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
made from there. but the idea that it can be taken by force, just taken by force, is just not appropriate. it will dislocate the entire region. now, those comments were a deviation from the standard strat stra strategic from the administration and it caught them off guard. they said the stance on china and taiwan has not changed but some of the president s own aides tell cnn they did not expect him to be so kquiv cool n the topic. china did not like these comments. what was their response? reporter: alison, there s no question that beijing has been watching president biden s trip here to asia very carefully, really listening to every word coming out of his mouth to see what kind of posturing they are seeing from the president on issues related to asia, and particularly, of course, china. and so yesterday when the president was so unquiv cool when he was by a reporter would the u.s. get militarily to defend taiwan and he answered there yes, that certainly made some big wav
war on ukraine. but other tensions are ratcheting higher, and closer across the border north korea may be preparing to fuel an intercontinental ballistic missile that would mean kim jong-un s regime could conduct a test launch while president biden is in south korea. meantime in ukraine, russia has replaced senior military commanders who are blamed for bungling the early stages of the invasion. that s according to british intelligence. and ukrainian president zelenskyy says russia s relentless shelling of the donbas region has left it destroyed. his words, it is hell there. cnn s melissa bell is in kyiv. first to journey diamond in seoul. what s the message president biden is delivering to that region? well, listen, president biden has arrived in the region with the goal of shoring up the u.s. s key alliances in the region, not only on a national security front, but also in terms of increasing economic cooperation in this region. but we begin with this increased threat in n
the day when death seems to have won, but we hope for a resurrection. we believe in the victory of life over death, and we pray that death loses. president zelenskyy said that life is beginning to return to normal in the liberated areas of ukraine. but life returning also means images like this. we ve just been able to confirm the details of this video. it s a makeshift grave for a mother and her son. the video shows two-plywood crosses on a grave with two names. marina and ivan. both died march 5th. and in the neighboring town new satellite images detail the sheer destruction wrought by the russian forces. these drone images are extraordinary. block after block of ruined lives, destroyed homes. it s said to have suffered the brunt of a weeks long fire fight but is now free from the imminent threat of russian forces. same cannot be said for other kwlairs of the country. today a russian general speaking on state television in comments picked up across the world made a sweepi
ukraine. jim? anderson, thanks so much. this is cnn tonight. i m jim sciutto live from lviv in ukraine, along with the great laura coates in the u.s. the pentagon says tens of thousands of russian troops have now amassed in eastern ukraine. one of putin s commanders claims their new goal is to take full control of not just the donbas region in the east but southern ukraine to provide a land corridor to crimea and perhaps go further. still, president zelenskyy expressed hope and defiance tonight. translator: we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. the armed forces of ukraine continue to deter attacks by russian invaders in the east and south of our country. and i am grateful to each of our defenders who are bravely holding on. in this new offensive, they continue tonight in the region. this is the push and pull of the front lines. the russians launched for air strikes on the southern port city of mariupol earlier.