documentary series called "boarderland." until next time, we'll see you online. hello and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm richelle carey in new york. targeted a veteran photo journalist covering afghanistan's historic presidential elections is killed. and tonight the family of the fort hood shooter speaks out. moscow we have a crime. the crimea crisis takes a space age turn. the fallout being felt on earth.

plus artist in chief? not exactly picasso, but the paintings have people talking. we'll get a top art critic's review. ♪ a busy night in news. we have new details on the fort hood gunman. we'll get to that in a moment. but first a turning point in afghanistan. it is america's longest hour, and tonight that country is hours away from landmark elections. washington and the world is watching. it is a dangerous and deadly situation with a journalist today shot to death. >> reporter: it happened in eastern afghanistan. witnesses say a convoy of election workers and journalists had come to on halt when an afghan police commander armed

with an ak-47 walked up, shouted god is great and opened fire on the women in the back seat. this woman was killed instantly. this woman was shot three times but survived. no group has claimed responsibility. but the afghan taliban has vowed repeatedly to disrupt saturday's elections. this year taliban fighters have singled out westerners. this is t this is the -- first time afghan police are known to have attacked journalists. the ap says she was one of the few western reporters allowed in to the country in the 1990s. she had covered conflicts all over the world and shared a pulitzer prize.

in a statement the ap said . . . on the last day of her life, she had a front page photo in the international "new york times." it shows a giant image of president karzai on display. >> courtney you have reported from war zones in iraq and afghanistan and i know it is a difficult day because you have been connecting with people who knew her. what are they saying? >> i put notes down today because i knew how emotional this would be. there -- her obituary in ap today said, she has a body of work that won awards and broke hearts. and today they are just speaking about the heart break about the

loss of her. i said how do we pay tribute to such a courageous person, and they called her fearless over and over and over again. but she was capable and experienced. and she logged years and decades and it was a calling. and she was funny and had an infectious laugh and she was naughty. this portrait painted of her of just the kind of heroic woman that you would want afghan women to look to. that you would want the 300 women in afghan who will be standing up in this election on saturday, yould want -- she is going to be a hero and icon. >> you described her as fearless as it being a calling. and you wouldn't say that about yourself i will say this about you and other journalists who do

this, it seem that it has to be a calling. >> it is. and you are never really truly safe no matter how good you are. her colleague is one of the most experienced, most renowned reporters who has covered afghanistan for three decades. the taliban picks up her calls. she is recovering from gunshot wounds and once again -- we're also looking at two women, and the irony of these two great women of the world. and they were bearing witness for the women of afghanistan. >> and before i let you go, is there any particular danger that specifically western journalists face doing this type of work? >> absolutely. journalists are targeted. kaboul was -- getting to walk the streets of kaboul a few years ago for me was just stunningly wonderful, because i had been locked under house arrest in bagdad for so many

years because of the id threat and kidnapping threat, and just the immediate threat of our loss of life being targeted. this is a game changer for the journalists. they will not be able to walk the streets anymore. there have been a series of attacks. an amazing journalist was killed in late march his wife and children were shot and killed. one child remains out of the three. people are not going to be able to freely walk the streets, but you will have millions of people taking to the polls and braving these dangers. >> courtney we appreciate the work you do, and the work that so many other journalists do. thank you for telling us more about ania. she is one of several journalists who have lost their lives this year. of the 70, 70, journalists kill,

20 were working in syria. the facts and numbers may surprise you here is david shuster. >> the united states has had troops on the ground in afghanistan since october 2001, 12.5 years ago in response to the 9-11 attacks. the bushing administration launched operation enduring freedom aimed at dismantling the government and destroying al-qaeda. the troop levels remain fairly constant at around 30,000. in 2009, president obama announced a surge of 17,000 troops and a second surge. nine years later the u.s. has 98,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. two years ago, the obama administration began to scale back these troop levels while

announcing plans for withdrawal, and today the number of u.s. forces in afghanistan is approximately 38,000. according to account by the associated press, the total number of american troop casualties in the afghan war standings at 2,316. there's blood and then there is also treasure. the total financial cost of the war in afghanistan, all of the military operations now is over $707 billion and counting. for the afghanistan elections this weekend, 12 million registered voters are expected to take part, and 200,000 people are expected to work as election observers. richelle. >> we have the vice president and editor and chief at global post, charles was one of the first journalists on the ground in the aftermath of september 11th, and has covered the region for the last decade. charles let's go back to the

2009 presidential election. so much violence and today an ap photographer was killed. how dangerous will this election be? are security forces prepared to handle this? and how will the violence and threat of violence affect the turnout? >> i think it will affect the turnout. i think people voting in this election are brave souls and those monitoring the elections are brave souls, and as we found out today, the journalists who are covering the election are also very courageous -- >> you can talk about her right now, charles. >> sure. well, she was tan extraordinary journalist, i got to know her here in boston where she came to do the niemann fellowship, and she was in the community here and i also knew her from the field, mostly in iraq. she won a pulitzer prize for her

work in iraq as a team of 12 journalists covering iraq, and she was the only woman. and she was just incredibly courageous in her reporting, and really a powerful story teller, and had -- had a wonderful laugh. i mean she was just like courageous, but she also really understood the spirit of life. and i think -- you know, losing her today really illustrates the courage that a lot of journalists are bringing to try to keep the world's eye on this election, and i admired her bravery, and i admire all of those who are trying to make sure this election goes forward. >> what message do you think someone was trying to second by doing this to a journalist in particular? is it to strike more fear in people? >> it was clearly a message. clearly she was in a convoy flanked by afghan national army and the person who opened fire and unloaded many many bullets

into the car she was in, was in a police uniform. so this was very clearly a targeted killing. so yeah, i think this is clearly a message to journalists not to cover it, to those who are monstering the election, not to monitor it. >> there are three female candidates who are vying for the post of vice president. what do you say to that? does that mean that things have changed or have not really changed? >> i think things have changed in afghanistan. i think back to the time when i arrived on the ground on september 19th, 2001, just immediately following the attacks of 9-11. it was just unbelievable to -- to see the way in which people lived in fear under the taliban. it was -- it was really a -- a very primitive place that had

been battered by decades of war. there was no infrastructure. there were no girls in school. women lived, you know, in a very fearful way, i think is the only way to put it. and if you go now -- and we have a correspondent who is doing a wonderful film about a girl's school. and you see these young girls learning, and i think there was a lost that was accomplished in afghanistan and we can lose sight of that so often because there were so many failures but the successes were extraordinary and the strides women have made were not sufficient, but there are very genuine successes as well, and having three female candidates for vice president is an illustration of a success. >> what is at stake for the u.s. after these elections? >> i mean what is at stake is really the force agreement. the bilateral force agreement

which president karzai has not been willing to sign, which was basically allow troops to stay beyond their -- their plans to be out by the end of this year is something that he has held up. the three leading candidates in this election have all stated that they will support this force agreement, so the biggest thing at stake is to get that force agreement in place. and the three leading candidates, including the one that karzai supports the most -- that all three of those will actually support this force agreement. so the big stakes are that. that looks pretty good. i think more generally it is just that this election succeed. >> okay. and the world is watching. charles thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up at the top of the hour, fault lines on the front

like. now to the fort hood shooter. we are learning tonight he argued with supervisors over a request for leave >> reporter: a friend says he was quiet, a talented drummer and a family man. he says lopez was shocked when his mother, a nurse, died of a sudden heart attack in november. his family says the army gave lopez a 48-hour leave to attend the funeral, and only a month later, lopez's grandfather passed away. fast forward to february. brandon sneed says he saw lopez move into this apartment with his wife and three year old daughter. >> when they were moving in, he was smiling, she was smiling. i would. from the army and moving in.

>> reporter: on march 1st he came to this gun shop where he purchased a 45 caliber pistol. workers here say nothing about the sale to lopez seemed out of the ordinary. this man told a local tv station his son was in the first building lopez attacked. westbrook said his son saw lopez ask for a leave form. an officer told lopez to come back the next day according to westbrook and that's when lopez left and returned with a gun. >> the first guy he shot right in front of my son was killed and then he turned the gun towards jonathan, aimed it and fired. >> reporter: the military says lopez was being treateded for anxiety ta depression and being evaluated for ptsd. >> we believe the immediate

precipitating factor was more likely an escalating argument in his unit area. >> reporter: the crime scene stretches two blocks. >> while in his personal vehicle, he indiscriminately fired at soldiers. >> reporter: the army says he had no criminal history. >> at this thyme we have not established a concrete motive, but will do everything in our power to do so. given that the aledged shooter is deceased, the possibility does exist that we may never know why the aledged shooter did what he did. >> reporter: for now investigators are on the ground hoping to find answers. tonight the army is releasing the names of the three people killed. daniel michael ferguson joined the army in 1998.

-- sergeant timothy, and the army has not released a picture of the third person. he joined though service in 1995, served in kuwait and iraq. and four people are still hospitalized from the shooting. u.s. medical centers are considered the best in the world for treating gunshot wounds. american emergency rooms handle more of these injuries than any other hospitals in the country. here in tucson, arizona gabby giffords was shot in the head at point-blank range. here in the united states gun violence has created an elite breed of trauma surgeon.

dr. peter reid was in charge when giffords arrive. he says a trauma center in any american city can handle the horrors that emerged in forth hood. >> they are used to that, so i know they were going to get as good of care as they could. >> reporter: doctor reid know it depends on where they are shot. >> i would say anywhere in the nervous system is the worst. >> reporter: he once trained battlefield surgeons by taking them to hospitals in major american cities. in countries without gun violence, trauma surgery barely exist. >> they don't even need that in other countries. it's just crazy. they don't have the guns.

what is different about germany than us? the cars? a little bit? it's the fact that we have, you know, uncountable amount of guns here, they don't. and same thing about korea, japan, you know, these countries that are civilized elsewhere, they don't even need me. >> reporter: dr. rooe says that this has given the u.s. a unique understand of the capacity to inflict damage. the job market is showing some positive signs today. 192,000 jobs were added last month, and the number of private sector jobs is now higher than it was before the recession. let's turn to ali velshi to understand if this is a sign that the economy is back on track? >> well, let me give you the sense and allow you to judge for yourself . . .

if you take those numbers and average it out over a year, it means the number of jobs averages 183,000 per month. above 150 is pretty good. 200,000 a month is really good. 250,000 is what both presidential candidates promised in the last election. the unemployment rate in march remained unchanged, 6.7%. that's because more people actually joined the work force. about half a million more people felt comfortable enough about job prospects to get back in the game and start working. but i pay attention to the labor force participation right now. this is the percentage of people who are of working age or not in jail who are able to work and have either had a job or actively sought a job in the last month. that number inched up a bit.

63.2% of the possible working population is working, and that's at the highest level since about mid-2009. >> but what did concern you? did anything concern you really? >> yeah, and it wasn't specifically this report. it's the trend this report confirms and that is that 7.4 million workers don't feel lucky to be working because they are only working part-time, and they would rather be working full-time and getting benefits, and the number of unemployed stayed put. 3.7 have been out of work for six months or more, making them long-term unemployed. and it is harder to get a job if you are long-term unemployed. so these two terms worry me. >> that's extremely frustrating for those people. okay. you spoke to the labor

secretary, ally what was your take from that? >> he said they are still addressing the high unemployment. and the prosession of a skills gap where people are available for work but not matched to the type of jobs that are out there. so they have been partnering to train people in the skills that employers and the markets need. the government has dispersed about $2 billion in grants to train people in coordination with local employer. so that's a market-based approach to giving people the right skills for jobs. >> and it would certainly feel better for people to know when i am done with this training there might be a job waiting. >> that's exactly right. >> all right. ali thank you. coming up walking away, secretary of state kerry takes aim at both sides in the middle

east. and space wars the washington battle with moscow, what it means for the american astron t astronauts.

>> this is part of a multi-nation aleffort to find the missing malaysian airline black boxes. secretary of state john kerry says the obama administration is reconsidering whether the -- effort towards peace talks is even worth continuing. >> reporter: they arrived defiant demanding the release of

palestinian prisoners. but almost immediately the israelis were unable to give them space. physically and policely the palestinians believe they are seized momentum. the israelis are pushing back. for four hours the two sides clashed. palestinians protesting against israeli's failure to release prisoners. you can really feel the tension here, there have been palestinian kids throwing rocks at israeli soldiers, and immediately you get tear gas in response. the palestinians have been trying to get to the gate of the prison, and every time they move forward the israelis fire back. for this man this protest is personal. his brother was supposed to be released last weekend.

that's when we first met him. but after the palestinian president signed papers to join a treaty, israeli blocked his release. but he says he is willing to wait. >> translator: i support the step of the president, and i believe the step pushing towards the release of all of the prisoners. >> reporter: but for israelis signing those treaties meant breaking the very premise of the talks, and until the palestinians meet their obligations, the israelis have no desire to talk. >> it's like being blackmailed by someone. and they only this blackmail and then let's negotiate. there is no way that israel will go back negotiating under this blackmail of the palestinians. >> reporter: the chief negotiator has no desire to keep talking himself until israel fulfills his promise.

>> what is between me and israelis are a set of agreements and obligations mutual between me and them. i'm willing to honor all of my obligations, but i really hope the israeli side will start learning how to honor obligations. >> the only one that can help bridge the gap is the us. but now the man who spent more time than any other trying to find peace is finally hinting at giving up. >> there are limits on the amount of time and effort that the united states can take if the parties themselves are unwilling to take productive steps to move forward. >> reporter: kerry said today that he and president obama will reevaluate their role in the talks and said it was time for a, quote, reality check. the u.s. prestige is at stake.

it will be seen as a major foreign policy failure if the talks stop or the u.s. decides it's no longer worth it to try. china connection, how beijing is boosting the economy in ohio and how it's changing america's heartland.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. there is a lot to cover this half hour. including starving in south sudan. they could soon see the worst famine in decades. and dozens of cases of measles reported in california, washington, and new york. and we'll look at portraits painted by george w. bush.

the latest jobs numbers are in. the number of private sector jobs is now higher than before the recession. officials now say ivan lopez's mental health was not a main factor in the shooting at fort hood. they said he had an argument with fellow soldiers before he opened fire. he gunned down three people on wednesday before killing himself, and 16 were wounded. a veteran photo journalist has been shot dead by an afghan policeman. she had been covering preparations for tomorrow's presidential election in afghanistan. her correspondent was also wounded in the attack and is in stable condition. it's a story that is being far underreported. the united nations says it's a race against time in south sudan where 3.7 million people are at

risk of starving. possibly the worst famine in -- africa since the 1980s. the country needs $230 million in the next 60 days to stave off the crisis that would leave nearly a third of the total population hungry. we're joined by a south sudan poli policy -- crisis. >> it is actually impossible to understate -- or to overstate, rather the gravity of the crisis that they are facing right now. unfortunately it is just getting far too little attention on the international stage.

there are people who are walking for days and days in search of refuge and food, and they are just not getting the assistance that they require. >> the aid workers that are trying to help, tell me about the condition they are encountering. >> the rainy season is coming early which makes it almost impossible to navigate the country. both of the country's armed factions, those loyal to the president and the armed opposition are obstructing aid deliveries. flights aren't able to take off to get to remote locations, and humanitarian aid workers are being targeted. and warehouses are being looted. so that aid is actually fuelling the war in the end. >> so are you saying that there actually are enough provisions to help people, the problem is

getting it to them? >> no it's a combination. >> okay. >> the united nations here says that they need much more money and significant assistance from the international community to meet the needs. they have made an assessment of how much money and assistance would be required, and they haven't been able to get even a microscopic portion of that amount. >> let's talk about ethiopia, so many people trying to leave south sudan are going to ethiopia. how sustainable is that? >> they are flying to ethiopia and also other areas. this is the world's newest country, and there is a history of people going to ethiopia,

uganda and now they are returning. and they are once again facing a devastating potential for famine and for real devastating degree of humanitarian need. >> there have been sanctioned posed on the groups deemed to be aggravating this conflict. what does that do for aid efforts? does it complicate the situation? does it help the situation? >> yesterday the u.s. government announced and paved the way for possible sanctions on leaders who are obstructing peace or violating human rights, but they haven't yet named the targets of those sanctions, and without a strong multi-lateral commitment, the pressure needed to get the parties to the table really doesn't exist. as far as the aid need, that's a completely different question, and that really requires donor

countries recognizing the dire need in south sudan in the short period of time. >> okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. chinese companies invest billions of dollars in the u.s. each year. it is that type of spending that is providing some relief for midwestern towns hit hard by the recession. john reports from dayton, ohio where one chinese investment is having a big impact. >> reporter: for years this vacant factory stood as a monument to ohio's economic dysfunction. dayton and neighboring towns were so dependent on u.s. auto makers, that when general motored pulled out it was left with 4,000 unemployed auto workers. now that is changing.

a chinese auto glass maker is reopening the aging eye sore with $280 million, and for short starters 800 jobs. >> you can't not welcome foreign investment. if you want to grow your cities, your communities right now, you have to be open to foreign investment. our country was built on immigrants and if you are not open to immigrants now, then where was your family 200 years ago. >> reporter: the chinese conglomerates are the newest investors here in the u.s. the ties with china beyond business. the largest investment was here at the university of dayton. there were 200 chinese students years ago, and 800 today. >> my dream is also to make the

ward together, to make the ward to do business together. people in china love america. and i hope those two countries can work really good together. >> reporter: this tiny town offered the chinese what they had in excess workers and factory space. >> we have 4 million square feet available, and we have thousands of folks with a skill set, and this is a great win. and a lot of us see an opportunity to capitalize and try to attract more foreign investment. >> reporter: that has many towns hoping to open more padlocked gates like these. the ukraine crisis is fraying relations between washington and moscow, and now

nasa is sus pecked -- suspending most communication with each other, but so far it hasn't affected the international station station. joining me to talk about the future is [ inaudible ]. okay. nasa announced it is suspending cooperation with russia in light of -- ukraine. how will that effect projects going forward? >> this is really more of a symbolic gesture than anything else. because it excludes operations of the iss. the space station continues operating as normal right now. and that is really about the only major point of cooperation between nasa and russia in space right now. there are a few small space

science projects, some meetings that may be affected by this latest move, but otherwise things are pretty much going as normally. >> talk about how productive of a relationship russia and the u.s. have had leading up to this point when it comes to space. >> since the end of the cold war, nasa and russia have been very close partners. they have worked together since 1993 in developing the international space station. and also there was foreign policy concerns. we wanted to make sure the aerospace engineers didn't go off and develop missiles or other such lines of business. so it was advantageous for russia and general international cooperation. >> and you say right now things will still proceed as normal with the iss. let's talk about nasa's budget

and their budgetary constraints how is that effecting nasa? >> it's budget is about $17.5 billion right now. and that budget has gone down a little bit, up a little bit, but it's really much smaller than people expected it to be just a few years ago when they were planning for nasa's future programs. and that means that nasa has a very wide array of programs that it is trying to do, and it's budget doesn't quite match up with all of those programs. so some things have to get cut and be stretched out in terms of schedule and they have to look for more innovative ways to get things done. >> is that a partnership with private companies in part? >> yeah, nasa started working with private companies to get vehicles to the signs station.

and there are two companies that have contracts with nasa to take cargo to and from the space station. one of those companies has a launch coming up in a little over a week for another cargo delivery to the space station. nasa is working with three companies right now, to develop similar systems to carry astronauts to and from the space station. >> all right. jeff thank you so much. >> thank you. the cdc is reporting the worst outbreak of -- maesels in 17 years. 25 cases have been confirmed since february. and in orange county the number of infections jumped from 7 to 21 in the past two weeks alone. >> reporter: in orange county, california, among million dollars homes people here aren't used to doing without, but some children are lacking a basic

component of public health worldwide, childhood vacatik vak -- vaccinations. >> measles is probably the most infection of all infectious diseases. >> we usually have either zero or one case a year of measles. compared to the 21 we have had this year. >> reporter: statewide 49 cases of measles have been reported in california so far this year. last year at this time, there were only four. now many people are starting to wonder why this long dorm nant disease is suddenly making a comeback. this doctor says one reason is the number of international travelers in and out of the oc, the other may be linked to a small percentage of parents who don't vaccinate their children. >> if you look at the people who

have been sick, five have been children and none of them have been vaccinated. if your child hasn't gotten their regularly scheduled mmr. >> reporter: but dr. jay gordon who some call the antti vaccination doctor, say it may be an outbreak but it's not a threat. >> it's not a joke, but not something that people need to be scared about. >> one of his patients used a delayed vaccine schedule due to her son's seizures when he was an infant. she has never given her kids the measles vaccine. >> we are talking to the doctors office abc it. >> reporter: and doctor gordon says he believes the current guidelines shouldn't apply to

everyone. >> if you want to get the vaccine you should. no one should scare you out of getting that shot because the shot might cause autism. there's no proof that a vaccine causes autism. >> reporter: while the debate rages on, health officials hope this recent outbreak of measles won't. a federal judge says ohio will have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. it calls the state's ban unconstitutional and says he will strike it down later this month. the attorney general plans to appeal the ruling. coming up, presidential paintings, artwork by george w. bush is now on display. ♪

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each friday we take time to appreciate the art. tonight the faces of world leaders captured on canvas by a man they shared the world stage

with. former president george w. bush painted these. the amateur painter opens his first exhibit tomorrow. >> reporter: inspired by winston churchill's painting as a past time, george w. bush went to work. he painted a series of about 40 world leaders including himself and his father. >> what we hope to convey is not just the president as an artist, but what it takes to be a personal diplomat and develop relations on behalf of the united states. >> reporter: he says he befriended world leaders and learned about them and their families to the point that he felt comfortable painting them. bush used photos to paint his

subjects. as president he met tony blair in the flesh more than two dozen times. >> when he paints someone, he tries to convey how he feels about them, and something about their personality. >> reporter: president bush says the dalai lama is a sweet man and painted him as sweetly as he could. the one of his father is one he is most proud of. another bush personal favorite, the stern portrait of russian president vladimir putin. >> i think he thinks the putin painting is -- is quite good, and -- and quite artistic. >> reporter: dallas area art criticals the paintings interesting work. >> there is a great range of voorty in terms of style and the amount of time he seems to have worked on them. hard brush strokes and others

are more haste illy done. but some there is an element of personality that are interesting. >> reporter: along with the paintings are photos. one thing missing from the paintings, a signature. our 43rd president signs his paintings on the back with the number 43. >> joining us now to discuss the president's paintings is art and architecture critic. this is fascinating don't you think? >> it is strange. we haven't really seen presidents put their work out in this very public way as he has done. >> there are a lot of people who are artists and they never show anybody. they may draw at home, they may sing in the shower, but it takes a lot as an artist to put

yourself out there. what do you think that says about him? >> some of the first paintings that came out from him came out accidentally when bush family emails were hacked. but i think he probably got a relatively warm response, and that probably went a long ways towards encouraging him to do more public work. >> what is your take so far? >> i would agree that these are not bad for an amateur. in some ways they are getting better technically. in some ways they are not as quite as interesting as the earlier paintings. but he is working hard and practicing. >> what do you see psychologically? >> when the first came out there were two that got everybody very curious both of them showed bush undressed in his bathroom -- >> let's show them now. >> okay.

[ laughter ] >> so one showed him with his legs in the bathtub and another taking a shower with his face visible in the mirror. and everybody wondered what is this about? it is kind of odd. and speculation ran all sorts of directions. is this his lady mcbeth moment is he washing off the moral grime with the presidency. more likely he is probably in his happy place. when everybody wants a piece of you, the bathtub is one of the few places where you get some peace and time. >> well said. because he is a former president is there a risk of people reading too much into the art? >> i think probably in the case of this current crop of painings which show world leaders, most were made from photographs. and photographs don't often tell

us a lot about people. and a lot of these paintings are less interesting than the ones he was making of myself. the exception is the vladimir putin where he has worked more to show the psychological complexity. and the portrait of his father, we all read the dynamics between bush and his father, and people will be examining that -- paintings for those issues. >> put this in some context history wise if you can. >> i think unless he gets a lot better really quickly, he is not going to be remembered as a great artist, but he will be remembered as a rather goofy guy. it is gutsy for him to put this work out there, because it is amateur dobbing but he doesn't

seem to care much anymore. >> that has to be a freeing moment. >> i think he has probably been feeling that for a good four and a half years now. [ laughter ] >> philip thank you so much. >> thank you richelle. >> all right. and we end our newscast with an image of the slain photo journalist who was shot today while working with the associated press covering the presidential election in afghanistan. she spent her career capturing images of numerous conflicts including those in libya and iraq. she received a pulitzer for her coverage in iraq in 2009. what a loss. google and the world brain >> it would be the worlds greatest library, under one digital roof. but at what cost? >> google could hold the whole word hostage... google and the world brain

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welcome to al jazeera al jaa america i'm richelle carey, here are tonight's top stories. an afghan policeman shot and killed a photo journalist for the associated press today. she was 48 years old.

and an correspondent was wounded in the attack and is in stable condition. eight candidates are vying to replace president karzai who took office in 2009. secretary of state john kerry says it's time for a reality check in the middle east peace process as negotiations stall. israel has refused to release more palestinian prisoners. officials say an escalating argument with soldiers precipitated the shooting at fort hood on wednesday. authorities say ivan lopez's meantal health was not a main factor in the assault. three people were killed, 16 wounded before lopez turned the gun on himself. the latest jobs report was released today and the number of

private sector jobs is now higher than before the recession. those are the headlines. i'm richelle carey i'll see you back here at 11:00, 8 pacific. fault lines is next. america tonight will be seen in one half hour immediately following this special report from fault lines. >> as us forces prepare to pull out of afghanistan after twelve long years, al jazeera's fault lines travelled there.