major developments, congress just passed a bill giving $14.3 billion in aid to israel but joe biden has already threatened to veto it because it doesn t money. plus, israeli prime minister netanyahu today says that nothing is gonna stop them from going into gaza and getting the job done and now gaza city is surrounded. we re seeing explosions erupt across the night sky, a live report from the ground later in the show. but, first, loving china but hating us that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right, the preparations for the date are underway so, what is he going to wear? how long will their conversations last? who is better at smalltalk? the president says is he looking forward to meeting to meeting with president xi and and so not going to get into details about this meeting that s going to happen this month, going to be in san francisco. it s going to be a constructive meeting. laura: constructive for whom? jp morgan? goldman sachs? i don t know, new york hedge
it will be very interesting to see how this plays out here in the united states in the days and weeks to come. 11:17 there in the morning in moscow. ivan watson with the reporting. thank you for that today. we are just under an hour s time now from a cease-fire that is set to start in southwest syria. noon sunday deaamascus time. the deal was agreed to between the u.s. president and his russian counterpart. the cease-fire is the first indication that the united states and russia are working together on the syrian crisis. following that story we go to live in jordan. so the cease-fire set to start within the next hour. what will it mean for people on the ground there? reporter: well, in the past few months, there has been really heavy fighting taking place in that part of syria. there has been a aregime