the to. be a an opinion. this is utopia newsline from girl in shrinking the not ready to scale down you're supposed to grip the checkbook stretched to fill the gap after britain leaves the block the european commission wants major economies to contribute more to its budget and it says it's ready to cut funding to states who violate democratic freedoms also coming up after a day of strike action and mass protest signs of

a possible breakthrough in armenia's a political crisis of the ruling party says it will back this map nicole pashtun for prime minister under certain conditions plus we'll have a special report from kenya homosexuality is illegal in this east african country and gay people like no will live in constant fear of being arrested while now activists are pinning their hopes on the ports on the country's highest court and chelsea manning appears in berlin for her first foreign trip since her release from prison a u.s. whistleblower and transgender activist tells a conference here she's worried that governments and big corporations are abusing people's data. model. leyla hocks a pleasure to have you along everyone. that you're. commission has unveiled an

ambitious new budget to follow on from a britain's withdrawal from the bloc spending a twenty twenty one to twenty twenty seven is worth close to one point two trillion euros an increase that has ruffled the feathers of member states who will be asked to contribute more to the european budget while the proposed a budget includes a huge spending hikes for defense and security twenty five billion euros to help countries introduce structural reforms needed to join the single currency and some cuts brussels or wants to reduce the agricultural budget by five percent and it wants a mechanism to withhold funds from member states that don't respect the rule of law . all right our correspondent barbara ways is in brussels a berber the e.u. is becoming smaller shrinking but not downsizing on its ambitions. absolutely not because the argument here in brussels of course is that our message needs to be we

will be stronger than ever we are not getting smaller and weaker but we're looking to the future and so the european commission has put this proposal on the table with the growing budget of course we know this is just the beginning of the great haggling that takes place every seven years here in brussels and many things will be sort of cut away it will be shifted around bob this is the beginning and another point of course is that the country that is supposed to make up most of the whole germany and then has put itself in a rather comfortable position and already said yes we are basically willing to put more into the pot all right now barbara talk to us a little bit about who the winners are here and who are the losers. the winners of course will be industries that look to the future for instance. in. artificial intelligence the winners will be big research programmes the winners

will be used programs the losers will be farmers as you already mentioned the european commission plans to cut farm subsidies for instance and they do this will be some european countries where money will be cut away from regional aids because so many highways and bridges have been built and brussels no sings the attention needs to be shifted to different areas all right and barbara the e.u. is now using money as they are at least the commission wants the e.u. to use money as leverage whatever happened to east ollaberry. so the dairy to the line of stops as soon as the talks about money begin and that has the european trade tradition might be a better edition but that's the way it is every head of state and government here in europe as soon as the budget talks start thinks about their own voters and their own home country and nothing else and the only adult in the room actually this time around is dylan where ministers have already said yes we're willing to do more

however we expect others to do more to so they're in a rather comfortable position and can use just a tiny little bit of blackmail now this still has to be i mean you're alluding to it before this just still has to be approved by the european council. yeah and that's where the big fight begins and they are really hiding like cats in a sack because of course everybody is beginning already to defend their interests we have already heard from just a couple of hours off the proposal arrived that no absolutely. to come to make cuts into agricultural subsidies for french farmers is so the netherlands have come on the radio and said no we cannot pay more into the budget because already it's unfair and we're paying too much so this is the procedure as usual it's like a ritual and we will have some tough months ahead of us where everybody really is fighting everybody all right and i predict a summit that will go long into the night thank you so very much of

a visa reporting from brussels. and here in germany the country's coalition government has presented its budget for the current year it's set to spend thirty eight point five billion euros on its armed forces that may sound like a lot but the defense ministry is up in arms saying it needs far more to modernize germany's fighting forces as pressure grows on the country to fulfill its obligations to nato. a german euro fighter taking to the air something of a rare sight these days germany possesses one hundred twenty eight of the jet were plates but only four are reportedly mission ready that could leave the country unable to fulfill its commitments to nato germany needs to modernize its armed forces the bundeswehr but there's no consensus on the cost. conservative defense minister was a left underly and says she needs an additional twelve billion euros by twenty twenty one to get the military back in fighting shape but she's only receiving two

point five billion extra she's taken the extraordinary step of filing an official letter of protest. in a terse statement from the line played down the conflict but stressed germany's military responsibilities are more starch and are so many has to make its contribution here not just for security in germany but for our common european security as well here to germany's voice is needed. but finance minister should says priority is a balanced budget not a state of the art one is fair the social democrat argues that military expenditures have been growing recently. and so beautiful let me show you which short of how defense spending has developed in the last few years if. you can see the huge rises that have occurred. this is a force of defense spending is concerned things have really turned around get it in

that. germany's military expenditures have gone from thirty three billion euros in twenty thirteen to a projected forty two billion for twenty nineteen but that still leaves germany well short of the nato target that members should spend two percent of their g.d.p. on defense and the bullets says far more money will be required to keep its troops ready for action. all right let's get you have today now with some of the other stories making news around the world. global military spending has risen to its highest level since the end of the cold war well that's according to the swedish institute for peace research most of the increase came from higher outlays in asian countries especially china india and saudi arabia russia saw the biggest decrease in spending down twenty percent last year. u.s. president donald trump has played his first visit to the state department to attend a swearing in ceremony for his new secretary of state mike palm pale ale was

officially sworn in last week after being confirmed by the senate he has promised to restore a word he called the department's swagger. nationwide strikes that have paralyzed our media might be coming to an end opposition leader a new call partially on suspended the strikes for one day after the ruling republican party said its members would support a prime ministerial candidate nominated by one third of lawmakers and that the party would not offer its own candidates the moves have prompted celebrations in the streets of the capital here of on. and earlier i spoke to kali in your yvonne and asked him if the ruling party is doing a one eighty here. well yes it is pretty unexpected and he just has been outspent but we have heard that before only last week and they had intimated in slightly less explicit terms they wouldn't stand in the way if they go especially on and

that they would even give him some votes and then they didn't in the end but for now this is being seen as a big victory here people here on the street see that they brought the copy evan to a standstill with roadblocks with sit ins with the strike and they say see this as you know the ruling party caving in to that question because just in the last hour from the goal of pushing and saying that tomorrow will be a day of rest telling the kids to go home and do that homework before they go back to school tomorrow but stay vigilant he's not socially convinced that these wasn't in policy can be trusted so he sold people to keep up to date with his facebook posts and to see if he has to pull them out again now if this does mean that the ruling party is prepared to loosen its grip on power just to help diffuse tensions what's changed since yesterday. i think the scale of today's sit ins protests had taken people by surprise this all happened very fast this evening we were expecting yesterday. session to be more from our audience in the to become as you know it's

become the activities by the evening when then things ended up dragging and dragging on and then late evening the vote went through with him being denied the necessary number of votes he made this announcement a gentle strike very unexpectedly but today everything seemed to work like clockwork at eight fifteen as he said many roads even the central cross roads nirvana just outside the hotel book low sulfur people with that all the time he's proving that he has got the organization that is really bring people out in the streets not only hardcore activists but also what seems to be like a very broad cross-section i mean a society from the very young we saw babies and children with their mothers sitting on on on pedestrian crossings closing off roads to the very old man's clothes. doing all of this in an atmosphere without fear of singing and not afraid of the police or the army or any of the security services that the republican party might have it is mostly what's the risk of this standoff destabilizing an army out that's

the something that the ruling public apology has argued they have tried to cost this as a dangerous juncture for all mean you're saying that this kind of unrest could make armenia more vulnerable to attack from its all its rival azerbaijan which is the only going on result carabaos conflict that they would use a g g wall beans was dealing would confront each other to attack care about for i mean you know. but having said that so far as long as this days a nonviolent thing it seems that there's of a broad consensus that this is about it among the public this is an internal matter is not about changing i mean is the lines with russia roll with syria's relations with the outside world and they've also been very careful to make clear that they're located today was not aimed at the military or the emergency services their ability to keep order they've let police calls in that military vehicles through

the barricades and they also need to highways they didn't close off with two highways that are militarily useful leaking i mean it was there about they being very i think call just of that potential accusation of putting the country at risk and being really at pains to try and avoid any culpability anything that might let these people trade as unpatriotic or navel gazing on a collie with the latest from europe on armenia thank you. and that to kenya now a country where homosexuality is illegal punishable by fourteen years in jail. activists have petitioned the high court now for a change to the law catherine wando begins this report with a statement from a gay man who is so afraid to reveal his identity that he asked us to scramble his voice. or our lives are about a robertson who can be good or. your friends your good partner for the war or

a burger for mr worker and support troops all work for a purser or years of hard labor submarines work or it's it's basically a good honest neutral situation with me go. in kenya homosexuality is illegal under the penal code those who are found guilty of engaging in gay sex can be sentenced for up to fourteen years in prison. this means many like noah live in constant fear . the national gay and lesbian human rights commission has responded to at least one thousand seven hundred cases of abuse or mistreatment we're talking about the right to not experience violence simply because you identifies as being here bisexual so one thing that we reiterate over and over is that the face is not about same sex marriage this case is not about nonconsensual sex this case is not about sex with minors this case is quite simply about what two adults are allowed to do consensual in the privacy of their home about governmental interference in no as

few it's time for kenya's high court to repeal the colonial era law. sure although if you would be a great story because it's put us in a position where we're. targeted because i'm fine a lot of people who are targets are going to some sort of police or you know people collaboration is to arrest you a good brother who was calling you or tortured you you know block me and so people who move good will take a we've got power for this people. on the streets of nairobi it's hard to find someone who openly agrees with no one. feels the bad and bloody. be the other get midsts human models and they think they should not be allowed in kenya ever that it's ok. i think it should be talked about. some but it's not something that should be ignored yeah that's that's that's not

right according to their base according to a religion should not be i love. in an interview just to see a president who can ya to said that homosexuality was not a human rights issue in kenya. this is not the first time presenter who can yet to is dismissing the issue of homosexuality in kenya as a priority discussion. in two thousand and fifteen during former u.s. president barack obama's state visit he almost did the same thing however the reality is there is a significant population that needs this discussion to be had even if the high court rules of the north should remain in place the fight to sensitize kenyans and the issue of gay rights will continue so we're not at a place where i think we're able to convince ninety nine percent of kenyans that this is something we need to accept but what we need to be able to do is have laws that say these people are protected and then have the people responsible for

enforcing those laws be able to do that. you know hoops the courtroom. so that he can live a life where he doesn't have to constantly look over his shoulder. all right or east africa correspondent catherine monder was reporting there we can talk to her right now and catherine know you are in the kenyan capital nairobi upper carious is the situation for the community in kenya well it's quite precarious if you look at it and the way people live a lot of people living double lives very afraid to you know live the life that they should live freely kenya is a very conservative society when it comes to sex and sexuality and a lot of the homophobia in this country is deeply rooted in religion with a lot of people in the society saying that homosexuality goes against you know christianity goes against islam and it did some of them see that it seems as though

a western concept art now do we know which way the court is leaning in this case or do we know when we can expect a ruling. well it's not really clear because the course was meant to set a date for the ruling last week on thursday but in the wake of president hu kenyatta statement saying that gay rights has no place in kenya the courts the three judge bench did manage to sit on thursday to set a date we're not clear when they will set a date for the ruling but the l g b t commission or the commission that represents the beattie community here in kenya say that even if the court does make a ruling they don't really expect the court to rule in their favor in the first round and they expect to appeal the ruling right and that just shows how what a challenge is to change this a law in and of itself perhaps most formidable challenge will be to change people's minds. that is the great challenge and as much as the law may be

scrapped you have to talk to people you know this is a society where if some of the people we interviewed said that they would actually kill or lynch somebody who they knew was you know with the with the same sex or over the homosexuals so it's a matter of changing the minds and the l g b t commission is trying to do that especially with police because these cases are reported to police and before it proceeds on woods you have cases of extortion to the police officers use this as a as a way to you know mistreat homosexuals. now catherine in a related development kenya has banned the so murphy. a love story incidentally the only kenya movie that is now headed to the prestigious accounts festival i believe the first one ever what does the general public in kenya make of that development

and this decision pending decision by the high court. all the better the movie was banned on the basis that it would spread homosexuality that's what the film board said the rating board said and a lot of kenyans say that there's no way that that can happen and it was bad on really feel fickle ground but on the same in the same breath this is a society that still does frown upon homosexuality so you do have support for the arts and for the film itself in this in the sense that it is a film and it's representing kenya which you know a lot of people are proud of but a lot of people will still not be able to tell you openly that they support gay relationships or same sex c. of same of east africa correspondent catherine one the reporting from nairobi kenya thank you very much. finally

a crackdown on some of the worst tax havens low rated as we say remember the pentagon papers that dated a leak that expose the offshore dealings of many companies the u.k. came under fire in its overseas territories allowing investors to raise money far out of sight from the tax collectors but by the end of twenty twenty they'll have to make it all transparent through public ownership registers disclosing the true owners of companies not in the caribbean alone there are five such territories we're talking about the cayman islands as well as bermuda the british virgin islands and greta and montserrat thousands of firms claim to have comedian named subsidiaries there but often enough they more than a mailbox for money laundering will tax of us so i put it to our financial correspondent who bought some little earlier that it's taken two years since the panama papers for the u.k. to take action and will take another two years for these rules to come into force.

that's true if it's to be the end of twenty twenty that's more than two years from today's date but you have to leave it to the u.k. that's they've started on this and i think there are many people out there in the world including many here in germany who were critical of all those people hiding money money laundering doing a lot of illegal activities and tax savings and something like this would come about it all government action and government action with a certain bye to it but having said that i've read that there's opposition from the territories involved the cayman islands british virgin islands the premier of being very critical and also bermuda so you have to wonder will it actually happened there and if it happens there will the money go someplace else there's a lot of money involved and that's cording to the financial stability ports boards recent report alone cayman islands there's money stashed away there in shadow banks to the june of four point seven trillion dollars a lot of money.

in frankfurt now growth in the euro day saging a shop slowdown and in the first three months of this year the economy grew by less than off of the cent in twenty seventeen the economy expanded by a steady zero point seven percent from the second quarter through to the end of the gate but initial results by the european statistics office for the first quarter of this year reveal a slump to zero point four percent now last week the european central bank warn that protectionist dangers were affecting the monetary blocks recovery made up it's made up of course of nineteen a u. states that used the year. well european commission president says he will not be held hostage especially by an ally he's refusing to talk straight with the united states while it threatens the e.u. with tariffs your sarcastic you describe president donald trump's one month delay on juvies for european metals as j. interests but if no deal is reached the terrace

where we back on the table analysts say now is the time for the european union to take decisive action german government says it's judy noted the extension expects the exemption to become permanent take a listen to what you had to say a short time ago if you move on to this we've taken note of the decision but i'd like to reiterate here the appeal for that exemption to be unconditional and permanent. we believe that the measures taken by the u.s. can't be justified based on national security interests and that this should not happen between allies so we're calling plainly and simply for their withdrawal we shall continue our negotiations with the united states but we refused to negotiate under threat. than it was usually. the words of the president of the european commission that now the meeting movement is taking center stage in spain

and later has more on that absolutely a lot of women are riled up by a very controversial court decision months after women across the u.s. rose up against sexual abuse pay is having its moment of reckoning it comes after five men who were acquitted last week of daring raping an eighteen year old girl set up what they see as a culture condoning sexual abuse women are taking to the streets and to social media to settle the score and demand justice and list show from our social media desk has more on what's being called spain's me too movement all right to liz what are women saying in spain. well a lot of the women in the spain are very angry about the verdict so you have five men who are in their late twenty's of a corner of this eighteen year old woman they sexually abuse her they film it and they even brag about it on a social media but then the court case goes to the court and they are only found

guilty of sexual abuse not gang rape and this is what many people are complaining about and are protesting against what we're also seeing is that women in spain right now are taking social media to talk about their sexual harassment and counters that they themselves have gone through here for example is as tell us she says i am eighteen years old i was out partying i was surrounded by five guys they raped me they humiliated me they stole from me i didn't resist to avoid being killed i talked about it they don't want to believe me and they're using of this hash tag which translates into tell it encouraging other women to talk about what they have encountered already say for example says i was seventeen there were four of us who were all women walking home after prom when a man started following us we ran to the nearest police station the man kept up and

waited outside as we asked to report him of the police replied the problem is that you are too pretty i mean this is unbelievable this is the kind of attitude that women in spain have to keep up with or that they have to endure and that is why they are protesting online and also on the streets because they are not taking it anymore we saw the need to movement take down several powerful seriously powerful men in the us what can we expect to happen in spain. well the people right now are calling for a change in the judicial system we're seeing a petition that is online it was put there just a few days ago already we have here it is the book but let me pull it up so we have more than one point three million people we have already signed it they are calling for the three judges who ruled in this case to be dismissed we have a statement here from the mayor of madrid she says that judicial sentences can and

should be criticized and judges cannot be isolated from society this sentence does not respond to women's demands for justice and i hope it will be revoked by the supreme court this is one of the masses right there all right liz so thank you very much. we're going to have so much more coming up for you after this very short break including celso manning in berlin we'll tell you what's happening with. the ducted by rebels at the age of eleven forced to marry at fourteen to twenty two evelyn story is fairly common in uganda tens of thousands of children are kidnapped abused and forced to become child soldiers and their trauma continues even after they retire because communities often reject the children of terror young rebel

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and the media form twenty eighteen the place is. full also first and flop stars doherty and despised. karl marx farrakhan of communism a man whose ideas change the world but also divided it. will event in. is he today and what influence does he have on politics and general culture. on the two hundred ten a version of the birth the documentary marks and his ears do you w. . great to see you again you're watching that when you use on leyla rock and roll in these are making headlines right now. the european commission has unveiled plans for an expanded budget after the u.k. leaves the block but the proposal has angered major economies who would have to contribute more to europe's budget and armenia's opposition has suspended strikes

and called for a day of rest after the ruling republican party said it would support opposition leader he called push on it in next week's prime ministerial vote the party made the move after opposition protesters effectively shut down the capital here five. u.s. whistleblower and transgender activist chelsea manning is in germany on her first trip abroad since she was released from prison she was on stage today at the republican conference in berlin which explores the impact of digital technology on society a former u.s. army private manning who was a working as an intelligence analyst in iraq and she leaked thousands of classified documents to the website wiki leaks she was jailed for thirty five years but was released last may after former president barack obama commuted her sentence. oh manning i told the audience she was concerned about the way governments and large companies use people's data that's one of the big issues being discussed at

this year's or republican conference which is focusing on artificial intelligence and decisions made by algorithms. whether we're shopping reading or chatting on the internet complex logic programs called algorithms determine what results we see first in a search or on our facebook wall algorithms determine how we see the world say the co-founders of republicans who want the conference to address how those algorithms work. what data are they learning from is it data that presupposes diversity or the developers making these systems do they reflect the diversity of our society or are they just a tiny part of it pushing their values on us. out of participants will discuss how facebook influence the last us election or how a popular german website sponsored by the government helps voters compare political

parties algorithms are now so complex that logic is in comprehensible to most think this puts the politics must urgently introduce regulations it would be valuable to set up an overview showing which technologies are now being used and which ones are being developed. more than nine thousand visitors are expected to attend republican berlin lasting three days it claims to be the largest digital conference in europe . and a very timely one at that date of use the chief political editor the tailor questioner was at the republican conference you had a front seat good to see you and me tayla chelsea manning was headlining this event why well first of all because she really is a very big name they always need a big headline if that's the really obvious reason but she's seen as one of us in terms of the online community very much that she spent seven years in prison she was seen as a prisoner of conscience really who really said that. the way that this data analysis of the u.s. military was working out just simply wasn't ethical so she really took a took

a stance and she also has a double role here now as an advocate for being more reflective on the whole question of these algorithms of how the internet works but also of course she changed her gender so she also appeals to this wide transgender community so in one person you get a lot of questions raised that are very timely online and she was at the front line and should pay dearly for that role algorithms talk about algorithms because that appears to be the operative word at this year's republican conference well yeah basically the message we're getting from experts at this conference is that algorithms determine more than we realize i don't even code i feel very self-conscious about actually running around with a paper program around the republika but again chelsea manning really said that regulation won't be the way forward and she really likened the the whole responsibility that lies with the online community with the with how doctors operate so that's have a listen what she said. i would argue that we were in

a position much like a doctor and if not more so than a doctor really have an ethical standard and have you know have have some ethical basis in which we make our decisions like we don't just churn out code we don't just you know create a patent you know create a product and that's the end of it so listening to that you really get a sense that policymakers are still trying to catch up with these kinds of developments she argues that we're forty years behind and that student nothing but the discrimination that's already out there what else did she talk about well she was quite adamant that in her post whistleblower existence there is something of our own responsibility that we cannot just simply hand over to google or facebook so let's have a listen watch what she had to say about. it's a cultural change that needs to happen and that happens with each and every one of us each and every one of us has the ability to do something about what we see and

what is within our zone of control. so you get it it's like squaring the circle cultural change at the same time we all are exposed to stereotypes and if we google something if we tell our kids to google something they will simply get thrown back . those stereotypes that are already out there so that is something where she argued you can't get ahead of that ahead of this development with regulation which is the big debate here in germany i actually got to ask about question she said she doesn't think regulation is going to work so she's going to advocate for people to take more responsibility not just for the online behavior but also for pushing policymakers to think hard about how much market force they handle you know ownership basically also of this problem overall what was your takeaway from this from those first days of the conference well my takeaway really was that yes it is

down to individual responsibility that this is a challenge for the so-called established media that you and i actually belong to and that really there is no winning in the sense of trying to rein in the internet into law and i just want to give you one sentence that really resonated with me in terms of also fake news which of course is being debated we're not in a crisis of what is true we're living through a crisis of how we know what is true and that's the challenge for every individual online but also for us of course so timely thank you so much for killing her for bringing us this story greatly appreciate it. we're going to shift our attention now to the u.s. who are officials there have begun processing a small number of asylum applications from a group of central american migrants camped out just across the border in mexico the migrants traveled across mexico in march by political activists u.s. president donald trump has described mass migration as a threat to national security he's called the caravan a provocation and weren't they could be denied entry to w.'s claire richardson

reports from the border. these are some of the faces that have invoked to be green . president donald trump the reason he's threatened to mexico and called for thousands of troops to be sent to protect the border. stop short on their journeys they've set up makeshift camps into quanah mexico. but as you know we're sending many many national guardsman down to the border most of them are already there and that's having a big impact most are from honduras they say the united states must hear their asylum case that they left their homes because they had reasons to fear for their safety but because they killed my father. or i mean that's less than what they because of death threats that's what forced me to leave one of the men pulled out a gun pointed at me and told me if i didn't give him what he wanted he was going to

kill me soon all of that battle came up with maybe i'm a. they travelled together for over a month my first boss and trained. they sought safety in numbers and what can be an arduous and dangerous journey. if it was ugly tiring and boring. as big as my feet when i was walking and glen go climbing over that they traveled some three and a half thousand kilometers all the way from near mexico's southern border with quite a moa. when they arrived at the u.s. border with one a hoping to request asylum they got stuck. with the right papers it's just a short walk across this bridge to the united states and to california where more than one hundred people who say they fled terrible dangers in their home countries are stuck here on the mexican side of the border the united states has not said that it won't hear their asylum claims that would be illegal under international

treaties that the u.s. has signed but they've blocked their entrance by saying that the processing center is fall. the united states is bound by law to hear their cases yet although they often face military criminal and sexual violence most people coming from central america lose in the end organizers hope that won't be the case here when you see an analyst there hoping they will be granted asylum so they can live their lives free of the violent conditions that put them at risk. their future is a test case for the trumpet ministrations anti immigrant policies to see whether his fiery rhetoric is enough to stop the united states from welcoming those fleeing persecution you washington when you were so have a lot more to tell you about including germany's most successful side by author function saying that new dystopian book looks at the destructive potential of artificial intelligence. but first step portugal's economy is going

strong but there are some downsides for residents living in the latest hot spots how it was absolutely you know some of the cities that everyone is talking about right now which of course means it's attractive for investors especially in the property market a building boom is lifting and the idea of this in the portugal portuguese capital is a hive of activity after being down in the doldrums for so long but property prices are rising and so all rents. while lisbon is known for its beauty its property market was ignored for a long time that has changed in recent years investors have been pouring money into lisbon's will estate sector in twenty fifteen investment in commercial property more than doubled from the previous year to eight hundred seventy six million euros and the levels have remained true to lehigh since then. real estate prices are also

rising in the portuguese capital for the city's historic center they increased sixty seven percent between twenty seventeen and two thousand and eight according to local real estate experts so for the housing is harder to find and some residents are becoming more marginalized in twenty fifteen dorothy's cleared slums on the outskirts of lisp and while that may have offered some property investors a better view locals when given an alternative critics say so portugal's property boom is also leaving many behind. and one of germany's biggest cities is driving green innovation hamburg is going electric the german port city is switching its entire fleet of nine hundred fifty days ago buses to battery power and that'll mean a major overhaul of the existing infrastructure. a quick recharge at the terminus was enough to power this bus all the way back through hamburg the city operates twelve electrically driven buses drive as

a retraining and don't miss their old diesels. indecent bills and in these places there aren't any gearboxes of course the drive motor is a mounted directly on the rear axle. that makes it a smoother ride and more pleasant. and most of all it's much quieter. in the city traffic you can barely hear them. very little of the new technology can actually be seen. the batteries are mounted on the roof. it's a bit quieter but otherwise i don't see much difference. in distance which i think it's great when there's less noise and it's got to be better for the environment. as was individually built making them almost twice as expensive as diesel versions it's good to know that we've decided in favor of battery technology for the busses

it's all about getting them into mass production because we can only afford to buy them if they're produced in series we don't expect the price difference between diesels and the buses to last over the long term. but the buses will also need enough charging stations to be viable so hamburg's building a new central station it will have a direct connection to the local renewable energy provider. if you really want to convert a fleet of nine hundred fifty buses to electric operation you can't just plug a few charging stations around it's a revolution and you need to convert the entire infrastructure of. the decision on which company gets the contract to supply hamburg with its first batch of sixty electric buses will be taken at the end of april. time to take you for a drive through downtown nairobi because there's a small revolution happening on the streets of the kenyan capital now men once

dominated the taxi sector and now women a muscling their way and thanks to right hating little caps customers choose if they want a male or a female driver. a new era is here to understand english self-confident one of that and to kenya's female taxi driver as the little cabs app allows customers in nairobi to opt for a woman driver that's becoming increasingly popular so female cabbies are on the rise we thought. you know when you are very few who are like fifteen of us and the number has reached one hundred into one so far and also you're looking old to be more kenya's economy is expanding but the increase in wealth is far from equally shared women still worse off than men. i meet the best. people the best looking at people if they're just sitting at

home asking for handouts i mean if. anyone had planned that was the real me and it just it would be easiest solution it would make. the cabbies and around five hundred euros per month. depending on how many call outs they get the app features a rating system too but for most it's having a woman at the wheel that counts. i'm more comfortable being driven by a woman than a man one. woman a more friendly more is it talk to me it makes the ride more enjoyable. the job looks easier than it is the women have to be strong and self-confident partly because many men still see driving as a male demanding harassment can be a problem too obvious you expect them to see a very beautiful ring me in this business obviously we would but not the don't get

into it very much you don't once you want them you give them a warning this talk. there's also an s.o.s. but in the rare cases they need more support and one day these pioneers want to have their own fleet exclusively for women. wise bacterial ala now a novel with a warning about the future. service. best selling homes that for our culture that is here to talk about it i turn that sounds very ominous yeah you know it's one of these dystopian thrillers and hell and i mention the future it's actually happening in the present day so we don't even really have the comfort of sort of assuming it's a future scenario on this book is called the tyranny of the butterfly and it focuses on ai and parallel universes and robotics and it's picking up a lot of the current discussion obviously about how machines could one day just take over and make us human beings completely redundant so french that thing is is

the best known for his two thousand and four novel the swarm that one was looking at highest mentality and the depths of the ocean and it was translated into eighteen languages and was a huge international bestseller so he does a traditionally a ton of research for these kinds of books and he incorporates an awful lot of real . real elements which makes for incredibly visual storytelling and i think we're going to be quite impatient for the english translation of a quick look. this is how the future looks in advertising computers and robots as service providers slaves who know what we want without even having to ask there is so driving cars to bring us to the destination accident free the world of tomorrow is partly already here today life could be so wonderful bond of friendship sings latest novel is prefaced by a famous quote from british mathematician john good the first ultra intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make. in shit since universe

artificial intelligence is not a dream but an i me. consistently games of artificial intelligence. has developed this into another buzzword emptied of meaning that is now on everyone's lips even though no one knows what it means is that it creates a diffuse fear that has something to do with the loss of jobs but which is also based on chung will. ensure it sings novel a murder case leads the hero to silicon valley where he discovers a so-called quantum computer the machine soon realizes that it's much smarter than its developers and decides to be more independent it's the beginning of the end soon humans become completely superfluous and can be gradually disposed of. new. thriller writers love disaster scenarios you can really relish them do you stay

fancies a great material for literature and there is something to it there is certainly a poet in the development of artificial intelligence that could read. french it seems apocalypse is a digital big bang but truth can be just as disturbing as fiction shit singh says the current facebook down to scandal has moved threatening in the ideas sit out in his book. and very own response i got right now of the english translation is not out yet no it isn't so it just appeared in german and the rights have been sold to three other countries so i think italy norway and hungary and the english are still being negotiated but knowing how popular his books are hopefully oh i'm sure i'm sure. the other thing is i think what was really interesting hearing him there in that piece as well is he touches on something really primordial almost that we think now these developments are just

going too quickly for us to keep up yeah that's right and he's raising in many ways a lot of the of the questions that we're faced with today so how vulnerable are we making ourselves by volunteering so much information. and putting it out there in. the public realm who and what can we trust and how much of what we're actually seeing is even real with this parallel universe idea so and you know when we see a mark zuckerberg responding to their latest scandal with even more sort of you know broader reach developments of facebook it's hardly a comforting kind of thing you can see that it's clear that mitigating this kind of loss of trust is also incredibly topical and difficult so there's an international chorus of experts of course as you know elon musk and the late stephen hawking who have been warning for a long time already that intelligent machines are already making sort of a fundamental change to the fabric of our society and there are of course ways in which artificial intelligence is already helping our lives and making things easier

but the question is just how fast and if we could lose control of these technologies for setting stuff free out there that we can no longer real back in and and of course how to what extent that could be misused right and these exiled is of course are perfect for a prob culture because they're going to start is back with frankenstein and it has been changed but it's almost a question to daily you know if these books and films that were calling as to whether we can actually still use the five because some of it really isn't even very far from it isn't fiction anymore. i think that this very popular netflix series that you know black mirror which looks like a possible implication technology on society in these little stand-alone parables and each episode starts in a really normal way and then technology of some kind step then where we're sort of reminded of where things can go in that your thing here is that so many of the episodes are really just a side step from reality and actually already going on now another recent techno

thriller that was a cautionary tale about technology and privacy was the circle starting in one wants and that's based on the bestselling novel by dave eggers but again you know given the recent events of facebook a for instance something like the chinese government's. and social credit system you know you could really almost argue that reality is getting scarier than much of what we're actually considering dystopian fiction right and i can tell you as a as a viewer of black mirror i'm always disturbed time ever i see one episode it's always a bit of a healthy looking and yeah absolutely and you didn't realize when you bought that new fifty two absolutely so we're going to be talking about this for years to come we are well on even in the next days i mean as we just heard earlier in your show the republican just opened just kicked off in berlin today that's of course the biggest digital culture conference in europe than ai and algorithms have already come up there in conversation and will be going on for another two days we'll be reporting more on that conference tomorrow as well so stay tuned i'm sure i'm sure

this is not the last not going away and it's so relevant really to everybody's lives yes yank you so i need to understand that we need to understand what's going on take ownership as well thank you so very much a pleasure and hatshepsut you soon all right and now before we go i would like to remind you of the top stories that we're covering for you at this hour the european commission has unveiled plans for an expanded budget after the u.k. leaves the block but the proposal has angered major economies who would have to contribute more to europe's budget and armenia's opposition i suspended strikes and called for a day of rest after the ruling republican party said it would support opposition leader called pushing on in next week's prime ministerial vote the party made the move after opposition protesters effectively shut down the capital europe on. all right please do stay with the w. news we've got lots more coming up in just a few for now i'd like to leave you with some pretty phenomenal pictures from china

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