c. shirley z you a fellow at the ash center of harvard kennedy school and in san gallant switzerland . guido caught c a professor of macroeconomics at the university of san gallon, a warm welcome to you all and thanks so much for joining us today on inside. sorry, andy, let me start with you today. the fact that china, the world's 2nd largest economy is reporting another slump. how concerning is that inside china? and how concerning is that outside of china? what if you have me on and i think this is an incredibly important question mohammed, i think that really we should not be concerned at all. let me provide a little bit of context. we've seen the kind of government when the battle against coven, which started out with the delta v area, which had in r o, we're a reproduction number of about to, to the latest varying which has a are lots of something like 16, which is 8 times as infectious, and about as infectious as the measles, but fortunately, much less lethal. so this is, i think we can understand the rapid relaxation of these very strict coven policies . and what this means is that th

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and also you may remember financial as combo shirley in the holy c. and so these probably were along the reason, so he decided to let shine to step down because he lives, he was not really the good, the best person to take a responsibility and to find a solution to both of the sexual abuse and scandal. and also the financial issues that arise during his presidency that he just joining us on al jazeera, we are covering the death of former pope benedict. the 16th the vatican announced at the pope a meritus died saturday at 9 34 am. we are talking to alberto tonia historian about this, looking at the legacy of the former pope. you talked about the scandals there. alberto and his papacy was also prone to gaffs and, and scandals, the financial scandals that you mentioned. how, how did he manage the bureaucracy of the vatican and, and what do you think the catholic church will remember him most for he was really in great difficulties with the body come broke as she evils and outside the in a sense. because as you know, he was of german origin. so we had a l

c-span powered by cable. washington journal continues. we are continuing our annual authors week. we are hearing from top authors across the political spectrum. we are welcoming back craig shirley the author of the book "april 1945: the hinge of history". looking back. -- welcome back. guest: thank you. host: you talk about a meanest of times and a kindness of times. it was a blending, and ending and beginning. such was april 1940 five. can you expand on that? guest: the end of world war ii met significant changes for the united states. we were no longer an isolationist country. we were isolationist through world war i. and through the neutrality act and troops leaving north america and trade with certain nations. in world war ii changed all that. we won the war and establish the united nations. and became a nationalist country. the dramatic changes in terms of our international relations happened as well as domestically. they worked on yielding jeeps, building planes and tanks, my two grandmothers were both rosie the riveter's. it changed dreaded -- dramatically. so many things came about. the rockets came about because of world war ii. it changed forever. our history of the u

shirley, and ohio, hello. we'll try that one more time. caller: hello. ok, thank you. thank you so much for cpan a good morning to you. i just have two things, the border, that will never stop. as long as americans give other people from other countries and work them here. is not can ever stop. i watched in my neighborhood as people from mexico put a roof on and the person who was in charge was a different race and he was laughing at how fast they could work to get that roof off-and-on. until these people stop get on here and pretend to be against the border wall while they have people working on their homes from the border. it is not can stop. somebody please tell me, why do these people continue to follow an ex-president and continue to go to prison. there is no man on earth i could get me to follow them to prison. i am 73 years old, do you think i will follow joe biden to prison if he were to do whatever it is he is supposed to have done? i will not follow joe biden to prison and i am a democrat. thank you sir. host: it is open forum on washington journal. this is from the usa today this m

c-span is your unfiltered view of government. host: we are continuing our annual authors week. we are hearing from top authors across the political spectrum. we are welcoming back craig shirleyhe author of the book "april 1945: the hinge of history". looking back. -- welcome back. guest: thank you. host: you talk about a meanest of times and a kindness of times. it was a blending, and ending and beginning. such was april 1940 five. can you expand on that? guest: the end of world war ii met significant changes for the united states. we were no longer an isolationist country. we were isolationist through world war i. and through the neutrality act and troops leaving north america and trade with certain nations. in world war ii changed all that. we won the war and establish the united nations. and became a nationalist country. the dramatic changes in terms of our international relations happened as well as domestically. they worked on yielding jeeps, building planes and tanks, my two grandmothers were both rosie the riveter's. it changed dreaded -- dramatically. so many things came about. the rockets came about because of world war ii. it changed forever. our history of the uni