Thank you very much indeed. Great pleasure to be here. And i thought i would say a couple of things by way of pressers. Our efforts are made possible in part to the efforts of many people, including the Wilson Center and the National History center and these are the people who behind the scenes handle a logistics and work out whatever issues we have to make sure that all goes smoothly. Today is theus director of the National History center. We are always grateful for the the society of Foreign Relations which under rights the seminar. Support that makes it possible for us week to week to bring distinguished scholar to talk about their work in the wonderful setting that is the Wilson Center. Roger lewis will introduce our speaker. He is a famous historian. Of paper andhor , colossus, civilization. He is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford. His many awards include the Benjamin Franklin prize for ludwigservice and the ehrhardt prize for economic journalism. He has given a lectu
The leaders of china and taiwan are set to meet saturday for historic talks. They will mark their first top level meeting in over 60 years. Hour,oming up this Stephen Carroll will be reporting live from the web summit in dublin. Stephen he has been ceo of some of the worlds biggest companies. We will be live from the web summit in dublin, finding out what john scully is going to do next. Genie we will start at the vatican, a place that has been rocked by a new scandal that some people are already calling. Atileaks for more on this, i am joined from rome about josephine mckinnon. What did you learn . i just came from a press conference releasing the book called the merchants in the temple. He found the vatican is at war with itself. He says pope francis and the reformers are trying to introduce radical changes with greater transparency, facing extraordinary obstacles and resistance from conservatives and others in the vatican who do not want to lose their position and power and do not w
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