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>> hello, i am morgan radford and you are watching al jazerra america. we are now one step closer to a government shutdown, less than two hours ago house republicans vote on a bill delaying the affordable care act. but that bill will be dead upon arrival in the senate. president obama has promised to veto any resolution that strips his health care plan, more now from libby casey on capitol hill 67 the house of representatives passed a spending bill largely along party lines keeping the federal government funded and operating through mid december. however it has very big strings attached. first all of it would delay implementation of the federal health care law, known as obama care by one year, it would also repeal a medical device sales tax. while that tax is controversial, some say it's necessary to help pay to the health care law.

another bill passed unanimously insuring that the military get their paychecks even if the federal government shuts down. the action now goes back to the senate in this game of legislative ping pong. the zip at is unlikely to pass or suppress any interest in the bill for fund the government because of the strings attached related to the health care law, they may have more into in insuring that the members of the military get their pay. even if they do, that doesn't take care of the big looming question which is how they come to terms with the other side of the congress, and figure out a way to get a spending bill pushed through both bodies before monday at midnight. that's the deadline when the federal government has to go in to partial shutdown mode if congress can't come to an agreement. >> so for the second time in a week, dr. seuss has been quoted on capital hit. senator ted cruz referenced the

book green eggs and ham during his marathon 2 21 hour filibustr but tonight lois frankal spoke from sues. >> to quote dr. seuss, when beatles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and a bottle on his a pooed and the pooed is eating noodles they call this a muddled puddle beatle noodle bottle paddle battle. >> battle battle. with all due respect to congresswoman frankal she was holding up dr. seuss' book called one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish but quoting from the book called fox in sox. international experts are planning to start inspections of syria's chemical weapons arsenal by tuesday. and once on th on the ground the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will check the sites mentioned in the government's declaration, the cure any council voted unanimously friday on a resolution to secure and destroy syria's chemical weapons.

president obama and u.n. officials had praised the approval of the long debated resolution, al jazerra is on the turkish syria border where the a actioreaction is even more comp. >> reporter: speaking to activists inside syria, many express scepticism about the chemical weapons deal, they were worried about the regime's compliance, one of them even specifically told us it's like the international community is procrastinating when it comes to dealing with the bashar al-assad regime. ordinary citizens they don't know the details of the deal because there is significant infrastructure damage in the country and something as basic as watching television is quite the luxury for many people. others express concerns about the fact that this is specifically a weapons deal that is only concentrated or focused on chemical weapons and many people told us what about conventional weapons, the main tool by which many syrians, 100,000 syrians were killed over

the past two and a half years. so a lot of skepticism and concern from within syria contrast of course to the mood of celebration and how the deal was hailed at the united nations in new york. reported from the tub i can syrian border. a former u.s. soldier nicknamed rambo pleaded not guilty saturday to charges he plot today kill a federal agent for nearly a million dollars. joseph hunter who was ex-extradited from thailand was held after the previous appearance in federal court in manhattan, an indictment unsealed friday described the 48-year-old hunter as a contract killer and leader of a trio of former soldiers who were trained snipers, for almost three years the national security agency has been collecting dat to map on dt the social connection of his many americans, document connected by edward snowden showed the nsa had complex weeks

of information about just who is connected to whom and t whom ant extent. the new york times analyzing the date the agency can map out details on someone's online friends and associates. it can even pinpoint an individual's location at any given time and know about whom a person travels with and much other information. poor communication is partly to he go blame for the deaths of 19 arizona fighters in june. authorities announced saturday that the crews radio failed between the men and support staff. causing a 30-minute blackout just moments before the men were taken over by flames. the findings also reveal an air tanker was hovering overhead when the fight fighters died. >> not all fact are known or will ever be known. even after in-depth analysis some questions still remain unanswered. however, i believe this report has done a good job in

reconstructing the events and learning discussions based on the information that was available to our team. >> officials say there is no indication emergency crews were reckless, negligent, or that they violated protocol. meanwhile, arizona governor commended the investigation. she said i hope that the findings of this nationally recognized team of investigators will further the healing process and give guidance for wild land fire fighters in arizona and around the nation. and now for a look at weather around the nation, let's bring in dave warren. >> meteorologist: i am meteorologist dave warren a big storm is causing flooded and wind problems. high wind warnings and flood warningses in effect in both washington and or and oregon anl linger for two to three days. a long stretch of just nasty weather with a lot of rain coming down, flood watches and warnings in effect. high winds watches and wind advisories all over the pacific

northwest, the storm will dump even more rain in the next 24 hours, the entire state of washington seeing heavy rain. oregon, idaho and montana dealing with the rain also. storm spinning off the coast in pacific and slowly beginning to move and in the meantime it brings all the moisture in. sunday, monday, and tuesday heavy rain, and temperatures right about 60 degrees, not much warm are than that where the wind coming off ocean. we are looking at cooler temperatures moving across the country. highs are in to the 80s, but dropping as this front moves through. and this will be push being through chicago, overnight, saturday to early sunday, by the time you wake up sunday, a lot of the rain could be through and out of the area so it would be a dry day in chicago, just a little cooler. storms are moving through texas tonight, picked up by the forcast, and here this line, through chicago by 8:00 in the morning. then it will continue to move through the midwest but weaken a bit. as the storm develops off the

coast. we have another coastal storm on the atlantic coast, there it is, by sunday night, monday, and tuesday it will slowly push up the coast. looking at the forecast for boston here, not a days of rain, just one day, that looks to be monday. rain coming down temperature of 65 degrees, that wind comes in off the ocean, does not let the temperature warm up much, but after monday, warms up nicely with sunshine back in to the mid 70s by we understand and thursday, that's a look at your national forecast. >> thank you, that was meteorologist dave warren. in china dozens of children are free following a massive police bust of a child trafficking ri ring. hundreds of arrests were made and the abduction of children in china quickly becoming a chronic problem. >> reporter: coordinated across 11 provinces, 92 children were freed. the children along with two women were abducted by a large network that would steal, buy, and sale children.

301 suspects were a effort ared. the children were abducted in provinces to be sold in too regions, the raids came after a six-month investigation one of the biggest of its kind in years, the children are being looked after by a welfare home. >> our childcare workers have been pro tp-rblly trained and they know how to communicate with the a babies and comfort them. >> reporter: trafficking of children has been on the rise in china. but officials say they have been packincracking down on traffickg networks. in 2009 the country launched an anti trafficking campaign and created a nationwide dna database to assist with investigations. >> the chinese government vows to continue the crack down on child trafficking rings. and a second major earthquake hit southwestern pakistan just days after another quake struck the region. this one a 6.8 magnitude. officials say tremors were felt and at least 22 people were known to have died in the last

tremor. more than 500 were killed last tuesday and now a report where many survivors of the first quake are still waiting for help. >> reporter: a few days after a powerful earthquake hit pakistan, another earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitude also hit the area on saturday. this is what is left of the family home. their long goes are still under a pile of rubble. but at least they have some protection for now. >> the government is not interested in our plight. they are just planning to leave goods and not handing it all to the affected people who lost everything. >> reporter: here typically families live in rural compounds in a society where women are seldom seen in public. the family members use every shade available to hide from the scorching sun. and to console their traumatized children. abdul is now worried about the reconstruction of his home before the coming winter. but he does not have the resources and needs help.

he said this is the worse disaster he has ever seen and wonders why it is taking so long to get much-needed help. even though i am just a few klum terekilometers from the main cer where all of the supplies are arriving, however the people in this adjoining area are still complaining that the government is too slow to get those relieved goods to where they are needed most. we take the people's complaints to the provincial chief minister who has been in the district for the past few days. here he was busy holding a meet on the ground how to get the aid to where it is needed most. >> no doubt we are facing great challenges. this is the first time in history there is this heart break in these areas. and first we try to rescue the people. some areas we are not still reach. but we are doing our best.

>> reporter: it may have taken a few extra days, but help is finally beginning to arrive. the worst affected district of the province. the real challenge now, is to get all of the help to the remote regions of the district where tens of thousands of people are in need of desperate help. kamal. pakistan. >> tremors and aftershocks could continue in the renal fountain weeks to come. ganging up on violence, a chicago reverend organizes a summit of gang members to try to put an end to the killings, but not many turned out and it's not why you might think. they are calling it smarter balanced. it's a new way of testing students, but is it smarter andd is it really more balanced. *6 >> good evening everyone,

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>> a $1 million bond for a man accused of shooting and killing a church pastor in the middle of a sermon on friday. he las been charged with second degree murder. he was arrested after he called 911 and told dispatcher what he had done. the pastor was preaching for a crowd of more than 60 people in lake charles, louisiana. police counted 37 murders in september. and 340 since the start of the year. more than 87% of the victims were mail with an average age of about two sieve and a half. there is also a split along racial lines where more than 80% of the victims were black. four in every five deaths are caused by gun violence, many of which are gang related. that's led to a lot of soul searching in chicago as it hosts a gang peace summit this weekend, the idea was to bring together gang members, clergy and the community to stop the

violence, but as diane reports, the summit didn't attract the numbers organizers were hoping for. >> reporter: organizers of the gang summit picked this arena sized church for the a vent expecting hundreds of people to come. but only five showed up. that may have been because the minoringers is seen at an outsider by many activists. the referent group in chicago but left the city decades ago. >> it may take a while but once they understand it's about saving lives, no trying to take over their positions or to diminish the work that is done, in chicago, people are doing great would, in chicago, we celebrate and partnership with that, but the bottom line is we gotta stop this killing. >> reporter: the national unity summit came a little over a week after 13 people, including a three-year-old boy, were injured in a gang shooting on chicago's south side. the event began friday night with a march and prayer vigil for victims of gang violence, continued with speakers and panel discussions. this session focused on using education to help kids set goals

and stay out of gangs. michael chester spent 20 years in a gang, he said he was lured in to one when he was 11 because he had no direction. >> we have to install respect, morals and values and education in our kids while they are young so they will be able to know without a lack of education, you are not no man. >> reporter: cleopatra nathan you would spendsal tonight say something must be done to stop the violence, their 15-year-old daughter was killed in cross fire in a park near her home last winter, her death brought national attention, happening just days before she performed at president obama inaugural festivities. the pendletons shouldn't sure there is the answer but think it could help. >> everybody is trying to put their heads together to come to one slings. but unfortunately, there is no one solution. so this is a start. >> reporter: the summit didn't attract the active gang members tatum had hold. but he says it shined a light on gang violence in chicago and

could pave the way for large every summits down the road. al jazerra, chicago. >> chicago, cleveland, and kansas city were the sites of highly-publicized gang peace summits in 1993 where community leaders and gang members met to find solutions to the violence. the educational standard known as common core is slowly making it's a way across the country, so far 45 states and the district of klum lee wii colume adopted the standards but not without controversy. melissa chan examines the impact. >> reporter: change is coming to public schools across the country. common core is a national program that sets new math and sing litsch standards but it's not run by the federal government. led by state governors and education commissioners. as parts of it, california will roll out a new test. called smarter bammed but whether it really is a smarter

test or a more balanced and fair test sun clear. williams change father of two certainly wonders. >> from what i have seen i believe there is a learning curve. both in terms of switch to go a new format but also in the user interface of the testing. >> reporter: california plans on using computer a damage tiff testing for example a student that answers correctly will receive a more difficult question next while an incorrect answer generates an easier question. this provides more action rat ae scores and identifying which skills a student has learns the common core standards examine a identify key concepts for each grade level instead of attempting to cover a lot of grounds. they focus on why and how a student arrives at an answer as the answer itself. >> it's like okay, you know how to do your times tables why does

multiplication work the way it does, or what does it mean? being able to apply that is going out to the store with mom and dad and being able to apply it in the real world. that's what i want their learning to be. >> reporter: teachers and school districts will continue to exercise the freedom of setting their own classroom lesson plans. the critics worry the new bench marks will mean pressure for some to teach to the test. especially since for many students, the new examine examse difficult. >> we have seen it already play out in new york. they have implemented these new assessments, they have seen test scores drop dramatically,. >> reporter: 45 states have signed onto the common core. in a first and historic multi-state plan. whatever short-term challenges lie ahead. the states believe the long-term pay off will be worth it by replacing a patch work of individual state standards and tests. >> so a boy in seattle who is rocking an "a" in english

literature could be getting a krkic on his chicago friend's staircase, oops. we need to create consistent steps in education too. >> because we are in a transition period, i think it's important to speak specifically to your child' teacher about what it looks like in the classroom. and then i would ask to see samples of work that are tied to the common core state standards. >> airplane. >> reporter: it will be several years before states know whether they made a right decision. whether new tests and standards have improved public education. ma lynn a chance, al jazerra, san francisco. >> common core is said to be fully implemented by the 2014 school year. imagine your car door opening why the car is still moving. that's exactly why mass duh is reordering a recall. why critics say way charles is

way too involved. a new miss world is crowned despite weeks of protests.

>> and an update on our top story this hour. you are looking at live pictures of capitol hill where it looks quiet now, but it wasn't a few hours ago. we are inching closer and closer to a government shutdown. we are less -- where less than two hours ago house republicans voted on a spending bill. the measure pass booed a vote of 231 to 192. but the bill is expected to be dead on arrival in the senate. democrats are planning to table the republican measure when they meet on monday. senate majority leader harry reid called the bill pointless. and mazda is recalling some of its cars because there is a chance that the door could open while driving. more than 161,000 of its midsized cars in the u.s. are

being recipientbeing recalled ba says the door screws can loosen and the doors too keep. the 2009-2013 models. they fixed the problem at the factory. he may be the future british king by prince charles is coming under scrutiny because of his politics in part two of the series looking at the prince and his businesses, lawrence lee reports that some critics feel the prince of wales section seeding his powers by influencing politics too. >> reporter: the dutchie of cornwall the land and property of the prince of wales is so big that it affects the lives of everyone in this southwestern corner of england. when the dutchie applies for permission for a new project, it always gets its way. sometimes local politicians try to oppose what the dutchie wants to do. they say they find it is as secretive as it is powerful. >> information if you like, comes out, you know, trickle,

trickle, and what they want us to know, you know, in this day and age, you know, in this century, you know, anything to do with, you know, with the monarchy, monarch and so on, should be open and transparent and the people should know what's going on there. >> you are thinking cornwall isn't? >> no, it didn't. >> reporter: the dutchie is worth well over a billion dollars. the projects it develops the philosophies that underpins them are designedded to mirror the views of prince charles himself but should he really be doing this sort of thing at all. certainly no doubt in the financial muscle of the dutchie of corn quail wahl and opponents of it, and of the prince of wales here say it's become so big that it's able directly to influence political and economic decisions against the interests of people who live here. opponents in london say the same thing applies on a national level as well raising serious questions about the conduct of the man who will one day be queen. the rule set in stone is that

the monarch i is a-political. charles is known to write to and meet ministers regularly on issues which he is concerned about. his critics say it's not his job to do that. he has a rather curious world view, which is a combination of traditional christanvals and eastern miss at this civil and sort of this holistic environmentalism that puts him in the sort of the the manner house with his surfs mending the field. and that's his mentality. >> reporter: the his supporter expect him to exercise opinions and join in the national debate. >> the prince who is somewhat of a gab fly puts in independent views, as long as it's not party political he has the right do it. if we don't want him to do it. we ought to define what being the prince of hale of whale act.

if it just means watching include him out. >> reporter: at a time when the monarch i is far out stripping the faith in poll singes, his politics runs against the grain of popular opinion, the fact that it's being investigated at all suggests the establishment itself wants to clear up what may become an image problem in the future. lawrence lee al jazerra in cornwall. >> there is even a website for people to comment about the prince's business dealings. miss philippines has been crowns miss world but not without controversy. the contest's final rounds was moved to the indonesian resort of bali following protests and the group said it would disrupt the contest saying it showed too much skin. but despite that it went on as planned. >> that does it for this edition of al jazerra news, i am morgan radford, thanks so much for joining us, up next is "lynnsing

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