i'm ali velshi, and thanks for joining us. >> hi, every. this is aljazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. insider attack. a u.s. general killed in afghanistan. how a man believed to be an afghan soldier opened fire on high ranking officers. and a truce. ebola, the battle to keep the outbreak from leaving africa while a second infected american comes home for treatment. russian built up on the border and tensions rising again. and richard nixon 30 years

ago, the president's forgotten interview. >> in gaza, a three-day ceasefire appears to be holding for now. the way to extend the troops, and we have extensive coverage inside of gaza coming up, but in gaza tonight a u.s. general is dead after an insider attack. marriage general hank green was killed. a man believed to be an afghan soldier opened fire on green and coalition troops. many others, including a german and afghan general and american troops. it happened in kabul. the pentagon said that an investigation is underway. and lisa has more. >> reporter: the attack took

place at the afghan national military academy in kabul. and it was in this top training facility. they were in a meeting with their afghan counterparts when a man in an afghan military uniform opened fire. he reportedly used a light machine gun. and he killed general green and wounded up to a dozen others, and the man, the attacker, was killed during the attack. at the pentagon today, spokesman john kirby said this does appear to be an insider attack, where afghan troops turn on coalition forces. >> i think we have been very honest. that the insider threat is a pernicious threat. and it's difficult to always ascertain. to come to grips with the scope of it anywhere you are, particularly in a place like afghanistan. so afghanistan is still a war zone.

>> now, general herald green, who was killed in this attack, a two star general, he was the highest ranking u.s. official killed in a combat zone since the vietnam war. he had been wit with there for 0 years, in afghanistan, and he played a key role there, helping them to get ready for the u.s. draw down. he leaves behind a wife, a daughter and his son, and his son is in the army as well. tonight, the army chief of staff issuing a statement saying that our thoughts and prayers are with the greene family and the families of the other soldiers injured today. >> the man who carried out the attack, do we know anything about him? who else might be responsible? >> at this point, it appears that he was a member of the afghan military forces and that means that he had been vetted and checked for security issues.

and the pentagon asked today whether this calls the vetting process in question, and that will have to wait for investigation. but the insider attacks thankfully have been on decrease. last year, there were 16 coalition troop deaths, and 53 died in 38 separate attacks so it's still a big one, but it's still horrifying, and it's such a tragedy that this has occurred today in afghanistan. about 33 u.s. troops remain in the country this, and they're expected to draw down to about 10,000 by the end of this year. >> lisa stark from the white house, thank you. retired lieutenant, tony schaffer, joins us tonight from dc. and what about security here? i mean, americans look at this and go, what's going on? >> well, my condolences to

harold greene's family first, but the increasing green on blue attacks, general dunford went in with an eye on this, and he was used it doing things, to increase the safety of the afghans, and they are going to be loyal to the central government. this was not an easy thing. there are a lot of tribal issues, and the taliban insurgents, and while they didn't get credit for this, they did have a lot of infiltrates inside of the afghan army. so this is something that we have to keep our eye on, no matter what. >> and lisa said that the attacks have been reduced significantly, but however, what else can be done? i mean, the tall began and other groups taking advantage of the fact that the u.s. is pulling out? >> yes, absolutely. i think that the tall began is

holding it's powder so to speak. they're being very patient because as lisa mentioned, we're drawing down to 10,000 troops by next year. our profile has been 100,000 troops to 32 and we're lowering it again. but in the past, we have taken members of foreign militaries and trained them in third countries. nato wants to be an ally and friend, and let's take afghans who we want to be loyalists to the central government. move them to germany and train them in the nato training areas and send them back in, and i think that the afghans would be much less apt to kill their trainers if they're in germany. >> so does this mean that the 10,000 soldiers who left are at greater risk? >> no, as a matter of fact, i think that the way they're going to do it, from any discussions with those working this, is that

you were going to have a primary force of special operations doing offensive anti-it wereerism, and the training should be much lower. you want to train an afghan to be the trainer and they train the larger military. there have you have afghans leading and training afghans so, in the end, we have learned a lot of lessoned on how to lower the profile to reduce this sort of chance of violence. >> what about the issues, in afghanistan? >> well, john, i think we can both agree that security going to be the key to sustaining any central government in afghanistan and that's the huge question. lighquestion. right now, they have just started the auditing of the presidential los angeles results. and we don't even have a

president yet. and today coming down to very dicey issues. which president will be elected and will he sign the agreement? and quite frankly, will the plan that we have in place sustain the afghan government? that's huge and to be determined and frankly, i'm sceptical that we'll be able to see the afghan government survive past our departure. >> thank you. >> thank you, john. >> now to the other to story, a three-day ceasefire between israel and hamas in its 19th hour. israel said that it pulled its ground forces out of gaza. and they sent delegations to cairo for talks. today, some palestinians were able to return to their homes. >> this is where israel forces took cover while fighting an

armed palestinian troop. the presence is clear, and so too is the damage caused by earlier israeli shelling of what was once the home of a family of seven. the people who owned this house are the lucky ones. it's still standing, and one day they may be able to rebuild and move back in. but that's not the case for many others. with tuesday's withdrawal of israel's ground forces from the gaza strip, and the start of the 72-hour ceasefire, many have come back. he shows me where his house once stood. all it is now is a pile of rubble. this is the first time that he has seen his home since israeli forces ordered him to leave more than three weeks ago. >> god help me. only god can protect us from these criminals. >> over in gaza city, people have started going out to the streets. for many, their first stop is

the bank. getting access to cash has been difficult since the conflict began, and most are taking out as much as they can. >> for weeks, i couldn't leave my house, and i ran out of money completely. i have 25 family members staying with me, and i couldn't get food to them. >> there's hope that the ceasefire will hold, but many know from experience just how fragile it is. aljazeera, gaza. >> the israeli cabinet met tonight to talk about ceasefire going on. considering the program, the chief palestinian negotiator said a lasting peace can only happen with israel and it's occupation of gaza. >> we ask one question, do you want to rebuild gaza so another

israeli prim prime can destroy it in 2016? do you want to go back to the negotiating table and go on with government as usual, settlement. and doing all that it takes to undermine the solution? this status quo will not continue. the status quo no more. >> and you can hear more of this tonight on "consider this" at 10:00 eastern time. it the conflict in gaza damaged much of the infrastructure, according to the center for human rights. two hospitals were destroyed. two desalinization plants that turn seawater into drinking water were blown up. six u.n. schools were blown up and an attack on a sewage plant has created an environmental crisis. >> sewage flowing into the mediterranean sea.

people go fishing and don't catch of. they to try, knee-deep in filthy water. the smell is terrible. >> maybe it stinks in the sea, but what can we do? i want to help my family survive. and we need to eat. >> even when gaza isn't in the war, it doesn't have enough electricity or infrastructure to treat all the waste by all of the ways produced by 1.8 million people. and now it's worse. the pumping it station was bombed and a pool of untreated waste blocks the road heading north. and the overflow runs to the sea. for the last two weeks, 30,000 cubic metres of raw sewage a day has flooded into the streets in northern and central gaza. >> we're not able to bring the sewage down to the facilities. so the sewage is now in the streets, and it's flooding in the nearby areas, and [ unintelligible ]

>> reporter: in shoddy refugee camps, on the sea, waste water trickles through the streets. >> interpreter:children are playing in it, now it's here all day, and i can't describe how bad it smells. i'm afraid its oven more than us. it was a problem before the war, and now it's worse. >> reporter: if that wasn't bad enough, mounds of rubbish are getting bigger. another 200,000 people have moved into the center of gaza city since the war started. almost doubling the amount of rubbish produced to around 700 tons a day, and all of this is ending up here in the middle of the city. the main landfill site is in east gaza, in the middle of all of the fighting. there's no way that the rubbish can be sent there. gaza's beaches are empty, it's cafes deserted. and when the sea breeze comes in, the stench of rotting garbage and sewage drifts across the city. nicole johnson, aljazeera, gaza.

>> and tomorrow, we'll take an in-depth look at the middle east. i'll be with nick schifrin, on the ground this, and our special report, 30 days of war, airs wednesday, at 11: p.m. eastern time. if. >> and the expansion of the so-called islamic state. fighters have taken a town in lebanon. violence erupted there, and they tried to drag them back across the border. >> reporter: they were quickly whisked out of our cells. three members of lebanon's security forces were released on tuesday. they were among the more than 30 being held by the self declared islamic state. it was called a good will measure to end the conflict that has threatened to destabilize

the country even further. the lebanese army and government are not interested with what they're calling terrorists. the only deal that they would be willing to accept would be one that involves armed fighters releasing their captains and withdrawing. it's on the eastern border of syria. the army has regained control of strategic hilltops. and up to 3,000 are believed to be inside of the surrounding region. but on that side of the border, the syrian government and the allies have been closing in on their position. this won't be an easy thing for either side. the lebanese army has still not stormed the town because it wants to avoid civilian casualties. up to 100,000 syrian refugees, 30,000 lebanese live there.

starting the battle as the most serious yet. it's day four of what could be a prolonged and deadly conflict if the deal is not reached. aljazeera, arsed. >> there's a report that russian hackers have stolen more than 1 billion email addresses and passwords. fortune 500 companies are among the target. and they do not have tiles to russian government. we'll have more coming up at 11:00 eastern time. up next, the outbreak spreading. nigeria with more suspected cases of ebola and what the airlines are doing to contain the disease. and what you don't know about ebola. tracing the disease to its surprising source.

>> tonight, there's a new effort

to prevent the ebola virus from spreading. cancels flights from sierra leone until the end of the month. more cases have been reported in nigeria. since march, 1600 cases have been confirmed and nearly 900 people have died. world bank pledged money to help guinea, liberia and sierra leone. the second victim arrived in atlanta today. >> officials and health workers from around the world try to stop the suddenly of the deadly ebola outbreak over in west africa, there's another debate going on behind me in america. the two victims in the isolation rooming treated. american aid worker, nancy writebol arrived.

and her family gave support. >> i love you, and i am going to encourage her, we know that god is good, and we trust him. >> reporter: the other patient, her colleague, dr. kent brantley, made the same trip over the weekend. the two missionaries are the first patients with ebola to be treated on american soil. and both are said to be improving after receiving an experimental drug. >> what it is, a cocktail of ant bodies, which are proteins that the body makes to block the virus. >> the serum was identified from lab animals. dr. brantley received his second dose of the drug yesterday. and writebol got her second dose this morning. it's being praised by christian missionary groups. >> if they had to suffer through this to see tens and thousands

and maybe more lives saved, they would say, i'm willing to go through it. >> the officials breached the press on her condition outside of the hospital. >> nancy is still very weak. she shows signs of continued improvement. she's showing signs of progress and is moving in the right direction. >> reporter: the world bank announced a $200 million emergency relief fund. money that will be distributed to the governments of liberia, guinea and sierra leone to pay doctors and educate on how to fight the outbreak, and meanwhile, volunteers from around the globe continue to soot and up head over seas to the front lines, where the virus has already claimed over 900 lives. doctors are monitoring the vital signs, keeping the patients

hydrated and allowing their bodies to take over and fight this deadly infection and hope for the best. the centers for disease control is evaluated whether a patient admitted to a new york city hospital has the ebola infection. and doctors say not likely. he went to the emergency room sunday night with a high fever and gastrointestinal problems, and his tests should be available tomorrow. >> . >> when the ebola virus assumptioned in africa in the 1970s, it killed 500 people. and more than twice as many have died from it this year. >> reporter: john, this is the worst ebola outbreak ever. and it began in march when a few people suddenly got sick and died. and since then, it has been spreading fast. it jumped to liberia and sierra leone, and africa's most populous nation, nigeria.

this time its killing more than half of the people who get infected. ebola first appeared in 1976 and was likely transmitted to people from fruit bats, and in uganda hundreds died in the '90s and the 2000s, but the worst outbreak was in 1976 when 425 people died. and that's half of those killed so far this year. it can be highly contagious. one man at nigeria's main airport collapsed and died. and health officials are sure that it wouldn't get far to america. but it could spread beyond africa. >> how deforestation in africa is increasing the risk for ebola. >> .

>> now to china, the search for earthquake survivors. the number is expected to rise. the epicenter of the 6.5 magnitude quake in western china, and we have this report. >> there is only one road into the quake zone. and it's clogged with emergency vehicles. some are soldiers, some are students, and they form an army whose soul mission is to help those who have lost so much. but their efforts are occasionally hampered by heavy rain, which are considering landslides, endangering the rescuers. the small town, it's flimsy buildings, and the people inside of them stood little chance during sunday's violent." she's wearing a white scarf because she's in mourning for

her 79-year-old mother. >> my mother would have turned 80 in two weeks. she was lucky. she had several grandchildren, one at university, but she'll never see him again. >> reporter: rescuers are still finding people alive, but increasingly, this is turning into a recovery operation, with children among the dead. a parent looks on as everything that he loved most in the world is pulled from the rubble. this impoverished and remote corner of southwest china is an earthquake zone, with three in the last seven years. rescue teams have been able to reach places, but haven't been able to get to remote communities up in the hills, where they believe that people could still be buried under rubble. but those who survived are still reluctant to leave.

he and his wife are among those who lost homes. but they cook and sleep in the same fields they cultivated for decades. >> i'm not leaving. i have nowhere to go, and i don't want to leave my field. >> this disaster is much smaller in scale than the earthquake six years ago that killed 70,000. but none of that matters to these people. now mourning the loss of so many in this isolated community. adrien brown, aljazeera, southwest china. >> coming up next, no cure for ebola. find out why drug companies aren't working harder to find a vaccine. and vladimir putin's plan to respond to sanctions from the west. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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plus, retaliation. vladimir putin's new move to fight the sanctions against russia. and ebola vaccine. why drug makers aren't motivated to find a cure for the deadly virus. the three-day truce between israel and hamas is holding, at least for now. israel has pulled its ground forces from gaza, and now the focus is on talks in cairo, where the negotiates are looking for a permanent ceasefire. after four weeks of fighting, israel's military left a devastating mark. charles stratford. >> reporter: this is the latest from gaza. the ceasefire is hoeing, but incredible shock among the palestinian people as they return to what is left of their homes. i went down south of the gaza

strip, and one man described to me what he said was a tsunami, the aftermath of a tsunami down there, people picking through the rubble to salvage what they can from their lives. there's a lot of mistrust down there, whether the ceasefire will hold. people leaving the areas where they lived, taking as much as they can, getting quickly out from what was the front line. meanwhile, talks ongoing in cairo, and we understand that the israeli delegation has arrived with the indirect talks with the palestinian factions, including hamas. and israel in cairo, they're trying to push egypt to demand hamas, that they hand over their weapons in change from a guarantee from israel that they will rebuild gaza. very interesting line coming out

of kairo. it seems that israel's demands are as high as hamas. we know that they want the blockade over the gaza strip lifted and they want the prisoners released as well. and they want the fishing areas that they can fish in expanded but the israelis are pushing very hard their demands as well. that's the latest here from gaza. >> that's charles stratford reporting. and tomorrow, we take an in-depth look at hamas, 30 days of war. 111:eastern time. in europe, the latest round of economic sanctions on russia. because of the actions in ukraine. putin said that his government is finding different ways to respond. they may decide to bar european airlines from flying over russia.

and the kremlin called an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to talk about humanitarians from coming to ukraine. more from the u.n. >> u.n. officials describe it as a deteriorating humanitarian situation in eastern ukraine as the fighting moves into civilian areas, and we're seeing more casualties in the civilians, and displaced people. at least 175,000 people have fled into russia to escape the violence, and those are people who have registered in some way. the actual number is probably much higher. russia puts it at 740,000 people. and then there are the displaced people inside of the ukraine. 118,000 people. and then on top of that, you have people in trouble because they can't leave the conflict area, and increasingly, that's

what the u.n. is concerned about. people trapped because of the violence, and increasingly without services like water supplies, and sanitation and access to mel care. but members of the skirt council from europe and the united states clearly put the blame for this conflict on russia, and they say that russia is backing separatists with weapons, with money, with fighters, and it's in their power to stop this fight. it's clear that the security konsyl not going to get behind russia's proposal to go into ukraine, even for humanitarian purposes. >> and the you kne u.n. said te violence has forced 17,000 ukrainians from their homes. and we met one of those families from donetsk. >> reporter: the family walks to safety. they are in done effect, where the ukrainians are battling

separatists. they have relatives and friends they could stay with, but they can't afford to reach them right now. they have been displaced from their home. >> interpreter: the thing happening right now feel like a play, and not real. one side pushes the other. and a lot of civilians have been killed by gunfire and shrapnel. >> reporter: for a few hours a day, people are allowed to leave donetsk. driving out of the humanitarian corridor, some have tied white flags to their cars, hoping that will be enough to protect them. in a sunflower field, the ukrainians wait for their orders. they are pushing forward, but progress has been slow and dangerous. the ukrainian fighters are getting closer to donetsk, but meeting resistance from the fighters. and you can see how close the

shell came it their position. most of these men are ukrainian deserters who crossed their borders, and ukraine said they're prisoners of war and should be returned. but one thing is clear, many of the soldiers don't want to be here. >> you want to return to your family as soon as upon? >> as soon as possible. >> reporter: that is unlikely to happen. kiev said that it won't stop until it retakes this hand. just after we left, this ukrainian checkpoint was shell bid separatists. forcing people to turn back toward the fighting. but it's tearing apart their country. aljazeera on the out skirts of donetsk. >> in nigeria tonight, new accusations of war crimes commit bid that country's military against the boko haram. amnesty international said that the video proves the charges, and we warn you now that some of

the pictures are graphic. it shows state sponsored militia killing civilians. it has it has confirmation video that it's killing military personnel. leaders from 50 african nations are in washington d.c. this week. president obama spoke to them in a summit. he said that the u.s. must do a better job of strong ties to africa. and he promises billions of dollars, mostly from private seconder companies. >> the u.s. is making a long-term investment. today across our government and by our many partners, totaling $33 billion. that will support development across africa and jobs here in the united states. >> reporter: president obama said america's relationship with africa has to move beyond aid,

and a more equal economic partnership. earlier, i talked to dr. janet d fraser, a former assistant secretary of state for african affairs, and i began by asking the importance of this. > >> i do believe that the united states is not taking full advantage of openness to business, and engagement with the u.s. government. and certainly, i think our citizens are going over to africa, but we tend to view africa from the lens of crisis and the ebola crisis, and other types of war, boko haram and whatever, so there's a lot more we can do to take advantage of the opportunities there. >> do you think that china is taking the opportunity that you just talked about seriously the united states is missing out? >> i definitely think that china has made africa a strategic priority.

so you see the level of chinese trade growing exponentially, and certainly out pacing the united states in many ways. you see more chinese citizens and business people in africa. there's a greater diplomatic engagement. but that said, america's relationship with africa has been long-term and deep seeded. >> how does want united states go in and work with a corrupt government? you take nigeria for instance, and many many questions just from the people of nigeria, of how goodluck jonathan is running that country, and how would businesses be encouraged to work with the nigeria an government? >> it's not necessarily working with the nigerian government. but you can't say in a blanket way that the government is corrupt. no more than you could say that the american government is corrupt. if you go to certain

constituencies in the united states, they would say that barack obama bankrupt the people. and certain citizens will say that against the nigeria an government, but it doesn't mean that the government is corrupt. there are individuals that can be corrupt like in any other place in the world. but doing business with nigeria is a dynamic economy, and there are corruption issues in nigeria like every place else. it's not an issue of a corrupt-free environment. but trying to deal transparently and trying to hold the governments more accountable. >> what big businesses have taken the first step on the continent of africa, in the oil industry? >> the industry is a huge part

of american industry in america. and chevron has been there for a long time. but you see different types of consumer good companies, like wal-mart, which has just gone into africa in a big way by purchasing a company in south africa. ibm has hut it's research lab in nairobi, and it's actual deploying the watson computer, which is big data crunching, and they're in africa x. it's the only place outside of the united states that they are deplaying the watson computer. so you see consumer goods, it and energy, and agriprocessers, all are going into africa because of the huge returns, and the much more positive environment and greater stability over the last ten years in the region. >> dr. fraser, it's always good

to see, so thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> tonight, new precautions taken to prevent the ebola virus from spreading to africa. liberia and sierra leone to the end of the month. today a second aid worker was diagnosed and in atlanta today, nancy writebol and her colleague, dr. kent brantley, are said to be improving. the two americans are being treated with an experimental drug, one of only a few to fight ebola. it's called zmapp. and it had never been tested on humans before. jake, how close are researchers to developing a vaccine for ebola? >> in many ways, it should be an easy target. since we developed the vaccine in 1976, it's straight forward.

and in fact, there are two promising vaccines in development right now. but the problem is a commercial one. and it's unlikely that the vaccines are ever going to move forward. i talked to dr. michelle barry at stanford, and here's what she had to say. >> these vaccines, which have been around for a while, haven't been fast tracked. and the ebola virus is a disease of people living overseas, not in america. it's not going to be a very profitable vaccine. even in the travel medicine arena, not many people are going to be taking ebola vaccine. so it's not going to be very profitable. >> we're talking about a disease that really has only infected fewer than 5,000 people in the world's poorest companies, so

it's not a big market for a company. >> why can't it be more widely available? >> in that case, a lot of people are trying to link that to their recovery. and because we have done so little research into ebola, there's no way to know if that had anything to do with dr. brantley or his colleague coming back. the money put toward ebola research is bioterror. it might be a bioterror weapon in some way. but the money given to these vaccines in research is a tiny step. you would need tens of millions of dollars for a treatment spread throughout africa and that's unlikely to happen. >> jake, didn't you ask the experts, wouldn't it be worth a try to give people the vaccine? >> when you talk to experts about it, they have mixed views about t anybody sick on the bed

with ebola would accept this into their body. but when you talk from an epidemiological perspective, with ebola, you don't know how people are going to behave. if they touch the dead, or they come into contact with one another, thing they are cured and they're not. and trials in an emergency situation are not a good way to develop a scientific and reliable vaccine. >> tomorrow, the american soldier freed after years of captivity in afghanistan, faces questions from the u.s. army. army associate, bowe bergdahl, abandoned his post. and he was captured by the taliban and released in may as part of a prisoner swap. what's coming up on america tonight. jo. >> tonight on the program, saying good-bye to a miami

institution that delivered a hearty serving of fry fish and justice. but the place was a legend. jumbo, and it's not the only reason that jumbo has been a staple to south florida for so long. it was opened 24-7 for so many years, and it helped social justice. >> i tried to tell the black customer, you don't have to come in the back door. you can come in the dining room. >> did that take awhile. >> it took awhile. because the black customer wasn't comfortable coming in the dining room. >> the bite on jumbo's, and why closing it up means more. that's at the top of the hour. and we hope that you'll join us for that. >> 40% of america's electricity is still being generated by coal. america's tough new restrictions on-air pollution is forcing many power plants to shut down, and

that's spurring the debate over clean alternatives. >> reporter: by 2017, the last of the coal fired power plants in the state of massachusetts will be out of business. latest to close, a 63-year-old operation whose chimney stacks spewed over salem. but if all goes well, it will be torn down, and taking its place, a smaller, more photogenic facility, driven by natural gas. it will be shut down in just 35 years, and by then, a non-fossil fuel plant will be available to replace it. environmental groups reached that with massachusetts' official target of more than one quarter of its electricity generated from renewable sources in the next five years. >> the settlement that we reached in regard to this plant is a great example of how you

can use natural gas to make sure that we keep the lights on, and create a very careful transition to a clean energy future. >> but to some local residents, that deal is full of holes. >> we think that's a terrible idea. there's no way they will meet the mandated goals if they continue to burn carbon. if you build the plant, it's going to shut out the development of renewable energy, like wind and solar and wave technology. >> reporter: massachusetts has plenty of wind and waves, but the technology lackings behind europe. the first proposed offshore commercial wind farm is years away from construction. and the promoters admit that the price of electricity would be double on the grid. but clean power advocates say that it's quickly changing for the better. >> already in some places of the

country, wind and solar are at competitive levels. >> reporter: meanwhile, in the courts and on the streets, the activists continue to wage their fight for the state to step off the natural gas pedal. aljazeera, salem, massachusetts. >> still ahead, richard nixon in his own words. >> i just didn't want to quit. >> 40 years after he resigned the presidency, newly released records with his side of the story. and breaking gender barriers in the nba.

>> we expect to see quite a bit of rain across the region. and right now, the main part of hawaii is under a tropical storm watch, which affects the southern shore of maui, and we expect over the next hours, the watch will extend to the northeast. so we'll be watching this carefully in the coming days. that's weather and news is next.

>> tonight, a three-day ceasefire between gaza and israel is underway, and it follows 30 days of war. tonight, a closer look at the conflict and where it stands now, and paul is here with a preview. >> john, when israel launched the invasion, one of the major objectives was to wipe out happenas' network of tunnels going into israel. and israel says that the mission is complete with the ceasefire in place, and the gazans are picking through the wreckage. hears a look at how reporters

have been looking at it from all of the angles. this is what israel set out to stop once and for all. hamas' tunnels inside of israel. footage begins with fighters climbing up from underground and running across a field, heading for an israeli army position. they shoot through a gate. and later they appear to shoot men on the ground before returning to the tunnel. the bread is hot and fresh, and the radios are cheap in cheese, you can buy your mangos. sure, these days, the business isn't great. but he's hopeful. he survived three wars, which means that he celebrated three ceasefires.

>> well, i am fully awake now. >> that's from the cameramen, the work that he and nick schifrin have been giving us from inside of gaza. the israeli military claimed mission accomplished this morning. >> nick schifrin is going to be back on a plane early tomorrow morning, and we'll have more tomorrow night. thank you very much. and remember, 30 days of war tomorrow night at 11:00 eastern time. see you then. history made today in the nba. the san antonio spurs, said that the star, becky hammond will join the coaching staff.

hammond will be the first female assistant coach to be paid by an nba team and hired for a position. there were arrests today in the steroid scandal. former clinic owner, tony vaughn, was charged with conspiracy to distribute testosterone to high school athletes. one of rodriguez's cousins was among the other nine people charged today. rodriguez was suspended for the 2014 season for doping. coming up tonight at 11:00 eastern time. caught on camera, an airliner turns into a fireball during an emergency landing. 25 years after the deadly fight, we look back at the disaster and survival and what the industry learned. and plus, destination comment after a ten-year,

4 billion-mile journey. scientists figured on ut how to get a satellite to rendezvous with a comet. and why. tonight, we're hearing a disgraced president talk about the scandal that brought him down. it has been 40 years since president nixon resigned. and now the library has the tapes of nixon talking about the water gate scandal. >> i didn't want to quit. and i thought it would be an admission of guilt, which it was. >> president nixon describes his fall from grace in his own words. >> i hope that no other president resigns under any circumstance. >> releasing 28 minutes of interviews with the former president this week. as part of 38 hours of interviews that nixon recorded with a former white house aid in 1983. >> he's a more pencive and

thoughtful richard nixon and he's beginning to talk about his legacy with some distance from watergate. >> the interviews have been available online, and for the most part, they have been sitting with the nixon archives. and now they're released to youtube. >> i think this was his sort of gamble with history, that you can sit down with these interviews 30 years ago, and one day, we'll release them, and maybe a younger generation who didn't live through watergate or vietnam can have fresh perspectives on six on and his presidency. >> nixon sometimes appears emotional. he talked about the note that his daughter left him on his pillow. >> daddy, i love you, whatever you do, i will support. >> his wife pat initially resisted. >> she was very quiet about it.

listening to the others, which she usually does, but she came down very emphatically against resigning. >> no other president has agreed to be interviewed in this way, and so these videos may help to change the image of the nixon administration as one of the most secretive in history. >> so far three segments are online. and four more will be released by this saturday. aljazeera. >> that's our broadcast tonight. and i'm john seigenthaler. see you back here, 11 p.m. eastern time. >>

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