bring in our financial market correspondent chelsea delaney in frankfurt chelsea what exactly is mccrum hoping to get out of this trip. there are just myself several elements to this to this trip he's talked about climate he's talked about the continued opening of china's markets but what investors really see of this is about deals striking deals between the chinese government chinese companies and u.s. and french companies really last year there were about $60000000000.00 worth of a deal struck out at this point conference i think it there they're going to be looking for for more quickly abberation and they're really looking particularly in the ira cultural and financial sectors for for more copper cooperation between the e.u. companies and chinese companies but just just this sort of a side note is somewhat odd that the french president is spearheading a european delegation. i think a year ago maybe that would have been a super and years role but over the past several months there's there's really been . a pretty significant power dynamic shift within that within the e.u. leadership s

against the rising cost of living and the planned tax on diesel an attempt by president to manual mccrum to reduce carbon emissions it morphed into a movement against mccrone himself drawing many tens of thousands of people from the far right far left and everything in between microbus forced to scrap the green tax and do more to help the poor but the yellow vests confused identity has led to its slow decline it has failed to transform into a political movement it has. been unorganized it has destroyed every spokesperson that has emerged and it has failed to go into election so on one side it's it has a huge impact on 'd the political landscape and on the other side has failed to put its mark on. that landscape. has dampened tensions by holding town hall debate up and down the country half a 1000000 people have taken part allowing mccrum to win back some support in opinion polls but activists have accused the government of excessive force against demonstrators 24 people have been blinded 5 have lost homes the victims blaming a liberal use of stun grenades and rubber bullets. the french e

from political analysts nicol america who believes mccrum statement sends a strong signal to eastern europe about its future. this has a lot to say about remember american as you on europe if you want to be the wheel house of europe she wants france to be driving the reforms of europe and only speaking in a derogatory way to a 2 european nations whether to go up to the european union or not is another matter i think this is a strong signal of the manual not coming to the east especially tamil europe eastern europe that she's not really counting on eastern europe to build you up to date he sees that eastern europe is really a different mentality and we've seen it concerning immigration we've seen it concerning the liberalization of work permits in different countries there's different talents in eastern europe which is sometimes difficult to control coming from western europe and i think that eman no matter what europe is based mainly on the french european economies and they would like to duplicate that all across europe and just impose that vision of europe to eastern europe and we'

describing the once robust alliance as experiencing brain death consequently according to a manual mccrumhe needs to start thinking strategically and must 30 itself as a geo political power europe is now dealing for the 1st time with an american president who doesn't share idea of the european project if we don't wake up there's a considerable risk that in the long run we would disappear geopolitically or at least that we will no longer be in control of our own destiny i believe that very deeply. well that stark warning was made during an interview with the economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the reliability of nato is article 5 which requires member states to come to one another's defense if attacked he suggested that there's a terrorist has been undermined by washington's faltering commitment to the alliance it doesn't seem that all of my crohn's allies agree with his assessment though the comments have drawn several responses since they were published. france's president the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the

should say that but his words today are in stark contrast to those of the french president manuel mccrum who recently said the alliance is experiencing a gradual brain death eager standoff has the story. nato heavyweights are converging upon brussels and it's all smiles and pats on the back and a very very v.a.p. guest all the way from the united states the secretary of state might bump aoe himself but behind this facade of handshakes and mutual joy hides a nasty in the block's fabric and that is between the believers in the alliance and heretics who dare question the relevance of the block and this whole aggravation it stems from right here from france when president emmanuel mccrone dared to assume dare to say that the bloke is experiencing and i quote brain death what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of mater only works if the guarantor of the last resort functions as such i'd argue that we should reassess the reality of what is in the light of the commitments of the united states and now since early november when that happened this jab is still hurting with the nato f

president mccrum of france says that the one throw bust nato alliance is in terminal decline and is becoming brain dead although his comments have been dismissed by other members. france's president the french president used druther drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato so i don't think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate made to ease in our interest it's all security lines we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the transatlantic partnership she's absolutely indispensable i agree with the change of merkel need to stream. united states north america and europe we do more together than the done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective defense since the end of the cold war mcgraw made his remarks in an interview with the u.k.'s economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the reliability of nato's article 5 which requires member states to come to one another's aid if attacked he suggested that the deterrent has been undermined by washington's faltering commitment and also said

representative of president emanuel mccrum presidential campaign thank you both for joining me in thearena reman you heard the president of this regional assembly who belongs to marine le pen's far right party when you heard of this verbal attack that he made on a muslim mother wearing his job on a school trip accompanying her kid demanding she take it off in the name of french secularism before he and others from his party stormed out of the chamber what was your reaction how surprised were you. i was not surprised but at the same time i realized that we have again and maybe even more reach a point of no return. when you see the reaction of this person in how we amplify a problem that actually is not really a problem when i so this kid crying this mother was. with a kid somewhere and got her son well there. she was just literally giving her free time to help our understaffed underpaid teacher to go with kids and helping the staff and being treated that way my 1st reaction was this is getting worse where are we going this is not my country it's getting worse the council president's ac

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 ir

representative of president emanuel mccrum presidential campaign thank you both for joining me in thearena reman you heard the president of this regional assembly who belongs to marine le pen's far right party when you heard of this verbal attack that he made on a muslim mother wearing his job on a school trip accompanying her kids demanding she take it off in the name of french secularism before he and others from his party stormed out of the chamber what was your reaction how surprised were you. i was not surprised but at the same time i realized that we have again and maybe even more reach a point of no return. when you see the reaction of this person in how we amplify a problem that actually is not really a problem when i so this kid crying this mother was. with a kid somewhere and got her son well there. she was just literally giving her free time to help our understaffed underpaid teacher to go with kids and helping the staff and being treated that way my 1st reaction was this is getting worse where are we going this is not my country it's getting worse the council president's a

against the rising cost of living and the planned tax on diesel an attempt by president to manual mccrum to reduce carbon emissions it morphed into a movement against mccrone himself drawing many to. tens of thousands of people from the far right far left and everything in between microbus forced to scrap the green tax and do more to help the poor but the yellow vests confused identity has led to its slow decline it has failed to transform into a political movement it has. been unorganized it has destroyed every spokesperson that has emerged and it has failed to go into elections so on one side it's a huge impact on 'd the political landscape and on the other side has failed to put its mark on that landscape. has dampened tensions by holding town hall debate up and down the country half a 1000000 people have taken part allowing my chrome to win back some support in opinion polls but activists have accused the government of excessive force against demonstrators 24 people have been blinded 5 have lost homes the victims blaming a liberal use of stun grenades and rubber bullets. the french e