are hosting for me 10 years after the arab spring, rebellion starts june 7th on d, w. the news news. this is the news line from berlin chinas. all seeing surveillance system in shanghai video cameras and artificial intelligence team up to keep a close eye on 24000000 citizens. is it smart governing or a violation of human rights? d, 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 in silence, cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. us president joe biden, remembering the tolls, the massacre of black americans that happened to one century ago and in russia and opposition activist is hold off of a plane just before take off the wall. another prominent prevalent critic is arrested and threatened with jail. the e. you call that a pattern of shrinking space for critical voices that ra shop. 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 it's strict enforcement of locked down. but in

a city of 24000000 residents, like shanghai, how do authorities go about keeping an eye on people? or 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. they aim to expand the system across the country. but how about privacy concerns and human rights? but he is pulling our gains special access to where this takes place, the monitoring it is called a brain and it has hundreds of thousands of eyes. and please of this surveillance center called 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. the 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 ton of woman. she says it will touch on all by see nickel for us citizens in the city. the system had to providing a secure, orderly, and clean environment that the government doesn't mean to govern the city more efficiently. due until financial mclaughlin, wiley, hall, john, they go check the city brains, employees have access to more than 20900000 cameras. and this is just one hop 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 10 this, the surveillance systems from government websites that often spell out the goal of the surveillance explicitly comes from the machine. doesn't want to mention a mentalist intox. we're describing how human interaction is the source of any social conflict. conflict is what could cause trouble for the government who is concerned the social stability. so as long as you can cover every aspect of human life, cameras and surveillance, one can react, diffuse and calm down the situation, come and listen. conflict rush side is infecting and chaffin on hot, on compiling the da who will put on shy 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 brain, not only collect surveillance footage, but also detailed data about each household in the city. since the coven outbreak, its employees were given an additional task. the data is used to ensure citizens are observing their quarantine. i'm a push to go. we installed interconnected sensors at the apartment door. if somebody leaves the flatten breach of the anti epidemic ruse, 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 terrorist some other stories making headlines. the world's largest neat

processing company, brazil j. b. s says that it is getting back online after a cyber attack. over the weekend. the company said that it expected the vast majority of its plants to be operating on wednesday. earlier. the white house, at that gps, had notified it of a ransom demand from a criminal group, likely based in russia. the largest shipping, the iranian navy has sunk in the gulf of oman, after catching fire the vessel, the irish car was dispatched to international water several days ago. it is 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 crew in less than a year in the west african nation. colonel austin mcgloid fled be uprising last week and has since been named transitional president. the african union has britain sanctions. if the 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 a white mob killed as many as $300.00 african americans in the middle class district, known at the time as black wall street biden says that rights for black americans are still under assault to this day. for 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 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 proper 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 a 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. 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 blood and has see it clear of a commitment for reparations to survive and, and their descendants that says his administration is aware that more needs to be

done to address racial inequality. that european union is demanding the release of a prominent russian opposition figure who was taken off of a plane bound for poland. andre pupa rover was arrested at saint petersburg airport . on monday, the former director of the pro democracy opened russia group is one of several activists arrested in recent days. the crackdown comes ahead of parliamentary elections in september. the e u says that his case quote, confirms a continuous pattern of shrinking space for civil society. the opposition and critical voices in russia secretly taken images of andre people far off let 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. he was at the chill,

some. andre had already turned his phone off as the plane began to take off. but a few minutes later he went back online and wrote me that the plane had been stopped and he saw the police driving to the gangways. after that, andre was escorted from the plain alone with 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 i have been asked to come for questioning. i would have. com. that's why this is all a very big surprise when people are of the rest 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 apartment. never functional important before there are 60 people working in our case today, and i'm allowed to speak to everyone. thank you. good cause was been 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 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 dw correspondent, emily sherwin who standing by in moscow. emily, what's the latest that you're hearing about these arrests?

well, both, i mean we could cough and under 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 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 in his family. and he could apparently face up to 5 years in prison over that when it comes to people vot of he's, you know, 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 that was used, emily, sherwin, being with me a short while ago. germany's national disease control agency has lowered the countries corona, virus risk status. as the 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 vaccinations. spring, sunshine and outdoor dining like 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. i'm a teacher,

we can get to confident management. 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 to the center is appealing to citizens. to get immunized, he says the virus is not likely to disappear anytime soon. we stick it, doesn't we? 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 does is that as a common responsibility, that most people can safely achieve immunity without infecting other kid. can many

german states have already relaxed rules or vindicated they will do so very soon with even large events permitted again, in some regions. and the next on the w it as a documentary about in the end or thought. so do stay with us if you can for that. in the meantime i'm, there are kelly in berlin from all of us here at the w. thank you so much for watching figure. ah ah ah, what people have to say to us i that's why we listen to their stories.