very tall for this for. me to. be told that is for. you support to. be told in 202250th anniversary year according to you. over a 1000000000 people in the world live with some kind of a disability and yet we've barely seem to talk about it today on made we're seeking to change the us by showcasing stories that challenge us to think afresh about an

issue that affects 15 percent of the global population and we want to zoom in specifically on one topic disability inclusion in the workplace let's be honest having a disability often means encountering obstacles in areas like social inclusion transport education and of course the world of work but barriers are made to be overcome and in our next report we'll see some spectacular examples of high technology is helping people to realize their full potential despite or even because of their disability. when humans and machines become one mind control devices are taking off. korea. is about to pilot a car in a virtual race at cybertron

a tournament for people with disabilities his team is made up of computer scientists from the university and fan talk time and. it's a new experience it's really exciting. he's also studying computer science and wants to become a games developer that has been largely paralyzed since he suffered a spinal injury in an accident when he was 15 controlling a device through opens up new doors for him this kind of technology is known as a brain computer interface or b.c. i feel sure it registers near all signals in the brain and translates them into control commands for devices but. it takes practice and concentration to be able to send motor signals that are as clear as possible and the software has to be able to filter out irrelevant signals. in this sort of thrown

event drivers have to keep their vehicles on the winding track and go as fast as they can. both just has to move his hand in his mind for his prosthetic hand to remove the way he wants it to. he's a farmer and lost his hand in a work accident. i took a lot of practice to learn to control his purse thesis. and in turn learns the move those who typically the forbes. list of eyes does not read signals in the brain but registers tiny movements in the muscles in what is left up beyond. when bubble wants to lift his hand the corresponding muscles in the arm contract and the prosthesis performs the intended movement. of the. brilliant

you just imagine opening your hand in your hand opens your margin closing it on the closes same for rotation you don't have to think much about the signal the prosthesis just does that. but can borrow a can now do a lot of their work. himself. mugging for statics are impacting a range of. people without disabilities as well. skeletal devices provide support for heavy lifting with trials underway there are brand new opportunities for the 1st this industry. we're talking to companies to get a sense of the potential market. there's a lot of scope we're talking about the auto industry railways just sticks for ship builders and many others. being able to operate all kinds of machines and devices just by thinking it would open up new horizons imagine you could put on

a robot and somebody have super powers. and what if computers really learn to read more of our minds with that even be a good thing as it is that is all along. and it was just mentioned human brain contains 86000000000 neurons linked by a sign ups. and each neuron sustains about a 1000 connections and complexity the signalling is extremely complex the signals we not only have to be registered individually but also interpreted before such technical advances could be considered. and so we're nowhere near that kind of practical application. came in 2nd in the race he's delighted and so are the team he says he hopes b.c. i will help people with paralysis in the more independent line.

having a disability is no laughing matter except well sometimes it actually is maisons aida has cerebral palsy a movement disorder that affects around 17000000 people worldwide it's a permanent condition that has no cure but that hasn't stopped her from making it and then a tory asli come petters of world of comedy. my name is maysoon zayid and i am not drunk but the doctor who delivered me wise he caught my mom 6 different times in 6 different directions suffocating poor little me in the process as a result i have cerebral palsy which means i shake all the time look. it's exhausting i'm like shake your should care of me it's my home and ali. around 17000000 people worldwide live with the cerebral palsy yet disability is often an

obstacle to finding a job. may soon be on screen and on stage in the ted talks you know his has been viewed millions of times she has shown the world how to succeed in working life with a disability i got 99 problems and polls me is just one. if there was an hour freshen olympics i would win the gold medal i'm calloused in muslim prevail i'm disabled and and live in new jersey. i imagine the acting business can be pretty brutal if you're not a tall skinny blonde woman or have times changed hollywood is about fantasy and perfection and it's very very of disabled people every time i did a scene from a glass menagerie my professors would we but i never got cast finally in my

senior year a.s.u. decided to do a show called the dance real slow in jackson it's a play about a girl with c.p. i was a girl with. observable thank god almighty i'm free at last i didn't get the part. we didn't think i could do this i said excuse me if i can't do the stunt neither can the character. people with disabilities are the largest minority in the world and we are the most underrepresented in the entertainment but also brown people another way or so in addition to the fact that i've heard more than you know. i'm also i think i'm also disabled i also over the age of 21 all of those things are i'm downfall in hollywood

but not in stand up comedy stand up comedy is where the weirdos go this time my father taught me and i walk when i was 5 years old by placing my heels on his feet and just walking another tactic that he uses he would dangle a dollar bill and front of me and have me taste it. my inner stripper was very strong and bright i know. you also teach and universities and there's a class there's called it's nice you don't want to hear what isn't nice that disabled people don't want to hear my advice for disabled people in the workforce. you have to do better than your non-disabled counterpart so sorry they're just gonna hold you to a higher standard you have to have be clear and have no fear about asking for accommodation if your disability means you can't sit for 8 hour sri up

front with your coworkers and your boss and find what works for your body to do no work for free don't let anyone to move to that exposure who are training or whatever blah blah blah they're trying to use work and have solutions so if you can't so so something that's certainly your job don't just say i can't do it say i can't do this but here are 3 different solutions for it and put everything in the e-mails don't have phone calls because later when you need to sue the beating emails one more fact that i know it's exhausting to be your own advocate at all times but no one else is going to do it for you my big break came in 2010. i was invited to be a guest on the cable news show countdown and they shuffle me and her studio and seat me on a spinning rolling chair. so i looked at the stage manager and i'm like

excuse me can i have another chair and she looked at me and she went 543. and was loaded right so i had to grip on to the anchor but i wouldn't roll off the screen during the segment. and when the interview was over i was livid i had finally gotten my chance i blew it and i knew i would never get invited back but not when we did mr wyman and bring me back he made me a full time contributor and he taped down my chair. you. muslim and you have a disability there are people out there who think these things are disadvantages you sometimes angry at the world or even jealous i am very jealous of people who are disabled or people of color i am. sick of.

with the world because i can't for the life of me comprehend how in 2025 once again some women still mean stream in that sector and that we still. 2 are killing people do live in people the color consult the color of their skin disabled already 3 times as likely as disabled counterparts the assault that has to stop we must do better my name is may soon and if i can can you can can. what a message they fayne if the is the mother of invention i'm not certainly true when it comes to making life easier for people with disabilities. 2 decades ago a ph d. student named wayne westerman was struggling to type his dissertation because of repetitive strain injury not one to give up he teamed up with

a nother developer to create a touchscreen that required far less pressure from the fingers problem solved audiobooks were a similarly simple solution for a visually impaired lovers of literature on in fact anyone who's on the able to read innovation something we all benefit from is just one upside to disability inclusion as we'll see in a moment being disabled friendly pays off financially to. need to be visibility of this event if you're not you're missing out on over $1000000000.00 customers worldwide. how i am still how. the president and c.e.o. of this ability ends lol i propped it in hours over 250 multinational grand to achieve disability inclusion and apologies i'm going to share with you how to

make your company disability inclusive in 3 steps step wise do the math. you may be thinking what was going to cost how is this going to positively impact my bottom line and d.d. says that on average accommodations are less than $500.00 companies that i wear ties disability inclusion and outperform their peers i average with things like 28 percent higher revenue 2 times the net income and 30 percent higher economic profit margins so you have to ask yourself if you want your company to be innovative because in fact many innovations were designed for and sometimes by people with disabilities.

the bottom line is that it pays to be a disability inclusive step to build the roads if you're trying to be inclusive you need tools that are includes the to everybody do your marketing materials include people with disabilities so that people with disabilities can see themselves in your marketing materials one in 59 p. . people are on the autism spectrum companies like s.a.p for example actually consciously works to include people who identify as being autistic in their workplace and as a result that made their competitors come out of the woodwork and want to learn what they're doing and now we come as a final step 3 leverage your people you need to identify a champion within your business that's going to drive this this suffered and

ideally that's a senior leader who openly identifies as being a person with a disability and in the disability community we say nothing about that without us and the other important part of leveraging your people is your employee resource group the greatest resource you have within your company are your people google how as an employee resource group for their employees with disabilities and their driving you know their driving things like hackathon a lot of what comes out of the employee resource groups actually drives the bottom line training is critical there is bias that exists in our world around people with disabilities so it's important to provide training because we want to build inclusive cultures not just where we can attract talent but we want to be

able to retain and grow talent we've got eyes to work together to tear down that bias to what are you waiting for gets started. get started is a great message but it's often easier said than done especially in the area of entrepreneurship but it is possible to succeed my colleague met a man who refused to let his physical condition stop him from running his own business. a lot of people think if you have a physical disability you have a mental disability. and they prefer not to have to engage with people like that but i sort of had my disability since i was 6. somehow it gave me strength. when people said something's impossible i'd say it's possible. it can be done watch

me do it. all to the. company he's used to navigating a construction site on crutches. when we took over the business 19 years ago i was the only one of the company with a disability. i was about 40 i spent 10 years as the company's managing director. so in general banks are cautious with people with disabilities they're concerned that if they take out a loan they won't pay it off. a lot of people i know who have similar disabilities to mine are now in wheelchairs banks tend to have dies that they'll be able to pay off a long term loan. the initial years as co no were struck will. be an intimidating boss. i used to be

a tyrant 2 of my employees. the problem was that i felt i had to assert myself. i felt i had to show my staff who was boss. to some extent i regret that. i would go around of my spirit level checking that everything was straight. if i found something that wasn't then someone paid with their job was. that's how tough i was it had a lot to do with the way i was raised since you. my parents didn't believe in me they talk about my disability they tell me i couldn't do things about it i always had to prove myself and show i could. these days his 40 employees have nothing to fear. steven malone because he became successful. he's able to admit to past mistakes i think. screwing up was an important part of the learning

experience. and admitting that i'd made a right old mess. we had a contract in 2010 and miscalculated the budget 530-0000 euro's. as a result between 20122014 we completely overhauled the company. these days the companies specialized in scaffolding solutions. hopes he's a role model for others as an entrepreneur who hasn't left a disability hold him back. tell me does mention me. i feel that people with disabilities should be more in the public eye. how often do we see any woman disability in the headlines. or on t.v. almost never. a problem to some extent they don't dare put themselves out there draw attention to themselves and say ok i have this problem but i'm smart enough to build up a business or you know. stupor has an optimistic outlook he shrugs off the discrimination

he's experienced because of his disability. it's happened yes and sometimes it was severe. but i don't dwell on it i'm over 60 now i'm noticing that i no longer remember some stuff. i can forget some of the all important stuff. here in germany nearly 3 quarters of people who are blind or seriously visually impaired don't have a chop that's a whole lot of talent that society is missing out on and our next report 3 women a physiotherapist a lawyer and a disability rights activist share they found ways to thrive in their profession in spite of what others might view as a disadvantage. let me know when it starts to hurt can you still speak.

and breathes. period i have retinitis pigmentosa is a genetic disorder and causes tunnel vision my eyesight was quite good until i was 30 or 35 i could still ride my bike. on the fox. most of my patients don't even know. when i tell them i'm legally blind they say they don't believe me. that was a quick. one can verify you can cover up a lot you become a champion in covering it up of course i've trained my coworkers to never put things in the wrong place. i get so mad if i have to spend hours hunting for something if i reach for it and it's not where it's meant to be and i have to start looking for it. i don't know my parents always supported me they never said you won't be able to do

that. but when it's very noisy very crowded and people just leech other a lot it's a challenge. i see light and dark and contours here in this hall i can make out the windows and the round lamps that look like bright patches. so i can orient myself quite well. i locate the steps with my stick. i know the courthouse building very well with all its corridors and corners. and sighted people often get lost here and can't find their way out without help. in my case given that i can't see i don't judge people by their exterior because i can't that also means i don't get distracted and remain focused on what people tell me. but that's isn't mean i'm

entirely free of preconceptions they're just a bit different blind people might not like the sound of someone's voice or the way they shake your hand. and. i'm not a living lie detector but i am pretty sensitive to what people are telling me whether it's true or whether they're lying. so let me understand what if you can't imagine a blind person can climb a flight of stands you won't believe that a visually impaired person can hold their own in the workplace. in the digital world technology is a blessing and a curse at the same time there are some websites we can use easily but far too many and not accessible.

covering. the at will tell me up front. it's just ask the bus is just arriving will know what that's done but that can be recognized by the app. it says the next one is delayed coming in 10 minutes it doesn't show the one that's just come in so i got on the. so it's been it's no more linda shy live in town because there's good public transport that lets me get around. that if self driving cars ever become available and i can afford one i might consider moving to the country i don't assume it should assume for now cause the world her eyes stare and on not know that brings us to the end of this edition of mate it's been a pleasure having you along the shore to join us again next time until then for me

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britain is the 1st country in the world to prove beyond tech finds or vaccine jumping ahead of the us and europe in the race since begin mass inoculations also coming out jail time for demanding democracy joshua long and 2 other hong kong activists will go behind bars for their role in antigovernment protests. played. thank you so much for your company everyone we begin this broadcast in the u.k. because that country has become the 1st in the world to approve the covert 900 axing jointly produced by the german company beyond tech and the u.s. drug maker pfizer well british prime minister boris johnson has hailed the authorization as fantastic news saying it will allow the british people to reclaim their lives on the backs and got the green light after just 10 months

a fast track research and development and is also awaiting approval in many more countries a trial participant is given the buy on tech pfizer coated 19 vaccine in the german city of minds he's just one of thousands who's been part of large scale clinical trials that have already proved the vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing the disease. now germany's biotech and u.s. pharma giant pfizer have been given approval for their vaccine in the u.k. making it a world 1st from early next week we will start the program of vaccinating people against the covert 19 here in this country and as we know from earlier announcements this vaccine is effective the m h r

a you have approved it splintered trees safe and we have a vaccine so it's very good news there are challenges though the vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees but the british government says its health service is prepared the vaccine which uses novel emma and a technology is still awaiting regulator e approval across the rest of the wild e.u. will 30 say it could be authorized within weeks meanwhile to other western drug companies astra zeneca and madonna have also reported trial success for their vaccines. and inoculations developed by chinese and russian researches have also shown positive results some of already been approved for american c.e.o.'s.

the u.k. was the 1st country to reach an agreement with bae on tech and pfizer for the supply of vaccines it's already ordered $40000000.00 doses with several 1000000 expected to arrive before the end of the year. well for more now on this let's bring in a doctor john campbell he is a health analyst and educator based in the u.k. a very good day sir is this the fastest vaccine ever developed for any disease and has any vaccine before secured approval this quickly. it's serious into the fastest i mean we're talking about a 10 month process here basically from when pfizer bio and tech decided they needed a vaccine up until the point today where the u.k. regulator your thought is approve the vaccine and i expect that you're looking at agent you look at mrs agency are probably going to approve this their meetings actually not your the 29th of december so there's actually a bit of a delay there so it is by far the fastest now the vaccine has actually been

approved for regulated vary by regulation bodies in other countries this is the 1st time it's gone through all of the required stages so this is going through all the normal stages that any new drug or vaccine will go through by the ha mari the year that the mess is health care health care products regulator agency and it is remarkably fast but does this not that taste stages have been missed is gone through all of the stages and i think there really is going to be a question i want you to appear medicines agency in the f.d.a. in the united states to follow suit all the data is there in the public during virtually no no they're getting all this extra information as well that's not in the public domain right i just took a look at it we just have very limited time unfortunately what a vaccine be made mandatory in the united kingdom. are absolute absolutely not there's a priority this group is going to get it was starting with the $20000.00 carriers and their staff health care or thor it is the 1st providers nurses doctors are going to be the 1st to get it this bit after that it's going to go all out to the

rest of the population the national health service actually got ways so that worked out who's getting it and as soon as they can in order of priority and the priority there is really to save life into the very people that are getting very sick people with cobol but it is for example are going to get at an earlier stage there is no it's not going to be not to train i'm not going to be mandatory what do we know about the level of the unity that this shot provides those who are to have the vaccine. well as we know yet because the data is very good looking at about 95 percent protection and as well as that flu from the studies we've got so far but enough sample size to right decisions on it's looking like no one who's had the vaccine so far as died or got very ill so it's looking like the level of immunity is good it's important to realize these 2 shots so they'll be one vaccination given then a period of $21.00 days now that the some immunity after the 1st fascination of to 7 days but then after the 2nd vaccine after $21.00 days it's going to be another 10

days after that until full immunity is realized so it's not used to this is something is going to take a few weeks for the immunity to develop and the interesting question of course is how long it's going to last that's going to be the interesting the interesting question how long the image is going to likely alone are boosted doses are going to be needed right and we won't find out until later this year or next year i mean. well what we'll find out when people start becoming really infected if they start becoming really rejected this is this is live on time or not golding story we don't really know that my personal suspicions are and this is based on the sas corroded virus one pandemic that you might remember from 2003 is that even if you could well be long lasting so i'm hoping the immunity is going to be lasting for several years even potentially longer but we certainly won't know that until next year if the booster is needed and we'll have more vaccines in a year's time that then be used as wouldn't be the end of the world right we said

well we still have to wait and see how it all at pans out would help now on the way in a form of this vaccine and lots more in the pipeline waiting to get approval do you fear that people for instance in the u.k. will let their guard down now. yes i certainly i certainly do this news is so good and there's quite a lot of euphoria around in the scientists of police and the politicians of please do you're pleased and i'm pleased but this is not going to start affecting herd immunity in significant numbers in the u.k. till march or april and the countries like germany and france where the regulations camillo more slowly there was probably talk about a cool maybe for we get significant that was a good immunity until then we're going to need to ventilate out buildings we're going to have the hands face space message needs to get through we need to consider that we're going to victim in data key problem in many levels good overwinter everything that we're doing now has to be carried on for so months until we develop a good immunity but we're going to need at least 70 percent of people to become you

before we have that kind of level so this is not an overnight fix this is approach sest that this process that started the $800000.00 doses from belgium is going to notice that you appear vaccine and now on the way to the u.k. it's been botched tested we know that but she's got to go and i suspect people in the u.k. will be being fascinated by it but if it is vaccine on sunday more monday depends when you want to start it in the next few days that astonishing astonishing what you're outlining out there and what i understand this is a turning point i'd personally just have 20 seconds left how long is the road still that we have ahead of us particularly in the u.k. where where it's been tough times well i think generally we're going to be back to normal pretty well normal by this time next year as more people get vaccinated and you seem to be safe is the data are showing i believe more people will want to get vaccinated will be a bit of a snowball effect and we're going to get very good levels of unity amuse you by next summer is going to get better with the warmer weather anyway and i think life

can be back to normal pretty well by this time next year all right health analyst a dr john campbell pleasure to talk to you sir thank you of for your time greatly appreciate that accurate. well take a look now at some other developments in the pandemic are russian president vladimir putin has ordered voluntary mass vaccination to starts next week russia says it sputnik vaccine is 92 percent effective portugal's prime minister has said securing a vaccine for all european countries will be a top priority portugal takes over the e.u.'s rotating presidency in january and germany has reported a record $487.00 deaths over 24 hours officials have been expecting deaths to trend upward following a steep rise in new infections. that's funny and now some of the other stories making headlines around the world. they united nations has reached an agreement

with ethiopia to allow aid into government controlled areas of that to get a region well tens of thousands have already fled into neighboring sudan the u.n. has been warning for weeks now about a possible humanitarian catastrophe due to the conflict between addis ababa and to guy rebel forces. he was secretary general antonio with at us has urged world leaders to make 2021 the year they commit to fighting climate change with it as it said humanity is waging war on nature in a report the un has highlighted 2021 record breaking weather and fossil fuel destruction. thailand's highest court has acquitted prime minister pray you to of an ethics breach allow him to keep his job the opposition accused him of a conflict of interest by remaining in his military residence after he retired from the army the ruling comes amid months of pro-democracy protests demanding his

resignation. a courts in hong kong has sentenced 3 leading pro-democracy activists jail for their involvement in last year's anti-government protests the longest sentence 13 and a half months was handed to joshua wang but he remains defiant vowing to continue to fight for democracy from prison. headed back to jail after his sentencing on wednesday joshua wang seen here in black pled guilty to charges which included inciting and illegal assembly fellow activists agnes challen ivan lamb also received jail terms one has been a prominent figure in hong kong's pro-democracy scene in 2014 he helped spearhead the umbrella movement for months of protests heard by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections one was front and center. everybody here has to stay alert this demonstration has been peaceful

and the police haven't bothered us much but now they have brought tear gas and plastic bullets we have to do all we can to protect ourselves. he was arrested at the age of 171 became an international political figure in 2016 he founded a new political party demo sisto aiming to define hong kong's long term future. one himself was too young to be a candidate though that didn't stop him from trying to run for office. in $29000.00 he was jailed for 2 months but went free in time to join widespread protests over a proposed new extradition law to mainland china this time around the demonstrations were much more violent wong was arrested along with thousands of others. in july 2020 things went from bad to worse for pro-democracy activists china passed

a new security law for hong kong that made wang's demos see still party illegal the party disbanded and wang went to trial for his activities in last year's protests undeterred he told the w in a recent interview he would not back down. for some boss never stop me from activism and thinking critically if it is such difficult hiring and awesome all of us were arrest this is last summer and 2000 people were prosecuted is still important for us to stay and fight. after wednesday's sentencing wang renewed his commitment to the cause he released a statement on twitter through his lawyers saying it is not the end of the fight ahead of us is another challenging battleground we are now joining the battle in prison along with many brave protesters less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for hong kong. despite his defiance one sentence will

likely keep him out of the public eye for some time to come. here washington never used to stick around of business news update is up next with robert watson will be back with work hard lines at the top of the opera not to give respondents parties or to. trust to. race against corruption that's to try to. disappoint coming from a poor family to.