the world is watching on al-jazeera. the arab the on the air. al-jazeera. hello there i'm helena hidden in doha with the al-jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes a long awaited exchange a massive operation means fire zones of prisoners are released on both sides of the yemens conflict kyrgyzstan's president surround by jim pack of resigned after weeks of protests. i. tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of bangkok defying a ban on large gatherings and emergency measures plus the speaker of parliament in

cyprus quits his job after an al-jazeera investigation uncovered a cash for passport scandal. and i'm tired of hummus and i have all the support the dodgers put back all great came performance to win the 1st game of the national league championship series. an operation is underway to return more than a 1000 prisoners across the front lines of yemen civil war planes carrying he fighters he'd been held by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition have been arriving in the capital sana'a the saw as a trust building measure aimed at reviving peace talks the coalition started fighting that he sees in march 25th scene well earlier a plane carrying saudi u.a.e. coalition forces left the hooty controlled capital sana'a. rebels have also

released 2 u.s. citizens in exchange for 250 of their fighters the white house says humanitarian workers sandra lee and businessman mikhail there have been released the remains of a 3rd american have also been returned. is live for us in doha just tell us a bit more about this deal what khaled the operation is still underway in from different places you have planes carrying government and saudi detainees from the port of sorrow all the way to the city of about in saudi arabia or the same time who the president boarding planes from the city of so you're in the southern part of the men and flying all the way to just a while ago. who is a senior her thier fishel said that the whole thing is willing to move ahead with a comprehensive prisoner exchange because we're talking about thousands more

prisoners still detained by both wattis and his says that the 15 star detainees who were released today are just part of a number of huge saudi saudis still detained by the houthi is saying that this is going to give us the upper hand in the go sheeting any other settlement in the near future so we're talking about a delicate operation which is still under way. the u.s. is hoping that this would and by to morrow and then after tomorrow they're hoping to bring all the parties to negotiate another are to prisoner exchange the only problem here is the government of president obama's short saying that most of the people now detained by the houthi s are not prisoners they are kidnapped by the who these are should not be included in any deal they should be released immediately the hope is are saying on the other hand no for us to move forward and release the

prisoners we're expecting you to do the 1st step release all our prisoners and therefore we'll release all the other detainees including what the these are saying are saudi and sudanese detainees what will have him it sounds like this has been a positive step forward it comes to concluding this dreadful war in yemen what happens next where do the parties go from here because there is so much bigger issues to be resolved or they're not indeed had at the u.n. has this quiet vis a prisoner swap as a milestone they're hoping to sort of revive the environment there was prevailing in 2018 in sweden with the houthi isn't the government struck the land mark agreement about the prisoner exchange and then they were talking about potentially attacking other crucial issues like the future of the city of her data which is

a vital lifeline for the economy in yemen and that's. where most of the exports into yemen come from they're also talking about the need to start talks about a national unity government who thinks handing over some of their heavy weaponry is to the international community and the internationally recognized government of president. taken over that does not exist anymore on the ground what you have. it is who thing is expanding their influence a new group pushes the secessionists in the south back by the u.a.e. they are taking control of the south and they are saying this just a matter of time before the break away from the whole republic of yemen the south the bass government of. is losing ground so it will be extremely difficult for the un and for martin griffiths in particular to convince all the parties and talk about something that was decided the into $1018.00 when 2020 is a different world it certainly is there joining us live from doha thank you.

now kyrgyzstan's president has resigned after weeks of political turmoil syrian bites you back off had been facing daily process since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month the vote sport widespread demonstrations with accusations it was rigged in the government's favor since then some leading politicians have been forced out its new prime minister and another election has been promised charles stratford reports now from eastern kyrgyzstan it's fair to say mr jean berko has been changing his story since these rigged elections on october 4th initially after those elections we heard nothing from him at all there was a french really a statement given by him saying that resignation was not on the cards. and then we had and other 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 wasn't going to resign until there were new elections. we understand that there were some 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 if 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 sit on see government protesters are right on the

streets of bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings now they are calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy the government's imposed emergency measures in the early morning hours to try and stop months of demonstrations scott hi there has more now from bangkok. 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 at the daily life that even. would not result. in higher that because. you know problems. has moved on now from start. to become. the decisive. reform now as we are now in new territory where the protests is directly in strongly calling for reform in the monarchy the government no doubt is feeling immense pressure from the pouts define that new emergency order and risking arrest protesters took over

a major intersection one of the high end shopping districts in central bangkok they set up a stage where they called for their protest leaders to be freed saying they'll continue their protests making sure that they are heard by those in power it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. plenty more still to come on the news hour including. a number of call that 19 cases is surging across europe forcing governments to impose restrictions. have a pandemic and a 700 percent inflation rate to make you get harder to be old survey to survive and zimbabwe and in sports we hear from the england camp after a rough night at wembley. and the speaker of the cyprus parliament dimitris salukis has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and al-jazeera investigation found senior politicians who

were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investments in exchange for e.u. citizenship the government has now abolished the program for more on this let's bring in david harrison and nicosia david of course you were parts of that investigative team that led to that expos sabir seen a dramatic fall from grace for the parliamentary speaker is he said any more about his decision to stand down. yes you know how is it. you said that he was stepping down not just as the speaker of parliament but also as an m.p. it's a complete step down he had been hanging on the claim that in his statement that the reason you hadn't resigned because you thought it would be taken out of that mission of guilt. no wrongdoing is now turning to his mind that he's decided that because people are exploiting the taking political advantage of him hanging on him

. because he feels he be misunderstood that he's decided it's time to step down. and it has a speed enough to quote the process in cyprus because your investigation has result . didn't quite a lot of unease being expressed there where you are we have seen protesters gathering outside parliament will this be enough to get the protests is to stand. well it may well at the moment i don't know there's no protests planned for tonight but it doesn't mean to say that there won't be more in the coming days so though as has been a particular target of the demonstrators anger at the demonstration last night outside the parliament many were carrying placards and a lot of them included the image of a glass of red wine which has become a sort of bit of a symbol of corruption in this country because it's appeared on lots of names and this is a reference to a scene in the documentary where so there is hold of a glass of red wine and winks at all on the cover operates in

a way to say to suggest that you know we're going to help you get this possible but i think that has been a sort of growing anger not just with source but also with the wider government i think this will come as something of a couple of sister people but i think it's also galvanized many people into action there's a feeling now that because they've seen this exposé more can be done now at the moment the resignation leaves the country in a slightly difficult position having no leader in situ because the president just only in brussels and so louis as the speaker of all that was the de facto vice president now he's gone now but there has been some talk of his successor and the name being bandied around is out of most adults who he was an opposition and he and he's also a doctor so the people of cyprus will be hoping that he can heal the wounds caused by what they see as rampant corruption in the leadership ok david harrison now live from nicosia thank you very much indeed if you miss that investigation just head to

the web site al-jazeera dot com we've also got a podcast up on the web site c.d.c. can find out a lot more about this investigation and plenty of other episodes again just head to al-jazeera dot com forward slash podcasts forward some. al-jazeera investigates for more on the work that our investigative unit does and of course you can watch that report in both the cyprus papers under cover rescreening that at $1200.00 g.m.t. on friday 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 corporate alert level the country is reporting nearly $20000.00 new coronavirus infections in a single day the new 3 tier locks and system has come into force in england's.

now i know that these restrictions are difficult people i hate the fact that we 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 a virus is moving fast we cannot stay still if we are collectively we know we can control the virus because we have done it before. francis declared a public health state of emergency and impose nine's curfews for paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest levels since june and in germany the daily number of new cases is now at a 6 month high chancellor angela merkel has announced tougher measures on gatherings and on mask wearing well over and paul ince they too have seen a record increase in confirmed cases when 8000 new infections were reported in the latest daily tally

a growing number of people are falling seriously ill but the health ministry warning that hospital beds are filling up well let's get more know from neve barker he joins us live in london a knave let's start with the u.k. the restrictions are starting to close in on the british capital but it's a brother confusing picture overall what's happening in the came which you say is working its all. well a lot of the confusion is around the way in which the government has structured its response to dealing with the rising infections across the board in different parts of the u.k. there are 3 different tiers very high high and moderate form a woman it past midnight on saturday london a city of 9000000 people goes for the moderate level to the high level which basically means no more mingling of households inside the rule of 6 the limitation of 6 people meeting outside is still in place so also is the temp pm curfew that governs how bars and restaurants operate we believe also the neighboring county. if

siccing subject to change here and as well but of course you know there are still big questions about whether this goes far enough you can still go from a high risk area to a moderate risk area so if i wanted to travel from london to oxford sure that be no problem at all that does beg the question well look you know how is that really going to stop the the transmission of this infection in its tracks there are other parts of the country that are currently being reviewed as to whether or not they should go up a t. is a discussion between officials in central government here in london and those in manchester bunch those currently on the high high level talks about putting it to the very high level there but some resistance from the opposition labor man andy burnham largely over the possible impact on the local economy the government offering to pay 2 thirds of the salaries of people who may be affected by restrictions but nevertheless some big concerns the only part of the country so far

subject to very high restrictions is liverpool so bars or restaurants are forced to close completely unless they serve substantial milk meals a complete bond of the intermingling of households and guidance needs to be given on whether you can ensure leave those areas there is appears to be a mood towards what many feel would be an inevitable national lockdown at least in england something similar comes into force in northern ireland where schools from monday will be closed for an extra 2 weeks ahead of what is a 2 week holiday so the question is is this a prelude to something much deeper ok well we will wait to find meanwhile infections and surging across year it how serious is it getting when the constant. well the complete patchwork of responses in different countries across europe but you know the whole of europe is very much in the grip of the 2nd wave we've seen

a state of emergency declared in france a curfew introduced between 9 pm and 6 am in the worst affected areas deep worries about italy particularly the north and long body as you know for the hard hit by the 1st wave concerns now about numbers growing exponentially currently they tell you in officials are not saying. localized lockdowns are off the table they were may well be introduced in a regional level citywide level if they continue to escalate in spain also hard hit the 1st e.u. country to have more than 900000 infections they are reporting an increasing number of cases in hospital as well but say that the cases that are going to hospital this time are not as severe than the 1st time around further restrictions to. for instance households aren't able to mingle there further restrictions on areas of the country the border the united kingdom northern ireland so closures of gyms

and non-essential shops belgium has warned that by mid november they have the cases continue to go up at this rate all of its intensive care beds will be full that is just a snapshot of what's going on across the whole of the continent similar situation in germany reporting as you mentioned the highest numbers in several months it is a concerning picture but at the moment most countries are trying to resist an urge for more nationwide for a lockdown ok need barkin to bring as all the latest from london thank you. as security services have been deployed in the nigerian capital of lagos amid growing tensions semites police brutality now this falls within a week of protests offices he's live rains water cannon and tear gas against them street is the protesters complaints include accusations of birds or torture and

extortion let's get more from mitt g.'s he joins there life from. i just give us a sense of the situation as it currently stands in nigeria. where basically demonstrations are continuing in several cities in nigeria but there been some incidents in nigeria's financial capital lagos where overnight demonstrators spent the night in front of the seat of power the state power i mean while the government has its buildings key buildings and installations there spend the night there demonstrations which you today later in the early hours of today a group of thugs armed with knives and clubs descended on the protesters dispersant them before the protesters formed by just like they did yesterday and then things are getting calmer now they are grouping in lagos and in a number of state we understand that more protesters moving towards the government

house intent to blockade the government house there in a buddha the authorities here have announced a ban on street protests following yesterday's incident but not before a few 100 supporters or protesters marched to the national parliament the national assembly just to present their case to the legislators but the police denied them in preaching to the national parliament they still there a few of them are still there remaining insisting that they must see members of parliament to present their cases although members of parliament had. intervene in the in various capacities some of them on personal capacities asking the government to take immediate steps to end the the cases of police brutality some went even further by expressing their support to protesters now holding rallies across the country ok apogee said bring as the very latest from a butcher thank you so much my life has become difficult for millions in zimbabwe

especially the elderly many had saved to see them through retirements but the 700 percent inflation rate and the economic crisis of white cites much of their savings and the coronavirus pandemic is breaking rife even harder harmattan has more from mel for its in motion a land east province. 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 apart from maize and vegetables must feed him and his 4 grandchildren. around. 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 of tell you that their children. 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. 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 give food and cash to vulnerable families in urban and rural areas but it's not enough according to the last government census data nearly 10 years ago older people make up about 6 percent of the population. and 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 a plume it had a methos al-jazeera mouth what it's about. over the past year more than a 1000000 people have fled from it live in northwestern syria that's happened as russian and syrian forces intensify their strikes now

a human rights group says dozens of those attacks appear to have targeted civilians because you are personally and reports. a year of strikes on nuclear power cause widespread destruction and suffering. in a new report human rights watch says syrian and russian forces launched on lawful attacks on civilians an apparent strategy a believes to deliberately drive out entire neighborhoods it really is hard to imagine that all of these attacks were iran yes the syrian army is then able to walk into a completely empty area and retake it without any fight whatsoever. between april last year and march of this year the group documented 46 ground in air strikes 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 as well i was worried when the strike hit my parents neighborhood when

we arrived at the hospital was so my mother the missile had decapitated her my sister only recognized 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 wets a relative calm in clip the last breath hold 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 humanitarian 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 continue. with a yawn. let's get a quick check on the weather here is that it's a. however we've got some wet weather rain clouds gathering across central parts of china big massive cloud here down towards the southwest of course that's where we had our tropical storm recently moving across northern parts of the last the cloud there and to central china come out into the east china sea pushing over towards japan we'll see some wet weather coming back in here as we go on through sas day big and heavy downpours saw the day temperatures struggling to get to 13 celsius michel saturday there in tokyo we got plenty of wet weather to ensue southeast asia the philippines the same some flooding recently received heavy downpours once again

122 millimeters of rain here little area cloud here just into the south china seas and that was like another tropical storm developing and will push its way into the central parts of vietnam heavy showers where we already have the flooding into northern parts of vietnam where weather is set to continue over the coming days i've also seen weather of course into central parts of india hyderabad $13805.00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours that's what it looks like on the streets west of weather over towards the western side of india as well out west so whether we're not just way up towards glitterati over the next couple of days as another disturbance pushes out into the arabian sea. still to come on al-jazeera clamping down on the cents nicaragua's government passes a new law tightening its grip on the media and human rights activists. israel approves the construction of thousands of new illegal settler holes in the occupied west bank and in sports intermedia me are feeling the heat of

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$100.00 or so it's more than 36 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the water is going dispensable to economic activity but industrial uses worsening hottest of fresh water counting the cost on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour the largest prisoner exchange in yemen civil war is underway in summer 1000 detainees are being swapped between the rebels and the saudi u.a.e. coalition. kyrgyzstan's president has resigned soon by jim bakker has been facing daily protests since it disputed parliamentary election earlier this month. for

a 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 coverts 19 alert level. for the french presidency emanuel micro has announced a curfew for paris and 8 other cities to combat the rapid spread of covert 19 but he said travel restrictions are a national locked and would hit the economy to hearts that's the 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 and 8 tell the cities the could last until december 5th. 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 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 attending university events and welcome parties it was stationed distance while wearing masks but it sometimes that doesn't stop if you're in a crowded place and stop going to lectures the scene is the very tired in between needy hall of the students in may you were infected for some recovery has been slow i mean i was covered before but even i just want to get it again or did it for me and now i'm a lot more like conscious of it my crawl 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 testing where you put in one tube the samples from 20 or 30 people . also with the un to 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 butler al jazeera paris. american cities are in

a downward spiral financially as the economy feels the impacts of the pandemic even a some jobs returned each week he jumped less claims top $800.00 thousands historically high number a stimulus bill that could help this being held up and congress made all survive until after the election john hunter and reports now from chicago. the pandemic has scarred chicago's historic landscape plywood replaces neighborhood haunts sports bar the rainforest cafe all gone the city's famed willis tower is mostly empty at shuttered navy pier the ferris wheel is indefinitely stalled. 40 percent of restaurants nationwide expect to close in the next 6 months according to the national restaurant association it's going to be 60 maybe even 80 percent because right now a lot in the warmer days we can sort of hit

a break even. if people if the business goes down people are going to run out of money pretty soon do you have any cream in your house. after 3 decades in chicago celebrity chef rick bayless whose trim staff it is numerous chicago be stroh's it is bracing for worse to come and his pockets are deeper than most restaurants especially independent own restaurants are sort of the fabric of the neighborhoods come next spring if we don't get some sort of financial assistance from the government those neighborhoods are downtown area they're going to look very different and it's going to take a few years to rebuild restaurants are getting creative with street closures and outdoor seating and heat lamps they're trying to keep people coming as long as they can but in cold weather climates like chicago nobody really knows how long they can go on chicago's once bustling magnificent mile shopping district is

a shadow of its. emer self with even open shops boarded against recurring social unrest. their protest chants echoing in one american city after another violence is up and it is causing some minor flight out of the major cities we're seeing more and more people moving to suburbs outside urban landscapes and i think that is a real concern on the other side of this virus this spiraling economy spans across the u.s. as once for a low jobs are gone for good each day the pandemics losses mount in lives and livelihoods the latest here is central camera chicago institution opened in 899 closed in 2020 and hoping to reopen again john hendren al-jazeera chicago. u.s. president donald trump has been campaigning in iowa states considered critical to his reelection he continues to don't believe the coronavirus citing his son's

recovery as proof it's not a danger to most children trump's wife maloney and earlier said 14 year old barron trump contracted the virus but has since tested negative parents says it positive within like 2 seconds it was barren is just fine now tested negative right because it happens people have it as it does get the kids back to school we got to get the kids back to school in the back. yard and back. and the state of texas has broken records for early voter turnouts in a presidential election some areas nearly doubled the 1st state turnouts compared to the previous vote in 2016 people forms long queues around polling venues across states it's not yet clear how the higher numbers will affect the overall result. now after more than 2 years of company town to sent the correct us government is

now targeting institutions like the media the ruling party is rolling out legislation that could endanger independent media outlets john holdren reports. may be. 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 when it cools 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. 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 their offices ransacked brow leo about it is just one of the human rights defenders has had to flee to neighboring costa rica he says the new law mozart fresh danger. of. 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. that since then anyone who's dared to take to the streets has faced harassment 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 while painting a rosy picture of the virus's progress that recently began actually they called the situation gave us 2 problems defaced is the harassment and basic you ssion 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 about positive coverage cases in the country because that was 1st lady mario is 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 that. israel has approved the construction of thousands more illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank that brings the total number

of homes approved to almost $5000.00 over the past 2 days the palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time gers settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to an explicitly in land as part of a deal with the u.a.e. it abraham has more from bethlehem in the occupied west bank. the number of illegal israeli settlement units promoted this year is the largest in decades close to me and say that the israeli government is emboldened by the trump administration settlement activity has increased by 25 percent since trump took office one of the largest expansions and the latest israeli decision is in this supplemental over here built over the lands of the well as a village near bethlehem over 9950 new units will establish a neighborhood that is larger than the settlement itself they moved. to

build the certainly. way that they can. between jerusalem and the west bank between communities behind the green line and the settlements within the west bank this is the 1st announcement of its kind since the u.a.e. and normalized relations with israel the deal was full the based on freezing annexation but for palestinians the ongoing supplement expansion is the fact that. we're not only talking about their homes but roads infrastructure the separation barrier is an israeli settlers eating up palestinian resources. armenia and azerbaijan appear to have ignored a deal these signs to ease tensions over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh both sides say the death toll is mounting smith has the latest from in armenia

they'll be a memorial like this in perhaps every one of the homes of the more than 530 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 . saumur is he did one of 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 doing that 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 these are very high no more. 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 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 combat how 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 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 corus armenia. there's been more violence 15 taliban fighters and government troops in afghanistan parts of a military base military base were destroyed after a car bomb exploded in wardak province not far from the capital kabul security officials say 4 taliban fighters were killed or 4 members of the afghan military were injured and there's been fighting in the southern province of helmand as well no injuries were reported on wednesday night but the violence is happening against the backdrop of peace negotiations underway in qatar more than 30000 people have since fled still the province provincial capital of lashkar gah or charlotte ballasts has more. 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 is an arab inflow of territory seized in last potential live for each for the talks. on sunday it is collated and helmand that jericho are no more thin when we left our home got 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 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 will lead to additional needs from their site for shelter but don't sanitation trued in there 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't hold out of that part that you can see the taliban are foreign from those houses the tanks are far away 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 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. it's been more than a month since peace talks began in doha between the taliban and afghan political leaders each day brings a promise of peace and the certainty of sacrifice china ballasts al jazeera. while far as threatening homes near 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 are being deployed from across the state a forest fire on mines kilimanjaro in tanzania is burning for a 3rd day foreign fighters and hundreds of volunteers are contending with the high altitudes dry weather conditions and strong winds the forest surfing what's known as the alpine ecological zone mostly inhabited by birds and reptiles. well unusually high temperatures around the world have made 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 draw wild far as a rise in sea levels as ice melts the data was confirmed by the u.s. national psionic and atmospheric administration so it's a come on out 0 sport for you and it was raining on one the national league championship series all the baseball action coming your way after the big. business later this is by no brown spots.

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concern for the sport here sunny thank you very much a house with a major league baseball and they're all says it is that dodgers putting a backward breaking performance set to make up the 1st win of the national league championship series on a night that still houston keep alive their hopes of reaching the season finale so . it's the last sun just dodges back in business. down to nothing and having just come up short in game 2 they responded with a display of historic proportions to beat out land on wednesday jersey i try. to turn a trick on to the dog just put on a batting clinic to become the 1st team in postseason history to hit 5 home runs in the 1st 3 innings of a game. and i. still say the braves quite

frankly had no idea what it hit them. to make a running away with it 153 to secure the largest post-season victory in franchise history you know just really good at bats i mean really a lot of just good at bats and then we had some homers and took some walks. just a really obviously a well played inning you know it's one of them days i mean you have a match it's more amplified i guess when it's in this situation but we could see a houston have finally sprung to life in their american league championship series against tampa bay i. changed down 3 nothing they were. on game 4 to keep their fading world series hopes alive to. be game 5 the astros' managing to hold of the race for a full 3 win. but they'll have to do it all over again in game 5 as they fight for survival so he'll malick al-jazeera. in the us after the shock defeat at wembley in

the us and nations it was a miserable night for the world cup a semifinalist defender home acquire was a sent off in the 1st half as they were beaten one nil by damn mark this is football you know moments change the flow of the going. away is the nature you can't afford to go down to 10 or any any level of the game it's extremely difficult to improve your result when you're down to 10. france down to a croatia the team they be in 2018 world cup final just like that night and grossman and kin and bapi were on the scoresheet final score $21.00 to france it in the netherlands played out a draw they both trail group one leaders poland who won on wednesday belgium lead group 2 after their when england down in 3rd in that group after their loss and

portugal are 1st in group 3 and head to france on goal difference after beating sweden. arsenal manager. has opened the door for legendary former gunners coach asked the vendor to return to the club in some capacity. during his 22 year reign during which the frenchman the $13.00 league titles and a rare cord 7 f.a. cups. i would like to see him back around us he was a mighty figure for me he's someone that i can use to learn i don't see that i would have sued and i would like to know how close it was over the the actual environment it doesn't allow us to do but i think it's a fear that has to be very persons in what we do on the floor because you see my feet you do wonder how division the school was and be the most peaceful way. into marisol on a 3rd straight win as the milk to boost their chances of making the pale sun in the

us there inaugural season in major league soccer and part owned by david beckham looks set to be a united after breakfast broke the deadlock on 80 minutes. but their joy was short lived 3 minutes later. squared things off jake will rainey with a crucial goal to help secure a point 11 the final score. so he's on a grand slam champion status us covering that has booked his base into the quarterfinals of the sam petersburg open swiss overcame home a favorite if they can the dons corey in 3 sets looking for his 1st a.t.p. title and 3 years. that's it for me hyla thank you so much sam about wraps up this new star to keep it here and i'll just there on back with you after the break.

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a long awaited exchange massive operation over a 1000 prisoners are released on both sides of yemen's conflict. over their home however he is in and this is al jazeera life in doha also coming up kyrgyzstan's presidents are invite you back of resigns after weeks of protests. tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of bangkok defying a ban on large gatherings and emergency.