used his 2 closing statements to say that he didn't regret coming back to russia he. quoted both harry potter and the bible to say that he didn't feel alone and that he urges his supporters not to feel alone as well and he also talked about his vision for the future of russia a future in which as he said truth and justice matter and russia can be free and really what reactions have there been to the verdicts including perhaps in the criminal law and media. well i think the verdicts came as no surprise and alexina allies came out after that 1st verdict the they rejected appeal saying that it's a disgrace and saying that it shows that there is no rule of law in russia after all the 1st case that he is now going to be behind bars over has been ruled by the

european court of human rights to be arbitrary and on reasonable doubt the ruling from 2017 and before this court hearing today the european court of human rights also called for his release which the ministry of justice rejected outright as an attempt by europe to meddle in russia's affairs. is it your feeling that this will help or hinder the russian opposition. well it's hard to know i think on the one hand the fact that an exchange of irony is behind bars now comes as no surprise to the opposition here it was pretty clear that he would be arrested even before he returned to russia what is interesting i think about these 2 court cases and the last few months with the protests with his. return as well is they really have meant that state media here in the country can no longer ignore alexina me as a figure they've been presenting him including with this trial over the defamation

of a veteran as unpatriotic as an agent of the west whereas before they essentially ignored him ignored opposition protests as well and i think now the opposition faces a really tough task there are duma elections in september and these allies have been advocating the strategy of smart voting where they want people to vote for the strongest candidate who's standing against putin's united russia but they've been facing a huge crackdown not only with the arrests of alex enough but with police searches and also activists houses and so on so we'll have to see how successful that campaign ahead of those elections can be for them ok do you really sure we're in moscow thanks for that american president joe biden has declared a state of major disaster in texas following

a crippling winter storm at least 2 dozen people have died in the unusually cold weather which disrupted electricity and water supplies. this snow and ice may have melted but texans are facing and you heard a shortage of clean water houston residents queued for up to 3 hours for just that on friday. the water came on for a moment i believe. or late wednesday. i also wanted to get some for my neighbor. has no water at all. record low temperatures have led to pumping problems burst pipes and water mains across the state even flooding some homes it's just the latest misery for residents who are left without heat or electricity for days. just. the coronavirus all. mortgage you know i have

a business and i have all of the stuff that. is the one that is. 7000000 people are currently under orders to boil top water before drinking our cooking as low water pressure could have a life bacteria into the system the state's governor has appealed for help from the u.s. president. i talked with the federal emergency management agency fema the administrator . this afternoon i'm going to ask him to accelerate our response a request for quote it's a different declaration a major disaster declaration so the reading get everything done as we need that's possible to get done just hours later biden gave approval for that declaration allowing for more federal funds to be distributed for the relief effort which will no doubt be welcomed by the thousands who are still without power and water. and

the american president has promised that america is back on the international diplomatic scene so he's reversing many of the trumpet ministrations foreign policy decisions one of the biggest came in 2015 when trump pulled the u.s. out of an international agreement with iran to effectively prevent it from building nuclear weapons now biden wants the u.s. back in and the accord back on track here's a look at the deal. with joe biden who came to the white house promising to work more with iran than he's pretty decisive but he says the u.s. will really and to the iran nuclear deal to donald trump we've drawn from the agreement in 28. but that's only part of the mass the need administration has to clean up trump also placed tough sanctions on tehran. iran responded by increasing its enrichment of weapons grade uranium not by enough to actually build

a bomb but the message it sent to the international community was alarming and with bought and now in the white house iran wants to restart negotiations with the u.s. and other security council states but to iran wants the economic sanctions lifted 1st. turan says if the sanctions are not gone by tuesday they will suspend some nuclear inspections by international observers. but the button administration says sanctions relief is not on the table. and for more on this i'm joined now by jad he's the author of an upcoming book iran in an emerging new world order and joins us from berlin mr nugent thanks for joining us the u.n. has an inspector back on the ground in iran talking with officials there and the american president joe biden is calling for careful diplomacy this is a big change isn't it. well i mean we're still in a transition period so we're not you know sure about the trajectory of those

developments but regarding the i.a.e.a. director general's visit to tehran today it is surely trying to talk to the iranian leadership in terms of the step that iran has announced for next week that is to stop to suspend unannounced inspections by i.a.e.a. inspectors and so he's willing to make sure that the agency can still do its very very very few cation work and also yesterday there was a report by reuters that the i.a.e.a. inspectors had found traces of enraged here a new. underground science of this will probably be also on the agenda because also we have in the quote of the report by the agency juvenile week so iran might be a review in that concerning the bidens policy we still don't know

you know the exact details we know that yesterday at a speech at the munich security conference he 1st of all pledged that the united states is willing to return to multilateral talks for rejoining the g.'s of pure 8 but at the same time he talked about the need to address iran's these stabilizing activities and surely the latter was not something that iran was desired was a design designed to take from the u.s. presidents no i'm sure they don't want something new out into the menu listen to the americans aside the other security council countries and germany who all brokered the deal as you know wealth also wanted resurrected but iran says these sanctions in place and have to be that the 1st who do you think will blink here. well this is some of the major questions that we will have to see. this is true i mean it's true that the iranians have sound that the u.s. needs to you know be compliant again to the nuclear deal after it was that

washington left it. but as far as things stand i soon that we're going to probably i mean the most probably scenario would be a step by step process that is iran reversing some of its reductions of nuclear commitments that it has pursued and exchange for some sanctions easing but i think right now there is we need to do wait and see what the transatlantic policy which might be in the making as we can tell from you know also statements from boris johnson yesterday i mean it security conference will look like. but after all iran is definitely interested to the eventual talks too with the united states because the sanctions that have been imposed during the trial that mr asian have been truly crippling. and it seems that the biden administration wants to use

that average in order that the 1st of all to have a more robust nuclear deal that is to extend the sunset clauses. and eventually also pave the way to talk to toronto with some on some non-nuclear issues when it comes to iran's regional presence and that's because the greens are programmed something to one is the knights to be willing to engage and so far ok thank you so much for that insight alley fight a lot and chad in berlin thank you. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. at least 2 people have been killed and several others injured in ian morrow after police fired live ammunition to disperse protesters in the city of mandalay many people in the country are calling for an end to a military coup that took place almost 3 weeks ago. the italian coast guard

has launched a search for survivors after a vessel carrying migrants capsized off the mediterranean island of lampedusa overnight officials say around 40 people have been saved survivors of the accident said 5 people are still unaccounted for. and we turn to sports now saturday's early bonus league games have finished and there was a big result for on trust frank frankfurt who may have blown the title race wide open with a victory over league leaders byron munich frankfurt beat the champions $2.00 to $1.00 to enhance their own european ambitions elsewhere mind speed. berlin down freiburg cologne loss to stuttgart on friday will spur ease past bielefeld take on dortmund in the review. which kicks off shortly and there are 3 games on sunday a win for leipzig would put them within 2 points of leaders fire. and watching you news coming up next is shift living in the digital age this week with

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there's a jew at our school dance about thing 11 teenagers 11 stories. ok so i'm jewish and so. young german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w. traffic jams crowded trains and shia and there's way to nothing in berlin stresses me out more than trying to get from one place to another of the only one traffic is a growing concern in many large cities across the globe smart technologies can help us solve this case how exactly that's our topic on ship today. to us out there. many still use cars as their main mode of transportation aside from air pollution and the climate crisis this also has

a huge drawback more and more traffic jams in paris for example drive us or stock bumper to bumper about 165 hours a year mon dieu that's nearly a solid week. honking at strangers but probably not for long autonomy passengers can use the drive to do something much more productive i for one wouldn't mind brushing up on my friends but for this day to come there are still a lot of things left to work out and the biggest challenge developers still face is humans. driverless cars use their versions of sense of state control themselves autonomy asli. but so far these cars have merely recognize a pedestrian just objects in motion. chaotic systems are unable to calculate pedestrians unpredictable behavior toward a properly understand their body language. london based tech company

humanizing autonomy and other research institutes are working to develop models for human behavior and traffic. this data will hopefully then train autonomy's cars. so humans very complex especially when we come to cities we can treat them with normal motion. our expertise is in combining behavioral psychology with statistical and deep learning. for protest reasons to it's important to be able to communicate with an economist's car the normal eye contact and gesturing won't help . developers are working on interfaces that could be used to signal to pedestrians whether or not they can cross the street by using light signals in the windshield for instance. there's a problem though pedestrian behavior and not. verbal communication differs around the world. if you look at for example in munich no one will

jaywalking. where you come to london people are jaywalking all the time the great thing about vegas today and of course. the speech is that you know their vehicles know where they are and we have a mission that for each of these places it would be a different set of models that would be each of these bases and these models would be fine tuned specifically for that road. clearly there's still a long way to go and that's why experts from all around the world gather regularly to discuss future mobility solutions like at berlin's effects rachel one main topic is how can a driverless car seat or more specifically which sensors does it need to recognize and respond to its surroundings as well as to be expected in the mosque has a very strong opinion on that matter let's take a closer look. at thomas cars cameras to alter sound and radar to

analyze their surroundings as well as the more modern lidar sensors that use lasers . of all. these different types of sensors because radar in lidar can calculate the distance to objects very accurately but they don't capture enough details to recognize what these objects really are and when it comes to humans it's the camera that's best equipped to detect what their intentions are that is to use no car they have to cross the road or not you know i just wasn't you know. the industry's top companies are increasingly setting their sights on light on technology which stands for light to technician and ranger here sensors attached to the car sent millions of laser impulses every 2nd this creates a precise 3 d. image of the surrounding objects tesla basilan musk recently ruffled some feathers when he said lighter was too expensive and the cameras. radar and ai systems would suffice tesla uses only radar radio waves are used to measure objects distance and

speed using this data and the camera images a 3 d. image of the surroundings is then created with the help of ai. flowing on pity roboticist and manufacture of lidar systems disagrees with the law must. be freely and there is the problem is that cameras don't offer direct information about distance and radar isn't high rez so there's missing information once this means you need another source of information to be able to navigate safely the question here is can you said cost and safety and i for 1 am absolutely against this in my opinion my bet is he needs to be completely safe which also means using the best census. by the way experts believe one out of 10 cars on the road in 2030 will be self driving some are already hitting the streets today like this a dog on the spot at a clinic in florida during the corona pandemic so after i think of a whole new advantage they can help minimize the spread but these are just

precursors to truly a ton of those vehicles where a passenger only needs to punch in the destination turn over the engine and then lean back at lax. but do we really want to let the robot take the wheel is it even safe and who makes the better drive out man. dimensions i think humans are very good drivers but machines a better father is not right their actual driving is that's or in every situation where they're always paying attention that many people get distracted by the firemen or it's an ice cream or drink coffee and that is the problem humans just on always paying attention and machines of programs always be attentive which is why they're better drivers april since the off the line if this doesn't follow. as a moment is going to the moment it's definitely humans who are the better drivers seen as new donuts the machine offers good support and especially in emergencies but humans are definitely better than in the future it will definitely be the

machines the advantage of an automated system is that it's always activated it has a $360.00 degree view and it's crucial for the city and it has a general understanding of the situation what are the other road users planning to do and. right now i would definitely say mad in the city for sure. but man makes lots of mistakes and this. led to and continues to lead to lots of injuries and deaths in cities themselves i'm optimistic then the future we will have automated systems that create a safer and more pleasant city for already exists. how could a robot possibly be a better driver that was. but joking aside i different intelligence does have some obvious advantages it never gets tired or distracted and it always keeps it cool i wish i could say the same about myself either way robot vehicles console the issue

of in the city congestion on they all they need additional digital assists software they can factor in my preferred mode of transportation for my current location and the time of day to find the quickest most efficient way to get where i'm going expense at the front of a and c. would have teamed up with great minds across europe to develop just that. team as a smart navigation system for all. road users cars bikes buses and trucks it's a project that's designed to regulate the entire traffic and help everyone to reach her destination faster. the sat nav supplies information on traffic jams and makes recommendations. for instance what speed the driver only to travel at to make the next green light the only home here is a real challenge in traffic management must understand the needs of all road users trying to get from a to b. . then this needs to be analyzed and reconciled with what's actually possible within mobility in the future i could definitely see new technology helping us to

react in a more dynamic way than. team would send data to traffic management centers while simultaneously navigates road users traffic management would then be able to react to the various situations immediately they could adjust traffic like durations and speed limits change the bus schedule at short notice divert heavy traffic on to unused bus lanes and much more these decisions would have to be made visible on the street you immediately. move if i say traffic lanes will be used more dynamically than i have to think of a way to do that maybe with l.e.d.s. or something what can i bring into the space to make it more dynamic. virtual traffic lights could be an option if there are lots of cars maybe we need a traffic light but if the road is quiet then this could simply be displayed in the individual vehicle for us to go. if concepts like these can reduce traffic in berlin and other cities then great but if i'm being honest the syphon it in me was

hoping the future of mobility would look a little cooler like flying cars lucky for me there already research is out there working on some crazy new ideas check these out. the flywheel is an autonomous li driving vehicle which could replace cars the wheels can be connected to one another to. longer units. are designed to use existing subway and railway tunnels as a form of collective transport and then they can disconnect again to bring the passengers to their exact destinations the idea came from architect max should. think it is i don't think of the fi world as a form of motorised private transport like a car but it's not a public transport either but the subway is something in between takes the best of both worlds and create something new which we've called a collective my billet system elected to believe jesus.

is an electrically powered autonomy's flying taxi that can bring passengers to their destination much quicker than other means of transport. the developers aim to reduce the number of vehicles on the road whilst also reducing air pollution. and this is the hyperloop a part that shoots through to almost at the speed of sound the idea came from tech visionary elon musk in 2013 the air is sucked out of the 2 creating a vacuum which with barely any wind resistance propels the passenger capsules to speeds up to 1200 kilometers an hour developers around the world are currently working on hyperloop projects a 2 hour car ride from abu dhabi to dubai would take just about 12 minutes. with that i might even enjoy commuting to work every morning but it remains to be seen if we girls like these would be a bailable to the wider public if they remain toys for the super rich or whatever

happens expos all around the world are working hard on the future of mobility if i had my way i'd hop off my balcony directly into my flying car then use a bike for shorter routes for example and the bike. the future of mobility how do you imagine it what would you would. to see let us know what you think i can't wait to hear your ideas that's it for me for today see you next time.

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