you know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. more to an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very. what's wrong with us is shit on anybody's stonyfield. those people who see everything as something to invest the profit of they want all up to the last drop on al-jazeera.

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 says there's evidence donald trump up structured justice. shall carry this is. coming up. against russia for backing the syrian government. and rebel leaders and activists in fact a controversial referendum to split from spain appear before the highest court. and . china's most popular social media network sina weibo is. content on its site. morally unfit to be u.s. president and he says there may be some evidence that obstructed justice komi made

the comments there an exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos earlier. saying the man. some 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 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 the 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 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 law. you can see him 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 maybe these are more words i never thought i'd wonder about a president but it's possible and he accused the president of wrongdoing of a possible crime yeah well obstruction 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 themselves and needs to go to jail tweeting in 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 for him is the me 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 overseeing the russian vesta geisha and that has expanded to look into whether trump obstructed justice by firing komi komi 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 salacious details that painted a picture of a white house in chaos khomeini's book however 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. 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 gabriels ondo. washington bill schneider is a political analyst a visiting professor of communications at the university of california los angeles says trump should be worried about comments allegations. the charge coming from the former director of the f.b.i. even if he was fired by donald trump that's a very serious matter he's a he appears to be talking about the fact that. trump fired him because he was looking into the relationship between the trump campaign and russia komi isn't specifying exactly and there are several pieces of evidence of obstructing obstruction of justice that we know the special counsel who was appointed after. comey was fired there's several pieces of evidence that could suggest obstruction of justice that's just one of the things that's being looked into personal

attorneys affairs other things could lead to other scandals there already have possibly court cases against this president from space has been very loyal to him what they like about him is what he's doing right now they like the fact that he's defiant faced with the opposition with criticism he's defiant he basically is bullying he's insulting he uses childish nicknames against people and his base loves that because they haven't ever seen that in american leader before on the other hand a lot of americans critically better educated americans really find that very offensive i've heard people say you've been a republican all my life this president is certainly a rich person but he has no class. plans impose more sanctions on russia for continuing to support syria's government as a master to the way nikki haley says the target companies involved in syria's alleged chemical weapons program on saturday the u.s. u.k. and france launched air strikes on syrian sites said to be storing chemical weapons

that was a response to a suspected gas attack on civilians and. chemical weapons watchdog is meeting in the hague as its inspectors and vesta gate. 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 in our president on a says he still wants american forces are in syria to return home as soon as possible that's despite france's president manuel knock on claiming he can then strand to keep a long term u.s. presence in the country alan fischer has 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 in those three strikes which are one element for me not the most important thing we convinced him that we needed to stay for the long term but there is no doubt that the president of france left those

phone calls with donald trump very clear on donald trump's commitment although obviously given the statement snow coming out of the white house saying there is no change in their policy nothing has altered as far as their ideas and syria has can sound president mccraw made of left to his conversations with a different impression of what donald trump was actually seeing. the former police chief of spain's catalonia region has faced court over his role in last year's the session referendum and other pro independence leaders face charges of sedition and rebellion on sunday thousands of people protested in barcelona calling for the release of what they call list of all political prisoners that is the central government of mr and says they broke the law by organizing an illegal referendum in october sunday go has the latest for us from madrid. on monday morning the full might lead to all of the police force. appeared before the national court

he's facing charges of sedition for his alleged role in the illegal referendum in october also this morning to appear before the supreme court's three leaders leaders one the former vice president of the government plus two of the civil society leaders they are facing the most serious charge of rebellion and in this case they could get that carries a set a maximum sentence of thirty years in prison this has been a situation for many procession this but also all the trade unionists took part in sunday's demo where they feel that these men have been used as political prisoners but the spanish government maintains that what has happened is that they have indeed. undertaken an act of rebellion legibly for trying to act against the spanish constitution and attempting to see it from spain they say that this has been an illegal act but interestingly enough is also being examined what's also

being examined is the misuse of public funds at the time of the form of vice president approve the budget for the referendum that is also being looked into is whether how much of that. public funds or whether public institutions were abused in that situation in the illegal referendum china's most popular social media network as are versing its decision. content i would say sent away by china's equivalent of twitter but a lot of backlash when it blocked videos and comics related to homosexuality company said it was trying to comply with cybersecurity laws are china correspondent a tramp around 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 going to receive 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. bt 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 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 by immigrants in france are forced to rely on the kindness of strangers just to get by. bus this was supposed to be the hospital but it's now become part of argentina's problem with slums. holloway seen some rather lively shadows moving across the gulf of thailand little bit of wet weather coming in here wet weather to see just around. the. little bit

of rain to just around northern parts of borneo usual shall is coming for a long line of shabby rain there as one would expect and it's own making its way with the wet weather that we do have around todd and will gradually make its way further east was thirty two celsius the four bangkok meanwhile the same rain making its way east across victoria easing down towards southern parts of new south wales has some rather a lot of the winds coming in from the southwest direction a cooler direction that's good news for sydney just to the southwest of city of course we did have that wall far break out over the course of the weekend conditions are now in the process of improving so we are going to see the winds coming in from over a southerly direction twenty celsius there for sydney little bit of patchy rain still in place there for that eastern side of victoria but it is an improving picture for many twenty one celsius from album back as we go on through wednesday some rain up towards the gulf coast up towards the sunshine coast as well as fun

and dry into the southwest and cola twenty degrees celsius hot sunshine for alice with a top temperature of thirty one. in this case. each one a story. one of these seem. to be. demonstrably. it is starting to be when. we look you may be looking.

watching al-jazeera let's pick up the top stories right now former f.b.i. director james comey is accused of being morally unfit to be u.s. president and he says there may be evidence that trump obstructed justice he spoke in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos the first since trump fired him last year. the u.s. will impose new sanctions on russia for continuing to support syria's government. strikes on syrian military sites said to be storing chemical weapons in reaction to a suspected gas attack into. china's most popular social media site as reversing a decision to ban gay content on that site site away by overseas backlash when it walked videos and comics related to homosexuality the company said it was trying to comply with cybersecurity laws. politicians in france will debate

a new immigration bill later on monday the proposed law is to reduce undocumented arrivals and speed up the process for asylum seekers or critics say the plans won't help refugees as they try to integrate into society about la porte some 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. are doing for me is a big deal of 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 the moose's 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 the key berbers 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 when you're already. last year one hundred thousand people applied for asylum in france one third were 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 as an officer in 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 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 as 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 butler al-jazeera paris. three commissioners from kenya's election board have resigned because of what they say is the board's dysfunction and leadership failure of one of the three officials who has resigned is the vice

chairman the commission was at the center of controversy during presidential elections last year the main opposition candidate boycott of the runoff polls in october after accusing the board of failing to prevent irregularities venezuela's president nicolas maduro has attacked south american leaders as webs of u.s. imperialism but there was barred from attending the summit of the americas improved it ended on saturday he's almost certain to win next month's presidential election which many regional leaders have called a sham the main opposition is boycotting the vote but majority says it will be a success for democracy. an heiress to south korea's largest airline has apologized for pushing an employee during a business meeting place are now investigating cho young men she's accused of yelling and throwing water at a manager of korean air's advertising agency last month her sister was jailed in two thousand and fourteen for ordering a flight to return to the gate because she was upset at how she was served a bowl of nuts so one who is managing editor korea exposé

a current affairs and culture magazine he says he's not surprised at the behavior. these companies these have been in existence in korea for a very long time many of its executives its management managerial families the old their families have also been accused of numerous crimes in the past but ultimately what has happened in korea over the past decades is in many cases these families they are even though found guilty in a court of law often found pardon by the political class and often they go back to running their companies as they have always done this was what had happened to mean sister julie on the woman at the center of the not gate scandal who years ago she was convicted she went to prison and then she's been laying low for some time and recently and said she went back to manage a position at the hands in group which controls korean air so people are truly fed up with this cycle and asking what can be done to change it in the immediate future

i mean in pakistan have killed two people at a church in the southwestern city of quotes that police say two armed men on a motorcycle targeted worship purses they were leaving a scent the evening service five other people were seriously wounded. c.e.o. of starbucks has apologized after two black men were arrested as they waited for a friend in 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 that friend turned up as they were being removed from the 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 go in we don't hear so at least get their new component but the same type of attitude in repeating your so if they're not me in fact here's some let's rhetoric about you don't know what you're doing you're only dollar you're lawyer or something to that

it isn't what 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 a sense not just by managers because that manager clearly needs 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 arrests have sparked fresh debate about the treatment of black americans on a hoax that algis their former u.s.

first lady barbara bush is refusing further medical treatment her ailing health the office of her husband former president george h.w. bush sr said the ninety two year old will spend time in what it calls comfort care with her family. the salaries of tens of thousands of gaza based on the palestinian authority are a week overdue the worker showing and says it's a deliberate move 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. you so so rude is waiting for his monthly 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 a dried the p.a. insists on assuming full governmental control of gaza including over the weapons of hamas 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 account the p.a. employees union says that if the salaries don't turn up in the banks 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 a political decision being made in ramallah herefore said i'll just hear a gaza and urban development in archidamus capital is angering people are being forced to move the project as part of a government plan to integrate hundreds of thousands of people living in slums into

the rest of the city the hope is they get access to basic services for the first time. it's known as the white elephant an abandoned building in when a site is that for decades was home to hundreds of people that had nowhere else to live. but these days heavy equipment is working nonstop to bring it down i'm going to be done. we started to think in twenty eleven when the national government gave the city the building what we should do with it there were too many things happening here we decided to demolish it and start from scratch to transform the area. it was meant to be the largest hospital in that no merica during the government. but when he was overthrown in one nine hundred fifty five the project was abandoned and since then it has been a symbol of neglect. hoping to build a park schools and are currently building the new ministry of social development

here the idea of this project is to increase the presence of the state in an area that has historically abandoned around ninety families used to live in this building in this condition with no water electricity or access to basic services there were also one hundred forty families who lived outside the city has been offering all those occupying the area cash incentives to buy a house somewhere else. on the p.c. it was difficult to ask people to leave people didn't trust in our goodwill to help them leave this place slowly we started showing them that we want to help them improve their lives some families want to other places some of them are better off but there are ten families who do not want to leave and works as a driver here says he's not ready to move. when you don't want to go because this is where we work from people know they can find us here i don't trust the

government's intentions they leave and they don't finish what they started over seven hundred thousand people live in slums in suburban one of the current administration says it's working to improve the living conditions of everyone in the city but you know. what happens in the city happens all over the country across latin america and in areas like education and health facilities. the president is working on a plan to improve slums around the country build roads and. this is part of the biggest urban development project when a site is has seen in decades. but it is reducing poverty in the country what will guarantee that those who left the white and offend won't end up living in another once again.

and richelle carey let's recap the headlines for you right now former f.b.i. director james comey has accused donald trump of being morally unfit to be u.s. president and he also says there may be evidence that obstructed justice spoke in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos and the first since truck 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 the 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 a chemical weapons strike in response to a suspected gas attack on touma. former police chief of spain's catalonia region

has faced court over his role in last year secession referendum and other pro independence leaders face charges of sedition and rebellion on sunday thousands of people protested in barcelona calling for the release of what they call political prisoners china's most popular social media site as reversing a decision to ban content on its site so in a way but we're seeing a backlash when it blocks videos and comments related to homosexuality the company said it was trying to comply with cybersecurity laws. the commissioner some kenya's election 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 president presidential elections last year the main opposition candidate boycotted the runoff poll in october after saying the board failed to prevent irregularities venezuela's president nicolas maduro has labelled south american leaders websites. u.s. imperialism in the euro was barred from attending the summit of the americas in peru

that ended on saturday he's almost certain to win next month's presidential election which many regional leaders have called a sham. former u.s. first lady barbara bush is refusing further medical treatment for her ailing health the office of her husband said the ninety two year old will spend time in what it calls comfort care with her family. as the headlines the news continues and al-jazeera witness is next keeper. counting the cost how to get ahead in digital advertising why the new mad men dislike regulation but like harvesting everything they can about the french president's big boss why oil and i mean you were in focus this week counting the cost on a.