Welcome this is r. T. International broadcasting to you live from moscow and the caring top story this hour of law to me a person has met with the pope in the vatican is the 3rd time russias president has met pope francis with the previous meetings in 20132015 years as they moved through the papal palace for talks the pair both displayed their politeness as they approached the door the pope invited putin to enter the room 1st the russian president in turn offered to let pope francis through 1st before accepting. Is in rome for as with the latest. A great display of warmth and respect and that scene at the door explains it all its definitely not an awkward moments but obviously just a great display of friendship a lot of our food and the head of the Roman Catholic church spend quite a while together they were seeing the walk in through the ancient waters of the vatican and looking at all these precious exhibits paintings books the talks themselves lasted for an hour and we were expectin
Some new type of trade restrictions that are there. You need to think about services, data, and how you can sort of use the trade agreements itself to throw some friction into global trade policy in the sense that you really want an agreement here, which can at least for the future divert trade in the sense that you push countries like china, india, brazil and other large economies in the world to become far more favorable to more of a western type of model of these issues. So if you find that sort of combination, it is going to be a fairly good agreement but i dont think were going to have higher hopes for going beyond that. I alluded a little to the geopolitics which sean spoke of. Phil, what do you make of the geopolitical arguments for the agreement . How important is it relative to the economics which frederick just articulated about . Is it about security or is it about writing the rules of trade before china and india and brazil do and is that important . I think it is both, bot
Appeared to be sweating at the time, was seemed happy to be leaving the room now that the hearing had concluded. I thought the most interesting thing was those conversations that didnt get captured on camera. I did mention one about chairman gowdy and mrs. Clintons aid, huma abedin, but there were other moments, other members of Congress Talking to each other. We devote gaveltogavel coverage to the house and senate, the house on cspan and the senate on cspan2. And when it comes time to those key hearings on capitol hill, we are there we devote resources of cameras putting on television, radio and online and make sure that the viewers can completely understand without any commentary that entire convenient and this is one of those key events, covering this hearing with mrs. Hillary clinton before the House Select Committee on benghazi that i think a lot of people will remember from years on. Financial times world trade editor sean donnan delivered openingday remarks on a daylong discussi
The US and China don’t want to be in the same regional trade grouping. But a free-trade area of the Asia-Pacific offers an inclusive approach that pushes back against the creation of rival trading blocs.