Slavery aljazeera is on the plane as the first batch of nigerians arrives back home well have an exclusive report on the war in syria as Government Troops first to reclaim the province from rebels thousands of civilians are caught in the crossfire at least twenty five people have been killed in the latest round of fighting in dozens of others injured aid groups say more than one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes since that operation began and the deadly price off a loaf of bread protests break out of. Over rising bread prices opposition groups call for the demonstrations off to the government and them unaided subsidies from its twenty eight budgets at least one test has been killed in Sudanese Security forces seized copies of newspapers critical of the government over the hikes well talk live to a protest. And at the Golden Globes this year the red carpet turned black as a protest against Sexual Harassment within the industry. Using it in st. Elizabeths breaks where live on air were also streaming online through you tube facebook live. Well they were only trying to flee a war on poverty back home for a Better Future in europe but instead hundreds of nigerian migrants say they were trapped in a life of human slavery in their. Been reports of rape of torture and forced labor or slavery and now the Nigerian Government is evacuating thousands of them back into their country. By the denise was on the first government flight to land in nigeria over the weekend and he is joining us now from to tell us what happens to those nigerians now. Well basically theyre in theyve been complained of systematic coarsest systemic abuses of rape torture and even killing there were people we talked to on on the ground and at the airport and even on the plane who said they were shot at they saw some of their colleagues killed and they were actually stricken by one problem or the other and that the abuse that just doesnt stop with the few people traffickers and government officials who turned a blind eye while these abuses are taking place according to these migrants it also happened with all happened within the Migrant Community where they sort of torture themselves kidnap themselves and seek for ransom so its a wide spread problem across libya initially the Nigerian Government went to libya the delegation went to libya walking with a figure of five thousand five hundred people but what they realized that the magnitude of the problem was so much that the following Affairs Minister and the delegation had to spend more days visiting so many detention facilities in one detention facilities before we reached there we were told that there were only just three hundred and sixty five people but immediately these were brought out this said there are more people inside the building more people are brought out and they said have you seen any ladies or women or children among us there are women and children inside the the detention facilities of the law the minister insisted and then that they brought more by the time we tried to count how many nigerians were actually there was reached the eight hundred and sixty mark and still counting and when those came out they said there are still more inside the prison and the minister was visibly angry so the problem is very huge and some of these migrants are actually trapped in rebel held areas negotiations to get to them would prove another difficult situation but all the same a lot of them are happy that theyre going home but these are the first timers those who have been there before who have seen it all intend to go back anyway. A cramped office in the center of tripoli is the only decent place these nigerian teenagers have seen in years they left home with promises of a life of opportunity and comfort nothing prepared them for what followed in libya joy is not her real name she says she was sold for one thousand one hundred dollars to buy have freedom she needed to pay around two thousand five hundred dollars last week she and her friend saw a chance to escape from there by air and they took. Her to a guest reference so our minds we decided to run we jumped for his very high friends as minds so we ran. Around 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 want me to be white people people the much treated me dig didnt give me my salary didnt even see my passport says everything about me it would be people dad brought me here 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 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 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 nigerias the Nigerian Government is preparing for an influx of rita and. The first government 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 that attempt to reach. For most of the migrants on this flight its a mixed feeling of being free at last and that of disappointment theyve been through so much over the past years they left with such promise but how to enjoy a lot of pain indignities of slavery torture and rape despite the hardships and dangers thousands more nigerians i sure like to attempt to judge in europe and deal. With nigerian migrants in the skies over the. Well lets just pause for a minute and take a closer look at whats been happening on the libyan coast itself so in the past year nigerians have been the Largest Group of african refugees and migrants who are making a stop in libya across and say europe well libya is the main transit hub for people from africa attempting to reach Southern Europe by sea and theyre coming from countries like nigeria as youre hearing eritrea guinea ivory coast senegal so don and so malia since july last year the libyan coast guard and navy backed by the European Union started blocking their arrivals leaving large numbers of them trapped in dire conditions without food or money the power vacuum in libya after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi has also made Human Trafficking and people smuggling a booming trade lets bring in amnesty internationals nigeria director osei chico to discuss all of this thanks for joining us on aljazeera i suppose the the most obvious question to you is whats driving so many nigerians so the even such numbers from their country and take such risks. Yes thank you very much its just the situation many people found themselves one to say seen quite a challenge in ten so so should make life and for many people they feel the only option they have is to leave the country you know thats a secret better life a better opportunity now to provide for themselves achieve the s. P. Ration and send back money to their loved ones back in one tyria we saw the Nigerian Government in that report that exclusive report by ahmed the duties and their flights to collect them from libya we have a facebook viewer comment nixon saying as they evacuate the city the citizens the Nigerian Government should also put measures to reverse the trend of these migrations are you seeing any policies that are being put in place on behalf of the Nigerian Government that will stop nigerians from leaving i think its really good that in nigeria and government was able to act to deal with the immediate need to ensure these people as safe from the horrifying experience the hat and we need to go beyond just a short provision which has been made which is to evacuate them to a place of safety transport them back to their respective homes wherever they may be and one to react and to provide some sort of welfare package. A lot has to go in tents of dealing with the long term issues as well as the root causes for the bush economic downturn that weve actually experienced in the country and if you take a look small then short fix you know thats a get these done and its a develop our leaders really go home and say im being addressed as well as when you speak about long term effects efforts rather what can you elaborate on that. Yes so for example many of the people in terms of profiling you find a young people and these are people who could not find jobs or was living in a situation whereby they live from hand to mouth so it means that there must be a maybelline environment in which peoples business is contrived in which the private sector as well as Public Sector can create jobs that young people cannot lifell and which are sustainable because we experience experience in a situation whereby theyre not just enough jobs to go around and even for those who i imagine and to pretty near all the the environment is challenging the number of forms you need to fill in that at the set of the business you know thats the drive to change and the infrastructure when you talk of electricity you talk of power you talk of access to water and several factors that you need another to ensure that your business take off have been challenge in security is also a big issue which the government has been tackling for a long time but it seems things are escalating rather than improving and so while its very good that the government has taken steps to ensure they can repatriate one theory and swell of being caught up in this crisis back to the country it still needs to address the root causes and put in place mitigating. Factors that can actually be viewed the suffering improve social welfare so that people know that even if they asked still looking for their next opportunity they can live world they have access to Public Health care facilities the after access to clean or your time for family. Business sense of the abuse that our reporter was able to unveil in that report from speaking to some of these nigerians in libya how would you describe what what theyve been through. I think its very shocking its basically in this time and age where weve actually gone ahead in terms of Technological Advancement in terms of when then that people have been subjected to this kind of abuse and also to numbers of people what true premium and even those who have returned in recent he is still trying to go through that route shows that a lot needs to be done in terms of the orientation of people as well as to create. A sense of hope for people that is better for you to be at home and strive to walk in this environment than to risk your life going through this trance you treat and be subjected to torture and all that kinds of each treatment and abuse ok we thank you very much for joining us from abuse and giving us your point of view thank you well on an earlier episode of counting the cost aljazeera takes a look at the abuse exploitation and trafficking of african refugees and migrants who pass through libya trying to make their way to europe so you can head to our home page click on shows and then had to counting the cost and watch this episode migrants for sale slave trade in the bia were getting a lot of viewer comments on this particular story so do keep them coming you can send them to our Online Platforms where on twitter. Or news grid. Us that is were also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a day news grid and you can send us a whatsapp at plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine and just use the has tag a j news grid. Now to the war in syria thats where thousands of civilians are caught in the middle as Government Forces press to retake one of the largest rebel controlled areas thats left in the country aid groups are saying that people are battling a harsh winter as they try to escape the northwestern city if its near the border with turkey thats also a name reports on the human toll of this offensive. The sound all too familiar to many syrians as the war enters its eight year 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 syrias biggest city. But i dont know that 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 dont think it is the largest remaining rebel stronghold in syria during peace negotiations it was designated a deescalation zone or safety than for civilians. Its 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 syrians its basically a 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 in libya including singe on. The field but thats just becoming we have liberated singe are fully and this is since our school and these are grain silos senor 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 theyre 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 wont be going natasha going to aljazeera well a lack of basic services and drinking contaminated water is also giving rise to water borne diseases doctor is saying hepatitis cases and camps are now a concern Elizabeth Hoff is the World Health Organization syria representative and she talked to al jazeera earlier saying despite challenges they are working at addressing the problem now this is not dr beach and besieged it cost the company and of course. Something like a titan just a whole lot of who what and who didnt want to see this. Because actually the number of cases in two thousand and seventy has. Cost me in two thousand and six to twenty two of the suspected cases in two thousand and seventeen well swear in syria the army has now reclaimed the military site on the outskirts of damascus from rebel forces the Government Forces had been besieged by fighters since last month you can head to al jazeera dot com for more on that operation and check out this article which youll find on our home page rising food prices has led to a string of protests in sudan related to a sudden increase in the price of bread and other basic food items and are suppose a social media producer with more on that story. Well police fired tear gas on student demonstrators at the university of khartoum on sunday one of several areas across the country that have seen protests over the past few days other rallies took place in three southern cities and elsewhere in the capital where demonstrators burns hires and blocked some roads tear gas we know that a student was killed in a demonstration in west dar for state and weve seen other images of protests shared by groups like the Sudanese Congress party thats one of the largest opposition groups which called for the demonstrations to take place now the s. E. P. Says that their president omar al dig era has been detained as well as several other Party Members as a crackdown on the demonstrations and at least one sudanese official has denied any link between the protests and what is known to be a increase in bread prices and says that force will be used to suppress any protests that involve destruction of property now just looking at bread prices for a second day more than doubled this week after the Government Cut subsidies in the twenty eight hundred budget and decided to stop importing wheat from overseas foreign manufacturers have also raised prices of fifty kilos a sack of flour used to cost about twenty four dollars and now it costs sixty four so bakeries have been turned double the price of a loaf of bread and with inflation running at twenty five percent many sudanese families are feeling the pressure in an effort to contain this story in the protest Sudanese Security services confiscated the entire print runs of six newspapers on sunday after they criticize the government over the the rising cost of bread now two of them are whats on an album don are links to