mr and thanks for coming in and as paul thanks for standing by for us in wisconsin you have been watching our special coverage of the 1st presidential debate this is day 8 of the news thank you very much for watching. what's going on here. a house of your very own from a printer. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. shift explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds. yet living in the digital world shift. on d w. w's crime fighters are back to that africa's most successful

radio drama series continues in the only disowns are available online and of course you can share and discuss on p.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms to crime fighter to me and now. germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary of reunification in 1900 west germany and east germany reunited to become one nation what was it like join us in a shift today to take a virtual journey through time. this is what the building walls look like and breach of stone obstacle on the close god dividing the city for most citizens of the g.d. are leaving the country for west germany was not possible you had to go. to extreme

lengths to flee like digging underground tunnels using virtual reality it's now possible to experience what it was like when people try to escape and on from khosla got to experience what it was like for his grandfather who dug a tunnel underneath the berlin wall. this man in this picture is tells measure from cause that he's my grandfather and in this picture you see him building a tunnel under the burden wall losing of your goggles and on coast and social historian am at that period of time traveling back to the year 964 for the you tube show virtually history. that tenzin is either he has a plan. is just a few years now but younger is this weird it's like 3 months traveling in time in $964.00 close michael vaughan koestler and some friends dug a tunnel from west berlin to east berlin and they wanted to help people to feel the

g.d.r. it took them 6 months of digging in secret to complete untangle experienced a tunnel in virtual space 12 meters deep 445 meters long the young tunnel builder from back then is now a pensioner when close michael vaughan coarsely sees the virtual video of the berlin wall and tunnel it brings back memories from legion 64. this. way an exhausting. especially on the knees are always covered in scratches and then to move or. sometimes we had to lie down and land today in constant fear of the tunnel to lapsing park dish off to cope with the spite of the risks the plan works out $57000000.00 women and children were able to flee using the term which is a place in the history books. no the famous story was the muffin family's

a skate through a house that stood directly to parents this could also be relived you tube's virtually history. at a. time i had offers virtual posters exploring east berlin when it was still part of the g.d.r. the bus passes by buildings that no longer exists today which is interesting to locals. travelling through checkpoint charlie the border crossing point between east and west is particularly interesting. we already have the i think the most frequently asked question is actually where is the wall. and it's of course an enormous responsibility to present and to make this experience relive a ball. but it's also a chance to encourage people to think about what things are like them and what lessons we can learn from. them but also it's an impressive images today it really

does look very different. as a scholar of cultural studies at the university in berlin and king's college in london she looks at the ways in which we are can make history more vivid we ask how effective technologies like virtual reality truly are in bringing history back to life i think these formats work really well and considering how they are becoming more common for personal use it makes sense to use them for educational purposes but it's important to have people there for support and supervision. that's the disadvantage is that virtual reality is designed to completely envelop and recreate an intensely emotional situation. this can quickly taking on a position that can be quite problematic especially in historical. is a very emotional experience perhaps it's too emotional of an experience to be used to teach history objectively luckily there's another way to time travel games in

the adventure game the berlin wall players have flee the g.d.r. the developers of the game hope that it can help educate young people about what life was like in the to tell a tarion state now when exactly was this wall that's probably the most frequently asked tourist question. a are can help with. this back complete with border patrols tanks and watch towers. using augmented reality technology. displays that virtually on your smartphone or tablet. you can even jump through the decades and see how the border. was transformed from a barbed wire fence into a concrete wall is this. the most fascinating moment for me is when you put your phone aside and you still have this lingering impression that the objects are still

there and that is connecting history to reality in a way that's impossible to do with a book or a movie. the berlin wall was located just a 10 minute walk from our studio here obviously test the b.f. already it's pretty interesting but i'm not fully convinced yet even though it provides spatial imagination of the was bought a during a different historical period i'm sticking with photographs of course there's more to the g.d.r. than the wall citizens don't like having their lives reduced to that if you would like to take a more personal look at everyday life in the g.d.r. the project open memory box might be for you a german argentinian filmmaker and a committee. political scientists got together to archive and digitalize home movies recorded from 947 to 990 and now publicly available it's their contribution to a more comprehensive understanding of life and the g.d.r. . life in the g.d.r.

8 millimeter film personal memories spending 4 decades 7 years ago lawrence befalls and herskovitz made an appeal in the newspaper for 8 millimeter film was shot during the g.d.r. they never thought that they would be able to collect more than $2200.00 rolls. 415 hours of film has now been digitalized archived and published on the open memory box website you can filter your search date and let yourself drift through the. selected terms and freedom hubby or yellow to see 2 2nd film snippets repeatedly recombined randomly. and these 2 seconds are losing many stories in themselves that's something that digital technology allows. if you look at the clips one after the other it changes. and it looks a little bit different has a different effect and. these

are videos that people innocently shot for themselves or their family. and this is . and that's the big difference compared to our behavior today of course. we also film our surroundings our children the food we and the places we travel to. but the difference is that we're also always aware that we might post or share these videos . whereas this material on the other hand was never intended to be shared widely. but falls into this give its visited the people who need or filmed. in the videos. they were then asked to comment on the. march sometimes at night i would dream of going to west been to see what it was. open memory box and more personal and unique glimpse of life in the g.d.r.

and what's offered in history books what a great project but for some memories of live in the g.d.r. less pleasant the ministry of state security or stasi spied on its own citizens when it became apparent that the d.d.r. was and they they tore up the star the records but not completely 600000000 scraps of paper were left. now artificial intelligence can help to reassemble them. the computer is doing this puzzle using the scanned fragments of torn stasi records 600000000 little pieces are stored in the archive and then you fraction of them have been digitalized it would take centuries for humans to complete this puzzle and that's why the puzzle was invented. and the holes for the size of the fragments was a very special challenge there was for example and a 4 piece which was torn into a $143.00 pieces and the e.

puzzler was able to handle this challenge really. is the creator of the. set in machine vision at the institute for engineering design in berlin since the eighty's it's a technology that enables confuses to recognize and identify objects even without a template. vision is necessary because there are many visual processes were human beings are unable to tell you. her mission like medical actually images for example and then we can see in the machines a faster and more effective than humans in processing large amounts of. pieces and complex shapes like the. first the software analyzes the tone and each piece memorizing content paper type these. priests or

their self learning algorithm reassembles those places that have been identified as belonging to gether. 23 bags filled with paper scraps was the 1st they had to be digital that's arranged 700000 pieces for the search algorithm was able to reassemble the problem even though the software was working the scan it turned out to lack the necessary precision. that would enable greater precision but they couldn't get the necessary funding. even though they knew. the technology is being used around the world today a program very similar to that is being used to put fragments back together that we've destroyed like these from the 19. community center. or these books and documents from the cologne city which collapsed in 2000.

there are still thousands of bags full of shredded secrets in the stasi documents archives waiting for a machine to put them back together again finding the right puzzle piece from 600000000 little pieces it's impressive what i can do to me projects like time right make history more tangible i also remember more details what do you think which project impressed you the most and what time period would you like to travel back to. on facebook or d w dot com and don't forget to have a look at our you tube channel where there's a lot more on. that's it for today thank you and so you saw.

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bases data of any news live from birthday and sparks fly of the 1st u.s. presidential showdown donald trump and joe biden clashed almost nonstop in a fiery 90 minute debate even the moderator had trouble keeping the discussion under control also coming up. another grim milestone in the corona virus pandemic the global death toll surpasses 1000000 shattering lives and livelihoods in nearly 200 countries and. no let up in the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed terry territory and

they're going to care about the 2 countries rejects calls for peace talks as the conflict threatens to escalate into all out. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump and his democratic challenger who faced off in the 1st of 3 debates ahead of the election on november 3rd trump dismissed a recent report in the new york times about his tax payments insisting he paid millions in taxes biden said he would repeal trump's attack tax cuts and blame the president for the more than 200000 coronavirus deaths in the u.s. both men hoping their performances will energize their election campaigns recent polls have shown biden with a lead in most battleground states. well to talk

more about this i'm joined by david stacy bivins in the studio and our washington bureau chief in is paul who's been watching the debate a republican supporter viewing party in milwaukee wisconsin but stacey i would like to start with you what will the cain take away from this debate what stood out to you ok well as we were talking earlier it was a little bit chaotic it was like herding cats chris wallace tried his best to be balanced and professional but these 2 men just kept talking over each other and this was like a main strategy i believe for donald trump as soon as done joe biden started to gain momentum which is interject and kind of throw him off balance joe biden was a little bit low energy today anyway feel like he was able he had some genuine moments where he was able to connect with the american voter and look into the camera and talk to them directly and i think that that was good i think that if you're a truck voter you thought wow he's really tough and he's handling things and if

you're a biden supporter you thought he was a little low energy but he said a lot of important things that matter to regular american people or i am is you were following this debate at a republican viewing party how how was it received by supporters there. well they applauded him a lot of kind of like to do when he bullied over joe biden to avoid and had some problems and really kind of get his thoughts together and this is when he was really loft it's here. trump watch party in milwaukee wisconsin but rebecca and stacey also talked to some people here who told us they came here and still were a little undecided but they just were not convinced about the energy joe biden put out was because they were hoping you know for some decent political plans but there

was no such thing at all neither from trump nor from biden but i think biden would have needed that to convince undecided voters that he has something to offer different attacking trump on a personal level and he wasn't really able to bring that across you know bind and wanted to press trump on his handling of the coronavirus which is a cain topic discussed at the debate about the president pushed back take a look but i'll tell you joe you could never have done the job that we did you don't have it in your blood you could have never done that you know i know how to do the job i know how to get the job we didn't do very well in swine flu h one n one you were a disaster your own. $14000.00 people died not 200000 there with their economic recession or you made a dollar is no you made a point and there was no one no we didn't shut down the economy this is his economy speech he shut down. trump saying that fine couldn't have done what he did on cove

but analysts. say what he would have done differently on the coronavirus. well that's a problem there were many kind of topics where he really could have very he would have had the chance to present a plan but he missed these opportunities and this is something at least here in milwaukee the strong watch party which people were really aware of that there is was no substance really offered and one has to be fair with joe biden president trump always interrupted him and that obviously he didn't have the energy to really fight that so he might have had some abuse but he wasn't really able to present them tonight at this 1st debate trump certainly was very combative in the debate that's for sure now the debate also touched on racial tensions and violence in the

u.s. another really important topic here's a little bit of that exchange would say almost everything i see is from the left wing not from the right you know what do you want to do on what do you say and i'm willing to do anything i want to. do it safely. you want to call him what you want to call him give me a name give me what your programs are so nobody can do outgrow son right probably by orders still stand by but i'll tell you what i'll tell you what somebody has got to do something about the left because this is not a right. to love your art director. and teachers in our do not an organiser you get it not you got your heroes tonight here are. our directors we're going to you know know that we're. going to going to grant you that you are his generation and i did hear you say that moment with the moderator really trying to kind of get his word in edgeways it was very bad the

whole time. how did the 2 just going off the back of that little bit that we've just played how did the 2 go on rice i think that donald trump proved to be what he's been doing the entire time to be the president of the red states and not of all of the united states when he looks at these protesters and lumps them all with and teeth and and and also and turns the protest into something that's a violent which most of the protests have not then and then he said there was a problem from the left and not from a from the from the left and i from the right it's a problem it shows a prejudice and joe biden talked about if he were to win getting all sides together activists police to talk about how to move forward how to reimagine police donald trump doesn't seem to care about that and then we went on to talk about. the training for and the government about racial sensitivity and donald trump said that this is racism and they were teaching people to hate the country and joe biden said

no we're talking about. letting people know that there are that there are biases and that they're probably not even aware of the biases that we have so there's 2 different views of of approaching race and donald trump is on the. side of history with this one i just have to say all right there's 2 more debates to go what do you think 2 men and there's also your opinion as well what do you think the 2 men need to do in the next debates well i think that joe biden just needs to be better he just needs to have more energy and one of the debates coming up as more of a town hall well he'll get to connect with people and that's where he's his strongest and we saw a little bit of that tonight where he looked in the cameras like how are you doing the american people what's on your mind and i think those are the moments for him where he's strongest and it is just quickly before we wrap up do you think that trump's aggressive approach will work in the next 2 debates.

yes i think because you know joe biden really hard to find a strategy when you have the personality is joe biden has i think. from point change she was very successful at this this is the feeling what we have fewer than the trump supporters that's what you need. i. can imagine any way joe biden is able to find a way to really fight this aggressive very personal way to attack oh i will have to wait and see as paul in milwaukee and stacey evans in the studio with me thanks very much for. i want to take a issues in tonight's debate was the coronavirus pandemic it was it has reached a grim milestone with more than a 1000000 lives lost worldwide and many regions including the u.s. and europe are bracing for another surge in infections covenanting has quickly become one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases the virus has spread to at least $188.00 countries and fatalities have been rising at

a faster pace since last month public health experts say the crisis is far from over. the german chancellor angela merkel has announced new measures in response to local spikes in covert 19 infections she vowed to avoid a full national lockdown instead and on saying what she called a hotspot strategy after a meeting with the ladies of germany's 16 federal states. american met with german state leaders for 3 hours to dress disagreements about whether measures to curb the spread of coronavirus should be ratcheted up the outcome they will be. if you allowed his open we've learned a lot we got through this summer pretty well but we know that more difficult times lie ahead in the fall and winter months with. busy man we are seeing a progressive rise in infection rates partly in densely populated areas and if you see it. parties appear to be

a significant infection source one party in bielefeld was altered in hundreds of people being tested nearly $1000.00 were quarantined and schools closed the leaders agreed that the size of parties will now be limited. every increase should mean more masks less alcohol and smaller parties everyone managed to be on one thing no one wants to reimpose the measures seen at the beginning of the pandemic. and what we want to avoid a lockdown of the kind we all went through in march so that schools can no gardens and places of work can stay open and we intervene only where infections are occurring. it peels were made to the people to regularly air out rooms and avoid travel to higher risk countries but no announcement was made on how some of these measures will be policed. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world french president emmanuel michel has said on

a visit to lithuania that he would help radiate in the political crisis in belarus back home met with belarus in opposition latest taken osca was seen as a major show of support for the activist. firefighters have been battling to contain wildfires tearing through northern california's wine country since the weekend extremely dry conditions have led to the rapid spread of the blaze in napa valley and the of the city of santa rosa nearly 70000 residents have been forced to evacuate. tensions are flaring over the disputed region of nagorno karabakh with both armenian and as a vision the forces accusing each other of attacks on their territory i mean it claims turkey has shot down one of its warplanes which the turkish president and his as a vision the allies deny violence in recent days has been has been the region's worst in decades. as a vision and armenia have rejected calls for peace talks. these scenes have put the

international community on edge but for the residents of both armenia and azerbaijan they have been a long time coming. also was a little the as i by johnny ami will win this war and we will return to our historical lands. as. the jury is out as if my country needs me as a soldier i am ready even at my age and of course we are afraid of a long war but the civilian population and the military must be ready for it. it is better to be free later men to continue this false peace. the focus of the fighting is that a goal in a car back region the dispute itself is decades old beginning of the early 1990 s. when the ethnically armenian region declared independence from us a by shaan that independence has never been recognized by the international community which is urging for calm from both sides. the secretary general strongly

called on the sidestreet mediately stop fighting deescalate tension and return it to meaningful negotiations without preconditions or delay world leaders fear the fighting could lead to full scale conflict which destabilizes the south caucasus region a kargil for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets regional players like russia and turkey also at risk of becoming him broiled in the conflict and escalating it further. and that is that today we are at the side of our azerbaijani brother and in the defense of the homeland mania must immediately cease its attacks and send back the mercenaries that have brought from abroad to one of the dozens of people have been killed so far including civilians and hundreds more wounded at the request of germany and france the un security council is expected to hold emergency talks on choose day but with both sides accusing the other of starting the battle

and of continuing to use heavy artillery acquitting claim break from the violence seems unlikely. you're watching daytime t.v. news from fallon will have more headlines for you have a top of the hour until then stay up to date on our web site at state every dot com i'm rebecca written thanks for watching. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. coated 19 special next on d w.