2 this is international in the headlines today u.s. military convoy comes under fire from turkish militants the syrian national army we look at how the group once fiercely promoted by americans like turned on washington . against company rules mcdonald's fires one of its most successful c.e.o.'s ever for a consensual relationship with a colleague coming up again our guests grilled the subject of an approach with. 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. for. president a diplomatic scandal with

a statement on contest on gangs of criminals from bulgaria and ukraine entering from the people in paris i'm sophia about the comments from the french president. excuse me but it's really able to talk about gary just you know the bulgarians to talk about them like this i don't see why it's from a continent. and. ever get off to live from the r.t. will be center in moscow 1 pm local time my name is kevin allen who 30 minute update for you thanks for your time this tuesday straight syria 1st where a u.s. military convoy has been attacked by turkish backed militants according to russia's defense ministry came under artillery fire from the group now known as the syrian national army in the town of telltale in the. northeast of the country and the can

confirm the attack did take place saying that the patrol was unharmed nonetheless 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 militants over the past few weeks that washington's envoy to syria claims the group that was once called the free syrian army committed war crimes during take its 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 war crime and we have reached out to turkey to demand an explanation. took his pledge to investigate the allegations put relations between washington and the militants in syria little was being destroyed of course. promoted by america during the fight against syrian government covering up next in the to the groups once physically but well the us of now evolved into what we are today. 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 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 is evolution as the syrian conflict escalated they were presented as a soft force to counter the quote brutal regime of bashar al assad western journalist 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. forced 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 and 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 we're talking 445 the overall goal is to make sure that we have enough men 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 since then 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 their minister of defense is well you guessed it it's major solomon idris but he's got a completely new script now he is no longer a big fan of the stars and stripes 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. this incident at the very least shows. destabilizing the presence of americans has been and also support for these groups like the so-called syrian national army which consists really of people quite aggressive jihadists and so it's been an alliance convenience and now it's become inconvenient for the jihad is who have seen that yes the americans have

abandoned the kurds who they disliked but of course they fear that they too are being dropped but they didn't really think about who their friends were who they were helping who they were arming and funding. 7 past the hour next big shake ups making waves in the world of fast food mcdonald's has fired its c steve easterbrook for engaging in a conception consensual relationship with an employee against company policy well there was an outpouring of support 1st off for easterbrook online. mcdonald's c.e.o. all fired after having an affair with a nun ploy get your hand out of sand she's not a victim steve shouldn't have been sacked by mcdonald's the need to movement is picking low hanging fruit if they are claiming steve scalp the difference today in the era of the me too movement is growing public pressure on organizations including corporations and religious institutions to hold powerful people

accountable for sexual abuse harassment and other bad behavior so the backstory here mcdonnell's that rules forbid romantic relationships between managers and both direct and indirect employees easterbrook took over as chief exec in 2015 after working his way up for the company has been widely credited with revitalizing the fast food chains restaurants and menu in a message the stuff he apologized and admitted his dismissal he said was the right decision we got the opinions of legal analysts loyal and t.v. and radio host current turk. 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 a 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 is the way it is and in today's arrow of me to in the law not to mention there are only history of. problems here and there what are they going

to do it's their law he knew what he was executive he violated and 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 we're very good to me to the bloody. commies east is 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 rule do we live in this is an era right now of matt lauer and me too i do i do know the rules out all over i mean see the era of over it over it. over it could i mean as a one in america you are not in charge of i should judging people i'm tired of us judging you everybody is 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 in today's america 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 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 a lot of that wonderful here's some 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 know what life's like that and the subordinate says year 2 you held back you ruined my chances you were absolutely were true. you know you have and you say whoa whoa whoa wait wait

a minute hold it no no i was just a nice c.e.o. trying to meet somebody and she then goes in this litigious society and goes to the biggest employment nancy where i gotcha are going to say i got here we go. and all you had to do was always your own lawyer why don't you drug running granted 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 that's such a crazy question to say that i was at hospitality right there at a relationship you're in a relationship with somebody else at work right like a prenuptial wait a minute hold it hold it you're going to have a relationship right why apply way for part before. and you know and gauge in sexual conversation would you please sign this here to it would you signal this yes we are entitled to one people do it every day now it's

a world we live in and you have staff. who signs contracts for sexuality like what are you talking about who does it you know might you might have to you might have to you might have to have a contract to protect yourself. the u.s. government is reportedly investigating social media platform to talk one of the most downloaded video sharing up so the national security concerns of a big chinese of the company that exploded in popularity in america specially with teens is one of the few to challenge the monopoly of tech behave like facebook and google. these. are now a man. i'll be honest with you up until last week i had no idea this thing even exist it 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 tick tock 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. 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 one of the wall way if you 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 clocks in 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 royal after party. he sounded on now let's get. started out in the looking good when we go coming up 16 past the hour by the way this whole gathering the ukraine are infuriated by comments from the french president on immigration was a real stick up so he was going to hold sort of a call of when the bag.

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again thanks for watching around the world this is our to international i'm kevin a new story and yet another technical advance seems now iran has moved a step closer to reestablishing its nuclear program and a step further from 2015 deal to limit its ambitions the announcement was made earlier by president how some rouhani. in year to year out of my year more of the department of energy if you go into working on the centrifuges starting out some from this just like a previous ones that it is reversible are work now but got it under supervision here the internationally islamic energy. more or monday iranian officials also announced that they had doubled the number of advanced centrifuges that the country's got their salt comes around suffers under the u.s. sanctions deal of course while turan says it's also losing patience and could no longer wait for europe to come to its aid and boost trade germany's foreign

minister says the whole agreement now is in real jeopardy. this is unacceptable. iran is doing most of us in the entire nuclear agreement. and that is why we expect zeros to return to full compliance with its obligations. quick mental recap the iran nuclear deal was signed back in 2015 it took 9 years of painstaking talks to secure a course russia china the u.k. germany france and the us all signed up to it under its terms sanctions by the international community were to be lifted in exchange for turan freezing its nuclear program it was of course hailed big time as a landmark agreement ending more than a decade of strife with a round but it didn't last too long it may last year the u.s. unilaterally pulled out of the agreement that's when it all kicked off despite criticism from european allies donald trump described the deal as flawed and subsequently re imposed sanctions on iran since then the other signatories been

struggling to keep the spirit of the deal alive indeed as well let's go live to mohammad marandi professor of politics from the university of tehran hey there thanks should time today so. president rouhani says these steps are reversible does that mean he thinks there is some little chink of hope here that the u.s. will come back to the table and those sanctions will be lifted what's really going on. well the problem is not just the united states is the europeans because contrary to what the german official said in your report it is the iranians who have been abiding by the nuclear deal for over a year and a half now whereas the europeans have been in complete violation americans toward the agreement and trump has been putting pressure on the europeans europeans so they are effectively pursuing the same policy as the united states so it's really i think sceptical for the iranians to continue abiding by the agreement whereas the

europeans and americans are in complete violation do you feel let me see it the other way were because of course you're iranians it is a bit of a delay or sort of europe's in a difficult position as you say and yourselves under pressure from america we know that president micron is trying to broker some sort of dialogue if you think that's not genuine the europe's really not on side. well the europeans have a population that is larger than the united states and collectively the e.u. economy is larger than that of the united states they have the russians and the chinese on board as well if they collectively were really serious about implementing the deal the americans can't sanction the world so the europeans either are not honest or they don't have the will or it's a combination of both but for the iranians there is only one way forward either

both sides abide by the deal the iranians have you even willing to stay within the deal with americans out of it they see if the europeans abide by the deal then that's fine that's enough even though that's not what the deal was supposed to mean so ok on your side if. you're ready is pretty rich 10 fold since since this agreement started to fall apart. why are you doing it remind of you isn't what's the endgame here we're going to go it's all to exert pressure on europe pressure on america maybe to come back if you've got another plan. yes i think that's largely what the iranians are doing the iranians have for over a year when the americans pulled out and the europeans began by the aiding the agreement the iranians abided by the deal in seoul it's only been the last few months that the iranians began decreasing its commitment their commitment and they did that basically to put pressure on the europeans to become more serious about

their obligations but the fact is that if the europeans don't begin to abide by their obligations ultimately the iranians are going to reestablish their peaceful nuclear program in full and they can no longer be taken back to square a because the iranians through research and development will become much more advanced than before so the previous nuclear agreement will become meaningless for the iranians because their nuclear program and the capabilities i would've already had of what they were before i want to put it was what really got 30 seconds is going to be really quick what's your best bet on what's going to go is this whole deal blown out of the water is going to collapse totally or not it's quite possible unless the europeans grow a backbone and unless they abide by their obligations the iranians have no other option but to gradually exit the agreement and so far we don't see the europeans growing a backbone and it's not good for them internationally because the international

community sees the europeans as ineffective and basically subordinate to the united got to leave it there so we were on the professor of politics for the university of toronto see a time today we live on r.t. international nice to see a thank you. on the story for now french president mandela crawlers for himself in the midst of a diplomatic scandal of him a controversial remarks about clandestinely gangs of bulgarian and ukrainian migrants from his own busters the 2 countries have been summoned over it charlotte dubai inskeep reports this lunchtime. so that mark 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 clandestinely networks of book ariens and ukrainians both countries were incensed enough to issue formal protests ambassador holding to explain marc orton's comments

macross statement is outrageous because he is a participant in the norm a diplomat and should be specially careful in choosing a worse budget crane 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 e.u. country and its citizens have the right to work anywhere across the union including in france excuse me but is micron 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 it is ridiculous 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 from a card to decide who has the right to come and who doesn't much interest in the gratian whether from eastern europe. the ivory coast is all the same we allow everyone to integrate yeah so 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 army closer integration or in a sense of the e.u. project as such but though is lofty ambitions were once the toast of europe it

seems his opinions are more often than not hitting too close to home and turning allies against him and there are warnings that his plans will be difficult to achieve without friends. r.t. paris about threats so far this choose to launch timing from moscow blockbuster is up next units after that through the afternoon my name's kovan owen. thanks for watching. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk.

today there are good terrorists and bad the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be the good. word in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right with military funding an army was there's no proof and the more because there's always a small. really good those. who profit. the people who are printing the money don't rely on taxes to get wealthy they're not part of the real economy that's a the same thing as saying the rulers of saudi arabia rely on the wages of the 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 on need. to. quit with this boom bust broadcasting around the world. in covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century. and i'm sara montana tailcoat in washington here's a look at what we have in store for you today. whenever india is ready they're well yet on. a major trade deal in asia may face an uncertain future as india has

declined to join the pack. of the institute for china america's studies is in studio today to break down the latest in southeast asia shipping and brings us up to speed on the transpacific trade. yeah i think we have a problem. with the increase so what does it mean to. the i.p.o. has been set for the world's most profitable company but will it fare better than the string of other hype the listing launches horror with the bubba trading joins the show today to drill into the details they hit on several other movers so so much to hit on and so little time can we get to it all there's only one way to find out let's dive right in. the united states and china are moving closer to a trade agreement this after a call between the top countries top negotiators global markets to record highs this giving hope the donald trump and she joined ping will find a phase one deal later this month chinese advice for.