the gunman responsible for the attack in paris on thursday has been named as karim cheurfi. a handwritten note defending the so—called islamic state group was reportedly found near where he was shot. as theresa may campaigned for the upcoming election in the uk. there were suggestions of a possible softening her government's promise not to raise taxes. she said she'll keep the current spending on foreign aid. in about ten minutes, it's time for newswatch, but first, here's click. i don't know if you have noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris, where this weekend, the french take to the polls

in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections, injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting — surely there has to be a better way. well, we asked bbc newsbeat‘s political editor jonathan blake to have a look. ancient institutions and modern technology. the two do not always go together. as elections are held worldwide throughout 2017, that could radically reshape the political landscape, most people will cast their vote in the same way it has been done for decades, using a pencil and paper to put a cross in a box.

one company is working on a way to make voting more convenient and, they say, more secure, with an app that lets you register and vote by selfie. it uses facial biometrics, and combines that with some sort of government document, whether it is a passport or driver's licence, to create a digital identity, which the voter is in control of. so this is a demonstration version of the app which smartmatic have made. we will start by registering, first of all. it's asking me to take a selfie. the next stage is to add photo id. we'll go with driver's licence, because i have that handy. once the id is matched to your face, the app confirms you are registered to vote. and we are voting for rushfield borough council, which is not a real place. it's asked me to take a photo,

so if i hold up the camera, the phone will take a selfie automatically. so here there is a list of candidates, the same as you would see on the ballot paper. i don't need to tell you who i'm voting for, so i won't. i'll pick one at random. you are asking people to take a photo of their face, capture an image of the photo identification. how secure is that information, where does it go? the digital identity you create is unique to you, and it stays on your device, on your personal mobile phone or tablet, whatever it is you use to take it. it doesn't get stored anywhere. you are in control of it at all times, and you are in control of what pieces of information you use to create that idea, and who you share it with. but concerns about cyber security mean countries once embracing the use of technology in democracy are having second thoughts. in the netherlands, where the voting system has been computerised

since 2008, this year they are counting votes by hand. but the country that has earned a reputation as the electronic voting capital of the world is sticking to its guns. estonia is almost obsessive about its digital identity. here in estonia, everyone from the age of 15 carries a government—issued photo id card. using this, and accompanying pin numbers, you can access your bank, phone company, energy firm, but also a lot of official information. you can see this man's name, address, date of birth, where he went to school, health records, everything down to what car he drives. in estonia, voting isjust another thing you can do online. download software, use your id card and pin to make a selection, and vote from the comfort of your home, or wherever is convenient. around one in three votes is now cast online, but officials admit it has not boosted turnout. the internet voter is

a transformed paper voter. having a novelty, a convenient method of voting, is not enough to bring people from the "no voting" zone back to voting, or to voting. of course, you need other incentives. other countries seem reluctant to follow estonia's lead. the british minister responsible for elections told me the government is looking only at taking very small steps. they have identification cards, and they keep the systems. it is a very different space to what we have in the uk, where they don't have a privacy agenda, about protecting individual citizens' rights, and protecting their own data. going forwards, we have got to make sure that, while we embrace technology and we embrace things like online registration, online voting is a situation where, if we believe the current paper—and—pen method is the best way forward, then actually, it means that each individual‘s vote is counted equally.

0ne voter, one vote. as technology advances, calls to digitise democracy will continue, but so will concerns about cyber security, so the pencil and paper may well always have its place. now, back to paris. and how would you feel about renting your car to a complete stranger? well, believe it or not, here, there is an app that lets you do just that. drivy has been operating for six years. over 40,000 car owners have chosen to list their cars on the platform, mainly in france, germany, and spain, racking up one—and—a—half million days of rentals. the app gives me a list of vehicles available in the designated area on my chosen date. and then i can swipe through pictures and details of each car. yeah, it's basically airbnb, but for your car. some kind of carbnb, i suppose. right, first impressions of the drivy office, it's maximum start—up. table tennis, check. sweetshop, check. writing on the windows, check.

but how has this company persuaded thousands of people to learn their cars to others? —— loan. i don't know whether it is because i'm british, but i think it's a crazy idea to randomly hire my car out to other people. do you not think that no one will partake of this, because of the risk of damage and having your car stolen? we definitely knew from the start that it would sound like a crazy idea to lend your car, to most people. the question was, would some people agree it was a good idea, and that it's efficient, and how do i protect these people who are willing to try, rather than convince the majority. do you think there is a reason why sharing services do very well here? yeah, i think that france is special, because it has the right mix of being, like, still a rich country, where the law is really enforced, where business is going well, with still a mediterranean culture. so i think it's the right balance

for sharing economy to thrive. british and americans are more scared about lending their cars. i'm not really sure, i don't know, but i heard that you teach kids "stranger danger" in britain. and that is something that i absolutely don't know in france. so maybe less trust of people you don't know, and less willingness to share time, or things, with other people. you have been to london, then, clearly. you've described london. can you find a lost car? can you geo—locate it? with drivy 0pen, which is our big technological focus, now, we can geo—locate cars, see where the car is going, how it is doing. you can use the accelerometer to see if there were impacts. so you can do lots with technology. and basically, the future which is coming, which is all about connected cars, and then autonomous, cars is playing huge in ourfavour, because increasingly, the amount of data you have

on the car, the control over the way it's driven is going to increase until it's autonomous, and then whoever is in the car is no longer a problem, except for sandwich crumbs or stuff like that. not that red tape is was a problem here. 0ne start—up, in a northern suburb of paris, has already been given permission to place three of its pods around the city. so, what on earth is agricool putting inside these second—hand shipping containers that makes them so desirable? it is a strawberry farm! you probably know that fruit sold in city supermarkets has usually been on a long journey, over several days, to get there. and that means it has to be picked before it's ripe,

and isn't as sweet or nutritious as it would be if it was left on the plant. well, this is a way of keeping fruit on the plant, in cities, until the very last minute. there you go, four walls of strawberries bathing under led lights. here's all the water that you need, which is pumped in, and then when it's finished, it's pumped back out again. it's a closed loop system. here are your nutrients, and over here, a box of bumblebees. did you know you could order bumblebees by the box? i didn't. that's where they live, that's where they travel in and out, and that's where the pollination happens. agricool is currently experimenting with different colours of light and different mixes of nutrients in order to get the very best strawberries. well, inside each shipping container, we create a real paradise for fruits and vegetables. so best air, the c02 level, the best lights, with led lights. we can grow the equivalent of 4000 square metres in only 70 square metres.

so it is like 120,000 times more productive, using 90% less water, using no pesticides, actually, and using only renewable energy. just to be clear, these shipping containers won't move, they'll be permanent fixtures in cities. and with a minutely controlled climate, a new batch of strawberries can be grown every 11 weeks, meaning city folk can experience the taste of country living all year round. and that is it for the short cut of click. plenty more from us online. thank you for watching. everyone back to mine for strawberries. hello and welcome to newswatch. they are off again as bbc news embarks on covering another general election campaign, how much attention should be given to the views of people

like brenda from bristol? not another one. oh, for god's sake! i can't stand this. and correspondentjohn sudworth on the challenges of reporting from north korea, surrounded by government minders. myjob is to work out how far i can push being a nuisance and an annoyance without getting me or my team into difficulty. tuesday morning saw one of those moments when, after an hour of speculative gossip, almost everyone here in broadcasting house listened to an announcement, takes a deep breath and embarks on a period of frenzied, journalistic activity which, in this case, could last for seven weeks. here is the bombshell. i have just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on the 8th ofjune.

all day, reporters and presenters flocked to downing street. 0ccasionally there was some activity. mrjohnson, are you looking forward to an early election? 0k. that's obviously... cabinet ministers have been in there since 8:30am. they're now leaving. mr hunt, are you looking forward to an election? i get a feeling it's going to be a futile task. no one is going to want to trump theresa may. they will be very obedient and walk straight down the street. they did. and when mrs may appeared later, eleanor garnier was just as vocal. the door is just opening now. will this be the prime minister? have you changed your mind, prime minister? another u—turn, prime minister? how many more times are you going to change your mind, prime minister?

no answer. no surprise. the practice of shouting questions at downing street came under attack again from newswatch viewers. here's daryl. alan adams wrote to him after watching eleanor garnier in what he described as ridiculous questions, such as the classic, how many more u—turns,