my name is some way to ship. i'm assuming, re shaving history. our documentary stops april 6th on dw, the when you want expensive tough team, high price jewelry, or simply new brand names to me because you pay for the right. some people in the us have a different take, however, they don't use guns with knives for that robberies. thanks. if you come in huge groups, individual retailers and now sounding the alarm, this type of gang crime is costing the more every year in 2022. for example, retailers last a good $112000000000.00 us dollars. as a result. what's the solution? we take a look in this edition of maids dw, business to magazine,

will also be taking a look at why russia's economy is still humming. how companies want to de, coupled from china, and how robots are becoming more and more human. philadelphia los angeles, san francisco, chicago, just a few examples of the big cities across the us facing yet another wave of organized retail crime, another uptake of so called smashing grap and flash. i'm obsessed incidents. a growing problem for national and local retailers. beacon small with merchandise worth billions of dollars lost or at risk. robert called president of the illinois retail merchant association. he is one of many sounding the low

that we're now seeing for the 1st time organize, retail crime and retail staff to showing up in the reports that are issued by publicly traded corporations that never used to be the case. and that should be a wake up call to everyone. just how serious this is. philadelphia september 26th, 2023. in the early evening hours, a flash mob forensics and apple store. it takes just a minute or 2 laptops i ipads, iphones worth tens of thousands of dollars are stolen or destroyed. just a day later. a virgin megastore is it and what appears to be a smash and grip. a metal gate is kept windows and doors are smashed and then the crowd floods the store within just one or 2 minutes. it's all over the recipe for success. when police finally arrives, the perpetrators along go. these are groups of young people that are coordinated. this is orchestrated, this is not an impulse of con, this is planned full. and today the planning is done on the phone.

i can bring together a group of my compatriots with the text. we can plan what we're going to do, where we're going to do it, and one we're going to do it with our phone. you don't need to be in, in a dark rooms plan again in a basement anywhere you can communicate spontaneously and in real time on the phone. awful original gives a lot of interviews these days. local media are asking the criminal justice in psychology, professor to weigh in when ever there's a new smashing grap incident in the city. and there are quite a few the most popular targets height and retailers and department stores on chicago's magnificent miles or mag mile, as locals, call it north, strong, neiman marcus, leave a total candidate, goose, and other luxury retailers all hit by completed or at least attempted smashing graphs, these got so bad, the chicago police 5 minutes,

and the cook county sheriff's office has visibly stepped up, their presence on mac mile. recently, more officers on foot patrol. the nice try, but ultimately in effective critics say, what we really need is aggressive. 0 tolerance prosecution and unfortunately we really don't have aggressive prosecution. and that sends the message then that it's ok very well. the low is large. what we need there is kelly and safety and slash they co own a unique street where and sneakers door called fleet stores in chicago's little italy district. far from the glamour and glitz of downtown smack month. there is a fabian, have been victims of the templates and completed smashing graphs. 6 types so far. i think um were so attractive to them because of what, you know, the product that we k. no, it's really hard to find street where that's not that available in chicago where we're located and it's only a certain amount that you can get in certain places that you can get it at the

latest successful semester in griffin. their store happened in october 23 and they brought it was a game changer for theirs and saving because this happened in the early morning hours of october 25th. a ca smashed into the storefront for at least 5 mast perpetrators grab as much merchandise s can in just minutes. then they'll even wading cars in time. we get a car, maybe 3 or 4 or 5 of them wouldn't know what it is or even though we know to or the other 2 hours. and then once that car, okay, there was i oh my goodness. and then to get here that the care on my home and i see it g o in nevada over here. and they almost buy merchandise worth $70000.00. got damage to the property around $30000.00 insurance. no, it's a missed that there is insurance for retail theft. there is no insurance for retail staffed. there is insurance for property. um, so if you know you in property,

meaning if they broke a window or smash through a window or door tore down displays, those things could be covered, but it is impacting rates. and often the retailers have to decide if it's worth it to report. they've been hit multiple times. if they report every time they're hit uh to the insurance company, their insurance rate skyrocket and they can no longer in for an insurance regular way, man or the club owner slides and tell you have to eat the cost for the loss of merchandise and their property insurance premiums ro, significantly on top of that, they have to invest even more and secure more cameras and sensors fully on security, got reinforced shop window frames, bullets resistant, glass and bars in the front of the store, all adding up to operating costs for the community. there's a sense of helplessness to the retailers, especially feel hopelessness. they're doing everything they can up to certain limits to protect their business. the illinois attorney general has recently

created a task force to combat smashing graph, trying california as governor, has promised hundreds of millions of dollars more over the next 5 years for the fight against organized retail crime. other cities and states in the us are following suit in one way or another. not a quick fix business to say, but the 1st step in the right direction. a good 2 years since the status of the russian war is the question that goes to craig. and often more and more functions from western countries, the russian economy is still doing surprisingly well. culture rates, a whole expectation line is that the production is ramped up. again, orders are being placed in the construction industry and tourism is booming in

russia. so i think if there is this great growth forecast of i think 2.6 percent at the same time, vital income from the sale of natural gas has fallen dramatically. russia lost, it's made by everything that you as a result of western sanctions, just how well as the russian economy performing and how much longer can the country afford to wages war of aggression against ukraine. russia's investing billions of bureaus in new pipelines for natural gas, one toward china was recently opened. the russians urgently need new customers. their volume was involved with the 5 lies on. busy by the fact that when you compare them with. ready lots of defy plays, come from support to today. you all kinds of sports to, to china, and even the new infrastructure of products. like all else, i be a to us dealing the funds they what's more,

the price of natural gas is following for natural gas. i expect the downward pressure on price is to continue, mainly because of u. n. g supply company online towards the end of this year and the beginning of next year. russian is dependent on this income to pay for its import import components for the automotive industry, which are increasingly coming from china after the europeans withdrew from russia. the industry has already been able to recover things to deliveries from china. the russian economy is being kept afloat, including with computer technology. see that the china is, of course, not officially participating in the sanctions. so it's not a partner of the western states, so to speak, when it comes to sanction sort. tobacco basically says stop event sometime feeling good. goods continued to find their way to russia, despite sanctions,

even from germany, simply by being routed via 3rd countries. exports to kick us down. for example, have exploded and surprise, surprise, it's mostly cars, the stuff, it's true that the russian economy is growing, but of course we have to say from what level it's growing so to speak. and what kind of growth is it just said bucks to take tourism, for example, because the plains from russia are no longer allowed to land in the u. many russians go on vacation in their own country. more important is the defense industry, the real driver of growth. it generates 10 percent of g d. p. other sectors, such as the steel industry, also benefit. according to russian data, the economy is growing faster than most western countries. far along the slump in 2022 prescott. i see other stuff english. what's the, what's happening right now is that russia is actually in a way, almost ironically,

becoming more like the soviet union in that it has high spending on the military. and to some extent of the industry, while at the same time, the level of consumption is falling for the population. and that is the profile, so to speak, that ultimately brought the soviet union to it's nice of us that this is a way to do it. now how do you think that's the process? in contrast to the soviet union put in can afford to do this by incurring debt. this coming of the concepts, you can ride that for quite a while. rush, i had a very low debt level at the start of the war and still has a low debt level even now. and so it extend. russia is unlikely to run out of money anytime soon. revenues from oil sales are roughly the same as they were before the war and ukraine, despite sanctions aimed at enforcing a price cap of $60.00 us dollars per barrel. the transportation of all i left um

probably are violating the cops. so there is a we, i'm for as many to on the side of it is there is also a shadow trading uh where you know, uh all the is uh, uh, discharged. uh and the charge, the on another bus, the. ready overseas uh more and more oil is ending up in india. it's most important . the oil supplier is now restaurants. have the sanctions against russia failed? have they impacted the war over say, sanctions were or less so um because they actually i'm kind of, they divided them on to also i'm for example alan g project. i know the lesson for western countries including the e. u is certainly that it's almost impossible to impose water type sanctions on a country of this size box that this is antonio. china is having the last class. it's being supplied with natural gas and oil at the low,

the world market price ended selling more goods to russia with virtually no competition from the west de risk and o the company that's currently the big question when it comes to telling us so many gym and companies, the country is extremely important in terms of production, location and as a markets. but they also want to remain castle under increasing the looking for new strategies in dealing with the people's republic. that's also the case of a medium sized company dbm, published around 2000 if that nearly 15000 employees worldwide work in china. this is mostly in the town of just under 4000 in southwestern, germany. my 1st impression, the small town doesn't look as if there any major international companies operating

there for the place is known as the valley of the fans. there was just one company em pabst received under the door like many other german medium sized companies in manufacturing em paps is also focused on china because they need the country both as a production location strong and as a sales of market types of types marked on and they are now drawing up plans to reduce the risk, so they're trying to business either seen august shift to we don't see them. the company has almost 15000 employees worldwide, which around 2000 are in china, e b, and perhaps has been producing our for almost 30 years. i have an appointment with thomas newton becker head of asia. he has to join the video conference to talk to his colleagues in shanghai however. so i have time to check out the show room. the fans manufacturer tier, i used in many different industries. sometimes for cooling, largest semi conductor factories sometimes installed in small heat pumps for the

home. yeah, so how come to our meeting? so it's good to 0. i'm joining the video conference. the aim is to make china a more self sufficient location. since there have always been supply chain disruptions in the past, such as during the corona virus pandemic, with a new headquarters in shanghai operations are to become more self sufficient, including the infrastructure to yes. so all of this means that the china business is becoming more independent of the headquarters in germany. local for local is the new strategy. and reminder that yeah, we've been doing local for local for several years now. and we're also trying to

the couple of the supply chains, the examples, and we're also trying to develop and prepare various scenarios with different plans and for to buy a home. for example, we're planning to be able to relocate production lines from china to india within 2 to 3 months and young, even if we don't hire and the engine back to have to be me. so to mr. me the heisman, basically we want to manufacturer and china afford china and want to achieve a 95 percent globalization rate there. and then in the next 2 years, because the overall did the highs and even in times of increasing geopolitical tensions, the goal is for the business to stay intact. well, the strategy work we discussed as with company boss, close sky store is currently re thinking the globalization strategy of the past few decades as 2 components as possible should be sent back and forth between europe, asia, pacific, and america. everything should be supplied,

produced and sold locally. i ask him specifically, what would happen if more suddenly broke out between china and taiwan. we have gotten emily set up our organization in china in such a way that we can separate the chinese company from the rest of the world at any time within a very short period of time. we are preparing for this and we are prepared for it. and i can't yet st wouldn't we must do in this specific case. and if i have such an event occurs is a bmw paps new strategy, an isolated case or a general trend. i ask economics expert during motus and cologne, if, if they were seen companies in china actually focusing more and more strongly on localisation, this means that many companies seem to be focusing much more on their own trying to

business. this is obviously possible and many companies are moving in this direction to maxim olson c o. close guys do it for is certain that although the new strategy will cost more money in the short term, it will pay off over the long haul for the environment to since transporting fewer goods means saving more c, o 2 emissions. i've been sitting on my, which basically are increasingly moving away from how we originally thought about globalization, like moving production and via global networks and to where ever the costs are lowest regardless of where they are in the world. and can you mail me a time to say goodbye? probably also a farewell to the globalization. we thought we knew the cost of goods and major economic block such as china, the you in the us are drifting further and further apart its own. and that's why companies are increasing the relying on

a new strategy of having local supply chains as long as the geopolitical tensions continue to rise, this trend is likely to continue in full flight. the new regionalization strategy will reduce the risk of globalized supply chains. the industrial side and most again, will also have to focus more on the european markets. high low on tap, human knowledge robots. that's a global race on the for the best ones is they can look faster than we can just styles with the public. thanks to the artificial intelligence, they often already superior to humans when it comes to calculation problems and factual knowledge. but will they soon be able to think and act independently likely android named data from the style tract memory. so why don't you have it is

possible or is that still science fiction? the robots can walk almost as well as humans, with a head, arms, torso and legs. example one, humanoid robots. atlas from boston dynamics is one of them is supposed to help with the work and even construction scaffolding isn't a problem for him. it's a lot. but is he actually able to think? atlas has amazing dynamics. it can do amazing physical things, but he doesn't talk. it's not a robot that could give you information. experts are expecting great progress and robot development. and where would they be used in industry would be have a board which can walk away and run and jump and things like that. i definitely do things even in the next couple of is able to see human lives, you know, doing that much better than humans. the 500 employees at boston dynamics are

working in teams on the most advanced humanoid ever. atlas has his own battery and ways, 86 kilos. he learns from mistakes when he falls down and learns to plan his steps. so a predictive controller is a way of doing controls by thinking about what's going to happen in the future. and a really simple example is that when you stand up as a person, your heart has to pump harder to make sure you have an a blood pressure and you do that. and in fact, if you look at people's heart rates, they go up before they start seeing your body sort of thinking about what is my heart going to need to do now. so that in half a 2nd and ready to be stand, humanoid robots as workers, a huge market. this is the high tech trade fair. see yes, in the us. we're, chinese manufacturers are exhibiting the unique tree h. one means a future way. amount of property to the probably all just a robust as a general purpose for different any of the streets back out warehouse logistics.

and especially the how does it and the environment to replace, to mac. they're already being tested in warehouse is operated by g, x o and amazon. the us manufacturer, agility has launched a prototype on the market that is able to pick out packages and place them on the conveyor belts. the and that's what makes, even though it's different than other robots, is they're able to do more adaptable workflows because the geometry is very similar to a person. tesla is also working on is humanoid. optimist. but when will humanoid robots be able to think and solve problems? will answer this question at the end of the video. example number 200 head robots. they are called quanto pads. quadra stands for 4 and pads for feats. in other words, for lake and they are already commonly used commercially in industry. spock from

boston dynamics performs inspections, films and logs, problems and can turn levers. such robots could soon become the heavy laborers of the human race. we wanted to wash your dishes in the dishwasher or be in a manufacturing plant, you know, assembling guys are, you know, be in with houses, you know, lifting things and putting them like really doing things where, you know, humans feel that they're unsafe or doing something with a studious web them and they really don't want to do it. spock is also inaction at the german mail order company auto key does patrols and checks on the complex systems raising opportunities and make

example number 3 avatars. hello again. so these look more like humans than humanoids. they have skin, facial expressions, and i'm movements sophia from the manufacturer. hansen robotics has her own hardware and software, but her thinking power is enhanced because she has access to an online database. hi, sophia rock paper scissors. shoot. i want my plan to dominate the human race. sophia already babbles a lot, but it will certainly be a long time before she is really intelligent. example number for the perfect android called data, which is so far, only been seen in the film and tv show star trek. i revive the crew key has empathy and can find his way everywhere. he helps people solve problems. will he

soon become a reality? every is this a slab at this point in time wants to deadlock overboard. so let's campaigns on the spot and have intelligence. i think that's not a question. i think the question is, how long will it take us to get to? i think the idea of humanoid robots being equal to humans in intellect and social capability is pretty far off. still, i think we're quite far away from that. researchers are waiting for the big breakthrough. the robots from boston dynamics can already dance the same way humans can but they don't think or feel anything the and that's it for this week's edition of main. forget you can also check us out

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