will talk more about this with yulia yarmolenko, who joins the studio from the white house, and kateryna lisunova, who works in congress. greetings colleagues. congratulations. katya, how did it happen that the shutdown was averted, how did the legislators manage to agree, and why was new aid for ukraine not actually included. first, about how the shutdown was avoided. speaker. representatives kevin mccarthy, originally wanted to introduce his own republican resolution on short-term funding for the government, but it did not find support in his own party, it was blocked by representatives of the far right wing, after which kevin mccarthy went to work with the democrats and agreed to a single joint bipartisan resolution that has to fund the government for the next 45 days. why the actual document does not have any additional help for ukraine. many journalists asked this question, and in particular, speaker kevin macarthur after voting stated that first it is necessary to agree on internal funding for the united states of america, and then deal with the issue of ukraine. in his turn, his democratic

kateryna lisunova was in direct contact with us. in the meantime, in the village of gruza in kharkiv oblast, people who were killed by a russian missile continue to be buried. today, the un security council gathered for a meeting to discuss this tragedy. the vast majority of member states, including the united states, categorically condemned russia's attack. in his speech, ukrainian ambassador serhiy keslytsev drew parallels between the actions of the russians and the nazis, who also tried to erase the entire settlement from the map. at the same time, the russian ambassador has traditionally rejected the accusations once again, calling them a provocation. robert wood, deputy us representative to the un, emphasized that all this is happening against the background of russia's efforts to return to the un human rights council. council colleagues. human rights is the main body of the un, which deals with the respect and protection of human rights all over the world. the appeal to this body of russia, which continues to openly commit war

i will remind you that my colleague kateryna lisunova followed and told us about the chanting at the congress. and before other stories, there are many mobile dental clinics operating in front-line areas in ukraine. volunteers organized one of them. organized by volunteers of the life saving center charity fund. anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolsky visited the mobile office in donetsk region to see how the teeth of soldiers and locals are treated. this mobile dentistry has been working for the ukrainian military in donbas for more than nine months. the ambulance was converted into a dental office by the volunteers of the life saving center. they work here volunteers too. kiyanka tetyana zhukova works here. i have been a dentist's assistant for over six months. the woman has more than 20 years of experience in dentistry and a higher education in psychology. to be useful and bring victory closer. these are not pathetic words, this is really a call of the soul. a working day in dentistry on wheels can last 12 hours. unfortunately, our soldiers have many problems. the conditions in wh

thank you, katya, we will follow how will develop events, let me remind you that kateryna lisunova from american congress was with us. we at voice of america continue to tell stories about ukrainians who found themselves at the epicenter of the war in israel. rebre moshe asman has been at the forefront of humanitarian aid since the beginning of the full-scale russian aggression. in the first days of the war, he rescued the residents of a jewish village near kyiv, then delivered humanitarian goods throughout southern and eastern ukraine , and even came under fire near kherson. after the attack by hamas. he rushed at aid to israel. my colleague natalka churikova started the conversation with him by asking whether the ukrainian experience helped him. more in the interview. i could not stay in the same place as i did not leave ukraine. when there were crimes, so to speak, the russian army at the beginning of the war. also i could not, i took to israel. i ask, do what, what i have. to help morally and physically and the people of israel , the soldiers of the israel defense forces and the res

we will talk about the latest news from the congress with our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova. she joins us from capitol hill. congratulations katsya. congratulations natalya. the first round of voting for the speaker failed. what is the current mood in the house of representatives. why couldn't they agree on a candidate from the first round and in the end, what will happen next? kachuv in this game so would two can play, not only far-right republicans can block any legislative projects of their fellow party members, but moderate conservatives can actually do the same, and today's first round of voting for the speaker was different, the votes were divided as follows: 212 for the democratic candidate in speakers hakeem jeffries and 200, for republican representative jim jordan. thus , the latter failed to get the support of 20 of his fellow party members. i will note that now chamber. the house of representatives has gone into recess and it is expected that there will likely be a second round of voting today for speaker, but during that recess jim jordan will actually be talkin

our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova is following the events on capitol hill. she joins our ether with the latest news. congratulations katya. katya, what should we know about congressman emer, what is his position and track record in supporting ukraine? in general, it is worth noting and emphasizing again to our viewers that now the republican party is divided into, so to speak, classical republicans and far-right republicans. yes, there is tom emer a representative of classical conservative republicans, he himself was also nominated and supported for this position by the former speaker of the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy. as for his position on ukraine, the organization. republicans for ukraine rated him excellent, that is, the highest score according to his voting for bills in support of ukraine. in fact, tom emer voted for all the bills in support of ukraine, to help ukraine, which were put to the vote. also, at the same time, despite the fact that he is, he has strong position in the conservative, classical part of the republicans, he actually

our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova is closely following the events on the capitoline hill. congratulations katya. katya, what exactly happened yesterday at the capitalist tomb, how a small group of republicans managed to dismiss their fellow party member from office with the help of the votes of the democrats. how did this become possible? this became possible primarily due to the procedural mechanism, which was a condition for the acceptance of speaker mccarthy to the position of speaker, which was put forward as a condition by far-right republicans at the beginning of the year, when kevin mccarthy was appointed speaker of the house of representatives. it would also be impossible. without democratic votes because, as you correctly pointed out, the votes were split 216 for and 210 against. 210 is a majority of republicans, except for eight far-right republicans, who were actually supported by the votes of all the democrats present in the house of representatives. the democrats themselves, directly the leader of the democrats, hakeem jeffries, before the vote, voiced their p

let me remind you that yulia yarmolenko joined us from the white house, and kateryna lisunova spoke about events at the congress. on to counterbalance the anti-ukrainian wing of the republicans in congress , conservative supporters created the republicans for ukraine organization in august. they run an advertising campaign aimed at strengthening support for ukraine by legislators from this party, and also rate congressmen and senators for their position on ukraine. yes, jim jordan received the lowest rating - one, and interim speaker patrick mchenry was rated excellent. my colleague tetiana voroshko met with the spokesperson of the campaign and asked him about how president biden can get some republicans to support ukraine, and what the buzz around the new speaker of the house of representatives means. tonight , us president joe biden is going to make a speech about helping ukraine and israel. what messages do you expect to hear from him, to be heard by the people you work with, republicans who are wavering about supporting ukraine or are against it. i hope that joe biden, tonight, when h

thank you for the information, voice of america correspondent kateryna lisunova talked about continued aid from the united states. well, actually there is no risk of ending the funding of american aid to ukraine at the moment, the ambassador of ukraine to the usa, oksana markarova, said about this in an interview with ukrinform. according to her, the previous budget contains significant transitional funds that will be used now. at the same time, negotiations are ongoing on the development of a new budget solution, which would include aid for ukraine. to date , ukraine has received 60 billion dollars of aid from the united states, 43 of them military aid. white in august the house requested additional assistance from the congress in the amount of more than 20 billion, the decision has not yet been made. congress must first pass the budget, and for comparison, during the three years of the marshall plan at the end of the second world war, the usa spent, taking into account inflation, 150 billion dollars. the european union will allocate 50 billion euros of macro-financial assistance to u

the correspondents of the ukrainian voice service for more details about this i congratulate kateryna lisunovaa, katya, please tell me who this candidate is and what is his position on the ukrainian issue? greetings colleague, always glad. welcome to you and the audience, tom emer, a representative of the conservative, classical wing of the republican party, has also voted for all bills in support of ukraine, at least that is what is said in statistics provided by the organization republicans for ukraine, but despite all this, he , as he is the favorite of the classical... conservative part of the republican party, he has a kind of confrontation with the far-right republicans, and so on a closed vote, where they, so to speak , rehearsed the likely vote for the speaker , tom emer has already been voted against by 25 of his fellow party members from the wing of the far-right republicans, and the former president of the united states of america, donald trump, has already criticized this nominee on social networks and criticized him. simultaneously i will note that, taking into account the fact th

our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova is closely following the events on the capitoline hill.. katya, what exactly happened yesterday at the capital grave? how small it was a group of republicans with the help of the votes of the democrats to dismiss their fellow party member from office. how did this become possible? this became possible in the first place, thanks to the procedural mechanism that was a condition for the acceptance of speaker mccarthy as the actual speaker, which was put forward as a condition by far-right republicans at the beginning of the year, when they actually appointed kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house of representatives. it would also be impossible.

clear and understandable explanation, thank you also for your work, these days at the congress, kateryna lisunova was in touch with us. the white house assured that they had confirmed that north korea provided russia with military equipment and ammunition for the war against ukraine. john kirby, a representative of the us national security council, told journalists about this. we will talk more about this and other things with yulia yarmolenko, who is now joining us from the white house. yuli, i congratulate you. congratulations ostap. yuli, so what new data are we talking about now and how is the us collecting them. oppose such cooperation between north korea and russia? you know, you have, just a month ago here in the white house, there was a warning that russia could get weapons from north korea, and today john kirby, the representative national security council of the united states, said that this happened, according to the united states, north korea transferred more than 1,000 containers of weapons, as well as ammunition to russia, so that russia could continue to wage its war against ukrain

my colleague from the voice of america, kateryna lisunova, will tell us more about how it happened, what caused it and what consequences to expect, directly from washington. katerina, my greetings, i have a word with you. congratulations dari, as you rightly noted, this is the first time in the history of the united states of america, the vote yesterday was 216 to 210 , 210 is a majority of republicans, so to speak, moderate wing, republicans, of which eight republicans voted to fire the former speaker kevin mccarthy and joined them all democrats present in the chamber of the house of representatives. in general, after the dismissal of kevin makar. there was so to speak a small silence for a certain period, literally an hour, an hour and a half, kevin mccarthy did not comment in any way on his dismissal and in fact there was no comment, because the event that happened, you already correctly noted, happened for the first time in the history of the united states of america, and after that he had an address to reporters, by the way, you're shown one of the addresses as well, kevin mccarthy,

our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova is following the events on the capitol hill.th the latest news. congratulations katya. congratulations.