palestinian refugee camp now albert right in lebanon for france twenty four. those who play with far will perish clients trying to central government sends a warning to hong kong saying that restraint is not weakness and calls on demonstrators to go home. undeterred a group of activists give a press conference to make their demands clear. pulling for the rest of the worldld to step up its action against venezuelanan president nicolas maduro the us decides to freeze the assets of his government and ban anyone f from doingng business with it or it says face consequences. and described as a national

treasure nobel and pulitzer prize wininner older and editor toni morrison has died at the age of eighteen. welcome to the friends twenty four news remind eve irvine it's good to have you with us. dismissing the protesters as criminals and warning them that their restraint d ds not meet a and weakness chihina central government hasas sent a message to hong kong what started out of there as a demonstration against a now shelved extradition bill has grown into a wider movement against a chinese influence. on tuesday a group of activists gave a rare press conference to voice their demands you correr reports. as hong kong protestors keep up the pressure on the streets. china's central government ramps up its rhetoric. well golly gee and the and i'd like to warn all of those criminals thank heaven this judge the situation and i mister carr restraint for weakness wow

what. does. he play with fire will perish by it. i'll add it. the shop warning comes as popolice in hong kong announced the arrest of needing one hundred and fifty people on monday alone. fighting also broke out between pro democracy activists and government supporters. what started nine weeks ago as a protest against an extradition bill that w would have allowed suspepects to be tried in n mainland c china has fallen into a broader pro democracy basements. the regional government was forced to shelve that bill but it has refused to make any further compromise in recect days it has repeatedly condemns the protesters f for underminingng w and order. and heading home kansi colony. in a rare move a group of activists took the risk of going public holding a press conference to deliver the message. we call on the government to return the power back to the people search that hong kong people can be entitled. to it did have. an

independent. judicial system and a fundamental freedom of assembly and speech. the activists also accused police of using excessive force to quell demonstrations as in the government not to be enemies off the public. let's take a closer lookok we canan crossss now to n toto speak to a professor in eat asian warfare and security from king's college longer mr. ass has pozzolana mr battleon no it's hanks for your time now we're starting to hear some tough words from beijing would you think that action is likely to follow or or do you think the strategy is to school on and wait some more for the.. prprotesterso o tar themseselves activeve you will. i think of access the last he's more likely to sense that was seen that baby jeans. process avenue

the moment on east one that fox is reading. on this idea of locally trying to. tie the text is all sensitive had being. de did did the whole process of calming down and dinee these all natural death. at the same time this is not being paid goals. yes walls of the full thrones or is the- next move still i think. there will be an emphasis on the police or not mobilizing. forces locally that all citizens favorable to the government we should never really take for granted that beijing will not intervene after rule. the p. la garrison in hong kong is dead to be mobilized in case all that lack of public older or disasters. at l least one of these two opoptions t that facilitateses.e that people's liberation army when they sent out a video you know showiwing them. training or rehearsing if you like you know how to contract these massive protests but how likely do you think it. would be that beijing

would take a dot far as step. i think it will very much depend on the test is in the house of the deed to discontinue to level it seems now very clear that the processes are becoming. bowls on the on now sitting in basically lost weight they won't engagement from the government in beijing. now the question is will beijing engage with them are they might very well sort of being the one way to keep the military option. and you know it so the down the line at but as i say. i don't think he's indicted unlucky the change of tone and the way in which your facial government spokesperson related to the question by making it quite clear. two combined with the latest so it is signals coming out including the video that was posted on weight bowowl last week that would could you suggest that bay g. as normal that option out. it's not very likely to happen but certainly would be a mistake. that you can see that

this is not going to happen i think it this is the gene the key question is whether to extend the reading are. willing to consider an engagement with their processes it's a very dangers auctions of them because that would. signal and a degree of weakness at least to be jeans all rights and so the moment i would say is not likely but there is a clear risk though that might happen because the two sides seems to be quite entrenched in their positions. indeed and from what we're hearing from the demonstrators it seems that their demands have grown now really you're fighting for more and more independence from china's main and- you know on a wider scale how significant using their. the risk is of these demonstrations beyond hong kong. well i think at the

moment thehe risk i think the government is probably veryy very. cautious about not handing would be e something i n hong kong and. . and it was surprising how. in beijijing and itit was a almost a self c contd bottle w well informatition even multi use the whirlingorm the well educated used was very limited on that sir. beijing is beining very careful not to have sort of a spillover effect hang state so dull and i think you'u're absolutelyy right one f the key things was quite striking over the lastst twentny four hours. whenn the preress confnference witith steven these awards all of nineteen dependence independentnt judicil system and individually but these. these are very stronong ststatements. which i'm surure we'ree not a tv where they will welcome. and in beijing. okay for now at thanks so much a professor alessio about on from king's college london for joining. us a and giving us your

insight into that situatation. well now calling for tougher ininrnationall action against venezuelan president nicolas maduro washington has frozen his government's assets that with national security adviser john bolton saying that the u. s. can now targets. and sanction anyone including foreigners who support the door was a tortilla any transactionon with the venezuelan government has been banned. orgy foreign affairs as robert parsons give us his view. on just how dramatic he thinks this move actually is. find thathey have not gone beyond just simple sanctions directed against members of maduro's government maduro himself hi i'm too if. extended them to. not just individuals but but countries so for instance on this is clearly what one of the targets in mind russia could be. very much in the united states science if it continues to do businessss as it has been doing with venezuela like wise china which is a lot of money invested in. venezuela is also

thankfully the united states is saying from you gotta make a choice here. if you want to do business with the united states and stop doing business with venezuela if you want to do business with. vendors i let them forget about doing business with the united states. john bolton as national security adviser with pretty clear by said we are sending a signal to third parties you want to do business with mature a regime. proceed with extreme caution that's a pretty clear threat under the reaction from the russian side. it has been quite strong ready consenting because such off was the chief of the start off as quickly the upper chamber of the russian parliament. has called it crude interference in eight russian in in international affaiairs international bond a tree. of the foreign ministry has called it economic terra. quite how to determine the united states will be to pursue this it t is anotother matter. in theory at least this puts venenezuela in the same c category as north korea. iran cuba now we e know

how it was serioususly the unitd states has beenn pursuing it sanctions against iran on north korea. so this this could be very serious indeed it we don't know quite how to fall united states is prepared to go at this stage but potentially. this could be a game changer. tensions between the beijingng and washington continue to rise outside of that as well as well in both political and economic spheres of late on monday the trump administration formally label china as a currency manipulator. raising the stakes in the country's ongoing trade war with our business educate moody. is with us to explain really have it more toys kate what exactly is currency manipulation what happens next well it means that a central bank is deliberately interfering instead of the free market movement. at buying or selling us dollars to make its own currency stronger or usually weaker this is the first time that designations been used since nineteen ninety

four. and in this case beijing allowed the you want to fall to its lowest level in over a decade. it had about seven to the dollar on monday. the chinese authorities have rejected the u. s. label and say that they allowed the move to balance what they describe as external disturbances. but the us treasury department dismissed that defense as implausible and said the beijing was acting to gain an unfair competitive advantage in international trade. no concretely speaking the label allows the us to request that the international monetary fund examine china's monetary policy. could ultimately lead to financial penalties usually it would mean the beginning of a bilateral negotiation process on the subject. althohough in te current context unlikely to lead to that most analysts however do say it's mostly symbolic move that will give donald trump more leeway in imposing still further tariffs. on chinese imports there's also some debate about whether this

is in fact manipulation. usually a currency a country has to spend 2% of its gdp on currency purchases in order to officially fall into that category. definitely a step in the wrong direction when you're trying to work out a trade truce in those on again off again talks coming now say. ththey're effectively over well it seems very difficult to see how they would come back to the drawing board at least in the near future bototh sides havee nominally. frankly the biggest losers such as it is china right now. well gererman mininistrationon is still planng to push ahead with those new tariffs on three hundred billion dollars worth more of chinese products starting from september first beijing's announcement that statate companies won't be buying any agricultural goods from u. s. also takes that process a step backwards. and most observers

say the chances of a compromise are further off than ever and they're also saying eve this is no longer just a trade war this is escalated. not just currency were it's a full on economic dispute between the world's two largest economies indeed economic and political forcing it on every front gate moody or business as your- thanks. a lot for that. now described as a national treasure by former u. s. of president and friend barackobama who said it was a gift to breeze and the same air as her even for. a little while tributes pouring in for older twenty morrisoson. who died at the age off eighty eight. nobel prizee and pulitzezer winner morrison wrote eleven books including beloved jazz and paradise can we know that it tells us moree about. the late editor roger and university professor. toni morrison wawas ththe giants of modern literature. was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. along with the nobel prize t the pupulitzer huns differences in the nav. but it wasn't always

that way. tune between her editing career and her writing she was almost forty which published her first novel in nineteen seventy. the bluest eye it was about two young black girl struggling with the food out to sexual abuse and desperate to have new ideas. a pretty young black female voice center stage. i don't want to have to function all right under the gaze. of like mind i'm not confronting white people. i'm not. explaining editorializing for ever about white to white people as many african american writers have done she went on to write ten more novelss including sula and song of solomon how works and no one school and university reading lists around the world i found the misstatements described her as the consummate writer who treasured the written word whether her own her students or others she read

voraciously and was most at home. when writing. president barack obama took to twitter to express his condolencnces dedescribing her as a national treasusure. she was s eighty eit yeyears old. and that's we're gonna have to leave it for this edition to take . the social score the machine. the whole plessy signal. artificial intelligence is a true revolution. hello and welcome to this edition of fronts and focus on the lawn a diss on on

the show this week we're focusing on france's use of artificial intelligence in the field of medicine but first what is artificial intelligence it relates to how the machine a computer program that mimics the human mind qualities such as the ability to understand language solve. problems but most importantly learn. saunders all they speak into the field of medicine well to understand more we've come to the body dick i university and its museum of medicine. all of me. this is where you can find one of europe's oldest assortments of medical tools a collection that dates back several centuries. it offers some perspective on the incredible progress brought about by each technological advancement. today it's a eyes turn to lead the charge in scientific advancement in particular as far as cancer treatment is concerned at a nearby hospital several start ups a working on computer programs aimed at detecting

medic themselves take a look. that's not to. say to you on leading the fight against breast cancer. engineers at this parisisians stocked u up on collecting images from hospitals from around the world. zero zero all the engineers are working on data processing their goal is to collect all the data from available mammograms. and exchange commission to automatically detect cancer. they stocked up specializes in artificiall intelligenence t that studies millionsns of mammograms and can now pinpoint if there's a risk of cancer in new x. rays. here's a mammogram screening the radiologist would typically examine this for any potential dangers. the algorithm works the same way it will look over ththe image and stop as soon as it thinks there's a risky zone and flagged it up with this yellow box it helps the radiologist. decide if they need to do more exams or not. that is just one of several

start ups that are hosted at hospital cochon incubator. paris biotech sante was created twenty years ago and it's now the largest top the medical startups in europe. with a the five thousand square meters thousands of jobs created and millllions of yearss in the funding to develop multiple projects. this isis a new vision for these innovations improve patient care ultimately finding sosolutions for recovery faster than big companies. and france were lucky to have excellent engineering schools and medical schools it means that can be a lot of synergy between scientists. and ends with fast results. give a crap. nicholas karagias is a polygynous research up the mathematics professor founded an award winning companyy less than twoo years ago there have been a ststay at uses artificial intelligence to develop contouring in radiation therapy. clover the those are the best see the patient size the two optic nerves the lenses and the kinds of deceptive this step is

crucial in the beginning because you need to know where and how much. you're going to die is the different parts of the opening for you. in this. this technology helps doctors to be more precise when they are targeting team is. nicolas peredur schools it on the fly radiation. to think that the bar the patients usually have to undergo teams of three months of radiotherapy inducuced by them and they're not to me doesn't stay the same so they lease w weights and the organs wiwill swellll. but on the fly radiation means we can adjust the treatments according to your body that day so we can meet you side effects and have a very precise treatment plan after five. sessions up oracle mom was it a success. doctor that paris is crucial hospital routinely use these new technologies. with its algorithms artificial intelligence is speeding up the fight against cancer. now the use of a. i. inmates and poses a number of ethical questions how to discuss this up come to meet one of the people working

on the issue debbie grew so was the founder of i think a ice an initiative that aims to develop a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence. and who's working on revising frances bio ethics legislation thank you so thank you very much for joining us on the program so is france a leader in artificicial intelligence and for medicine actually i wouldn't sissoko set jie european union as true forceces to develop.rtificiall intelligencece today but the its you know it's a global competition with a clearly in ththe fall china are on the us but here in funds we have a strong forces in research we also a key initiative which has been construed by the government on the on the french president. and also new means of action s such as the your renewal investment program whicich has a strong paul

dedicated to a ii applied to health care so doesn'n't n need regulation. it's actually miss regulation because the *-*- stakes are very very strong and we devised a buddy of salts soft glow regulation because i . sessions aromamatase toolsls but which shall devised to help the surgrgeon rather thann replacing him but in in those i in those f cup of activivities such as didiagnose this incredulity. d. impacts of f a i could be strongnger but even in that fifd it wouldn't replace the doctor it will help him to o rich. i'ma more efficient and more right

then they ignis now with every program that involves data collection questions. of privacy become like top concerns. it's a natural concern but we alreaeady implementedd the gdp are in two thousand and eighteen and what we have to do now is reaching another step is it and this type is dealing with also you man was also his issssues. to help answering the illegitimate questions raisedd by professionals andnd that's what we do with the sdk initiative we issued a report for the montaigne cononstituents which puts four walled methodology. to her boss comeses true on a tatackle the issue of for hr impacts of the i. india is consistent now you said that there's still a lot of work for francece to dodo in terms of artificial intelligence. are there anyy medical field that you're hoping fronts can make ea breakthrough on. actually france has to a sets on that if you just one example if you

wish the us top up top excel which a and devops thehe tool dedicated judy mammographyhy. analysysis and it's one of ththe best in the world so let's be ststrong on that field let's. help the g. create charles and reason and the result trails and the european foror mark is ththe appropriate frfrom workk o so some breast cancer. to breast cancer. seven question thank you very much for joining some program. thank you in the. not technology like robots is already assisting surgeons in operating theaterss over in strasbourg scientists are working on ground breaking programming that could be put in service in the next few years take a look. on the surface this looks like a normal operation but the difference is that the centuries being found. the scene with a long history.

surgical operation being performed on the bottom stream is an operation taking place on the third floor we're we're experimenting with computer. the aim is to develop artificial intelligence that in the future will be able to help surgeons without plug. for example this young practitioner will be assisted by computers to talk videos of hundreds off thousands of operations performed by experienced surgeons. so that the technonology will signal to the specialist. if his actions conform with protocol l on oct. professor mara scschool is one f the major supporters of this kind of image guided surgery. for him computers will one day be a surgeon's miss trusted ally. two more yet they're also it's in mine a complication. but that doesn't mean they're acceptable they accept the gold bladder removal that's a no point 5% risk of complications. celebrity confidence of about four planenes today clashining f he for apple. and if you put itt that way i it's unacceptable.

there aree about forty membersrs of stuff the institute of image guided surgery could handle numerous amounts of data. give it a clear an axle yeah do i sure see might take you know it's on operations since i have to choose the name of the instruments used and describe the action that it makes. it kind of fell on sound collide in total it takes me between eight and ten hours to write notes on the thirty minutes of operatioion collide on what will completed. to listen to the song and she would you go. even if it's realistic that's a computer is capable of reaching the level of a doctor. could scrape of action remains limited the social score to make anything the machine count replaces the empatathy of adadut to towards his or her patientss and we know that that plays a huge part in the healing procesess. recovery is not just about the mets and all the side streets of bounce will say the message that you passed. on to the patient before and after the operation. . research at the institute also welcome mentors reality technology like this.

personal kerr finding need to replace. a scanner to operate on the cancerous cima. seven six thirty pm at the team is inn on all of this rule that optimize the positioning of the needle to insure that operation is safer and is performed faster hello clientele. let's just say that first of all we look for humor which will appear in whites on the screen about a little o owell muskyky e could d mark set p point in t te d. one o'clock and thehen. we'el be able to visualize thehe relative position between thihis three dimensiona poioints whihih is the center o of the tumor unless the ultltrasound imageged the virtual needle the medical i think it via if you'd be just fine. the prorocess is safer because it doesn't emit any x. rays the technology. is also cheaper and therefore more accessible. that's it for this edition of france and focus from all of us on the team

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