this followed president elect joe biden's comment that trump was unfit for office is one of the most competent presidents in the history of the united states for merck he indicated he wasn't going to show up at the. inauguration one of the few things he and i ever greta. it's a good thing i'm not sure. security at the capitol is being wrapped up ahead of inauguration day which will take place in less than 2 weeks even the national guard has been deployed. well the developments in the united states are being viewed with concern here in europe and germany's foreign minister is now calling for the european union to work with the united states on a marshall plan for democracy now for more on this i'm joined by d.w. political correspondent and manuel chavez welcome to the show with manuel how significant is this call from the german foreign minister well this is history

going full circle over foreign minister calls for marshall plan to have the u.s. in fact the marshall plan was the u.s. program that helped germany and other you european countries to economy actually recover after world war 2 so of course this i'm this is not about economy create cauvery it's about repairing democracy it's about salvaging democracy and how come i say there is no democracy in europe without a democracy in the u.s. so he really highlights. the need for transatlantic ties so the term marshall prize this is highly symbolic but that's something i can mouse is no stranger to right after the elections in november he called for a new do you between europe and the u.s. now it's very telling that both. america condemned in the strongest terms what happened this week in washington with saying there's no place for the enemies of democracy between the u.s. or india e.u.

and i got america remarkably you say and she was sad and a serious about what happened of both. party responses. bill ford of violence isn't again just charmed reactions here in germany are strongly tied to german history this is a country which is no stranger to. attempts and i'm referring to did not see time and also in terms of storming into a parliament last august and in november we so. a conspiracy theory is trying to storm into the german parliament so that is something that is not only happening in the us well i mean we're out of period now joe biden is about to take over the presidency briefly what can we expect from the u.s. german relations well they're following a power past this is also an election year here in germany so be quite challenging here as well now the things we can look forward to is the u.s.

will be entering the paris climate agreement smoother ties smoother relations when it comes for example to nato or to relations. to negotiations for trade that being said what we saw this week is that europe has to be independent from the u.s. and that the u.s. is a giant but the giant with feet of clay well. thanks for that update let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jung un is threatening to build more nuclear weapons he said the u.s. is north korea's biggest enemy and that pyongyang his relationship with the united states depends on whether it abandons its hostile policies the threat it presents a tough challenge for the incoming biden administrations. 10 you borns have been killed by a fire that tore through a hospital in the indian state of maharashtra the babies were in the neonatal care

unit when the blaze broke out in the early hours of saturday stuff managed to rescue 7 infants the government has ordered an investigation and safety orders. right police in chile have used water cannon and tear gas against protesters who took to the streets for the latest round of demonstrations in the capital some people protesters have been demanding pension health care and education reforms in the country once again germany has registered more than a 1000 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours the country's slow vaccine rollout is coming under increasing fire some predictions and german media claim if the inoculation drive continues at the current pace herd immunity won't be reached in germany until 2027. when i break of covert 9000 has prompted

chinese officials to tell people in 2 cities south of beijing to stay at home for 7 days the cities and have a province of titan to lock down measures including a ban on public transportation nearly 350 people have tested positive so far around 3000 medical staff of being mobilized to support mass testing of more than 11000000 people china says it will provide coronavirus vaccines free of charge. now we're joined by 5 a journalist in china and currently in will hand. china has sealed off to see if he's following covert 19 are covered 1000 outbreaks leaving 20000000 people under strict lockdown how great is the fear that the virus will spread. i mean also hear what hon you see that more and more people are wearing mouth again and that temperature checks and q.r. code registrations needed when you enter shops for example however it's still quite

remarkable that life goes on as normal i'm just coming from a very crowded shopping mall and yesterday i was at a very crowded place and i mean it's basically like that's normal but there's an underlying fear that there might be a 2nd wave of coal but definitely well china's going to provide cover 19 vaccines free of charge tell us more about the vaccination plan in the country. yet you know there are already 9000000 doses that have been at minister that quite a large number and until chinese new year that in one month around 50000000 people are supposed to be vaccinated by then however i mean with mess appropriation of 1400000000 people in the relative numbers to fight more i think the chinese seem to have one. advantage that they can be struck just in a normal fridge so with the just sticks it's actually quite easy especially when they're also exported to developing countries. and china has confirmed the world

health organization that will visit will hand to investigate the origins of of covert 19 and pandemic what can we expect when can we expect that to get underway. well that makes signals for example the health commissioner beijing today said we are very welcoming we're just waiting for the w.h.o. investigation to start however w.h.o. they say that the results have not been granted yet and so we don't you know when this will stop and the w.h.o. is quite disappointed by the behavior of the chinese government that's remarkable because the possible understanding towards beijing you can say that beijing is very afraid of this issue getting politicized however they themselves politicized on that question of the origin of the by writ a really heavy up like somebody who. exhibition about the origin and the story how it's told here is really the story of the communist party bidding the fight against

the virus and that's really no room for mistakes or self reflection fabienne kuchera in china thanks for that update well let's take a look at some other developments in the pandemic the united states has sent another daily record for new infections with almost 300000 new cases and more than 3600 deaths reported on friday a strain is 3rd largest city brisbane has entered a 3 day lockdown after the emergence of a variant 1st detected in the united kingdom officials say it was contract to buy a cleaner a quarantine facility no community transmissions have been reported and a new study published in the lancet medical journal has says most people hospitalized with corona virus still have symptoms after 6 months the most common ones are fatigue and muscle weakness but also seeping difficulties well to sport

now and in the bundesliga is friday night game mentioned gladbach notched up a surprise $32.00 win against league leaders byron munich and they have to battle from behind to do it seem to be making a habit of being inhospitable hosts when byron pay them a visit. the last time byron munich came to brucia park over a year ago it was glad baku ran out victorious. but when florry annoyed house handled the ball in the box robert live and off ski converted the ensuing penalty to give by her in the lead after 20 minutes. and then a great solo effort from leon to risk a double of byron's lead just 6 minutes later and it looked like the visitors were cruising to victory. but wait on us hoffman pulled one back for a blood buck 10 minutes after that mine cooley slotting it in past manuel neuer and

just before half time hoffman found himself one on one against neuer again and once again he won that battle to all at the interval. and soon after the restart knowing house made up for his earlier handball by putting blood back in front what a shot from the young germany international to seal a 32 win. once again stand by him back to munich empty handed. a powerful winter storm dubbed filomena is dumping what spain's weather agency is describing as exceptional and possibly even his stark amounts of snow on large parts of the country in the capital madrid it's reaching up to half a meter high in some parts and it's also one of the worst affected areas with the airport closed roads closed and it's causing travel chaos. it wasn't just the pandemic that grounded planes at madrid's main airport this weekend heavy snow in

the normally sun drenched banish capital meant no one was going anywhere coroutine or no quarantine the madrid region has been placed on red alert the highest of 3 levels and was expected to see up to 20 centimeters of fresh snow in 24 hours. that's unusual for madrid and storm filomena could leave behind the biggest snow fall in decades when everyone but i'm not i've had to buy a pair of boots especially i have nothing it doesn't snow much in madrid so i think we're not very prepared. though strollers might not be well prepared for the weather but this mid-range musher was more than ready for the arctic conditions. well a reminder now of the top story we're following for you twitter last trump by the social media platform announces it's permanently suspending the united states president's account in june to the risk of further violence that's as congress makes moves to try to bring an early end to donald trump's term in office trump has

said he won't be attending biden's immigration and biden says that's a good thing. that's it for now of next shift living in the digital age looks at the facts and fiction about 5 g. technology. visit our website d.w. dot com and you can also follow us on twitter and instagram that's all from a couple of funniest and brilliant take care system. in the eye of climate change. for cosmos or. what's in store. for the future. comforting megacities call to get insight. cutter. the fight against the corona virus pandemic.

has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the coded special monday to friday on w. special how fine tune will change our lives. gini is a quantum leap in technology it'll facilitate the internet of things and self driving cars but this new generation of wireless networking technology machines can communicate with each other. the stuff is excited about the switch. he knows

5 g. will revolutionize data transmission. it's not just that smartphones will connect faster to the internet and with other devices. it's that connectivity altogether is being overhauled this is the most important change. crucial 5 g. will allow autonomy as communication between separate entities. self driving vehicles will be called fit for the road and 5 g. will make virtual reality applications the internet of things smart factories and other new tech much more mainstream fast wireless networking technology connects to servers. which are sometimes located far away on another continent. but this is much too slow for autonomy as vehicles and similar applications if you have. 5 g. on the other hand taps into decentralized processing power by using small servers

connected to the network. this trustingly decreases response times and latency. the goal is to reduce response times to below 5 milliseconds. virtual reality applications will build on these ultra fast response times which is good news for good stuff who's looking forward to the more tactile internet even tele surgery performed remotely across vast distances could become possible. smartphone technology would change to. the plan is for numerous small antennae to optimize their connections so we can receive personalized data packages. signals can be pinpointed amplified or dialed down as needed. this will help reduce their exposure to radio frequency radiation. to

achieve higher data transmission speeds 5 g. will use more of the electromagnetic spectrum. stuff can't wait for his new 5 g. phone. with it can be able to simulate a sleep download and upload data on the 3rd perk of accelerated 5 g. data transmission speeds. is an electrical engineer and researcher he's been coordinating the 5 germany a major technology but 600 scientists since 2014 saul was fighting all about. this new evil radically change our lives if i get the question is whether people will realize 5 to technologies at play. or in an autonomous taxi but the other driver takes them to the theater they

will not say and that's 5 to technology. instead of 5 g.'s more like a discrete facilitator working in the back row it in from you but it will all become an essential element over a future life. that one of 5 g. lab germany's research areas is the tactile internet. 5 g. will offer likely in quick response times ideally as low as one milli 2nd or 1000 a 2nd. with 5 g. connectivity a top titled low phone be able to transmit precise movements to robots and vice versa. virtual objects will feel like the real deal. creating a new interface between humans and machines. of one number of we have found is that this millisecond that everyone talks about matters a lot if you play an instrument that cv like a string but the sound doesn't reach or you're within 3 milliseconds you feel

disconnected from that instrument of the touch something in a virtual environment and receive instant haptic feedback from a so called i'm told and then this will also feel real to us and it often this can from a. british university of carbon trees are pretty good mines in 5 to technology in it's own network the decision has made milk learning much easier during the coronavirus pandemic. assistant professor of ayers teaches a cutting edge anatomy seminar. he teaches physiotherapy students are an immersive virtual reality journey inside the human body. and students to be immersed within the body within a blood vessel of in the muscles in the bones to have a spirit it's something more than

a code in their traditional textbooks. this is possible thanks to the university's very own 5 gene that works in combination with cloud x. our technology students can stream virtual reality content in real time and even when many devices are connected response times remain lightning fast 5 g. almost why didn't the chub the information goes down so with forgery we know the chips fairly big and lots of information go goes down the tube with 5 g. that chub might wind up by about 10 times so we get far more information down which means we can get what's a very good visuals happening in real time between the lecture and the student. students can use their smartphones to stream letters a useful feature of when social distancing is key. teach students in a range of settings so they don't all have to be in the same classroom they can be across a compass and we can interact with them and have

a 2 way discussion. because of the pandemic many students are working by themselves . to niggle virtual reality seminar on campus is a welcome change. in the riemann learning come because i but it makes it more exciting and interesting and therefore you want to learn online and it's makes your quality of work still really high even though you know physically in uni or not to me very practically. in the past work before every times we were kind of using each other as models to identify kind of the structures of muscles and this is. showing that same structures but in a much more detailed close up fashion. martin wires and it's called the soap they can develop many more innovative teaching methods like this using 5 she took knology.

but other health risks linked to this new mobile network technology some people are convinced there are. 2 scientists agree. on a fish as critical the 5 g. technology she doesn't think we need it. health care 5 g. because mobile network technology generally is a health risk you can find even more so it hasn't even been properly studied there it's just a few preliminary studies and those have alarming findings that scares me and we're basically guinea pigs. so it's on i and other activists want to make people in the city aware of the danger of. radio frequency radiation her husband hans-peter fishback a similarly concerned to keep their families safe the parents do what they can to shield their home from radiation. really we've thought about ways to protect

ourselves in are all through to. be 10 measures outside radiation levels and has wire mesh in face to shield his family home from radio waves the fish bass are especially cautious about protecting their daughters monica and sagna from exposure inside the home everyone uses ether net cables to access the internet sources of electromagnetic radiation like why fiber tears aren't allowed. sagna does have her own smart phone but her parents have her using an internet cable to go on line. closer which but i and i don't think this works for all smartphones and it took a while until my father found out which adapter i needed to make it work but yet i'm happy with it. many studies and books have been published on the effects of mobile phone radiation on the human body some say these prove the technology poses a significant health risk others highlight methodological shortcomings and the

research for example in a major u.s. study that showed that radio frequency radiation caused cancer in rats germany's federal office or radiation protection says this finding tells us nothing about the impact of radiation exposure on humans as the rats were subjected to radiation 20 times higher than the permitted limits for humans the german agency does not classify high frequency electric magnetic fields as a health risk. to learn more reports of funk that take met with environmental epidemiologist at this was tropical and public health institute and basil. parsley is a renowned expert on mobile phone radiation. there are also concerns over the medium term. it's being installed people think this will lead to more radiation but is that really the case in this moment at 1st you could think there is more radiation but actually the opposite is true it means anyone using a mobile phone will be exposed to less radiation because phones will have better

reception so phone signals don't have to be strong and scientists far which reduces over already. there are relatively recent large scale studies on bret that seem to show radiation causing tumors how can that be explained the other thing well there are inconsistency is also in the study the 1st tumor that was found was a schwannoma of the heart which does not occur humans there are very few cases worldwide where it has been found and the 2nd point is that the rats in the study were exposed to far higher radiation levels apparently it also benefited the rats scientists as they lived longer and seen at the ceiling again the rats exposed to radiation live longer than those that were not that rarely gets mentioned when you get home. because he said that there is a long term study on occurrences of brain tumors that spans the mobile phone era. in all of this here are brain tumor incidences in sweden you can see that the curves remain constant for everyone below the age of 76 nothing has changed in the

past 40 years you can see an uptick in the age brackets above 79 and i think that's has to do with people growing progressively older after the few of these are all under one age is the risk of developing a brain tumor increases and promoted to become as is but the picture is unclear critics are smart phone radiation seem to have horrible back their yards and that's one of them but the other side says why there's no health risk then argue a clear causal link and that new stablished for me personally here is a thought to many epidemiological studies with the testicle data from many hundreds in australia england and scandinavia so no indicator. shinobu higher brain tumor incidence and his uncle was on but the risks were as a critic say the data should show this so i'm feeling a bit more relaxed though that i've researched this.

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