me in your watching d. w. news, asia coming up today. 200000000 tv cameras. that's the estimate for how many there are in china. we take a closer look at whether we have smart cities or surveillance date plus the impossible choice. japan faces, if the tokyo olympic games moved forward will bring a covert search to the country. the news

i melissa channel, thanks for joining us. it is one of the most modern cities in the world, shanghai with it's 24000000 residents. but in an authoritarian state, that also means a lot of people to manage. and one of the best ways to keep an eye on things is through video surveillance. of course, that's not how political leaders sell it. they say shanghai is the 21st century smart city using ai facial recognition and big data. and they hope to expand the system across the country. he w mathias, bullying or gain various special access to where all this monitoring takes place. it is called a brain and it has hundreds of thousands of i and please of this surveillance center called city brain and shanghai put on district of direct control over cameras that cover almost every corner of the district. in the background, artificial intelligence scans the footage for root breakers. on this construction

site, it has identified a worker was not wearing his helmet. besides camera footage, the system also collect data from the city administration and property management. the government wants to create a powerful tool to govern the city and its citizens. so don don is one of the designers at the system that has been operating since 2018 tunnel woman. she says it touches on the law. i see nichol for us citizens in the city. the system helps providing a secure, orderly, and clean environment that the government doesn't mean to govern the city more efficiently. due until financial mclaughlin, sather, wiley hall on the go check. the city brains, employees have access to more than 20900000 cameras. and this is just one hub of what the government envisions. as a nationwide network. the goal is 100 percent camera coverage at all. important

places like train stations, crossroads parks, in berlin scholar, my call back has studied these efforts for many years. she says she has downloaded millions of tender surveillance systems from government websites that often spell out the goal of the surveillance explicitly. the word comes from the machine doesn't want to mention a mentalist intact. they are describing how human interaction is the source of any social conflict. conflict is what could cause trouble for the government who is concerned with social stability. so as long as you can cover every aspect of human life with cameras in surveillance, one can react to fuse and calm down the situation. come and listen. conflict rash sided in decking and chaff on hot on the meadow we'll put on shanghai

central business district is but one of many places that have such extensive data and surveillance infrastructure. there is little opposition from the public to the all seeing system put on city brain, not only collect surveillance footage, but also detailed data about each household in the city and the coven outbreak. its employees were given an additional task. the data is used to ensure citizens are observing their quarantine. let me push, does it go didn't actually, we install interconnect sensors at the apartment door. if somebody leaves the flatten breach of the anti epidemic rules, we will get an alarm signal, mental health authority and compound workers would be informed by us and can react swift. and go to the project like to don't city brain show, china's government sees data as a means of control. the pandemic has only advanced these ambitions.

joining us as jennifer through research fellow at the louis institute in sydney. welcome to the program. jennifer. according to one study, china has 18 out of 20 of the most surveilled cities in the world. but from the report we just saw, it looks as if many chinese residents are okay with this. oh, i said the china is an authoritarian state. i believe that there is much option or opportunities for citizens to view the dissatisfaction or the disagreement with the increasingly so cameras, surveillance technology in the cities. unlike elsewhere, i think china is the approach to survey loans and the approaches smart cities is driven by the state,

the central states. so it's very top down and the opinions and voices of the citizens are often neglected in the usual state policies. yet super hard to get a sense. you can't exactly run polls, but are there are some people who view it as living in a modern smart city as opposed to living in a surveillance city? do we have a sense? oh i think, yeah, i think let me answered in this way. i think posts and demick host kuranda bar code at 19 this going to be a great her role for technology. whether it's monitoring, health future tend to makes and other such issues. the role of technology will become increasingly important, and i think this is one way in which the chinese state will utilize technology to increase it. surveillance on its citizens, perhaps for good for health reasons,

but also probably from the perspective maintaining to be less he cohesion and other such issues. so i think in a post demik, well we're going to see a greater use of technology in china and broad for monitoring different issues, helping one of them. but issues of personal privacy will obviously coming into contact with the sort of monitoring devices. technology can you give us an example of that? we know, for example, that the video monitoring system in shanghai would be able to look at people and make sure that they weren't exiting their apartments during the locked down. but can you give me a couple more examples of how this might play out, as you say, post pandemic? yes. so we know that surveillance technology is well there, like 200000000 or more security cameras used in china.

and possibly edging up to $300000000.00 by me. 2018 that what you 100000000 and the estimate for the end of 202300 1000000, which far exceeds the number of commerce use in the us. 15000000 are these cameras as slaves reading reports, hurting media coverage of what is happening, and young issues against chinese citizens in she's young and elsewhere against. i think minor she is in china. so i think there's a comb floods of situation within china. the state monitoring of ethnic minorities, the push to stay ahead of future pandemic. i think we can see these events and potential future as coming out to converge and technology will be a really important part of it. you mentioned the united states and big cities

around the world from sidney to london. have video cameras. what makes cameras in china different, or is there no difference? well, i think the idea here. so the idea of cameras is part of surveillance, but they are also part of this idea of a smart city where, you know, the use of technology can help governments improve their efficiency in terms of the delivery of services to the citizens. but it's how you utilize that technology, camera, technology, and they want to stop component of smart city. so how that technology is used by the chinese state is often questionable in a democracy about the strategy or, or the united states and elsewhere. how that doctor is used. it's not transparent, or it's sorry, opaque in the case of china, so that's where we see additional results. yes,

that's right. got it. jennifer su, thank you so much for joining us. japan is facing a serious conundrum. it has thank so much money into the olympics, officially $15400000000.00 us dollars and div tokyo councils. the games. the country stands to lose an estimated 16500000000. so organizers are low to stop the games, but citizens see a public health danger if the event moves forward and majority do not want it to happen, especially because most of the country remains unvaccinated. all these spirits, the australian olympic softball team, is the 1st international squad to arrive in japan and that facing unprecedented restrictions, restaurants, know, sightseeing, certainly,

no socializing. i think that athletes as well. neither do i have to take great responsibility for their own behavior as well. committed to do that, they committed to look after themselves, but do the right thing by the japanese population as well and be ready for the game . so most people in japan do not want the olympic games to happen. that questioning the sense of 15000 olympic and paralympic athletes for more than 200 countries traveling to japan at a time when serious cove at 19 cases have recently hit new highs. the nation's slow vaccination roll out isn't helping either. you seen lucas, no matter the japan has been working hard to roll vaccines out like that. demand did not match with supply. and that was from the very start. japanese olympic athletes are now being offered jobs, but only about 2 and a half percent of japan's population has been fully vaccinated so far.

despite all this organizes a standing firm and also good luck with a wall held all over the world. and as i've said, there are no examples of clusters of the infections spreading. therefore, we believe we don't need to think about counseling now. when the arrival of australia softball team is a huge show of confidence in the legal events. all team members tested negative after landing, but the question remains will this be enough. 6 to restore the confidence of the japanese public in the games that's it for today will leave you with the more pictures of japan olympic torch relay running through the prefecture. thanks for watching the tomorrow. the

news? me the fight against the corona virus pen. oh, how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and contact the corona virus? coven, 19 special next on dw. are you ready to get these places in europe are smashing all the records into

a venture. just don't lose your grip. the treasure map for modern globe trotter's. go for some of your records breaking you to also in book form the the efficiently me at mom says there are only a few dozen new infections a day. that's doesn't say that can't be true. there's hardly any testing going on. there are reports about lack of stop in testing centers. hospital have the same problem with doctors and nurses joining strikes against the military, which these power 4 months ago. living attacks on health care workers, me as schools reopen,

some teachers and students are also making a stand defying the winters calls for full classrooms, which would only help the virus sprayed. hundreds of thousands of people across me, m. i have been calling for an end to the military tank over the country is in turmoil. and the health care system is one of the most effective sectors doctor. the nurses were the 1st to go on strike. thousands refusing to work under a military, beijing. but that also poses a problem for koby patients. my on bazillion is head of mission for doctors without borders in be in my and joined us from young gone. tell us about the difficulty of your work. first of all, i mean you're trying to save lives at the same time as putting your own lives at risk. oh, really? yeah. that, that's true and that's being part of, i guess,

at the moment our lives is not very high. she to asian for the people in the march, very fear for the actual international stuff. it's not a dish for our national stuff, the challenging periods. not only asking we them to, to do more than we usually do. we are up scaling our activities due to the increase needs at the same time, they're facing psychological stress from, from what is going on in their own country. so yes, for our, our stuff, our national stuff here in the office, around 11 or people to very testing, testing time, they're doing to, to bring the services we want to bring in these times and the breakdown of

the health system here and and i guess the psychological impact also has a political angle to the w h. i was talking about a 179 attacks on medical staff in facilities since the military took over also 13 deaths, dozens of arrests. i mean, how do you go about reaching the people when the health professionals are being attacked? yes. specifically the health health workers that are on cdn. so to civil disobedience rules when start targeted. these are the health workers working for the public sector. you still have health workers working for private sector over charity sector like this. so our doctors are continue their work. they're not striking. and therefore their national that targets directly.

but you can see the fear among our stuff as well. and that's basically from coming to the office having to police checks potentially being searched. there's definitely a fear we're not directly to talk of because we're not working in the public health . thanks for joining the civil disobedience movement. but do you, you national stuff is definitely very aware and very young . can you tell us just how diet situation is with covert or how bad the numbers are? i believe the daughter isn't reliable the days i don't know. i've also, after the military take for the, basically the country still testing there, the whole facility, the section nation program came to a standstill. there are

a few 100 tests today, but there's nothing to compare to before. the military girls were, which means we don't have reliable on this. it also means that we are in besides the whole invention that say testing tracing fractionation. there's also a lot of things happening in the country that are messed instructions. the whole banking system is collecting for cures for atm. she'd like reading and the region are right. and so and so we are really great outbreak and me, i'm our selfish them at the current status. maya, let's get another view from georgina phillips, an emergency physician in australia who's trained doctors and nurses in me. and

mine has published a cope with folic dowdy in the lancet. some of the authors of that letter had fled or in hiding all have been detained. i was to jean or about the consequences though, for the people of me. and so the government health system has essentially collapsed as a result of the civil disobedience movement and the targeting health care workers. so therefore, everyday health care systems not available for the people and people suffering from covered. for example, neither getting tasted nor able to access emergency care. the consequence for health care workers is intimidation and arrest all or flame the country. and so it's a health system in collapse and during that kind of pen damage. now we can anticipate that there is a search happening in may and mother bordering countries are going through a serge,

mortality, mobility, morbidity statistics are not available. we don't know, testing is not available. we don't know how many people are positive and people are frightened to go to health care services. the sales might be targeted. the health care services are extremely limited. there's charity clinic, there's private clinics, but they are limited in what they can provide for people. and therefore, we anticipate that people are suffering not only worsting of their normal health condition, but quite likely suffering from the escalation and search of the kinds of pending. this wasn't always the way it was, georgina, you mentioned before, the coup that health facilities, we're in good shape. that's true. so price at the qu, the curve and respond to me and my both quite robust. my colleagues in the

emergency care systems in emergency medicine, we're leaving the clinical response. the government hospitals had quite strong tasting screening, korea, and critical care responses. there was a system for treatment, escalation of treatment, transfer code that positive patients. there was the robust public health response people, of course, for a public health response. you need people to be trusting in, in the ministry of health and government systems. and that was happening there was contact tracing. and the vaccination vaccination program was rolling out the military coup of the 1st of february has called a halt to all of those activities. and most of those things are no longer progressing. the doctor i spoke to before said me am, i wouldn't be able to handle it the way what, what is coming there? why do you think? i think it's quite likely that there is a 3rd life happening in me in my, at the moment that there's no available,

reliable data. i think you can anticipate that that is, that is happening given the neighboring countries, the situation of the neighboring countries. and i do think that me and my will not be able to handle the search. the government hospitals are bailey functioning. government health work is very limited. the workforce is severely restricted and the charity clinics and the private hospitals are not able to provide a service. and the people i'm most reluctant to attend to the military hospitals. so in terms of accessing acute care covered for people with acute infection and serious symptoms that will be severely diminished in terms of contact pricing and the public health response. that's, that's minimal. and the vaccination program, i think, is also severely restricted. time for derek williams and your questions on the corona virus call it some people can still

get the virus even after being vaccinated is heard immunity, even possible. questions like this, or why many scientists don't like the term heard immunity because they feel the word immunity implies a point where the pandemic suddenly stops. a lot of them prefer the term heard protection because vaccine drives don't make every one in a population magically immune when enough people have have shot. they just, they just help protect people who are still vulnerable and protection implies ongoing vigilance, which is what pretty much all the experts say we're going to need going forward. and there are a few reasons why heard protection will be very difficult to achieve. not least that as you say, a few people still contract the disease even after full vaccination and can

presumably pass it on to others. this phenomenon is called vaccine failure and the person that happens to is known as a breakthrough case. but data from the end of april, from the u. s. has confirmed something that had been reported from israel, which is that breakthrough cases, at least so far look exceedingly rare that could of course, change as, as more time passes. but right now, the data look great, it's a sign that heard protection might not be an achievable at least in some local or regional or, or even maybe national contexts. but even if transmission is brought largely under control in some places, a few experts believe, sorry, covey too is just going to go away, because to wipe out the virus, we'd have to hit vaccination goals globally,

which will take years. and in the meantime, immunity could begin to wayne and those who were already vaccinated or the virus could still mutate in ways that would make her protection even harder to achieve me. thanks for watching you again say the the news, the news news, the me

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the news, the this is the w news live from berlin inside the brutal crack down on priest beach and baylor with a d. w reporter release from prison just hours ago says he was tortured while in custody. these among several others that human rights would say, were arrested on false charge. it's also coming out vietnam faces a new surgeon, krona virus cases. after months of success in keeping infections at bay is a new varian causing the outbreak, plus rejected ethnic groups. and maybe a say the reparation germany has agreed to pay for it admitted genocide in the

colonial era or an affront to their existence. and the us remembers one of the worst racial atrocities in its history report on the divisions that still remain 100 years after the semester. ah and a warm welcome. 12 years around the world, michael locus. bailey ru continues to face international pressure over its crackdown on journalists among them. d. w reporter alexander broke off. he was just released after serving a 20 day sentence, during which he says he was tortured. he w. news in close is in close communication with them, and he told us he's doing fine, but needs time to recover before speaking publicly. here's

a look at the dangerous situation facing journalists in the autocratic country. della receives journalist alexander buddha called was covering the trial of an opposition politician in may. he was arrested and charged with joining an illegal demonstration. but a cough is among the dozens of reporters who faced prosecution by the belive lucien regime. in recent months. exiled journalists can only watch from across the border in fear of the preschool. what is happening in bed is terrible, considering the pressure on independent media and the number of journalists that are put behind bars it's, it's really shocking. but as i found in journalists are increasingly up against the wall in may, police rated the offices of news outlet to buy and detain stuff. it's not the 1st time it was targeted. one of its journalists had already been sentenced to 6

months in jail. and last year to fly with stripped of its media license. after releasing footage of protests and arrests and other critical news outlet under pressure is mr. it's been labeled an extremist organisation by delicacy in authorities nest as co founder and protest, which had been reporting from abroad until he received from a commercial aircraft that was forced, the land and men's could have been charged with inciting some of the mass demonstrations that have rockefeller, who's since august last year, challenging the outcome of disputed presidential elections. since then, almost 500 reporters have been arrested according to the better routine journalists association. more than 20 remain behind. many of those who have been released to say they suffered physical and mental abuse like the w's, alexander,

but i call of punishment for reporting on a brutal regime. joining us now, you williamson, director of the europe and central asia as human rights watch in berlin. thanks for joining us on d. w. sure. after he is released, bureau cough said the detention facility he was in was like a military prison. he also said he'd been subjected to torture and inhumane treatment. do these accusations surprise you or fortunately, they do not surprise me. our research shows that in recent cases, we documented there are examples of torture and mistreatment in prison. we've documented the brutal beating of journalists, journalists being denied medical attention being held in very poor conditions. just like your car bonded denied access to equipment that was also destroyed. we also documented cases where journalists have been threatened the will no longer have

custody of their children. and a very recent case where a journalist had to flee feller was because police re did her apartment and then when she was abroad. so it is contacted her and she would turn and they would arrest a grandparent physical and psychological torture. it's quite common, unfortunately, almost 500 journalists have been detained since last year. i'm curious. what impact is, is have on the media landscape in the region and the work specifically of journalists and baylor, as who just has a history of a very strong independent media. also the reputation of very courageous journalists, and despite that the crackdown in august last year, the presidential election has mean that the industry is really quite decimated within better whatever. still some courageous journalist that many have had to flee

the country. and many a working in the baltic states in poland with independent media doing their best to report and what's going on in the country. and obviously we've seen very graphic reports, so they're doing good work. what's needed now is that the government's in the, in europe, including germany, to support that work for the work of independent media. but they can continue. there's been unequivocal international condemnation and demands to free journalists and allow independent reporting and bellows. but does that really have any effect on lucas shanker? i think it obviously is difficult to tell, but i would say it probably has, i think his actions are becoming more desperate. the played incident 9 days ago is an example of that harassment of media suggest that he continues to be determined to try to stop the message, getting out. on the other hand costing

a light on what's happening in ballard is one of the best ways of ensuring that in the end a government comes to power that will really respect human rights including media freedom. so continue in the independent reporting of the soul of the your correspond that was doing is really important. hugh williams and from human who i thought really appreciate your time sir. thanks so much. let's get you up to speed on some the other stories making headlines around the world. at this hour, a prominent russian political activist is in custody after being pulled off a flight bound for poland. andre, of our other was detained shortly before take off from st. petersburg last monday, late monday. he's a former head of the recently disbanded open. russia with a barbara ross was now faced as a criminal pro for cooperating with what authority is called an undesirable organization. the united nation says more than 90 percent of the population in

ethiopia, seagraves need emergency food aid at some 5200000 people fighting broke out in the northern region nearly 7 months ago. and the un says that has exacerbated already high levels of hunger. it's appealed for more than $200000000.00. the scale of its response. and schools in miramar. i have reopen for the 1st time since the military seized power. in early february. the hunter has called for full classrooms that many teachers in pupils are staying away in a show of resistance against the regime. schools closed a year ago, due to the corona virus, and nom is among several countries in south eastern asia, facing a surgeon, coven, 1900 infections. for countries, health minister has said a newly discovered variant could be responsible for the outbreak. vietnam has seen case number's double in the past month, but still has one of the lowest death rates,

and the country is ramping up. its defense is to keep it that way. the discomforts of the pandemic known to many around the world are now coming in vietnam to ortiz, and how many city are ramping up cove at $900.00 testing for its focusing on high risk areas, residents around learners, and it fast rides, in case numbers. all right, no worries about the new violence variant where am i more often and also limits meeting other people coaching and since he has been partially shattered with many businesses closed and public gatherings, restricted some residents find themselves behind quarantine, coordinate the mid local outbreaks. students are vacating the dormitories to make way for a new hospital in preparation for the worst. the last flights to hanoi have landed, the busy international airport is closing for

a week. now he does ok. now, recently, a nice discovery of a suspected knew very and possibly merging types 1st seen in the united kingdom and india. it says that we'll soon share testosterone for confirmation. vietnam is a race to vaccinate. so far, only one percent of its population has been an alki lated. only weeks ago, vietnam had achieved a month 0 community transmissions. it's strict arrival quarantine measures and fast clock times proved effective. but cobit 19 is finding cracks. even in the most cautious countries. here's a look now at other developments in the krona virus pandemic, 7 e u members stage have launched a digital certificate system aimed at making travel within the block easier. it uses a q r code to prove holders are vaccinated. have a negative cash result or have recovered from cobra. 1900. the world health

organization has grown a virus variance will now be named after letters in the of the greek alphabet. it says it hopes this will simplify, discussion around the variance, and avoid stigma. south korea says a shipment of growth virus vaccines to north korea has been delayed again, due to ongoing discussion, some 2000000 doses are earmarked for the country as part of the kovacs vaccine sharing program. now peru has made a staggering revision to its official covered $900.00 death. toll officials are now reporting that more than twice as many people have died from the virus. as previous we estimated from just under 70000 to over 880000. the countries health ministers said a new criteria change the cal. this means peru now has the worst death rate per capita in the world. fighting for life in peruse hospitals with oxygen shortages

and overwhelmed intensive care units, experts had warned officials with under counting covered 19 death. now the government has announced a new toll using updated criteria accounting victims of the pandemic. bama at the man see for counting methodology, we will have more exhaustive figures. and figures such as the health minister said, will be very useful to monitor the pandemic. continue notion, i meant them on the 30 and we will take the appropriate measures to deal with it and hopefully overcome the pandemic very soon. but those will be the new criteria has been broadened from those who tested positive. it will now include people who showed corona virus symptoms and those who have been linked to a confirmed case. but outside tours crowded hospitals, the families of the sick, angry at the government's response to the pandemic. in the order

they should show the population about this new figure so that people would really be aware of what was happening because with a figure as low as 60000. i think people felt quite confident. and in some cases, they did not stick to social distancing measures on buckling non, they can also be outrageous that our, sorry, she's our latest, don't do anything. because as we know, it is true that our vaccines at the moment, but they are not enough for me, that's what the cmc government purchased additional doses last month. but the vaccine rollout has been slow and hit by allegations of corruption until the vaccine drive spades up the new death toll is a devastating reminder of the human cost of the pandemic. the leaders of the heroic and nama ethnic groups, and to maybe have rejected agreement between their country's government and germany

over the designation of colonial era crimes. last week, germany acknowledge it, committed genocide during the occupation of its former southern african colony, tens of thousands of her ro and nom up people were killed between 190-004-1900 weight berlin is offered to make payments of more than a 1000000000 euros to help the communities effective w corresponded add, your increase is in the new b, b in city of out in n day, which is in the former homeland of the hero people, and still a center for them today. adrien, why have the leaders of the heroic and nom up people rejected the agreement, reached by the german and may be in government? or michael, it's has several reasons, but the main one is money. they're simply not happy about the amount that was mentioned in the media around 1100000000 years that will be used for developmental

project. they say it is not enough, but the problem is also that the he railroad do not speak with one voice. the people he and also their traditional lead us, you have those to where on the negotiation table together with the government. some of them say we have to move ahead and finally conclude this deal either of them say, no, this is not the deal we wanted. and the government did not get our confirmation to agree on this agreement that was apparently reached last week. so they're now trying to pull out. and on the other hand, you also have those who have even a stronger position like here where we at the moment we just went on a tour with the local chief. and he said, no, this all negotiation was never fair. we always said that the government should not be, should not negotiate on our behalf. we the effected communities are the ones who want to negotiate directly with a german government, which the german government did not want to agree on. so this complicates things of course to find a solution in so they have issues clearly with the process. but what are they also asking for at this point.