heading to south korea. his first trip to asia as president while pyongyang watches closely. and the taliban continues to roll back the rights of women in afghanistan. now forcing a choice between covering their faces or losing their on-air jobs. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. a bill authorizing $40 billion in u.s. aid to ukraine is on its way to seoul, south korea, for president joe biden s signature. the aid package easily passed the u.s. senate on thursday but does not take effect until it is signed. another $100 million worth of artillery, radar and other e equipment headed to ukraine. and more than 1,000 cars have been blocked at a russian checkpoint for four days. the convoy is trying to reach ukrainian-held territory. with reports many making that journey are running low on food and water. in mariupol, more than 1,700 ukrainian troops have surrendered at the steel factory. cnn cannot verify that report, but an unknown number of sold
reporter: well, john, what we ve heard so far is from both the u.s. and the south korean side, saying they do believe that an intercontinental ballistic missile launch and test may bh be imminent from north korea. now, this is the kind of missile that if fired at a normal trajectory, which it is not when tested, could reach mainland united states, so, certainly there is a concern. we ve heard from from the u.s. intelligence agencies, through a u.s. official familiar with the matter, that they believe that they may even be close at this point to fueling, putting fuel into an icbm. they have satellite images where they can see vehicles on the tarmac at the airfield near pyongyang, but at this point, they say there is no missile or launcher, but once the fuel goes into a potential missile, then it doesn t take much longer until that launch happens. so, we ve heard from jake sullivan, the national security
heading to south korea. his first trip to asia as president while pyongyang watches closely. and the taliban continues to roll back the rights of women in afghanistan. now forcing a choice between covering their faces or losing their on-air jobs. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. a bill authorizing $40 billion in u.s. aid to ukraine is on its way to seoul, south korea, for president joe biden s signature. the aid package easily passed the u.s. senate on thursday but does not take effect until it is signed. another $100 million worth of artillery, radar and other e equipment headed to ukraine. and more than 1,000 cars have been blocked at a russian checkpoint for four days. the convoy is trying to reach