>> unification is the goal says chi's president of iwan. i ing pink adding china -- x there have been two weeks of protests. several of them ending with a violent response by security forces. donald trump set to hold a briefing on border security after saying he is willing, and able to negotiate in end to the partial government shutdown. it is good to have you with us. we make no promise to abandon the use of force, the words of china's president in a speech

about taiwan. jingping said this a day after taiwan's president said beijing must except their status as a stealth ruled island. the people of taiwan don't want unification on a one country, two systems basis. >> reunification is inevitable. message to taiwan 40 years after the military ended the confrontation with the island. we are willing to negotiate sincerely and expend all of our efforts in striving for the prospect of a peaceful unification. we do not promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the right to use all necessary measures. formerly --s never

formally declared independence, but has been self governed since 1949 when nationalist fled to the island after losing the civil war to the communist party. 30 years later, china made a call for unification and ended the routine bombardment t of the island. beijing continues to see taiwan as a rogue province and in recent years has conducted regular military drills in the region. using pink --xi jinping wants them to come under the one country, two systems policy -- rejected by the taiwanese president. taiwanve to reaffirm will never accept to the one country, two systems policy and the majority of taiwanese people will never except that either. >> china has been using diplomatic powower to sideline taiwan. last year, beijing convinced el salvador and the dominican republic to cut diplomatic ties

with taipei, whose sovereignty is recognized by 17 nations. >> sudan largest opposition bloc has joined calls by a wide array of political groups for the president to shut down. protests started two weeks ago over the increase of the price of bread. at least 19 people have been killed during the protest. weeks of straight protests across sudan and the president remains defiant. the largest opposition b bloc is calling for r an immediate transition toward democracy. govovernment does not have the ability to overcome the economic crisis because the economic crisis is basically a politicacal crisis and its

solution is a political one. must bee, a new regime created. >> the opposition submitted to sudan's leader a list of demand including the dissosolution of parliament and the forming of an interim government to hold early electionons. to tatakell on the e armed the side of the people to be able to achieve a peaceful political -- to prevent bloodshed. has ruled thent country with a benign fist since 1989. on new year's eve he admitted sudan was facing challenges due toto rising prices and soaring inflation. he is determined to hold onto power and quell the unrest. several opposition figures have .een arrested

infor more on the situation sudan, i am joined by an activist. tell us a bit more about the mamain grievanceces of the protesters who have been out for two weeks now? >> the protesters continued for week, this is their reaction. it started with bad living situations and this has increased now to the main request, the main order for the government to remove the .resident and the government for more dignity, the main request, dignity for sudanese. there are many killed.

>> -- has been in power for almost 30 years. has there been a situation like this before or is this the most pressure he has ever been under to resign? ? it is enough, really. before, yes, they had like this. sudan like cities in now. in -- only.it was now all the cities say enough. they need to remove the government. ? what are the chances of that happening? do you think he will end up stepping down? die. we turn back, we will we will die and we have a future. a chance for the future.

? what do you make of the response from the government? there has been a bloody crackdown and many protests have ended with the security stepping in and killing protesters. at least 37 people have been killed. what do you make of the government possible response to >> crisis? our government are criminals. our president is a criminal. no one knows more about our government. enough. -- the last day now for the sudanese people. they say enough. they need to remove this government. that is it. >> thank you for coming in. to's turn our attention marley, where armed men attacked a village in the middle of the country. 37 people were killed.

tensions between hunters and members of the ethnic group. they accuse them of ties to jihadist groups. they have clashed before over access to land and water. trainhas been a deadly crash in denmark. at least 6 people were killed and 16 i injured. it was on n a bridge linking two islands. it is not clear what caused it. according to danish media, objects from a train hit a passenger train going in the opposite direction. in the u.s., congress is set to reconvene this wednesday on day 12 of a partial government shutdown and donald trump invited congressional leaders to a white house briefing on border security. the issue holding up the passing of a government funding budget, whether or not to fund the wall on the border with mexico.

make, u.s. president donald trump struck a conciliatory tone. >> border security and the wall thing shutdown is not aware nancy pelosi wants t to start hr tenure. let's make a deal? the remarks come in contrast to tweets earlier this week when he lashed out at democrats over their refusal to fund the u.s.-mexico border wall. one thing has been proven, democrats do not care about open borders and the crime and drugs open borders bring. ? with the partial government shutdown entering its 12th day, donald trump been left with no choicece but to negotiate a wayy out. leadersrs congressional from both parties to a national security briefing at the white house on wednesday, but it is not clear whether democrats will attend. democrats who will take control

of the house on thursday laid out their own proposals to end the shutdown, vowing to reopen the government as quickly as possible. ? senate republicans have already supported this legislation and if they support it now, they will be complicit in chaos and destruction of the president's third shutdown >> of his term. the plan does not include funding of the border wall and has already been rejected by trump. the republican-led senate is unlikely to approve it and even if it passes, donald trump may veto it. administration officials insisting the president is in no rush to end the shutdown. president trump: we are just not opening. >> bolsonaro is seen as a deeply divisive figure. the former army captain proclaimed brazilians were e beg freed from socialilism. the workers party, which was crushed in october after running the coununtry fofor 13 years

boycotted the swearing-in ceremony. the new president blamed it for economic recession. during his first address to congress, he promised to chart a brand-new chapter for the country. >> vowing a radical shakeup of brazil's system, bolsonaro is giving himself 100 days to read brazil of socialism and political correctness he rallied against in recent months. >> i call on this country to free itself of the yoke of corruption and the ideological straitjacket. corruptioning the was a key campaign pledge. bolsonaro's appointed judge as he is thee minister, man responsible for jailing former left wing president lula da silva convicted on grass charges. >> we need to do away with the

ideology -- >> another major concern for the former armor cap think -- captain, security. he has vowed a no leniency approach to law and order. he promised to reduce the age of criminal responsibility to 17, to reinstate the death penalty and make it legal for people to carry guns provided they have no criminal record. on the economic front, it is free-market competition all the way. he wants to oversee sweeping five to station coupled with hefty cuts to publicic spending. he is hoping to slowly ease the debt pile. one area in which the president seems to have seeded some ground, the environment. after saying he was considering pulling brazil out of the paris climate accord, that no o longer seems to be on the cards. his foreign minister has described climate change as a

marxist plot and green activists fear the future of the amazon rain forest. on new year's day, nasa's new horizons probe flew by a space rock called ultima thule. it was the most distant space fly by in history. pixilatedk like a rotating peanut, but these images are the confirmation that nasa new horizon spacecraft is alive and well some 6.4 billion kilometers away. nasa scientists wrong in the new year with a flyby of the furthest and possibly oldest cosmic body ever explored by humankind and now they have the images. laugh, but it is better than the one we had

yesterday. there it is, meet ultimima. le is s an ic object that orbits the sun, 1.5 billion kilometers beyond pluto. it measures 35 by 15 kilometers. >> you can see its irregular shape and there are two possibilities. one possibility is it is by low bate or it may be two things in orbit around each other. >> the new horizon spacecraft took off in 2006 and completed the new aleutian -- newest mission by flying by pluto. they are hoping the competition will help ash composition will help us learn more about the system.n of our solar

brian may dedicated a song to the extraordinary undertaking. that is it for this addition, thank you for watching. ♪ >> hello and welcome. you are watching tech 24. we speak to taiwan's digitital minister about howow she helped carry out the sunflower occupy movement. she tells us how she is fighting to implement open government and social innovation policies. look at24, we take a gadgets to increase your safety

and security on the road and in the air. first, you are probably holding one in your hand as we speak. after over a decade in existence, the smartphone has conquered the world. the number of users is expected to surpass 3 billion. with markets saturated and new tech on the horizon, will the smartphone and/or? briaian quinn looks at the devie that changed our daily life. brian: once upon a a time, she would have found her way through the foforest with a map p and cocompass, recording data in a waterproof notebook. uses her field engngineer smart phone to navigate, alert to do the basics of her job. >> i use it to collect all of my data in the field. brian: the smartphone has become an indefensible -- indispensable part of the modern world.

in some of the world's diarist situations, the smartphone is there. where his phone to document regime bombings are happening and let his family know he is safe. in beijing, 21-year-old live stream or broadcasts her songs to over 600,000 followers. >> smartphones brought me closer to my fans. even when i am not streaming. we may be far apart, but we can play games together on our phones. -- theiolence and smartphonene h has become a navigational and communication toolol for migrants as they make their way across unknown lands in search of a better life. >> we don't walk on roads, we go through the forest. if you don't have the maps app, you don't know where you are going. >> smartphones have changed the

world while becoming the world's best-selling consumer device. with most markets already saturated, sales have flattened. what is next? analysts are looking to super 5 -- superfast 5g networks and leaps in augmented reality to keep the smartphone market growing. others predict a different future in which wearables or imimplants equippeped with artificial intelliligence become the next life changing technology. while the market may be pausing for now, the smartphone is not going away anytime soon. herer in-house expert is on set. hello and welcome. we have a special show because we are going to talk to audrey kane. against trade deal signed with china now known as the sunflower movement. in the aftermath, she was appointed digital minister,

becoming the first transgender member of government. fighting for radical transparency and open government. let's cross over to audrey in taipei. it is an honor to have you here on the show. >> i am happy to virtually be here. >> what are you trying to achieve and is there such a thing as sustainable democracy? >> for sure. the t-shirt i am wearing is the symbol of sustainable -- global ghost the entire u.n. agreed on for the yeaear 2030 and the key thing with democracy. it -- it is the only way moving forward to make sure it is a sustainable society and environment is not at odds or fighting with -- reinforcing each other's positions only

possible through a democratic process. >> how c can technology y help? >> the technologies are always the assistance to the democratic institutions. the most important thihing is trust. if you have no trust from the government to the citizens -- if the government doesn't trust its citizezens, the cititizens willt trust the government. through radical transparency and open government and all the different ways we make sure people understand the context, , nothy of policymaking just the results. wewe make sure everybody is includednn the discussion and that makes it possible for democracy to truly >> work. your motto is full transparency. what do you think to people who say transparency can be a form of dictatorship in itself? >> my answer i is transparency s good to o a degree. for all the meetings i chair

inteternally, we publish a full transcript to the i internet afr two weeks.s. during the two weeks, it allows everybody to go back and review each othther's positions. some people tell me, after reviviewing, we actually understood what the other side has to say and we don't need another meeting anymore. that is positive. it enables people to edit for profesessionalism so people can see the professional side of and make sure jokes s and stuff are edited ou. it is radicalal transparency, bt within humanity and the tolerance of the public service. >> before being appointed digital minister, you fought alongside taiwanese students in the 2014 sunflower occupy movement. can revolutions happen in the 21st century withohout social media networks? how can they help drive change?

>> the revolution during the sunflower movement -- i always refer to it as a demonstration. the demonstration is not in the sense e of a protetest. but in the sense of a demo. a showcase of how to o talk abot something with half a million people on the street and many more online and get more convincing every day. occupy wherether people diverge to nowhere. after three weeks, we converge on a point of consensus that the head of parliament agreed and be bound to paris the idea of the demonstration is not about overthrowing the old system. new systemstrating a that essentially renders the old system obsolete in certain circumstances. >> thank you so much for speaking with us here on "tech 24." to dan andto return

jay cattle car -- they don't often enter politics. why is the relationship between hackers and politicians so complicated? >> we all know politics for most of the time is about individualism and power. if you look at the guiding principles of the basic tenets of hacker ethics as proposed by the author stephen levi, you wiwill find there is digitalization, openness, sharing, and add some terms like open source and horizontal power hierarchy and the answer is obvious that these two -- it is difficult for them to be compatible. >> governments are not yet prepared to welcome hackers. what will they be fighting for in the future? these hackers. >> the big focus will be to fight against ai bias. i mean to ensure there is more

transparency in the artificial intelligence algorithms so it becomes more accountable. secondly, there will also be a need for decentralization of artificial intelligence so it is not concentrated with a few corporations and third, which is also very important is to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence reach out to a large section of the population. >> we are going to move on to "test 24." this week we are taking a closer look at two ajit's that are different, but are trying to increase -- gadgets that are different, but try to increase safety in -- on the ground and in the air. increase road safety for bikers. up with a study to develop this g glove.

the road of danger on ahead. if there is a group of riders and the rider at the front sees anything wrong, he can alert the others by pushing this button and you feel the vibration near the reese -- wrist. they will slow down or stop completely. they also developed an application that helps detect accidents for motorcycle riders and scooter riders. this has a proprietary algorithm and using this algorithm and the accelerometer on the smartphone, it is able to detect if there has been a fall. if it senses there is something wrong, it sends a message to the rider and if there is no response, it calls and asks for the exact position and then it calls medical services. statistics have shown if medical care is provided to accident

victims within one hour, their chances of survival increase by almost 80%. that is a huge number and that is why this application is useful. >> commercial planes must be inspected. the french startup has created an automatic inspection system. >> it helps to inspect aircraft quickly and with greater reliability because they come equipped with a lidar system that helps navigate along the aircraft. it is also equipped with a camera that has to take good alsoty pictures and it have a digital model of the aircraft integrated into it so as it moves along the aircraft and takes pictures, it can compare them with the digital model and determine if there is fault on the surface of the aircraft. >> see you next time.

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