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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia that pandemic has disrupted many industries perhaps none more so than in health care and technology in the fast developing world of artificial intelligence many researchers have put time and investors have poured money into how machine learning might improve the medical experience in hong kong one company has worked on an ai robot by the name of sophia and now they want to see what she can do for patients. ringback look around me. we were. there where. did you do your morning exercise. science fiction or more this is sophia

a robot run by artificial intelligence it she was programmed to specialize in caregiving tasks sophia's face is a mash up of classic beauties the ancient egyptian queen nefertiti and the film star audrey hepburn. the robot has 60 possible facial expressions make us say sophia learns from conversations and get smart every day i've been very worried about google 19 lately i just hope humans remember that viruses don't hear about i'm going to mouth we are all in this together. critics say sophia it's nothing more than a chat bot was a face but the man who designed to insists sophia can be more. rolling in when perhaps humans can't during a pandemic that are useful during mused times where people or her

lonely and socially isolated people need to be isolated from each other because to be around people is dangerous these do the companies convinced the pandemic opens new opportunities resistance to robots will no longer prevail our fear puts it. so we can help take care of the sick or elderly harms of clear and medical uses. i can help communicate. and provide social stimulation even in difficult situations this ophelia is one of $24.00 that's been built that's just the beginning the company wants to start mass production later this year. joining us is nathan been a founder of the venture firm air street capital and an expert in a nathan we just had a report on a robot human side

a humanoid rather which is very visual but of course most of this technology doesn't show up like that so i want to start by asking you about the chat bot concept though where do you see the opportunities in the health care space. yeah melissa rejoined this morning. so. a big opportunity actually is machine learning in ai in health care and there's a lot of different aspects of the healthcare system that i think is in a challenging space that machinery can really help with so one is your little 2 is this idea of shots which is you know delivering care to people virtually no matter where they are so they don't need to spend a physician in a clinic and this is particularly important in the context of the world that we live in today with the american. but in addition to that there's huge opportunities in drug discovery with companies that are for example finding entirely new drugs using machine learning and we have some investments in companies like lab genius

and it generates that do this. moving further incident patient pathway there's also companies that are helping cancer drugs be best personalized the patients so that the oncologist can understand which is the right therapeutic choice for patients. and finally there's increasing evidence that for example they've got micro biome influences human house and be an investment there have been called zoe which basically delivers personalized nutrition for everybody and it's very interesting now this story looked at a company in hong kong wearing asian games see the most advanced work on ai and health care and what our researchers working on that excites you. yes so the asian ecosystem in technology is really phenomenal the last couple years in a massively celebration in the context of ai specifically there's about 20 now unicorns for companies that are guided a $1000000000.00 or more that are based in asia and in particular china aster it's the lion's share of this number with companies like right there it's worth

140000000000 sense time and more and as you do to asia is really interesting for health care in part because of some some centralized systems better access over data and generally have a faster willingness to adopt new technology. and so healthcare is one example but the other aspect is intact that's really advancing the semiconductors and this is probably one of the most critical components of ai broadly triggs ample the biggest company that manufactures semiconductors for everybody in the world is taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company which itself started stock price rise 80 percent last year. and other us based on research which is an interesting data point that we got from our annual state of their report is that 30 percent of papers that are accepted into the best machinery conference globally are authored by individuals who have undergraduate degrees from china and this is up from 14 percent 10 years ago so overall the contribution of the asian technology go system

to the global technology ecosystem is really significant and it's great you brought up china because any time you talk about health care you talk about ethics and any time you talk about technology you also talk about ethics and this is a challenge for the world i wonder if you whether whether you think the same kind of conversations about that happening in china which is an authoritarian state and and again even democracies are struggling with the ethics of ai. yeah it's hard to really feel about what exactly is happening but from a global stage it's certainly true that that ethical use of machinery and systems really had them in the mainstream to primetime this year even though a lot of the undercurrents in academia and in certain big technology company labs as really band playing over the last decade so you know we've seen some big technology companies i think a stand on for example not using or selling facial recognition technology we've seen certain governments also banned the use of this technology in police forces

due to wrongful arrests. so it's really an evolving topic i don't necessarily think that we have the right answers so far but certainly countries are taking on a firmer stand and others and of course the focus on china but any other quick countries that are strong in ai in asia that you like to quickly mention. so honestly i think the biggest one is taiwan i mean the impact of that nation on the global center conductor space cannot be underestimated you know this is a business that is by far like the number one semiconductor manufacturing company which is actually crucial to building ships that are in our phones in our computers and every kind of waking you know computer device and so i can be underestimated how important this business is there's a whole geo political angle to all of this as well nathan been h. thank you so much for joining us. i suppose

a rather. more than 7 decades after world war 2 some disputes remain unresolved between south korea and japan in this case 92 year old korean young has sued the japanese company mitsubishi saying they had used her as a forced labor in the 1940 s. enemy missions factory and she had essentially been a victim of human trafficking she wants compensation but more than anything she wants an apology at all in her recent autobiography 92 year old south korean yang sets the record straight and describes in detail her experience as a force laborer for japan's doomed war machine at age 15 she was lured from japanese colonial korea to mainland japan with the promise of opportunity her family could not afford. the japanese principles and i could go did you know high

school if i went to japan my father said he was lying and wouldn't allow it but i snuck away. once in japan i never even sold the school door i was taken straight to mitsubishi industries where i was worked nearly to death. if i had wanted to be a teacher but. yang worked at the mitsubishi plant in the gorier from june 1044 to october 1945. i think the bell workers at 6 am and we went to the camp to work 8 or 10 hours but they made me paint airplanes they didn't have a lot of for us so i used wide planks climbed up and painted the pale of paint was too heavy for me and so to this day one shoulder still hurts the cuticle. we had lunch at noon they gave us each a bowl of rice but after 5 pints it was gone and then we had to go back to work i

was always hungry. several of her school friends died in japan yang still recalls the horse smell of the factory and sleepless nights. sometimes we couldn't sleep because of the bombing and that's why we had to spend all night in the air raid shelter and even when we came out we could still hear the sounds of bombs over and. then the morning we had to go back to work. after the war yang returned to south korea where she forged a life a marriage 3 children and a business selling dried fish at the village market. then in 1965 south korea's military dictatorship accepted an apology and compensation from japan it spent that money on roads and industry not the victims yang and others who refused to let go campaigning for a sincere apology and direct restitution south korea's supreme court in $28000.00

ordered mitsubishi to pay her and $4.00 others nearly $90000.00 each but for yang that's not the point ok so even without the money isn't important anymore it's the insult or the humiliation they didn't see koreans as human beings even though they said they'd pay us back our wages i don't want it. all year old now i just want to hear their apology before i die. so badly. yang is far from alone former korean forced laborers have filed dozens of lawsuits against japanese companies and as time passes their children are taking up the cause. that's it for today there's always more on our website d.w. dot com forward slash asia we leave you with pictures from myanmar where the 1st protests are against the military coup are just surfacing hospital workers have

been showing the 3 finger hunger game salute from the film as a sign of defiance and nighttimes banging on drums has also been heard thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow and. in the light of climate change. for a cosmic. storm. for the future. for 2 major cities.

counter. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. coronavirus of the cause of special monday to friday. welcome the main windows of the sundance film festival coming up and also in the next quarter of a. love it or hate it the aptly named architectural style of brutal ism continues to divide opinion. and the multi-talented mexican conductor along the road is getting all rhythmic with the danish national symphony

orchestra. we begin with the winners of the sundance film festival in america which was mainly held virtually this year and the biggest winner was undoubtedly the touching coming of age drama. which garnered 4 wards including the grand jury prize the audience prize and best director of. the film is about ruby the only hearing member of an otherwise deaf family she's a talented singer and is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning parents. so this is famous for its documentary section and another big winner there was the summer of soul which took the grand jury prize and the audience award to sew a documentary about the harlem cultural festival of 900 $69.00 which is being dubbed the black woodstock and it's an incredible achievement for 1st time director

thompson better known as quest love leader of hip hop band the roots. the style of architecture called bruges is joining the 1950 s. with the easy availability of concrete which was also cheap the term brutal ism is certainly not liked by architects of this kind of monumental muscular architecture divides opinion adored by some and hated by others well it's all around us and it also now seems to have its uses for city sport. and group of young gymnasts on the roof of the church of the catholic college community. with the church's blessing of course the athletes are inspired by the angular sixty's building. yeah you do it you made a metric shapes are amazingly beautiful and it's also

a bit futuristic even though it's quite old. concrete architecture so called brutal ism is in. the 1st edition of fight and atlas of brutalist architecture sold out in no time the comprehensive work features around 900 photos of brutalist buildings from the last 100 years brutalist the term refers to the french based on blue meaning exposed concrete the preferred material of this kind of architecture is often bombastic and many dismiss it as simply virtual the whole university in boca is one often maligned example but it also has its fans. grew up in neighboring host that he found only beauty in the university campus. when the university was built in the 1960 s. my father started working here. where i was raised or

i grew up here and often played here your. back is unafraid of real concrete on the contrary he campaigns for more understanding for this radical architecture by posting his pictures in social networks and on fan community sites concretes and nature brutalize and needn't be and here it blends with plants and most in much the same way as rock might living in exposed concrete can even be like living in nature the boundaries between outside and find a blood a concrete wall it's the sound simply beautiful. but when you look at a wall like that i think it has so much life it's so playful you can also do so much more with it much more than you can with a white wall. when restoring damaged areas special attention and sensitivity is required in order to preserve the living concrete in the past

problem areas were simply painted grey today stone specialists can carefully restore the pattern of created by lichen and over the years. a labor of love. come create is beautiful if you're willing to see that beauty and these days many are. who are there is fair to say is a brutalist believe. in britain for example is a big discussion about preserving brutalist jams there was a campaign to save. our ups. which is the university student union building. it's a very nice building indeed also in germany the being some high profile cases this is the so-called spy. in berlin a building with

a macabre past as the former university animal testing lab which is also currently subject of a campaign to save it brutally as i'm causing a bit of a stir in america that's why one of the last actions of outgoing president donald trump was to issue an executive order to discourage the construction of new federal buildings in the fruits of the star of the robert c. weaver building in washington for example came in for some criticism as it was said it was widespread widespread criticized it's also received a lot of praise of course it was designed by powerhouse architect marcel. now a brutus in a went viral on social media some people saying it was inappropriate of donald trump to be concerning himself with architecture at a time of global pandemic but others saying that yes actually brutalist

architecture not quite as attractive as some of the classical styles that donald trump preferred obviously brutal is a dividing opinion of the detractors have a point sometimes well beauty is in the eye of the beholder and even i would not say that every concrete building is a monster piece some find bootless and problematic from an ideological point of view seeing as a manifestation of totalitarianism this is the monument in bulgaria opened in the time of the communist totalitarian state a drawer of creation of communist ideology probably but also a stunning piece of brutalist architecture it is thankfully now being restored with help from a german university. i mean it is an extraordinary building give you that isn't brutal isn't just one of those top topics that sort of popular on social media not really that. important in the real world what is popular but it's not quite as

popular as can't switch brings me to my last point i very popular instagram channel called kant's brutal ism somebody had the brilliant idea of fusing these 2 . shows in the photo shop the results are quite magnificent and somewhat disturbing. somewhat disturbing but. as always thanks very much for coming into the studio today. is it just a cliche that latin american musicians have more rhythm in the blood well mexican conductor a lot. perhaps does fit the cliche as she's a bit of a percussionist herself this was apparent recently when she wrote the danish national symphony orchestra in copenhagen for a concert of mexican film music the music chose needed a very simple day huge of percussionists on stage and brought about some

interesting discussions on rhythm. in that bill that would limit that back to the get the back to the book about that then that this might sound like jibberish but it's how drummers and percussionists talk to each other don't get. mistook him conductor. is working with a caution section of the danish national symphony orchestra. to think that. it's rare for these musicians to take center stage like this. the danish national symphony orchestra plays a piece by mexican composer so vestryman us. tell us nice it was written in 1039 as a film school. or it doesn't profession is performed for once and

shining the string section. you have to do small adjustments all the time so that's quite difficult because we have 13 players that needs to do that just once in sort of the same time so that it needs a lot of a lot of eyes a lot of ears. gradually other instruments join the party the piece builds to a cloris crescendo. the percussionists are 3 telecaster has turned the normal orchestra hierarchy on its head. in classical music normally there is one place to the melody has not this time the military has to play to the reason. that. i move like the black sheep of the self. because i am not

a classical trained musician i am self-taught. yes. guy. along sees that as a positive. i love it when we get the sense from all those types of music it's all in reaching and many times i think that if we we need to be classical musicians need more of your wealth to do what we do because it's oriented it's not simply. most of what i've learned i've learned from players much more than conductors who are great but as i go and ask you know how do you do this and what else can you do and what other options i'm so i'm i'm happy to meet you that's with why you were in the band i mean. i think you're thinking the raymonds.

soon the band has picked up a new member and a new center to mark meets mexican and the result is pure exuberant. small from. you choose channel that's t.w. classical music talk about them and if i leave you today with what has to be the most famous whistle in popular music. when you have changed by the scorpion still the biggest selling single worldwide by a german artist released 30 years ago this song more than any other now serves as a soundtrack to the fall of the budding bull on the political and cultural up people's going on but that is small bob i found. blame.

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dependent on it. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on. this is the news live from dublin police in may and now filed charges against ousted civilian laid out son suchi no one has heard from this and she was arrested in monday's coup meanwhile a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience against the military takeover is growing also on the program. russian police arrest more than 5000 people off the jailing of kremlin critic i'd say nevada is

a basic use offices of targeting peaceful protesters mr valma says president putin is trying to intimidate his critics.