un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own. bonnie is the international committee of the red cross is near and middle east regional director he says more releases should take place because of the diet humanitarian situation. anything at the end of the day. you need a political will to make such a release of detainees possible because because there is one very important element in these remarks it took place it's taking place why the conflict is ongoing most of the time release of detainees happen at the end of a country not during. and i think we should stress this and be take it as a positive step i think they've done something really hard i want to believe that all parties to this conflict realize that they reached the end of the road or at least the people of yemen beach the end of the rope you k

envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task ahead encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran back to these control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own. while our diplomatic edison james base has more on what the exchange could mean for the prospects of peace. well this is arguably the most important positive development in yemen for almost 2 years the development came as the un security council was having its monthly meeting on yemen and the un special envoy martin griffiths said he hoped that this development would mean more prisoner releases and wider political progress we have some good mirrors in yemen today. and as you probably know since the smalling the skies of yemen have seen what i like to refer to as an left of her party is a started releasing prisoners and detainees of the agreement they reached on the 27th of september in switzerland and this process will lead to the release of over a 1000 indivi

envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground that's a session a south backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own possible al-jazeera of vani is the international committee of the red cross is near and middle east regional director he joins us now from yemen's capital sanaa good to have you with us so are you satisfied with how this prisoner exchange is gone so far you know it's to do we can say that it's it's a positive operation i think there are many families in yemen and in saudi arabia who have were celebrating and that's very is this going to lead to a broader release of all captives. that's what we hope i would say for the time being you know we focus on this around 1000 detainees who are really going to be raised to close tomorrow we still have. 22 legs we used. it in but we've celebrated it tomorrow and after we start working for the other detainees and

envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the sound of that government is losing ground that's a session a south backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own. body is the international committee of the red cross is near and middle east regional director he says more releases should take place because of the die humanitarian situation anything at the end of the day. you need a political will to make such a result detainees possible because because there is one very important element in these regions to place it's taking place why the conflict is ongoing most of the time release of detainees happen at the end of a calm not during. and i think we should stress this and be take it as a positive step i think they've done something really hard i want to believe that all parties to this conflict realize that the reached the end of the road or at least the people of yemen beach the end of the rope you know 80 pe

un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of. the un's special envoy to yemen says progress is being made to reach a deal on ending the conflict diplomatic editor james bays has. well this is arguably the most important positive development in yemen for almost 2 years the development came as the un security council was having its monthly meeting on yemen and the un special envoy martin griffiths said he hoped that this development would mean more prisoner releases and wider political progress we have some good mirrors in yemen today. and as you probably know since this morning the skies of yemen have seen what i like to refer to as an edge of her. the parties are started releasing prisoners and detainees after the agreement they reached on the 27th of september in switzerland and this process will lead to the r

un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the back to these control most of the more of the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south. to declare a state of their own. kurdistan's prime minister has assumed presidential powers after both the president and the speaker of parliament resigned said their job at all had been named the prime minister just this week after his supporters freed him from jail the president assume by you haven't called for has face that they really protests against his leadership since this month's disputed parliamentary election demonstrators accuse the government of breaking the vote charles stratford is an eastern care guest on with more on what the president's resignation means for the country. fair to say mr jeenbekov has been changing his story since these rigged elections on oct 4th initially after those elections we heard nothing from him with all there was a french really a statement given by him saying t

un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task ahead encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own. as a president says his army will take all of the government cutbacks major regions unless amina agrees to withdraw within a specified time frame and comments have further dashed hopes that a mosque mediated ceasefire could bring an end to the conflict and 600 people have been killed since 5 saying over the disputed region for account last month. well it's been the scene of conflict since the early 1990 amenia says nagorno-karabakh must be an independent states while azerbaijan says its territory cynical so looks at how the spicing is affecting azerbaijan's minority groups. this is where the jewish community gathers in azerbaijan 2nd largest city ganja there are 150 jewish families who live here and call themselves mountain jews a reference to their origin

un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever. back to theists control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own. libya's un recognized government is threatening to enter certain for south fighters loyal to the warlord only for have to are it comes off to have task forces fired 4 missiles that the region west of town thursday the tripoli administration is accusing have to repeatedly violating a cease fire. for the 6. the ceasefire was breached by forces loyal to khalifa haftar by fighting for grad rockets at the area this comes as we are in talks in switzerland tunisia and egypt mediated by united nations and attended by delegates from both the site and we are committed to the ceasefire but if these violations continue after the dialogue then we will wait for the orders of be employed and we will enter sirte and expel the wagner's ring jonjo we'd mercenaries be expelled them fr

un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task to hand encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south. to declare a state of their own has about al-jazeera. still to come in this half hour. thousands the fire protests banned in thailand demanding the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy and why zimbabwe's pensioners are healing for food handouts despite a lifetime of work and saving for retirement. hello we've got some rather blustery showers moving across the southeast of australia once again little area of cloud here piling through victoria down across tasmania and will feed some rather wet and windy and at times when she weather into parts of the picture is to go on through friday long tail of clout they're just coming out of at least inside of victoria pushing up to wards adelaide was a southeastern corner of south australia for western parts it is fine and dry and simpler i

un envoy martin griffiths faces a delicate task ahead encouraging the parties to do just that. but yemen is now more divided than ever the iran backed her thesis control most of the north the saudi backed government is losing ground and secessionists backed by the u.a.e. in the south whitening to declare a state of their own. still ahead on al-jazeera. president resigns from the prime minister is now in charge we'll look at what comes next after weeks of chaos. israel approves more homes for the 1st time since a promise to an extension. palestinian reaction. 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 not loss of cloud 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 so the day temperatures struggling to get to 13 celsius saturday there in tokyo we got plenty of wet wea

the un special envoy for yemen, martin griffiths, told the security council he hoped the exchange wouldments. a call echoed on the ground. translation: this deal must be the beginning of others. this issue is humanitarian before being military or political. therefore, this must be an introduction, otherwise we have to have pressure cards that will push the enemy to accept other deals, as we still have saudi and sudanese prisoners. and that's the reality, while the number of people handed over is impressive, thousands more remain detained and 80% of yemen's population require a vital aid. this crisis is far from over. gareth barlow, bbc news. now, twitter says it's launched an investigation after a global outage. users weren't able to tweet, and were sent error messages saying "something went wrong". twitter says the issue was caused by an inadvertent change made to their internal systems. earlier, our tech reporter james clayton talked us through twitter‘s latest statement and what it means. "the recent issue was caused by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems. twitter s

rhys hancock repeatedly stabbed helen hancock and martin griffiths as they lay in bed at their home infour o clock in the morning that hancock had taken two knives and left the house threatening to kill the pair. a building inspector who signed off the grenfell tower refurbishment failed to properly read a string of product specifications while considering the materials to be used for the work. john hoban told the grenfell inquiry that he was under pressure following spending cuts in his department, and that at times he was working on 120 to 130 projects at one time. ministers are understood to be considering plans to house asylum seekers on disused ferries moored off the british coast, while their claims are assessed. new figures reveal more than 1900 migrants reached the uk by boat in september — more than in the whole of last year. simonjones reports. destination dover. this boat carrying 20 migrants, which set off from northern france, was being tracked by a military drone. but despite a pledge by both the british and french authorities to make the route unviable, people have been

envoy martin griffiths hailed the exchange as an important milestone toward ending conflict in yemen, where years of attacks by a u.s.-supported, saudi-led coalition have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis that's pushed millions to the brink of famine. in a related prisoner exchange, more than 200 houthi supporters were allowed to return home from oman in exchange for the release of two u.s. citizens held captive by houthis. this is released american prisoner mikael gidada speaking from oman just after his release. >> american c citizeneniving and working inin yemen. i was i in p prison for r 899 d. two years, s six months.s. years, six-month in solitary confinement. it was really hell. arrested at los angeles international airport thursday while on a family vacation. he was arrested on a warrant by the u.s. drug forstmann administration. he served as defense secretary from 2012 to 2018 under former mexican president pena nieto. the mexican magazine reports the arrest was connected to a corruption probe involving drug traffickers. he was defense secretary the time i it zoomed massacre

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

hywel griffith, bbc news, caerphilly. martinsor of european public health at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine — he gave me his take on the situation in europe right now. it's certainly not what i would hope for. it's extremely alarming and we really shouldn't be in this position by now. obviously when the pandemic hit at first nobody knew what to do and we needed to have very severe lockdowns. but we have had a lot of time to put things in place to prevent this happening. unfortunately, we haven't done that. such as what? well, we should have had really well—functioning test, trace and isolate in all countries. a number of countries do have that and moved quickly. but also i think it's quite clear that some have opened up too quickly. and i think what we are seeing now is the consequences of a well—known phenomenon in europe and that is the august summer holiday, where people were mixing in a way that, in retrospect, for some people as was predicted, has allowed the virus to spread widely across many but not al