Hello and welcome to today's episode of the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Thai Code rules demands for reforms as attempts to overthrow monarchy. Tunisian Union calls strike to protest death of land-filled protesters. Waste collection workers in Sheffield strike for better pay. And rights groups urge Egypt to halt Raba protest death penalties. In our first story, Thailand's constitutional code has passed a sweeping order declaring pro-democracy protest and calls for reform as an attempt to overthrow the monarchy. The order was passed on November 10 as part of a trial of three youth activists charged with treason. The treason charges against Anon Nampa, Panopok, Mike Jatnok and Panusaya Rang, Siti Jeera Vatanakul were related to a demonstration at the Thammasat University on August 10, 2020. Activists had called for reforms in the monarchy and the government. The Code observed that the statements made by the three activists and other activities at the event had hidden intentions of overthrowing the monarchy and the government. The three activists were charged based on a complaint filed by a former advisor to the ombudsman and a vocal supporter of Prime Minister Prayil Chanacha. He was also involved in a previous petition against the erstwhile opposition group Future Forward Party, accusing them of sedition. The constitutional code acquitted the Future Forward Party in January last year. However, it then forcibly dissolved the party on charges relating to campaign funding weeks later. The Code also has a history of dissolving democratically elected governments and political parties that challenge the military's control over the government. In Wednesday's ruling, the Code ordered the three activists and other organizations and networks to stop activities to overthrow the regime. With no clarity on the organizations and the networks named, the ruling is expected to become another tool for the government to crack down on the protests. In our next story, a general strike was called in the Safarq region of Tunisia on November 10. It was organized by the General Trade Union or UGTT following the death of a protester in Agarrib. The town has witnessed protests against a growing waste crisis over the past few weeks. The Safarq region's main garbage dump is located in Agarrib and was shut down due to public pressure in September. Since then, city councils have refused to collect garbage, citing a lack of proper alternatives by the government. Household waste had started to pile up in the streets and even hospitals in Safarq. Tunisia produces around 2.5 million tonnes of garbage every year, most of which is put in landfills. The people in Safarq have warned of an environmental catastrophe due to the waste in the area. Thousands of people held protests last week stating that the government was killing them and violating their rights. On November 8, the environmental ministry reopened the Kenna landfill in Agarrib in violation of a judicial order. Hundreds of people began protesting as waste was carried into the landfill. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds. A medic and a relative confirmed on Tuesday that 35-year-old Abdel Rasag al-Achehab had died due to tear gas inhalation. A hospital official stated that he had been brought in while suffering from asphyxia. UGTT declared a general strike and a day of mourning to protest what it called the intentional murder of a young man. It also called for permanent closure of the landfill and compensation for all its workers. Next, we go to the United Kingdom where waste collection workers in the city of Sheffield have been striking for higher pay. Organised by the GMB Union, workers have organised four-hour walkouts every Monday. GMB has been negotiating with the Veolia Waste Management Company. Its latest proposal included a 3% per-year wage increase over a two-year contract. However, workers argued that the increase was below the current 5% rate of inflation and would actually amount to a pay cut. Workers have also accused Veolia of spending huge sums of money to hire out-of-town staff to break the strike. They have also raised concerns about changes to the terms and conditions of their contract. Over 100 striking workers held a protest outside Sheffield Town Hall on Monday. An all-out permanent strike has been scheduled for November 22 unless Veolia presents a better pay offer. Meanwhile, workers in Glasgow, Scotland have also been striking for better working conditions and paid to address the cost of living crisis. The walkouts in Sheffield and Glasgow followed a two-week-long strike by waste collection lorry drivers in Brighton. Over 50 city-cleaned refuse and recycling drivers organised by the GMB Union walked out on October 5. The main issues raised were related to last-minute changes to driver routes and pay. The strike ended after GMB reached a deal with the local council. This included pay rises not only for truck drivers but also for 1,000 lowest-paid council workers. In our final stories, rights groups have renewed calls for the Egyptian government to halt death penalties against 26 men. There are among 739 people on mass trial for their participation in the sit-in at the Rabah al-Adaviya Square in 2013. The protest was held against a military who led by incumbent President Abdel Fateh al-Sisi against a democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi. The sit-in was organised by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. Egyptian forces proceeded to kill around 800 protesters. In 2018, a lower court handed death penalties to 75 people arrested during the protest. Another 47 were given life sentences. Most of the people sentenced to death belong to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was labelled a terrorist organisation by the coup regime. While some appeals are pending in the Court of Cassation, it upheld the death penalties of 26 men in June. With these people now at immediate risk of execution, the African Commission on Human and People's Rights has asked Sisi to halt the order. As reported by Middle East Eye, the Commission is investigating a complaint by former members of the Freedom and Justice Party. The complaint argues that Egypt violated several articles of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. The Commission sent its letter on November 3rd and Egypt has 15 days to respond. There are currently over 60,000 political prisoners being held in Egyptian jails. The country has also witnessed a steady rise in executions under Sisi. And that's all for today. For more such stories, visit our website at www.peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


This is Benjamin Davis with Cointelegraph TV, so actually could you introduce yourself for our fans, please? I'm Dmitri and I'm a founder of Dbrain. It's like first human in the loop platform that works on blockchain for creating any artificial intelligence-based solution. And so when and how did you get started in this field and how have you kind of gone from where you began to where you are now? Yeah, actually it's a long story. For the past 10 years I've worked in artificial intelligence field and I sold my previous company a year ago and gathered a small team of computer vision experts and then they start to play these recent papers and try to apply to real-life business problems. So we built a number of these cases, like the craziest of them. We had like the biggest factory that produced meat and we have cameras track every action of any human in the field. So for example we can track whether you washed your hands properly before going to clean room. Yeah, we also do like quality control for pizza, like cancer detection, automatic retouch of any photo. So and what we saw that in every AI solution 80% of problem is data. So now we are focused on building this like platform for people, for millions of people across the globe so they can work from India, Nigeria, Indonesia, generating data, cleaning data, cross-validating data for our platform. So in every use case it's like 80 or 90% of value creation. So I know that a lot of times especially being here I've noticed that people talk about how the public, there's a lot of misconceptions about AI, the way that people see AI and what they know about it and I know some people like to talk about machine learning and could you sort of clarify, you know, basically the power of it and what it is? It's really a good question, yeah. You know, like not everybody understands that current state of AI it's not some like super intelligence, it's just like simple pattern recognizer. Very stupid, you have some input and have output. So you just train for any use case those simple pattern recognizers and you just need a lot of data. People think that AI is about computation power or maybe algorithms but there are no such a problem in the market, it's like commodity already, like steel to build high quality AI, you just need a lot of data that generated by humans to earn like small money for that. Yeah, so AI is not about high-paid engineers but it's more like about millions of people working on data generation, yeah. Maybe to give people a better idea of how AI is impacting their lives, what are some things in the world right now that actually incorporate AI and so that people can see like, oh, this is actually kind of, I'm interacting with AI already. Yeah, actually we focused on B2B use cases because whenever you have like 1% increase in efficiency in B2B you earn like millions of dollars but to get some understanding I can come with some B2C examples. For example, in a new iPhone X you have this face recognition. So this is like really cool example of AI. So there's no need for any like touch, etc. I just look at camera and camera understand this is like me and even it understands whether I like looking at my phone or not. And I can give like maybe some more examples. For example, in recent cameras from Google or Apple you have AI that enhance your like selfies and yeah, and photos denoise. So you can make photos in a like dark environment and have AI like leverage recent technologies and make it lighter without any noise. And self-driving cars like some of us already tried it and it's going to be huge for the like next five years. And in any like like huge case in surveillance the biggest company in US have like 70,000 people just watching cameras and they earn for example like 10 bucks per hour. It's like 1.5 billion dollars just wasted. And AI gonna watch cameras and perform really like better than any human can. What is cool also we have a lot of use cases in healthcare. So for example any pathologist that should analyze biopsy images they can leverage AI to help them to do this job like really faster. So AI gonna show you like point of interest that you need to focus on so it's gonna like increase your capacity as a pathologist. You know we're at block show we're talking about everybody's talking about blockchain and obviously like blockchain and AI coming together is a big thing. So how has the introduction of blockchain technology how has it impacted the way that AI is being developed and how has it maybe sped it up or changed how the whole process is done? Yeah it's a good one. You know what we are focused on we are not focused on like some buzzwords like merging blockchain with AI. We just focused on how to leverage blockchain to make this like marketplace of people which work on our platform segmenting data more efficient. So what we allow we allow like for example like two billions of people are unbanked globally. Not everybody understand that like two billions people they are not allowed to earn like fiat currency digitally. But leveraging blockchain we can reach those people and bring them to the platform so they can work and earn like real money like doing real job. And we also leverage blockchain to eliminate any trust issues so whenever you have some data on the platform you're gonna be sure that this data is not stolen or sold to anybody else because you know in AI is real like issue.  Yeah that's how we leverage blockchain here. I guess some of the projects you're working on are really fun and really interesting and it would be really cool to see them but in sort of what can people look forward to so in say like 2018 are people are gonna be or in a couple of years what kinds of AI technology do you think are sort of gonna come into the market and become very much a part of everyday life? Yeah no it's really hard to predict future because current state of AI is really like primitive. So as I said it's just simple pattern recognizer but we're gonna see that more and more use cases people gonna delegate to AI and first frontier gonna be like cognitive routine tasks. It's like any like driver anybody who employed in some like pattern recognition even like pathologist or doctors who need like see something and make decision based on that it's gonna be implemented through AI. So the first frontier gonna be like cognitive routine tasks that people do right now and AI already perform better than humans in most of them. Very cool. It was a pleasure talking to you. Nice meeting you. Thanks.