a bombshell announcement leaves germany's ruling party in disarray as i'm going to merkel's expected success of a chance to quit over a regional vote scandal. advances in virtual reality help a grieving mother spent time with the 7 year old daughter she lost but could the concept of coming face to face with loved ones cause more harm than good we hear the ethical issues from experts. and getting made up for the cameras london so-called campaigners are using makeup to defy police plans to use live facial recognition technology.

and choose their afternoon at one of the 11. welcome to world news this hour 1st off to germany then where angela merkel is expected to accessorise chancellor stunned after resigning as leader of the christian democratic union and a great crime carabao it won't run in the next election after a regional vote scandal over so-called far right files our 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 com column about his name said by a journalist commentator without them of being widely tipped as a future success set to angle a miracle well 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 a far finer meg than 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 for 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 their variances to posses the c.s.u. a looked in a loveless marriage of a coalition with the center left social democrats the final straw for i think it. whose name is often abbreviated to a k.k.k. was last week's debacle in turning.

the fallout from to the injury caused major wary impossible ranks with questions being asked of a k k s abilities she contango face what happens when it comes to the real serious stuff she has made the kilo's of and worse if the coal falls. on deaf ears 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 'd 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 its 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 kristie 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 crab 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 yen spawn came behind a k.

and met in the last contest for c.d.u. leadership the 39 year old health minister has 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 combat the coronavirus and coordinating with european and g 7 nations market is being increasingly talked about as a potential candidate for chancellor no one from the varian 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 bertie. 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 without a good at camp or 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 through angle of merkel's hopes of managing who will be her successor peter all of her r.t. berlin c.d.u. member mustapha told me about the challenges facing his party and how it needs to address them. can come boys she took over after a very huge conflict that we heard in 2 years ago. we have to shape tradition we have a spiritual soul but we never forget her fight when you are forget your historical fight to bring sid you together there are some people that are not too loyal to

your party to find out whose loyalty last time was not because this is not a game on who sold out in the past few days there is a lot of people in the world why they are played with the fire and this is very dangerous for our so you know to to come together to discuss together to find out what you are doing when we are aware that we are going it's very subtle is that when i see no the other parties they are keeping. they are seeking to defend you from us no it's could have been in any party in this time in the politics in history but as i say the time now we really need to come together to right or to draw a wall. a roadmap for the nix future. the latest advances in virtual reality technologies meant that a south korean mother has been able to come face to face once again with her 7 year old daughter she lost a willingness 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 model voice program which can also reflect behavior and other characteristics. and i thought. oh earlier we talked with an artificial intelligence researcher 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 rye way for example if all a gram in this type of beer tolerated the chronology can their. personal relieve grief then i think it can be a good idea but again it does not need to be misused the 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 depict fold my lies in the technical reconstruction of of the corrupter a saw if their day artificial intelligence this case is not able to record struct a person in there i way then when a human interact with all of them in this case then. interact in not really not too 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 they're 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. but the metropolitan police have been facing something of a backlash since announcing plans to use live facial recognition cameras the sudden burst of interest in make up. with some of the campaign. makeup i says we rely on on a daily basis but i don't think i rely on it as much as these guys this is

a docile note. 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 an picasso 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 them 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 advance in facial recognition a moving piece of events into a new a while in phase 2 doesn't clip started as a response to study. about facial recognition being used on. screen. 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 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 while the. 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 while.

police say facial recognition will revolutionize the fight against crime 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 that actually you know your lipstick goes away this way in the right kind of bennett scaring not a 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. 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 widely acknowledged legislation so all of this data is being collected but whether the dazzle club or us will step away from bowing down to big brother the cessna sporting the snoop a snooping shouted with the london. eye what might feel like it's only gratitude because how to save our planet from climate perilous times campaign is right on our own doorstep are also pitching up with ideas to. protect. once we have professors propose switching to more eco friendly pets so much so that it's a man's best friend.

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1st strikers that is the number one reason and bass player that signed it into the universe that they will not have children or have any more children because of time . but if we do kick out the cap and get to the dog what are the consequences for us. reaction almost going full green coming from you personally when it comes to climate change to. including teachers in england being equipped with body cameras much like the ones the police officers where find out more about the threats. the educators the. ball the world watches on as the corona virus outbreak spreads from china scientists say another novel virus has been discovered in brazil it's all online now without a 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 it's our next story when we come back. same wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days become active. and engaged because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know world's big partners movies 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 truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. to new hampshire in the united states the democrats are ready into vote for the presidential candidate they want to challenge donald trump round one in iowa saw bernie sanders run paid who to judge close but a technical meltdown with a voting app get the president ammunition to mark the confusion. you can vote for the weakest candidate if you were there were my only problem is i'm trying to figure out who is their weakest candidate i think they're all we want to they're

all fighting each other they're all going after each other you got of all over the place i don't know what the hell they're doing. however the democrats in new hampshire remain determined to back that party's hopefuls explaining they'd rather be hit by a meteorite than see trump secure a 2nd term in the white house. well ahead of tuesday's primary vote senator sanders leads the polls both locally and nationwide but media outlets and his colleagues have been singling him out for his socialist leanings with one of the u.s. news channel hosts likening his possible victory to a communist dictatorship. i remember the cold war i have an attitude towards castro i believe in castro and the rigs and won the cold war there were no executions in central park i don't know very very sports over these years i don't know what he means by so 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 political activist anthony rogers right says that the

sun this campaign defies democrat traditions. senator sanders it's not just his policies that have the democratic establishment afraid it's the human race that he's been able to build. for you know more than 4 years now from when he ran in 2016 and his campaign is always represented in insurgency to establishment democrats in 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 not worked and so they're panicking quite frankly because they know that nominee she doesn't just represent you know a new general credit party but it represents a mentality a living room with a doxie coming to us with. staying stateside and donald trump announced

a controversial budget plan that aims to both reduce the deficit while boosting funds from washington to count of. the working out a plan today that over a period will not have longer be able to. watch it 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 is what it looks like as a 750000000000 dollars increase for national defense that includes modernizing nuclear weapons there's also a sizable of countering so-called threats from russia and china included in that countering so-called russian propaganda that's going to whole separate going to itself and not budget plan however some key sectors such as health environment and science that are potentially facing some significant cuts american welfare programs will lose almost 300000000000 in funding according to trump's plan that extends to medicaid medicare and social security the focus right now suggests that there is a real chance that that budget could be approved we shout it out antiwar activist

brian back it was incumbent by trump's changes. 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 in the government is feeding the war drums against china over the coronavirus the us 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. some of the world headlines to update you on this 1st in afghanistan with has been

a deadly terror attack near the capital a suicide bomber targeted a defense ministry building in kabul the number of deaths has risen and we now know that 6 people were killed and several more injured witnesses also said gunshots were heard in the aftermath of the blast no group yet claimed responsibility for that attack. the philippines has announced it's ending 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 philippine senate romel de la rosa a u.s. visa it's expected to take around several months for the changes to come into effect of. the protesters have clashed with police in the lebanese capital beirut as demonstrators continue to vent their anger at most $700000000.00 in spending cuts officers used tear gas water cannon the some of those rallying threw rocks at the it's. ok that's it for me thanks for watching kevin i would say with your next

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all right. there are 3 record over our story. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss one and i'm branch a born washington coming up hundreds of chinese firms are seeking billions of dollars in loans in order to survive the impact of the coronavirus and an update on the death toll associated with the disease plus the u.s.

has charged for chinese military members with the massive equifax security breach that exposed information on $140000000.00 americans we have a live report and facebook is headed to court with the i.r.s. over a possible $9000000000.00 tax bill that hasn't been paid well explain what both sides are saying and why this case will have a huge impact on other tech companies so much to get to on this very busy day so let's get started and we begin with what has been the single deadliest day so far since the outbreak of the corona virus 97 people died on sunday making it the deadliest day yet for the virus outbreak it includes also the 1st american casualty a 60 year old man living in mainland china in all the death toll now stands at 908 people with over $40000.00 cases reported in china meanwhile the world health organization is warning that the spread of corona virus cases which had no history of travel to china could be the quote spark that becomes a bigger fire listen.