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in syria's third city of horns, killing dozens of people. some reports put the number of dead at more than a0. sport now and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. claudio ranieri, has been at the leicester city training ground this morning to say his goodbyes to the players and staff. he was joined by the club's thai owners, who flew in by helicopter to help with the goodbyes, after they sacked the italian on thursday. speaking to the media afterwards, ranieri said he hoped that leicester could one day repeat their title success, but that it i don't speak with anybody. just to say thank you to the fans. how do you feel? i feel good now. because of what we achieved in leicester. i
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hope it will happen again. was it emotional with the players in there? no, it was normal. do you feel badly treated? do you feel stabbed in the back? a lot of love for —— from the journalists for him as well. onto a crucial day in the six nations, with scotland hosting wales in the first match at murrayfield. it's ten years since the scots last beat the welsh and even though their form has been good this year the coach vern cotter has had to make five changes. france are a big powerful team at home and in the last 15 or 20 minutes of beginning we were under pressure through the physicality. wales will have done their analysis. we believe we are better for it and every game we would like to improve. we understand it's an important part of the game and the guys really enjoy fronting up in this part of
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the performance. so, looking forward to it. there's a lot of strength in depth on our bench at the we tend which will be needed. when you look back, you obviously learn of the best —— at the weekend. when you look at the all blacks and look to the bench on 5055 minutes and they come away and make a difference, that's what didn't happen against england. hopefully, it will be different in murrayfield this weekend. 0ur reporter patrick gearey is already at murrayfield, on a day when we'll get a better idea about which team will be the main challengers to england in the race to the season. indeed. the first fans are arriving. a renewed optimism about scottish by a renewed optimism about scottish rugby at the moment although they lost their last game and they've made five changes for this, including using their captain to injury so that'll be a significant
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loss for them. for wales, injury so that'll be a significant loss forthem. forwales, george north is in and that's a reflection on how well they played last week. having said that, any further defeat either side would count them out of the title race, as it would for ireland or france. jonny sexton is brought in at fly half for ireland. interesting to see with how they deal with the bisham french pack. everyone is playing catch—up to england to everyone expects will be top —— with the fearsome french pack. who will emerge today as the main challenge is going into the final two weeks of this tournament? thank you. more in the next hour. this week new homes and new lives. diy space battles and hidden figures. did you see that? chanting: eu, shame on you!
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we are living in interesting times. to many, it feels like the world is shifting on its axis. tempers are rising, voices are being raised. and there is movement, political. ideological. and physical. and this is one of the most divisive issues of the day — how to handle what the un has called the largest migration of people since the second world war. are they migrants?
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are they refugees? should they be welcomed? should they be turned away? at the barbican in london and artist is making this nuclear with this work — incoming. he has used a long—range infrared camera to film the arrival of migrants and refugees of camps across europe. it is actually a military tool that can detect body heat from 30 kilometres away. it can see through smoke and haze day or night. so this is a thermographic camera. in other words, you can actually see people whilst my body is glowing. a radiant thermal glow. you cannot really see their faces. it kind of a non— isa's people.
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it is an image of an individual with out a biological traits. it dehumanises a person, in a way, which is appropriate since it is a weapons grade technology. one interesting result of using a thermal imaging camera is that you cannot tell the skin colour of the people in the film. they are simply people. and, of course, that is part of this point. he says he wants to use the technology against itself, showing that the same cameras that allow missiles to see can also emphasise the fact that all humid life gives off the same glow. -- all —— all human life. we have to welcome these people as humans.
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instead, our governments have created these extraordinary technologies to enforce those borders. so i guess i wish people would dwell on that gullible bit. germany is one country that has taken on hundreds of thousands of refugees. many travel to the country from syria after hearing about its opendoor policy in the summer of 2015. but successfully integrating asylum seekers into society here is still one of the many challenges facing the nation. there are many obstacles to integration, including finding housing and getting a job and learning the language. but technology may help to speed the process. we have been to berlin, which is now home to over 60,000 syrian refugees, to see how. when the refugee crisis began, some of germany's largest empty buildings were given over to house refugees. including the international congress centre. it was abandoned for conferences and home to over a50 guests. 80 people live together in each of these spaces,
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colourful boxes lining a hole. —— eight. most are from syria but there are asylum seekers from other countries as well. afghanistan. russia. pakistan. ideally, guests only stay here for a few weeks but many people have lived here for over a year. i first heard about this camp when i was covering europe's biggest tech show. i was surprised to learn that there had been people living in the halls here as well, even recently. in fact, hole 26 used to house refugees who have moved out since the conference started. thejuxtaposition between a refugee camp in a high—tech trade show cold struck me. but many refugees have been helped by technology, using internet and smartphones to guide theirjourney to germany.
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including this man, a programmer from damascus who spent ten days travelling to germany from turkey and was filmed for a tv channel. he graduated as a computer engineering 2010 and arrived germany in 2014. i was a little disappointed because i thought i would find big technical companies and i would directly find a job and work but it was not like that. i needed about ten months to discover a position. it takes a few dozen refugees each semester, this course. the school was heavily supported by facebook who donated space. mark zuckerberg and his wife visited the students recently. through this, an app was developed for newcomers. this is the people who speak arabic
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so they do not suffer like me in the beginning. they can directly access all the information that they need. he won an award for this work and is entering an entrepreneurship internship for six months. in berlin, finally i found my dream that i can take courses and connect with a lot of companies. i can enter the tech community here in this country. it was not easy to find that in the beginning. for many newcomers, the legal requirement to learn german is one of the hardest hurdles to integration. outside the class, students can use one of these crime
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books donated by google. felix helped to build a wi—fi network here, which was non—existent. this is the server, a little further. —— a little server. it controls who was allowed to get on the internet and who is not allowed. the crime books are allowed to be taken out five evenings a week and are controlled by a password which changes hourly. —— chrome book. if anybody does something wrong we can tell the government. we are not bad people. this guy was a bad person. this distinction is important in germany where regulation makes the owner of a wi—fi network liable for any activity. muhamed from syria found it difficult to get online when he arrived in berlin and had a very different experience in this shelter. we have computer rules, free computers for 400 people
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and you need an appointment to go and use one of them. you have to deal with security and if they are not in a good mood they will give you an appointment as after two weeks. if i want to use the internet, i can't. he joined a group of activists who installed routers across the cities which can connect refugee housing to the internet for free. that is where we like to install our networks, at town halls or churches. i went to see one of the installations on top of the church tower. nodes are routed through virtual private servers which gets around some of the laws. this is a nano station antenna, regular five gigahertz wi—fi network like you would have at home. somewhere like this where there
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are no inhibiting factors, this can reach for several kilometres. cisco, one of the world's largest network providers saw an opportunity where if refugees had online access they could connect to courses already available in their language. its campus in berlin comes complete with an autonomous bus. it is also home to a familiar face. we first saw this man last year when we were filming in a camp injordan. he had lost this leg in an explosion in syria. he was volunteering injordan with a start—up refugee app to print a cheap replacement parts. he made the difficult decision to travel to berlin. he is now in cisco training to be an engineer. it was amazing for me. this building from outside,
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so old and on the inside it is filled with technology, cutting—edge technology. when i realised that this would be my workspace i was even more excited. he spent this weekends teaching a robotics course for children. it is a nice and fun way to introduce programming to children. cisco is currently working with five refugee interns and would like to expand the programme. they see the influx of syrians as an opportunity to fill demand for programming skills in the country. where would you see him after this programme? i would love to have him in the innovation centre because at the moment i have a lot of different topics that i want to establish and i would love him to engaging with our customers and the solutions. even then, in our future. never have an issue of how to handle a refugee crisis been more controversial. by opening its borders, germany is at the forefront of this debate.
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and it is clear that the tech community has a role to play and can help ease the transition to a new home. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that uber found itself under fire after a former employee accused the company of sexual harassment in a blog post. uber responded saying it would conduct an urgent investigation into the claims which it cold abhorrent and against everything uber stands for and believes in. it was also the week that youtube announced it would get rid of an skippable ads in 2018. scientists showed off a special coating making it easier to get catch about of a bottle. and astronomers have discovered seven sized planets orbiting a single star. and, before you live, three of them may have conditions to support life. —— before you ask.
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if you just hate living in a world with wires then research may have the answer. their prototype living room can wisely charge ten items such as smart phones and fans by static have the resonance. this means you can walk around while powering up, the purpose—built room has walls, ceiling and a floor may develop many with a copper pipe in the middle, a signal outside and a power amplifier so not quite a simple diy job. and finally, researchers at brigham young university have shown off an origami inspired light weight bullet—proof pillow. —— shield. the barrier is made up of 12 layers of bullet—proof kevlar and weighs only £55. how many faces can you see in this picture? did you see that?
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this is a persistence of vision disp you can only see it when your eyes, or in our case the camera, move left or right. we've slowed right down so you can really feast on... uh... my face. so, persistence of vision display is predicated upon the persistence of vision for which is an effective human eye and it is the effect where when you look at any bright light and you look away you see a ghost of that bright light for a moment. so what happens is our display takes a standard 2—dimensional image and brexit up in the vertical columns. this single column of light brings out each eye, -- it —— it breaks it up. until it gets to the end of the image and start over. so as your eye looks away from the display, it prints each column in your retina in a different location and the whole image is reassembled in the eye.
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moving strips of super fast flashing leds are painting pictures or text in the air for a couple of decades, but this relies on our eyes to do the movement. something they are naturally doing all the time. for what purpose? well, enormous adverts, for a start. we've created a new type of projection technique for creating persistence of vision displays and we patented that globally and what that lets us do it is scale the display massively. it becomes challenging the display anything more than three metres, but with our eco technology we can create displays up to 200 metres tall, turning skyscrapers into the world's biggest image machines. that's why if you've been walking down a particular street in berlin last monday, you might have seen my face out of the corner of your eye. do you think this is safe?
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do you think this is to distract him for drivers, for example? —— too distracting. it is very important that we introduce it in the right way. it isn't going to be for every location. i wouldn't want to introduce this next to a motorway. we need people to understand it and much like when led billboards first came into the public realm, they were very distracting and there was legislation instantly put in place in all to prevent destruction from drivers. we are going to have to travel a similar path. that's not the only eye—catching projection that i've seen this week. the head of next week's mobile world congress in barcelona have also managed to get a sneak preview of mobile devices. it is the latest version of sony's xb projector, and android—based device that throws a touch sensitive display on a table or wall.
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it has all the top seoul touchscreen functionality of a tablet, with your finger‘s decisions being watched by a camera under the projector and a row of infrared sensors at table level to detect when you've actually touched the surface. we are heading towards a world where our devices will be so small that we won't want a screen or a keyboard or any kind of device attached to them and i see this as one of the solutions. you just have a display when you want it on whatever surface is around. very cool, but this week... even that is not the coolest thing i've seen. from blue screen jungles to strange adventures in time, over the past few weeks we've been exploring some of the best visual effects from the past year and this week is no exception. directed by gareth edwards,
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the visual genius behind monsters and godzilla, rogue one has earned over $1 billion at the box office and has been nominated for an oscar in visual effects. edwards worked with the team at industrial lights and magic to recreate that galaxy and as we found out when we visited them in london they provided some very cool kit to comment his unique directing style. —— to facilitate his directing style. he likes to walk around the sets and physically pick up the camera is and walk around and find interesting angles that might not have occurred to him when he was planning the shoots in preproduction. they were keen that they were able to apply that same style of film into the synthetic camera, so we used the real—time virtual reality system and so he could show
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us rather than explain it to us. this is it? this is what we call our v camera. it is an ipad with a controller stuck on the back! so you are using existing technology? exactly. we can set it out relatively easily is this where he did the scenes? this is where he shot his virtualfilm. so this is the scene that was actually set up for the trailer, the first trailer. you have this scene running and he would just walk around and decide on his best angles and after that? the idea wasn't that he would be getting perfectly smooth camera moves, but he was able to sort of show to as the beginning of the shot, i want it here, the end of the shot, i wanted here. then it could be immediately picked up eye animators. we shot this in london and then
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pushed it into the pipeline and it was picked up by people in san francisco and take was ready for them to review the next morning. may i have a go? absolutely. the animation in this scene is the dish of the death star. look! you can see behind the dish! so i can get a different shot to gareth if i wanted? if i find a better shot, do i get a job? waiting for an answer. look at that! it's the dish going to the death star. here we are following it as it approaches the shield gate. we can move around and follow it in.
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over to the front. this film is set in the minutes before the very first one and so getting these computer generators, the models, to look exactly like the physical models from 1977 was i guess vital? our friends and colleagues in san francisco took digital scans of the original models. they had lots of texture references and thankfullyjust recreated them so that there wouldn't be any jarring differences between these ships and the others. jarring differences between these we have teams of people who are responsible for laying out camera moves, we have teams
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of people who are building digital models, texture and digital models. we have a fantastic team of animators and a team who take all of the renders that we generate and put it altogether with all the footage and integrate it into a photorealistic result. so this model here are, is that completely full detail, the uk move the cameras anywhere? we had a camera rotated around on its own and we moved it randomly around the city. we ended up with hundreds of views. so many of them were fascinating. typically if you give a shot to layout you will start dressing everything to the camera. you will start laying out buildings, typically with lighting you will start with backlighting, from one direction. but what we found was that because none of those considerations had been taken, you end up with occasionally finding things that were so natural, so lighting would be eliminated
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on one half of the wall, in the background for example, —— illuminating or none of the roads are perpendicular to the camera. that was really successful and we ended up using a lot of those views as the background in our shoots. how much of that was based on a real mushroom cloud? a lot. we did spend a lot of time watching old footage of nuclear explosions. it is quite terrifying when you watch them over and over again. you are rebels, aren't you? save the dream. and we wish everyone who worked on rogue 0ne all of the best of luck for this weekend.
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just a quick word about next week's programme, which will be at the mobile world congress, the big phone show in barcelona. we will bring you the full view from the show, mainly because we will be repeating what we did in switzerland last year and filming it in 360, although this time will be streaming some of it live and we will show you how we filmed this incredible super slow motion footage. we will give you a clue, the device is very, very mobile! in fact, we will show you exactly what it is and how good it is online on monday. keep your eye on twitter for more details! hello. it will become a little less
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to windy through the day, especially in the north where we should see sunshine in scotland and northern ireland. the rain is moving slowly south over the irish sea to bring rain in cumbria, lancashire and heavy rain in south wales. most of us heavy rain in south wales. most of us will see temperatures in double figures. it could be raining quite heavily first thing tomorrow. most of us will be frost free but there could be some frost in parts of scotland and north—east england. early brightness perhaps but generally cloudy on sunday. the rain will push
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in from the north—west and doesn't clear away from southern parts of scotla nd clear away from southern parts of scotland and northern until late. turning wetter over the hills of wales and the north. achievement of the century and the greatest sporting story of them all. the fans are dreaming, we are dreaming. good afternoon. the former labour foreign secretary david miliband says the party is the furthest it's been from power in 50 years. he was responding to labour's by—election
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