you know. where every. democratic politicians in the u.s. launch a new investigation against the president the white house calls a disgraceful and abusive. you watching al-jazeera lie from headquarters and. also ahead no more special treatment for india and turkey donald trump plans to rick screwed them from its oldest and largest trade preference program. venezuela's

opposition leader why don't return home despite the threat of arrest and renews calls for president nicolas maduro to quit and thousands of people are cut off by devastating floods a cross of gonna stand. hello the white house has denounced what it calls a disgraceful and abusive investigation after a u.s. congressional panel launched a new probe a gainst the president's the house judiciary committee has demanded documents from dozens of people and organizations close to donald trump it's named eighty one people in groups including two of three sons former attorney general just sessions and aides to the tram campaign committee halkett has details from washington d.c. . it's a sweeping and wide ranging demand on monday the judiciary committee from the democratic controlled house of representatives ordered eighty one individuals and entities

tied to u.s. president donald trump including the president's son don jr to turn over materials believed to shine a light on trump's alleged abuse of power and obstruction of justice it's a political hoax. speaking from the white house surrounded by college football champions once again discredited the efforts to investigate his presidency but said he would comply with the committee request and cooperate all the time with everybody and you know. this the document triggers what's expected to be another lengthy investigation in addition to robert muller's probe into potential trunk ties to russia this latest effort is a coordination by more than a half dozen house committees including judiciary committee chair jerry now looking into trump's decision to fire former f.b.i. director james comey as well as efforts to protect former national security adviser

michael flynn it's very clear that the president should be just as it's very clear eleven hundred times he referred to the mole investigation as a witch hunt he tried to fix it fired he tried to protect flynn from being investigated by the by the f.b.i. you fired me in order to stop the russian think the committee's efforts will be punctuated by hearings designed to create a record of public testimony and could expose potential presidential conflicts of interest ranging from trump's hotel in washington to possible money laundering by the president's businesses and well impeachment proceedings are possible they aren't a minute no we have to do the investigations and get all this we do not now have. the evidence all sorted out before you impeach somebody you. persuade the american public trust approval numbers have risen in recent weeks up to forty six percent and eighty eight percent of republicans still back the president that's why the

investigations by democrats in the house of representatives are designed to be intentionally slow it's an effort to pick apart donald trump's presidency and illustrate a pattern of behavior that at minimum in the court of public opinion could hurt trump's chances for re-election kimberly healthy at al-jazeera washington washington's top diplomat says he's hoping to send a delegation to north korea in the coming weeks secretary of state my point is working to find areas of shared interest between the two sides the north korean leader kim jong un has now arrived home five days after his second nuclear summit with president donald trump and did without agreements mcbride has the latest from seoul. a great deal of optimism on the korean peninsula in spite of the failure of the hanoi summit kim jong un arriving back into north korea in the early hours of tuesday morning after his epic four thousand kilometer train track across china

taking the best part of sixty hours despite the early hour he was greeted by cheering crowds this of course is being treated as a great success in north korea a second summit with with u.s. president donald trump and also a state visit to vietnam the first by a north korean leader in more than fifty years so it's been treated very positively which is being taken as an encouraging sign here in south korea that north korea is still very much invested in the diplomatic process going forward there's talk of a possible summit with the russians and also more importantly perhaps a nother summit with j.n. of south korea to try to get these talks back on track moon has chaired a meeting of his national security council something he doesn't normally do here monday in seoul and when he was encouraging all of his ministers to try to work

within the reality of sanctions obviously he had been hoping now that there could have been some relief from sanctions but really telling his ministers they have to accept the fact of sanctions being there but despite that looking at ways of trying to improve into korean relations. the u.s. president. preferential trade status for turkey he says. failed to provide assurances that will allow access to its markets trade officials say turkey no longer qualifies because its economy is sufficiently developed so the u.s. currently allows five point six billion dollars worth of indian exports to the united states. generalized system of preferences program which allows one hundred twenty one countries to export some goods to the u.s. without tariffs in twenty seven turkey exported one point six billion dollars worth of goods. system let's speak to. professor and dean at the school of

international affairs he's joining us via skype from india so of course india one of the countries targeted by the u.s. president. for exporters in india but are you surprised by this given trump's trade views on india and india's own recent protectionism. no it's not a surprise there in because of a nod from ease and isolation is kind of protectionist and believes in economic nationalism or not mocha first and he's a departure from previous u.s. presidents both democratic and republican who you'll still sure some degree of magnanimity and generosity intrigue even though they also had complaints towards developing countries like india in the past they would understand that you know we have some compunctions we have a low income country still developing country and we cannot be on an equal footing with rich countries when we do trade so the whole idea was to level the playing

field by giving us some concessions through the g.s.t. mechanism and trump says no nothing like that there's no free lunch there you have to be reciprocal we have actually smart troops of course with the us only has about twenty seven billion dollars it's nothing comparable for example the chinese sophos which is massive it's or three hundred billion and that is made of course trump are saying that area has failed to provide the united states with a server and says that it will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets and there were sectors are his concerns valid. well you know if you disappear or be reciprocal understanding yes you know we have our average chatted for excited on thirteen percent one three and average or tatters the u.s. has used two percent so they can argue that you nor i to be unfair to the u.s. but if you look at the income levels of the two countries you look at the scale of the commercial production and the manufacturing that they have compared to manufacturing that we have it's actually chalk and cheese you know they're two

different things but trump says that you know our workers are losing jobs because of creative developing countries and we've got to hit back at them so he has this mentality that you know for too long the u.s. has been taken advantage of but if you look at it in a broader perspective india will also retaliate with tentative he has also india i think shows have said get n.p.r.'s they're all not expos a retaliatory tariffs on u.s. goods and they're also saying that this is going to have a limited impact i suppose we'd expect that statement from indian officials but do you think it's going to have an impact and can india manage without preferential trade deals well we need to diversify our exports you are right that we have not for example last year trump imposed steel and i mean better so on india the amount was small it was only around two hundred forty million dollars and be ever exercised not to retaliate hoping that you'd like to make it do and be and that's the thing with trump right he reckons you black means he's that there's like

a brinkmanship and then he says ok i want to do it be with you because that's what he's going to china that's what he's done with mexico and with canada and likely he'll also be pushing he's been saying that india is a tad if king but it wants to come and do a deal with me because it wants to make me happy ok so i go into science well here specter and it officials to try to broker some sort of deal. already the talks are going on behind the scenes we're also putting in the non economic aspect here we're saying look we have a major defense partner of the u.s. we have a strategic partner of the us if you want us to grow so that we can counterbalance china you should treat us well but that's not happening unfortunately trump because he's weak on geopolitics he doesn't see india as a value in a geopolitical are a strategic sense he's only looking at it as he has one more country that's cheating the u.s. here is a competitor of the u.s. and we've got to stop them from doing these things so i think it's a very unfortunate because a conflict of interest we have general elections coming up in india we cannot remove subsidies we cannot do you know do away with all our protective mechanisms

for domestic industry though where trump is demanding so at the end of the day i think there's very little meeting ground on this eventually this trade war is likely to blast cleared my view because they look at india as a bad boy am i don't think we are i think scared but that's their mindset and which is creating this clash we thank you very much for speaking to us from calcutta in india still ahead on al-jazeera protesters in algeria keep up the pressure on president of the laws he's going to africa despite his plans to step down if he is re-elected and this time as political elite holds its annual congress signs that growth in the world's second record is slowing. hell i would stop writing it stops now in afghanistan alas the clouds disappearing northwards and to the west it's generally fun to pick up this cloud coming up into the caucasus and possible iran now when that went through syria dropped some

considerable rains it's got a bit more to come i suspect but in the live and in anywhere from turkey down towards northern egypt we got a day of cloud and potential shall write breaks of light rain on cheesy unusual but it's not driven by any wind so they're going to be slow moving dismal day i'd suggest the day off to the wind want to run to no lingering the cloud that might bring a shower to down towards q a to me even further south quite possibly now mostly is not a wet picture door particularly when the picture indeed is warming up a little bit dark twenty five same as riyadh with a southerly breeze was was still in mecca in western society the head of the red sea might see a shower or two but those showers disappear when say is that cloud newsies was and there is a small possibility of something happening out of the sky over qatar bahrain but i think not rather more certainty there is in the light into showers in east and south and tanzania and certainly around northern madagascar but this secular nation scott's potential to and still are

a focus of big shots around swaziland and southern mozambique. christian priest you are a friend of the palestinians he's a true friend of everyone and champion of the palestinian cause. and activist who is willing to sacrifice his freedom. for his beliefs. al-jazeera wild tells the extraordinary story of the archbishop and the p.l.o. . again

the top stories on al-jazeera a u.s. congressional panel investigating alleged abuse of power by donald trump and his administration has demanded documents from dozens of people and organizations close to the u.s. president sons of the former attorney general just sessions are among those who've been asked to provide a purse washington's top diplomat says he's hoping to send a delegation to north korea in the coming weeks u.s. secretary of state said he is working to find areas of shared interest between the two sides following a failed nuclear summit in vietnam. on the us president donald trump says he'll end preferential trade status for india he says india has failed to provide assurances that will allow reasonable access to its markets u.s. currently allows five point six billion dollars worth of indian exports to enter the united states to be free. but as well as opposition leader has asked thousands of his supporters to step up pressure on president nicolas maduro to resign

received a hero's welcome in the capital after his return from a tour of latin american nations follow reports from near the colombia venezuela border. thousands took to the streets in caracas anxiously awaiting the return of the opposition leader when he was returning from a tour of several south american countries that have pledged their support for his proposal of a transitional government while many expected by dole would be arrested for having violated an order by bin as well as supreme court not to leave the country his plane was allowed to land and get access and he now says he would be joining the demonstrations on the streets. you know let's go where in this together long live venezuela. as he arrived at the last eleven missiles in downtown catacombs why don't was mobbed by supporters as he told them his own citizens that momentum against the rule of president nicolas maduro is stronger

than ever again if there was any bottom left is a good idea that's not going to usurper who wears the venezuelan flag across his chest because of the kind of all holiday is not the president you're looking at the president in charge of venezuela. who counts on the support of the united states and dozens of other western nations also called on the venezuelan military to allow international aid to be moved across the border from colombia. venezuelan officials have blocked off several bridges that connect the two countries and like recent events near the colombian border the demonstrations that took place on monday were peaceful. despite mounting pressure against president nicolas maduro both at home and from the international community the president did not make any official statements relating to the return of y. door to get back us there are more demonstrations expected to take place against mothers government on tuesday a day that happens to coincide with the anniversary of the death of venezuela's

former leader hugo chavez. it's china's annual event to showcase the strength of the country but the news coming out of the national people's congress is not as strong as beijing would like the world's second largest economy is expected to post that slowest growth in almost three decades as it struggles with debts and the trade war with the united states the chinese primarily chang expects the economy to grow by six to six and a half percent strong by international standards but not by china as it plans to cut corporate taxes and increase its defense budget to help the economy pauline loom is the managing director for asia analytical she says china since they have changed its strategy to deal with its economic slowdown the tax cut is part of the broader plan for china to stimulate the economy and focal points but what is important isn't the the the numbers themselves you know how

to take the actual tax cuts or the g.d.p. targets or the other numbers the more important take away coming from the n.p.c. is that the chinese government is giving its people a deal in narrative on economic policy only last year we were hearing things like. to leverage how we must make sure that the economy is all is balanced on the right part that skillful this year the best stage isn't timely about well did leveraging is good this whatever they say officially they are putting in a lot of liquidity into the system cutting taxes they are putting in measures to encourage consumption so china is seeing again now on economic

policy and that is those rules. canada's prime minister has called china's the attention of a former diplomat and the businessman arbitrary justin trudeau says he's very concerned that beijing suspects the canadian nationals of spying that you were detained in december just days after the arrest of the top executive of chinese telecom giants weiwei in vancouver here but he's also reports on the straining ties between beijing and auto michael covel a former diplomat and current asia advisor to a brussels based think tank and michael spade for a businessman based in china two canadians detained in china since december on monday for the first time china said the two men are being held because they are suspected of being spies but the arrest of the two men has been seen possibly as beijing's retaliation for china's arrest of a mangled one joe an executive at chinese technology company while away and

daughter of the company's founder she was arrested on december first nine days later two canadians arrested in china. since being released on bail has been required to stay in vancouver on sunday her lawyers filed a lawsuit against the canadian government after her high profile arrest saying she was interrogated before she was told she was even under arrest she was detained in canada at the request of washington allegedly she had broken american sanctions against iran yep a so it has severely strained relations between canada and china on monday canada's prime minister's scolded china for what he called arbitrary detentions we are obviously very concerned with the this position that china has taken the safety and security of canadians is always of first order for this government and that's why we've been engaging in standing up for the two

two canadians who've been arbitrarily detained by china from the very beginning but china was infuriated at their arrest and possible extradition of mang something it reaffirmed on monday. the u.s. and canada buz their bilateral extradition treaty and take compulsory measures freely against chinese citizens so it's a very early violates chinese citizens legitimate rights and interests we once again urge the u.s. to immediately withdraw the arrest warrant an extradition request on this main longo. as for the international crisis group think tank he works for full time city has not been allowed to see a lawyer or denied he's a spy or partook in any activities that threaten to china's security there appears little chance of the situation deescalating anytime soon meng is fighting to avoid extradition to the u.s. where she could face more than twenty years in prison if convicted her next court

appearance in canada is on wednesday but the appeals process is long and complicated and could last months or even years gabriels on dough al-jazeera new york former and this chairman carlos ghosn has been granted bail by its hokey o. court has been in jail since his arrest the november on charges a financial misconducts which he denies bail was set at a billion yen that's close to nine million dollars and he's been ordered not to leave japan. algerians are continuing to hold the anti-government protests with students boycotting classes and holding demonstrations they're angry about president. for a fifth term even though he has promised to quit early if reelected next month was a flicka has been in power for more than twenty years and he has been rarely seen in public since he suffered a stroke and twenty eight thirteen. more. the biggest demonstrations in

algeria in decades continue to spread some shared on social media show protests in multiple towns and cities. the government has reportedly tried to prevent gatherings by shutting down the country's three and four g. networks but the student led protests a gathering pace demanding the eighty two year old president a bill is east beautifully who's been in power for twenty years withdrawals from next month's election many want the country's constitutional call to intervene. to move if it is time to leave is old and sick he isn't conscious about what he's doing is he's on to raj or ruling not him not enough photoshop and with saying that this regime has to leave fed up that schools know to the faith and no to the system . responding through his campaign manager beautifully made an offer to shorten any time in power. some mean one day that i pledge to organize early elections to be

set up by the independent national conference i pledged not to be a candidate and that election but the compromise has failed to convince several presidential candidates have dropped out of the race leaving the election in disarray there are also big demonstrations outside algeria the french capital paris has a large ethnic algerian population people there are demanding beautifully retires from politics beautifully who was elected president in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine but after suffering a debilitating so. six years ago he's rarely seen in public and is reportedly in switzerland for medical checks demonstrators say he's too weak to lead. on saturday he said his veteran campaign manager is a tactic to calm the growing protest movement but there has been anything but calm in recent days for the two hundred people have been injured in clashes with many beautiful is the only leader they've ever known they want reforms to tackle high

levels of unemployment that exceeds twenty five percent among those under thirty they want to do algeria. floods in southern pakistan and afghanistan have killed at least fifty people heavy rain over the past ten days has cut off tens of thousands of residents the afghani government has flooding in kandahar province is the worst in at least seven years charlene bellis is joining us from kandahar she's at a u.n. aid distribution center that's helping those who have been forced from their homes what kind of aid is being given to those who suffered from the floods charlotte what are you seeing where you are. across that together thought provinces have been affected but hand on heart has been hit particularly bad twenty five people were killed here and many more were injured in the governor told us this morning that fifteen hundred homes in the area have been either damaged or destroyed for the u.n. has come in today distributing crews and they distribute think blanket things

that will help people. and at least give them some food and applies and that means laugh and the next two months you can see over here we've got people lining up this morning the u.n. is gone collected their names brought them here and then over here. very much we've got oil we've got so we've got pride wait. we've got water supplies here where we're so. i think that how go to the water and then here blanket even the children that will help them stay warm. over the next three months how unprecedented is the amount of rainfall that afghanistan has experienced this time around. so i couldn't hear that question but. i want to talk to you just quickly about the climate if that is what you were talking about go ahead the government told us

yesterday that there has been. there has been three times more rainfall across the country this year than last obviously significant. drought climate they only have two hundred millimeters of rain in the yeah and thirty hours from friday into saturday they got that amount of rain which is why we had these flash floods is going droughts across the country the u.n. was expecting this because the ground is so dry that it simply couldn't absorb the water but this is much more severe than they were expecting or right charlie about lists with an update from kandahar thank you no risk you're searching for people missing after a tornado swept through the u.s. state of alabama leaving a trail of dead children were among the twenty three killed. this update from lee county in alabama. i want to give you a real time look at what's going on now that the sun's gone down and you can see police still stationed in some of the hardest hit areas we've seen power crews

moving and out there are power lines down across the region right now and here's a look at why as you move back across you can see what is a tree here that was ripped apart just cut in half by the winds you can see pieces of a roof here as well and debris is scattered for miles right now an e.f. four tornado winds of over two hundred seventy kilometers an hour twenty three people dead at this point dozens injured and still many that are unaccounted for there is concern from authorities that those numbers are going to go up as the search the rescue and recovery effort continues here it will throughout the night into tomorrow and for as long as necessary according to officials here just to give you some perspective on how difficult it has been for this close knit region your world people died in tornado related casualties in one day yesterday then all of tornado season in the u.s. last year it's overwhelming

a lot of people here still shocked and trying now to figure out how to move forward from this tragedy. in the central african republic appears to be in trouble to armed groups. the agreement brought together fourteen armed groups who control most of the country this was the formal peace agreement mainly muslim rebels christian president. pardon me the israeli government is pushing for the quick demolition of the homes of two palestinians who were killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank the israeli military says that. to drive a car into israeli soldiers. seriously . to deter future.

now. with. libyan. territory security minister has called the area a crossroad if terrorists rebels most of the food supply in northern from southern . the headline says on al-jazeera a u.s. congressional panel investigating alleged abuse of power by donald trump and his administration has demanded documents from dozens of people and organizations close to the u.s. president from sons of the former attorney general just sessions are among those who've been asked to provide papers and washington's top diplomat says he's hoping to send a delegation to north korea in the coming weeks u.s. secretary of state my front pages that he is working to find areas of shared interest between the two sides following

a failed nuclear summit in vietnam and the u.s. president says he'll preferential trade status for india and turkey trump says india has failed to provide assurances that will allow reasonable access to what's markets trade officials say turkey no longer qualifies because its economy is sufficiently developed but as well as opposition leaders calling on his supporters to step up pressure on president nicolas maduro to resign received a hero's welcome in the capital. after he returned from a tour of latin american nations you believe god willing i want to ask people of venezuela is that a shred of fear they threatened yeah they threaten jail. when i'll tell you something it will not be through threats that they will hold us back . we are here and we are strong united more than ever. and we are stronger than ever i think you. are continuing to hold anti-government

protests with students boycotting classes and holding demonstrations they're angry about president had. to run for a fifth term even though he's promised to quit early. next month and china is expected to post slowest growth in almost three decades primarily gave the four delegates met in beijing for the start of the annual people's congress former chairman carlos ghosn has been granted bail by a tokyo court has been in jail since his arrest in november on charges of financial misconduct which he denies bail was set at a billion yen close to nine million dollars. all the latest updates on our web sites al-jazeera. next that's counting the costs coming up stay with us. every week brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the

media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost of a serial wiki look at the world of business and economics this week we'll speak to open them ocracy about the secretive money working to influence the ukase exit from the european union also this week a tiger economy in the making why vietnam is struggling to be recognized as an emerging market. plus who really benefits in the five g. telecoms era. less than a thousand dollars until the u.k. leaves the european union and people living there still have no idea what's going to happen no deal a long delay a show.