davos, first, there is no snow. it s taking place in spring. also this is such big head winds from the war in ukraine, the result in inflation, the risk of recession, to big commission as well as climate change and the pandemic. so much, anna stewart, we know you are following it for p. i m christine romans. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. i m john berman with brianna keilar on this new day. president biden catching his own administration off guard with a tough message for china and moments ago china responds. the first shipment of desperately needed baby formula arrives in the united states as more babies are hospitalized. and president biden shifting his warning about monkeypox as another possible case is being investigated in the u.s. and the republican showdown in georgia, former president trump and vice president pence campaign for dueling candidates as voters prepare to head to the polls. good morning to to our viewers here in the united
in his view of what the united states would do if china were to attack taiwan, something that the united states obviously has been concerned about and other allies including japan ever since the russian invasion of ukraine. that s only amplified that. and the reason this is so significant is before the united states has warned china against using force in taiwan but have been very vague on purpose, purposefully vague on what they would do if china did use force in taiwan. that has been this purpose, this really intent called strategic ambiguity where they are not saying what they would do, what they would not do. president biden has tip toed close to that before only for aides to later walk it back. shortly after he made comments today you did see aides go out and tell cnn on background meaning there is no name attached to it that the president s position on taiwan had not changed but certainly saying that yes he would come to their aid militarily is a big
we have this just in, the first russian soldier to be tried for war crimes in ukraine has been sentenced to life in prison. the 21-year-old soldier pleaded guilty last week and he learned his sentence moments ago. let s get now to cnn s melissa bell who is live just outside of the courthouse in kyiv. what can you tell us? do we know what the sentence s melissa? reporter: we do, in fact, 21-year-old vadim shysimarin almost physically bowed his head in disappointment as the translation of the sentence was read out to his him this morning. the soldier has been escorted away from the court. it will be life in jail. it was the maximum sentence he faced. he had pled for clemency on the grounds and this had been his defense lawyer s point as well that it is not these foot soldiers at the russian army that should be paying the price for the mistakes that their leadership had made. that it was the russian
in the last few days dim tree peskov had said that he had not been following the case, they didn t have many details about it. that has changed and in his latest press conference he said that the russian federation, moscow cares deeply about the fate of its soldiers and has been following and will continue to follow this case closely even if it cannot do much about what now happens to vadim shysimarin himself. so important to note he knew it was wrong. he admitted that he knew it was wrong and he resisted it initially. melissa bell, thank you so much. in a rare joint interview president volodymyr zelenskyy and the first lady of ukraine say the war has torn apart their family, just like it has for millions of their fellow ukrainians. cnn s suzanne malveaux live in lviv for us this morning. really interesting to hear them speaking together, suzanne. reporter: it really is, and the ukrainians i spoke to say that the first lady was popular
ch change. so i think when you look back at what the aides say when they do walk back these comments there s only so many times the aides can walk back a comment that the president makes before it s very clear what his intent and belief is should this rise to that matter if china did attack taiwan. clearly there is a shift. i think it s very obvious as you listen to him in that case there. it was also really interesting, kaitlan, and i know it was to you as well, biden s comments when it came to ukraine and what president putin s goal is there. reporter: yeah, of course, this was the larger context of the taiwan situation because the president said while he does not believe ultimately that china will invade taiwan, he was talking about basically how the dynamics have changed and people have been raising the question of the lessons learned from russia s invasion of ukraine and what that means. i think that is part of the reason you ve seen such a strong action by the united states w