RT News - January 14, 2020 (12:00 MSK)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the US is to blame for flaming tensions in the Persian Gulf, adding that killing of a top Iranian general went beyond all legal frameworks. Threat or no threat - the US president defends the assassination of a top Iranian general because of his checkered past - with no apparent evidence of him being an imminent danger to the US. Also in the US, 21 Saudi military members are expelled from training facilities in America - for possessing jihadist and indecent material. The move follows an investigation into a deadly shooting committed by a Saudi cadet at a US base - already more than a month ago. A thousand French health workers threaten to resign from their posts unless Emmanuel Macron's government gives in to increased funding demands. We've heard from a French doctor on the situation.