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World Service,22 Nov 2016,26 mins
Donald Trump: US to Quit TPP on First Day in Office
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President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Lori Walloch is director of global trade at the anti-corporate lobbying group, Public Citizen, and welcomes the news. Plus we have analysis from Lien Hoang of Bloomberg in Vietnam. Also in the programme, one of America's leading central bankers wants Donald Trump to back his idea to stop another banking crash. We hear more from Neel Kashkari, the head of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. In a world of driverless cars, BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been investigating who should be responsible for paying for the car insurance. Plus what were the worst films of 2016? Forbes magazine has produced its annual list of financial flops, and Natalie Robehmed from Forbes fills us in. (Picture: an anti-TPP sign. Picture credit: Getty Images.)
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