[000:00:00;00] ah, was who's this is the w new lied from berlin, china's all seeing surveillance system and shanghai video cameras and artificial intelligence team up to keep a close eye on 24000000 citizens. is that smart governing or a violation of civil rights? w get special access to the monitoring center called city brain. also coming up, much too long. the history of what took place here was told, is silent,

cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. the us president joe biden remembers the tulsa massacre of black americans that happened one century ago. and did russia and opposition activists called off of a plane just before take off another prominence crumbling critic this arrested with threatening in jail. the you calls it a pattern of shrinking space for critical voices and russia. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. when the pandemic broke out, china was credited with getting it quickly under control, partly down to with strict enforcement of lockdown. but in a city of 24000000 residents, like shanghai,

how do authorities go about keeping an eye on people? our next report looks at the video surveillance of the country. political leaders say that shanghai is a 21st century smart city using a facial recognition and big data. the aim to expand the system across the country . but how about privacy concerns and human rights? but he has bowling or gain special access to where all the monitoring takes place. it is called the brain and it has hundreds of thousands of eyes. and please of this surveillance center called city brain in shanghai, put on the district of 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. the government wants to create

a powerful tool to govern this city and its citizens shown don don is one of the designers at this system that has been operating since 2018 tongue us woman just as a test results on the law. i see nichol for us citizens in the city. the system has providing a secure, orderly, and clean environment that the government doesn't mean to go to the city more efficiently. i do them until flash or no go can. while the hot down they go check, 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 call back 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 come from the machine. doesn't want to mention a mentally 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 cameras in surveillance, one can react to fuse and calm down the situation. coming off conflict, rush, side index, and shaft and on to a colleague who will put on sure 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 bray. not only collect surveillance footage,

but also detailed data about each household in the city. in the coven outbreak, its employees were given an additional task. the data is used to ensure citizens are observing that quarantine was that want me to 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 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 can. let's get more on this. we are joined now by tv, kristen tat low senior fellow at the age program of the german council of 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, as your report noted, be pandemic has been a churn uptick in tight surveillance, which already existed in china. for example, the issue of a beat that goes off is somebody who's 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 by the pandemic. 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 those 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 sort of type surveillance policy, but i think that, you know, in so far as these kinds of 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 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? 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 probably 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 and other venues to sort of create a vision of a minute cli controlled society. in fact, shipping 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 this 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 not, 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 democratic country is going to guarantee their citizens. democracy within a situation by china is increasingly exporting ex tech technology. now the 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 hooked to 3 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 a very powerful political stage, also has a very powerful economic state if you like. what date and enterprises that feed into the system. devi kirsten top low senior fellow at the age a program for the german council of foreign relations. thank you so much for joining us to share that view. thank you. and here are some other stories making headlines. the world's largest neat processing companies, brazil's j b. s has been hit by a cyber attack. the company's operations in australia,

the united states and canada have been effected. the white house says that it believes that the attack originated from a criminal group, likely based in russia. the largest ship in the iranian navy has sunk into the gulf of oman, after catching fire the vessel, the iris card was dispatched to international water several days ago. it's unclear what caused the blaze. the iranian navy says that nobody was killed in the incident . molly has been suspended from the african union after the 2nd coup in less than a year in the west african country colonel. i may go to lead the uprising last week and has since been named transitional president. the african union has threatened sanctions if a civilian government is not restored. joe biden has become the 1st sitting us president to visit the site of the tulsa massacre in oklahoma. he marked 100 years since the white mob killed as many as 300 african americans in the middle class district,

known as at the time as the black wall street bite. and says that rights for black americans are still under assault to the stay are now the survivors of the tulsa massacre over 100 years old, but never in their 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 racial 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 slide and has said clear of the commitment for reparations 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 evans, joining us here in the studio,

6100 years. it took 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, hospital schools, all the things you need to make a community home and over 2 days and angry white mom destroyed everything, was 35 blocks. everything was destroyed. hundreds of people were missing, more were dead, and they just on earth a, a mass grave fight that they began as 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 that the end of the civil war in 194100 such attacks. so it's important to know america, true 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 has something to say about that, but he fell short of a commitment. didn't have to 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 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, 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 reparations, you have to talk about the fact that this happened. it would be great if the people of greenwood, the, 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 reparation, 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 stacy. thank you so much. you're welcome. you're watching dw news filter come germany downgrade the corona, virus risk assessment, but health officials more people shouldn't relax their attitude toward the pandemic . the european union is demanding the release of a prominent russian opposition figure who was taken off of a plane bound for poland. andre people var off was arrested at saint petersburg airport. on monday, the former director of the pro democracy opened russia group is one of several activists the rested in recent days. the crackdown comes ahead of parliamentary elections in september. he says that his case vote confirms

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 plain about to take off moments before his arrest. the activist tweeted a picture of the police boarding the aircraft, but he was at the you. andre had already turned his stone off as 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 gangways. after that, andre was escorted from the plain. it alone is somebody with them. people f r f was taken to his apartment, which was searched before. he was driven away. he was later spotted in the remote city of cross medina. i'm being taken for questioning now. with the

remarkable thing is that there had been no information about this case earlier have been asked to come from questioning. i would have. com. that's why this is all a very big surprise. because 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 dmitri good cove, who was planning to run an upcoming parliamentary elections. were now going to the next department. i've never thought so important before. 3060 people working in our case today, and i'm allowed to speak to everyone. thank you. my 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. with such scenes, repeating themselves all over russia. the opposition is bracing for a tough time before pulls open in september. and for more we are joined by the w correspondent, emily sherwin who standing by in moscow. emily, what's the latest that you're hearing about these arrests? well, both the me take with coffee and under, if you have a lot of our high profile opposition, politicians or figures here in russia and both of them were arrested within just days of each other in what their allies say is the political campaign official . lead me 3 good cough was arrested in a case connected to the fact that apparently he didn't pay rent on a property that he rented from the moscow mayor's office in 2015 to to 2017.

and now we saw in that you know, that police operation against him, essentially a 140 police officers, were involved in searching 10 properties that were connected to him and his family . and he could apparently face up to 5 years in prison over that when it comes to people vot of he's facing a case for being involved in working with an undesirable organization. and he could face up to 6 years in prison. and apparently, both trials could begin as soon as today and people are off, i mean, i just want to dig down a little bit deeper into his arrest. emily, because i mean, he was taken off of a plane. how unusual is this? i would say it's very unusual. usually, russian authorities are pretty happy to let all position figures leave the country

there even been cases of opposition. figures being encouraged to leave, the country are essentially told that they should if they don't want to face consequences. and we saw this rather theatrical arrest of people, of our, of justice, his plane was about to take off from pool of airport in st. petersburg. and it seems to be kind of potentially a signal from the authorities. it's hard to miss here. i think the parallels to neighboring bella ruth, where an opposition blogger was arrested after his plane was essentially forced to land in minsk. and i think people here in russia has been washing, you know, over the past months and weeks you know, that arrest and also the events in bella. ruth unfolding the protests, the rather violent crack down on protesters and also on descent in the country. and i think this could be potentially the russian authorities sending a signal that so far they've been

a bit more liberal than neighboring bella. ruth. but that they could change tactics and people shouldn't dare to protest. what does it mean for the parliamentary elections in september? well, meeting good cough and people var of, according to their allies. you know, we're planning to run in these elections. it seems to be a clear signal that opposition candidates won't be tolerated. we seen a rather harsh crack down on essentially all forms of descent, especially since the return of opposition. politician i like seeing vide me. in january, he was arrested most prominent opposition. politicians have been facing fines, arrests, house arrest activists have been arrested in recent weeks. and months journalists have faced police searches, media outlets have been branded for an agents have been branded undesirable. so it

seems pretty clear. and also protesters and people here have been intimidated. you know, people who took part in opposition. protests in the past few months were fired from their jobs, for example. so it seems pretty clear that the kremlin wants to show that no descent will be tolerated ahead of these elections. no opposition. politicians will most likely be registered because they really want united russia the ruling party to get a strong result in that election. and it seems they won't stop at anything. emily? sure, when in moscow? thank you. here's the look at the latest developments. meantime in the corona virus pandemic, the world health organization has approved a cobit 19 vaccine made by china sino vac for emergency use in adults over 18. it is the 2nd such authorization, it has granted to a chinese company. a corona virus locked down in australia, a 2nd biggest city. melbourne has been extended by another week following

a cluster of cases. and the report says that africa faces were session growing violence and higher unemployment because of the panoramic. that's from low abraham foundation, which promotes good governance. germany's national disease control agency has lowered the country corona virus risk status. as a 3rd wave of infection subsides, 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 case numbers and progress with the vaccination spring, sunshine and alto dining life just got a little better in germany. case number's a thinking and just for districts or cities have an incident right higher than 100 . even the german health minister is showing signs of relief. and if you 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 or it is the vaccines actually arrive. the head of germany's infectious disease center is appealing to citizens to get immunized. he says the virus is not likely to disappear anytime soon. we get some water and 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 a common responsibility that most people can safely achieve immunity without

infecting other paid off on could many german states have already relax rules or have indicated they will do so very soon with even large events permit that again, in some regions you're watching dw news up next to making paper out of rhino dung. that's our environment. magazine eagle, india, to stay with us if you can for that. in the meantime, i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thanks for watching. ah, the, the news . the news. news. news,

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