sound you still would be intrigued. with parliamentary elections looming sweden is walked by a string of arson attacks across the country prompting intense speculation over who started the violence which i thought to have been a coordinated attack. on gunmen stormed a military intelligence center in kabul with the city still mourning thirty four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing that as it's called an attack claimed by islamic states. donald trump say's former cia director john brennan exhibits erratic conduct and behavior and revoked his security clearance threatening a number of other officials with the same measure. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me. our top story this hour a string of arson attacks has rocks sweden three weeks ahead of september elections three suspects have been arrested one of them in turkey is widely thought that the timing of the files which appear to have been coordinated was not accidental speculation is rife as to who carried out the attacks and what impact they may have on the electoral race as r.t.c. are trying to report. it's not even dark people look up their windows and see this . i. the first treated stock 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 smash grow 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 was overthrown for it. do you think. it through there. 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 and if there's no one to hack who are you doing want to figure out who do you think you are a bomb if you destroy the whole area over the neighbors for the children on their way to a free school we have to see burns out because we're going to be hard response from society any other social 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 wallet by. phone and there are increased number of shootings that have. nothing worse in every way police man said that he had never

experienced anything like this or changed radically 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. visit inside desperate theories to explain the attacks including blaming them on

question straying to ferment invest before the election in. 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 neverending 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 ilya betraying 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 campaign kent whose party has sparked controversy over its anti immigration stance he says people are starting to

realize that sweden is not as safe as they thought. the situation in sweden has started to seep out in the international arena when people suddenly realize whoops sweden is not nice little this is a country thought it was but now realize what the hell happened to sweden and so this has been on for a long time we have made your our sins and why many years back i just saw scenes of . arson attacks in cars with intent. has gone up from twelve to thirty percent from nine 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. and the terry intelligence compound has been attacked in the afghan capital kabul local journalists full time finding reports. i just had a phone call with the kabul police spokesperson harsh my son is that he said that

attack 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 these assailants remaining in 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 what what will be coming details from the kabul police some three to four attackers believed to see seized in a building unfinished construction and started shelling touristy 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 any group has claimed responsibility so far but that neighborhood has been had by isis fighters or. isis assailants back in december last year. but this latest attack comes as the country's security services struggle to deal with a spike in terror attacks. i. wish . my friends and i were sitting in exam in class 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.

united nations continues to meet nobility solution to the conflict in the country. donald trump has revoked the security clearance of a former cia director john brennan lashing out at him saying he exhibits a writing poems uk times behavior and is thought brennan is only the first in a line of officials who will suffer the same fate as the american reports exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information

sara sander 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 pre-treat his nation routinely lies betray the women of the f.b.i. he 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 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 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 revoking the clearances of people who aren't contributing anything nearly a lot of them or 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 of it in manipulating information and data for the public consumption to confuse and. you know create all kinds of uncertainty in the government in 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 and cd intelligence officials to still get their morning intel briefings each and every day even after they've retired 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. well the u.s. remains in the grip of a wave of protests as both far right and left wing groups rallied to denounce each other after some of the demos turned violent c.n.n. presenting chris cuomo made a controversial claim that the violence coming from the antiphon least went in the u.s. is moving morally justified then 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 legitimize hateful belief

and elevates what should be stamped out. early in my colleague andrew farmer got reaction both for and against chris cuomo the comments. and 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 it is a matter if they're fighting hey or whatever they claim you can't put your hands on somebody and then hide behind some kind of moral high ground don't touch people if you don't want to be chased is 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 seemed to be. something that should be diverted to only when it's absolutely necessary these are people who really are what they purport to associate be against they're talking about being 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 he's like to do that is an ideal or a long i'll hold on 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 can put your hands on them is 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 batman this type of behavior is justified in our society violence can be used to prevent greater violence it's a boils down to no it doesn't it is against the law to commit violence against another individual yeah of course that the law does not dictate more ality the law is just the law many people talk in a bow it's morally acceptable to hurt. those who were talking about hate but what about the innocent people who actually members of the media get attacked by and used to use schoolteachers do you know i mean there's also an attack by dan he's complaining wait wait well wait hold on hold on a mechanism you see people today are people of color as the left likes to call them being attacked by these individuals because if their political opinions so i don't really understand this whole thing about well it's ok if somehow justify the values

i don't see if it does because most of the time when i see jimmy gage a news about news 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 fascist said 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. maybe it was to train children how to survive school soon saying is that our story in full and well after so bright.

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to it. welcome back a group calling itself new greatness is on trial for extremism in russia for allegedly plotting a belly and two of those arrested have asked to be placed under house arrest instead of detention that the decision on this expected today artie's medina koch never reports on the case the members of the new greatness movement are accused of organizing an extremist again and calling for a constitutional revolution the investigation claims this young man was its leader and here is how he described and spat this. rules on russian territory put the ruling elites on clone and repealed rip. receive laws in 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 athlete a speed 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 own 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 is. the law which 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 made 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 chance she wrote that she was interested to learn how to throw molotov cocktails and cleaned 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 his health has reportedly worsened she cries throughout the court hearings audio was being driven in a cold prison for hours it was minus eleven outside she was interrogated for many hours with no psychologist or lawyer present she was treated like a seasoned criminal lemaitre how can a seventeen year old withstand this. if found guilty they face up to ten years and prison i do not question r.t. moscow. the usa is economic sanctions against turkey will remain

in place even if our own core releases an american pastor remitted arrested author special of terrorism offensive i thought the both sides impose further tariffs on each other concerns over whether the situation has escalated too much were raised at the u.s. state department. one thing in this this one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally in line for the nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the churches just so you're saying this is our faults 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 has been in train for quite some time and even up when the u.s. government for that stepping in on turkey's side is council which has just approved

a fifteen billion dollars dollars in aid to prop up the turkish economy artie's don't call to take a look at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey spiraled to this point. country was built 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. what countries could he mean are stealing could it 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 heard a wand lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback come through 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 u.s. 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 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 of strain 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. . with eleven school shootings already this year the u.s. is planning to spend almost two million goal is long training paypal's to respond to him that i can see situations. picks up the story. the u.s. department of homeland security has just approved a grant to create a trauma 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 trusting police 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 and so rifle by throwing a hello kitty pencil pasted it our founding fathers did not put an age limit 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. unlock a door with this they can 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 that are 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. or do you get in touch and share your views on all stories by following us on social media we'll be back in thirty minutes with the top headlines see you the.

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