence began 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 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 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 fit than when we left our homes our fighting started a mortar hit me or 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 i live in a wall in the village the situation of 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 in lead to

additional leads from that site for shelter for work and sanitation trued event and also not knowing that 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 that you can see the taliban are foreign from those houses but tanks so far and from here one boy was killed and still he is lying on the road the afghan government and u.s. forces have called it an unprovoked taliban offensive they claim to have killed the taliban's operational chief at home and along with dozens of fight is 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. 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. after more than 2 years of clamping down on dissent nicaragua's government has now targeting institutions like the media the ruling party is running out legislation that could endanger independent media outlets courts. a 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 calls 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 run side. 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 when a midsummer 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 dissent for the last couple of years you but by and marches off to widespread protests against him in 2018 there that since then anyone who's dead to take to the streets has faced rassmann 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 were painting a rosy picture of the viruses progress that this 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 that on top of that the risk of reporting on to his situation because they started charging journalists with defamation for informing up on cases in the country because it was 1st lady or

saudi you money yo. also the government suppression 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 home and out to see the. u.s. president donald trump has been campaigning in iowa the state considered critical to his re-election he continues to downplay the coronavirus sizing his son's recovery as proof that it's not a danger to most children trump's wife a lot earlier said that 14 year old byron track to the virus but a sense tested negative. parent says it positive within like 2 seconds it was baron is just fine now he's just 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 together but. i guess i'm back. and the state of texas has broken records for early voter

turnout in a presidential election some areas nearly doubled the 1st a turnout compared to the previous vote in 2016 people formed long queues around polling stations across the state it's not yet clear though how the higher numbers will affect the result unusually high temperatures around the world have paid september the hottest since records began in $880.00 siberia the middle east and parts of south america were particularly hot the extreme weather has led to droughts wildfires and 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 a woman on or on record with a temperature a departure from average week 97 degrees celsius or 1.75 degrees fahrenheit the 20th century average of the last 10 warmest september so we seem to have occurred i however some it works have occurred in the last 7 years and

wildfires threatening homes there 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 year emergency crews of being deployed from across the state. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines i was here at the largest prisoner exchange in yemen civil war is underway in sanaa more than a 1000 detainees are being swapped between the who the rebels and the saudi u.a.e. coalition which backs yemen's government. reports. the operation is still under way planes taking off from the port of son. was. government.