plus, a suspect under arrest after killing six people with a knife outside of a school in china. and this it s up to my knees. i know. historic rainfall causing deadly flash flooding just north of new york city. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in this morning for christine romans. we begin this morning in london where president biden is set to make his first visit to 10 downstairsing street as president. he will meet one-on-one with british prime minister rishi sunak. the two are expected to tackle issues like the war in ukraine, among other things before heading to lithuania for the start of the nato summit. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling with the president. arlette, what is on schedule here? reporter: well, president biden will arrive here at 10 downstairsing street in literally just a short while. they just rolled out the carpet for him. it will mark the sixth meeting that president biden will have had with rishi
it s georgia, who donald trump most wants to win who stopped his bid tooverturn the 2020 election . at this hour, the second in-person summit of the quad is undergoing. they re holding one on one talks. the meeting between mr. biden and the indian prime minister set to begin later this hour. just a day earlier, ended up boosting trade ties with several asia pacific countries. all part of boosting the u.s. alliance. but for all the four meetings and photo ops, it s what biden said when he went off screen. take a listen. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan, if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. the white house was quick to down play those comments sghicist u.s. policy on china and taiwan has not changed. and in just the last hour, mr. biden himself clarified the policy hasn t changed. beijing is telling the united states not to
polls opening up in georgia. why this pivotal election is pitting donald trump against mike pence. and how the former vice president could one up his old boss. plus vladimir putin receives a stinging rebuke from one of his senior diplomats. why a top russian official says he s never been so ashamed of his country. good to have you with us. right now, the second in person summit of the quad is wrapping up in tokyo. leaders of the informal alliance between the u.s., japan, australia and india have been holding talks one on one. u.s. president biden met with indian prime minister. also meeting with the australia new prime minister. one key focus of all these meetings, russia s war on ukraine. russia s assault on ukraine only heightens the importance of those goals. the principles of international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty, international law, human rights. must always be defended regardless of where they re violated in the world. so the quad has a lot of
russia s invasion of ukraine only heightens the goals of fundamental principles of national order. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is tuesday, may 24th. and right now, u.s. president joe biden is wrapping up his diplomatic tour in asia. earlier mr. biden kicked off the second in-person quad summit alongside leaders of japan, india and australia. the controversy was over the summit after controversial subjects. he later clarified that the issue is unchanged. and biden also spoke one-on-one with narendra modi, one key topic, russia s war on ukraine which mr. modi has been reluctant to condemn. the war was a major topic, mr. biden addressing it in his opening remarks. have a listen. russia s assault of ukraine heightens the importance of fundamental principles of international order, international law, human rights must always be defended regardless of where they are violated in the world. so the quad has a lot of work ahea
trade agreement they were hoping for after brexit. but it s what they got so the british prime minister wanted to follow up on elements of that. and includes on that would be things in terms of ai technology positioned as being a taken at the same level in terms of defense supplies as a domestic u.s. supplier. so there are things in the relationship there that are good and these will probably get discussed as well. nic, it s been no surprise, a bumpile few years for the uk, thinking about boris johnson and thinking about liz truss, with rishi sunak, have things stabilized? and walk me through the relationship what things seem like between sunak and the government? reporter: it seems like a better place. witnessed many meetings, the san diego meeting with