abdalla abdalla is safe. we condemn in the strongest terms this attack on the convey and condemn the loss of life. whoever will be isolated from the public, we call on all our funds to allow the ballot box to replace the bullet because we have a genuine opportunity to solve our problems through political process and engage the citizenry. it is critical to prosperity. >> certainly one of the things that has helped you in this election process you named abdul rahsin dosdem as your running mate. he was instrumental after 9/11, a strong man who controlled the militia. you yourself called him a known killer a few years ago. you called him the kind of power broker that afghanistan needs to get rid of. how does that jell with the way you have portrayed yourself as a reformer taking afghanistan and making it a modern country? >> first of all, bought into my reform program. he's not engaged in corruption. thirdly, if we are going obring genuine peace to the country we need to include people who have been engaged in co

the candidate, abdalla abdalla was not hurt. paul brennan has that story. >> reporter: a busy schedule of campaign events was always going opresent ample opportunities to strike. and in friday in kabul that risk became a reality. there were two bomb blasts although the exact circumstances remain unclear. the police say the circumstances were two suicide bombers. second, a road side device. either ways, the result was deadly. >> translator: we suddenly heard a huge sound of an explosion when we were coming downstairs. the blast shattered the windows and stirred the dust. we couldn't even see each other, let alone figure out the situation at that time. i fell on dr. abdalla and his bodyguard on me. there was another attack when we got up. >> reporter: the intended target of the bombers, abdalla abdalla said he himself had not been harmed but his security guards had been among the victims. >> translator: the enemies of afghanistan failed in their plot today but unfortunately we have lost a number of my countrymen. 30 of our compani

abdalla abdalla walked away unharmed but six people including you one of his body guards were killed.kabul. >> i think a lot of people have become even more determined to defy the taliban and go to the polls. especially in the urban areas where it will i think be more possible to do it. but there are some rural areas, some villages where the taliban have already settled. and i'm sure they will make an effort to -- not oallow people to go to the polls. so we will probably have a mixed reaction, but as far as the determination of the people is concerned, i think people have become sort of very defiant. and it has become almost a civic resistance to defy taliban threats. so i think we will see a lot of people going to the polls. >> in libya fighting has broken out between supporters of a rogue ex-general. has action he have won some support but libya's interim government says he's an outlaw. from tripoli, stephanie decker reports. >> it started as a small protest for people in tripoli martyr square. and then it escalated. it's not clear who fired on who but this is the first time that th

their candidate abdalla abdalla, on sunl his party released a video. the tape hasn't been verified. abdalla convened a party meeting to condemn are. and are applauded the resignation. >> to get to talk to the commission and talk about the conditions and circumstances which will help the process. >> reporter: his opponent spokesman called on abdalla to reenter the process and asked the election commission to announce partial results as soon as possible. dr. abdalla's supporters have blocked some of the busiest streets in kabul. demanding anyone involved in election fraud be brought to justice. says this proves thing afghan people have evolved. >> the men say they will not stop demonstrating until their votes are counted fairly. no one here wants a disputed election result. are jennifejennifer glasse, al . kabul. >> no oneclaimed responsibility for the arrest but authorities have made one arrest. city's third explosion in four months. >>> an international land mines summit is being held in moaz mozambique. officially called the ottawa treaty it aims to eliminate antipersonnel land min

we begin in afghanistan, where abdalla abdalla, the front runner in the nation's presidential election just survived a suicide bomb attack at a campaign rally. six people were killed including abdalla's bodyguard. abdalla reassured his supporters and his enemies that he will continue his campaign. >> translator: the enemies of afghanistan failed in their plot today but unfortunately we have lost a number of our countrymen. the response to today's attack is going to the ballot boxes and we will continue our election campaigns as normal. >> in the u.s. a copy of hillary clinton's book, hard choices, has been leaked. one of the revelations is she disagreed with president obama over the war in syria. overruled by obama is arming the force against bashar al-assad. >> we end with a look at, jeff's bomb sniffing dog sena, became available for doops after completing her term of service. with the help of the nonprofit group mission canine rescue she was brought back from afghanistan. after years of protecting marines, saving countless lives from ieds, her only concern is getting to know her sis

seven-year-old abdalla can't count or read. he is traumatized and doesn't speak much.n we asked what he thinks about syria -- near he whispers. -- fear he whispers. they have seen things no one and no child should ever see. more than half of the refugees are children and most are out of school. >> they lost everything out of syria. their houses land property business. >> closest thing that abdalla has to a guardian angel. he runs home of hope with 75 children who used to live on the street. >> we try to rehabilitate them. give them education. >> today syrian refugee children have flooded an overwhelmed lebanon. they live in makeshift shelters in the country or in beirut, at least 75,000 ton street, instead of in school. -- on the street instead of in school. 15-year-old abdalla works fealg 15 hours a day -- works 15 hours a day to make $7. 11 yeerd abir sells flowers for about a dollar a strand. she feels ashamed being on the street so she looks away and longs for home. >> i hope things come down and god willing, can i go back. >> their families often sent them to sell

the country is holding a runoff between abdalla abdalla and ashraf ghani.hamid karzai is constitutionally prevented from another term. (f) daily lives of american soldiers who served at one of the most deadly outposts in afghanistan. filmed there from 2007 to 2008. and as roxana saberi reports, what life can be like after the battle. >> david, brendan o'byrne described the adrenalin of combat. and how he felt coming home from afghanistan. >> okay. >> fighting the taliban was just the start of a long conflict for brendan o'byrne. >> for a while there i started really thinking that god hates me. because i did sense, you know, send -- >> brendan spent 14 months in afghanistan. he descented base camp named for the company's medic. seen here before he was killed in action. brendan was 25 in 2008 and lucky. after five years in the valley 50 soldiers died. >> there was one time i thought in my entire time in afghanistan, what are we doing here? there are young boys on the side of that hill trying to kill me and i'm a young boy trying to kill them. what are we doin

. >> presidential candidate abdalla abdalla calling for the vote counting to stop. he has pulled his observers out of election offices and saying the accounting has to be stopped. for several days now he has been calling for a senior election official step found he says the system has been systematically rigged against him. after the second round of voting on saturday were exaggerated including the numbers in the rural areas. this could throw into doubt the presidential election whole process here. we were expecting results in late july and a new president was supposed to be nawlgte naugd in late august. >>> a man prosecuted as a nazi for are extermination of thousands of jews. >> the horror of the holocaust has resurfaced by the arrest of a man in philadelphia, 89 years old, a guard at a nazi death camp. accused of kills hundreds of thousands of jews. >>> on tuesday the retired tool maker was arrested at his home in philadelphia. he's wanted on a german warrant. it charges him with aiding an betting the killing of 216,000 jews. born in cheks lovakia. he claims serv

his resignation comes a day after former minister abdalla abdalla's released a tape of him ordering the stuffing of ballot boxes. >>> the u.s. supreme court mostly validated the environmental protection agency's, cannot rewrite standards already written into law but they did agree that the epa had other ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. lisa stark, tell us more about today's decision. >> well david it was a complicated decision involving six separate cases. as you mention, the justice et cetera fo -- justices for the most part, power plants and factories but the court also had a cautionary note. a majority of the justices found that the epa had tried to overstep its bounds in the way it was using the clean air act. still justice antonin scalia did say this. it bears mention that the epa is getting almost everything it wanted in this case. it sought to regulate sources that were responsible for 86% of all greenhouse gases admitted from stationary sources worldwide. under our holdings, the epa will be able to regulate 83% of those emissions. the epa claimed victory. it says the sup

afghanistan just had a election, abdalla abdalla one of the candidates accused the election department of corruption. does the afghan taliban and the afghan government stop the press from doing its job? >> well certainly the afghan taliban have kidnapped held for ransom killed a lot of afghan journalists and afghanistan is one of the very high risk areas in the world today. but even more than that are the war lords who are allied to the government, or allied to political figures. these war lords are extremely threatening outside kabul and the provinces and the other cities and it's very difficult for journalists, for stringers in the smaller towns and cities, to work, and to report properly without being threatened by the warlord. >> we of course can't forget daniel pearl in that region who got beheaded for just trying to do his job. let's go to another country in the middle east, iran, calling for a social media campaign to demand an end to a five year crack down on the press there that started after protests surrounding the 2009 elections. social media enough, is there anything that

the court sentenced abdalla alpha tisal -- fatah rks freedoe press. so far they've got a state which does the opt opposite. soraya lennie, al jazeera. >> and al jazeera rejects all of the charges against our team detained in egypt for 170 days. we continue to demand their immediate release. >>> arlington national cemetery celebrating its 150th anniversary. a wreelt laying ceremony was held at the tomb of the unknown. established in 1864. there is growing concern in italy. coming up on al jazeera america, some call for an end to immigration after the latest flood of immigrants come to the opportune. world cup fever, just can't wait for team u.s.a. to play. >> they will continue looking for suvivors... >> the potential for energy production is huge... >> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now so many money stories sound complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down the confusing fina

his appointment came after abdalla al sini resigned from the position in april. he then refused to hand over power, leaving libya with two prime ministers. backing al simi and says matig is illegitimate. >> constitutional chamber of the supreme court ruled that the decision by the general national congress is unconstitutional. >> it ends weeks of political deadlock. libya's supreme courting declares ahmed's election unconstitutional snrp i will abide by the court's verdict and i'll respect its ruling. what happened today is one of the most important achievements in the state of law and institutions that we all aspire to. >> the parliamentary body that had appointed him in a controversial vote, the national general congress, it's now up to them to decide how to move forward. >> the gnc will hold a session where the prime minister will be elected. under the political divide getting the 120 votes needed will be very difficult. alternativelily, thealternativer someone different. >> retired general halifa haftar who launched an opposition against what he says terroris

a fourth, abdalla al shami has been held for more than a year. >>> attack happened in the remote town of a stronghold of the armed group boko haram. killings are thought to be in reprisal for the deaths of boko haram members who raided the town a few weeks ago. >>> police in nigeria have band people in the capital be abuja for failure to rescue over 200 girls kidnapped by boko haram. forced by security reasons, fearing the group will detonate explosives. failing ofind the more than 200 school girls more than a month ago. >>> thousands of people have been celebrating the formal creation of india's newest state. arch for separation, the new state will have a population of about 35 million people across ten districts. lidy being dutt has more details. >> tribute for people who died for cause. chief minister of india's newest state. welcomed a chap in the country's history. >> be 14 years education to get bl. >> after what people from being telenghana, jubilant and hopeful. but beyond this show of strength lies a job of building the state that more than 30 million people will call home. s

that's what happened to abdalla. he never thought he had to find a new shelter for his family of eight. >> i first imagine. >> we moved from tal afar to mosul where there was still some security. then we had to come here. i had about $200, we spent it all on hotels don't have anything left and are forced to come here. >> reporter: this man's story is even more telling about what iraqis have gone through in the aftermath of the u.s. led invasion. he's too embarrassed to show his aface. >> i have four children. 90 my children are all over the place and i'm here. >> reporter: the road to the kurdish region is shill joked with exhausted refugees. people continue to see mosul and its surroundings as the sunni militia consolidate their power. many wonder if they will ever go home again. >> we'll end our special report this hour away from iraq but on a different sort of crisis. the fate of our al jazeera colleagues and our hope that egypt will free a.j. staff. there is a very firm resolve. we'll report after the break. brea