soon, president biden will welcome south korea s president to the white house ahead of a critical meeting. biden and president yoon suk-yeol set to roll out a new plan to boost u.s. and south korean cooperation amid north korea s escalating threats. our correspondents are covering this meeting from washington to korea. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny is in washington, d.c. for us and paula hancocks is live from seoul, south korea. let us start with arlette. can you tell us what is happening at this hour? we heard the band playing the last time we spoke to you not too long ago. what s going on there now? sarah, any minute now we are expecting south korean president yoon arriving at the white house setting off the pomp and circumstance that president biden is holding for him, but it also comes as the two leaders are set to announce a significant agreement when it comes to efforts to try to deter north korea s nuclear capabilit
Hamass attack and he will set out the approach of the government to the approach of the government to the developing crisis. We will keep those pictures over the next few minutes until we get to the point that the Prime Minister speaks. We can speak to our political correspondent. Could you tell us what we are expecting to hear from the Prime Minister . This what we are expecting to hear from the Prime Minister . The Prime Minister . This is the first day back the Prime Minister . This is the first day back in the Prime Minister . This is the first day back in the the Prime Minister . This is the first day back in the house the Prime Minister . This is the first day back in the house of l first day back in the House Of Commons and we can expect the Prime Minister to outline what the uk government is doing in response to the Israel Gaza Conflict and firstly we can expect to hear an update from the Prime Minister about the number of deaths and british citizens who are still missing in th
it is actively facilitating the departure as it s described by the spokesperson for the national security council john kirby, a relatively small number of americans who have indicated to them that they want to leave sudan. they re continuing to deploy u.s. intelligence to support land evacuations and routes. again again, this is according to the spokesperson for john kirby who will be joining us in the 11:00 hour with many questions around this. john? you are looking at live pictures from the white house. we believe president biden about to emerge with the president of south korea. this is the formal greeting at the beginning of this very important state visit. the south korean president yoon suk-yeol arriving and they have important business. let s listen in. distinguished guests, the
after america s chaotic withdrawal. we re also learning about new land evacuations from afghanistan. sam kiley is live from doha with the latest developments. what did the secretary of state say? reporter: he put to rest allegations coming from republican congressmen and others that the taliban were involved in some kind of semi hostage taking their words situation with reference to a group of americans and others who were stranded in mazar-i-sharif unable to fly out on a number of aircraft chartered for that purpose. but this is what he said. we ve been assured again that all american citizens and afghan citizens with valid travel documents will be allowed to leave and we intend to hold the taliban to that. they have upheld that k34committ in one instance in the last 24
negotiations, a country that has been central to the evacuation missions. in afghanistan, blinken says we are working with the taliban to get more americans out. we also engaged with the taliban on this topic, including in recent hours. they said that they will let people with travel documents freely depart. we will hold them to that. raf sanchez is on the ground in doha, qatar. four americans were evacuated by land, the first over land evacuations. what else are we hearing from the secretaries for the plan to get everybody out that wants to leave? reporter: chris, a lot of focus this morning on an airport in the north of afghanistan. we ve known a couple of days there were charter flights trying to take off from there, but the taliban were refusing to let them out. there s been a lot of confusion here.