President ial candidates plans on education. We continue our series looking at the issues shaping these election. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial futuren and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Prcoyo woodruff for the president today, a moment on the worldda stage at the United Nations, one last time. His message an urgent plea to make a better world. At this moment, we all face a choice. Woodruff it was his final address to the u. N. General assembly, and president obamaa used it to issue a challenge. We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration, or we can retreat into a worldwe sharply divided and ultimatelyul in conflict along ageold lines of nation and tribe and race and religion. Woodruff the president spoke of a growing contest between authoritarian rule and liberalism, and of people losing faith in the face of terrorism and the refugee crises. And so given the difficulty in forging true democracy in the face of these pressures, its no surprise that some argue the future favors the strong man, a topdown model rather than strong democratic institutions. A but i believe the road to true democracy remains the bettero path. Woodruff mr. Obama appealed to the world to do more for the millions fleeing wartornar countries. And he warned against the politics of donald trump,mp without mentioning the republican nominee by name. The world is too small for us to simply be able to build a wall and prevent extremism fromi affecting our own societies. Woodruff immigration was likewise a priority for newlywi named british Prime Minister teresa may, making her first address at the u. N. Since taking office. We did not vote to turn inward or walk away from any of our partners in the world. Pa faced with challenges like migration, they demanded a politic that is more in touch with their concerns and bold action to address them. But that action must be more global, not less. Woodruff but for many leaders, syria topped the agenda. President obama aimed strong criticism at the syrians main ally, russia, for its aggressive moves there, and in ukraine. In a world that left the age of empire behind, we see russia attempting to recover lost glory through force. It may fuel nationalist fervor for a time. But over time, its also going to diminish its stature and makl its borders less secure. Woodruff u. N. Secretaryet general ban ki moon, also forcefullydenounced the syriane regime, and its main backer, in his last address to the General Assembly. There is no military solution, many groups have killed many innocents, but none more so than the government of syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighborhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees. Powerful patrons that keep have blood on their hands. Woodruff french president Francois Hollande added his own demand to stop the killing in syria. F translated the syrian tragedy will be seen by history as disgrace for the International Community if we do not end it quickly. Thousands of children have died in bombings. Whole populations are starving, humanitarian convoys are being attacked, chemical weapons are being used. Be woodruff turkeys president recip Tayyip Erdogan joined those who called for a solutiony in syria, but his main focus was an exiled cleric in the u. S. , fethullah gulen, whom erdogan and his government accuse of fomenting the failed july coup. translated i am calling, from this podium, to all our friends, to swiftly take the necessary measures against the Gulenist Terrorist Organization for their own safety and the future of their nations. Woodruff the General Assembly continues through next monday. Ifill in the days other news, new details emerged ons ahmad khan rahami, the suspect in the new york and new jersey bombings. The New York Times reportedhe the f. B. I. Briefly investigatedi rahami in 2014, after he allegedly stabbed his brother. At the time, his father told police that rahami was at terrorist, but he later recanted, and an investigation found nothing. G. Woodruff authorities in france have made eight new arrests in a deadly truck attack in july. 86 people were killed when a driver plowed through crowds of revelers in nice on bastille day, the French National holiday. The attacker, a tunisian, was killed by police. The suspects arrested on mondayr are french and tunisian. Ifill the United Nations hai suspended all aid deliveries to syria after an attack on a red crescent convoy killed at least 20 people. It happened near the Northern City of aleppo, just hours after a ceasefire expired. Footage today showed the charred wreckage of trucks lining the streets, and supplies, some marked with the u. N. Logo, strewn about. This is a very very dark day for humanitarians in syria, and ill say across the world because i think theres been a moment of shock and, frankly, disgust, by this attack. Ifill russia denied claims that its warplanes attacked the convoy. But it did say there is drone footage showing heavily armed militants traveling with the aid trucks. Woodruff a fire roared f through a migrant camp on the greek island of lesbosn overnight. Thousands fled and no one was injured but 60 of the camp was destroyed. The fire broke out late monday and was extinguished by midday today. The camp houses several thousand migrants. Ts police say the fire started after clashes between differentr ethnic groups. Ifill back in this country, Hillary Clinton took a day off the trail to study up for next weeks first president ial debate, while donald trump went back to school. John yang has our report. Yang it was Donald Trumps turn to bring the campaign to a college, just as Hillary Clinton he spoke at High Point University in north carolina, and again decried clintons criticism that hes aiding and abetting isis. N her claim that my opposition to radical islamic terrorism is as. Recruiting tool. Why . Because im tough its a recruiting tool . T it demonstrates a level of ignorance about the terror theft. Reporter it came amid more questions about the charitable trump foundation. The Washington Post reported it paid moree than 250,000 to settle lawsuits involving his businesses. The Trump Campaign didnt respond, and social media became a battleground over donald trump, jr. s, tweet likening Syrian Refugees to a tainted bowl of skittles. A Clinton Campaign spokesman called it disgusting, and a former obama speechwriter tweeted a picture that had earlier gone viral saying, this syrian boy is one of the millions of children youu compared to a poison skittle. Clinton made no public appearances today, but there was word she may get the vote of a former republican president. Former maryland republican governor kathleen kennedyee townsend, daughter of robert kennedy, posted on Facebook George h. W. Bush said hes voting for hillrism the former president said hes a privatev citizen and his vote will be, too, private. For the pbs newshour, im john yang. Woodruff relief is on the way for five Southern States after a Pipeline Leak in alabama. Colonial pipeline said today its completed a bypass line,yp and can restart the flow tomorrow. The leak has caused many gas stations in the region to shut down pumps. And, prices have jumped more than 20 cents in some parts. Ifill 21 states went to federal court today to block a new overtime pay rule. Er it takes effect december first, and requires overtime for salaried workers making less than 47,500. Thats double the current threshold. The states say it places a heavy, new burden on state budgets. Woodruff and, a slow day on wall street. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained nine points to close near 18,130. The nasdaq rose six points, and the s p 500 added a fraction. Still to come on the newshour new details on abuse at a Marine Training camp. Tulsa Police Promise justice after the killing of an unarmed black man. Breaking down the candidates plans on education, and much more. Ifill the c. E. O. Of wells fargo appeared on capitol hill and faced a barrage of questions about the banks conduct underth his leadership, and why employees opened nearly two million phony accounts. Regulators say employees, under pressure to meet sales goals,es had secretly created unauthorized bank and credit card accounts for customers, since 2011, without their knowledge. Today, Bank Chairman john stumpf apologized before the senaten banking committee. I am deeply sorry that we failed to fulfill on our responsibility to our customers, to our team members and to the american public. We never directed nor wanted our team members to provide products and services to customers that they did not want. That is not good for our customers and that is not good f for our business. It is against everything we stand for as a company. Ifill more than 5,000 workers, mostly lowerlevel, have been fired. But senators on both sides of the aisle said it was stumpf wha should be paying the price. Massachusetts democrat Elizabeth Warren. You havent resigned. You havent returned a single nickel of your personal earnings. You havent fired a single senior executive. Instead, evidently, your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your lowlevel employees who dont have the money for a fancy p. R. Firm to defend themselves. Its gutless leadership. You squeezed your employees to the breaking point so they would cheat customers and you couldd drive up the value of your stock and put hundreds of millions of dollars in your own pocket. And when it all blew up, you kept your job. You kept your multimillionu dollar bonuses. Ifill we turn now to Michael Corkery, whos been reporting ol this story for the New York Times. Michael, you were in the room today in the Hearing Chamber today, and you saw the outrage that was expressed byy republicans and democrats,ed not just Elizabeth Warren, but also david vitter. Outrage is easy. As whats the fix theyre asking for . Well, i think they want more accountability. I mean, this fraud was extraordinary for how widespread it was. I mean, it affected thousands of customers, were talking upward of two million potentially fake created accounts by wells fargo employees, 5,300 bank workers, mostly lowlevel, lowpaid bank workers have been fired, but i think what the committee was focused on and what Elizabeth Warren in particular was takingt up the charge for was that none of the Senior Executives seem to have been affected, either losing their jobs or taking back some of their compensation. Ifill how long have Senior Executives known about thiss problem . Well, john stumpf said he first knew about it in 2013, though the problems may have gone back to 2011. But even 2013, this problem has been going on for three years in some form or another. Those employees who have beenee fired have been fired over a period of five years, and, you know, even up to this year people were being fired at the bank for this behavior, lowlevel workers, so i thinko again the committee was focused on why didnt you do more sooner to take care of this problem . Ifill some employees said this problem propped up because of a culture of competition atio wells fargo. What are they talking about . Ut wells is a very harddriving bank. Its very successful, very profitable. Stock has been on a tear. Ar they say that employees were under these enormous pressure to meet these sales goals, to open as many new accounts as they can. John stumpf wanted all west Bank Customers, one goal was to have every Bank Customer have eight accounts, eight products with wells fargo, you think a loan, a checking account, a savings account, so these employees thought they were unrealistic. They were totally unrealistic. E in order the meet them, not just to gain bonuses, but just to keep their jobs, they felt compelled to meet these. In order to doee that, many forr employees said they needed to bend the rules to, fake some. Ifill is there a dollar number you can put on a number of accounts, the dollar impact on actual account holders that found out they held a lot more accounts in their name than they realizeed . Right now regulators, they have put the number at about 2 million. Its not a anything number when you consider the extent of the fraud. Thats whats weird here. These fees meant things to people, these were overdraft fees, these were late fees on credit cards they didnt know they had, but again, it was happening in ways where sometimes a Bank Employee would open up an account for someone, the person didnt know it, and then two days later they wouldd close it. And they would just do it just to get credit for the sale. And it suggests that this selling culture was so broken that it wasnt even making the bank money. It was just meeting goals for the sake of meeting goals. Ifill some of the sympathy in the hearing seemed to be for employees who were fired, who they think were treated as scapegoats. They kept coming back to this point over and over again, 5,000 employees. Oy these are people mostly who make about 12 an hour. Those are the ones who have been fired. At this point, other than the few, as john stumpf said, quite vaguely managers and managers of managers, nobody in the c suite, no big, Top Executive has lost their job. And i think that has the optics at least of the little guy gets squeezed and gets hurt and takes the fall, and the big c. E. O. S get off. Ifill Michael Corkery of the New York Times, thank yout very much. Thank you. T woodruff we turn to the revelations of abuse at the Marine Corps Training facility at Parris Island, south carolina. An internal investigation that began after the death of a young recruit earlier this year has uncovered a larger pattern of hazing and abuse at the legendary facility. The newshours william brangham, whos recently been reporting at Parris Island, joins me now for more. So william, tell us about this investigation thats been under way. Brangham as you mentioned, this whole investigation began marineis 20yearoldun recruit, he was a man from michigan, he jumped off a thirdfloor balcony and fell to his death. The investigation that went into that death revealed that he had been physically abused by one of his drill instructors. He had. The morning that he died, he went out and claimedim that he had a sore throat and asked for a medical. To be sent to the doctor, and his drill instructor apparently didnt believe him and made him run laps up and down the barracks when they were sleeping. He then apparently wasntwa responding to his drill instructor appropriately, so he was choked. He fell to the ground. Then his drill instructor got over him and slapped him in the face, at least once, perhaps three time, in which he jumpede up at that point, ran out the back door and leapt off the balcony and fell to his death. Now the marines have ruled this a suicide. His family believes he was targeted specifically and was abused intentionally. Apparently this drill instructor involved in this had referred to this young man as a terrorist before. The bigger thing that this investigation has revealed is that this particular drill instructor had been investigated prior to this for another instance of abuse on another muslim recruit a year before where he had apparently called this young man a terrorist also, had put him enter a large commercial dryer and run that dryer and burned the recruit. Woodruff a Clothes Dryer . Brangham a Clothes Dryer, a Large Industrial dryer. The familys argument is why was this man reassigned . This investigation has continued to unfold fromes there. Woodruff you were just att Parris Island reporting on another story in the last fewew weeks. Did you see any evidence of this kind of treatment of these recruits . Brangham no, we saw nothing of the time. I was down there reporting on a story about how women are now entering more combat roles in the marine corps, and we were following some female recruits. And we saw no evidence of anything like this. We saw what a lot of civiliansi would look at as almost stereotypical marine drill sergeant behavior. Its rough and tough stuff. Drill sergeants yelling at young recruits, making them run around, sometimes running to ths point of exhaustion, a lot of chaos, a lot of scream, but thats what the marine corps thinks of as its honored tradition of turning civiliani into corps. We saw no evidence of abuse whatsoever, nothing thats alleged in this investigation. Woodruff you were telling me there are still more allegations out there about the way recruits have been treated by these drill instructors . Brangham thats right. This investigation, which hasnt been released to the pentagon. Hasnt been released to the public. We went to the pentagonhe yesterday to read it for ata few hours. This investigation revealed at least a dozen other drill instructors were involved in what the marine corps calls the fostering of abuse. Hitting of recruit, encouragingg recruits t