to make sure. to. look. coming up on r t insider attack a shooting at an afghan military training academy kills a two star u.s. general and leaves fifteen more injured will look at the growing threat of inside attacks against the u.s. military and they prepare to leave afghanistan. and will a seventy two hour cease fire currently underway in gaza told the world is watching deceive the fighting will resume an update on the efforts to stop the bloodshed coming up. and crisis on the border will president obama act to stop the wave of people crossing into the u.s. since congress has refused to pass immigration reform war on that later on today

show. it's tuesday august fifth for a pm in washington d.c. i'm on your i david and you're watching our team america we begin in afghanistan where today a man dressed in an afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at a military base a u.s. two star general was killed in the apparent insider attack with fifteen more including american soldiers and a german brigadier reportedly wounded that's a place at camp. a training center west of kabul artie's honest going to has the very latest. at a military training academy at camp cargo on the outskirts of kabul in afghanistan a gunman in an afghan military uniform carries out a shooting killing a two star u.s. army major general and wounding

a german brigadier general as well as at least fourteen western including some u.s. troops and afghan military personnel u.s. officials say injuries are both serious and minor the killing of the u.s. major general is reported to be the first death of a high ranking u.s. military official in overseas hostilities since the vietnam war with previous such incidents recorded in the one nine hundred seventy s. we know that the deadly shooting took place tuesday as a nato high military officials delegation visited the training facility an investigation is currently ongoing into exactly what happened is being conducted by both afghan and nato forces and any means are yet to be released we know that the gunman was shot dead on site now according to a pentagon spokesperson the shooter is believed to be an afghan soldier who has served for quite some time the pentagon described the killing as one of the highest ranking deaths in the war since nine eleven the incident is reported to be an insider attack when members of the afghan forces turn against the nato led military coalition or on the ground in afghanistan to train them this latest incident comes

as the u.s. of course ends to aim operations in afghanistan in the near future while basing the key part of its strategy on the ground on training afghan forces now usually such insider attacks that involve regular soldiers outraged by the continued presence of foreign troops on the ground and described by the war this one of course being the longest in u.s. history this latest so-called green on blue attack is the first of its kind in months yet far from the first in this war insider shootings peaked in two thousand and twelve in afghanistan recorded a dozens of such incidents that number is officially said to have declined to fifteen last year this of course is a developing story with more details to be brought into the light as the investigation gathers pace and states which are going to r.t. new york. to discuss this latest attack and its implications i want to bring in michael kuhlmann he's a senior program associate for the asia program at woodrow wilson center michael

thank you so much for joining me so this attack was obviously tragic for troops who are now serving in the country what does it signal as a u.s. plans to pull out of afghanistan i think it shows that violence is just going to rise and continue to rise as troops as foreign troops continue to leave and as most of them are gone by the end of the year violence has been rising over the last few months there have been a number of attacks on soft targets the taliban has launched a series of offensives and really this in some ways is not a surprise on the green on blue attacks that happened many times in recent years not as many in the last year or so but the fact that the countrywide violence unrest is increasing so much in some ways sadly this is not really a surprise now we don't know whether the attacker was in fact a member of the afghan military or whether this person sort of just you know took this uniform from for some from somebody else let's take a look at both scenarios if this was an attack or from the inside the taliban says

that an insider attack shows that they're able to infiltrate of course the enemy how concerning is this you know well this is always been a major concern particularly when these types of attacks were happening a lot more i think that u.s. forces thought that they had eliminated this problem because they really weren't happening as much but the fact that you know it could have happened this time is certainly very concerning and you know again there's been a major offensive that pakistan has been reading across the border and it's been sending a lot of militants into afghanistan they're going to be more and more militants coming into the country in addition to those that are already there that could then infiltrate the afghan military and cause problems like this and as you mentioned this is definitely not the first time we've seen this happen we've seen it happen over the course of the last decade multiple times. how do these incidents every time it happens really affect the trust between the u.s. military and afghan forces does it disrupt that absolutely it's very difficult for these two groups to get along when u.s.

and foreign troops are always looking over their shoulder and worried that something's going to happen and i don't know that the pentagon has made a lot of efforts to try to reduce these attacks by increasing cultural understanding between afghans and americans things like that but absolutely you know every time something like this happens it really sets back a lot of the progress that's made in building trust between the two sides and looking at the other scenario that this was just someone pretending to be an afghan soldier either by faking or stealing the uniform doesn't call into question how secure the military operation is over there right now absolutely there's always been a concern the fact that you have these it's so easily these types of things could happen you know you have security forces in afghanistan certainly have strengthened over the last few years i mean their operational capacities have become much more improved but still these are forces that continue to struggle on many different levels you have for instance significant drug addiction within the mill within the afghan security forces so you know given this type of climate you know the fact

that it's very easy to exploit that type of thing to and to really have people compromise morals and support and so so and so forth and allow these outsiders these militants to infiltrate the institution and looking at public opinion here in the u.s. interesting there's an a.p. poll that says three in four americans believe history will judge the wars in out in iraq and afghanistan as failures and we actually have a chance to talk to some people in d.c. about that i want to just play a clip of what they had to say. iraq is a total disaster obviously it's a failure. i guess that it would be a failure because i don't think that we had any reason to be over there in the first place whether it's prices whether it's terror and terrorism whether it's our domestic safety and syria know that i feel any safer now than i did until things started to afghanistan is more complicated but. we turn the taliban into suicide

bombers which they weren't before the united states need to. back off a little bit and just start letting the world or those particular countries take care of them. is that clear that public opinion on on afghanistan and iraq has really shifted and what kind of impact do you think this latest incident might have and does that further cement what those people are saying you know absolutely i mean you look at what these people are saying both in terms of iraq and afghanistan particularly in terms of afghanistan what were the major objectives of the u.s. for going into afghanistan in two thousand and one one was to overthrow the taliban government in two was to remove al qaida and to deny the sanctuary city why they're there they were i mean literally they did in the taliban doesn't run the country al qaeda doesn't have a sanctuary so in that sense you could argue why are we still there why are we still been fighting you know for thirteen years given that these immediate objectives were really achieved and of course there are so many problems in the united states on a domestic level economic and all the question is why are we spending so much money

on keeping troops in afghanistan so certainly i can understand why public opinion would be deflected in that way. all right michael coleman senior program associate for south asia at woodrow wilson center thank you so much for coming on and weighing in pleasure a group of retired military generals and flag officers is calling on the white house to support a complete declassification of a senate report on cia interrogations a senate report that there were foreign to describe the cia's hostile when terror. asians of terror suspects in secret prisons the cia has finished reviewing the report but has made haven't redactions and that's why this group is calling for more transparency in the report in a letter to president obama they wrote quote you have to set the direction for your administration that torture is unacceptable but for that leadership to have a lasting impact on the direction of our country beyond your administration you

must act to ensure that americans learn the right lessons from our past we urge you to make clear in no uncertain terms that you expect cia director john brennan to support an expansive declassification of the report and an honest reckoning with its findings. the mounting pressure puts the president in a unique position having to decide between supporting human rights groups and his own cia director john brennan the report is expected to be released as early as this week. and now to ukraine where government forces continue a military offensive today to reclaim lost territory from separatists russia's foreign ministry has accused ukraine of moving ballistic missile systems and rocket launchers toward the rebel held area of donetsk that they say could be used against innocent civilians last week c.n.n. cited u.s. officials and reporting that ukrainian troops used short range ballistic missiles in eastern ukraine german media dutch wells says nato confirm the report then later

denied it ukraine has also denied possessing ballistic missiles saying they were destroyed back in the one nine hundred ninety s. at the same time the u.s. is accusing russia of shipping in similar heavy rocket systems to rebels over the border and moscow to denies that allegation. meanwhile the humanitarian situation in eastern ukraine is growing more severe the eastern city of lugansk has declared a state of humanitarian catastrophe over a lack of medical supplies electricity lighting mobile and internet communications as well arty's maria notion isn't lugansk with more. gonski 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 an ongoing conflict and this is the hotel in the center of the gaza where we used to stay just two weeks ago there were gas here mostly journalists but also ukrainians running from violence in the towns of cum i thought against libya as they used to be two major percent 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 the dow has been shut down the sign says. tahoe is closed the further we go from the center the greater the destruction of his house was damaged when he shall explode in her garden and sort of the flowers she planted there is now a deep crater. is there and should be very high indeed is a horde of them as you just read daily news then you would you. like other locals here who haven't already fled the fighting own god has taken shelter in a basement yet to get back you shall not. be

a fool to stand my junior bachrach be an actual fact to dicky i grew to love three pretty high life at your back i know those sheltering under ground and seek. and desperate back you know we're like you know you go up here through a few yards she did very well for a brief time here. as we're speaking military city drops out like cows are a constant problem here the lines were apparently repaired just before we arrived at downing street the way you. look at it but i really don't know. if it and here to get into when is the right to be dealing with very beneath the reasons shall turn to roll most every apartment building in lugansk really empty this is another basement that the has recently become home to local residents and it's not that they hide here the time of intense challenge and widened you can

see that it's really leave here every family has its own. place you like an apartment building the underground in one of the jurors only to the youngest resident i've seen here so far he shares many of the fears of deal do. this to. well just the government she shares with go. nine pm every day people in different basements resigned to see the ask for god to protect them and bring in peace that is the shelling continues around them the furthest the day to plan ahead is tomorrow when they say. here again relief notion are gone the ukraine will go. so will the ceasefire hold bents a question on the minds of many following the latest news that israel and hamas

have agreed to a seventy two hour humanitarian cease fire now that truce began at eight am local time this comes after several previous truce is barely held with each side refusing to accept terms put forth by the other the latest ceasefire which was brokered by egypt has set the stage for a new round of negotiations between israel and the palestinians in cairo where they will try to expand the terms of the agreement and move towards a longer term deal both sides have been under fire for a mounting death toll in the conflict which is now in its fourth week more than eighteen hundred people have been killed in gaza into the palestinian health ministry the u.n. says that civilians account for seventy to eighty percent seventy to eighty percent of the dead on the israeli side officials say that sixty four soldiers and three civilians have been killed. the first muslim minister to sit in the british cabinet

baroness warsi resigned today over the government's policy on gaza to talk about this high profile resignation earlier i was joined by our to use polly boyko and i first asked her to talk about what this government official is primarily taking issue with well there was a very twenty first century resignation she quit over twitter now just to explain who he is she was britain's very fast female muslim cabinet minister and she'd recently been promoted to be to being a senior foreign office minister on top of her role already as the communities minister and the reason she says she quit boils down to one simple thing and she says that it's david cameron's morally indefensible failure to condemn the suffering in gaza in her resignation letter she denounced the official u.k. stance of israel as detrimental to britain's national interest and international

reputation because that former no face part of her job had to do with britain's role in the united nations and in the international criminal court she said that she couldn't continue to support the government's policy in gaza because of britain's approach to the conflict which she called inconsistent with britain's values that especially considering the case commitment to the rule of law and is known history of international justice so that's how she quit why she quit she did it very publicly over twitter and she even tweeted out her resignation letter publicly before the prime minister even had a chance to respond to it. and david cameron said in response to her resignation that he wanted an unconditional cease fire in gaza what's her take on how the government should be responding well i think the take is

not the government needs to be more critical i can't speak for her but that's the assumption that we can make through this resignation but it's not just barrenness was the david cameron faced a lot of criticism in recent weeks the failing to condemn right israel's actions in gaza and failing to condemn the actions more forcefully even in his very polite reply to byron s. was a he repeats what he's been saying all throughout this conflict which is that israel has the right to defend itself and many members of parliament and certainly the opposition labor party they've been saying that they want to see the u.k. change its approach to israel and send a clear message to israel that they don't support their actions in gaza but obviously that hasn't happened polly talk about how the gazan conflict has played

out in britain have there been many conflicting viewpoints in the country over how to approach a situation. well with such a multi-cultural nation and especially a head in london generally muslims christians jewish people have been able to live side by side the communities really overlap but this conflict has really brought out the phone lines and differing points of view for example my friends on facebook have been deleting their accounts they've been deleting the child off their friends list because of the hostilities that come up as a result of different viewpoints to ruins the conflict now suddenly at the start of the conflict in terms of the media landscape that was a base of power i see so we had a lot of people defending the israeli stance and a lot of people in the media spokespeople defending the stunts of the palestinians since we've seen more pictures multiplying pictures of shelled children of

the civilian casualties in gaza the israeli stance has sort of moved away i think it's a little more difficult for people in the media head to defend the actions of the i.d.f. at the moment and there is a lot of condemnation of israel's actions in gaza that's said to have been rallies in support of israel in london london is what a huge jewish population and a lot of people marched through london to support the i.d.f. actions but we've reported from a number of pro palestinian rallies where people say that they want to express their solidarity with the people of gaza and it was a well meaning what we had most from people at these events is that their government hair in britain they say it doesn't represent how they feel about the conflict and they the reason that they hit the streets in london is to protest against their government's stance and what they say is

a critical in all stance against israel's actions and gazan alright r.t. correspondent ali boyko in london thanks for that reporting. congress is out for summer well not exactly the whole summer but certainly the month of august and it's putting into question how president obama will approach the nation's immigration crisis obama now says that he has been left to act alone artesian the military and has more. august is a month to enjoy the last bit of fun in the sun before the kids are back in school and it's back to the grind and of course no one knows that better than congress who promptly left capitol hill on friday for their august recess while nearly sixty thousand migrant children are left in limbo so president obama is left to act on his own in washington that is of course before he departs this weekend for his own summer holiday in martha's vineyard so what that means is that the president and

his cabinet have to act quickly in terms of budgets in the interim since all departments concerned with the border crisis are running out of money department of homeland security ice health and human services customs and border patrol all are on pace to be out of funding for immigration and border security by early september which is well before congress returns to the hill and at least weeks before we can expect to see a bill passed that would address the humanitarian crisis at the border so these are all the departments charged with caring for those miners who were housed in various locations throughout the country now thousands are actually locked up in warehouses caged up behind chain link fences while others are more lucky ones or at military bases and a former chief of staff at c.b.p. who now works for command consulting group told the press that ice and c.b.p. will quote raid every other pot of money that they have for the next two months in order to keep removal operations and the shelter operations going and quote now

female which is a part of d h s is also helping manage the child immigration crisis they could potentially have some funding available to assist and make ends meet while congress until they come back in session in the fall but that's basically just robbing peter to pay paul but that still doesn't solve the immediate problem of the nearly sixty thousand unaccompanied migrant children already in custody taken in just the past nine months the kids will need somewhere to stay until they. receive their court date if they are continued to be housed in these warehouses for the coming weeks there in lies the question of how to pay for that dig a little deeper and there's the question of why tens of thousands of children are fleeing their home countries in the first place so while many congressmen and women are enjoying their summer break pressure is on mounting on president obama to act now to deal with that and deal with the fallout later in the fall from washington

manila chan r.t. . the latest immigration crisis is now shedding light on yet another issue that has merited discussion in recent weeks that of immigrants in detention or tease marina port naya takes a look at congressional add a congressional mandate that requires the incarceration of thousands of immigrants in u.s. jails and detention centers. the country that once opened its doors to immigrants. is becoming better known as the land that jails them the congress for the past several years has set a mandatory requirement on the federal government to maintaining thirty four thousand detention beds for immigration detention purposes nasri was stuck him served three hundred and thirteen days in an immigrant detention facility unable to post bail or receive

a bond hearing. and see who was seen how it affected the guys in there a lot of them are you know i just had expired visas or something they are not criminals not immigrated to the country legally at thirteen and his wife is a u.s. citizen he was arrested at his home in two thousand and eleven in connection with a four year old guilty plea for drug possession the u.s. is an immigrant and customs enforcement agency has a budget of nearly two billion dollars a budget put it by american taxpayers in two thousand and twelve the agency detain nearly one hundred and seventy eight thousand immigrants many of whom are housed in private corporate or detention centers contracted by the u.s. government to make me sick because. this bad quality about me me. me for high amount of money and locking up immigrants is hardly the only option

available to the u.s. government there are other methods such as alternatives to detention use of intensive supervision custody checks on the person telephonic monitoring but the cost effective options would necessarily benefit the corporations behind america's detention and deportation machine you realized early on when you start reading. if you article that oh there's something called you a group and the cia they make billions of dollars off of those and then you start seeing how a line with like the lack of medical adequate medical care in the food quality and why they don't even allow contact visit would be cheaper for them to allow you to visit only through glass and use those kind of big start making. a reality in which that code puts a price tag on the line. of thousands of immigrants green up or not. new

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