Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty kay in washington and this is bbc world news america. How to fight the pandemic china embarks on testing an entire city in just days and we will be live in sweden to find out if that countrys controversial approach was the right one. Confirmation hearings begin for u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett is the controversy surrounding her legal, political, religious or all three . We report from the devastated region of nagornokarabakh as a ceasefire comes under pressure. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. As the u. S. And u. K. Struggled to test even a fraction of their populations, china today embarks on the ambitiousoal of testing an entire city this week. They launched an Aggressive Campaign after just a hanul of new cases were disc
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 faces those released have since arrived in yemens capital after transiting through oman the white house says that humanitarian work sandra lowly businessperson Michael Goodale could im sorry have been released are the remains of a 3rd american have been retirement. Well heres a look at how we got here the efforts to end the 5 year long conflict u. N. Brokered peace talks began in stockholm in 2018 the warring sides signed a deal to swap around 15000. 00 detainees but progress has been slow nearly 1100 detainees are expected to be exchanged on thursday that ruthies will reportedly release around 400 people including 15 Saudis Coalition forces a likely to free around 700 hooty fighters last year who thinks freed 290 prisoners and saudi arabia released 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions ar
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
Than a 1000000 people have been forced from the area as fighting intensified over the past year has been more violence between taliban fighters and Government Troops in afghanistan parts of a military base in wardak province were destroyed in a car bomb explosion its happening as peace negotiations between the 2 sides continue in qatar israel is expected to approve the construction of more subtle homes in the occupied west bank at least 2000 of them were out of weapons today in total israels Planning Committee looks set to approve around 5000. 00 new homes the palestinian leadership has slammed the move. U. S. President donald trump is out on the campaign trail again this time in iowa a state considers critical to his reelection the president continues to downplay the virus sizing his sons recovery as proof that its not a danger to most children president trumps wife melania earlier said that 14 year old byron contracted coronavirus but the since tested negative. Parents are surprised
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