the briton predicted ferrari would be a threat and vettel joins him on the front row. his new mercedes team—mate got closer to hamilton than rosberg managed a year ago and the finn went second. others seem unlikely to challenge with red bull's hopes appearing thin for now. verstappen was more than a second off the pace and had to settle for fifth. daniel ricciardo pushed so hard it cost him dear in front of his home fans. if hamilton was on the limit, it didn't show. when it mattered it beat the mark set down by bottas and despite reviving ferrari's fortunes, vettel was more than a quarter of a second adrift. working how he can gain advantage over the mercedes will be crucial. this rule change has been huge and such a massive challenge for everyone and the guys have just worked, you know, so hard to make this car what it is today and to be out there to up here representing

them, valtteri did a greatjob. it is great for us for mercedes. i'm looking forward to the race and it is close between us all. sir bradley wiggins has promised to "shock a few people", once the uk anti—doping investigation into alleged wrong—doing at team sky is over. they're looking into the delivery of a package to wiggins before the 2011 tour de france. speaking on sky television, wiggins said the claims were the worst thing to be accused of, for a man of his "integrity". he said he couldn't go into detail, but there would be a lot to say. the scottish challenge cup final is about to get under way. the players are on the pitch. it is dundee united against st mirren. it is taking place at fir park. we will

other updates later. —— we will have updates. republic of ireland captain seamus coleman will have surgery today on the broken leg he suffered in their world cup qualifier with wales. it was a tackle from neil taylor that caused the injury to coleman. it wasn't a malicious challenge, but it was certainly mistimed. taylor was sent off for it, as coleman was carried off on a stretcher. britain'sjohanna britain's johanna konta britain'sjohanna konta is into the third round of the miami open, which she was given a fright by a qualifier in a match interrupted twice by rain. she sailed through the first set, lost the second on a tie—break and regained her composure to rapid up. —— to wrap it up. that is all your sport. now it is time per click. this week, click is back in india.

we're hitting the road, water. there will be dancing, there will be singing... sort of. driving in india is an experience. the roads are crammed and the horn is omnipresent and the rules are... well, they are there somewhere, i'm sure. and that's why we will not be doing a story about self driving cars in india any time soon.

and despite the fact that it seems like everybody here owns a car, that is not true. many people choose to travel by train instead. if you think that is any less intense... think again. yeah, about those rules... the central station is a massive heaving hub collecting the city to the north and east of india. —— connecting. if you look closely, you will see something else connecting the commuters to the rest of the world. 116 wireless access points provide free wi—fi to anybody with an indian phone number. it is provided by google which says that about 2.5 tb are being downloaded here every day. and here is the interesting part, this is notjust about this station. along the railway tracks lie 115,000 kilometres of optical fibre and google is piping internet access down those cables to feed wi—fi access to 114 other train stations as well. the man overseeing the project is this man, who i caught up

with while he was waiting for a train. if you had to take one place in the country where you wanted tremendous fibre and you had to have reliable power then, relatively speaking, power is a challenge and the entire country had to walk for, there is only one place. the railway station. can you guarantee that all services on google‘s wi—fi will be treated equally? absolutely. i think the whole motivation for us, if you look at the reason why we do this was to see if we could provide an open internet, completely open with access to the entire world. the way the web was designed. so, there is a fibre network rolling out from train stations like this to the vast rural areas

of this enormous country. and david hopped on a train to find out what effect that has happened having elsewhere in india. it is hard not to be romantic about the railways of india. british colonial rulers laid tracks to control shifting resources, mostly out, and prising open markets. now it is about moving people, millions a day. and thanks to optic fibre, data. i took the train to a station to investigate. it has proper broadband and it is free. people are filling their booths. apart from some controversy, at this station where people were using free wi—fi to download hard—core pornography,

the provision of high—speed wi—fi has been almost universally praised. 90,000 people pass through the station every day. i use the internet for work and entertainment. for a studentjournalist it means she can keep tabs on breaking stories. early in the morning, the world changes like... so many things change. i come and check. indian stations are full of thriving businesses, feeding off or simply feeding the thousands streaming through them every day. free wi—fi has been a boon to local businesses here. this man runs a tea stall on the platform. he makes more money now that his customers and make

online payments to him. i use the wi—fi when my four g signal does not catch. when that does not work, i use wi—fi, especially when a customer pays digitally. i need it to confirm i have received the payment. a digital payment worth about 30% of my takings. this is music to the years of people managing the railways of india. an industry that runs at a loss. they think that high—speed wi—fi could be a good pool for a station like jaipur. they plan to build a huge concourse and attract retail and services business. as wi—fi expands and it becomes taken for granted then i think people will transfer more and more of their business. jaipur is a tourist hub of high repute. people come out here from all parts of the world. and when you have a huge concourse

it is an area where you can have shops and entertainment. for google, more people online as more people to sell to. india's railway is the country's backbone. its public wi—fi is poised to be at least as far reaching. welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that laptops and other electronic devices larger than cellphones were banned from caverns on us and uk bound flights, leaving from some african and middle eastern countries. —— cabins. a start up hopes to be able to provide flights from london to paris by electric plane within ten years and faster than concorde, supersonic travel between london and new york could be back with flight times of just three hours and 15 minutes. after the start—up, boom supersonic

gained $33 million in funding. and apple controlled convenience store has opened in shanghai. —— app. created by a swedish company, the always open never staffed by a human shop requires using an app to enter, scam purchases and pay. a security camera will be watching. nasser is creating an origami inspired robot that can flatten itself to fit into small spaces. —— nassar. —— nasa. the robot can cope with extremely high temperatures and, finally, if you could do anything in virtual reality, what would it be? well... if your answer was to play a game of catch with an actual ball then you are in luck. research have been examining how the ball‘s path can be tracked, predicted and matched up in its virtual view. or you could just play it without

the headset. you may have noticed by now that the roads here are in india are... well... utterly chaotic. that is all the more astonishing when you consider so few people own a car. there are just 32 motor vehicles per 1000 people in india. in the united states, there are 797. but that number is changing and i'll tell you a secret, it is not going down. look at these roads. that is a scary thought. one solution could be to make better use of the cars that are already on the road. enter india's biggest taxi hailing

app, the uber of india. or as they say, uber is the all of india. founded back in 2010, three years before uber launched in india, they have taken full advantage of their head start. they have historically been number one in india but the uber has said that that is changing. it looks like the bit —— the battle for india's cab cash is onlyjust beginning. these are the head offices in silicon valley of india, bangalore. this is employee number one. india is not designed to have many cars. what are the specific needs of your customers and drivers? we made a platform that is notjust about cabs but about many other things in india. supporting bikes, electricity, . .. different transport options.

it is an inclusive platform from ability where you have different transport options. so that brings an a lot of options for users. they say that it is better because it is local and it knows what works in india. they offer things like walk—in centres for drivers and being the first to allow customers to pay by cash. the uber is coming into the indian market. how are you different from them? there is a difference in how we operate. we believe in what we want, not what we have. plugging in things which have worked elsewhere. it's about the connection you make. it's about the connection you make. it's not just about the transaction. part of that connection is offering centres like this. here, drivers can talk face—to—face

with the company, for example clark, like when theyjoin the service for training or if they have a problem, an issue with their wages, for example. but they do not actually employee any of these people. they call everybody here a partner. in reality, they are self—employed. that means they do not get things like holiday pay and they are responsible for maintaining their car and paying for fuel. the flipside is that drivers can, in theory, set their own schedule and work when they please. it is a controversial system that transport and delivery companies around the world have used to keep costs down. despite this, all really, really wants drivers to drive. a lock. —— despite this, they want drivers to drive, a lot. so much so that there are carrots if you stay on the road and sticks if you don't.

what india really needs to focus on is to enable mobility for a billion people. we need to leapfrog all sorts of impediments and we need to promote share mobility, sustainable options, our government is focusing in a big way on all vehicles. the government want all vehicles to be electric by 2025. ola is one of the most successful start—ups to come out of the education sector. cold indian institutes technologies, these universities are dotted across india and they are the driving force behind many of the country's technological successes. getting into iit is a competitive business. only a tiny fraction of applicants get in in any year. but if you do, you get to work in incredible campuses like this. my first appointment is at

the olympic—sized swimming pool — although it's not me who's taking a dip. this is matsya, named after the avatar of vishnu — which takes the form of a fish — it's a multipurpose underwater robot that can operate autonomously, without a human controller, to locate sounds, and recognise, grab and manipulate objects. the team tell me it might be used to find flight recorders from crashed aircraft, although they're also pitching it to the military to fire torpedoes. the project is in its fifth year, and the team leader tells me the work is hard, but can be massively wide—ranging. "like a racing car, or a satellite."

brilliant! matsya is one of 100 projects that have been supported by iit bombay‘s society for innovation & entrepreneurship since 200a. sine is an umbrella for start—ups and, as with incubators everywhere, you'll find all kinds of ideas bubbling away behind its doors. as you might expect, there are aerial ideas, there are medical ideas, but there are also musical ideas — which is why you find me making strange noises with my face... doooo—deeee—doooo. .. very good. you got some score over here. "some score"! if you do it better, your score will increase. yeah, the worst karaoke india has ever heard. but then, this singing—training app

is so much more than normal karaoke—style games. most karaoke apps do a very cursory kind of evaluation of your singing. some of them don't even value the singing, theyjust some input — you just open your mouth, you get a good rating. what we do is a multidimensional evaluation of your singing on different aspects of music — pitch, rhythm, falsetto, dynamics, timing... eeeehhhh—oooohhhh... you asked for a hard exercise! eeeeeh—eeeeee—eeeeehhh. .. echoing if my singing went right through you, i've got something upstairs that will really cut to the bone. the algosurg team are working on a system for surgeons to plan surgery. they've created software that's learned to create a three—d model of bones from just two

two—dimensional x—rays. ican imagine, after a lot of experience, a bone — if i just look at an x—ray, i can imagine it in three—d. can we do the same thing with computers? a surgeon can do it, because he has learned a lot of correlation between x—ray image and that three—d bone which he sees during the surgery. we used the same logic to develop the software. we have a machine—learned algorithm which has learned the 3d shape of bones across the population. we have created a lot of three—d models from ct scans, and we used this as a kind of database, and we create an algorithm to understand that database in a very particular way to predict a three—d model from an x—ray image. these three—d models also allow for tools and guides to be designed to the patient‘s specific dimensions. for example, if a surgeon was preparing to cut and realign legs. we have special, specific instrumentation which uses the bone surface

in three—d, and it is like a negative of the three—d bone surface. if you make that part and print it in three—d, and put it on the real bone, it will exactly fit in a very unique fashion. so what we do is, we use that concept to cut, to make surgeon cut more accurately, so this part will be exact fit on the bone, but it will also have a slit which will be aligned with the cutting plate. that slit can be used during the surgery to guide a cutting tool. two x—rays are, of course, cheaper than a full three—d ct ormri scan and, once again, it means patients can be assessed who can't get to a fully kitted hospital. there's no surprise that many of the projects here concentrate on low—cost, rugged solutions to developing—world problems. you may have come across braille displays before, which allow you to connect via bluetooth to your android tablet, then whichever menu item is highlighted on the screen,

the text is mirrored on the braille readout here, and you can control the navigation using up and down buttons here. well, this is a prototype braille display called brailleme, which works in a slightly different way. the braille displays currently existing on the market are based on piezo—electric technology. because of that very thing, the cost of these devices are around $2,000 to $3,000 each. we developed a completely new technology based on magnetics through which we are able to reduce the cost 10 times. we can sell it to the user at a price point around $300 to $1100. this machine needs to work for at least 10 million cycles of up—and—down movement, it has to be quiet, low power — all of those features make it very difficult to make such a compact device. so that is the challenge. this is the anjuman urdu primary school

in the town of kundapur in karnataka. there are 155 kids here from grades 1 through to 7, and a whole bunch of dedicated teachers. and this is how they start their day. singing over in vuaya nayak‘s classroom, things are a little more serious. so, at the back of the projector, there's an android device which is plugged in and is running videos on english, maths and science. the videos are made for the entire region. but then they're dubbed in different dialects, different languages, depending on where they're being sent to. today, we're learning about fractions. it is great teaching tool — as long as there is electricity. but there are plenty of times

when there isn't. translation: this is a billet school. ordinarily, it would be difficult to teach because of power cuts. we would get electricity in the mornings but, as the day passed by in the afternoon, we would have power cuts for more than two hours. that's why the projector and tablet are hooked up to this box, which is itself attached to a solar panel on the roof. together, they can provide up to five hours of electricity a day, meaning that classes don't have to be interrupted or cancelled if the power cuts out. then, we started using solar power, as it is an easy and natural source of generating electricity. we have introduced a study of generating power through solar energy to our students, and are teaching them the importance and working of it. we also explain to our students that this process will help us, in the future, to generate electricity. this whole system has been provided

by the selco foundation, an indian charity with the aim of helping to alleviate poverty by improving access to energy. with this, students can get a better education through audiovisual teaching, and also there is no problem with electricity. so any time the teachers can take their students to the classroom, they can teach through this medium. selco and other ngos they work with pay for half of the cost of installing the projector and solar system — the other half comes from local schools or local government. how important is the projector? translation: before this project came in to use it, we had very few students. but since we have started using the solar power, our number of students has increased in a good way. we have students coming to us from different villages to learn, and not only students — we have other schools coming down to our institute for smart classes. the smart class is a good way of teaching kids these days.

they seem to enjoy and learn more than usual. after we introduced smart class, our school stands proudly in the educational sector. we plan to grow larger as the years pass by. cool. whoa! the same system is already in hundreds of rural schools, and they're aiming to add hundreds more this year. and it's notjust key for schools — across rural india, businesses can be helped massively by having a reliable power supply. somana is a seamstress who lives a short drive from kundapur. she became the main breadwinner for the family after her father was taken ill. the more clothing she can repair, the more she gets paid. with her old, hand—operated sewing machine, she could fix a couple of items a day. but thanks to the solar panels on her roof, her electric machine can whiz through five or six clothes per day. plus, she has a fan,

a tv and a light, so she can work earlier and later. one—quarter of india's rural population lives below the official population line — —— poverty line. that's 260 million people whose livelihoods could be improved by the addition of basic facilities like electricity. and of course, one key way of helping people out of poverty is... ..education. it's always such a privilege to come to a place like this and see how the simplest technology can make a world of difference. that's it from india for the moment. you can see plenty of photos and more backstage gossip on twitter — we live at: thanks for watching. see you soon. hello there. lots more spring

sunshine to come through the rest of the day. high—pressure bringing gusty winds through southern coastal areas of england. knocking the edge of the temperatures for eastern east anglia and kent. temperatures up to 19 degrees in west wales. the warmest day of the year so far. overnight, high—pressure still in charge. the winds keeping the frost that they in the south. with lighter winds in the heart of the uk, a frost in the countryside with temperatures down to —5 in coldest spots. another glorious day tomorrow

with plenty of sunshine. cold winds blowing across the south of england. similar temperatures from any. a degree down in parts of england. the clocks go forward by an hour tonight. that means for early risers and our less tonight. that means for early risers and ourless in tonight. that means for early risers and our less in bed tonight. good afternoon. the uk independence party's only mp, douglas carswell, has announced he's leaving the party. in a statement on his website mr carswell said that he was quitting the party in the knowledge that his goal of leaving the european union had been achieved. he will now be sitting as an independent mp. our political correspondent matt cole has the story. it all began so well for douglas ca rswell it all began so well for douglas carswell and it all began so well for douglas ca rswell and ukip, it all began so well for douglas carswell and ukip, first hejoined the party. i'm today leaving the conservative party and joining ukip. thenin conservative party and joining ukip. then in the by—election he called to refight his seat, he delivered them their first elected mp.