Gaza Hospitals, Biden-Xi Meeting, Looming Government Shutdown

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Israeli troops advance on Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, where Hamas militants allegedly maintain a command center. President Joe Biden prepares to speak to his Chinese counterpart for the first time in more than a year. Short-term funding for the federal government faces opposition from Democrats and Republicans.

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0:00.0	Israeli ground troops approach Palestinian hospitals fighting Hamas as they go.
0:06.6	The United States does not want to see firefights in hospitals.
0:10.6	An easy thing to say and apparently hard to stop.
0:13.4	How can the world protect patients?
0:14.9	I'm Leila Falden with Stephen Skeep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.2	President Biden meets China's leaders this week. He hasn't spoken with
0:24.3	she-gen-Ping for a year and if the US has been tough on China, it reflects voter
0:28.9	preferences. We saw that a majority, some of it's a slim majority, but of Republicans, Democrats,
0:35.6	and independents all see China as a threat.
0:38.2	What can the president do to keep the rivalry from going too far?
0:41.2	Also, Congress faces another deadline to keep the government open.
0:44.8	The last Republican House Speaker lost his job over this, so what can his replacement do?
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