Most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable chocolate production. All of a sows are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Current fighters tune in no. Shit special how drones are helping humans during the krona virus pandemic and beyond. To cope with 900 pandemic has given drones the coast be on monday aerial vehicles are being used to disinfect streets remind people of lockdown measures and still of our food as well as other subsides. This is a. Clip from the irish startup mana the company was set to begin testing its food delivery by Drone Service in march. But then came the coronavirus pandemic now modifying its drones to a small town called money gall instead were delivering critical Food Supplies pharmacy products to the habitants at the trial and a cooling during the kind. Youve been its of drones that they can deliver goods to lockdown areas without individual people having to come into contact. 70 year old fidel like lease an order of bread and milk or medications also being delivered directly toward doorstep absolutely fantastic and its that is different because ive never seen a good day at best what happened here what you have to care and time to connect is. A single drone can make up to 100. 00 deliveries per day manas founder bobby healy says that if the government wants the start of could be delivering to 600. 00 smaller towns across ireland by the end of the year. Whats more he says monitoring the autonomy of drones could be a job for Airline Pilots currently out of work because of the chronic crisis. In supper yacht she like its Municipal Workers who are operating drones the beach town began using drones for ocean rescues to monitor forest and brush fires. Now drones are also supplying elderly people in remote areas with medications disinfectant and facemasks the nearest pharmacy is about 2 hours away on foot. This resident says its necessary for them to come to us where we live is remote but the distance doesnt count only the goodwill of the people. These examples show how creative individuals worldwide are using the technology to help overcome covert 1900 channel and use. Several african countries not qualify. Experts to help overcome those allowing unicef out at the african. To me are Young Africans can learn to build and operate drugs. Deborah is getting a flying lesson. Shes one of the 1st students at africas 1st drawn academy. Deborah plans to use what shes learned during the program to help her native country malawi. Theres so many things that i learned from here we had to do we had the designing of the jones depending on the payload. Of trees and its hard to reach. Being able to fly drones accurately its important and hard to reach areas so from commuters to 5 meters over 10 meter range. The curriculum demands a lot from the 26 students currently enrolled around half are female most and all are from africa this was one of unicefs conditions for financially supporting the academy. Africa many times has been far behind in technology and we think drones are the future we want them to start their own businesses join current businesses is really building up the john industry and being more than just pilots. To this is deborah and her fellow students learn to construct and pilot drawings integrate them into supply chain systems and analyze drawn data. I really feel great in the face being. Basically as a woman and of as youre presenting. This lamas not far from the academy. Deborah comes from humble background herself if the Drone Program werent free of charge she wouldnt be able to afford it. We are finding this drill is useful to. Be disease outbreaks at some point and. Challenges season by season different of them. Also because of these different Seasonal Agricultural challenges malawi hopes drones can help protect Small Farmers like david george. The country who spearheaded using drones and data in 2017 it opened the worlds 1st drone testing corridor. Here Companies Like martin carrolls employer can test their drone solutions. Smartness testing how to supply remote villages with medicines and surveying the region to identify areas at risk of flooding. Its a hard situation because its a lot of families have a lot of history in the areas that theyve grown up and i dont want to move our goal is to be able to provide the evidence showing that you know this is prone to flooding and this is where it could happen whereas if we move to this area it could be less and less prone to flooding. So far drug Companies Like arrow cant find enough qualified personnel in africa the academy is supposed to change that you see. Today is a special day for debra her presentation on digital maps as part of her final exam if everything works out shell soon be a qualified drone pilot and technician. Deborah wants to specialize in Land Surveying in order to help alleviate hunger and starvation in malawi she knows what it means to be poor and her own family never had much. Her uncle currently lives in a slum. Hes proud of his niece and she visits him often. I didnt the number of students in malawi interest the very start is she is the future and the shes the 1st group that has shown interest in drawing to go so i can see the future from aloud from. The Drone Industry looks set to grow rapidly and deborah hopes to be a part of it she wants to found her own company that works with drones focused on helping those in need in malawi and beyond. More than 10 years. Has been working on a pole to. Help save people buried in rubble earthquakes often cost many human lives. In the summer of 2016 these images from central italy shocked the world the earthquake with a magnitude of 6. 2 very hundreds of people and destroyed entire villages. Knows the pictures all too well he grew up in a region often affected by earthquakes. This events are actually shocking fortunately i was never actually affected personally it was not in the middle of these austere bought of course these things that you personally and i always wanted to be able to actually help other people who might acknowledge what. The scientists dream is to develop a truly autonomy micro drone to be used in search and rescue scenarios. And yet the professor from robotics and his team have been working on this project for more than 10 years old so the idea that we should be something there when youve got that disaster there firefighters at the scene of the action i drive today plays off the disaster and it will find it finds its way through the building. Find also its way you know the free space within that building you can also mop the environment localize where the victims are drawing and then find its way out from the building. The design is already largely completed the small drone has been equipped with cameras that it uses to scan the surroundings and onboard computer analyzes the captured images and extracts prominent reference points to create a detailed 3 d. Map. This allows it to locate potential survivors of course the drone also needs to reach them and that presented a problem. Earthquakes can reduce everything to rubble in order to reach people trapped within a drone would have to be able to get through narrow passages and type tunnels. The solution a drone that can adapt to its surroundings by folding and reshaping itself. For independently rotating propellers are attached to mobile arms thanks to servo motors these can swivel around the main body allowing the drone to fold into an ocean to pass through holes. To inspect an object from up close you can turn into a t. Shape. And it can reposition its arms to fit through narrow passages. And. The drone flies autonomy sleep using a special software that registers points on structures and follows them off life. This enables the drone to constantly calculate its own exact location and speed. A Training Ground close to. This is where we dog the Swiss Society for rescue dogs trains for emergency situations. When looking for berry person or after an earthquake nothing beats a dogs nose but there are limits if a building is at risk of collapsing the mission is too dangerous for humans and animals re dog thinks these are situations where a drone could be useful. Although the drone is foldable which is great because it can enter buildings through tiny openings and thats really important as pathways can be very small. Autonomys flying is another great feature as cable is communications and connections often get interrupted in the rubble. We dont use his telescope cameras to look inside buildings. But these can only extend some 5 meters after that theres no way forward. I think drones would be great as one of several tools for instance if i use the camera and realize that theres a large hollow space in that i cant go further but i need to know the madrone is a great addition. Another helpful feature would be a microphone with intercom peters that way i could communicate with somebody very far away inside a building that would also be really important. Takes these needs to heart at the moment however hes primarily working on battery life and the drone speed. Bit by that ive always been on is usually between 20 and 30 minutes that means if you want to be able to fly fast fast. There are many obstacles but for example you need to be able to proceed and to make the reasoning process think so at the moment of working on these 2 big problems. The robotics professor will continue researching and in a couple of years his dream of the perfect rescue drone may well be a reality. Into the conflict zone in terms of security. Even before the coronavirus pandemic lebanons economy was plummeting through the floor joining me from beirut this week is the countrys foreign minister lawsuit it seems. To go shades of green for systems what guarantees believe you could use government do any better than the previous ones. On. The plane and couvade 19 the passion play an obama girl. Told the story of christ suffering for almost 400 years. The 1st staging was intended to stop the play and other performances followed every 10 years but the pandemic has put this years event on ice. And 30 minutes on d w. In the height of climate change. Africas. Whats in store for. Years to come for the future. E. W. Dot com forget megacities the culture in such clear picture. Our plan is clear is to fight corruption when one of the people of lebanon going to get back i know we are very much we are very much aware and committed to that you have never letting me finish the answer as well or whether you like it or just like their presence and not a component of it by society even before the coronavirus pandemic lebanons economy was plummeting through the floor decades of catastrophic mismanagement and rampant corruption pushed almost