already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether or not
a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m
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biden administration on the defensive. plus, we re live at the cnn weather center. how climate change is destroying homes with extreme weather across the u.s. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than 1,000 towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces. he says the russian military is paying heavy price for its aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas. ukraine says it destroyed more than 70 armored vehicles including tanks and multiple failed