to discuss, not least the 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 the chinese spy balloon and flaming tensions in the south china sea and also joe biden ramping u
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, we are talking about more than 50% of all of the worlds trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. we are talking about 40% of the worlds 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, xi jinping. relations between them two nations have not been good as late, they last met last yearin 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 growing tensions in the south sea and alsojoe biden ramping up a ban on high level chips which really hurt the chinese econ
coast, 8:00 here in san francisco, and this is america s late news, fox news at night. we are live in san francisco at apec which stands for the asian pacific economic cooperative. if you listen closely behind me you might be able to hear the helicopters above us and the reason there are helicopters, talking news helicopters and police helicopters in the sky is because the streets behind us are filled with protesters, mostly pro palestinian protesters. but the big story here is tomorrow s meeting between president biden and chinese president xi and we will have full coverage on that. but we begin tonight with breaking news right now, because we are minutes away from daylight in gaza, which means that we are likely just minutes away from learning more about a raid in gaza or the al-shifa hospital by israeli defense forces. this happened overnight. now, remember, this is the hospital that is israel says is the head coaches for hamas but hamas says it is the site of hundreds of
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
for talks on the sidelines. the leaders of the world s two biggest economies have a lot to discuss not least their ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan and the drug fentanyl. the bbc s james clayton is in san francisco and sent us the latest. apac has started here and it is a huge apac has started here and it is a huge moment apac has started here and it is a huge moment for apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the city apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the city of san francisco. it is summer to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1945. nations charter was signed here in 1916. this is a huge economic summit. you are talking about more than 50% of the worlds trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. talking about 40% of the world s population. it is a big economic conference but by far the biggest ticket item here is the bigge