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
united kingdom president biden will travel to the nato center where the future of the nato alliance will be on display. there are questions whether to allow ukraine to join the alliance. and also questions of sweden joining the alliance as there are objections by turkey but these are shaping up to be very controversial issues that president biden will be dealing with at this nato summit as he comes together with leaders in the coming days. arlette saenz, thank you. president biden in the meantime signaling one major discussion is ahead of the sum net lithuania, biden sitting down with cnn s fareed zakaria and making it clear he s not interested in joining nato at least not yet. i don t think it s ready for membership in nato, but here s the deal. i spent, as eye know, a great deal of time trying to hold nato together. in the timing of 5,000 troops in
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 sunak in months. the two men are expected to talk ahead of that conference in lithuania starting tomorrow. they will be discussing included on their agenda is discusses on the war in ukraine. the hallmark has been providing that support and assistance to ukraine throughout this war. but the meeting that president biden is having here today does come at a pivotal time as the president just approved sending controversial cluster munitions to ukraine. that is a type of weaponry that is opposed by over 100 countries, including the united kingdom. rishi sunak, just over the weekend, stated how the uk has signed on to a ban that prohibits the use of cluster
but where does it stand? it s been echoed benefits the sebl general jens stoltenberg because of article 5 the u.n. can t join an articled conflict president biden has said he accepts that. being that they re more bullish on this, the lithuania host of the summit say it would improve the relationships if they were given a quicker path to nato. there s a delicate balance, of course, if you say clearly to ukraine or if it gets a guarantee if this war ends they will be granted admission to nato that sets up russia to try to drag out the war which, of course, no one wants. the problem for ukraine, really the status against nato has been the same for the last 15 years when the alliance in 2008 said it welcomed their aspirations to join. they want some kind of advance