♪ . >> i'm rachelle kerry, president obama talks about a possible strike on syria from the g 20 summit in russia. >> i was elected to end wars and not start them. >> the commander in chief says he is not itching for military action, but will confront syria. the state department is orders u.s. diplomats to leave syria. discouraging news on the u.s. labor front, as the government releases new employment numbers. ♪ president obama has made one

last push for action in syria. he said he encouraged by his meeting with world leaders and spoke of growing recognition that the world has to act. >> it was unanimous that chemical weapons were used a florida a&m conclusion that chemical weapons were used in syria. i would say the majority of the room is comfortable with our coming conclusion that the asaad government was responsible for their use. >> but the host of this year's g 20, russia, says that the divisions between himself and president obama still stand. >> everyone has his own opinion, but there was a dialog. we hear each other, we understanding arguments. we don't agree, i don't agree with his arguments, he didn't agree with my arguments. >> as president obama has backed to washington mike has more on

his time at the g 20. >> certainly mixed results he came here seeking support for his plan in syria. the group split about 50/50, but now comes the more important count, and that is for congress, the president announced that his press conference that he was going to be addressing the nation, from the white house on tuesday night. this in the face of very strong public opposition, the president layed out his case in that press conference yet again, we can expect to hear many of the same points on tuesday night. international norms have been violated. long standing treaties against the use of chemical weapons. the united nations security council while he would prefer to work through that body, is paralyzed and at times like these, nations look towards the united states to act. he again recounted the ghastly scenes that took place. on august 1st. siting the number, very emotional at that point in the prez conference. four mean hundred gassed including more than 400 children. he was asked what happens if this military strike goes

forward, and bashar al-asaad doubles down, and launches another attack, then what. the president says that's highly unlikely, and he says if that's the case, if he were to do that before an attack, i should say, then it would make his case easier to make it easier for him to make his case to both congress and the american people. he was asked about a specific report today the white house very sensitive about any allegations of mission creep. that the president has ordered an expanded list of targets includes the u.s. of bombers. we have been talking about the administration has been talking about the use of cruise missles to carry out this perspective attack in syria. the president said that report is completely inaccurate. ten a great deal of sensitivity there. the president summed it up this way, i am not itching for military action, he portrayed himself as having very little choice. if these international norms are to be upheld, if countries like

iran and north korea are to learn a lesson from this, again, deter and degrade as the white house mission here as they describe it. they are going to be taking their case to congress and the american people as soon as the president gets home this weekend, back to you. >> congress took a major step forward toward supporting a resolution authorizing military action many syria. this takes place as members receive more proofings on the situation, and the potential response. live from washington's paul, the senate took some action on the resolution, just a short time ago, tell us what happened. >> well, that's right. they did take action, but this is very much a procedure move that has been expected since the resolution cleared the foreign relations committee earlier this weekend. what happened today was that it was placed normally on the agenda. so it will be on the agenda monday and we are expected to see a vote on that resolution by the full senate as ellie as

wednesday. which happens to be 9/11. so yes, an important procedure point of order here today, but not a lot of movement otherwise politically, of course, still lots of discussion about how lawmakers will be making the case to their constituents back home, many of them of course are home right now, on recess until monday, and the president actually spoke to that issue directly. let's hear what he had to say about lawmakers making their case. >> what i have said and i will repeat, is that i put this before congress for a reason. i think we will be more effective and stronger if, in fact, congress authorizes this action. i am not going to engage in parlor games now, jonathan, about whether or not it is going to pass. when i'm talking substantively to congress about why this is important. and talking to the american

people about why this is important. now, with respect to congress and how they should respond to constituency concerns, you know, i do consider it part of my job to help make the case. and to explain to the american people exactly why i think this is the right thing to do. >> and it's conceivable that at the end of the day, i don't persuade a majority of the american people. that it's the right thing to do. and then, each member of congress is going to have to decide if i think it is the right thing to do for the american's national security, and the world's national discusser, then how do i vote. and you know what, that's -- that's what you are supposed to do as a member of congress. ultimately, you listen to your constituents but you also have to make some decisions about what you believe is right for america.

sew the president there responding to a question from abc john carrol about one the legislature -- when the legislature who came to the president and said look, 97% of my constituents don't want this, how do you expect me to convince them, of course a lot of these legislatures home in their home districts and they are holding a lot of town halls and some of them are getting very heated. let's hear what senator john mccain faced last night at a town hall in phoenix. >> how much is the life of a servicemen worth, to me it is worth a whole lot more. >> there is no contemplation of putting a serviceman or woman. >> you can say that now -- >> i am telling you there's not. i am telling you there's not sir. so that is not an argument we can have. it is not going to happen, go ahead. >> you can hear there very combattic exchange who has been

very hawkish on syria and actually pushing the administration for more action, but hearing from constituents there saying this is not our war, this is not america's business wanting them, wanting mccain do go back to washington and tell the administration to stay out. so again lit be a lot of rangeling yet to come here with looking ahead to congress coming back into session on monday. these town hall meetings are sofas nateing. truly democracy at work. that's exactly what they are. >> absolutely. absolutely. you can hear people really getting right up in the business. of senators and congressman, not at all afraid to bedr. t maic and to raise their voices, for what they think about this, of course, very contentious issue, should america get involved in yet another country, or rarely understand all that well. the complexities of what is

involved. they want answers and they are asking their elected representatives to deliver. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. paul, live from washington, paul thank you so much. >> in lebanon the u.s. is orders diplomates to leave the country as congress debates military action in syria. the order applies to nonemergency personnel stationed at the u.s. embassy in beirut. the state department is also urging all u.s. citizens to avoided travel to lebanon siting current safety and security concerns. our own david jackson al jazeera reporting life from beirut, telling us more about what is going on here. and david, also making the point earlier, you made this earlier, it is important to stress this, the embassy itself is not closing down. so tell us what is happening many. >> the embassy will be functioning somewhat normally, it will be something of a skeleton that will be in there, but it will function as a normal

u.s. embassy. that means that the friends and families rule, will take effect. and the friends and families of the people that work there, and the nonemergency staff as they call it will be asked to leave. it's all in an effort, really, to reduce the number of americans that are in this region. they want to make sure that americans understand that they should steer clear of this part of the world, the very extreme eastern end of the med train nan is viewed to be a dangerous spot, and they want to make certain that people are not in harm's way. one of the other things that happens when the embassy does work normally as it will, is that it does not become a safe haven, in other words, they don't want a lot of americans here trying to turn to an embassy and saying protect me, now that i need protection, they want to make certain that everybody is out of the area, and accident need that kind of i would assume there is no time line on how long this may last. >> no, you are right, it's an

open ended time line, certainly, and we don't really have any kind of time date or place on any of it, and that's whey they put out the warning that they do in advance or they feel well in advance. it is all already been a reduced number of people that are in this world, from all over the resident of the world. certainly there's no tourism right now in lebanon, and there's very little in cairo. and this part of the word will thin out rather quickly. the corporate travel has been reduced so it's really all about trying to keep those numbers down. and keep people safe in what may be a 2-3-4 week period of time. nobody knows for sure, i know in the empasssy case they quickly try to bring it back up to full staffing as quickly as they can. am al jazeera, live from beirut. >> lebanon isn't the only place where the u.s. is taking precautions. the state department says it is pulling nonemergency staff and their families from the u.s.

consolate in turkey, more from southern turkey. >> the united states has authorized the draw down of its consolate staff in the southern. this is not a mandatory pull out, it is wrath ear voluntary but highly advanceble move. but it is important to point out that this is not being replicated. neither in the embassy nor in the main consolate in the large city. it is only in the southern eastern city of -- and there's a specific american connection there. that being said the air base, the turkish air base where we see nato and u.s. forces stationed there along the turkish syrian border. this offense, comes at a time when turkey has been jittery and concerned about any possible retaliation, should there be any military strike targeting the regime, and the syrian military

forces. now, of course, turkish shares it's longest border syria, 560-mile boarder and over the past couple of days we have been seeing the turkish military enhance or increase its presence along the border, more military being sent out in that direction, as well as eight workers with the specific knowledge of handling injuries or essentially victims of chemical weapons attacks. edition couraging news on the u.s. labor front. live with more on this story, hi, patricia. >> that's right. the numbers coming out of the labor department are extremely disappointing for the economy, and those that have been looking for work. only 169 jobs were created last month, that was well shy of what was expected, and july's employment number was revised down to a third. and while the employment rate edged down slightly, it's still no cause for celebration, because more people dropped out of the work force. the report shows the labor force

participation rate, now that includes people working and actively looking for work continues to decline. it's been trending downward for several years and last month it fell just to 63.2%, that is the lowest since the summer of 1978. that's really worrisome, because economists say the slide is a clear sign a lot of americans have just given up looking for work, especially the long term unemployed. if you have been out of work for since months or more, a lot of people guess discouraginged and they just stop looking and that reduces the number of people willing and available for work. if there is a silver lining it is that wall street now believes the federal reserve can afford to begin easing back. just yet, and that means more money into the economy, and low interest rates.

truly discouraging when you give up looking for work. the latest on the turmoil in egypt. >> protestors are taking to the streets again, demanding the return of ousted president morsy.

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♪ . >> welcome pack, recapping our top stories. >> syria's escalating use threatens it's neighbors. >> president obama continues to speak out against syria at the g 20 summit today. he said the world cannot stand by, he is expected to make a details case for action in an address to the nation next tuesday. the state department is ordered u.s. diplomates to leave lebanon

siting security concerns over the pending military action. nonessential staffers many the american citizens were instructed to leave beirut. officials said in a statement, the potential in lebanon for a spontaneous upsurge in violence remains. august jobs report is out the u.s. added 169,000 jobs in august, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%. but that's partially because few ewere looking for work. >> and protest of the interim government. >> . >> rallies to reported in cairo, alexandria and at least six other areas in the country. protestors are demanding the return of ousted egyptian president. some protests however do continue. the demonstrations come just a day after the interior hintster narrowly escaped assassination when a car bomb tore through his

convoy. on the line for us in egypt, we are not naming her for her safety, as i said, curfew went into effect, a few minutes ago, not all the protests though has stopped, can you tell us what is going on mow? >> i can. yes, the curfew came in about 20 minutes ago, and we are hing from our people on the ground, that there are still protestors out on the street, carrying on the demonstrations in spite of the fact that should be off the street. we are seeing small pockets of people still out on the street, and in one area, in central cairo, hundreds are still out demonstrating and they are also demonstrating up in north. now this is in spite of the fact that the muslim brotherhood and the alliance, that's a kind of alliance of groups that joined together today, to march in protest against the government against the fact that mo hamed morsy was -- and they are trying

to get rid of the constitution by rewriting it, all of these people got together on the street, there are people that say we want our people off the streets by curfew. we know the discusser forces are here, the government has said anybody on the street after curfew will be severely dealt with. and certainly last friday when there were people still on the street after the curfew was fallen they were used tier gas on them. so far we haven't seen that, but we do know that people are defying the curfew and they are still out there. >> are we expecting more protests tomorrow? >> no, after friday it seems to be happening every friday. clearly those against the egyptian government, and the elected president as they would say, the legitimate president was elected in democratic elections they would say that they would be called to try to keep the momentum going every friday. so they are expecting to go ahead again possibly next friday, but i have to say, the

numbers this time around was smaller than last friday, they seem to be reigning in h support, they are destined to keep the momentum doing, because they do believe that the army has taken over the government here, should not be there, they don't believe it was elected but it seems really that there are a lot of people not believing the protests will make any difference on the stage, and so they are staying home. >> thank you so much for that report. live from cairo. going for the goal, still ahead on al jazeera. three countries still in the running to host the 2020 olympics we will tell you who they are, and when they will find out if they are going to get the biggest show on earth. bismark north dakota where tribal leaders are gathering to discuss some of the challenges facing native americans. some areas can reach 100-degrees and also heavy rain expected southern california stay tuned i

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american colleges. it's june of many issues native leaders are discussing that continues in bismark. >> thursday night, a pow wow kicked off. part of a three day event, and today it is youth day. dianne is live from the united tribe technical college, where crowds are gathering today, how do tribal colleges aim to use some of those grant money? >> well, united tribe technical college found about 1 million-dollars from the state, and it's actually going to be using that money for a medical coding program. joining me now is russell swagger who is the v.p. of student and campus services. what kind of v have you gotten from perspective employers and from perspective students for this program? >> well, it's just been really great so far. we have partnered with some people in town here, and we are looking at possibly doing a medical coding program. there's a great need for medical coding.

and so this is a great opportunity for students to come here, be self-starters possibly work for us some day as we try to develop our own business. and then be self-sufficient and work in the work force. >> we know a lot of it -- these colleges come from big oil. a lot of state funds a lot of state revenues coming from big oil, what are you doing to address the need of big oil as they come in here to drill, what kind of jobs are you -- what kind of programs are you developing to meet those dend mas. >> well, united tribes has a program called demand, and we partner with three others, without specifically what we do here at united tribes is we train people as welders. we train them to get their california d.l. license, so then they can move entomb the oil fields and be a part of the work force there. we also are training them to eventually some day to be a part of the oil refineries that is doing up at three affiliated tribes.

to come in and a part of that work force. >> are you reaching down to high schools and even grayed schools to get kids interests? >> we are. actually right now we have what is called a dual enrollment program, so we are targeted people in their junior and senior year, and they can learn from us online, and the hope for that is to they will become interested in programs that we offer here at our college, and maybe they will matriculate to us, or maybe will go on to another college, we want them to be interested in colleges and get that experience. >> so there is interest out there. >> there is. >> very good, thank you very much for joining us. so as we heard, a lot of interest out there, and medical coding in the drilling industry, $1 million is going to be coming to this campus, so hopefully that will solve some of the very high unemployment problems that they have, if some of these reservations throughout north dakota.

back to you. >> and thank you so much. all right, the weekend is upon us, want to know about the weather, right 134 exceptionally hot across the northwestern plains. temperatures today expected to climb into the 90's. take a look here, excessive heat warning in effect across north and south dakota, as you make you way back towards indianapolis, look at the heat. 89 degrees right now, 95 expected to be the daytime high in omaha, where typically it is around 81 at this time of the year. later on many the day, we could see some volatile thunderstorms. especially across western portions of montana, all the way back into northern and south dakota on the western side. right now it is very quiet across the midwest and the northeast, if you step outside, it is a gorgeous day. we have high pressure in control, plenty of sunshine to go around, it is going to warm up a bit, temperatures certainly feeling more like october.

63 by the end of the day. back to work on monday into tuesday. meanwhile across the northwest, take a look here, i want you to be careful we are going to have heavy rain through the day, take a look at the footage we have coming out of oregon yesterday, heavy rain did flood the roadways. folks tries to make their way around. flash flooding expected to be a problem today, we could have some damaging winds and even a little bit of hail. we are also anticipating the arrival of some heavier rain. across the northwest, be new the southwest, certainly across superior portions of california we want to be careful we can see anywhere from three to about six inches of rain due to tropical storm loire reyna. into monday as well, meanwhile,

there's a heat advisory in effect just to the east of los angeles, all the way down into san diego. back to you. >> all right, thank you so much. take a look at what i'm about to show you. a massive sink hole opened up and swallowed a car. the car just dropped in. three people were in the vehicle, no one was hurt. officials say the sink hole may have been caused by a water main break. on saturday, the international olympic committee will vote on who will host the 2020 games. tokyo istanbul and madrid. all three cities are optimistic. i.o.c. members will vote on which sports will be included and a new president to replace outgoing jack. do keep it here, coming up next, people in power, children of agent orange. don't go anywhere.

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