we had to sign the news was incredibly like, this is very just providing you with free information. dw, made for mind the . this is the w news of life from berlin. serious 2nd largest city is now mostly in rebel hands, as long as spiders celebrate their advance into a level in the biggest challenge in years to the review him of bushel. i'll a saw also coming up, members of the use, new top leadership team visit keep as you creating faces. you had another winter of russian attacks the

i michael ok. thanks for joining us. we begin with the biggest challenge in used to the review of syrian president bush are all a side, thousands of rebel as long as fighters have taken over much of serious 2nd largest city. a level also sees in control of the airport in dozens of towns and villages, syria and it satellite russia have carried out air strikes against the rebels. a son has vowed to defeat the insurgents. the rebel fighters celebrate in the central town square in the heart of a level this fire of victory shots, savoring the crimes that has also been cereals redeem from here and for the hop. that happiness is indescribable. the happiness of liberating the city of an echo. but we're now in the main square, we've been waiting for this for 10 years. well, even shall. it's an indescribable feeling. my older brother was mounted here and the left boat, 13 years ago. praise to go to bed. praise to god. allow me to go. hunt allow me to

go home. this video for florida lee shows on gunmen and truck seas in control of the city civilian airport. the syrian army admit it has lost control of much of a level which it has for 80 years. and dozens of soldiers were killed when a coalition of for double groups launched a surprise attack. a few days ago, they seized the military base weapons and even tanks from syrian government forces . lightning offensive is led by the implement or h p. s, which used to be a guide does branch and serial before severing ties. the coalition consists of multiple groups with differing and you know, the jeez, what's a nice them is their opposition to syrian president much are less on this assault is the biggest challenge in egos do is redeem and has dropped in the front lines of the syrian civil war that have large the remain frozen since 2020.

the rebels have also taken control of dozens of strategic towns in houma and is lea provinces. russia launched a series of strikes across the city in a bit to stop the rebels. it was the 1st time in a 2 years russian war plains had a level the surprise offensive by insurgents in syria has force thousands of residents to leave their homes, including many children according to the un and other groups. these families here flat a left low and the area around it live and have saw sanctuary out of camphor displays . people. the violence has created the largest wave of displacement in years. one bedroom is from the norwegian refugee council was the middle east regional office in amman. i asked him what his organization makes of what's happening right now. in northern syria. of course,

it is warring worrying times for everybody involved for the families in these areas . the all seeing the city diesel, various environments, of course for age workers who work across across areas in cities and towns to now have to suspend, you know, i depressions, i don't know. we do refugee castle. we've had to suspend the operations except for some lanes set alive, saving and chris cooperation. so think what's, what's happening, you know, it takes us back to some very grim days and then modern history and cereal. probably the great mistake. serious recent history with, with all the different destruction that we have seen over the past decades. we hope this new cycle ends soon through the escalation of course because civilians will be towards up in this institutions

a desperate for some known as a normal life and see what we are getting conditions for residents in alaska were difficult even before the most recent fighting does your organization have a plan for what may come next? it's it's all clear now because the situation the ground is shifting, but we have been operating another poem to other places. we have been in the north of syria for 4 years now. we have been providing shots as a portage occasion, suppose and you know, lots of services for, for people displaced. what we're worried about now is that, you know, this will only increase that we will see increase. and in the end, the number of people displaced, that'd be, have seen that, you know, i was 18 to 20000 people. the, the initial estimate saw that people have been displaced. and we are worried that, you know, with was probably was wins or as well that things will only get was you know, there will be towards the bread shortages. there were read pacific water shortages

already and, and, and i posted to you many, many in, you know, several 1000000 millions. of course people are, you know, large settings only for will. of course the see more of that pressure so well. read each for that. yeah. you know, humanitarian situation from so a sense of what's happening. i've made a really compassionate observer. it might be forgiven for thinking with so many conflicts in the region. organizations like yours or already spread thin and so there's little chance people on the ground are getting all the assistance that they actually need. how do you respond to that? are they not? i mean to the clay, if you, if you look at what happened to last you only the last year, this is the, probably the potential, you know, relative as to the diesel conflict that we see the region we have seen. and you know, we have seen and because that, that i, it has full in way shots or a supplies out for the way short of why is needed a lot of them they, they might,

instead of the needs are, you know, off the chops now. and now in syria, which already has probably and a half of the population in, in severe a situation. so, i guess, i guess, i guess diplomacy has to, has to play a role here. and we hope that, you know, more aids will come in to support these people. that's a document be around from the norwegian refugees council. thank you so much. the use new foreign policy chief kaya callis has arrived in ukraine in a symbolic show of support for keith cheese, visiting the capital along with the new head of the european council. antonio costa, it's the very 1st day of their terms and office. the leaders are keen to demonstrate that the block remains firm on the backend keys. you create new struggling defend off a grinding russian offensive with the us report thrown into doubt by donald trump's return to office. in january. the visit comes as the e u increases its export of electricity to ukraine, russia,

it has again hammered the ukrainian power grid with air attacks. as cold weather sets in the eu has already spent 2000000000 euros to keep ukrainians warm and has committed another 160000000 for this winter. w corresponded until the bora reports from brussels. russia stock, which is a tax, have left you create in power plant, installed and plunged parts of the country into darkness. experts have predicted that as temperatures plummet and demand for electricity increases, blackouts could get as long as 18 hours a day in some areas, in a bit to keep your premiums warm. this went to the european union, will now increase electricity exports that can cover up to 15 percent of the country's total needs this winter. it will also provide money for power equipment. 80 percent of ukraine's son or plans have been destroyed and assert of the hydro

power capacity. so this is where we will concentrate our repair efforts. with the aim to restoring 2.5 gigawatts of capacity this winter. last week that you offered financial supports to one of your brains, biggest electricity companies, d, d, e k, for new equipment gets set. it faced the latest russian attack on one of its power plants just this week. because there's a lot of damage to our interest system. our power stations. rhodes, i can uh many times and only in 2024. let one waves of my see for the tax targeting us. but visa wife to reenters and to be i'm sure we will. so i will be in to, in ukraine and all of these because of support to be a getting from new york in union and from european commission. the u. s. already spent 2000000000 euros and as roughly compensated for the loss of the massive shop for region nuclear plant. now it's a short $160000000.00 mall up awesome. this additional money will come from

interest and on russian assets lying in the european union to make rochelle pay for some of the damages it has cost. but how to put an end to russia bombing off the bed and rebuilt infrastructure out of the say, the only way out is to provide more ad defense systems. the more rush, the destroyer is, the more there is a need to, to fill this gap. and i mean, how can you live without electricity without gas, without water? overall, the e. u and dense took about 25 percent of ukraine's total electricity demand this winter. but that might still leave many in ukraine defense for themselves. as russia continues to rein bonds to georgia is prime minister of luckily come back. he would say has said that president so low moves, do a bunch of really must leave office when her term and this month, the prime minister's comments came aft, as you are, they should be the declared. she wouldn't step down saying parliament has no

authority to appoint her successor following last month's disputed elections in his address prime minister, a callback you'd say, also ruled out a rerun of the contested vote. despite the mass ongoing protests, it prompted now voters and romania, or heading to the polls today to elect a new opponent a week after a shock result in the 1st round of presidential elections. a controversial for right populous who had been pulling in single digits one. the most votes in the apple and anti establishment parties are expecting a strong showing this time around. their voices are found fertile ground in romania due to a sluggish economic outlook. and the high cost of living. it may be one of the european union's pores countries, but the nato members strategic importance has increased due to the war in ukraine. that when you know your traditional take talk a,

but the social media platform is credited with helping fall. right. it's telling george s group that we've done with so far. good, any sort of setting that came out of nowhere within m t u m m t, nato. message and swept into the 1st place in the 1st round of romania is presidential elections usually are main. yeah. it's known as a kid that follows the elite there's uh, let's say a fear that if you start to just look down into power, or maybe it would become an isolated, let's say country. but it's not telling me for the president's the romanians of voting at the my window that heading back to the post this weekend to cost the balance for the members of parliament. who will decide on the next prime minister. on the southeast and flank of the e, u and nato romania shows a border of service, 600 kilometers with ukraine, and it has strategic access to the black sea, which is militarily dominated by russia. the nature of military alliance has been bolstering as a base in romania, on the black sea, to be the biggest in europe,

to host over 10000 troops by 2030. and the romanian port of con, spends that has played a major role in exporting ukrainian grain. romania is in many ways, the logistical hub uh for the war and for the ukrainian economy. and this obviously needs to continue. and that's why a, you know, change in government to a person who is art or a teacher president, i should say to a person who is clearly pro russian would be highly, highly did for mental for the ukrainian, the entire war effort. the power sharing system in romania means the prime minister focuses on domestic policy. the president is in charge of foreign policy in the army. and the 10 summit, 50 you leaders in brussels, the position of the country would be very difficult to, to, to, to, to maintain. if there is a big difference between the president and the government,

or if the government is, uh, is very unstable. cohesion which could be the case, or if the quotation is led by fall right, produced, and this anti may to pro russia of forces. and it's up to romanians to decide whether the parliament will also lean right when they go back to the polls this weekend. here's a reminder of our top stories this hour and thousands of rebel as long as fighters have taken over much of serious 2nd city a level. and also sees control of the airport in dozens of other towns and villages, syria and it's l. i rush. i have launched air strikes against the rebels. serious president bush on alyssa is about to defeat the insurgents. protesters if clash with police in the georgia and capital to easy for a 3rd night running tens of thousands have been protesting against the ruling georgia dream party. suspending talks on joining the european union,

grew up to date and we'll find it there up. next we take a look at how ford official intelligence is conquering the music industry and what it means for an artist and audience. it's stay tuned for. i'll text you shift, unlike love, who thanks for watching and bye for now, the beautiful my nephew. he read the cities. we don't know what to screen or where is mohammed stop? he fled from north any rock and became one of hundreds of migrants who vanish every year. somewhere in the no man's land lines between batteries and refugees become pools in a cru see or come to school. config, missouri this,

i'm afraid they'll never see him again. when oh, you lost on the run, stops the send the a c d w the hey i is causing quite vista in the creative world. it can compose music even produce hits. it can tailor 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 performed side by side with the to 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 to me in the, the lab when we deal with the official intelligence and up to its own 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 about, okay, oh yeah, at the root of that 3 is a 7 that have a vision of technology and that, that revisit at the history of women and technology learning. and i'm using the computer science in particular, then there's the interest in national technological still frontier to pull us over to ya ignore looks like on a center for her. what palostio needs access, the 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 i use for my

projects requires scientific computing power from a broad, difficult, the kind. i just don't have access to it via because services all built in dollars, but it will because the necessary hardware doesn't get shipped out to you or anywhere locally. you can use it on advise or that account english. the digital divide between the global north and south is particularly noticeable in artificial intelligence applications. auto select current palostio, one to bridge this divide. but that's not the only barrier entech that she has to overcome. the notice of the some, 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, while you persevered, i kept going, say i felt for the school, confess unloading for trusting and believing that i could show people that not that

it really is possible way. so. okay, and forcing that doesn't sound easy at all, but kudos to us and making it happen. these days, music streaming just wouldn't function properly without a i all major platforms. now, what machine learning, but how a is implemented very massively to we as uses benefit. this is how it works on spots of 5. 2024 was the yes, both to fi 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 emphasize voice,

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 fans alike. 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 funds, these are the a i generated playlists to, but no i, i generated 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. and the french music streaming service is developing software to quickly identify a i generate took music the

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 of based on clicks, which means we might be recommended songs that are actually as popular as a seen, 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 have 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 then guy. i was created by an agency and brain and gemini, with a little help from artificial intelligence. could you be a sign of this, a i product and what does it mean for real sitting as musicians either the minutes when i was actually locked. okay. well next few months. unique is our ability to feel free to create and use a somewhat where you experience the 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 we always have over a i, when 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 soul, appeared on instagram, almost viewed more than 1200000 times. the reactions range from boring and creepy to wave of use. i'm sorry, i'm sure i'm back. i used commonly available a i tools to create images, videos and music for ben dia for us. but texting of it's kind of, it's all done by text, the input to furniture that can mark areas in a mit 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 counts with or without us official intelligence to an auto official 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 sung, the creator, the company that develop the i software or the artist whose voice has been planned . meanwhile, in the world of classical music, 3 um robot conducted tv performance. just this year. we went to the german said to enter has been for his premiere 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 follows its own beat and tempo have less than the interesting, the 7 jointed robotic alms move as fluidly as a conductors. but it wasn't without human assets dressed them. symphony orchestras, artistic direct democracy, didn't have to teach the robot each move when individually the pickup, so the up and who had to put on a kind of gloves which had 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 arms to fit

around mine. 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 measurements are 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 through the template, 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 what to say. i play the role when it comes to recognizing the environment. and if we want

a robot conductor to recognize how the orchestration 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 met chanel and then i conduct to but maybe that gap can be bridge by ai, swedish composer and robotics enthusiasts. frederick ground has musical robots play the cello or the violent. some perform with humans. now, like in the 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 ever get you. we see sick animals,

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