a military coup attempt failed. to suspect that plotters killed and five captured. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the u.s. and china hold face to face talks to end the trade war that has booked international markets britain's government begins rehearsals for the potential k. also the no deal with an exercise that many have branded a waste of time and money plus. bohemian rhapsody a bio pic of the british rock group queen is

a surprise big winner at the golden globes word diversity took center stage. hello thank you for joining us government says it is an attempted military coup two soldiers involved in the plot were killed and five arrested among them the man suspected of leading the coup has more. lieutenants. from the presidential guards burst into the national radio and television center calling for a popular uprising against guns president. obama the eagerly awaited a as a ride from the army as we started to put it on the side of the people you know say . if you're eighteen stop if you have a good drink if you're sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors as one and take control of the street. outside gunshots electricity in the internet are shut

down as given the special forces stormed the building in a statement the government spokesman says calm has returned the situation is under control the african union in france which maintains nine hundred troops in the country have condemned the attempted coup president goes in morocco seeking treatment after suffering a stroke last october in his new year's address to the nation he appeared frail a time slurring his words. go took over power in two thousand and nine after the death of his father who had ruled the country for forty one years. during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the bongo dynasty was challenged. opposition leader jumping claimed victory but the constitutional court ruled in favor of congo in an interview with al jazeera after the court's ruling he said he was accountable to the people i was the candidate of equal chance you know giving really every guy when he has

a chance to really make it i'm not the i'm not the candidate you know or to restore privileges and yet high unemployment and a sluggish economy heavily reliant on oil exports have made life more difficult and costly many young people are now calling for change seeing their leader as absent and distant. armed vehicles are now patrolling the streets of the capital. but with this latest coup attempt the bongo dentist he is hold on power seems fragile and uncertain because hawk al jazeera well i'll just say this for me to miller was engaged on three weeks ago she joins us live now from johannesburg athame to first of all do we have any idea what the situation is like in the bone right now. well as the government had said it would do is restored cumber to the capital leave the government special forces specifically acted quite swiftly after these first reports of an attempted coup came out of

a car borne as we know they the government has also said that the information minister appearing on local television had said that they had killed two mutineers and five others including who appeared to be the leader of this attempted cooler tenet on derby and kelly have been captured but we also understand that the internet is down earlier in the day it was very difficult to communicate with people in a barn telephone lines appear to have been affected and they continues to be a military presence at least light armored vehicles on the streets the main avenue in libor vote and. some of the people we've spoken to there have also said that i think what people are waiting for is some sort of response from the opposition we haven't heard anything yet as well as perhaps the president ali bongo is absent from gabon for several months now of course triggering what we've seen happen in

the last few hours the the this attempted coup very much linked to his absence in this country and and the soldiers involved in the coup at one point saying that they didn't have any faith in that go a could run the country effectively and that's after appeared on television over new year's eve many people looking to that address for real reassurance around the president's state of health but perhaps not receiving what they were looking for since the early hours of this morning the government has indicated that calm has been restored we are of course understanding that there appears to be a divide within the the military. seven at least the soldiers involved in this attempted coup come from the republican guard which is a a unit so that is assigned to protecting the president specifically so i think that

is of course worth noting while it might be a small faction this certainly is that sort of dissent appearing to have emerged from within the military who traditionally has been allied with the government i mean do we live with the latest from johannesburg for me to thank you. there are concerns that one of the men accused in the murder of the journalist jamal has shot ji is free and maybe interfering with the investigation according to the washington post saudi authorities are refusing to confirm the whereabouts of south autonomy he's accused of playing a major role in the crime in the head by the kingdom confirmed that he was under investigation and forbidden to leave the country but there are reports that khatami has been seen in the city of jeddah jess shine is the executive director of the

arab center of washington and was a friend of jamal khashoggi he says saudi arabia is working to protect the those accused of being involved in the murder they have sheltered some of the key personalities that were involved or accused of being involved whether by turkey or by the international community or even by saudi arabia as in this case saudi. very visible person very close to the crown prince and with the intention of the saudi campaign right now to keep the crown prince clear from any accusations with regards to the murder of questionable three i think his disappearance is natural. a senior who the official says a new round of talks between yemen's warring factions may take place soon in jordan u.n. envoy martin griffiths met the who these before heading to riyadh in a bid to ensure that a recent deal reached in sweden is fully implemented as to how barra has one. piece in yemen won't be easy but the united nations ovoid martin griffiths remains

confident it will one day become a reality griffith's destroying the region to ensure all the parties will implement the agreement reached in sweden last month the deal calls for the who the is to hand over control of yemen's red sea port of her data of the warring factions remain divided over who should step in and run the facility where much of the food aid comes in. the exiled government says it's ready to take over and move dismissed by the who these who don't recognize the government of president opt out of the muscle handy. we hope peace efforts kick off a gratian comes to an end and stability prevails and airports reopen. the u.n. wants to bring yemen's rival factions to a new round of talks to discuss ways to improve the economy and tackle the

deteriorating humanitarian situation on his arrival martin griffiths was shown children affected by the almost four year old conflict. the war has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes yemen faces the worst humanitarian catastrophe in warden times according to recent estimates as many as eighty five thousand children may have died of hunger since the start of the saudi u.a.e. led war against the houthi is the deal that was reached in sweden with the first breakthrough since the start of the war in two thousand and fourteen but the deal remains fragile fighting has resumed in some areas and a prisoner exchange is on hold the internationally recognized government insists the who these must hand over their weapons and pull out of the capital sana'a

before there is any final peace deal but the whole thing is who controlled most of the country remains adamant there are humans just a bit leaders. u.s. and chinese negotiators have had their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade dispute that the trade representative jeffrey barish led the talks on the u.s. side says he's optimistic about the new round of negotiations the two sides will continue talks on tuesday but the u.s. has imposed tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods since july it covers a wide range of industrial and consumer items from handbags to railway equipment china then retaliated imposing tariffs on one hundred ten billion dollars worth of u.s. products including chemicals coal and medical equipment and soybeans but china's

economy is already showing signs of strain sales of i phones are down house prices are falling and manufacturing profits have dropped. philine long is the managing director of asia analytical where she covers china's political economy she says she doesn't expect an agreement between the two countries before march does still need for them to come to an agreement in two days or if they did to tell anyone about it they have got until march this truce and i think both sides are going to want to squeeze everything they can a juror in this this time to get the best out of you know the times that are remaining so i did not expect anything dramatic to be announced before march. a u.s. navy ship sailed near disputed islands in the south china sea as the trade talks were happening china has lodged a complaint with the u.s. asking for the vessel to leave the area the guided missile destroyer was close to

the parcel islands which are claimed by china taiwan and vietnam. china meanwhile says it will allow u.n. officials to visit the western state after global condemnation of its treatment of we are muslims beijing has been accused of keeping up to one million week in prison like potential camps and forcing them to renounce their religion and native language some of the subject of the forced labor with little or no pay china says u.n. officials are welcome to visit the region as long as they follow proper procedures so the common this half hour the u.s. television interview egypt's president allegedly tried to block and all hands on the pump in greece asks citizens to chip in towards new ships for its aging navy.

the out of season rain is still with us in central china this clan doesn't look very much but shouldn't really be there north vietnam across you non it's forecast brings that taylor very near the tongue of rain up through central china certain shot up towards shanghai it meets cold rare as it goes slowly into was because winter proper is in the north in china so we see snow for us this guy again shouldn't see that much this time there but the rain is the real thing that could be quite substantial as far south as hanoi hong kong staying on the dry side we see a few thunderstorms with snow recently in delhi for the north and they are running through the poles a lot of cloud here there's more coming through pakistan afghanistan that's cause some trouble but typically you find very neutral going on at this time the it is this cold air has the system for when smog north and plain of india and it's dry as the south very few showers even in sri lanka now this is as it should be during the winter months. to the west the arabian peninsula is largely founded dry this cloud

looks suspicious it has brought rain as far south as kuwait and iran and there's more to come a wednesday but beyond that apart from stirring up the dust it looks like it's fairly dry but this here suggests showers could exist in eastern. twenty eight china is headed to. brazil's new president economic. times for technology. at a profit warning for. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in global perspective.

a comeback is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera to soldiers involved in an attempted military coup in gabon have been killed and five others arrested among them the man suspected of leading it there are concerns that. one of the men accused in the murder of the journalist is free and may be interfering with the investigation and u.s. and chinese negotiators have had their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade. now american network c.b.s. broadcast an interview with the egyptian president the spy to request by cairo not to air it at the fountain c.c. told the program sixty minutes that his country's forces were closely cooperating

with the israeli military he also denied human rights abuses by at least the book has more. u.s. television network c.b.s. said the egyptian government demanded it not air an interview with journalist scott pelley it would spell a question egyptian president. about a human rights watch report that claims egypt is detaining sixty thousand political prisoners many of whom belong to the muslim brotherhood the political party l.c.c. outlawed. i don't know where they got that figure i said there are no political prisoners in egypt whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers. l.c.c. claimed any extremists that were being held would receive a fair trial a contradiction for rights activists who say many are in prison and face long detentions. pelley also questioned about his government and israel cooperating in

the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant would you say that this is the deepest and closest cooperation that you've ever had with israel side that is correct. therefore sometimes needs to cross to the israeli side and that's why we have a wide range of coordination with the israelis other than a slightly futile sequence it's been estimated there are about a thousand terrorists in sinai with more than a billion dollars in u.s. military aid to every year why haven't you wipe them out with them as an up to stuff that went on and why hasn't the us eliminated the terrorists in afghanistan after seventeen years and spending a trillion dollars l c c's comments could inflame public opinion in his country which regards israel as an occupier of arab lands the two countries have a forty year old peace treaty and diplomatic relations but despite that many egyptians still think of israel as the traditional enemy last year egypt's military

denied press reports that it was cooperating with israel to root out isolate delineated fighting groups in the mountainous sinai region bordering the two countries c.b.s. says the interview with the egyptian president was taped a few months ago but didn't say why it had been held until sunday dion estabrook al-jazeera. bangladesh's prime minister has been formally sworn in eight days after her controversial election victory has seen starting a third successive term a record force overall after her awami league party took two hundred eighty eight of the three hundred seats in parliament they know he ration ceremony was boycotted by the opposition who accused the government of widespread vote rigging and committee ation there have been international calls for an investigation and there chadri has more now from the capitol back. takes over for time as prime minister of

bangladesh she has a new cabinet at least forty seven ministers dipped a minister and state minister a lot of new faces thirty one so to speak a lot of the old gods are gone but a lot of challenges ahead our campaign was on economics she faces very high unemployment and there are issues like garment labor wages there are issues also with growing refugee repacked rates and that's a major challenge for the government and also to tackle the opposition which are demanding a new election however we'll have to see how this new cabinet performs as for the opposition there right now staying off the street in fear of arrest and detention. in the diplomatic front yesterday they had a meeting with thirty diplomats what they say was the presented them with video and documentary evidence of vote rigging and violence we'll see how things process but they have to mobilize in order to make any impact in coming days. as

a dent in its democratic process in this election and they'll be consigned for stability in coming years. the head of brazil's environmental protection organization a bomb has resigned after the new presidential aides will soon i know criticize the agency's spending also not only is frequently criticized the bomber which is responsible for protecting the amazon rain forest and the rightwing president has also announced that the funding of non-governmental organizations will be rigidly controlled. a government crackdown on fuel theft in mexico has led to shortages at the petrol pumps president and the rest went away look plays over a dog who took office five weeks ago route to stop billions of dollars in petrol for effort by gangs and oil workers tankers are now being used to move the fuel instead of vulnerable pipelines over the daughter is the finding the crackdown who

. has a petty theft if you're talking about the robbery thirty years ago of more than one thousand pipelines daily of fifteen thousand liters each how do they distribute all that sort of gasoline well there was an attitude of total complicity on the part of the mexican petroleum dozens of trucks have been taking part in a test in southeast england they aimed at preventing long queues of the port of dover if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal in march the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities with some experts predicting forty five kilometer queues as new customs checks come in trucks have been driving between the ports and the disused their ports to test traffic flow over is the closest u.k. ports to the european mainland well in two thousand and seventeen the overhandled around one hundred fifty five billion dollars of trade that's seventeen percent of the u. case total because the crossing is quick to deliver handles mostly imports of fresh food perishable medicines and parts of time sensitive manufacturing like the auto

industry bringing in safety checks is something that the over has no capacity to do could hugely the struck to trade in perishable goods. well general has been watching the trial runs taking place in kent wells with just twelve weeks ago now to greg's it day march the twenty ninth over there is live contingency planning taking place for the possibility now ever more realistic of a no deal exit for britain from the european union there is apparent deadlock in parliament particularly over to resume may's brigs a deal to be voted on in the next ten days or so if it's voted down no deal becomes as i said ever more possible that means customs checks at borders dover port of course a main artery way to the continent they would be tailbacks queues of trucks like that forty kilometers along one of britain's busiest highways this is a contingency putting them all in an unused airfield in kent and then feeding them

slowly along a secondary route through the kent countryside well there are two phases to this happening here on monday the first during rush hour this morning and evidence it has to be said of how it's all gone is not good a taxi driver i spoke to a short while ago said look there was such gridlock on that a two five six in the kent countryside if you lived here and this would have become a daily occurrence which under no deal scenario it quite possibly would he said it simply have to move you wouldn't be able to get to work you wouldn't be able to get to school. the worst of the greek financial crisis may now be over but the government is still having to find imaginative ways to pay for major projects it's now asking citizens to contribution towards replacing it's outdated navy fleet in a massive crowd funding scheme and it's also up with reports for a sense it could be a case of history repeating itself. greece's

thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations galligan fairly limited reserves i call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still owes the government money. no i won't contribute the country has much bigger

priorities than buying weapons we need better salaries better pensions better health care and education all the things that make a country civilized and where greece has fallen behind the european union is a real union it will help with our defense of complicating matters to former defense ministers are now in jail for embezzlement one of them for the contracts that upgraded the frigate fleet with greeks overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million goal. franks this enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this cruise in one thousand nine hundred ten the george averred of ball the name of its benefactor and hope to greece defeats the ottoman empire a second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered or

supposedly one of the reasons of the greek fleet wants to update wants to revise upwards is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling essentially becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners a constantly helping the armed forces but fleet renewal costs many billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family jumpstart open athens. the highest profile trial so far in the french catholic church sexual abuse scandal has begun in the city of leo the archbishop of cardinal philip backed by is charged with failing to report allegations in the one nine hundred eighty s.

and ninety's they relate to the actions of a priest who is due to go on trial later this year for abusing the boy scouts if the archbishop is found guilty of a cover up he could be jailed for three years. the actor kevin spacey is currently in court in the u.s. state of massachusetts facing indecent assault charges he's accused of assaulting an eighteen year old man he met at a bar in two thousand and sixteen space either not enter a plea and was ordered to stay away from the man he's facing several other allegations of misconduct which resulted in him being dropped from the netflix series house of cards. well there was some surprise winner is that the golden globe awards in los angeles the event was focused on both empowering women off and on the screen culture there jen has for. the star showed up on the red carpet in beverly hills as the two thousand and one thousand awards season kicked off with hollywood's first major award show the seventy sixth annual golden

globes last year was the beginning of an ongoing everywhere say for women so this year's times out times today where they're making an ass that's a double the amount of people from minorities we not of women at the helm within this industry and within every industry and so simple to make sure that we keep the conversation going those conversations included unity in the united states solidarity in the world and equality in the entertainment industry host sandro calling attention to one an expected blockbuster crazy rich asians made over two hundred million dollars at the box office sad asian moms everywhere. the movies sound like they go. the civil rights film green book took home three prizes including best picture in the musical and comedy category and best original screenplay. it's got the movie and i want people to see this movie because this movie's united brings people together i thought brought up. drinking. new

things regina king accepted the award for best supporting actress for if beale street could talk a film based on a novel by civil rights activist and writer james baldwin and directed by barry jenkins i love you with all my heart thank you for your input thank you for telling stories so rich and thank you for giving us a film that my son said to me when he saw it that it was the first time he really saw himself with. his for he could b.b.c. series a very english scandal actor ben. he used his acceptance speech to plug the l.g.b. g.q. minority he won the best supporting actor award for his role as norman scott who took on the establishment. with a coverage and a defiance that i find completely inspiring he's a true queer hero an icon and norman this is for you. the golden

globes are handed out by the hollywood foreign press association and they're usually indicative of which films will get an oscar nomination bohemian rhapsody. this year's awards show culminated with the freddie mercury biopic bohemian rhapsody winning best picture in the drama category the full list of winners is on our website paul sugar gian al jazeera. and the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the balkans government says it's for oil then attempted military coup two soldiers involved in the plot were killed and find the rest of the man suspected of leading it the officer read the early morning statement on national radio that said president on the bungle was no longer fit for office. the eagerly awaited as a ride from the army as he started to put itself on the side of the people you know to say. if you're eighteen stop if you're having a drink if you're sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors as one and take control

of the street there are concerns that one of the men accused in the murder of journalist might be free and interfering with the investigation according to the washington post saudi authorities are refusing to confirm the whereabouts of saudi al khatami who is accused of playing a major role in the crime. u.s. senate chinese negotiators have had their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade dispute doubleton says he's optimistic about the new round of negotiations the two sides will continue discussions on tuesday bangladesh's prime minister has been formally sworn in eight days after her controversial election victory shake a seat and starting a third successive term after her awami league party took two hundred eighty eight of the three hundred seats in parliament a government crackdown on fuel theft in mexico has led to

a shortage of the petrol pumps the president and the rest went away lopez obrador who took office in the summer vowed to stop billions of dollars in petrol theft by gangs and oil workers tankers are being used to move the fuel instead of vulnerable high. and around ninety trucks have taken part in a trial in england they mean that preventing long queues at the port of dover if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal in march the government says it needs to prepare for all eventualities but some experts predicting massive queues as new customs checks come in over is the closest u.k. port to the european mainland. those are the top stories we'll have more news in half an hour coming up next it's counting the cost thank you for watching.

hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week new year but same old shit is about a slowdown in china shake global financial markets find out what's going on with the world's number two economy. also this week what brazil's president jaya balsa nado wants to do to transform latin america's biggest economy. and taxing times for technology giants a new law came effect into.