this is to give you news life from birth but turkey and the european union seek to renew relations after years of tension turkey's president heir to one host of top e.u. officials for face to face talks in uncorrupt on the agenda finding common ground on migration trade and human rights also coming up with president joe biden says all adults in the u.s. will be eligible for a coronavirus vaccine within 2 weeks to provide more new variants are on the rise says the fight isn't over yet. a big drama in the quarter finals of the champions

league title holders liverpool suffer a setback as frail madrid and manchester city stunned dortmund in the final minute . i'm weighing both for up good to have you with us we begin with something of a new beginning the european union's top officials have met with turkey's president and it's him to improve relations. to one says he wants to turn a new page in relations with the e.u. but turkey's human rights record remains a sticking point. it's a year since the european union's most senior officials last met the turkish president both sides say they want to improve relations which have become increasingly strained but the europeans have serious concerns about turkey's assertive foreign policy and its often heavy handed create command of minorities

and political opponents the rule from you introspect a fundamental rights all true values of the european union and we should through spears and other didn't owe the deep. latest developments in turkey in this respect in fact if you live on the street in the speech in the 3rd it into a future both isn't media. and today show michelle and i clearly underlined that respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law are crucial for the european union this must be an integral part of our relationship turkey must respect international human rights rules and standards. there's a lot at stake millions of refugees who fled from syria's bloody civil war are living within turkey's borders they would otherwise head for europe and ankara once

the e.u. to pay more to support them turkey for its part is keen to advance its stalled bid to join the european union. thousands of demonstrators turned out recently to protest against turkey's decision to pull out of an international agreement on women's rights ironically that's called the istanbul convention both the e.u. emissaries condemned that move as sending the wrong signal on rights. another area of dispute is turkey wanting to drill for gas in the mediterranean in areas which greece and cyprus see as their territory thank you the latest talks between the e.u. and turkey aimed to mend fences but there are still huge differences to overcome thank earlier we spoke to you a bit of course by a dorian jones in istanbul and i asked him how successful the meeting was between the 2 sides well certainly seen this is a major diplomatic when the fact that 2 top officials were paired to come all the

way to turkey and meet face to face at a time when these these meetings are extremely rare is seen as a victory in itself and while there was a lot of focus on turkey's to tear aching human rights record at the press conference after the meeting a press conference that wasn't caused by most of turkish news channels here uncle will be focusing on the commitment that they have received for the open. starting off the customs the modernization of the customs union agreement that is a key. also appears the opportunity of possible visa liberalization with the e.u. official fucking about the importance of face to face contact between the 2 that will be seen as possible efforts and liberalizing visas for all of the country to keep them on the. he's definitely seen this is a positive victory given the fact that the us president biden is continuing to. the present moment following his election victory so turkey seen this is

a positive spin let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world diplomats have been meeting for talks aimed at salvaging the iran nuclear deal european countries a mediator between iran and the united states to try to bring washington back into the agreement with the former tampa ministration walked away from both tehran and washington called the talks constructive. alexei no doctor has been briefly detained after trying to visit the jailed russian opposition figure police also bundle journalists and supporters into a bus and volley who's on a hunger strike has been complaining of fever and back. i mean more protesters in the city of daraa why have held a candlelight vigil to remember those killed since the start of the military coup as dawn broke a march through the town observers say security forces have killed at least 570 people since february. at least 16 people are dead after 2 buses collided in

northern mexico officials say all of the deceased were minors aboard a minibus over a dozen more people on a larger tourist bus were injured in the accident it's unclear how the collision happened. u.s. president joe biden says all adults in the united states will be able to get a coronavirus vaccine by april 19th that's 2 weeks earlier than the previous government deadline but he warned that case they're still going up at this time and he urged people to get vaccinated as soon as possible say one example new york state everyone there older than 16 can already get a shot. relief for 3 teenagers who know how dangerous kind of 19 is how his whole family got sick with the virus last year. love flying for his wheelchair high school basketball team but going back to school threatens

he's how. and briana has a race condition sickle cell anemia that's a nation is a matter of life or death. after ike at the end of the day as always we have some sort of detection against the deadly virus it's all worth it in. downtown new york city it's not bustling not yet at least but an estimated one in 3 new york has has now been vaccinated which means there's a feeling of re-awakening this spring. i think there's a new found sense of optimism in the possible for her life family's future so they're still in a locked out and like my parents didn't get a shot yet so i just kind of wait that i already got it. fixed at a church the washington now being used to vaccinate people applause for the u.s. president. biden came here to tout the hundreds of millions of doses set aside for

americans across you probably k. we want to shot not inviting folded up here the u.s. has already given the 1st stars to more than 150000000 people the 10s of millions more are still waiting and no later than april 19th in every part of this country every adult over the age of 1818 or older will be eligible to be vaccinated not everywhere in the u.s. is advancing so rapidly in sunny california adults of the 50 only became eligible at the start of the month but here to the effects of the vaccination program a visible with los angeles reopening and crowds gathering at this flower festival nice san diego. it's not the end of the pandemic not yet. but much of the world could only dream of pleasures like this. let's get more on this with stacey difference from our u.s. political team stacey the pace in the u.s. has been incredible what explains it well the main thing is that there is ownership

finally of trying to fight coven instead of putting the onus on the states to get shots in people's arms joe biden's ministration has worked in order to take control and use that infrastructure that already exists so he can use an old act from the korean war to defense protection act i mean production act in order to help businesses like pharmacy pharmaceutical companies. produce more quickly and get them out and so that's the speed and when i talk about infrastructure one of the ways that this has become very assessable to people is that. the vaccine the vaccines are available at pharmacies now so people are used to going to their pharmacies anyway for the flu shot the staff is used to giving shots and also people who don't have insurance or that their insurance isn't big enough for what they need a newly go to to these pharmacies anyway and get help so it's beneficial in that

way to 40000 pharmacies more expected to be able to help out there soon and yet we shouldn't forget that more than half a 1000000 americans have died from this virus it's such a it's a tale of 2 to 2 pictures here what explains that conundrum there's so much to look at one of the main things as the united states that started late there was a denial that this was even a problem so that's the main issue and it became very partisan and political so democrats older people people college educations a more apt to get the shot and white republican male for example so there still that some people have called it so states have been opening up too quickly and causing pandemic to spread a little bit more but overall things are looking up in the united states thanks for bringing that to us trace evidence from our u.s. political team. and let's get some of the other developments in the coven 1000

pandemic in brazil the number of daily deaths past 4000 for the 1st time on tuesday the country is facing shortages of hospital beds and supply of oxygen is running low in some states in france the number of patients in intensive care is at its highest in almost a year france is now in a month long lockdown and a top official at the european medicines as he says there is a link between the astra zeneca vaccine and blood clots the agency is expected to release a new assessment of the drug this week let's get some sports now and there are were 2 champions league quarter final 1st legs played on tuesday night manchester city hosted by dortmund the german side suffered some heartbreak when phil foden score in the 90th minute to give city the win meanwhile your liverpool side were completely outplayed in madrid the reds will have to make up a 31 deficit in the return leg. let's get

a little more now on this big night in european football i'm joined by my colleague here in the studio after me howard w. sports big night or almost for dortmund they were this close to living down with a perfect result they were heavy underdogs going to manchester city just the city leaving the premier league they've got millions more pounds worth of players in this squad picardy ehlers the coach they were heavy favorite place quarterly against open in the 19th minute they got to one nil right at the half time but dortmund were down and out it looked like but then on the 60 minute mark something clicked the door open and there i would have fought back and then it culminated in the 4th minute when maka roy scored to level the match at 11 away from home you thinking i could leave manchester at 11 and go back home with a big big chance of getting through to the semifinals but then heartbreak in the in the 90th minute defenses pendleton's problem all year long and still followed and it was the young englishman who scored in the ninety's minute and they have victory draws snatched away from them at the last moment it could have been perfect it's

still not totally bad it's not impossible for them to win it on an advance but it was so close to being absolutely perfect so close but not close enough what about liverpool tell me 31 is that a good reflection it's a fair reflection it's not a great sign for the moment they're going to have to go on to anfield and come back from 3 goals down but they were just out plight and we've all been looking at all football fans like you and maybe have been looking for signs that liverpool are going to bounce back into some sort of form and find that joy that they are playing with 2 years ago you can clock was all smiles and fist pumps for so many many games at anfield away from home in madrid playing the team to beat them 2 years ago in the champions league final and they just looked out played from go to war 31 was the school one and it looked exactly that and at the end of the game you see if you get an understanding of the person the clubs and he's chasing the red. raised off the pitch chewing there is off about things that didn't go that way but this magic

that was with liverpool with co-op and everyone was in love with this team it's evaporated it's that looks like a real struggle now they've done it before at anfield against barcelona so that we know that can do it and come back from huge deficits but this looks different looks like a thing that is going to have to rediscover something that's just not that anything can happen i guess but matter of luck and me howard colleague you know he supports thanks so much thanks will. let's remind you of the top story this hour top e.u. officials have held talks with turkey's president and a wanted ancora or so the fonda line is michelle said they expressed concerns about turkey's commitments to human rights by gratian and refugee policy were also on the agenda. player blue cross up next in our documentary series we examined the science of fear don't be afraid you

should definitely check it out and of course you can follow us on twitter and instagram d w news and always visit our website didn't you dot com for the latest from us actually w m levo crap that's all for now thanks very much for watching. you feel worried about the planets. too. host of people on the grid friends and so many it's clear remains true. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation from a tribute to the guts of. a

primal emotion. i mean response. but for something so fundamental fear is still a mystery. why are some people frozen by a phobia while others seem like super humans. fear. it really doesn't exist the money thing in the 6 films. cannot deepest fears be overcome and should we even try she is very living breathing case study of what life would be like without she. could fear in fact be good for us. to survive to what a zombie is always how. can you bear to find out. things

there's nothing like a walk through a haunted house there's thrills and chills. and shrieks of laughter. but facing your deepest fears is no laughing matter. it's your own money. there's no better place to study fear than at its most extreme. things you can remember and they become the answer to this effort here of course. merriam can a gator is terrified of chickens the instant she sees a chicken a memory tells her body to go on high or not. go home or home or separate.

but you see actually is really irrational behavior and they gave her the ghost to do it. and even though they realize that there is no real threat the moment that they are in the situation they press falls as if there is your real danger and that they will die if you stop our brain does not differentiate between whether the fear is rational or not. then only for that is real danger or no real danger. miriam is here with dr merrill can't of the university of amsterdam in a radical attempt to cure her paralyzing fear. get. sued for that one little pill a known heart medication appears to wipe away fear. 24 hours later dr kent accompanies miriam back to the rooster this is. her

40 year what do you feel do next relax yeah. yeah. fulton needed a family. day in fact. it is emotional if you're going through this right. from crying in fear to tears of relief phobia is gone. she spoke to rue serous almost a new friends. say oh yeah that's what's. called fainting and. impressive. reports of a cure for thea have attracted a lot of attention to talk to kim's clinic eva holland has come all the way from canada to see what she can do about how fear of heights. she's writing

a book on her experiences with fear and was initially skeptical about this therapy it sounds like science fiction but this single pill a 2 minute exposure will cheerier decades long so be it it doesn't even seem like convincing science fiction but the more i read about it it was it was clear that it seemed to be working for people like i 1st meet you this doctor came straight month is based on a new understanding of how fear memories walk it's not understood that they are not fixed in storage like a photograph bot that they get periodic lee resave and malleable. what we do is stress triggered a fear memory by exposing people to a situation or stimulus that they feel they can like it really pretty generally freaks out yet. so we trigger this what we call fear memory.

here and then what is important is that something new should happen. because this is a signal to the brain to update. the memory. and if that happens that means the t. memory trace is temporarily in a deist civilize state. what's new in this case is that even really tries to take in the experience and not look away oh god you feel your chest that goes where you go higher and higher but you're doing well really well. one doctor can feels that even as fear has been fully triggered i returned to the ground. i'm still shaking. hands the show again with a way. to go out.

try to next try to. i wanted to follow the instructions to the letter i wasn't supposed to do anything that might trigger me to feel afraid at all. i just kind of try to stay in a little bubble until i went to sleep. the idea of restating the memory happens during the night. between districts this process by giving the client a pill of propranolol. the pill has been used for years as hard medication but when administered under exact conditions it also blocks the work of a neurotransmitter involved in brief saving memories. the memory has been changed in a way that it doesn't trigger it is fairly strong fear response the next day eva

and dr kent are back at the fire station looking looking at the bucket yeah. that's just the fact that. so far it's load bearing yesterday yeah if you change position because here you feel sort of weird for you to shut down for all. as soon as we lifted off the ground it felt completely different the day before. we went all the way to the budgets upper limit and it was windy or i think that even the day before the bucket was shaking and i kept waiting to get scared if they didn't take yesterday would i feel like i didn't fall over that. it felt like a completely different experience. every time when i see of my clients being so scared it's really intense to be good to but i'm doing i think it's necessary to charles a few it's nice to see the difference is there relief happiness this is an extremely rewarding. increment of behavior therapy

still many people that show relapse oh i could name a name. in traditional therapy apostle nuns to overcome their fans by approaching that trigger over and over again limits each time what happens in the brain is better than new memory traces form to call it a sort of memory or an inhibitor e memory and it's new memory these 50 or which are no fear memory. to defame memory remains intact and this explains that people may relapse because if your memory is so strong all the way man it's not so difficult to reinstate if your response. even though they know that they shouldn't be afraid of spiders it shouldn't be afraid of dogs or chickens or whatever they cannot change that. and so

it's a sort of. friction in the brain between the hope and parts of brain are rational thinking and the emotional part to break and this is such a challenge from men from told from what is new is that we can change the emotional memory or to feel memory itself is sad or only forming a new memory trace that competes with the fear memory. of these new insights of fear learning and memory are at the forefront of science. well. easy to. destroy this. feeling. is not something dr can't recommend. if i think of a life it's out of fear it would feel. quite empty my air greatest fear is that

something. that happens to my children so i realize that's even though it is not just a nice feeling of forest that this is the other side of the love. that are few for my children. but how is it that some people panic before chickens spiders on heights while others. like condor mellow seem to have no fear at home. as a motocross stunt champion from all over canada when i was 3 years old i got my 1st her bike up this kind of riding bikes up and down the road. my school friends bigger bigger super steep airco higher bigger distances. it's a 110 percent women on the streets and as a consequence is a can be very high will we see the front so here's the 1st ranch. sets.

on deterred by pain fear or a broken down bike col immediately tries to stomp again he's trying to see things like. i. was. when tricks of gone wrong or crash myself and then i get a new again it's like 10 tries 20 tries maybe a 100 tries the feeling when i land some new i've never been done. your energy spikes up your german spy set. look so cool so you know you really did it showed up 1st from ponce no but this is a. fear it really doesn't exist it exists in our mind but that's it and when you face it it's gone.

it actually kind of becomes addicting. now carl has come to vanderbilt university in nashville in the us to work with david sound who wants to know how i own deals with fear or if he feels that at all that's my story i wanted to make music and film video and write soundtracks but somehow that didn't work out i ended up moving into a science as a profession. conwell undergo a brain scan. doctors out and also use scary pictures to spook on who would know that they are fake instead he uses gory images that activate the same brain region that is triggered by threats. hard not to have an emotional response to these images and so it really challenges the person to be able to clamp down on

that emotional experience that they have what i want you to do is try to reduce any emotional experience that you have during those pictures. if there is something special in connell's brain that makes him immune to fear dr zon will see it. the next morning the results are in this is the area that we're particularly interested in. because it is really central to the experience fear. doctors all can see that visual cortex at the back of the brain lights up as it takes in the threatening information normally the a meet to learn what be fired up as well but not connell's you're basically look

quite silent in that condition by contrast the visual cortex is still doing some amount of response in terms of trying to figure out what it seeing everything we looked at here how can we relate this to my writing it understand aspects of fear and how i deal with. their couple things i think are relevant for you in particular one of them is that you do experience fear of what can happen i remember my 1st attempt after the 1st stick crashes i was scared i was nervous i was shaking. but you show a really strong ability to down regulate that i mean that circuitry that's involved and then people are anxious or afraid you can control it to enough of a degree that it allows you to actually go forward and do the tricks to do the jobs

. beyond a great ability to clamp down on fear also appears to get an extra rush from overcoming it dr zones has studied how thrill seekers have a greater amount of dopamine a kind of reward chemical flowing through their brains. found is that where interest centered was something that's highly motivating they get a stronger response to for you i think you know throughout your life there's been that whole to do it. so you're telling me a little bit about preparing a new job yes like when it comes out a new doctor zoned fearlessness is that the heart of what it means to be human if we think about evolutionary history human spread out across the entire globe in a relatively short amount of time it looks like how how did we do that if you had to be able to overcome fears of doing certain things that hadn't been done before.

the folks who can do that may have had a real advantage. so people like calm might be at the vanguard of human evolution. could it be that getting scared is actually good for us. no other creature on earth likes to get scammed quite the way humans to. be afraid of golf. 6 why do people pay to end a haunted houses and risk area. the better. truck over for us is a 27 acre stream park and we have hoards all throughout the property. to thank a fount ph d.'s in haunted house design sociologist. would teach the course

she's here in pennsylvania with patrick on a penske to give him some of the science behind his scam a finely tuned mix of psychology and physiology this room does a good job of taking childhood. dolls and toys things that we remember and regard with a lot of nostalgia and basically defiling really create such a big decision and such a violation of our child that things that we think are supposed to be joyful and happy and now they're all the sunday exact opposite i remember a lot of light nightmares when i was younger and it had to do with things in my room. that. we mixed real actors as well as props so with a chaotic like the very loud music there is not 100 percent sure what's going on.

our startle reflex does get saturated after repeated startle him. quick succession . you start to tune it out. and here you do have an assault of the senses but it's in a confined space just enough time to really get the system ramped up and then move on to something else so that the customer doesn't get oversaturated. my smelling 1st fire snow we bring a device to emit that odor to immerse the customer our sense of smell is such a powerful sense it's tapped into our memories in such layered ways it's the only sense where we're actually sensing molecules from the environment that trigger the neurons to fire is a sensitive sense to tap into because if you do use too much discussed or a snarl that is so overwhelming it can quickly take

a customer out of the experience of disgust and fear are different in the brain and the body the focus turns to just escaping that disgusting smell. has traveled around the while visiting haunted houses wanted forests rhona coasters and just about anything else designed to scare. that's great. to better understand the formula. one thing she's not and is that it's often things that deviate just a little too much from the norm but to stub the most clowns are terrifying people always wonder why are people afraid of clowns but really they have more in common with monsters than happy things because they have painted faces it makes their facial expressions really difficult to read you have somebody who has a painted on smile but their mouth is actually frowning you can't really get an

idea of what they're feeling or what they're going to do and it's dissonance it's our brain saying is this person you know safe or not so they really are the perfect monster. what do you think how was it you couldn't really or you know i was crazy like a roller coaster of emotions because it's almost immediate 2nd like scared and then it's almost a sense of relief when i was right we found that people you know after they have come out of the attract. and had a moment to collect themselves a feeling of almost euphoria because you've got all the into our fans that are at least while you were scared and now you're safe the natural high is not just the intensity it's the relaxation that happens afterwards too. monkee can may be a scam monster but tailoring the ultimate fear experience is not as easy as it seems. a fact not lost on video game designers who are taking

fear as fun to a whole new level. when we set out to scare somebody there's click to mean ways we look at it. the easy scare is the jump scare that leap out catch you by surprise kind of moment that is actually almost more startling than scary as far as i'm concerned the more effective way is kind of the the hitchcockian way to do things which is to lure you in and extend that moment the anticipation of the scare that's when we grab your heart and research as we just slowly at 1st a little tighter and tighter to the point where you're saying ok just enough get it over with brad firm and has helped design some big names in horror games including eternal darkness. he also teaches game design and george brown college in toronto.

brad is an advisor in one group of students on a game they call reba. so rebirth as a 1st person for a game that places the player in the role of aggrieved mother who's lost her infant daughter and has undertaken a cult ritual in an attempt to resurrect her child. we join her in the middle of this ritual to sort of see it to its conclusion in her suburban home where things are getting very very creepy. they've sent them project to theresa lynch of ohio university who uses video games to stop the fear these they were placing in her feet are going to be capturing your skin conductance levels and what it's doing is sending a very very minimal electrical impulse being sent through the sensors that interacting with the amount of sweat that's being produced in the glands of your foot along with the horror classic amnesia of a doctor sent to reason has agreed to test drive rebuff with us student alexis to

see how it's fair factors that you names provide us this very interesting context in which we can study a few responses you have the ability to make decisions in the game with an agency that is not available and less interactive media to raise as a quick month plots the players right skin conductance and facial expression allowing ha and her assistant to break down the fear response into 3 stages as true in video games as they are in real life. in the pre encounter stage this is basically when you're might be a little bit anxious if you're in an environment that is signaling to you that there may be threats working my butt is that the 2nd stage is the actual encounter the ball the ramp stop the fight or flight. not.

meaning to the distance between your idea. has narrowed me. now if the threat is approaching us then we enter into what's referred to as the circus right stage where you're going to have to make a decision about whether you're going to try to run away from the threat or you're going to try to fight it. i don't know what that is oh god now it's not at the rally i've just described chaos so that's occurred over over a one on the scale so that was a pretty was the most dramatic change that we've seen so far. the game isn't over but this plan is done. so we're just testing everything out on our end to make sure everything's working good to reason and the rebirth designers discounts have findings they especially want to know about the role of the senses in their game. as their various. things.

we think of visual stimuli as being the thing that's going to be more scary just because it can be more extreme but when we are able to orient to visual stimuli in our environments we know a lot about it so i think there's a monster there it is i see it i know where it is now i can track it now i can respond to it we're actually much less shark in terms of our ability to detect and orient to sound so sound can definitely heightened fears sponsor's anxiety and preparedness without really giving the player something to latch on to you're just a simple little blast is really all you need it's it's cheap it's a fish of above all with so much about fear being learned from video games people are turning to video for treatment. well fortuna 1st seemed like a cutter slee remember having this fear. is the site in general is

comparison for me today i'm here to look at a bit deeper into what it is. if i could read it read myself what that would be amazing. michael ampitheater has come to the university of quebec in gatineau to try out therapy with virtual reality see that how you see that death it's really cool and because there is no ledge can actually forward jump. dr stefan bush ah it's a pioneer in its use and has the world's most developed on lab for this very purpose 1st of all you have to put on this have sat. together with his assistant. they will put michael through his virtual pacers emotional part of the brain limbic system kicks in within 12 milliseconds and the logical part of the brain comes afterwards so it means that we get emotional before we get logical so in virtual reality 4 percent sufficient virtual similar part of the brain that deals with

emotion believes or reacts as if it's true and even though it's not too late because emotions are there and what we want to do and therapies build your strength in controlling these emotions it's confidence who want to build confidence that is safe consider that you're not drawn by the cliff or the void and confidence that if you feel you're drawn you can stay in control and actually pull back at you pace when you go to. the 1st step is for michael and to assess the severity of michael's condition we want to see what point you can climb up the ladder comfortably as soon as you search feeling that you don't want to keep going up you simply start if you come back. it's. best.

if you are unafraid it's easy but when gripped by fear the imagination runs wild. in the lattice 30 great. good. job michael now you can come down michael stops at the 5th rung and can go no high with this treatment. so you simply grab this it was your son you could. get the choice to go. back at the lab a deep sinkhole has opened up in michael's new reality he must begin by moving towards it a big part of who wants to get a hold with a. higher alert. is sick of throws in state we want to show your body that a kid because. of largest assault out are you able to just see your arms down just

a bit. slowly bring them down to your side. progress is slow but sure invention michael attempts to walk a plank over the abyss are you ok my mother grinned. because nobody there is a what is. great as always trying to convince you basically that a stagers you're trying to get at said that look i'm doing it so if it's 5 years. what makes virtual reality such a powerful therapy is that patients can do what is impossible or too dangerous in real life. one of the basic things that you do for fear of bias is you could actually chuck the whole.