abdalla abdalla, in a bombing that killed a number of people. how concerned are you that these elections will be fair and safe? >> well, thank god that my esteemed colleague, dr. 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 b

thousands gathered to celebrate. >> abdalla abdalla was bombed in afghanistan. >>> jeffrey edward fawrican detained since november. >>> high powered rifles, texas is one of the states that people cannot carry concealed weches buweaponsbut long guns are are . residents want that changed. up next is "america tonight." check us out at aljazeera.com. >> on "america tonight": the child abuse scandal that's rocked britain. a beloved celebrity. the scandal almost incredibly widens. >> that's probably the tip of an iceberg. something like 1500 individual over a number of decades. >> also tonight, stopping the shooting in california's meanest city, the street c

abdalla abdalla walked away unharmed but six people including you one of his body guards were killed. from 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 these protests have turned violent. they've been taking place over the last few fridays, since hafta launched his protest against other groups. the man charged with integrating tripoli's military. >> there are people out there, because i present the path to that then we welcome everything they will try odo to foil our efforts. there is no option for libya but to build the police force and the army. all the militias have to disband. >> people tell us it was a massive explosion which could be heard 20 kilometers away. there is nothing left to the car but it did cause major instruction to the street. no one knows who was behind the attack prospect ever since halifa hafta launched his action, outgoing prime minister abdallai seemed to side with haftar, join the battle against what he called invisible enemy. tense and unpredictable situation. stephanie decker, al jazeera, tripoli. >> three people have been killed in egypt after trying to clear up a protest in giza. reporters without borders, have written a letter to egypt's incoming president, abdullah fatah al-sisi. they want seven years in jail for peter greste and 15 years for baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy. al jazeera denies the allegations against them. another al jazeera journalist abdullah al shami has had his court hearing postponed. he has been on hunger strike. don't forget to go to aljazeera.com for the full news. >> the unemployment number is steady at 6.3%. we're taking a look at what is underneath those big numbers on inside story.

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 sisters. >>> eyewitness testimony, why are so many innocent people going to prison? we show you tests y

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 mines world

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