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2 children. one problem and we're going to see. how will climate change affect us and our children. slash water. this is the news today. on the covert $1000.00 pandemic a pandemic that's impacted the. west and others in today's episode back at around this time last december when the initial reports of the corona virus had just begun to appear. tough to decide on how to report on an
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unknown mysterious virus. i've been a strategy welcome news asia glad you could join us late last year doctors in china reported the emergence of a mysterious pneumonia on the 1st of december chinese authorities alerted the w.h.o. that dozens of people had contracted the illness we 1st reported on the story a week later china had said a new coronavirus might be behind the outbreak traced back to a wet market in. at the time my colleague from d.w. science department. joined me for a talk we debated long and hard how to present the story we didn't want to be alarmist we reported what we knew but as you can see there was some crucial
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information that wasn't known. coronaviruses blown to a family of viruses that cause everything from common colds to much more severe respiratory disorders for example sars or also related to mers middle eastern respiratory syndrome now the new one this latest one what seems actually positive about it or not as bad as the sars virus is that it's not as far as they can tell so far been transmitted human to human that's one positive aspect of it that's one of the things that causes an epidemic to begin and it looks like it's transmitted possibly animal to human which these people got it at the seafood market and behind the 2nd aspect of it that's actually positive if you can talk about talk in those terms when you're talking about a virus or a viral infection is that it doesn't to be appears to be not quite as virulent as sars was sars of course killing around 10 percent of the people who contract it. i know what you're thinking but that's what we knew very early on in january derek
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and i couldn't have imagined what was to come next at that point at least chinese health authorities didn't know or didn't reveal it could be passed from human to human instead much of the world watched in all that china's response building hospitals in a matter of days to handle the outbreak but china it appears was not as transparent as it should have been despite efforts of doctors like leven lang to get the word out he was reprimanded by the government and would live to die from the virus but again we didn't yet know the deadly potential of the virus our 1st hint came on the 11th of january not reported its 1st death a 61 year old man who was a regular customer at the market and unlike sars on mars the virus was spreading uncontained around the globe on the 13th of january the 1st case detected was
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outside china when a woman with the virus was born 1000 in thailand a week later cases popped up in japan south korea and the united states but the w.h.o. still had not declared the virus and international emergency the focus remained on china and its efforts to contain the virus to the city where it's thought to have originated one. a city of 11000000 people with almost no one on the streets trains planes buses cars almost nothing leave though and. hospital wards have been overwhelmed and 1000 small beds have been reserved for patients health workers on the frontline of the fight against the virus knows which includes it would of course we're worried and so are our relatives. but we're nurses and will do our job as long as we wear the uniform just by the rising number
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of cases the world health organization has refrained from declaring a global health emergency and the question was whether this event constitutes a public of emergency of international concern. to d.g. which is provided by the emergency committee is that no is not the time. but china isn't taking any chances transport links within and to a number of nearby cities have been cut and the fear of contagion has produced dramatic scenes like here at physio airport where a man suspected of carrying the virus was confined to a quarantine container. the lockdown now covers more than 30000000 people and it's putting a serious damper on the lunar new year holiday. but the virus had already begun its deadly spread thousands of new cases in china and hundreds in
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other countries on the 30th of january that declared the virus an international health emergency by the 26th of february the number of new infections inside china was overtaken by those elsewhere in mid-month germany had entered locked and we. have to stop broadcasting for some months other countries across asia too went into lockdown and our correspondents with their reporting on the situation the coronavirus situation on the sun is getting worse by the day currently there are 74 people suffering from the illness and as much as the government to address the. they say they're facing many challenges along the way for one millions of people in the nation rely on daily wages to get by which makes shutting down major cities nearly impossible secondly the government is saying that people aren't doing enough to socially distance themselves from one another and most importantly is
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a large land border with iran one of the most heavily affected nations in the world in terms of the coronavirus the philippines has reported a relative number of 19 cases so far but this number is expected to increase in the coming days as more testing is scheduled. that you see here on the street is in direct contrast to the uproar that is now on social media that isn't pounding their keyboards demanding testing after they found out through the airport that legislators had been mine and had gotten tested ahead of everybody else this by the limited number of testing kits in the country malaysia stepping up coronavirus testing the country can currently do about 7000 tests per day the army and police have set up checkpoints to enforce the nationwide restrictions on movement. people are only allowed to go out 5 for necessities and only one person for how far are supposed to go the majority of coronavirus cases in malays are have been linked to
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religious gathering that was held last month. india then went into lockdown in late march the move to keep hardship on migrant workers who rely on daily we do is just to eat thousands from rural villages started walking home with no means of transport to take them others were stuck in cities like new delhi without work without family support hunger was a constant threat here is our report from many of the. waiting. sometimes for hours at and. this is what every day looks like now for these daily wage workers. social distancing boxes seem meaningless in the face of hunger. at the end of this particular wheat to oranges none of these men are originally from delhi
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they migrated to the capital from villages in neighboring states looking to own a livelihood. some work in small restaurants are those at construction sites every meal depends on the days. but with businesses closed for india's lockdown these awnings and the meals have dried up now didn't try to go home but all the bus stations were closed the police told us to stay here. but they are no medical services available here and we're not allowed to leave we will have to call an ambulance who asa police to let us go. yet with food at hand these men are the lucky ones. the government is providing full would have hundreds of shows like this one yet the demand far outstrips the supply in addition many are physically unable to be sent those because of the lockdown. the fight for survival promises to be a long one. shouting together for shelter social distancing is
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a luxury these men cannot afford but for now at least that is food to eat. this spend demick has forced many to rethink some basics of life like food work friends we've experienced contrasts illness and good health isolation and true friendship stress and rejuvenation but overall we've had to reassess what's important and what's not one that typically we took for granted and was important for so many of us air travel was taken away for the longest time yet there was a feast one creative solution to bring some of that flight experience back. do you miss being asked chicken or beef. while relaxing on disposable headrest covers without battling turbulence and air sickness welcome aboard thai
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airways new in-flight style restaurant. i was so impressed from the moment i stepped on the ramp because i was greeted by the captain and cabin crew at the entrance to the market and the feeling is the same as boarding an actual flight time. in the food court diners can choose from a ray of asian and western economy class meals. and more exclusive crazy and for that 1st class feel the company has shown an eye for detail to make the experience aviation authentic. want to happen it just all the tables are made from parts of the aircraft engine that we cleaned and painted with new color and installed glass on top to decorate 1st and business class sections of the restaurant. with most flights grounded under covert restrictions and most employees languishing the airline found
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a way to recoup some lost revenue well reconnecting passengers with those dedicated to serving them. this time so happy i believe the cabin crew love passengers and after we couldn't fly for 3 to 4 months we missed our uniform an atmosphere a lot so for us to be here today is such an extraordinary moment. everyone wins customers enjoying their meal cabin and catering crews back at work and the company earning at least some money ball in the national carriers bangkok steff cafeteria. that's one way to have a high flying mean that's it for now as always there's a website. for all stories. of grounded airplanes and after all it's
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a site stream. throughout the year it's you next time for a closer look at the source. of the. i don't know. it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about why folks do this because we can't stay on its way and i'm not. that. closely global news that matters. made for mines.
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hi neal and i'm game you know is that 17 trillion left out of killed worldwide so that we can. but it's not just the animals at all suffering it's the environment on a journey to find ways out in the nutrition if you want to know how awake lift the priest and the focus changed as he says listen to our podcast on the green and. the 1st. the age of artificial intelligence is upon us even in the arts machines that make abstract drawings computer programs that compose music with what sounds like emotion but is it really. does that matter.
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welcome to arts and culture with a look at artificial intelligence now one fear a lot of people have when it comes to ai is that robots might put people out of a job but could that include artists well it might depend on how you define art and creativity already ai computers and robots are producing what some people would consider art like these pictures made by a robot and glint. behind the old bulls of this 16th century man i just outside london their lives. this machine with a human face. she's a robot with the mannerisms of a real artist. a. curly. wrecker. trouble. there for. ages has been drawing and painting since 2019 last
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year her work sold out at an exhibition at oxford university has estimated that collectors have paid more than 1000000 pounds for where x. . gallery owner aden miller came up with the idea to create. a what do you try. to write every poetry oh the hurt is pretty cold. together with a team of computer scientists robotics experts and designers miller developed in his own words the world's 1st robot artist programmed for creativity. major draws with chalk and paints with acrylic. but is this real art or is it just a grand technical achievement. we've heard. from different artists thinking oh my
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goodness what does that mean for my own ability of the natural for we very much believe that the wiser. and. within the art world is very much similar to the rise of the camera in the 18 fifty's and sixty's. people who were threatened by this camera that it meant the end of painting age of raises the question whether human artists will be competing against robots in the future. the idea that artificial intelligence could replace humans isn't new for a long time filmmakers have been stoking fears about the potential threat of ai will be chatting with the film expert in a moment 1st here's a look back at in films starting with how the murderous computer in the classic 2001 space odyssey. doors.
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i'm sorry. i'm afraid i can't do that computer how is an intelligent beast but with the emphasis on beast think you know what the problem is just as well as i write this mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize. intractable how doesn't think much of people speaking there's no reason to since this so liable to breaking down. in films intelligent machines usually run amok though a few strive to be human sometimes even more humane than never all models. say that the robot in student spielberg's ai even wants to build real relationships they are way out there. but is david as harmless as he looks. so i think there's going to murder me in my sleep. in one of the red comedies about ai the robot may not look human body is
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a real body. and. if you ever had a dream you know that you were so sure it was real. in the matrix trilogy i i'd controls an entire parallel universe one in which people are clearly not welcome. shouldn't being security. chancellors this planet and leave. a message for. the terminator is sent back from the teacher to correct the course of history he's a killing machine died as by a high because humans could in danger robots in the future they're deemed expendable. but later it's machines against machines and everything ends in chaos yet in most cinematic confrontations with. if the humans come out on top.
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that's probably because the now people are still writing scripts. so are the robots coming to take away our culture reporter scott rock star is here to talk to me about it scott are movies safe they are going to take over the film studios or can or you can rest assured that that's going to be a human pursuit for now i think we're safe i mean there have been a few attempts to get. to work in the in the movie industry there are a few years ago there was a film that was entirely scripted by ai the producers took dozens of science fiction screenplays and they fed it into this program called the benjamin and then asked benjamin to spit out a script which they then shot as a real movie. thomas middleditch he might know from us a look on valley start this film it's called sun spring and i think we have a clip take a listen and not write like. well i have to. go
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to the skull and. already have the dialogues completely dodd said sickle it's kind of malaria is actually and the plot jumps all over the place i mean it makes absolutely no sense interesting about this film is the only thing that holds it together are the human actors who actually try to convey some real emotion as they're speaking at this gobbledygook so at least for now i think we're safe benjamin's no danger of winning an oscar anytime soon ok but let's assume let's assume that the ai does get better and make something that you know looks like art sounds like art smells like art will it be art if it's ok by humans yeah i think it's almost a philosophical question i mean. these are about intention i mean do you have to want to make art in order to be an artist and if that's the case then ai which is programmed can never be artists they can only be the tool used by artists i mean i think of like button artists like you know jeff koons or any warhol who sometimes used these are factories where they got other people to. actually do the physical production you know the painting or printing or whatever it was we still considered
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them the artist because it was their idea was their intention to do to make the art and so far at least a i can't have intention ok we can't computers produce something that seems at least original yeah i guess i mean spring that's pretty original kind of entertaining i think it's interesting if you look at some forms of art like like music is an interesting example because you can program ai to copy certain styles of music and maybe make compositions that have never been heard girls who are original i mean there's example the 10th symphony beethoven's 10th said he was unfinished they programmed computer to finish it by giving it you know teaching him how to play beethoven style music and the music is actually quite good and it sounds coherent a lot more coherent than the script that we just heard but is it actually art i don't know music is a lot about math and computers definitely can do math. better than i can has got rocks for if there is so much if some of his most impressive artistic achievements if you can call them artistic i have in the realm of sound media artist composer
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and coder. uses computers to analyze nature and then ai transforms the data and dimensions of the landscapes into music. music composed by river scape over to put it more precisely the rivers many bands are analyzing transposed into notes the rhythm is set by the forces of nature. and their rules. when the river has lots of bands or has a more complex visual structure than the musical structure is also more complex and when the course of the river changes then you also hear that as acoustic feedback as a kind of live ranter potations based on the data acquired by the. algorithms a fit with countless examples which teach the ai what to and sounds into music it
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can then suggest what fenian melody could embark on next. music made mathematically is it creative is it art. it's another approach him and that's the way you need to imagine it and i'm going to have to i belong to a whole generation of new composers and also artists who have grown up with technology and with algorithmic methods that mission metod and what ai has now opened up or machine learning to put it more precisely is a kind of sparring partners at barings. the partner that helps in the composition process and reacts to suggestions. for 9 years musician ali nick crying has been developing a program to write sophisticated compositions was this written by a man or a machine it's impossible to tell.
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he's big breakthrough came with a program which can compose pieces in the style of everything from mozart to show. listen to a piece of music that is composed by an ai since it is able to examine responses because of the exact day i says and does not understand our emotions. classical pianist glen groups performances were emotional and unconventional though he died in 1902 his style is still alive and well. thanks to ai. so what we're doing is we're analyzing audio recordings to see how he interprets a given piece of music and try to teach to an ai system so that i could play an expressive style of. bringing going go back to life. it's as if glen gold's ghost
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is sitting at the piano those who knew him a star. christian knows it doesn't just want to imitate human creations he wants to explore unknown to mentions through his arms with the help from ai he's collected some of the world the signals. become very rich as we take this great unknown outer space and we try to capture radio signals from space and then we have our man made scan it to look for patterns which we wouldn't be able to find on our own roof in transcriptions from space
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interpreted by using familiar harmonies it's a bit by bit bizarre yet somehow sublime. and it's been so blind when talking to you through this robot controlled studio camera thanks for watching arts and culture remember to follow us on facebook and twitter at d.f.w. culture all the best for me and the crew here and when see you next time.
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i mentioned how many polish old loves us right now in the world right now climate change is very awful story. faces wife leslie went on just one week. how much work really do. we still have time to and i'm going. to access. to subscribe and movies like this is. my favorite. and the folk go back to.
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the u.s. at. first but i did. thank you. god. i know i don't know when. i woke. up. there my i was. well we're arming. them all. right i am. god there's no doubt.
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that. this is g.w. news live from berlin a warning for critics of china's coronavirus narrative a citizen journalist branded a troublemaker for reporting on the outbreak pays the price for speaking out. also on the program the e.u. member states backed the post for exit trade deal with the u.k. paving the way for to come in to for force on january 1st. vaccinations for corona
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virus are underway in the european union i mean questions about why the production of the drug can't be sped up.

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