mine as a muslim woman a taliban school for girls in afghanistan reveals a way of life rarely seen to. go through not only tell them about their bills and regulations that but to keep. an exclusive documentary gains access to the ghosts of the taliban. and this time out jazeera. one of the last to rebel strongholds in syria is attacked by government warplanes as its troops retake territory in italy profit. again welcome to our jazeera life and dennis also coming up. full four

hundred. one. recounting the horror hundreds of nigerian migrants are brought home from libya where many say they were sold into slavery al-jazeera has an exclusive report. the main challenger to egypt's president abdul fattah el-sisi pulls out of the race amid reports that he may have been forced into a club that was. his mark. and find out how something so tiny has such a large impact on the lives of detroit's homeless. but in syria where government and russian jets have been bombarding rebel targets in the last stronghold in the country at least twenty four civilians have been killed in the air strikes in the rural parts of the province natasha getting reports.

sound all too familiar to many syrians as the war enters its eight year the concern in italy province is just how large the scale of the death and devastation could be . syrians here remember what happened in two thousand and sixteen when government forces regained control of aleppo once syria's biggest city. i don't know them the mold i will step will bashar we will look leave we will die in syria we are all civilians why do they do this then america then the arab league then the security council i don't think it is the largest remaining rebel stronghold in syria during peace negotiations it was designated a deescalation zone or safety even for civilians. it's been anything but since the government began its offensive in october to recapture the province civilians have been killed in increasing numbers one of the latest attacks

was a car bomb explosion on monday killing at least thirty people. in the last week alone the turkish human rights group i h h says more than one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes and the problem in this is. the story of. the syria and its music. region agreement on the first one. the syrian observatory for human rights says in the last two weeks the government has regained control of sixty villages and it lives including singe on. the field but that's just becoming we have liberated singe are fully and this is since our school and these are grain silos sindar has been liberated from the gangs of job out on the road. the syrian government is keen to make gains in northern syria the kurds control all but a small area of territory in the north and dream of it becoming their homeland

they're also hoping for a seat at the negotiating table during russian sponsored peace talks later this month the success of those talks is already in jeopardy more than forty rebel groups including previous attendees say they won't be going natasha al-jazeera eighty six migrants who were rescued at sea have been taken to the italian port of catan yeah they were being smuggled across the mediterranean from libya when their both started to sink on saturday eight bodies were also on board the italian coast guard's rescue boat the search to find potentially dozens of other victims is still underway. thousands of nigerians every year leave home to try to make their way to europe in search of a better life but one thing get to live near the main transit point from the african continent to europe many of them find themselves trapped soldiers slaves tortured and abused but now the nigerian government has stepped in flying five

hundred of the forty thousand migrants stranded in libya back home here's our correspondent who traveled with them and this is his exclusive report a cramped office in the center of tripoli is the only decent place these nigerian teenagers have seen in years they're left with promises of a life of opportunity and comfort nothing prepared them for what followed libya. is not her real name she says she was sold for one thousand one hundred dollars to buy her freedom she needed to pay and on 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 with jones for his very high friends as ninth's so we ran there iran we're going to see it simulates

keeps iran libya she told us many laycock 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 whites people people the much treated me dig didn't give me my salary didn't even seize my passport says everything about me it would be people dad brought me he had been 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 officers 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 all 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 the few 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 left with such promise but had to endure a lot of pain indignities of slavery torture and rape yet despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians i sure like to attempt a judge in europe and beyond how many trees with nigerian migrants in the skies of . the american way says there has been some progress in relieving a seven month long blockade of katha he made the comments during a two day summit to address the a c c he had a parliamentary meeting of the gulf cooperation council shakes up a little server urged nations to settle their differences or face many challenges in the future of our ripples ok wait city. where face to face

gathering of diplomats from the gulf cooperation council but the g.c.c. is face saving show of unity failed to make a breakthrough it is where's political crisis for decades it started seven months ago when saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt cut off diplomatic ties with qatar and impose an sea and land blockade. the qatari government deny accusations of supporting extremism the emir of kuwait who has led mediation efforts to heal the rift is warning of the long term impact. realities around us are deteriorating which poses a huge challenge for us we need to show a united stance we must meeting cooperate because we won't be able to tackle the problems we face individually despite the arguments kuwait managed to host the

annual d.c.c. summit last month but leaders of the blockade in countries refuse to go saudi arabia and its allies say qatar must meet a list of demands including shutting down the al-jazeera media network closing a turkish military base and downgrading ties with iran qatar's leaders jacked the demands as an acceptable infringements on sovereignty. the gulf dispute is being widely discussed at local gatherings in kuwait known as the one years then an opportunity to talk about a wide range of issues ranging from art society religion and politics. the dispute among neighboring gulf countries is something no one here can ignore this is a crisis that is affecting us politically economically and socially we need to solve it now but if it drags on it will have far more serious consequences. fear

a prolonged crisis will do more than undermine a long tradition of triable and family connections they worry about more uncertainty and instability if the gulf cooperation council disintegrates. there's no indication the gulf disputes may be solved anytime soon u.s. diplomats are concerned by the impasse the war and the failure to settle the dispute may hamper efforts to quiet iceland groups are related to al qaida as well as counter iran's influence in the middle east. to a fifty and a un investigation into the blockade is found the g.c.c. crisis is negatively impacting the people of catarrh the national human rights committee said in doha says the report shows the blockade is illegal. that this report shows without a doubt that these procedures undertaking by the blockading countries are not mere

diplomatic severing of relations they are not just an economic boycott these are unilateral abusive arbitrary measures that are impacting citizens and ex-pats in qatar. egypt's former prime minister ahmed shafik has ruled himself out of the running for the upcoming presidential election shafiq said in november that he intended to run the data they share but he's now pulled out of contention shafiq was widely seen as a serious challenger to president. a new york times report says shafiq could have been influenced by the government to withdraw from the race jamal reports despite being arguably the most powerful institution in the country europe's military intelligence appears to have its weaknesses on sunday the new york times said it had received all the recordings of phone calls made by a military intelligence officer the leaks are just how the army tightly controls

and directs media outlets in egypt. in the recordings an officer named a chauffeur who really makes a number of calls to talk show hosts and other famous president instructing them on what they must say in the wake of president donald trump's controversial decision to recognize drucilla as the capital of israel by beloved dog and i'm letting you know the position of egypt's national security regarding the issue of declaring jerusalem the capital of israel there have to be compromises if you reach a point where jerusalem 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 aside from showing how egypt under president opted for the has c.c. is apparently willing to accept and supports israel's illegal occupation of jerusalem the leaks also demonstrate just how little media freedom there is transcripts of a second set of audiotapes were published in the new york times on monday this time focusing on the upcoming presidential elections in egypt in these clips the same

intelligence officers heard talking about former prime minister ahmed shafik who had announced his intention to run for president suffix desire for the top job led him to be placed under house arrest and then deported from the united arab emirates where he'd been living in exile his lawyers say he was detained as soon as he landed in cairo coincidentally on sunday evening shift tweeted that he was withdrawing his candidacy just twenty four hours before egypt's electoral commission was due to publicize the timeline for the twenty eight thousand election this isn't the first time leaks of emerge from deep inside egypt's military intelligence in two thousand and fourteen polls involving sisi himself were made public including recordings of how the united arab emirates funded and orchestrated the protests which paved the way for the military coup in egypt five years ago. for some the recordings further prove how cc's egypt controls the media doesn't support the palestinian struggle for liberation for others it simply confirms what they've

known all along either way it's a reminder that even the most feared security apparatus inside egypt has its weak spot. so. the french president arrives in china for a state visit trade and security top the agenda plus russia's one man show vladimir putin and calls to win a fourth term three look ahead to the biggest stories in twenty. hello there the rain is finally beginning to ease across the southeastern parts of china it's gradually moving its way southwards as it fizzles out it's still over hong kong there on tuesday so hong kong rather gray maybe a little bit wet at times and a top temperature just of eleven that's pretty cold for us so cool for the north

shanghai only getting to around five degrees and there must have change here as we head through wednesday there will be a change for us in hong kong though that system pushes away further towards the south away from us more in the way of sunshine for us and that will allow the temperatures to sneak that little bit higher i think this time will get to around sixteen every head out towards the west for many of us across india and pakistan the weather is all dry and fine at the moment there's this little blob of cloud just to the east of us though and then looks like that system's trying to make its way westward so i think force of course sri lanka they'll be more in the way of cloud on tuesday a few more outbreaks of rain then that will gradually push a little bit further towards the north there for wednesday so some of us in the southeastern parts of india including in chennai will see more wet weather out towards the west and here in doha there we know massive changes we head through the next few days so temperatures getting to around twenty two or twenty three degrees seventy four in fahrenheit and it looks like at night will be dropping again down to around fourteen or fifteen.

valued as a gem of africa nairobi has gone through many changes over the past decades took to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera. oh oh. oh .

let's have a look at the top stories. at least twenty four civilians have been killed in government and russian air strikes in the countryside of syria this comes as government forces have broken a siege on a key military base to the east of damascus in the town of ras. hundreds of nigerian migrants stranded in libya have now returned home and the government has ordered the immediate evacuation of around five and our files and of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture. a un human rights of its investigation into the. crisis has found the blockade of catarrh is negatively impacting the people of the region it says measures taken by the four arab countries against discriminatory katter's human rights committee says the findings are proof the blockade is illegal. and is expected to

stay on in office for another six years after the presidential election in march but russia's tightly managed political system is failing to create excitement with many people many of them saying that they want to vote in the latest of a series looking ahead to the big stories of this year rory chalons reports from moscow. the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting bloody me a putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery on the same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken. the real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin's most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina

valley has called for nationwide protests in response the. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights for your future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold and cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is cassini a sub czech she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with the liberal opposition credentials yet has been admitted to the race in the field. if sacred processions and many million st present opposition rallies should also be allowed as well as the atheist rallies carnivals and gay pride if church marriages are allowed civil l.g.b. t. marriages should also be allowed analyst andre kolesnikov says these decisions make political sense my violin is dangerous for this very stable construction stable

model for the political system. check who's the new figure in this field is acceptable because she's not dangerous she can be such a person who can announce some liberal ideas but at the same time to discredit. liberalized years because she was a girl from the party not more then there are the communists and nationalist l.d.p. are candidates in recent years neither of these parties are provided any genuine opposition to the policies of the government or grimly in the electorate doesn't seem enthused recently hundred fifty eight percent polled russians said they were thinking of voting a comparatively low figure for this country as super putin knowingly acknowledges russian politics is a one man show but beneath the debatable humor there's a contradiction if a superhero patrol you do is ready to vanquish russia's external enemies has no

credible domestic challenger then why should people bother voting for him in march superheroes do not lose elections but if turnout drops significantly next year then the kremlin loses some of the legitimacy it needs to support an aging political system or italians al-jazeera. the body of a crew member has been recovered aboard the iranian oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship in the east china sea the other thirty one members on board are still unaccounted for there are fears the incident could lead to an environmental disaster the tankers carrying about a million barrels of oil rescue to save the twenty one crew members of the cargo ship. north and south korea are set to have their first high level talks in more than two years the meeting is expected to focus on the north participation in next

month's winter olympics impure on chang lawrence louis reports from seoul. this was the last formal face to face meeting between north and south korean officials in december two thousand and fifteen the two sides discussed reunions of families separated by the korean war and economic cooperation. that is make a good start and open the great path to unification. despite the initial optimism the talks broke down and in the two years since north korea has fired more than forty missiles and conducted three nuclear tests to escalating tensions on the korean peninsula but at the start of this year north korean leader kim jong il unexpectedly proposed dialogue with the south and. the focus of the discussions due to take place on tuesday at the truce village of panmunjom will be on north korea's participation in the two thousand and eight winter olympics in south korea next month and on improving into korean ties the last time north korean athletes visited

the south was for the asian games in two thousand and fourteen. sporting events have been useful in providing diplomatic openings between the two koreas but ultimately led nowhere and some analysts are skeptical of north korea's true intentions this time. because of the effectiveness of the incoming sanctions in north korea fires the value of south korea as an alternative source of financial relief and using their pension. as punishment for its nuclear weapons testing north korea has been subjected to increasingly tighter sanctions including one that effectively slashes its petrol imports by ninety percent but kim has vowed to continue with his country's nuclear program calling for the mass production and deployment of nuclear warheads and miss else. alternately there is no guarantee that a north korea's peace officer will continue northward north korea can easily make

a sudden change of attitude after the end of the winter olympic games south korean officials are aware of that and president wouldn't be in his caution against expecting too much from the upcoming talks but engagement with north korea remains the best option to easing tensions on the korean peninsula florence al-jazeera so. the french president emmanuel mccall has vowed to move europe's partnership with china into the twenty first century he met the chinese president xi jinping in beijing after beginning his first day in the ancient capital. president proposed a french chinese year of ecological transition in the battle against climate change . and it's up to europe in asia to france and china to define and come up with the rules of a game we could always win or lose i have come here to tell china that i am

determined to move the euro china partnership into the twenty first century so that it fits in this new framework that we need to define together europe will embrace this new strategy because it is now aware of its role and its place in this century it will get involved on all of the main topics yes my friends what i have also come here to say is that europe is back. well victor gallus the director of china national association of international studies he says the relations between china and france become even more important since the practice it had. traditionally china has attached a lot of importance not only to u.k. but also to france and germany in europe and china french relations have always been very important both in terms of trade and economic relations but also in terms of political relations the two countries share actually of many similar views on international relations fall france and china are proven

a member states of the security council of the united nations and the two countries have been courted it in their positions are many important international issues for years and i hope with bret's it happening as we speak china french relations will remain very strong arm and will take on new tire measures going forward because france and germany for example remain the two most important e.u. member states as far as china is concerned. iran is warning that it will reconsider its cooperation with the un's nuclear watchdog if the u.s. doesn't stick to the twenty fifteen nuclear deal iran's new can achieve has made the comments in a phone call to the head of the international atomic energy agency more than two years ago reached an agreement with six world powers to limit its nuclear program and exchange for the easing of economic sanctions president trump is accused of

violating the deal. that was just over four years ago detroit became the biggest city in american history to file for bankruptcy but today is undergoing something of a renaissance as it experiments with ways to ease its housing crisis john hendren reports. detroit is a city of many ironies the streets of the motor city are largely empty what was once the fourth largest city in the u.s. could fit boston san francisco and manhattan into its footprint but no longer makes the top twenty in population and since more than half of its two million residents fled after the one nine hundred fifty s. it is a city of both thousands of abandoned homes and an epic level of homelessness but a faith based charity here has a small solution to one of detroit's biggest problems tiny houses a reverend fittingly named faith has written the book on them if you have something

you could leave your children the way my parents left to me in the sky's the limit i mean you really could become middle class that's the happily ever after that we're all longing for right now in august detroit's cass foundation built the first seven homes from bungalows to frank lloyd wright style to tutors that low income buyers can pay off at a rate of two hundred fifty to four hundred dollars a month in just seven years for keith mikel dean who spent twelve years in prison home means a fresh start. and why because it's march twenty more tiny homes like his are going up here this year across the u.s. homelessness is concentrated in urban areas like detroit but now there's a movement with cities from san francisco to new york building tiny homes like these to give a little piece of the american dream to many who have stopped dreaming since motown came roaring out of bankruptcy downtown glitters and rents are high but here and

across the u.s. homeownership is at a fifty year low detroit doesn't have so much. you know a housing shortage problem as they have an affordable housing problem. tony holmes really i think does a good job of addressing that so far diminutive douma sounds like these play only a small role in solving a colossal problem. and closed the door. but for those now living in close quarters although it's a big deal john hendren detroit. right on the top stories here at least twenty four civilians have been killed in government and russian airstrikes in syria's province this comes as the government have broken a siege on

a key military base east of damascus in the town of herat. hundreds of nigerian migrants who are stranded in libya have returned home the nigerian government has ordered the immediate repatriation of around five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture. italian coast guard has rescued eighty six migrants and brought them to the italian port of catan near they were being smuggled across the mediterranean from libya when their boat started to sink on saturday eight bodies were also found by the italian coast guard the search for possibly dozens of other victims is still underway the blockade of catherine the gulf diplomatic crisis are being discussed of the two day summit in kuwait the emir of kuwait addressed the parliamentary meeting of the gulf cooperation council shakes about weird al sabah says there has been some progress in the seven month dispute but didn't say exactly what saudi arabia the u.a.e.

egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic ties with katter in june you know. what we have in common is we will never be affected by a dispute we see it as a temporary terrible long it takes every one of us understands the deteriorating circumstances around us which represent a challenge to us all understand the problems facing the g.c.c. and these problems require more meetings and consultations on all levels we will never be able to face these challenges individually and a un human rights investigation into the g.c.c. crisis is found the blockade of catarrh is negatively impacting the people in the region it says measures taken by the four arab countries against our discriminatory the body of a crew member has been recovered on board the iranian oil tanker which collided with a cargo ship in the east china sea the other thirty one members are still unaccounted for right there is the latest headlines talked to our jazeera is next.

on counting the cost we'll look at the economic reasons behind the unrest in the middle east second largest economy plus new year new rules for european finance but that's not all we'll ask the chief global economist at u.b.s. what's his dangerous idea counting the cost this time on al-jazeera. 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 i have vivid memories of although i left when i was only ten years old way back in one nine hundred seventy eight.