. >> reporter: do you have anything on a call between the president today and fattah el sisi in egypt? >> they had a call, and part of that engagement is a reflection of what we've been talking about in this briefing room, the important role that a number of countries in the region can play including the egyptians in bringing an end to the conflict. and they have an important role to play in influencing hamas. hence, the president had a conversation with him this morning. i expect we'll have a readout shortly. >> reporter: just one, quickly, if i can switch to infrastructure. senator capito has raised the possibility of using unspent covid-19 money to pay for infrastructure. is that something the white house would be open -- an approach the white house would be open to? >> again, i know there will be a range of ideas and proposals that will come forward from senator capito, from other republicans and other democrats as well. the president's bottom line, as you have heard me say a few times before, is he does not want to raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. we certai

nations spent several days calling for a rapid truce he had talks with egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi in paris jordan's king abdullah joined by video link in other news the us congress has passed a bill that aims to prevent violence against asian americans there's been an alarming rise in hate filled attacks and murders during the coronavirus pandemic. so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statement that's a watch. how concerned should we be about rising food prices or is this entirely down to the pandemic we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in a prime minister designate an adult. the task of fixing a war torn economy counting the cost on al-jazeera. who here is my favorite of all the whole they're all be warned canobie he's not afraid he's just so slanted testy with. me on right there he is. live a bit of look at my older you know. where they're from boy ringback. you know where he if you take him out of the bar here run around all over the floor and talk and you can ask him saying things in he

used a major summit to push for peace emanuel mccraw hosted talks with egypt's president abdul fattah el-sisi in paris with jordan's king abdullah joining by video conference the 3 nations agreed to launch a humanitarian initiative for palestinian civilians in gaza in other news speight is facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis after more than 6000 migrants crossed from bronco into the spanish enclave of say it's the largest single day influx into the area the spanish government has deployed troops to secure it so that india's daily coronavirus death toll has reached a record high of more than 4300 fatalities were reported on tuesday but the number of new infections continues to fall but he believes that's because less testing is being done what is fear al-jazeera to want to what east next. frank assessment it's . taking for the situation might be an. informed opinion is the u.s. with military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple. this is a message to the region the united states. its military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. yet you

nations and spent several days calling for a rapid truce he had talks with egypt's president of the fattah el-sisi in paris while jordan's king abdullah joined by video link speaking in front of an israeli fighter jets however israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to continue his saying hamas and its allies and. our enemies see what price we are charging for the aggression against us i'm sure they will learn the lesson we will continue the operation in gaza no matter how long it takes we took on hamas years back and the enemies around us are learning their lessons of what we can do to them if they dare to attack us hamas a spokesman has said that they too will fight home. let me make it clear all ripper ration jerusalem sold is ongoing relentlessly the israeli enemy is betting on the factor of time and how many losses they think they can inflict upon us but it's a losing bet because the resistance in gaza is ready for a long battle and on all fronts with the grace of god when the israeli enemy keeps targeting the women and children it is clear that they have failed and they cannot achieve much

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speak to other heads of state and he has met a short time ago at the elise a palace with abdel fattah el-sisi the egyptian president. has said to r.c.c. that he supports the egyptian president to mediate in the ongoing crisis conflict between israel and the palestinians now l.c. so we don't know we haven't heard yet what has come out of that meeting but it was a short time ago and from what we understand michael has also spoken over the last few days to both the israeli prime minister and the head of the palestinian authority calling on all sides to try and deescalate the crisis michael is also expected to meet paul could go may the rwandan the president for a meeting just the 2 of them a bilateral here at this venue that will be the 1st time that a met who guard may a since the 2 countries both go early in paris released a report into france's role in the 994 genocide now the recent report that was released by france this was commissioned by man or micro said that france wasn't complicit in the genocide but certainly paid a lot of responsibility in not preventing more deaths to seize and mod