good. good food russia sharing goodness. a wave of bombings hit sweden just weeks before parliamentary elections prompting intense speculation over who started what were described as extremely organized that. armed gunmen stormed a military intelligence center in cobol but the city is still mourning thirty four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing at a school that's had claimed by islamic state. donald trump ses former cia director john brennan exhibits erratic conduct and behavior and revokes his security clearance threatening a number of other officials with the same measure. and as the economic standoff between ankara and washington escalates turkish citizens vent theory or do us

terrorists by filming themselves smashing their i phones. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me here aaron the top stories this hour more than one hundred cars have been torched across tweeted three weeks ahead of september elections it's believed the fire bombings work o. ordinated takes a look at the timing of the arson attacks and how they're feeling tensions ahead of the electoral race it's not even dark people look up their windows and see that it's. i the first dream it's gone locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out

a word a few moments later do your work to ensure fury and they scream. thanks . there next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now the hooded thugs smash 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 when was the last road where. 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 before 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 born or if you destroyed the whole area of the neighbors for the children on their way to a free school we have to see turns 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 my people and they took my bike. home and there are increased number of

shootings it's gotten worse in every way police man said that he had never experienced anything like this or changed radically. this week. and when the years of ignoring the trends backfired literally with flames some of the swedish elite chose not to talk about mistakes 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 or involved in some way they false flag by the extreme right version is popular among some journalists to. visit inside desperate period piece to explain

the attacks including blaming them aggressions trying to foment unrest 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 up a train go r.t.e. . swedish police say similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous years but on a fast smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic campaign can't ecker also his party has sparked controversy over its anti immigration starts he says people are

starting to realize his country is not as safe as they thought the situation in sweden a story this year old in the international arena when people suddenly realize whoops sweden is my nice little 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 suit and wired many you back i just wasn't a few sticks that. arson. in cars with intent. have gone off and twelve to thirty percent from one hundred sixty seven to one thousand five hundred cases a year or something and they're told i mean it's been going up in actual numbers to . a military intelligence compound has been attacked in the afghan capital kabul to go on men have been killed by security forces officers finally took

control of the building from where the gunman had been firing at the compound and nearby university was also placed on lockdown so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. this latest assault comes as the country's security service is struggle to deal with a spike in terrorist attacks. the. bush. my friends and i were sitting in exam and class the first period finished and we went out for break time comes to a school the students return to class just two minutes later the bombs suddenly went off when i heard the sound i couldn't feel anything. in the.

united nations continues to maintain there could be no military solution to the conflict in a country where all of the. political analysts much tougher hain believes that the new rise of militant groups in the country is a direct consequence of the u.s. and afghan government failure the usa and international community has made so many mistakes in the course of the last one and how big it within afghanistan they have not been able to put policies in place where they get on the confidence of the i want public the government itself has not been able to deliver good governance and they have not been able to respond to the needs of the general public resulting in a loss of public confidence in the government as well as international assistance forces the americans did not work together with the countries of the region the

powers of the region such as countries in central asia russia china and i would then have honest and to create a set of consensus where we can work together towards stability in afghanistan so many factors coming together that has been i desired in up so just taliban as style . have been successfully coming forward and digging wooded areas. donald trump has revoked the security clearance of former cia director john brennan he also lashed out saying he exhibits a rhotic conduct and behavior and is thought brennan is just the first in a line of officials who will suffer the same fate and similar car reports. exercised my constitutional authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information sara sander spoke to press and she said that 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 a very partisan leanings the most divisive president an individual who basically portrayed his nation routinely lies betray 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 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 am 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 certainly 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 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 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 intern every day even when there is high it

right now in the unprecedented way of cutting off brennan's top level security access donald trump says this is not political he would have done the same to any republican he deemed incompetent when i was quick to fire back that's why the president revoked my security clearance to try to silence anyone who would dare challenge him mr trump's claims of no collusion are in a word hold wash. let's go live now to ben harris quiney chairman of the conservative think tank the bow group mr harris quiney thank you for joining us on the program great to have you with us and as we just saw there senator rand paul says that britain was mother ties in his security clearance and sharing sensitive state secrets with the media is that possible you think. but you know it's all doubt about that you know he has a role that m.s.n. b.c. in which he is paid to analyze intelligence which is of course hugely beneficial from receiving the intelligence briefings from the u.s.

government and it's worth noting it's not it's not uncommon for people that have previously served in high office to have this facility an ability but i think the general public are uncomfortable with the notion that you served in high office and then you are able to access sensitive information after you've left that office and use it to enrich yourself financially i don't think that's a good principle and i think that's one of the things that trump is calling out here for brennan seems to think that the cause of the tensions between him and trump is his stance on what he calls russian meddling do you think that's the real reason. well i think one of the the most important things that have happened in u.s. politics in recent years is there's been a realisation that everything is political in other words that the federal bureau of investigation the cia the n.s.a. all of these u.s. agencies are not above politics it's very apparent when you have figures like

brennan and komi intervening in the public debate that these organizations and individuals operate with very considerable politics they are clearly very anti trump has been all along were when they were in office and continue to be now and i think that's very problematic for the united states because what it means is that. these these institutions that were once seen as being the thera just arbiters of the law all being questioned i think it's a good thing that they're being questioned because they haven't been fair and just but it's also very disruptive to the american system and so i think you're going to see lots of this to and fro with brennan saying trance just doing it because he doesn't like me and trump saying brennan's just doing it because he doesn't like me the important thing is that everything in american politics is now politicized which i think is an accurate analysis of the situation as was perhaps to prove that

brennan is intense dad being singled out here be trying to ministrations as it may do the same with other officials folkways criticizing and monetizing that clearances what do you make of that and do you think what it is going to be the first of many. i think he will because trump is doing with these former officials the same thing that he has done with the media he is calling out there very apparent bias we know that the establishment is massively biased against trump in the united states or the swamp as he refers to it similarly we know that the establishment is massively biased against britain in the united kingdom and so we're seeing a lot of these similar trends in both countries where we're where asking deeper questions about the institutions that were once impervious to public scrutiny and also assumed to be beyond reproach in terms of bias and so whilst that process will be very disruptive to the united states of america or in our case and in britain

too i think it's very important because that's the reality of the situation these organizations were operating with a political bias they were claiming not to and trump is calling them out it said harris county chairman of the conservative think tank by a great thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. thank you both take a quick break now but we'll be back with more stories. fettered irresponsible lobbyist accessing unlimited credit from an irresponsible federal reserve bank you have the infinite regress that you saw with the out money starting in the one nine hundred seventy s. and now insurance companies selling insurance on insurance contracts i'm sure as contracts on insurance contracts with another bureaucrat another bureaucrat is

infinite regress. when all is true seems wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any new world beliefs yet to shape out these days becomes active and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back sam i'm presenter chris cuomo has sparked controversy for said all that violence coming from the left wing antiphon the mint in the us is more morally

justified than violence which comes from the far right the comments were made the day after anti far minor clashes with police and journalists while countering the white nationalist rally in washington all punches are not equal truong 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 scrimmages. 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 of their 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 people 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're 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 so 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 you know what if somebody does not put their

hands on you you cannot 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 that he had hired 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 say boils down to 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 it's morally acceptable to her. those who are talking about hate but what about the innocent people as the members of the media get attacked by and used to use schoolteachers being i mean there's also an attack by dan his complete 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. it's ok if somehow justify for the values that it does because most of the time when i see jimmy gaijin news values you see against those who just have different points of view you know i'd have to 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. of russian court has released into house arrest a teenage girl was hanged for being part of a gang allegedly plotting ok to a similar request is currently being heard for a second girl the pair were arrested for their role in a group calling itself new greatness and have been charged with plotting to overthrow the russian government medina carter is outside the court. imo school

court has decided to transfer one member of the new greatness movement which is accused of forming an extremist organization under house arrest she is forbidden to use mobile phones or internet or talk to the press now earlier the prosecution itself asked the court for such a decision and at the moment we're waiting for the court to announces the on the fate of the second detainee whether she's going to be transferred under house arrest as well and now both of these the detainees are the youngest participants of the movement one is eighteen years old and she was just seventeen at the time of her arrest and the other is nineteen years old now there are several dozen people gathered here at this courthouse all waiting for the decision and they greeted this decision with applause now among of the people that we've met here are of course the relatives of the two girls there is a team of lawyers just one of the fathers just representing her interests at the

port and of course a lot of the journalists now it is a rather complicated case and it attracted a lot of attention here in russia earlier made a report on the overall investigation 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 a sleeper and here is how he described and spat this. game was to establish rules in the russian territory the ruling elites on clones i'm repealed repressive laws 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 do anything like this here in our country that's it all began when a few young people from all. go on 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. and full trade at the group of the youngsters and courage their i.d.'s 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. the law which you regulates intelligence gathering activities in russia forbids pleas from provoking someone to commit a crime the person under the name 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 mothers 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 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 house has reportedly worsened she cries throughout the court hearings which was being driven in a cold prison 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 crotty how can a seventeen year old withstand this. is found guilty they face up to ten years and prison i do not question r.t. moscow. well those are your world news headlines for this hour thank you for joining us for all the latest you can join my colleague andrew follow up with them .

gratings and salutation. nicholas johnson was f.c.c. commissioner at 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 two thousand and 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 person or 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. told. the. realtor that it looks. as if the part of. the day like you got. the please. let. down. never going to i'm tom de la lift and joining me to discuss today's buzz latest in a very long line of bumps in the road is 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 under her at facebook to shape and mold nudes from here going forward into the future while according to this story giving threats to the

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