it is a virtual certainty that you will fight battlefield for america at some point your life bracing for combat the u.s. vice president tells military academy graduates they should be prepared for active service around the globe including in europe also ahead. serbia puts its military on full alert after police units enter the disputed territories dominated north making a string of arrests. teachers in finland born muslim students against fasting during the holy month of ramadan saying it affects their concentration and. principles. are non-negotiable. the jewish community won't

be told what they believe muslims do need to change they need to get back to a key understanding of what islam is what islam is and how we need to get our house in order because muslims have got problems to do with. around the world around the clock this is international you're world news with me call him welcome to the program 1st off donald trump is encouraging japan to increase its military capability the u.s. president's in tokyo right now and says japan could help the u.s. defend against threats in the asia pacific region and beyond american vice president mike pence touched on those perceived threats to during a speech at the west point military academy has the story. you will fight on a battlefield for america some point your life if you didn't notice the words in the background that was mr vice president talking to the graduates of a top class u.s.

military academy and that wasn't it how do you like this degree of certainty it is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for america some point your life. you will lead soldiers in combat. you will have so what is the 2nd most important official in the country trying to make clear by that the good old boots on the ground will certainly be on the way to quite a few different places after all come on no one in this world would dare to send an army against america to put up a fight there nobody will realistically send soldiers to attack the superpower of all superpowers and so men and women of west point no matter where you're deployed . you will be the vanguard of freedom here they are the future of basters of freedom you look at their faces and frankly it doesn't seem they're in raptures

over what mr pence is saying but let's hear where in the world we might expect to see a boost in freedom in the days to come some of you will join the fight against radical islamic terrorists in afghanistan. and iraq oh these are familiar places where the pro says so to say began a while ago soon it will be 20 years any more destinations some of you will join the fight in europe where an aggressive russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force probably in this area it's a bit of an exaggeration that the graduates will find themselves on a battlefield taking part in nato zbig war games there that's more like it. i. i i. i. well at least for now it's

only been in the form of drills for now and finally the most curious part and some of you may even be called busy upon to serve. in this hemisphere it won't be rocket science for you to figure out where the boots on the ground money to be marching off to next in the western hemisphere van zyl well all where for the white house it's a classic all options are on the table plus we heard from the opposition big guy there one why don't he wouldn't mind at all donald trump also going head to head with the u.s. intelligence services he's demanding they declassify the origins of the miller investigation which looked into alleged collusion with russia the special counsel's a 2 year probe found no evidence of criminal conspiracy between the time campaign and the russian government during the 2016 presidential election our senior correspondent takes a look now at how the mass media shifted its stumps on whether the u.s. president can question the activity of the intelligence services or not. the thing

with spies with all the secrets and power and egos is that we seems to go to their heads and honestly how can you blame them they are literally be yawned public scrutiny and he wouldn't tries to stick their nose in you just stab everything that is classified and loudly denounce them as unpatriotic see it as a very very serious and outrageous move on the part of mr trump once again trampling upon the statutory authorities of the director of national intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies how they trump what true american would. ever question why they're being wiretapped and spied upon good thing america has m.s.n. b c true patriots. mr brennan full time so he can vent his

frustrations for everyone to hear of course to do that m.s.n. b.c. had to sacrifice their principles and integrity president obama said today he still stands by his cia chief john brennan even though it turns out the cia was indeed spying on the senate and some senators are calling for brennan to be fired now just to be clear that was in 2014 when they weren't on the same side and spying on everyone you own elected leaders included was considered dubious these is 2019 and the word spying is now considered politically incorrect it offends people whose people who secretly eavesdrop and record and film everyone agents the good guys. a talking point from the president and those around him telling congress buying her all the trump campaign

it's a loaded word to know the implications of using that word has now gone trump's favorite new word and the trump media's favorite new word. senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein accuse brennan cia of secretly tracking the senate's investigation into one of the worst abuses in recent cia history and now factor in this huge new scandal the fact that brennan cia was spying on members of congress the cia was spying on the senate intelligence committee basically busting into their computers but i give m s n b c too much credit or others to washington post gave brennan his column where he publishes pieces with nubile noble titles i will. speak out until integrity returns to the white house promises well done washington post it takes courage to set aside what you believe in to go back on your word

but again it's been 5 years who remembers things like that right the guardian same thing. cia director john brennan lied to you on to the senate fired him. why is donald trump attacking the u.s. intelligence community surprisingly brennan isn't working for the guardian yet one by one though the pundits and angers the seeing wrong from right the question is are they going to demand brennan's resignation or accountability within the cia patriotic answer by the way is no holding the cia accountable would be sure to put a secret agents do top secret stuff and drink martinis and had things in carry out special secret missions i didn't see anything improper on lawful and yes james clapper brennan's former boss is now a c.n.n.

employee i'll tell you this every true american can be proud of their a brave brave people watch over you and record everything you do or say they and night whether you wanted or not and if times or politics change in 5 years no one will remember it ever happened. serbia has put its military on full alert after kosovo send special police units into the contested republics dominated north arresting a number of individuals suspected of criminal activities. characterized the raids as a provocation and that it will react swiftly of course opposed to threaten the breakaway territories authorities insist though that the operation was aimed only at tackling organized crime and smuggling rings to u.n.

employees were also to take. control over kosovo after a nato intervention in 1909 and doesn't recognize its 2008 declaration of independence you know they'll discuss this tuesday's flare up with correspondent tom corbett. tensions with serbia suddenly spiked earlier today after kosovo special police was deployed into a serb majority region of northern kosovo now serbian president alexander has put the military on high alert he's saying that 23 people were arrested mostly serbs and bosniaks while kosovo authorities are saying that number is at 30 serbia's deputy director of the office of kosovo says that this was this raid was actually an act of intimidation against sort of the day's action unilateral and very dangerous section. is another procreation unfortunately one of the many in the long line of. similar to this that has only one

and the mean given that is to frighten serbs living in the north of course into exile but the cost of a prime minister. didn't deny says that it was part of an anti smuggling and organized crime operation in the area kosovo further urged ethnic serbs in the the area to support the police claiming that this fight is the path to further integration with the west and nato urged all parties to remain calm at the same time taking kosovo side in this deal with the police operation was conducted over the hole to retrieve closer notice to move north and differently wasn't aimed at subi. it was aimed to try to get against crime and corruption the u.n. actually released a statement about it saying that 2 employees at the u.n. mission in kosovo war arrested and later hospitalized the statement also threatens legal responses if any more harm were to be done any harm to united nations stuff will be met with the highest degree of diplomatic and international legal responses

one of the detained personnel was a russian but he's already been released the russian foreign ministry called his detention a blatant provocation as as the employee had diplomatic immunity marias a hot of the foreign ministry spokeswoman said that this is only going to lead to escalating tensions in the region it is obvious to such a provocative behavior by kosovo is the result of u.s. and e.u. long term policies of indulgence tour of them very leaders they're used to being excused everything such steps lead to the ask a lesion of the ethnic tensions and makes efforts of the international community for the post conflict regulation completely useless. there's a deep history to all this is there really is a fractured. tell us more about the long standing out of mosques the i know you could be here for quite a while but just the mean aspects of well you know in these. tensions in the region seriously worsened after nato was bombing of yugoslavia in 1909 and separatist

insurgency came to power in kosovo afterwards and declared independence in 2008 now that to this day the serbian government doesn't recognise that declaration and they consider nato's intervention in the region breach of international law. the parliament of the republic. now earlier today serbia did warn the european union that the government will active kosovo special police has not withdrawn from this region so that was quite a bit a long time ago the special police are still there so perhaps we'll see some international reactions in the next in the coming hours. ok live now into serbian political analyst nicholas motivations welcome back to r.t.

the cost of authorities say it was a long planned attack took place across the republic wasn't aimed at any particular ethnic group how then is it being defined by some as a provocation. no i think bad that it's not credible at all it is definitely a provocation if you look at the current situation we can go great in pristina they are in a stalemate situation they're not discussing anymore the future of the relations between both of the towers of the regions today this attack with were 70 armored vehicles war type scenarios the witnesses are saying that there's been shooting we have several people who have been a wounded this was a very bad reminder of the situation at the end of the ninety's and i and prishtina knew that very well that by going there to the north and part of some of this morning that would be the situation so this is there has to be seen as a provocation on the side of caution to see christina tonight but it is known to be a lawless part of that region and smuggling has been rife it's not beyond the realm

of possibility that these gen things are genuine rage that needed tackling. no don't forget that if you look if you read. marty's report for the care of the council of europe he says that hashem patsey who is supposed to be the president of kosovo today is the most dangerous of the k.l.a. criminal bosses and we have many reports even new reports we keep reports by the dozen on the criminal situation within kosovo it is a very it is very much a criminal protectorate of the united states today and i think that's not a secret for many of the cloud of us so seeing these people giving lessons to the serbs living in the north of kosovo is quite as quite contradictory quite funny actually if the situation was not so it's such a sort of magic is it not the case also the b.m.i. being gauging in some posturing as a military posturing in response to just a routine police operation in an area that it's largely recognising it's lost control over for sure and which are not admitting yesterday then there's

a certain part of parliament that he has no control over over the course of the today he has to suffer some sort of bravado because insurgents just want except abandoning losing kosovo and i think also that pristina and probably backed up by the by mentors are testing actually serbia to see how force or misery to go will they really cross the line will they really intervene in northern coastal to save the life of the 90 percent of serbs who live in northern cross no i think that pretty is quite curious and that's why they sent a lot of people in armed and men into that region and they also want to see how the serbs themselves have reacted and we have seen that there have been blockades the serbs are building a blockade on the roads that serves the church bells were ringing people to go to the streets to defend their houses to defend the population there and there have been there has even been some gun fight with a certain population so i think that's a test of the situation see how far this can go if really they wanted to take over coralie the northern part of cross them and how damaging do you think to date incidents are going to be to the faltering reconciliation efforts between you and

also the shelter they are oh very damaging would you in such a situation certainly. as if we cannot go back discuss with question of the don't forget there has been practically no discussion possible these last months for she has raised tariffs on imports from our serbia. 200 percent and don't forget that surplus one of course the biggest beef not the biggest commercial trade partner and there's been no discussion and now we've got this one type situation including put up one of the recent ministers melodies over the course of oh so this stephanie is showing that i think that being is in kosovo don't care what service going to do there's a lot of pressure on belgrade today this is pushing richard to intervene to do something he's receiving them so a lot of pressure by washington by brussels and he's i mean he's he's in a very tight situation what to do when the people of your own country are attacked by a foreign nation and you're on your own land and you have no other choice than to show

you the stress about your muscles but cannot do anything at one moment he may have to you may have to cross that line and intervene and this is i think what you're trying to provoke him into ok it's going to be a tense couple of days wait to see if anyone can take the heat out of all this for now though nicoll america's thanks for your time. but without a teachers in finland the flagging up concerns about muslim students fasting during ramadan we'll explain why after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is very dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know

world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. and teachers in finland have expressed concern over muslim students fasting during

the holy month of ramadan they claim it affects the students concentration german classes. ramadan is noticeable due increasing sidey never d. school life we cannot 1st feature nor give injections with nutrients we can do is advise parents not to force children to fast fasting for young children can be successful at home not at school without food this year ahead of ramadan authorities in a southern finnish city called on schools not to observe the fast some institutions of reportedly been offering water in extended breaks to muslim students ramadan which is expected to end next tuesday is the most sacred month in the muslim calendar people abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset is considered to be a period of purification and the 4th key pillars of islam. meanwhile politicians in germany including the health minister calling for a more compatible form of islam to be promoted to preserve european culture and traditions instead of tolerating symbols of a reactionary missile journalistic form of islam we must promote the development of

a european islam which shares our values in order to preserve our free european way of life when we discussed all this earlier the crux of the route came down to the line between faith and flexibility. the central principles of the stomach faith are non-negotiable in this same where the jewish community won't be told what they can or cannot believe and i think that's a really dangerous precedent is being crossed your of this war on islam which is about demonizing and taking away the rights of muslims to practice their english. to sensibly do run the best education system in the world with their liberal nordic minds decided that they wanted to help muslim kids out a little bit and are trying to inject a little bit of liberalism and a little bit of tolerance into people who otherwise should know better there is so called liberal societies like the scandinavian countries who talk about liberalism who talk of individual freedom of speech and if you do

a choice but in reality you want to restrict that for one section of society and i think that's deeply wrong if you go to tampa and you meet the finnish muslims and my kids are half inish you will see that they are very accustomed very tribal eyes come from a certain culture and tradition they're not used to having open dialogue integration liberal tolerant values which came from the islamic traditions to europe in the 1st place so muslims do need to change they need to get back to a key understanding of what islam is what islam is and we need to get our house in order because muslims have got problems to deal with there is a why did discussion to be had you know the muslims are very passionate about practicing their faith and we've got to ensure that we educate our fellow citizens who are not muslim about the benefits but also about the challenges of fasting look i think whether it's the issue of fasting whether receive the headscarf whether it's the any other range of issues when we're talking about how islam co-exists a lot of debate

a lot of pressure on how do muslims whether they assimilate or whether they integrate the key point here is about tolerance it's about respect and for muslims it's about returning to the prophetic way which is one of tolerance to respect multi-faith coexistence and i can raise an. the islam you see today i'm not saying people should go to hard manichean issue but we need to learn that values of tolerance and liberalism back from the europeans who took it from us in the 1st place and the islam that people are trying to meet but i've not sure that's the way it should be. now with some of the pretty much upon us at least in the northern half of the world beachgoers combats expect the usual warnings watch out for some jellyfish maybe sharks but what about lethal brothers day the seasiders novelized creams and sand girls at least according to the u.s. consumer safety watchdog.

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