a wave of fire bombings hit sweden just weeks before parliamentary elections prompting intense speculation over who started what we described as extremely organized attacks. armed gunmen stormed a military intelligence center in cobol with the city still mourning thirty four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing at a school and attack claims by islamic state. as the economic standoff between anchor and washington escalates turkish citizens vent fury at us terrorists by filming themselves smashing that i.

very well welcome you watching r.t. international with me. our top story this hour more than one hundred cars have been torched across sweden three weeks ahead of september elections it's believed the fire bombings were coordinated it is trying to takes a look at the timing of the arson attacks and how they're feeling tensions ahead at the electoral records. 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 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 who was overthrow it for it. you can. hear from 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 before the most any custom have the question has to be asked of those people and if that's what the heck were you doing want to figure out how do you think you are born if you destroyed the whole area of the neighborhood

for the children on their way to a free school we have to see turns out cause 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 was it was attacked by by people they took my old bike home and there were increased number of shootings has 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 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 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 to resteal explain the attacks including blaming them on questions trying to ferment invest before the election. sweden democrats sympathises of 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 r.t.e. . swedish police say similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous years but on a far smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic campaign can't echo roth whose party has sparked controversy over its anti immigration stance he says people are starting to realize his country is not as safe as they thought the situation in sweden i started to see it 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 has been on for a long time and we have made your arse and wired many you i just saw some statistics that. our son. 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 to. a military intelligence compound has been attacked in the afghan capital kabul a local journalist fulton fires he has more details. i just had a phone call with the kabul police spokesperson house my son is a he said that tac 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 say them through 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 seize seized in a building unfinished construction and started shelling to our city intelligence center training center kabul police said saw four to offer them have been gunned down but they are all the streets across the you know this 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 need there 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 and this latest assault comes as the country's security services struggle to deal with the spike in terror attacks. my friends and i were sitting in exam in class first period finished and we went out for break time afterwards while the students return to class two minutes later the bombs suddenly went off when i heard the sound i couldn't feel anything. illegal.

in the. united nations continues to maintain no military solution should secure the country. our. dog trump has revoked the security clearance a former cia director john brennan he also lashed out saying the he exhibits erratic conduct and behavior that is thought but it is just the first in a line of officials who will suffer the same fate as the mirror car reports. exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information sara sanders spoke to press and she said that 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

a very partisan leanings the most divisive president an individual who basically portrayed his nation routinely lies with the women of the 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 seventh team 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 aides 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 par certainly a lot of them were higher ups in the f.b.i. and also it is. certainly i mean i believe these people are all go of this rush to get to 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 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 senior intelligence officials to still get their morning intel briefings each and every day even when they were tired and now when 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. says economic sanctions against turkey will remain in place even if ankara releases an american pastor being held on suspicion of terrorism offenses that's after both sides imposed further tariffs on each other and some turkish citizens have chosen an unusual way to vent their anger at washington's economic warfare. one porton 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 them 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 the 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 train for quite some time and you cannot blame the us government for that stepping in on turkey's side is cattle which is just approved fifteen billion dollars in aid to prop up the turkish economy are seized on course has been looking at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey is being tested to breaking point. 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 who will greet you and me. 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 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 but turkey's 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 you 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 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 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. . let's tell it of the french this story now with our guest alman director of the crisis institute mr allman thank you for joining us on the program now katsav which is of course a strategic u.s. on ally is giving financial aid do you think don't trump should be anxious about

alienating the u.s. from its friends with these strict policies. yes i think we have to work on trump talks about putting america first he requires his allies also to put america first even head of their own interests and this is beginning i think to decouple some of the allies for america most obviously turkey qatar is in an awkward position because it is blockaded economically by saudi arabia and the other emirates in the gulf and it gets support from turkey turkey flies in foodstuffs which the qatari can't import from saudi anymore and also has sent troops to provide a kind of reinsurance to qatar so categories whole host of main american base but it's also a daggers drawn with the main u.s. ally thirty arabia and so it looks to turkey for help turkey is in a desperate economic condition for a variety of reasons not helped by the u.s. sanctions so it looks to a country like qatar that has cash reserves to try and help at least bail it out

we've or it already seen trump impose sanctions on some other of america's key allies like canada or in the e.u. what they're trying to achieve here. well i think he's really trying to assert american leadership and perhaps we've tended to think of american aggressiveness in recent years has been probably the military involvement in places like afghanistan iraq and so on but in a way trump perhaps is less inclined to want to use military power but he wants to show that america still has particular financial who get money in the world but i think the danger for him is that by picking on so many countries simultaneously china russia iran turkey and as you say a number of nato allies like canada and the european union countries as well as turkey he risks creating a kind of axis of the sanctions axis of the people on the tariffs abraham lincoln once said to his secretary of state when he suggested that at the height of the american civil war britain was being too friendly to the south so canada should be

invaded by the red states to punish the british lincoln said one more time mr secretary and i think mr trump would be well advised to one trade war time because he as i say risks now beginning to cause a coalition of the sanctioned to come together with a common grievance against the united states because of those terrorists because of the financial measures which tend to destabilize currencies and in that sense hit the economies of countries and ordinary people and that begins also to create a popular backlash which i think is not in the interest of the united states in the long term and what kind of impact do you think the palestinians herit policy could have on america's own economic situation. will although trump promised these sort of measures to get his voters out in the election two thousand and sixteen it's not really clear that many of the republican voters are going to be helped by this terror war for instance china has slapped tariffs on the kind of things that midwestern republican voters export to china so

. there is a problem now for trump but yes he's waving the stars and stripes and beating the patriotic drum this may give who support would. the short term but there's beginning to be an economic impact on his core support and that could backfire for him as well as also creating a more general tension across the west that people are all the bewildered by the united states suddenly using its economic weapons which in the past it's directed at rogue states like iraq or golf career or iran now treating canada and the european union as rogue states at least in regard to trade mark almonds director of the christ research institute thank you for your time. will be back after this very short break stay with us.

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truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back to our tea international lisping a month since the fee for world cup in russia ended but the memories all still fresh in fans halls and minds of the three million went to the matches with a few halls of them florida is now an italian supporter and sports such as has released a video showing how he joined the greatest show on the free. to be. free. falling now speak to the man of the moment himself type in one thousand fun culture

at a time martina only say i welcome to the program it's great to have you on now we've already met you before during the tournament let's just remind our viewers of your amazing story. so basically the head of the world cup i organized with my colleagues thinking there's been a lot of negative tensions in the media around the english relations and russian relations and so i'd sort of proposed the idea of trying to survive the world cup for free relying on something russia is very famous for which is russian hospitality and through it i managed to travel to all live in cities of the world cup attend actually nine matches by trading football kits that bothers me and really just enjoyed unbelievable and sort of one of a kind experience at this tournament which was really historic i can't do believe we have some video of your time in russia let's just take a quick look at that it's been amazing i mean day when we arrived in moscow middle way down to sochi that we've been bringing football kits with the sub where we go and we've been using those football kits to exchange for food water beer tickets

the first day we actually managed to exchange brazil get the two tickets to spain portugal which ended up being a treat for the center and i love completely unbelievable experience so that's how it all starts a did it ends just as incredibly for you. yeah i mean it ended gloriously i actually got to attend the world cup the world cup final but i mean it was it was so much more than just sort of attending the matches it was it was really this experience of a month of making unbelievable amount of friends whether they be russian or foreigners i mean there was the whole project was meant to sort of prove this idea that football is an extremely powerful tool in creating human connection and can really cut beyond the sort of divisive political narratives that we all experience in the media and really through this tool of football we actually had this past fortan national tournament to meet people from all over the world and actually just incredible things here there was a running theme in the british media throughout the world cup this particular

obsession with the furious russian hooligans said what do you think about it not that it turned out to be justified all these that this fame and glory. well of in the film mongering obviously wasn't justified there is obviously had a risk of some sort of instance of hooliganism happened in happening in any international terminology asli head of the term a lot of the fears were predicated on what had happened in marsay two years prior at the rose in france but my experience was actually you know there were very little in the village and also because of the way that sort of the russian state had dealt with any fears of hooliganism which was that any for any group found doing any who in islam within the within the time of the world cup would have been punished collectively and so anyone sort of involved also in that scene which i'm familiar with that my work was really put in a place where it was never going to happen during that tournament and actually what was most interesting was the fact that russians themselves the average citizen you know the normal football fan was really galvanized by this idea and the sort of

negative press that occurred around the hooliganism situation and became an instance of people sort of you know stopping me on the street of my shoe she was untied if i was lost somewhere they would give me a ride to the place and wouldn't accept any money for it it was there was there was almost a sort of national fervor to actually be as welcoming is humanly possible where this whole football anything now so you planning to return to russia. of course i mean i grew up learning russian as a kid so that was a measure to also that i get to use throughout the world cup i'm fairly conversational but yeah of course i want to return to russia i mean we have to think also the tournament all to give us access to thirteen of the eleven of the cities and one third of the country you know and i'm still very curious to see vladivostok blood levels dog. or a ton of the region of the reasons across the country that sort of still remain a mystery to me but yes and i think most interesting with this tremendous it wasn't

necessarily the cities like st petersburg and moscow was so she that really surprised me it was it was more my experiences and some are you. cities that i would have never likely gone to have it wasn't for this tournament but actually i discovered were incredibly interesting and unique in their own ways. thank you for joining us on our to international today that skype of ninety fun culture added martina raise a looking forward to welcoming you back to russia sometime see just thank you. that's it for this hour we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest don't forget to get in touch and share your views on our stories by following us on social media. they gave this man show camera. roughly once they showed some loose leaf for the.

future own cool videos with the broken string of. more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . welcome to worlds apart sending humans into space has long required a national and even international effort to provide all the necessary financing and technology but space access recent successes in hauling freight into orbit claim to challenge this paradigm privatized space services make space exploration cheaper and easier to discuss that i'm now joined by geoffrey hoffman an american astronaut

and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the massachusetts institute of technology dr hoffman it's so great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. pleasure to be here now the world is still massmart eyes by space-x. recent falcon have a launch it was certainly very spectacular after some people compare it to the launch of sputnik or the landing on the moon i want it all as an engineer do you think that was really such a major technological breakthrough a major milestone in the history of space exploration. no i mean it is evolutionary but what space x. as a whole is trying to accomplish i do think is revolutionary. the idea of strapping together three first stages to make a more powerful rocket is not new the the u.s.

has the delta heavy rocket which has been flying for many years now. so that technology is not revolutionary however what space x. has accomplished is to make it a lot more affordable. the rough cost of a delta heavy. it's hard to know exactly but it's in the order of two hundred fifty million dollars the falcon nine the falcon heavy can carry twice the payload of a delta heavy for about one hundred million dollars and so it really is changing the paradigm of how much it costs to get into space and and that's the revolutionary aspect i think of what space x. is doing but dr hoffman i wonder if it's perhaps too early to say that because i think the same arguments were made about the shuttle program that it's three usable

doubt it.