Well, lets start this news hour in syria. Most of the focus in recent days has been with what to do with the countrys chemical weapons. A car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the capital damascus killing at least 20 people. The blast hit a government building east of the city center. Amateur pictures of what is said to be the site of that explosion. Turkey has closed one of its border crossings with syria after fighters linked with al qaeda took control of a border town and they captured from the free syrian rebels. Both sides are are fighting to topple president al assad and his forces. Lets go to correspondent nassar hadid who is managed to get to the southern syrian why city of darra. There is fighting going on in darra. Nasser i dont know if you can here us there in darra. Is there fighting going on right now . Yeah, yeah, of course i hear you very well. Today is a little bit cool here in darra, we have just can, comparing to yesterday and day before yesterday its little bit c
Hell destroy his chemical weapons within a year but wants the u. S. To pay the billion dollar cost. Plus, dozens dead, many more missing, and now hurricane manuel is causing chaos in mexico. Well, irans new president says he will bring change. He told a nbc news network they will not pursue a nuclear program. He said he has full authority to negotiate on the nuclear. He has changed cordial letters with the u. S. President barack obama and a dozen prominent Political Prisoners have been released in iran including this prominent human rights lawyer. All this just days before rouhani travels to new york for the first time as president to address the u. N. General assembly. Rosalyn jordan has reaction from washington. Reporter in his first interview since becoming the president of iran, rouhani wasted no time making news. Is tehran trying to build a Nuclear Weapon arsenal. Translator we have never pursued a nuke bar lawmaker and would not do so. He said the Obama Administration wouldnt get
And at least 80 people are dead in mexico after a blast of two powerful storms. One of which is now a hurricane. We begin in egypt where the media there says that 14 people have been arrested, and one Police Officer has been killed in an operation o on the outskis of cairo. Security force versus been exchanging fire in giza. We know go to our correspondent who is in cairo for security reasons. Can you you give us a picture what have is happening and give us the latest . Reporter about an hour ago they are sending reinforcements. What is going on a fairly large scale operation starting at 3 00 a. M. The police and the military out there for quite some time on the streets. And they have been there since the middle of august. In the aftermath the mobs that stormed the police stations, killed 11 Police Officers. The police and army want to retake it. They are being picked off by niners and there have been a number of people arrested. The police and army have surrounded the area and cut off
Down. But that debate could be complicated by republican push to derail president obamas health care law. Randall pinkston joins us from washington. What are they saying about the budget fight . House Speaker John Boehner said the same thing he said at least 40 times before. Legislation that never made it through congress because the senate wouldnt take it theyre going to try again tomorrow. Theyre going to try to pass a continuing resolution to keep the money flowing for the government to stay in operation past the fiscal year, september 30th. But they also want to defund the Affordable Care act. Meanwhile, democrats are saying that it will never work. Even if it passes the senate. Somehow. They are saying that the American Public will have a very, very serious response when they realize the consequences of trying to shut down the government. This is congressman charlie wrangle. Closing down the government doesnt mean that a whole lot of federal Civil Servants are going to be in the s
Partial government shutdown, but Congress Makes it muddy by adding obama healthcare law. What are congressional leaders saying this time. Reporter let me just give some expressions of speech, its a donny brook of a dogfight. Theyre saying that president obama can negotiate with putin on russia but he cant negotiate with congress to keep the government operating. Of course they want to keep the government running at the end of the fiscal year, september 31st, but they also want to defund the obama healthcare act. Listen to what boehner and his counterpart and nancy pelosi had to say just a few moments ago. While the president is happy to negotiate with Vladimir Putin he wont negotiate with congress on a plan that deals with the deficits that threaten our economy. A debt increase without reforms to lower our deficit just isnt going to cut it. This is playing with fire. Legislative arsonists are at work when they start using the debt limit for their own agenda. A countrour country cannot