[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, china's all seeing surveillance system in shanghai video cameras and artificial intelligence team up to keep a close eye on 24000000 citizens. if it's smart, governing for a violation of civil rights, the w get special access to the monitoring center called city brain. also coming up

just as our so it really shows grievers. they can't be buried. no matter how hard people try and show it is here. us president joe biden, remembering the victims of the tulsa massacre, one century ago. he says the u. s. has been silent for too long on one of the country is the worst racial atrocities. and in russia and opposition activist is called off of a plane just before take off, while another provident kremlin critic is arrested and threatened with jail. b, e u, calls it a pattern of shrinking space for critical voices in russia. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. when the pandemic broke out, china was credited with getting it quickly under control, partially down to its strict enforcement of locked down. but in a city of 24000000 residence like shanghai,

how do authorities go about keeping an eye on people? well, our next report looks at video surveillance in the country. political leaders say that shanghai is a 21st century smart city using ai, facial recognition and big data. and they aim to expand the system across the country. but how about privacy concerns and human rights? w mathias pulling their game special access to where all of this monitoring takes place. it is called a brain and it has hundreds of thousands of eyes. and please of this surveillance center cord city brain in shanghai put on the district, have direct control over cameras that cover almost every corner of the district. in the background, artificial intelligence scans the footage for rule breakers. on this construction site, it has identified a worker was not wearing his helmet besides camera footage. the system also

collects data from the city administration and property management's government wants to create a powerful tool to govern this city and its citizens. shown. don don is one of the designers that the system that has been operating since 2018 tongue woman just touches on, on the law by seeing nickel for us citizens in the city. the system had providing a secure, orderly, and clean environment. the government doesn't mean to govern the city more efficiently due until financial mclaughlin, wiley, hall, john, they go to the city brains, employees have access to more than 290000 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, palms in

berlin scholar. my callback has studied these efforts for many years. she says she has downloaded millions of tenders for surveillance systems from government websites that often spell out the goal of the surveillance explicitly comes from the machine. the mention of mental intox they are describing how human interaction is the source of any social conflict. conflict is what could cause trouble for the government who's concerned the social stability. so as long as you can cover every aspect of human life cameras in surveillance, one can react to fuse and calm down the situation. come and listen. conflict. resh side is indexing on shaft and on to a colleague who will production i, 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

or seeing system put on city brake, not only collect surveillance footage, but also detailed data about each household in the city. in the cove it outbreak, its employees were given an additional task. the data is used to ensure citizens are observing their quarantine. let me a for sure, does it go, didn't 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 swiftly across 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. and let's get more on this. we are joins now by tv. chris and tat low senior fellow at the age of

program of the german counsel, foreign relations. welcome to the program, and thank you so much for joining us. we saw a little bit there in that report, but how are you observing? the pandemic impacting the state of surveillance in china, while certainly su, reporter noted, be pandemic has been a churn uptick in tight surveillance, which already existed in china. for example, the issue of a beep that goes off if somebody who's in supposed to be in quarantine, actually leaves their apartment. but i think it's very important here to understand that this project of massive surveillance may be in deep and by the panorama. but in fact, it is much, much older than the pandemic, and it has been projected to grow very, very fast for many years now. so if you, like, the pandemic is just one piece of a much bigger picture. what a resident think of all of this? i mean, are, are there reservations that the government has gone too far?

it's a mixture of responses. i think firstly, you know, china did have a public security problem if you like. i mean there are a lot of sort of discontent and a lot of petty crime people, very painful crime. people having their life savings taken away from them buy online is best for example. and the government was struggling to deal with this. so it's come up with this service type surveillance policy, but i think that, you know, in so far as these kinds a whole range of surveillance measures to protect people on a crime level. thus in that sense, it's relatively popular. but i think that was very important to understand that just like anywhere else, china, there are people who really don't like it, you know, and feel constrained and controlled by it. the problem is, of course, that they have that she no way of realistically pushing back. so a lot of people just go go with the flow and say, well, what can we do? they like to say, there's nothing we can do. we just have to go along with it. okay. i'd like to just ask if you could perhaps make a distinction for us because of course,

there's many big cities around the world, berlin, washington, johannesburg, that you have video capabilities. what is making china different? what makes china fundamentally different is that this is a very, very powerful state that the video capability. the surveillance issues are organized at the very top by the state security system, which includes all kinds of government departments. notably, of course the, you know, the ministry state security would be one, the public security department is another ministry of information and industry information technology. and all these parts of the states. kind of, we've been together and guided from the very top by top communist party leaders in their small groups and other in other venues. to sort of create a vision of a minute cli controlled society. in fact, she being the general factory, the communist party in china, who's also the president and the head of military has talked about the creation of

a new man, if you like, which is an old let in his concept about mechanized people. so i think that this is really what makes surveillance different in china is the incredible level of political control vision. you know that, that the government, the state, the party state brings to it, the technology is also quite advanced. could you just tell us a little bit more about how china is developing that, you know, in the realm of surveillance and a, i especially, and what it could potentially mean for democracy is in the rest of the world. and whether they are indeed exporting that technology, right, well, this is a absolutely key issue for countries elsewhere. and i call this pseudo a democratic security how ident credit countries going to guarantee their citizens democracy within a situation where china is increasingly exporting ex tech technology. now very important to remember is that this rising surveillance,

already hundreds of millions of surveillance cameras alone and china. that rising surveillance is going to be very closely hot as well to 5 g, the deployment of 5 g in china and overseas. and i think that this is make, makes it even more important to be sure that whatever 5 g supplies and equipment we have overseas, democratically accountable to us fully. it's really the only way to go forward. so i think that that's one very important aspect more broadly, china has the very powerful political stage also has a very powerful economic state if you like. what date and enterprises that feed into the system. d. d kirsten tot low senior fellow at the age program for the german council of foreign relations. thank you so much for joining us to share that view. thank you. care some other stories making headlines is rarely politicians battling to see prime minister benjamin netanyahu have until

midnight on wednesday to put together a coalition with this issue. secular, centrist le pete is leaving the push to form a government for the host of bitter idea. logical rivals, if they succeed, it would, and 12 straight years in office for israel's longest serving premier smalley has been suspended from the african union after the 2nd crew in less than a year and the west african country. colonel awesome. a goiter led the uprising last year and has since been named transitional presidents. the african union has threatened sanctions if a civilian government is not restored. the largest ship in the iranian navy has sunk in the gulf of oman, after catching fire the vessel. the iris card has been dispatched to international water several days ago, is unclear what caused the blaze. the iranian navy says that nobody was killed in

the incident. joe biden has become the 1st sitting us president to visit the site of the tulsa massacre and oklahoma. he marked 100 years since, doesn't there? possibly hundreds of african americans were killed by a white mob by and says that rights for black americans are still under result to this day are now the survivors of the tulsa massacre over 100 years old. but never in that long life have they seen a president commemorate the event. president biden held a minute of silence in tulsa to remember a black community that was subjected to one of the worst rachel attacks in us history. for much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent,

it doesn't mean that it did not take place. in 1921, a mob of white people looted and burned tulsa's, thriving greenwood district. a profit count of the dead was never completed. but some estimates say hundreds of black americans were killed. those now living in the cities say the president's visit was vital for racial justice. and it's important because there's a beginning of admittance. there's a beginning of, let's speak on these things and let's try to deal with this so that we can grow and move forward. we need his presence, we need for people to continue to learn about the race massacre and to continue to invest to really help us move forward. we're looking back is one thing, but thinking about what's next is sort of the big part of it. like, what are we going to do to make things right? what are we going to do to improve our community? widen has see it clear of a commitment for reparation to survivors and their descendants. that says his

administration is aware that more needs to be done to address racial qualities. and for more let's bring in d. w reporter stacy events. joining us here in the studio 5100 years. it took a us president to sitting us president, to visit the site of the tulsa race massacre. it finally getting the attention that deserves now. yes, finally, slowly, a lot of people would say to slowly and i don't need to tell you that there are many americans who had never heard about this thriving community. greenwood that was in tulsa, oklahoma, african american doctors, lawyers, it had hospital schools, all the things you need to make a community home. and over 2 days, an angry white mom destroyed everything was 35 blocks. everything was destroyed. hundreds of people were missing more or dead, and they just on earth a, a mass grave site that they began escalating now. but this story is so important

because it highlights the wealth gap between black and white, which is what president biden was talking about. it's impossible to pass on generational wealth when you're not allowed to build. you're not allowed to live and you're not allowed to thrive. and that's the problem. it also highlights a form of systematic racism. a lot of people say it doesn't exist well during this time. in greenwood police, firefighters didn't come to fight the fire police didn't arrest anybody. and even the media focused on the 3 dead white people and not the hundreds of black people who were dead or missing. and so that's why this is so important. greenwood is just one area that was attacked by angry white mob between or that the end of the civil war in 194100 such attacks. so it's important to know america through history. it's not isolated. certainly. you talked a little bit about this, this concept of generational wealth. now, what always comes up there is, of course,

reparations. sure. you know, financially speaking, biden had something to say about that, but he fell short of a commitment didn't hey, so just walk us through what that play. right, well he talked about what a lot of black americans talk about acknowledgement. how can you heal if your plight was an acknowledged and how can white america rethink its relationship with its fellow americans? if it doesn't know the truth of its history? so, so that was an important thing. and just an aside we, we spoke about this earlier. when i came to germany, i was really impressed by the fact that there are these markers all over the city to let you know where jewish people were kidnapped, and that they were killed. and there's memorials. and there's talks about it in language school. and it's something that the united states has been very slow to do . so before you can even talk about reparation, you have to talk about the fact that this happened. it would be great if the people of greenwood, though those people who are more than 100 years old, over in our peace,

if they were given reparations. if the victims the sentence were given reparations, of course bite. and as you said, did not talk about that, but he did link the black racial wealth gap with his his economic plan, which would focus a lot of government money, contractors, for example, towards black neighborhoods. and that's a start. he w stacy business, breaking it all down for us on this summer anniversary. we have to say, stacy, thank you so much. you're welcome. well, the european union is demanding the release of a prominent russian opposition figure who was taken off of a plane that was bound for poland. andre a p r off who was arrested at saint petersburg airport. on monday, the former director of the pro democracy open russia group is one of several activists arrested in recent days. the crackdown comes ahead of parliamentary elections in september of each says that his case confirms quote,

a continuous pattern of shrinking space for civil society. the opposition and critical voices in russia who secretly taken images of andre people far off, led away by police after being hauled from a plane about to take off moments before his arrest. the activist tweeted a picture of the police boarding the aircraft and it was after you them. andre had already turned his phone off. the plane began to take off, but a few minutes later he went back online and wrote me that the planes had been stopped. and he saw the police trying to the game ways. after that, andre was escorted from the plain alone. i'm the vincent, who is somebody with them. people of r f was taken to his apartment, which we searched before. he was driven away. he was later spotted in

the remote city of cross nadar. i'm being taken for questioning now with the remarkable thing is that there had been no information about this case. earlier. i have been asked to come for questioning. i would have. com. that's why this is all a very big surprise. social people are abs arrest at st. petersburg airport. comes days after his open russia foundation folded its activities to avoid persecution, under russia's repressive laws on opposition groups. but the police did not stop there. on tuesday they rated the offices of opposition politician, dimitri good cove, who was planning to run in upcoming parliamentary elections. were now going to the next apartment. i've never thought so important before. there are 60 people working in our case today, and i'm allowed, i'll speak to everyone. thank you. good cause was then also arrested and some of his associates taken in for questioning. the question is the themes as if this is a personal case against opposition?

figures to pressure them, push them out of politics and prevent them from running an election. what i've done it with such scenes repeating themselves all over russia. the opposition is bracing for a tough time before pulls open in september. now, germany's national disease control agency has lowered the country's corona virus risk status. as the 3rd wave of infection subside, the risk level goes from very high to high. despite this health officials have emphasized that germany is still in the middle of a pandemic. regardless of declining cases and progress with vaccination, the spring sunshine and outdoor dining life just got a little better in germany. case number's a thinking and just for districts or cities have an incidence right higher than 100 . even the german health minister is showing signs of relief. if you don't get too

confident, i know it's hard to hear sometimes, but nevertheless it's the right approach. we've just seen so many examples around the world where things have gone wrong. authorities are relaxing restrictions further, but doing so cautiously and vaccinating as many people as possible. currently, 80 to 90 percent of those willing are expected to receive at least one dose by mid july. but that's provided hold is the vaccines actually arrive, the head of germany's infectious disease center is appealing to citizens ticket immunized. he says the virus is not likely to disappear anytime soon. we still use that. i mean, what's important is that as much of society as possible is immune to the virus. we will reach this immunity much more comfortably and much more safely through vaccinations rather than through sickness. when does that, as our common responsibility is that most people can safely achieve immunity without infecting other off on,

couldn't many german states have already relaxed rules or have indicated they will do so very soon with even large events permit that again, in some regions and with corona, virus infections on the decline in germany, schools are gradually reopening after 6 months of restrictions. as we've heard, since the end of last year, pupils have had to cope with uncertain schedules and lessons largely taking place at home and online or next report looks at the impact that missing school life has had on some youngsters. oh the leander quickly prints out the latest work sheets before math class. the last time he was able to attend school with his entire class was over a year ago. since the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic schools have been closed for most of the time. day after day, landra has online classes, according to a set schedule. he's actually

a good student with home school and he finds it hard to keep up having the same book or under so much pressure the whole day. my head is full of deadlines. for example, i need to work on things that are due on wednesday or thursday, but i know i won't be able to meet the deadlines because i still have so much to do and other subjects. and for 100, clemson landeros mother power booked off isn't just a teacher. she also acts as a counselor and confidant fair student. since the 1st lockdown began over a year ago, more students are seeking help and never before. that's good for little clearer cases of children who live only with their mother, but the mother drinks at bidding article. oh, we have a boy who doesn't get along with his father at all. and because they now have to work together at home all the time, because the type, the father works from home, the boy has home schooling, home office,

they are constant conflict in conflict on it. and as soon as something happens, the kids call me because they need to support the students all the had he was absent and english got oh gosh, anson forgot. p. p. 's you right, that he was laurel t. e a s. natalie from as a short monitor i'm, i'm not sure i sometimes miss my mama who'd help me straight off if she were here. it has been convent here. we come that she has to work. and philip and i are here and we're doing our assignments and trying to manage everything as best we can who does have good social food. another kind of looseness and if you don't want to do anything anymore, it almost makes you feel a bit depressed. yeah. depression is a big word, but it's,

it's sick. you're sad and don't want to do anything. your body's telling you use too much time that the computer isn't there under too much pressure. it expresses that by making your sense of football news now, and fears that germany is. corona virus entry restrictions could play have it with this month, european championship has eased. the interior ministry says that it is planning to make exceptions for the tournament. despite burton being class as a virus variant area, president people who have recently been in britain can only enter germany if they are a german citizen or residence. and even then have to quarantine a quarter final of the pan. your appeal tournament will be held in munich with one team having previously played in london. meantime, there are only 9 days to go before the euro takes off. germany take on denmark tonight in their 1st warm up friendly to familiar faces have returned and are ready to bring some much needed experience to the squad via munich thomas mother,

back in the germany team after 2 years. and once again, a leader, just like gorman's mom, hamas, the veteran do, should give the young team stability and the right mentality for the euros to make them as a voice bottling out. so i want to give my all, both as some player and as a person to me and to get myself into the best shape and possible before the tournament office. and of course, i hope i can play that role on the templates. i named off 32 year old homo's is expected to show up the defense last year. the team conceited. 16 goals in 8 games that won't do at the euro's. and marilyn with his strategic skills and inventiveness could pose some problems for opponents. but tell me, i was my, the test speed and now we have the friendliness and that should get us going on top

line players who trained for a week together, who will be out on the pitch and already expected to play some good games. goodish bill up to the front coach joachim nerve and his players know that success at euro 2020 will be an uphill climb up next close up in a documentary on young people locked in the panoramic. i'm sarah tele, thanks for watching the news. news . news

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