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prospects for returning special. life and the prospects for those returning. join the discussion on comment on facebook. maybe. this is. the computer.
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security official. business. also on the program. negotiations. in the countries. to keep fit. europe. in the. tough questions of digital future.
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and how can we stop cyber criminals from targeting. us on to the mall to do something some fifteen thousand participants are attending the annual congress of the chaos computer club. normally this c.c.t.v. cameras at the leipzig conference center record everything but right now they're switched off one major theme at this year's chaos computer club congress is privacy including house state surveillance and spices tems endanger it then. those who want to be able to hack an entire population need to find a unique vulnerability on every single device but that doesn't mean that this point of access will only be exploited by authorities fighting crime. and looks that. chaos computer club members have warned that such vulnerabilities leave users open to being spied on by criminals or even foreign governments but digital rights groups also warn users that they're handing over too much personal information
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voluntarily including to big businesses like facebook and google. is a document of and this data is used to build the most accurate user profile possible this is then used for business and sometimes even to manipulate us it's not always for profit but very very often it is the chaos computer club says it's expecting about fifteen thousand attendees from all over the world at the forty congress and with speakers covering issues from it security to artificial intelligence there will be plenty for hackers and computer experts to talk about. and joining me now in the studio for more on the chaos computer club congress and light. the you've been spending time at the congress on the first day the event held on of the slogan do something what exactly do europe's hackers want to do something about the fact that there is a lack of awareness about what's going on
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a lot of people feel you know they just they about they the gadgets they have the devices they use and their security and their security and it's basically a throwback to nine hundred eighty one when the computer kills club was actually found so there's as much stenger now if not even more than then that's what a lot of them are saying and people need to take note and start doing something about it so essentially the techies so we call them at the chaos computer club saying we all have to do something computer security is an issue for all of us it's a wake up call if you were exactly at the wake of coal one hundred eighty one it's just as bad today if not worse that's what they say basically ok and you know what one of the toughest challenges that they're talking about at this hour all the main challenge or one of the toughest challenges is what is called the internet of things now these are devices that are connected to the internet so it could be or smart watch it could be your phone no this lady most of us have a smart watch smart phone rather and also we're talking about even things like your
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fridge or your stove so you know. basic device that people use every day are sending data over the net and all of this without security because companies are being forced to launch products that are not secure enough or not protecting our data enough fast in the markets to make money and there's not enough incentive as well for companies to make our data secure it just because of course the punishments are not you know they don't hurt enough on their revenue at least and and just briefly even the electric charging stations for electric carts can be manipulated can be hacked exactly that was the big news here in germany the card they used to pay at public charging stations can be easily copied because they're not encrypted and that's a major issue that we have so that's something that consumers were unaware of but because of the congress this year that's something that's become big news ok so governments have to do something about that so but so do all of us exactly ok many
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thanks for all that turning now to some of the other stories making the news around the world reports are just coming in of an explosion in the afghan capital kabul with officials saying at least four people have been killed and six wounded the blast took place near the office of a local news agency but an interior ministry spokesman says the target of the attack remains. a spanish humanitarian group has rescued more than one hundred thirty migrants in the mediterranean as they attempted to reach into the from libya dozens of miners were among those rescued the spanish and geo was responding to an emergency call from the italian coast guard. and in russia an explosion has ripped through a supermarket in the city of st petersburg injuring at least ten people a homemade device containing two hundred grams of explosive was traced to a baggage locker so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast.
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now ukraine and separatist rebels have exchanged hundreds of prisoners in the largest such swap since are still she's broke out in the country's east three years ago the deal followed months of negotiation and as part of the minsk peace accord signed in twenty fifteen the hope now is that the exchange will further deescalate a conflict that so far claimed over ten thousand lives. in the dark and the called seventy four people came home ukrainian president petro poroshenko greeted former prisoners held by russian backed separatists. one former volunteer ukrainian fighter said he faced daily threats and beatings in captivity. in the beginning there was strong psychological pressure they threatened me and my relatives. they told me they would send me my mother caught up in pieces . at some point the beatings began. look what's left of my teeth
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but it's ok i'll buy new ones. earlier in the day ukrainian authorities send two hundred thirty three people back to the self-proclaimed separatist republics of the hanscom donetsk both of which are allied with russia. many of the prisoners have been held for more than a year. as you're going to see the truth though in the article. the most original it's emotional i talked with my wife on the phone. through a little bit what do you want most now just to see my son and my wife is a. prisoner exchanges like this one where envisioned back in two thousand and fifteen as part of the minsk agreement but the final details of the deal were only agreed last week authorities are still waiting
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to see a full implementation aimed at resolving the conflict. aid workers in syria have been evacuating twenty nine critically ill people from rebel held areas in eastern guta near the capital damascus the evacuations are part of an agreement between the rebels and the syrian government united nations and called on government forces to allow around five hundred people to be evacuated eastern ghouta is the site of syria's biggest remaining sea with its four hundred thousand people facing severe shortages of food fuel and medicine. for this little girl it's not just the end of a nightmare it's a chance to stay alive. she was one of the first of almost thirty critically ill people evacuated from eastern guta. for weeks international aid organizations have been calling on syrian president bashar al assad to allow hundreds of people in desperate need of medical attention to leave the besieged suburb. tuesday night saw
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the first of them get into ambulances and leave. where they are there has been no medical supplies for months children are dying. so it is an absolutely shocking story so a small glimmer of hope but there are now twenty nine desperately old children who should start receiving medical attention very soon. syrian government forces have laid siege to the eastern part of greater for the last four years now. not far from the capital damascus it's one of the last rebel strongholds in the country activists accuse government forces of trying to starve out any resistance by blocking deliveries of food fuel and medicine the united nations says dozens of people have died in the suburb after waiting months for medical evacuation. turkey claims it used its clout to organize the latest evacuation deal but president richard type the other one still insists that asset should have no part in syria's
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post conflict future. said you to make first of all it is impossible to continue with our sad why how can we embrace the future with the syrian president who was killed close to a million of his citizens. it looks like these evacuees of escaped death are now but the fate of hundreds of thousands of others in eastern guta hangs in the balance and there is still no sign of a breakthrough in talks to end syria's civil war. after a relentless summer pursuit premier league club liverpool have finally signed southampton defend a verse or dyke for eighty four point five million euros that makes him the world's most expensive defender the dutch international will be moving to anfield on january the first who is expected to join the pool at the start of the season after
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requesting a transfer but move fell through when liverpool were forced to make a public apology after accusations of making an illegal approach for the players. turning to boxing now which is of course a high impact sport no matter what level you're competing at it requires a robust physique which is why boxers are usually young a group of pensioners in south africa however are now showing that age is in fact no real obstacle once you've decided to step into the ring. seventy nine year old constant and seventy seven year old gladys aren't just best friends and neighbors they're also boxing partners. twice a week they come to the a.t.m. gym in johannesburg to hit the punching bags and keep fit constant used to suffer from high blood pressure but has already noticed improvements in our health almost by look i enjoy boxing because it makes me fit and when i go to the clinic the doctors say i no longer have high blood pressure i feel stronger since i started
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coming to the gym because. the development of obesity and noncommunicable diseases like high blood pressure high cholesterol and type two diabetes is on a critical rise in south africa which is why nutritionist cloud welcomes the pensioner's combined cardiovascular and resistance training routine when you combine those two kind of ascertaining things like crunching runnings swimming i walking this is resistance training it is body weight exercises circuit training training exercise like that not only both muscle mass but also proves the missing pilot rate which means you can control that develop an american city there's no disputing the importance of exercise but it would be ill advised for pensioners to receive inland punches to the head or body especially as preexisting conditions like aneurisms or high cholesterol could lead to fade talents he or strokes according to dr sally scott santa a medical supervise
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a boxing matches in south africa extreme force being applied to that to the head or to any part of the board. would need to some for eternity. bearing in mind that these people have not been cheated by doctor us. scott sana advises a full check up before anyone can books in the meantime these grandmothers are fighting their way to fitness. a fine group of boxes there you're watching video in years in berlin more from us at the top of the hour we're going to leave you now with some of the pictures of our planet that astronauts on the international space station have been taking from their windows thousands of images to choose from here are some of the best taken this year stay with us if you can.
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