has never felt so serious. james cook, bbc news, in hollywood. we are going to pause and get the weather. good afternoon. the weather is throwing just about everything at us over is throwing just about everything at us over the next few days for that someone us over the next few days for that someone should weather to come as we head into tomorrow. for the rest of today, wet and windy weather the main story. fresh winds on the irish sea coasts. outbreaks of heavy rain as well. in the south—east it will be drier and fairly mild. this evening and tonight some rain moves across england and wales. heavy snow for northern scotland. by the end of the night a real rash of showers packing in from the west. at the same time, temperatures will be falling. that brings the risk of icy stretches. tomorrow morning, some sunny spells but also hefty showers. frequent showers with hail and

thunder and snow perhaps even to low levels times in the heaviest of showers. it stays very changeable through the rest of the week. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 12.31pm. jeremy corbyn, has said he accepts some responsibility for defeat in the copeland by—election — but that he is determined to finish the job he was elected to do as leader. he's due to speak later today. the conservative former deputy prime minister, lord heseltine, has said he will rebel against the government over brexit — when the lords vote on article 50 — the bill giving theresa may the authority to start negotiations to leave the eu. police in malaysia have declared kuala lumpur airport — where the half—brother of north korea's leader was killed with a nerve agent 12 days ago — to be safe. and preparations are nearly complete — as hollywood prepares to host the oscars. la la land is expecting to be the big winner of night, with 14 nominations.

now on bbc news, it's click. this week, new homes and new lives. diy space battles and hidden figures. did you see that? chanting: eu, shame on you! 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? are they refugees? should they be welcomed? should they be turned away? at the barbican in london an artist is making this view clear with this work — incoming. he has used a long—range infrared camera to film the arrival of migrants and refugees at 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's bodies glowing. a radiant thermal glow. you cannot really see their faces. it kind of a non—humanises people. it is an image of an individual without 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 moss's 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 human life gives off the same glow. we have to welcome these people as humans. instead, our governments have created these extraordinary technologies to enforce those borders. so i guess i wish people would dwell on that a little bit. germany is one country that has taken on hundreds of thousands of refugees. many travelled 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 main 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. eight people live together in each of these spaces, colourful boxes lining a hole. colourful boxes lining a hall. 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, hall 26 used to house refugees who have moved out since the conference started. thejuxtaposition between a refugee camp and a high—tech trade show struck me. but many refugees have been helped by technology, using internet and smartphones to guide theirjourney to germany. 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 engineer in 2010 and arrived in 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.

this course takes a few dozen refugees each semester, and teaches coding skils. 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 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 90 chromebooks donated by google. felix helped to build a wi—fi network here, which was non—existent. this is the server, a little server. it controls who was allowed to get on the internet and who is not allowed. the chromebooks are allowed to be taken out five evenings a week and are controlled by a password which changes hourly. 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 his shelter. we have computer rules, free computers for 400 people 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 after two weeks. if i want to use the internet, i won't wait. he joined a group of activists who installed routers across the city 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 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 3d 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, 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 spends his 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 assem after this programme? i would love to hire 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 the refugee crisis been more controversial. by opening its borders, germany is at the forefront of this debate. 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 called abhorrent and against everything uber stands for and believes in. it was also the week that youtube announced it would get rid

of unskippable ads in 2018. scientists showed off a special coating making it easier to get catch about of a bottle. ketchup out of a bottle. and astronomers have discovered seven sized planets orbiting a single star. and, before you ask, three of them may have conditions to support life. if you just hate living in a world with wires then disney research may have the answer. their prototype living room can wirelessly charge ten items such as smart phones and fans by static resonance. this means you can walk around while powering up, the purpose—built room has walls, ceiling and a floor may develop many this means you can walk around while powering up, the purpose—built room has walls, ceiling and a floor

made of aluminium, 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 shield. the barrier is made up of 12 layers of bullet—proof kevlar and weighs only 55lbs. how many faces can you see in this picture? did you see that? this is a persistence of vision disp this is a persistence of vision disply. you can only see it when your eyes, or in our case the camera, move left or right. we've slowed it right down so you can really feast on... uh... my face. so, a persistence of vision display is predicated upon the persistence of vision phenomenon

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 breaks it up in the vertical columns. this single column of light brings out each eye, until it gets to the end of the image and starts 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 your eye. 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 is scale up

the display massively. it becomes challenging to create a display 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? do you think this is too distracting for drivers, for example? 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 order to prevent distraction 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. ahead of next week's mobile world congress in barcelona, i've also managed to get a sneak preview of mobile devices. it is the latest version of sony's xb projector, it is the latest version of sony's experia projector, and android—based device that throws a touch sensitive display on a table or wall. it has all the 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, 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 light and magic to recreate that galaxy far far away and as we found out when we visited

them in london they provided some very cool kit to facilitate his unique directing style. he is a very hands—on filmmaker. 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 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 want it here. then it could be immediately picked up by animators. we shot this in london and then pushed it into the pipeline and it was picked up by people in san francisco and tape 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. over to the front. this film is set mere 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, thankfully, just recreated them so that there wouldn't be any jarring differences between these ships and the others. we have teams of people who are responsible for laying out camera moves, we have teams of people who are building digital models, texturing 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, is that completely full detail, so you can 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 views that were so natural, so lighting would be illuminating one half of the wall, in the background for example, 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 one all of the best of luck for the oscars this weekend. 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. i 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 again. good afternoon. the weather will be thrown in just about everything at us for the next few days. there will be some snow and hailand a days. there will be some snow and hail and a little bit of sunshine. also, a lot of cloud, some outbreaks of rain and some strong winds. that is because of this lump of

cloud named storm ewan, named by the irish weather service. we have this area of cloud spreading in from the west. outbreaks of rain continuing to affect many northern and western areas with strong winds in the irish sea. drier and milder towards the south—east. towards the rest of the afternoon of the northern scotland, some cold air tucking in. a lot of rain and snow across northern scotla nd rain and snow across northern scotland this evening. some strong winds across the northern isles. some rain moving across england and wales. by the end of the night, quite a few showers tend to pack in. with the showers and falling temperatures, there is the risk of some icy stretches to take us into monday morning. bear that in mind for the commute. as we go on through the day there will be some spells of

sunshine that there will also be some spells of showers, some of them heavy with hail and thunder and some of them wintry, especially over high ground but even over low levels, if you get a shower, don't be surprised to see some sleet and some wet snow. the day will feel decidedly chilly. no pressure still in charge as we go through monday night into tuesday. still the fairly chilly north—westerly wind. plenty of showers, at this stage at low levels, some of the showers will be falling as rain. still some sleet and snow up over high ground. hale and snow up over high ground. hale and thunder cannot be ruled out either. the temperatures nudging up a little bit. eventually, we will see milder air returning from the south, but not before this little ridge of high pressure builds its way in. wednesday starting off rather fine. perhaps some fog patches as well. we will see you rain spreading in from the south—west and then the temperatures

lift as we head towards the end of the week. good afternoon. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is to deliver a rallying call to his party after last week's defeat in the copeland by—election. he'll say that, despite the scale of the task, now is not the time to retreat, run away or give up. mr corbyn will be giving a keynote speech to the scottish labour party in perth shortly. here's our political correspondent, tom barton. his report contains flash photography. do you still think you are the man to rebuild labour? jeremy corbyn arriving in perth this morning. we are campaigning fora arriving in perth this morning. we are campaigning for a just and fair society. preparing