through michigan. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. u.s. president will soon wrap up the second day of his first trip to asia as commander in chief. it comes after joe biden held talks with his south korean counterpart and reaffirm a alliance. both nations committed to a goal of denuclearization on the korea peninsula. here he is. translator: a sustainable piece of peninsula by a principaled and consistent policy toward north korea. in lock step with the biden administration i commit to safeguard peace on the korean peninsula and encourage north korea to come forward for dialogue and engage in cooperation. we as leaders of the two countries reiterated our common goal of the complete denuclearization of the dprk. there s no compromise for security under this shared belief we concurred that strong deterrence against north korea is paramount. still concerns that they may still conduct a missile test. the war in ukraine was also a critical topic at those bil
live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea next hour to begin his very first asia trip as president. he ll spen most of the weekend in the country holding talks with the new south korean president before heading to japan, where he ll be meeting with japan s prime minister as well as indian and australian leaders. officials say the trip to asia comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but biden plans to, in his words, quote, affirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. cnn s kivevin liptak is live fr seoul. it s taken a while for him to make his first trip in his presidency. he is certainly coming over later than his recent predecessor, and probably a little later than he would have liked to. president biden has tried to make asia a center of his foreign policy, just like president obama did. just like president trump did. but he has been stymied somewhat by these other
repercussions in moscow, several senior commanders have been fired for their early failures in the war. we have cnn war correspondents covering it. we begin with suzanne malveaux in lviv. suzanne, the plant in mariupol, we still don t know whether there are any ukrainian troops left there and we also don t know what might happen to the troops that have been surrendered. reporter: you re absolutely right, kim. very uncertain at this time. we re really just taking the word the information that s coming from the russians and clearly cnn hasn t been able to independently verify these numbers, but if you take a look and what we re doing here is monitoring social media messages and instagram and things of that nature because over the last couple of days we have been
. . hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada. ahead on cnn newsroom, asia is the future according to president biden that was his message while visiting south korea. and, quote, absolute evil, ukraine s president condemning a missile attack on a cultural center that killed at least seven including a young girl. we re live in lviv with the latest. a tornado that ripped
i m grate to feel the whole world and to ukraine for support. see you. so kim, we continue to watch that plant to see what develops and whether or not they come out peacefully, or whether or not they in fact do a major fight and offensive from that facility. kim? all right, suzanne malveaux in lviv, thank you so much. the war crimes trial of russian soldiervadim. reporter: from the start russia s invasion of ukraine stalled. like here on february 28th. these pictures shared exclusively with cnn by ukrainian armed forces, show a column of russia s fourth tank division after it hit a land mine and its soldiers had fled. one of those soldiers on thursday facing both justice and grief.