Am here in the russian capital welcome to world news from the national 1st for you a member of the Saudi Air Force fatally shot 3 people and wounded at a u. S. Naval base in the state of florida on friday the f. B. I. Is investigating reportedly examining whether it was terrible. The shooter was a saudi military training at the base to study aviation he was shot dead at the scene by officers unconfirmed reports suggest that the perpetrator published an anti american manifesto prior to the attack. America contributor. The f. B. I. Is now taking the lead on this which is interesting because a Saudi National florida governor. Told reporters that the Saudi Arabian government needs to make. Things better quote unquote for the victims one of the things that i talk to the president about is given that this was a Foreign National in the employ of a Foreign Service is you know we time to do this but obviously the government of saudi arabia needs to to make make things better for these victims N
Of the protest movement. And in Sports Premier League side are still have fired their manager in i am or the spaniard leaves with that same ensuring that worst front of results since 1998. Major developments out of iraq this year the Prime Minister says hes resigning will mark his announcement comes after one of the most violent days since antigovernment protests began 2 months ago more than 50 people were killed on thursday a curfew has been lifted for families to hold funerals the un has called for an investigation and iraqs government has ordered an inquiry into the deaths protests began in early october over demands for jobs and an end to corruption. Now in a statement he said i will submit my resignation to the house of representatives in order for the council to consider its options may go put sent to iraq and its people mohammed jump june joins us live from baghdad mohammed just get us right up to date whats the latest. Peter as you mentioned that he Prime Minister has said he i
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Brookings. David was appointed assistant secretary of state by donald trump. He previously served in the air force for 35 years, beginning as a linguist in 1980, retiring as a brigadier general. He was the advisor to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and served as the defensive attache in beijing. He recently served as the director of the China Strategic Focus Group in hawaii from 2017 to 2019, where he was an abjects adjunct senior fellow. David, thank you for your service to our country and the important work you are doing now. As you can see from his background, he has been at the forefront of managing policy questions that shape the future of these relationships and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy to china and is preoccupied with keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole, where we have a huge number of relationships, partners, allies, and interests that go beyond simply the question of china. Assistant secretary stillwell and i were here
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here today to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be the secretary of energy. He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would