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so you. say you want to know what makes the geminids just get the jump. on banning thing the whole way from. i'm not even allowed to build my own car and everyone was made a holes in everything. getting you ready to meet the devons then joining me right just do it on w. they say there's nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend who we're shocked that more on that tasty treat later on in the show. everyone is welcome to another edition of your own max with me your host megan leigh here's a look at what we've got coming up on today's program. we'll see how one artist
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uses a fish in her expressive works. who knew we were bringing along side one of europe's faxes for unicyclists as she breaks records. but we start off the show with folk songs which are making an unusual comeback now have you ever heard of sea shanties these folk ballads were sung by sailors that during their work at sea you're probably familiar with this one. what shall we do with the drunken sailor or one young scotsman decided to revive these centuries old tunes during lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic what began as a way to pass time for nathan evans has turned into a runaway success and has even landed him a record deal. see
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there. was a simple rhythm and a centuries old melody has changed nathan evans live forever. well a man is a sea shanty evans' rendition of this maritime work song has earned the scotsman a spot at the top of europe's pop charts. i mean it's like a dream come true. it's. like a dream i'm just we hope. that's because until recently nathan evans was a postman in the town of airdrie new glasgow in his free time he'd uploaded videos of himself performing pop or folk songs to tick talk at his followers request he started covering sea shanties like we've heard johnny. in
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the moment. pining. late last year evans landed a surprise hit when his version of the new zealand wailing song soon made the well and. i thought. of a good. sang along in. the next song. that i expect. a song that would bend the charts and all. this song made a big splash and soon the internet was flooded with people singing well a man during the corona pandemic the shanty clearly touched a nerve as it tells of the set scene one. everyone is stockholm. everybody and they just. see the friends and then the
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soldiers came along and everybody. along you can stomp your feet and. you can play an instrument to. show. yes just i think it. she's. been putting a smile on people's faces since the 15th century when sailors would be out at sea for months and. chosen to lead the singing in response songs would sing the man and the rest of the crew saying the response or chorus. in the digital age the internet community has taken the place of abode using tick tocks function virtual sailors courses have sprung up all across the globe. even prominent musicians like us violinist lindsay stirling and british guitarist brian may have gotten swept up in the shanty craze.
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i was speechless when i. seen all these people. it's just incredible. that. with a recording contract in his pocket nathan evans quit delivering mail to concentrate on his musical career he's currently working on his 1st album and eventually hopes to go into a. run aground. in . i would i would do the opposite and take that as an experience and take it with
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me and i don't all go but still we say that we think it also makes no difference to me but it still may find evidence has cost of his safety net and his seizing his chance he's now one step closer to his dream of being able to live from his music one minute then is done. and sticking with a maritime theme this next piece is all about the surreal fashion created by the artist veneer of. this headband is just one example of her conceptual art but others involve actual fish and as you'll see soon she incorporates them into her masks and costumes to express or even hide her inner feelings now we met up with the artist in moscow to find out more. and raw fish be a fashion accessory. that's how russian armenian artist veneer of
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sorrow the stages for a model at a photo shoot in moscow. the fashion designers unusual combinations have garnered her international acclaim. i have no humans with the materials and. i can come by in a paper with a wall were always there because. i want to write the diary but for me it's making a mask. to her masks are works of art and a means of self-expression. the new yorker's sorrow that has been working on her mask series since 2009 she's already made around 100 fanciful face coverings ever since she finished her degree in fashion design in moscow masks have played an important role in her creations by mask i cover my. real face and eat
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me a while protection maybe and they and the mask his kind of are a future for me because i wanted to show my real emotions. on the face mark my face but i show my emotions through the textures the technique and the materials. for the new yorker saw over designs costumes and props for theater productions like this one in the russian city of perm in 2020. 3 years before she worked on the fish project at moscow's gorky park. and in 2018 she contributed to the moscow staging of book land. time and again the designer mixes materials that don't seem to go together. her current series fish and flowers is no exception because sorrow is inspired by fairy
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tales and surrealism fish are recurring symbols in her work ones that are meant to cause people to stop and reflect people. and. dress with and always thought beautiful combined with flowers and white paper it's very beautiful but it is kind of ok but it's not. the life and waters of the dead and. it's kind of a. while and. because sorrow is on her way to nikolai gogol house a museum in the russian capital she was invited to take part in a group exhibition here entitled the islands each participant was given a room and free reign to show off their creativity. installation features paper flowers printed with images of meat here too she makes
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a connection between pretty plants and dead animals. paper is one of her favorite materials to work with. but wanted to trust me paper. there's nothing more for white sheet of paper. paper also plays an important role in her latest photo shoot. i never thought it was quiet. and that makes me do it again i'm always looking for perfection. because sorrow stage is surreal dream where. that unmask her passion for the absurd .
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who doesn't like a nice creamy bar of chocolate well the swiss are masters when it comes to making it so what better place to head than switzerland for a lesson in our food series food secrets we explore what goes into european specialties that everyone knows and enjoys so for a glimpse into the secrets behind milk chocolate we met up with experts in the kitchen and in the field. whenever i go on vacation i always bring chocolate along always. without cocoa there's no chocolate no way around it.
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there are the intimidation only swiss chocolate is a kind of milk chocolate and we produce a dark 1000000 chocolate which contains 56 percent cocoa how. i'm laura shockley. i'm a co-founder of the floor chocolate factory people and we've produced chocolate by hand to show. you how thing in the end the main ingredients for chocolate include 1st of all sugar soca them then we add cocoa butter which is the fat crust from the cocoa bean from the border down some next is the milk powder so if we're making a milk chocolate it's this doesn't mean we've heard. you cocoa beans are the most important ingredient for making good swiss chocolate. go regionally
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from south america came to central america and eventually to africa. my name is christian velez i'm originally from colombia where i run a cocoa plantations i chose cocoa because i've always wanted to do something that connects my 2 countries of origin switzerland and colombia. nature grows up to 5 meters tall grow on the trunk and not branches like normal fruits to. take the cocoa apart and cut it open to new find the beans inside the fruit. place these fruits in wooden boxes and cover them with banana leaves and i mean this introduces eastend bacteria which initiate fermentation then 48 hours later you turn them over this process takes $5.00 to $6.00 days in all and you have to keep turning the fruit to different intervals and depending on when to turn them you can bring out certain
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flavors. the 1st thing we do is. to remove the skins. i don't have that when you window then you peel the skins off and you end up with. pieces of the beans and this is where our recipe starts i think. we need to lay the cocoa out on these baking sheet and then we roast them in the other and each recipe requires a different kind of roast and. the. fish are made fresh milk. chocolate don't go together well so we can't work with fresh we always have to use milk powder. and. i think. here i have the roasted nips. and this is a stone. jesus prime minister the how this one has to granite stones in any way and
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the cattle turn the feet down it which causes friction if you push a now up or in the cocoa and absent nice and slow see 9. but this time for the sugar. free comes a long time in my poor that and gradually as well it's done to me when it's created a paste i can add in the melted cocoa butter cow both of these fish molds. they're made on for the grinder works as a conscious at the same time you hear them. just to show conscious means stirring the cocoa paste to mix air and to its roots in that which reduces the acidity me to look at what gives our chocolate this with very fine sweet taste anything balanced by using.
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the middle of the shaking table gets out all the air bubbles still trapped in the chocolate we don't want to be bubbles in the chocolate bars. we. have and i think we can make a lot of people happy with our chocolate and that's why this is my dream job. yummy and if you would like to see more reports about mouthwatering specialties from all over europe and make sure to check out our you tube channel d.w. food. family to see these. stories. to ze hasn't. the smell amazing the best chefs with their fast chips from meat dishes to be king diet and all the recipe
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secrets. europe's diversity is a smorgasbord your list. subscribe and enjoy d. tell you food. biking through town or on trails is tricky enough on 2 wheels especially when you pick up speed so you can imagine how hard it might be when and navigating on only one wheel now the producers of the show went to a lot of trouble to bring in a unicycle into the studio and this is where i could probably demonstrate for you but instead of breaking my neck i will leave it up to a young german woman who is breaking records on her unicycle. on the unicycle they are going to make up to 40 kilometers an hour.
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coming up the combination of speed balance and the high risk is what fascinates me the most i. just gave riding high in the saddle bag and keeps your concentration and her eyes on the road and a little good presents an obstacle to. talk it's one and. i do have a handlebar but it's mostly so i can lean into the wind and not for support on bicycles you can hold on to the handlebars and the unicycle doesn't have anything to stabilize you say you have to find your center and learn to build speed and confidence without using your hands. it takes years of practice to learn to ride with this kind of speed and skill even as a little girl bag and felt magically drawn to begin you saw a pool and began taking part in competitions bajo talented balancing hasn't always been well appreciated on the contrary. as
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a kid i got in trouble for tipping my chair up on one leg and nursery school and rocking back and forth while. so they told my parents they suspected i had a movement disorder. but my father was sure that wasn't true and he got me into sports that was the best decision he could have made and i'm very grateful to him for it. now what aged 20 she's collected medals and prizes the world at the 2018 world unicycling championships in south korea she churned out 5 world champion titles in various disciplines. finally in 2020 the world record for the longest distance covered in one. though the 33 kilometers on her unicycle she even beat the men's record. in fear in many of the physically demanding sports that's just unthinkable that was
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another huge step forward and it's really special to many. young adults in a bag that was born in the french border region. now she lives in berlin and hopes to study law she set up a little workshop in her room in the apartment she says she owns 15 unicycles to various purposes one even has started tires for off roading. as often as she can she takes off to go riding cross-country another discipline that yana 10 a bag and holds a world champion title pool. and the only one she's having injured herself doing. there's been more than a mountain biker hit my unicycle from behind in a mud hole and my leg got caught in between his crank and it will hit my shin bone . i finished the race and won but afterwards i had to go to the medic. was pretty swollen up but that's the worst that's happened to me outdoors so far. in
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comparison the ride home through both means rush hour traffic is like a walk in the park a unicycle in town maybe an unusual sight but it's quite legal and it helps keep the bag in in shape for the challenges yet to come and get my one hour world record leave some room for improvement i'd say there's also a 24 hour world record in a cycle writing i'd like to go for that one too you can sit on the cycle for a long time you just need to practise. bag and decide she's practiced enough for one day and treats to a gentle stroll into the sunset. in this digital age we would expect that most anna mae. are done on the computer but some artist prefer methods that stand the test of time such as stop motion animation this technique of filming characters in movement has been around for a couple of decades and it is
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a popular way of entertaining the masses well i caught up with one stop motion director in paris who showed me more. this is american actor leonardo dicaprio in a way you've never seen him before in stop motion animation action. this is the work of french director victor who makes animation films and ads in his paris studio. i really like stop motion animation because it's something very times you go to again you can touch it you really feel what you are doing i mean with your hands. and though so i cannot draw and i cannot choose a subject so we do wanted to make stop motion and i think this is the best way to make it a mission. picture has been creating stop motion animation for 13 years he taught
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himself how to do it after studying film in the czech capital prague missionary mission is a very long process you put the puppets in the position you make this movement you take a picture you make it as a movement you take a picture and so to try to redo original movie you have in. this 5 2nd clip took 2 hours to make. his animations cover a wide range of schemes including this film featuring a 3 d. superhero. other clips are simple loops made for fun for instagram. this animation highlights actor tom cruise's stunts from his movie mission impossible. and victor's bear often makes
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other popular appearances on social media. but it isn't just for fun the artists. and his money with animated ads for big international companies. 3 years ago i decided. to put on my work on instagram and to publish. a new mated loops every weeks. lot of success it was very unexpected but now i have more than 300000 followers. and i get a lot of commission directly via instagram. picture tries to find a sense of humor in his everyday surroundings this is where he gathers ideas the challenge lies in bringing the ideas back to the studio and turning them into mini works of art the finished product is it always what he expects when it's done i'm
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very happy to look at it from my frame because while i was in the mating i was focused on what i was doing so sometimes i did notice i did some move as a move and after this time i keep surprising myself. and victor continues to surprise his fans as well with his unique and unusual classic form of animated photography. and with that we come to the end of the show but don't forget to log on to our website for this week's drop as always from me and the rest of the crew here in berlin thanks for tuning in.
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this is d.w. news live from baghdad world leaders condemned the bloodshed in the end our united nations accuses the regime of committing mass murder against its own people the u.n. envoy tells us that the army commanders should face criminal charges. suicide bombers target a cathedral in indonesia as easter services get underway. and the mighty oak trees being cut down to make buf roof beams for the not to dam cathedral of paris 2
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years on from the devastating fire restoration works are underway. i. am really mohammed thanks for joining us the united nations has accused the military regime and me and maher of committing mass murder against its own people security forces killed more than 100 civilians in the bloodiest crackdown since the army seized power last month anti-government protesters are back on this on to the streets and thousands have now fled into neighboring thailand. to. the funeral of a 13 year old boy he died when security forces opened fire though there were no protests in the area neighbors say according to witnesses at least 6 children between the ages of $10.16 died during saturday's bloodbath. well of calls maybe of
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the killing not only the people believe that killing that and all you have to kill in the design the people the killing the people who love it and even become a speaks well in that. the violence coincided with me on mars armed forces holiday . while general celebrated with a military parade security forces were opening fire indiscriminately on the streets it was the defense chiefs of 12 nations have released a joint statement denouncing the hunters massacre of civilians but rights groups want to see more than words from the international community given the military strike record. this is a military that's had a long history of impunity and committing trustees against its people indifference is this time around we're seeing photographs coming out in real time we can say we didn't know what was happening. despite the killings there's little sign that protesters are going home on sunday they've built barricades to stave off security forces and yet gone they're not prepared to let the generals keep control of their
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country. well tom andrews is the u.n. special envoy for man maher he joins us live now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed being here with us on the news that tensions continue to grow on the streets more than 100 people were killed yesterday how much further will this escalates lord only knows i mean this regime. this is no it terry has shown that it has no limits on its level of challenge and its willingness to commit mass murder against its own people these are people that it should be defending and it's true on them and as it is killing them and. i shudder to think where this where this leads and which you say the international community has failed the people of myanmar. i think the international community has not done enough there have been voices speaking very loudly of condemnation and concern. that's fine as far as it goes that quite frankly i think those words are
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ringing hollow with inside of me and more everyone i'm speaking with they want to see a focused unified international action like the secretary general has called for and i think that means convening convening immediately the united nations security council have this open debate on exactly what the obligations of the international community should be and let nations of the security council stand up and be counted i think there also has to be among those nations willing to take action right now a coalition everybody there has to be unified coordinated sanctions a unified coordinated arms embargo and i think we have to take and immediately institute accountability mechanisms traditional mechanisms to hold these brutal leaders accountable for the mass atrocities that were we're seeing i think clearly we have crimes against humanity being caused and committed right across right in
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front of our very eyes and the question right now is what the international community is willing to do about it well miss andrews when you see russian and chinese officials supporting what's happening a man law for example moscow's deputy defense minister even visiting the minutes for yesterday does this not frustrate any form of international attempt to keep the stone. wall get them from backing down. well of course it does but the fact is we have not yet had of vote in the security council security council has not had this crisis but certainly on its agenda and before that's exactly what has to have if russia or china or anyone else on the security council wants to veto or vote against foreign action ok stand up and do that but at least we need to be able to see where nations stand if you're on the security council you have an obligation to take action and nice precise circumstances and if you're not willing to do it ok then countries around the world who are willing to take action need to work
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together in coordinated action and calling for an emergency summit of those nations to forge together a coordinated approach in which the various actions are linked together to have the strongest possible impact on this on this brutal military regime what do you think can be done to hold those accountable for human rights violations and also. go on trial for mass murder. i think there should be accountability there's no question about it there should be judicial mechanisms in place the international criminal court certainly there's universal jurisdictions regimes and many countries any one of those should be implemented but at the media moment right now we need a cut off revenue that the 100 has flowing into its coffers that is literally stealing from the people of me in the world and using that money to purchase weapons of war and give themselves the means to commit the this this these horrendous acts and we have to cut that revenue off you've got to cut off all
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access to to to weapons to the greatest extent the best possible to make sure that revenue going into transit develop major humanitarian aid is not going through we're going to bust through a c s those organizations humanitarian organizations on the ground there are a number of action steps that we can take that the international community is not taking and must take immediately if words of concern are not going to be more than just just words to the people of of me right that's un special rockets how unmanned are tom andrews thank you very much indeed for joining us here on. my pleasure. now at least 20 people have been injured in a suicide bombing outside a catholic cathedral in indonesia authorities say 2 attackers were killed on the island of pseudo westy the injured were attending mass to mark the start of easter and they say the attackers have links to the so-called islamic states and could be connected to other bombings in indonesia and the philippines.
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the beginning of a still wake is a holy time for christians but in mecca the celebrations were marred by violence as worshippers were leaving sunday mass 2 suspected suicide bombers set off explosions outside the indonesian city's main catholic cathedral one of them was said to be a woman. without a father good record it happened during the shift change of prayer as the attacker was trying to enter our church and one of our staff was suspicious when the attacker was trying to stand near the gate later the bomb exploded. i mean. president jericho we don't called for saying his government would ensure people of all faiths can worship without fear. oxy there are some other sport i strongly condemn the terrorism act and i have given instruction to the police chief to take down the terrorist network to the root of it to some by. their.
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places of worship in indonesia have been targeted before police are investigating if this attack is linked to religious extremism the majority muslim country has a history of islamist attacks indonesia has been on high alert in recent months following the arrests of the prominent leader of an extremist group counter-terrorism squads have arrested dozens of suspects across the country including in. the german lawmakers have voted to ban unnecessary genital surgery on babies who are born neither clearly. no female for decades surgeons have performed operations on him to sex they they would conform to one gender now despite that there are is that the polls will mean that the practice can continue for more on this i'm joined by our reporter jared ring in tell us more about what into sex is and what this law means it's
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a broad term that basically refers to human bodies that have characteristics that are not within the typical male female binary that you and i that we all know about the into sick society of north america says a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside but having mostly male anatomy on the inside a person may be born with genitals that seem to be in between male and female and being into 6 is actually more common than gen-u. might expect the u.n. estimates that 1.7 percent of babies are born into 6 and a small proportion of them undergo types of surgery that you just discussed to make their genitals a conform to expectations research shows that when this is done without a child's consent it can lead to psychological problems later on in life and what this law is trying to do is to prevent this and what it means now is that surgeries
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these types of surgeries in order for them to go ahead a family court will need to give the ok 1st and they will apply to children who have been officially recognized as being into 6 germany's governing cd uses this will prevent unnecessary procedures from going ahead and it will also mean that children themselves can decide for themselves later on down the track what exactly they want and so what do the critics say about this little yeah there are some worries about loopholes as i said these surgeries have to be given the ok by the family court to children who have been recognized as being into 6 and there are worries that doctors will avoid. giving this recognition all this diagnosis in order for the surgeries to be able to go ahead without the ok from the family court so that is one reason why the 2 parties the f.t. in the greens in the parliament abstain from voting they supported the issue but they said the law as it stands gives too much of a wide room for interpretation i thought it didn't adequately protect the child the
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main opposition the i.f.t. was totally against the issue they called it an ideological delusion what we know is that between 252016 some 1800 children underwent surgery and so there are cold they were coals for it too to be reined in into 6 rights campaign as a happy but as i say they are worried about the loophole they're also worried that there are no fines for breaches of the law so we just have to see what what comes in the future in terms of ok. thank you so much. now on hundreds of ancient oak trees being cut down to provide new beings on the for the cathedral paris tears off from the devastating fire which destroyed the medieval masterpiece restoration is now underway they missed a completely rebuild that ought to dominate time for the olympic games in 2024. they're dying so not too dumb can live workers for the national forest office have
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started to cut down $1000.00 oaks there are around 200 years old almost as old as the nurtured on tower itself which collapsed in the fire and is now being rebuilt with these very trees we're going to get a 2nd line of it noted on the beams will last for 20300 years so these trees have a very noble purpose we're very touched by that. it's a monumental task right now scaffolding is being erected so that the spire and roof can be rebuilt but the main task is to prevent further damage. which. is in the final phase of danger prevention. at the moment we are securing some vault that could still collapse. and then there are the windows in the navy which have been removed germany has offered to finance the restoration of 8 windows
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there's initial confirmation that this offer will be accepted. that you will see some windows will be sent to germany for restoration and the other part of the money raised in germany will secure the restoration of other windows. so franco german cooperation is also taking shape president mark karr has set an ambitious timetable for the whole project is to be completed by 2024 by the time of the olympic games the trees mark an important intermediate step towards this goal their felling will be the symbolic start of the reconstruction of note. to most of sport now and formula one fans were treated to a thrilling season opener in behind even if the when i came as no surprise while defending champion lewis hamilton came out on top the mercedes driver held off stiff competition from red bulls max a 1st up and to take the checkered flag and howard zinn's teammate valtteri bottas
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came 3rd hamilton is looking for a record breaking 8th world title this season and watching d w news life coming up next is out this magazine show called shift living and that is still a find but much more news on our web site for the latest news and analysis are here . where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in the me time of the painter she put just one to the shadow and if you newspapers when official information has adjourning you have worked on the streets of many cantors and there. was the same point to source in inequality a lack of the freedom of the french. we can afford to stay silent when it comes to
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the defense of humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. name is tony harris and i aren't. a black and a white hand each holding the same device for facial and image recognition software these photos maybe interpret it quite differently just how race is ai autopsy today on ship. one of the key elements of artificial intelligence is that it teaches itself but to learn i needs to be fed with massive amounts of data and that data is selected by humans and that's key the way i operate and the conclusions it draws
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a largely dependent on the data sets it has to work with here's an example of how things can go wrong those 2 nearly identical images were presented to google's cloud vision image recognition software the shocking result the temperature gun in the white hand was identified as a monocular a bit strange perhaps but an understandable mistake you might say about the same object held in a dachshund hand was identified as a handgun google has since apologized and her. remove the label gun from its system but is that really enough to counter grace's assumptions made by its algorithm black people and people of color in particular often suffer from discrimination by ai systems as the new american documentary coded by is revealed during my 1st semester at mit i got computer vision software that was supposed to track my face didn't work until i put on this white mask i'm thinking all right what's going on
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here is that the lighting conditions is that the angle at which i'm looking at the camera or is there something more in 20 joy was one of the 1st computer scientists to reveal that the systems are racist the documentary couldn't balance directed by shalani can tell you tells her story. the film explains why i systems are racist many of the algorithms used in the eye software are developed and tested by teams that consist mainly of white men. their view of the world is reproduced in the software and they're less likely to notice what is real mystery and biased. systems are said dozens made up mostly of white people as a result the technology ends up less accurate when it comes to people of color. the media that's the most diverse the data that spread into these ai system as is the the better it can identify a variety of people and i mentioned i can but the bias goes even deeper and begins
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even before the does it sets are created. this thing mid-air hardware and. poorly made it starts with the hardware which was originally designed for use in cameras and movies so it was designed with white men and minds and so on the light senses the way the devices are calibrated infrared technology developed in recent decades they were all does. and with white skin in mind and with how light reflects on white skin heart they ignore the fact that people have many different skin colors which also reflects light differently delist and. that's why tweaking the algorithms isn't enough a more fundamental change is needed. clues in dimension the decent people using these technologies are key here in other words all of us at the end of the day what is being programmed is not the only factor what also matters is how we
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interact with the technology and what data we feed into it that's what we're missing of we're missing that fundamental debate about social inclusion and exclusion about discrimination and how biased permeates our society with the idea of a few demons here in this community. joy. is also continuing her fight her findings public even appearing before the u.s. congress. she's also the founder of the auguries mc justice league which is working to create. a more equitable artificial intelligence when it comes to equality we still have a long way to go especially when algorithms are involved algorithms also use the online search engines the most obvious example is google's image search helps us navigate the world if you're looking for information on something or want to see what someone looks like you'll probably start googling them but
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a recent experiment conducted by the w. shows that google's algorithms often lead to skewed results searching for women of specific nationalities online is a harsh lesson in stereotypes searching for brazilian women yields young women in suggestive poses that german women brings up mainly politicians and actually. analysis team used google's very own ai app cloud vision safe search to analyze thousands of images. this image processing software was designed to spot sexualized content google uses it to flag suggestive images. for women from the dominican republic brazil and up to 40 percent of sexually suggestive for american women it's just 5 percent and for german women 4 percent. this has a major impact on how women are seen and treated and women from certain countries are especially vulnerable such for ukrainian women for example and 61 of the top
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100 results are links to dating sites websites with sexualized content. algorithms are key to our data driven and automated world the images they deliver can be shockingly biased racist and sexist but for data scientist katherine it's not really the algorithms that are to blame algorithm learns because we train it using machine learning so either whether it's deep learning with a neural network so to speak or it's shallow machine learning where feeding it data and were asking it to form an opinion and of course when that opinion is based on data that has unfair treatment of groups then the algorithm or very much learned in china is being used to identify specific ethnic groups take the telecom giant while away which took part in testing and we go along software that could identify
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faces of the countries we got minority that's according to. a u.s. based company specializing in video surveillance software as accuracy rate is estimated at about 70 percent is reportedly being used across china so is ethnic discrimination being automated. this camera system tested by weiwei is designed to use to identify people of specific. it was trained on. data sets that we teach age and gender and ethnicity. the system was trained on data sets containing people from china's weak and minority and non weakness to teach it to use facial features to determine if this city what's even more disturbing is the china plans to use it when the ai system blank someone is a member of the weak a minority it can trigger we go along and notify the police. in the
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region of northwestern china security forces have implemented a massive surveillance network designed to clamp down on the weak minority hundreds of thousands of we have been detained in so-called reeducation camps. officially chinese companies have denied that their testing software is being used for commercial purposes but internet giant alibaba has already admitted that its cloud division has developed discriminatory ai software and even greater concern is the fact that it's cost them a step by step instructions for how to use the software to target we've got muslims paired with mobile phones and surveillance cameras the software enables users in china to send images of people to its cloud service to flag them as suspicious we guess in other words use us as opposed to keep feeding the facial recognition ai with data that enhances racial targeting that's truly scary tools like the show that can be used to target ethnic groups says karen young an expert in artificial
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intelligence and human rights very powerful systems increasingly being used to sought score and organize people people at population what level and even though we don't see that kind of drastic action being taken in. western industrialized societies there are an increasing number of social. scoring people particularly in the criminal justice system to make predictions based on algorithmic assessment of the. kinds of risks. to public safety in the u.s. african-americans and asian americans where up to $100.00 times more likely to be mis identified by facial recognition systems than white men that's according to a study commissioned by the u.s. government falls match can lead to all sorts of problems like a mistake in the rest but these systems are growing increasingly popular and not just in the u.s. that could have a serious impact on society says careers of police from the institute for ethics at
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oxford university. extremely. extremely unfair to take one example in 2016 microsoft launched its teeth. designed to reply to twitter users in less than a single day of exposure. apps be taken offline twitter had taught it to parrot sexist racist anti-semitic and a sense of. why are such bias in every poorly i systems being unleashed on society to berlin based artist researchers. are exploring that question. that the data sets being fed into these ai systems are always so the systems and up conservatives and outdated. used to predict to recommend. to. underscore what to
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expect in the future. expect them to be. anything different than the data. it's amusing as a basis. of them is can be very biased against anyone they deem to have. gender friends. and you may never realize that. you may have been. because of your personal. you'll never know about it. it's truly a massive problem an easy way to visualize how ai works is to imagine you baking a cake if you use the wrong gradients the cake just won't taste good similarly if the data used to train ai software is poor and not representative of the diversity found in society then it won't work properly except that here we're not talking
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about a cake but more dramatic consequences and by now this poses a greater threat to certain people like people of color and it's not the technology that is to blame i don't think that we should be working to ai to make the world this is something for my opinion we need to raise awareness for how ai systems can have a racist and discriminatory impact so before we adopt the more widely they need to be rigorously tested according to ethical criteria what about you have you ever been negatively affected by algorithmic systems or do you believe that you're not really affected by them but it's not on you tube facebook or d.w. dot com. take care and you next time.
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