this is due to the news remember you can keep up with the latest news on our website dot com you can follow us on twitter and instant. shift special how drones are helping humans during the chrono virus pandemic and beyond. the scope of 900 pandemic has given drones moves to the unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to disinfect streets remind people of lockdown measures abstain lever food as well as other supplies. this is a promo clip from the irish start up mondo the company was set to begin testing its food delivery by drone service in march. but then came the coronavirus pandemic now modifying its drones to a small town called money gall instead we're delivering critical food supplies pharmacy products to competence at the trial and a coup. the advantage of drones for they can deliver goods to lockdown areas

without individual people having to come into contact. 70 year old fidel my gleason order bread and milk her medication is also being delivered directly toward doorstep it's absolutely fantastic and it's different by the children because i've never seen a good day that that's what happened as i wouldn't have my care and. just. a single drone can make up to $100.00 deliveries per day monist founder bobby healy says that if the government wants the start of could be delivering to $600.00 smaller towns across ireland by the end of the year. what's more he says monitoring the autonomy of drones could be a job for airline pilots currently out of work because of a chronic crisis. in supper yard it's municipal workers who are operating drones the beach town began using drones for ocean rescues to monitor forest and brush fires. now drones are also. elderly people in remote areas with medications

disinfectant and face masks the nearest pharmacy is about 2 hours away on foot. this resident says it's necessary for them to come to us where we live is remote but the distance doesn't count only the goodwill of the people. these examples show how creative individuals worldwide are using the technology to help overcome 1000 challenges. several african countries like qualified john experts to help overcome this allowing unicef i found at the african. to me are young africans can learn to build and operate. deborah getting a flying lesson. she's one of the 1st students at africa's 1st drawn academy.

deborah plans to use what she's learned during the program to help her native country malawi. there's so many things that. for me we had to do we had the designing of the jones depending on the payload. trees and it's hard to reach. being able to fly drones accurately it's important and hard to reach areas so from commuters to 5 meters over this 10 meter range. the curriculum demands a lot from the 26 students currently enrolled around half are female most and all are from africa this was one of unicef's conditions for financially supporting the academy. africa many times has been far behind in technology and we think drones are the future we want them to start their own businesses. and current business is

really building up the john industry and being more than just pilots to this and deborah and her fellow students learn to construct a pilot drones integrate them into supply chain systems and analyze drone data. grades in the face based. basically as a woman and of course do presenting. this law is not far from the academy deborah comes from humble backgrounds herself if the drone program weren't free of charge she wouldn't be able to afford it. we are finding this drill is useful to. be disease outbreaks at some point and it was a good. challenge. season by season different of them. also because of these different seasonal agricultural challenges malawi hopes drones can help protect small farmers like david george. the country is spearheaded

using drones and data in 2017 it opened the world's 1st drone testing corridor. here companies like martin carroll's employer contest they're drawn solutions. martinus testing how to supply remote villages with medicines and surveying the region to identify areas at risk and flooding. it's a hard situation because you know it's a lot of families have a lot of history in the areas that have gone up and i don't want to move at all is to be able to provide the evidence showing that you know this is prone to flooding and this is where it could happen whereas if we move to this area could be less less prone to flooding there is so far drug companies like arrow can't find enough qualified personnel in africa the academy is supposed to change that. today is a special day for debra her presentation on digital maps as part of her final exam . if everything works out she'll soon be a qualified drone pilot and technician. to

specialize in land surveying in order to help alleviate hunger and starvation in malawi she knows what it means to be poor as her own family never had much. her uncle currently lives in a slum he's proud of his niece and she visits him often. in the students in malawi interesting studies she's the future and the she is the 1st group that has shown interest in. so i can see a future for. the drone industry looks set to grow rapidly and deborah hopes to be a part of it she wants to found her own company that works with drones focused on helping those in need in malawi and beyond.

for more than 10 years. has been working on a pole to. help save people buried in rubble earthquakes often cost many human lives. in the summer of 2016 these images from central italy shocked the world the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 buried hundreds of people and destroyed entire villages. knows the pictures all too well he grew up in a region often affected by earthquakes. these events are actually shocking fortunately i was never actually affected personally it was not in the in the middle of it disaster but of course these things. personally and i always wanted to be able to actually help other people who might acknowledge. what

. the scientists dream is to develop a truly autonomy micro drone to be used in search and rescue scenarios. and yet the professor for robotics and his team have been working on this project for more than 10 years. old so the idea that we should be something there whenever there is a disaster there firefighters with the suit of action i drive today plays all these auster and it will find finds its way through the building and find also its way you know the free space within that building you can also mop the environment localize where the victims are drawing and then find its way out from the building . the design is already largely completed the small drone has been equipped with cameras that it uses to scan the surroundings an onboard computer analyzes the captured images and extracts prominent reference points to create a detailed 3 d. map. and this allows it to locate potential survivors of course the drone also

needs to reach them and that presented a problem. earthquakes can reduce everything to rubble in order to reach people trapped within a drone would have to be able to get through narrow passages and tight tunnels. solution a drone that can adapt to its surroundings by folding and reshaping itself. 4 independently rotating propellers are attached to mobile arms thanks to servo motors these can swivel around the main body allowing the drone to fold into an ocean to pass through holes. to inspect an object from up close you can turn into a t. shape and. i mean. and it can reposition its arms to be through narrow passages. and into the drone flies

autonomous li using a special software that registers points on structures and follows the multiplier. this enables the drone to constantly calculate its own exact location and speed. a training ground close to. this is where re dog the swiss society for rescue dogs trains for emergency situations. when looking for bury person or after an earthquake nothing beats a dog's nose but there are limits if a building is at risk of collapsing the mission is too dangerous for humans and animals 3 dog thinks these are situations where a drone could be useful. although the drone is foldable which is great because it can enter buildings through tiny openings and that's really important as pathways can be very small. autonomy's flying is another great feature as cable is

communications and connections often get interrupted in the rubble. we don't use his telescope cameras to look inside buildings. but these can only extend some 5 meters after that there's no way forward. there's going to be a force turned i think drones would be great as one of several tools for instance if i use the camera and realize that there's a large hollow space in that i can't go further but i need to in the drone is a great addition and. another helpful feature would be a microphone with intercom peters' that way i could communicate with somebody very far away inside a building but that would also be really important. women's wish to. discuss them with so takes these needs to heart at the moment whoever is primarily working on battery life and the drone speed. thereby that i follow it only strictly between 20

and 30 minutes that means if you want to be able to do more you need to fly fast fast but you know. there are many obstacles thought should overcome for example you need to be able to perceive prosthetics and to make good reasoning process. so at the moment of working on these 2 big problems. the robotics professor will continue researching and in a couple of years his dream of the perfect rescue drone may well be a reality. the plane and couvade 19 the passion play and obama god. told the story of christ suffering for almost 400 years the 1st staging was intended to stop

the plate and other performances followed every 10 years but the pandemic has put this year's event on ice. next. on t.w. . movies life was saved by the so called and. he's a palestinian from the gaza strip hospital in israel provided crucial medical treatment. during her is not a realistic option so he's been living for years in mass because with his grandfather. moving across the border. 45 minutes on d w. w's crime fighters are back at a clip of africa's most successful radio drama series continues all of the sodas are available online if course you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighters tune in now

. gathered. every 10 years the spotlight on a small town in the area when its residents recreate the story of christ's suffering and death half a 1000000 visitors folks into oberammergau they come from over the world but the villages don't to form the passion play just.