For becoming the new Prime Minister of malaysia. And the sugar plantation in uganda that environmentalists say threaten using protected rain forests and hundreds of its animal species. And im santa hamas now have all the sports page a League Baseball welcomes back fans as the Atlanta Braves when the opening match of the National League championship series. While we begin this news hour in cyprus where the government is suspending a controversial citizenship for Investment Program after an undercover investigation by aljazeera is expose high ranking officials expressing a willingness to aids convicted criminals so say an e. U. Citizenship. In august al jazeera as investigative units released the cyprus papers which revealed serious falls in the citizen by Investment Program and as phil reece reports the investigation led to see the highest offices of the cypriot state the cyprus Investment Program allows foreigners to buy a european passport for an investment mostly made in property of
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 offic
Protests and said that he would only step down after a rerun of the parliamentary election where the state the president approved of support but his Prime Minister cypresses speaker of parliament has resigned in the wake of the cash for passport scheme the controversy was brought to light by an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government is now bullish the program the rebels in yemen have released to us citizens in exchange for 250 of the fighters the free 2 thieves of arrived in yemens capital sanaa off to going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday the whole data has more on the how the exchange is being carried out. 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 the word and then
Coronavirus. Will start same critical stand where president sort of jeenbekov has resigned after weeks of protests and said that he would step down but only after a rerun of the parliamentary election lets take you live now to east and kurdistan is a call is where i was there was Charles Stratford is a well that charles why has the president decided to go now. Well he has been flip flopping changing his statements over the last couple of weeks over say those rigged elections that were canceled by the Central Election Commission those elections held on october the 4th we didnt hear anything from the president for a long time he was blamed as being part and parcel of those elections being rigged we then had a statement we understand as a result of pressure put on him by the russians very concerned about instability in one of the former soviet states and a country that russia has a lot of influence over we had a statement then saying from him that he was prepared to resign that changed ag
Cyprus quit his job after an aljazeera investigation uncovered a cash for passport scandal. And as covert 19 cases search across europe the u. K. Imposes new restrictions among. The largest Prisoner Exchange in yemens civil war is underway and more than a 1000 detainees are being swapped between the with the rebels and the saudi u. A. E. Coalition which backs yemens government a plane carrying who it is released from captivity by the coalition has arrived and some are some 480 prisoners are expected to reach thursday. With a further 202 on friday earlier an aircraft carrying saudi u. A. E. Coalition forces left the controlled capital the rebels have also released to u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 of their fighters the white house says that humanitarian worker saddam early businessman michael good to have been released and the remains of a 3rd american have also been returned after serious hushmail about his life for us in doha can tell us more about this deal well adrian the operat