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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...

you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm alex marquardt in washington alongside kaitlan collins in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you very much for joining us. israel moves towards a fourth and possibly final day of its temporary truce with hamas. so much will demand on how many more hostages get released after three successful days of hostage releases. hamas says it wants to extend the pause in the fighting. a source telling cnn that israel's war cabinet is also discussing that possibility. but today it was yet another emotional day for so many families in israel. a third grou...

Has to be close. russia has no other major friend in the world. this relationship will be an interesting one to watch for sure. >> trace: 15 seconds left. it does look like putin is playing second fiddle the last two days. >> this is not good for the u.s. xi now giving putin drones to use in the war, he is not acting as a restraining influence he wants to play peacemaker nonstarter in terms of peace talks. >> trace: great stuff, panel, thank you. appreciate it. ♪ ♪ and finally tonight, a special delivery. [revving engine] >> trace: dodge uni have as the last of its kind muscle car challeng...

From giving away the taliban and north korea in search of that nobel peace prize. dangerous with iran being a warmonger and his policy hasn't led to any resolution with iran. iran is actually ramping up their nuclear program as we speak. again, with north korea and the taliban i think he was a restraining influence on trump and part of the reason why trump got irritated with him. because he told him truthfully not a good idea to invite the taliban to camp david. not a good idea to make a mega deal with kim jong-un north korea won't abide by. >> came out in the publish sphere and the public kne...

You can hit indiscriminately targets in syria, but for taking out the continued presence of the islamic state, it just won't work. and it's -- frankly, one of the dumbest things i've ever seen. because this is the most successful counter insurgency program we have run in decades. and why you would take these troops out that are doing so well at this time when the islamic state is still a threat, i don't understand. >> well, you mentioned the kurds. admiral kirby, one the reasons why general mattis, secretary mattis, said i'm out is because he feels like he's breaking a promise. america is brea...