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  • with, less than a week ago before a major election in Israel were spelling out its significance today on CNN.

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  • I'm Carlos.

  • Oops, it's great to see you this Wednesday.

  • Israel is America's closest ally in the middle.

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was first elected to the job in 1996.

  • He's served on and off and on again since then, and if this year's vote goes his way again, he'll become Israel's longest serving prime minister ever.

  • But he's facing a number of difficult challenges this time around.

  • One of them is that the nation's attorney general says he plans to charge Prime Minister Netanyahu with corruption.

  • The Israeli leader denies doing anything wrong and calls the investigation of politically motivated witchhunt.

  • In fact, he's made it a major campaign issue.

  • His main opponent in the election, former military chief of staff Benny Gunts, calls it ridiculous that an Israeli prime minister could serve while being charged with a crime.

  • But if either one of these men is to serve after the election, he'll need to have the support of Israel's Knesset, its parliament.

  • There are 100 and 20 seats in the Knesset and the prime minister needs a majority, at least 61 of those seats on his side.

  • That's not always easy to put together.

  • Unlike the U.

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  • Congress, which is dominated by Democrats and Republicans, there are more than 40 political parties running for Israel's Knesset.

  • Most of those won't actually make it in, but analysts say 10 to 14 different parties will and the biggest ones likely to have around 30 seats.

  • So what the prime minister has to do to have 61 arm or of those seats on his side is get several of these different parties to work together.

  • That coalition building process can take weeks.

  • But once it's all worked out after the April 9th election, the governing resumes next.

  • Today, people in Venezuela need healthcare, medicines, water, electricity, education and access to food.

  • That's what an internal United Nations draft report says about conditions in the South American country.

  • Around 32 million people used to live there, but several 1,000,000 have flooded recent years as the economy crumbled and political instability followed.

  • The U.

  • N says it's trying to work with Venezuela's government to get help to its people, But the government says there is no crisis and it's blocked or restricted eight deliveries.

  • The alarming you and dropped report says that up to 94% of Venezuelans are living in poverty, 94% for a country that has arguably the largest oil reserves on the planet.

  • The report also says that almost two million people are expected to leave this country just this year because of the ongoing crisis across Venezuela.

  • They're still blackouts and also water shortages.

  • We saw people here in Caracas on the mountainside, collecting water for their daily needs.

  • This is how one person So the situation these islands were very upset.

  • Listen, Brother Wei don't have power.

  • We don't have water.

  • Service is work badly.

  • I don't know how to explain.

  • It was for me.

  • We would have forced this government out.

  • Five people come forward, big killer and nothing is achieved.

  • Schools have been closed and workers have been told to go home early.

  • Here in the capital, the subway system isn't working and people are having to cram on buses just to get to and from work.

  • The president of the country and battled Nicolas Maduro is standing by the promises to bring back the power and says schools will open next week in a live television broadcast with Cabinet members and other government officials.

  • He blamed the power outages on a terrorist attack, something he's done before, even though experts say the main issue has bean investment on allegations of corruption against the regime.

  • Despite anger on the street, the regime is trying to maintain its grip on power.

  • The Loyalist Supreme Court saying that they want the opposition leader one Guido's immunity to be stripped from him and so that they can move with potential allegations and even arrest in the coming days.

  • Why Doe is calling for intervention from countries around the region.

  • Onda across the globe.

  • But at this stage, Maduro isn't going anywhere.

  • David McKenzie, CNN Caracas, Venezuela.

  • 12th trivia.

  • First generation mobile networks, also known as one G, were introduced in what decade?

  • 19 seventies, 19 eighties, 19 nineties or two thousands.

  • It was in the late 19 seventies that one G cellular networks made their debut in Japan, and now, four decades later, we're the dawn of five G technology, with rollouts in the U.

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  • Expected this year.

  • Downloaded upload speeds are said to be much faster than four g, and the wireless industry says five G will transform everything from education to medicine.

  • What about forming tests going on right now in the United Kingdom?

  • Suggest five G could dramatically change that industry.

  • But there are a number of challenges 15 G would have to be installed in rural areas where there are fewer users in some places, even for G coverage is spotty.

  • Will cos be willing to install the additional cell towers that are needed where there aren't as many people to use them to.

  • Security is a concern what could happen if a key part of the food supply is disrupted by domestic or foreign hackers.

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  • What about costs?

  • The system you're about to hear of is partly funded by the U.

  • K's government.

  • Will farmers and other places also get help?

  • Or would they have to spend their own money on this?

  • So this look.

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  • Five g farming assumes everything goes as proponents hope it will.

  • This is a connected cow.

  • She and the rest of her herd sport colors with five G connectivity, which provide real time data about feeding patterns, health on behavior, data like this could help address a looming problem.

  • How to feed the world's population as it grows.

  • By 2050 there'll be more than nine billion people on the planet, and they all need to wait.

  • That means farmers will need to produce 70% more food, and that's where tech comes in.

  • The Industrial Revolution paved the way for modern farming techniques.

  • So on average, by 1961 farmer in the U.

  • S could feed 26 people.

  • Today it's 155 but by 2050 each farmer will need to feed Lord and 265 people on the same amounts of land, so farmers will have to do more with less.

  • The UK is one country leading the way in smart farming innovation five g solutions are being tested across The country is part of the government led five G Rural First Initiative in the English county of Shropshire.

  • The hands free hectare project achieved a world first in 2017 by successfully planting, tending on, harvesting a crop without a single human stepping foot on the field, autonomous tractors so deceives drones with a ranger.

  • Sensors monitored the crops and samples were taken remotely, providing data for targeted fertilizers and pesticides.

  • While a driverless combine harvesting the projects, five G has now been used to increase the capability, precision and efficiency of the system.

  • And what about those connected cows?

  • They're part of a trial in southwest England, where more than 100 cows are being monitored remotely through their five G collected colors.

  • The high tech dairy farm they call home is equipped with automated feeding, milking on cleaning systems that can adapt to each cow's individual preferences.

  • With the help of five.

  • G data can be seen by the farmer in real time.

  • All this helps to ensure that the farm is a sufficient as possible, so cows produce the highest amount of milk and kept his happy and healthy as can be.

  • But the UK is not the only country investing in the promise of five G farming, from perfecting potato production in the Netherlands to a planned five G connected oyster farm in Japan, a variety of trials cropping up across the world theme.

  • If you're the adventurous type who wants to live somewhere exotic, you don't mind wearing a heavy suit whenever you step outside and you just love the color red.

  • This could be your future home These Air NASA's top three finalists for the three D printed Habitat Challenge.

  • It's a $3.15 million competition for people to design a living space that could be built and potentially lived in on another planet like Mars.

  • These are just renderings.

  • The next phase of the competition challenges teams to three D print models of their designs.

  • If you don't marsh on the idea of living abroad, we hear Mercury's warm this time of year and Jupiter said to be a gas.

  • If you set turn your sights elsewhere, you might Neptune your attention to something even farther.

  • Distant destinations offer Prue tones of space if you're willing to planet that's overseeing and 10 on Carla Zeus.

with, less than a week ago before a major election in Israel were spelling out its significance today on CNN.

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