the american people with the truth and nothing else just go. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. 'd 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 measures. democratic vice presidential

candidates come in the harris suspends travel plans after a staff member contracts covert 19. and operation is underway to return more than a 1000 prisoners home across the front lines of yemen civil war planes carrying he fighters who've been held by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition have been arriving in the capital sana'a the swap is a trust building measure aimed at reviving peace talks the coalition started facing the eighty's in march 2015 well earlier a plane carrying say the u.a.e. coalition forces left the whose you control the capital sana'a the rebels have also released 2 u.s. citizens in exchange for 250 of their fighters white house says humanitarian workers under loli and business when she died there have been released and the

remains of a 3rd american have also been returned or has more. you have planes carrying government and saudi detainees from the airport of sorrow all the way to the city of a pane saudi arabia of the same time who the president boarding planes from the city of say union in the southern part of yemen and flying all the way to osama just a while ago who is a senior who thier fishel said that the whole earth is willing to move ahead with a comprehensive prisoner exchange because we're talking about thousands more prisoners still detained by both waters and he said that the 15 saudi detainees who were released today are just part of a number of huge saudi saudis still detained by the huth these 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 all to prisoner exchange the only problem here is the government of president obama's shore saying that most of the people now detained by the who things are not prisoners they are kidnapped by the houthi 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 who these are saying are saudi and sudanese detainees. kyrgyzstan's president has resigned after weeks of political turmoil sitting by jim bakker had been facing

daily protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month the vote sponsored widespread demonstrations with accusations it was wreaths in the government's favor since then some leading politicians have been 4 states this new prime minister and another election has been promised a chance transferred reports from eastern cuba stand steady say mr jeenbekov has been changing his story since these rigged elections on october 4th initially off to those elections we heard nothing from him a troll 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 japan 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 of n.c. government protesters are on the streets all bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings they are calling for the prime minister's resignation and for reforms to the monarchy 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 it 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 queen city da past by the salute has become a symbol of the protests the calls for government and monarchy reform at the daily

life that even will be a crime in east. would not result in a long long hike that because. you know problems. just lie and the. case that has moved on now from stock on the news they're eager what is this goal to become. a decisive when i want to reform or now 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 to find that new emergency order and risking arrest protesters took over a major intersection in 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. the speaker of the cyprus parliaments to me to see lewis

has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and i'll desire investigation find senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract financial investment in exchange for citizenship the government says no a bullish the program from the casea here's david harrison. it was being another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now as the senators have been hanging on for a couple of days but we've seen protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign was a 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 now

a notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera there's a serious 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 that he has to step down. talks are happening at a european union leaders summit in brussels where countries such as spain are saying they want a deal with britain the french president says he's ready for a no until man omicron wants french fisherman's rights in british waters to be preserved in the negotiations made for parts one thing the leaders are united on though is confronts in russia over the poisoning of kremlin critic alexina vall me the e.u. and the u.k. have imposed sanctions on senior russian officials cool civil law to me a person school has called the sanctions deliver it's and has value retaliates the school life that say that sasha butler she joins us from paris sasha let's start

with bricks it today the 15th of october is said to be the u.k. prime minister's deadline to see if the talks are worth continuing but it does appear that progress is a long way off the french president's remarks on fishing are anything to go by. yes sir boris johnson the u.k. prime minister setting this is the deadline for a post break sit trade deal but it seems the e.u. leaders are once again not on the same page as the u.k. they've made it clear that more talks more negotiations may be needed and that means that you might be asking for more time more weeks ahead to continue discussions and try and reach an agreement however the message from e.u. leaders such as the french president a man or mark raga arrived in brussels a short while ago is that they will not be a deal at any cost no deal at any cost because era leaders say it is absolutely

imperative that certain sticking points and issues are ironed out for a deal to be made that those main sticking points have remained pretty much the same over the past few weeks and months still we are talking about the level playing field the e.u. wants assurances from the u.k. that the e.u. single market would not be undercut in the future by any unfair competition the e.u. still wants to try and agree on what the rules the governance rules would be for the deal how exactly would all sides actually here to any future deal how would it be policed if you want to put it that way and then this contentious issue of fishing which just doesn't seem to go away the u.k. says that it is now going to be a sovereign nation and therefore should have full access to its own waters. coastal nations including france have been very adamant that for centuries and decades

since the you was actually formed the fishing communities on both sides of the channel have fished in each other's waters and they want to continue so again those sticking points continue to be there and that is why leaders of called on michel barnier the brakes a negotiator for the e.u. to intensify talks and that seems to suggest that they will go on well beyond this summit. we're seeing a much more united front from these you can the leaders from it comes to russia who work you tell us about those developments. yes the e.u. has agreed on imposing sanctions of 6 top russian officials now this is over the poisoning of alexina valmy the opposition russian opposition figure who fell ill of being poisoned with back in august now the european union has said that they believe that the kremlin is behind

this russian authorities are to blame and therefore they have placed sanctions on several top aides of putin the president as well as the head of russia's domestic spy agency so very targeted sanctions indeed the european union says that they have called again and again on moscow to clarify exactly the circumstances surrounding legs in the valleys poisoning but so far they haven't received they say any any convincing explanations from russia. there live in paris thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera number of covert 19 cases surge across europe forcing governments to impose restrictions. calls for accountability in syria said rights group claims a year long military campaign specifically targeted civilians devastating results.

we've got some rather heavy rain in the forecast for japan as we go through the next couple of days at the moment it is largely fine and dry and i was seeing some rather heavy rain into the far southwest of china thanks to a tropical storm which has now been downgraded to find a warning has been issued for that but it did produce some really heavy rainfall ahead of that and this is into the southwest of china $154.00 millimeters of rain here more heavy downpours coming in as we go through the next 24 hours or so sliding over the north of vietnam follow the cloud record back into central parts of china out into the east china sea as we go through friday into saturday this rain really peping up some downpours coming in across key issue when into that

eastern side of japan 13 celsius in tokyo on a very soggy saturday a cold and wet day to come here get to warmer but just as wet into central parts of india meanwhile has seen some very heavy rain around hyderabad over the past 2448 has around 200 millimeters of rain in some parts in that period of time over towards the western side of india $109.00 millimeters of rain this tropical disturbance that's going to continue making its way out into the arabian sea very heavy rain pushing up towards garage and the southeast pakistan. will he not global community we are out. obviously that's a whole the whole cruise is the worst possible of looks like the part of the debate you can jump into the conversation right away when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking power we just call it what. use is the reach of the

richer and the poor getting poorer it's not kill destroyed the system it's just to look at the system and adapt it to our modern world this dream on out is the era. this is al jazeera remains are all of the headlines this hour the largest prisoner exchange in yemen civil war is underway in some are more than a photos and detainees being swaps when the hutu rebels and the saudi u.a.e. coalition. kyrgyzstan's president's house resigned surabaya to back off the face and daily protests since a disputed parliamentary election earlier this month. as you can see fiery sense

of anti-government protesters are still out on the streets of bangkok this hour openly defying a government ban on public gatherings they're calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy the government imposed emergency measures in the early morning hours to try and stop months of demonstrations. a year's democratic vice presidential candidate can let her suspended all in person events after her campaign members tested positive for cope with 19 harris was shuttled to travel to the battleground state of north carolina on thursday with harris and still biden has been tested those results have come back negative for a white house correspondent kimberly harkat joins us now i can't believe buys in the harris campaign has made a very overt show of her care for we are when it comes to covert 19 but this just

goes to show you can't be too careful can you. yeah that's exactly right you know you were call that become a harris had announced after she has been serving as a senator for the amy kone beret hearings that she was going to continue those proceedings on capitol hill. virtually that in other words what she was going to do is travel to north carolina but it was when the media was assembled waiting for her arrival of the airport that they realized that something was not quite right and it wasn't long after that a member of the campaign said the event had been canceled due to the fact that there had been 2 members of the campaign one staff member of the communications director and one non staff member a flight crew member that have both tested positive now what we're hearing from the campaign is that come a harris has not been in close proximity to these individuals 48 hours prior she was not standing a meter away for more than 15 minutes and this is what the c.d.c.

would require for quarantine but since she has not been in those scenarios and as you mentioned the campaign taking a lot of precautions they don't feel that there is this need to some quarantine but again they're taking precautions in order to be doubly sure not only has come a harris tested negative twice on wednesday but she is going to receive another test today now in terms of the sort of impact moving forward what we can tell you is that she will continue to reach out to voters virtually but again she's going to be on the ground until sunday and that will also include her husband doug and kimberly. banks the. bison hire if research will do you see this impacting the presidential campaign on the whole. there's no question that this is a problem when you are less than 3 weeks from election day and this is exactly what

donald trump exhibit is well it's this need to balance in the sort of 11th hour of the campaign but at the same time ensuring that no one else is infected given the fact that there is this pandemic going on and remember that coming to harris is part of the ticket with a gentleman joe biden who of course is going to be 78 years old 77 right now and so this is a concern for anyone of advanced age these are considered underlying health conditions and so the question becomes you know what kind of joint events can be done there's that need for the photo op of the 2 together that won't be able to happen until they can be absolutely sure that she is it no risk to her running mate so this is going to have an impact but fortunately we live in this virtual world now where a lot of it can be done remotely but at the same time it really doesn't substitute for that in person close contact kind of personal feeling with the voter but the

bottom line is these are different times this is a different campaign than we've ever seen before due to the pen demick and most americans are pretty understanding and we should also point out most americans are pretty decided who they're going to vote for at this point so again it's a very small fraction of the voting populace that is going to be affected by this but still every vote matters when a country is this divided because indeed scribbly whole bring is the results from washington d.c. thank you. also on whether to appoint amy connie barrett see the u.s. supreme court will be held next thursday that's less than 2 weeks before the u.s. election baratz has been facing days of tough questions from senate committee members on capitol hill the senate judiciary committee decision to move ahead with an update over 22nd votes was made despite objections from democrats. coronavirus cases are surging across europe and countries are imposing new

restrictions in a bid to curb the outbreak in the u.k. london is moving to the 2nd highest score with 19 alert level countries reporting nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in a single day and a 3 tier locked in 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 the barker has more from london on the restrictions. 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 from 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 of essex and subject to this change as well but of course you know there are still big questions about whether this goes far enough you can still go form a high risk area to a moderate risk area so if i wanted to travel from london to oxfordshire 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. security services have been deployed in the nigerian capital abuja and also in lagos amid school intentions about police brutality it follows more than a week of protests of says. water cannon and tear gas against protesters

demonstrators complaints include accusations of merger torture and extortion from the preacher his. demonstrations are continuing in several cities in nigeria but there's 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 they spent the night demonstrations resume today. in the early hours of today a group of thugs with knives and clubs descended on protesters dispersant them before the protesters formed by just like they did in a butcher yesterday and then things are getting common out there grouping made goes in a number stand 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 legislators and but the police denied them intriguing to the national parliament they still there are 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 earlier intervene in that 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. israel has approved the construction of thousands more illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank that brings the total number of

homes approved see almost 5000 over the past 2 days palestinian leadership has condemned the move it's the 1st time jewish settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to annex palestinian lands as part of a deal with the u.a.e. eeprom has more from bethlehem in the occupied west bank. the number of illegal israeli settlement units promoted this year is the largest in nearly a decade 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 settlement over here built over the lands of the well as a village near bethlehem over na and 150 new units will establish a neighborhood that is larger than the settlement itself they moved israelis is not

only to build this certainly but the strategic to build them in a way that they can link. 'd 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 behind a normalized relations with israel the deal was folded based on freezing annexation but for palestinians the ongoing supplement expansion is the fact that panic stations were not only talking about up their homes but roads infrastructure the separation barriers and israeli settlers eating up palestinian resources. over the past year more than a 1000000 people have fled from it'll open northwestern syria as happened as russia and syrian forces intensify their airstrikes now a human rights group says dozens of those attacks appear to have targeted civilians

. in reports. a year of strikes on nuclear power cause widespread destruction and suffering. in a new report human points watch says syrian and russian forces launched on lawful attacks on civilians an apparent strategy believes to deliberately drive out entire neighborhoods. really is hard to imagine that all of these attacks were erroneous 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 novice well i was worried when the strike hit my parents neighborhood when we

arrived at the hospital was so my mother the muscle of decapitating 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 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 consume the card still open so the young al-jazeera. my. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the largest prisoner exchange in yemen civil war is underway in summer more than a 1000 detainees are being swapped for seeing the hooty rebels and the saudi u.a.e. coalition which backs yemen's government has more the operation is still underway the planes taking off from the port of. or were. government soldiers who were detained by the whole thing is now being flown to. and say you're in the south of.