this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i am fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program we ll bring you the latest on the is is israel-hamas war. christoph is back from the region and he ll give us what he calls the myths and the reality. is egypt part of the problem or part of the solution in it shares a border with israel and gaza. can it help during or after this brutal war? and the leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world met face to face on wednesday for the first time in a year. presidents xi and biden shook hands and met for four hours. what was accomplished? did the iciness of the relationship thaw? i ll talk to australia s former prime minister kevin ruud and the spectators in the eu. but first, here s my take. between the tragic ongoing war in gaza and the biden-xi summit, one crucial global crisis in danger of being forgotten. the war in ukraine and this
did you just braid my hair? good to be with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead for us, hospitals in gaza are sounding the alarm, saying they have been damaged by strikes as tanks move into positions nearby. we ll get the latest on what s happening on the ground. the high stakes summit, president biden and china s xi jinping set to meet after a downward spiral in relations. can they find any common ground? plus a terrifying phone call to the office of marjorie taylor greene, what a man allegedly said that led to his arrest. and powell versus protesters, the chairman of the federal reserve gets rushed off stage during a headline making speech. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with those dire images from hospitals in gaza. nbc s josh lederman is reporting live from tel aviv. josh, we are hearing about a number of strikes along with tanks taking up positions near hospitals. what do we know about what s h
the international humanitarian agency, medecins sans frontieres, says 2 million palestinians are still trapped in gaza under shelling and more than 22,000 injured people remain with limited access to health care. our international editorjeremy bowen has more on the border s opening. a warning, his report contains distressing images. at last the gates of the rafah crossing were opened. some foreign citizens were allowed to leave gaza for egypt. for the first time since israel imposed its siege. convoys of aid trucks are moving into gaza, though not nearly as many as the un and aid agencies say are necessary. ambulances went in for the seriously wounded. injabalia, at the opposite end of the gaza strip, more israeli raids. this time they said the target was a command centre. the un said gaza s civilian were being starved, traumatised and bombed to death. on the other side of the border wire, israelis are still in shock over the october 7 attacks. this is nirim kibbutz directly
crossing into egypt. 79 americans including a family we ve spoken with repeatedly on this show made it through. the opals tell us all seven of them, abood who we spoke with yesterday, along with his wife and their 1-year-old, and hanine who we spoke with a couple of weeks ago, her two small children and newborn have all made it out, and they are on their way back home to the united states right now. a blessing. but what they left behind is a horror. another strike on another refugee camp. bread and water lines, the fuel crisis, and a gaza city that is no longer recognizable. the bombing has been so destructive and deadly. the calls for a pause, if not a cease fire, are now coming from the white house. we ll explain where president biden now stands and what got him there. his secretary of state, antony blinken, is in the air, and headed for another round of shuttle diplomacy, with one of the main focuses still on the hostages. on that note, there has been no news, and no known