print 24 and france24.com. ♪ >> france facing a curfew from 6:00 p.m. reaches in the east are facing the measure from january 2. the announcement made in the wake of a special meeting on covid earlier in paris. another lockdown at this stage is not envisaged, says the minister. so far seven confirmed dead in the epicenter 50 miles from the columbus or z -- 50 miles from the capital of zagreb.

more and more journalists are being killed in places that should be low risk, exposing the truth about power and lies. cost of the lives of 50 reporters this year. thank you for joining us. a curfew starting at 6:00 p.m. this is to take effect in the east of the country in the new year. he spoke after the special meeting of the covid crisis. emmanuel macron himself has tested positive, gathered health advisors and ministers. at the end of that meeting, the french scientific council warned ministers that the pandemic is out of control. twice as high as the government target of 5000. let's hear from the health

minister. >> the health minister of france, olivier veran, there. affecting to begin with regions down the east of the country. after that, it is a question of wait and see as the virus evolves. of course, keep you across all the developments when they happen. the u.k. has broken its daily infection rate for a second consecutive day, surpassing its daily record. these figures are quite shocking. over 50,000 in the past 24

hours. this overshadows yesterday's over 40,000 figure. the number of deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive covid test also went up, taking the total since the start of the pandemic since -- since the start of the pandemic to over 71,000. turkey and the united kingdom have extended their free-trade trade deal this weekend. this, to keep up the extending flow of goods and business. the two countries signed the agreement in a televised videoconference call. the minister said it takes effect on january 1, 2021, ensuring a quick transition after the end of the year. the british trade minister said she was hopeful that a deal could be struck soon. let's get the analysis. former eu ambassador and head of

delegation to turkey. he joins us live. the u.k. is turkey's second largt trade paner. it is also important for the u.k., is it not? >> it is also important in terms of certain industries and channels. today's signature is a bit of a media stunt. brexit taking effect inwo days time. turkey itself is diplomatically isolated from the eu. it is a good way for both sides to show that they are not alone and they are doing deals. technically, what it means is simply mntaining continuity in trade. the day after tomorrow, turkish

exports to the u.k., that. of course at midnight on thursday. therefore, if nothing was done, you would have had turkey's textile and clothing, industry products, suddenly facing tariffs entering the u.k. the turks did not want that and the u.k. did not want that either. they are building a worldwide network of trade agreements to replace the eu agreements it was part of. it will be particularly important for e automotive industry. you have one of the biggest brands in the u.k. sending engines and parts to a plant in turkey.

therefore, having 5, 10, 20% tariffs on certain goods was not good. this is what we have. of course, most parties will keep track of the evolution possibly in the next few years of the customs agreement and they will want to adjust for that. >> this deal very much an extension of the current deal under the eu. where's the brexit dividend? >> there is not great dividend here because basically the free trade deal between the u.k. and turkey as of next friday will be less than what the u.k. and tuey -- this is why i say it

is a little bit of a media stunt. what will be important is to watch if the brexit agement itself, the trade and cooperation agreement between the u.k. and eu, will serve. the agreement is dead, cannot be resuscitated because of the status of turkey. therefore, the type of provisions you find could be applied. that will be the first for non-eu countries. >> as ever, it is a pleasure to see you. thank you for joining us and

providing your analysis. somehow lesser than the u.k. had with the eu. it is complicated. everyone trying to stress their own positivity out of this. obviously, wait and see how it happens and hope it works out for all parties. next, the death toll from the earthquake in croatia is no seven people. a quick of 6.4 magnitude hit tuesday. search-and-rescue continues through the night. >> it was during a midday press conference about monday's earthquake when disaster struck again. captured live on television, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake,

devastating the towns. >> just minutes after the quake, croatia's prime minister and president rushed to the scene to offer help in assess the situation. >> [speaking foreign language] >> petrinja's mayor says half the town no longer exists. croatian soldiers have been deployed to help rescue crews search for survivors. the most vulnerable have been transported to zag grab -- to

zagreb. it also shook neighboring serbia , bosnia, and slovenia. an estimated 6 million people have felt the earthquake, judged to be the strongest to ever hit croatia. anchor: we will keep you across all developments from the scene in croatia. next, a polarized senate is trying to decide whether to legalize abortion in argentina. it is a vote that experts say could go either way. the bill proposed by president alberto fernandez is already past the chamber of deputies despite opposition from the catholic church. the country with a population of

44 million. these images show a very well attended demonstration in favor of abortion taking place outside the senate in point authorities. the leader of the catholic church, pope francis. reporters without borders says at least 50 journalists have been killed this year for just doing their job and telling the truth. mexico is the most dangerous place to carry a press card in the world right now but there were more places where our job is under attack. the fear is making the reporters jump more important and dangerous than ever. >> some 50 journalists were still killed this year for doing their jobs according to reporters without borders.

over the years, the proportion of journalists in war zones has gone down but those killed in supposedly peaceful countries has gone up. >> [speaking french] >> the worst country in the world to be a journalist is mexico, where eight were murdered. one was even beheaded. the killings go unpunished. iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, and india have all had several journalists injured this year including one in india who was burned alive. recently in iran, it was the state itself that killed a journalist. two died while reporting on

protest of police corruption in nigeria, part of a new trend this year. anchor: reporters warning that the job of a journalist is becoming more and more dangerous every year. beer and chocolate have been declared essential goods in belgium. it is a bid to help these two special sectors with the belgian economy in a time of crisis. >> it is world-famous for its beer and chocolate. for lucky belgians, both those items are considered essential by the government. when other shops were forced to close during coronavirus lockdowns, the country's chocolate and beer sellers were allowed to remain open. >> chocolate is essential in

that it is part of your daily life as beer is or as wine would be in france. and it is a joyful product. >> beer holds a special place in belgian culture. many consider it the national drink. >> we drink the beer for the ceremony, wedding, birthday, christmas time. between friends and football, beer is very, very important. like french fries, like mussels, this is part of our culture. nothing can change this. >> under the coronavirus restrictions, beermania's bar section had to close but the shop remains open as does its website. small business owners are hope for a brighter new year. anchor: a parallel has certainly tickled paul, my producer.

stay with us, more news to come. please stay safe. ♪ >> welcome to the show. you are watching tech24. as the month of september is said to have been the hottest on record in recent entry, we talked to the director of the digital earth twin challenge, set to use ai and bigata to develop an evolving replica of planet earth this will provide solutions to solve a variety of problems from food surity to coast motoring. we will give a boost to

renewable energy by presenting you with two gadgets. a smart reflector by a french startup. first, under the french legal system, criminal investigations by french police usually involve witness interrogations, cctv reviews, and analyzing samples. they have access to cutting-edge technology to help them solve old cases. >> making objects speak to shine light on the circumstances around a crime. at the french national police institute for criminal research, this drinks can is being delicately handled. examined under ultraviolet lights until it's secret is revealed. >> this is great quality.

once we have taken a photo, we will analyze it and see if we can directly tie it to a record, a database. hunting for physical objects, tracking the slightest clue, and analyzing samples. it is all part of the forensic routine. there are simple presence in an organism and enough to identify a drowning. >> we use these tiny plants to determine if a person has or has not died by drowning. we are able to make them talk, like legal witnesses. >> this sort of evidence has been used for some 15 years by investigators. more recently, other scientific

techniques have been developed, like this scanner, which simulates crimecenes in 3d. >> the advantage of having a crime scene is that we can come back to look at it months, even years after the crime. >> scientific developments pray more tools to crime. the sciee department of the gender paris -- the gendarmarie. >> joining us is peter o'brien. we are actually getting at her at tracking the movement of -- getting at her -- getting better at tracking the movement of microscopic fibers and clothing. >> there was an experiment where two people are in a lift. one is wearing a black top, the

other fluorescent clothing. under uv light, they found that tiny microscopic fibers and upon the blacktop -- microscopic fibers from the fluorescent clothing ended up on the blacktop. these travel through the air without any contact. for a crime scene, if you have two bits of evidence, it does not necessarily those people meaning -- people wearing that physical evidence actually came into contact with each other. >> time of death is very important. i do you make it more accurate? >> the university in amsterdam has found a way to model in 3d. the traditional way that we do this is by taking a temperature through a rectal examination of the cadaver. the university of amsterdam has figured out that you don't need to touch anything on the crime scene.

you can gather the skin temperature, air temperature, body size, but that all into a 3d model, and it becomes much more accurate, estimates the time of death within 40 minutes as opposed to 3-7 hours. >> forensic genomics, what is that about? >> this is an exciting field and is allowing a lot of cold cases to be solved. you get a piece of dna from the crime scene and put it to a database that has thousands of other people's dna. this is typically a family member. could be close, like your parents, or it could be a distant relative who has a tiny fraction of dna. this is very powerful stuff. >> all of this is raising privacy concerns because we are talking about personal data.

>> there are a lot of privacy questions over this. innocent people being kept in these databases for years and years. there are calls for national databases to be encrypted. >> we are going to move on to a whole other story. according to the eu climate service, september was the hottest month on record globally. opening up the way for 2020 to become the warmest year in modern history. whether pattering -- weather patterning has become more important than ever. the idea to create a digital twin for planet earth. thank you for being here. >> very glad to be with you. >> tell us more about this initiative and why it was created. >> the initiative is a further

development of where we wa to go in space but also better undetanding our planet. what we have today in europe is an observing system based on satellite observation but also other observations, among the best in the world. based on the many satellites we have built up. europe has a very strong capacity. the next question, how can we make use of this capacitynd make sure people can fully benefit from what we have done so far. at the member states on both invested more than $10 billion. >> which technology and which data will you rely on?

>> what we will rely on is the data, which are data from satellites, built up together from the european commission and member states. these are very large volumes of data that we are producing, for example from our data hopper, every day about 350 terabytes of data huge volumes. the challenge is to make sure these huge volumes can be processed in a proper way. >> helpfully digital twin help in gaining more inset -- how will a digital twin help in gaining more insht? >> we want to simulate some aspects of our planet.

we of course cannot create a digital twin of our whole planet. but we would like to cut out certain segments where we would like to make simulations. let me take an example. let's assume the amazon forest. the amazon forest is the lungs of our planet because it produces the oxygen we need and conver carbon dioxide in particular into oxygen. let's assume you want to cut by 20%, 50%. we would like to be able to simulate if you cut a great portion of the amazon forest. then of course as indications on the local population, brazil, south america, but also in the global climate it will increase carbon dioxide levels, it would increase sea level rise.

europe from the coastline of friends come on the coastlinef the netherlands. willful happen if we do change one element of our pnet and to simulate by turning the knobs with various parameters. what would it mean for people in different parts of the world >> thank you for that. it is time now for test 24. ♪ this week, a gadget that is making a comeback. we had tried it two years ago and this time it i the second edition of the solar powered drone sb4 phoenix. >> it is big but very light. last month, it broke a world record. it crossed the channel and came back again.

it is the fastest drone to fly that distance weighing less than five kilograms. it landed back with a full battery, having just used solar power. it is being used in congo already helping to map forests and fight deforestation. it has surveyed around 30,000 hectares of forest. in australia, it is being used to locate water sources in the outback and herd cattle. anchor: a second gadget is a totally different use of solar power. >> what this does, you can control it by remote and it reflects natural sunlight into whatever room you need brightening up. they have a new one which is completely autonomous, and it works by using an optical sensor to tilt using the angle of the sun to provide optimal sunlight.

>> thank you for that. it brings us to the end of this week's edition of tech24. we will see you next time.

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