going to tyler going to measure the lungs activity during coughing and laughing for example reveals how much pressure can be exerted with the lungs on and when dozens are signal processing algorithms measure these things and missing kernan when done in a cut legal are submitting audio samples that we are using to train our ai we also ask them if they've tested positive or negative and if they have any symptoms you might even to as and. when artificial ventilation is required for patients with severe respiratory disease the risks are high the ventilation can itself damage the lungs driving up the death rate. a start up in munich has developed ai software meant to increase the survival rate it creates a digital model of the patient's lungs digital twin and simulates the airflow in the lungs it can then fine tune the pressure of the ventilator should apply to each patient. the arts can piece here and if you don't move i'm sure until now doctors

weren't able to see inside the lungs they only saw from the outside how much pressure the ventilator was applying to the trachea. with our technology doctors can really look inside and see what happens with the air and the longs where it goes and where it over stretches the long tissue but you know and what's more since it's a digital tool it can be tried out on each patient's a digital twin without causing any harm for sure for it's applied to the real patient we all. want to put into the patents of. the software has yet to be licensed for medical use the company aims to bring it to market by 2023 the hopefully by then covert 19 will be history. well let's hope so even with ai playing a bigger role in medicine the number one question for many of us is how will it impact my job will i even have one in the future now. the organization for economic

cooperation and development says that in 2910 percent of all the jobs in the united states where under serious threat due to automation in japan it was 15 percent in germany more than 18 percent mainly because of the country's dependence on industrial manufacturing and that trend is expected to increase even in jobs that require very human trademarks like creativity compassion or the right contacts. artificial intelligence still my job as a journalist it can already write simple texts. as a journalist i'm worried because artificial intelligence can do so much in the way of processing information and generating texts to be concerned. i don't think we'll see much impact on journalism but be a useful research so maybe you can help you make

a film with the right music more quickly things like that and. having said that ai systems are already used in so-called robot journalism but only in very limited areas. because it's. keeps on getting better all the time and more creative if i understand correctly perhaps my job isn't all that safe creativity is relative machine learning is good at repeating what's been done in the past and looks at data and sees what happens and what situations these kinds of customers buy these shoes this sentence is translated like this creativity often means doing something new that's not been done before. but simple office jobs could disappear in the foreseeable future. this could.

say it's often said that people who already work like a robot are most likely to be replaced by one and it's true about a dozen subsidies to have all i do is transfer numbers from one spreadsheet to another and press send obviously that can be automated with the what does the fed come dozens for this cloud. with some job interviews on the phone it's already a computer asking the question who's. considered again ai is not always objective because it's fed by people it can sometimes end up being subjective is a big deal from and. some say that once computers take over everything will be rational logical does is that's wrong is that humans have a highly specialized gut feeling and computers will keep doing things the same way and assuming it's correct doesn't it but if things have been consistently wrong for example squarely inviting women to job interviews because they i will continue to

invite more men than women we have also without this place and i. yes and it is there a technical solution for that a filter that prevents ai from being biased escape detection technology exists that can do that and if this is then that you can build a system with whatever rules you like it in a league and country you can tell it to invite 50 percent men 50 percent women to interview people and. the problem is it's incredibly hard to write rules for real life situations and processes because they're often extremely complex complex. systems can recognize faces and estimate someone's age they're being deployed in a growing number of carriers and are getting better and better at the 1st what about the fear that with ai computers will eventually become conscious and she's

control can we rule that out well. self-styled philosophers of technology like to make scary predictions and publish dire warnings in the press about what's going to happen often sides of this but some are journalists who just want to make a splash of all in order for elon musk also he's a good example is if he invests in ai and also issues warnings because he wants to be in the limelight you have to consider what these people aim to achieve to get this not of course there might be a tiny chance this technology could save on such systems but i think it's a tiny chance and i can't imagine how it would work. looks like the people in charge here will continue to retain oversight and responsibility for decision making now with about one 3rd of office workers around the globe now doing their job from home keeping tabs on them has become a challenge special software 7 lets managers monitor those in their home offices it

is a practice that might be useful but is also highly controversial. some people find working at home a real treat. the boss is nowhere in sight the pressure is off. you can briefly check what's coming up then read the morning paper in peace. in fact why even bother getting up. but not all bosses take such a relaxed view with staff assembled in the office back in the prepared demick days management could keep closer tabs on who does what how well and how fast. around 30 percent of office workers worldwide now work from home. artificial intelligence to the rescue from the management perspective that is. there is no software available that can remotely measure performance using data such as the length of phone calls

who says what as well as keyboard and mouse activity. some companies take screenshots of employees computers at home or even film their employees. that's banned in germany but in some countries this kind of surveillance is flourishing i asked a global trade union federation what they make of this development. workers are used to being monitored to something stand and levels of productivity or at least a daily report on what they do you get some of the monitoring systems are so intrusive and so disrespectful of any autonomy that people are. very very offended it really depends how the company implements it whether the workers have any say. a big issue for labor organizations is that people should know what kind of data their employers intend to collect and are able to provide or deny their consent.

transparent business is a us company that develops solutions for remote work force management one of its programs let's companies keep track of progress in their various projects who has done what they mean associated costs. and its own work force in our data on what they do each day themselves the concept is the brainchild of sylvia seen here in a promotional film it was developed for use in a marketing agency she launched now it sells to companies worldwide and. you want to run every mile you need the challenge you get that. so even if you manage there are even more efficiently and then we decided that you didn't make sense but i hope this is because when you have a go at the more you are. so that they know that she was a game changer. that it was like suddenly. shifting from. playing. with remote working becoming the new norm man for monitoring

software has soared since the pandemic struck transparent business is also a kind of employment agency helping companies find better professionals from a worldwide pool of experts. both these activities use a i. ever seen relation a day that could be held in their missions because for example we use my finger. on this fersen as that right when it comes to microwave it person that is wanting to cry or someone like that. i actually can't wait to get back to the office but i know many others who. want to stay at home or will be required to. and software that gives our bosses remote control over operations is set to play an increasingly important role. and who would have thought that we'd actually miss those days at

the office right that's our show for this week thanks for watching from me and the entire i'm a team bye bye stay healthy and c.s. .

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is deed of unions live from berlin every truckers confront police after days of waiting at british ports friends lists what kate but says drivers must as they get it for corona virus before crossing the channel also on the program. one of turkey's most high profile journalists is sentenced to 27 years in jail. was here in berlin when the court convicted him on charges of espionage and eating a terror group will bring you his reaction to that guilty verdict and. take resizes like laxative because quote meet up with

a reason they've no more and still my case there is anything. to be in lago search area or traders are struggling with the effects of the pendennis. i'm aaron tilton welcome to the program german airline lufthansa has flown e.-t. tons of food and produce into the u.k. after ground transport was halted due to concerns about spreading a new coronavirus variant france has reopened its border to freight traffic entering from britain and trucks have started boarding ferries at the port of dover but thousands of truckers are still stuck at ferry terminals because they can only cross the channel with a negative coronavirus test and many say they've already waited too long. knowledge not. always mean the. frustration and anger in dover as truck

drivers are furious at that delay in getting back to europe. some drivers are transporting cargo but all of them simply want to get home for the holidays if they're stuck on the english coast could be any of the last 4 nights you didn't see nobody even if you wanted it obviously in the nothing putting in of all of that you people have been displaced not we have no food we have no water yesterday. or got food but it was just there. and we don't know when we. can get home we have to day 15 here and then now they say us don't have. the way. yet boccardi. is blocked

a cab one way here. meanwhile the lines of trucks stretch for many many kilometers. the drivers will be eventually allowed to cross but only after testing negative for cold feet 19. the army has been called in to help with the tests at a lorry park on a disused airfield near dover. the blockade doesn't just hurt drivers one 5th of all good spawn for britain pass through dover supermarkets warned of shortages of basic goods if the port remained closed. until joins us from london with more on this story so as we saw there in the report a lot of frustration among drivers what are you hearing about the situation for them on the ground. and while i was at the poor yesterday and there was a huge amount of frustration anger heartbreak among the drivers of the idea that

they could be facing days that many of them most of than facts likely to miss christmas with their families and you have to think now that it's nights marks the 4th day that many of them will be queued up on the side of the most the way we've been hearing reports of the many saying that they are they don't have enough food to the toilet facilities are extremely limited that hygiene facilities showers for example also limited old extremely different difficult things in the best of times but during a pandemic obviously not ideal for those drivers and they are still facing we heard from the government today potentially days of waiting as the current of our math tests gets underway there are thousands of drivers that will need to be tested and of course that is a huge logistical challenge for the government and not one that can happen quickly so it sounds like we're going to be looking at supply chains break down stretching over the next couple of days is that affecting british supermarkets.

well that has been a warning for several days that now that could become an issue for see for markets now that the question has surrounded fresh produce the u.k. has been stocking up on other projects partly because of christmas partly because of the warnings about what could happen in the event of a new. produce is available but it is the stuff we're talking fruits and vegetables the stuff that expires quickly that mine all make it across that they are the concerns now passing i've not seen any. in the seed markets that i've been to over the last couple of days but there are certainly images on social media swelling of shows that is now just a day of towns a cargo flight has been charted to drop some pretty. case so there are contingency plans that have been enacted have but of course it's a huge concern that if this dawns drags on for days then it could see those shortages really materializing after christmas well you said the magic word there

bracks that people must really be wondering if these scenes will be repeated when britain makes its final exit from the un just over a week has there been any progress on a trade deal we're hearing just to ny are in the negotiators and now in the end game all of those breaks it talks too soon to say white smoke but there are certainly sources on both science and the european union and the u.k. who say a deal could be near certainly what many people have hoped for no less the negotiators themselves who certainly want to try and get a deal done on this side of christmas so there are indeed hopes that when the public on both sides of the channel wake up in the morning we could see some progress on whether or not there has been that crucial trade deal just days now until the end of the transition period before the end of the transition period on december 31st all right charlotte thanks for joining us tonight. here's

a look at some more developments in this pandemic drug maker biotech and pfizer are to supply the united states with an extra 100000000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine the u.s. government hopes to immunize 20000000 people this month meanwhile canada has followed the u.s. by approving the moderna covert $1000.00 vaccine 2 weeks after giving the go ahead to the buy on tech pfizer shot and the united arab emirates highest islamic authority has ruled that vaccines are acceptable even if they contain pork gelatin there were fears that some muslims might avoid the shot because pigs are considered unclean of course in istanbul his sentence one of turkey's best known journalists to 27 years in jail on spine and terrorism charges the case against. centered on an article he wrote that exposed alleged government wrongdoing and angered turkey's president mr dunbar fled to germany 4 years ago and is unlikely to serve any more jail time computers for press freedom say the sentence in

a chilling message to turkish journalists. jondo and lawyers boycotted the trial and his stamp saying it was politically motivated and the verdict had already been decided in advance. the decision was handed down without them present 27 years and 6 months in prison for one of turkey's best known journalists. don't dars article and photos in the come hurry it newspaper in 2015 claim to show that turkey was supplying weapons to islamist groups in syria. are and the paper were charged with betraying state secrets the charges were expanded to include espionage and supporting terrorism president recha tyro one called the journalist a traitor and an agent. of the 59 year old has been living in exile in berlin for the last 4 years the campaign group reporters without borders

condemned the proceedings as a farce to end our will now go on trial again along with other journalists in a separate case. earlier we spoke with john and asked whether he was surprised by the verdict unfortunately not surprising because from the beginning it was the kind of bench. government. me. it was probably think through. to give the most. possible price for this new story which was a true story. so they wanted to punish me because of this true story and at the same time try to intimidate the other journalists into its you who dared to touch that kind of says the issues let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. a russian court has

given a 2 year suspended sentence to opposition activists. for violating rules on public gatherings a moscow councillor held rallies against recent constitutional reforms the benefit president vladimir putin lawyers said the sentences designed to prevent her from running for parliament. outgoing u.s. president donald trump has issued another set of pardons they include charles push for the father of his son in law charles push for had spent 2 years in prison for tax evasion and other charges from also pardon his former campaign chairman paul man a ford as well as his longtime confidant roberts a roger stone. trump is also a major military spending bill which had been passed by a large majority of republicans and democrats in congress mr trump had previously criticized the $740000000000.00 national defense authorization act saying it would benefit china congress could now move to overturn the veto

officials in bosnia have blamed migrants for setting fire to a former camp just after it was closed because of a lack of winter facilities no injuries have been reported the u.n. has criticised bosnia for failing to find suitable winter accommodation for thousands of migrants. gunmen have killed more than $100.00 people in an attack in ethiopia's western benson go ms region that's according to state run human rights commission the identity of the attackers is unknown it's the latest episode of unrest in ethiopia following a deadly conflict in. christmas holiday celebrations in much of africa have been dampened by the coronavirus pandemic many countries are seen covert 1000 infection rates rise forcing governments to impose restrictions on gathering d.w. has this report from laos nigeria where the economic fallout of the pandemic has made things even worse. chris west is in lagos is always packed with all kinds of

parties festivals and events but this year is going to be more quiet than usual because of the recent spike in $1000.00 infections the government has introduced. patsy's county vows and music out shows and now beyond throughout the state of another major highlights of christmas shows here. is the i'm amazing food unfortunately nigeria is going through an economic recession as a result of the pandemic so food prices are the highest they've been all year. so. last year we were not selling this one for up to 300 you could even get 2 of these for 500 but this one goes for 1500 now this

is not like last because. there is no more no markets. so. people are no buying my kids very. very. desperate chiefs nigerians a great food to be. swayed. and the 2nd round of the german cup continued on wednesday with 5 bonus league teams in action. second division side bo home shocked top flight main lines after beating

them on penalties got eliminated 50 in the only top tier clash of the night thumped 2nd divisions on 1004 nil to move on to the next round joining them are vegetable heaven after they beat hannover 3 nil and 4th tier club hold phase as in stun 14 of those was off by in munich frankfurt and leverkusen will play their cup matches in mid january. an autopsy has revealed that argentine soccer legend donna had no traces of illegal drugs or alcohol in his body when he died that's according to investigators looking into his death but they did find traces of anti-depressants and other prescription drugs in the body of the late soccer star officials are still checking for evidence of medical malpractise in connection with marriage on his death in november. a danish free driver or 3 diver rather has set a new record for swimming underwater on a single breath 6 severson took 2 minutes and 42 seconds to swim 202 meters without

surfacing he added 35 meters to the previous record the dive took place off the coast of mexico severinsen had been training for this challenge since march of this year. but that's all for now coming up next is our special edition of the corona crisis i'm aaron until the berlin i'll be back with you at the top of the hour. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update code 19 specials next on t w. sure near the 1st analogies stories that you've just flip.