president biden, who will soon arrive in lond don for the start of a high-stakes trip to london. during the five-day visit, biden will meet with leaders in the uk and finland. and in between those two stops, attend a critical nato summit. a meeting that will be keenly focussed on russia s war in ukraine. a conflict right on nato s borders. the summit comes just days after president biden approved giving controversial cluster munitions to aid ukraine in its fight against russia. munitions that nearly all nato members have banned. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling just ahead of the president s arrival, already there in london. what is first on the president s agenda? reporter: well, fred, president biden will arrive here in london in just a few hours. and tomorrow he will meet with british prime minister rishi sunic before heading over to windsor castle for an engagement with king charles. the first time the two will be meeting since his coronation in
may. one of the issues they re expected to discuss is climate change, a key priority and portfolio for the monarch. after this visit here to the united kingdom, president biden will head to lithuania, home to this year s nato summit. that is real the centerpiece of president biden s trip. he will then tl on to finland where he will meet with the country s president as well as nordic leader. but at the nato summit, really the war russia s war against ukraine will be the key focus, as the nato alliance wants to once again sure up their support for the war-storn country. also up for debate is the possible road map for ukraine to potentially join nato down the road. that is an issue that has already caused some debate amongst allies. president biden told our colleague fareed zakaria in an interview that now is not the time for ukraine to join nato. take a listen. i don t think it s ready for membershipnato, but here is
and get grievously injured. in the end, the decision they made, there are so many cluster munitions on the ground now, fredricka, because the russians dropped them and some that the ukrainians have dropped that the u.s. addition to this would be pretty marginal. and the whole area will have to be cleaned p any way, right. perhaps one of the concessions here or conditions was that when ukraine is to use them, it will not be in the urban areas. that s right. less populated areas, perhaps, to alleviate those kind of concerns. so, tim, biden is also set to visit finland this week. the newest member of nato. he also said he is optimistic that sweden will soon join. is this going to be rather awkward set of meetings while he s advocated for some and still not for ukraine? well, we re hearing a slightly different tone out of turkish leader erdogan, not regarding ing sweden, he sent