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tv   Click  BBC News  December 24, 2016 3:30pm-4:01pm GMT

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now let's check on the weather a little closer to home. a bit of everything for the next 48 hours. nothing quite as chilly as you've just shown there from the arctic. you can't get much further north than scotland and it is ludicrously early to get dark, but when it looks like that. further south, early to get dark, but when it looks like that. furthersouth, it early to get dark, but when it looks like that. further south, it stay mild throughout the night and that's the way we start the new day, christmas day, of course, 11 to 14 celsius should cover it. there will be dribs and drabs of rain across parts of england and wales especially in the western facing slopes and hills. this weather front tumbles down across scotland and northern ireland. and that is the boundary between all of that warm air across central and southern parts and we are looking at a
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temperature of possibly 14 and 15 celsius for one or two spots in the cloud happens to break. once the front has come through, you will know all about it because that's a gusty front and following on behind it does turn wintry at the end of christmas day. hello. the headlines at 3.30pm: israel has condemned as "shameful" a un security council vote calling for an end to settlements on occupied palestinian land. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that israel would not abide by friday's vote. the nephew of anis amri and two other men have been arrested by the tunisian authorities for allegedly being part of a "terrorist cell" linked to the deadly attack on a christmas market in berlin. status qo's rick parfitt has died in
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hospital. his manager said he been taken to hospital on thursday in marbella. a spokeswoman for the queen's granddaughter, zara tindall, and her husband mike, say the couple have lost their baby. in her christmas message theresa may calls for britain to come together as it prepares to leave the eu. labour'sjeremy corbyn pleads for an end to sleeping rough. the search for an elderly british woman missing from the queen mary ii ocean liner heading to the caribbean is called off. a 74—year—old had been reported missing in the early hours of friday. sam allardyce is back in football at crystal palace. the former england manager has signed a two and a half year deal at selhurst park following the sacking of alan pardew. now on bbc news, click. this week, a click christmas with digital jumpers,
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hatched technology and tie fighters. hello and welcome to the annual click get together. cue christmas cheer! and enough. we have everyone here, jen, steve, nick, laura, mark and kate russell. hello. i have sought out a little christmas gift for you. thank you very much. it's an egg. it is an egg. right. inside it is a hatchable, it's the latest robotic, interactive toy. it's got loads of sensors and it's for ages five and up and your child basically has two nurture the egg
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in order to hatch it and then it breaks its way out of the egg and then you teach at games. you care for it, basically. we have to feed it. you're going to be a daddy. thank you very much. i shall name you later. better put it somewhere not on the table so we don't accidentally eat it! we have had some adventures this year. we have been all over the place and click is a 52 week a year production, so it is difficult to get the whole team in one room. this is the kind of thing we have been doing this year. i am so luke skywalker. my bad. half a billion pixels on display here. some of the most extraordinary athletes you will see this year. say hello to the mega bot mark ii. the world's highest glass walkway.
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this is absolutely stunning. this week we're going to look back at some of our best bits from 2016 and we start with a really positive story in a place that you wouldn't think there was any positivity at all. earlier in the year, jen went jordan, to the border with syria, to look at some of the innovation that's happening in syrian refugee camps there. that's right. i went to zaatari, the biggest refugee camp in jordan. there are 80,000 refugees living there and it's actually a community of makers. i was fascinated to find out and they are making some incredible technology out of some very rudimentary things in the camp. the main street here in zaatari is called champs elysee. it is a play on two things — the champs elysee in paris and the word syrians refer
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to damascus by, cham. there are several hundred shops lining this street and you can find everything from bridal dresses to vegetable shops, barber—shops and even quite a few mobile phone shops. technology here is being used in inventive ways to ease daily life here. the camp is a community of makers and one of the most innovative people we met is safwan. three years ago safwan fled the violence in syria with two family members. they all have disabilities and struggle to get around on the unpaved roads. he wanted to have more independence and designed an electric bike around spare parts he found. the brakes.
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giving refugees access to technology and education is the focus of a group called refugee openware. one of its start—ups is focused on fabrication technology, including 3—d printing. assam was an ambulance driver in syria and lost his leg in a bomb explosion. as well as customising his own prosthetics he helped a young yemani boy, named zain, who lost part of his hand in a fire. they were able to include
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elements of zain‘s favourite cartoon character, ben 10, in the design, all for just 75 us dollars. assam also helped develop a 3—d printing system using haptic feedback for another syrian refugee named ahmed. he was blinded by a sniper shot that went through his eyes. the echolocation system helps guide him to walk around unaided. they are planning to open fabrication labs in a refugee camp in turkey and in the northjordanian city of irbid. it's a small but positive step to harness the talents of people forced into exile and help integrate them into a new country. brilliant. that wasjen and for the next part of the programme i've had to clear the room because there is a serious danger to human life in this next item. is that not right? it is exactly right, spen. the last few years, one of the biggest gift people have been getting is, of course, drones. now, for the next few
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christmases a star wars movie will be released as well. as it should be. exactly. combine the two and what do you end up with? star wars drones. now, there is something special about these drones, isn't there, spencer? they are notjust drones we can fly about, we can actually engage in combat. they're armed with infrared guns which means you can fly them about and then press the fire button. so you're going to get your best anakin skywalker on, well it would be luke skywalker because you have the x—wing and i have darth vader's tie fighter. when a shot is registered we get a rumbling in the controller and also you've got three lives there as well. feel the force. the force is strong with this one. talking of which, you met an amazing flying man this year. yes, a man who flies like a bird.
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his name is yves rossi. he has an apprentice now called vince who is based out in dubai and he is thejet man. he has built and designed this enormous jet wing that allows him to fly in excess of 100mph at about 5,500 feet. it is really quite remarkable. we went for a flight with him and saw what he does. jet man's training centre is based at this hangar in the desert outside dubai. today, i'm going to watch him do hisjet—powered thing up close. how are you feeling? good. charged. ready to fly. in this hangar, yves and his team maintain thejet wings which are capable of flying at 189mph. so you're not flying solo anymore? no, that's the big advantage now, to have a friend with me in the air.
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vince. vince has plenty of airborne experience as a three—time world champion skydiver. as a kid i would watch the magazine and i would see what yves was doing as a pilot and as a pioneer of wing shooting and flying. so i would see who he was. outside the hangar, things are getting a bit noisy. so this is why we got up early. our ride has arrived! with the chopper on the flight line, it's time for yves to become thejet man. no flight would be complete without an inspirational soundtrack. i notice that as well as lacking doors, this particular helicopter
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lacks seats in the back as well. ok, 20 seconds until launch. that is, without a doubt, the most bonkers thing i have ever seen. so, we could just see yves in the distance. he is flying formation with the helicopter. there he is. he's going to fly parallel with the helicopter right now. oh, my word. you will believe a man can fly. he has got about eight minutes'
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worth of fuel on board that. oh, here he comes again. so, we'rejust coming into land now, but yves is going to land via a slightly different method. just in the distance out there, you can see him. his parachute is deployed and he will land right back at his hangar. truly incredible stuff. as you can see, we've reached that part of the christmas dinner now. i'll crack on, though. my most memorable moment of the year was when i visited cern and the large hadron collider and had a jolly good cry. having a moment. we were really lucky to be able to see inside the collider and the cms experiment because they'y had
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opened it up for cleaning. even better, we filmed the whole thing in 360, so you can take a peek inside. welcome to the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. right now, you are standing inside cern, the european organisation for nuclear research. you've got a view that very few people will ever see. we are about 100 metres beneath the swiss—french border and above you is just one of the experiments at the large hadron collider. itself the largest machine in the world. in a few minutes we'll head up there. yes, on that cherry—picker, to see what happens when you smash particles together at close to the speed of light. before we do, let me show you what kit you need to get things going that fast. so, here we are walking along part of the long circular tunnel that houses the lhc.
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that's it next to you, that is the large hadron collider. that collection of magnets. it's a 27 kilometre long loop. there are four experiments on the lhc and ten accelerators in the complex which, together, accelerate bunches of particles to close to the speed of light. this cavern contains the cms experiment. although there's nothing compact about it, if you ask me. this is one of the places that helped to discover the higgs boson. so, that big shiny pipe above you is connected to the tunnels that we were just in. and when the beams of particles are going fast enough, tiny adjustments are made to bring those two beams together until, right here, they collide. in an instant, the particles are smashed to pieces and it's these even smaller particles that the cms can detect.
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it's an enormous sensor that looks pretty fundamental building blocks of the universe. by using even higher energy collisions, the cern scientists hope to find other particles and explain mysteries like dark energy and dark matter which makes up 95% of the matter in our universe. this is big science performed on the tiniest of scales. that was cern in 360, and this is the clickmas table in 360. everybody wave at the 360 camera. the brilliant thing about filming in 360 is you can do really weird things with the picture on normal tv, like this. but you can also feel like you are genuinely in the middle of our table on a candle! if you go to the link on the screen, you can see us surrounding you, about to eat you. the man behind the 360 show is this man over here. steve beckett, who is wearing the beautiful augmented
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reality christmas jumper, why? what do you think of this? it's a little bit scary. terrifying. so from one engineering marvel at cern and to another engineering marvel now that spans two mountains in china. dan simmons went to the oldest national park in china. tucked away on the edge of this world heritage site, someone has decided to build a bridge from the middle of nowhere to the middle of nowhere. unlike me, they hope, the thousands of visitors that will come here will not be too scared to look down. 300 metres through the highest glass walkway in the world. these are the final days of construction for this three—year project, more than 300 engineers have worked through all weather
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conditions to build what is also the longest glass—bottomed bridge in the world. a breathtaking 430 metres. crossing the chinese grand canyon. the walkway itself is just 60 centimetres thick, so the challenge to keep everything stable has required some fresh thinking. 70 glass balls are to be positioned on the springs along the walkway. they've been designed to move to counter any swaying. these curved railings will persuade up to 800 visitors to keep changing direction. offsetting the resonance caused by hundreds walking at a constant speed. our hosts were keen to show me just how safe i was. each panel of the walkway has three layers of toughened glass held together by glue.
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here goes. shouting. it looks like you can see the top glass has shattered here. shouting. we're ok. laughter. do you know what, i think this might be safe! ok guys, we get the point! that has to be the finest shot that anyone in this programme has shot in like forever, surely.
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ok, fairenough. one of the other amazing things we saw this year was in zurich when we went to see the first bionic games. that was brilliant. it was incredible to see the latest in robotic arms, prosthetic limbs, motorised wheelchairs, brain controls, an amazing day. it was also a competition for the people who created the devices. 66 teams from all over the globe have been designing, building and training for this very unique competition. disabled athletes, known as pilots, will be competing using advanced assistive devices. it is the brainchild of this man, robert reiner, a professor for sensory motor systems at eth zurich. it is an event for people with disabilities who are allowed to use any kind of technology.
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that technology helps them to better perform in daily life activities, so we are focusing on the challenges of daily life and allowing technology to help people with very severe disabilities. each of the six disciplines will have qualifiers in the morning before the grand finals in the afternoon. how do you win? simple, get round the course or through the obstacles in the shortest time while incurring the lowest number of penalties. yes, the powered arm prosthesis race is notjust about power, it is about precision and reliability. the teams need to come up with the very best ideas to help their pilots grip, twist and balance their way along the obstacle course. the race is designed to test how well pilots can work with their prosthesis to complete tasks that would typically be challenging for them. yes, this is the race where the mightiest tech in the world can be foiled
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by the humble clothes peg. what's the next challenge you feel you could reasonably overcome to better the product? the next thing that is a big technical challenge that would improve the functionality is the touch sensitive nature of the fingers. there is no feedback at the moment in commercially available hands for getting the signal back to the body. the ultimate victor was a group of biomechanical engineering students from delft university of technology in the netherlands. together with their pilot, bob ridoce, himself an expert in prosthesis, they went for a slightly more established body—powered approach. this means that physical movements like reaching forward or lifting your shoulders are used to control the device. but while this gold medal idea might have won the day, in the end, just crossing the line was enough to send most teams home happy. the wheelchair final
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was a much closer run thing for the four finalists, and again you can really see the variety of ideas and designs. the hong kong team went for these caterpillar tracks, which made short work of the rumble strips. that's not a wheelchair, that is a wheel tank! but that lack of suspension really gave the pilot a rocky ride on the uneven ground. and balance was the big issue as these chairs arrived at the stairs. really the climax of the event, with three pilots all reaching them at the same time. as the hong kong pilot had to endure being thrown about, florian houser showed off the clever weight—shifting feature of the swiss chair which ensured that he didn't topple over.
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in the final seconds, the swiss team came from third place to beat hong kong by just five seconds. music plays. cheering. now, that was a tiny snippet of what was a really special show. if you missed it or you'd like to watch it again,
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it is still on iplayer. just scroll back to october. it is nearly time to go. first we have to check on our hatchling here. how is it doing? it has hatched. there it is. oh, it is a beautiful thing. wake up. wake up, little hatchling. oh, dear. now it grows up and you teach it things and one of the fun things you can do is teach it to speak, so you can say happy christmas, spencer. happy christmas, spencer. ohjoy, the world hasjust become a better place. it is for ages five and up, and the side—effect of it hatching is these tiny bits of plastic do break off, so if you have young kids around, obviously be very wary that you shouldn't leave them to their own devices. these are a choking hazard. i agree. take care, but otherwise it is cute. delightful. one more world first that we took part in this year. this year, kate and i hosted click‘s
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first live show in front of a studio audience. is there anybody there? well, that was interesting. are you ready? yes. i said, are you ready? yes! let's go. click theme plays. now, if you weren't lucky enough to be in the audience, don't worry. we recorded the whole thing, and we will be showing highlights and behind the scenes stuff from the show on the programme next week. thank you very much for watching our clickmas special. there's only one thing left to do, which is the words first 360 degree cracker pull. so merry clickmas!
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i'm the winner. 0h! hello once again. of course, in the new weather the weather centre will be getting its own new technology. stay tuned for that. for all the chat about barbara across the northern parts of the british isles it hasn't been that bad a day along the murray coast. thank you to our weather watchers who have been out and about taking really great images. there is a scattering of showers. there will continue to be so for a while yet across the northern parts of the british isles. if you have got a
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plan for the earlier part of the evening, and you're stepping out in the next couple of hours, this rain is filling across northern ireland and getting into central and southern parts of scotland and the north—west of england. so you will be swapping your showers for something a little bit more persistent. further south, something a little bit more persistent. furthersouth, it is dry. you might getjust the odd splash, but you see that for the most pa rt splash, but you see that for the most part it stays dry and it is not overly cold thanks a noticeable breeze in the south, but it is coming from the south—west. so that's what what's helping to keep the temperatures up. there comes the rain as we get on through the evening and into the wee small hours of you know what, christmas day, but the thing that you really will notice about christmas day if you have got plans to be off, there are strong winds. the thing that you will notice is you won't need too many layers as you won't need too many layers as you step out. look at that, that's how it is first up on christmas
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morning. 11 to 14 celsius. somewhere, we suspect, during the day could be pushing towards 15 celsius. it stay it is grey across the south. the odd break in the cloud to give a wee bit of sunshine and rain and drizzlejust cloud to give a wee bit of sunshine and rain and drizzle just coming cloud to give a wee bit of sunshine and rain and drizzlejust coming in ona and rain and drizzlejust coming in on a noticeable south—westerly breeze. this is a weather front tumbling its way down and across the northern half of britain. it doesn't get into the south in the short—term. much fresher weather behind and here is conor during boxing day. look at the isobars, really, really squeezed. that's why we've got concerns about conor. that weather front is down and through the british isles and introducing fresher weather for boxing day compared to christmas day, but that's the issue, 80mph across northern parts. similar to what we had today. coming further south, a bright day, yes, but a much, much fresher one compared to christmas day. see you later. this is bbc news.
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the headlines at 4:00pm. israel condemns as "shameful" a un security council vote calling for an end to settlements on occupied palestinian land. a "terrorist cell" linked to anis amri, who carried out the deadly attack on a christmas market in berlin, is uncovered, according to the tunisian authorities. a spokeswoman for the queen's granddaughter, zara tindall, and her husband mike, say the couple have lost their baby. rail passengers face delays, diversions and cancellations as work starts on a record number of engineering upgrades of the network. theresa may calls for britain to come together as it prepares to leave the eu, in her christmas message. also in the next hour tributes to the status quo guitarist, rick parfitt, who's died at the age of 68.

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