with me is lawrence gosling, who's editor—in—chief at what investment.lem

with me is lawrence gosling, who's editor—in—chief at what investment. going to be taking us through those stories. let us with the jerusalem post and this through those stories. let us with thejerusalem post and this story in thejerusalem post and this story in the comments from the pope. the vatican's relations with various states, they turn very slowly. they are very conscious of the history and they don't hurry things. how much should we be reading into comments like this? the pope talked about the gaza strip, there are a series of countries, he probably singled out syria as much as anything. and he talked about syria and the tragedy of syria. he also mentioned south sudan and the democratic republic of congo. that was in this whole discussion yesterday. i think it is important to see the pope, like any major leader when they speak about gaza or the other parts of the wild weather hostilities, it is part of the slow turning off the wheels to try to get peace into the well —— —— where there are hostilities. there have been calls for an independent inv

lawrence gosling, editor—in—chief at what investment joins me now.re in britain. let's talk about these trade tariffs, do you think they are inevitable? i think they were. what we have seen with the trump administration in the 18 months or so administration in the 18 months or so is made to noises in the election run—up 110w so is made to noises in the election run—up now he is beginning to fulfil them and clearly a trade war, and specifically china was one he talked about quite a lot. this is quite a low—grade tariff war so far, the concern is doesn't escalate in here? i would say probably not. it has been fairly tit—for—tat sofar. i would say probably not. it has been fairly tit-for-tat sofar. it is not just been fairly tit-for-tat sofar. it is notjust agricultural products, is it? you mentioned low—grade steel as well. low-grade steel, clearly for mrtrump, the well. low-grade steel, clearly for mr trump, the rustbelt was a big election winning ground. he talked about the steel industry, so he has put tariffs on chinese steel and the chinese have r