To get assad out of power. We also need a knew aumf giving the president what he needs to defend isis. Turn to ukraine, its fighting again intensifies, we cannot take our eye off the ball. Ukraines top priority should be rooting out corruption and reform, we need to support these efforts, we need to work with ukraine. We need to be a partner of ukraine, a stronger, more prosperous ukraine stands a better chance of turning putin back. Speaking of putin, we need to let him know we will never acquiese to his position on crimea. Any talk of sanctions relief for russia is premature, so long as ukraine doesnt control its own eastern border. We must do more to counter russian propaganda, we feel very strong about the fact that people in the russian language sometimes only hear on the air what putin wants them to hear. They get a very unbalanced view. We need to move in there and make sure they get a balanced view. Let me applaud president obama for what hes done over the last year. We should
The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
Alaska. Syrias state media and some groups are saying that the army has taken control of palmyra. Government forces have been advancing into the isilheld territory, there has been heavy fighting in the Historic Center and residential areas. The syrian army captured the castle. Which is a u. N. E. S. C. O. World heritage site. It fell to isil in may. The armed group is not part of the cessation of hostilities, palmyra is apparent not only because of its history, but because of its location. The city is on the highway linking the capital with isil healed deir az zor near the boarder. The capture means the government can stop isil fighters moving to and from iraq. Joining us live from near the turkish syrian boarder. Lets clarify what happened. Some groups are saying that theres fighting in the east of palmyra. How certain is it that the entire city has fallen . Its not certain 100 . I would say its more than 90 . The group that you mentioned is the syrian observatory for human rights for
Minister talking about the situation in his country. Then a house hearing on north korea. Live at 2 30, speeches by the candidates running for the u. S. Senate seat in kentucky. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] on tuesday, ukraines foreign shortly after his remarks, president obama announced expanded sanctions against russia. This is about an hour. It is indeed a pleasure to spay today at the atlantic today at theeak atlantic council. Proof ofoday a real Transatlantic Partnership and transatlantic solidarity. We are talking about the whole standing by us, standing behind us. Made todaydecision by the European Union about the next wave of sanctions. We dont need sanctions for the sake of sanctions. But its about the world we live in. The world where we have rules, where we have commitments, where we have legally binding commitments. About how to get back to the status quo, how to get back to the world wh
Witness the last Lunar Eclipse of the year. Hello, the u. S. Lead International Coalition has resumed their strikes against the Islamic State in the syrian town which is near the border with turkey has been besieged by the armed group for days. This is the seen right now towards kobani. Within the last half hour it has been confirmed that the u. S. And the uae both conducts air strikes. Were crossing over to the border where Bernard Smith is there to talk about the fight in kobani. What effects are the air strikes as well as the kurds on the ground having on isil . Reporter the u. S. Central command has confirmed at least six air strikes in and around kobani on isil positions as you mentioned. We believe according to Syrian Kurdish fighters in kobani that those air strikes have helped them seize the initiative and push back isil forces back towards the edge of the town, back towards the sort of defenses that isil forces breached on monday night. Isil forces say they are managing to pus