u.s. joe bidenkyiv, in a dramatic show of support. we re live with russia s reaction to the visit as president vladimir putin is set to deliver a speech of his own on the so-called special military operation. plus, in the u.s., over 30 million people look at that map, under winter alerts across every western state. the latest from the weather center ahead. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula newson. joe biden is set to begin a two-day visit, following a symbolic and secretive trip to ukraine. in the hours ahead, mr. biden will be speaking with the ukrainian president. that follows a surprise stop in kyiv monday. an unprecedented presidential visit to an active war zone with no significance u.s. military presence. you hear this. sounds alarming. it s air raid sirens. they can be heard, as you see there, with volodymyr zelensky. and it was a reminder that this is a wish. white house officials say that the president was intent on taking. mr. biden wanted
Hello and welcome. Joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue at breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im melissa church. Keeping up on strikes on gaza saying it severely degraded hamas. Coming two days after they launched a large scale attempt. They do acknowledge israelis are not yet in full control of their territory along the border with a gaza. Overnight hamas also claiming to have launched a Missile Attack on the Southern Israeli city. The militants say 100 rockets were fired and in response to Israeli Sanctuary had thenesses. And this all comes as hamas now claims to be holding more than 100 hostages in gaza including five ranking israeli officials. Well inside israel, the death toll from hamas multipronged attack has now climbed past 700. At least 260 were killed at the Music Festival. Showing the bodies of some of the victims from that festival near the israel gaza border. That site is one of many targeted i sunt. She joined us live. Benjam
kim ordered mass production of icbms this year. the parade, featuring new missiles and a new face. kim s daughter, believed to be 9 years old, appeared on staid media three months ago. fueling speculation she is being groomed as the next north korean leader. given that kim jong-un introduced his daughter on the last icbm launch, what is that? she is being groomed as the next leader. that suggests to me there could be something behind the scenes, maybe a health problem for kim jon jong-un, accelerating to do this now. kim s daughter, a fixture on state media. posing together for a postage stamp. dad, daughter and the family
productive workers and most innovative minds in the world but we risk our edge in the nation if we don t move. reporter: and president biden and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell did speak on friday. that came the same time that mnl sent a letter to the president that republicans are not going to assist democrats in lifting the debt ceiling. given the fix they put in place now to avoid a government default. something is that would be unprecedented for the united states. it s just a temporary fix. not a long-term one. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. staid media reports that washington and beijing are now negotiating the trade sanctions that currently exists between the world s two largest economies. u.s. trade representative and the chinese premier met virtually on friday. during that meeting the chinese official reportedly argued to have u.s. tariffs and sanctions
potentially, this leaked from a lab. chinese staid media and officials have pushed their own origin theory thanks includes an alleged u.s. lab leak. do they still push that line? they sure do, anderson. it continued monday. state media quoted the director of the wuhan lab who considers this report to be a complete lie and state media has echoed that and they ve also gone forward with social media that s not allowed to be used here in china interestingly enough but continues to push that message to the rest of the world through twitter, through facebook and that s their effort, but from the foreign ministry, they are saying this is hype on part of the u.s., which is interesting because if you go back to the trump administration, they were considering this to be a deflection from the mishandling under the trump administration of the virus within the u.s. but they re pushing their own narrative here and that is quite obvious. the question is whether or not