potentially deadly fungus being found at hospitals across the nation. what s being done about it? a new battle front. we speak with a paver experts increasing threats developing in outer space. but, breaking tonight, day two of the high stakes summit between chinese president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin. fears over the leader s cooperation growing today as the pair signed an agreement expanding their economic ties. the duo also touting china s supposed peace plan to end the war in ukraine. a plan ukraine says is a nonstarter. it comes amid heightened criticism over president biden s lack of communication and confronting of president xi and a perceived lack of strength from the biden administration. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off with that story live on the north lawn. peter, good evening. good evening, trace. as white house officials try to read the tea leaves from russia to figure out how this putin xi meeting is going to effect t
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likes to provide funding for their space program, but they are competing with other military modernization efforts. from a u.s. perspective though is that a threat, china s investment in space and counter space? it s a threat in that because they are building these counter space assets specifically, and also those same counter space capabilities can impinge on what we expect out of daily life so could those key satellites taken out that could do economically damage to us. certainly economically and day-to-day life, navigating, networks, atms, your electric power grid. just imagine a world where can t put g.p.s. coordinates to get to your location. bret: we would have to use a map? things like being able to pump gas or sitting at home
capabilities to monitor what we re doing in space. and those isr assets as you characterized them well fly over the united states multiple times a day over all of those sites where, again, that activity was taking place. bret: you mean it s happening now. it s happening every day. in this report it says there are nearly 1300 massive, greater than the size and weight of an automobile derelict objects in low earth orbit. that pose a unique threat to leo space operations. the space station has maneuvered from 1998 until this past year around 30 times as i recall to get out of the way of junk. debris generated by unintentional will. batteries explosions or intentional means. we were recently informed of a satellite breakup. in 2007 and 2021, russia and china conducted antisatellite
intelligence officer for space and counter space. gentlemen, thanks for being here. thanks for having us. bret: first of all, why do this report, this space report? well, because the threats in space have grown substantially, not just space capabilities but counter space capabilities so capabilities that would deny others use of space as well as them them being russia and china specifically, reforming or reorganizing their space forces. bret: russia sports publicly the space arms control agreement but the russian military doctrine according to the report russia faces a war fighting domain and achieving supremacy in space decided factor in winning future conflicts that s not exactly space arms control. it s not. china, russia both advocate organizations like the united nations for the peaceful use of outer space simultaneously they continue to develop these counter space capabilities in