Gaza Hospital Crisis, Biden-Xi Meeting, Union Wins And The Car Market
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Far too many palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks.

Israel continues into gather .

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And my charost co. And the first from M. P. R. news. The U. S. Secretary of state commented on the bloodshed friday, the same day more munitions fail on gazers largest hospital. We have the latest .

president biden. We'll meet with chinese president decisions pink next week. We have what's mistake and what to expect.

and what union wins may mean for you the next time you're at a car dealership.

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That's how doctors without borders is describing the situation at gaza's biggest hospital.

Overnight, the group that attacks on the archive, a hospital in northern gaza, dramatically intensified. And that has lost contact with staff there. And there's Lauran fares and television urn. Thanks for being with us.

Thank you.

Is got what do we know about the situation in gaud's hospitals?

While the smooth gaza health ministry said all cheerfu hospitals now run out of fuel in suspended Operations, there are reports of patients dying, including a newborn baby in an incubator that turned off when the power shut off. Israel says harasses mean command center is underneath this hospital hours, and l chiff. A staff deny that.

Palestinian officials say this hospital and witnesses nearby say this hospital has been hit by israeli bombs in our tiller ery. Israel says at least one of those attacks was actually a militant rocket that misfired. Thousands of people have camped out in and around this hospital complex today.

They see israeli troops approaching from the ground. Israel's military says it's trying to evacuate the hospital so I can deal with her today, IT said. IT evacuated a children's hospital, our n.

Tc, but that homos members slipped out, mixed in with doctors and civilians. The world's health organization says a majority of gaza hospitals are no longer functioning. A U. N. Spokesperson said, quote, if there is hell on earth, its name is northern gaza.

United ation has about two thirds of the residents in gaza have been internally displays. What can you tell us about their efforts to leave and can they .

even israel's pausing attacks in certain areas for a few hours at a time? Today, in israeli military spokesperson tweed out guidance in arabic c, that's aimed at people in, though many people there don't have internet, saying safe passage is open for a few hours today, along two corridors, one inland, one newly opened seaside, as well as in a refuge camp called job lia, which has been absolutely flattened. The us. Says more than one hundred and fifty thousand people have used these evacuation corridors. Mp s producer in gaza, anas baaba, has been talking to .

some of them with this man holding a woods and stick just to hold the weight .

of their baggage for their long go man .

says his homework. He describes being shot at. He says he's been walking more than an hour in the heat. Our producer annoyance also been sending a video with whole families stumbling south, children waving White handkerchiefs. And Scott, I wanted note, these evacuation routes don't take you to safety. They take you to southern gaza away from the ground battle, but where you're still vulnerable to strikes from the air lawn.

Health officials and gaza say more than one thousand people have been killed there in more than a month of military strikes and their growing calls for israel to exercise restraint. What is the israeli reply?

Israeli prime minister Benjamin, yeah, who says, hum started this. He accuses homos of using human shield. He has ruled out anything more than these little pauses in attacks in certain areas.

He says there will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages. Around two hundred forty hostages are being held in gaza. There are rumors of prisoner swap negotiations as obviously secret. We have nothing public on that yet.

And Scott, israel overnight revised down its own death toll from the october seven attacks to around twelve hundred, that two hundred fewer victims and israel been citing for the past month. Many of the bodies that day were burned and mutilated. The process of identifying them is still underway, but IT was that volume of loss of life that prompted israel to launch the attacks on gaza. That we're still seeing today and .

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Thanks so much. Thank you, Scott.

Could there be a change in U. S. Relations with china, but didn't bit in chinese leader segan paying are sitting down to talk next week at the meeting of an asia pacific economic group in san Francesco.

It's been more than a year since the two leaders have met, and tension between the U. S. And china have risen, and P. R, china correspondent john Lewis joins us. John, thanks for being.

I'm happy to do IT.

So it's been a year since biden and SHE talked. That's pretty remarkable, right?

Yeah, it's been a year once they talked and it's been six years since I je agne was last in the united states. He came in April of twenty seventeen. And as you know, that's a very long creative time for for the leader of the world's second biest economy not to visit.

A last change has been a trade war of pandemic. We've seen spats over human rights and technology. Military to military talks were cut last year.

After then how speaker anti policy went to taiwan. There was the spy balloon incident. I could keep going on, but the services to say that relationship is in a very different place than IT was last time SHE visited. However, compared with earlier this year, after that spy balloon incident, things do seem to be looking up a little bit.

And so why is there like in wind, biden and SHE meet. What can we expect?

Yeah, there's been a tonet diplomacy over the past half year really to try to smooth things out. Several U. U, S.

Cabinet members visited china. Several senior chinese officials have been back to the us. Both sides seem very keen on stabilizing the relationship for now. But this trip by studio png is not a state visit by and SHE.

You're going to talk about a wide range of things, but advisers to bite and caution that it's going to be limited in terms of come out of IT. Really, their main goal is to stabilize the relationship and to lower the risk of conflict. Bone's is the director of the china power project at the center for strategic and international studies.

I don't think either are going in expecting major deliverables or major breakthrough s in the relationship, but I could have power the two sides to make continue to make progress on areas where we've seen improvement so .

that things like climate change or people to people interactions as opposed to government to government. The bite administration says he wants more CoOperation from china on fanno. A lot of the preacher or chemicals come from china. We might see some agreement there. Also, there does seem to be moment of toward restarting those military to military talks, which were cut after policies visit taiwan.

And so what's in IT for SHE?

Well, stability also, you know an example might be reestablishing the senior military to military talks. That would be a positive step. The navy of the us.

And china are the biggest in the world. They're Operating near each other in the south china to see and around taiwan fairly regularly. Nobody wants an unintentional escalation, but ohana skylar mastro was a china expert. Staff for university says that even a reestablishment of military exchanges in the medium to long term would have limitations.

because china traditionally .

uses them as a tool, as a treat to say, we're going to cut these off whenever happy.

And the ideas that they could be used again, they probably will be used again in the future in that way. You know, another key thing on she's mind these days is china's economy, which has had a very disappointing recovery this year. Foreign investments down there has been an outflow of capital from china.

SHE is expected to speak at a dinner for business leaders in separates co, and he will no doubt make an appeal to them. But the proof going to be in the putting, really, there's a lot of business folks who have been spooked by his policies. So even though these talks with president biden are a positive step, they really won't solve all the fundamental .

issues that's in pour. John, Richard, john.

thanks so much. You're welcome.

Lastly, today, cars costs in you. The other workers .

discard some big winds. The union managed to get all workers of at least twenty five percent. Some will even see their pay doubled, plus more retirement contributions, among other things.

But what does that mean for the auto induction and the wider economy for that return to me? Let things for being with this. Happy to be here ation. So let's start here. What do these gains mean for workers and their communities?

You have for workers like you mentioned, we're talking about some really significant raises. You know the U A, W. Came into this fighting to get back of a middle class lifestyle for these working class members who had given up a lot during the financial crisis.

And you know, we've seen their wages go down in real terms over the last few decades. So this was a substantial when it's big for workers that also injects a lot of money into their local economies. There are downsides.

One wage growth, uh, makes that harder to fight inflation. And there is a way this could backfire on workers, which is that it's possible that our costs gets so high that IT further incentivizes companies to move assembly jobs to other locations or rely more on automation. No, I asked workers about this. And paddy ellison, who works for santis SHE, told me he is not worried about this.

But something that we've all though with in the automotive industry for forever basically because basically .

that's what's been happening. Why would this contract to change things? And I spoke with analysts to note that labor costs, they are a factor in these decisions, but they are not the only factor.

And what are the implications for consumers?

Yeah so first, well, this just note that the strike itself was not super disruptive for car shoppers. Inventories vehicles on laws actually went up over the course of the strike. Now the deal that ends the strike IT raises cost for companies and they would love to pass that cost along to buyers.

But IT might actually be hard for them to do that because vehicle Prices are so high, right? You know, they rose skyrocket really, to nearly fifty thousand dollars on average because of forces of supply and demand, not because what was happening with labor costs. And now the Prices have actually stabilized. You have that interest rates rising. So it's a question of, you know, who can even afford to buy a car if Prices go up much more? A big union when IT doesn't help the Price situation, but it's actually not clear how much IT will hurt and how much doma kers will cost elsewhere or just eat, you know.

we'll really just have to see okay. So that raises the question, how will this affect automobile ers?

Yep, higher labor costs. They are a headwind. Specifically, they are a disadvantage for the unionized companies against the non unionized companies.

Labor costs were already higher for the detroit automated kers, and that gap just widened. But thuran in analyst with rbc capital, he said he thinks some people are really over restituted. How painful this is from a company's perspective.

Look, it's not a it's not a positive thing to have to pay more waging increases. But I think basically.

he says wages were gonna have to go up regardless. They've gone up everywhere, right, ford and still lantis. They have both talked to investors since these deals were announced, and they've been really optimistic about their future profits. So will hear more from them in the months ahead about how they plan on responding to these labor cost increases, which will answer some more questions about how exactly this will affect buyers and .

the broader economy that symp yi a dominus. Thank you so much for joining.

Thank you.

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