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United States President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he was confident about the TPP Pacific free-trade deal as he started demanding for its approval by Congress.

After  some hours when 12 countries reached agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership following grueling Atlanta negotiations, Obama expressed agriculture and business front-runners that the deal is good for them.

“I’ve said repeatedly that I would only sign an agreement and present an agreement to Congress if I could be absolutely certain that it was good for American workers and good for American businesses, good for American farmers and good for American ranchers, and good for American manufacturers,” he said.

“We have met that standard in this agreement.”

Even the specifics of the contract will not likely to be revealed publically for weeks, congressional front-runners have already stated reservations over the TPP deal, which would manner the world’s largest free-trade zone “made for the 21st century”.

Obama worried about the Congress, the community and other investors would all get to involve the whole contract before it energies to a vote in the Congress, this process is of three months.

Converted in secret, the TPP pact has some 30 chapters on issues from intellectual property protections to handling foreign investor disputes to enforcing labor rights, and a number of annex agreements on specific tariff cuts between specific countries.

“There’s going to be a long, healthy process of discussion and consultation and debate before this ever comes to an actual vote,” Obama said.

“But I’m also confident that the case to be made for why this is good for America is sufficiently strong; that ultimately we’re going to get this done, and it will be an enormous achievement for us to be able to make sure that 40 percent of the world’s economy is operating under rules that don’t hurt us.”

“Under this agreement, we, rather than countries like China, are writing the rules for the global economy,” he added.

 

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The House of Representatives relied greatly on Democrats to ensure passage in a 277-151 vote. A big majority of Republicans voted against the measure, which failed to satisfy with conservatives’ demands to cut off money to women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood.

A companion bill aimed at restoring the Planned Parenthood funds supply was also passed by the House, but the Senate isn’t likely to act on it, effectively killing it.

The spending expansion was signed by President Barack Obama into law the White House said in a statement.

The news was welcomed by Obama having a tinge of sarcasm in comments to several progressive state legislators in Washington.

“The good news is the fact that it appears that the Republicans will only hardly avoid shutting down the authorities for the 2nd time in a couple of years.

“The terrible news is the fact that it seems like Republicans will only hardly avoid shutting down the government again for the 2nd time in a couple of years,” he added.

Earlier in the day, by a vote of 78-20, the Senate approved the legislation which was needed to maintain the government running using the start of brand new fiscal year on Thursday at present levels.

House conservatives, cheered on by some Senate associates, had insisted that Planned Parenthood be penalized for allegedly selling fetal tissue picked from abortions. The claims have been denied by the corporation.

The discussion changed radically last week when House Speaker John Boehner declared his resignation and said he’d set the Senate’s “clean” funds bill into a vote.

The funds expansion intends to allow Obama and congressional negotiators to work out a longer-term budget deal and still automatic spending constraints on national and military spending.

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UNITED NATIONS: France challenged Russia to back its words with actions as major powers on Tuesday fought to resolve differences between Moscow over struggling Islamic State militants and the West over finishing the civil war in the Middle Eastern nation.

After Russian President Vladimir Putin, that has sent tanks and warplanes to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, called to get a fresh anti-Islamic State coalition, diplomats pursued new strategies to create a solid front from the militants.

“What is significant in the struggle against Islamic State isn’t the media strike, it is the actual strike,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in reply Putin’s statements Monday at the assembly of world leaders.

Fabius said the Russians “speak a great deal, but as far as I could tell they haven’t committed any airplanes against Islamic State.”

The militants command large areas in both states, using mayhem created in Syria when Assad cracked down on protests against his government by a civil war that started more than four years back.

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The Usa is willing to work with Iran and Russia to attempt to terminate the Syrian conflict, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday but insisted there couldn’t be a return to the status quo under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In expressing a readiness to cope with Russia and Iran, both staunch backers of Assad, Obama was admitting their influence in Syria and consuming a bitter medicine for America.

“The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict,” Obama said at the annual gathering of world leaders. “But we must recognize that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage,
a return to the pre-war status quo.”

The Syrian government has been equipped by Tehran and, through its support of Lebanese Hezbollah combatants, has helped Assad fight rebels trying to stop his family’s four-decade rule. Russia has lately participated in a military buildup in Syria, where it’s a naval base that functions as its foothold in the Middle East.

Obama is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for discussions which could supply some tip on the way that it may be possible to stop a conflict that’s defied years of diplomatic efforts, on the sidelines of the party.

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WASHINGTON:The United States has done “an unbelievable job” in going after and systematically dismantling the core Al Qaeda network in Fata, says US President Barack Obama.

“They still pose a risk, but it’s considerably decreased,” he said in a dialogue together with his troops deployed all over the world.

Sharing his risk-understanding using the troops, he warned that extremists flushed from the Pak-Afghan area had spread out to other regions.

“What is happened with this particular extreme, violent extremism is the fact that it is metastasised and it is spread to other places. At the moment, he said, ground zero for all those actions was with the socalled IS in Syria.

Mr Obama said the hardest portion of his job was to take care of questions which failed to come with enough info to help him determine the best way to answer them.

“And my job is to make a decision based on sometimes imperfect information and you’re working on the percentages.”

Mr Obama said that one such question was whether to raid Bin Laden’s hideout. “When I made the order for us to go in and get Bin Laden at that house in Pakistan, it was probably a 50/50 proposition as to whether that was, in fact, him.”

He acknowledged that the risks of making a wrong decision “obviously were enormous”.

“If I had been making that decision based on wanting to avoid risk and not having somebody talk smack about me, then that might not be a decision that I would have been prepared to make,” he said.

Mr Obama said that despite the progress the US-led alliance had made in Afghanistan, “it’s still critically important that we’ve got thousands of trainers and advisers who are supporting the Afghan military efforts there”. The US combat role in Afghanistan, he said, was over, “but we still have to make sure that they are getting the kind of help and assistance that they need”.

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The President of the United States has joined Alaska and Bear Grylls to measure the state of the consequences of climate change on the state as well as the retreating glacier as a result of global warming.

The White House posted a picture of the two, ahem, chilling out from the glacier in their hike with all the remark: ‘Happy this was the sole bear I met in the park’.

The President also took snapshots indicating the effects global warming has had on the region together with the glacier withdrawing:

Following their excursion, Bear Grylls will be educating a crash course in survival skills to the huge man. So should Obama discover himself stranded in a woods with nothing to eat but a rat stewed in his own pee, he will understand exactly how to proceed.

Bear Grylls has formerly been on excursions with the likes of Kate Hudson, Michelle Rodriguez and Channing Tatum.

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