i'll leave you with news of a glitch in the matrix, the new documentary from director rodney asher whosehe shining. there are fundamental metaphors about reality waking up from a dream. we have this cognitive experience of shifting between realities. there's another world behind this world. ok, so, this is going to set the tender for everything. —— the tenor. investigating simulation theory and its relationship to the wachowskis matrix franchise, asher�*s latest asks whether we are all living in a computer—generated reality, with clips of writer philip k dick who asserted that reality was an illusion back in the �*70s, and elon musk, who argues that the speed of technological progress makes simulation theory much more than a fantasy. if you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. we also hear from professor nick bostrom, author of the 2003 essay are you living in a computer simulation? along with a collection of gamers and internet philosophers who appear as 3d fantasy avatars. for the most part, this is breezily conceptual fare —

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joining us now, scott irwin, chair of agriculture marketing at the university of illinois asher boehneranna -- at champagne herb and -- university of illinois at champaign-urbana. what is the number one because that these things are on the rise? >> china is the answer. they have already bought over 2 billion bushels of corn and soybeans for the upcoming year. there are other factors, but that's the key. >> if we see prices surge, where are we drawing it from? is there a key issue that we are going to see price increases here in the united states where we are going out and buying serial, for example? we speak about food prices on the rise. >> excellent question. sometimes there's a little confusion about terminology. we are talking about the price of basically raw materials that go into making things that you buy at the grocery store, except for milk, meat, and eggs, about 80% of the cost of the food items you buy at the grocery store are processing, transportation, marketing, and advertising, so you can increase the price on the 20% that the farm level value of the crop or commodity rep

what we discussed think the uptake of ashers and you can show with the director of health and the international federation of the red cross and red crescent. and they actually called that we have hundreds of thousands of those effective and safe vaccine lying go unused in the european countries when we have but many else workers in the developing countries that are not getting any vaccine these are not only unethically is extremely sad because every vaccine that is not injected in the arm of a person is a potential death due to. the 19 so we really need to accelerate the distribution of vaccines and to do that one of the critical point in europe has been information and mistrust in not only in europe we have a lot of vaccine is around the world and i think there is a lot of work to be done to make sure that people understand that getting a vaccine that has a 60 percent efficacy rate is a great deal everybody should be going for that vaccine as long as the vaccine is safe i think has been demonstrated that it will actually do so there's no reason why those people should be not taking a vaccine t

data journalist rob arthur and jeff asher report in the intercept that quote the change in murders was larger in towns with under 10000 people that was up 31 percent then in cities with over a 1000000 and the murders rose dramatically in big cities like new york and chicago but smaller cities like lubbock texas and shreveport louisiana also recorded their highest murder counts in decades. now of course the question is what what would cause this terrible rise in violence while some point to the strain of living under the pandemic or the rise of police violence and the national questioning of law enforcement legitimacy as factors others point to the massive surge in gun buying at the beginning of the year when the threat of lockdowns and pandemic was prevalent but thomas abbott director of the national commission on covert 19 and criminal justice bill he observes it lightly it likely takes more than one factor to create a spike of this size that means it wasn't just the pandemic or police violence or more guns it was all of these things happening simultaneously and perhaps more so what d

it again man despite asher's anika starting to liveries if it's 19 job it's not for everybody no way in denmark become the latest countries not to recommend it for people over 65. we have reviewed the documentation and until we have seen more data on efficacy monday elderly it is our recommendation that the vaccine for astra zeneca should 1st and foremost be efforts of people under 65 years of age without increased risk of serious illness from covered 19 well earlier france germany italy sweden and spain also advised against vaccinating the elderly with the astra zeneca jab they say there's not enough evidence it's safe for their age group research or we spoke to says that the company did test the vaccine on the elderly but on too few people to get concrete data i mean the concern comes from the fact that when the clinical trial was done there weren't very many people in the trial who were age 3065 there were some but not enough so really to get meaningful and wrote prostate so those regulators in those countries feel more studies need to be done there's no serious illness there's no

asher on the call question on demanding him to step down when the. pressure from the public will rice and we will eventually make question jaan resign we have an unprecedented situation in our country a government that has lost cannot continue to be the government they need to have the courage to think like statesmen enough like adventurous from the streets and to resign. at the time of the 28000 protests people were in a good state and now everyone is depressed everyone is shocked we've lost the war we've lost thousands of people we've lost territories our prisoners haven't returned so far they're still searching for thousands of people who have gone missing in such a climate it's very hard to do something for a healthy society let me remind you that the latest round of power struggle in armenia has started after a top army generals accuse nicole question out of being incompetent and called for his resignation he then accuse the army generals and the opposition of an attempted coup and things began to spiral out of control all in all it's currently

data journalist rob arthur and jeff asher report in the intercept that quote the change in. murders was larger in towns with under 10000 people that was up 31 percent then in cities with over a 1000000 and the murders rose dramatically in big cities like new york and chicago but smaller cities like lubbock texas and shreveport louisiana also recorded their highest murder counts in decades now of course the question is what what would cause this terrible rise in violence while some point to the strain of living under the pandemic or the rise of police violence and the national questioning of law enforcement legitimacy as factors others point to the massive surge in gun buying at the beginning of the year when the threat of lockdowns and pandemic was prevalent but thomas abbott director of the national commission on covert 19 and criminal justice bill he observes it lightly it likely takes more than one factor to create a spike of this size that means it wasn't just the pandemic or police violence or more guns it was all of these things happening simultaneously and perhaps mor

we had these asher scottish cows which were really great. i did that for ten years, milking twice a day what happens there is, as you get older the cows realize you're taking older, too, and they sort of take advantage of you. so i got out of that. what happened, one day -- harvard sends out to all its domestic alumni -- harvard magazine every two months or so. most people get it, look at a few articles and then go right to the obituary and see who is surviving in their class. i saw -- i guess he had been about two years ahead of us, had died. i started thinking about what happened to the 18 guys in my class and what they had done, who had been happy, who had been sad, et cetera. i had been in touch with two or three of them, buti didn't know what happened to the others. so we decided to do a documentary, a documentary as to what happened with these guys. >> that's where i came in. i didn't know kent when he sold the cows. i didn't get to do any milking. i, too, was newly retired from the state university of new york and wondering what i was

your career you thought awareness people that we know are going for it and essentially it didn't and ashercovered in poverty for so many years and those that lead the amazing efforts those that lobby for more than ten years and that is tempting. you have people who do loaves and fishes and and in nebraska so the question is twofold and then when you have done this for a while you feel like awareness is not always brought change and so if you have become embittered in this way? >> i don't know what else to do. >> bruce springsteen for everybody and wanted to go into the abandoned and well and then we had to sneak through the back way. and then walking around it was very old school because they were often there little corners. and then they talked about the despair and hopelessness. and where we do it bruce said use your pictures you write books and icing songs that's all i know how to do. and hope we can make change through that. and looking at john steinbeck and then to embrace the message and those that would be received the same way and i would be under the bridge of the people that i wr

we had these asher scottish cows which were really great and so i did that for 10 years milking twice a day. but what happens there? is that as you get older the cows realize you're getting older too and they sort of take advantage of you. so i got out of that and what happened one day harvard sends out to all its domestic alumni this thing. will harvard magazine every two months or so. and most people get it and they look at a few of the articles and then go right to the obituary to see who surviving in your class. so i did that one day and real and saw that a guy who i'd been in i guess he'd been about two years ahead of us had died and i started thinking about what happened to the 18 guys, you know in in my class and who had what they had done who had been happy who had been sad etc and i knew i'd been in touch with two or three of them, but i didn't know what happened to the others and so we decided to do a gene would do a documentary would be a good idea to documentary as to to what happened with these guys. that's where i came in. i didn't know kent when he sold the cows i didn'

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asher ja is joining us, the dean of the brown university skoofl public health. dr.ha, thank you so much for joining us. do you think this johnson & johnson vaccine will still play a key role in kangt the pandemic feen it's not necessarily quite as effective as the shots from pfizer and moderna? >> yeah, so wolf, thank you for having me on. the johnson & johnson vaccine is terrific. it's a very good vaccine. and on the issue of is it as effective as moderna and pfizer, the bottom line that we care most about is hospitalizations and deaths. and this vaccine is terrific. basically 100% at preventing hospitalizations and deaths. so i think it's going to end up playing a really big role in our effort to bring this pandemic under control. >> does it make any sense as some have suggested, dr. j ha, that we reserve the pfizer and moderna vaccines for the highest risk americans and offer the johnson & johnson shot to everyone else? >> well, there's a little bit of data, and we'll see what the fda's advisory committee says, that for people over 60 this vaccine seemed -- again

well where do you have companies such as asher seneca creating the vaccine that basically nonprofit level you know minimal just covering production costs sensually so it isn't actually that unrealistic particularly if we're looking at some countries having to continuously deal with these cycles of outbreaks until 2023 what we're going to create as a as a byproduct of this is more variance and yes right now the 3 dominant variants we think will will not cause vaccine resistance but that that picture could be different down the line years down the line if these barriers continue to exist again this is a specific problem the waiver would be temporary it wouldn't be out for future technologies etc so i think we just have to approach this completely differently than we would in any under normal circumstance as you say it's not going away anytime soon and these are conversations going to continue to have for some time to come thank you for your time oksana there the university college london to close such a program on outbreaks of fictious disease it's. still ahead here on al-jazeera mid-term e

dina asher—smith is in great form, as she continues her build—up to this year's big events.ashion retailer asos has confirmed its purchase of the topshop, topman and miss selfridge brands from the collapsed arcadia group. in a £295 million deal with administrators, asos is acquiring the stock and the brands —— but not their retail stores. let's talk to our business reporter vivienne nunis they won't buy the stores, that will put around 2,500 jobs at risk. around 300 back upjobs, such put around 2,500 jobs at risk. around 300 back up jobs, such as buyers and designers, they were be transferred, but for the thousands in retail outlets, the future looks uncertain. it is a lot of young people and women that take up those roles and those groups have been hit during the pandemic in terms ofjob losses. uncertainty also in terms of the pension fund. we understand there around a £350 million in the arcadia group pension fund. there is pressure on the former owner of the group, sir philip green to plug that hole. he is worth around £930 million. we will will have to wait and see. boo

dina asher—smith is in great form as she continues her build—up to this year's big events.. harlequins can't win at home — but their away record in rugby's premiership is stunning. they swept aside wasps 49—17, scoring six tries for yet another bonus—point victory on their travels. they haven't managed a win at home so far this season. england's paul casey said he had rediscovered his love for golf, after winning his first tour title in 1a months. look at that trophy! he finished four shots clear at the dubai desert classic — and that bodes well for his hopes of making europe's ryder cup team in september, which he's admitted is a priority. watch him struggle here! look, see, quite tricky. it's also quite heavy but he managed it in the end. he gets to take that home, it is in fact a coffee pot. finally, britain's tom pidcockjust missed out on a medal at the world cyclo—cross championships. but this was the challenge he faced on the flanders coast in belgium, where riders take on the sand, the mud and the hill climbs in one of the most physically demanding forms of cycling.