this is arts international tonight the pentagon confirms that a u.s. general has been killed in an attack on a military academy in afghanistan is the most senior american officer to lose his life in the country since two thousand and one. shellshock in east ukraine these are pictures from the turnover which is under heavy fire artillery fire while another resistance declares a humanitarian disaster. israel's pulling its troops from gaza as both sides agree a three day cease fire we look at the devastation wrought so far by the month long mission that killed nearly one thousand one hundred.

ten pm here now in moscow our top story this hour a two star american generals being killed when a foreign military academy in a car ball was attacked by an unknown gunmen dressed in an afghan army uniform the pentagon says it's the highest ranking u.s. officer to lose his life for the country since two thousand and one and this is situation has more. a military training facility that's overseen by the british military camp on the outskirts of kabul in afghanistan a gunmen dressed in afghan military forces uniform carried out a shooting which killed a two star u.s. army major general and a german brigadier general as well as at least fourteen other members of the western including american and afghan forces on the ground we're also hearing

reports that local officials are saying that in fact three people have died and fifteen have been wounded so attack did in fact take place on tuesday as high ranking military officials were visiting this facility for meetings and that's when the gunman carried out the shooting and of course we know that this is reported to be yet another insider attack in afghanistan where a member of the afghan forces turns against the western and need to lead troops on the ground that are in there to train the afghan forces so certainly the fact that we're seeing these cases where afghan forces that are trained by the u.s. and west turning against them is an extremely bothersome trend of course and these cases did peak in twenty twelve were dozens of them took place this is of course dwindled but this particular case is certainly going to be causing major alarm in the near future that's very safe to say. they were told to middle east to explode

do you believe that behind this. deflective of the deep sea to resentment against occupation forces the united states and its allies we know that the taliban have been fighting. a lower level but increasingly bitter war against the occupation forces and they have chosen a target a british run military academy there was an important gathering where this shooting took place so there was a large concentration obst senior army officers from the united states and allied and made them to target. a small turn in eastern ukraine has come under heavy artillery fire this is the video we're getting from the area today residential houses have been severely damaged by shells judging by the noise the locals believe the army's been using heavy rocket launchers to attack

that town many residents have been fleeing their homes others are being forced to shelter in their basements if they've got them it's a similar situation in lugansk to which local leaders describe now as being in the grip of a humanitarian disaster that assessment follows weeks of being besieged in a city that's been a focal point of resistance almost half of the guns population has fled now but a quarter of million remain there now trapped there the ongoing fight scenes left the city without electricity and that centering repair works water supplies have also been cut off of mobile internet communications there's also a shortage of medical supplies and food and now a new problem creating a potentially serious health hazard removing waste from the city has become impossible. well russia's called an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council over the crisis in ukraine we're now learning it's going to start at four pm local time that's about two hours from now so as it goes live if it's

happening while we're on i will take you to it and we'll bring of the updates of course throughout the coming hours the humanitarian crisis is expected to be on the agenda for nationals in the besieged city of the go scritch as we've been reporting is among the worst affected lugansk is a shadow of its former self it was once a flourishing regional center with a population of half a million today it is largely abandoned and dangerous destroyed schools and hospitals silent reminders of and go in conflict this is a hotel in the center of the guys where we used to stay just two weeks ago there were guests here mostly journalists but also ukrainians running from violence in the towns of crime i thought against libya as they used to be two major percenters of the large scale military operation here in eastern ukraine there was also a chinese restaurant on the seventh floor but now as you can see there has been shut down this sign says hotel is quote the further we go from the center the

greater the destruction all of his house was damaged when a shell exploded in her garden and sort of the flowers should planted there is now a deep crater. is there and should when you break a deal is a whole lot of them i said yesterday i mean is there you would you do you like other locals here who haven't already fled the fighting or good has taken shelter in the basement here to get back you shall know that you have a full two thousand actually buffer be an actual fact you did do you agree to let you predict how are you going many of those sheltering underground osieck. and desperate attack you know where you are just there you go up here for sure you know what she did there i probably wouldn't want to know here. as we are speaking nearly two city drops out like cows are a constant problem here the lines were apparently repaired just before we arrived

not done a really good way to look at it but i really don't know. if it is here in the we're all data i really feel i'm glad we're very relieved the reasons shelter under almost every apartment building in lugansk and there really empty this is another basement that the has recently become home to local residents and it's not that they hide here at the time of intense shelling and environment you can see there literally live here every family has its own place here like an apartment building but underground in one of the car doors o.-meter the youngest resident i've seen here so far he shares many of the fears of the older people here . paul says. there's really not just a couple of guys. in there sharon spoke. at nine pm every

day people in different basements recent the same prayer they ask for god to protect them and bring them peace but as the shelling continues around them the furthest a day to plan a had is to moderate when they say they will meet here again brief notion r.t. lugansk ukraine. ukrainian officials say at least two civilians have been killed by artillery fire on the outskirts of dinette skin of the key anti-government stronghold in the last few hours we're getting reports of heavy fighting between kids troops and local militia there and saying look on the map the crimean army is said to be closing in on that city denounce the been reports it's bolstering its ground missile systems we told you that for the past couple of days camp says it is preparing for a decisive offenses offensive although there are no reports of that big battle happening so far cost annette's because a big place it's a vital hub for both the region and the country here's why it's ukraine's fifth largest city it's got a population of nearly

a million now asked year forbes named the most attractive city for doing business in the whole country in fact is now the tone of ukraine's main economic hubs in the center of the nation's mining industry just two years ago denotes two thousand football fans from all across europe when it was hosting then the euro two thousand and twelve my how things change for a different place now months ahead be shelling of left locals devastated. the only sort of words as old as. seven o'clock you. pay your bills and most of the. possible. so as ukrainian troops gear up to force out the local militia for good we've managed to speak to journalists christian minor parties in the area until this kiev

city multiple rocket launches to surround the city the outside of my car. your green i am. very very our political or financial perspective on this we will marry you who are everywhere here we heard there are sure and there you are some small far but we're going to go there are. around two hundred fifty of creative soldiers a man housed in a tent camp in russia meantime after laying down their arms and crossing the border there from a group of over four hundred who appealed for sanctuary on monday the others were sent back to crane after they said they wanted to go home monday's master affection was the largest of its kind though not the first the group said it had been encircled in that run out of ammunition and felt abandoned by kiev ukraine's army is not easy waging its ongoing operation in the east launched back in april military analysts say it needs over eleven billion dollars now to replace old

weapons of machinery while the amount actually that's been allocated is only around eight hundred million still a sizable amount but nowhere near what's needed ukrainian soldiers are suffering from food shortages the charity of websites been set up by civil activists calling on people to donate food to the army care also appears to be struggling to pay its soldiers back to the money again just recently the country's parliament introduced a military tax here's what ukrainian soldiers across the into russia told r.t. . fortune sitting on the form of what we have witnessed so many doubts and other terrible things it's not all of us are be very happy to be here we've been given new clothes and managed to rest and we're very grateful for that which. we were encircled but we had no way out so to keep the manpower safe our commanders decided to escape to russia i think for not clear reason the ukrainian population is destroying itself because on both sides we and they are the same people are not

my book. moscow's way it's response to the sanctions recently imposed by the west slater this will look at one option reportedly on the table would could see european airlines losing up to a billion dollars every three months. this is the media leave us so we need to maybe. rather see bush and secure the play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politic only on our team. they just want to keep building the allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they may have them addresses where we have a hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in

these mature says which is encouraging complete non integration within the society . logar the number of british business leaders saying sanctions against russia are unnecessary are increasingly wrote an open letter to the telegraph newspaper saying the best way to build trust between countries is through trade and contact to jelly is one of those who signed that letter for peace a joins us now live hi there tim thanks for being with us from leicester there i

think you are tonight why did you sign this letter and what was in it. i think what we really wanted to raise is the issue that the sanctions that we will they really work and we don't think they will and we've all been working in the russian market probably now for the last twenty years and times have always been difficult to do russia business in russia but i don't think the sanctions will really help and we just want to sort of voice that could well be job losses coming along only smalling we heard that j.c. being. reported that he potentially could lose orders as a result of the sanctions and as a result of that would lose jobs over here for my part company is i find it difficult to understand how they can work in the russian market and i don't think the sanctions are really going to help. do you think enough people in britain know

about how much business is done how much jewel trade there is between russia britain britain russia how important it is. they don't the u.k. invest something like twenty six billion in russia russia russia invests something like nine billion last year i think we exported seven point two billion pounds worth of goods. the russians like to buy british products they always turn to britain for good quality products the sanctions find they've been put on but the financial sanctions obviously arms sanctions and the high tech sanctions some of those some of that equipment or services coming into russia that's going to cause job losses i'm pretty certain whether in the short certainly in the long term what exactly talking of the long term that's the question ok i mean these things often blow over given time and the news goes round in a circle doesn't it but you know how do you then start to rebuild these bridges to

get taken guys like you years to forge these bridges of voice versus people in russia reaching out towards europe and britain it's going to take a lot of rebuilding again isn't it. it'll take it's taken twenty years to where we are now. people find it hard enough to trade with russia in the first place without all these sanctions on once we tell them the opportunities are vast then they'll buy into it and we always tell companies dot the i's cross your do business but i think this is in the long term unless something really happens to sharpen it all or it will cause a big detrimental effect it is so sad there is so much misinformation out there isn't there i see it from this side most of i mean you know in russia you see your side as well but hey we wish you all the best and hope your business gets back on track and maybe will come back again soon for some more comment thanks for that no two jelly in leicester there. well meanwhile president vladimir putin says moscow

is preparing your spawn's to the western sanctions there are also reports that russia could close its airspace no to european flights heading to asia katie pilbeam looks at potential consequences if that were to happen. we are now at the peak of the holiday season and people wishing to travel to asia from europe could find themselves caught up in all the sanction chaos so in response to european sanctions grounding one of russia's low cost airlines russia is now considering shutting down its major transit routes for european air lives so far as you can see from this map we've taken recently from flight trader twenty four dot com the finds are performed through russia's siberia right there because it's shorter and therefore cheaper which ultimately means a cheaper ticket for the consumer if russia was to close this route your holiday flight from europe to asia will be several hours longer and it's already going up

right now in fact the european allies will need to about four thousand kilometers to their routes which equates to an extra thirty thousand dollars per fly as an airline source quoted by a domestic media outlet m.s.t. says that possible losses of western allies could amount to one billion euros in just three months and ultimately it's actually you the consumer that would be paying more money even though you've got the inconvenience of having to fly for longer. slowly variations of the also you would want to see a fighter jets not the most comforting sight if you're coming to london you're playing but that is what happened was accompanying this catarrh jet coming into britain's bunches to report but earlier pilots radioed ahead saying they had been told of a suspicious device on board the airbus a three thirty did land safely a male passenger was then arrested for making a hoax bomb threat. israel's pull u.s.

troops out of gaza or a three day ceasefire brokered by egypt officially in place israel says it's completed its month long mission which was to target hamas but which has brought the worst devastation and civilian losses he needs now the nineteen hundred palestinians were killed in israel's own slow road four hundred fifty of them were children. over one hundred sixty schools at the same time and destroyed twenty four hospitals which should be overflowing with. bill but as food from the human rights watch says it's fair to brand the operation crime. operation has been a catastrophic failure. you know whether or not we will continue to see rocket launches whether or not the israeli political and military leadership feels they are able to claim success now is of less direct concern than the fact that gaza's

infrastructure is on the brink of collapse there has been such massive destruction in areas that the israeli military declared a no go zone that covered almost half of gaza's territory many families were not able to return to the remains of their homes not their homes but what's left of them a large number of attacks we've seen where attacks were launched without any military objects in the area large numbers of civilians getting killed by very precise advanced weapons and you know despite the fact that there were no rockets being launched from their areas that there were no members of palestinian armed groups in those areas but what's most important from our perspective is that there be accountability for the crimes that have been committed here ceasefire or no ceasefire i mean we've seen cease fires in the past be held up as as justifications when western countries or the israeli military claims that hamas violated the cease fire in the past that has been held up as a justification and a claim that any future civilian deaths would be the responsibility of hamas for

violating the cease fire and. it is completely incorrect and quite dangerous what has to happen is that you know the laws of war need to stop being violated and finally for once there needs to be criminal accountability for war crimes. along the stone from israel's foreign minister explain to us why she thinks the israeli operation was justified this is a terror going to zation that we're fighting terrorism is a sham that's one to bring destruction disagreement here was not about him us it was about civilians innocent civilians they're being killed here yes and unfortunately the hamas uses these people as human shields you know i mean she ends a warrant is there on a number of occasions about you know where civilian objects are located in specifically this particular school why is it that israel has not heeded the you know and also said that they found missiles into one risk pools they went out and said it that's un schools that were used to hide missiles this is just another one when israel was warned about this that you know there are civilians in the school

sheltering also u.n. secretary ban ki-moon cold your action a war crime but you know why does this not unsettle you it unsettles us a lot we would not want to be in this situation in the first place that's why in the beginning we did not start a military operation but once you have rockets flown at you again and again we've passed the three thousand rockets that were shot at us in the last month three thousand rockets the whole you went out and declared that the hamas has to be militarized meaning they understand that hamas has to weave draw all their weapons and stop being a threat to the people of israel and they said if you can look at what merkel said you can look at what obama said so actually actually we have a lot of support. there's also a long history of mobilizing against his opponents but whether it achieves the desired aims is up for debate if you look back into the history books the recent history books in two thousand and six israel invaded lebanon to take on hezbollah fighters the result the group got stronger and the conflict helped it into power in

beirut since there have been four devastating wars between israel and hamas but now the former rival sides fatah and hamas of formed a unity government and in doing so only strengthened opposition to the idea also the human cost of those bloody conflicts is what is what's really gained traction no people's minds especially lately inflicting deep damage to israel's international image in twenty thirteen it found itself among the world's least popular countries according to a b.b.c. poll. earlier we told her former israeli soldier who refused to serve in protest over government's actions and signed a petition letter along with dozens of others we asked her what she thinks about the mission. in general it at this period of time it's very difficult to be opposed to the operation in any way or to the military in any way it's. very much out of the consensus everybody most of the country is behind this operation feels that it

is justified just so expressing a point of view that that is not in line with that. is not a comfortable thing to do right now i have actually been a little bit afraid to show my involvement in the letter to to make a point of it as much as they would have me be before the operation. yeah it's a difficult time right now. made all the horror of this war most humbling gars a parody somebody marketing thought somewhere that this was a good idea a game challenging players to bomb a mass while trying to avoid civilian casualties needless to say because of the public outrage google quickly pulled off that official app had to add in a column for the story also online to japanese anime fans are gutted why would a crimean prosecutor became famous the world over after she was turned into a sexy cartoon character online is now being blacklisted by tokyo find out that while we might not be seeing much more of her or that of me anymore just

a click away and american scientists appear pretty good beings who want to found the cure may be for a bolo which is currently raging in parts of africa initial tests involving two infected u.s. aid workers have seen their conditions improve get a full story on that as well from us r.t. dot com. i'm kevin owen here in moscow tonight thanks for watching r.t. international it's after the break the creation of false memories and the cia spying on the senate later subjects to be tackled in breaking the same.

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the new world the moment like the policies i dislike you don't. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. of the the. guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking in the set so over the past few weeks many detroit residents have gone thursday after the city decided to shut off water services for more than fifteen thousand people due to delinquent bills but just sixty miles south of detroit the city of toledo ohio is dealing with its own water

crisis for entirely different reasons say over the weekend five hundred thousand people were warned not to drink their tap water thanks to an enormous toxic algae bloom in lake erie the main source of toledo's drinking water while this type of algae growth is naturally occurring the scope and size of this particular bloom could almost certainly be blamed on human activity see algae feeds on phosphorus and nitrogen which. heavily president agricultural runoff from farms and sewage considering that the great lakes alliance estimates that tens of billions of gallons of untreated sewage flows into the great lakes every year it's certainly no surprise that we're now seeing these mass algae blooms cover large swathes of lake erie but not to worry just today the mayor of toledo michael collins declared that the water is safe to drink. very thirsty right.