Watching aljazeera live from doha also coming up a car bomb in one of the last rebel strongholds in syria has killed twenty five people and injured many more french president dominion mccall arrives in china for a state visit with trade and security expected to top the agenda plus. Your love for the war because this market. Will tell you how something so tiny moon so launched in the eyes of detroits homeless. Faced with diet conditions back home thousands of nigerians each year try to make their way to europe but once they get to 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. Traveled with some of them heres 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 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 ninths so we ran around iran we went. 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 yeah i want it in the whites people people the much treated me dig didnt give him my salary it was seized my passport says everything about me he would be people dad brought me here did they neglected me Libyan Security forces say these nigerian woman whos 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 trait. 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 nigerias the Nigerian Government is preparing for an influx of returning. The first government report christian flights to go from creepily carrying five hundred nigerias 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 its a mixed feeling of being free at last and that of disappointment that been through so much over the past years after such promise but hard to draw a lot of pretty dignitas of slavery torture and rape despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians are sure to attempt a judge in europe and the. Nigerian migrants and the skies of on. 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 one of the boat sank as it tried to cross the mediterranean the other was overcrowded almost three thousand migrants have believed in the mediterranean and twenty seventeen. In syria a car bomb attack in every ball house city has killed at least twenty five people activists say the attack in ad lib targeted the headquarters of an Opposition Group as strikes on other rebel held areas have been stepped up including Eastern Ghouta the besieged suburb of damascus osama bin javits has more. The people of the city have become used to silence like this syrian civilians yet again caught up inside of war with seemingly no end in sight the target one of the many rebel factions who control parts of the all the movement claimed responsibility. Some pointed the finger at the Assad Government. Would you bashar we would leave we will die in syria. Says of the assad regime have 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 governments air superiority. But the Relentless Campaign doesnt only target fighters this is what happens when people hear warplanes in the sky. Of operation 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 eastern. These are two of the four deescalation zones agreed upon by syria iran russia and turkey. Although there have been fewer attacks on bombs 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 bit of agreement. Russia. And. Iran basically need to. Force. The un has declared that struck civilians physically catastrophe because the Assad Government has both the deliveries in besieged areas. And as a 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. The gulf diplomatic crisis and the blockade of qatar is being discussed sorry todays summit in coates the emir of kuwait has addressed a parliamentary meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council shakes. Says he has been some progress in the ongoing dispute but didnt say what. Egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic ties with qatar in june the emir of kuwait has called on all members of the g. C. C. To band together to Face International challenges. Here in qatar the National HumanRights Committee is holding a News Conference giving an update on the impact of the bill. Kate these are live pictures of that conference and was closely monitoring whats being said will update you with any major announcement from that conference when they come through. In other world news is frances president Emmanuel Mccall has endorsed ballot and bold initiatives in his first visit to china as president called for europe and china to Work Together on president xi jinping signature projects that aims to build a modern day silk road but he said the projects benefits must be said Robert Bright has more from beijing. President has begun his day visit in the ancient city of scheana home of the terra cotta warriors but also more symbolically its 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 frances long relationship through the colonial period with a number of countries in africa macron compared that with chinas 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 the reminded is 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 isnt a good it is economy. We need to improve Development Education health and the economy in africa by were. 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 were 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 also 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 koreas top Nuclear Envoy and his japanese counterpart have been meeting in so this a day before the first high level talks between north and south korea in more than two years a reg adding is expected to focus on pyongyangs participation in the upcoming winter Olympic Games in south korea kathy novak has a date is from seoul. The top nuclear and voice from south korea and japan say they want to capitalize on what south Koreas Foreign Ministry is calling the peace momentum brought about by such developments as the upcoming intercourse 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 intensified 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 months pyong chung the Winter Olympics taking place here in south korea south koreas 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 into a korean 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 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. To head on aljazeera fifty years on indigenous victims of chiles military dictatorship finally being remembered as we look ahead to the biggest stories of twenty eighteen russias one man show value may put you on course to win a fourth term as. Stick. Hello there weve got plenty of showers over the southeast in parts of asia in fact over mindanao it looks like theyre going to turn a bit heavier as we head through the next few days you can see plenty of cloud there at the moment and it looks like were going to see some particularly shop showers as we head through chews day then as we head into wednesday i think the heavier showers this time more likely to be over the northern parts of borneo here at times it does look very very wet meanwhile towards the west well it also be some role the shop showers force in singapore k. L. Though has a better chance of seeing some long spells of dry weather bit further towards the south and of course its been incredibly hope for is in sydney in fact it was the hottest city in the world and we saw a temperature of forty seven point three incredibly hot there and now were seeing more in the way of showers and those showers a dragging down the temperatures and so no high than around thirty two i dont think as we head through the day on tuesday for the south or a lot cooler than that force in melbourne the winds feeding up from the southwest dragging in some fresh air so twenty will be the maximum in melbourne towards the west were looking at twenty nine imperf those cool off though as we head through wednesday and on wednesday were also watching this area of low pressure seems to be developing off the northwestern parts of australia could well become the next tropical cited. Witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back our top stories on aljazeera hundreds of nigerian migrants stranded in libya have returned home the government has ordered the immediate evacuation of that 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 a day one of the last remaining rebel strongholds they are reports that a rebel headquarters was a target Syrian Government forces continue to make gains in the area pushing further into the surrounding countryside and Emanuel Mccall has endorsed spelled Android 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. We want to take you now back to that press conference of qatars National HumanRights Committee which is holding this News Conference giving an update on the impact that located. As had this is a chairman of the qatari Human Rights Committee and hes talking about ten months after bahrain and the u. A. E. Cut ties with qatar lets listen to the Technical Mission praise. The efforts exerted by the National HumanRights Committee when it comes to document in these violations that have been taking place and also trying to extend the hand to the people who have been impacted as it is im told that this is with regard to the reports that there are a number of cases that have been tackled by this Technical Missions reports and this report tackled issues such as human rights the restrictions that are imposed on freedom of opinion and this report so stressed that there is this when it comes to media difference Media Outlets particularly in the different countries. The report says that governments of a the emirates and the how do you have declared that all the News Agencies their own national News Agencies. They say thats a. Any individual within. Those countries who expresses enemy compassion towards the state of that is going to be exposed to. Punitive measures and this is in contradiction with the different freedom of expression convention and agreements and we have seen a number of media campaigns which constitute a form of incitement insightful measures against a set of. We have seen. A number of and to tame and programs have been used by the difference blockade in countries that have been calling for violence have been disseminated in the discourse of hate. In sites full messages so also there was an ok that is the cattery Human Rights Commission chief speaking to reporters after what he says is un investigators work in the country looking at the abuses human rights abuses that have been committed since the brocade of qatar by saudi arabia the u. A. E. And bahrain which began in june well continue to monitor this News Conference for you and bring you any updates when they come through. Moving on in egypts former Prime Minister ahmed shafik has ruled himself out of the running for the upcoming president ial election shafiq said in november he intended to run later this year but is now pulled out of contention saying he is not the perfect person to lead state affairs but according to the New York Times could have been influenced by the government to withdraw from the race one of his lawyers says the government has threatened to investigate old corruption charges if he stayed in the race lawyers claim is broadly confirmed by audio recordings obtained by the New York Times one egyptian Intelligence Officer apparently. Also warned a t. V. Presenter against criticizing her feet on his show because the government is quote still in talks with him was seen as the most serious challenger to president. Whos yet to announce his candidacy but is widely expected to run two other candidates have entered the twenty eighteen president ial race but both could be ruled in the lead in eligible to run if theyre found guilty on charges they say are politically motivated. That a protein is expected to stay in office for another six years after the president ial election in march but russias tightly managed political system has failed to create excitement with many people saying theyll skip the whole it in the latest of our series looking ahead to the big stories of this year all the challenge reports from moscow. The exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting bloody mir putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery home the same day the president announced his bid for reelection its the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia ones never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken for. The real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year hes running as an independent candidate even so putin is most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response to the writer. Lets 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 in cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russias carefully constructed political order is kissing your sub check shes the daughter of putins former political mentor the journalist and t. V. Personality comes with a liberal opposition credentials yet has been admitted to the race in the. Middle of sacred processions and many million st present a loud opposition rallies should also be allowed as well as the atheist rallies carnivals and gay pride if Church Marriages are allowed civil marriages should also be allowed analyst Andre Kolesnikov says these decisions make political sense not only is the interest of this very stable construction. Stable model for the political system. Char whos the new figure in this field is acceptable because shes not dangerous she can be such a person who can announce some liberal ideas but has the same time to discredit liberal ideas because shes 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 currently in the electorate doesnt 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 theres a contradiction if a superhero patrol is ready to vanquish russias external enemies as 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 supports an aging political system or italians aljazeera. Eleven people have been killed at a mexican a seaside resort during a gun battle between local residents any selfappointed Community Police force fighting broke out near acapulco after the Community Force attained a man during town festivities on sunday eight locals were killed in the exchange the army later moved in to restore water killing three members of the Community Police and arresting thirty others drug related violence is common in the region which is a major center for opium production. Chill a is huge to open its first memorial to the members of the my approach a indigenous minority killed by the military dictatorship during the one nine hundred seventy s. Many activists vanished and their remains were never found aljazeera is that in america at its embassy in yemen has more from and central chile. Native up which a historian had none good he needs wants the world to know when you. Got to. The center of the plaza goes through here to the quake its a sacred space where only one day a year the sun rays pass directly from one side to the other. Its here surrounded by seven hundred year old trees that the first ever memorial to one hundred seventy one my push of victims of chiles former military dictatorship will soon be formally opened up here. Shortly after the one nine hundred seventy three military coup could he needs twenty three year old brother nelson a left wing University Student was detained by soldiers and never seen again but he made a race for them thats when i understood for the first time the meaning of state terrorism the fact that i could escape and go into exile explains why im alive to tell the story. It took twenty years for nelson quoting needs family Google Scholar the soldiers had shot him dead and thrown his body into this river to this day only one of the scores who disappeared during that period whose remains were ever found. Thousands of chileans were executed or disappeared during the pinochet dictatorship but the fate of the indigenous my putsch victims has until now received little attention in a country where they have long been discriminated. My dear lynn a colorful keyed remembers how secret police referred to her father a teacher and a poet as the indian she says they were all vilified for being. With me i will meet down. My father was vomiting blood and urine needing blood from the beatings he received when they brought him back from prison hours later they took him away again and he disappeared forever weve never been able to accept his death. And the other survivors welcome the opening of the soon to be finished Memorial Park in the hope that it will help chile see that them up which is were not just victims of a dictatorship but of a society that never acknowledged their suffering. You see in human ill just see. Ice cultures from around the world are showcasing their talents in a competition in china the harbin ice and snow festival is known for its colorful extravagance cultures which are carved to represent landmarks from across the globe many also have a political message. Now one of hollywoods biggest events of the year the Golden Globes has wrapped up in a sandra lists but the ceremony which usually focuses on the gates and glamour of the Entertainment Industry had more of a somber tone this year many actors filmmakers and producers were accused of Sexual Misconduct in twenty seventeen including hollywood heavyweight producer Harvey Weinstein and Actor Kevin Spacey so many wore all black as part of the hash tag me to movement to highlight the issue of. Staying in the u. S. It was just over four years ago when detroit became the biggest city in American History to file for bankruptcy but today its undergoing a renaissance as it experiments on finding a solution for its housing crisis john hendren has our report. Detroit is a city of many ironies the streets of the motor city or largely empty what was once the fourth largest city in the u. S. Could fit boston San Francisco in 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 detroits biggest problems tiny houses a reverend fittingly named faith has written the book on the if you could leave your children the way my parents left to me the skys the limit i mean you really could become middle class if thats the happily ever after that long right now in august detroits Cast Foundation built the first seven homes from bungalows to Frank Lloyd Wrights 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 who spent twelve years in prison home means a fresh start. Twenty more tiny homes like his are going up here this year across the u. S. Homelessness is concentrated areas like detroit but now theres a movement with city from San Francisco to new York Building tiny home 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. So far diminutive. Play only a small role in solving a colossal problem. But for those now living in close quarters. Its a big deal john hendren zero zero zero detroit. Hello again im fully back to go with the headlines on aljazeera hundreds of nigerian refugees and migrants stranded in libya have returned home and i jury in government has ordered the immediate evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture off the coast of libya meanwhile two women have drowned dozens are missing and more than two hundred fifty refugees have been rescued from two boats one of 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 in twenty seventeen. In syria car bombers killed twenty five people in the city of it lived one of the last remaining rebel strongholds the all reports that the rebel headquarters was a target Syrian Government forces continue to make gains in the area pushing further into the surrounding countryside the brocade of qatar in the gulf diplomatic crisis is being discussed at a two day summit in kuwait the american aid has addressed the parliamentary meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Says there is some progress in the seven month dispute but didnt say what saudi arabia the u. A. E. Egypt and bahrain cut diplomatic ties with qatar in june meanwhile here in qatar the National HumanRights Committee is holding a News Conference on the impacts the blockade has had the chairman of the Committee Says many countries citizens have been separated from their families. Frances president has used his first state visit to china to call for the two countries to Work Together on the development of africa is also indoor speech in spelled and Road Initiative chinas largest ever Infrastructure Program saying the benefits of the project should be cherished shared. This is in the good it does economy. We need to improve Development Education health and the economy in africa by working together we can change the world for africa. And one of hollywoods biggest events of the year the Golden Globe Awards has wrapped up been assigned to this many actors wore all black as part of the hash tag me two movement which sought to highlight the issue of Sexual Harassment in the industry coming up next its witness a witness. Al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone im still here to go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. Ok let me. Just a little bit out of the. Good some of the times good. How do you. Seek