e.w. dot com slash water. this is deja vu news live from the land and mars protesters say they're on deterred thousands of people return to the streets to demand the military give up power just one day after police fired on a demonstration killing 2 tejpal also coming up germany is set to kick off a year of festivities marking 1700 years of jewish life in the country the campaign also celebrates the community's present day diversity we meet 2 jewish women making

history and. i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program we began in myanmar where thousands of people have defied threats of violence to take to the streets a part of a new protest against the country's military rulers this comes a day on to police fired live ammunition to disperse protesters in the city of mandalay killing at least 2 people and injuring 7 alba's several others excuse me the crowds were forced to flee as security forces chased after them using slingshots rubber bullets and water cannon the protesters were painting their call for an end to military rule after a kurd 3 weeks ago. they returned despite the risk the reality now crystal clear for these demonstrators after police killed 2 more p . well with live ammunition on saturday it was the worst violence and mass rallies

began weeks ago past uprisings against the military have failed these demonstrators want them gone for good. i remember my parents fought against the military coup during the 1988 revolution and i too have to stand against this dictatorship if we fail to stand against them and this time our next generation will live under the military dictatorship so we can't stop this time. i want to say through the media to the dictator and his henchmen and we are peaceful demonstrators. who stop the genocide oh. stop using lethal weapons. but they can't go it alone protesters are appealing to the international community for solidarity.

putting appeal to a lot the number of people has increased today. and we will not stop. we will keep going till we reach our goal of democracy. almost at all we want other countries to take more severe actions than sanctions. nearly all of it wanted to vote also did it. on sunday facebook deleted the military's page for inciting violence following saturday's deadly crackdown. the killing 70 strengthen the protesters resolve. they hope that this time perhaps they can free me and maher from the military that refuses to relinquish power journalist dave green obama is following developments in and mom from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur and he joins me now there's been

a lot of attention surrounding the the 2 people killed in mandalay yesterday in the live ammunition that was fired on demonstrators but we understand that a man was also killed overnight and yang gong can you give us some more details about that so they're going these neighborhood watch groups forming communities around the country and this is a response to the nighttime raids and arrests the security forces have been doing it's also a response to concerns over the 10s of thousands of prisoners at the military government released recently concerns that perhaps some of them would be used to rough up demonstrators at the one time in their neighborhoods so these neighborhood watches have been going around and according to local media the m.r. last night one of the underlying outlying neighborhoods of one of these did watch groups came across to police vehicles at least one officer got out and see the fire what were shot in the air the neighborhood watch group just burst in when the police vehicles left and they came back to that spot they found one of their fellow watch group members dead on the ground we don't have much other details other than

that he was 30 years old and a father but this incident is really just infuriating people and the young guy across the country as they learn about it i can imagine how so i'm going to ask you how are these rates and deadly incidents is impacting what we've been saying on the ground there. well i mean you look at the numbers today particularly where we've got the video coming from a young guy mandalay you see large numbers of demonstrators adam streets today and other communities across the country to you see how loud they are with your voice their voices you see them still out with those signs that they want democracy they don't want a military government they want aung san suu kyi and other people released so these people are clearly motivated but here's something else we need to keep in mind we're a week away from the end of the month and there's this massive work stoppage going on across the country when the end of the month comes and people don't get paid then what happens are they going to be willing to go another month without pay there are some funds being set up to help people but it's i see no evidence of

there's going to be anywhere near enough aid to go around so we get a large and if they don't see any break from the military on this it's going to be a real gut check for a lot of people they still got to put food on the table their children and they're going to some of them have to ask selves and they really afford to continue to stop working. thank you very much journalist going to bounce speaking to us from fountain. well let's turn now to some other stories making news this hour people in there are going to the polls in a presidential runoff election pitches mohamed to zoom a former foreign minister a member of the ruling party against former president mohamed was manet and is set to be the west african countries 1st pace will transition of power since independence 60 years ago. the head of the international atomic energy agency rafael grossi has arrived in tehran to try to resume international inspections of nuclear facilities which iran has been blocking the visit comes as u.s.

president joe biden says america aims to rejoin the international nuclear deal with iran. germany is kicking off a year of anniversary events marking 1700 years of jewish life and culture in the country the nationwide celebration deliberately aims to look beyond the persecution of jews during the holocaust instead the focus is on the diversity of jewish life in germany's past and present. judaism has many faces in germany today the leader shannon identifies is clear she soon to become a rabbi and she's an avid instagram user she posts about religion sexuality and life in berlin and this requires them to just off a generation connected by all of these aspects of what many people learn about judaism at school it's really terrible so they're not really learning anything all that talk about national socialism but nothing about judaism as it is lived today that's why it kind of became my goal to show jewish life just how it is. killing

they grew up in a religious household she believes there are too few women in high positions and she wants to change that after completing her studies the 23 year old will likely be germany's youngest female rabbi she also wants to be the contact person she herself never happens. i'm very clear about the idea that nobody should have to choose between the jewish and identities you can't just choose what sexuality you're born with if you develop with your sexuality and if you are jewish then you should be able to live both lives. did the jewish community has come so far it's also thanks to women like. she had to fight hard to be recognised as a rabbi at all. robin there were people who left the room when i entered so i made sure that i was always there early because then i was already seated and the other

said to think about whether to sit down and join in or not. converted to judaism now she is the rabbi of poland's new synagogue berlin is also where the very 1st female rabbi was ordained in 1935 begin i do want us you want us however was limited to teaching religion and rabbinic opus torah care. there she is and you can basically see her main point that god did not require a gender she just wanted to be a rabbi she was the only female one but that has to do with the shoah they were probably other young women who thought and dreamed of doing the same thing and for me it's just wonderful not to be the 1st. line. the holocaust is for ever present for jews in germany you know you want to us was also murdered by the nazis she was forced to pay for her face with her life and what is

it like today. it isn't has gotten louder and above all it's become more outrageous it's often. judaism in germany today it's more diverse than it has been in decades people like yelena will never let that be taken from them again. for more i'm joined by shadi cope she's an israeli born journalist who grew up in formal west berlin and works for various media outlets here in germany thanks for joining dave wu what does this day mean for you. action of the day at such is not of great importance when you rather the fact that jews lie on the territory of today's germany and so all this is really astonishing for many people also for me i have to this and makes me also think because it is a very difficult violent history as we know my history marked by discrimination and

exclusion and persecution but also by participation. now you've spent most of your life in germany what changes have you noticed in people's perceptions here of jews and judaism and what hasn't changed or not. well what has changed as i think is the new perspective of now adays jewish allies because it can look so different we have religious people we have non religious and secular people many artists from old over many young jewish. well human beings come to germany to join here have. become very popular to be here in germany also as a jew and i think many of the younger jewish people are really committed to what this country and say yes we have a natural part of it and i think this has really changed because i was rather with

this view on jewish life in germany in terms of well we sit on packed huge cases and we doubt if we belong to this country what kind of laid nice and what i want to ask you next would you recommend germany today as a place for jewish people to live. yes of course a bit although we have to admit that anti-semitism as we heard a few minutes earlier. in the film has become louder i think it was it has been always there but nobody talked about it so loudly and this has really change but on the other hand side we have a very let's say lightly and the various and interesting and the very day of birth jewish cultural life in germany and this is something everybody is

invited to. aren't thank you very much analyst shellac if about from a personal perspective. u.s. president joe biden has declared a state of major disaster in texas following crippling winter weather at least 2 dozen people died in the unusual cold which disrupted electricity and water supplies carolyn and chinoy reports from houston. texas is not out of the woods yet thousands of families have been arriving in their cars to the mass distribution center in the city of houston the shortage of water is now the biggest challenge. we don't have to water about some households some even have running water at all not even to take a shower and if the stores where you have to line up on the perches is limited. now the city is trying to help millions of bottles of water are being distributed in according to aid efforts with dozens of volunteers each car gets no more than 3

cases regardless of how many family members but they have to be able to pick it up in downtown houston right side of houston city limits it's areas like these that have been hardest hit by the power crisis and the snowstorm we can still see the damage turn it here on the sidewalks on families they are struggling with a shortage of water government aid barely arrives here. brought him down the hall has been collecting groceries and water all day long he distributes this to the community out of his car ash to people who don't have a car or who have to war during the day thing or not all morning long day and i'm not in my community people are able to pick up things during the night this is what i do for them i distribute to help from 7 am sometimes until midnight i know this is the only time they have 4 years ago and i want to help. us

through the rules will grow a lump used to work as a case manager for a lawyer he lost his job due to the pandemic but at least he now has to time to help his community. not just you know if it wasn't for him we will have water at home not even to mean that it's going to take some months before things get back to normal in texas at least the weather forecast isn't predicting any more winter storms. you know watching data mining useful in fact next hour is. why are people forced to hard in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many answers.

such and there are many storms. make up your. job made for mines. traffic jams crowded trains and shia endless waiting nothing in berlin stresses me out more than trying to get from one place to another and of the only one traffic is a growing concern in many large cities across the globe smart technologies can help us solve this chaos 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 stock bumper to bumper about 165 hours a year mon dieu that's nearly a solid week in your car honking at strangers but probably not for long autonomy passengers can use their 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 recognized best dreams as objects in motion. ai systems are unable to calculate pedestrians unpredictable behavior or to 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. very complex especially when we come cities and we can treat them with normal motion time. i wear them are experts in combining behavioral psychology with statistical and deep learning. for protest to it's important to be able to communicate with autonomy. the normal eye contact and just drink more 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 i guess train behavior and non-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. all the speech is that their vehicles know where they are and we have a mission for each of these places it would be a different set of models that would be used but each of these spaces and these models would be fine tuned specifically for that road. clearly there's still a long way to go and that's what expos from all around the world gather regularly to discuss future mobility solutions like at berlin's the for trade show 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 carr's use cameras to alter a sound and radar to analyze their surroundings as well as the more modern bidar sensors that use lasers. to all. these different types of sensors because radar and lidar can calculate the distance to objects very accurately but they don't capture enough details to recognize what these objects really are. when it comes to humans it's the camera that's best equipped to detect what their intentions are good as to are they about to cross the road or not you know just toss it's an old mutiny. 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 a surrounding objects tesla basilan musk recently ruffled some feathers when he said lighter was too expensive and that cameras radar and ai systems would suffice

tesla uses only radar radio waves are used to measure an object 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 for roboticist and manufacture of light are systems disagrees with the law must. be freely. the problem is that cameras don't offer direct information about distance and radio isn't high rez so there's missing information on 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 one i'm 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 already hitting the streets today like this is done in the past at a clinic in florida during the pandemic of

a whole new advantage they can help minimize the spread but these are just precursors to truly a ton of those vehicles where opacity only needs to punch in the destination turn over the engine and then lean back and relax. but do we really want to let a 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 are better file and it's not like their actual driving is better in every situation but they're always paying attention that many people get distracted by their own origin ice cream or dream coffee and that is the problem humans just always paying attention and machines of programs always be attentive which is why they're better drivers april and see if this he doesn't follow. as a moment is going to the moment it's definitely humans who are the better driver seen as the machine offers good support especially in emergencies but humans are

definitely better when in the future it will definitely be the machines they'd vantage of an automated system one 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 man in the city for sure. but man makes lots of mistakes and this. led to and continues to lead to lots of injuries and that in cities themselves i'm optimistic that and 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 than walk. but joking aside how different intelligence does have some obvious advantages it never gets tired of 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 additional assists life software they can factor in my preferred modes of transportation my current location and the time of day to find the quickest most efficient way to get where i'm going next but at the front of it's it 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 their destination faster. the sat nav supplies information on traffic jams and makes recommendations for instance what speed the driver will need to travel at to make the next green light the i knew him as a real challenge in traffic management was to 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 it 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 and this could simply be displayed in the individual vehicle in 5 years to go. if concepts like these can reduce traffic in

berlin and other cities then great but if i'm being honest the syphon node 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 on. the fly wheel as an autonomous lead 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 she. think it is i don't think of the fi world as a form of motorized private transport like a car but it's not a public transport either by the subway it is something in between takes the best of both worlds and create something new in which we've called a collective my billet system predictive ability.

as 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 high for the i pod the truth through to almost at the speed of sound the idea came from tech visionary musk in 2013 the era 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 but you are a car ride say 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 go like these would be available to the wider public if they remain toys for the super rich 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. i.

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