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melissa chan welcome to news age and we're glad you could join us chinese scientists have announced their development of the most powerful quantum computer in the world it works 100 trillion times faster than the fastest supercomputers out there president xi jinping has said research and development in quantum science is an urgent matter of national concern and the country has invested heavily in this technology spending billions in recent years it has become a world leader in the field. to the train may not look like much but they're just now the world's most powerful computer. 20 years in the making jews yang is the brainchild of china's top scientists who are now asserting

their dominance in the race for quantum supremacy so the tools are hot dogs john has sure an outstanding quantum computational capability. for 4 months and we are planning to use it for quantum chemistry research and graph common a toric research pool and even a year for her solution of harmony she enjoyed. it comes little more than a year after google unveiled sycamore their own quantum computer. achieved an incredible breakthrough in quantum computing their machine needed seconds to perform tasks which conventional systems would require thousands of years to do the chinese team say their light based technique is 10000000000 times faster than google's. remarkable achievement it's a milestone. for a lot of mental. intermediates scale quantum computers it is still early days but

scientists hope their achievement will lead to the technology unlocking rapid advancement in encryption and pharmaceutical analysis we have demetrius and alok as a scientist with the center for quantum technologies and alex capri of the henrik foundation both are joining us from singapore and dimensions i want to start with you why does this news out of china matter. we met this because a massive and massive center figure breakthrough 1st of all and being a scientist i have to highlight that it's the 1st time are actually the 2nd time to be exact that we have a quantum computer a prototype on a computer clearly outperforming classical computers 1st and was last year in the gulag is under barbara and this is the 2nd time using a very different technology based on factors that are similar experiment has been made. now how will the use of this technology impact people's lives

dimitrius well we are we are talking about like a completely different way of computing impossible things the computer classically so although this demonstration has not achieved it's a mathematical problem the problem has been solved if you are a classical computer to do that it would take a few millions or hundreds of thousands of years further down the line we hope that quantum computing will allow us to do impossible problems at this days in biology in drug design in in financial in ways asian interrupting ways asian men and environment as well so at the moment we don't have a communication or power to tackle this very important problems that affect society in very different ways including what we're living through drug design stays there interesting i'm going to turn to alex the chinese government has funneled a lot of money into scientific research why's that. well look this is part of

a much broader techno nationalist approach to to is and seeing chinese interests when it comes to economics national security obviously geopolitics and you know this is a major priority whether we're talking about the made in china 2025 plan semiconductors of course is big quantum computing is an area obviously didn't print a lot of money into so this is a very important aspect of the of the overall trajectory that the that the chinese communist party is striving for demetrius from a scientific perspective is this china's sputnik moment there's been so much news going on i kind of feel as if this quantum development kind of got lost in law and its style the covert stuff and everything but should we be paying more attention to

this from a scientific perspective. that's a very good question will you say well it is in a sense it is in a sense and that's putting is out there it doesn't do much it's just blips but it is there again it has not the 1st by. google in the west has done it 1st and many other scientific aloud to around the world are working towards the same and demonstration of an impossible task for classical computers it will take us time before we go from this live leap that this book was doing to something like video calls right beside their lives and if i want to do the analogy to the space race but we aren't eating and already there the quantum racing the sense we in many of you can yeah yeah and one thing that i am trying to wrap my head around is just how much bigger of a quantum leap this chinese development has been compared to the google one a one of the things that i've been reading is that actually the google one wasn't really quite the you know it didn't count somehow. help us sort of get

a sense of just how much more technologically advanced this development has been. well i wouldn't say it's more technologically advanced is different this is based on fattens the google i was basis for conducting job is many different technologies at the moment we don't know their field is so early stages we don't know which one will really be the final that knowledge or that will implement one to computing. i would put it that equal footing in the sense that. we and so yes that's a step 1000 years in the rule that's kind of that the project that came on the other hand that the chinese one was not reprogrammable you cannot really adds acid the way ti's or on different algorithms except this specific problem so i would say both are equally equally exciting for the field definite from the center for excite . alex demitra says walk us through some of the applications of this technology

what is the perspective of this from someone like you who studies tech nationalism and the competition we're seeing between the u.s. and china and what is techno nationalism. well look take on nationalism essentially when nation states ascribe. of the the power and the prowess if you will of their local firms their local champions if you will to national security economic stability and strength and social stability as well so we're seeing all 3 of those in this emerging us china technology hybrid cold war. so i think you know i would i would go back to say that the you know to put this moment in historical context you know the united states soviet union i would think that the sputnik moment would be a bit more significance. you know to jump forward now to this announcement that we've just had from from the chinese i think the reverse of that is going to be

a 2nd moon shot which is really been under way right i think the united states now . and its european allies and other allies are now going to start focusing on greater emphasis on r. and d. . you know greater emphasis on public private partnerships around making progress with you know all the the you know industries that are emerging in foundational for this next this next century so i think there really is there significance in that. it will be a catalyst for that ok but i don't really i wouldn't call this you know historic moment in the context of. alex the pentagon through their research arm darpa launched a program to advance quantum computing earlier this year it feels a little bit behind the curve considering the development that we've just seen how would you assess the u.s. and china sort of technological race that we're saying alex. so so what we will see

melissa is we will see more and more r. and d. be shifted under the military industrial complex so stuff that might have been happening you know r. and d. that might even save the place exclusively companies and maybe universities and specialists to sions you will see more of that being shifted under the military got a sort of if you will. demetrius angle lockets and alex capri thank you so much for joining us. according to recent studies pakistan has the highest rate of deforestation in asia with losses of natural woodlands almost doubling in the last 2 decades experts warn that the country risks losing all its forest within the next 50 years now a new project has been launched to repair some of the lost and anyone can join the

effort. in the mountains above islamabad new forest is being sown the bulls running down on the slopes here contain pine seeds and hopes for a green a future. throw and grows both the project's name and the simple instruction for anyone taking part it's part of a push to save pakistan's forests which experts want could disappear within 50 years if action isn't taken a basic in box on this deforestation as it is becoming a huge challenge for all of us but in the recent few years there has been a lot of a very nice on the stopping the scheme is designed to be mass tree planting made easy seeds are rolled into a ball of clay an organic compost. the heart out a liar protects them from being eaten and also provides the nutrients to grow and the people on the ice abused them when the pellets get enough moisture when it rains the seeds start sprouting after 15 to 20 days. we can safely say that there's

around a 60 to 70 percent chance of the seed bowl sprouting successfully. alongside professional sewing teams hundreds of volunteers have joined in the effort in just 2 weeks more than a 1000000 seed balls have been cast around the capital with millions more to come. this is a very simple method in which you can easily plant 50 to 60 plants in the same time it would otherwise take to do just one in the traditional way it's actually thrown grown with it. but even nature needs all the help it can get seed bowls could bring about a much needed rebound in pakistan's dwindling forests. that's it for today there's always more and e.w. dot com ford slash asia and check us out on facebook or twitter we leave you with pictures of some brave swimmers in china diving into winter waters they say it

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makers are risking jail time to tell their story. and cellist yo-yo ma offers songs of comfort and hope a new album for tough times. welcome to arts and culture the battle lines been redrawn and the war over home entertainment disney announced plans to spend $16000000000.00 on streaming content about half of that on its own streaming platform disney plus where the company is set to release 10 new series from the marvel comics universe and 10 new star wars series which are sure to include disney's cutest new cash cow. if you could take a picture i know as men go over trick or treater joined now by do you know when you stole my expert scott roxboro i am he's here to tell us what this means for the

global entertainment industry scott so disney launched its disney plus platform just about a year ago it looks like they're going all in on streaming those should netflix be worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know $800.00 pound gorilla in streaming they they they have something like $200000000.00 subscribers worldwide but took them a decade to get there disney launched its disney plus service just last year they're already at 86000000 and they expect it 300000000 subscribers in the next 3 years i think they they could make it and as you say they're just pouring money into streaming i mean 10 new marvel t.v. series 10 new star wars a t.v. series basically what disney strategy is taking minor characters from their big film franchises like loki or. and vision from the avengers movies and they're making them into a spin off t.v. series basically they're hoping that. these stories these characters have a global fan base from the films they're hoping with the series they can basically

go toe to toe with netflix internationally so does that mean that disney is giving up on cinemas on the big screen no actually not i mean disney made a very clear they said last year we made 13000000000 dollars at the box office in cinemas there not to throw that business away but i think what we are going to see now is a real division that we're going to see the very very big movies the big disney movies the big marvel movies the big star wars movies those are going cinemas for the smaller stuff is probably going to go online and we might even see smaller films from studios that disney owns like like fox or searchlight pictures also go straight to straight on line ok it's got stick around because it's also the european film awards they've been handing out prizes all week and we've got a look now at some of the winners. italian period drama hidden away one european film honors for best cinematography and best costume design. the film star ileo johnno is also up for best actor for his performance

a self taught italian artist antonio would look up to have. the right turn out to be the hero of my own story whether that station will be held by anybody else is a european film award for best production design when 2 british comedy the personal history of david copperfield come until you see how if you were you very are you real dangerously she's back. for a very sorry. if this having been taken to start an appeal. conditional with. spanish so. i tried dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide won for best visual effects. it was going to be moved to the. best original score went to the

heartache soundtrack of perlin alexanderplatz a modern day update of the german classic novel. i'm back with our film dr scott rock's sky it looks like there was a great year for european cinema i'm a little embarrassed to say that i haven't seen any of these movies yeah but of course stuff the barest obviously we have locked down across most of europe and that's case in most the world so a lot of these films never even made it into indiscernible because cinemas were shut which is actually why the european film awards are extremely important this year because this is a chance to really shine a light on on some of these movies that maybe got maybe got overlooked and as you say it's been a great great year for european cinema 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but there are the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday night germany already has one you know affair with berlin i'm excited about any chance of another yeah i think the

best chance for jimmy to win another is in the best actress category because you got 2 german actions nominee 2 of my favorite german actresses i think either could win you've got nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famous theater actor lars i think and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope last wins for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress. and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director kristen petzold both these are 2 incredible performances and i would want to pick between them ok what's your pick for best film best film i mean i think we talked about this early in the week another round the dana. a dramedy i love it's about 4 high school teachers in mid-life crisis and the side to sort of get through it by getting really into day drinking where it's a little areas a movie it stars mads mikkelsen. it's also not just

a comedy though it's quite a touching life affirming film i love this movie my favorite movie of the year competition particular from a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest convict who a person needs a priest and so gets involved with small town spiritual community also great films already nominated for an oscar this year so maybe that's the big competition but i'll definitely be pulling for another round to we had best ok scott rocks for us thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film effect meaning what's the movie was released online this thursday for human rights day that's because the country's censors won't allow it to be shown in cinemas nigeria has one of the world's biggest film industries known as nollywood it also has laws that punish homosexuality with up to 14 years in prison.

or less but. this is the path. if a tells the story of 2 women who fall in love in nigeria a country where same sex relationships are illegal in the past nollywood has often depicted queer characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the filmmakers say their film portrays normal life for a sizable percentage of the nigerian population i feel like for a very long time we've been told one sided story and the story is not complete if it does not represent all the groups in the society so what i wanted and threw us until the full story by representing l.g.b. 3 people in 1000. production had to take place in secret the film's director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality and indeed thora these have threatened legal action in nigeria it's not accepted and so

doing something like that puts you where you feel like it's not it's not the norm but but but i don't feel that it's bold i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my it's a big life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers have opted to have released on a streaming platform to ensure it can be seen by people within nigeria as well as. more arts and culture headlines now and hold onto your mask the elusive street artist banksy confirmed on instagram that he is the creator of this rather graph. public health warning the painting appeared a few days on vale street england's steepest road in bristol reminding us that coded safety measures are nothing to sneeze at. but they were swift dropped her 2nd surprise album of 2020 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping record folklore which came out just 5 months ago the 1st video from the new album had millions of you tube hits within hours. lucky her

well the world's most famous cellist yo-yo ma has also been keeping busy during the pandemic he's got a new album together with pianist katherine stott it's called songs of comfort and something a lot of us can use here's a preview of the album starting with somewhere over the rainbow. this is. all. through. tough times and you know we've lost people who are who are pushing through and leading their

strenuous life and and. and for the longest time not knowing whether there's light at the end of the tunnel. boring with. all of these songs have i think specific meaning for people in different places and since this is you know a worldwide epidemic and and it's one of the few things that actually. all at once are joining us together you know i mean in a horrible way but we're all kind of faced with the same issues right and and so we

think music kind of could do that at various times also and we're hoping that this is sort of like you know a way reaching into people's hearts and memories. early on. i think when i think of the words. over the rainbow it's like it kills me you know. it's like it's completely birthed you know if you care why can't i you know it's a. it's just it just kills me and 2nd every time we play it you know we're sort of . missed you know either.

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