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ah, when will the leaning tower of pisa collette many world famous monuments are at risk? you to climate change war and negligence. but with the help of 3 d scans, drones and a i, we can save these eye clinic buildings, at least virtually how it works. that's our topic on ship today. ah. having digital backups comes in handy like of your diploma or your favorite. todos the same is true for historic buildings that have deteriorated over the years like mexico cities famous metropolitan cathedral, which has been damaged by several earthquakes. luckily it's 3 d model is earthquake proof. that's also a detailed 3 d model of the gateway of india and moon by which has been eroded by

sea water. but it's estimated at so far, only about 15 percent of the world's casual heritage has been digitally preserved by now. ukraine's cause will have it. it is especially at risk, it's not only buildings and gods as that in danger, but all kinds of online archives of things like paintings and lid, which are to me in ukraine. russian bombs are not only killing people and estimating homes and infrastructure. they're destroying cultural heritage too. right now everything's at risk. everything from physical museum collections to records of library holdings, to servers with web sites. at the end of the day, the internet is as physical as, as anything else that depends on servers that have to be connected to power and connected to cables. and those servers are at risk of being destroyed. if

servers are destroyed, digital backups of art and other records are lost to. that's why quinn dombrowski and a group of librarians, researchers and programmers joint forces to start suture saving ukrainian cultural heritage online. soon after the russian attack suture volunteers began archiving as much as possible, relying in what they could find from ukrainian cultural institutions online. we're trying to, to capture those websites with everything that's on them. any pdf, any image, any 3 d model or, or walkthrough. we're trying to capture a version of, of all of it so that, that can be, you know, something that is safe and outside the country. ah, some tech companies are supporting search by providing servers in storage for free . so far, the group has saved more than 30 terabytes of content from over 3500 websites. more than 1300 volunteers helped with the task. sometimes it's not even like

a firefighter squad, it's, it's more like, you know, neighbors with water buckets. you know, many of us had not really done any work on web archiving before this year on quinn, dombrowski hope so, chose archive will never actually be needed. we, we don't actually want these to be useful if they're useful it's, it's a sign that something terrible has happened in terms of the preservation of, of cultural heritage. the great thing about this project, anyone can pitch him. you can learn more at social dot org. sometimes doing you a part to digital to preserve cultural heritage is simple. other times more expertise is needed. ah, the great wall of china is the world's longest manmade structure. it's more than 20000 kilometers long over 2000 years old, and in desperate need of repair, droves or used to serve a parts of the world that are difficult to. after filming the wall of close,

the data is then used to create 3 d models. a i is then used to scan these models, identified the damage and planned the necessary repairs. the non profit cy arc specializes in 3 d laser scans of endangered cultural sites. here's how it works. the laser scanner sensors pulses of light think by measuring how long it takes for the lights to be reflected off various surfaces. it's possible to determine the size and surface material of objects. this method is called lighter. another technique that's used as photo grammar tree, where overlapping photos are combined to create extremely realistic 3 d models. anyone can check out the scans on google's arts and culture platform, or download the datasets on open heritage. 3 d. digital technology

has become critical in reconstructing destroyed buildings. in august 2015, the temple of balcony and palmera syria was reduced to rubble by the islamic state, terrorist group. however, back in the 1950s, smith's archaeologist to po colors, excavated, undocumented, the temple. the information you collected back then made it's possible to create a virtual reality image and 3 d model, or the temple of bounce. yameen is supposed to be rebuilt, just like palmer's arch of triumph, which was also destroyed by ins. using digital muddles robots built a smaller replica of the archway which has been exhibited in several cities. hopefully, the arch of triumph can one day return to its original location in syria. in 2019 a fire destroyed large parts of the through a dom cathedral. the incident shall trans and people worldwide. it is me in one of

the most iconic landmarks in paris was lost forever. fortunately, not, it's cowardly being withdrawn true to the original. thanks in part with this man. andrew tell him. no tra, dom was a lifelong passion for andrew talon here. the belgian born art historian is walking around the 850 year old cathedral before the fire. he was recording a $360.00 degree video which is why the image looks a bit distorted. another interesting detail too about this is a bit of lead that was often used as a joint between edge bedded elements such as this talon used laser scanning technology to map no to them. he collected more than $1000000000.00 data points, which he then linked to photos of the scanned areas. andrew became fascinated with

the cathedral from a very young age. his work there in trying to create a global laser survey. that is really what makes his work stand out there. so we are still reading the benefits of that effort from 2010 in 2012. he scans not as much as i'm, you know, but it does, since it's not hundreds of cathedrals from sweden to spain, not turned on was i think, a crown jewel. and a lot of ways. andrew talon did not live to see exactly how important his scans would turn out to be several months before the fire destroyed notre dams. roof inspire, he died of cancer. part of the reconstruction plan is based on talent work. it is one of several records that we have of the pre fire state of neutral. and this is of course, critically important as the decision was made to restore the building. identically, no, 2 dimes restoration team combine talons models with additional scans resulting in

this impressive 3 d model. us software developer autodesk provides a cloud based data platform which gives all the stakeholders involved in reconstruction access to the latest records. that makes it easier to plan construction work like calculating how many oak trees need to be felt to replace notre dame's fire. frances determined to restore the cathedral true to its original design. the one that andrew talon and his team mapped before the fire thus safeguarding its future. there are many ways in which cultural heritage can be endangered. one prominent example art stolen by colonizers, the kenya based non profit, african digital heritage, is working to digitize these treasures. and we frame how this history is documented

. yet another advantage of digital copies, cultural heritage can be showcased to a global audience online, ah, artifacts from african history. ideally, you might see them in person in the museum collection, but kenyan historian, child diana, minor, once more, world wide accessibility, we did the place for many reasons. one of the primary ones being access, enabling audiences practitioners we such as to access materials remotely, to access materials from different countries. you know, you don't have to be in kenya to access cultural heritage. another reason why we digitize is to preserve the material the digital heritage specialist trains museum staff across kenya. the teams have a huge task ahead of them, digitizing tens of thousands of books, papers,

and photos. some of them hundreds of years old. i lot of the time when i'm training on digitization, i would say right, the process of digitization is not about just sticking the photograph. it's about the decisions that you make before you take this photograph. the 1st step is inspection and selection. not everything can be digitized choosing the right objects is also a way of writing history. when we are digitizing, do we still defeat the theme? colonial kind of tom. we still repeat the ways in which our people are objects i describe or is this an opportunity to say, okay, let's change how things are described. ah, one example. the mama comes in the 1950s. the british army and colonists detained many canyons and forced labor comes using

a kind of material. the african digital heritage non profit, has created 3 d scans of the country. we've been going out into the field documenting this site in that kind of i would say akila gene ascends to see what struck 10 still exist as well as contextualizing this tangible heritage. this tangible metal buildings in land to people with memories and people, stories, digitizing, african cultural heritage is a way to re examine, contextualize, and preserve this history and culture. ah, i feel that they walk back, read, going to digitize here. see, is also about connecting time. we are connecting the past the present and in this very act we are shipping future. 7 thanks to digitization, it's possible to safeguard casual heritage for generations to come. but 3 d models

shouldn't be regarded as mere replacements or backups of the originals. instead, there a chance for people across the globe to get to know cultural sides, they otherwise may have never seen was your take? can monuments really be capital on the screen? or do you need to physically be there to get the full experience? let us know what do you think as off or now a by, ah ah, dynamic if they come in, not everything you enjoy, eating at home with your family, was harvested by people more being exploited. if they're not, these were free in the green revolution of absolutely necessary.

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but we've got everything we need to develop the herat chavira. they, as you bet, we've got the see that they are a huge desert mountain oil gas mina, gold mine that have all kinds of mineral c me good at the federal will shop locally . all this for a population of about 6000000, but the countries around us, it'll just can't leave us alone. and they'd be at the point to say a med shannon is the libby and fighting against foreign interference in his country. is good all bo, oh, europe, turkey, russia, the us, our neighboring countries. you are, they're all trying to exploit libya for their own interest. lewalma for their slicing up libya like a caca. no. didn't good. ah,

since market duffy was ousted, libya has had 9 governments. 142 political parties have been found it and every new attempt to hold elections has re ignited conflict. as africa's 4th largest oil producer libby arouses great interest ah, and its chronic instability has attracted many dubious actors. room of the audio this nation has become the playground of the world's great palace, raising a key question, who is so in chaos in libya? ah, to him,

the beginning, the libyan revolution seemed full of hope. i carbonell thought of him right now. ah, wow. it put an end to the 42 year reign of a dictator, colonel moammar gadhafi. but off to the full of good duffy, the revolutionaries did not lay down their owns. the country was divided to 3 big cities that spurred the revolution, vied full power and control of the oil fields. the western cities of tripoli and miss rossa were on the one side facing the eastern city of been gauzy on the other . cassandra duffy and phil about bush, subtle into the split, began in 2014 during the 1st election. so tripoli and miss rata were the western

command centers bubble rosie, and in the east bank ozzy, and some of them, the population gradually took sides easily dumbly. and it wasn't long before the guns started going on the hook to see the horn and sit on them as lemming extremist. soon seized the opportunity to infiltrate the vulnerable country. but also a bomb general, though they so terror among the population get done. what? well, you got that's good. that's good. i mean, they took away the revolutionaries weapons. oh, good. going with the full of good look at the moment. i

think your mobile did the oh, can look and look in with lowered book, good manners loop. a little issue with him. in the midst of this chaos, one man decided to take matters into his own hands. jason, welcome you to the b. this missouri, his name khalifa, half tar metal. he declared he would take over the country in order to unify it. he appointed himself leader of the libyan army. the harmonic additional up, any libby, the libyan national army has been mobilized with a weapon, saving the country as it is duty. we don't want to seize power or govern eman what little thing we want to restore peace and conduct free democratic elections. i live to talk about the way to be a i don't at that also. yeah. hill vas this mysterious figure

and how could a man without financial resources, all political support, mobilized an army to back him. mm. you got to the body catholic with the city of the all state representatives, police officers and soldiers are to report to their barracks and bases mark if you him one more. okay. our goal is to save the nation who are in father linwood. m, the key to the mystery might lie in the command is korea puff khalifa. half towel was a tough military officer in the cat duffy regime in 1987 on behalf of the dictator half tell led and offensive against the neighboring country of chad. he was taken as the prisoner of war it was during this period that half tell was recruited by the c i a to topple gadhafi as we posted in

the new york times. quote miss to have tells word for the c i a like almost all spy operations is draped in mystery. when his mission fell through half till went into exile in the united states. quote, mister hafta and his sons settled in northern virginia with a eventually bought several properties. mm. he started to attract in the interest of external actors, especially in the west. the u. s. and france especially, were interested in the role hoshal could play in helping fight terrorism donte to re ah, sit down the la la sydney object if to can his army is top goal, was fighting terrorism, which it did,

do you always make it thought terrorism and down on because in been causing you to, to insert and, and facade to england. fizzle, baskerville is to always terrorism was a real and serious threat or us as well. sit them in and his army with our support . one big victories against this threat or 20 or you can do when the city news will see after 27 years of exile in the us khalifa have tell, reappeared on to the libyan political scene. he seemed to be the only figure, capable of standing up to the so called islamic state. terrorist group whose advance is across the middle east, had the west worried loose out of the hello. this isn't a kuda top. it's not a cood at all in the traditional sense of the term from leading many libyans in the east rally to his side. but tripoli and miss ross. i refused to fall in line with hafta whom they saw as a new dictator. war broke out

to oppose half to us ami the western cities on the young men and prepared them for battle. a mention knob was one of the 1st to join the fight, my warrior. who's the middle of us and then with them and the gun a med cover, a med and i met you when you were a student at university. now you're in uniform carrying a gun and the best. oh, of the one. yes little some i thought, and this is osama, but he's a student to lily cauthen. we're here to help with the war. that is where civilians are more than you, but we dropped out of the school to lend our revolutionary brothers. a hannah angelica to what it is the right thing to do and living because their struggle is just not we believe in them. i'm in the now, it's as simple as that. they don't out there.

ah, me, are you afraid of dying with death can strike at any time if you hop. darr's bombs could land on us at any 2nd. right here. at my home, at my school, at of been in the street, we'll cut we have to fight so that our younger brothers and our children can live in peace and libya, michigan, i, i face death every single day. sure. yeah. you a few years later, a med would lose both his brother and his friend osama on the battlefield. fanny

was insanity enough. hello. i'm but the, the sandy mitchell in 2014. i was only 2 years away from graduating. i was studying the architecture of spain, the united states, france, italy, dubai, and i thought to myself, in my greatest wish is never going to the world, nobody could have imagined such a thing. look, an issue from the wall, connecticut. okay, m libya plunged into endless wool. the country went from seas fires to conflict and back again. they were international conferences and the un security council issued report after report. but nothing changed on the ground. 5 years into the conflict, the battle lines hadn't budged. nobody could win until 2019

gone khalifa half tar launched a large scale offensive, conquering 85 percent of the country. he advanced to the gates of the libyan capital. sizes from his rasa flocked to tripoli to bolster the forces of the government of national the code. they tried to defend the city from halftime attack the fashion as jimmy at b. we were all surprised by the swiftness and violence of half doors attack on tripoli was it baffled us up at a loss. yet many of them who was backing this powerful force that had covered 1200 kilometers from east to west. so quickly that for me it we had lots of questions

the side as cathedra and heavy loom. i am on the ground, both sides, foot ferociously full control of tripoli, airport. okay. in my limits, what the hell kind of a our intelligence was clear and fi her initially we intercepted messages, shook will let the bad at that kid, but we still had doubt. see what, what, who see it? a should we eventually confirmed they were russian mercenaries working for the wagner group, one of the world's biggest private military company, one of them near livia about olivia has become a goose theater spool. other countries knocked up all the soda,

those nations fight each other here. unfortunately, where only their pop at lee had the ha ha, set up a un security council report confirmed this documentation proofs the presence of wagner in libya. and that they were reporting on white military issues to their headquarters in st. petersburg. this same report confirms the wagner grips presence into our humana, just outside tripoli and crucially, near libby as 3 most important oil fields. a few seconds and we saw wagner intervene in syria, and we're seeing wagner intervene in the central african republic and in libby october and they follow the same pattern every time they come in and start waging a war without answering to anybody because they supposedly operate independently of

any world power and bodily dull, he don't admit to working for the russian states, but there malicious, obey rushes orders, help themselves to oil. here were a gold mine. there were a diamond mine in the central african republic law. the method is always the same. and it's not acceptable that he bucks it. i got on it because he didn't let him know that he was booting. my question is for the russian president, mr. prudent smites. can you confirm that the wagner group has 2000 mercenaries in libya taken or tell us how many russian and wagner mercenaries are fighting their missouri is not high positioned? deep enough? she used to tell me yes, if these soldiers are indeed dead and russian citizens, they are not acting on behalf of the russians date, but he's good nor did they receive financial support from the russian state, sigma unicorn address. it isn't the only foreign country interfering in libya.

in 2019 sudanese fight has appeared on libyan soil. alongside half to us forces up de la story like hundreds of others started with a were contract in the united arab emirates, atlanta. ah, my left sudan with big green a. so that even whether i did the, it's a hello. i was going to work in abu dhabi. i will send money to my family 5. my and i was an save up to start my own business back in stu. damned! this was an unbelievable opportunity given is that it was a look. i good. oh oh and was online last, when we arrived at the airport in abu dhabi, we saw a muradi troops with tim on vomiting in foot. we were brought to a military camp and started asking ourselves, i know we came here for jobs as civilians. now and so what are we doing here,

alicia? dan about that the thought a long as they started training us to use weapons slash uncle to keep we started with kalashnikov. well then moved on to more powerful stuff. how rocket launchers grenades and machine gun we own old leanna shush. after 4 months of training up della was sent to libya along with 600 other sudanese with no explanation. elaine magda, it is national. that is, when we understood we'd landed in libya, love, it all became clear. and not again little. they turned me into a mercenary, and then she'd better. i thought, you know, i'm here to fight anna, but against whom like and how got to do it. and why, when additional and how can i escape lady i told myself you've got a one percent chance of getting out of this alive. i think i'd simply been sold.

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