Refusing to adopt anything out of the ordinary now the extraordinary has happened a microscopic bug has brought the Global Economy to its knees and forced change whether we like it or not is remote the new real when it comes to your personal life that 1st date can be so quit surely the digital version will take the pressure out of it out of being there in person you can control the situation much better fix the lighting to suit your needs even have a few lines written down in front of you although i wouldnt recommend that you can get a good look at the other person before feeling forced into committing to anything the catch is that the other person can just as well brutally hang up without the uneasiness of getting up and walking away but there are other pros and cons of course. It was advantage of dating app says you know the person on your screen is single and looking for someone you dont have that in real life. Get no good Online Dating is becoming completely normal in recent years absolute normandie to you both. On the course its very superficial and ive been. Doing all the small talk is well intentioned its a way of finding Common Ground but it doesnt help against loneliness john burns the single and started using a dating app jamming the pandemic. I dont think id use tinder so much if it werent for our current circumstances or send them. After a while you lose interest with you dont want this endless visual input anymore. You want to be able to interact and you cant do that so quickly with a nap. Id always prefer a real meeting. That can land of the free alec and let me know but it wasnt. Until you do its usually the man who restaurant 1st. Its good if you can think of something witty or humorous way to say hello something cool if you fancy you have to set yourself apart from the others theres always a competitive element and. The companies behind dating apps such as joyride gemini up and. We have 7 dating apps the main one is joy right joy right. Theyve been downloaded more than 100000000 times and between 6080000 new users register every day well talk on the quizzes d. V. D. Volume is definitely an important factor that holds for all social. Media all social apps and money. If you dont have enough members or enough new members there might not be anyone to write to nobody suitable of the right age or nearby you need that critical mass. That was and. Match group is the Global Market leader with a whole range of dating apps and revenues have close to 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 over the past 12 months. The c. E. O. Has seen the stock price more than double over the same period. We are getting at and ive never spent any money on dating apps. So but in general i dont pay for apps its not a great loss in effect and. I dont really believe theyd make a difference. For a while i added a new function to my account which let me find people again that i had swiped away perhaps more quickly than i should have. Didnt help i tried it out but found i didnt really need it but still it was worth a try. If things go well did you tell preliminaries lead to real life any topics which calls for a bit of creativity in times of social distancing. We know see the trend that people are maintaining fewer but more intensive contacts. Used to be the case with dating apps that in order to score data people would keep a lot of potential candidates on the backburner. During a Strict Lockdown the only real option is to meet outdoors wearing a mask and keeping your distance and perhaps have a Takeaway Coffee or mulled wine and chat. Yeah there is the only real option but on the whole it works pretty well. Also youre standing there on the street hi. How are you. Its weird and it doesnt feel quite right thats what that means its not authentic. Think many people probably feel that way right now. As long as the pandemic drags on people might well keep turning to dating apps but them will use a swing back to meeting in the flash back to a more analogue getting to know you way of life. Were not expecting any slump in business peoples dating behavior is changed. Very popular before the pandemic. So i think theyre here to stay and will continue to develop. A colleague turned around at work the other day in the kitchen and said. I took a step back thinking she was going to hug me of course she didnt she was just excited to see someone in person again after talking to such a little face in a box on the screen for weeks on end i was quite fine with it im not a fan of squeezing into a tiny room with sweaty work mates for me but staring into a computer for hours and hours can be draining there are some ways of making it fun although it has taken a long time for the technology to catch on as much of a common reports. And you can hear me sorry i was on mute is that better now how is that is that you said ok yeah this is our life now but at least as everyones video calling people spent less time doing this. And. So i was wondering could this actually help slow Climate Change can we do more than just remote meetings. And what is the video call of the future. Here in space. Lets check it out. Its always good to point. Talking to face while being in completely different places. Has actually been floating around for quite a while. And im not just talking about psycho films and pop culture from the last century. Im talking about the 1900. The 1st commercial video telephone came around way sooner than i would have expected the picture for it was supposed to reduce for most business meetings but adjusted for inflation it cost up to around 1000. 00 per month for the b. Only got 30 minutes of call time when you called it was super expensive back then the gadgets were pretty clunky and no one really had one anyway so if you want to call it. Into the internet it turned video calling into a mass market. With kept increasing and Companies Like sky brought the technology to millions of people and then well 4 of ours pandemic flu virus that got all know by this crisis people all over the world are working from home. The grown a pandemic was a watershed moment for video calling because if we begin to think how much time ive spent in this box since the pandemic started along with lots and lots of other people. Download figures for video calling apps went through the roof jumped from around 30000000 in 2019 to almost 500000000 2020 and its competitors also saw that number surge. And while video calling really started taking off airlines. Has left the industry really really fragile in really really struggling moment this is Richard Masur hes an analyst for cap an Aviation Research firm. I dont think any Airline Executive any one of the a geisha really realized how big an impact provirus would actually have on the industry over the last year the Airline Industry had grown tremendously in. And then it crashed pardon the pun its very unlikely things will just go back to normal especially of business travelers start flying again theyre the ones who usually drive revenues by buying last minute tickets and paying for premium seats the pandemic should as we can meet colleagues and Business Partners anywhere without actually leaving our homes and sure thats bad news for airlines but its good news for the climate video communication or telepresence whatever you want to call it. Has an enormous potential role in reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions this is Information Technology and. I suddenly realized that video could reduce the tension humor the transport for commuting to office is all maybe having consultation or business meetings and i made a list of all the occupations in the world. And i reckon about half of them could be done by video when you remove half of human journeys to remove half of the emissions from essentially passenger. Rail transport and of course air transport. Passenger travel makes up around 13 percent of all human emissions so were calling to pause estimates by replacing travelled with video we could slice this figure in half but then of course the video calling also uses energy and creating that energy creates a missions yes there are growing emissions from Information Technology and we need to Pay Attention to those but they are absolutely tiny in comparison to the enormous emissions from transit if i was to have a physical meeting with you now your job and. Then again the physical emissions from us meeting would be much much much more than 99 percent higher than than the very i mean 6 paul and i talked for about 45 minutes i get my internet via copper cable which according to a recent study means that Data Processing and transmission created about 3 grams of c o 2 on a return flight from berlin to london i would have cost 287 grams so 187000 grams of emissions but what will happen after the pandemic where we just start driving to work and flying again like before or will we actually keep meeting on line so i think moving forward we will see some substitution so maybe he will have less business trips but they will be Better Business trips theyre in a lot more but they will be a lot less in number it feels to me like the turning of the tide i think weve reached peak transport i think were the last generation to do this you dick us about to transport particularly commuting there doesnt seem to be any reason for us to do all this travel but you know im just tired of talking to people through. This is green ok its just not the same as meeting in real life. In fact video calls are really quite exhausting for us our brains miss the cues they get from body language they feel overwhelmed by all the faces staring at us and cant really deal with flags and sound and video but people are already working on improving on line meetings so im about to meet the founder of meet but lots and boring 2 dimensional video called bots in Virtual Reality lets see how that goes. That is my virtual meet and avatar the Company Created from a photo. Good to see you here welcome to me via our cell this is our Interview Room we have coffee we have coffee which is warm all the time so if you are you basically have you know you dont have the limitations of reality so we are looking at every single interaction which you have normally in meetings and trying to make them even more intuitive and more efficient and effective than in real life and we can do this because if you are you can actually have superpowers for example theres always a pen behind you here but you havent been in the real world and just try to get a pen from behind you know Something Like i did move to both times they actually yes its so weird when it happens they go on to make a quick sketch and then always im not in meetings. So thats when i feel like maybe ations one more time in the real world as well. Chris predicts our lives who move into Virtual Reality more and more in the next few years. Some corporations from the us already using median v. O. R. To let the employees collaborate to kind clapboard brainstorm. But its also companies who want to use media the are to present their products better for their customers and offered the more memorable and more engaging experience basically every time you know somebody tries an experience like this. Its. A martial connection. Which youre building with the other participants and the experience itself is much stronger than anything you will be able to achieve through a video. And i must say thats true at least for me. I mean im aware the whole time that this is just an illusion but i feel like im bonding with chris by the way this is what he looks like in real life. In the future we will actually be able to have our facial expressions. As well and we will in a way be represented like holograms. So you will be able to have an exact replica of yourself in a Virtual Reality just like youre doing and in addition to that have all the body language and the feeling of presence so thats extremely exciting to look into. Things work. Well so crazy to does wake up just a few seconds ago it was a. Massive auditorium. Yeah. Science fiction of just a few decades ago is quickly becoming reality grams that can transmit a live copy of you are already a thing and they are telepresence robots ok some might say theyre just tablets on wheels but they allow people to actually move around and take up physical space somewhere else. And yes even surgeries already being done remotely and so this is specially you really want to make sure your Internet Connection a stable we need to build the foundation we need to get fiber optic cable into every hole in the world as quickly as possible because building ever more roads and ever more ever more airports these not sustainable solution to increasing our communications we must. Transports our. Souls our presence and not ourselves. But whats so wrong about transporting ourselves if its done the way captain kirk would have done it beat me up scotty was the famous line from star trek you dont need gasoline for that trip i guess but not all ideas from Science Fiction shows managed to become reality although my colleague reckons you shouldnt bet on that. A long time ago when space ships were made of paper plastic. And it snowed pounded alimentary em jaring the dean materialization process people and things were magically beamed about in star trek films. How nice would it be if we could be in ourselves around the globe teleportation instead of planes and c o 2 emissions think about how beneficial it would be for the climate alone in todays physics in fact teleportation is no longer Science Fiction. Im always surprised about all the weird things that happen for the. My heart is a quantum physicist at the Austrian Academy of sciences his excursions into space travel and just a hobby what he explores the weird and Wonderful World of teleportation of quantum teleportation to be precise as having watched our trek for instance people imagine that you somehow beam matter or even energy because thats how its done on the show that people disappear in the transporter and then reappear on an alien planet when. The similarity is that the system rebuilds the object identically in another place. Whats more at the exact same time or instantaneously regardless of the distance involved thats how the quantum world works via Quantum Entanglement einstein thought it was pretty spooky transferring information faster than the speed of light so does this mean travelling not only with 0 emissions but also with 0 delay. Because what happens with quantum teleportation is that really just the quantum information in this system is transferred to another place onto another identical system. With the matter itself atoms or photons or whatever its made of does not get transferred so it doesnt disappear. But what does disappears the information it gets destroyed. So if 2 quanta are connected this way they can Exchange Information without a moments delay but not the matter it really is just the information. Ok couldnt i just split myself into quanta and send their information to another and Quantum Cloud i mean then it would just need to be reassembled correctly right. Lets just say that right now we dont know of anything that would fundamentally speak against it but it would have to work in a completely different way. Well need completely different set ups than what were creating now. If i could build a device that could do this and youd ask me whether i would put myself inside it id say no. So mr spock would probably have to get beamed in a glittery shower of aluminum grey like in the old days. And dont forget the enterprise at least spread through the universe powered by an anti matter and Hydrogen Engine with not even a whiff of emissions. By the way a piece of trivia for you the words you me up scotty whenever said precisely in better form of the static serious maybe other work with the me apart. Ok thats totally new to me but i just googled it and shes right you learn something new every day now to a real work in progress my colleague all of you go whos been locked away in his home office for a little too long i believe someones really got to go around to check out how paul of coming along i think is starting to talk to him self sign of madness but all of these virtual changes and be overwhelming you know its been very right there another day of online chatting. Shit. And whose own lines just me and some important people im so important ok here we go again. Hi its me nice to see you guys. Who. Do this you dont look so great youre relieved you need to go outside and get some fresh air bri you can sit in front of you computer forever and you need to relax and recent take a break from all this stress that was obviously unique you move about and break free take a swing. What are you talking about i take a swing in cincy ive been 30 here since march thats a lot of months now i have my next child and then another one and another and i mustnt forget. To do so break free a bit. Just a moment ill be right there or i dont and. Yeah. Oh my god it happened you have to take the stairs thats important thats really helpful especially for people like you who are glued to their computers all day you need to take the stairs and move your hips a bit intense at last and not in a concert another conference another chat more new software more wept rafiq traffic kinds of i can do 20 chats 50 chats 100 chats come on guys lets make it a 1000000 and the me you want. I dont know hey. Thats half t. Thats it that will relax you. To boston that you needed tiebreak. Play. Deploy you get dehydrated as an issue what mr know it all doesnt realize is that ive already got myself very comfortable. Here there. Everywhere. Its often a shock when youre so focused on your work and someone real suddenly now its at the door in my case its usually the postman asking if all except a package for a neighbor its always smack bang in the middle of his or meeting our brave new world from the team and me here in berlin thanks for joining us for another episode of make you next up. To. Different on the islands of Guinea Bissau no you hear women are in charge. Of the archipelago has had a matriarchal system for centuries. Do women differently. The focus of the wrangle starts marching on d w. The fight against the coronavirus pandemic. How has the rate of infection been developing. What measures are being taken. What does the latest research say that. Information and context. The coronavirus updated the code of special monday to friday on d w. Its about billions. Its about power. Its about the foundation of the new world order the new silk road. China wants to expand its influence with this trade network and so in europe conflicts are inevitable the consequences unpredictable that can is book of the shaking of the Chinese State has a lot of money at his disposal to get closer and thats how its expanding that and asserting its status and position in the world he says difficult because Movement China is promising its partners rich profits but in europe theres a sharp warning you can never accept money from the new super power will become dependent on. Chinas gateway to europe. Starts feb 19th on d w. Last confident will be together. Shoulder to shoulder we are together screen let me all you guys because i because i might. Join me and the world. With me and show you can be stupid. Because i think our planet is what doing those for the 27th of march at 6 30 pm for those who speak up for. School and take dozens of children. The 2nd. In the past 3 months also on the program. Considers its future. To Virtual Summer to decide whether to continue the 5. Trips. Violence increases also. The daughter of 2 fires ruler says shes being held hostage Video Evidence emerges of princess of the teachers alleged imprisonment. Im phil welcome to the program. Nigerias government has launched a rescue operation after gunmen kidnap dozens of students and teachers from schools staff say one student was shot dead they also say the students from a Government Science College in kent garra in ny just state but taken by large numbers of men dressed in military uniforms a few did manage to escape the abduction followers other recent kidnappings blamed on violent gangs. D. W. Corresponded to the way so interest joins us from the nigerian capital abuja welcome what else is known about this abduction. This tuitions now is that the Nigerian Government has sent military personnel and i guess to return agencies who have gone to the crucial to try and track these kidnappers and see how do you would be able to rescue bill schoolchildren pock i wouldnt you know unite them with deaf i mean with up to now there is no any new information of what. We had been taking to them and what is happening today. So we dont know who has taken them do we know why they have been taken. It does not clear out why had been disobey beside what is known to people kidnapping for ransom but gradually lead to oppression is change in the left has to be deal which they issued after a kidnapping dissin my job is like this time no. Should if you do i shall eat which is new a blood test im asking them to tell the government to come out rescue them with the 500000000 and theyre not taking a school and hes also more on this december trying to send fiesta people or to a bun done with it be kishan which has more or less gradually been i chiefly because this is not the fuss but the 2nd and he said that time had a tough time and used to going on so what is the government doing about this. Is do you truly condemnation which depresses then house them i shout nigeria as he is ready to. Say if this tent gov will just finish Security Council meeting saying that they would do what if i be proved to get these children bought what to what not in nigeria see how many has turned out asking and most satisfied with what is. On so far the kind of frustration from the parents especially girls to them had been taken because the company and they just had house with it closed down on board this cruise in full governments and that if you remember because of couldnt they didnt just open one quite long in nigeria did lots so much time ok thank you for that i d w correspondent away so interest in. The demonstrations in may have been the largest numbers yet to demand an end to military rule opponents of the february 1st a coup doubt the military will keep its promise to hold elections and hand back power deposed leader i was on cinci remains in jail facing trivial criminal charges hundreds of thousands joined dramas in cities across the country despite fears of a violent crackdown. A battle cry for democracy chants of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of young gone stepping up their open revolt against a military takeover car she says road blocks to keep Security Forces from moving around the commercial capital. In this cat and mouse game it appears to for now its the mice who have the upper hand internet shutdowns another attempt to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even the judges assurances of free and Fair Elections have been met with deep skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against sons who cheat. I know but the young people of this generation dont have to believe in the militarys promises they lied before and they hold an election back in 1988 so weve already learned our lesson from the peach of history 8. Theres growing concern that myanmars bloody history could be about to repeat itself the u. N. Says its received reports of soldiers being ready for crackdown in young dawn sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of whats to come. But i do know but is this activist told the daily news theyre not backing down no im not afraid im not afraid we beings that we have been under the need to really control for years so this is that we have to finish this guy we this we when i watch you were people crazy when you all got one very early and. Asked the world watches with bated breath for many here me and more theres only one way out of this. For with their fists high even if no one knows where the world will beat them. And the judge in india has cleared journalists appear a mommy of criminal defamation after she accused a politician of Sexual Harassment in 2017 was ramani wrote an article as part of a Global Response to the need to movement and the queues form a newspaper that is a turn. Of workplace harassment claims were followed by similar allegations from more than 20 other women is to bob resign from his post as judea foreign minister home village to criminal Defamation Case against the 3 months and she hopes the country would empower other women to speak out he she is following todays acquittal. These its not about me it was about. Me and part of that i mean. This is what all this is for all of them. Fear of money but for some of the stories making headlines around the world will start in russia which has rejected the European Court of human rights cold to release jailed opposition figures alexei in the valley europes Top Human Rights Court said keeping most in the valley in prison is a breach of the European Human Rights Convention Hong Kong Media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested again even though hes already in jail hes suspected of assisting a fugitive who fled china and was captured at sea its a lie is due to face a bail hearing on thursday charged with violating chinas new security low following his involvement in hong kongs prodemocracy street protests. Prince philip the husband of Britains Queen elizabeth is in hospital and promised sources say he does not have coped with 90 movie described as a precautionary measure Prince Philip is 99 years old. Nato defense ministers have begun a 2 day Virtual Summit to consider the alliance the future afghanistan its the 1st such gathering since the us election meaning the name deadline for troop withdrawal set by the Trump White House is now in doubt the ministers will discuss whether the alliance should continue the fight against the taliban or withdraw its troops and even as the taliban increases its attacks against Afghan Police and civilians will report produced by the w. s Brussels Bureau chief xandra from naaman who joins us now welcome alexandra so given the intensified fighting from the taliban and the new administration the pragmatic view seems to be the time is not yet rights to withdraw or so is anyone likely to argue for a nato drawdown. I dont think so it really seems that there is a common understanding that its not the right time to pull out the German Defense minister said before the meeting started to she didnt think that there was enough progress and talks between the taliban and the government in kabul and nato officials also warn that a hasty withdrawal from afghanistan could put nato forces on the ground at risk however its also true that after 20 years of military presence in afghanistan allies are growing tired of fighting without and and this applies of course to the you asked and now everyone is waiting for the Joe Biden Administration to conclude its policy review because the u. S. Still major Decision Maker here and all the new administration this is their 1st nato meeting so beyond tone what differences in policy and practice can we expect from joe biden. I think its clear that the new administration wants to use this meeting to draw a line on the trans presidency to to show their commitment to their partners in his opinion piece in the washington post. The secretary of defense austin said that the u. S. Was going to lead to again that they were good teammates that they wanted to consult together and to decide together and to act together and this is i think not only a change of tone but also a change in substance and this is of course something that allies are happy to hear although we also have to say that its certain that differences are going to remain for example of of the issue of burden sharing yes lets talk about donald trump repeatedly faulted nato states especially germany failing to meet military spending but pledges will by the Administration Keep up about pressure yes i think so that we can i think that we can expect that Joe Biden Administration to keep pressing q. Or p. And l. Is to spend more on defense and its quite interesting that apparently there are ready to make a new proposal on that secretary generals told told us a few days ago that he would like to ask to jointly fund more of nato work for example right now when the country is sending troops to one of nato its battle groups at the border to russia it has to pay for everything and stoltenberg would like a nato allies to share those costs so this is an interesting proposal its going to be discussed today tell you that i was under from norman in brussels. Great britain our United Nations are calling for evidence of a missing dubai princess is alive concerns for shake a latina for the daughter of the leader of the United Arab Emirates is growing after her friends shared secret video recordings in which she claims shes being held hostage in a barricaded villa a troubling new video has emerged from dubai this land of oil wealth. And im a hostage and this village has been converted into a jail by the windows are barred shut they cant open any window open by myself solitary confinement. No access to medical help every day i am worried about my safety man. Dont you know something similar situation. Princess is one of the daughters of dubais billionaire ruler Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum its believed he has dozens of children from several wives princess lety for has already made 2 unsuccessful attempts to flee her fathers family last year the high court in london heard testimony from princess hire the rulers former wife the judge concluded that the billionaire ruler of dubai was responsible for the abduction and forced return of 2 of his daughters. These videos were recorded on a phone that he felt was secretly given about a year after her capture and return to dubai now shes disappeared a u. N. Investigation is underway so what needs to happen is that the u. N. Needs to have a very serious meeting directly with those who are holding princes their children at the highest level and make sure that an agreement is reached so that she can be released their rights can be restored lucky far. Has wanted to be free all her life and im not satisfied until those it out 6 travelled to a country of choice and. And and get the freedom that shes always wanted. Some are calling for World Leaders and dignitaries to reconsider their relationship with the u. A. E. And its ruling family this is a country that is the work of the literally mean people will be on those beaches in the by a few 100 meters away from where the paper is is essentially in solitary confinement hostage. It can only be hoped that International Pressure will not come too late for the missing princess and such are up to date are more here at the top of the hour Craig Ferguson will be with you in just a moment with a double dose of Business Update in the meantime of course as always the web site today w dot com of the day. That 77 percent. Are younger than 60. Thats me and me