the way refugees become cold in a cruise to your political conflict. missouri, i'm afraid i'll never see him again. when, oh, you lost under the stops december 18th. on d. w. the . this is the deputy news live from berlin. is list flight has advanced in a surprise offensive in northern syria. revel unit said to have entered the 2nd biggest city and that the hundreds are reported dating battles with government forces. also coming up probably just as class with police for a 2nd, not in georgia as anger grows up in the suspension of tulips on joining european union. the

i'm anthony handbook into the program rebel florida site. i have entered in taking a number of districts in syria is 2nd biggest city. a little heavy fighting between is limited, rebels and government forces has been reported across the city. serious military says it's inflicted heavy losses on these limits to have been advancing on a live body for days. they've also taken control of strategic towns along the way to, with hundreds reported, killed the escalation and fighting is some of the deadliest in views. and comes out to wakes of simpering violets. let's take a look then at the groups involved in the offensive and why it's happening now. major fighting erupt again in serious civil war. day after staging the surprise attack on government held positions in the north. the rebels moved on to a level showing the city syrian state. medias said the army backed by its ally.

russia responded with strikes unintelligence positions and the electoral eclip countrysides. the syrian army says the a sofa is being led by the higher the are shown for h t. s a militant group which controls much of northwest and syria. the i, d. s. is led by, i'll tell you this form of syria branch. it consists of multiple different and search and groups, some with cellar 1st and did you, how does the audiologist many reject the influence of foreign forces such as turkey, russia or the united states, but others approve. it's a complicated coalition, but what does unify them? is there opposition to syria and liter busha? assad? government has been displaced for 5 years. but thank god i'm now fighting to reclaim on land from the grip of the criminal regime. we will persevere on this policy and call on young people to join us in the struggle to take back our country

. i don't show a lot of agenda since 2020 the h t. and signs of a ripple groups have been mostly biased and the invalid province area was subject to a turkey and rush. it broke a truce, but outside of a live there a large pots of serious, still controlled by rebels, opposed to assets. government, including along the border with the rock. us back to curtis forces maintained large parts of the north and turkey, along with the syrian national army control a so called buffers on along the turkish border with the offensive. the rebels may be trying to capitalize on the of the complex currency writing elsewhere with assets allied iran, reeling from israel, defensive on hezbollah, and 11 on, and with rushes resources stretched with its war and ukraine. but the offensive and the syrian government's response has left many civilians in the following line.

groups of refugees helping fling the fighting, heading to shelters and the blood province i'm seeing is what happens. all of the people started leaving, but we stayed until the morning. but as i was preparing breakfast for my children, a plane flew overhead. as soon as we saw it, we ran into the visits on the front of the united nations is calling for an immediate, the escalation, and an end to the most intense fighting northwest and syria. has seen indeed well, early i spoke to abraham l, i c, a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington. he was a founding member of the syrian non violent movement in 2011 and was consequently detained and tortured by the syrian secret police. i asked him how it was that damascus was apparently taken by surprise by this rebel offensive to thank you for having me. uh, send me. uh, i think i'm surprised. uh, the damascus uh, forces in leadership was surprised because we're seeing indicators over the months

that s t s was built in uh for such an offense, which i think was really surprising if the rapids collapse over the region forces around like many expected that h t as how you have to fish out would be able to control different parts outside a little in the country side or the city. but nobody expected them to be able to go inside the city. i to control neighborhoods that they could didn't, and they couldn't even control over the last 10 years at the peak of their strengths when they were able to control half of the city before the regime claimed at the close up to 2020. it was someone who suffered at the hands of this right jane is attempting to read into this that assad's forces might be losing the grip on the security situation. as many people among those who are fighting today,

they are fighters. we just want to go back home. many of them are fighters who just don't want to be detained and torture. however, that's not the full picture. there are also people, or there are also fighters or raji goes into a militant a mortgage d. s. and who are also pressing other people. so i don't see this as a step towards some of the ration. i think it's a change in the balance of power. many people have hope. many people are really afraid of what will happen next. but many people, and i think most syrians have the mix of both feelings and they are contradicting feelings. but many syrians awarded about what's going to happen tomorrow. and they are just afraid that this will and testify the fighting. and sooner or later, they will be air strikes by the regime and they will be another cycle of violence that takes place inside syria. and that speaks to my next question. it's so hard to generalize through the rebel forces some apparently with just had this started you

audiology had the support of the people in the letter. so that's a very complicated question because was so many people do want to get rid of that re gm and i've seen some videos that pictures of people being afraid from the political, the presidents under the secret police in different parts of the lift. both they are also many people who are very worried about the geology of that to you at the fia sean carries, and how they're gonna treat people, whether they are minorities or not minorities. of course, we're worried about the questions that armenians, the syrians inside. look for it, so it's very diverse city that's has many defense communities. we're also afraid about this. one is themselves because just because he had to have shown is assume the groups, that doesn't mean it's for you this in the community. it's fairly as well. they usually 3, it's a in a better way, those who are or who support the geology, but anyone who is disciplined on them and with the same dots in it,

live as well. people are being present and torture under the control of it, the fashion. so i don't think that the situation tomorrow wouldn't necessarily be better the, the sooner issue, of course, has an oppression on an industrial scale because they have the status situation under the control. but also have to have john prove to also be as oppressive in many different ways. and it's a machine that also has the ability to call on the lodge of fighting machines like russia playing support. here, as i have in the past, um, how likely a russia to be called upon again to assist the sod rushing, as i think that's very likely, cindy, i do state the region to need the support of fresh out until year. i do want to highlight that the region in the civil region was about to full in many different points over the last decade when we're talking about 2011 on wards when the war

broke out in syria. in the 2015, the iranians intervened sources by law to pop up a subs regime. and in 2015, the russian intervene directly in september of 2015 to support us uh that over the years that followed it to us to uh, to, to, to moscow that aside owes uh everything that he is staying in power. and today i've seen the rapids collapse happened because of the weakness the iranian militias has in the, in see that today. and also because the russia is mainly busy and over whelmed with the war in ukraine. prim. thanks so much. a brand new. assume a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington. great to have you have time. thank you so much. thank you. to a process does have class with police in the georgia and capital tbilisi for a 2nd. not tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the ruling. georgia dream parties announcement that it's the spending accession talks with the european

union and the cases, the a you of disrespecting, george and values. critics that georgia dream has become authoritarian and is drawing georgia toward russia. this was the scene in typically sees main boulevard. angry crowds face stuff against police for a 2nd. after george's government said it was freezing talks to join the european union. the protesters say the ruling georgia dream party is dismantling democratic rights and pulling georgia into must goes or bit we're not fighting. only a good reinforcement comes in. we're finding is wasa, we're finding it is watching the voice in these countries norm as amount of resources, money and everything, which is no inactive. so that is why i do us

a little bit democratic world support to 10 people. the protesters already have the support of george's pro western president mission media. this today, i can say with confidence that the resistance movement has the guns. that's because it is your movement initiated by you meet without any once instructions or demonic . it seemed less than 10 years of peaceful constitutional resistance movement smote as 10 until a day or 2 with it. but it's not a soul, he thought only clear on that show the vast majority of george and support e. u membership. george and dream also says it wants to join the blog eventually, but people here have taken to the streets because they sense their european aspirations are slipping away. russians

invasion of ukraine has raised a question, so i have a civil defense here in germany. the government is working to increase the number of funk cuz available to protect the population. if the country comes on to attack, the existing network is far from adequate. in the event of war, this is where the german public can seek shelter. the countries, few operational bankers of a room for up to $480000.00 people, less than one percent of the population in just a moment, as if that expect at the moment we are actually in a poor position is there is a lack of both a structural infrastructure and awareness among the population of what can actually happen in an emergency position bounce for like is twin con. the reason for the care and debate, the latest threat from russia following the firing of a new medium range missiles at the ukranian city of the new poll president, let him you're putting certain supporters of ukraine was possible missile attacks ever since the start of the war and ukraine,

german authorities have been working on a national bank, a plan of some kind of scope and vices got kind of roughly outlined. the points are included in the most systematic possible recording of buildings and private properties that can be used as public safe havens in the us. of these could be underground car parks and subway stations and basements. we've covered design and one of the cut off volume of all of this data will be transferred to an app that enables citizens to determine their nearest place of refuge and digital approach. that the everyone agrees with its powerful move. cuz i need ways of continuing to communicate with people and look for him because we know how quickly the internet can fail if the power goes out. for example. since the end of the cold war, a general sense of security has growing in germany, happened to 2007. there were still 2000 public shelters. the german government at the time even decided to dismantle,

instead of some of them. bunker is became museums and she could taps an increasing number of private individuals. and now thinking about building their own bunkers, there's a certain medicine vocab. it's nice to have a bunker in my garden at home when the air raid happens on sundays. but what do i do when i'm at work at 10 am on the monday, so you know, where are 1st come you to for an hour and a half for a smile and a touch tone intended without the tea, a timeframe. the national shelter concept remains of project waiting to be addressed at some point, probably under a new federal government. all right, before we go, here's a reminder of our top story. the cell one is the says, it is let us fathers of taking over a number of districts in serious taking the biggest city and let the syrians observe a train for human rights reports. heavy fighting between variables and government forces with hundreds but that's all the news for now coming up next tech. so shift takes

a look at how i is taking out of the music industry. that story coming up after a short break. don't forget kinda waste up to date by visiting our website that's to be found in the www dot com and our social media channels of april, the latest as well. like instead ex, funded by using the handle at dw news for me, and the team here in bo, they, let's go back to now the imagine that you're eating a hamburger. and as you're biting into this juicy bird or your dining companion says to you, actually the hamburger is not made from cows. it's made from golden retriever's. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 in meeting cultures around the world,

people learn to classify small handful of animals with edible and all the rest of the classify as disgusting. the w series about our complex relationship with animals need to be watch now on youtube. d. w documentary, the hey i is causing quite vista in the creative world. it can compose music even produce hits. it can tail up personalized playlists on streaming platforms. we're even seeing robots saying instruments. i'm conducting orchestra's for what role will i play in the future of music? i tried to play the piano as a kid, but never really got the hang of it. i programs can learn much more quickly. in the blink of an eye, they can read listen process and analyze any number of musical styles. yeah, i can even create songs from scratch with just

a single prompt. but is that real creativity or just plagiarism? many artists fear that the music ideas will be stolen this way, but equally, there are people who are eager to find out what's possible when human beats machine in the music world. for example, it's still autos, carvette and palostio. she works with open source software and a i tools to generate sounds and images and it's quite the part to the music festival in vanessa iris. here. kevin palostio before them side by side with the ga file and team is very tough. but this is no ordinary d. j set. the electronic music and digital ops festival tries to push the boundaries and below the lines between the 2 fields. here, palostio uses a i to program, live visuals, to complement the d. j said the, the lab when we deal with the official intelligence in up to something that we

experience, things that are historically in the new for the human species as well. but a feel for a settlement of the computer scientist uses different a i models for audio visual work. she generates a music with the help of machine learning algorithms when the when i make on. so i like to think of it as a tree that connect a every single idea and loan, okay? oh, you have to read this, is that a free is a 7 and have a vision of technology and that revisit up the history of women and technology learning and i'm using the computer science in particular. then there's the interested in national technological suffering, theater, wireless, or with any a big motor click on a center for her work, palostio needs access to cutting edge computer technology, which wouldn't be possible here if it went full odds and team is public universities. i'm the high performance i p network go because the volume is jason that i processed. and the technologies are used for

my projects require scientific computing power from a broad, difficult, the kind i just don't have access to it via because services are built in dollars, but it will because the necessary hardware doesn't get shipped out to you or anywhere locally cannot say on advise or that assume english. the digital divide between the global north and south is particularly noticeable in artificial intelligence applications. auto select current palostio once a bridge this divide. but that's not the only barrier and text that she has to overcome the nose of instead of lucas i'm there is the digital divide and the gender divide actually thought it in. i have to live through several bob situations of exclusion and discrimination in a male dominated environment and everything in the field. and yet all the persevered but i kept going,

say i felt for the school can feel unloading for trusting and believing that i could show people that know that it really is possible way to get a full senior. that doesn't sound easy at all, but kudos to us and making it happen, these days, music streaming, just what are function properly without a i all major platforms. now, what machine learning, but how a is implemented varies massively to we as uses benefit. this is how it works on spot to 5. 2024 was the us both to find launch. it's brand new, a i d, j. the program to rates music based on the listeners library and listening habits. the d. j might include new releases that you might like all that one song that you were listening to on loop last year. the customer lives playlists on nothing new. but the a i, d, j offers much more information about the music spends most genre. well narrated by

us emphasized choice, i got this brand new release to get to the photo site allows a i generate to music on the platform, just as long as know planned for. it says i used without autism consent, soundcloud introduced 9 a. i tools on the platform aimed at musicians and phones like they are designed to make producing music easier. the re mixing bead making or generating vocals and to put minds at rest. soundcloud guarantees that rights holders will be adequately compensated in case of any infringement. the fun, these are the a, i generated playlists to, but no, i, i generate to music. and in addition, music on the platform wouldn't be used to train tools these. it was the 1st music platform to sign a new declaration drafted by office against the use of the music. for a i training to this end, the french music streaming service is developing software to quickly identify

a i generate took music. but i won't only be used to detect musical deep fakes. artificially increase streaming numbers are becoming a serious problem for platforms to check stubs can simulate missing a traffic through a i tools on websites this into and generates more income for the office on the store the chops. but how does this affect us? well, the algorithm is to pay less uh, based on clicks, which means we might be recommended songs that are actually as popular as they seem, but have been pushed artificially by books on how can we fight this? well they, i of course, these that for example, as trying to expose bumps like that with machine learning and algorithms and spot to fi is demanding money back from labels and bands that has been caught manipulating streams. but there are some creates as boasting that they use it. so

it isn't always a bad thing. this is the guy. yeah. on his own some a hit the stores. but take away the a i created pods. and all that's left are a few command lines and i saw for to hi, this has been going on. i'm europe's 1st a icing. on the one to mention siding, we want to show people what's possible with a i to a friend guy. i was created by an agency in brain and gemini, with a little help from artificial intelligence. could you be a sign of this, a i product? and what does that mean for real thing as musicians? i, the minutes when i was actually locked, okay. and fi, well next few months. unique is our ability to feel free to create music from what we're experiencing. and you have to understand that a, i can't do that a, i can only work with what is given and what has been told to do. well,

then it cannot develop things independently or come up with its own ideas because it's not possible on the states. that's what humans have and will always have over a i. and this is the supposed to be. i just mentioned hom let me, i haven't been in july 2024 been guy. i stepped onto the virtual stage for the 1st time. his 1st song, sunshine sol appeared on instagram, almost viewed more than 1200000 times. the reactions range from boring and creepy to wave of use. sorry, i'm sure i'm back. a used commonly available a i tools to create images, videos, and music for ben guy for us. but texting of the con, it's all done by text, the input to find that you can mark areas on a mid journey image of whether in the background or the person themselves. and i can change them by entering textbook from, in other words, if he is wearing a white t shirt and i can mark it and make it blue or green. so it's relatively easy to

generate a good and final product, columbia selective, i'm for some negative feelings or forces using software like so, you know, works on the same principle, but it takes a lot of experience to make a voice sound consistent like ben guys, for example, in the end, human creativity is what comes with or without us official intelligence of an auto special artist, if you will, it seems as long as i hate to stay. what's about the legal aspect, who actually owns in a i saw the creator, the company that develop the software, or the artist whose voice has been planned. meanwhile, in the world of classical music, 3 um robot conducted the performance just this year. we went to the german said to enter has been for its premier pre verbal take comes the kinds you might find in the industrial sector, repurposed for conducting an orchestra. here the bottom makes way for 3 colored

light save as keeping time and the premier of the robot symphony especially compose for the occasion. it's a peas, no human could conduct. that's because each robot um follows its own beat and tempo have less than the interesting. the 7 jointed robotic alms move as fluidly as a conductor's but it wasn't without human assets dressed them, symphony orchestras, artistic direct democracy, didn't have to teach the robot. each movement individually, the pickup, so the other one who had to put on a kind of gloves which had the various and the tracking sensors on it, but it didn't work very well. at some point, i thought we could, we just use the robot itself. and that actually worked the rabbinic armies to fit

around my into i'm almost like a 2nd arm. and with a fair amount of resistance, i was able to move it around. he is not, he's a son. oh, countries in the big. so the movements uh, almost human. but what was it like for the musicians? the big difficult things to work with the robot arms is that don't give any emotions at all. they don't see what we do know to the temple and not with the mountains. and they don't do anything, is just the thing they're doing the beats, which is fine. it's okay. but i mean the music is so much more without the human conduct to the orchestra is pretty much left to its own devices. the 3 um follow a strict tempo regardless of the officers response. that's why we such as from the technical university of taste and fund to integrate sophisticated artificial intelligence. got you experience of what i know of the

a i play the role when it comes to recognizing the environment. and if we want a robot conductor to recognize how the orchestra, as i'm saying this and how the respond would be the, then we will certainly meet a items. ok. so far, the robot. i'm more like a sophisticated matcher. now that i conduct to, but maybe that got can be bridge by ai, swedish composer on robotics enthusiasts, frederick brown has musical robots play the cello or the violent some perform with humans. now, like in the mamma symphony orchestra, they even have a robot cellist joining it. so how about you? have you listen to any a i music, let us know what you think and leave a comment on the one of our videos. and so then see you next time on shift the

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