headlines right now here with parliamentary elections looming sweden is rocked by a string of asana across the country it's prompting intense speculation over who started the fire thought to have been a coordinated attack. provokes a storm of criticism off the revoking the security clearance of several high profile figures that clued the former cia director john brennan. currencies around the world taking a pounding as the economic standoff between turkey and the us.

because the morning headlines live from moscow welcome to the program here where not so international. a string of attacks has a rocked sweden three weeks ahead of september elections it's widely thought that the timing of the fires which appear to have been coordinated is not accidental and speculation is rife as to who carried out the attacks and what impact they may have on the electoral race. reports. it's not even dark people look out their windows and see this. the first train is gone locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later they erupt in sheer fury and they scream. that

. their next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now the hooded thugs smashed the wall been mostly cars they know what they're doing they know how to do it the our team in the last few days there were almost identical scenes everywhere you see a flame i can swedish media say at least about one hundred cars are now burnt out piece of metal police have made a number of arrests but basically the country still in the dark about who's behind the menace was overthrown for it. you can see. it from here. in about three weeks swedes will be voting for their new parliament well now politicians there have more things to worry about than stuff like their election from. before but most of the custom have the question has to be asked of those people that if there's no one to hack who are you doing for good how do you

think you are born if you destroyed the whole area for the neighbors for the children on their way to preschool you have to see burns out because we're going to school there must be a hard response from solid state any of us somewhat strong words but not as emotional as society which clearly wants the ones in charge to get it sorted. such neighborhood disasters don't come out of nowhere when it comes to all kinds of street crime lately sweden's been getting less and less safe because i was attacked by my people they took my all bike stolen there are increased number of shootings it's gotten worse in every way police man said that he had never experienced anything like that for a change just as if. it is not the sweetest and when the years of ignoring the trends backfired literally with flames some of the swedish elite chose not to talk

about the state rather the came up with conspiracies or in other words pointed the finger at right wing extremists some quote unquote dark forces. they want the elections to be about arsons they want to fuel discussed and fear i hope the whole thing is not orchestrated by the dark forces that threaten our democracy and our independence. last night's events with my mom left before the election while well organized did not surprise me if the extreme right were involved in some way a false flag by the extreme right version is popular among some journalists to. sweden democrats sympathises a running around in the suburbs burning cars in a coordinated action to direct criticism of the suburbs population in the hope of favoring s.d. to make sure sweden can dodge any russian efforts to screw up its election

stockholm has even splashed out on the media so that they could wipe out the never ending thinking. that it was only to be hit by a wave of home grown conspiracies before the police had at least something solid for the public ilya patrolling co r.t.e. . swedish police know that similar attacks happened in several swedish towns in previous years but on a far smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic m.p. kind whose party has sparked controversy over its anti immigration stance he says people are starting to realize sweden is not as safe as they thought. the situation in sweden started to slip out in the international arena when people suddenly realize whoops sweden is not a nice little country thought it was but now realize what the hell happened to sweden and so this is going on for

a long time and we have made your arsons and why it's many years back i just saw some statistics that. the arson attacks in cars with intent. has gone up from twelve to thirty percent from one hundred sixty seven to one thousand five hundred cases a year or something and i mean it's been going up in actual numbers too. donald trump has revoked the security clearance of former cia director john brennan lashing out at him saying he exhibits quote erratic conduct and behavior and is thought of brennan as only the first in a line of officials who will suffer the same fate ice americano reports. exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information sara sanders spoke to press and she said the decision to revoke brennan's clearance was based on his erratic conduct and behavior of defending the move as an effort to

secure classified info from someone who has helped foment division in the past and clearly has very partisan leanings the most divisive president an individual who basically portrayed his nation he routinely lies betray the women of the p.r.t. deceived and betrayed the american public and he misrepresents the facts and reality is a betrayal of the nation but this is not abnormal president john brennan himself has already chimed in blasting the move as part of a bid to suppress free speech and punish critics but for some context john brennan left his position as director of the cia back in january twenty seventeen and he now serves as m s n b c's senior national security and intelligence analyst but this whole debacle began last month when senator rand paul called brennan's motives into question asking if he had been profiting off of his clearance by divulging secrets to the mainstream media his exact words he even met with trump asking him to revoke the clearances of not only brennan but

a few other prominent political figures i'm evaluating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter struck lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the president is doing the right thing rebooking the clearances of people who aren't contributing anything learn lee a lot of them were higher ups in the f.b.i. and also dennis and cia certainly i mean i believe these people are all go of this rush to get in every case you know of it in their manipulating information and data for the public consumption to confuse and. you know create all kinds of good. uncertainty in the government the government business that's what they that's why they should never have a clearance well i mean while i washington has a tradition of allowing officials to retain their security clearance even when they leave office and retire some x. officials also say that clearance helps them in their future career yes. the u.s.

remains in the grip of a wave of protests as both right and left wing groups rallied today about each other after some of the demos turned violent c.n.n. present to chris cuomo made a controversial claim that violence coming from the ante for movement of the u.s. is more morally justified than violence which comes from the far right all punches are not equal drawing a moral equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it because they both resort to violence emboldens hate legitimizes hateful belief and elevates what should be stamped out by.

my colleague on your farm a gut reaction both for and against chris cuomo school. every time i see them on television they seem to be getting some kind of fight some kind of altercation it always seems to come from them and as a matter if they're fighting hay or whatever they claim you can't put your hands on somebody and then behind some kind of moral high ground don't tell people if you don't want to be really just as simple as day it doesn't matter what political affiliation the other person is violence even if it's the most justified and righteous violence that you can have it still creates negative karma it is still very problematic saying to use something that should be diverted to only when it's absolutely necessary these are people who really are what they purport an associate be against they're talking about being an anti-fascist but a lot of their action mirrors that of what was on the mussolini's time with the

whole black church situation it seems like they're doing the same thing i'm not saying that they are exactly the same as what was going on back then in italy but a lot of their tactics seem to mirror what they were doing just because i mean what is i bet you that is an ideal or a long i'll hold on wait wait wait wait just because somebody is hateful in your eyes does not mean that it's ok or somehow justified at all to hurt then you can't say violence or maybe justify it no it's not if somebody does not put their hands on you you cannot put your hands on them it's very simple if you put your hands on somebody then that person has a right to defend themselves you know you talk about don't put your hands on somebody will you know somebody that has yes there's somebody that wears a mask attacks dangerous people without personal provocation puts their hands on them you know who it is it's bad man this type of behavior is justified in our society violence can be used to prevent greater violence. no it doesn't it is

against the law to commit violence against another individual yeah of course but the law does not dictate morality the law is just the law many people talking about . morally acceptable to hurt. those who are talking about hate but what about the innocent people actually members of the media get attacked by and used to use schoolteachers be united in the media is also an attack by the hand isn't played it wait wait well wait hold on hold on i'm not finished you see people today are people of color as the left likes to call them being made by these individuals because if their political opinion so i don't really understand this whole thing about whoa it's ok if somehow justify sort of values i don't because most of the time when i see jimmy gage in his values use against those who just have different points of view you know i'd have to see it see the statistics on that. you know we have seen a outbreak in street fighting between fascists and anti-fascists that absolutely has happened these people are just afraid they're cowards and they're acting in

a way that is totally irrational because of their fear. a group calling itself new greatness is on trial for extremism here in russia for allegedly plotting a rebellion and there are some controversy over whether the group may have been incited by a secret service as a mole to break the law or it sounds a bit complicated but in a culture never explains. the members of the new greatness movement are accused of organizing an extremist gang and calling for a constitutional revolution the investigation claims this young man was its leader and here is how he described its purpose. was to establish rules on russian territory put the ruling elites on a repeal repressive laws on the constitution. the idea of the movement grew out of private chats on social media platforms here's an extract again the revolutionary fire is starting everywhere but we can't do anything like this here in our country

that said it all began when a few young people from moscow and its regions started to share their political views with each other online later they began meeting in person mostly in mcdonalds cafes to pardon some political rallies handed out political leaflets and made a few trips outside the city to learn how to use firearms they even wrote a manifesto in case of an uprising or revolutionary activities that receive broad public support the organization aims to take part in those actions to the extent of its resources in march ten members of the organization were arrested their defense team claims the idea to create a fool scale movement with its own office program and even a noun blam belongs to an f.a.a. speedy agent who under the name roussillon d. and filtrated the group of the youngsters and courage their ideas and effectively create

a reason for their arrest the detainees say that he was the one who paid most of the money to rent a place where they gathered and plan to buy firearms and now there are two alleged members one of them an acting policeman claimed they only joined the group in order to turn them over to the authorities all of them are witnesses for the prosecution and the case. if you get out of a bit of the law which you regulates intelligence gathering activities in russia forbids pleas from provoking someone to commit a crime the person under the name risler andy is a provocateur he carried out a provocation against children he did what he could to create this organization and make sure it looked the way he wanted. this is an unsanctioned so called mother's march which hit the streets of the russian capital on wednesday people gathered to demand to the authorities transfer of the detainees to house arrest considering their young ages one of the detainees was just seventeen at the time of her arrest

and the group's online chats she wrote that she was interested to learn how to throw molotov cocktails and claim to have known someone who could supply weapons guys i've remembered some connections there's a dude in a desk who trades weapons in ukraine i want to get in touch with him it's a sure thing he knows people from my done maybe they can buy something what do you think since being jailed and as hal has reportedly worsened she cries throughout the court hearings which was being driven in a cold prison van for hours it was minus eleven outside she was interrogated for many hours with no psychologist own lawyer present she was treated like a seasoned criminal lemaitre cried how can a seventeen year old withstand this. if found guilty they face up to ten years and present i do not question the r.t. moscow. public about who was mentioned in the report has requested to be moved from

detention and be placed under house arrest citing health issues a court will decide all about it later on this. up next on r.t. the spiraling trade war between the u.s. and turkey is getting worse and affecting world markets we're going to details after the break. seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. me if you get to shape out these days become advocates and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

on saturday irresponsible lobbyist accessing unlimited credit from an irresponsible federal reserve bank you have the infinite regress that you saw with money starting in the one nine hundred seventy s. and now insurance companies selling insurance on insurance contracts on insurance contracts on insurance contracts with another bureaucrat another bureaucrat is infinite regress. a program here or not see the united states now saying economic sanctions against turkey will remain in place even if releases an american pasta who were arrested on suspicion of ties to terrorism and that's off to both sides impose further tariffs

on each other and concerns over whether the situation has simply escalated too much were raised at the u.s. state department. fortan this this one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally alliance with a nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the turkish just so you're saying this is our faults and this situation is our fault why escalate it to that level or or for a single american i believe it is not been torture or treat this i think that is not i would take issue with the premise of your question turkey is a financial situation that has been in the works for quite some time and it dates prior to the imposition of sanctions on august i believe was august the first so this has been in train for quite some time and even up when the u.s.

government for that party is gone cornell takes a look at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey spiral to this point. country was built the entire entire if the no leaving goes to great trade deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritage as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you any longer what countries could he mean are stealing could be turkey the countries lira shared a quarter of its value against the dollar in just one week after trump's tweet about doubling existing tariffs investors are running away screaming inflation surging and turkey's leadership is bracing for an all out trade war the reason for such a calamity against an old nato friend was ankara's refusal to release an american pastor accused of both terrorism and espionage it's punishment time for

a rebellious ally that tariffs that are in place on steel would not be removed with the release of castor brunson and president her to want lashed out in defiance calling the us move and attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback there is an economic attack against turkey only as such things were done in secret and now they're open to us we can react in two ways economically and politically. still some are wondering if ankara actually has the power to challenge washington. come through of doing things. to come more. and do you want to use this for political purposes but turkey is just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in

a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs to the ones that the americans have unjustly applied to us as if that wasn't bad enough the us president went and slapped tariffs on europe today i'm defending america's national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum the american steel aluminum it just really has been ravaged by aggressive foreign trade practices. it's really an assault on a country brussels tried to hit back with restrictions of its own tried to appeal to the transatlantic solidarity special relations bonds of friendship but to no

avail and it begs the question with such a long list of enemies the us is currently fighting from iran to north korea russia china why can't your allies i think this has become a real tit for tat thing and i do not for a new york minute think that the pastor is really what is going on here of course are washington with that group been strained for some time ever since the coup attempt against terror go on i suspect there's something going on with regional politics maybe with regard to syria that is really the reason behind competitors like beijing and moscow attempting to pack as much heat as the u.s. these days sanctioning and scaring everyone in view may be the only way for the u.s. to impose its will on friend and foe alike donald quarter r.t. . it is already international the death toll from a suicide bomb attack in the afghan capital has risen to forty eight and is likely

to rise further that's according to local health officials warning you may find some of the upcoming images disturbing sixty seven others were injured in the attack on a private education center and the neighborhood of kabul the taliban has denied it had any involvement in the assault and no other group has claimed responsibility one of the victims described how it all happened. it was extraordinary. my friends and i were sitting in the exam in class the first period finished and we went out for break time afterwards all the students return to class just two minutes later a bomb suddenly went off when i heard the sound i couldn't feel anything. was going to show you time with us here on r.t. international today two russian cosmonauts have conducted one of the longest ever space walks right outside the international space station a both were equipped with cameras to share the view with you. wow.

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was never great for spending on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said in . response to these situations that we're dealing with. people get shot every day she is just people kill each other blood through killing children. there was just no way that people were going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country

doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with life this is the reason i have to write like this is the reason. the whole existence to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have two going to be press this is like before three in the morning can people that i'm interested in the waters in our. quest to.

welcome to of barcelona and to the big night for some buildings of the sound park this world heritage site is thought to be the greatest example of the postmodern tradition of catalogue architecture the most highly appropriate because to be able to talk about the future and in particular the future of the car through a corner me one of the features of the constitutional debate here because the loonier is the number of world renowned economists who've been active participants in the debate today we talked to just three of them we are still why they got involved in that debate and how do they see the future of developing the forest over to rain in the studio with your treat your emails and your messages. last

week's interview with present total was covered far and wide in a number of publications both online and in print confidentiality love and guardian elmore on canal public radio article the way of dealing motion the national in scotland and common speech and also received a number of tweets and e-mails first from scott who says independence day last year of course the fighting to catalonia being there as i was really did make me think about politics democracy and identity how it arrives and is quickly removed food for thought indeed angela says fantastic interview keep up the good work thank you angela we hope to and then from john moxley says looks to be a very interesting interview and that was before present to us and she was broadcast to john please to let us know if you enjoy it now you remember a couple of weeks ago alex also interviewed ten mcleish and went to a few of the tweets he deceived and a sponsor to that len finlayson says. interview with henry mcleish rhys mowbray did more than a chaperon if you came to scotland to see oh i'm not so sure maybe get someone

you're sure alex or maybe well susan says these dialogues are fit for the saw a fantastic henry i would be drawing mcleish and simon to chew over you keep politics past and present thank you susan and finally from peru and i he says henry mcleish excellent discussion with alex salmond on the show tonight professor chavez sally martin is one of the top economists in the world and is coming a professor at columbia university in new york city has also taught at yale harvard and the university in barcelona and the barcelona graduate school of economics he was president of f.c. barcelona during the electoral process of two thousand and six and remains a board member a columnist for spanish newspaper live and guardian he also has a weekly slot on our e.c. one i contribute regularly to c.n.n. alex speaks to him and barcelona. one of the top international columnists growth and development but what drove you to that field of economics.