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accusations and finger pointing between western countries and russia the delays in access to the site of a suspected chemical attack in syria. the backlash british prime minister to resign may comes under scrutiny she faces questions about her decision to authorize u.k. strikes in syria. and jordan this is. also coming up. i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president. directed james comey says donald trump may have obstructed justice as a war of words between the two escalates. war and disease the growing fear in yemen as more patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
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russia's foreign minister has rejected u.s. claims of attempted with the site of a suspected chemical attack in duma representatives of the global chemical watchdog holding an emergency meeting at the hague inspectors from the organization of a prohibition of chemical weapons or the o.p.c. w. still haven't been granted access to the site of the alleged toxic gas attack russia denies it's responsible for the hold up it's blaming south by western countries really challenge has more from moscow. the o.p.c. w.'s fact finding mission to do may be highly contentious from the start and as the days tick by it only gets more and more acrimonious there have been accusations from the united kingdom's delegations the o.p.c. w and the united states delegation that the russians are stopping the o.p.c. w. from actually going to the site in duma and also the americans are saying that perhaps the russians have already tampered with the area now this is getting pushback of
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course from moscow the russian foreign ministry and the kremlin both saying it is groundless. say that the russians are stopping this mission the o.p.c. w.'s russian delegation says the actually this is just an effort from the united states to undermine the integrity of the mission before it's even started and the russian foreign minister says i can guarantee that russia has not tampered with the site his deputy to react cough says that it's actually up to the united nations to give the final go ahead for this team to visit duma it's worth also saying i think that you know this is an area doomer that we've been told by the russians for days now is completely under their control and syrian government controlled all the terrorists as they put it so being cleared out. we heard on
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russian news wires earlier on today the fighting has erupted in the area now given that the russians have said it's up to them to guarantee the safety of o.p.c. w. inspectors that could well as some point be used as a reason to delay that visit even further meanwhile the secular general of nato has condemned what he calls the repeated use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime. called the attack and duma a threat to international peace and security. those responsible must be held accountable and we must do all we can to protect the national bomb on the use of chemical weapons there is no military solution to this conflict therefore need to fully supports the efforts led by the united nations to achieve a last thing a political solution to the conflict in syria. britain's prime minister is due to
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face questions on why she decided to join the american and french air strikes on syria without parliament's approval but john a whole joins us live now from westminster in london jenna so what are you expecting to resume a to say. well she's going to give a statement. in which she will seek to fend off some of the criticism pretty fierce criticism she's faced over the weekend from opposition parties and some in their own party who say she rushed to take this decision to launch strikes along with the french and the americans over syria the chief failed to seek parliamentary approval for it in terms of a convention that has existed since the iraq war in two thousand and three in terms of which parliament expects to be asked to give its approval if britain is about to be involved in military combat and questions over the legality of that decision whether it could be justified under international law or now the statement she's going to give will likely tackle these issues by saying in terms of legality yes it
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was in the national interest to tackle what is a global consensus against. chemical weapons rather and also that in terms of this legality it could be justified on the basis of humanitarian need a justification that britain has used in the past in terms of parliamentary approval she is likely to say that this was not a sustained prolonged situation of combat a conflict like two thousand and three iraq rather it was a limited one off strike it had to be done very quickly meaning the trouble parliament essentially didn't need to be troubled with it after this statement in a short while she will ask the speaker of parliament to grant an emergency debate to further try and pacify some of the criticism she's faced to allow m.p.'s to air their views and tackle her on specific questions and also if they wish potentially to have a vote but it won't be the vote that many of them have called for a vote on the specifics of the strikes rather it will be a vote on
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a much more sort of generalized concept around the discussion at the result of which will be non-binding on the government and the opposition then likely to react to all of this. but i don't think that will satisfy the opposition parties who as i said. determined that they should have had and could still retrospective the have a definitive vote on the issue of the strikes themselves this is a pretty unhappy parliament over this situation even some of her own m.p.'s mrs may's conservative m.p.'s feel that the government is just not in a position to ditch this issue of convention over the approval or otherwise of military combat added to that is the situation in which the interior minister this morning gave an interview in which she said well it would just be inappropriate under these circumstances with a highly planned operation based on highly sensitive intelligence to be put in the hands of people in the in other words m.p.'s in parliament who were simply not briefed or party to that information she said it shouldn't be outsourced to them and it's that word outsourced that has made many extremely angry on top of their
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concerns already because they feel this government in ten downing street sees its role as well above that of parliament parliament's role simply second hand to the work of government general thank you the u.s. is planning to impose new sanctions on russia for continuing to support the syrian government washington's ambassador to the un the key he says their target companies involved in syria's alleged chemical weapons program. so you will think that russian sanctions will be coming down the secretary 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. donald trump is not letting up in his criticism of former f.b.i. chief james komi once again the u.s.
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president took to twitter to blast the fire director saying coldly drafted the crooked hillary exoneration long before he talked to her live in congress to sen g. then based his decisions on what the president went on to say komi under others committed many crimes trumps tweet comes just hours after comi in a t.v. interview accuse the president of being morally unfit for the white house gave it a zonda has more 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 those what's going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president the exclusive interview with a.b.c. news george stephanopoulos was part of the rollout of coleman's new book titled a
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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 yet 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 crime some self 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.
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director in history by far trump adding with an exclamation mark for good measure you know more for him is that 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 in fury sold more than a million copies in four days written by journalist michael wolff the book revealed so lay she's 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
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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 gabriel zonda oh al-jazeera washington i'm up rule has forced china's biggest and most populous social media network to reverse its decision to ban online gay content seen away bode china's equivalent of twitter received a huge backlash when it blocked videos and comics relating to homosexuality the company said it was trying to comply with some security laws agent 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
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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
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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 the for now you're not going to be seen president xi jinping doing that. still ahead here on al-jazeera how firefighters in australia are battling to control a bushfire burning near sydney. and refugees in france are forced to run strangest just to get by more on that stay with us. carlo we've got try weather now across much of central and southern china downs was
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the southwest a little bit of cloud here and that extends down into the northern half of indochina for a time it will brighten up as we go on into what a stain this is a few showers just around the gulf of tonkin judges in hong kong around twenty four degrees there picking up once again we'll see temperatures in shanghai at around twenty three celsius fine and dry for much of the philippines over the next coming days fun and dry too for good pot all of india still got the cloud down towards the fos out there was a possibility one of two shadows sneaking into flak and it was weight is not as wet as it has been a recently for the northeast and we try packing once again to see when that pool forty two celsius could touch thirty eight in new delhi little bit of cloud is the fall northwest of india northern parts of pakistan tends to snow over the high ground that's all making its way a little eastwards now it's by wednesday chance of some wet weather just pushing its way back into kerala maybe the odd shower that too just making its way into sri lanka meanwhile we've had a little bit of patchy right here in concert with still
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a chance of one of two shots into northern parts of conference to go on into tuesday line of cloud down towards that western side of yemen showers always a possibility right across the gulf of aden. getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al jazeera.
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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera russia's foreign minister has rejected u.s. accusations that it tempered with the sight of a suspected chemical attack in duma western countries after having moscow on its syrian ally for blocking chemical inspectors from visiting the site. britain's prime minister is due to face questions on why she decided to join the american and french air strikes on syria without all of its approval and former f.b.i. director james comey has accused of being morally unfit to be u.s. president and he says there may be evidence that trump obstructed justice. the former police chief of spain's catalonia region has appeared in court over his role in last year's secession referendum spain also once charged pro independence leaders with sedition and rebellion on sunday thousands of people protested in
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barcelona calling for the release of what they called political prisoners the trial date will be set after the hearings and on wednesday so i gave it as the latest from madrid. there is also a lot of concern that with the states is that there is a catalonia remember of course. madrid has in effect taken over the region there is a sense that because there is still very much a limbo there is no not no leader nominated to be able to carry out some kind of resolution politically on this subject that it really affects the the three men who are facing their hearing on monday of those counts of rebellion and in fact it will be it will come down hardest on them that really. summarizes already the stress that these three are under with that because as far as they're concerned the spanish justice system here in madrid is not going to give way now and certainly at
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this point now they don't think with all the support that they received on sunday from the demonstration they're not going to push their positions now police are investigating whether a bushfire threatening parts of australia's largest city was deliberately lit two and a half thousand hectares of bushland surrounding sydney have been destroyed since saturday police say it's a miracle that nobody has been injured and no homes are destroyed an unusually hot weather spell has made it hard for firefighters to control the blaze more from sydney. this fire truck is one of many that firefighters have positions on the edge off what's called the fire ground and at the other end of the hogs is putting out spot fires in case the wind picks up again and takes that fire back towards people's homes now the main part 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 they know many people live inside that along the edge of the reply but there are plenty of people who have had many
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fires here before i was talking to one man is that a thirty year is and he's not in five big fires he was almost relaxed about this one and it does get scary and stressful but in a few days it's 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 and when that wind picks up that's when the danger reignites. an american pastor is going on trial in turkey for espionage in a case this heightened tensions between the two nato allies under brunson's alleged to have links to the two lagoon and a turkish businessman living in the u.s. who's accused of orchestrating a failed coup in turkey in twenty sixteen and also to the kurdistan workers party of p.k. k. which turkey considers a terrorist group run some faces thirty five years in prison if he's found guilty. seven inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the us state of south carolina seventeen others were injured and
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the maximum security at leat correctional institution most of those killed or injured was slashed or stand the prison guards managed to regain control after several hours. the c.e.o. of starbucks has apologized to 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 offices on a hoax to report. these the mobile phone pitches that have stocks 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 asked to use the restroom and they refused to leave called the police that friend turned up as they were being removed from the home. 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
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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 they're not me in fact here's some let's rhetoric about you don't know what you're doing your dollar your loyalty or something to that it isn't one for me to say in short these officers did absolutely nothing wrong with the commission's
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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 show opposition to a person that did nothing wrong i'm not sure this is just an isolated is 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. algis there. now there's growing concern among aid agencies operating in yemen over their ability to contain the spread of infection as more
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people are becoming resistant to lifesaving on to biotech's the middle east's poorest countries already fragile health system has been destroyed by years of war a saudi led bombing campaign has resulted in thousands of casualties previously manageable diseases have now reached epidemic levels. last year a million cases of cholera were reported as the worst outbreak in modern history diphtheria usually treatable infection has killed at least forty eight people in different parts of the country but doctors now have concerns about the over use of antibiotics elsewhere in the middle east and when coupled with thousands of injuries poor hygiene and a lack of access to clean water they're concerned diseases and antibiotic resistance may spread beyond yemen. well i'm an aries the medical coordinator for doctors without borders in yemen she says it's an issue that's emerging in war torn countries right across the middle east. but clear sailing in our hospital in yemen is that around sixty to seventy percent of the patients sampled are either infected
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or colonized by pretty resistant organisms these are the same organisms one would find in major western hospitals but what's surprising is the prevalence and the widespread situation we are seeing here in yemen we do believe that the bigger reason it has come out now is because there are agencies are for a course on emergency response so there are few if you get it aaron actors that are working in this type of issue so you have a system that is unable to offer proper secondary and primary care so this patients they have different types of needs they often have prolonged states so in our hospital instead of staying five days which used to be the average they stay up to six weeks for weeks sometimes even more than that to complete there at about equipment also they require high resource laboratories for this infections to be detected and trained laboratory stuff which is another vailable in the country and
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more importantly these antibiotics are quite expensive and the absolute by direct of hospitals cannot provide them we have reason to believe that this is a widespread issue throughout the middle east but specially in areas of prolonged conflict so our hospitals in charge and live but on syria and iraq have similar reports. an heiress to south korea's largest airline has apologized for pushing an employee during a business meeting police are now investigating cho humen she's accused of yelling and throwing water at a manager of korean is advertising agency last month her sister was jailed in twenty fourteen for ordering a flight to new york to return to the gate because she was upset at how she was a ball of nuts. three commissioners from kenya's election board have resigned because they say the organization is dysfunctional the vice chairman says they've lost confidence in the chairman of the commission was accused of failing to prevent
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voting irregularities during last year's presidential election presidential who were kenyatta won nearly ninety eight percent of the vote in october one of which the opposition boycotted. slovakia's interior minister thomas drucker is resigning amid a deepening political crisis triggered by the killing of a journalist protesters wanted him to sack the national police chief with a say isn't sufficiently independent to investigate the case refused to fire the police chief for wanting of evidence young christiane his wife was shot in february he published critical stories of a number of politically connected business but. scuffles are broken up between police and antigovernment protesters at a rally in armenia's capital just as are angry the president's powers have been a weakening of the prime minister has a more dominant role the opposition says the change allows the outgoing president serves him to maintain a grip on power is due to be approved as prime minister on tuesday. the politicians in france will debate a new immigration bill later on monday the proposed law against to reduce
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undocumented arrivals and speed up the process for asylum seekers but critics say the plans won't help refugees as they try to integrate into society but talk about reports from 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 of people in france don't give anything to immigrants or people who are in need one of these family didn't know me and i didn't know them but he trusted me let me sleep in his home so it's on the 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.
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i don't do it to get something about it because 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 to live 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 paris city council provides some shelters but there aren't enough places for 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 try to deter migrants and salem seekers from going to france the bill doesn't do anything to try and make the living conditions better for those who are here 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
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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 french family it changed his life as an officer on 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 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 butler al-jazeera paris. all the news of course on our website there isn't a screen the address al-jazeera dot com. or
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type a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera russia's foreign minister has rejected u.s. claims that it tampered with the site of a suspected chemical attack in duma western countries are blaming moscow and its syrian ally for blocking chemical inspectors from visiting the site britain's prime minister is due to face questions on why she decided to join the american and french air strikes on syria without parliament's approval. former f.b.i. director james comey has accused donald trump of being morally unfit to be u.s. president and he says that maybe evidence that trump obstructed justice. 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 or 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
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morally unfit to be president the former police chief of spain's catalonia region has appeared in court over his role in last year's secession referendum spain also wants to charge pro independence leaders with sedition and rebellion on sunday thousands of people protested in barcelona calling for the release of what they called political prisoners a trial date will be set after the hearings and on wednesday. china's most popular social media scientist reversing a decision to ban gay content online so in a way both received a backlash when it blocked videos and comics relating to homosexuality the company said it was trying to comply with cybersecurity lords russia is blocking access to telegram a popular messenger service this is after the company failed to give security services access to use a secret messages russian media says moscow's communications watchdog has written to google and apple demanding their close access on the app store its. policemen to
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government protesters clashed at a rally in armenia's capital demonstrators are angry the president's powers have been weakened while the prime minister has a more dominant role the opposition says the change allows the outgoing president. to maintain a grip on power. police are investigating whether a bushfire threatening parts of australia's largest city was deliberately lit two and a half thousand hectares of bushland around sydney have been destroyed since saturday but those are the headlines the news continues. after talk to others here a structure that's watching. on counting the cost how to get ahead in digital advertising why the new mad men dislike regulation but like harvesting everything they can about you the french president's big test why oil the ruble and i mean you were in focus this week counting the cost. you can do with his view on.

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