a bombshell announcement leaves germany's ruling party in disarray expected success of a chance to quit so for a regional vote scandal. dances in virtual reality help a grieving mother spend time with the 7 year old. this bug could the concept of coming face to face with lost loved ones cause more harm than good we hear the ethical issues from experts. getting made up for the cameras our team mates london so-called campaigners who are using makeup to defy police plans to facial recognition technology.

you didn't. live worldwide from moscow i'm calling you from the international welcome to the program 1st the soul searching in germany's upper echelons of its politics i'm going to merkel's expected to accessors german chancellor stunned after resigning as the leader of the christian democratic union and a great crowd karrenbauer won't run in the next election after a regional vote scandal over so-called far right are europe correspondent peter all of a look at where it's left the c.d.u. . before monday it was almost impossible to hear on a good compound bows name said by a journalist commentator without them of being widely tipped as a future success set to angela merkel all that is no more after a meeting with christian democratic party top brass on sunday she decided to quit

as party leader and she won't be running for the job of chancellor at the next election and that's without an advantage and then there would be difficult times and the last 2 years have proved that out of this who is with the intention to make the city's stronger after careful consideration i have announced my decision today in front of the c.d.u. board meeting and federal board i want john to the position of chancellor as i have already announced our will lead the process to find a new candidate who will move the c.d.u. and the whole union forward the poles have not been kind to the c.d.u. who along with that but variances to posses the c.s.u. a look to in a loveless marriage of a coalition with the center left social democrats the final straw for i think it. whose names often abbreviated to a k k was last week's debacle in turning. to

. the fallout 'd from today injury caused major wary impossibly ranks with questions being asked over a cake case abilities she can't handle they say what happens when it comes to the real serious stuff she has made the kilo sivan worse if the coal falls. deathy is in the party's regional branches then she's no longer up to her role c.d.u. party chairwoman instead of letting things slide the party top brass would have done well to show leadership former vice chancellor an ex leader of the social democrat gabrielle has worn

a k k s resignation could well bring the curtain down on the current coalition government we're witnessing the end of the 2nd major peoples party in germany after the s.p.d. the c.d.u. is also no longer able to keep a lid on tensions within his own party the wings have drifted too far apart at the same time the federal government has been paralyzed for a 2nd time in quick succession after the s.p.d. candidate race i suspect it won't be long before we have new elections current situation leaves germany's christie in union of c.d.u. in a c.s.u. in need of selecting who will lead them into the next general election friedrich mertz is emerging as the bookies favorite he missed out to a k k in 2018 c.d.u. leadership race in contrast to cram academy he didn't really dazzle on getting the post met as barely put a foot wrong and could be the pro-business socially conservative candidate the cd use base have been wanting yet inspiron came behind a k.

and met in the last contest for c.d.u. leadership the 39 year old health minister how support on the right of the party he came to prominence for being outspoken on chancellor merkel's refugee policy he is most recently impressed with his views on germany's actions to combine the coronavirus and coordinating with european and g 7 nations markets is being increasingly talked about as a potential candidate for chancellor no one from the bavarian c.s.u. has ever taken the top job the 53 year old has it would seem won over many in the largest c.d.u. branch of the union both him. he has been keen to dismiss talk of a run at the chancellorship after 18 years of angular mirco at the helm of the c.d.u. 13 of those as chancellor it was always going to be a tough job for whoever came in but with i get are announcing that she will quit

the post less than 2 years after having taken it up those within the c.d.u. old guard a concern that the direction the party is heading in the next candidate for chancellor will not become a chancellor if we continue like this a k.k. has said that she will stay in her role as party leader until a candidate for chancellor is announced but ultimately this move by the step down is a huge if not potentially fatal blow to on google merkel's hopes of managing who will be her successor peter all of her r.t. berlin last hour c.d.u. member moustapha told me about the challenges now facing his party. can come boil she took over after a very huge conflict that we heard in 2 years ago. we have to shape tradition and respect for the rules but we never forget her fight when you are forgetting historical fight to bring seed you are together there are certain people there are

not too loyal to your party to find out who is the oil to last time if not because this is a game on who sold out the process this is a local people in the world would be out of play because of the fire and this is very don't just one or so you know 2 to come together to discuss together to find out what we are doing where we are what we are here we know it's very simple and that when i see now that all parties they are keeping. they are seeking that opinion from us no it's could have been in any parties in this time this is the politics of history as i say the time now to come together to write or to draw water on mars. for the next future. the latest advances in virtual reality technology has meant to south korean mothers being able to come face to face once again with her 7 year old daughter who she lost to will was a special combination of glasses and gloves allowed the mother to interact with the

child in the virtual world she could even talk to her using a mobile voice program which can also reflect behavior and other characteristics. that. well because of just how realistic that experience is some are concerned about the ethical issues that raises while others have drawn parallels to a dystopian sipho t.v. series. something. it will let you speak. to any media you need for this i don't mind lying. and. now we're sending you this money soon to be green is another level that is available. now earlier we talked with an artificial

intelligence research and an ethics professor to ask whether advances in virtual reality could prove more traumatic than positive. it can be a good idea. if you if you use in the in the right way for example if. grandma and this type of your tolerated the canard can their. personal relieve grief then i think it can be a good idea but again it does not need to be misused intriguing possibilities of virtual reality to make it possible to experience things that we cannot in any other way and this sort of example is a good one where you might be able to see again to speak again to somebody who's died dipshit fold my lies in the technical reconstruction of of the corrupter a saw if their day artificial intelligence in this case is not able to recall a struct a person in their eye way then when

a human interact with all of them in this case then he might interact in a really not throw away so the paradox of this technology is that the better the more realistic it is the more plausible it might be as therapy or as a benefit for someone but also the more disconcerting it might be and the worry might be that it might prolong somebodies grieving or even make it difficult for them to get on with the rest of their world if humans expert need to control how we use technology and need to fundamentally put it's called bodies on on the use of such technologies there are very good reasons to to think very carefully about the ethics of of artificial intelligence whether that's in health care decision making or in on our roads or or in in

huge areas of life where there's great potential for benefit but also real concerns about what the risks than side effects might be. police have been facing something of a backlash since announcing plans to use live facial recognition cameras and it's seen a sudden burst of interest in makeup known as camouflage shoddy edwards daschle met with some of the campaigners. make up i says me on a daily basis but i don't think i rely on it as much as these guys this is a docile a no no but they're standing up to surveillance while they're doing is using anti facial recognition makeup to defy the system taking defiance to a whole new level. looks

like a castle would be proud of himself well that's an estimated 630000 c.c.t.v. cameras watching london's $8000000.00 people go about the daily lives that's around one camera for 14 people this is just a case of algorithms can already extract information ranging from gender age and even mood from a single image and then those physical attributes can be linked to commercial government databases and all the facial recognition technology could provide huge benefits and automation security many would argue it's a threat to privacy despite the arguments against the advances in facial recognition a moving piece of data into a new a while in phase doesn't clip started as a response to study. about facial recognition being used. and we've spent a lot of time on. people with us we don't tell you as

a camera there's a camera at the end of the war it's cameras everywhere the group meets once a month to walk through different parts of london mosque with the come a flash the prevents computers recognizing their faces. the trick to downswing as they call it is a break up the face and as the motto goes less is more when it comes to the beauty routine so let's explore the secret of deceiving big brother time to get ready for a war. piece a facial recognition will revolutionize the fight against troy and with the threat of terror on the rise the pressure for improved security heightens but surely a simple lick of paint called stop this cutting edge technology can it it's expecting your lips to be so it could be the actually you know your lipstick goes

away this way in the right kind of bend it scaring me different way it's been primarily tested on white men when it's kind of implemented on a kind of mass level on the streets of london for example. is largely inaccurate when it comes to people of color but while make up like this presents a challenge to facial recognition it can still be seen by other technologies like gates recognition meaning people's distinctive walking patterns are also monitored so perhaps the trick to dodging the system is more of a hop skip and jump away too do you think it's an invasion of human rights or do you think i think you have a right let's look at it i think it's again based on humor you know when we have a right to understanding our data is going and how it's being used i don't personally feel safer when i'm surrounded by cameras at the moment i was a very big a widely acknowledged legislation so all of this data is being collected but whether the docile club or a small step or leap away from bowing down to big brother the sestina sporting the

snoopers snooping shouted with the r t london. what i feel that it's only gratitude but who is out to save our planet from climate perilous times campaign is right on the right doorstep are also pretty . up with ideas to protect mother earth one swedish professor has proposed switching to more eco friendly pets so much for man's best friend that. if you are b.j. perry and it's better to have plants that are greedy for greens to the legs these rabbits chickens are goats. worms are an excellent solution for again equates to you accelerate the compositing

process decrease the waste and greed valuable planting some. sort of human meat is good we come on to do against cannibalism interesting test case be consequential list morality versus career action absolutism. i feel someone has it but to not appear overly conservative i'd have to say i feel in 2 of these tasty. and for these 1st strikers that is the number one reason and they have the player that signed it into the universe that they will not have children or have any more children because of time. they will if we kick out the cat and the dog what are the consequences for.

reaction on what going forward grain could mean for you personally when it comes to climate change there's plenty else that to. including teachers in england big equipped with body cameras much like the ones the police officers web find out. about the threat educators there are facing. and while the world watches on this the corona virus outbreak spreads from china scientists say another novel virus has been discovered in brazil it's all online now at r.t. dot com. on the way here the democrats look to put the shambles of iowa behind them as the party heads to new hampshire for the next round of selecting a candidate to run against donald trump among our stories still ahead when we come back. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president injury. or something want to. let it go right to be close it's like a tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. city may. seem wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to say proud just to educate and engage me because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

welcome back donald trump's announced a controversial budget plan that aims to both reduce the deficit while boosting funds for washington to counter a familiar photos. plan today that over a period of not that long. for a budget in our deficit down to what it should be which is close to 0 and i think people are going to be very impressed by it here's what it looks like then there's a 750 $1000000000.00 increase for national defense that. clude modernizing nuclear weapons on top of that there's also a sizable amount for countering so-called threats from russia and china included in that so-called russian propaganda which is going to hold separate lines to itself in the budget plan however there are some key sectors such as health environment and science that are potentially facing some significant cuts next year american

welfare programs will lose almost 300000000000 in funding according to trump's plan that extends to medicare medicaid and also social security focus right now suggests that there is a real chance of that budget will be approved we started out antiwar activist brian becker who isn't convinced by trump's changes. well there is nothing more absurd than taking more money away from health education that which people need in the united states and using it to gin up for a confrontation with russia trump administration is moving far away from even the semblance of diplomacy they're cutting the state department and cutting the usa id budget but they're also cutting the national institutes for health the environmental protection agency they're cutting the centers for debris disease control at the same time the media and the government is feeding the war drums against china over the coronavirus the u.s. is actually slashing its budget that's what the budget proposes big savage cuts to

the health care infrastructure in america including to the centers for disease control and the national institute of health i mean this seems again crazy because it is crazy. and some other world headlines to update you on this 1st afghanistan where there's been a deadly terror attack near the capital a suicide bomber targeted at the french ministry building in kabul 5 people were killed and several more injured when this is also said gunshots were heard in the aftermath of the blast no group yet claimed responsibility for the attack. things has announced it's sending a security pact with the united states that stood since $999.00 it was initially signed to allow american forces to train in the asian country the move reportedly in response to the cancellation of the for the plane senator ronald rosen's and us of the zip it's expected to take around several months for the changes to come into effect officially. the government protesters have clashed with police in the

lebanese capital beirut as demonstrators continue to vent their anger over most $7000000.00 in spending cuts officers used tear gas water cannon and some of those rallying through books. thanks to new hampshire in the united states where democrats are readying to vote for the presidential. did they want to challenge donald trump round one in iowa worse or bernie sanders run people who today had to close but a technical meltdown with a voting app get the president i'm unishe and tomorrow the confusion. you can vote for the weakest candidate if you were my only problem is that i'm trying to figure out who is their weakest candidate i think they're all we want to know they're all fighting each other they're all going after each other you got of all over the place they don't know what the hell they're doing. however democrats in new hampshire remain determined to back the party's hopefuls explaining they would rather be hit by a meteorite than see trump secure a 2nd in the white house i head of tuesday's primary vote center as

a son does lead to the polls locally and nationwide but media outlets and his colleagues have beena singling him out for his socialist leanings with one u.s. news channel host likening his possible victory to a communist dictatorship. i remember the cold war i have an attitude towards castro i believe that castro and the ridge said won the cold war there were no executions in central park i don't know the burning burning supports over these years i don't know what he means by social bernie coal seam self democratic socialist so you think flat out democrats can't defeat trump if they have to defend socialism i think is going to be incredibly more difficult. a political activist anthony rogers right says that the sun does campaign defies democrat traditions. senator sanders it's not just his policies that have the democratic establishment afraid it's the america that he's been able it's in the build and sustain for you know more than 4

years now from when he ran in 2 $1016.00 and his campaign is always represented in insurgency to establishment democrats and the democratic national committee now that we're seeing with fund raising numbers we're seeing with his rallies we're seeing with the polling these tactics at the democratic national democratic party have attempted have have not worked and so they're panicking a bit quite frankly because they know that neighbors seniors nomination which doesn't just represent you know a new general credit party but it represents the mentality of a new living room where the doxy come into a very swift and your next update from moscow is in 35 minutes also where in one of our latest toughest neighborhoods next for a no holds barred look at the gang culture and blight in the community.

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you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see. that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

which. contrasts. this is a murder that was caught on video the murder was committed by the great street crips it was an in-house murder meaning that a street crypt killed another great street crips oftentimes gang members go by cold and one of the code says to never commit crimes against your own gang members in this particular scenario or murder investigation there was a. transplant that was a narcotics user he went to purchase narcotics from 3 crew members on the narcotics was either bad or he was somehow slighted on it as a result he went to another great street cred gang member in got a gun with a gun the transience shot and killed a street gang member at the time of the shooting there was another great street

gang member with each person that was killed the victim of the murder and according to the game code he asked to make amends for allowing a gang member to be killed on his own watch. if he doesn't act toward take. some sort of action against the shooter that he will be disciplined by his own gang so. on this scenario that particular crips gang member. carries out the murder against the great street gang member who provided the gun to the transit and it's all caught on video. this is inside jordan downs it's mid day and you can see there's about 10 to 15 gang members floating in the parking lot. just going about their daily business. is the group here of the members several of them loitering you going to see the victim of the shooting come running. to this area with the suspect shooting behind them. here you can see all

the gay members scatter. and they kind of hang around. because they know what's going to be a great street on great street or who's disciplining another member so they sit. around and watch where it is it was a rival gang shooting all of them with one out of the way because they'd all be intended targets here the suspect is chasing the victim around the vehicle. and he's just waiting to kill him. here the victim tries to lobby the suspect shoots him in the hand. he falls. and then he comes up and finishes a mom. puts the gun in his back we're going to somebody and then just slowly walks away he has nothing really to fear here in the neighborhood because they're all great secret gang members and he's banking on the fact that no one's going to go to court and testify against them. and again you see that nobody's really shocked about it

nobody's talking about it nobody chased down the suspect.