over the weekend. all of it part of that effort to address the nationwide shortage. as more babies are hospitalized. the flight was the first of several shipments expected from europe this week. we have new details this morning on when we could see some other flights. let s begin this morning with president biden s trip to asia. jeremy diamond is in tokyo. selena wang is in beijing. jeremy, first to you, president biden s indo-pacific economic framework, as it s known, agreement of a number of nations, a dozen nations in the region, something of a replacement for the transpacific partnership, tpp, which the obama administration introduced but trump scrapped, but not quite. tell us exactly what this would do. reporter: yeah, that s right. this is a broad economic framework known as the indo-pacific economic framework launched by president biden earlier today. but the details of this still very much have to be negotiated. they will be negotiated over the next several weeks
secured from europe. u.s. troops packed it up for a flight to the united states using a military plane to transport formula. just one of the latest and extreme and unusual measures by the white house in response to this crisis, which critics say the u.s. government should have seen coming much sooner. the fda is coming under fire for the four-month lag after a whistle-blower complaint of problems at a plant of formula maker abbott. those are extraordinary image. the shutdown of that facility exacerbated the shortage, and just this morning while in asia president biden signed a new bill into law to help deal with the lack of supply. last week 45% of formula products nationwide were out of stock, nearly half. the new law allows a waver of some requirements in the federal nutrition program to help expand access to formula. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen at ramstein air base in germany tracking the supply headed to the u.s. i m asking the questions to parent
we ll bring you the latest from seoul, south korea. this weekend the first flights will take off to bring baby formula from the united states to europe as millions of families continue to scramble to feed their children. at the border, a pandemic-era policy set to expire as immigrants and asylum seekers continue to risk everything to cross the border. we will take you live to texas. and we ll speak to congresswoman norma torres about whether conditioning is making progress on legislation about immigration. and we begin this hour with president biden s first visit to asia since taking office, just after the president arrived in south korea a couple hours ago we learned two secret service employees were sent home. south korean police say they were involved in an incident on thursday outside the president s hotel. president biden began his viet visit by touring a samsung factory being used for a samsung plant being built by austin, texas. he talked about the need to work toget
china s resolve of 1.4 billion people to defend its territorial integrity. this taiwan issue has no concessions, no compromise. we ve heard china make these angry and forceful statements before when it comes to taiwan because this is a red line issue for china. china considers taiwan the democratically ruled island of 24 million people, to be a breakaway province that must be reunited with the mainland at all costs, even by force. and it s not the first time that biden has made these comments, only to have the white house later walk back the statements. but it s of significance to china because it happened at biden s first visit to asia, right at china s doorstep. the purpose of the u.s. long-standing policy of strategic ambiguity is that it keeps china guessing. it is not clear exactly what the u.s. would do if china were to invade taiwan, so it keeps both taiwan and china from doing anything as the logic goes that would upset the status quo.
official way in the coming weeks or months, we ll see. that s what the administration is saying this morning. appreciate it, jim, as always. a lot of news we re covering not just in asia this morning, but, of course, also out of russia and ukraine. new this morning, the first russian soldier to stand trial tore war crimes in ukraine found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. 21-year-old sergeant vadim shishimarin was found guilty of killing a civilian, 62-year-old man in the sumy region in the early days of russia s invasion. cnn s melissa bell is in kyiv. this is the first, frankly, in a number of planned war crimes trials involving russian forces there. do we expect more of this coming soon? how many, in fact? reporter: well, we do. ukrainian prosecutors have been extremely clear they want to move swiftly ahead with ukrainian justice in the context of their civilian courts, even as the war continues in order to