custody. and as the push to charge an alleged grocery store gunman with a hate crime grows, buffalo begins reflecting on the lives lost in that deadly mass shooting. and we begin in seoul, south korea, where right now joe biden is holding talks with his newly inaugurated south korean counterpart on his debut trip to asia as u.s. president. now, earlier mr. biden participated in a wreath laying ceremony at the national saerm. he wore white gloves in a show of respect to the koreans who died to protect hir country. mr. biden is now at the korean ministry of national defense for his meeting. we re expecting them to give remarks some time this hour. on friday the president said the region will prove to be critical in the years and decades to come. we re standing at an inflection point in history where decisions we make today will have far reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. on the agenda mr. biden s meeting with south korea s leader is of course
watching here in the united states, canada and all around the world. live in atlanta. ahead on newsroom the focus on on security in asia. president biden is visiting seoul. we re expecting a news conference following the talks with the south korea president. russia shows no sign of slowing down its relentless and destructive campaign. right now we re waiting to hear from the u.s. president and his south korea counter part. following the two leaders meeting in seoul. it comes on the second day of joe biden s first trip to asia as commander in chief. earlier he participated in an wreath laying ceremony at the south korea national cemetery.
he wanted to be closer to the u.s. and that was read by default he would be harder on china. or at least less willing to go along with china. we simply have to wait and see if that s what he ll do. all right. in seoul, thank you very much. we ll come back to you as soon as the two leaders speak. we re expecting that any minute. all right. turning to ukraine. the situation at the steel plant in mariupol. russia claims 530 of those soldiers surrendered on friday. after the ukrainian commander ordered his fighters to stop defending the city. cnn can t confirm if all ukrainians have left the massive industrial site. we have more from cnn. reporter: the latest picture a soldier with the who helped the world to see the steel plant in mariupol. posting that s it, thank you
custody. and as the push to charge an alleged grocery store gunman with a hate crime grows, buffalo begins reflecting on the lives lost in that deadly mass shooting. and we begin in seoul, south korea, where right now joe biden is holding talks with his newly inaugurated south korean counterpart on his debut trip to asia as u.s. president. now, earlier mr. biden participated in a wreath laying ceremony at the national saerm. he wore white gloves in a show of respect to the koreans who died to protect hir country. mr. biden is now at the korean ministry of national defense for his meeting. we re expecting them to give remarks some time this hour. on friday the president said the
number of years. clearly that s going to be coming back and we can expect that will raise tensions here. every spring when there were significant drills between the u.s. and south korea. north korea would react angrily. there would be testing and certainly heightened rhetoric. so we could expect that that will continue. and we ll go back to what it used to be. absolutely. and i guess we ll leave it there. plenty to discuss about what they talked about there. we ll talk about that in the next hour. in seoul, thank you both very much. that wraps this hour of cnn newsroom. i ll be back with more news, stay with us.