A long awaited exchange a massive operation over a 1000 Prisoners Released on both sides of yemens conflict plus. Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of bangkok defying a ban on large gatherings and emergency measures. From europe to the u. S. The coronavirus pandemic is disrupted an e. U. Summit in brussels and has jolted the democratic president ial campaign less than 3 weeks before elections the president of the European Commission on the land abruptly left trade talks after she came in contact with someone infected with cope with 19 and the u. S. Democratic Vice President ial candidate Campbell Harris is to spend it all in person events after 2 of her Campaign Members tested positive. Speak to our White House CorrespondentKimberly Halkett in just a moment but 1st lets go to natasha in paris and sasha even summits are not immune to covert 90 how is the departure of sort of on the lane impacted the meeting. Well its certainly a dramatic twist into this summit that it only really just got started in brussels as e. U. Leaders arrived a short while ago but soon after a civil glenn the e. U. Commission the head suddenly left the summit it turns out because she said later she has come into contact with someone with a covert 19 someone has tested positive in her own to raj now she says that she has actually tested negative but she had chosen to self isolate in order to take as many precautions as possible because of course she has been in contact with lots of people earlier today and now oh serve on delay and will probably continue to be part of this summit remotely by video conferences certainly hasnt disrupted the business of the summit or subways which is looking mainly at greggs whether or not the e. U. Can come to any sort of agreement with the u. K. On a post breaks it or trade deal i have to say though the fact that wonderland has left the summit is certainly of course once again highlighted the corona virus pandemic it is a pandemic that europe is in the in the midst of a 2nd wave of the virus a cases sparring up in many European Countries and there is no doubt that the corona virus is on the agenda for e. U. Leaders as much as breaks in their focus very much on how to stop this pandemic. Flu variant paris lets talk now to our White House Correspondent kimberly hellgate talking about another significant female politician whos been implanted by covert 19 Kamala Harris how is this impacting the whole Democratic Campaign at this point close to elections right. Yeah well right now senator harriss travel is on hold until at least sunday the Campaign Says shell resume on monday because she so far has tested negative for covert 19 and theres also a low risk and low fear on her campaign that she is going to test positive but again there are no certainties when it comes to fighting coronavirus so as a result the Campaign Says that they will out of an abundance of caution keep her Campaign Events for now virtual but heres the the reason that there is a little bit of confidence within the campaign that shes going to be ok that is because they say that she did not have proximity to the flight member as well as the Campaign Director in the 48 hours prior to them testing positive where she was in their presence apparently she was wearing a and 95. 00 mask which is what the members of the hospital and 1st line responders would wear so it is the best that you can get in terms of protection having said that again there are no guarantees no certainties this and thats why they have suspended all travel she was supposed to travel to North Carolina today we know that she will pick up again on monday now in terms of her running mate joe biden the concern is that he could also be at risk he has again tested negative and of course his greatest exposure to that of donald trump who after the 1st president ial campaign where they were both on stage donald trump ultimately tested positive for cocaine at 19 and spending roughly 10 days at the white house as well as Walter Reed Medical Center so given the advanced age of those 2 president ial candidates the concern for about the risk for kamel harris the senator joe bidens running mate significant thats why her husband is also going to pas his travel until they can know that they are completely served coated free and as of right now negative tests but the Campaign Says theyre going to continue Contact Tracing because there are no guarantees there are no certainties all right thanks so much kimberly how could that. Well the 1st signs of what could be an end to weeks of political turmoil in kyrgyzstan suddenly jump out of who was named Prime Minister this week has now its umed president ial palace just hours earlier both the president and the speaker of parliament resigned president sort of in day jeenbekov had faced daily protests since this months disputed parliamentary election demonstrators accuse the government of rigging the. Chance trying to it isnt cool in east in kyrgyzstan he explains what the resignations mean for the protesters in the country its 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 which. 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 wasnt 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 your power supporters were threatening to storm the president s building if he hadnt 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. The largest Prisoner Exchange in yemen civil war is underway in samarra more than a 1000 the detainees are being swapped between who 3 rebels and the saudi u. A. E. Coalition which backs yemens government planes carrying hoofy fighters whod been held by the saudi u. A. E. Led coalition have been arriving in the capital sanaa. Ports. A long awaited moment in yemen prisoners held in captivity for years freed in the largest Prisoner Exchange between the warring factions the deal was brokered by the u. N. In 2018 but never implemented but this time who feel rebels and government representatives set aside their differences hoping the swap could lead to thousands of detainees being liberated in the future. It was a carefully arranged operation saudi sudanese and government detainees boarded a plane that took off from whove airport their destination airport in saudi arabia. Are the same time who feel rebels were transferred from say human airport in southern yemen to. Any delay could have jeopardized the whole agreement. A separate Prisoner Exchange took place on wednesday brokered by oman the deal allowed more than 200 heard these stranded in amman to return home in exchange for the release of 2 u. S. Citizens detained by the houthi the rebels also sent back the remains of a 3rd american who died in captivity. Citizen was living working in yemen and. Was imprisoned for 899. 00 days 2 years and 6 months in solitary confinement. And it was hell really how bad bad experience and i think. His majesty some fun for his assistance in getting us. The u. N. Held the Prisoner Exchange as a milestone its hope is to convince feuding parties to restart political talks to end the war in yemen. 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 its 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 theyve 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 know 80 percent of the people here at the end on you may turn system more than 20000000 of people have no access to. Who to health to water and sanitation i can give you a just an example to illustrate a bit how dramatic is the situation in the i. C. R. C. As open only one center for treatment of corona virus patients in the world. And its yemen its in aden because the situation is so traumatic the mortality rate is so high that we had to make an exception to our policy and open and also treat our various cases in yemen this demonstrates that yemeni people they reach the end of the route scope is political will needs to be present and we want to believe that its presence diplomatic etta james bays is at the u. N. With more on the reaction to the prisoner swap. I think this was carefully coordinated although ive been speaking to officials of the International Committee of the red cross over the last 2 years since that deal that took place in stockholm and theyve been working on this and its been extremely frustrating at times it is a broadly welcoming whats happening june who is the Chinese Ambassador to the u. N. I spoke to him on his way into the Security Council and he said this was good news but they had to go much further than out to get a lot of good news a lot more good news and thats certainly been the position too of the u. N. Special envoy Martin Griffiths who is hoping that this will encourage other developments he described this is an airlift of hope the implementation of this agreement will build confidence and indeed momentum by demonstrating a simple truth the peaceful dialogue. Between the parties and deliver the road back to peace prisoners agreement does not encourage many thousands more yemenis detained during the course of this project and it is that for our obligation and the obligation of the parties to convene very soon just gus further releases the challenges ahead he said there are many more detainees in the next 24 hours were going to see i think 1081 Prisoners Released we think there are over 7000 prisoners that are still in custody in this conflict. Well still ahead on al jazeera numbers of coverage 19 infection rise in italy and across europe forcing governments to impose restrictions. Speaker of parliament in cyprus quite says job after not just your investigation uncovered a cash for passports scandal. Weve got some rather heavy rain in the forecast for japan as we go through the next couple of days at the moment it is lossy fine and dry and i was saying 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 bank 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 the same some very heavy rain around hyderabad over the past 2448 has around 200. 00 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 thats going to continue making its way out into the arabian sea very heavy rain pushing up towards good herat and the southeast of pakistan. Im Steve Clemons i dont. Question got these days its hard to filter out the noise and keep track of whats really important the bottom line tackles the big issues that are shaping the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera. We know whats happening in our region we know how to get the playfield that others can off the fires are still going on the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera time to recap our headlines now. The president of the European Commission sort of underlying abruptly left brags that trade talks after she came in contact with someone infected with coded 19 the e. U. Summit in brussels is going ahead as planned u. S. Democratic Vice President ial candidate camel harriss suspended all in person event after 2 of her Campaign Members tested positive both and joe biden have tested negative. Kyrgyzstans Prime Minister has assumed president ial powers after both the president and speaker of parliament resigned have been weeks of antigovernment protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month. The largest Prisoner Exchange in yemen civil war is underway and more than a 1000 detainees are being swapped between who 3 rebels and the saudi u. A. E. Coalition. Coronavirus cases are surging across europe and countries are imposing new restrictions to try and curb that outbreak in the u. K. London is moving to the 2nd highest. Alert level the country is reporting nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in the day a new 3 tier lockdown system has come into force in england. 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 the 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 on these barker has more from london now on the new restrictions there were 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 one minute 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 of essex its 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 from a high risk area to a moderate risk area so if i wanted to travel from london to oxford sure thered 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 now italys record its highest single day tally of new infections since the start of the pandemic its reported nearly 9000 new cases on thursday infections there are surging again particularly in northern italy where the pandemic 1st took hold in march. France is deploying Police Across paris and 8 other cities to enforce night curfews that will begin later saturday you measures were announced after hospital admissions reached their highest level since june hospital admissions are at their highest levels. Poland has also seen a recording crease in confirmed cases more than a 1000 new infections were reported in the latest daily tally a growing number of people are falling seriously ill with the Health Ministry warning hospital beds for the enough hundreds of antigovernment protesters are on the streets of bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings they calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy scotland has more from bangkok. Police leave a long night out front of thailands seat of power Government House as street cleaners wash away what was left behind by the thousands of antigovernment 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 queens who teach passed by the salute has become a symbol of the protests the calls for government and monarchy reform and the daily life that even removing the Prime Minister. Would not result in long long time that because. You know problems. Just lie and. Progress that has moved on now from. There you want to stay in school to become mean. We just want to reform 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 pouts to find 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 theyll continue their protests making sure that they are heard by those in power its got harder aljazeera bangkok the speaker of the supreme polman demeters sideris has resigned in the wake of a cash for possible scandal and aljazeera 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 e. U. Citizenship the government has a now abolish the program from nicosia is david harrison. Theres been another Dramatic Development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demetrius serious has announced his resignation now as the suitors have 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 op tain an e. U. Passport the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule with mean showing him holding now a notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera theres a serious insists that he will be proven innocent when the attorney generals investigation is complete but for now its another scalp for the people who say that this man is corrupt despite his objections and that he has to step down. Security services have been deployed in the nigerian capital abuja and lagos amidst growing tension about Police Brutality it follows more than a week of protests officers have used live rounds water cannon and tear gas against demonstrators protesters complaints include accusations of murder torture and extortion. From a budget and address. Demonstrations are continuing in several cities in nigeria but there have been some incidents in nigerias 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 resumed today. In the early hours of today a group of thugs with knives and clubs descended on protesters dispersant the protesters formed by just like they did yesterday and then things are getting common out there grouping may cause 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 yesterdays 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 satellite 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 its the 1st time jewish settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to and that its Palestinian Land is part of the deal with the u. A. E. But over the past year more than a 1000000 people have fled from it live in northwestern syria thats happened as russian and Syrian Forces intensified their air strikes now a Human Rights Group says dozens of those attacks appear to have targeted civilians godzilla puzzled again reforms. A year of strikes on nuclear pav cause widespread destruction and suffering. In a new report hooman points watch says syrian and Russian Forces launched a lawful attacks on civilians an apparent strategy of 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 out of the 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 then i was well know i was worried when the strike hit my parents neighborhood when we arrived at the hospital i saw my mother the missile of decapitation to 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 went to relative calm in italy the last brubaker controlled area of a 9 year rule 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 its hacks on civilians continue despite warnings by the United Nations we are calling for the u. N. General assembly to take its own action to urge its Member States to pass sanctions on those commanders most responsible and for the u. N. General assembly to take action to help open the to very necessary for monetary and border crossings. Now with much of it live in ruins and hundreds of thousands of lives ruined activists say their call for accountability for those responsible will continue. To the young which is here. Now wildfire is threatening homes near los angeles as 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. And lets take you through some of the headlines here al jazeera now the president of the European Commission sort of on the lion abruptly left brags that trade talks after she came into contact with someone in fact they would cope with 19 the e. U. Summit in brussels is going d ahead those plans u. S. Democratic Vice President ial candidate Campbell Harris has suspended all impersonal events after 2 of her Campaign Members tested positive both paris and joe biden