The News Roundup For November 17, 2023
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
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Summary
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time in a year at a summit in San Francisco. The two leaders spent time together as after many months of tensions between the two nations.
New polling indicates that there's a significant gap in politician rhetoric and public sentiment on Israel's war on Gaza, with a growing number of Americans believing the IDF has gone too far in its efforts to fight Hamas.
Meanwhile, Israeli military strikes on the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City continued this week, as they focus in on what the IDF claim are Hamas operation centers in medical facilities. Palestinians working in Gaza's main hospital are burying their dead in a mass grave.
We cover the most important stories this week during the News Roundup.
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| 0:14.9 | slash NPR. Hey it's Nyla I'm your host for this edition of the news roundup just a |
| 0:20.4 | quick heads up before we start the show. The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:27.0 | Stay up to date with news by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting NPR.org for all the latest. |
| 0:33.4 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.2 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Nailabutu from Axios and it's time for another |
| 0:47.4 | addition of the news roundup. Let's get into it. According to the Huff Post, this year, Congress |
| 0:52.3 | has only written 21 laws. |
| 0:55.0 | It's on pace to be the least productive gathering of lawmakers since the Great Depression, but |
| 0:59.2 | they found other things to do. |
| 1:00.8 | He didn't see any cameras. |
| 1:01.9 | He didn't think he was paying attention but |
| 1:03.3 | Claudia from NPR was paying attention. I did not run and hit the guy. I did not |
| 1:07.6 | kidding me punch up. If I would hit somebody they would know I hit. But despite the |
| 1:11.6 | political punch-ups, Congress did find a way to keep the federal |
| 1:14.2 | government open, at least until early next year. Let's introduce our panel. |
| 1:18.1 | Megan Sculli is Bloomberg News's Congress editor. Welcome Megan. |
| 1:21.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:23.0 | Arthur Delaney, senior reporter for the Huff Post, good to have you back with us. |
| 1:26.4 | Great to be here. |
| 1:27.4 | And Steve Clemens, the founding editor at large at Semaphore, and also host of the bottom line |
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