the government said the trade pact involving the united states japan canada and nine other nations will call korea boost trade and the region the initiative of the so called trans pacific partnership treat pack is spearheaded by a wash and ten which is trying to reaffirm its influence in asia pacific region. on the other hand is focusing its efforts on the regional comprehensive economic partnership. a sixteen nation the deal that involves hand as hand nations and six major asia pacific economies including china korea and japan korea which already has free trade arrangements with both the united states and the european union previously maintained that they would focus on pending free trade talks including those with china and australia before deciding on the ppp the trade ministry says that its final decision on whether to join the top three ppp will be based on the outcome of preliminary bilateral talks with the countries involved. wednesday adding onions. the curry as consumer prices stayed and the zero percent range for the third straight month in november helped by dropping the pric

united states. japan, the tpp negotiating nations include australia, brunei, canada, chile, malaysia, new zealand, peruost recently south korea expressed its interest in joining the tpp talks. this trade partnership is dangerous for american workers. i think it's a job killer and there is really no upside for american workers. and i think i have to fairly point out that i think that this white house has been inept when it comes to explaining to the american people and to american workers where's the upside. leo gerard is the president of the united steel workers of america. there are some members of congress i believe 160 democrats and some republicans who have signed on to a letter to the president saying this is a bad deal. does this trip by joe biden, the vice president, mean that this deal is going to happen? >> i don't know if the deal's going to happen, ed. i know there's a lot of opposition to it in the congress. there's a lot of opposition in other countries. let me make this point. since the passage of nafta, there has not been a trade deal that's been negotiated that has turned out to be net

of those ranking ahead of the united states are china, canada, germany, poland and latvia, even developing countries like vietnam. >> asian countries like korea, like japan, like taiwan, and now like vietnam which are doing extraordinarily well because they make it very clear to their students in high school just exactly how important education is. >> reporter: we saw that firsthand on a recent visit to shanghai. why do you want to study so much? >> because i want to have a better future. and do some contribution to our society. >> reporter: but some argue the low rankings reflect what they call america's emphasis on testing, the diverse population, and others cite poverty as a factor. america has a child poverty rate nearly double that of countries like canada and germany who out-perform the united states. today's results are a sobering reminder that for america, an economic superpower. its young people aren't where they need to be for the future. and experts say these test results will likely intensify the debate around education reform in america that includes teacher evaluations and tougher math and reading standards and expanding school choice. the

canada,, mexico, chile in south america. malaysia and vietnam are two growing markets coming in. this year japan decided to start the negotiations. united states has a pretty big trade imbalance right now primarily due to auto trade. japan sells a lot more cars here. we sell very few there. that is one of the things the administration is trying to address in the trade negotiation. >> host: it is very complicated. what is the essential parts of this. what is the administration asking for and what are they looking for in return? >> guest: this is so-called, 21st century trade agreement what the admin said. they're looking to lower tariffs. when united states send products abroad to remove taxes countries put on those. in japan those generally speaking are fairly low. they're also looking to do things to kind of adapt trade agreements to the 21st century in their view. this means trying to insure that information flows freely across borders. if the united states has companies, have employees or customers overseas they can bring that information back and process it and do other things that they need to and also do things to put conditions on state

japan, up 5%. outh korea, up 5%. canada, down 3%. the united states, down 5%. this says it all. if we don't want to see the outsourcing of medicine in this country, the outsourcing of science in this country, we have a huge wakeup call that we must listen to. now i'm joined this evening by my good friend from san diego, scott peters, who i want to engage with him and have him speak to this issue as well. mr. peters: thank you for ending the assault on n.i.h. funding. our country has been the forefront of scientific discovery. innovators can start their new ntures and universities to invest in research laboratories. that in danger of losing and across-the-board sequester cuts is only amply filing the decline. instead of supporting and promoting our country's robust backing for scientific and health care research, this inability to fund bipartisan agreement has undoubtedly harmed our national reputation and limits our ability to bring the best and brightest here from around the world. i towered the national institutes of health in bethesda visit some of their labs, meet with patie