A curfew is declared across parts of france as europe battles a 2nd wave of coronavirus. The rebels in yemen have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 of their faces those released have since arrived in yemens capital after transiting through oman the white house says that humanitarian work sandra lowly businessperson Michael Goodale could im sorry have been released are the remains of a 3rd american have been retirement. Well heres a look at how we got here the efforts to end the 5 year long conflict u. N. Brokered peace talks began in stockholm in 2018 the warring sides signed a deal to swap around 15000. 00 detainees but progress has been slow nearly 1100 detainees are expected to be exchanged on thursday that ruthies will reportedly release around 400 people including 15 Saudis Coalition forces a likely to free around 700 hooty fighters last year who thinks freed 290 prisoners and saudi arabia released 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions are suffering food medical shortages the bill corey is a Senior Researcher at the Atlantic Council for studies hes also a former u. S. Deputy chief of mission in yemen and says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. These 3 as it is shouldve never been this deal should have been done before they at the time the hooty is claiming that they were spies but there is no evidence whatsoever that these people were working with any Us Intelligence agency. At any rate i think that finding now and as i say this could have happened earlier. Is that for Donald Trump Administration this is a good time to bring back americans from overseas its. One more thing he can boast about just before the u. S. Elections. From the hostess point of view this is also a good thing because there was a move in washington to classify them as if they were this organization well obviously if there were still classified. The us governments hands would be. On the principle that they dont deal with terrorists so how this may have forced old. Some of the hawks who are calling war justifying the hope is as that. Over the past here more than a 1000000 people fled from lib in the northwest of syria the top of those russian and Syrian Forces intensified asterix a Human Rights Group says the dozens of attacks appear to have targeted civilians as heroes caught a low price holiday on reports. And a year of strikes on your plate have caused widespread destruction and suffering. In a new report human points watch sense syrian and Russian Forces launch a model attacks on civilians an apparent strategy it believes to deliberately drive out entire neighborhoods it really is hard to imagine that all of these attacks that were were. Were iran yes and the syrian army is then able to walk into a completely empty area and retake it without any fight whatsoever out of there 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 when i was well i was worried when the strike hit my parents neighborhood when we arrived at the hospital was so my mother the missile of decapitation to my sister only recognised her because of her clothes removed went to the site risk us limb from my son did under the rubble the latest ceasefire in syria signed by russia and turkey in march hands with a relative calm in clip the last breath will control the 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 its 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 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 consume the card still open so the young aljazeera. Its been more violence between taliban fighters and Government Troops in afghanistan parts of a military base were destroyed after a car bomb explosion in wardak province not far from the capital Kabul Officials say that 4 taliban fighters were killed while 4 members of the Afghan Security forces were injured in the attack theres also been more fighting in the Southern Province of helmand no injuries were reported in the violence on wednesday night its happening those peace negotiations between the 2 sides continue in qatar more than 30000 people a fled to the provincial capital lashkar gah aljazeera shallop palace reports. In helmand afghanistan it is hard to imagine that peace is on the horizon as negotiations between afghan politicians and the taliban stumble fall in qatar the fighting regions back home you know about this that i had 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 isnt a been flow of territory seized in last potential live for each for the 2. On sunday it is collated and helmand that today go our number for then when we left our home the fighting started a mortar hit near my brother we want peace here as you can see my hands are red with my brothers blood. Each side claims to have inflicted more losses on the other because in the middle of civilians well i live in a ball in the village the situation of i was very bad we couldnt stay all these people are coming here because of fighting close to 5000. 00 families which is about 35. 00 people out importantly being displaced and this displacement in lead to additional leads from that site for shelter for what didnt sanitation trued event and also not knowing when they would be able to return back. Helmand is a taliban stronghold they control about 80 percent of the province they say they are just retaking their own areas and have no plans to claim fresh government territory they promise safety for captured soldiers can hold out of that part that you can see the taliban are foreign from those houses but taint so far away from here one boy was killed and still he is lying on the road the Afghan Government and u. S. Forces have coded in unprovoked taliban offensive they claim to have killed the talibans operational chief at home and along with dozens of fighters using u. S. Airstrikes and a ground assault 2 Afghan Military helicopters collided on tuesday killing on. Our visit on the visits by other high ranking government officials is an assurance that by all means we will defend. Its been more than a month since peace talks began and dont have between the taliban and afghan political leaders each day brings a promise of peace and the certainty of sacrifice china ballasts al jazeera. Thousands of antigovernment protesters in thailand have been cleared from outside the Prime Ministers Office in the capital bangkok the government declared an emergency in the Early Morning and burned large gatherings tension flared as demonstrators rallied around the democracy monument in the heart of bangkok on weapon state Rights Groups say that at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of others put arresters aljazeera scott hietala is in bangkok. About 5 hours ago that they were removed those protesters those hardcore protesters if you call them that a few 100 of them that stayed out around the Government House area overnight and then there was that emergency decree 4 am local time that allowed the riot police to to clear them out because they this inactive a law a rule that no more than 5 people would gather at one place so thats what they used to for them to leave now what had happened earlier on wednesday thousands of antigovernment protesters started at democracy monument which is about a kilometer and a half away from here really big big big crowds walking down an avenue going through several Police Checkpoints some physical some with just police there they were negotiated some some checkpoints they actually broke through even moved to make their way here around the Government House area then they stayed thousands of them stayed until the evening and then again as i mentioned a few 100 stayed throughout the night until they were peacefully removed by those riot police now they were speaking on makeshift stages around the Government House they said to abide by the Police Orders and leave peacefully will be back so in other words theyre planning something further down the line as we can very well expect but the most important thing was even you know theres a water truck here water cannon truck the most important thing is that it ended peacefully and that was something that both sides had said that they want to happen is that to maintain peace and they were able to do that i want to take back to an office here and then. 6 cries of despair as the conflict of an acoa kind of escalates threatening a ceasefire brokered by russia. And with the clock running down u. S. President told trump makes another stop on the campaign trail in a state thats critical to his reelection. However weve got some dry weather pushing into the northwest of here a pipe for the next couple of davis are very heavy right now which was a society of quite an intense area of low pressure here saw a packed ice abbass some very strong winds coming in across the Baltic States into germany through poland and some rather wet weather too just around the parts of it is not is it a general life and some very heavy right across the north of italy running across the balkans some snow coming back on the tail end of facts and that whats the weather its not in its way a little for a switch up to as a northwest but we do have that high sinking in still quite a chilly braise it must be said 13 celsius in london with that northeasterly wind a rolling in off the north say stays dry and fog as we go on through friday this weather system getting held by by our High Pressure showers low dispose of christ into central and eastern parts with more snow over the alps and some showers there into central policy of italy and all the possible africare it stays fine and dry usual cropper showers through Central Africa sinking a little further south as i should do that will be some heavy downpours into southern nigeria can cause some localized flooding here cameron also seeing some big downpours the showers around iran across the west of africa pushing all the way into sierra leone. The. Temperatures are on the rise Global Warming is taking effect. As one of the worlds biggest emitters of Greenhouse Gases the u. S. Is set to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord the day after the president ial election we can and we will deal with Climate Change but a new president reversed the decision in time face up to the Climate Crisis probably me shoes of the u. S. Elections on aljazeera. Well again this is our 0 loss for much of the main news this hour the rebels in yemen have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250. 00 of their faces those faces have now arrived in yemens capital sanaa after going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday. Human rights watch has accused russian and Syrian Forces of targeting civilians and it lives the Rights Group Says that more than a 1000000 people are forced from the area as fighting intensified over the past here on this been for the fighting between taliban fighters and Government Troops in afghanistan as peace talks being held in qatar parts of a military base in wardog were destroyed in a car bomb attack. Armenia and azerbaijan appear to have ignored a deal that they signed to ease tensions over the disputed region of the gold okara back both sides say the death toll is mounting aljazeera is but its worth reports now from chorus in our media theyll be a memorial like this in perhaps every one of the homes of the more than 530. 00 armenian men killed since fighting restarted on september the 27th. Was a 19 year old conscript sent to the frontlines just as fighting with azerbaijan started. Saumur as he did when we last talked on the phone on the evening of september 26th and he said everythings all right after that we heard nothing on the 27th i wanted to go volunteer where my son was serving but i wasnt allowed then on the 30th i got a call and was told everything is finished all the young men ingeborg School Yearbook are doing their Compulsory Military Service now like almost every young man in armenia and nagornokarabakh to my niece up to now i think he will call he will come back i dont know i cant imagine hes not with us anymore. I mean as Prime Minister says theres been some retreats from frontline positions and the situation is what he described as quite difficult for his country. I spy in misery right and all the number of our care who will do that is a very high no more. Victims armenias adversary azerbaijan now has the open and full support of turkey. President. Says 26 years of diplomacy have failed to resolve the conflict and its 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 turkeys involvement in future negotiations on the golan care about. The father of 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 theyve all suffered from the armenian separatists its 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 shouldnt stop there are so many members inconsolable like me so much blood of our soldiers if we take our lands back ill say i didnt 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 or oil and Gas Pipelines the armenians areas are trying to seize nagornokarabakh and above this angry rhetoric russia is appealing to both sides to observe the humanitarian ceasefire but it seems no ones paying attention Bernard Smith aljazeera chorus armine. Israel is expected to approve the construction of more subtle homes in the occupied west bank at least 2000 of them were approved on wednesday the Planning Committee looks set to agree around 5000. 00 homes the palestinian leadership has condemned the move its the 1st time that settler homes have been authorized since israel suspended plans to an explicit indian land that was agreed under a deal with the u. A. E. To normalize ties china is accusing the u. S. Of undermining peace and stability by selling a Navy Destroyer between taiwan and Mainland China the u. S. Says the vessels passage through the Taiwan Strait was routine but the Chinese Military has called the move provocative it comes as tension is escalating between beijing and taipei over the islands or ptolemy at least 36 states in the u. S. Are reporting rising numbers of coronavirus cases in the northeast hospital beds are being filled by a virus patients around 50000 new cases have been reported each day for the past few days the virus is infected more than 7800000 people in the u. S. Has led to the deaths of poor than 216000 put millions out of work at irans coronavirus death toll is at a record high for the 3rd time this week 279 people have died almost 5000 of tested positive the government is paramount travel to and from the 5 worst hit cities including the capital tehran. The Czech Republic is reporting a record high of more than 1500. 00 new coronavirus cases it currently has the highest per capita infection rates in europe schools have been closed students represent 16 percent of all infections of the Health Ministry says the number of cases among teachers and staff is also on the riotous. President about. A curfew for paris and 8 other cities to combat the rapid spread of covert 19 in france the president stopped short of introducing travel restrictions or a National Lockdown saying that they would hit the economy too hard. Reports from paris french president emanuel mackerel sit france was in the grip of a 2nd wave