Gaza Hospitals, Biden-Xi Meeting, Looming Government Shutdown
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Israeli ground troops approach palestinian hospital's fighting harass as they go.

The united states does not want to see firefights in hospitals. And you think is saying, apparently hard to stop. How can the world protect patients?

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news. President biden meets china's leaders this week. He hasn't spoken with sheet en paying for a year. And if us has been tough on china, IT reflects voter .

preferences. We saw that a majority is some of its slim majority, but of republicans, democrats and independence all see china's a threat.

What can the president due to keep the rivalry from going too far?

Also, congress faces another deadline to keep the government open. The last republican house speaker lost his job over this. So what can his replace stay with us? To get the news, you need to start your day.

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Israeli ground forces are battling hamas on the streets of gaza city, with heavy fighting now around the main hospital called after .

israel and hamas have made competing claims about hospitals with israeli and U. S. Ding haas fighters hide under hospitals. Here's national security advisor.

jake elivated mois, Operating in a way that's outside the bounds of of any civilized concept of how you would think about you using a hospital, using human shields .

must denies this, and we may find out soon whose claims are true since israeli ground troops are nearby. In the meantime, patients and doctors are caught in the crossfire.

And that is the story we're going to focus on this morning. What is IT like for patients and doctors inside that hospital in pa? Abati s and kao s been talking with people inside higher area.

Steve, what are you hearing? Well, there are about a dozen hospitals facing these evacuation orders, and several have gone dark already over the weekend. There have been attempts by me and others to reach people in gazza city in these hospitals, and we weren't able to.

But some hospitals have also already been hit and some, including by air strikes. So they've also come under attack. And god is largest hospital l shift out on saturday ran out of fuel completely.

And that means that about forty babies were taken out of their incubators and at least two died already. Nurses at l. Shifa are trying to keep them warm, putting them next to another on hospital beds. Doctors without borders has medical teams at l shift. This is what the group's emergency coordinator.

paul ni, told me today, our no people are and staying in the cord, or because of snake fired and near the windows, and that they cannot S.

So israel has not allowed any field to enter gaza over a month, but I did offer three hundred leaders of fuel till shifts on sunday for its neonatal partment. But statements from the palace and health ministry say there's no safe way for them to collect this field, and that IT wouldn't have powered the hospital for more than half an hour. So the offer was rejected and patients are suffer inside.

Okay, so israel says that offered fuel. What else is israel saying about the crisis at that hospital?

Israel's is prime minister Benjamin itn. Yahoo's spoke with CNN and he again alleged that hamas is using altitude hospital as a commander. Center for terrorism.

Israel hasn't provided evidence for that claim, and homes denies this, but we may soon find out whose claim is true since israel forces are closing in on these areas in gaza city. Meti aha. Also put full responsibility for this war on hames.

He said that the h hospital is not under season that people can leave if they want. And he insisted again that the aim of this war is to destroy hamas. That's the group behind the october sm of the attack on israel that killed twelve hundred people there. And he's rejecting calls for a ceasefire, saying around two hundred and forty hostages should be released first.

Okay, so netting yahoo has said people can leave if they want. I guess we should add if they are able. So let's interrogate that a little bit. I know there are now these humAnitarian pauses with a kind of corria going from gaza city to the south, which people can take if they are able. What's happening with people, whether they're in hospital or not.

they're getting out well, the U. N. Relief agency, Steve, says there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the north, and they are strugling to survive. Food is winning out for them.

And again, a lot of these people cannot make this journey along this main road that israel has designated for people to live on because they have to walk for miles by foot um and so they are elderly and disabled people and again, critically injured people and others hook just cannot make that journey and also they can get to that road safely. They're able to evacuate the areas that they're in, in northern gaza and got the city to get there. And anyways, the south isn't that much safer for people. The palestinian um health ministry in gaza says that of more than eleven thousand people killed in this war already, including more than forty five hundred children, at least forty percent of these deaths were from airstrikes in the south where people have been forced to flee.

An update on one aspect of the israel homos war from pr. batra.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

This week, president biden focuses on the issue he placed at the center of his foreign policy.

It's up the wars in the middle of ukraine. It's counter in china to buy them. How to push back on an authoritarian rival is a big problem for the future is also a political chAllenge. Now, republican candidates have made slogans about china. Part of their campaigns in .

per senior White house correspond to tama keys will travel along as the president attends a summer of asian leaders, including china's sheet ing ping, heyer tam. What are the leaders of the U. S. In china doing well?

They're set to meet on wednesday in the the area for end up discussions on a whole range of issues that are sing tensions from unfair trade practices to the military build up in the south china sea and SHE and biden have not had a conversation since the last time they met a year ago in boli, things have been pretty tense.

Binton says he wants to manage competition and open communication to reduce the chances of conflict, but china is also something that he talks about in the context of domestic policy. Like the big subsidies, he is promoted for electric vehicles. Last week, he brought that up to a crowd of united auto workers union members in the oi. China is determined .

to dominate elective views market by using unfair trade practices, but I will not let them I find .

while china .

is a domestic issue in another way, in that republican presidential contenders like ran to santis .

talk about a lot yeah and that reflects concern among americans about the threat posed by china. IT has reached that concern record levels. Those concerns have been tracked since nineteen nineteen ninety in a survey done by the chicago council on global affairs, and they share their latest results exclusively with in pr.

They found fifty eight percent of americans can see the rise of china as a quote, critical threat hears dinner smells from the chicago council is also the first time in any of our post that we saw that a majority, some of its slim majority, but of republicans, democrats and independence, aussie, china's a threat. And it's especially pronounced among republicans, seventy one percent see IT as a major concern, and an overwhelming majority of them say us leaders aren't paying enough attention. Although.

let's be Frank, I mean, a lot of voters don't truly pay that much attention to foreign policy when IT comes to voting to that is true.

Just because they're concerned about this doesn't mean that it's going to be what drives them to the polls or makes them decide to vote for one party or one candidate or the other. Voting issues are more likely to be things like abortion or the economy or just sheer partisanship. I talked to Elizabeth Sanders at George town about this.

He says, when IT comes to foreign policy, there is a lot of evidence in political science that voters pick a candidate they like and then adopt their views. And of course, the front runner in the top race, former president Donald trump, has been talking about the threat from china since twenty sixteen, and he is still talking about IT. Saunders told me that china is one of these issues where candidates can can trade a painting narrative to show that they're tough. And that's part of the reason why republican candidates were ducking IT out over china on the debate stage last week. And SHE expects that republicans are already crafting their attacks on biden for this week's meeting with SHE, saying IT shows that he's weak.

But what's your we gonna like.

tom, well, I expect me part of the small group of reporters, known as the pool, that gets a look inside the room where the two leaders are meeting. It'll be a quick look. Um but i'll be there shouting questions.

Okay, we will listen for the answers. Tamer, thanks so much. You're welcome. And bear tamer keth. Now government funding runs out on friday if congress cannot agree on a plan to keep the government open.

And right now, that's a big if. Speaker mike Johnson unveiled his short term funding proposal on a call with republicans yesterday, but that plan is already facing opposition from democrats as well as some of johns's fellow republican lawmakers.

Congressional reporter eric mccay anion has been tracking these developments. Eric, good morning. Good morning.

And it's great to have you here. Former first podcast producer, now a congressional correspondents. So what is the speaker's proposal?

While likely list is another short term funding bill is meant to buy folks more time to work out full annual budget bills over the next few months. But IT funds some parts of the government, including the department of agriculture, energy, transportation, through genuine sixteen th, and funds the rest of the government, including the defense department, through february second. So that two tear bill is a goal to pass, you know, more federal budget bills by the end of those deadlines. There are twelve of them, so they don't have to keep relying on short term extensions, which really upset conservatives .

doing what extensions now with different deadlines. why? I mean, it's a pretty good question.

IT hasn't really been tried before. The proposals, mostly a gesture of goodwill to the republican party, hard liners in the house. These are the house freedom caucus, and IT would give house republicans more time than just a simple extension through the december to get the budget bill across the finish line.

In the past, the house has gotten jammed with whatever big bipartisan bill, uh, the senate proposes some time in december and doesn't have time to change much. But it's worth saying, you know, just like the short term bill, passing the full budget bills in the house won't be easy. Last week, they had to pull two bills just before voting because they didn't have enough republican support to pack.

Isn't a short term bill like this the very thing that got Kevin the carthy house to the speaker the house yeah.

And in fact, a lot of the folks who were upset about that short term are also upset about this one. There are also already at least three republican defections. In fact, speaker my Johnson himself was one of the ninety republicans who voted against the last short term bill. But now, of course, he's in leadership and meant the last. We trying to cover together a different approach, and we more or less ended .

up back where we started. Okay, let's think this through. If my Johnson can't denied almost all republicans, he would end up relying on democrats as Kevin mcArthur to do. How have democrats responded to all this maneuvering?

So the bite administration called the proposal unserious. They accused house republicans of wasting precious time setting up and shut down. Congressional democrats are also pretty skeptical. Democratic lawmakers on the appropriations committee called the bill extreme and responsible, but it's worth noting here the proposal from Johnson could have been much, much more controversial. IT doesn't contain any so called poison pills or new conservative policy positions that would lead house democrats to dismiss IT out of hand.

So there is a world in which this could pick up democratic votes, which is great news for Johnson because, as you said, IT appears he'll need them. The senate hasn't proposed anything of its own yet. We should remember there's another chAmber here, and obviously, time is running out. I'm sure i'll have more to share, you know, because the houses set to vote on Johnson s .

funding bill tomorrow, you will be covering this story a lot. eric. Congratulations on the new year. Thank you. That's eric.

Here's a bit more political news. Republican senator tim Scott of south CarOlina is out of the presidential race. He said this last night on a fox news program sunday night in america, I am suspending my campaign. I think the voters who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they're telling me not now to m scot announced his run in may campaign on his Christian faith and experience is a black man growing up with a single mom in the south. He said his outlook was Sunny here than some other candidates, but in recent months failed to gain traction .

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