largest economies are willing to restart cooperation on a number of issues. meanwhile, the us president has sought to reassure apec nations about america s commitment to the region, despite beijing s efforts to expand its influence there. the bbc s james clayton sent us this report from the event. global even others have met today all under one roof posing for a connective photo. global leaders. we have seen president biden giving a talk about climate change and how the us as a beacon of stability in the pacific. i have to say, a lot of the most important meetings here today are happening behind closed doors. you have global leaders meeting of their global leaders and hashing out deals. i would also say that there are a lot of chief executives of major companies here as well. global leaders, notjust here to meet their counterparts but to meet their counterparts but to meet the ceos as well and we just saw the chief executive of google wandering past. he wasn t answering qu
business correspondent, nick marsh. nick, great to see you. what details do we have about what president biden announced? he: didn t really say much in the end, to be honest. he said there is more work to be done when it comes to the indo pacific economic framework. i would say that s a bit of an understatement. we have been talking about this agreement, it s not even a properfree trade agreement, it s not even a proper free trade agreement, let s not forget. we have been talking about it for about a year and a half. still no consensus reached. i think the latest stumbling block was on securing an agreement on workers rights and environmental protections. i think itjust goes to the heart of what s been achievable and not achievable at this apec summit on the diplomatic front, there has been considerable between china and the progress us, the mood music has been positive, the economic issues are much harder to unpick. the united states knows that china dominates this region a
israel insists there s a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu also said there were strong indications that hostages had been moved from the hospital. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital. and, in fact, they fled. as our forces approached, they fled. that s why we had no firefight. we entered that hospital with arabic speaking israeli doctors, with incubators. and we had no firefight. but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield. and on level minus two, we found a command and control centre, military communications, coded equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons. and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. earlier, israeli forces say they have recovered the body of a woman taken hostage by hamas last month in a building near al shifa hospital. she has been named as 65 year old yehudit wei
created by his administration. biden has been seeking to reassure apec nations about america s commitment to the region, despite beijing s efforts to expand its influence there. for more on this, we re joined live by our asia business correspondent, nick marsh. good to see you. what details do we have on what biden said? president biden basically said that the indo pacific economic framework isn t dead, but he didn t really offer much more than that and i think if you re being charitable, or harsh, i do know how you would categorise it, you would pretty much say he is putting a brave face on things, because no agreement has been reached, the latest stumbling blocks apparently were over trying to secure workers rights, environmental protections, and i think that really goes to the heart of the problems at this apec forum because for all of the progress we ve seen on the diplomatic front in the us china relationship for example, the mood music there has been undeniably positiv
but that moving patients many of whom are in intensive care is impossible. more from the middle east in a moment. more from the middle east in a moment. time for a look at the business news now with ben thompson. good afternoon, ben. thank you very much. let me bring you up to date. let me bring you up to date. we start in china, where the world s most indebted property developer evergrande has been granted more breathing space by a court in hong kong, before a decision is made over its possible liquidation. the firm, which owes over $300 billion, has until a hearing scheduled for 4th december to come up with a new restructuring proposal, as nick marsh reports. evergrande has got five weeks to achieve what they have failed to do for the past two years, which is come up with a repayment plan that its creditors will agree to. now, if they don t manage to do this, then liquidation is a possibility, but don t think that that would mean the end of the evergrande story. in