that's what to do with all our waste. we can make a difference by choosing smart new solutions overstaying said you know he's. the one to those into a series of little polls and t.w. and all. this is news and these are our top stories. police have clashed with thousands of protesters in spain during demonstrations in support of rap artist public. it was jailed for insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism in his lyrics protesters in madrid and barcelona have been demanding his release officers deployed tear gas and 5 rubber bullets in an attempt to break up the protests. nato defense ministers have begun

a 2 day virtual summit to consider the alliances future in afghanistan it's the 1st such gathering since the u.s. election i'll discuss whether to continue the fight against the taliban or withdraw their troops even as the taliban increases its attacks against afghan police and civilians. the united nations and britain are calling for evidence that a missing princess is alive concerns for the daughter of the leader of the united arab emirates is growing after a friend said secret video recordings in which she claims she's being held hostage in a barricaded villa. this is news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website to be found at d w dot com. what is the military in myanmar doing to its own people 2 weeks ago generals sent in soldiers

to overthrow the democratically elected government now they reportedly sent in soldiers it's feared to overwhelm the crowds more against the coup a country in open revolt its democracy denied its rightful leader deposed song suchi she could be silenced and she could be sent away a decision for the generals a decision they've taken once before i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. they know from experience what it's like to have freedom we have to resist and we won't live under a military dictatorship everyone is unified in opposition to that they lied before that they'd hold an election back in 1988 even if there's no special reason to protest we don't want to be seen as weak we've already learned our lesson from not

teaching history the world is watching closely and any form of heavy handed response is likely to have severe consequences. also coming up the u.s. congress is urging president biden to punish companies constructing the nord stream to natural gas projects connecting russia to germany could sanctions be in the pipeline at president biden has made clear that nordstrom too is a bad deal to bad deal because it divides europe and portly sanctions are only one of many important tools to ensure energy security and what course will do this all in partnership with our allies and partners but our position has not changed on that on the deal. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states in 2. all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with the military in me and mark 2 weeks have passed since the army overthrew the country's democratically elected government the generals justified the takeover

saying november's national election was rigged although they provided no evidence well since the coup the country has been open revolt demonstrations were getting the larger by the day until early this week when soldiers were reportedly sent into silence peaceful protesters in me in mars' largest city yang gone and deposed leader aung san suu kyi her future is as uncertain as her country's she appeared in court this week on charges that could land her in prison it is difficult to know exactly what is happening however 3 days ago the military blocked all access to the internet for the entire country. a battle cry for democracy tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of young gone stepping up their open revolt against the military takeover car she says road blocks to keep security forces from moving around the commercial capital. in this

cat and mouse game it appears to for now it's the mice who have the upper hand. internet shutdowns another attempts to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even the judge says assurances of free and fair elections have been met with deep skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against sons who cheat. i know the young people of this generation don't have to believe the military is promises they lied before that they'd hold an election back in 1908 so we've already learned our lesson from that page of history. there's growing concern that myanmar's bloody history could be about to repeat itself the un says it's received reports of soldiers being ready for crackdown in young dawn sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of what's to come. but i do know that but is this activist told the

news they're not backing down no i'm not afraid i'm not afraid we've seen that we have been and i think it's a really control for years so this is that we have to finish this i we we we this we went oh what shall we give a crazy when your uncle was very early and. asked the world watches with bated breath for many here me amar there's only one way out of this. forward with their fists high even if no one knows where the world will beat them. and for more tonight i want to bring in mr mons aren't you a 1000000 more academic in human rights activists he joins me tonight from london mr zani it's good to see you again the you win warns that me and mars military is on a precipice just how close is the country tonight to

a crackdown by the army. well it appears that the army is no longer using the pastrana. which would have been you know cracking down on protests across the country using combat troops and killing thousands i mean that's what happened in 1988 and that's what happened in 2007 against the saffron you know monks or the monks revolting the military seems to be a bit more sophisticated and also they seem to be in a big dilemma because here we are not looking at just simply people on the streets you know most a lot of young and old people out on the street protesting across the country in different cities and towns and even villages they know that they are basically all in deep conflict with this is signed t.

ed law you know 50000000 people staring you down you know however well quipped and well trained and well organized you off they've got to have a 2nd thought about resorting to the wall street spot knowing that they are using sleep charts and they're using all kinds of terror methods and turning as shutting down the internet from 1 am to 9 am but this is a night raid yes and the military junta the they know that the international community is not presenting a united front against them china for example preventing any measures at the u.n. security council. yes absolutely i mean they can counter china you know also register for the veto protection if u.s. or other west and into the 3 west and veto powers on the security council decided to table any binding motion that the hunter has they have back cover however s.

you know you know like me live in a very ideologically diverse and said you know what kind of climate even in the united states we don't trump and said the hunter has been emboldened but this symbol lighting in all of this is that said you know the young generation who came off age having tasted a degree of limited political intellectual and cultural freedoms over the last 10 years they are not afraid you know of course that they are afraid to do what the military is capable of doing it that they're not prepared to beat back under soviet style dictatorships which firm a list of during their weapons times well how much faith do they have in a western front led by the united states and its sanctions against the military. well i think we need to understand that the brevis new generation

have been helped by you know into the hackers from everyone in the world like an anonymous a central. regional democratic deadhorse from hong kong to taiwan city make still tied it but then not be flying all around the united states or nor even own sense and she does live for them from this repressive state they are self-reliant they have ads you know nisha unwind civil disobedience movement not just food testy on the street but civil servants working out of their departments and gridley and bringing the state and ministration to a halt that is their strategy they are not looking for saved from anywhere else all right mr zandi joining us tonight from the u.k.

mr zandi as always we appreciate your time and your insights very valuable tonight thank you well still to come on the day of lung cancer and it's claimed the wife of one of the most influential and loudest voices of america's conservative right radio host rush limbaugh has da and we wish i didn't have to tell you this and i thought about telling anybody i thought about trying to. do this without anybody knowing this i don't like making things about me. because for germany to scrap the nord stream to gas pipeline with russia well they have gotten louder and that has everything to do with the kremlin critic alexina of all for the us and france russia crossed a red line their opposition to the project it goes back to the

a bomb administration when the us labeled nord stream 8 threat to european energy security and there is bipartisan support in the us congress for sentients against companies building the pipeline nord stream to is an underwater pipeline running through the baltic sea that would transport natural gas directly from russia to germany work on the pipeline is nearing completion and supporters say the nord stream pipeline will provide affordable energy to germany as it faces out nuclear power and coal power opponents warn that will make germany too dependent on gas from an unreliable country. are for more i want to pull in mr andreas nick he's a member of the german parliament from chancellor angela merkel's c.d.u. party he is also a member of parliament foreign affairs committee mr nick it's good to see you again you and i. spoke what a few weeks ago about nord stream to you and the german government's position

before only yes to the project no to u.s. sanctions at the time where do you stand tonight. i think there are separate dimension to this discussion i think as you mentioned one of them is question whether unilateral sanctions instrument that is appropriate in the relationship between close allies in this context i think in over 30 year old book secretary of state as we've linked in has recently got a lot of attention in berlin it shows he's convinced that unit actual sanctions against allies are not a good idea or that this should be taken back and we should we trust that the secretary of state will be able to deliver on that position and if that's the case in this context as think we can hopefully come closer to a unified position on how to deal with energy were a ships that was russia going forward illicit about that book and we understand

that you and others here in berlin in the foreign policy world you're reading a book written back in 1987 the title of that book and we can pull it up on screen to show folks there it is ally versus ally the author a certain anthony blinken who happens to be the new u.s. secretary of state now his book addresses a soviet american rally over a different pipeline and his conclusion is don't force allies to do something against their will leave that for the policy with the soviet union are you betting mr nick that 34 years later his thinking has not changed. well i'm convinced a good academic education pays off in foreign policy and i have no reason not to believe that mr blinken is continuing to sink what he very eloquently laid out in this analysis many years ago i think we know him we trust him

we think he's representing foreign policy that is absolutely interested to align policies and interests with close allies we understand the administration is under a lot of pressure from congress that i think 2nd level is very important intro's whether we can find a common strategy a common ground on how to define interests energy relationships with russia going forward i think that would have to have an all in composite discussion it is not about imposing certain policies on one particular country but it would be for example a discussion whether we would in general in the west agree that we want to backtrack from energy relationships with russia which would also include just $30000000000.00 of crude oil purchases by the united states in russia that is a discussion that administration may have to have with its own congress and if we if we go on on a common policy that is

a different different starting point for discussion but it posing unilateral sanctions on an ally is unacceptable and takes the attention away from the fundamentals of this discussion yet let's listen to what the german foreign minister hike a mass what he had to say this week take a listen. listen predicts drive russia and china closer and closer together and they formed the largest economic and military alliance there is what i don't think that should be the strategy of the west and this just in that. and therefore i am against burning all bridges to russia up to snog does and says i'm here are burning bridges to russia mr naik that says that sounds like he thinks russia has the leverage here and that europe and germany do not or am i reading that wrong. no i think absolutely not we i think do not simply do not support the idea

that the discussion on how we deal with russia given its unacceptable behavior internationally and domestically was an avanti case should be reached used to bilateral issue between russia and germany i think we have today seen. an interim measure by the european court of human rights again in the council of europe demanding the immediate release of this the nominee would have ongoing investigations in that context and i think we should put the whole scale of options on the table that should include as it freezes that should include travel bans that should include applying magnitsky law within the european union to deal with human rights perpetrator that he the whole menu needs to be set up to speed to be on the menu we have categorically refused to test this issue by lateralized as a german russian issue it is a very fundamental issue on human rights and the rule of law and we should also not bilateral eyes the question whether energy relations with russia are acceptable or

not in this context i think again as i said if there is an all in composite consensus i think this is different this is a different story but it would be very difficult to explain to the german public why. gas that comes to a certain pipeline is more problematic than gas or that is delivered other channels to other countries i mean that that is a valid point what about the idea of using the pipeline as a political circuit breaker if russia misbehaves then you would turn off the pipeline can you imagine germany turning off the gas with russia if in that situation i mean is that threat is that leverage credible. i think we have to look at 2 different scenarios as county talking about a construction project that has basically all permits to be completed i think if we were to stop that now that i think would be a substantial risk of billions of dollars of compensation payments and damages a thing no one could seriously want to trigger that this is just a one off and

a decision whether to complete the construction and not if there is an ongoing supply this could substantially always be subject to sanctions depending on the development i think that is something that would be decided on the e.u. level in a context that would also take other you members it would be a very different story line and i think it would be we what we want i think is a is 1st of all that unilateral sanctions are taken off the table and that would have an honest and open debate over whether we would use sentients in the energy sector against russia but that would then would have to be true for everyone and not only for one particular project and for one particular country mr underway as nick we see why you're on the foreign affairs committee in parliament and it's good to have you on the show tonight as always we appreciate your insights and your experience thank you spent but. here tonight is a special man be loved by millions of americans who just received

a stage for advantage cancer diagnosis this is not good news but what is good news is that it is the greatest fighter in winter that you will ever meet rush limbaugh thank you create. former president donald trump there on a ring the firebrand conservative radio host rush limbaugh with the medal of freedom news came today that limbaugh has died from lung cancer he was 70 for decades going back to the reagan era limbaugh was a staple on the american airwaves and one of the most influential voices on the right the rush limbaugh show went on the air in 1988 and within years it gained a loyal following of millions of listeners its hosts in cindy airy rhetoric against

former president barack obama women and minorities triggered countless controversies his detractors say that he helped some of the division that paved the way for the election of donald trump to the white house are to talk about this man i'm joined by ethan barron he is a us political commentator and a nationally syndicated talk radio host he joins me tonight from the great state of california is it is good to see you again for people watching us around the world tell us how much of an icon rush limbaugh was for american conservatives am was he really partly responsible for the election of donald trump. well i mean he there is no overstating his influence in radio and right wing politics here in the united states. as you point out since 1988 and that really is ronald reagan.

removing what was called the fairness doctrine in 1907 that allowed rush limbaugh to happen but let's not forget the fact that rush really did carry on the legacy of the southern strategy and that racist roots of that portion of the right wing here in the united states but there is you know there is no denying it his peak tens of millions of americans on a daily basis listen to his show. and ultimately i do believe that he paved the way for the syrup a lens the tea party the donald trumps in the united states he actually did make that happen there's no denying it it is just what harm did he cause in the process with those racist statements playing to people's fears in a rush limbaugh was for a while the fact of leader of the conservative movement in america here is speaking

at sea-tac the conservative political action committee back in 2009 take a listen. we believe that the preamble constitution contains any unarguable truth that we're all in down by our creator with certain inalienable rights among them life liberty freedom was in the pursuit of happiness. now that was a very tame sample of rush limbaugh what you say. definitely i mean he repeatedly throughout his career and let me preface this by saying look i've studied rush limbaugh as a talk radio host there was nobody better i mean he absolutely put on the number one show in the united states i would study his show he made racist statements whether they were couched whether they were little little pieces of red meat to the base that he would hide the language in

a way to couch it to make it more palatable to the audience or sometimes being right racist in his statements regarding the n.f.l. for example but to your point this guy led the conservative movement he led on everything from fox news to see pac to any republican gathering to that culmination in the medal of honor which which many of us really rejected that that should go to a talk radio host here in the united states in a highly controversial figure who reviews that contribution versity end and use this preying on people's fears to build that will audience to make himself hundreds of millions of dollars of are his career yet he was a wealthy man and he was a man who had his own personal demons did he not absolutely i mean while he would rant and rave on the radio about people with addiction he himself apparently

suffered from his own opioid addiction causing some of his hearing loss requiring surgery and hearing aids among other things so he was also a hypocrite on that standpoint i'm always pointing the finger at others yet suffering from those same things himself and having no compassion in that process and i found that really sad to not read more on those issues and instead love to blame. talk radio host ethan behrman joining us tonight from california talking about the late rush limbaugh even as always it's good to talk with you we appreciate your insights thank you thanks brenda. finally we report every day on many world leaders who demand attention by the volume of their voice by the severity of their statements but last night when an 8 year old girl asked us president biden should she be afraid of catching the

coronavirus the response he gave the gentle reply of a gentle man well that certainly got our attention and he has your school but have you been in school honey. no no see that's that's kind of a scary thing to you don't get to go to school we don't get to see your friends and so with a lot of kids and i'm mean and big people to older people they just their whole lives is sort of changed like when it used to be used to be this go outside and play with their friends and get in the school bus and go to school and everything was normal and now when things change people get really worries care but don't be scared on don't be scared you're going to be fine and we're going to make sure mommy is fine too. u.s. president joe biden there speaking with an 8 year old speaking the language that an 8 year old in understanding and we adults as well when the day is almost gone but the conversation is continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w.

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a microscopic bug has brought the global economy to its knees and forced change whether we like it or not is remote the new real when it comes to your personal life that 1st date can be so all quit surely the digital version will take the pressure out of it out of being there in person you can control the situation much better fix the lighting to suit your needs even have a few lines written down in front of you although i wouldn't recommend that you can get a good look at the other person before feeling forced into committing to anything the catch is that the other person can just as well brutally hang up without the on the easiness of getting up and walking away but there are other pros and cons of course. it was the advantage of dating apps is you know the person on your screen is single and looking for someone you don't have that in real life. good know that in online

dating is becoming completely normal in recent years absolute normandie to you both . on the course it's very superficial and i've been. doing all the small talk is well intentioned it's a way of finding common ground but it doesn't help against loneliness jen and their friends who is single and started using a dating app jamming the pandemic. i don't think i'd use tinder so much if it weren't for our current circumstances. after a while you lose interest with i guess you don't want this endless visual input anymore. you want to be able to interact and you can't do that so quickly with a nap. i'd always prefer a real meeting. that can land of the free alec and that now.

on tinder it's usually the man who has direct 1st. it's good if you can think of something witty or humorous way to say hello something cool if you fancy you have to set yourself apart from the others there's always a competitive element under. the company's behind dating apps such as joy right here in gemini up in maine. we have 7 dating apps the main one is joy right joy right. they've been downloaded more than 100000000 times and between 608-0000 new users register every day talk on quizzes t.v. volume is definitely an important factor that holds for all social. media all social apps. if you don't have enough members or enough new members there might not be anyone to write to nobody suitable of the right age or nearby you need

that critical mass. that was and. match group is the global market leader with a whole range of dating apps and revenues of close to 2 and a half $1000000000.00 over the past 12 months. the c.e.o. has seen the stock price more than double over the same period. we are getting at and i've never spent any money on dating apps. so but in general i don't pay for apps it's not a great loss in effect and. i don't really believe they'd make a difference. this help. for a while i added a new function to my account which let me find people again that i had swiped away perhaps more quickly than i should have. didn't help i tried it out but found i didn't really need it but still it was worth

a try. if things go well did you tell preliminaries lead to real life which calls for creativity in times of social distancing. we know see the trend that people are maintaining fewer but more intensive contacts are. used to be the case with dating apps that in order to score data people would keep a lot of potential candidates on the backburner. during a strict lockdown the only real option is to meet outdoors wearing a mask and keeping your distance and perhaps have a takeaway coffee or mulled wine and chalk. yeah there is the only real option but on the whole it works pretty well. let's. say you're standing there on the

street hi. how are you. it's weird and it doesn't feel quite right through this news it's not authentic. think many people probably feel that way right now. as long as the pandemic drags on people might well keep turning to dating apps but them want will use this swing back to meeting in the flash back to a more analogue getting to know you way of life. we're not expecting any slump in business people's dating behavior is changed. very very popular before the pandemic. so i think they're here to stay and will continue to develop. a colleague turned around to work the other day in the kitchen and said dan i took a step back thinking she was going to hug me of course she didn't she was just

excited to see someone in person again after talking to such a little face in a box on the screen for weeks on end i was quite fine with it i'm not a fan of squeezing into a tiny room with sweaty workmates for a meeting but staring into a computer for hours and hours can be draining there are some ways of making it fun although it has taken a long time for the technology to catch on as much of a common reports. sorry you can hear me sorry i was on mute is that better now i was that is that said ok yeah this is our life now but at least as everyone's video calling people spent less time doing this. and. so i was wondering could this actually help slow climate change can we do more than just remote

meetings. and what does the video call of the future. space. let's take it out. it's always good to point to. talking face to face while being in completely different places. has actually been floating around for quite a while. and i'm not just talking about psycho films that pop culture from the last century. i'm talking about the 1900. the 1st commercial video telephone came around way sooner than i would have expected the picture from it was supposed to reduce most business meetings but adjusted for inflation the cost up to around $1000.00 us dollars per month or time for that she only got 30 minutes of call time when you called it was super expensive back then

the gadgets were pretty clunky and no one really had one anyway so why did you even want to call. it the internet it turned video calling into a mass market. with kept increasing anscombe please like sky brought the technology to millions of people and then well all of ours pandemic flu virus that could all nobody surprises people all over the world are working from home. the grown up endemic was a watershed moment for video calling can't even begin to think how much time i've spent in this spot since the pandemic started along with lots and lots of other people. download figures for video calling apps went through the roof jumped from around 30000000 in 2019 to almost 500000000 and 2020 and its competitors the number of search. and well video calling really started taking off.

and it's left the industry really really fragile in really really struggling moment this is richard he's an analyst for cap and aviation research firm. i don't think any airline executive anyone who's fully engaged really realized beginning virus would actually have industry over the last year the airline industry had grown tremendously in. and then it crashed pardon the pun it's very unlikely things will just go back to normal especially of business travelers start flying again they're the ones who usually drive revenues by buying last minute tickets and paying for premium seats the pandemic showed us we can meet colleagues and business partners anywhere without actually leaving our homes and sure that's bad news for airlines but it's good news for the climate video communication or telepresence

whatever you want to call it. has an enormous potential role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions this is paul dickinson he's the founder of the carbon disclosure project a climate nonprofit and he's been pretty passionate about video conferencing for 24 years i was studying information technology and. i suddenly realized that video could reduce attention human transport for commuting. the office is all maybe having consultation business meetings and i made a list of all the hurt occupations in the world and i reckon about half of them could be done by video when you remove half of human journeys to remove half of the emissions from essentially passenger. rail transport and of course air transport. passenger travel makes up around 13 percent of all human emissions so

we're calling to pause estimates by replacing travelled with video we could slice this figure in half but then of course video calling also uses energy and creating that energy creates a mission yes there are growing emissions from information technology and we need to pay attention to those but they are absolutely tiny in comparison to the enormous emissions from transport if i was to have a physical meeting with you now your u.k. then again the physical emissions from us meeting would be much much much more than $0.99 higher than in the video paul and i talked for about 45 minutes i get my internet via copper cable which according to a recent study means that data processing and transmission created about 3 grams of c o 2 on a return flight from berlin to longer than i would have cost 287 grams so 187000

grams of emissions but what will happen after the pandemic where we just start driving to work and flying again like before or where we actually keep meeting on line so i think moving forward we will see some substitution maybe here who have less business trips but they will be better business trips to remain lot more but they will be a lot less in number it feels to me like the turning of the tide i think we've reached peak transport i think we're the last generation to do. to transport particular commuting there doesn't seem to be any reason for us to do all this trouble but you know i'm just tired of talking to people through a screen all day it's just not the same as meeting in real life. in fact video calls are really quite exhausting for us our brains missed the cues they get from body language they feel overwhelmed by all the faces staring at us and can't really deal with flags and sound and video but people are already working

on improving on line meetings so i'm about to meet the founder of meet but not in boring mentionable video called bots in virtual reality let's see how that goes. but it's my virtual meet and avatar the company created from a photo. shoot to see here welcome to me to be so this is our interview room we have coffee we have coffee which is warm all the time so if you are you basically have you know you don't have the limitations of reality so we are looking at every single interaction which you have normally in meetings and trying to make them even more intuitive and more if it was fish and effective than in real life and we can do this because if you are you can actually have superpowers for example there's always a pen behind you here but you haven't been in the real world and just try to get a pen from behind me or something like that i did move to both times actually yes and it's so weird when it happens i go on to make

a quick sketch and then always i love the new t.v. you know so that's when i feel like maybe a little more time in the real world as well. chris predicts our lives who move into virtual reality more and more in the next few years. some corporations from the us already using media in the hour to let the employees collaborate to find clap or brainstorm. but there's also companies who want to use me and the are to call. their products better for their customers and offered a more memorable and more engaging experience basically every time you know somebody tries an experience like this it's. emotional connection. which you're building with the other participants and the experience itself is much stronger than anything you would be able to achieve through a video. and i must say that's true at least for me. i mean i'm aware the.