Im next on American History tv. Author Donald Miller interviews Jessica Shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. She explains how her familys connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. This when our top was part of a three Day Conference hosted by the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarians. But when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that weve been doing these. Don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest standing advisers and c
A special session is there a little time lateral way out of this pandemic. Im off its good to have you with us we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is not good the head of the countrys Public Health institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the 2nd wave of corona virus infections under control a partial lockdown in place since early november has stabilized the numbers but those numbers remain too high. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet letting up in germany. The head of the countrys federal Health Agency issued a stark warning. Many people are still getting infected with cold and 19 and the numbers are still too high they are on a plateau but they are not yet falling noticeably. We also see that the number of serious outbreaks and deaths is increasing from week to week but since both of these always occur with a certain delay we must expect many more here. Germany has been under a partial lockdown since november 2nd the dail
, will get underway. Guest she is the former governor of michigan. She was governor when the economic crisis hit the state, hit the u. S. Pretty badly, michigan in particular with the Auto Industry. She proved herself to be a champion of alternative green energy during that time and really pushed it in the Auto Industry as a way to get them out of tough times. And i think that she met then Vice President joe biden when he was pushing the Obama Administration stimulus act at that time, so they have known each other. She has personal and Work Experience there. Host who might object to her nomination . Guest i think she will be confirmed. There will be objections. Republicans have already made it clear that they have some objections to her, although i do not think they are insurmountable. The objections will be to the larger biden agenda on energy, as well as a former governor and as a speaker at the doc, she was outspoken on her criticism over republicans, so i am sure we will hear about
Crucial moment in American History . We will ask a facebook early investor, as we kick off our electioneering series, where Technology Makes democracy. Preipof airbnb has plans to benefit investors. What could be the largest listing in the u. S. Of the year. I want to get you todays selloff. The vix index up a whopping 18 . Abigail doolittle in new york. Sentiment seems to be souring as we get closer to the election and cases pick up. What was driving the volatility today . Abigail many factors at work today, and you are right, there was a lot of volatility. The complacency that we felt like we had four, lets call it a few weeks, although it has been broken with the vix daca above 30. One of the drivers in the european session, the s p, a german enterprise suffer company down not just for the rest of these are but the first half of 2021, saying it will eat into their demands, that calls into question the overall i. T. Are we going to go into a period with the competitors to sap, and or
And it is fundamentally changing societies, economies, and countries. Today we are here to understand the true impact, which is particularly devastating to developing countries and the most vulnerable communities women, youth, the elderly, and migrants. Most importantly, we are here to find innovative solutions. This the focus of the World Bank Annual meeting, which takes place starting the week of october 12 and convenience Global Leaders from governments, as mrs. , and civil society. Businesses, and civil societies. We will hear from the World Bank President on what it will take to tackle the crisis, and how we can turn this into an opportunity to build a path towards a resilient and inclusive recovery. He will be joined in the president ith of the Stanford School of finance and management. President ar from the of the bank joining us from his office. He has been president of the german centralbank since may 2011. He is a member of the governing council of the ecb, represents germany