coming up on our t.v. insider attack those shooting at an afghan military training academy kills a two star u.s. general and leaves fifteen more injured will look at that growing threat of insider attacks against the u.s. military as they prepare to leave afghanistan. and will a seventy two hour cease fire currently underway in gaza hold the world is watching to see if the fight 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 more on that later in the

show. it's tuesday august fifth five pm in washington d.c. david and you're watching r.t. america all right 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 this took place at camp cargo. training center west of kabul and artie's on a sausage churkin has the very latest. at a military training academy at camp cargo on the outskirts of kabul in afghanistan a gunmen 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. 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 official delegation visited the training facility an investigation is currently ongoing into exactly what happened it's being conducted by both afghan and nato forces and any names 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 who are 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 of the investigation gathers pace and state which are going to r.t. new york to hash this out a little bit more i was joined earlier by michael kugel a man the senior program associate with the woodrow wilson center i first sassed him what this attack signals for the u.s.

as it plans to pull out of afghanistan. i think it shows the 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 while it has been rising over the last few months there have been a number of attacks on soft targets the taliban has lost a series of offensives and really this in some ways is not a surprise these green on blue attacks have happened many times in recent years not as many in the last year or so but the fact that countrywide violence and 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 is going to be getting across the border and it's been sending a lot of militants into afghanistan so we're going to be more and more militants coming into the country in addition to those that are already there that could then infiltrate 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 effort to try to reduce these attacks. 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 you know absolutely this is always been a concern the fact that you have these it so easily these types of things could happen you know you have security forces in afghanistan certainly have strengthened over the last few years in 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 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 of 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 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 assume you 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 it clear that public opinion on afghanistan and iraq has really shifted and what kind of impact do you think this latest incident might have i mean 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 there they were i mean literally they did in the taliban doesn't run the country doesn't have the 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 the woodrow wilson center thank you so much for coming on and weighing in. a group of retired military generals and flag officers is calling on the white house to support a complete declassification of the senate report on cia interrogations a senate report they're referring to describes the cia's hostile interrogations of terror suspects in secret prisons the cia has finished reviewing the report but it's made heavy redactions and that's why this group is calling for more transparency in a letter to president obama they wrote you have to set your 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. all right well another leak has surfaced through the intercept that's giving us an inside look at the government's terror watch list we're just learning that nearly forty percent of those on the government's terrorist watch list have no affiliation whatsoever with recognized terrorism groups to break down the latest information i want to bring in our team producer tyrell ventura right tire out wow this is a pretty damning report that came out earlier this afternoon what are some of the key revelations here it's pretty amazing what scahill interceptors been able to kind of put forth what you're talking about you know the government has been adding

names to this kind of watch database at a rate of almost nine hundred records a day either on existing subjects or new names into the database sixteen hundred sixteen thousand people including twelve hundred americans have been classified as selectees these are people who are targeted for screenings at airports and border crossings and things of that nature in fact the obama administration has presided over an unprecedented amount of expansion of the kind of no fly list and border crossings it's an all time high of forty seven thousand people that have been uncovered in this the this information that they provided was provided as is also uncovered that the top five u.s. cities repr with the most known or suspected terrorists in it are new york houston san diego chicago and dearborn michigan which is kind of an add to that list here major cities and then dearborn another one i do remember that odd considering that the largest concentration of arab americans actually lives in dearborn michigan not

far from where i'm from exactly almost forty percent of its population is a from dearborn which kind of begs the question you know is this just profiling are these names that they're kind of throwing on this list clearly just for profiling. you know when you talk about numbers earlier six hundred eighty you know the out of the six or maybe thousand. six hundred eighty one. dollars and the people on this you know the how forty percent of that people with no known affiliation to terrorism which is a huge number to come out that's a huge and this is after we heard about the guidelines to which how they determine who should be on this list of course they're very loose the guidelines with you know people putting you know random people on this list with me or suspicions but the report also gets into the biometric collection of these individuals what do we what do we learn from this report it's really interesting the gist of it how much of the kind of wide ranging biometrics there are you know putting on people in this

report so if we go with the idea that ok they're kind of very loose in how you get on with this of this database amelle suddenly you're also having your you know facial images fingerprints and iris scans and things of that nature being put on there you know more than half a million facial images and nearly a quarter million fingerprints and seventy thousand iris scans are combined in the database. as long as i am writing samples signature scars marks tattoos d.n.a. strands they're doing everything they can the kind of keep adding to celeste and everything is valuable of care and yes and just lastly to be clear of this latest revelation it does not have anything to do with a leak from former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden this is completely i know this is a completely new leader that we don't know who that is you know except we just kind of are following you know the interceptor and jeremy scahill is reporting on this and clearly they're doing a good job so perhaps that will come to light the way to see who is behind this latest leak ok r t producer tyrell ventura always

a pleasure thank you thank you. so will the cease fire hold that's a question on the minds of many following the latest news that israel and hamas have agreed to a seventy two hour humanitarian feasts fire that ceasefire began at eight am local time this comes after several previous truce is barely held with each side refusing to accept terms put. forward 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 this agreement and move towards a long term deal both sides have been under fire for mounting death toll in the conflict which is now in its fourth week more than eight hundred people have been killed in gaza according to the palestinian health ministry the u.n. says that civilians account for 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 r t's 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 first female muslim cabinet minister and she's recently been promoted to be to being a senior foreign office minister on top of her role already as the community's minister and the reason she says she quit boils down to one simple thing and she says that is 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 foreign office 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 u.k.'s 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 her take is that the government needs to be more critical i can't speak for her but that is the assumption that we can make through this resignation but it's not just barnett david cameron's faced a lot of criticism in recent weeks for failing to condemn our right israel's actions in gaza and failing to condemn the actions more forcefully even in his very polite replied to. 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 and pro-choice to israel and send a clear message to israel that they don't support their actions in gaza but

obviously that hasn't happened and pauley talk about how the gazan conflict has played out in britain have there been many conflicting viewpoints in the country over how to approach the situation. well we're such a multicultural nation and especially in london generally muslims christians jewish people have been able to live side by side the communities very overlap but this conflict has really brought out the fault lines and differing points of view for example my friends on facebook have been deleting their accounts they've been deleting each other 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 bit of power to you so we had a lot of people defending the israeli stance and a lot of people in the media spokespeople defending the stance of the palestinians

since we've seen. multiple lying pictures of shelled children of the civilian casualties in gaza the israeli stance as sort of moved away i think it's a lot more difficult for people in the media head to defend the actions of the i.d.f. at the moment and there's a lot of coin demonstration of israel's actions in gaza that said there have been rallies in support of israel in london london's got a huge jewish population and a lot of people marched through london to support the idea of sanctions 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 overwhelmingly what we him most from people at these events is that their government hair in britain they say 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 stunts and what they say is a critical enough stance against israel's actions and gazan all right r.t. correspondent polly boyko in london thanks for that reporting. congress is out for summer will not exactly the whole summer but certainly the month of august and this is now putting into question how president obama will approach the nation's immigration crisis obama now says he has been left to act alone artie's manila chan 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 are housed in various locations throughout the country. ple locked up in warehouses caged up behind chain link fences while others are more lucky ones are 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 end quote now fimo 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. . well the next time you're speaking behind closed doors make sure there isn't a camera present researchers at mit microsoft and adobe have completed an amazing new experiment they can recreate sounds in an environment from only video images and that means your words could be deciphered with only video that's it the algorithm they developed reconstruct audio signals by allies a minute vibrations of objects depicted in a soundless video for example using a high speed camera a bag of chips and soundproof glass researchers were able to extract the audio of someone singing mary had a little lamb just off the vibrations of the bag of chips take a listen. very

cool this new technology obviously has but sensual applications for a law enforcement and forensics investigations about abe davis one of the authors behind the experiment has focused more on the possibility of what he describes as a new kind of imaging he said we're covering sounds from objects that gives us a lot of information about the sound that's going on around the object but it also gives us a lot of information about the object itself because different objects are going to respond to sound and different ways in other experiments researchers extracted usable audio signals from videos of aluminum foil the surface of a glass of water and even the leaves of a potted plant and it's not just top and high speed cameras that can produce the video information needed to recreate the sound of an image researchers were even

able to extract audio from ordinary digital cameras though not as detailed as the high end cameras the images provided were still good enough to provide sounds that could identify the gender of the speaker or number of speakers in a room and even the speakers identity researchers will present their findings next week at a computer graphics conference. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is weird al now here's a snippet of what's to come. you signed your record deal a thirty two year contract well it didn't say thirty two years in the congress yes so initially i signed in one thousand nine hundred who was a ten album well wasn't easy at the time initially with scotty brothers and it got i got my contract it sold a few times but in one thousand nine hundred two i signed a ten album deal it wasn't a great deal but at the time i was working for a minimum wage in a mail room and i thought well this is better than working in a male signed this deal and then i had a few hits and we renegotiated

a couple albums got tacked on and then we renegotiated again a couple more got tacked on it was a fourteen album deal and it finally got fulfilled with this what was your first hit well depends what you call a hit i mean a lot of their play people buying the for the first out of people get to know the name weird al yankovic the first really big hit was in one thousand nine hundred four the michael jackson parody that was when i went from sort of a. guy that didn't get recognized on the street to an overnight sensation all the sudden i was the guy. all right weird al yankovic tonight at nine pm tonight here on our team america that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com slash r t america check out our web site r t dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at amir david see back here dates on america in the financial world. to see these developments happening and stop taking to be ready. when it's men like they're on their offer.

let's talk about jihad tourists shall we because there's a lot of them and they're killing a lot of innocent people in countries that are not their case in point loaners mohamed i would follow up as a basketball loving teenager in florida this past may he drove a truck filled with explosives into a restaurant in northern syria asked a new video just surfaced as i was silent talking which shows a large truck filled with explosives that was used in the attack driving off the

video and with a giant explosion i was solid had been living abroad after dropping out of college was trained by ellis for a front in syria a group committed to fighting president assad that's crazy enough for the craziest thing is that i was silent is not alone according to the director of the us national counterterrorism center matthew olsen over us thousand westerners including about a hundred americans have received training in syria other acts spirits as to make up to two thousand westerners answering the call of jihad so why the hell are all these westerners playing job tourists in syria according to peter newman director of the international center for the study of radicalization and political violence in london the internet played the part with hundreds of job of recruitment video floating around but obviously it takes more than watching a video to convince someone to travel across the world and kill themselves in someone else's war i was always video gives a little bit of

a hand of the why in the video he says i've lived in america i know how it is you think you're happy. not happy you never happy another syrian god tourist from britain spoke with c.n.n. and said life was easy back home i had a life i had a car but we see all the around us evil we see pedophiles we see cry we see rape you get the picture these jihad tourists go over to syria where our war is actually raging where they can actually expressed the outrage they feel from a life of fake happiness and superficial concerns the syrian conflict is not their war but it's a war going on right now that speaks to their inner rage somehow as the row famously wrote the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation maybe these tourists found jobs as a way out of that desperation that we all feel to some degree i don't believe in killing innocent people.