right now, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is at the white house meeting with president biden. a fierce standoff in congress over ukraine aid. biden wants to send an under 61 billion dollars to keep. house republicans will not sign off on more aid until they get a series of immigration measures passed in return. earlier today, zelenskyy met with members of the house and senate to try and persuade them to try and change some minds. he argues this political deadlock is a dream come true for vladimir putin. let s get to cnn s mj lee at the white house and moderate who s live for us on capitol hill. first to you, mj. biden and zelenskyy essentially see eye to eye on the issue of military aid. so what will they try to get accomplished during this meeting? reporter: boris, president biden and president zelenskyy may see eye to eye on this issue, but frankly it is not up to them. it is up to congress. right now, what we are seeing on capitol hill is a total impasse over
hunter biden facing felony charges. the president s son is accused of a scheme to avoid paying at least one point $14 million in taxes. we will break down the latest indictment and how he is responding to it. and we are following the sentencing hearing for the michigan high school shooter. dozens of heartbreaking victim impact statements being read in court, detailing the survivors and their families have been through. and amid threats from donors to pull money, emergency meetings among top officials at now growing calls from lawmakers to resign. the president is not budging, at least so far. we followed these major developing stories and more all coming in here to cnn news central. we begin with president biden s son, hunter, indicted again, and this time he is facing the most serious allegations yet, three felony charges he tax abrasion and fraud. among the nine charges that accuse him of avoiding more than 1 million dollars in taxes. president biden
Blue ukraine says russia has bombed the port of odessa just a day after a deal was reached to let ships filled with grain to pot. Ah, im kid vanelle. This is al jazeera ly from dell ha. Also coming up. I protested to news. Yes, i had a controversial referendum on the constitution wrong. Parliament holds an emergency session to discuss an attack on a resort town that it blames on turkey. Fuel is back on sale intra lanka brand new rationing system. We will report from colombo ah aah ukraines military says russia has hit Port Infrastructure in the city of odessa with 2 cruise missiles. They say another 2 missiles was shot down by air defense. It comes a day after both countries signed a deal broken by turkey and the United Nations to resume grain exports. Ukrainian president , flawed of as landscape says, the attack shows that russia has no intention of upholding that deal. But official say ukraine is still preparing to start shipping grain out there. Correspondent to morale. Smarty is in