cutting through the headlines on up front and in a week of special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january on al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist when i was getting to the truth as i will that's what this job to. me well four hundred thousand nine. hundred service citizens from libya al-jazeera has an exclusive report. robin you're watching obs there are

a lot of my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes. the syrian government targets of rebel held city is causing deaths and forcing others to flee the carnage. also making amends former trump strategist steve bannon backs off or makes close explosive comments made about the u.s. president. and the hollywood foreign press roll out the red carpet for the golden globe awards but the color of the night could be black. of the program about five hundred nigerian migrants stranded in libya returned home the nigerian government ordered the immediate evacuation of about five hundred thousand by juries from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture and an address traveled with some of them here's his exclusive report. a cramped office in the center of tripoli is the only decent place these nigerian teenagers have seen

in years they left home with promises of a life of opportunity and comfort nothing prepared them for what followed in libya joy is not her real name she says she was sold for one thousand one hundred dollars to buy have freedom she needed to pay around two thousand five hundred dollars last week she and her friend saw a chance to escape from there by air and they took. her to a guest reference so our minds we decided to run we jumped for his very high friends as monks so we ran. around going to see a young man simulates keeps iran libya she told us many like car have been killed for the flimsiest of reasons someone who was sold for less than two hundred dollars in libyan sleep markets this if ten year old was promised a job as a tailor in

a fashion house in italy on reaching a transit destination in libya she ended up as a domestic servant why she says she was abused by her employers and want me to be white people people the much treated me dig didn't give him my salary even seized my passport says everything about me it would be people that brought me here did they neglected me libyan security forces say these nigerian woman who's been living in libya for seven years is a people trafficker she was alleged to have kept more than eighty goals as sex slaves but officials say as well as nigerian traffickers there are also libyans and some europeans in the trade the nigerian government team on a fact finding mission in libya say they are shocked at what they saw and heard. it talked about the various abuse systematic endemic and exploitation of all kinds a challenge to the senior officials as to the discrepancy between the numbers you

know they came up with all kinds of not very convincing excuses this played into a narrative that we had been. told about that indeed there are obviously interests that wanted to keep as many of them there as possible because they were commodities. the delegation was told there are fourteen detention centers in libya other reports suggest they may be as many as thirty holding as many as forty thousand nigeria's the nigerian government is preparing for an influx of return e.-s. the first government report christian flights took off from tripoli carrying five hundred nigerians. over the mediterranean and the sahara desert tracing the route where hundreds of travel companions died in their attempts to reach europe for most of the migrants on this flight it's a mixed feeling of being free at last and that of disappointment they've been through so much over the past years they're left with such promise but how to draw

a lot of grief indignities of slavery torture and rape despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians i sure like to attempt a judge in europe and the. nigerian migrants in the skies over the. meanwhile more than two hundred fifty refugees have been rescued off the coast of libya the coast guard said they were picked up from two boats and taken to ports in the capital tripoli now one of the vessels had sunk while the other was badly overcrowded the coast guard also recovered the bodies of two women who drowned the survivors say dozens of others are still missing. at least twenty five people have been killed in an attack in the syrian city of atlanta president assad's forces have been making steady gains in the northwestern province government forces have also increased as trying some other rebel held areas including the besieged area of eastern guta a suburb in java triples. the people of egypt city have become used to

silence like this syrian civilians yet again caught up inside of war with seemingly no end in sight i activists couldn't confirm if it was either a car bomb or a drone strike the target one of the many rebel factions who control parts of it although no one claimed responsibility some point. the finger at the assad government. i will stamp a new bashar we will look to leave we will die in syria. forces of the assad regime have been making gains in the north western parts of it live in hama provinces in the last forty eight hours if they can more areas in the countryside. syrian rebels have not been able to stand the government's air superiority. but the relentless air campaign doesn't only target fighters this is what happens when people hear warplanes in the sky. the population of village has more than doubled in the last few years over a million displaced people have been transferred to adlib after the government

starvin siege tactics in other areas assad forces have also stepped up attacks on eastern good visa two of the four deescalation zones agreed upon by syria iran russia and turkey. although there have been fewer attacks on london when a through which are the other areas under the deal but the bombing never stopped completely. more than four hundred thousand people are besieged in eastern alone because they expect and there's a big agreement now between thirty russia and and. iran recently need to be. conflicting zon in. may from the such a conference and basically the last. place for this union force. the un has declared that crap civilians face

a complete catastrophe because the assad government has got a deliveries in besieged areas. and as the guarantors of the deescalation deal get ready to meet in the russian city of sochi later this month syrian civilians continue to suffer some of injuries. bather made sauce for the bomb shell 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 president meanwhile trunk continues to criticize a book written by journalist michael wolff mike hanna has more. president trump arrives back at the white house having spent his morning at camp david firing out a number of tweets you're the one in support of his adviser stephen miller who angrily defended the president on a morning talk show jake tapper fake news c.n.n. just got destroyed in his interview with steven miller of the trumpet ministration trump said watch the hatred and unfairness of the c.n.n.

flunky in another tweet i've had to put up with the fake 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 will i my author michael wolff lot up the possibility of the twenty fifth amendment being applied in terms of which a president can be removed from office if the majority of the cabinet believe he's unfit to lead to trouble if i left out anything is probably stuff that was even more damning it's that it's this s. that bad i mean it's it's an extraordinary moment in time and the last the last several days focused on on my book i think are are are proof of this this is what happened here what's going on here this is you know i i think not an exaggeration and not on a reasonable in slot on reasonable to say this is twenty fifth amendment kind of

stuff in the course of the day to an apology from former trump confidant steve benen who was extensively quoted in the book he describes several disparaging remarks as inaccurate quotes and praised what he called the president's historical accomplishments in his first year. a senior senator was moved to comment on the president's mental status i don't think he's crazy i think he's had a very successful twenty seven thing and i want to help him where i can and we should all want him to be successful he had a lot on his plate the white house released photos of the president meeting with cabinet members over the weekend it parent intent to demonstrate that between the flow of irate tweets there was some governance done mike hanna al-jazeera washington. german chancellor angela merkel is optimistic that she will form a coalition government almost four months after the country's general election now

talks of resumed between her christian democratic party and its former coalition partners the social democrats who had vowed to go into opposition a potential sticking point is europe's refugee crisis and whether to allow the relatives of people who fled to germany to join their families their governments can leave. i think we can do it we were 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 always hope that politics will solve their problems then create the framework for people to live well in our 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 are willing to take on the work while still ahead here on al-jazeera will tell you what's on the agenda for the french president about blowback grant during his first state visit to china and saving the great whales scientists in california develop a warning system to protect the mammals from passing ships.

by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. started while the wintry weather cold across southern parts of china over the next couple of days the amount of snow into central pa south of that very heavy rain that will make its way towards the southeast and cold to hong kong around nine hundred on monday as the warm day tuesday temperatures struggling to get into double figures still a fair amount of rain across the southernmost part of a bit of snow there on the northern edge of this system that wet weather stretches way into the north of vietnam want to see showers into central areas of vietnam and plenty of showers across southeast asia so some lovely downpours there in the border i suspect the west. the weather will be across indonesia here's rashers showers there sliding across java smarter still seeing some rather lively showers

longer spells of right should brighten up though in thailand as we go on through tuesday bangkok at around thirty one degrees celsius and that dry and bright weather stretches across a good part of south asia few showers there just around the eastern side of the go for much of india it is settled still in the cool side there across the northern plains the temperatures in new delhi no higher than around nineteen degrees celsius well below the seasonal average a little change as we go on through tuesday by choose day that just notice and what you were pushing towards the fast out of india and also affecting sri lanka. the weather sponsored by cateye case. there were over forty charges as i recall primarily it was material support the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the usa they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we were able to see the secret we were able to tell in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court

cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land falling at this time on al jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm so whole robin a reminder of our top news stories about five hundred nigerian vikrant stranded in libya have returned home the nigerian government ordered the immediate evacuation of our five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture also car bombers killed twenty five people in the city of one of the last syrian rebel strongholds there are reports that a rebel headquarters building was the target but it's still not clear who was

behind the attack and steve bannon the major source for the behind the scenes book on donald trump's white house is trying to make amends with the u.s. president former chief strategist issued a statement saying of his support for the president is wavering. egypt has denied pressuring t.v. host to play down the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel the new york times quoted leaks phone recordings of a senior intelligence officer telling host to play down opposition to donald trump's move now it's been released at the same time that an arab league meeting was being held over the creation of a palestinian state the average of june reports now from ramallah in the occupied 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. 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 many palestinian say that while saturday's meeting in a man was important they were expecting more a little bit disappointed that they cannot go beyond just stressing this couric. and try to be up to the challenge and take. measures to contain. 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 stance 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 ollie 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 of holy 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 that i think that the. united states working. and tension only actually.

to try to create and that was fair which says that there has been. committed or taken with 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 does it up the occupied west bank israel as published a list of activists groups banned from entering the country twenty organizations have been blocked over the coals to boy colton sanction the jewish state for its policies towards palestinians european u.s. and south african groups are on the blacklist and it includes the palestinian solidarity campaign and american muslims for palestine joyce an engineer is general secretarial the american friends service committee one of the group's all militias says israel's blacklist won't stop bryant's groups from carrying out their work. we

find it amusing that you know israel feels threatened by nonviolent action and by organizations with which have embraced or you know speaking truth to power and on behalf of the oppressed and we're we're very resilient organ organizations i think i could speak on a festes behalf and others that are on the list. and we will find ways you know this is not going to press our voice and are working towards peace and justice all over the world on on account of those oppressed including palestinians are working on humanitarian. injustice on economic injustice has spanned decades and so in the united states if he's well regarded as an organization that is credible is does bold and courageous work stands for injustice regardless of who was affecting you know the organization has helped not

only the jews escape from germany but also. today against apartheid the apartheid system in south africa it's held the have slaves escaped during the post and. in the united states and so this is. not. new to our work this is intrinsic to our work and so we are known for our work from building peace and justice boldly and so this is not going to stop us or deter us from continuing with our messages. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called for the closure of the un's agency for palestinian refugees but he stopped short of insisting on an immediate end to u.s. funding for palestinians and it follows a threat from u.s. president donald trump to stop supporting the un's relief and works agency known as

n roll i mean mr mcculloch everybody called home program and i completely agree with president trump's harsh criticism of it's an organization that perpetuates the palestinian refugee problem it also in trying to the narrative of the so-called right to return in a bid to eliminate the state of israel therefore overwatch a pass from the world now the largest on the moles on the planet and giant ships are on a collision course off the west coast of the u.s. dozens of blue whales are killed every year in a ship shipping lanes in the waters off california prompting scientists to develop a warning system for ships rob reynolds has more from santa barbara the blue whale is an all inspiring creature the largest animal that has ever lived they can weigh one hundred thirty six thousand kilos and stretched thirty three meters from nose to tail. i mean 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 the 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 and 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. it's happened and we do take steps to try and avoid it but the industry 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 well in a few hours time french president manuel micro will london china for his first state visit comes at a time of uncertainty of the crisis on the korean peninsula and tension in relations between china europe and the us robert bryant reports from beijing with political upheaval impacting is e.u. neighbors president emmanuel mccrone comes to china with a clear message talk to me and you're talking to your. english and he's you know he's leaving europe. jam my knees in a new very strange political position and france he's very.

macron president xi jinping have met just once before at last year's g twenty summit and mccraw will be looking to china to reaffirm its commitment to the paris climate accord to control global warming thank you. it was signed just two years ago but damaged by the u.s. decision to pull out of it and it's very important for france to talk wiese china about because america u.s. president trump and leave the conference this is macro's first state visit to china and we can expect the usual flurry of trade deals and possible agreements on future nuclear power projects in which both france and china have expertise but as permanent members of the un security council there are also likely be talks on the war in syria and on the north korean crisis in both china and france there's been

alarmed at the kind of insults traded by the leaders of the u.s. and north korea and china will be looking for support for its so-called double freeze proposal that calls for the u.s. and south korea to suspend military exercises in return for north korea halting its missile tests for. this market i'm sure it china hopes mackerel will support this plan but if the french come up with his own ideas of china we are consider them carefully camille thinking and you in the face of so much international instability french and chinese diplomats will be hoping that the spectacle of two world leaders holding a state visit will in itself be a stabilizing influence macbride al-jazeera beijing. well zambia's declared a curfew on a township in the capital issaka to try and contain a cholera outbreak fifty eight people have been killed by the disease since

september hundreds of churches of council services to prevent the infection spreading in the military is being called in to help clean up the capital three hundred seventy thousand people live in the township one example is most densely populated slums. the seventy fifth annual golden globe awards are underway in beverly hills california but the ceremony which usually focuses on the glitz singing glamour of hollywood has a full songbooks hoed the share many male actors filmmakers and producers are accused of sexual misconduct in twenty seventeen including hollywood heavyweights like harvey weinstein and kevin spacey let's get straight over to our correspondent stephanie stanton who's in beverly hills and it's very much a sort of a red and black carpet night tonight. absolutely we're just thirty minutes away from the start of the show here and it is a lack in fact let me have you take

a quick look around here i have my camera pan around and you can see a sea of black i mean pretty much everyone in black with the few exceptions many people we talked to here as they make their way down the carpet say that they are proud to wear black they say that they are standing up for the me too and the time's up movement basically saying that they will no longer tolerate sexual harassment not only in hollywood but other industries as well a lot of people very passionate about this issue very proud to be here today wearing black and it's interesting because this show is simply known as hollywood's biggest party and you can definitely sense a much more serious tone here tonight at the golden globes stuffy well of course it is all about who's going to win new walton what shows are going to be tipped to certainly win the big awards later on in the air it's very. interesting time who do you think is to to win and who should we be keeping an eye on.

well let's talk about the movies first of all in the drama category the shape of water right now leading the pack with seven nominations it is a beautiful film directed by guillermo del toro. it is absolutely gorgeous but it's getting a lot of step competition within that category one film to keep an eye out is ladybird that is in the comedy category though not the same category as the shape of water however ladybird is it is and on t.v. it is directed by a female so it is the only film within both the drama and comic category to be directed by a female also i want to note that the film's two stars laurie metcalf and c.r.c. roman both of them at nominated for building votes as well so given the political climate given the me too movement given that year of the woman as us some have dubbed it this show it might make sense that ladybird would sweep would have a clean sweep when it comes to

a word we'll see if that turns out to be the case but we should see what happens in the coming out of the moment stephanie stanton there in beverly hills have a have a great night last saturday. now the winter deep freeze gripping much of the northeastern united states and canada has brought record breaking cold temperatures washington and new hampshire was one of the coldest places on earth the stall dubbed the ball messiah clone is being blamed for the conditions and nineteen deaths in the u.s. thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed causing widespread traffic like calles. your child is their homes a whole robin these are all top stories about five hundred nigerian migrants stranded in libya have returned home. the nigerian government ordered the immediate evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and

torture is evident dress traveled with some of them for most of the migrants on this flight it's a mixed feeling of being free at last and that of disappointment they've been through so much over the past years they left with such promise but hard to draw a lot of indignities of slavery torture and rape yet despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians to attempt a judge in europe and beyond meanwhile more than two hundred fifty refugees have been rescued off the coast of libya the coast guard said they were picked up from two boats and taken to a port in tripoli one of the vessels that sunk qual the other was badly overcrowded the coast guard also recovered the bodies of two women who drowned survivors say dozens more are still missing a car bomb has killed twenty five people in the city of idlib one of the last syria's rebel strongholds there are reports that a rebel headquarters building was the target but it's not clear who was behind the attack steve ballard the major source for the behind the scenes book on donald

trump's white house is trying to make amends with the u.s. president trump's former chief strategist issued a statement saying his support for the president is unwavering. german chancellor angela merkel is optimistic that she'll form a coalition government almost four months after the country's general election talks of resumed didn't lead between her christian democratic party and its former coalition partners the social democrats who had vowed to go into opposition a potential sticking point as europe's refugee crisis of whether to allow the relatives of people who fled to germany to join their families that. israel has published a list of activists groups banned from entering the country twenty organizations have been blocked over the calls to boycott and sanction the jewish state for its policies towards palestinians european u.s. and south african groups are on the black list that includes the palestine solidarity campaign the american muslims for palestine those were the headlines

here on. news in thirty minutes next it's inside story with do stay with us. for donald trump's decision. links suggest leaders in cairo danger object to u.s. recognition of the city as israel's capital and saudi arabia stands accused of secret support what does the apparent shift mean for the future of jerusalem this is inside story.