2. in the headlines this morning the 1st offer u.s. military convoy comes under fire from turkish backed militants the free syrian army coming out we look at how the group once famously promoted by america of course has now turned on washington. against company rules mcdonald's far as one of its most successful c.e.o.'s ever for a consensual relationship with a colleague guests grilled the subject of inappropriate in the workplace. you know the c.e.o. i don't know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people but do you know the world we live in this is an arrow right now of matt lauer and me tonight did you feel it was hot all over. president mccrum sparks a diplomatic scandal with

a statement on planned gangs of criminals from bulgaria and ukraine entering france we asked people in paris and so fear about the comments from the french president. scuse me but it's really able to talk about bulgaria just you know the bulgarian to talk about them like this i don't see why it's from a crime to decide who has the right to come and. buy the very good morning live from the r.t. world news center here in moscow just said 9 am now my name is kevin irwin here with a 30 minute update thank you for taking the time to watch you can stick around 1st of this tuesday because straight to syria where a u.s. military convoy has been attacked by turkish backed militants according to russia's defense ministry it came under artillery fire from the group known as the free syrian army in the turn of in the northeast of the country. the pentagon confirmed

the attack took place as well saying that the patrol was harmed it comes amid a partial withdrawal of american troops from northern syria and the relocation of some forces to neighboring iraq is the 1st confrontation between the u.s. and the militants over the past few weeks washington's envoy to syria claims the f.s.a. have committed war crimes during is offensive in northern syria. turkish supported . opposition in opposition forces who are under general turkish command in at least one instance did carry out a walk crime and we have reached out to turkey to demand an explanation where we can tell you turkey's pledge to investigate the actions of the free syrian army but relations between washington and the militant group are not always been so strained because it was arms and promoted by america during their fight against the syrian government makes this morning artie's kellam open looks at how the group once physically backed by the u.s. as evolved to what it is these days. the free syrian army american media

and politicians told of glorious freedom fighters picking up a gun for democracy and human rights and the usa wasn't afraid to show its support the united states has been one of the biggest supporters whether it's politically whether it's financially in a range of manners of the moderate opposition including the freestream our syrian army the administration is staking its efforts in syria on the free syrian army aid and assistance that we're going to give to the free syrian army is used to advance the cause against guys will obviously looking at training the free syrian army against isis in the sort of watch the transformation of the free syrian army as well early on have they gotten more quickly better or is it just me well guess what forces fighting under the f s a's latest incarnation are now attacking the united states as part of the de confliction exchange information has been received from the u.s. side to that on 3rd november a convoy of american servicemen was fired upon from the territory controlled by the

pro turkish syrian national army so how did this happen it was a group go from being worthy of u.s. support weapons and training to being terrorists to attack america as well let's review the process of the f s a's evolution as the syrian conflict escalated they were presented as a soft force to counter the quote brutal regime of bashar al assad western journalists even visited them they are former syrian soldiers they say they refused orders to fire on their own countrymen a few months alongside to take up arms against the assad regime there are pretty gnarly bunch for a soft force but who pays attention to these details western media fell in love with them and their commander solemn interest even got a surprise visit from john mccain the u.s. senator slipped across syria's borders so he could meet with america's dream team fighting. against the syrian government and sense then solemn even appeared on

major t.v. networks in the united states i spoke with general salim idriss just moments ago he's head of the free syrian army i spoke earlier today to rebel leader general salim he connected with us via skype from inside syria egypt spoke to state department correspondent margaret brennan in turkey in 2014 the pentagon splurge $500000000.00 on syrian opposition groups to the now infamous train and equip program the goal was pretty glorious $5000.00 soldiers a year for the following 3 years however at the end of the day the mathematical calculations ended up with a pretty big margin of error it's a small number. ones that are in the fight. is is we're talking 445 the old role goes to make sure that we have enough mess to be able to get work done on the ground a lot of the weapons and money spent and it up in the hands of terrorist groups

like i still or the al nasra front fine use of u.s. taxpayers money and sense than the u.s. trained fighting force seems to have almost disappeared but now they're back we've got the syrian national army this is a totally new organization with dozens of different factions $80000.00 total fighters approximately and guess who the minister of defense is well you guessed it it's major solemn interests but he's got a completely new script now he is no longer a big fan of the stars and stripes this incident at the very least. destabilizing the presence of american speed and also the support for these groups like the so-called syrian national army which consists of people who quite aggressive jihad to use and so it's been once convenience and now it's becoming convenient fool that to how do these who have seen us the americans have abandoned the code's who they disliked but of course they feel. the to be controlled who didn't really think

about who their friends were who they were hoping who they were arming and funding as the syrian conflict twists and turns you have to ask yourself who is the united states going to end up supporting next and how long until they turn against the united states again. r.t. new york. next morning a big shake ups making waves in the world of fast food mcdonald's has fired its c.e.o. steve easterbrook for engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee the u.s. fast food giant this to say about his dismissal than steve east burke has separated from the company following the board's determination that he violated company policy and demonstrated poor judgment involving a recent consensual relationship with the employee the company confirms that this leadership transition is unrelated to the company's operational or financial performance so mcdonald's policies for bedroom months ago relationships between managers in both direct and in direct employees easterbrook took over as chief

executive to any 50 after working his way up through the company has been widely credited with revitalizing the fast food chains restaurants a menu in a message to start of the apologized to admitted his dismissal was the right decision he said we got the opinions of legal analysts lionel and t.v. and radio host current the fact that the best c.e.o. that they've had in a long time is now going to be out of a job because of a personal issue is really sad i mean it's just the state of how we look at things today in america and this was a consensual relationship there was really nothing a licit that he did it's neither good nor bad it's the way it is headed today's era of me too and the like not to mention their own the history of. problems here and there what are they going to do it's their law he knew what he was executive he violated it that's it you know it's hard to meet people these days i'm sure it's

hard to be single i'm married by you know as a single person in america you know famous c.e.o. i don't know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people you know what is golden parachutes going to be today oh my god this poor guy wears a good to meet anybody match dot com he's each just too busy for that and it's funny how we read into it while it was consensual or nobody's saying it was rape nobody's a kludge it was a violent physical attack of course it was consensual but do you know the world we live in this is an era right now of matt lauer and me tonight do you know the words out all over i mean here are i'll over it i'll over it. over it good i mean as a woman in america you are not in charge of us judging people i'm tired of us judging you everybody is wrong in a relationship no i'm not and you know why if i was if i was in charge i think the world might be a better place because we're going to sirt some logic into this minutia that has

become so consuming in today's journalism and today on america and now we're going to stream here not for having consensual relationships he's not a government official he's not in a position he's a c.e.o. of a company so i think if the relationship is appropriate and it doesn't interfere with his eligibility to do their job it's none of my business as a company absolutely 100 percent i mean this is a matter of fact i would prefer that my employee how can i have your work and if being in a relationship makes them happy that i prefer that being in a relationship together and that they both bring value to my company i live one of that wonderful hears of the as a as a lawyer let me give you this scenario in your corporation your c.e.o. has a healthy relationship a consensual one with a a a subordinate and something goes wrong i don't want life like that and the subordinate says year to you held back you ruin my chances you were

absolutely were you are you and you say whoa whoa whoa wait wait a minute hold publishes the nice c.e.o. trying to meet somebody and she then goes in this litigious society and goes to the biggest employment to our i gotcha i'm going to have you know we go. and all you had to do was always your own lawyer why couldn't you drug agree with it why couldn't there be an agreement going in perhaps the company could have some sort of agreement where you know we allow consensual relationships with some sort of agreement between the parties i don't think that got such a crazy question to say there was a possibility right there in a relationship you're in a relationship with somebody else at work or what a prenuptial wait a minute hold it hold it you're going to have a relationship right wide apart i wait for one part before. and you know and gauge in sexual conversation would you please sign this hand to it would you signal

this yes we are and people telling people do it every day now it's a world we live in and ship staff. who signs contracts for sex yeah i mean what are you talking about who does it well who is i'll bring actual agreement suzanne is people say every night i will raise it every single day every single day don't let me know if every rival is against that relation you know you bring that in navid say prenuptial. i can imagine this as the cries that we're not sure we're so busy on your rant you didn't hear my form i got to get my fork would you want to scold that we're going to you know it's not that i might have to but if i decided to be there i'd add to that the pre and if i got the pre-sexual kind of the consent form just a minute of my game i have to order you i have to be right i'll cut your hour tell your tax yourself you know if you went to look for it nexus morning the u.s. government is investigating social media platform to talk one of the most

downloaded video sharing ups over national security concerns with big chinese owned the company that exploded in popularity to america especially with teens is one of the few to challenge the monopoly of the most like facebook and google. this is. the sound now look at may not. yet. i'll be honest with you up until last week i had no idea this thing even existed take tock tick tock for me simply the sound i associate with the clock well if you feel the same i'll have to tell you either you're getting old like me or it's just that your online habits need an urgent update take talk a platform to share short videos is now the most downloaded app the king of all

apps and instagram twitter and co you've been dethroned just so you know ever heard the song. if it wasn't for his app store majesty the song wouldn't have become a hit you can hear on the radio anywhere in the world but here's something that may surprise old school folks like me even more the king belongs to an asian dynasty take tok is that chinese app. so that's why the top democrat senator in his late sixty's is more up to speed than me 110000000 americans who have information with and the chinese government could be grabbing every one of them guess what the u.s. government is already up to reports say they've launched a national security probe into tick talk and the worries are the chinese government

could spy through take talk influence through take talk and censor what's on tape talk good god how come the rest of the world hasn't given up american born facebook speaking of the man who introduced the blue f to us all it's only natural he is keen to have a go at his competitors or services like what's up are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to strong encryption privacy protections on tick tock the chinese up quickly around the world mentions of these same protests. are censored now just let me show you what the people behind tick-tock have to say about all that our data centers are located entirely outside of china and none of our data is subject to chinese law we're not influenced by any foreign government including the chinese government to talk does not operate in china nor do we have any intention of doing so in the future oh someone here is either being really does honest or

outright paranoid or a bit of both it's time to stick in a hash tag us china trade wars i'll tell you what this year has shown these has still ities can easily spill over into modern tech slash online territory remember how america once went after i phone killer want to be while way. want to be still the right word washington even sought jail time for one of wall ways top executives and held google to the wall over android updates anyway for now teen minds and quite a few older ones even in america will be taking the chinese take talk way mr schumer do you have the guts to keep up with the times and join the royle after party. now look at me.

every day gets more and more street cred morning this is international is coming up to 17 minutes past 9 moscow time coming up. infuriated by comments made by the french president on immigration we'll tell you what's got them hot under the collar but after the break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. military thinks. we are here to ask.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want to it's. actually going to be close it's like the before katrina more people. interested in the walk. good morning brokaw's rather world this is out international next story for you french president emanuel mccall has found himself in the midst of a diplomatic scandal from a controversial remarks about clandestine gangs of both gary and ukrainian migrants

france's ambassadors the 2 countries have been summoned over it do penske reports. president much corn is well known for his forthright views but once again being outspoken has run to take in hot water this time it's with bulgaria crane so what exactly did he say i prefer to have people from guinea or ivory coast who work legally rather than clandestine our networks of book ariens and ukrainians both countries were incensed enough to issue formal protests ambassadors were holding to explain mark orton's comments across statement is outrageous because he is a participant in the norm a diplomat and should be specially careful in choosing words budget crain and ukrainians involved area and e.u. country this was another example of the east west divide within the union

french president my current statement is just another demonstration of political arrogance cheekiness what's also puzzling for bulgarians is the somewhat muddled reference to illegal immigration given that it's an easy you country and its citizens have the right to work anywhere across the union including in france this is just. it is not of course a very tactful way of speaking most of all because he's not from here and his opinion sounds one sided as you know our politicians must defend bulgaria and his dignity excuse me but his microphone really able to talk about bulgaria does he know the bulgarians well enough to talk about them like this. i find such behavior towards us totally unacceptable however it is clear that there are criminal networks from bulgaria operating here in france and this it seems is what mark corn has issue with but how do people in paris feel about mcewan's preference for

working my quince 7 movie it is rigged. it's a french president of all people who should make a distinction like this between different types of immigration to friends i don't see why it's come across to decide who has the right to come and who doesn't. immigration whether from eastern europe or the ivory coast is all the same we allow everyone to integrate here like canada for example. in france in paris in particular we say that i was strength lies in our diversity and variety. while it's true that i'm not too keen on micron in this case i think he's right it is better to verify who's coming in to control our borders and immigration not cohen has since his election in 2017 been clear about his views for the future of the european union he wants an o. me closer integration iron a sense of the e.u. project as such but though is lofty ambitions were once the toast of europe it

seems his opinions all more often than not getting too close to home and turning allies against him and there are warnings that his plans will be difficult to achieve without friends. paris. political analyst little america verge told the sea believes that mccrone statement sends a strong signal to eastern europe about its future. this has a lot to say about remember american as you on europe he wants to be the wheel house of europe he wants france to be driving the reforms of europe and only speaking in a derogatory way. to european nations whether to go up to the european union or not is another matter i think this is a strong signal of the man who will not call to the east especially tamil europe to eastern europe that she's not really counting on eastern europe to be able to do it she sees that eastern europe is really a different mentality and we've seen it concerning immigration. concerning the

liberalization of work permits in different countries there's different talents in eastern. which is sometimes difficult to control coming from western europe and i think that emanuel macro's europe is based mainly on the french european economies and they would like to duplicate that all across europe and just impose their vision of europe to eastern europe and he's just finding that it's very difficult that eastern european countries want to remain star and they want to keep being hot democratic countries lost themselves and are having loss coming in from the european commission imposed on them and then i'm not going to see this difficult to control them. however since a national slammed israeli authorities for banning one of its employees from traveling abroad the human rights organization described the measure as punitive like. palestinian human rights campaign last month he was stopped at the border while heading to the funeral of a relative in jordan apparently of the holding him for 4 hours israeli forces told

him he was banned then from all the travel they said it was because of serious security considerations and nothing to do with life's work we got reaction from the campaign or i'm self. unfortunately these security concerns have never been made clear to me the only thing they know is that. there is bailey intelligence claims that it's a secret file that they're not going to do the nature of these information and this actually shows the true intent of the band itself because if they daily have any security concerns or security issues way within they reveal these information and make it public and also the fact that they're not making these information public also make that hard to challenge that is the decision of the israeli in intelligence with it in court or even publicly when we do campaigning against this bit that it's. all rights groups have been a focus of israeli security forces before in

a recent case the director of human rights watch for israel and palestine had his work permit revoked he's now facing deportation israel suspected of supporting boycotts of the state and then last month for the rights organization was raided by israeli forces to rights campaigners say it again it's all an attempt to silence organizations just like his. 2 indecent years the israeli government has intensified its intimidation against civil society and human rights organizations in an attempt to silence them and their legitimize their work and this is whether through a smear campaigns or. likely sticked of legislations such as this that i would ban so this is obviously and at that for the work that we do here. and without giving any justification for why this ban has been imposed. or trying to get deeper in this i can tell you we asked israeli security agency shin bet to comment on the situation as when they get back to i should tell you what their response was. 26

minutes past 9 in the morning now moscow time next western theaters in london lifting the curtain on political correctness by phasing out words like ladies and gentleman for something more gender neutral equity the trade union that represents act has released its new guidelines for people working with performers is really takes a closer look at these new rules ladies and gentlemen the show is about to start please make your way to you'll see the usual queue for provinces of the west and vault famously it says here in london but it's a saying that might be making a hasty exit they could see the actors and entertainers trade union has released guidelines encouraging theatres. ladies and gentleman and use gender neutral terminology for collective calls both front of house and backstage so avoid alienating people who identify as non-binary so neither male nor female some venues like the apollo have already dropped the phrase opting instead for good evening or

welcome stressing that they want everyone to feel welcome while london's transport network has already made the change from ladies and gentlemen to phrases such as good evening everyone who want to see it's a god was think about these changes if they didn't announce what they were doing it probably wouldn't notice so suppose it's fair enough although i quite like ladies and gentlemen to be honest should be on nothing give or take a fork you call the receipt say. think maybe older generations might you know think it's a bit controversial but you know what i mean maybe upset because they're used to the tradition i mean if people that attended by that time right thing isn't. either a lady or a gentleman either or and to me that. he took us to see both sides up and if it does change then i feel like it would. but at the same time if it doesn't change i think you have to respect that people should say ladies and gentlemen you can't

list all all the gender has exactly it's only a meeting and its coalition the guidance released by equity follows on from a motion by student union representatives last month. university the motion encourages the phasing out of capping to be replaced by a more side of the pools that resembles. it's a move to foster more inclusive it's the critics including this political correctness gone too far so will the changes be met with calls for an uncool stage . but the show will carry on nonetheless so i'm going to exit the stage for now this latest news from so far this tuesday morning morning. so what should what i do this choose have a great day and stand by that into our stateside studios next to the latest very shortly.

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people living in saudi arabia to get rich they they don't they just print more or pump more oil in the america the princes that run our economy just print more money they don't need the workers they don't need their taxes that's why they don't have wage growth that's why there's been that this aeration because they're unneeded. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being that. guy would. want to stress watch this space.