And we had standards of what he would accept and not. And that process intensified. We had very intense negotiations in doha. And were grateful to qatar and oman for helping in this. And when the arrangement came together on terms that we could accept, the president made the difficult but right decision to move ahead. One of the we had an activist on earlier in the show who expressed concern that this only incentivizes Hostage Taking by governments such as irans. There is no question that President Biden with a statement just three days ago on the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini about the support for the rafrn why not people. And at the height of the protests last year, about one this three were using anticensorship stools stools United States. And we see an opportunity to bring home five american citizens and as you said, in the case of simak namazi, he was in prison for five years. Sharghi the same amount of time. And iran really gain no benefit. There are no funds. Iranian h
president biden and leader xi jinping meet for the first time in more than a year. we will tell what you they are talking about. and hunter biden s legal team wants to subpoena former president trump and his associates. and why a fishing village in ice land is just about deserted, tonight. shannon: but, first, breaking tonight. fox news has gained access to the hospital in gaza city that israel says is actually a major staging area for hamas terrorists. israeli troops stormed the facility today correspondent trey yingst is in southern israel tonight. hello, trey. shannon, good evening. the raid of gaza s al shifa hospital is ongoing at this hour. tonight the israeli military took two journalists to the facility that sits on the front lines between israel and hamas. here s a preview of our reporting. nearly three weeks into the ground operation, we are with the israeli military in the dark of night, headed into the heart of gaza city, the israelis have been fighting bloc
china is refusing to acknowledge the results of taiwan s presidential election. we ve had two statements, one from the ministry of foreign affairs and the other from beijing s taiwan affairs office. it says that the democratic progressive party cannot represent the mainstream public opinion on the island of taiwan and it ends with the strong words, they cannot stop the unstoppable trend of the eventual reunification of the motherland. for the last ten years, president xi jinping has sold china this vision of a strong, unified china with taiwan and he has not ruled out the use of force if necessary. his tactics have become ever more aggressive, sending warships and militaryjets around the taiwan strait repeatedly. but many people are now asking, what does he do now? because a third term for the dpp would suggest that president xi
will be a lot of eyes on the policy towards taiwan and lawmakers will ask if enough visible support is being given. next week, the us will send an unofficial delegation to taipei. these are former administration officials, not people currently in office, what is exactly that kind of thing that really grates on the chinese. we saw back in 2022 of nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, visit taiwan which led to the chinese carrying out a live fire military drill in the strait of taiwan so there will be a lot of eyes on what the us and the chinese are going to do in the weeks to come. well, let s get more on the view from china. the chinese communist party has never ruled taiwan, but claims the self governing island is part of its territory. our china correspondent laura bicker has more on china s reaction to the election results.
strait, so we have actually tried, and i agree with building an international coalition, warning the houthis, this action is probably not the last back and forth attack we are going to have with the houthis over this particular incident as you know a moment ago, the houthis have responded. i m sure we will probably be striking them again here in the next few days. houthis will ultimately respent the use of force, they will understand this behavior is not going to be allowed to continue and a lot of people are watching the u.s. reaction here, including i would argue the chinese as they contemplate the strait of taiwan. sandra: a really important statement. biden administration has faced criticism as you know over its handling of iran. here is john kirby defending how the u.s. has been handling this. listen. everything we have done diplomatically and militarily has been designed to keep the tensions down and to convince the houthis not to continue these deadly attacks.