the the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from burly israel says it's forces have entered guns as the biggest hospital is really military. so specially trained troops are carrying out a targeted operation against a mouse and a specific area of the el cheapo hospital. pump lens also coming up a chance for the us in china to warm up frosty relations trying his leader season pain arrives in san francisco for a sum of nations from the age pacific region. t and us present joe biden will meet for only the 2nd time since by and took office,

and the stakes are high. hello him, terry martin, thanks for joining us. we'll begin with the latest developments and the conflict in the middle east. israel's military says its forces have entered, goes as big as hospital, l schafer. besides it belong, stand off the israel defense forces, say, specially trained troops are carrying out a targeted operation against him. us in a specific area of the hospital medical personnel in the hospital were warned that the raid was imminent is really officials also said they are taking steps to avoid civilian casualties. a little shortly after the military operation got on your way . we spoke with peter luna, of the israel defense forces. here's what he had to say. it is an impression that we're coming out based on intelligence information. it is

a precise targeted operation in a specific part of the a shift complex. and indeed, we are conducting this operation as part of our broader efforts in order to destroy dismantle from us on this terrace infrastructure and also retrieve and bring home the hostages. so we're conducting this operation over the overnight in order to achieve those goals. um, uh indeed it is a huge challenge it within the hospital complex. we have conducted extensive efforts over the last few days in order to evacuate the hospital in order to get people out of harm's way. and that's despite some of his efforts to keep people in homes, right. as we went into the co founder of the complex, we instructed people the only involved to keep away from the windows and to take cover. indeed, the operation is ongoing. we are conducting our operations in order to distinguish

the civilian components of keeping recipients alto, problems, way, uh, trying to minimize the effect of our operation on them. but there is a military necessity and never the less because of how come off has utilized hospitals. yesterday we shared with the world how they tons the around to see hospital into a come on and control position, perhaps even holding hostages there. and this goes, and this is just another part of that operation in order to degrade destroying this manual homeless as far as the infrastructure. certainly sokol is a correspondent in jerusalem. he told me more about the raid at the el cheapo hospital as well. z is really military as mile and found that the flies, the steaming gunmen, were killed in cross fire and the but we're talking about the entrance of the hospital. so we know that the bean clashes arm class just as the entrance of the

house. but then there's also a reports from the published thing and sources that those will be leaving the house, but then i'm being under fire. but when we're talking about the hospital, it says the only sure thing that we've heard it should think that maybe it was directed. those were looking out the windows, but we did not hear of any clashes woods inside the house, but then we don't hear of any resistance inside the house within these or any administrators. continuing its operation in various wards of the hospital and also in the areas of the basement of the house, but then there were some explosions that they were heard. but we, we, we still don't see whether they've actually encountered this a how much command that is really idea of has been talking about now we understand that there are still quite a few civilians in the hospital. of course, there's a medical personnel patient still there. what are you hearing about the number of

civilians that are still in that hospital complex while this military operation is ongoing or yeah, well, it's not very clear how many of the, you know, there is some someone was telling me that would be about more than 10000, they're homeless in the hospital, but i believe that this number could have been less because of, of people leaving in the us. but then as so there are still those will have taken shelter and are in the hospital, but maybe not the same numbers that we had there in the past. now the us president joe biden has urged israel to protect civilians at all, shape a hospital and use what he says, what he's calling less intrusive tactics is likely to have any influence on me on israel's military operations. like i can do that in there cause of

concern not only about the patients in the hospice in, in the she for hosp with them. but they've also expressed concern of the plight of the hostages. and those were had the captive inside the gaza strip. as some of them are american citizens, and they feed that this aggressive campaign that is really is waging inside the gaza strip. the bombings from the a or a this could in danger and not only patients, but also american citizens who are a, has a hostage and a, is there a, in, on this side. it's saying that if we continue with this military campaign that it's going for a long campaign that will last for, for many months, and that the in it's least for now, they don't see that there is

a strong international pressure. we heard the thing is ready for an administer who was speaking to diplomatic charlie, so you're in, in the, in his read, it was saying that we expect this, the pressure to come in another 2 or 3 weeks. so the feeling is that there is a window of opportunity to frontier. they can pain so many. thank you very much. that was a journalist, somebody's suckle there in jerusalem. thank you very much. i also spoke to james denzil low. he's the head of humanitarian and conflict. policy, it said the children knew k, i asked him what he makes of israel's military operation at the chief hospital. a while i think all eyes are on she the hospital and to see the scenes that we're seeing from hospitals that do have protected status is on the international to see mass graves in these hospitals to see new natal units shots,

a newborn babies. premature babies taken out several have died and i think in a way the face of those babies is this test of the international to our ability to get 8 into them and the ability to protect them and then the ability to save their lives. so i think oh, lies understandably on cheap hospital this morning, but let's not forget. there are tens of thousands of on the stands tens of thousands of children. still in the north of gauze, i heard being cut off from even the small amounts of a has been managing to get into gaza since the 7th of october. and that renders events that happened then. so it's a really desperate time and we're hearing about a public health crisis, which is adding, of course, to the, the high depth told image result which hasn't been updated since friday. so we didn't really know what the consequence of this all the i'll shoot for hospital in gaza. city is the largest medical hospital in gaza. i understand is it possible for medical personnel to provide care in this situation?

spell the w h o. i said that she the hospital and as, as well as hoff of causes, hospitals have ceased to function as hospitals. and i think the key question, which case back to you, one of your previous into terry with an idea representative is the question about if you can evacuate hospitals, where do you evacuate? and to i remember the in the most of operations, several years ago, there was a lot of field hospitals. close the front lines are the ones to millions, came out of ices, controlled areas. they could be treated that. but if you evacuate very injured people from hospitals, but do not take them to other medical facilities or other hospitals, then your essentially assigning a deaf warranty. and so there's a, there's a huge kind of missing questionnaire about what happens when you evacuate causes hospitals that wish i'm not incredible strain, as you can imagine from the thousands of, of, of people who are being injured. and these are serious injuries, crush injuries, blocked injuries, life changing injuries, but children, lots of limbs,

lots of organ function that will kind of, they will county for the rest of that on. james, if you could sit down with the warring parties yourself at a table, what would you say to them directly? well, i've been trying to explain to them that the heaviest burden of this conflict is on this morning. the shoulders of the 1000000 children in gauze, let alone the children that are being taken into gaza and are being held hostage. children all paying the ultimate price for this complex. and, oh, i could trying hard for is that i don't see in the dispatch of children the needs to de escalate and find a way towards an effective as to monetary and see. father allows us as a workers to do our job, to reach children with team, also with food, with medical help with all the protection services they said desperately need because that isn't happening at the moment. and of course the total is absolutely devastating. it was, james stands low from say, the children

u k. now the white house says us present, joe biden has spoken again by phone with is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. it said they discussed efforts to negotiate a deal to release over $200.00 hostages, held by some us more than a month after the hostages were taken. their families are keeping up the pressure on israel's government on the road, demanding the release of their loved ones. around $240.00 hostages were taken during the october. stephen tier attacks, only 4 have been freed, and one re skewed. these relatives, when the government to do more to get the research released. my mother was taken, my sister and my sister's husband and my aunt. they will all take and saturday, 9 days ago. they don't have any more of a time. we don't know how that will be in the date that we don't know if they have

for the or so many relatives accused prime minister benjamin netanyahu of not doing enough to bring home the hostages about the where are you? where are you? i mean, i'm demanding answers from new ton yahoo! and the cabinet answers and dates looked at 7 o 2. we have no strings anymore. that's. that's the israel has consumed the dates of norma piano, a 19 year old soldier, captured by him. us, the militant group claimed she died in israel as bombardment, but has not provided evidence of that. there is hope that the international community can help free the rest of the hostages. relatives have also demonstrated

outside the you in the offices in geneva or for hostages that have been released. is that an amazing stock? that is, that we still have $240.00 being kept that. so we're send, did you wise, you know, i'm hopeful that my family wouldn't be released, but i don't think it's going to be as a to be for 4 people kind of release is, but more into an agreement with the big number of hostage is and something more international diplomacy involved as the finding gaza shows no sign of leasing up matches. believe that reminding the world about the hostages is the best chance of getting them out alive. us present job. i says he's determined to get relations with china back on track, trying his leadership region thing has arrived in san francisco for

a summit of nations from the asia pacific region. by then she will meet for only the 2nd time since by and became president and the stakes are high for both sides. by them has said the us is not seeking to distance itself from time. this was the last time the leaders of the 2 rival super powers met a year ago at the g. 20 meeting involved much has changed since then. as the white house prepares for this long awaited summit between presidents abiding and she, it knows that it will be taking place against a geopolitical backdrop that has shifted significantly since the last time the 2 men met. the u. s. is now dealing with 2 wars, not just one. and it has every interest in preventing its most adversarial relationship from getting anymore hostile. this includes tackling hold overs from past diplomatic disputes by se resuming military to military dialogue that was suspended after a visit from then us house speaker, nancy pelosi to taiwan,

anger. china. another low point in relations for us, take down of a chinese by balloon. earlier this year, following months of diplomatic fire fighting, analysts say the current climate has made it even more important for the us to minimize the chances of mishaps leading to more attention saved and paying will undoubtedly want to talk about taiwan. president biden remained firmly committed to defending taiwan, and he wants to strengthen deterrence to make sure that system ping doesn't miscalculate and that he understands if he tries to use force against taiwan. there will be a great cost for china, but at the same time, i think that he wants to convey the siege and paying that the united states supports peaceful resolution of the differences between the $2.00 sides of the straight through dialogue that it does not envision that the outcome of this is necessarily going to be an independent taiwan,

but stabilizing communication won't be biden's only aim in san francisco. it's also expected that he will ask she to use his influence on iran to help prevent an expansion of the conflict in the middle east. something both washington engaging are keen to avoid. the china would not want to see a widening of this conflict. it depends on the middle east for about 50 percent of its energy and would not want to put that in jeopardy. and so they actually have an interest in preventing that water from widening if they think that that's unlikely, then they probably will not act. but if they see that risk is growing, then perhaps paging will at 8 back whatever she invited achieve or don't achieve with the talks. it's the talking itself that both sides want to use to project a concerted effort to manage the world's most difficult. but arguably, most important bilateral relationship. now let's speak to the w, william glue,

croft who was joining us from berlin and correspondent bobby and chris bar, who's covering the story for us from beijing way. and we'll start with you. this is a highly anticipated meeting between the us and chinese leaders. what sort of expectations are there surrounding? highly anticipate? it's also she's 1st visit to the united states in about 6 years. and i thought it was a washington, the american capital san francisco that has a certain diplomatic image to it, that actually both leaders probably somewhere to meet it's very important for diplomatic protocol, was something very important, of course, of both sides. but china particular um, what the expectations are just really from all sides that these 2 leaders just tall . um, any time as major state leadership meetings. you know, it's more about the symbolism is more of the fact that they just get together into a room and talk the space more than what actually comes out of it,

which i think all sides and all analysts are really saying we should have very low expectations. for a major breakthrough, but just coming to an understanding and making sure as we've heard that reports that cooler heads per day on which the many areas of that basically us trying to relate to right is fabia. and the us present says she's interested in restoring military communication with china, is that something china wants to well, in theory, actually china, it is, it should be in china's interest to restore the minute 3 to a minute to read communication. however, when you look at china sections, um there were actually quite mix sick notes. so for example, during several instances, china has not responded when the us side reached out and asked for military timberly to communication. also, what makes things more difficult said china right now does not even have a minute self defense. because the,

the last minute self defense has been disappeared, possibly investigated for corruption. but let me stress this very clearly. i mean, this is really crucial, especially over the issue of the south china sea and also the issue of taiwan to a very many dangerous incidents. dangerous maneuvers, always involving chinese fighter jets and also chinese ships that could have, you know, escalated rather quickly. so military to military um, communication is really, really important to prevent any further escalation of fabi. and let me just put this to you as well. the, the us has busy dealing with the wars in ukraine and gaza. can joe biden expect any cooperation from china in a dressing those complex of what only to some degree. i mean, um we have consistently seen that china is um positioning itself. um and according to its long term, um uh, strategic goals and uh, in the conflict when the warranty,

trained in the system and basically, uh, being relatively close with russia. they have um, supported russia rhetorically. and, you know, putting and see, have met and, you know, celebrated their friendship. why? because they have a share political goal. it's, namely, i'm opposing the, the western world, or the end that, you know, weighs heavy oven. you know, really doing something substantial in terms of pressure and russia to it and this was for the conflict and guys, i mean yeah, china does not have any interest at this. um, um, conflicts, threats any further and um, also wanted to end. but on the other hand, um you know, it would not probably um suspend admitted to recall um support was around because the ron this is very important source of energy. so it is really very tricky to um, to, to, to get to china, to pressure the iran, for example. because, i mean, yeah, as i said, china is very ambivalent interest. and so i'm expecting more of like,

quote unquote, peace loving rhetoric, but not so much in terms of substantial actions. and william, we know that there are massive tensions between beijing and washington. but the american and chinese economy is, are still closely and are linked. how does trade factor into this meeting between the chinese and american leaders? so i, they must be huge. they are an easier link, less so than they have been historically due to the from era terrorist that have continued through the, by the administration to the detriment, most economist will say to both countries. if it's a hit to the american economy in the american taxpayer as well. and as we see trade economics, financial tools, these have become replacement tools of power for companies like united states, a replacement for military power. it's a way to, to leverage power around the world to get countries to bend to their will without using the military power. and that's something that's gonna come up, especially as american business leaders would like to meet with the chinese leader

as well. to talk about that economic relationship because there's a lot of money to be made in business in via and fighters interest, given the economic was the tires currently face william, thank you very much. i was the w. william, blue cross. they're here in berlin and correspond bobby and chris bob in beijing. thank you very much. you but take a look at a couple of other stories making headlines around the world today. the us house of representatives has passed a temporary spending bill that will keep the government funded until mid january. the bill was passed despite opposition from hard right. members of the republican party. but the new speaker mike johnson was forced to rely on democrats for enough votes to pass the measure. and the leading german journalist 2, wrote a biography of vladimir putin electrically receive more than half a 1000000 euros from sources connected to the russian president. who bout cypert has long been regarded in germany as an independent expert on russia. allegations

were made and media reports deciding leaked files of india is capital daily has been grappling with small calls partly by seasonal weather patterns, but made worse by wally celebrations. millions of people have been breathing in polluted air day after day. the government is under increasing pressure to act after the supreme court said that pollution is causing quote, the complete murder of our young people. this gun has estimate doped to save the cartridges pollution and yet she now strong this to read the treatment is likely to be expensive or be docked dishonest. cindy is responsible for hundreds of patients with respiratory problems. this ward is for this week. we've had more of the respiratory

cases, especially this is really dangerous to new ones. first one and 2nd, lead them on medicine. i definitely feel that this is a sort of a medical emergency and we need to intervene. no, no, the never hospitalization on the capital. say they have seen patients numbers the this week is the time of the yeah. when daddy's and becomes toxic. pollution tends to increase with the onset of winter much if the pollution comes from within the city from cause. this is also a significant fact to phone was outside dairy, burning the stroll rubble the remains of to harvesting the city. government is trying to protect people by keeping them inside construction has been stopped and school is closed. usually they have also banned these

but even a supreme court ruling could not stop people from setting off crackers during the can do festival of the vanity. yes, i agree that it's pads on the pollution bar because it doesn't get good. but this is something that would be a way to it is this part of ritual. this has, we have been celebrating this since ages. so if you cannot avoid because lot of things that include the police visit, this is not the only factor. and this is what denny looks like, a d of to the body. pollution levels of several times higher than the safety limit . people living she'll have no option to escape the pollution by staying indoors. these children were mostly as waste because a dispute community that keeps debbie, clean the symbols one robust to the toxic and to the a team from an

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