i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo with the latest at this hour. employers in united states created fewer than half the forecast number of jobs last month. the jobless rate is up slightly. labor department officials say employers added 69,000 nonfarms last month. analysts expected 150,000. monthly job growth was the smallest since may last year. the construction sector lost 28,000 jobs. accounting and bookkeeping services lost 14,000. the unemployment rate rose by a tenth of a point. it now stands at 8.2%. >>> for analysis on the u.s. job situation we spoke with ethan harris, co-head of global economics at bank of america merrill lynch global research. >> well, this was a very disappointing employment report with weakness in almost every category. the only redeeming feature here is that some of this weakness may be a payback for the strength we saw this winter. so we don't think the job market is really quite as weak as this latest report suggests. going forward, however, we are looking at job growth slowing to below 100,000 per month over the cour

i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo with the latest at this hour. u.s. president barack obama has urged european leaders to inject call into weak banks. he said they need to act quickly to solve the debt crisis. obama said leaders must make difficult decisions to steer the eurozone away from difficult crisis. >> the bottom line is the solutions to the problems are hard, but there are solutions. the decisions required are tough, but europe has the capacity to make them. >> obama said european leaders must strengthen the banking system to reassure the public just as u.s. leaders did in 2009 and 2010. >> we know that there are specific steps they can take right now to prevent the situation there from getting worse. in the short term, they have to stabilize their financial system. and part of that is taking clear action as soon as possible to inject capital into weak banks. >> obama said a recession in europe could drag down u.s. exports. he said he would take measures to strengthen the u.s. economy against shocks from europe. obama, again, called for the op