. now, the border crisis, after hailing progress with china, president biden is set to meet with the president of mexico any moment now. migration, fentanyl and relations with cuba on the agenda. we re going to bring you the meeting live. plus, pressure builds on the israeli government to secure the release of more host ages after troops recover another body. new claims about hamas weapons at gaza s largest hospital. disturbing allegations of rape and abuse against grammy winning rapper and produce sean diddy combs. we re following these stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. here in moments, president biden will be closing out the apec summit with mexico s president. biden has spent most of his time in san francisco focused on cooling tensions with china, promoting u.s. economic interests in the pacific and the ongoing war in the middle east. but today, he s expected to turn to immigration and border security, as record numbers of migrants
u.s. secretary of state antony blinken speaking moments ago during an unannounced trip to iraq as he continues his high-stakes trip through the middle east as the israel-hamas war intensifies. here is what he had to say. we just finished meetings here in bagdad. we started with a briefing for our entire team at the embassy about the security situation. as you know, there have been a series of attacks directed at our personnel, both in iraq as well as in syria. job number one for me is to ensure the security of our people. so i got an update on everything we re doing to make sure our personnel are safe and secure. in addition, i had a good, productive, candid meeting with the prime minister. there were two areas of focus. the first was to reaffirm our commitment to our partnership with iraq. we ve made tremendous progress with iraq in recent years, particularly working with the iraqi government on everything from economic reform, to energy independence, helping to strengthen
Iraqi authorities announced on Wednesday plans to prosecute police and civil servants accused of torturing detainees under the administration of former prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi