with parliamentary elections looming sweden is rocked by a string of arson attacks across the country prompting intense speculation over who started the fires which of course to have been a coordinated attack. armed gunmen stormed a military intelligence center in cobol but the city still mourning thirty four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing at a school and attack claims by islamic state. donald trump sleazeball most cia director john brennan exhibits erratic conduct and behavior and revoked his security clearance pressing a number of other officials with the same measure. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me in. the top story this hour a string of austin attacks has rocked sweden three weeks ahead of the september elections three suspects have been arrested one of them in turkey it's widely thought that the timing of the fires which appear to have been coordinated was not accidental speculation is rife faster who carried out the attacks and what impact they may have on the electoral race as artie's eally are trying to reports. it's not even dark people look out their windows and see this. the first train of thought the locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later they erupt in sheer fury and they scream. thanks

. there next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now the hooded thugs snatch go up and burn 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 pieces of metal police have made a number of arrests but basically the country still in the dark about who's behind the menace what was overthrow it for it. do you think. it through. 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 promos or for the most any custom have the question has to be asked of those people one of the facts were you doing want to figure out how do you think you are born if you destroyed the whole area of the neighbors for the children on their way to a free school you have to see burns out because we're going to be hard response from society any of this notion 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 five people and they took my bike. home and there are increased number of shootings it's gotten worse in every way the police man said that he had never

experienced anything like this or changed. 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 they 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 one month left before the election while well organized would 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 fake news that was only to be hit by a wave of homegrown conspiracies before the police had at least something solid for the public. go r.t.e. . so it is police know that similar attacks happened in several swedish towns in previous years but on a fast smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic m.p. kent aircraft 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 i started to strip out in the international arena when people

suddenly realize whoops sweden is not nice little is a country thought it was but now realize what the hell happened to sweden and this has been on for a long time and we have made your arse and wired many you back i just wasn't a few sticks that. arson types in cars with intent. have gone out and twelve to thirty eight 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 here exhibit erratic conduct and behavior it's sport brennan is only the first in the line of officials who will suffer the same fate a similar account 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 his 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 f.b.i. he deceived and to betray 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 did 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 this 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 i feel other prominent political figures i'm a valuating action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter shura lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked the president is doing the right thing revoking 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 involved in this rush to get in every case you know a bit and then manipulating information and data for the public consumption to confuse and. you know create all kinds of uncertainty in the government the government business that's that's what the that's why they should never have

a clearance. meanwhile washington has a tradition of allowing former presidents on senior intelligence officials to still get their morning intel briefings each and every day even when they were tired but now in the unprecedented wake of cutting off britain's top level security access donald trump says this is not political he would have done the same to any republican he deemed incompetent. now military intelligence compound has been attacked in the afghan capital kabul local journalist still tongue finally reports. i just had a phone call with the kabul police spokesperson house my son is that he said that type is over but the clearance operation is going on and police special forces have started house to house search operation and they are trying to find out if there are any other you know of peace to say that it's remaining and hiding in their

houses that's why they have not been allowing people to you know to rush on to the streets and we have to wait and what will what will be coming details from the public police some three to four attackers believed to seize seized in a building with unfinished construction and started shelling to our city intelligence center training center kabul police said that so far two off them have been gunned down but they are all the streets across the you know the side have been closed down by. special forces and the clearance operations and under is underway but we still do not have any figures regarding the casualty neither or any group has claimed responsibility so far but that neighborhood has been have backed by isis fighters or. isis assailants back in

december last year. this latest attack comes as the country's security services struggle to deal with a spike in terror attacks. which time. my friends and i were sitting in examine class and first period finished and we. went out for break time afterwards all the students returned to class just two minutes later the bombs suddenly went off when i heard the sound i couldn't feel anything. illegal. no no. no no no no i mean in the.

united nations continues to maintain that can be no military solution to the conflict in that country. international affairs commentator jonathan steele joins us live to discuss the latest string of attacks mr steele good to have you with us welcome to watch the international an islamic state claim responsibility for wednesday suicide bombing at a couple school how much of a foothold does the terror group have in afghanistan. well they have quite a strong foothold and seem to be growing but they're doing tacky soft targets like to school that you mentioned yesterday and if you mosques and other shere places of worship and learning because most of the people and indeed most of the taliban are sunni of course and they many of them consider the show to be infidels and not true muslims and no one's claimed responsibility for today's attack so far who do you

think might be behind this one well it could be as isis or taliban because they have also to try to ban tend to concentrate more on military targets and this is obviously a military target intelligence military intelligence initiative and defense ministry many times in kabul and recent months and years so did you call has become very unsafe city for people who happen to be walking along near these military targets and get caught up in an attack there's also long ago in late june actually that the taliban held ceasefire talks with the u.s. with sources saying that they ended with some very positive signals so what do things going wrong here. it's quite normal in civil wars or wars of this kind to have fighting and talking going on so much on state doesn't mean that the talks are doomed it doesn't mean the fighting is going to stop soon because there are talks it's just that each side is feeling each other out they don't want to look and say

is it softening up or giving up a struggle so if you're just not really surprising that attack should continue even as talks are going on it would seem that still no trump strategy in afghanistan is not working why would why you do think that is or is it just too early to judge. well the strategy of open ended war i mean and this is going to be seen by the taliban and by isis as well as war of occupation since two thousand and one when the americans came in in a big way and to topple the taliban the first time it's been seen as a national resistance struggle against foreign occupiers and that's what makes it very difficult when trump says that the u.s. is going to stay there on an open ended basis whereas of course president obama had an end date and tried to pull troops out and did in fact cool troops out except the five thousand that remained that number's gone back up again and come trump.

with no end date and set when and under what conditions do you think we might actually think some thought of pace in the war torn country but as far as we understand from the talks that have taken place which you mentioned they are talking about president danny ashraf ghani the president back in his arms mentioned that they're talking about constitutional of reforms and changes and taliban being allowed to become a political party and contest elections and the some sort of decentralized system with more power given to the local provincial governors nests in kabul itself a lot of these issues are things that the taliban have been asking for and serve it seems quite upset encouraging that the afghan government which previously said it wouldn't talk to the taliban is now willing to talk and to discuss issues which the taliban feel strongly about. jonathan still international affairs commentator thank you for joining us and author international today. well still to come the u.s.

has such as five millions to train children how to survive a school shootings we got that story in full and much more after the break. it. seems wrong but. just don't call. it yet to shape our. ticket and indeed it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart week just 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 the shores contracts on insurance contracts with another bureaucrat another bureaucrat is infinite regress. welcome back to r.t. international the u.s. says economic sanctions against turkey will remain in place even if releases an american pastor who made arrested on suspicion of terrorism offenses and it's off to both sides imposed further tariffs on each other concerns over whether the

situation has escalated too much were raised to believe the u.s. state department's. porton this one american plea deal will financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk a nato alliance with and they killed a partner at risk for one american who's being put through the churches just so you're saying this is our fault turkey is our financial situation 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 is been in training for quite some time and you cannot blame the u.s. government for that stepping in on turkey's side is council which has just approved fifteen billion dollars in aid to prop up the turkish economy artie's dong quarter takes a look at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey spiraled to this point. she was built the entire entire roof so no

leading goes to great tree deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritages your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you. what countries could he mean are stealing could be turkey the country's lira shed 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 u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them

a slave to the greenback this is come through of doing things. to come more. and they 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 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 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 kick 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 us these days

sanctioning and scaring everyone in view may be the only way for the us to impose its will on friend and foe alike donald quarter r.t. . with eleven school shootings already this year the u.s. is planning to spend almost two million dollars on training pupils to respond to emergency situations on these chemical picks up the story. the u.s. department of homeland security has just approved a grant to create it from a training program for high schools around the country essentially one point eight million dollars is being offered for those who could create a long term self-sustaining mechanism for the safety of high school students teenagers are being taught how to treat gunshot wounds and deal with dangerous situations in ohio tactical grade pepper spray is being placed around the schools now when a canister is removed alarm will sound alerting the authorities here's how one politician described the pepper spray system. this will stop anyone in their tracks

. in north dakota the police are asking that high powered rifles be stored on school grounds meanwhile texas is jumping on the bandwagon of giving teachers guns we need our teachers to be armed we you know when you have when you're facing someone who's an active shooter the best way to take that shooter down that is with a gun but even better than that is four or five guns to one there's even talk of firearm training for preschool children it's something that we should think about america about putting guns in the hands of law abiding citizens whether they actually be talented children or how to train for a school or a three year old cannot defend itself from a and so rifle by throwing a hello kitty pencil pasted it our founding fathers didn't put and actually meant on the second amendment this year the back to school sales aren't just pencils and

notebooks parents are stocking up on body armor. in a matter of seconds. you can lock a door with this it can't get shot oh you can't get around it about arming schoolteachers know all right how about bulletproof backpacks. for real and big yes

that is positive that teachers should be weapons for protection for the students i don't think it's a good idea at all i think we need to disarm everybody not our more people and if we just aren't people we wouldn't need bulletproof backpacks and what about a nationwide training program for high schoolers to deal with like gunshot wounds trauma training thing that's efficient american seem to pretty clearly agree that school shootings are a big problem but do you stop them with more guns or less that's where americans just can't seem to agree caleb mop and artsy new york. we discussed the issue with money political activist she thinks training children fails to address the real problem. i think making teenagers tree are specialists is the most absurd thing i've ever thought ever heard of and i guess there are so many other ways to stop school shootings are mashed you things basically you have to take the guns off the street you have to control the amount of crowds you need to

ban assault assault weapons minors and the mentally ill can't walk into a store and get a gun you have to limit the use of those kinds of weapons so is it a good thing that teenagers are or anybody. would learn something like c.p.r. or learn how to stop people leaving i mean is that a good thing yes of course it's a good thing if anybody had it would be to save somebody's life everybody would take that opportunity and everybody would want to take that opportunity but i think what you have is you have the trumpet ministration using this as a way that it's going to stop school shootings and i just i think it's patently absurd well get in touch and let us know what you think by following us on social media we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines we'll see the.

greetings and salutations nicholas johnson was f.c.c. commissioner in one nine hundred sixty nine when during a debate in t.v. guide with the president of c.b.s. news on the problem of course corporate censorship he stated many broadcasters are fighting now for free speech but for profitable speech and that corporate tampering with the product of honest and capable journalists and creative writers and performers can be quite serious. now here we sit in twenty eighteen and corporations of broadcasters of all sorts from t.v. to the internet have their foot on the chest of our free press the australian reported this week that facebook's head of news per their ships former c.n.n. journalist campbell brown allegedly told around twenty or so broadcasters and

publishers that we will help you revitalize journalism in a few years the reverse looks like i'll be holding your hands with your dying business like in a hospice of course facebook denies the claims telling business insider that these quotes are simply not accurate don't reflect the discussion we had in the meeting we know there's much more to do but our goal at facebook what the team works on every day with publishers and reporters around the world is to help journalism succeed and thrive both on our platform and off that means a new focus on building sustainable business models that's what the discussion was about however while facebook fiercely denies the claim citing a transcript them from the call they are refusing to release that transcript so there's no way for us to make that verify that claim it seems more than likely that facebook believes the nonsense they're spouting they've paid c.n.n. and fox news millions to create news content specifically for their platform they've sold our personal information to political operatives and they've partnered

with partisan ideological think tanks to be the arbiters of speech here and around the world so combo we all use our freedom of expression and start watching the hawks. were told. the. real truth is look. at the bottom. of. the day like you said i got. the please. let. me down. everybody i'm tom de la list and joining me to discuss today's buzz latest in a very long line of bumps in the road as conservative commentator steve malzberg steve. how you deal and good to be here. first i guess i want to

ask you do you believe facebook's excuse that this was just taken out of contacts it was all about helping build the business of journalism no i mean there were the reports say that there were several witnesses to the to the exchange and they all back up what we have with you so i believe accurately reported and i don't put much faith in my personal opinion and what campbell brown has to say and look facebook has really become full of itself with the algorithms with the clamping down of putting people in facebook prison and their newfound responsibility to make sure that only real news is presented and and decide what's proper journalism and i mean who are they and if we're going to rely on the likes of campbell brown and those.