why the reason influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the. resistance to evolve over. to oppressed people look at me and continue to think that negroes to be defensive. about malcolm x. and martin luther king preached to fix at this time on al-jazeera. i cheeriest starts evacuating thousands of its citizens who'd been trapped in slave like conditions in libya. i know i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up a car bomb kills at least eighteen people in

a lip city the syrian government forces step up their offensive on the province. donald trump gets an apology from steve bannon after his former aides explosive comments in a new book about the president. and saving the great whale scientists in california develop a warning system to protect the mammals from passing containerships. follow our top story this hour nigeria has started flying thousands of its citizens home from libya where they've been trapped in slavery like conditions large numbers of nigerians a stuck in libya they'd been trying to cross to italy by sea but was stopped by local armed factions and libya's coast guard and now facing di conditions and abuse and i jaring government says the fights will continue for as long as they need to

or libya serves as a portal to the mediterranean and on to europe for refugees and migrants from africa and the middle east up to ninety percent of people crossing the mediterranean sea to europe depart from libya there are forty three thousand refugees and asylum seekers registered with the united nations refugee agency inside libya the highest number come from nigeria nearly seventeen and a half thousand people followed by syria with sixteen and a half thousand and then given guinea and the ivory coast and i jaring government has found it difficult to tell exactly how many people need the help. our president has made available all the resources necessary. and i couldn't move out of the let him to repatriate all the nigerians here just added the gaffer to nigeria you know who you know when we came we were working around a figure of about five thousand five hundred. and i'm going to one hundred assess

how other comes along comes the level comes me at martin but the question of numbers. has become a bit problematic. to address has been hearing the migrant stories he filed this report from libya's capital tripoli. well basically partridge in an effort of the nigerian government started after reports of. african african migrants in libya are being sold on the slave market and of course put to put in slave like conditions and this doesn't even stop at those in the hands of. human smugglers in libya but also in detention camps official and unofficial detention camps across libya we met some of them over the course of four or five days in libya today more than eight hundred was. dropped at the airport in tripoli two on their way home the initial flight of five hundred migrant stranded migrants

came into port harcourt this evening and we spoke to a lot of people on that flight and they all have the same story to tell most of them are being exploited sexually physically and some of them i've been tortured and the situation among them is that they keep. even some of the migrants coming migrant camembert community community members there keep on sort of stealing or kidnapping some of these migrants and forcing their parents or relations back home to pay ransom before they release them and immediately one person is released another person takes over and demand ransom so it's a vicious cycle if you don't pay up they torture you and you go through several systemic abuses inside those detention camps and even the guesthouse are set up by the human smugglers across libya.

in syria a car bomb in the city of has killed twenty five people even more of been injured in the city which is under the control of to. the syrian observatory for human rights says the explosion appeared to target the headquarters of an opposition faction it's not yet known who carried out the attack the syrian government forces continue their push in the countryside three people were killed on sunday looting a woman and a child after intensive raids carried out by russian jets in the countryside meanwhile fighting rages outside damascus as well as the regime tries to wrest control of eastern ghouta warbirds unmanly has more. the war in syria is entering its eighth year and the aerial bombardment by government forces continues as regime forces and remnants of the eisel of both attacking opposition held areas in the north west rebel fighters are struggling to

maintain it live proppants which is one of their last strongholds for the. refugees leaving the driving range by any way they can someone trucks with little more than a blanket shielding them from the winter weather. the internally displaced pour into refugee camps the aid agencies say a stretched to the limit a tent city is being constructed and it leapt live a turkish border to hold tens of thousands forced from their homes in the past fortnight. a many more syrians rebel held areas have traveled to the area and hope of safety and response putting the total number of i.d.p.'s at street quarters of a million look to small rebel held pockets of syria and it's clear why. the latest asteroid struck east inducer to the east of the capital damascus the

suburb of four hundred thousand people has been besieged by government forces for five years. as one of the so-called deescalation cern's brokered last year by iran russia and turkey the people there have reason not to trust the agreements videos show the destruction of the government forces bombarded targets. on saturday everyone from the elderly to the very young are affected. i was with my grandfather and brother when we went out and hope planes everything was ok and then the bombing started and all of a sudden this happened to us it is also considered a deescalation cern but the deal to reduce fighting is proving to be difficult to enforce the rebels including hyatt. and the free syrian army controlled large areas of land here and the regime backed by russian air raids a mine taining intense pressure on the rebels while the growing number of

internally displaced have temporary response from the bombs it's unclear how long they remain relatively safe lure about manly al jazeera yemen's who sees say they've shot down a saudi coalition warplane saudi media is reporting two pilots survived the crash which happened in yemen sa the province. which is the forces t.v. channel says the fighter plane was a british made tornado. now the developments the party of yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh who was killed last month has named its new leader the former agriculture minister sadik and the number us will be the new head of the general people's congress posse was killed by his the rebels off the switch sides and back to saudi led coalition in its battle against them now steve bannon a main source for the bombshell behind the scenes book on donald trump's white

house is trying to make amends with the u.s. president trump's former campaign manager and chief of staff issued a statement saying his support for the u.s. president and his agenda on wavering meanwhile trump continues to criticize the foreign fury book which was written by chambliss michael wolff and on sunday he tweeted i've had to put up with the fate news from the first day i announce that i would be running for president now i have to put up with a fake book written by a totally discredited author ronald reagan had the same problem and handled it well so why so for this let's talk to john hendren in washington d.c. and what is the general view of how president trump is handling this. well that he's obsessed with it the president has mentioned that book critically in several tweets over the weekend and he even spoke about it in a press conference where republican leaders were at camp david hoping to outline their legislative agenda and there's reason to believe that the public is

responding to this book is number one on the amazon list there are two to four week delays into livery and there's also reason to believe that the book and the concerns raised in it have heard trump in congress adam schiff is a democratic congressman from california he says that he doesn't know a member of either party who doesn't privately share some of those concerns and speak about it the white house will say that trump is talking about the book because he simply hits back ten times as hard whenever he is hit the author of that book has not stopped talking either he spoke on sunday talk shows today and this is what he had to say i don't know when that one when the training is going to is going to finally hit the wall i think i think the the entire narrative of this presidency. and this this ten of the sea and then presidency has been it's going to hit a wall and the thing that keeps everybody's attention absolutely riveted this global

attention. is that it took the train keeps going but the wall is still there right michael will speaking there and of course the president's attacks on him continue that issue still very much in the limelight what about this apology from steve bannon. well that was a shocker mary and we were not expecting that today but he has lost donors he has been heavily criticized by the white house and the republican party he was people on the sunday talk shows representing the white house were criticizing him just hours ago and then he issued this apology saying that he was sorry he regretted some of the things he was quoted as saying and he said donald trump jr who we in this in the book criticized as treasonous and unpatriotic for joining a group that met with officials who said they represented the russian government he

said donald trump jr is a both a patriot and a good man he said his comments were and instead not at donald trump jr but it call man afford a season campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how russians operate so ben is clearly trying to walk this back somewhat but it does seem like the rift with the white house and with much of the republican party there may be permanent thanks very much john hendren in washington d.c. he watching out as they are still to come thirty two missing after an iranian tank collides with a freighter off china catching fire and spilling its oil. and one of europe's most powerful politicians seeks to build a coalition say a job. hello

the weather still remains pretty disturbed across western parts of europe still with our circulation just spinning away there from spain and portugal it will gradually not its way a little further research as we go on through the next few days of the wet weather heading towards italy clear skies come back in behind there for middle east for a time a celsius no great shakes and the temperatures here paris will be warmer highs here of around nine degrees celsius only six there in london similar values actually as we go into central parts vienna at around eight degrees notice those temperatures do harboring around freezing into that northeastern corner further south little more cloud coming in this we go on through tuesday that wetter weather moving across italy some snow there for the out so the winds come in from a southerly direction a relatively warm direction yes but is it pushed into the cold air across the high ground looking like it's going to really turn to snow is still a chance some snowy bits there across northern parts of by just four celsius the top temperature in madrid this days so wet weather still in place there across northern parts of africa for northern iraq and northern algeria could see some rain

as we go on through monday twelve or thirteen celsius it brightens up and it warms up as we go on through chews day by that stage a little more cloud sliding its way into libya to the east of that not too bad in cairo with a high of twenty. unbelievable it sounds like an agreement between a criminal both sides it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the question minister throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just a nominee director we're doing the investigation into. ukraine could you have a bribes you've been corrupt are a corrupt did just the presidency al-jazeera investigations the only go this time.

back let's update you on the stories making headlines nigeria is in the process of flying over five thousand of its citizens home from libya large numbers of nigerians are trapped in the country where they were trying to cross to basically by sea. a car bomb in the syrian city of it lived is killed twenty five people it comes as the rebel controlled area comes under a new just sold from syrian government forces. on the former white house chief strategist steve bannon is trying to make amends with the u.s. president reaffirmed his support for donald trump in a statement after becoming the main source for a damaging book about trump's presidency. so that in all the stories that we're watching closely thirty two people are missing in the east china sea after an oil

tanker collided with a congo ship and then caught fire this happened off shanghai where the young sea river meets the east china sea search teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh who work for an iranian shipping company rescue a save the twenty one crew of the of the ship involved in this ride has more from beijing. the cause of the collision is unknown but it led to a devastating fire on board the tanker that has burned for hours the tanker the senshi carrying one hundred thirty six thousand tons of oil was headed north to a port in south korea the other vessel involved is a bulk carrier that was carrying grain would seem to be heading south to a port on china's southern coast when the collision occurred some three hundred kilometers east of china's coast of shanghai a big international rescue and recovery effort is underway with vessels being sent by china's maritime or thora t's they've also been helped by the coast guard from

south korea sending a vessel and an aircraft in what is an international operation but it is being hampered now by the hours of darkness also stronger seas and winds are not making any easier there are specialized vessels taking part of the are designed for dealing with oil slicks and we do know that there is an amount of oil in the in the seas but it's not known yet just how bad the pollution will be from this but the east china sea is shared by not only china but south korea and some of the islands in the south of japan and all of those countries will be following this closely clearly concerned about whether there is a growing pollution threat and if there is a slick which way it is heading egypt has denied pressuring t.v. hosts have banked the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel and meal times

reported leaked phone recordings of a senior intelligence officer telling hosts to play down opposition to donald trump smith has been released in the wake of an arab league meeting about the creation of a palestinian state mohammed gendron reports now from ramallah west bank. one month after donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel some members of the arab league met in jordan to say no definite will come our goal is to overturn the american decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and to assert that it has no it legal effect. we have specific requests the most important of which is the recognition of a palestinian state with jerusalem as its capital according to the june the fourth nine hundred sixty seven borders as many palestinians say the wall saturday's meeting in a man was important they were expecting more a little bit disappointed that they cannot go beyond just stressing this court

position and try to be up to the challenge and take. measures to contain. it to this very dangerous position of the united states at a time when many in the arab world believe regional leaders aren't doing enough to show solidarity with palestinians egypt stands is being called further into question by an article in the new york times the newspaper reported that some egyptian t.v. personalities have been pressured to play down opposition to president trump's decision on jerusalem. adding that in leaked phone recordings egyptian intelligence officer captain ussher holy reportedly told leading t.v. talk show hosts to influence their viewers to support the decision despite condemnation from the government and egyptians nationwide egypt's state information service denied the report stating that it was inappropriate for the new york times to publish such an allegation and adding that the times report claims that captain

ussher moholi is an officer with the egyptian general intelligence without presenting its readers with the slightest evidence as to the truth of this piece of information or that a person by this name exists in the first place palestinian officials say they believe egypt is continuing to support them but that the u.s. has perhaps intentionally muddied the waters they think that the. united states working. intentionally actually. to try to create an atmosphere which says that there has been. committed or taken with the tests at the approval of certain out of governments these developments have not yet had much of an impact on the ground here the major concern for palestinians is seeking concrete measures to alleviate their suffering how much enjoyment is it of the model of the occupied west bank

israel's strategic affairs ministry has published a list of cooks banned from entering the country the so-called b.d.s. blacklist includes twenty organizations which will not be allowed to enter israel due to their support for the boycott and sanctions movement against the country and its primarily includes european and american organizations including american muslims for palestine and the palestine solidarity campaign. now the german chancellor angela merkel says she's optimistic she will form a coalition government almost four months after the country's general election talks have resumed now in berlin between her christian democrat party and its former coalition partners the social democrats vow to go into opposition a potential sticking point is the refugee crisis and whether to allow the relatives of immigrants to be able to join them in germany the s.p.d. is governed jointly with the christian democrats for eight of the last twelve years after the party suffered a punishing defeat at last year's election the leader martin schulz promised to

take it into opposition but pressure is now mounting on him to do a deal with marco since her proposal for a coalition with the greens in the liberal f.d.p. fell through. i think we can do it we will work very quickly very intensively that's what we set out to do and you always think about what people in germany are expecting all of us you always hope that politics will solve the problems and create the framework for people to live where little country i'm optimistic about these talks but i also know that there is a lot of work ahead of us in the coming days we're willing to take all the work. they've achieved as more in this now from berlin. this is been the longest coalition talks that we've had in post-war political german history it's running up almost to four months now and the people of germany have been under a caretaker government it's very important for angela merkel and prospective

coalition partners that she sort out in these talks and remember there are only talks about talks in the next five days exactly where the red lines are what form of they can get where immigration is how can they get out of the form of to lease shape immigration policies and coalesce those policies in some way it is going to be as anglo merkel said in her statement before the talks began a lot of hard work but she said she was optimistic and her social democratic partner mark martin schulz prospective partner said there should be no red lines but there is a lot at stake it shows essentially that the the power at the heart of the european union that was angular merkel she was the one that had the strong partnership with the with france is beginning to erode she's less popular now with the people of germany are almost dismayed by what's happening how long it's taking and they want to result in an and in fact during these five days they will be a more or less

a media blackout they don't want the sort of interviews they had during the last coalition talks which sided feeding in to the actual coalition talks and that she increasing friction so we're not going to hear much about what's happening but i think that or a concentration to make sure that will not be another general election and there will not be a minority government is in all their interests to come to a solution. several religious and political groups facing pressure from the government in pakistan have been demonstrating in the northwestern city of pasha and this is the second in a series of protests initially organized in the wake of the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel groups behind the rallies include jamaat ud dawa the organization led by the two thousand and eight mumbai attack suspects office saeed. to has more from the protests in a shower. and shore from their dad if i gotta get you on different accounts for the

people from valentine and the people of rush made a bit ago so an offer to join a few for people across the country showed it then and i guess the reason this raid by the us president mr from the middle east on n.p.r. ameri corps in india by themselves a terrorist but sadly they apply mean muslims in pakistan to supporting terrorists despite the fact that muslims all over the world a victims of their brutality and with the blessings of almighty allah we will get rid of them very soon their credit don has already sacrificed far too much and they didn't do no more do i think the american then they go sorry mephedrone shouldn't of done it on the government all the things that the americans ever bring the banking the shared from guys should have done it on a good note blaming project on failure then i've run it on this particular organization right now be holding rallies across the country it was for sure that

the people of baghdad gonna be supporting the president in oh so they really bred that in and above all hanging all over the united states president if they're going to promise. the jerusalem decision by the united states president the kashmir issue and the recent tweet by trump compelled us to launch a movement across pakistan to reunite and activate the people against the cruel decisions against muslims and pakistan on. the days large gatherings did not have our first day and that the good thing i did the government of august on which caving on the pressure for the united states which they don't except embody. the seventy fifth annual golden globe awards will be held and actually held on sunday but the ceremony usually focused on the glitz and glamour of hollywood will have a new song the time many. male actors filmmakers and producers were accused of sexual misconduct in twenty seventeen including hollywood heavyweights like kevin

spacey and director harvey weinstein those in attendance are planning to wear all black as part of the hash tag me to movement highlighting the issue of sexual harassment against women off the coast of california enormous container ships travel full speed to the port of los angeles the shipping lanes cut through water is that of a feeding grounds and migration routes used by great whales every year endangered blue whales are struck and killed by these vessels as rob rolls reports from santa barbara scientists are trying to develop a warning system for ship captains to help prevent these deaths the blue whale is an all inspiring creature the largest animal that has ever lived they get away a hundred and thirty thousand kilos and stretched thirty meters from nose to tail they may live from eighty to one hundred in ten years. but in the santa barbara

channel even blue whales are no match for giant cargo ships when ships hit whales whales die there are about eighty endangered whales that are killed every year ago along the coast of north western north america and that's a lot of whales for some of these whales that are quite rare in these populations we really think that that road kill is inhibiting the recovery of slowing down the recovery of these whales commercial whaling reduced blue whales to about one percent of their or original number before killing them was banned by an international agreement in one nine hundred sixty six whales population is increasing worldwide but given their slow reproductive cycle scientists and government officials are concerned about their survival we're at a point now where we have a chance to bring blue whales back from the brink of extinction we need to find the ways to slow ships down along the california coast researchers with the university of california and the buying off ocean initiative are working on

a technologically sophisticated new way old warning system at a rate of visual surveillance hydrophones thermal imaging and data crunching all that information comes together to be alert that says hey ship's watch out today is a bad day for whales please slow down if the ships build in two to four hours of their transit to accommodate for slower the slow speed zone to protect the whales then we can achieve what we're trying to without regulation the government agency responsible has asked shipping companies to voluntarily cut their speed and even offered modest cash rewards for those who will do so but never the less ninety percent of all ships that transit these whale rich waters go full speed ahead in shipping like any other business time is money no vessel master wants to hit a well it's a tragic thing when it does happen and we do take steps to try and avoid it but the in. history opposes mandatory speed limits in blue whale territory what we would

like to see is the continuance of voluntary programs in order to collect the necessary data to inform that decision making process what's known already is this unless the ships slow down more of these magnificent animals will become roadkill rob reynolds al-jazeera santa barbara was more in everything we're covering right here al jazeera dot com for comments analysis and video on demand to remember that you can watch us live there as well as the icon at the top of the screen. pick up date of the headlines for large numbers of nigerians are trapped in libya where they were trying to cross to italy by sea but was stopped by local factions and libya's coast guard and now facing di conditions and abuse it's estimated about

five thousand migrants will be flown home but i cheering government has admitted the exact numbers and care of president has made available all the resources necessary. in a cool and most of the less him to repatriate all the nigerians here let's do a good go for tonight here you know who you know when we came we were working around a figure of about five thousand five hundred. good unama going to assess other comes along comes to left me at multan but the question of numbers. has become a bit problematic a car bomb in the city of has killed twenty five people have been injured in the syrian city which is currently under the control of to be a sham the syrian observatory for human rights says the explosion appeared to target the headquarters of an opposition faction. well that attack took place as

syrian government forces and the allies continued their advance to recap recapture itll a province from the rebels it's caused thousands of civilians to flee towards the border with turkey in freezing winter conditions it is the largest remaining rebel held territory in syria the former white house chief strategist steve bannon is trying to make amends with the us president you reaffirmed his support for donald trump in a statement after becoming the main source for a damaging book about trump's presidency trump continues to denounce the veyron fury book as allies it was written by journalist michael wolff and thirty two people are missing in the east china sea after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship and caught fire this happened off the coast of shanghai search teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh who work for an iranian shipping company rescue a save the twenty one crew the other ship involved as you headlines talk charges

there is next. welcome to talk to al jazeera in the field with me barnaby phillips in the kenyan capital nairobi now this is a city that has played a big part in my life i spent some very happy childhood years here years i have vivid memories of although i left when i was only ten years old way back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight.