France new restrictions in england and europe grapples with a 2nd wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The. Cries of despair as the conflict have been a goal in a kind of escalates wrecking a ceasefire brokered by russia. We begin with the rest in thailand with thousands of antigovernment protesters have been cleared from outside the Prime Ministers Office in the capital riot police marched on to the streets off to the government declared an emergency early this morning banning Group Gatherings tensions flared as demonstrators rallied around the democracy monument in the halls of bangkok on wednesday Rights Groups say at least 3 protest leaders and dozens of others have been arrested scott hardly joins us live from outside the Government House in bangkok a hub for those protests so scott bring us up to date what is the latest. As you can see behind me this is the area where those protesters were over and it has been cleared and it has been cleaned now what happened kind of as we got to the situation overnight where this was cleared and cleaned that started at democracy monument thousands of antigovernment protesters gathered there kind of throughout the day they even brought the time for gathering because theyre worried about it being able to stage around the democracy monument its about a kilometer and a half from where i stand right now they stayed there for several hours kind of mid Late Afternoon they started to march here to Government House where the Prime Ministers Office is this is something they had been promising time and time again and they actually went through with it what was very interesting about that as they made their way here there were Police Barricades multiple Police Barricades along the road to here Government House but they broke through those either they negotiated their way through it some of them or broke through them physically broke through them to make their way here to Government House and even just in the neighborhood next to Government House they they lined this large avenue thousands of them late in the afternoon through the early evening they even pushed buses aside to make their way in to this area then they staged a sit in if you will for several hours and then when it became very late at night kind of a couple of 100 several 100 hardcore protesters stayed here overnight then at 4 am thats when the government issued an emergency decree saying that any group over 5 was illegal and thats when we saw that clearing out process that led to this empty street behind me now whats interesting about that is that you know the protest leaders were on makeshift stages throughout this avenue here and they told the protesters to leave to be peaceful and follow the orders of the police so that was very interesting and it happened with really without much violence at all they even had a water cannon truck here that was never used tear gas was never used so where we are now we know now that i can update that number 6 protest leaders have now been arrested so as we move forward will be interesting to see how they gave you today. Actually wednesday through today thursday how the protest leaders view this success or setback and then also what are they going to do next but obviously right now regrouping and again at least 6 protest leaders have been arrested and we know that dozens of protesters have also been arrested and are currently being held many thanks for that score high low there for us in buying caldwell what is the background to all this for the last 3 months demonstrators have been calling for reform they want the removal of the Prime Minister prior to not he is a former general came to power in a coup in 2014 and won a disputed election last year they all say one palm and dissolved and new elections and theyre demanding the constitution drafted by the military be rewritten also included in their charter is an end to the intimidation of dissidents and then theres a very sensitive demand that has long been unthinkable in siler thailand reform of the monarchy the king is widely revered in criticizing him can carry prison sentences of up to 15 years lets bring in our guest pavane chuch of hes an associate professor at the university of kyoto in japan many thanks for speaking to us on aljazeera just as we had that citizens are expected to revere the moment he without question and criticizing the king is punishable by very very strict laws and thai people have largely abided by this so whats changed now to make them want to openly challenge this powerful institution. Well in north and you know all sort of there will not that has been sort of obsolete and because of the recent development in thailand that sort of allowed people to change that perception one of the men being used when they look up to their current one up what are on different data is not responsible that he has led people and it ended you know even during the crises of 19 and adequate book crises and it seems do enjoy news time in germany now becoming an issue with the German Government and because of that ideal for the protest is now to talk about a serious reform. So what happens now where did things stand for the trip protesters because the key student leaders involved have been arrested we now have this or this to create that prevents big groups from gathering what what happens next well what happened yesterday was Something Like knew less well in a sense that this was the 1st bomb to protest the game i was best obsessed with the issue and were not needing that happened that you read the protests there was a wrong i want to hear that sort of a lot of people who gets to voice in the car and in there was some message just shouting at the queen and that sort of a war not just there wasnt a palace and i believe that that led to the arrest and the crackdown at dawn this morning i dont know whats going to happen next but. Even yesterday i didnt the government had to leave carefully what are they going to do with the press protests that are i think a lot of protests there and then what then would be nothing less than not continually going on we dont want to. There is clearly very very strong feeling here from the youth in bangkok in thailand as a whole do you think its enough this feeling this drive to continue. On rest whether it be in the form of protests or Something Else in the future that will be a challenge. You know people who come out on this in order of being arrested and not only there will be charged lets not just but i think any time just willy do you know. People all you know all. This from july and today you could see more and more people coming out destitute to suggest that maybe a lot of people in thailand lives there and listening come out on this need. To change politics pavin give us a better sense of where some of this frustration is coming from. They have talked about you know wanting changes to the monarchy but also wanting the Prime Minister to step down there who only just recently took power what are the issues with the current leadership. Well i guess that never. Of one to remove the current Prime Minister from power but then i think delia lies that even removing a Prime Minister general would not restart the long long hair crisis in thailand because on top of. The problems is there more now yes why the. Progress that has moved on now from sort of attacking the pan and use their eat you want to say sought to become. Criticizing the one and one thing only form of the war now so all but it does mean that you know they will no longer one cool talk about the issue with the village and legitimacy of the government of course there is the want to but at the end they want to tackle Something Big are more serious then just the effectiveness of the government and you have to understand that the people on display today the Younger Generation there arent many. Of propaganda part of what i saw i guess thats why they become more courageous than previous protests briefly tell us a bit more about the current king hes only been in power for a few years and he doesnt have the same. People dont have the same feeling towards him perhaps as they did to the previous king. Yes true or well what what ive been what you up is it is he lacks moral authority i would have thought that that would make him a we but again we are all wrong you know it has been a few years now that he did once read it demonstrate his work and also his attempt to answer it it is well and he has done so many things you know from building up working relationship with the military you not have and useful and probably true also trans will you know or yes it under your and he spoke to station so i mean so we are talking about who not just only politically powerful but of the International Power who was well youll of course that what of those there is the 1st king you know who have done more for what how was he to be juless the opposition are you know. So because of their neck even more powerful that what making ready turns on the people and the last point is that where he is father he power to. Not stand at the drop on the thai politics playing politics. Havent very very interesting to hear your thoughts pavane punk punk associate professor at the university of kyoto in japan yemens here things have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 who thief itis afraid rebels have arrived in yemens capital sanaa via oman the white house announced that humanitarian workers sandra lolly and business then mikhail good dad have been released the remains of a 3rd american have also been returned. Lets take a look at how we got here in the efforts to try and in the 5 year old conflicts u. N. Brokered peace talks began install comin in 2018 the 2 sides signed a deal to swap about 15000 detainees but the progress has been very slow close to 1100 of them are expected to be exchanged now on thursday here these will reportedly release close to 400 people including 15 saudis the Coalition Forces would free around 755. 00. Meanwhile in unilateral moves last year the who these freed 290 prisoners in saudi arabia released 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions are suffering from food and medical shortages now bill curry is a Senior Research at the Atlantic Council for studies hes also former u. S. Deputy chief of mission in yemen he says the timing of the prison a small benefits President Trump. These 3 sitters should live 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 u. S. Intelligence agency. At any rate i think refining 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 still organization well obviously if there were so classifier that. The u. S. Governments hands would be. The on the principle that they dont deal with terrorists so dismaying have forced old. Some of the hawks who are calling war classifying the hope these as the terrorists europe is battling to contain its 2nd wave of corona virus with many countries seeing infections to their highest levels in months in germany the daily number of new cases is now at a 6 month high chance bank of america has announced tough and measures on gatherings and ma squaring and the u. K. s hit nearly 20000 need corona virus infections in a day its 2nd highest number of cases so far theyve introduced a new 3 tier lockdown system which has come into force in england to catch the west wing outbreak. And france is declaring a Public Health state of emergency and implementing night curfews for paris tonight other cities ospital admissions are at their highest level since june Natasha Butler has a details from paris. French president emanuel macro sit faulds was in the grip of a 2nd wave of coronavirus he urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris an 8 hour the citys the could last until december. If we stick to this curfew for 6 weeks if we take collective responsibility for reducing our contacts we think that well be able to progress of the reopen at that stage. If you move the curfew adds to a raft of restrictions already in place in the countrys big cities where cases of new infections are rising rapidly in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board trees like this one in the city have been getting longer and more paris Health Officials say is the one in 5 tests is coming back positive soon after moving to paris in september these british students fell sick with coronavirus they began having symptoms of attending University Events and welcome parties it was stationed distance while wearing a mask but it sometimes that doesnt stop if youre in a crowded place and you havent stopped going to electricity very tired in between needy half the students in a year were infected for some recovery has been slow i mean i was covered before but even i just want to get it again or did it for me and now im a lot more like conscious of it my craw hopes the curfew will help ease pressure on hospitals in paris intensive care beds capacity. The problem says this epidemiology just is that the government is taking the wrong approach relying on restrictive measures rather than whites protesting the solution would be to decide to test. The population and that can be done both using p. C. R. Test with group dusting where you put in one tube the samples from 20 or 30 people. Also with the un to test so thats whats being done in the countries where the virus has been contained for some the new restrictions will deal yet another blow to an already ailing economy for others will be welcomed as a sign that often months of urging people to live with the virus the president is hardening his tone the aljazeera paris. To lead on aljazeera thousands of people afghanistan flee the biggest taliban offensive since talks to end the conflict began well look at what it means for the Peace Process plus. A Nigerian Police call the case of brutality has been abolished the protests continue demanding justice and accountability. However weve got some dry weather pushing into the northwest of europe over the next couple of davis and very heavy rain over towards a society of quite an intense area of low pressure here toward the practice abbas are some very strong winds coming in across the Baltic States into germany through poland and some rather wet weather to just around more than parts of italy is known as it a general low things a very heavy rain across the north of italy running across the balkans some snow coming back on the tail end of that and that wet of weather just not in its way a little further east was up towards the northwest but we do have that high sinking in still quite a chilly breeze it must be said 13 celsius in london with that northeasterly wind rolling in off the north sea stays dry and fine as we go on through friday this weather system getting held at bay by our High Pressure some showers longer spells of race still into central and eastern parts with more snow over the alps and some showers there into central parts of italy and all the parts of africa where it stays fine and dry usual crop of showers through Central Africa sinking a little further south as they should do there 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. Well im not happy with when the president of the United States speaks out the rest of the world takes notice. Aggressive negotiation on trade deals. Unparalleled military might International Agreements hanging by a thread will the next u. S. Foreign policy put america 1st. Or be a Leading Light for the world at large. Examine the key issues of the us elections on aljazeera. To. War. Youre watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour right police in thailand have cleared thousands of protesters outside the Prime Ministers Office the crackdown began softly off to the government issued an emergency decree banning large gatherings 6 protest leaders have been arrested. Yemens who the rebels have released to us citizens in exchange for 250. 00 vitus swap is a fast of several prisoner exchanges expected in the coming days between the Saudi Led Coalition and the receipts. Europe is battling to contain a 2nd wave of coronavirus germanys imposing top the measures on gatherings in most wearing fronts is introducing and lightly coffee that in the u. K. A new 3 test system isnt just. To afghanistan where heavy fighting between Government Troops and taliban fighters has displaced tens of thousands of people in southern areas the fighting began on saturday and aid agencies say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed the fighting is in Helmand Province centered around the regional kept a lot of sugar the u. S. Has been carrying out as strikes to defend Afghan Security forces but as the fast Major Taliban offensive since peace talks with the Afghan Government began last month than it could complicate u. S. President Donald Trumps plans to bring home remaining forces by Christmas Mark fitzpatrick is a former u. S. Diplomat from washington d. C. He says the trumps lack of clear orders has clouded the u. S. Role in afghanistan. Its a great deal of confusion especially when donald trump communicates by tweet which is not the same as orders to his commanders and the chief commander the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley saying that. He will reach withdraw troops from afghanistan in a responsible manner. Saying explicitly that the president S National Security adviser eric ryan. Isnt the one to give him worse so who is speaking the necessary advice or President Trump or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff my money is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff because hes actually one who gives the orders about where the troops are located and deployed fighting continues to escalate between armenia and azerbaijan these areas say they have destroyed missile launches inside a media that were targeting their cities the armenian government confirms military positions were hit but denies its forces had been firing into as up by john the fighting of a nickel in a cutback continues despite a cease fire agreed last week and its myth reports from goddess in i mean. 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 front lines just as fighting with azerbaijan started. 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 me as well right now the number of our casualties are very high and dont mourn for all the victims armenians 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 199124. Cylinder thats a lot of you 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 us about john for turkeys involvement in future negotiations on the go in a car about. 6 the father of code about how jeff plays a popular mourns their dead soldiers their son was killed on the 1st day of fighting. Harry said. 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 aires 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 saviors 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 corus armenia. Protests are continuing in cyprus against government corruption they follow and algis their investigation of senior politicians who were willing to sell separate passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run as Financial Investment in exchange for citizenship the government has now abolished the program. We want them. To the people they dragged into this situation and we have to defend our name people said enough is enough we feel ashamed for what we saw and shade because these people our politicians who are supposed to serve their country this is cyprus cyprus is this people demonstrating against people who believe that they can rule this country but what they are in reality are just dogs disguised as politicians. The nigerian governments decision to abolish a police squad implicated in extrajudicial killings and torture has failed to pick a protest they have now been on the streets for a week condemning Police Brutality a common address reports from. Clashes on the streets of apologia a group of young men armed with clubs and other weapons arrive a busy intersection already cut off by protesters they set about smashing parked vehicles. With a cheese protest is against Police Brutality. But the tables were turned when protests. Began to retreat not all of them got away. From you yet you have to let you know the running battles lost as well the. Watch by the police less than 200 meters away protest to say theyre brought to the scene into trucks. It was. The. Its the demonstrators who turned around to terms of that. This womans car was one of several badly damaged. The protests began peacefully in the morning as nigerians of all ages press tour their demand for accountability from government Security Forces nationwide rallies which started last week against in the Tourist Police unit implicated in extrajudicial killings and porsche succeeded in getting the government to abolish the special interests chord. But then i was summoned to the replacement swat unit to fight Violent Crimes further and get protestors. This is an sas we dont want him to govern we dont want them to come on the only disadvantage enough is enough to know how do how do the police do with Violent Crimes like that rick could not. Guess are many ways to do it its just so many ways its led by killing people thats an criminality cant stop to let you go you cant kill everybody the latest protest disrupted traffic and businesses in parts of approach i dont want to say Police Reform is just a part of the arguments they want to push further toward not only security agencies accountable but to demand Good Governance from nigeria as elected leaders. In the countrys most populous state lagos protest likely peaceful. Rob. But its attacks such as these in a butcher by what protests to see what tugs that are raising particular concerns of instigating a new crisis in a country already dealing with several others such as the coronavirus and boko haram. A project. That is al jazeera these are the top stories right place in thailand and clear thousands of protesters outside the Prime Ministers Office the crackdown began shortly after the government issued an emergency decree banning large gatherings 6 protest leaders have been arrested