hello. this is bbc news. the queen pays tribute to what she calls "unsung heroes" — such as carers and volunteers — in her christmas message. i often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things. volunteers, carers, community organisers and good neighbours. the queen missed the christmas day church service at sandringham, as she has a heavy cold. the duke of edinburgh and other royals were at holy communion on the norfolk estate. meanwhile, in berkshire, the duke and duchess of cambridge are spending christmas with kate's family, the middletons. in russia, president putin has declared a national day of mourning tomorrow, after a military plane crashes on its way to syria, killing all 92 people on board. an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has struck off the coast of southern chile, triggering a tsunami warning. chile's national emergency office has ordered the evacuation

of coastal areas of los lagos region around puerto montt. in his christmas sermon, the archbishop of canterbury says the power of god can chase away "the fear of terror". now on bbc news — the click team celebrates christmas and looks back at the best bits from 2016. this week, a click christmas with digital jumpers, 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 hatchimal, 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 to nurture the egg in order to hatch it and then it breaks its way out of the egg and then you teach it games. you care for it, basically. you 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. 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 about 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—elysees in paris and the word syrians refer 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 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. giving refugees access to technology and education is the focus

of a group called refugee 0penware. 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 yemeni boy, named zain, who lost part of his hand in a fire. they were able to include 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 gifts people have been getting is, of course, drones. now, for the next few 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. his name is yves rossi. he has an apprentice now, called vince. he 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. 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.

0ur 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 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' worth of fuel on board that. 0h, 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 had 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. 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. it's an enormous sensor that looks for the 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 sitting 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 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 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 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. 0ffsetting the resonance caused by hundreds walking at a constant speed. 0ur 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. here goes. shouting. it looks like you can see the top glass has shattered here. shouting. we're 0k.

laughter. do you know what, i think this might be safe! 0k, guys, we get the point! that has to be the finest shot that anyone in this programme has shot in like, forever, surely. 0k, 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, here known as pilots, will be competing using advanced assistive devices. the cybathlon 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. 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 also 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 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 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. in the final seconds, the swiss team came from third place to beat hong kong by just five seconds. 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, 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 it 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. 0hjoy, 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 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. applause. 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! i'm the winner. 0h! you know, it is so warm outside for

some of us, i think i'm overheating myself! temperatures not quite record—breaking across the uk but not far about 15.1 in aberdeen so far, about 14.3 in northern ireland. 100 years ago, we had similar temperatures across the uk and one of the reasons why it is so incredibly mild is the big storm, conor in the north atlantic which is drawing the mild air in our direction. the change will happen in the next year as. this is the cold front. behind the cold front is rain and behind the cold front, cold air will come in and you will notice the white across scotland which is the snow across the hills, mostly, maybe in one or two towns, a bit of wintry weather. cold atlantic air coming m, weather. cold atlantic air coming in, on the back of storm conor. storm conor will still affect

northern parts of the uk during tomorrow, boxing day. there will be a big contrast across the uk. in the north, raging gales, especially for the northern isles, and ample warning from the met office but in the south, it is a totally different story. thousands of miles away from conor, much lighter winds and a bit ofa conor, much lighter winds and a bit of a breeze, yes but some sunshine. for many of us, boxing day, out for a walk, a big day of sport and all sorts of events, it will be a stunning day. northern parts of the british isles windy and then you get the northern scotland and this is where we will have that screaming, howling gale. a lovely day overall on boxing day across england and wales but not necessarily their in scotland. we will keep a lot of blue skies over the next few days. the weather is certainly settling down but one problem with this lovely high pressure that will be building from tuesday is the fact that the mornings will be frosty, which is not a bad thing, wish we had some of

that during the course of christmas but a bit too late now, but the fog could be the issue. you see this high pressure will linger for a few days, tuesday, wednesday and thursday, and the longer it lingers, the more the atmosphere gets very stagnated and be less wind we get, and the fog starts to form so travel could be a problem as we go over the coming days. look out for mist and fog in the forecast through tuesday tom wednesday and possibly into thursday. that's it from me. this is bbc news. i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 4pm: the queen pays tribute to what she calls "unsung heroes", such as carers and volunteers, in her christmas message. i often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things. volunteers, carers, community organisers and good neighbours. but she's forced to miss the christmas day church service at sandringham

because of a heavy cold. in russia, president putin declares a day of mourning tomorrow after a military plane crashes on its way to syria, killing all 92 people on board. a powerful earthquake strikes off the coast of southern chile, triggering a tsunami warning. also in the next hour, in his christmas day sermon the archbishop of canterbury says the last year has left the world "awash with division and fear". pope francis calls for a new effort