This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from washington. Evening. Pelley good evening. Is the Syrian Crisis moving toward military action or a diplomatic solution . President obama speaks to the nation shortly about his plan to make the syrian dictatorship pay a price for what he says was a chemical weapons attack last month that killed more than 1,400 syrian civilians. But he also asked Congress Today to delay for up to two weeks a vote authorizing a military strike to give diplomacy time to work. Syrias foreign minister said today that to head off the strike his country is ready to reveal its chemical weapons, turn them over to international supervision, and sign a treaty banning them. Secretary of state john kerry is heading to geneva on thursday to talk to his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov, who helped broke they are syrian peace proposal. Kerry called the proposal the ideal way to solve the crisis but not if it is just a delaying tactic. We have a team
To honor my son. Captioning sponsored by cbs ning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Now the work begins. The idea of a peaceful solution ut the syria crisis is seductive, but it could be deceptive as well. The five permanent members of the u. N. Security council gathered today to take up the russian plan for syria to give up its chemical weapons. Secretary of state kerry is heading to geneva tonight to meet with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov. They talked by phone today. All of this is aimed at heading off a u. S. Military strike to punish the Syrian Regime locked in a civil war for a nerve gas attack three weeks ago today. The Obama Administration says that attack left more than 1,400 syrian civilians dead. The president in his speech last night said the images of it are horrifying and sickening. We have two reports tonight on syrias chemical weapons. First, Elizabeth Palmer in damascus found an official suddenly happy to talk
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