to discuss, not least for their ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan, and fentanyl. the bbc s james clayton is in san francisco and he s filed this report with the latest. apec has started here and it is a huge moment for the city of san francisco, the biggest summit to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1916. this is a huge economic summit. you are talking about more than 50% of all of the world s trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. and we are talking about 40% of the world s population. so it is a big economic conference, but by far the biggest ticket item here is the meeting between president biden and his counterpart in china, xijinping. relations between those two nations have not been good as late. they last met last year in indonesia and since then you have had that moment where the american government shot down the chinese spy balloon and flaming tensions in the south china sea and also joe bid
to discuss, not least their ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan, and fentanyl. the bbc s james clayton is in san francisco and he s filed this report. apec has started here and it is a huge moment for the city of san francisco, the biggest summit to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1916. this is a huge economic summit. you are talking about more than 50% of all of the world s trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. and we are talking about 40% of the world s population. so it is a big economic conference, but by far the biggest ticket item here is the meeting between president biden and his counterpart in china, president xijinping. relations between those two nations have not been good as late. they last met last year in indonesia and since then you have had that moment where the american government shot down a chinese spy balloon and flaming tensions in the south china sea and also joe biden ramping u
marking in spectacular fashion the birthday of king charles. he is 75 today. the first of the slits is happening right now, this is what we are watching at green park next to buckingham palace in central london salutes. this is the king s troop royal horse artillery that have been given the honour. it is a working day for the monarch today. there are other things on his schedule today. he will officially launch the coronation food project with queen camilla to bridge the gap between food waste and food need. he will also visit surplus food distribution centre outside london and later on today, he will host a buckingham palace reception highlighting the work of the nurses and midwives over the decade as part of the nhs 75 celebrations as well. one thing that has been widely reported that was broken on the bbc is we are expecting the king to be wish to happy birthday by the duke of sussex at some point today. to be wished happy birthday. we think harry will call his fathe
hello, i m maryam moshiri. welcome to verified live. the head of gaza s biggest hospital says a mass grave is being dug for nearly 180 people, after it ran out of fuel. fighting between the israeli military and hamas continues around the al shifa hospital. that s prompted growing international concern, with president biden saying he wants less intrusive action . medical staff at al shifa say the lives of 36 premature babies are hanging in the balance. this is an image of some of those children made public by the hospital on sunday. it said they had been placed on a bed after the fuel ran out to power the generators to keep their incubators going. their current condition is not known, although a hospital spokesperson on monday said three of the original 39 babies had died. israel insists it is only targeting hamas, and that their command centre is in tunnels beneath the hospital. it has also released these images, which it says are of incubators which it is offering to supp