of mosul where a large number of civilians were killed. it said it had opened an investigation but accused islamic state group fighters of using civilians as human shields. the new leader of hong kong is currently being chosen, in a vote dismissed as a sham by pro—democracy activists. the territory's chief executive will be selected by a specially—appointed committee of nearly 1200 people — most of them loyal to the chinese leadership. there are three candidates. european union leaders have stressed the need for unity at a celebration in rome marking the 60th anniversary of the organisation's founding treaty. twenty—seven leaders signed a new declaration, but the british prime minister was absent. the uk is set formally begin the brexit process this week. those are the latest headlines. now on bbc news, it's time for click. click is back in india. we are

hitting the road, frail and water. there will be dance thing and singing... sort of. driving in india is an experience. the roads are crammed and the horn is omnipresent and the rules are... well, they're 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's not true. many people choose to travel by train instead. but if you think that is any less intense... think again. yeah, about those rules... mumbai central station is a massive, heaving hub connecting the city to the north and east of india. but 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 india's 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 gulzar azad, 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, relatively speaking, power is a challenge across the country, and you had to have the entire country walking through it there is only one place, that is a 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 did this was to see if we could provide an open internet, completely open with access to the entire web. the way the web was designed. so, there is a fibre optic 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's having elsewhere in india. it is hard not to be romantic about the railways of india. british colonial rulers laid track for 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 tojaipur station to investigate. it has proper broadband and it is free. people are filling their booths. apart from some controversy, at another station where commuters 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 jaipur station every day. i use the internet for news and entertainment. mainly for office work. for this studentjournalist it means she can keep tabs on breaking stories. early in the morning, the world changes like... so many things change. i have to 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. ashok runs a tea stall on the platform. he makes more money now that his

customers can make online payments to him. i use the wi—fi when my ag 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. digital payments are worth about 30%—50% of my takings. this is music to the years of people managing the railways of india. a nationalised industry that runs at a loss. they think that high—speed wi—fi could be a good pull for a station like jaipur. they planned to build a huge concourse and attract retail and services business. it mightjust be an earner. 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 domestic and international tourist hub of high repute. people come out here

from all parts of the world. and when you have a huge concourse it becomes an area where you can have shops and entertainment spots. for google, more people online is 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 cabins on us and uk bound flights, leaving from some african and middle eastern countries. 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 start—up boom supersonic raised $33 million infunding.

an app—controlled unstaffed convenience store has opened in shanghai. created by a swedish company, the always—open, never—staffed—by—a human shop requires users to use an app to enter, scan purchases and to pay. a security camera will be watching. nasa has create an origami—inspired robot that can flatten itself to fit into small spaces. the pop—up flat folding explorer robot, or puffer 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. disney research have been examining how the ball‘s path can be tracked, predicted and matched up in its virtual view as it approaches the catcher.

0r... you could just play without the vt headset. you may have noticed by now that the roads here are in india are... well... utter chaos. what is ever more astonishing — consider that so few people own a car here. 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 0la cabs, india's biggest taxi hailing app, the uber of india as you will.

or as they say prefer to say... uber is the 0la of india. founded back in 2010, three years before uber launched in india, 0la has taken full advantage of their head start. 0la have historically been number one in india but uber has said that that is changing. it looks like the battle for the cab cash in india is onlyjust beginning. these are the head offices in the silicon valley of india, bangalore. this is 0la's employee number one. india is not designed to have a car ownership rate of... not even 10%. what are the specific needs of your customers and drivers? we made an inclusive platform that is notjust about cabs but auto rickshaws, three—wheelers, tuk—tuks that you have, about many other things in india. supporting buses, bikes, electric rickshaws.

an inclusive platform for mobility wher eyou have transport options at different price points for different cases. so that brings an a lot of options for users. 0la 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. uber is coming into the indian market. how are you different from them? how will you stay ahead? there is a fundamental difference in the way we operate. we believe in what we want and not what we have. in terms of plugging in things have worked well elsewhere. you need to build from the ground up. it is about the connection that you make, notjust about the transaction. part of that connection is offering centres like this.

here, drivers can talk face—to—face with the company, for example when they join the service for training or if they have a problem, an issue with their wages, for example. but 0la does not actually employee any of these people. 0la calls 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, 0la really, really wants 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 with the infrastructure we have. we need to leapfrog all sorts of road construction, etc, because it will not take us where we need to go. we need to promote shared mobility, new sustainable options, our government is focusing in a big way on all vehicles being electric by 2020. 0la is one of the most successful start—ups to come out of the education sector in recent years. called indian institutes of technology, or iits, these top—level universities are dotted across india and they are the driving force behind many of india's technology successes. getting into iit is an incredibly 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... what?! you asked for a hard exercise! eeeehhhh—oooohhhh... 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. i can 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 three—d 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 or mri 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 $400. 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. 0rdinarily, 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. 0ne—quarter of india's rural population lives below the official population 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. thanks for watching. see you soon. hello there, good morning.

it really was a lovely start to the weekend and there's more sunshine to come on sunday. these were saturday's blue skies, taken by a weather watcher in aboyne, aberdeenshire. here, the temperature rose to 19.1 celsius, making it the warmest day of the year so far, closely followed by west wales, northern ireland and into cumbria. we'll see similar temperatures again on sunday. but it's pretty cold out there at the moment, especially underneath that high pressure where we've got no wind to speak of. maybe one or two mist and fog patches short—lived. not as cold to the south due to the wind not blowing,

but across the northern isles, we have a touch of frost already, especially chilly in the glens of scotland, parts of northern ireland too. it will warm up quickly in the sunshine. a lot of sunshine, almost wall—to—wall sunshine. still some cloud in shetland, perhaps 0rkney, a little bit of lighter cloud across the english channel and some stronger winds still blowing in southern parts of england and wales. lighter winds further north. lots of sunshine across the bulk of scotland, away from the northern isles. this time the highest temperatures in scotland more likely to be further west in western scotland. across counties fermanagh and tyrone we could get up to 18. 18 possible in the north and west of wales. generally about the mid—teens. the edge taken off the sunshine by the stronger winds in southern england. it could be a touch cooler than saturday in devon and cornwall and those temperatures pegged back right on the coast with the onshore breeze. a lovely evening if you're heading to wembley for the football on sunday. but once the sun goes down we will find those temperatures falling very quickly. perhaps not quite so low,

because on monday there will be a bit more cloud around, especially moving northwards into northern england and southern scotland, northern ireland. still a lovely day across the north—west of scotland. for most of england and wales there will be some sunshine. not as windy in the south. temperatures still 16—17 degrees. not as warm where we have that cloud. we'll find things gradually change as we look towards the south—west. we push away the area of high pressure that's keeping it fine and sunny and we'll introduce some showers perhaps across northern ireland, across wales. more western parts of england further east it may well be dry and across scotland it is largely dry, but more in the way of cloud here. that's the slow theme we will develop over the weekend. cloud increasing. the chance of some rain as well. but we will have the winds more from the south, so with the sunshine it will still be on the warm side and it won't be as cold at night. welcome to bbc news,

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