this was stated by the assistant secretary of state for affairs europe-taurasia, james o'brien, during a briefing on monday, november 27. for the security of the united states, for the security of the alliance, and for our key partners to feel. itself in safety, it is important that we provide the necessary assistance, it concerns both ukraine's military needs and its economic prosperity. ukraine pays 60% of the military costs of the war, and our european allies, who in total provided over 100 billion euros in aid to ukraine, while the us provided 70 billion. it is important for our partners to hear that we will continue to fulfill our role. the representative of the state department also noted that there are no signs that. wants to conduct meaningful peace negotiations and denied that the usa and germany are not publicly pushing kyiv to negotiate with moscow. on monday , us secretary of state anthony blinken is heading to brussels, where the nato foreign ministers will meet on november 27-29. james o'brien said that the secretary of state will emphasize the alliance's continued suppor

secretary of state blinkin left skodi yesterday and took part today, but his deputy, o'brien, james o'brienained, he spoke very powerfully today, so, accordingly, the clientele, i'm here... agree because on the contrary, we don't, we we are watching, and just as it was in yerevan, literally, a couple of weeks ago , where the parliamentary assembly was held, and now today here in skopje, we are watching, in particular, such a very revealing factor that the representatives and heads of delegations of the countries of central asia, which previously they usually gave their speeches in russian, now everyone speaks in english . that is, you understand that this is also such a rather demonstrative, demonstrative element, and the hungarians, how do the hungarians behave, or , for example, the slovaks and serbia, and you know, you know, we have not yet heard the performances of the slovak or the serbian delegation, they may be today after the break, the hungarians spoke, and in fact we expected much worse. well, of course, the speech of the head of the serbian delegation was, well, built on such , y

us deputy secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs james o'brien called russia's invasion of ukraine a complete violation of international law and principles at the meeting of the osce foreign ministers in skopje, the capital of north macedonia. i add my voice to the voices of my colleagues who call on russia to stop violating the basic principles organizations, but not certain. that they are ready to listen to us - he said. i joined all my colleagues in noting how difficult this year has been. further russian invasion of ukraine is a complete violation of civilized standards of international law and the principles on which this organization is based. but russia continues to block operations, preventing the main conferences that have kept the organization functioning for a long time, and detains the organization's staff, in complete violation of their rights and principles. of this organization. in spite of obstructionism of russia, we remain fully committed to the osce, its founding principles and the important work we have achieved , former secretary of state anthony bli

will not pay, the united states of america will not return. about 300 billion dollars are frozen, james o'briene assistant secretary of state for european affairs of the united states of america, said during the hearings in the foreign affairs committee of the senate, the us congress. according to mr. o'brien, the president of the united states of america said this during a meeting with colleagues from the group of seven. joe biden, and mr. o'brien added, quote: so we have leverage in this debate. well, i want to remind you that yesterday, for example , i talked about the fact that the same committee decided to recommend the use of these 300 billion frozen american and russian money, i apologize, for helping ukraine, for the post-war reconstruction of ukraine. it is not known how this recommendation will pass through the two chambers of the american congress, and whether it will pass is still unknown, but this recommendation inspires confidence. we have no doubt that ukrainians will be able to continue to achieve success on the battlefield. this was said the day before during a briefing, the co

host: james o'brien answering a question there to ben cardin about the importance of ukrainian aid.ten to this. here is marco rubio at that same hearing on the questions he is getting about continued u.s. aid to ukraine. [video clip] >> it is my personal belief, and i try to make the argument that the three challenges of what is happening in the south china sea, with taiwan. what is happening with iran building order centered on tyrone. and putin with ukraine, anyone of those could hold a risk of escalation. but the combination of the three are an inflection point that will determine what the rest of the century is going to look like. it is in that context we have to analyze what is happening. our problem is i am not sure that that argument -- let may be colloquial about it. people say the following, we have 5000 or 6000 people crossing our border, we are running up in enormous debt, now we have to help israel. we stopped building up our military. why is ukraine important in that conversation? i've heard that from people who are not necessarily fans of vladimir putin. but people hav

testimony before a senate republican sub committee secretary of state for ukraine and asian affairs james o'brien highlighted shipping and production of natural resources. this meeting senate foreign sub committee will come to order. i want to thank ranking member senator for agreeing to hold the hearing on this very important topic and recognize ambassador to romania officials here, and the audience and i understand thatsy the dcm for georgia is ao planning to join. so hopefully she will be able to make it soon. and recognize senator duckworth in romania, thank you. almost two years ago, to the day i chaired a sub committee hearing on thehe black sea regi. this critical region has always been an area of interest, and i first became particular with it when i traveled to georgia in 2012. georgia, of course, was the first target of putin policies in the region. but sadly not his last. the black sea region has been a critical area of focus for vladimir putin as he pursues aggressive agenda and revisionist history. this map which hopefully you can see behind me shows precisely why this hearing and ou

and the third wokeist is james o'brien. every single week. he does win it. sometimes he needs the publicity. does he? i think he does, yeah. i think his figures are failing . so he his figures are failing. so he probably he probably needs probably needs he probably needs a so seriously, sue me. a figure. so seriously, sue me. >> five they're both plain wrong. they're both wrong. yeah, they're both extremely annoying. it's just. which is wrong and most annoying. i think it's the difficult one. i think probably somerset council actually. >> listen, you're a woman, obviously . obviously. >> all this nonsense about pronouns and identity, how does it make you feel as a woman, do you think? >> absolutely bonkers. yeah, it's just bonkers. you know, when you into a local when you go into a local department store and you want to try clothes on, i mean, i wouldn't be happy if i'd got daughters or my missus was getting changed in, in a changing room next to some bloke who comes in who decided that day to put frock on and a bit day to

and the third wokeist is james o'brien. every single week. he does win it. sometimes he needs the publicity. does he? i think he does, yeah. i think his figures are failing . so he his figures are failing. so he probably he probably needs probably needs he probably needs a so seriously, sue me. a figure. so seriously, sue me. >> five they're both plain wrong. they're both wrong. yeah, they're both extremely annoying. it's just. which is wrong and most annoying. i think it's the difficult one. i think probably somerset council actually. >> listen, you're a woman, obviously . obviously. >> all this nonsense about pronouns and identity, how does it make you feel as a woman, do you think? >> absolutely bonkers. yeah, it's just bonkers. you know, when you into a local when you go into a local department store and you want to try clothes on, i mean, i wouldn't be happy if i'd got daughters or my missus was getting changed in, in a changing room next to some bloke who comes in who decided that day to put frock on and a bit day to

which you will present your testimony first assistant secretary for european and eurasian affairs james o'brien the assistant secretary o'brien assumed his role last month the sanctions coordinator at the state department. he's a former career employee of the departmentnt receiving numerous performance awards and. with previous administrations as special presidential envoy for hostages in the balkans. he is a long successful career and is allowed him to hit the ground running. t next assistant secretary for energy resources geoffrey pyatt. no stranger to this committee career diplomat. pyatt has been in his current role since december 2022 and served as u.s. ambassador to greece in ukraine and has held numerous leadership positions throughout thepo department and has won numerous awards. a third witness as assistant administrator erin mckee who serves in the bureau of europe and eurasia at usaid. prior to this position she was u.s. ambassador to the salmon islands and is a member of the senior foreign service she served in numerous leadership roles throughout usaid and the embassies abroad the

first, assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, james o'brien. assistant secretary o'brien assumed his role just last month after serving as sanctions gordita at state department. the is a former career employee of the department receiving numerous performance awards insert two previous u.s. administrations as special presidential envoy for hostages, and for the balkans. his long and successful career has allowed him to hit the ground running. next would be assistant secretary for energy resources, geoffrey pyatt. no stranger to this medical curricula mecca assistant secretary pyatt has been in his current role since september 2022. he served as u.s. ambassador to greece and ukraine. use of numerousve leadership positions throughout the department and has won numerous awards. andd a third witness is assistat administrator erin mckee who serves as assistant administrator and the bureau of europepe and eurasia at usaid. prior to this position she was u.s. ambassador to poppy new guinea and to the solomon islands. her ambassadorhehe plummets to e me

is, of course, james o'brien.if you want to live in a country where suella braverman who dreams of deporting people to a place where refugees get shot dead by police , ice gets to shot dead by police, ice gets to decide whether it's safe or not. theni decide whether it's safe or not. then i think you've got to give your head a bit of a wobble . your head a bit of a wobble. >> i'm joined now by former labour mp for rochdale and his lovely wife coco, who know first hand all about rwanda. so look, both of you, thank you very much for coming in. it's really to great have you in the studio. we always try to do ladies first here, go to you here, coco, so i'll go to you first, if that's okay. when you hear people talking about rwanda like that, how does that make you i feel very bad you feel? i feel very bad because that's that's completely wrong. >> the rwanda is very is one of the safest country in the world. the police officers there are very efficient and no corruption there. they empowering women. it's very the whol

is, of course, james o'brien.if you want to live in a country where suella braverman who dreams of deporting people to a place where refugees get shot dead by police , ice gets to shot dead by police, ice gets to decide whether it's safe or not. theni decide whether it's safe or not. then i think you've got to give your head a bit of a wobble . your head a bit of a wobble. >> i'm joined now by former labour mp for rochdale and his lovely wife coco, who know first hand all about rwanda. so look, both of you, thank you very much for coming in. it's really to great have you in the studio. we always try to do ladies first here, go to you here, coco, so i'll go to you first, if that's okay. when you hear people talking about rwanda like that, how does that make you i feel very bad you feel? i feel very bad because that's that's completely wrong. >> the rwanda is very is one of the safest country in the world. the police officers there are very efficient and no corruption there. they empowering women. it's very the whol

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o'brien knew this. >> i think he did. >> there's a third. we have a trend. it wouldn't be high school without the cutting and petty personal jabs. i present to you house oversight committee jameser and congressman jared mosque wits. been going after the investigation into the biden family on the house oversight committee. on tuesday the attack dog fully triggered the chair. >> continued to try. i'm not going to give you your time back. we stop the clock. you all continue, you look like a smur of. >> hold on. if we're not on time -- >> first of all, love this. second of all, you were there for more than a decade. why is this happening now? >>smurf is new. to be clear, i'm oddly passionate about congress, about the institution. i take covering it extremely seriously. you know well. if they are going to act like clowns, i think on some level, we should cover it like the kir us is. there is an explanation here. the last two months on capitol hill have been an absolute mess. we have been covering it every step of the way. that means lawmakers have been in washington a lot most don't have families in town. there hasn't been much legislating. house republicans have been engaged in a

o'brien on what was supposed to be a hearing on labor unions. that's not even all of it. there was more blowing over in that congressional pressure cooker today. i present to you james comer, the republican chairman of the oversight committee and democratic congressman moss sco pitch. >> that is bull. you look like a smurf going around in all this stuff. >> why should they believe you? >> you've already been proven a liar. >> who's proven me a liar, you? >> yes. >> all of that actually happened just today within the span of a few hours, in congress, the people's house, not a junior high school. let's go straight to the source now with tennessee. >> reporter: congressman tim burchett. you just heard congressman mccarthy there denying what you said. what's your response to that sglment. >> thank you for having me on. i notice when he got to that part his voice got a few octaves higher, i don't know if you caught that or not, that's a pretty good indicator. >> i never said in the beginning, it was claudia of npr, if you follow her on twitter, she actually documented the whole series of events pretty well. i was called by reporters about it when i was on the house floor

o'brien in what was supposed to be a hearing on libra unions. but that is not all of it. there was more blowing over in that congressional pressure cooker today. i present to you, james comer, their public and chairman of the house oversight committee, and democrat congressman jared moskowitz. >> that is -- you look like a smurf here just -- >> you are doing stuff, you american people half -- why should they believe -- >> you have already been proven a liar. >> who has proven me ally? are you? >> yes. >> all of that actually happened just today within the span of a few hours in congress, the people's house, not to be junior high school. let's go straight to the source now is tennessee republican congressman -- tim you just heard kevin mccarthy there, then eyeing what you said, what is the response to that? >> thank you for having me on this. i noticed we got to the part about, that his voice got a few octaves higher, i don't know if you call that a, not that is a pretty good indicator. i actually never said it in the beginning, it was -- from npr, if you follow her on twitter, you will see she actually documented the whole series of events pretty well, and i was call

schools minister nick gibb and primary care minister neil o'brien have also announced their departures. james cleverly says he'll work to protect the british people as the home secretary. >> i'm absolutely committed to stopping the boats, as we promised, but also making sure that everybody in the uk feels safe and secure going around and going about their daily business, knowing that the government is to here protect them. so it's a fantastic job andits them. so it's a fantastic job and it's a real privilege to serve as that reshuffle continues , the government is continues, the government is also working on strengthening police powers in the wake of the weekend's protests, reports suggest the prime minister is looking to tighten laws to make it easier to ban marches and prosecute those glorifying terrorism. >> police say seven men have been charged with offences including assault on an emergency worker for criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon. officers made a total of 145 arrests on saturday. armed forces minister james heappey expressed his concern over intolerance in socie