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i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president the fired f.b.i. director donald trump obstructed justice. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at the. russia are backing the syrian government. accused of sedition and rebellion catalonian leaders and activists who backed a controversial referendum to split from spain appear before the highest court. and china's most popular social media network signed away bowser versing a decision to leave all content on its site. former f.b.i. director james comey. he has accused donald trump of being morally unfit to be u.s.

president and he says there may be some evidence that trump obstructed justice komi made the comments in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos earlier trump unleashed a twitter tirade against komi saying the man he fired should be jailed every elizondo reports from washington d.c. . in a remarkable rebuke former f.b.i. director james comey is saying u.s. president donald trump is not fit to be commander in chief he is donald trump unfit to be president. yes but not in the way i often hear people talk about it i don't buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent to early stages of dementia strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on and i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president of the exclusive interview with a.b.c. news george stephanopoulos was part of the rollout of coleman's new book titled a higher loyalty truth lies and leadership in the interview komi says trump lies as

obstructed justice and like it seem to an insecure mob boss and he also says russia might have compromising information on the president do you think the russians have something on donald trump i think it's possible i don't know i mean these are more words i never thought i'd utter about a president but it's possible and he accused the president of wrongdoing of a possible crime yeah structure of justice hours before the komi interview aired the president unloaded on twitter calling komi a slimeball slippery and not smart in one tweet trump insists komi committed numerous crimes himself and needs to go to jail tweeting and part how come he gave up classified information jail why did he lie to congress jail in another message trump tweets komi will go down as the worst f.b.i. director in history by far trump adding with an exclamation mark for good measure you know more famous than me yeah komi was fired by trump in may saying it was for

his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation but trump later said in an interview it was because of the russian vest a geisha and the firing prompted a series of events that led to the justice department to appoint robert mueller as special counsel oversee. in the russian investigators that has expanded to look into whether trump obstructed justice by firing komi home he says trump privately asked him for a loyalty pledge trump denies this this isn't the first book to rattle the white house in january fire and fury sold more than a million copies in four days written by journalist michael wolff the book revealed so lay shoes details that painted a picture of a white house in chaos khomeini's book coed for poses even more of a threat to the white house given it was written by the former director of the highest law enforcement agency in america and based partly off notes that he took

after private meetings with the president the book is scheduled to be released on tuesday and certain to set off a firestorm in washington and beyond and particularly with an administration that seems to go from one crisis to another. washington the u.s. plans to impose sanctions on russia for continuing to support syria's government u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says the target companies involved in syria's alleged chemical weapons program this comes after saturday's airstrikes on syrian military sites said to be storing chemical weapons strikes in response to a suspected gas attack on where else chemical weapons watchdog is meeting in the hague as it inspectors investigate the incidents. so you will think that russian sanctions will be coming down secretary mineta will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were

dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel that at this point i think everyone knows that we send a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it they mock president on all time says he still wants american forces in syria to return home as soon as possible that is despite france's president and will not go on claiming he convinced trump to keep a long term u.s. presence in that country alan fischer as more from washington d.c. well we know there have been a number of calls between the elysee palace and the white house over the last week not least to judge their reaction to what the saw was a syrian chemical attack against its own people and to draw up plans for the strike that we saw on friday night into saturday morning certainly present mccrone will consider himself one of the world leaders closest to donald trump but don't position on syria has been clear just over two weeks ago at

a campaign event in ohio he insisted he wanted to get out of syria very soon indeed but as far as the president of france is concerned he has no doubts about the american commitment to the efforts in syria. and of course you don't ten days ago president trump was saying the u.s. should withdraw from syria we convinced him that it was necessary to stay i think that on a diplomatic level beyond what happened abroad those three strikes which are one element for me the most important thing we convinced him that we needed to stay for the long want to. but there is no doubt that the president of france left those phone calls with a very clear on donald trump's commitment although obviously given the statements coming out of the white house saying there is no change in their policy nothing has altered as far as their ideas and city is concerned president mccraw may have left those conversations with a different impression of what donald trump was actually seeing syria feature high

on the agenda at the arab league summit in saudi arabia twenty two member body didn't discuss the airstrikes saudi arabia bahrain and qatar previously issued statements in support of the action to rock and lebanon expressed concern saudi monarch push for a unified stance against iran which is blamed for instability and meddling in the region. perna penates leaders in spain's catalonia region are about to appear before a supreme court judge for their role in last year's secession referendum spain wants to charge them with sedition and rebellion on sunday thousands of people protested in barcelona calling for the room lease of what they call political prisoners of the central government and madrid says they broke the law by organizing a new legal referendum in october setting a goal joins us live from madrid she's outside the supreme court's us on to give us a rundown of how this is going to play out today and what's already happened. here well so far this morning we've had the appearance of the national courts over

the former head of the cattle on police chief just at least an update on he is facing only charges of sedition a sentence which well not position which can carry a maximum sentence of ten years. also misuse of of of those entities that we use during the illegal referendum the hearing to put it normally a few minutes what is expected now we're anticipating any any minute now the appearance of three leaders get us the full vice president of the catalan region as well as to other leaders of castro and civil society organizations to be quite sharp and go to the sunshine the charges that they would face would be charges of rebellion now back carries a maximum sentence of at least thirty years and that is

something that is a certainly a heavy. load that they would have to deal with while they make this they have they have the opportunity to be able to deny or confirm those charges but certainly with these three it's really basically what the impetus of the demonstrations that took place on sunday calling for these to be free because they believe they believe cast lands. socialista not any doubt the other trainers who attended on sunday's demonstration believe that this has been politicized whereas this is a center which has been sort of predominant throughout this whole crisis since it began so do tell us more about these protests and the reaction from the public they have been burying gage in this process for for quite some time and it's very personal for a lot of the protesters. it is a meaning it has been really there has been a lot of. public support for these leaders who've been

imprisoned in the region of catalonia that has been really. they felt that this is really been a politicized situation but on the other side the spanish government maintains that this has been what they did was in fact illegal and it goes against the spanish constitution in fact a few look at it it certainly wasn't illegal referendum i technically and legally that is. that is really the situation that has a right arisen from that but i mean there are other charges which are being thrown out as well for example for the former v.p. he's also being accused of misuse of public funds now interesting it's interesting enough though the spanish treasury minister has said that while there was no national misuse of public funds so they are looking into questions whether the cattle on the authorities have actually used misused public entities such as the

schools that we used as voting centers that brings into question also other issues as well as that of rebellion their son to go live for us in madrid sign a thank you. china's most popular social media network is reversing its decision to ban gay content on that site sign away vote that is china's equivalent of twitter a huge backlash when it blocked videos and comments related to homosexuality the company said it was trying to comply with cybersecurity laws adrian brown has more from beijing. well reversals like this are very rare in china now things all came to a head on friday when sino weibo which is china's equivalent of twitter announced it was going to delete all gay themed content now this provoked a predictable outcry there were letters angry posts hashtags one hash tag in fact called i am gay received more than three hundred million views three hundred million before it was deleted on saturday so clearly online there was

a lot of anger but as quickly as those posts appeared they were deleted now the company defended its actions by saying it wanted to create quote a clear and harmonious environment online and was simply complying with president xi jinping has new cyber security laws the internet has become a real battleground for the l.g. bt community and president xi jinping appears to have that community in his crosshairs he wants to clean up the internet he doesn't like what he's seen and so i think this this battle is by no means over it's going to continue and continue for weeks months and years to come now the l g b t community here in china says they are still persecuted and discriminated against even though it's no longer illegal to be gay in this country to be a practicing homosexual now china has one gay parade game archie year that happens in shanghai the next one is in june and now in other parts of the world world

leaders take part in those parades it happened with justin trudeau in canada but i think it's fair to assume that for now you're not going to be seeing president xi jinping doing that. still ahead on al-jazeera and away immigrants in france are forced to rely on the kindness of strangers just to get by. and also are shoplifts marking time recent or to turn away from fuel burning cars. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. we've got some bad weather making its way into western parts of europe now warming up nicely and the shabby rain easing away from the iberian peninsula now the system making its way to nice is that will introduce some rain into wallop but that's what makes it green and lovely we have got little bit of wet weather just around the

balkans today with this weather system making its way further race was it will weaken out as we go on through the next couple days look at awards twenty four cells just for walsall twenty degrees in moscow there is that rain around the balkans pushing up into germany and into poland five guys coming in behind seventeen celsius for paris eighteen degrees for madrid on monday afternoon too bad across england scotland and wales there's that west of weather coming into all of this we go on into achieved a sweeps where we will weaken off the not too bad hopefully things will cheer up as we go on through the day fighting over across the northwest though having said that fifteen celsius in london twenty two for paris twenty two for madrid at long last someone up getting back into spain and portugal some of the temperature there for rome twenty one celsius threatens that rain that we have will start to peter out as he makes its way further east which over the next day or so as we fought a dry now across much of north africa a little bit of cloud for some but brighter skies for morocco and algeria. the

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director james comey is accused tunnel tromp of being morally unfit to be u.s. president and he says there may be evidence that obstructed justice comey spoke in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos the first since trump fired him last year. the u.s. long posed no sanctions on russia for continuing to support serious governments that follow saturday's are strikes on syrian military site said to be storing chemical weapons and reaction to a suspected gas attack and. i'm proud to tennis leaders and spain's catalonia region are appearing before a supreme court judge spain wants to charge them with sedition and rebellion for their role in last year's secession referendum. hundreds of firefighters are battling a bushfire threatening parts of australia's largest city sydney they say it's miraculous nobody's been entered and no houses have been damaged two and a half thousand hectares of bush land around sydney have been destroyed since saturday andrew thomas us more from sydney. this fire truck is one of many that

fought for ages of positions on the age of what's called the fire ground and at the other end of the hugs as far as the putting out spot fires in case the wind picks up again and takes that fire back towards people's homes now the main paltz of this fire though big was in an unpopulated area down there this is a giant bowl of forest or bush as it's called hey not many people live inside that but along the edge of the reply but there are plenty of people who have had many fires here before i was talking to one man who's lived here thirty years and he's known for life because he was almost relaxed about this one and it does get scary and stressful but in a few days it's i have a good back to normal you know forest fires bushfires is unknown here and unusual in australia but what is unusual is how late in the season this one has taken hold april the middle of all some it should be cool by now here it's not mid thirty's when the wind picks up that's when the danger reignites the traces of integrated

along the disputed border between pakistan and afghanistan after skirmishes left at least for ted pakistan's army says in one incident one of its paramilitary units on retain surveillance was shot at by afghan troops two pakistani soldiers were killed and several afghan officers injured afghan police chief accuse the soldiers of the legally crossing the border politicians in france will debate a new immigration bill later on monday the proposed law aims to reduce undocumented arrivals and speed up the process for asylum seekers the critics say that plans on help refugees as they try to emigrate into society about live reports of paris. for a couple of nights each week this is home fizzy most are one published been hosting the seventeen year old refugee from ivory coast in his paris apartment for several months it's a warm place to sleep and a slice of family life for the teenager who's alone in the city. what they are doing for me is a big deal people in france don't give anything to immigrants or people who are in

need one of his family didn't know me and i didn't know them but he trusted me let me sleep in his home. on z. mooses long journey from ivory coast to europe he says he lost a close friend and so many people die on the mediterranean sea crossing. one public found out about hosting refugees on social media and felt compelled to act. i don't do it to get something about it if i had to flee my home and end up in the streets in winter i hope that people would help it's a human shield in france whether it's the government or cities where we just don't care enough about this french charity say there are thousands of refugees sleeping in the street the power city council provides some shelters but there aren't enough places the french government wants to see an end to camps like this it's proposing a new immigration law which would aim to crack down on so-called economic migrants but speed up the process for asylum seekers but some experts say that's simply the

wrong approach to keep purpose of the bill is to trade the migrants and salem's the girls from going to france the bill doesn't do anything to. the living conditions better for those who are here already. last year one hundred thousand people applied for asylum in france one third was successful for those granted the right to stay integrating into society is an additional challenge today carlos are bellairs studies at one of france's top universities but seven years ago he fled colombia after four months in paris sleeping outside he was taken in by a french family it changed his life. no hopers around europe has to realize that the way it has welcomed refugees hasn't worked for me having lived with a family and learned the language and gained a network so it shows that integration is really about contact and learning the skills to get by on your own french m.p.'s are debating the new law and will vote

on it at the end of the month unless the bill is amended to provide more support for asylum seekers it seems many refugees in france will be forced to rely on the kindness of strangers natasha al-jazeera. the commissioner some kenya's election board have resigned that because of what they say is the board's dysfunction and leadership failure one of the three official so as resigned as the vice chairman commission was at the center of controversy during the presidential elections last year the main opposition candidate boycotted the runoff polls in october after accusing the board of failing to prevent irregularities montenegro's ruling party has to clear leader milo djukanovic as they were when or of sunday's presidential election pulmonary results fifty four percent of the vote which is enough to avoid a runoff his main opponent a lot and. got thirty three percent it's a major victory for the convict who defied russia when montenegro joined nato last

chair. they salaries for tens of thousands of gaza based employees of the palestinian authority are now a week over to the workers union says it's a whimper to increase pressure on hamas which controls gaza. reports. for a week now they've been living on less than a promise the palestinian authority says the delay in paying its gaza employees salaries is a technical issue soon to be resolved but these men know that their colleagues in the occupied west bank and retirees here in gaza all had their paychecks days ago the head of their union says the p.a. isn't even taking his phone calls. we're talking about thirty thousand families this isn't a small number they paid employees in the west bank but they didn't pay us in gaza this makes the employees here really afraid. user so ruth is waiting for his monthly pay a stipend of two hundred ninety dollars awarded after he was shot and injured during

a protest three years ago nearly half of it goes on rent for the tiny home he shares with his wife and two daughters their landlord is threatening a fiction. because. we are prisoners families of martyrs the injured they shouldn't put us in between the two sides they shouldn't connect the reconciliation problems with our salaries because that will destroy one hundred percent of the. the palestinian president and fatah head mahmoud abbas has been threatening further measures designed to increase the pressure on rival faction hamas which controls gaza a reconciliation deal signed in october has been teetering on collapse since almost before the ink had dried the p.a. insists on assuming full governmental control of gaza including over the weapons of hamas his military wing something hamas rejects completely hamas demands continued payment of its tens of thousands of workers even after p.a. staff who've been out of their jobs for more than a decade of hamas' rule resumed their roles. relations who worsened still by the

bombing last month of the palestinian prime minister's convoy during a visit to gaza the p.a. leadership based in ramallah in the occupied west bank had already cut its gazan employees wages by thirty percent in an effort to squeeze hamas by restricting the inflow of cash from which it takes a cut. the p.a. employees union says that if the salaries don't turn up in the bank by wednesday they will launch one to scale protests but they're aware that their power is limited if as they suspect this is no technical issue then their wages depend on the political decision being made in ramallah how we force it i'll just era gaza c.e.o. of starbucks has apologized after two black men were arrested as they waited for a friend and a cafe in philadelphia protesters are demanding answers but the police commissioner is defending his officers and a huckster has more. these the mobile phone pitches that have starbucks on the defensive two men were scooted out of the cafe on day accused of trespassing they

go on the to meet a friend and also use the restroom when they refused to leave her called the police the friend turned up as they were being removed from her home it was. after that video went viral starbucks went into damage control we're always working to create the very best environment in our stores in in our communities tireless efforts to bridge the opportunity divide for young men and women of color and i have never been more proud of this company and what they do in this incident does not reflect the spirit of our brand it was an unfortunate incident and will be sure to make it right. starbucks c.e.o. kevin johnson also apologized on twitter this was little comfort for protesters who rallied outside and inside the chain's coffee shop in philadelphia on sunday. the police commissioner defended the officers involved when the call was initially made

in starbucks employees they told the males that they were we said they said. we are here so police get their new component but the same type of attitude in repeating your so if they're not meeting in fact there's so much less rhetoric about you don't know what you're doing you're only dollar you're lawyer or something to that it isn't for me to say in short these officers did absolutely nothing wrong with the commission's statement may have done more harm than good. the police commissioner said that the officers didn't do anything. i believe a lot of times when there's someone who's racist and shows attitude of bigotry they tend to use the system to then so opposition to a person that did nothing wrong i'm not sure this is just an isolated it's issue but i think that whenever you have. a racial profiling situation it should be assessed not just by managers because that means you're clearly has to be fired but

the police themselves the district attorney said the two men were released after their rescue to lack of evidence and starbucks decision not to go further with the case regardless though the arrest have sparked fresh debate about the treatment of black americans on a hoax that algis air jordan is driving into a greener future after a german company announced it will invest in charging stations for electric cars as a country that doesn't produce oil jordanians are embracing the move away from fuel burning cars and reports. the engine hardly makes a sound and that can mean hashim hussain often forgets to turn off the ignition he admits he's parked and walked off with the car still running but that quiet and not having to fill up are two of the reasons the college student loves driving his electric car the benefits is just as money like as it.

was and fixing the good one. and it's good for them but i mean there are now about ten dealers including renault selling electric cars in jordan last month a german company and out's plans to build ten thousand charging stations across the country and there's an all electric public transportation service called tell see law the government offers incentives to consumers no customs fees or taxes the main reason for anyone to buy a car if you are not buying. the car immediately lissac spence of the doesn't mean or diesel vehicle. there's a good economic reason to for the government to steer away from gas burning vehicles jordan imports more than ninety percent of the oil it needs in order to

reduce the economic burden the country is not only encouraging jordanians to drive electric cars but it's investing in wind solar and solid waste energy right now there are two billion dollars worth of renewable energy projects under way. this month the government unveiled the second phase of a national energy efficiency action plan in place for more than a decade but all of these are only two people that we've worked in order to reduce our consumption patterns on one hand and to increase the potential content fusion the potential little isolation or feet over that nobody in their duties holds his the goal is to continue to drive down energy use by twenty percent and increase renewable energies imprint to ten percent by twenty twenty experts say jordan has already become such a leader in the middle east its neighbors have expressed interest in replicating these initiatives natasha going to al-jazeera.

take out the headlines on al-jazeera former f.b.i. director james comey has accused donald trump of being morally unfit to be u.s. president and he says there may be evidence obstructed justice comey spoke in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos the first since trump fired him last year. is donald trump unfit to be president. yes but not in the way i often hear people talk about it i don't buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent to early stages of dementia strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president of the u.s. plans to impose more sanctions on russia for continuing to support syria's government that follows saturday's airstrikes on syrian military sites said to be

storing chemical weapons the strikes are a response to a suspected gas attack on too much. china's most popular social media site is reversing a decision to ban gay content on that site sent away got backlash when it blocked videos and comics related to homosexuality the company said it was trying to comply with cybersecurity laws. dependence leaders and spain's catalonia region are appearing before supreme court judge for their role in last year's secession referendum spain wants to charge them with sedition and rebellion on sunday thousands of people protested of are so one of their all and for the release of what they call political prisoners hundreds of firefighters are battling a bushfire threatening parts of australia's largest city sydney two and a half thousand hectares of bushland had been destroyed since saturday great commissioner some kenya selection board have resigned because of what they say is the board's dysfunction and leadership failure the commission was at the center of

controversy during presidential elections last year the main opposition candidate boycotted the runoff poll in october after saying the board failed to prevent irregularities montenegro's ruling party has declared leader milo djukanovic as one or of sunday's presidential election. results show him winning fifty four percent of the vote and that is enough to avoid a runoff. so those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera throughout the day keep it here for what is next. getting to the heart of the matter if. the supreme leader calls you today and says let's have two weeks would you accept facing new realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people keep the peace for the future in the still new option for prosperity do you feel so sorry to hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. in syria can u.s. rockets stop bashar al assad's killing machine or will they be.