it. was. the headlines in r.t. away for firebombing sits sweden just weeks before parliamentary elections prompting intense speculation over who started the well organized attack. also to come donald trump says the former cia director john brennan exhibits erratic conduct and behavior revotes his security clearance threatening to a number of other officials with the same measure and armed gunmen storming the tree intelligence center in kabul with the city still mourning thirty four people killed in wednesday's suicide bombing at a school state and also to the economic. and washington gets worse the turkish citizens vent their anger at us tiris by recording them smell themselves smashing their i phone.

that welcomes a pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story this hour more than one hundred cars have been set ablaze across sweden three weeks ahead of the september elections it's believed the fire bombings were coordinated. takes a look now at the timing of the arson attacks and how they are staking tensions ahead of the electoral race. 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. thinks

. their 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 art 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 before it. you'd think. through it. 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 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 born if you destroy 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 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 as they took my bike. home and there are 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 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 were well organized would not surprise me if the extreme right were involved in some way they false flag by the extreme right version is popular among some journalists to. visit inside desperate to explain the attacks including blaming them on question straying 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 patrolling co r.t.e. . well swedish police do say that similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous years but on a far smaller scale we spoke to the swedish democratic camp a canned echoed off whose party spark controversy with its gratian stance he says that people are starting to realize his country is not as safe as they thought the situation in sweden i started to slip out in the international arena when people

suddenly realise worse 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 years back i just saw some of this thinks that. the arson in cars with intent. has gone up from twelve to thirty percent from one hundred sixty seven to one thousand five hundred cases a year or something and i mean it's been going up in actual numbers too. so the former cia chief john brennan has hit back at donald trump after he revoked his security clearance on wednesday morning claims the president simply can't take criticism that's why the president revoked my security clearance to try to silence anyone who would challenge him mr trump's claims of no collusion are in

a word hogwash and it's thought too that brennan is the first of many officials will suffer the same fate but the details his america. 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 a 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. 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 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 aids susan rice and german cave peter struck lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked 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 about politics it's very apparent when you have figures like brennan and komi intervening in the public debate these organizations and

individuals operate with very considerable politics they are clearly very i'm the trump house didn't. 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 fair or just arbiters of the law 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. in other news tonight a military intelligence compound has been attacked in the afghan capital kabul two gunmen have been killed by security forces officers finally took control of the building from where the gunmen had been firing at the compound a nearby university was also placed on lockdown no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack well this latest assault does comes the country's

security services the struggle to deal with a spike in terror attacks. the truth. was i. wish. my friends and i were sitting an 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. you. want my mom was not i was. one of them even when i was in the. united nations continues to maintain they could be no military solution to the conflict of a country. well

political analysts much tag a team believed that the new rise of militant groups in the country is a direct consequence of the u.s. and afghan government's failure. the u.s. and international community has made so many mistakes along the course of last one in how big it within afghanistan they have not been able to put policies in place way out of the again 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 want or together with the countries of the region the powers of that he gen such as countries in central asia russia china and i would then have honest on to create a set of consensus where they can work together towards stability in afghanistan so

many factors coming together that has been heard in up so just out of bonn as taliban have been successfully coming forward and beaking with a.d.'s it was not international still to come this hour c.n.n. present spog sang it by saying to claim that some violence is morally superior but having said that just off the bright.

on better irresponsible lobbyist accessing unlimited credit from an irresponsible federal reserve bank 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 contracts on insurance contracts with another bureaucrat another bureaucrat is infinite regress . hello again that the u.s. says that economic sanctions against to keep will remain in place even if ankara releases an american pastor being held on suspicion of terrorism offenses that off

to both sides impose further tariffs on each other and some took the citizens to choosing an unusual way to vent their anger at washington's economic warfare. of the moment i want to move them on to the food. court. just one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally alliance with a nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the turkish just so you're saying this is our faults 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 train for quite some time and you cannot blame the u.s. government for that well stepping in on to the side is cattle which has just approved a fifteen billion dollars in aid to prop up the turkish economy down quarter has been looking at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey is being tested to breaking point. she was billed for the entire entire roof so no leading goes to great tree 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 who will greet you as a. 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 trump administration 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 you have to my word talks about putting america first requires its allies also that would america first to go ahead of their own interests and this is beginning i think decouple some of the lows for america most obviously he's really trying to assert american leadership and perhaps we've tended

to think of american aggressiveness in recent years of probably military involvement suppose 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 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. . now a russian court is placed on house arrest a teenage girl detained for being part of a gang allegedly plotting 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 from outside the court is within a quarter of a. 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 who are waiting for the court to announces the citizen 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 and there are several dozen people gathered here at this courthouse all waiting for the decision and they greeted this decision with applause now in long of the people that we've met here are of course the relatives of the two girls there is a team of lawyers as one of the father is just representing her interests at the

cord and of course a lot of 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 its purpose. was to establish a. russian territory the ruling elites on clone i'm repealed repressive laws in the constitution. the idea of the movement grew out of private chats on social media platforms here is 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 as a reason for their own arrest the detainees say that he was the one who paid most of the money to rent the 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. 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 claimed 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 advise something what do you think since being jailed and as hal has reportedly worsened she cries throughout the court hearings which was being driven in a cold prison van for hours it was minus eleven outside she was interrogated for many hours with no psychologist or lawyer present she was treated like a seasoned criminal they made her cry how can a seventeen year old withstand this. is found guilty they face up to ten years and present i do not question r.t. moscow. says however the news is looking so far tonight sahara not a thanks me company we're back again in just over half an.

very building never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we're dealing with. people here is sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing children. there was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in

america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. i've. they gave us national camera. man three once they showed some leave for the. future uncool videos and so on with the broken string that. we don't more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. .

welcome to a bus a lot and to the magnificent buildings of the song part of this world heritage site is thought to be the greatest example of the post modern tradition of cattle on architecture and that's highly appropriate because today we're going to talk about the future and in particular the future of the cattle on a quarterly one of the features of the constitutional debate here because the lumia is the number of world renowned economists who've been active participants in that debate today we talked to just three of them we asked the why they got involved in that debate and how do they see the future of developing the first over two thirds

being in the studio with your treat your emails and your messages. last week's interview with president tara was covered far and wide in a number of publications both online and in print at confidentiality love and guardian elmore on canal public radio article the way of dealing motion the national in scotland and common speech and also received a number of tweets and e-mails first from scott who says independence day last year of course of writing to catalonia being there as i was really did make me think about politics democracy and identity how it arrives and is quickly removed. food for thought indeed i'm jealous says fantastic interview keep up the good work thank you angela we hope to and then from john what she says looks to be a very interesting interview and that was before present to us into it was broadcast to john please do let us know if you enjoy it now you remember a couple of weeks ago alex also interviewed ten macleish and went to a few of the tweets you deceived and a sponsor to that len finlayson says great interview with kenny mcleish rhys mowbray did more than

a chaperon if you came to scotland to see well i'm not so sure maybe get someone you're sure alex or maybe well susan says these dialogues are fit for the saw a fantastic henry i would be drawn mcleish and salmon to chew over you keep politics past and present thank you susan and finally from bro and i who says henry mcleish excellent discussion with alex salmond on the show tonight. now professor shabby sally martin is one of the top economists in the world and is coming a professor at columbia university in new york city he's also taught at yale harvard and the universe a tad pump of fact in barcelona and the barcelona graduate school of economics he was president of f.c. barcelona during the electoral process of two thousand and six and remains a board member a columnist for spanish newspaper la vanguard he also has a weekly slot on i.e.c. one i contribute regularly to c.n.n. alex speaks to him and buy for than. one of the top international economist group for development but what point drove you to that field of economics that well i saw

poverty for the first time i actually went to i was studied here in barcelona my undergraduate studies i went to harvard to study with my school a brahmin who is a prominent most important mathematical economist in the world in my travel to believe you're in for the first time i saw poverty and i couldn't i couldn't believe it real poverty at the time believe it was the poorest country in latin america and i was so devastated then i turned back and i said economics has to be about solving these problems i know mathematical economies is fun it was like. solving crossword puzzles for me was like a fun good brainteasers. by the economist has to be more than that the debate on independence for cattle the very strong economic dimension. of the economics of cattle on independence economic dimension has been

diminishing over time initially it was all about economics about how much money you know cattle in spain taxes and money that doesn't come back in the form in in the form of investment or some other way how spain does not really represent no only because. spain doesn't do the right economics you know the right economic policies for us but you know spain it's been a disappointment it's like it's like i think of the independent as a broken marriage. you know there is an economic argument. but main leads about you know feeling right i don't love you anymore and yes i promised when we got married they would be forever yes we voted the constitution or our parents for the constitution of spain in the argument years you know seen catalonia voted for the constitution hence you.