A century paves the way for more frequent heat waves. We begin with the unrest in thailand where thousands of antigovernment protesters have been cleared from outside the Prime Ministers Office in the capital riot police marched on to the streets and the government declared an emergency in the Early Morning banning large gatherings tensions flared as demonstrators rallied around the democracy monument in the heart of bangkok on wednesday Rights Groups say at least 6 protest leaders and dozens of others have been arrested scott hyla has more now from 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 enacted a law a rule that no more than 5 people will gather at one place so thats what they used to for them to leave not 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. Well for the last 3 months demonstrators in thailand have been calling for reform they want the removal of the Prime Minister. Hes a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and won a disputed election last year they also Want Parliament dissolved and new elections held and theyre demanding that the constitution drafted by the military be rewritten also included in their charter is an end to the intimidation of dissidents and a very sensitive demand thats been long unthinkable in thailand reform of the monarchy the king is why youre via them criticising him can carry prison sentences of up to 15 years but pub in charge of news from the university of kyoto in japan he says protesters wont settle for anything less than reforms to the monarchy. It norton that you know all sort of be at them or not that has been sort of obsolete and because of the reason you were lockman in thailand that sort of allowed people to change that perception one of the main thing is when they look up to dat korean were knocking what youre on yes they were that your team is not responsible he has led people and it can be you know during during the crises of nike and adequate book prices and it seems you enjoy his time in germany now becoming an issue with the german bachmann and because of that i think for the protest its now time to talk about a serious the fall of the not what happened yesterday was something quite new a swell in a sense that this was the 1st to protest the game almost pressed to face the issue of the not to sale nina that you know these have been documented before s. There was a royal wanted that started around a lot of the people who gets the royals through who was in the car and then there was some messages you know being shouted at the queen and that sort of reward you know just stick and also the tiredness and i believe that that led to the arrest and the crackdown at dawn this morning i dont know what going to happen next but. The big event yesterday i didnt development happily decathlete what are you going to do we cant protest there i think for the protest that would that would be nothing less than you know continue with their resolve to mourn. Yemens who fees are released to u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 hoofy fighters they freed rebels have arrived in yemens capital sanaa via oman the white house announced that humanitarian workers sandra lowly and businessman mikhail good ad have been released the remains of a 3rd american have been returned so lets take a look at how we got here and the efforts to try and end the 5 year old conflict in yemen u. N. Brokered peace talks began in stockholm in 2018 the 2 sides signed a deal to swap around 15000 detainees but progress has been slow close to 1100 of them are expected to be exchanged on thursday who these were reportedly released close to 400 people including 15 saudis the Coalition Forces are set to free around 700 fighters in unilateral moves last year who these freed 290 prisoners and saudi arabia released 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions are suffering from food and medical shortages well now bill curry is a Senior Research at the Atlantic Council he says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. These 3 sitters 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 refining now and as i say this could have happened earlier. Is that for our 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 us 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 disorganization well obviously if there were still classified. The us governments hands would be. On the principle that they dont deal with terrorists so how did this mean how to forestall. Some of the hawks who are calling war classifying the who these as that are fighting of a nagornokarabakh continues between armenia and azerbaijan areas say they have destroyed missile launchers inside on media that were targeting their cities the armenian government confirms military positions were hit but denies its forces have been firing into azerbaijan but as smith reports now from doris in armenia 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. Saw me 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 a 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 his 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 now the number of 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. 6 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. For most of our john on wednesday accusations the armenians are trying to attack 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 corus armenia. Protests continuing in cyprus against government corruption following aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who were willing to sell the supreme passports to convicted criminals the scheme was run to attract Financial Investment in exchange for citizenship the government has now abolished the program. We. Have to defend. And. These people. This is. People. Country but what they are. Hundreds of israelis are calling for a new investigation into their Prime Minister. Demonstrators want netanyahu to be investigated over a 2000000000. 00 submarine deal with germany netanyahu has not been named as a suspect in this case but he is already facing trial in 3 other corruption cases. Also to come here and aljazeera including 18 hours of questioning. For the u. S. Supreme court stands her ground. Down on dissent nicaraguas government. Tightening its grip on the press and human rights activists warn that state. Weve got lots of high sunshine across the middle east not great surprises here but something of a change on the way if anything is ticking a little on the cool side even here in casa has got a little cloud running up towards the levant but not see bad here temperatures at 2627 mid thirtys there for baghdad but take a look at the 34 cells just some thursday we might struggle to get to 31 if we can call that a struggle as we go on through friday not out of the question that you might just catch you know special spots of rain i think it will mount so much but a changing of the seasons nevertheless must see the odds spots of right into the western side of yemen and the possibility of the sport of rain to around the horn of africa somalia could see a shower for the next day or so the west the weather is across that western side of ethiopia pushing right across towards the gulf of guinea some lively showers around the rift valley and notice a little pulse a very heavy rain which could make its way into central parts of tanzania as because through thursday and on into friday that will drive its way up towards Lake Victoria some heavy showers there across the democratic republic of congo heavy showers extending all the way down across a good part of angola now but to the south of angola it is lousy dry and find plenty of sunshine here and itll warm up into hottest by friday. Too he not Global Community we are i think this conversation over. The whole crazy somewhat response that looks like the part of the debate issue in egypt you can jump into the conversation right away when no topic is off the table youre not afraid of anyone taking just 1. 3 a reason to listen to what you says the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer its not to destroy the system its just to look at the system and. Modern world this street on out is there a. Role. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on aljazeera riot police in thailand have cleared thousands of protesters from outside the Prime Ministers Office after 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 fighters the swap is the 1st of several prisoner exchanges expected in the coming days between the south and that coalition and the new fees. And fighting continues to escalate between armenia and azerbaijan the as areas say theyve destroyed missile launchers that were targeting their cities the armenian government denies us forces have been firing into azerbaijan. Emanuel mccraw has announced a curfew for paris and 8 other cities to combat the rapid spread of code 19 in france the president stopped short of introducing travel restrictions or a National Lockdown saying they would hit the economy too hard but how about the reports in the capital hours. French president emanuel macro sit france was in the grip of a 2nd wave of coronavirus he urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris and 8 other cities 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 it will be able to progress of the reopen at that stage and. 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 boric trees like this one in the city have been getting longer and more power. Health Officials Say its a 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 after attending University Events and welcome parties every station to standing by Wearing Masks 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 a ged or other for me and there are a lot more like conscious of it micro 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 assign to test message really the population and that can be done both using p. C. R. Test with group just doing what you put in one tube those samples from 20 or 30 people. Also with the test so thats whats being done in the countries where the virus has been contained. To some new restrictions will deal yet another blow to an already ailing economy for others theyll be welcomed as a sign that often months of urging people to live with the virus the president is hardening his tone Natasha Al Jazeera paris russia has approved a 2nd vaccine to treat covered 19 is it true reached a single day high the new vaccine was cleared for use despite not having completed large scale trials russia became the 1st country to officially approve a vaccine in august so far neither treatment is in general circulation. President trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee and the county barrett has survived her 3rd day of confirmation hearings shes been facing tough questions from Senate Committee members on capitol Hill Helen Fisher reports god bless you. Thank you very much chairman 18 hours of questioning down to important votes to go. Left the Senate Judiciary committee almost certain her nomination will go forward each senator had just 20 minutes of questions on the 3rd day of the hearing to fill the vacancy on the u. S. Supreme court but it still led to some interesting exchanges and it raises many questions there are those who suggest donald trump could Face Criminal Charges for his conduct in office if you lose his next months election so the question could he give himself a pardon so far as i know that question has never been litigated that question has never risen that question may or may not arise but its one that calls for a legal analysis of what the scope of the pardon power is so because it would be opining on an open question when i havent gone through the judicial process to decide it its not want to which i can offer in view democrats also continue to push for clarity on the judges position on the Affordable Care act or obamacare as its known in the us the Supreme Court will to hear a case on the e. C. A one week after the election where the cover for preexisting conditions could be scrapped affecting 23000000 americans judge but it has criticised Previous Court decisions which protected the act but insists that doesnt mean shes already made a decision on what happens next i think youre suggesting that i have some hostility to the a. C. L. U. Which i assure you that i dont and i think senator durbin theres actually something you and i can agree on here judicial activism is banned from either side. Republicans have been criticized appreciate head with the nomination the argument you shouldve waited until the election was over but the strategy to go no has led to publicans to believe they will be successful very little of the time weve spent in here has concerned her record as a judge for 20 years as a respected scholar instead much of this hearing has focused on political attacks attacked directed at president many times again judge barrett refused to comment on cases and subjects that might end up in front of the Supreme Court even when asked if immigration policies that separated parents from children were wrong theres a growing acceptance that if the democrats are going to stop this nomination its not going to happen here in committee Alan Fischer Al Jazeera on capitol hill now after more than 2 years of a clampdown on dissent in nicaragua the government is moving to tighten its grip on institutions like the press the ruling party is rolling out legislation which could make it even more dangerous for independent Media Outlets in the country is to hold. A new law proposed by the ruling nicaraguan party could be used as another powerful tool against free speech in the country says the opposition and several International Organizations it establishes a punishment of 2 to 4 years in prison for anyone who spreads when it cools Information Online the worry is that it could simply be used to censor any reporting the autocratic government doesnt like. So in practice this is giving the government the sort of legal capacity to determine what information is true and whats false and in a country where independent media are already facing a lot of censorship and intimidation against the government this could be really dangerous for the journalists working for those outlets that another proposal would force nongovernmental organizations which get money from outside the country to register as foreign agents and agree not to interfere in internal affairs it comes off to many n. G. O. S have already been closed down and some of what their offices run side. Is just one of the human rights defenders has had to flee to neighboring costa rica he says the new law mozart fresh danger. One of. N. G. O. S would have to declare their activities every month and also braced for the names ages and Contact Details of those taking part theyll also have to reveal donors observers say theres a political element to this too and that the government wants to crack down women geos to help fund the nicaraguan opposition president daniel take has been clamping down on dissent for the last couple of years you but by and marches off to widespread protests against him in 2018 there that since then anyone whos dead to take to the streets has faced harassment arrest and attacks by police and paramilitaries. And things have only worsened under code that critics accuse the government of trying to muddy the facts while painting a rosy picture of the viruss progress yet isnt it. Because the situation gave us 2 problems defaced is the harassment and prosecution the lack of access to Public Information that we already had but on top of that the risk of reporting on to his situation because they started charging generally states with defamation for informing us but covered cases in the country because it was 1st lady or saudi of money yo. Also the governments official Spokes Person she didnt agree to our interview request. Meanwhile the countdown continues to elections in 2021 the opposition says theres even less hope now that theyll be in any way free and fair john homan. And i guaran governments decision to police squad implicated in extrajudicial killings and torture has failed to placate protest as demonstrators have been on the streets for a week condemning Police Brutality reports now from the capital. On the streets of a. 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. They cheese protests against Police Brutality. But the tables are turned when protests. Began to retreat not all of them. Yet. The running battles. By the police less than 200 meters away protest to say theyre brought to the scene in 2 trucks. To lift the lid. Its the demonstrators who turned around to victims of that. This womans car was badly damaged. The protests began peacefully in the morning as nigerians of all ages press tour their demand for accountability from the Government Security forces nationwide rallies which started last week against in the Tourist Police unit implicated in extrajudicial killings and torture succeeded in getting the government to abolish the special interest court. But the announcement of replacement swat unit to fight Violent Crimes further and get protesters. This week and for us we dont want him to be we dont want the money would only because you cant get enough is enough you know how do how do the police do with Violent Crimes like rhetoric could not. Guess are many ways to do we think there are so many ways if not by killing people and criminality cant stop to let you know you cant kill everybody the latest protest disrupted traffic and businesses in parts of a porch or demonstrators 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 protests on largely peaceful rob. Rob. But its attacks such as these in a butcher by what protests to see were tugs that are raising particular concerns of instigating and you crisis in a country already dealing with several others such as the corona virus and boko haram a decrease. Of which are scorching temperatures around the world made september the hottest since records began in 1818 unusually high temperatures were recorded in siberia in the middle east and in parts of south america increases meant more extreme weather has led to droughts wildfires and a rise in sea levels as ice melts experts say things are only getting worse. Average as a home this was being warm in september on record with a temperature i departed from an average of 97 degrees celsius or 1. 7 degrees fahrenheit the 20th century average. The last 10 warmest september 70 seem to have occurred since 2005 i let our senate who are us have occurred in the last 7 years will stephens a Climate Change expert at the Australian National university he says World Leaders arent doing enough to prevent further temperature rises i certainly think the Climate Change is the dominant factor in all these records being broken obviously from time to time normally record separately but we dont see the number of records the degree by which the broken well as part of natural variability this is something bigger than normal variability this is indeed Climate Change driving what were seeing today here in australia just 8 or 9 months ago we had best bushfires channel when you seen foreigners droughts in other parts of the world so its so a little bit. Im nerving to see a 1 point one degree roll as global average temperature driving this much change around the world the dead into that is the way the climate system works i think were already committed to experiencing at least 1. 5 degrees thats already built in trunk past emissions and the fact that we cant get emissions down by the end of this decade which is whats required for one point font so we really need to focus on the well below to a degree the Upper Terrace dont get the debt requires much more ambition what china said is good but it needs to move faster United States has to move faster countries like australia we have to phase out fossil fuels as soon as possible so the overall action around the world is nowhere near enough or fast enough to meet the parents call it targets colombian conservationists several east endangered turtles into the ocean for their very 1st swim. The turtles with freedom the colombian coast after being raised memory Conservation Program the country has seen a dramatic drop in its population of turtles over the last 70 years due to fishing and destruction of the nesting. Time for a quick check of the headlines here on aljazeera police in thailand have cleared thousands of protesters from outside the Prime Ministers Office after the government issued an emergency decree banning large gatherings 6 protest leaders have been arrested scott hyla has more from bangkok they lined this large avenue thousands of them late in the afternoon