Cyprus quits his job after an aljazeera investigation uncovered a cash for passport scandal. And im tired of hummus and i have all the support the dodgers put back all great came performance to win the 1st game of the National League championship series. An operation is underway to return more than a 1000 prisoners across the front lines of yemen civil war planes carrying he fighters hed been held by the saudi u. A. E. Led coalition have been arriving in the capital sanaa the saw as a trust Building Measure aimed at reviving peace talks the coalition started fighting that he sees in march 25th scene well earlier a plane carrying saudi u. A. E. Coalition forces left the hooty controlled capital sanaa. Rebels have also released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 of their fighters the white house says humanitarian workers sandra lee and businessman mikhail there have been released the remains of a 3rd american have also been returned. Is live for us in doha just tell us a bit more about this deal what khaled the operation is still underway in from different places you have planes carrying government and saudi detainees from the port of sorrow all the way to the city of about in saudi arabia or the same time who the president boarding planes from the city of so youre in the southern part of the men and flying all the way to just a while ago. Who is a senior her thier fishel said that the whole thing is willing to move ahead with a comprehensive Prisoner Exchange because were talking about thousands more prisoners still detained by both wattis and his says that the 15 star detainees who were released today are just part of a number of huge saudi saudis still detained by the houthi is saying that this is going to give us the upper hand in the go sheeting any other settlement in the near future so were 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 theyre hoping to bring all the parties to negotiate another are to Prisoner Exchange the only problem here is the government of president obamas short saying that most of the people now detained by the houthi s are not prisoners they are kidnapped by the who these are 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 were expecting you to do the 1st step release all our prisoners and therefore well release all the other detainees including what the these are saying are saudi and sudanese detainees what will have him it sounds like this has been a positive step forward it comes to concluding this dreadful war in yemen what happens next where do the parties go from here because there is so much bigger issues to be resolved or theyre not indeed had at the u. N. Has this quiet vis a prisoner swap as a milestone theyre hoping to sort of revive the environment there was prevailing in 2018 in sweden with the houthi isnt the government struck the land mark agreement about the Prisoner Exchange and then they were talking about potentially attacking other crucial issues like the future of the city of her data which is a vital lifeline for the economy in yemen and thats. Where most of the exports into yemen come from theyre also talking about the need to start talks about a National Unity government who thinks handing over some of their heavy weaponry is to the International Community and the internationally recognized government of president. Taken over that does not exist anymore on the ground what you have. It is who thing is expanding their influence a new group pushes the secessionists in the south back by the u. A. E. They are taking control of the south and they are saying this just a matter of time before the break away from the whole republic of yemen the south the bass government of. 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 kyrgyzstans 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 governments 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 its 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 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 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 hundreds sit on see government protesters are right on the streets of bangkok openly defying a government ban on public gatherings now they are calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy the governments imposed emergency measures in the Early Morning hours to try and stop months of demonstrations scott hi there has more now 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 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 at the daily life that even. Would not result. In higher that because. You know problems. Has moved on now from start. To become. The decisive. Reform now as we are now in New Territory where the protests is directly in strongly calling for reform in the monarchy the government no doubt is feeling immense pressure from the pouts define 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. Plenty more still to come on the news hour including. A number of call that 19 cases is surging across europe forcing governments to impose restrictions. Have a pandemic and a 700 Percent Inflation rate to make you get harder to be old survey to survive and zimbabwe and in sports we hear from the england camp after a rough night at wembley. And the speaker of the Cyprus Parliament dimitris salukis has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and aljazeera investigation found senior politicians who were willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract Financial Investments in exchange for e. U. Citizenship the government has now abolished the program for more on this lets bring in David Harrison and nicosia david of course you were parts of that Investigative Team that led to that expos sabir seen a dramatic fall from grace for the parliamentary speaker is he said any more about his decision to stand down. Yes you know how is it. You said that he was stepping down not just as the speaker of parliament but also as an m. P. Its a complete step down he had been hanging on the claim that in his statement that the reason you hadnt resigned because you thought it would be taken out of that mission of guilt. No wrongdoing is now turning to his mind that hes decided that because people are exploiting the taking political advantage of him hanging on him. Because he feels he be misunderstood that hes decided its time to step down. And it has a speed enough to quote the process in cyprus because your investigation has result. Didnt quite a lot of unease being expressed there where you are we have seen protesters gathering outside parliament will this be enough to get the protests is to stand. Well it may well at the moment i dont know theres no protests planned for tonight but it doesnt mean to say that there wont be more in the coming days so though as has been a particular target of the demonstrators anger at the demonstration last night outside the Parliament Many were carrying placards and a lot of them included the image of a glass of red wine which has become a sort of bit of a symbol of corruption in this country because its appeared on lots of names and this is a reference to a scene in the documentary where so there is hold of a glass of red wine and winks at all on the cover operates in a way to say to suggest that you know were going to help you get this possible but i think that has been a sort of growing anger not just with source but also with the wider government i think this will come as something of a couple of sister people but i think its also galvanized many people into action theres a feeling now that because theyve seen this expose more can be done now at the moment the resignation leaves the country in a slightly difficult position having no leader in situ because the president just only in brussels and so louis as the speaker of all that was the de facto Vice President now hes gone now but there has been some talk of his successor and the name being bandied around is out of most adults who he was an opposition and he and hes also a doctor so the people of cyprus will be hoping that he can heal the wounds caused by what they see as rampant corruption in the leadership ok David Harrison now live from nicosia thank you very much indeed if you miss that investigation just head to the web site aljazeera dot com weve also got a podcast up on the web site c. D. C. Can find out a lot more about this investigation and plenty of other episodes again just head to aljazeera dot com forward slash podcasts forward some. Aljazeera investigates for more on the work that our Investigative Unit does and of course you can watch that report in both the cyprus papers under cover rescreening that at 1200. 00 g. M. T. On friday corona virus cases are surging across europe and countries are imposing new restrictions to curb the outbreak in the u. K. London is moving to the 2nd highest corporate alert level the country is reporting nearly 20000. 00 new Coronavirus Infections in a single day the new 3 tier locks and system has come into force in englands. 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. Francis declared a Public Health state of emergency and impose nines curfews for paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest levels since june and in germany the daily number of new cases is now at a 6 month high chancellor Angela Merkel has announced tougher measures on gatherings and on mask wearing well over and paul ince they too have seen a record increase in confirmed cases when 8000 new infections were reported in the latest daily tally a growing number of people are falling seriously ill but the Health Ministry warning that hospital beds are filling up well lets get more know from neve barker he joins us live in london a knave lets start with the u. K. The restrictions are starting to close in on the british capital but its a brother confusing picture overall whats happening in the came which you say is working its all. 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 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. If siccing subject to change here and 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 that 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 there are other parts of the country that are currently being reviewed as to whether or not they should go up a t. Is a discussion between officials in Central Government here in london and those in manchester bunch those currently on the high high level talks about putting it to the very high level there but some resistance from the opposition labor man andy burnham largely over the possible impact on the local economy the government offering to pay 2 thirds of the salaries of people who may be affected by restrictions but nevertheless some big concerns the only part of the country so far subject to very high restrictions is liverpool so bars or restaurants are forced to close completely unless they serve substantial milk meals a complete bond of the intermingling of households and guidance needs to be given on whether you can ensure leave those areas there is appears to be a mood towards what many feel would be an inevitable National Lockdown at least in england something similar comes into force in Northern Ireland where schools from monday will be closed for an extra 2 weeks ahead of what is a 2 week holiday so the question is is this a prelude to something much deeper ok well we will wait to find meanwhile infections and surging across year it how serious is it getting when the constant. Well the complete patchwork of responses in Different Countries across europe but you know the whole of europe is very much in the grip of the 2nd wave weve seen a state of emergency declared in france a curfew introduced between 9 pm and 6 am in the worst affected areas deep worries about italy particularly the north and long body as you know for the hard hit by the 1st wave concerns now about numbers growing exponentially currently they tell you in officials are not saying. Localized lockdowns are off the table they were may well be introduced in a regional level citywide level if they continue to escalate in spain also hard hit the 1st e. U. Country to have more than 900000 infections they are reporting an increasing number of cases in hospital as well but say that the cases that are going to hospital this time are not as severe than the 1st time around further restrictions to. For instance households arent able to mingle there further restrictions on areas of the country the border the United KingdomNorthern Ireland so closures of gyms and nonessential shops belgium has warned that by mid november they have the cases continue to go up at this rate all of its intensive care beds will be full that is just a snapshot of whats going on across the whole of the continent similar situation in germany reporting as you mentioned the highest numbers in several months it is a concerning picture but at the moment most countries are trying to resist an urge for more nationwide for a lockdown ok need barkin to bring as all the latest from london thank you. As Security Services have been deployed in the nigerian capital of lagos amid growing tensions semites Police Brutality now this falls within a week of protests offices hes live rains water cannon and tear gas against them street is the protesters complaints include accusations of birds or torture and extortion lets get more from mi