news breaks members of the knesset israel's parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds corruptly did just the president say in the whole country there is no other way and when people need to be heard china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely. zero has teams on the ground to bring the award winning documentaries and live news on and on line. full full hundred thousand near nigeria money nigeria brings back home hundred seven citizens many say they were sold into slavery in libya and al-jazeera exclusive.

fully back to goa watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead a combo in one of the last tribal strongholds in syria has killed fifty twenty five people injuring many others france's president in money in my car arrives in china for a state visit with trade and security expected to top the agenda and we'll tell you why there is a black and red carpet in hollywood for the annual golden globe. thank you for joining us face with diet conditions back home thousands of nigerians try to make their way to europe but once they get to libya the main transit point many find themselves trapped in subjected to slavery torture and abuse now the nigerian government is stepping in frying five hundred migrants stranded in libya back home al-jazeera is ahmed interest traveled with some of them 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 her 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 jeff rense so our minds we decided to run we jumped for his very high friends as minds so we ran the marathon we're going to see it 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 what we did the white people people the much treated me dig didn't give me my salary didn't even seized my passport says everything about me it would be people dad 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 off your say as well as nigerian traffickers there are also libyans and some europeans in the treat. 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 i 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 returning. the first government report christian flights to go from tripoli carrying five hundred nigerians the few over the mediterranean and the sahara desert tracing the route where hundreds of travel companions died in their terms 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 hutcheon drop a lot of pain indignities of slavery torture and rape yet despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians i sure like to attend the judge in europe and beyond how many trees with nigerian migrants in the skies over the. and off the coast of libya two women have drowned dozens are missing and more than two hundred fifty refugees were rescued from two boats by the boats sank as it tried to cross the mediterranean the other was overcrowded almost three thousand migrants are believed to have drowned in the mediterranean last year. to syria now where a car bomb attack in a rebel held city has killed at least twenty five people activists say the attack targeted the headquarters of an opposition group. out of all have areas have been stepped up including eastern go to the same suburb of damascus osama bin job it has . the people of

a deep city have become used to silence like this syrian civilians yet again caught up inside a war with seemingly no end in sight the target one of the many rebel factions who control parts of it although no one claimed responsibility some pointed the finger at the assad government. would you bashar we will look leave we will die in syria. most of the assad regime has been making gains in the northwestern parts of it live in hama provinces in the last forty eight hours if they can more areas in the countryside. and rebels have not been able to stand the government's air superiority. but the relentless campaign doesn't only target fighters this is what happens when people hear warplanes in the sky. job relation a village has more than doubled in the last few years over a million displaced people have been transferred to adlib after the government stopped in siege tactics in other areas south forces have also stepped up attacks

on the east and. these are two of the four deescalation zones agreed upon by syria iran russia and turkey. although there have been fewer attacks on farms and when a threat which are the other areas under the deal but the bombings never stopped completely. more than four hundred thousand people are besieged in eastern two alone because they expect. a big agreement know russia. and. iran recently to the. conflict zone in. the last. place when the syrian force was the un has declared that struck civilians face a complete catastrophe because the assad government has got to keep deliveries in besieged areas. and as the guarantors of the deescalation deal get ready to meet in

the russian city of softly later this month syrian civilians continue to suffer some of. the gulf diplomatic crisis and the blockade of categories being discussed at a two day summit in co wades the emir of kuwait has addressed the parliamentary meeting of the gulf cooperation council. says they are they has been some progress in the ongoing dispute but didn't say what saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic ties with qatar in june the emir called on all members of the g.c.c. to band together to face international challenges. france's president emmanuel mccall has endorsed beijing's belled and bold initiative in his first visit to china as president michel called for europe and china to work together on president xi signature project that aims to build a modern day silk road but he said the projects benefits must be shared problem

bride has more from beijing. president macron has begun his visit in the ancient city of scheana home of the terra cotta warriors but also more symbolically it's one of the departure points for the ancient silk road the trade route connecting china with the west and macron is keen to play up the historic nature of the franco chinese relationship and in a wide ranging speech he went into the details of how france can continue to work with china on the world stage in a number of different areas and specifically in the development of africa china was reminded about france's long relationship through the colonial period with a number of countries in africa macron compared that with china's interests now china of course has been building up relationships with a number of different african countries investing heavily in

a lot of infrastructure projects there a macro reminded his hosts about the responsibilities that comes with that you cannot simply build something to walk away from it pledging to work with the chinese to tackle things like corruption in africa basically having the message that china should not make the same mistakes as us this isn't a good it is economy. we need to improve development education health and the economy in africa by working together we can change the world for africa the trip continues after she and to beijing where much of the deals related to this trip the trade agreements will be signed china is a big buyer of air bus passenger jets we're expecting to see more deals there and also further collaboration on nuclear power projects will also be looking to try to redress the trade imbalance trying to give french exports as more access to the

china market security will. play a big part and will be discussed in particular the north korean crisis finally macron will want to take away from here a guarantee that china as the biggest carbon emitter in the world is still committed to the paris climate agreement signed just two years ago but still reeling from the united states walking away from it south korea's top nuclear envoy and his japanese counterpart are meeting in seoul this comes a day before the first high level talks between north and south korea in more than two years there a gathering is expected to focus on pyongyang's participation in the upcoming winter games in kyung chan kathy novak has the latest from seoul. the top nuclear envoys from south korea and japan say they want to capitalize on what south korea's foreign ministry is calling the peace momentum brought about by such developments as the upcoming intercourse and talks on the border between north and south korea

after the meeting in seoul the south korean foreign ministry said that the two sides agreed to intensify diplomatic efforts in order to help that momentum translate into a peaceful resolution of the situation on the korean peninsula now the principal focus of the talks will be the potential for north korea to send its athletes to participate in next month's pyong chung the winter olympics taking place here in south korea south korea's president wants the olympics to be known as the peace olympics and his foreign minister says that this country will be looking beyond the olympics to bring about an improvement of interfering in relations and ultimately ways to promote denuclearization on the korean peninsula but north korea so far has shown no signs of being willing to give up its nuclear program that would be the ultimate goal of south korea japan and the united states still on the fact that

these talks are going ahead at all after two years of no communication between the two koreas is being seen as a positive first step still ahead on al-jazeera making amends former trump strategist steve bannon backs off explosive comments made about the u.s. president german chancellor angela merkel hopes to break the political impasse and build a ruling coalition. from long flowing all in the winds to an enchanting. hello there we've got plenty of wet weather across europe at the moment a lot of rain and the fair amount of snow too but of the wintery weather has been over parts of spain further towards the east a lot of this has been rain and it's been dragged in on some winds coming out from the south and so it's really quite mild hair for rome the temperatures all the way

up at nineteen degrees which is almost unheard of in january not quite as warm as we head into choose they will fill sixteen is a long way above the average most of cloud lots of dust coming up from africa so the air quality is brilliant for the northeastern part of your very different hair it's fine and settled but certainly not warm stockholm at the maximum getting to zero now for the other side of the mediterranean we're also seeing that weather system there's across the southern parts of europe to you can see the cloud there on the satellite picture giving some of us a fair amount of wet weather i think we'll see a few more showers making their way towards morocco there as we head through choose day say fifteen degrees will then bring us some rain and further east we're also going to see some rain just edging away from algeria and into parts of tunisia and across libya the loss will be a fair amount of cloud further towards the south plenty of sunshine here the showers just in the fourth of them parts of i'm up they'll stay here as we head through the day on tuesday but we could catch just one or two there in. the with

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in libya have returned home the government has ordered the media's evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture. in syria combo almost killed twenty five people in the city a video of one of the last rebel strongholds there reports that a rebel headquarters was a target of government forces as they continue to make gains in the area pushing further into the surrounding countryside and emanuel mccraw has endorsed beijing's ballot and road initiative in his first visit to china as french president he also says france and china need to work together on the development of africa. than in the 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 the former chief strategist says he's to forty's unwavering meanwhile john 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 float 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 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 our are our 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 wish that all want him to be successful he has a lot on his plate the white house released photos of the president meeting with cabinet members over the weekend the apparent 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 shall form a coalition government three months after the general elections but other leaders say it's going to require a change of style to make it happen talks have resumed in berlin between chancellor merkel's christian democrat party and its former coalition partners the social democrats who had vowed to go into opposition. it's going to come really. 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 always hope that politics will solve problems in create a framework for people to live well in our country i am 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 on the work david chaytor has more 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 her 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 another form of to reshape 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 schulze 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 there 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 started 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 all 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. one student has died in protests over the price of bread in sudan police arrested a prominent opposition leader and confiscated newspapers in a bid to clamp down on the on rise to demonstrations began in the southeastern city

of sanaa on saturday after bread prices doubled the price of bread goes after the government eliminated subsidies in its twenty eight thousand budget. egypt has denied pressuring t.v. host to play down the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the new york times quoted leads phone recordings of a senior intelligence officer instructing the t.v. anchors it's been released at the same time as an arab league meeting is being held over the creation of a palestinian state mama jump june reports 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 palestinians see the wall saturday's meeting in amman was important they were expecting more of the discipline to go be old. just stressing this correct position and try to. be up to the challenge and take. us 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's 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 ussher for the 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 bob beloved. i'm letting you know the position of egypt's national security regarding the issue of declaring the capital of israel there have to be compromises if we reach a point where drew slim becomes the capital of israel and ramallah becomes the capital of palestine in order to end the war and avoid more death and we could probably do that but in return the borders have to be secured 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 from foley 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 an atmosphere where. says the move has been. gone with the door taken with the approval of certain lot 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 a major drama visitor but most of the occupied west bank meanwhile israel has published a list of groups but banning them from entering the country twenty organizations have been blocked because of their calls to boycott divest and sanction the jewish state for its policies towards fantasy and european u.s. and south african groups are on the blacklist and also includes the palestinian solidarity campaign and an american muslims for palestine joyce julie is general

secretary of the american friends service committee one of the groups on that list she says israel's backless won't stop rising groups from carrying out their work. so 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 very resilient organ organizations i think i could speak on a festes behalf and there 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

a sees well regarded as an organization that is credible does bold and courageous work stance for injustice regardless of who was affecting you know the organization has helped not only the jews escape from germany but also. to against apartheid the apartheid system in south africa it's held the have slaves escaped during the most 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 putting peace and justice boldly and so this is not going to stop us or deter us from continuing with our messages. one of hollywood's biggest events of the year

the golden globe awards has wrapped up in beverly hills but the ceremony which usually focuses on the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry has more of a somber tone this year many actors filmmakers in producers were accused of sexual misconduct in two thousand and seventeen including hollywood heavyweights producers harvey weinstein and actor kevin spacey many of those in attendance were all black as part of the hash tag me too movement which sought to highlight the issue of sexual harassment in the industry stephanie stanton has more. i am here at the n.b.c. after party for the seventy fifth golden globes and not only was it a night for celebration it was a night of empowering women we saw women now and men a listers dressed in black tonight it was something they vowed to do to really draw attention to sexual harassment in hollywood they also drew attention to the me too and it's kinds of movement. for real lasting change as the change in hollywood and that is something

that we're definitely feeling tonight as were some of the winners let's talk about those the big award of the night came at the end best drama that went to three billboards outside adding missouri that's directed by martin mcdonagh also winning it for that show for that movie rather is the best actress prince's mcdormand she is the film star we also saw sam rockwell take home a best supporting actor award we also saw lady bird lady bird did very well winning in several categories including best musical or comedy the film's director read a girl wig is the only female director nominated tonight at the golden globes so that was a big win for lady bird any again another big win for women and that was the common pm at tonight show not only were the celebration but it definitely took on a more serious. people really. wanting to make their voices heard or is

the change in hollywood empowering women putting them in more positions of power and i think based upon what we saw tonight that's something that we'll probably see continue here in hollywood. i sculptures from around the world have been showcasing their talents in a competition in china the hobbit ice and snow festival is known for its colorful and extravagance cultures which are called to represent landmarks from across the globe many also have a political message calming began on saturday and they have until monday to finish their creations. the headlines on al-jazeera hundreds of nigerian refugees and migrants in libya have returned home on the nigerian government has ordered the media evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and

torture in syria has killed twenty five people in the city of it lived one of the last rebel strongholds there reports that a rebel headquarters was a target syrian government forces continue to make gains in the area pushing further into the surrounding countryside the goals diplomatic crisis on the brocade of qatar is being discussed said a two day summit in kuwait the emir of kuwait to address the parliamentary meeting of the gulf cooperation council. says they has been some progress in the seven months dispute but didn't say what saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic ties with qatar in june. israel has published a list of activist groups bands from entering the country twenty organizations have been blocked because of their calls to boycott divest and sanction the jewish state for its policies towards ban is tinny and european the u.s. and south african groups are on the blacklist it also includes the palestine

solidarity campaign and american muslims for palestine france's president emmanuel mccall has used his first state visit to china to call for the two countries to work together on the development of the african continent in an address to chinese leaders mikoyan china not to repeat past mistakes made by france as a colonial power. this is in the getting this economy. we need to improve development education health and the economy in africa by working together we can change the world for africa. and japan's top nuclear envoy is meeting his south korean counterpart twenty four hours before the start of the first high level talks in more than two years between north and south korea the talks are expected to focus on north korean athletes participating in the upcoming winter olympic games in south korea next month the north is nuclear bomb and missile developments are top priorities for both south korea and japan europe stick with headlines on

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