during the battle for mosul. it is understood that 12 people have been hospitalised, but it is unclear exactly which chemical was used. the centre—right candidate in the french presidential race, francois fillon, has had another setback. his campaign manager has quit. it is the latest sign that he is losing support in the face of a corruption scandal. a former journalist, juan thompson, has been accused of making bomb threats againstjewish centres, and of cyber—stalking his ex—girlfriend. it is alleged thompson sent threats to a jewish school in michigan, thejewish history museum in new york, and a community centre in manhattan. in about ten minutes we will have this week's edition of newswatch, but first it is time for click. we are about to put a whole new spin

on the world of mobiles. we are at the mobile world congress in barcelona — the big show devoted to phones, tablets and all things mobile. we're a bit behind schedule, but we're going to get there. although, if we look a bit distracted, it is because we are preparing for a rather audacious experiment. it is not that we are not interested in the floating displays, connected bus stops, flash cars, smart shoes, or robot drummers. it is just that we are about to bash out something a lot more complicated.

last year, we filmed an entire programme in 360 degrees, allowing those watching in virtual reality to look around the fantastic locations simply by turning their heads or their phones in whichever direction they pleased. and that is the power of 360. you really feel like you have been teleported into the situation. not only that, but these days, we also have the ability to stream 360 live. so imagine that, the next time we send a robot to the moon, if it has a 360 camera on board, then we can all put on a pair of goggles and actually feel like we are there, too. and so that is what we are doing today, getting ready to go live in 360. not to the moon, admittedly, but to a place that is still a pretty strange landscape. so here we are in the massive mobile world congress. eight enormous halls

of madness and noise, as everyone tries to launch their product with maximum pizzazz and maximum volume. but these days this event is notjust about mobiles, of course. virtual reality is everywhere. since you can use a phone as a vr headset, many companies have opted to up the excitement by strapping people in and hurling them about. yes, folks, vr can be totally immersive, if you have your own 360 chair. and i don't even want to think what kind of experience this chap is having. but going live in 360 is less about the headset and more about the kind of camera equipment you can and cannot use. you are currently watching me through a nokia ozo, which is a professional 360 camera with a professional pricetag to boot — about 16,000 us dollars, or 40,000 euros.

but it is a beautiful looking thing. it has eight lenses all around the sphere, which means not only can you can see in all directions, but it can also shoot in 3—d because that combination of lenses allows it to process the stereoscopic view. what is really weird is it has this enormous battery pack at the back, which you think would be in shot, but actually this thing has a blind spot to about here. and what they so is theyjust get that almost—360 view and stretch it around like that. modern 360 cameras will stitch the scene together themselves in real time, automatically wrapping that weird, warped video into a sphere around your head, and that is what enables them to go live. now, if you wanted to stream the full 360 view from the ozo, you are going to need some extract kit. two dedicated hardware boxes, and an internet upload speed of at least 30 megabits per second. and, at a trade show like this, we are not that lucky. i think we have to accept that it's early days.

to get really high—quality, ideally stereoscopic video, so you really can look around and feel a sense of depth, and feel that you're there, is going to take a while. there are bandwidth problems, and just having the equipment that can transmit and that amount of data, so that when you look, the picture gets rendered according to exactly where you're looking. it's going to take a while to get it sorted, but we're starting there. we are going to be doing two lives in 360, testing two different cameras and this is no mean feat because as with last year's 360 show, we are coming to this before the manufacturers have made bespoke equipment. so, to get good pictures, good sound, and a decent bit of interaction with the audience, we are having to hack together various bits of kit, and hope no—one trips over any of it. my microphone goes into a transmitter, which goes into a receiver, which goes into a box, which plugs into another

box, and then we've got, like, a half a mile of ethernet cable, which is going to a network access point, which is hidden in the garden. so that's good. the first 360 camera we are using is the 0rah [ll — four lenses which between them can shoot the 360 video in ultra—high—def 4k. although it is important to note that this is the resolution of the entire 360 shot. the viewer only sees a part of this as they look around the scene. at the moment, it's not showing us anything that we want. they're seeing us in london. it's a bit blurry, but we're going to get better. it was our very first attempt, so things were bumpy on the run—up and rather rough around the edges.

we were supposed to go like —15 minutes ago. we're going live now. ahh. that said, it seemed to hang together, and viewers on our youtube 360 channel got to find out a bit more about a car that's planning to go at 1,000 miles per hour. there is three engines? yes, it has a gas turbine engine from the typhoon eurofighter. right. and it has two jets, effectively. rockets? rockets, effectively. and you need three of them. yes. to get to 1,000 mph. the gas turbine is for your below 800mph manoeuvres and then the rockets fire you up, give you the kick to over a thousand. now, streaming such a high—quality picture takes a lot of data, hence we had to use a fat, wired internet connection of about 10 megabits per second. but, for our second attempt, we went commando. the ricoh theta s is the camera we used to shoot the 360 helicopter scene from last year.

it is a small hand—held stick with two fish—eye lenses. its full view is only 2k, the same as a normal high—def picture, so the part you see in virtual reality is much lower resolution but that does means it is possible to stream the video live over the mobile network, which is what we did, in style, with a drone. to give them a taste of what it is like to be so close to a drone, you might lose a limb. weird. very soon, ricoh is releasing the theta r which has a few upgrades, including more connectors, expandable storage, and it will do the stitching in the camera itself, rather than needing a computer to do all the grunt work. for now, though, we were pretty happy with our little experiment, and very soon there will almost certainly be more fully integrated kits, to let us go live in 360 with much less bother. when we went to up a glacier and to the large hadron collider

to film those in 360, we used six gopros strapped together to film the entire scene. we then had to stitch that footage together manually, using a powerful computer and software, and many, many hours. well, since then, gopro has released the 0mni, which is a case in which six gopros fit. it has one remote start for all six cameras, which is good, and it also comes with a box that does all the stitching. and in a couple of months‘ time, gopro says it is going to release an update which allows you to do that live. and, if you want to create your own 360 videas, this tiny camera by lifi plugs into your android phone. the videos are not live, but the stitching is quick, and you can share it easily on your social networks. right, what else is hot at this year's mwc? here's stephen beckett

with a round—up. stephen. incredibly, at a convention with some of the world's biggest phone manufacturers hawking their newest and shiniest devices, this is the phone that everyone is talking about. finnish start—up hmd global has resurrected a scintillating piece of nostalgia, with a reboot of its nokia 3310. do you remember that? hmd licensed the nokia phone brand at the end of 2016. the close to indestructible handset, with a seemingly infinite battery life, has been given a new lease of life, with modern curves, jazzy colours and, of course, a re—versioning of snake. blackberry has also gone back to basics with a new flagship phone — the key0ne. it has a physical gesture sensitive keyboard that hides a fingerprint scanner under the space bar. and that is not the only slice of nostalgia here at nwc. samsung is getting in on the action, too, with this classic norris pencil, although i would not sharpen this particular one because there is quite a lot of digital stuff in the end, to allow you to do things like this. google would much rather you talk to your devices though,

rather than write to them. it has announced its personal assistant, google home, will finally be available for sale outside of the us, and by may, in the uk. and, in another new attempt to dominate the ai market, the company also said it will roll out its voice—activated digital assistant to all android phones running marshmallow and nougat. until now, it has only been available on goggle‘s own pixel line of phones. that is, apart from huawai and lenovo mobiles. those are set to use amazon's alexa instead. lenovo‘s upcoming moto z will get its assistance smarts through a snap—on back, which they're calling a moto mod. 0thers, though, are ditching customisation. lg launched its new flagship g6 phone without the modular capability of its previous models. the company say its customers do not fancy forking out for extra parts. the lg g6 also knocks the traditional aspect ratio oyt of the park — the screen is 18x9 — twice as tall as wide. smartphones have traditionally been 16x9.

and that is it for the shortcut of click at nwc in barcelona. a full version is available online now. and let us know what you think of our attempt at a 360 degrees episode. to be kind. thank you for watching, see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch with samira ahmed. 0n hello and welcome to newswatch with samira ahmed. on this week's programme. they got their envelopes mixed up but did bbc news get its news priorities the wrong way around? we discuss complaints at the embarrassment of the oscars was reported on as though it was an event of major global significance but really, was it? did you by any chance know that things didn't go entirely as planned at the oscars this year? thought so. if you tuned into any bbc news programme on monday, the strange event on monday

we re monday, the strange event on monday were ha rd to monday, the strange event on monday were hard to avoid. it really shouldn't have been that difficult, opening the right envelope at the right time and naming the right film but at the oscars last night in front of a global audience of billions, it all went horribly wrong. warren beatty and faye dunaway announced to the world that the winner of west film was la la land. the only trouble was, it wasn't. that mistake was in the minds of scores of newswatch viewers followed by another mistake. this time by the bbc. as well as taking up time by the bbc. as well as taking up significant airtime on breakfast at the news channel, it occupied the first seven or so minutes of both the news at one and the news at six. many said that more significant subjects went down the running order such as the first public hearings on the government's first independent ink or into child secular —— sexual abuse. to viewers recorded their thoughts. they commented on the six 0'clock news. thoughts. they commented on the six o'clock news. i can't believe the

bbc would consider this important enough to devote so much of the programme too. when there is so much happening around the world. i have no objection to this getting a mention that keep the headline spot for truly important newsworthy items. you are, after role, providing a public service. firstly, let me just say that i am a great fan of the bbc and particularly the breakfast programme in the morning. however, i was absolutely gobsmacked the other day when warren beatty made this antelope mistake for the awards