Please grab a seat. Were going to start. Good morning, and welcome to the German Marshal Fund of the United States. Im jonathan katz, a senior fellow here at gmf. I want to welcome our guest, dmytro kuleba. Ukraines deputy Prime Minister for european and euroatlantic integration. Its great to have you here. I know youve had an incredibly busy schedule in the last couple of days with meetings, very successful meetings both on capitol hill but also with the Trump Administration. Ate busy time for you. Of course, right now its fairly busy in washington, all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you here. Needless to say this is an incredibly important time for you to be here in washington. In some sense the zelensky government, president zelensky who all of you know took office last spring, has been in office now for six months. Its been an incredibly busy time. New laws passed. A focus on anticorruption. Then also just this week, hard to beli
As all you know took office last spring, has been office now for six months. Its been an incredibly busy time for the new laws passed, focus on anticorruption and then also just this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that nobody meeting took place with president zelensky, president putin i think had a first meeting facetoface meeting since 2016. Mr. Macron, mrs. Merkel as well during the time that the people of our interest to get a better understanding of the outcome of that meeting. Theres a sense of different obligations, responsibilities that came out of that meeting, including the rada passing i think an extension of special status, the don bosco part of the donbass which you will explain but were hoping really today to speak to you about a couple different issues and conversation. Well story and then open it up to those who are participating. This is an on the record conversation and we very much appreciate that you could be here and spend some time but really to
Organize a list of demands sure the outcry is that you know these politicians are failing we need a new government but if you talk to people and if you look at all the News Coverage its also been about representation its also a been about we dont want to sectarian regime we dont want to regime that goes unnoticed we dont want lack of checks and balances enough corruption and this is the really the depth of the s. S. I think lebanon is much more complicated than countries perhaps with one dictator or one of the a terry invasion when we say we want to see the government down were also talking about these bad bits of politics because this government is very similar to the one before and probably similar to the one that will come later so it means very Different Things 11 on a right commons or how we thank you very much for speaking to us from beirut well happy but as an investigative journalist and hes a blogger a beirut reporter and he says 72 hours isnt enough time to even begin to fix
Well have the latest from westminster and brussels, including an interview with the belgian mep, philippe lamberts. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. A mother breaks down at the contaminated blood inquiry as she talks about the death of her ten year old son. 19 people are arrested as police say theyve broken the uks biggest ever drugs operation more that 50 tonnes of drugs are seized. And coming up on the programme well be live from the roundhouse in london, ahead of tonights building of the year award the stirling prize for architecture. Today at five, the top story talks to secure a brexit deal appear close to collapsing after a downing street source said the eu had made a brexit deal essentially impossible. The source claimed the german chancellor Angela Merkel had told borisjohnson in a phone call this morning, that a brexit deal is now overwhelmingly unlikely. Mrs merkel reportedly said a deal would never be possible unless Northern Ireland stayed in a Customs Union which i
The chair on this vote the yeas are 236. The nays are 193. He amendment is adopted. The Unfinished Business is a request for recorded vote on amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 11614 by the gentleman from california, ms. Speier, on on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 116143 offered by ms. Peier of california. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. Those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the c