but there is always you know what at the end of the pond on a never give up. watching good news live from berlin i'm told me a lot of well up next is eat up his covert special don't forget you can always get up to date information and news on our website get up you know called thanks for joining us. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 specials. on t w. i and i'm game did you know that 17 through the land of the moves are killed worldwide so that we can get into but

it's not just the animals of all suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways to nutrition if you want to know how old weightlifter the priest and the culture has changed as an atheist is listening to our podcast on the green since. he was a symbol of courage and resilience and now he's the latest publicly known casualty of this pandemic captain tom moore a world war 2 veteran who collected millions of pounds to support the british health sector in its fight against covert 19 now so tom has succumbed to the virus himself and britain's a beating him for well. but most covered 9000 deaths happen in obscurity far away from the. public eye and

often without a proper sendoff. more than 2200000 people have died from the corona virus worldwide so far some countries even have to create new space for the graves many cemeteries are like assembly lines of wakes and funerals. the pandemic has made one of the most traumatic experiences in a person's life even harder to cope with. welcome to our kirby died in special monica germans and i have to say those images are hard to bear but that's the reality millions are living with since the start of this pandemic the death toll is overwhelming also for those whose job it is to give the deceased a dignified sendoff. there

should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there are simply too many confidence too many bodies arriving at the crematorium in saxony. and some days there are more bodies than we can actually cremate on a single day or this is when us for our employees also because there's no end in sight. we are standing in the morning hall of our crematorium. it usually accommodates 90 people for the funeral services. unfortunately we had to convert the hall into a storage space because we could no longer keep up with the deaths if the kyoto finished. it's a difficult situation for us. because relatives can usually say goodbye to their

loved ones here. but at the moment that's not possible because the move leave. no room for a funeral service not all of the coffins represent deaths from the coronavirus but many of them are marked so. these people had to end their lives without a final hug from their loved ones loot spanish carriers for the bereaved he is a pastor and. family sometimes only realize how dangerous the coronavirus can be once they've lost a loved one to it. when does your liberal me and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19 to score and they are in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for them because something inexplicable something in

comprehensible has been added namely this pandemic the plan to move. the pandemic is far from over many more cremations will be carried out here get a hold monster is worried about the future. the militant always can assuming that the number of infections remains high it follows that the number of deaths will too if the other food isn't the 2 and so on and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest of the kind in phones and. it is a winter of mourning in durban as it is in many places in the world during the pen demick. tossed in the bank is a fan a tall a just at the university of paseo which means that he engages in the academic study of death and dying and he joins us now good to have you with us now people die all the time we all know that but is losing

a loved one now during this pandemic heart of the normally or is that just our perception what i think gets hard all the time doesn't really matter what circumstances are if you lose a lot warn you what you deal with different things than just the cause of death i mean of course it's tragic to have a pandemic of so many people die is to share mass that. really makes us feel uncomfortable when reading the news but for their families for the bereaved ones i don't think it really matters so much but i made the difficult part of mourning and i know that from personal experience is the part of letting go and that is usually held by rituals and ceremonies that come to take place now how can we compensate for that to help us get closure. well that's true that the problem is that they've been emic has some effects on all those rituals you can still have rituals of course but you cannot have the additional way of letting go in in

a burial for instance and you cannot talk to the funeral director in a way that you could do before corona struck us and people nowadays tend to individualize their morning more than they did decades ago so for some not much a just because they say if i lose the last one i will treat this problem in my very personal unknown way so i don't meet those collective rituals that's the one perspective but the other perspective is people say i need the usual the traditional surrounding i need to traditional rituals i need a. you know i need a way to let go that is that has traditional bones with everything that i've learned from my childhood on how we treat the dead and those people are really desperate because they cannot have what they are used to or what they expect from. letting go and losing someone they love i joked i talked to some people who said i

wanted to go to the funeral director and all i got was an e-mail link and i should do everything online and type in what my my wishes are no one was willing to talk to me in person and i just have to pay then and just be good on a regular basis and for them it was really terrible right i mean and they need something to death death is an extremely personal experience as pleasant as it can get if we tend sides let's talk about those on the other side i mean how important is it for a dying person to have family or friends around because this is something that a lot of those who are left behind really grapple with. yeah that's true most people that die and i consciously know i am dying for instance in a hospice or maybe of cancer or something like that and most people want their loved ones with them definitely their friends their partners the children that's the usually very small minority say no i don't want them with me because i don't

want to you know give them an impression of a person dying and having these these pictures in their minds forever that this is a minority most people feel more comfortable and due to the pandemic this is not or not as much possible as it used to be in the 1st round and in the spring of 2020. dead lock down even on those hospices people were not allowed to only one person was allowed to attend to recent someone this is now changed in many parts of germany at least but still it's far from being perfect because you know if you want to see someone who's about to die you don't really it's not the 1st thing on your mind is the hygenic elements of it or the roots that come with it you just want to be with this person is an emotional mental and emotional matters and not really cannot be compensated by rational measures and i tossed a banco there. just at the university off pasado somebody who really studied

death and everything related to that thank you so much for sharing your insights with us. of course to prevent as many cold 9000 deaths as possible we tend to have vaccines but the virus is not making it easy time for your questions now and correspondent derek williams. wouldn't modifying vaccines due to new variants be a huge undertaking. modifying vaccines would be a lot easier and faster in some ways than you might think but it would still be a pretty big deal most of the vaccines approved so far work by getting your cells to create viral proteins so basically the shot you're getting contains genetic blueprints for example in the form of messenger r.n.a.

which instructs your cells to make the spike protein that dots the outside of sars coby to those proteins provoke your immune system to recognize the virus without ever being exposed to it when the spike protein changes due to mutation making a new variant more transmissible for instance then in theory we can quickly figure out what's causing the changes at the genetic level and just update the blueprint in our vaccines to tell the body to start making a variant spikes in addition to the original ones so it's not all that complicated theoretically but but the reality of changing back scene production processes even a little would pose some pretty major challenges i think and makers are facing enough of those at the moment already then there's the question of the kind of trials that outdated vaccines would have to go through to be considered safe and

effective would manufacturers have to start from square one again no probably not but but altered vaccines would certainly have to go through. some testings so so changes would take months to implement fortunately we have some experience with this overall situation flu vaccines have to be updated regularly to remain effective so at least there is a framework in place to help guide healthcare authorities. back to captain tom moore he may be gone but his legacy lives on the super fundraising has inspired 11 year old football image and papa hydel she is using her skill at peace the tricky art of keeping the ball in the air without letting it touch the ground to raise thousands of pounds for key workers and she's also

inspired others to use their soccer skills for a good course. my shortly before he died captain tong said image and efforts world cool i want to leave you with that for want that's all for this edition of 19 stay safe. one to global playing against harmless to the body but is still disastrous. takes. counterfeits on the web paralyzed democracies trip the economy and our thriving business who profits from them and how did they infect us songs. next on d. w. . to the point of strong opinions clear positions international

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doesn't the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery. it's. the old. starts february 11th on t.w. . is this the real thing or just the copy it's difficult these days to know the difference pretty much everything can be faked from diamonds and videos all the way to iconic furniture the damage as you can imagine runs into the billions so original a fake that's our topic today on made. real authentic business magazine wellcome

diamonds are a girl's best friend well at least that's what an old song suggests but not every friend is a true one right lap grown diamonds are taking some of the shine off the $1000000000.00 diamond business man made diamonds are cheaper and more sustainable and the technology used to produce them could also lead to innovations in other sectors great but if diamonds can be made in a lab can they still be considered precious chris color reports. a token of love. reg anybody ever hired. a marketing miracle. in the past for. a diamond is forever a dot com these b. ration for countless of. movies.

and wars. unifor. pressures. are strangers to the earth's surface. their true home is in the hellish foundry of the earth's mantle more than 150 kilometers deep with temperatures over 800 degrees celsius under conditions impossible to replicate . except that's not quite true we can make. scientists in the lab. are just seen as it's mind. and they're getting so much better and faster that the future might be less on our fingers and more you know our hands. were never precious. this is a machine his family has been in the diamond business for 3 generations when you're

born in this business you're going to be in this business this is exactly what my grandfather told me when i was in twenty's. companies breaking industry. there are very few of diamonds was of. a myth created by the be yours. company there for a long time controlled the production of most of the world's diamonds. and which as it's one time chairman said increase their value by making them artificially skiers but if other qualities are anything to go by. quickly. take a lumina for example until the yearly 18 hundreds it was more valuable than gold that's why it's on the top of the washington monument. and my napoleon the 3rd to serve these guests with aluminum dishes but aluminum was never rare just difficult to make at the time with diamonds something similar is happening. as

far as. production and that technology has actually. probably 930 s. or 960. but for a long time we could only make tiny grains for industrial applications. 4 or 5 years ago we started to see advancements in technology that allowed for production of general quality diamonds and high enough quality to be used and. here's how it works we take a slice of the altar created diamond and it's arranged in a proprietary chamber you arrange those seeds almost like a waffle and you close the chamber you raise the temperature inside. it combination of propriety gases when the temperature is in the mid 132-1500 degree centigrade between splits the pure carbon that separated spots bonding

this one are going to start connecting with the seat that's sitting at the bottom of the chamber and diamond grossly are by layer. 2 they die and ones are no longer considered rare every other girl has one but their properties definitely are. a diamond is only made of carbon. atoms are bonded together in a very tight crystal structure. that's why it's one of the hardest and highly conductive materials on the. you can only cut a diamond with a diamond this makes it a warm their material for insane years it could make screens were insistent so are panels more efficient. lasers more powerful hard drives and much much better electronic devices. good semiconductors must resist high temperatures and voltages. today most of them are made of silicon but the thermal conductivity of the i am on is 14 times higher and selectric

a resistor is 30 times greater. week well was it affordable 10 years or 20 years ago. these higher tech applications represent a very very small part of the industry and. doctors are worried. more of their products are used on every day basis 2. and let's not forget we're no longer needing to mind. we're probably never going to have. still need more time to develop. the future of payments shines very bright. so the verdict on the benefits and drawbacks of fake or real diamonds is still out but when it comes to counterfeiting the situation is clear it's

a major problem for the economy causing billions of dollars in damage and what's really worrying it's not just about objects news can also be fake promoting conspiracy theories and even influencing stock prices unfortunately fake news is big business. open the laptop. and check the news shock horror the earth is now spinning in the opposite direction. true of course. nonetheless the report spreads like wildfire and shed and like people comment on it it gains momentum. thank you news can influence political decisions and manipulation elections undermining democracy. it's easy to make money with fake news. generates lots and it's online and plenty of advertising revenue and. even bogus items about illuminati or space aliens or hidden forces tech giants also

advertise on fake news sites and pay them a percentage per click. $62000000.00 euros that's how much is paid to just information web sites in europe each year. take music from target businesses and cause great damage making share prices for oil. and destroying reputations a quarter of companies in germany have been affected $63000000000.00 euros that's how much fake news costs the global economy each year followers and likes and even entire campaigns can easily be bought online a false report can cost as little as 10 euros on the dot net the buyer is. competitors frustrated workers or criminals basing their say on making a company's stock price plunge. social media play a major role in spreading fake news there are no clear rules each platform has its

own filter criteria some tolerate making news this imply fact checkers and flag and some ban political propaganda. tech companies have the power to create new bogus realities. but uses still have a choice they can spread fake news also. track whichever way you're spinning. a problem is to stop fake news from spreading you 1st need to recognize that it is fake news and that is becoming more and more difficult so called deep fakes recreate voices and facial expressions that look and sound totally real putting words into the mouth of celebrities without them even knowing about it imagine the damage this can do to someone's reputation or to business so often technology is opening up new possibilities which can either be exploited or used for the greater

good. attractive models in an ad for a smartphone except they don't exist they are generated on a computer a bunch of pixels phantom's like the model should do transforming the world of advertising online it's getting harder and harder to distinguish depictions of reality from fictional freaks and it's getting easier and easier to take footage of real people and manipulated to show something that never happened. videos are already a recordings transformed with the help of artificial intelligence so cleverly that it's really hard to tell if they're authentic or not. buzz feed was one of the 1st digital news and media companies to talk about there's a stunning example is a fake clip of barack obama trashing donald trump and of course he didn't say this

. or how about this. president trump is a total and complete. to create a deep fake a computer program studies lots and lots of images analyzing facial expressions and the play of muscles to generate new images of say the mouth moving you don't even have to be alive to be the subject of deep fakery the artist salvador dali died in 1909 but the dali museum in florida has brought the master of surrealism back. this is the fun side of faking you like people say you these 3. but 96 percent of deep fake videos on the web up pornographic and almost all of them depict women celebrities such as scarlett johansson and a regular members of the public when. martin in australia discovered by chance that

her selfies on facebook had been photo shopped into preexisting pornographic videos it's called face what technology. is truly life shattering and it has serious lifelong in the question is full all employed ability or will make it healthy in your well being and personal relationships and your reputation and your dignity martin tried to get the work deleted in vain she went public with her story and worked to make the nonconsensual sharing of intimate images a criminal offense in australia but the problem remains there are at least faces of the law is that we do i mean there really needs to be any progress and he's got a sense of the global ringback celebrities response to these kind of it because it's just not acceptable that a you know 20 century we have people you can see

a lot around the world and really a lot of this is locked. 2019 facebook hosted a deep fake detection challenge with a $1000000.00 worth of prize money just the creation of new technologies to detect manipulated media. the images of the storming of congress on january the 6th are all too real but imagine the potential of faked images of political violence the u.s. defense department has 2 programs devoted to detecting deep fakes which it calls a national security issue so that's because we already see political polarization with political groups inciting violence against other groups that if technologically generated false information with audio visual content is added to the mix and speaks to the emotions as well will we really be able to determine whether political opponents are calling for violence or saying certain things.

people don't always consume media and a common considered manner reflecting our money is true and real and what is not the offense could be disastrous. is the time might come when people automatically assume that what they see in the media is fake as it becomes ever harder to determine what's real and that could seriously undermine democratic governance. it's unlikely that technology can be banned the computer games industry depends on it and so do movie makers. didn't fakes can indeed be entertaining in fascinating and even used for the public good who knew that david beckham could speak so many languages full disclosure he can't. malaria isn't just any disease it's the deadliest disease that's ever been.

boiling follow through the minute you. speak up and say malaria. the digital age has not only opened the door to fake news and walked realities it's also created a whole new range of careers in the advertising sector lifestyle bloggers and influencers tell their audience about life and all the things that are really desirable and important but for influencers upholding credibility can be a challenge to stay real they have to choose their collaboration's wisely. andrea is an influencer 8 years ago she turned her hobby into a career as a fashion beauty and lifestyle blogger. how do you earn money with blogging

and. by doing advertising you promote a certain company post on instagram or do stories about it you can also write articles for a company like i did. by a turkish wired. the 21st century is shaping up to be the era of influencer marketing many bloggers have a lot of following and brands know how to use that to their advantage. that's all when you start working with a company that often do a briefing and tell you that they don't want to see any implausible settings so if you're promoting beauty products you should be in the bathroom or at least at home not in some exotic and unlikely location that. companies evidently think that an aura of authenticity is important as a way to reach their target groups. it's estimated that spending on advertising on social media could reach well over 100000000000 dollars this year.

alba blogs about lifestyle and travel but she's been grounded by the covert 1000 pandemic. quabbin i used to travel a great deal about 15 trips a year that's something not many people can do. a noun i'm stuck in cologne i haven't left the city in months. lockdowns are making companies and bloggers look for new sources of revenue. waiting for my linen hotel home office through this hotel chain is offering rooms as work spaces an alternative to working at home. and is now doing ads for them under german law she has to mark such blocks as advertising nonetheless her followers often ask cuz she can afford all the nice trips and hotels as if she had to pay for them. so it's somehow fake.

i don't fake anything and i often make that clear i think. i sometimes think people delude themselves into thinking there's no difference between travelling for work and going on vacation as if it were all just fun perhaps they just like that image . can you even post on instagram without a filter. 100 fold has 70000 followers look my face is mega bright it's the wonderful night here in tel aviv my face is perfect i miss the part of her. she won't tell us how much she hurts she post at least 4 times a week. of course you film yourself when you're feeling good because that's when you feel like communicating nobody likes to show their face when they've been

crying or feeling down the trouble is that that gives the impression that life is nonstop wonderful because you're not showing the other side. with these kinds of blogs everything should look beautiful and feel authentic whether it's fake or not is not so important. well fake or real the answer to that question can cost you a fortune especially if you splashed out on a product that turns out to be fake take bauhaus furniture for example the legendary art school has been around for over 100 years and it's designs are still highly prized classics because they are so sought after they are often copied much to the chagrin of the official manufacturers. this lamp is a classic it was designed in 1924 student vilhelm feld it was not commercially marketed at the time but today it is one of the most

popular bauhaus products and one of the most copied the table lamp is now manufactured by techno lumen in greyman it's the only company in the world to have an official license to do so it was granted by viacom felt himself the head of the company has been fighting against counterfeit. to make the sale of fakes generates at least as much money as we make with our products. it has to be constructed according to the original design details count the metal parts a nickel plated the stem and base of this variant a made of glass the cable is cloth covered and the foot of the lamp has a. stamp on the internet can't. our house classics you can buy what is called. for 70 euro's the real thing costs more than 6 times as much.

the only objects that are copied there's also furniture like the barcelona chair. tilting at windmills and more fakes are always appearing all licensed manufacturers like us have to fight if we didn't it would probably mean the end of authentic replicas like ours. it wouldn't be possible to manufacture a real for 70 year as the production is a lab. is assembled by hand the parts come from original suppliers and authentic license length sells for around 400 feet. copyright law is complex and differs from country to country techno lumen pays a lawyer to pursue the makers and marketers of an authorized replicas of often

they're just letterbox companies one might say it's a limited company based in london on but there isn't actually anyone there it's warehouse full of fakes might be in italy and the phone number you find that it's online shop might be in germany so the on the money often flows all around the world by a panama or wherever there are definitely criminal outfits behind all those. teachers and students at the bar house design products and buildings they put on exhibitions and published magazines it's not just its product designs all the architecture that has become legendary. the bow house is sometimes considered to have been ostia and severe but it also had its colorful and playful side andreas weber's says the zest for life it embodied has often been

looked. they had fun they partied they were disciplined in their work and the way they pursued their ideas but they were personalities and they had a lot of fun with each other. because once i realized that heaviness was gone. suddenly i could totally relate to it and that helped me make something new out of our time. between. new tendency is a design studio in berlin that sees itself in the tradition of the bauhaus. supplies modernist principles conceptual design clean a statics and functional form the products are hand crafted in germany it was founded by 2 brothers manuel and christoph manuel studied at the bauhaus university environment. he does not recreate bauhaus products he designs new ones in the

spirit of his illustrious precesses. we didn't want to make things the way they had always been made but to wipe the slate clean. and really start over that mentality and that approach is extremely inspiring. i see reduction erring down as a mega trend in society. less is more. it was intended to be an ironic catchy slogan my bauhaus is better than yours. the design studio got into trouble for that bauhaus is the name of a chain of d.i.y. stores in germany that company took them to court because it had obtained the rights to use the name back in the 1960 s. . we got this cease and desist order we had to rename ourselves

that was a catastrophic start to our new business. element. but in retrospect i'd say it energized us and really got us going up the company. without a change of name to tendency the company as it is today probably wouldn't exist who does this and saw what i mean. with success comes the risk and the honor of being imitated only copied counterfeiters make life tough for those who make the real thing it's a testimony to the intellectual and emotional power of the bauhaus that it still inspires both emulation and fakes. well i'm not sure that's a comforting thought for the real bauhaus autists but i guess fakes are part of today's reality that brings us to the end of this edition of may to thank you for

joining me in the team see you soon and stay safe.

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