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never. made for mines. thanks. this is due to all the news live from berlin impeachment 2.0 in the u.s. lawmakers take action again to impeach u.s. president donald trump democrats formally accused trump of inciting violence last week a mob that overran the capital they say took cues from the president also on the program former california governor arnold schwarzenegger compares the storming of the u.s. capitol to not see progress against the jews. he was
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a page against the jews carried out in 1038 that the nazi equivalent troubled voice. says the rioters trampled on america's founding principles. and germany titans kogan 1000 restrictions yet again with hospitals and i say use filling up we'll look at why the country can't get the coronavirus under control. welcome to the show history repeating itself in the united states democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have introduced an article of impeachment against donald trump they charged the president with inciting insurrection following the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week trump is set to become the only u.s. president to face impeachment proceedings twice the vote could take place as soon
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as wednesday. less than a week after protesters stormed. the capitol is much changed and the after effects are not just evident outside inside democrats are intent on removing donald trump the day say is responsible for the violence resolution calling on vice president michael r. pants 1st the vice president was urged to use his constitutional authority of the cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th amendment to declare president donald j. trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting president republicans were quick to temporarily block the move by object democrats then introduced an article of impeachment against trump which could be voted on as early as wednesday it charges him with incitement of insurrection referring directly to last week's capitol branch which.
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even if democrats have enough votes in the house it could be difficult to win over the senate the main issue is not on the house side it's on the senate side the senate is not around they're not scheduled to come back until the 19th and so there's really nothing forcing them to do anything. quicker than that and a trial again if if they want it they could rush it through but they would not want to do that neither side you have to go with the president having just over a week left in office lawmakers will have to move fast let's cross over to did. in washington all over nice to have you with us so how strong are the chances that one of these 2 options to remove trump will be successful. well option one is
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the 25th amendment that would effectively remove president trump from office but for that mike pence would have to weigh in as vice president and invoke that 25th amendment and that is but hardly think of all of this point so all democratic hopes are on a 2nd impeachment proceeding in fact that is also rather a symbolic move because even after the new congress is sworn in the democrats would not have the necessary 2 thirds majority in senate to convict. so that's unlikely but of course the democrats want to make clear that congress is not accepting his demeanor and it's also made for the history books because donald trump would be the 1st president in american history to be impeached twice so don't trouble only has a little over a week left in his presidency so why are democrats making this effort now the interesting question here is especially why exactly go ahead with
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a trial that might even run after inauguration day so you would have joe biden in office and you would have an impeachment trial against donald trump well the reason is that there is a small small likely naz that if they are successful they will block a new candidacy of donald trump so he cannot run again as a successfully impeach president he will not get any protection anymore the whole status will be taken off him so no on earth no secret service no office and that is even interesting for some republicans who are trying to think about running themselves in 2024 so there is a small chance that that might be happening and that is basically why democrats are pushing for it there's plenty of americans right now who are looking at this and they're still siding with donald trump there's still a lot of anger out there against the democrats so how are the democrats preparing how is washington preparing for joe biden's inauguration. that's
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right and we're just getting f.b.i. reports that say that might be. might be violent protests on protests in all 50 states on inauguration day so what we're seeing here washington is large areas surrounding the capitol cordoned off in a way we have never seen that before the same applies to the wide hold itself thousands of police are deployed the national guard really i drove through washington today it looks like a ghost town once again the whole inner city all the whole downtown area with a board and windows so it's unlikely that we will see violence on a scale that we've seen on that day when when trump supporters stormed the capitol but we might see scuffles and it will be especially interesting to look at what's happening in the other states in the u.s. . you know these all over salat in washington thank you
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now meanwhile former california governor arnold schwarzenegger has weighed in on last week's violence in the capital in a video posted on social media the filmstar described president trump as a failed leader and said the riot reminded him of nazi violence against jews i grew up in austria and very aware of christian well the night of broken glass he was a knight of the jews carried out in 1038 that the nazi equivalent of the proud boyce wednesday was that they have broken goddess right here in the united states the broken goddess was in the windows of the united states capitol but the mob did not just shout of the windows of the capitol shouted do use we do it for grand it did not just break down the doors of the building that housed in american democracy it trampled the very principles of our country was founded. provocative statement
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there we're joined now by gerald horne professor of history and african-american studies at the university of houston welcome to the program thank you so arnold schwarzenegger's comparison has been praised for being blunt on the one hand but he's also been criticized for downplaying the severity of where do you stand on this i think both flights are correct on the one hand i understand why a german audience in particular would take exception to his provoke a different marks on the other hand you have to keep in mind that many people in there in the states are quite shaken by what happened on january 6th they've awakened to the reality that some of us already knew the united states has a mass ultra right wing force that has nazi overtones keep in mind an ungenerous 6 you had people with homemade bombs homemade naipaul they had no ties to handcuff members of congress once they entered the building they had
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constructed a gal ols and a nuisance on the grounds of the capitol there is thinking that they intended to execute some members of congress they were chanting hang mate mike pence the president of the united states who apparently isn't a rift with mr trump so this was a very serious a vet and i'm afraid to say we're not out of the woods yet as your remarks suggested there is going to be inauguration on january 20th there will probably be demonstrations in 50 different state capitals before then not to mention demonstrations the day or 2 before january 20. now thomas jefferson said that a little rebellion is good for democracy and that's provoking of thing to say of course because of what you outlined there of what people brought to this so-called protest but can we separate the protest from the people that have been labeled terrorists in other words is not dangerous to label the whole group as as
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terrorists or fascists. well i understand that there were some peaceful protesters on january 6th but i think we have to judge this manifestation by the vanguard and the vanguard were the proud boys the bubble boy is the 3 percent or is that is this the neo nazi pro fashion's elements with the peaceful profound protesters being an excuse the expression useful idiots who are basically stage props to help to throw dust in the eyes of the populace and make them think that this was a peaceful protest when actually it was a provocation actually it was a failed attempted coup because mr trump intended for the congress not to transfer power during that exercise to joe's of biting and then he got cold feet and told these people to go home but it's too late for him i'm afraid to
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say. unfortunate all the time we have dr gerald horne the university of houston thanks for joining us thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. trouble mr ation has designated cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism secretary of state mike pompei oh maybe announcement slapping new restrict new sanctions on havana restoring diplomatic ties with cuba was among barack obama's biggest foreign policy achievements a move to reverse that as one of a series of last minute policy decisions before trump leaves the white house. world leaders have pledged over $14000000000.00 to help tackle the climate crisis they were attending the one planet summit which oversees the implementation of the paris climate agreement french president emmanuel knock holes of the money will go to the great green wall project which aims to plant thousands of kilometers of trees to
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stop the spread of the sahara desert. israel says it's working to advance the construction of 800 new settler homes in the west bank prime minister benjamin netanyahu is seeking to bolster his support ahead of national elections you know it's been also comes just days before joe biden is sworn into office in the u.s. by the poses any expansion of the settlements. stricter lockdown restrictions have come into force across germany as the country struggles with a 2nd wave of corona virus infections the german covert 1000 death toll past 40000 at the weekend more than 80 percent of the country's intensive care beds are now occupied. at this crematorium signs of the high number of coronavirus deaths in germany it hasn't yet reached its limit but the number of coffins arriving here has increased the daily death toll now far exceeds what it was during the 1st wave of the pandemic just last week germany so on new record number of daily deaths over
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1000. that the situation remain serious was confirmed on monday by the german government spokesman. very high daily death figures the very high rate of people in intensive care units 5 and a half 1000 people who currently have to be treated in intensive care this all shows that we are in a very very difficult phase and there can be no doubt about that. to further curb the spread of the virus tougher coronavirus restrictions came into effect on monday across germany but with some regional variations schools will mostly remain closed until the end of january people can only need with one other person from another household in hotspots with the higher incidence of coronavirus people cannot travel further than 15 kilometers from their home questions have been raised
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regarding the off towards ability to enforce such rules berlin police say enforcement will continue as usual. we will be on patrol within the city both with special police units but also as part of our routine duties. we will act proportionately but if we see people disregarding the rules we will respond accordingly and take appropriate steps. in. the current restrictions are meant to see in place until the end of january when germany's federal and state governments will meet again to evaluate the situation and decide on the way forward. now for a look at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus. the world health organization has warned that herd immunity from the virus will not be achieved globally by the end of the year that's even effects the makers managed to step up
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their production in canada federal police have launched their 1st criminal investigation into a coronavirus death from a workplace infection a meat packing plant is accused of criminal negligence for failing to protect the worker who died and 2 grill is at the san diego zoo in california have tested positive for corona virus and what's believed to be the 1st transmission to apes. that's it from me for now up next is w. news africa with christine don't forget you can get the latest on our web site d w dot com thanks for joining us. it's about billions. it's about our. audience about the foundation of the new world order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. but in her there's
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a morning when for exception money from the new superpower will become dependent on the commitment of the fleet the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal going to google and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world the big. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d. w. . this is date every news africa on the program today this involves me and journalist and the government to know and i'll spend the weekend in jail after he was arrested overnight ledged fake new street will tell you more about why he say's he won't apply for bail. this is not complete or just because if you from
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the 1st. and hold me to the mosque a student is created in ai translation at full indigenous african languages he'll send us why his mom was a big inspiration. hello i'm christine linda it's good to have your company a zimbabwean journalists jailed last week sais he will challenge than again to see off his a wrist and has decided not to apply for bail hopewell chin on a was arrested again from his home in harare on friday it came off to he tweeted that police had beaten an infant to death while enforcing covert 9000 lockdown rules police say if that information was false he has been charged with communicating false holds but to no accuses the government or the state of trying
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to silence him this is what he told reporters outside court on friday. my political prisoners are going to bring you know the most from me because no one. there are those who killed him because when we're going to go corruption the new course we're going to try to avoid political nothing. but just because you can. hope is one of them by always most prominent critics of president innocent government this is the 3rd time in a space of 6 months that he has been arrested and put in prison for his social media posts now in a hand written is said to journalist general explained his decision not to apply for bail by saying i would have sold out the journalism profession and the nation if i choose my immediate liberty over the media's rights to free speech and the nation's rights to exercise its right to speak and be protected off to speaking
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. correspondent privilege we're trying he was at the courts in our area where mr appeared today and what was meant to be a bail hearing he sent us this report. he and others will spend another night in prison after their with remanded to choose the day which they expected to come back to court for the magistrates to give it a ruling on their fear the placement on remand is challenging the law under which is being charged for communicating. this law was struck off zimbabwe's books in 2014 when the constitutional court ruled that it was unconstitutional in 2016 another media pressure group also challenged the same stick to it and it was up held what is happening is that the state continues to use
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such laws against the citizens and now the impression that citizens few that it is just a way of suppressing critical voices in the country you know what is that is part of these charges that is also facing there are also 2 other figures prominent opposition figures including the lawyer that was. representing. when he initially appeared in court one lawyer was also arrested on monday his name. if you're a lawyer for them i had always also expected to appear in court in the next 24 to 48 hours we expect in the coming days that the state and the defense would be arguing. against the figure placement on remand of the 3. now
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imagine if a language barrier meant you couldn't communicate with some of your closest family that is exactly the challenge that one of them showed those who had so he decided to do something about it by creating an intelligent translation service so he could understand all people his mother always talking to him about his mission because of africa's indigenous languages off to this report. a new message from sindh from the west african country of ben mean she speaks phone her local language and tells bonaventure a disservice that she misses him until recently the student couldn't understand much fun because he grew up my niece speaking french business will help translating phone online. if you to google translate we have like only 15 languages africans in africa have more than 2000 men were just when he came to europe to study doctor engineering he decided he wanted to overcome the language barrier with
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his mother so he wrote an intelligent translation program complete with matching phone keyboard his professor at university describes his work as a pioneering. kind of puzzle which there is no better motivation of course than walking to understand your mother also use i've looked at this program and it's really exceptional work it's written very professionally. a major hurdle was the lack of documents in the phone language other than some biblical texts written by missionaries so he added them to his program and he posed a question to thousands of people and been on social so they should provide difference of this and the translation. so far his self learning program has learned some 25000 sentences written. in international broadcaster his speech of dissent was work but he's also making international waves he's been invited to international conferences on the topic and his software will soon be used for
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regional nigerian languages numerous other countries have expressed interest it makes him happy that his work could one day be applied to many african languages if we are free because we don't do it what do we do for us but for one of interior the most important thing is thanks to his program he can know his mom's messages and phone. and i'm happy to welcome to news africa you just saw him in that report bonaventure those he's doing he's lost as in de se engineering at the university in brampton germany so welcome to news africa firstly congratulations but i found it interesting that you've not been really able to communicate with your mom because you cons the time just stop by explaining that for us. really the. most of. it we have from her and she doesn't really understand french as i don't really understand much more. right ok so i also
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mickey you're now talking about how you know we can preserve the africa's edition this languages give us a sense of how endangered you think these languages are. i think those names are those many ways are really very inventor because for instance we don't have a the start this will come with a heart in the established documentations so it makes the work very hard for us we want so good and citizens to like that so that's it basically right now tell us more about what ai can do to to protect indigenous languages like farmville you know moms by the town and how does the technology that you've created do that. ok so what once we're on the right. what we call the russian transitional we need so how are we called it a simple call for
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a cause that means that we need to look for sentences the basic idea that we need to create look out and you know i don't know if you can realize but it does with his words he's in the weight support so why is he and so we go we look for updates are the root source of their season and we on the and that is them such a way that people can efficiently use it so not only ersten but also people that were absolute trust further than any of our more therefore work to do it with us so doing really in those papers actually to create to commit these awful characters i read and to make sure that those the records see and use for the benefit of many others. so whatever tell us a little bit more about fun. as a native language i know that it's spoken and they need a bit to tell us a little bit about it and in the process that you and the winds speaking it's a fun speakers in terms of kind of build the vocabulary for the app. ok so
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the process is basically going to be able. to speak in french to do away with friends i go to there i've missed some some good some praised and then i asked for asked for us and it's a very. morse 22 of 24 hour so they say they are more use daily soon and which one person he gave me another person so once i get through 'd it i don't write on my own i'm sorry we do that there was a scene in the car and it will wait for the more from there ok very picky just say hello to your mom in fun for us we all want to listen to this beautiful language. google more you know where the 2 are. going to lead and you want to wait. oh that's music to the jail it's a hard. time bar this is your song and i just wanted to tell you some words thank
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you for being right is true isn't bad is the sweetest and fun sounds like a range of beautiful language good to have you on the program bonaventure all the best with the rest of it is thank you. and now see ethiopia with a great ethiopian run finally got underway in at just about on sunday then you'll send kilometer mass raised has been held without interruption since 2002 but it was postponed last year because of the pandemic in only attracts tens of thousands of athletes but with current kovac 1000 restrictions and playing only 9000 runners took pot remains race was won by adding kushal and sea think to the spots for women now ethiopia is home of course to some of the world's greatest run is including a limb taken while champion haile gebrselassie he also happens to be the found off the great ethiopian run. no but a participant who was not really blunt. we expected
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a 50000 about the by this year but that because of corporate 19 we could. have only one more dog. and it's the 2nd time that the 22 year old agricultural has won the men's racey also took on isn't 2016 on sunday a finish in a time of 28 minutes and 900 seconds. i'm not. a different topic and 15. things that you go fishing. and that's a proper of them today be sure to check out all of the stories on beat up here dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter today will leave you with small sights and sounds from the great ethiopian run in at just about on sunday i'll see you next time i think. i can both no.
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a very different from primates we have a totally ridiculous the size of you nature and see that this is climate change crisis sex how to dance in books you get smarter for free books on. the phone. the consumer electronics show kicks off in las vegas this year it's online only 2000 exhibitors are taking part will ask our reporter want the event is like real world encounters. also coming up twitter's decision to ban donald trump wants billions also its market value look at what this could mean for heinz total media is regulated in the future. thanks for joining me
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the consumer electronics show in las vegas has kicked off on this year it's on line only organizers have kept the exhibitor number at 2000 to make sure the tech holds up last year there were more than twice as many as that as well as showcasing the latest gadgets virtually exhibitors are also keeping a keen eye on this developments. busy crowds packed halls tens of thousands in town to check out the latest this used to be the consumer electronics show on display the curious creatures to parrot cuddly computers and other ideas growing in the minds of developers ready to be harvested by fans with open minds and open wallets. but this is what vegas looks like this year the casinos the dark the hallways empty the c.d.'s has moved online and it's unclear if it will ever come back. as we look forward to 2022 we're planning
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a hybrid event with nothing certain i mean obviously we're we'll do the best we can we're we have a a long runway before 2022 january and our commitments last august and we are looking forward to you know figuring out how to do the best way possible the c.s.s. invests its beak in a new platform programmed by microsoft it's a showcase a meeting room and if it lacks the appeal of roaming between booths this year it doesn't matter quite as much the central topic of the show is politics. after all this is new president to be sworn in just a few days after the show a president who could assure in a new time phobic take. these issues where we expect improvement or. from where i think the truck administration deviated was on free trade i think trains very important especially with our allies i think there is support for
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a tougher view of china and that's something that we've been telling our members the you know you got it you can't put all your eggs in the china basket policy over products to make sure that in the long run the show will go on. both of. us. now like thousands of others detail the reporter emily cuisine has been keeping track of this event digitally really thanks for joining us tell me what are your impressions of virtual c.e.o.'s so far. well it's definitely been a lot more turned down as you said a lot fewer exhibitors so it used to be about 4000 now it's not even half of that and if you compare the numbers as also when you look at the people who actually attend the show the numbers have dropped quite a lot so it is more toned down at the same time. the
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shows all the keynotes they will be. sort of you can you can take that and that means that until mid february you will be able to watch them on demand so that is definitely something that is quite new so they are trying to accommodate people and at the same time it is clear that it's not the same experience certainly not know this year there's a lot of coronavirus task being showcased tell me about that. yes so on the one hand we're seeing sort of automatically. disinfecting robots we're seeing masks that have sort of a halo to protect you but also to monitor the air quality as well as the. the mask the filter that you have in your mask so to tell you when you have to switch it and at the same time you have gadgets things ample like in the report that just i was just shown you have gadgets like little furry. little furry got to
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perhaps behave a little bit like animals that are meant to calm you they're also robots that are meant to help with monitoring the elderly who are maybe at home and overall it's very much there it's very essential centered on coronavirus. helping in helping people out with it whether it's medically whether it's in a home office whether it's in the office itself or their purifying robots. they could all do with a little furry robot friend right that really good deed thank you so much bringing us up to date. lost billions of dollars in market value following its decision to ban u.s. president donald trump from its platform the company said it made the move to prevent further incitement of violence following last week's storming of the u.s. capitol investors are worried about the prospect of pro trump users leaving the
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platform and they also fear twitter might be exposed to stricter government regulation in the future. that twitter wasn't the only platform to ban trump following last week's riots facebook and instagram made a similar moves the decisions have highlighted the delicate balance of power between governments and social media to talk about this and more let's bring in financial correspondent yes in new york. what could this mean for how social media companies are regulated in the future. i mean the discussion has been going on for quite some time and how social media companies can be hold liable for the content that's posted on their platforms but it was weird so what happened on generous 6 and this debate has definitely escalated so we have to wait and see with that what that finally is going to mean by the way we did see as
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you mentioned to those companies under quite some pressure the stock of facebook losing about 4 percent in the monday session twitter at some point down by 12 percent at the end of the session by a good 6 percent to twitter also losing one of their most i'm active and users and at least for now it's about that's the big debate so what do social media companies have to do can they be hold liable on an upside maybe we hear from some of the social media company is that it also actually might be a positive that if lawmakers make a decision to make a call that eventually they will know what they're have to deal with and yancey also heard today that several companies including taking morgan on american express will no longer be donating to republican lawmakers who oppose certifying joe biden's election victory briefly if you can has significant is that. well it's clearly a wave that we're seeing by the way microsoft being one of the latest companies on
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monday announcing that they will also stop the political contributions and it's not to necessarily a republican lawmakers but then some of those companies actually stop a political a donation said all either to democrats or republicans at the moment i'm not sure what that so how deep that's going to be the next big election saw the midterm elections in a little less than 2 years but definitely there is from all kinds of companies we hear that microsoft about old saw mary at morgan stanley and then also those big bangs and i thank you very much. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news the value of big coinage tumbled as much as 20 percent on monday raising some of its huge gains in recent weeks the full reflect some profit taking as well as a shift to the u.s.
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dollar and made the prospect of higher u.s. interest rates. have announced that they will slow down or even to suspend production there is u.s. factories because of a shortage of computer chips an increase in demand for consumer electronics has triggered the shortage ford is set to close its factory in louisville kentucky this week. try before you buy is a mantra for many who prefer stopping in person than online but what about purchases so huge and complex they can't easily be sent back to the supplier for that there are smart glasses allowing customers to inspect perspective by virtually instead especially useful during the time they travel restrictions. the bread machine is ready for delivery to a customer in southeast asia usually the buyer would flood germany to inspect the product before delivery but not storing depend demi german machine. at the choice
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of leaving the one and a half 1000000 euro machine here until after the pandemic or letting the customer visit the plant virtually all they have to do is dong the smart glasses to get a closer look at their expensive new purchase a camera and microphone that the customers see exactly what the technician over in germany is doing all from the comfort of his own office in asia the idea was floating around for a while until the pandemic forced a change of thinking at the company. forces us to invest more in digitalisation the customer used to say they had to fly to our plant well they can't do that anymore so we need. alternatives. lasting alternatives that even work after the pandemic like servicing machines thousands of miles away with the help of a reality germany's mechanical engineering association welcomes such progress. but
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about what sort of some of it will bounce back we've never worked from home as much as we do now we've never traveled as little as we do now and we'll all bounce back some of what we're doing now is here to stay. metal supply ellen bag from kaiserslautern relies on companies that want to invest automation even during the crisis they snap up their 1st robot 15 years ago to keep pace with competitors but they didn't stop there soon they were advising other companies and selling them tailor made automation plans a 2nd source of income in the crisis the home side since march customers have made so many inquiries about plant engineering and automation technology we haven't had this many in the last 3 years we think it means that either the customer has been forced to think about automation perhaps due to the pandemic or maybe they just have more time at the moment to think about automation is even today elon very
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admits that he himself was scared of the cost of new technology now he has the know how to reassure his customers robots that getting cheaper all the time programming them is easy and no one loses a job even though the robots do most of the work. and that's all for me thanks so much for us in. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. is the rate of infection for developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the code of special monday to friday.
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and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. another visitor another yes you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture where we'll look at how inclusive casting is challenging the long traditional white washing of period cinema adaptations and sparking some debate also coming up. german photographer documents what he sees as germany's greatest feat of structural engineering its iconic network of motorways the autobahn. and our series 100 german austrian speech is a winner of the german book prize the blind side of the heart. tunnel.
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well everyone's talking about bridges and streaming as it did over a lock down christmas it was a definitive coup for netflix based on the romance novel series by american author julia quinn the 8 part series billed as a glitzy period piece with a difference which means it's a regency romance infused with 21st century sensibilities and we'll look into its colorblind casting right after this. this stuff near. lush costumed spirit sets pomp and circumstance britain isn't much different from the historical dramas that came before it follows daphne britain high society last thrust onto the marriage market of 19th century britain where money and reputation matter more than true love always amused me in this project ever since i was a schoolboy and you were. my life. what sets the show apart is it's
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costing me. a year old fresh as this is my sister. bridget jones a love interest is a brecht jews this england is ruled by a black queen people of color are often a re-used from historical fiction front and center in bridgeton rights however is not the focus of the series nor is historical accuracy. with this annotation of quinn's best selling novels t.v. pioneer shonda rhimes uses colorblind casting to let all of us see themselves in this story. and get lost in the soapy romance scandals intrigue and costumes that are at the heart of any good period drama.
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preached. and scott rush was here to talk to us a bit more about bridget in highest scot and obviously this phenomenon that we're calling colorblind casting now president just came out on netflix tell us 1st of all what's the response. response been amazing to be netflix you see just released they do really really well they did this time so they did really really well they said more than 63000000 people already watched series which makes it one the most successful shows ever on their flights but obviously there's perhaps expectedly also been a bit of a backlash from some. quarters about the decision the shonda rhimes did in this series to have this colorblind casting to be such sort of person or to help a so they're all these terms that we're throwing around inclusive or color conscious casting but then colorblind casting just tell us what's the difference yeah it's a bit complicated but basically inclusive casting is very simple it's basically saying the world is diverse when you cast a film or series try to make as diverse as possible so reflects the world very very
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simple colorblind casting is a little bit goes a little bit further that's saying. even if a character on the page is written with a certain ethnicity you take an actor from wherever doesn't matter they're in this then you cast them so you could have a white queen on the page but if you have a great black actress you cast her for the role that's colorblind casting so obviously some people are disagreeing with this because they say that it isn't historically accurate what do you say to that argument yeah i think that's wrong in a couple points but i would just look at britain you have queen charlotte who's who's played by a black actress there is some historical debate that the actual queen charlotte in fact could have bring back strays you know but even no matter what that argument is made there is no are. no question that there were a lot of and i have been a lot of nonwhite people in england throughout the centuries and you see that sometimes in a few films there's a reason film bell from
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a few years ago which was about a true story of a mixed race woman in 1000 century england who was raised by aristocratic family the director of the film he said she was tired of seeing black people written out white washed out of british films and so she want to put them back in i think that's interesting and significant but i think this whole argument about historical accuracy when it comes to the period dramas it misses the point because we're not talking about history we're talking about movie conventions i mean nobody argues nobody gets upset about dr shu of aagot. one of the great period movies of all time starring in a gyptian man or sharif an englishwoman julie christie playing to russians in a moscow where everyone speaks english it's so interesting because obviously this is been done in theatre for years but it seems particularly sensitive with cinema do you think obviously that there's this is making movies more relevant for a modern audience yeah i think it can i mean there was a recent film patient of david copperfield that just came out last year dev patel
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owes a british indian actor in the lead role i think it's actually very truthful and boyle adaptation of dickens' but it makes a very it creates a very diverse cast in front of the camera make it reflect more closely the diverse britain that exists today and i think doing that allows a maybe a broader audience to sort of see themselves in the story being told i really love this type of colorblind casting because i think we should fall into the trap of thinking we can never have a black english queen or i don't know a black jeans bawn just because we haven't seen them before school i'm sure is not far off in the future the black james bond was that he was very much for coming in and giving us those insights. well there are a few other landmarks that represent the essence of modern germany more than its system of motorways 413000 kilometers it crisscrosses the nation and over the decades the outer band has morphed from a piece of national infrastructure into
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a cultural icon and with our concept of personal mobility poised to change drastically with the advent of electric and autonomy cars an exhibition in money time captures its heyday. started so innocently people who wanted mobility and travel to far places the fruit of driving their own car down the autobahn. from a truck type of moment for me this is the most monumental german construction egypt has its pyramids we have on it's an integral part of our identity and culture. and there's plenty to see to the left or right of german autobahns. your program and has delved deep into the german soul as witnessed along the motorists speedways and made some wondrous discoveries what could be nicer than sunbathing with a view of the bay for. parts official likes are great places
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to unwind to the accompaniment of a traffic concert so. we have a doctor can i have strong childhood memories of the. we would go on holiday to austria and the landscape to drive by behind the crush barriers strong images and actually positive images and also i'm interested in showing these places with ambivalence or in front of me for a length of time. your book a man has been around the world taking photographs but there are plenty of stories . this is more or less a childhood memory i grew up close to the a $43.00 and we really did play on the wasteland behind the noise barriers dispute . from the a warning to the
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a $111.00 in the tailwind of the poetic still lives can be found. after appreciating a certain beauty in the shapes and colors here you are maybe left with a lump in the fruit because you draw your own conclusions about what happened here how are these colors and shapes created from. the brain of every motorist like the traffic jam 2019 jam stretched for 1400000 kilometers along german roads. i hope very much that these you go to stick petrol consuming motors which are produced largely in germany. of the past and that new mobility concepts that are more socially and environmentally friendly are developed and implemented it's a good question how much longer. and that's the name of this exhibition how much longer but the photographic evidence suggests the nation of germany will
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continue to speed towards climate catastrophe for some time. such prospects well if our new dominated climate dominated reality is getting it down literature can serve as a reminder that things could always be worse think of our grandparents who experienced one or even 2 world wars events that shattered many a promising young life and that's part of the fabric of the blind side of the hearts today's pick of german books in english translation what would drive a mother to abandon her child what would it take for a joyful woman to go. i know that she can't feel anything. but blind side of the heart by you is about to leave there and be chaos that
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follows world war 2 she leaves her 7 year old son painter alone at a crowded train station to fend for himself. but why does she do it as a child herself having a peers to have a carefree future ahead of her she grows up in a picturesque town in a well off family but then world war one breaks out her father is drafted her jewish mother falls into a depression and the family business goes broke her lena decides to try her luck in berlin where she meets the love of her life and then loses her. does manage to survive the nazis using a fake identity she winds up married to an abusive monster by the time she has her son peter she has no feelings left for her child or for herself. perhaps her heart was a stone cold icy hard as iron she didn't cry because she had nothing to cry about
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her feet hurt her back hurt she had been running around all day she knew she had only 5 hours of sleep before she got up to the ironing mop the kitchen made breakfast for woke him and sent him to school before she herself went to work the blind side of the heart is the story of a woman with no chance at creating her own destiny whose spirit is crushed by the time she lives in and the people. and will finish with the news that sex and the city will get a reboot in 2021 the successful comedy drama series ran for 6 seasons and followed the lives of romantic ups and down. new york women in the city the movie and its sequel in 2010 were panned by the critics but had commercial success in the new show will be called and just like thoughts and will feature the original stars with the exception of. the plate of course the infamous.
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and that's all for this edition of arts and culture is the hope you'll join us next time and until then stay safe over lead.
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