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Business Matters: US Vice President Seeks to Smooth EU Relations

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US Vice President Seeks to Smooth EU Relations

21/02/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, US Vice President Seeks to Smooth EU Relations

Vice President Mike Pence sought to reassure EU leaders as he met with them in Brussels.

US Vice-President Mike Pence meets with EU leaders in a bid to smooth relations, following mixed messages from the Trump administration.

Meanwhile, some in the Republican Party have been openly talking about invoking a little-known article of the US constitution that is designed to seek the removal of a president from power because of 'incapacity'. It comes amid concerns about what many have described as erratic behaviour from the president in recent days. Philip Stephens, from the Financial Times, tells us more. 

Just a few weeks ago he was the outsider with little hope of reaching the second round of voting, but now the former French finance minister Emmanuel Macron is the poster-boy of the centre-left, packing in the crowds and powering up the polls to become the next president. So who is Mr Macron and what does he stand for? The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby has been taking a look. 

In the fifth and final part of our series looking at the films nominated for best short documentary film at this year's Oscars, we hear from the director of Extremis, Dan Krauss, about his film exploring the decision making process behind when, and whether, a family chooses to switch off a life support machine. 

Roger Hearing is joined throughout the programme from Beijing by David Moser, academic director of CET Beijing Chinese Studies, and from London by freelance journalist Melissa Chan. 

(Photo: US Vice-President Mike Pence and European Council head Donald Tusk. Credit: Thierry Charlier, Getty Images)

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