that hit we need something bigger and bigger and. the size people find themselves drawn to seeking out or clicking on news that's more and more horrible to from this was me i was feeling. many studies have shown that people are more likely to click on say bomb with an unpleasant stories about say a baby from a to b. to measure a baby or have to think doesn't this flood of news make us feel helpless in the face of all the evil in the world was because it's yeah. there's some truth in that . but it depends on the individual and their specific circumstances. on the impact that news will have is very individual and varies according to the person's mental and emotional framework. and the intensity the volume density and overdramatize ation if it's extreme quality the day you have scandal after scandal all of this can meld with or amplify a person's emotional or mental state in ways that can become very problematic in

that i can even tip them over into a personal crisis of design. for some people it can become difficult to keep things straight to see what's want that's what you're talking about a refugee crisis or like now the coronavirus pandemic is a some people end up struggling with a sense that things are confusing careening out of control and it's. these that can result in an intense need to reassert control. and to a feeling of do you know that the end of the world is just around the corner. that's how people end up drawn to conspiracy theories which offer a simple explanation for things in a confusing complex and maybe even inaccessible world is a complex and sometimes. problem is that i think of who to be new being bombarded with horrible news is a source of stress which isn't good for us just bad news make a sick. student hope we can boredom it depends on the individual and their own situation and mental state if it's. person isn't

a difficult or fragile condition and in crisis then an onslaught of bad news could under some circumstances serve as a trigger. make things worse but bad news just not in an office so of course illness. and influence into social media is just flooded with conspiracy theories and strange ideas what influence does that have on lonely people you mention. that it's a very very big problem i'm one of my colleagues the social psychologist fellow talks about the hollywood isolation of emotion and feeling. we don't know anymore is this homeland or is this the realism you think it's very interesting on a matter level his observations mesh with what we're seeing in studies of children and teenagers what they're describing is very similar to this can also describe to me if i could say things like it would be terrible if i actually saw something like this in real life so then they go ahead and share those horrible pictures and

videos on social media. something that even includes things like child pornography some time. one study in particular struck me when the young people were asked why they shot this material and they said i didn't think it was not. because it was virtual somehow not real even. nowadays we get most of our daily news through our smart friends hugh know holders who just want to check the latest ports message and then you get hooked on your phone because you don't want to miss anything on facebook or twitter it's called. the fear of missing out a british study has shown that young people reach for their smartphones 85 times a day on average and stare at the screens for 5 in the long term overstimulation means stress so there's an easy solution just 3 just off right now. right now but what if i would miss something well

a smartphone break is not that easy. it never stops pinging and we can't stop looking at it. then he is one of many who have trouble staying away from their smartphones. what's next fall i use my smartphone basically around the clock i often look things up when i read something somewhere i research it immediately you know i'm on whatsapp a lot and i feel compelled to open each message right away. melanie's average daily smartphone use amounts to 3 hours most of it to work your operating system tells her that on some days she's even been on for more than 4 and a half hours. that's time that her husband tivo would prefer not sharing with the phone or another message she seems as if it really bothers me in certain

situations when we're sitting together in the evening and talking or about to watch a film or when i have something specific to tell her and she just plays with her and doesn't even look at me. yes that's true that bothers me. that has prompted melanie to try an experiment she wants to reduce her smartphone use for a week and her phone will help her do it melanie turns off her notification sounds and the vibration along so she won't check it at everything. new messages won't be displayed when your screen is locked and she has set a time limit for her phone use to have her usual time after that the operating system automatically blocks or apps for the rest of the day. and blocking them requires a pin and only melanie's husband gilo knows it. good

luck. i'm definitely nervous i'm a pretty moody person and i can imagine that i'll be in a bad mood at some point. while melanie tries to kick the habit we ask an expert when. become too much concern and. in the psychology we have the phenomenon of fear of missing out cold foam and for short. and that's something that not only young people experience many older people especially in work situations have the feeling that they just running to catch up and when we get that feeling or sense that it's a source of stress that's the moment to say ok now we need to change our behavior. not everyone who is on their smartphone or large should be considered an addict but long consumption does affect most users especially their concentration. in this one

study has shown that switching between multiple tasks can lead to a 15 point drop in our i.q. value that means that if our smartphone is sitting next to us distracting us it makes us dumber because we are worse at carrying out tasks. but smartphones have become part of our daily lives many people are constantly unreachable. is a life and business coach she offers or seminars. and she believes that people shouldn't feel that they have to be permanently on call. in my coaching sessions i'm trying to show that there's another perspective a different way of seeing things the good people just are hard to reach that they can make their own rules regarding communication with clients such as i will answer your e-mails up to 5 pm or i'm not reachable by e-mail on tuesday. the idea is to get our smart. use under control we have to become less dependent on other people's

expectations melanie's experiment has come to an end she spent a week with just half her usual smartphone consumption as it was i have to say i've really cut down i suddenly had more time for other things i think the cake just like that i'd never normally have done that baking isn't really my thing. that's true and i also noticed that she had far fewer direct reactions to incoming messages of i'm good and. i really went over one hour at 1st it was the combination that it didn't vibrate so i didn't know what was coming in and. being that i knew that i only had a limited time. and see that basically after a day i didn't really miss it and realize that i don't need it i don't always have to look things that won't change anything it was good. we can leave the blocking in

place. now melanie and she though want to put their experiment into practice less time with the phone and more time with each other. he sort of how should we deal with the constant flood of news. we need to become more media savvy. and we have to learn to engage with the news and images we're exposed to in a more complex way. and. to fill. in some cases that might mean studying an issue in greater depth. also. in team and it's a quick glance and then you swipe swipe away to the next item that's not helpful. we have to do better with digital media time you. got a kid no human children and teenagers are constantly on social media how can they be taught to use it wisely yeah that's fucked into to 1st of all that has to be taught in school as a proper. subject in its own right and the competence of i need to learn how to

recognize fake news and fake images as well and if you look we know a lot about fake photos from war reporting. on to children and teenagers need to study the subject in school and in the law because it's and they need to learn how to tell the difference between what's real and what's not to defense you can be to vegas news on the media in general is created by people to big bear responsibility to their audience or the mention this comes immediately to mind is a wolf i'm faulting this b.s. a very great responsibility on line one problem is that many online articles come with an estimate of how long it takes to raise them to shuffle so people squeeze in another article and 2 minutes before going into a doctor's appointment is all rather upset and i'm sure that shows how many reports are specifically crafted to be consumed quickly that's just one z. idea of studying something and death of a sponsor or actually reading books this is the us today that seems ridiculously

old to function much more something you'd never actually just see one bit of bad news i have to communicate to you is that the show's over for today so the good news we'll be back next week and when ever you are in berlin be sure to visit the museum of communication because it's open again.

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saying of our only the fair is threatening the future of a crucial international gas pipeline. and shock at the us open as number one seed novak djokovic is disqualified after hitting a line charge with a ball. i'm jarid rate it's great to have you with us at least 100 people. you have been arrested in belo verse during a massive rally in the capital minsk on sunday hundreds of thousands defied a government warning and returned to the streets for the 4th weekend in a roy be demanding that longtime authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko stepped down last month he claimed he won an election with 80 percent of the voters but his opponents as well as many observers reject that result. a sea of dissent

flooding minsk more than 100000 protesters marched through the capital calling for an end to president of exxon to look goes nearly 3 decades long rule. this protests cannot be stopped any more there's no way back to the point of no return has already been crossed the people will go to the end to defend their constitutional rights so as not is the new legal system does not function in our country violence rules our country one man that rules our country. the month funk protests marks the biggest challenge to look at grip on power and what's been called europe's lastic tater ship. the opposition has refused to accept the result of last month's election which the president says he won with 80 percent of the vote. in from exile in neighboring list of his rivals for atlanta to call for new elections. the country's in the state of

political crisis and the only way out of this crisis is announcing another transparent and fair election. palooka show no intention of relinquishing power a visit by the russian prime minister last week seemed only to unfold in the 66 year old straw man he spent the past days warning his neighbors poland bloody lithuania and ukraine against interfering in bella bruce's internal business. rather than extending an olive branch also words have confronted the mostly peaceful protesters with sticks and tear gas and the president has unleashed banse of brass knuckles security forces on men women and children. local rights groups say at least 250 people were detained nationwide on sunday adding to the thousands arrested since the protests began. many have returned bruised and battered with

horror stories of humiliation and outright torture. but the latest protests underlined their determination to press ahead with their demands. well the demonstrations in belarus have now gone on for a full strike weekends and the number of protests is taking pot is on the rise a correspondent nick connelly is in minsk and sends us this assessment. neither story nor repeated government warnings could keep people off the streets means today coming out they did in their hundreds of thousands against one man exam to look shingo. a month off the bowlers rigged election police protest just the way i used it they getting to go week after week. day so people out with their friends their pets and even their children and these the very same people that alexander lukashenko has called runs this government defines them as prostitutes and drug addicts when you speak to them to get a sense they've lost their fear of the government instead they will often get it

laughing at a government that distributes pictures of look at cinco with an unloaded gun in full military for them is a palace but it's not as if they wouldn't have good reason to be fearful night again plainclothes policemen arresting people seemingly around them with impunity or course means. when you talk to people about their fears they tell you one thing over and over again there are just too many of us they can't put us away. and that was nick connelly in minsk well the recent poisoning of russian opposition leader alex cena valmy has raised tensions between germany and russia in a valley is being treated in badly enough to collapsing in siberia the german government says he was poisoned with the nerve agent not be charged the fair is causing doubt on the future of a strategic pipeline being built to carry russian gas to germany. construction is in the final stages yet the north stream to pipeline might never be completed because of the diplomatic storm over the poisoning of alexina valmy

because of where you know not all over 100 companies are involved in this project half of them a german backlash against the project would hurt them too for an hour or so slowly it would be wrong to assume that what's happened will not have any consequences after the. moscow denies the allegations over novell name and has hit back with its own assertions the kremlin says germany has not responded to russian requests for legal assistance but in rejects this meanwhile ukraine has joined calls for tough sanctions to be imposed on russia the often does one in the lead in we. will react with tough measures that they need months so that putin is left in a no doubt country. and many german politicians agree putin 1st understands only 2 things money and gas stream $2.00 is crucial to our future

relations with russia. the green party believes russian gas is incompatible with clean energy. it when government must find ways to exit this project all state and can be even if accepting ends up costing money and time is going cost more it all adds up to an uncertain future for a controversial pipeline. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world british prime minister boris johnson says the u.k. will pull out of talks on striking a brics deal with the european union if there's no agreement by 15 britain lift the e.u. in january though it still belongs to the blocs single market and customs union until the end of the euro. hundreds of machos have been arrested in anti-government protests in hong kong opponents are angry about next sunday's a local elections being delayed the vote will now not be held until september next

year pro-democracy demonstrations b. which began last have a saying often violent clashes between activists and security forces. the 2nd typhoon in a week is moving through east asia prompting mass evacuations typhoon. southern japan with record winds and heavy rains the storm is expected to hit south korea later on monday. u.s. president donald trump is battling a scandal that could hurt his reelection prospects multiple reports accuse him of making dismissive comments about fallen soldiers and disabled veterans sources quoted in the atlantic magazine say the president told u.s. soldiers who died in the 1st world war quote loses and soccer has trump is denied the allegations attacking the media and democrats he spent the weekend playing golf at his resort in virginia he continues to trail his democratic rival joe biden in

the polls let's go straight to washington now and speak to our correspondent there abbi couper thoughts and good to see you there abbi this story really isn't going away 1st it broke then trump attacked a fox news reporter if you corroborated it and now the owner of the magazine broke this story of trump's not happy with. yeah we've seen him attack those who criticized him or considered to be associated with back criticize them in some way and now he's lashing out at laurene powell jobs she's the majority stake owner of the atlantic as you mentioned the magazine that broke the story in this fall of the attacks that he made towards a fox reporter who corroborated the story through her own sources and certainly the coverage on fox has been you know sort of saying following the president's denials as opposed to what their own reporter was reporting but as we know there have been many doubts being cast from his supporters father say this is consistent with the

comment that he's made in the past publicly. said he didn't make the comments who's come out to defend him. i mean certainly those within his inner circle or the administration itself there has been a stream of people playing defense this weekend on his behalf as he's been on the offensive for example the veteran secretary has brushed off the story saying it's just politics treasury secretary steve the president says i mean he says that the president respects the troops and we've also seen malani a trump with a rare move getting involved by tweeting in defense of her husband but these are certainly figures that we would expect to support the president we haven't heard from former trump officials like general john kelly for example he's of course mentioned in the atlantic reports but he hasn't come out and made any statements and many say that they're not expecting him to do that against the sitting president their commander in chief ok let's talk about the coronavirus now it's the

labor day long weekend and this is where people you know you expect they have parties they get together how worried are officials about another spike in the u.s. in cases. jerad the health experts here are absolutely concerned there were surges in cases in some parts of the country after previous long weekends in may and july and now experts warn it could be even worse because schools have started to resume and there is a wider spread of infections the death toll right now sits at about 188000 people on the projections suggest it could be more than double to more than 400000 by january 1st if mask usage wanes and research has shown that less americans are wearing masks meanwhile the trump administration has suggested a vaccine could be ready soon even before election day and we've heard from kaamelott harris earlier the democratic vice presidential candidate she says she doesn't trust him on that because as we have heard from public health officials it

is unlikely that a vaccine will be ready before next year and that's our correspondent. in washington d.c. thank you abbi. well the world number one tennis player novak djokovic has been disqualified from the u.s. open the 33 year old was a favorite to win the grand slam in new york but instead the serbian hit a line judge with the bull in the 1st said against spain's pablo cut and you'll boost it appeared on intentional and djokovic immediately rushed to help the woman who dropped to the floor she later recovered but djokovic was still injected from the tournament. for more on that i'm joined by mark cargan from sports good to see him knock bring us up to speed what exactly happened here well it really looked like quite an innocuous incident he had lost last game and in the set it was a break then then and it was like he was going to lose on his 2nd set the

competition is understandably frustrated but not overly so he kind of swatted the ball away like you or i most want to we fly a restaurant but the viewers were sumit wide by some fairly awful guttural sides from off screen and it appeared it was later shown that he had actually hit the female line judge somewhere around the through area immediately went to help her. after a lengthy discussion with the much officials it was then decided that he woods he would default the match and that was it is it was over just in a flash do we know how she is this judge she is thankfully like a she go up and walk the way she seems to have she seems to have recovered to carry so ok that that's good at least look roughly on the doll and roger federer not competing this year is the joke of it was really in the clear he was the clear favorite he though he did come under fire for going ahead and deciding to compete amid the coronavirus but how much of a blow is this to him. is a major blow if you pardon the pun he was going for his 18th major obviously with

the 2 major rivals competing against them he would have gone then within one of nadal's record of 19 and within 2 a feather us all time record of 20 and he's also been a serial winner at the u.s. open you've lost one in 20 and he was looking for his 4th tournament so he would have felt that he really could have waltz to the final and everyone else in the draw and there's no no another person in there another man left in the draw that has actually won a major so it really looks like an open field but we are going to see is a new major winner so it will be exciting for tennis and a chance for the young guns to finally get a shot just quickly not running out of time but the ease it be. he had that this was an accident is disqualification to have the punishment for a joke if it does seem harsh but it's really is considered physical abuse and there's plenty of precedent and one being tim henman the former british number one from he was disqualified from wimbledon in 1905 for a similar incident he used he said use behind the u.s.

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