Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose for a photo during their meeting in Sochi, Russia, Tuesday.

The leaders of Russia and Turkey agreed Tuesday after more than five hours of talks on how to jointly patrol parts of Syria that until recently were controlled by Kurdish forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey signed a 10-point memorandum at the Black Sea resort of Sochi that is set to go into effect at midday Wednesday local time.

Under the deal, Russian military police and Syrian border guards will first facilitate the withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish forces from the Turkish border. Russians and Turks will then jointly patrol the area now occupied by the Turkish military. Russian military police and border guards from Syria will cross the over the Syrian side of the border with Turkey. At that point, the two forces will “facilitate the removal of YPG elements and their weapons,” according to the memorandum.

The Kurdish YPG fighters, the key U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS, will have to retreat roughly 20 miles from the Turkish-declared security zone in Northern Syria. The pullback is expected to last about six days, the memorandum said. Once it’s completed, Russia and Turkey will jointly patrol that zone.

As NPR’s Jane Arraf reports, the deal brokered by Turkey and Russia allows for Turkish-Russian patrols outside the zone previously brokered by the U.S. while giving the Kurds an extra 150 hours to withdraw from the area. It also calls for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from Manbij and Tal Rifat, which are outside the immediate conflict area. The U.S.-brokered deal, put into place after Turkey began bombarding Kurdish facilities, is set to expire late Tuesday.

On Tuesday afternoon, Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence, said in a statement that Pence received notice from a top commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces “notifying him that all SDF forces have withdrawn from the relevant area of operations.”

The new Russia-Turkey agreement is widely seen as a victory for Russia and represents a swift shift in control of the northern territories in Syria. Russians are replacing U.S. troops that patrolled this area of war-torn Syria for years. The dramatic change began when the White House announced earlier this month that Turkey was moving ahead with a “long-planned operation into Northern Syria,” adding it won’t “be involved with the operation.” That decision effectively abandoned America’s Kurdish allies. Turkey views the YPG as terrorists.

As NPR’s previously reported, the U.S. decision led to a hasty change in alliances: Kurdish troops struck an alliance with the Syrian regime, which is backed by both Russia and Iran. The move to withdraw U.S. forces has angered lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill.

On Tuesday afternoon, senators on the Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from two Trump administration officials, including James Jeffrey, the U.S. envoy for Syria. He is expected to appear before a House panel on Wednesday.

Typhoon Hagibis left overturned cars and mud-slicked streets in Hoyasu, Japan. Rescue crews are still combing through areas that flooded after extreme rain caused rivers to break through levees.

Typhoon Hagibis slammed into Japan over the weekend, dropping more than 35 inches of rain in some places and causing catastrophic flooding in communities in the region around Tokyo, as well as further inland.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK reports that the death toll from the storm is now at more than 50 people. That number could rise as the water continues to recede from residential areas, some of which flooded up to the roofs of houses after the storm caused rivers to jump their banks, breaking through levees and sending muddy water rushing into neighborhoods.

Nagano city in central Japan flooded after an embankment along the Chikuma river collapsed, NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports, and tens of thousands of military personnel were deployed to help rescue people who have been trapped by mud and water by raft and helicopter.

The typhoon is the most powerful to hit Japan since a record-setting storm that killed hundreds of people there in 1958.

The storm also knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes, according to Reuters, and tens of thousands of households still did not have power on Monday.

Officials are warning that landslide risk is still high days after the storm made landfall. Saturated soil is unstable, and many of the hardest-hit areas are mountainous. At least one deadly landslide was reported by NHK outside Tokyo.

The mud from river flooding, and the ongoing threat of further mudslides, will make cleaning up from the storm a slog for residents who must hose down homes and businesses in order to assess the damage.

The ultimate cost of the storm won’t be clear for weeks or months. But overall global costs from hurricane and typhoon damage have ballooned in recent years, driven by a combination of more frequent and severe storms, rising seas and global development along vulnerable coastlines.

In 2017, Atlantic hurricanes caused $230 billion in damage, mostly in the United States. Last year, typhoons in the Pacific caused record amounts of damage in Asian countries, topping $30 billion, according to the global reinsurance giant Munich Re.

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Bathrooms remain a key issue for employers and for co-workers who don’t feel comfortable sharing bathrooms with transgender people, says Mark Marsen, a human resources director.

It’s a pivotal time for LGBTQ people in the workplace. Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in cases testing whether people in that community are protected by the country’s workplace anti-discrimination laws.

That’s happening at a time when more workplaces are adapting to an increasing number of people openly identifying as gender nonbinary — that is, they don’t consider themselves categorically male or female and favor gender-neutral pronouns like “they,” instead of “he” or “she.”

Some employers are including those preferences on email signatures and name tags. But workers and employers are also navigating changing social norms around gender that can be confusing, and shifting workplace culture away from traditional gender identifiers can also be tricky.

This is something Joshua Byron has thought about a great deal. As a child, Byron realized dressing up as Princess Leia was unconventional for a boy. It wasn’t until young adulthood that Byron first encountered the concept that someone could identify as something other than male or female. For Byron, the idea of being gender neutral — or part one, part the other — felt like it fit.

Byron, 24, came out as such to their inner circle of friends three years ago, requesting to be referred to as “they,” not as “he.” But they didn’t feel comfortable doing so at work.

“I had a very supportive friend group, and then I would go to work and not think about that part of myself,” Byron says.

That changed two years ago, after Byron applied for a teaching job in New York, and a reference outed them as nonbinary.

The new employer had no problem with it and hired Byron. But being out at work meant fielding endless questions from colleagues: Is this really a thing? How can a plural pronoun refer to one person? Byron feels caught in the middle of a culture war.

“I think people feel really intense about it … like this is breaking some rule,” Byron says.

This kind of scenario is playing out in many workplaces, especially as surveys show more people are identifying as gender nonbinary.

“Employers are going to be faced with an increasing percentage of employees over time who have nonbinary identities,” because there is greater prevalence of gender ambiguity among young people, says Jody Herman, a public policy scholar at the Williams Institute at UCLA law school, which researches sexual orientation and gender identity.

There is still not a lot of research quantifying this population, especially since there are so many diverse terms around gender identity. Two years ago, Herman’s study found 27% of youth in California aged 12 to 17 said their peers would identify them as gender-nonconforming. Other studies show a much smaller prevalence of people who identify themselves as transgender or gender nonbinary.

Some employers are already shifting policies. United Airlines gives customers the option to identify as nonbinary when booking tickets. Retirement company TIAA instructed employees to introduce themselves to clients with their preferred pronouns.

The law firm Baker McKenzie earlier this year set its staffing targets to 40% men, 40% women and 20% flexible — including nonbinary people.

Anna Brown, the firm’s director of global diversity and inclusion, says the policy was designed to reflect the shifting demographics. “These are prospective policies. And as we go forward, we know we have nonbinary colleagues,” she says.

New York psychotherapist Laura Jacobs says most employers don’t know how to deal with the issue of gender-nonbinary identity in the workplace.

But New York psychotherapist Laura Jacobs, who counsels many transgender and nonbinary individuals, says that kind of openness is still new and somewhat rare. “How to handle nonbinary people is still something that I don’t think most employers really have a sense for how to handle,” Jacobs says.

Employment forms, for example, often include only male or female options. References from old jobs might have known someone before the person assumed a different name or identity. And often, employer health insurance requires a person to choose.

“You had to be binary in order to get care and that was enforced by the medical community, the legal community and so on,” says Jacobs, who identifies as both transgender and nonbinary.

But on a day-to-day basis, some of the persistent challenge comes from co-worker questions: “Everybody wonders what’s in our pants,” Jacobs says.

Nowhere does this feel more personal than the bathroom.

For transgender populations, bathrooms are places associated with uncomfortable staring, harassment and even violence. They’ve also been at the center of political controversy. Three years ago, North Carolina passed a law requiring people to use bathrooms corresponding to their assigned gender at birth. That law was struck down.

But Mark Marsen says bathrooms remain a hot-button issue for employers and for co-workers who don’t feel comfortable sharing bathrooms with transgender people. Marsen is director of human resources at Allies For Health + Wellbeing, a community health clinic. Marsen, an expert panelist for the Society for Human Resource Management, recently participated in an online discussion with other HR executives about making the workplace gender neutral.

“A good 60% — at least — of the conversation was about bathrooms,” Marsen says.

At the time, Marsen says, he was rethinking his company’s restroom policies. Marsen realized a bathroom is just a bathroom. He ended up relabeling them simply, “restroom” and “restroom with urinals.”

For Joshua Byron, bathrooms are a central emotional issue.

For Byron, things like restrooms and dress codes become litmus tests for how their manager might react — how strictly masculinity might be enforced. It makes Byron wonder: “Will it be a thing that there is argument or stress over?”

But changing long-held gender paradigms isn’t easy. The terms used by nonbinary people can be difficult to understand.

In fact, it can still be confusing even for people who identify as nonbinary, like Mich Dopiro. Dopiro recently stumbled over pronouns for someone they just met.

“I don’t think they took offense, but it was an embarrassing moment for myself,” says Dopiro, 25, who works as a teacher in Seattle. Among middle school students, gender norms have already changed. One student recently called Dopiro by the wrong pronoun, then apologized.

“They felt like, ‘Oh this is something that I grew up with that I should know not to mess up,’ ” Dopiro says.

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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent leaves Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday after testifying before congressional lawmakers as part of the House impeachment inquiry.

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The White House removed the core of its Ukraine policy team in the spring and replaced it with “three amigos” considered more reliable for the plan to pressure Kyiv, a senior U.S. diplomat was described as telling House investigators on Tuesday.

That’s according to the account Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., gave to reporters about the closed-door deposition by George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s European and Eurasian Bureau.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney organized the May 23 meeting at which the personnel moves were decided, according to Connolly’s description.

That conference yielded the crew described as the new “three amigos” assigned the Ukraine portfolio: Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union; Kurt Volker, then an envoy to Ukraine for its peace negotiations; and Energy Secretary Rick Perry.

In other words, Mulvaney removed career specialists who the White House believed wouldn’t go along with a plan to lean on Ukraine’s leaders in an attempt to get them to launch investigations that might help Trump in the 2020 election, according to this account of Kent’s testimony.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the account on Tuesday evening.

Connolly, who described the deposition, called Kent’s account of events “very powerful” and “deeply disturbing, especially the role of Rudy Giuliani” — the personal attorney for Trump who drove much of the Ukraine plan on his own as well as in concert with the State Department.

Members of Congress already have heard from Volker; Sondland is expected to appear behind closed doors on Thursday. Perry has been subpoenaed in the House inquiry.

Other directions for investigators

Connolly said Kent’s remarks also made him want to hear from former national security adviser John Bolton, whom other witnesses also are said to have described to investigators as concerned about Trump’s Ukraine pressure plan and the role Giuliani played in it.

It isn’t clear whether investigators might call Bolton to appear; Connolly said that will be up to the chairmen of the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry: Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight.

One of those chairmen, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of the Intelligence Committee, suggested elsewhere in the Capitol on Tuesday that his next priority might be to try to obtain documents about the Ukraine pressure plan, which he said exists somewhere within officialdom.

“There is a paper record of efforts to condition this meeting … and perhaps condition military support itself,” Schiff said.

More broadly, the chairman said, Democrats intend to keep up a “furious pace” of depositions and that there will be “a busy few days and weeks ahead.”

No vote for now

What Democrats do not intend to do, for now, is convene a vote by the full chamber on whether to authorize their impeachment inquiry, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

President Trump and Republicans have faulted the inquiry as illegitimate because it hasn’t been put before all of the members in the chamber. That’s one reason the White House has said it won’t cooperate with requests for witnesses or documents — although it isn’t clear whether the administration would change its tune if there were a vote.

Pelosi was asked at her news conference on Tuesday why, if she believed the inquiry was right and she was on solid political ground, she wouldn’t “call the president’s bluff” and convene a vote.

Congress isn’t in the business of calling bluffs, Pelosi said — “this is not a game for us.”

The Constitution gives the House broad discretion about conducting impeachment, putting the speaker and her lieutenants in charge of when it’s taking place and what rules will govern the process.

Trump and Republicans call what the Democrats are doing a “fake impeachment” because it breaks with past practices, including a vote to launch the inquiry — which took place when President Bill Clinton was impeached — and some privileges for the minority to issue subpoenas or call witnesses.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone argued in a letter rejecting the impeachment inquiry that Trump deserves the ability to confront his accuser, enjoy due process and have a vigorous defense.

But impeachment in the House is, effectively, an indictment for which lawmakers are a grand jury. If members vote to impeach, that triggers a trial for Trump in the Senate in which his allies can defend him there.

NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis and Congress editor Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.

One Fund El Paso, which has collected more than $6 million, is holding a community resource fair on Saturday, to help those who may qualify to receive the donated money.

More than two months after the carnage of the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, victims and immediate family members of those involved in the massacre can now apply for financial assistance from the fund that has drawn millions of dollars in donations.

One Fund El Paso, the group that has raised more than $6 million since the Aug. 3 shooting, is hosting a community resource fair on Saturday to help those who may qualify to navigate the application process.

The categories of those who will be eligible include families of victims killed, individuals who were hospitalized for injuries for one or more nights, people who received same-day medical care following the attack, and anyone who was at the Walmart, neighboring Sam’s Club or the sprawling parking lot at the time of the rampage.

A task force is expected determine the amount of the distributions for each category by the end of next month. Additionally, the funds will be available to eligible victims regardless of nationality – eight Mexican nationals and one German were killed in the attack.

Victims can apply for relief at nationalcompassionfund.org or call 1-855-4VICTIM (855-484-2846). Applications will close on Nov. 8.

Stephanie Karr, director of One Fund El Paso, explained that the group has partnered with the National Compassion Fund to distribute the donations.

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“There will never be enough money to compensate those families for their losses,” Karr said in a telephone interview. “So what we’re doing is trying to be as generous as we can in getting 100% of the donated funds to those families as well as other families who were present at the shooting and have psychological trauma as a result.”

But she recognizes that people are financially hurting now. So, to aid those whose grief or physical pain is compounded by financial strain, Karr said small disbursements of money have already been handed out to the families of the 22 people who were killed, as well as the 26 who were injured by the gunman. To date they’ve each received $5,500 and another $2,000 is expected to be distributed in November.

The full disbursements will be released in mid-December after a thorough vetting process of each application.

That is not soon enough for some.

“It might sound like it’s right around the corner, but for a lot of these people December is a long way away,” Patsy Gomez said. “They might not have anywhere to live by then.”

Gomez, her husband and their daughter run a volunteer aid organization called Operation H.O.P.E. The three have been working with several survivors of the shooting, who she says “wonder why they’re struggling to put food on the table when there are millions of dollars that were collected to help them, just sitting in a bank somewhere.”

“They need the money now,” an exasperated Gomez said, recalling the story of Antonio Basco whose wife died in the shooting.

The widower gained international attention following a Facebook post by a funeral home asking the public to attend Basco’s wife’s service. Her death had left him without any family. The story went viral prompting thousands to attend the service. But shortly after the outpouring of affection and goodwill, Basco was evicted from his apartment and began living in a car that was donated to him, according to Gomez.

On Sept. 30 Basco was arrested on a driving-while-intoxicated charge while sleeping in the car. Gomez said she hasn’t heard from him since then.

“He can’t afford wait six more weeks for help. He needs a place to live,” she said.

Jeffrey Dion understands Gomez’s frustration. As executive director of the National Compassion Fund, which has been administering donation funds for cities following mass shooting crimes for the last five years, including El Paso, he says it may seem counterintuitive but in the long run it actually benefits victims to postpone lump sum disbursements.

“Everybody thinks that giving money away is easy and then they try to give money away and find out it’s really complicated,” Dion said.

He explained that the longer a donation fund is left open the more likely it is to receive large contributions from big companies. “Corporations give the most money but they also take the longest to give” because they’re often waiting for the end of a fiscal period to determine how much money they can afford to donate. “So if you close it too early, in order to provide more immediate relief, you could be missing out,” Dion said.

He noted that after the 2016 Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Florida, Christina Aguilera donated 85 cents of every iTunes download of a particular song to the foundation Dion’s organization was administering.

“If we hadn’t waited, we wouldn’t have gotten that money,” he said.

There can also be unintended legal consequences if donations are not disseminated correctly. For instance, a victim who receives public assistance benefits could lose them if they’re given a large payout. “That’s why lawyers establish a special needs trust so [the victim] can have the benefit of the money but it doesn’t undermine their ability to continue to get Medicaid.”

“These are all the things you have to think about before you start giving out money,” Dion remarked. “Because we want to make sure we don’t create any more bureaucratic problems for people.”

The 29-year-old could be the player to take the title to Anfield if he stays fit, according to the pundit

Daniel Sturridge is the best second striker in the Premier League according to ex-Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy.

The forward scored a stunning long-range goal to earn the Reds a point against his former club Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday and has enjoyed a strong start to the season despite having been left out by Jurgen Klopp in recent campaigns.

Sturridge was loaned out to West Bromwich Albion last term where he failed to score in six appearances, but this season he has featured five times already and netted twice. 

Speaking on talkSPORT, Murphy said: “If Daniel Sturridge is fit, he’s a good as there is in the Premier League.

“He’s a natural finisher, he scores all types of goals and what he’s got that most other forwards haven’t is total self-belief. He’s so capable. He’s a match-winner and a sensational player.

“For me, he’s the best second striker in the Premier League by a mile. Gabriel Jesus has dipped a bit and you could argue Marcus Rashford maybe, but he’s not as naturally gifted a goalscorer as Sturridge in the box.

“If Liverpool can keep Sturridge fit and keep him happy, by giving him plenty of minutes off the bench and get him starting in certain games in the league and cups, he could be the difference. He’ll get 20 goals this season if he gets the games.

“He’s got 67 goals in 140 games for Liverpool – there are not many strikers with a better strike rate, and he’s not first choice! You shouldn’t really be sitting on the bench anywhere with that strike rate.

“But if they keep using him in the way they are, with how fit and hungry he looks, Liverpool are going to be there or thereabouts. He could well be the difference for Liverpool [in the title race].

Liverpool face Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday before hosting Manchester City in a huge Premier League clash on Sunday afternoon.

City top the table on 19 points, ahead of Liverpool only on goal difference, but both teams have a near perfect record having won six and drawn one of their seven matches so far.

Defeat to Lyon represented a sluggish start to City’s Champions League campaign, but they bounced back on Tuesday

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Pep Guardiola hailed a key Champions League win for Manchester City over Hoffenheim, conceding it was game they could not afford to lose.

The Premier League title holders fell to a 2-1 loss at home to Lyon in their opening Group F game, representing a fourth consecutive defeat in the competition. 

But on Tuesday they fought back from going a goal down inside the first minute to triumph 2-1, with Sergio Aguero and David Silva on target in Germany.

Silva grabbed the winner in the 87th minute, taking advantage of a miscue from Hoffenheim defender Stefan Posch to fire home. 

Guardiola was full of praise for City’s opponents, while expressing relief his side were able to come away with three points. 

“After losing the first game it was so important we don’t lose – the game was tight and in the end [we won]. To win in Germany is always so difficult,” said City boss Guardiola. 

“They are so well organised defensively, with the ball they are so strong.

“It was not easy to find it, but at end we found the right moment to win the game.”

The result provides City with a timely boost as they prepare for Sunday’s visit to Liverpool, with both sides boasting unbeaten top-flight records this season.

Napoli’s Lorenzo Insigne may have struck late at the San Paolo but the visitors could have no complaints after a shocking display in Italy

Maybe the “smart fox” got it wrong for once?

Before this game, Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti suggested that Liverpool had “gone up a level” since last season; that they represented an even more formidable foe than the one which had gone so close to Champions League glory back in May.

If they have, they hid it well here in Naples.

It looked as if the Reds would escape Stadio San Paolo with a draw they didn’t merit, but Lorenzo Insigne’s 90th-minute strike ensured justice was done in the end. Not even Jurgen Klopp could argue his side were worth a result here. He didn’t even try, to be fair to him.

The damage need not be huge in the grand scheme of things. Liverpool still have a handle on Group C, and have back-to-back games with its weakest team, Red Star Belgrade, to come. They will still fancy their chances of progressing, for sure.

They’ll need to improve quickly, though, and drastically. If Pep Guardiola, who takes Manchester City to Anfield on Sunday, was watching this performance, he’ll have been licking his lips. Liverpool were abject. They started slowly and got worse. “Not good enough,” admitted Klopp, who asked for “one day” to revisit the game and understand exactly why it was as poor as it was, from his side’s perspective.

The last time Liverpool came here, eight years ago, they drew 0-0. It wasn’t a memorable night, but it could be excused by the fact that Roy Hodgson was in charge and the team featured such luminaries as Milan Jovanovic, David Ngog, Paul Konchesky and Christian Poulsen.

This was just as bad, if not worse. Klopp’s side failed to muster a single shot on target in the 90 minutes, playing with a lethargy and a sloppiness that is at odds with everything they stand for. Maybe Hodgson gave the pre-match team talk?!

They could have been put away long before Insigne’s dramatic finale. Dries Mertens hit the bar from close range, Alisson Becker made a couple of smart saves from Arkadiusz Milik and Liverpool played with fire throughout, their passing risky and inaccurate, their threat on the counter-attack non-existent.

Sadio Mane struggled, Roberto Firmino was swamped, Mo Salah, at times triple-teamed by Napoli defenders, was as anonymous as the callers to Pete Price’s local radio show.

“We weren’t good enough,” Klopp said. “And  normally when you are not good enough you lose football games.” Napoli, to their credit, stifled their visitors excellently, compact and aggressive defensively, with Kalidou Koulibaly immense for the Serie A side. Insigne, and later Mertens, were the game’s outstanding attackers.

It felt it could be ‘one of those nights’ from very early on. Naby Keita’s injury, 19 minutes in, represents a further blow to Klopp’s side. It looks a bad one, a back problem according to Klopp. For the second time in three Champions League games, Liverpool lost a big player before half-time – Keita, like Salah before him, left the field in tears. He was taken to hospital for tests, but should fly home with the rest of his team-mates on Thursday morning.

A headache, no doubt, for Klopp, who was far from amused by what he saw from his players. “It did not look like it should have looked,” he said of the performance, though in fairness to him – and contrast to some others – he took his own share of the blame too.

He described his last trip to Napoli, with Borussia Dortmund in 2013, as “one of my bad experiences” and he can file this one right alongside it. This was a sixth defeat in nine games for the German against Italian opposition. Insigne, as the local press were keen to point out both pre and post-match, scored the last time he was here, too.

“It’s always a bad sign when you have to say your goalkeeper was your best player, but it was obvious tonight,” Klopp said. Alisson Becker was overworked, saving well from Milik and Mertens; in front of him, there were too many errors, too little energy, not enough quality. Liverpool were unrecognisable from the side of last season, and a few levels below their last outing, at Chelsea on Saturday.

City’s presence at Anfield on Sunday should prompt a reaction – “It will be better, 100 per cent,” Klopp insisted. It needs to be. Those Liverpool fans who made the trip here deserved more than they got. Imagine being kept behind after a performance and a result like that!

“I have kind of a filter in my brain where I forget bad stuff immediately,” Klopp said pre-match, so we can assume this game will never be talked about again.

No wonder. It might just be the worst display Liverpool have delivered on his watch. They’ll need to improve immeasurably against Guardiola & Co.

The Old Trafford legend did not hold back when discussing the state of affairs at his former team, with the manager singled out for criticism

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has slammed manager Jose Mourinho, saying the Portuguese is “embarrassing the club.”

Following a dismal 3-1 loss at West Ham at the weekend, United are off to their worst start since 1989-90.

Aside from the club’s struggles on the field, Mourinho has made plenty of headlines for ongoing feuds with his players and the club’s board.

Mourinho’s relationship with star midfielder Paul Pogba has deteriorated, with the manager stripping the France international of his vice-captaincy last week.

There have even been suggestions of a full-scale team mutiny, such is the state of affairs at Old Trafford currently. 

Mourinho is fighting for his job, and Scholes has opined that he is surprised the Portuguese even managed to keep his job after the defeat to West Ham.

“I’m actually slightly surprised that he survived after Saturday, the performance was that bad,” Scholes said on BT Sport.

“We’ll go on to show clips of attitude and performance, it just was nowhere near.”

The West Ham defeat capped a trying week for the Red Devils that also saw them draw newly promoted Wolves in the league and fall to Championship side Derby County in the Carabao Cup.

Scholes believes the situation is critical at Old Trafford, as Mourinho continues to fall out with his players and the club’s hierarchy.

“He’s coming out in press conferences and he’s constantly having a go at players, he’s having a go at people above him because he’s not getting what he wants,” the 43-year-old said.

“I think his mouth is probably out of control and I think he’s embarrassing the club.”

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France beat Germany 2-1 in the Nations League on Tuesday and the midfielder saluted the tweaks of his manager

Blaise Matuidi credited Didier Deschamps’ tactical awareness after France came from behind to beat Germany 2-1 in the Nations League on Tuesday.

Germany were much the better side in the first half at the Stade de France and had a deserved lead at the break thanks to Toni Kroos’ penalty.

Joachim Low’s side could have had a more comprehensive lead at half-time were it not for the work of Hugo Lloris, and France ultimately fought back with a second-half improvement.

Antoine Griezmann got the equaliser with a fine glancing header, before sealing the win late on with a contentious penalty – Mats Hummels’ foot was trodden on by Matuidi as he attempted to make a sliding challenge.

Nevertheless, Matuidi is convinced France deserved it and paid tribute to Deschamps’ half-time talk and adjustments as the reason for Les Bleus’ turnaround.

“We spoke at half-time,” the Juventus midfielder told M6. “The coach told us what he had to say and so did we [the players].

“The coach was very good tactically and we were better in the second half with a three-man midfield.

“We played better without the ball and they started losing their grip too after we equalised. It’s about confidence. They [Germany] lack it right now and we have plenty of it.”

The victory takes France up to seven point in Group 1, meaning they only need a draw against the Netherlands next month to ensure finishing top of the trio of teams. 

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