Skip to main content

tv   DW News - News  Deutsche Welle  August 14, 2018 8:00am-8:30am CEST

8:00 am
limits in the life of a great fashion designer when a song smash. starts september ninth w. turkish president recha type out of one has accused economic terrorists of plotting to harm his country by spreading false reports the lira has tumbled more than forty percent this year the decline was exacerbated last week after the u.s. announced tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum on monday the turkish central bank
8:01 am
pledged to provide liquidity for the country struggling financial institutions the . former argentine president cristina fernandez has denied leading a corruption scheme involving public works contracts in a written statement to a born us irish court she said the accusations are politically motivated so far fifteen people have been arrested in the case. cuba has begun a public debate to overhaul its cold war era constitution last month the country's national assembly approved changes that include the recognition of private small businesses and rights once the debate is concluded the legislature will approve a new draft and submitted to a nationwide photo in february. thousands of mourners in yemen have attended a mass funeral for children.
8:02 am
living in the digital age coming up creepy stories. trees. can shape. but first many stars you tube videos with kids are a big hit the advertising industry wants to cash in on the influence of young into bers who hold great sway over their young audiences. as just a regular afternoon with the family the only difference everything's being filmed. right. now. and make five videos per week and upload them to their you tube channel lulu and leon family and fun named after their two kids and. it has some one hundred ten thousand
8:03 am
subscribers. and it was her idea really. they were always watching you tube and then she asked if we could make a video. so i said sure. and she just really wanted to see our video up on youtube as well. and some people at school asked for my autograph from. you tube clips from kids are popular all over the world in america six year old ryan makes videos for his channel ryan toys review and they get up to a staggering one point one billion hits he's among the world's biggest you tube stars channel has over eleven point five million subscribers but plenty to spark interest from toward manufacturers as with you tube cute baby new life from germany her parents began filming her at age two showing their every day life along with all kinds of products. like multi-channel networks like studios act as
8:04 am
middlemen between you tubers and brands they have between fifteen and twenty you tube families under contract and the business is growing they also do post production for you two clips. so binah channel becomes popular whether it's aimed at families kids or adults it attracts the attention of brown's wanting to advertise we reach out to you and suggest what kind of campaigns they could run. for in a company. like this ad campaign for a german supermarket chain the retailer picked several young you tubers to take part including lulu and leon. yes. in germany product placement is bad for kids t.v. shows but youtube videos don't classify as. they are told that advertising must be audibly separate from the videos content but it doesn't really work in practice.
8:05 am
when kids are involved in ads on their own videos and they say this is an advertisement by then they've officially separated marketing from content. but it doesn't work for kids watching. because it's the same person who's doing the marketing and the regular content. stored on child and children are easy to influence but even adults can find it hard to tell what's genuine content and what's product placement. the latter can be very lucrative as videos by ryan toys would you show ryan or his parents must be advertising millionaires by now thanks to the channel's reach popularity and their exclusive ad deals. so when five million families want to earn money from videos it can create difficult situations. members might not
8:06 am
want to be in front of the camera but can cause pressure. so how much pressure is involved in producing five videos a week for lulu and later on it seems to be all about fun. to shoot them in. their money that's a nice bonus getting money from the advertising but we're mainly making these videos to express our creativity and because of the kids. so this is the oklahoma discussing my eyes and when the kids don't want to make a video that's that no matter what the ad agency might say. shift says unknowing advertising. and now it's time for the shift cranking the highest paying internships in u.s. tech companies in fifth place apple the u.s. tech firm is a leader in consumer electronics and pretty generous with internship salaries but
8:07 am
john platform glassdoor ranked the highest paying internships in u.s. tech firms based on anonymous feedback and apple in turn makes five thousand four hundred euros a month and they get to work in what looks like a u.f.o. maybe it'll take off someday you never know with apple. fourth place goes to amazon the online giant also pays around five thousand four hundred euros a month and even lets interns practice their golf skills for that kind of money they could join a real golf club. in third sales force this company pays in turns just over five thousand five hundred euros but working there you might need to throw your weight around a lot. the runner up to microsoft working as an intern can be a rollercoaster ride here they can enjoy the stylish work environment and six thousand euros for a month. taking top spot is facebook internes can
8:08 am
stroll through menlo park and enjoy being part of this worldwide phenomenon for a salary of six thousand seven hundred sixty euros a month and they're looking for staff so apply now. that was the ship frank and now short and sweet the shift snapshot. ghosts witches and things that go bump in the night. but are all those creepy tales that we hear really just made up jenny and tony brewski don't think so the couple from kansas run the real ghost stories online pod cast it's a call in show where listeners talk about their creepy encounters. and i think you know when that. fans love these scary stories there are almost two million
8:09 am
downloads each month on you tube i don't send other upon you know just platforms and for about five euros fans get some spooky bonus material. that was the snapshot and now tweeting trees european fours tsar symbols of tranquility. i there are probably psychos it meant sent valving the green wonderlands and now they get to tell their own stories trees are taking to twitter. this beech tree is one hundred and ten years old it recently began posting tweets about its day to day life today i have shrunk it says. the project is the brainchild of kathy stepa a bio engineer and a belgian university it monitors trees vital signs using technology similar to fitness trackers but at six thousand euros to install it's pretty costly measurements about water flow are especially important. but others also of tots
8:10 am
work and of the money that's kind of like the heartbeat. of italy that tells us if a tree is in good or in bad health this of the state is because if a tree is dried out and under stress it communicates that to everyone on twitter. the ments in the stuff. the forests are crucial for our climate the leaves absorb carbon dioxide and amid oxygen trees also filter pollution out of the air professor steppers project monitors how much water trees absorb through their roots it travels through tiny capillaries and evaporates into the air through the leaves. up to two hundred liters a day flow through a beach when the ground is wet and the sun's out it does well article not a little known that it's important to learn more about this tree serve a purpose they transport water react to our climate and influence that the book.
8:11 am
came out. this speech isn't the only tree on twitter a pine tree in brandenburg also tweets to its more than one thousand five hundred fans. manner popular in the dutch town of bargaining and has almost four thousand two hundred twitter fans there. tweeting tree network is coordinated at university the trees are also put under stress tests the results help foresters understand the effects of climate change they want to know how long trees can go without water for instance. welcome ball when we consider which trees to cut down which to keep or to plant we can base our decision on which trees cut best in dry conditions and. the researchers are hoping to develop a europe wide network of tweeting trees that would help raise awareness for forest protection. shift says let trees do the talking.
8:12 am
do you want to find out more about the digital world then check out our facebook page d.w. digital. you'll find all the latest news and trends as well as interesting outside sighting gadgets and even tutorials and of course all the shift reports are there to. like us post your comments give us your opinions d.w. digital. and there's always we leave shift through the exit or internet find of the week this time tetris was. going to tetris blocks get to know each other it's similar to humans. they go out for coffee. to catch a movie. and then meet for a romantic dinner. when everything's just right the mood market closing. but sometimes things just don't fall into place
8:13 am
at least in the stories of australian filmmaker i mean rather minor. but with a little improvisation surely they can square things are. so every shade gets their happy ending. next week on shift at the beginning of twenty eighteen the polish government published a list of sex offenders online that anyone can access the culprits can be seen complete with their photos place of residence and other personal details the controversial move aims to protect children digital exposure next time on shift.
8:14 am
the book. the book. the book.
8:15 am
the. law. the book and accept from the log book of captain james cole. wednesday september the sixties we're in the utmost danger i'm sorry convinced that mr stevens chalk is incorrect and not mine returned to the northeast
8:16 am
in the belief that this was the best direction in which to clear the codes the night was dark with tsonga might mean them or a nice day dawned dangerous breakers could be seen on the coast and heavy seas swept over the four day. with the wind turning more and more in an easterly direction. we was going to be able to maintain a slight distance from the leaves what made our situation even more alone was the loss of the main topsail which was torn off we have no visible contact with the discovery which was saving some distance away to the moon and go and have mercy on us or. drainage lies on the river thames several kilometers downstream from london for centuries it has been the heart of brick you see family he was from here the great naval figures like francis drake james cook and lord nelson set out to conquer the
8:17 am
seven scenes and he had to the english crown waited impatiently for the return of its heroes. even though greenwich now lives in the shadow of the high rise blocks of canary wharf the name of his london suburb is still familiar to sail as the world over the prime meridian which divides the earth into an eastern and the western half runs through greenwich. in sixteen seventy five so christopher ran the architect to design supposed to feed will build an observatory on a hill in the south part of the park bench. the building was commissioned by king charles the first in order that the tables showing the movements of the celestial bodies and the positions of the fixed stars might be corrected with the greatest possible care and accuracy the aim being to determine lines of longer tutsi and thus to perfect the art of navigation.
8:18 am
the problem of the time lane fixing the precise position of a ship. the vast expanses of the ocean say listen been able to work out the degree of latitude ever since antiquity they simply measure the angle between the sum of the horizon but what if the horizon was moving up and down when the sun was obscured by clouds and how above all could the degree of longer be determining an. exact knowledge of the heavens it was thought to provide a solution to the long beach huge problem. the first astronomer to end a service with a king in the navy was john flamsteed night after night for more than forty years he studied the stars in the sky over grant which flamsteed recorded his
8:19 am
observations in a unique book his atlas less disease was the most precise astronomical one of his death but he too was unable to provide a definitive solution to the problem of determining wrong if you did sing. what was a captain to do on cloudy nights how could he fix his position on days when the moon was changing. the longest you problem was to puzzle the seafaring nations for almost another hundred years today the age of satellite navigation night after night a laser beam serves as a reminder of the prime meridian which is an imaginary line that circles the globe from greenwich. queen's house is the oldest building in greenwich park commissioned by queen anne of denmark the wife of james the first it was designed by inigo joe. jones is architecture brought the renesas to include the villas of undress palladio served
8:20 am
as a model when inigo jones created this building to the delight of his. mathematics and structural picture of divine harmony. in sixty eighty nine queen mary the second commissions to christopher wren to draw up plans for royal naval hospital. he architects first ross met with disapproval because the thames would no longer have been visible from queens park so rand had to go back to the drawing board the result was a building comprised of two with the space center providing a clear view of the little queen's house.
8:21 am
the motto of the royal naval hospital could have been ora at labadee pray and one loyal chapel was billed as a place where the veterans of the crown's navy might find salvation. the interior of the carriage was designed by james athenian stuart and william muta. following a five hundred seventeen seventy nine they renovated the originally baroque church in classical stuff. made by samuel greening so. seventeen pages seven the organ is regarded as the finest in the whole looking today in melody played by the musical director of the royal chapel.
8:22 am
viewed from the thames while naval hospital looks quite magnificent yet it enjoyed only moderate popularity with its resit men who spent most of their adult life in the spotted conditions that existed at sea found it hard in old age to get accustomed to the extravagant opulence of the rock architecture and certainly not from the daily round was marked by military drill and pool food as one old talking planed pillars colonnades unseen interest goes don't exactly go hand in hand with
8:23 am
pickled beef and flattery all that's been watered down to. the heart of the mabel hospital is the plaintive or sad as a dining it seats more than three hundred that is a mark of respect this served by officers. the painted hole does food justice to its name for us to cover every will make a huge hole and they will paint it by james for him to work on the room for eighteen years. he was paid six thousand six hundred eighty five pounds for his. this was not enough king george the first was not prepared to increase for children your ration and instead he raised the artist to the stock as the painted hole us against for his masterpiece and the acme of the raw katine.
8:24 am
eight hundred sixty nine the royal naval hospital was closed down veterans of her majesty's navy preferred to spend that declining years in less blended surroundings the building became the royal naval college and substance than as a training center for naval offices. but back to the problem detailing the degree of luggage you how was it finally solved. visitors will find the arms in the royal observatory at greenwich the puzzle was solved not by a physicist or
8:25 am
a ron astronomer but by an ordinary carpenter from southern england john harrison at the age of twenty two john harrison built his first chronometer he spent sixty years of his life studying how time could be measured precisely his premise was that if a navigator at sea knew the exact time in his home port then from the difference between that time and the time on board ship he could calculate the position of the vessel in degrees latitude and long it cheap. for centuries no one had been able to make a clock that measured the time accurately at sea without being influenced by fluctuations in temperature and humidity well by the ship's motion and that was john harrison's great achievement. the h. four is the size of a pocket watch and it represents the sum of harrison skills on a twelve week trial voyage in seven hundred sixty one this little corner deviated
8:26 am
from greenwich mean time by only five seconds. in eight hundred eighty four an international conference was held in washington d.c. at which forty one delegates from twenty five nations agreed to declare the line of long beach you don't which greenwich lay as the prime meridian in doing so they merely confirmed what had long become standard nautical practice because once harrison's method of determining long beach you did gain acceptance more and more cataldo flows worldwide and set the prime meridian on that chance for two hundred years scientists have sought to make navigation at sea more accurate in greenwich. and today as it has done for the last one hundred seventy years every day of thirteen hundred hours greenwich mean time a red bull slides down from the top of the observer an optical signal to all
8:27 am
captains leaving port to set the ship's chronometer. because what held true for captain james cook still applies today any navigator who wants to know the exact position of his ship at sea must first know precisely what time it is in rec.
8:28 am
pioneering philosopher and icon. caster it was. a special feature. to go. take a moment. to my.
8:29 am
emotions. and judgment which. any time plays. video never. have had the benefit of. songs to sing along to download to see this to come from soup. to. their huge courses into active exercise is hard when you don't come to slashdot on
8:30 am
facebook. geminids afraid but definitely. welcome to arts twenty one. this time around we focus on a very famous man with a beard and a vision karl marx revolutionary thinker hero of the working class and pop icon he was born two hundred years ago it would without my guess is that unimaginable head of a completely different west than our marx denounced the power of capital and lived in poverty.

54 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on