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 fighters who was released have since arrived at yemens capital sanaa after transiting through among the white house says that humanitarian worker sandra lowly businessman michael good data have been released and the remains of a 3rd american have been returned as bringing out a serious. Question tell us more about this prisoner swap deal well this is an extraordinary operation which is underway its a very delicate operation for Different Reasons until about a few hours ago ago there has been some huge differences between the whole theories of the government representatives about some what the what the who thiis described as de lay of the 1st batch of who the president is to be transferred from flown from in saudi arabia all the way to sinai and that delay were almost going to undermine the whole operation a senior official is saying that the operation is under way and theyre expecting the 1800. 00 prisoners to be released today so what is going to be happening from a logistical perspective is that were going to see plays taken. Prisoners all the way from 2 words and then say youre in the government. Lighters were going to be flown from the port of san are all the way to word say on say on and this is going to be monitored by the i. C. R. C. By the United Nations and also representatives from the government and from the whole of these theres been similar experience there have been experiences in the past was were undermined the last minute because of the huge differences about the modalities and of the Prisoner Exchange and this explains why everyone now is very cautious i have to remind our viewers there are about 7000 prisoners still detained by the houthi that the government and the u. N. Is hoping that after this 1st batch they will be able to bring all the parties to go she ate another major president exchange and one of the bigger issues at play here. There are some quite Significant Developments edgy and you spoke earlier about the about the the release of the 250 health is in exchange for the 2 american citizens and this was something which was brokered by now this could be an indication that we are likely to say to see our own man step in in the near future and play a crucial role in the political deal now the u. N. Is hoping to bring all the parties to negotiate. A political settlement or place to start from where they failed after the Stockholm Agreement in 2018 the deal back there was basically to start with the Prisoner Exchange that was delayed until now and then to discuss the future of the coastal areas including this is the vital city of data thats from where all the exports into yemen come from and then to discuss the future of sun and the prospects for the houthi is negotiating with a government. A National Unity government that is going to take over but it doesnt but this is not going to happen anytime soon i think we have to wait and give it some time because yemen of 2018 is not yemen of today it has further splintered with a succession is in the south further saying that they would like to break away from the north the hokies are further consolidating their power in the northern part of the country president obama so how do you about 15000 detainees but progress as weve been hearing has been slow nearly 1100 prisoners are expected to be she exchanged on thursday who things will reportedly reese release around 400. 00 including 15 saudis and Coalition Forces are likely to free the 700. 00 who think fighters last year the who is freed 290. 00 prisoners and saudi arabia released 128. 00 the war any emon has killed more than 100000 people millions are suffering food and medicine medical shortages the bill corey is a Senior Researcher at the Atlantic Council for studies hes also worked for us deputy chief of mission in yemen he says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. These 3 as it is shouldve never been this 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 u. S. Governments hands would be high. On the principle that they dont deal with terrorists so this may have forced old. Some of the hawks who are calling war classifying the hope these as that are. Over the past here more than a 1000000 people have fled from it glib in northwestern syria its happened as washington Syrian Forces intensified asterix now a Human Rights Group says that dozens of those attacks appear to have targeted civilians houses or is caught him a post reports. The year of strikes on your plate have caused widespread destruction and suffering. In a new report human points watch sense syrian and Russian Forces launched a muffle 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. Between april last year and 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 i know of us well i was worried when the strike hit my parents neighborhood when we arrived at the hospital was so my mother the missile of decapitated her my sister only recognize 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 as well to relative calm in italy the last brubaker controlled 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 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. Theres far more violence between taliban fighters and Government Troops in afghanistan parts of a military base were destroyed after a car bomb exploded in wardak province not far from the capital Kabul SecurityOfficials Say that 4 taliban fighters were killed all 4 of us of the Afghan Forces were injured. And theres been fighting in the Southern Province of helmand as well no injuries were reported on wednesday night but the violence is happening against a backdrop of peace to go see actions that are under way in qatar more than 30000 people have fled to the provincial capital of lashkar gah aljazeera charlotte dallas reports. 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 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 take our numbers at the end when we left our homes our 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 a civilians while 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 5 families which is about 35. 00 people out importantly being displaced and this displacement in lead to additional leads from their site for shelter for work and sanitation. 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 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 an unprovoked taliban offensive they claim to have killed the talibans operational chief 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. 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 on the ballasts al jazeera. In thailand thousands of antigovernment protests have been cleared from outside the Prime Ministers Office in bangkok the government declared an emergency in the Early Morning hours and barreled large gatherings Rights Groups say that at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of other support arrested scott hype the reports. 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 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 i do daily life that even me will be a Prime Minister. Would not result. In higher that because. You know problems. Being. Focused on has moved on now from stockholm. You want to stay still to. Be decisive when i want to reform or not 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 the protests have grown well beyond a movement led by students many others have joined who also feel that their voice is not being heard by those in power but even with the top leaders of the movement arrested protesters say theyll carry on with their car for a change its got harder aljazeera bangkok. Were going to weather update next here on out 0 then. 6 6 cries of despair the concerts in the going to kind of dark escalates threatening a cease fire brokered by russia. Hello the weather is looking quiet but cool with not chilly across could pass over Northern Europe at the moment last the clear skies there are bits and pieces of mist and fall with High Pressure in charge thats whats keeping it quiet are also dragging in the cool wind out of scandinavia the north were northeasterly wind coming right out across europe right down towards the southwest across central parts of the met things a little livelier handle more safe so we have got some wet weather some very heavy rain into northern parts of italy easing across the balkans that could cause some localized flooding with a summary downpours making their way towards the north of grace not a little disturbance which was that western side of russia getting up to 14 in moscow and thats a bad 13 in london just 16 in madrid it is on the cool side then as we go on friday we will see further showers around central parts of the mediterranean through actually the balkans easing across austria back towards powder and we see temperatures plummeting there for moscow just a high for around 8 celsius come further south it does stay dry across northern parts of africa you could catch one or 2 showers across northern parts of algeria pushing into the usual showers there across into the gulf of guinea and heavy rain for southern nigeria. Too he not Global Community we are our biggest conversation elbow. Grease is the response that looks like the part of the debate here in egypt you can jump. Into the conversation by 2 way when no topic is off the table youre not afraid of anyone taking power we just poured oil to use an amused in the uses 3 talking richer and the poor getting poorer its not killing the story the system its just to look at the system and adapt it to the modern world this street on out is the era. Well again this is al jazeera lets remind you of the main news this hour the rebels in yemen have freed 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 of their faces the release who thesis arrived in yemens capital sanaa after going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday. Human rights watch is accused russian and Syrian Forces of targeting civilians in. The Rights Group Says the ball than a 1000000 people have been forced from the area as fighting intensified in syria over the past year. And as for the fighting between the taliban and Government Troops in afghanistan despite peace talks underway in qatar a car bomb attack destroyed parts of a military base of wardak province near kabul. Breaking news fiocco biggest fans president sort of by jim because of has resigned after weeks of protests that he had said that he would step down but only after a rerun of the parliamentary election aljazeera child stratford is encouraged to stand on the line from coal charles why has the president decided to go now. A fascinating turn of events in the last 24 hours or so do we know who but yesterday there were workers being described as some fairly she cheat because she shoots. Which means that the newly appointed to Prime Minister sausage appollo of the president jeenbekov and the new. House to speak at the speaker of Parliament Michael condon a sigh of we understand from those meetings that the new Prime Minister was putting a lot of pressure on the president to resign we. Reporters that we have in bishkek who was saying that your powerful supporters were promising to storm the president s building if he hadnt resigned by 830 last night we understand that. The Prime Ministers youre part of the calm those supporters down and it seems as if only 2 things today between the Prime Minister the president and the new House Speaker it seems as if indeed yes. Jeenbekov has resigned now hes released a Statement Read that statement to you he said that the situation is tense in the country so i call notes to provoke and not be provoked he said for me peace in kyrgyzstan as you can see of the nation is above everything and then he said im not holding on to power i dont want to be the president who makes blood flow. A very graphic indication they. Just want some stake here and the situation in a country that over the last say almost 2 weeks now has been basically experiencing the worst political crisis. For the last 10 years since the revolution. That overthrew another president. We understand looking at obviously this statement this decision for him to to to resign and experts oversee calm the situation. There are a lot of questions of result there are a lot of people that are very happy with this new Prime Minister. Who basically say that he has used his supporters to bully himself into power. The president had as you say promised to resign after elections were held those elections have not even been called yet the Election Committee has said that they have to be called before november the 6th and then there would be at least 45 days before those elections were held so as i say a lot of <