this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. hello and welcome to las vegas, sin city, home to big casinos, big hotels and big entertainment. and everyjanuary, it's also home to big tech because this is where ces happens,

the consumer electronics show. now, it takes place across the city in hotels like this and also in the massive las vegas convention center. this is where we get a taste of the tech trends to come for the new year. and over the years, we have seen it all here — autonomous cars going up and down the strip, even a flying one on the sidewalk. so what's going to be big this year? it is time to find out. the self—proclaimed most powerful tech show on earth truly is global, with companies from around the world battling for attention and some splashing out to make a real spectacle. there's even a mini theme park in one of the halls this year, with a hydrogen—powered train that goes... ..all of a few metres. so lovely of them to name it after me too! i think that's a different sk. 0h, 0k. but after a year of tech hitting the headlines, often for the wrong reasons, there's no existential crisis here.

the buzz is back... dance music plays. ..the party's pumping, and ces is a scramble of people, products and predictions for our future lives. everything you could ever think up appears to fill these seemingly endless aisles where incredible innovation collides with absurd apparatus, allowing you to take the mic... he mimes t0 rock music. ..go for a ride or shoot some hoops. oh, well done! honestly, i don't know what all the fuss is about. it's easy. talking of hoops — even next year's drone soccer championship has a stand. although it's more like quidditch, if you ask me. there was a time when ces would feature a deluge of tvs,

each one bigger, brighter, sharper, smoother and thinner than the next. they are still here, including the occasional whopper, but tv picture quality is improving much more incrementally these days, and the real screen innovations are happening elsewhere. got to hand it to lg, the company always puts on a display, and this year that display is transparent. these oled screens look astonishing. although, come to think of it, you probably wouldn't really want to see through your tv screen at home. you'd want the blacks to be black, wouldn't you? so i feel this is probably more for use in eye—catching advertising displays. oh, and even though it says wireless, that's not quite true. you still need a power cable, which does beg the question, why not run the hdmi cable into it at the same time? transparency does seem

to be a thing this year. here's a strange roll—out display that you can see right through too. now, the video actually comes from a normal projector, but whereas that projection would go right through normal glass or plastic, this so—called nano optic material catches more of the image. it really does look quite bright in real life. so, in theory, with this material, any window could become a display. this is a mesh of led pixels, but between the pixels, instead of therejust being black fabric or even glass, there's holes, so you get this transparent display effect that's much easier to manufacture, especially at size, than normal led or lcd panels. here's something that first caught my eye

a couple of years ago. the looking glass display is the best glasses—less sd display i've come across, and it's now available in a big and a small version. as you move your head, its lenticular screen really does allow you to see the images from different perspectives. unlike traditional sd tvs, here the background really does emerge from behind the foreground as you move from side to side. now, wherever your tv is in your home, i bet it's been there for a while, hasn't it? yeah, well, displace wants to change that. they want you to be able to take your screen anywhere. now, in order to achieve that, this screen needs to do two things. firstly, it needs to have no wires, and secondly, it has to stick to your wall. so let's break that down. number one, no wires means no power cords, so this thing runs on batteries. and to make sure that you're not charging it all the time using a wire, four of those batteries

are hot—swappable. pop them out, charge them elsewhere, pop them back in again. number two, it sticks to the wall using suction cups that are also powered by batteries. now, i admit it does seem a bit weird that you want to just pop your telly off one wall and pop it onto another, but if you do, well, at least it only weighs iikg, so you don't need to be quite as pumped as our man here to lug it about. now, i know what you're thinking. what if the batteries run out? does this thing fall off your wall? well, yes, but slowly. because they've given it a kind of...airbag system. yes. if it detects a suction failure, it fires adhesive strips at the wall and slowly lowers the tv to the ground on wires. less air bag, more bungee, i suppose. so that's ok, but i can't help thinking they've had to invent a whole new safety system as a precaution for their whole new attachment system. overengineered much?

given everything that's happened in the world of ai over the past year or so, it's little surprise that here plenty of companies are keen to talk about what they're doing with it in their products, and that's particularly true when it comes to health care. well, one of the first things that many of us do in the morning is look in a mirror. so if you're not wearing numerous health trackers, like i do, how about the idea of that mirror being able to tell you how your health is doing? lindsay, let's have a go. tell me about the technology, first of all. absolutely. so this is our newest product, it's our anura magicmirror, and what it does, it does a 30—second video selfie and we actually measure over 30 vital signs and risk of disease parameters. so everything from heart rate, breathing, blood pressure to actual risk of cardiovascular disease, risk of stroke, risk of fatty liver disease — many different parameters, so...

how on earth do you assess all of that from looking at someone with a camera? yes. so how it works is we're actually measuring the facial blood flow patterns underneath your skin using reflective light patterns. so we use a process called transdermal optical imaging. and so what happens is we take a 30—second scan, we analyse your facial blood flow patterns, and then it gets sent up to the cloud for processing. and so we output all these calculations. 0k, brilliant. yeah. shall we try it? well, let's have a go. let's try it. sit still. and it's... it's already begun the scan, so we'll have your results quite shortly. make sure you're in the right spot and it'll be done in 30 seconds. i'm doing well on most of these things, which is great. my risk of heart disease, stroke — all incredibly low. but some of these things, it's hard to imagine how they would even be calculated. when it comes to something like type 2 diabetes risk, how on earth can it assess that? so in the background, we have a population of about 40,000 patients where what we've done is we've taken their demographic info, all their medical history. so this number you see

here is the percentage of users with your facial blood flow patterns who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. great — if it's not going to get you in a panic when things aren't right. and there was one little niggle in my brief experiment. whilst the differences are pretty negligible, i've redone the scan a couple of minutes after doing it the first time, and the figures are just slightly different. it tells me i'm 36. apparently i was 38 a couple of minutes ago. same face, but i'm happy. can i go with this one? meanwhile, plenty of wearables being launched here, and many of them are pretty compact too. in fact, there's a whole trend for smart rings, with a few new ones launching. the 0ura has been popularfor a while but this is ultrahuman. this goes beyond tracking your daily activities and giving you a readiness score, though. it actually acts as one big data platform, bringing in information from blood tests and also, if you wish, from a continuous glucose monitor. so, for example, you could see

how the sugar that you've eaten has affected your night's sleep by having all of that in one place. much hype about it in tech circles as the company has high hopes. initially, the blood function will be india—only before expanding, and an air quality monitor to also sync the conditions you sleep in is coming. here's a bit of a different way of being able to assess your heart rate and how stressed you may be. these are mindmics. now, they work as regular earbuds — you can listen to music, talk on them. but they also are listening within your ear, like your ear becomes a speaker to your heart. it's very buzzy here, but i'm feeling quite zen. in just a couple of minutes it's told me my heart rate was 57, my heart rate variability was 51 and apparently i am well in the rest and digest category, not fight or flight. these devices do also seem to incorporate our mental health too —

in particular stress. and i'll have more health—related gadgets next week. in recent years, the automotive industry has become a bigger part of ces, and this year was no exception. from concept crab cars to electric diggers, via bikes lifted straight out of tron, vehicles and now big news in vegas. but it's notjust the cars themselves vying for attention. a major theme coming from many of the companies focused on what the marketing speak labels as the "in—car experience". it's essentially using tech to make you, the driver, the star of the show. so, naturally, one car company brought in a star of their own to demonstrate

their latest big idea. imagine a car that's creatively bold. now, imagine a song conducted by the road... mercedes has teamed up with musician and technologist will.i.am to create sound drive. ..and your foot on the pedal means it's time to jam. it takes telemetry and information from a range of sensors, including acceleration, steering and gps, to dynamically change specially produced tracks in real time. # it's the bass line running, running... # how do you simulate gravity pushing down on the engine where you have those subtle oscillations? there's some subtleties that happen when you go, "mm...." you feel that, you hear that. you pay attention. and because i'm an audio nerd, i pointed that out and i told them, "hey, i think i could solve that. "if you give me sensors, i could point those sensors to "an audio generation engine and i could oscillate gravity

"pushing down on an engine — i could simulate that." and then i said, "hey, but i think the future "of electric vehicles is more than vroom, vroom. "if you let me just, like, go free—fly, i think i could "come up with something truly transformational. " and so they were like, "yeah, try it out." i'm like, "are you serious?" naturally, i wanted to give it a go to sample that "in—car experience" for myself. this is wild! it's undoubtedly impressive from a tech and music perspective. music plays. wow. you can really feel that rise up with the acceleration. so what this system is doing is it's collecting information from all of the sensors in the car, so that's accelerating, braking and steering, and it's using that information to dynamically adapt the music that's playing. it's pretty cool. but it'll be user and industry take—up that determines whether it goes beyond a very fun gimmick.

elsewhere at the show, autonomous driving and all of the connected industries continue to be a big draw. luminar create lidar products and software for self—driving cars. this year they were showing off the latest update to their hazard—detection capabilities. the system is designed to react faster than a human can, in this case swerving to avoid a dummy of a small child at a split second's notice. let's buckle up again, then. rock music. are you belted up? yes. 0k, we are ready to proceed. three, two, one. go. whoa! it's effective... ..if not a touch disconcerting. wow. the company says it won't swerve if doing so would take the car into obstacles

or other danger. ces shows that the line between the car and technology industries has blurred to a point where one now barely exists. like much to be seen here, though, how much actually makes it out of las vegas remains to be seen. we're back at the massive consumer electronics show the first new version prince of persia has been released in 14 years. lost ground as a debut addition to be fully voiced in. the franchise draws heavily on

persian mythology and iranian culture. that was super important to us. sizes from cal tech university in california has successfully completed their first solar power project in space. artificial intelligence is expected to affect nearly 40% of all jobs expected to affect nearly 40% of alljobs according to research by the international monetary fund. the suggestion is hiring younger workers will see an increase after adopting ie lulac ai but lower workers could fall behind.

we're back at the massive consumer electronics show in las vegas, which is notjust about the big companies with their big flashy stands. alasdair keane has been to what i think is the most exciting hall of all, which mayjust contain the next big thing. this is eureka park, a space packed full of start—ups all trying to find new customers and investments. but what does it take to present your tech on the global stage? let's go meet some of them. my name is mirko cesena, a co—founder ofjedsy. i'm from italy originally but four years ago i moved to switzerland for founding this company together with my partner, herbert weirather. i'm peter yau from hong kong and our company. is called xox0 beverages. hi, i'm beatriz. we're from st37, so sport and technology for 37 olympic sports. this really is an around—the—world trip in bright ideas, with many of these start—ups bringing their tech to this huge event for the first time. that makes it an ideal hunting ground for those looking to invest in the next big thing.

the entrepreneur is so important and so special in being able to make an opportunity successful. they've got to be able to walk through ten—feet concrete walls in order to make their vision a reality. passion must play a role in it as well, if the company is passionate about it? to be an entrepreneur you have to be a little bit crazy. you have to believe that what you want to bring to the world that doesn't exist needs to be there, and most other people don't see that. what we do is we have| created a machine that is focusing on making . cocktails and mocktails. so now the machine itself is... we're doing a rental business to all the businesses - like bars and restaurants, so they can help to - produce different drinks. it's a drone that goes onto the side of buildings? exactly. we take off from the building and we land in the other building, so basically flying in between these two places makes us very efficient because doctors and nurses, theyjust need to open the window and place the package inside the drone, or also take it out as soon

as it arrives, and it charges automatically. it does everything by itself. we need no manpower at all. so we do ai video analysis, and today we're presentingj it, the application, . into video refereeing specifically. so you have trained computers on the rules of sports... exactly. ..and it can replace the referee? it could. it could, actually. for now we give the assistance for the referee so he can - have the final call. this is a new cooking technology to cook and bake your food. it is a way to cook fast at low temperatures. and we do that with running electrical currents through your ingredients. we have developed specially for ces a blueberry muffin square, where the cake base has been baked from a raw dough to the cake in three minutes. and in addition that cuts also 90% in energy use versus a regular domestic oven. this certainly is a place where you'll see new ideas

being brought to the world. so can these inventions make it to the next stage and the mass market? the proof will be in the pudding. jaunty ragtime music. i don't know about you, but i still love a robot. here's one that's making me a latte. i tell you, this had better be a blooming good coffee! whether or not it'll beat the human barista, or indeed the coffee maker, depends on your point of view, i suppose. but this type of bot certainly generates a bit of interest at these shows. ho, ho, ho, ho! "bbc foamy hazelnut latte" — they even know my nickname! robot: thanks for coming. have a nice day.

i will. thank you very much. mm! much more useful, and i think more practical, are robots that can roam our world doing the more mundane stuff like sweeping the roads. here's a concept robot mooting the idea that if you're going to go off grid, you might want a solar panel on wheels that follows the sun like a sunflower, gradually charging its batteries so that you can then run your camp, your car or anything else you've got knocking about that's electric. i'm going to build my own robot. itri is taiwan's industrial technology research institute, and i'm trying out its new modular robot design, which involves quite a bit of twisting. talk amongst yourselves. to be honest, you could get a robot to do this bit, couldn't you ?

a typical production line might need several different types of robot, but this prototype has interchangeable joints so you can build and alter your bots as you move them. i thought i'd crossed the thread then. in which case we'd leave quite quick and let them sort it out. this means you don't need to bring in specialised robots if you only want to make a small batch of items. and if something goes wrong, you can swap out a faultyjoint without having to shut down the whole arm. there — i've built myself a completely useless robot arm with nothing on the end. you're welcome. baby voice: daddy! deep voice: yes, my child? dog whimper effect. i'm just waiting for my next guest in this robot—themed section. don't know where it is. oh, my... oh, my gosh! spencer laughs.

this is hi, a remote—controlled prototype from chinese company unitree. i've seen this outfit at a couple of tech fairs now and, although boston dynamics has won youtube with its amazing dog and humanoid bot bits, this is a reminder that this kind of tech is not unique any more. h1 is nowhere near as advanced as some, but it does have the basic balancing skills, which means it can certainly handle some action from a kid from the mean streets of vegas. all right... i've always wanted to do this. spencer laughs. i think it's time to exit, stage right. right, 0k. right.

ok. he's not happy about that. # oh, well, bless my soul... # and that's it from here for| now but, like a vegas buffet, there is way too much for one sitting. trust me — i've tried. so we'll be back at this crazy place next week. you do not want to miss it. see you there. see you there? see you there. excellent. # i'm all shook up. # hey, i'm zof with the catch up. thousands of people will lose theirjobs after tata steel confirmed plans to close a coal

fired blast furnaces at its steelworks in port talbot. jobs will go across the uk, but mainly in wales. 0ne union says the plans will be devastating for the town. there's not many people, they're not connected to it. you get people just the worry of losing theirjobs or not being able to fend for theirfamily, losing the houses, losing everything. the company says it will install an electric arc furnace which produces less carbon dioxide, but this needs fewer staff. it could cut uk emissions by i.5%, but critics say it will mean bringing steel from more polluting countries. the government's going to help pay for the new furnace. rishi sunak says the alternative was closing everything. there's loads more on this story on the bbc news website. some of the stories now stealing cats and dogs is set to become a crime in england and northern ireland. plans to create an offence of pet abduction have had initial approval from mps. it would mean anyone convicted could face a fine up to five years in prison.

this is exciting. japan has landed on the moon. scientists are in touch with the robot craft but say its solar generators aren't working. they're racing to fix it before the batteries run out. the landing makes japan only the fifth country to land softly on the moon, though. time now to leave you with 10 seconds of dik—dik. yep. that is a tiny baby antelope, by the way, and nothing else. that's at paignton zoo in devon. the current dik—dik is the fourth calf born there. that is absolutely adorable, though, don't you think? it fully looks like bambi. you're all caught up now. see you later. hello. i think we've seen the last of the widespread cold, frosty days. on friday, there was plenty of blue sky and wintry sunshine for many of us, as was the picture in dudley. but things are changing now. we've got milder air moving in in time for the weekend

and also much windier weather. in fact, the met office have named storm isha. that's on the way, particularly late sunday into monday. bringing severe gales and disruption to travel power perhaps is likely, but let's have a look at saturday. first off, this band of rain will affect central portions of the uk, perhaps southern scotland, northern england into wales as well. there'll be some sunshine across much of the midlands, southeast england and east anglia and some brighter skies across the north east of scotland too. temperatures around six or seven in the east, but we're back into double figures towards the west, ten degrees for the likes of belfast and glasgow, for instance. later on saturday heavier rain moves in from the west. the winds are going to pick up as well. that system sweeps its way eastwards into the early hours of sunday, followed by more showers. it isn't going to be cold and frosty as we start sunday morning. we've got too much wind and the showers around from the word go. but let's take a look at sunday and a bit more detail because here is storm asia

developing in the atlantic, because here is storm isha developing in the atlantic, sweeping its way in. just look at all these ice bars across the uk between the warm front and the cold front. that's where we're going to see really strong gusts, perhaps 70 or 80 miles an hour. so for sunday, some rain initially for northern ireland sweeping into other western parts of britain. there could be a little bit of snow just across the very highest ground for scotland. still chilly air in the far north of scotland, but much milder, 12 or 13. but the real emphasis on sunday, particularly later, is going to be the strength of the wind. we've got amber warnings for storm isha across northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, western parts of england and wales and the southeast as well, gusts 70, 80 miles an hour, enough to cause some significant disruption. big waves, i think, around the coast with this storm system as well. now heading on into monday, we've still got the brisk winds at first. they should ease a little bit through the day, but it is going to be another really windy day with heavy showers rattling in across the north and the west should be mostly dry, i think later on in the south, in the east and temperatures somewhere between about six to 12 degrees for this stage,

not quite as mild as sunday, but things are looking unsettled through the week ahead, often pretty windy, showery rain around at times those temperatures much milder than they have been by.

live from washington, this is bbc news. after donald trump's landslide win in iowa, all eyes turn to new hampshire for round two in the republican presidential primaries. as nikki haley and ron desantis bicker over which of them has the best chance of beating donald trump to the nomination, we will hear from asa hutchinson, who tried and failed to take on the former president. and as primary season heats up, we'll take a look at how the issue of abortion rights could take centre stage this november. hello, i'm carl nasman. welcome to this special program on the us presidential primaries. after a freezing cold start to the 2024 election season in iowa this week, the race for the republican nominations will heat up on tuesday when new hampshire voters

take to the polls in the first pprimary