the campaign of the french presidential frontrunner, emmanuel macron, says it's been the victim of a massive hacking attack after thousands of documents were released online. mr macron and his far right rival, marine le pen, will find out who has won the contest when voters go to the polls on sunday. britain's governing conservatives have made the biggest gains in local elections by any party in power for more than a0 years. with a month until the general election, they've won hundreds of seats, many from the opposition labour party. a deal unveiled by russia's military to set upfour safe zones in syria has come into force. the accord was reached at talks in kazakhstan but has been rejected by some rebel groups. reports from northwest syria say shelling and gunfire in rebel—held areas. now on bbc news, click. this week: the coolest history lesson in history. the smallest car race in the world.

and we are with the doctor as something goes bump in the night. school, it's changed a lot since i went through the education mangle all those many years ago. many years ago. the school buildings may look the same but technology has been infusing education for quite awhile now. we have smart whiteboards, we have increasing use of tablets and laptops. we have e—textbooks instead of textbooks, but there are some systems which mean the way in which kids learn and are taught is changing completely.

it seems many tech giants want to become part of education. after all, an early introduction to their brands may one day add up to a greater number of users. microsoft this week launched its education offering which includes a new version of windows called windows s, a budget surface pro in various colours and some tweaks to its office applications. apple's teaching tool classroom had a face—lift last month and now offers more tools for teachers. but before both of these came google classroom. and today i am finding more about it from mr lickfold, director of learning at tring secondary school. they have been using this online system for the past 18 months to teach and monitor the students‘ progress. today i'm learning about the galapagos islands and i have to say the lesson that

chris has constructed certainly looks more engaging than my old textbooks. but tech can do a lot more than just provide media rich lesson plans. we're able to personalise what we do far more than we have ever done before and take them to different resources that are available in the system. every student's learning journey will be different. taking teaching online also means teachers have a lot more access to children's individual learning data and even their thought processes. for example, this browser extension lets the teacher watch how an essay was written and refined. if i have got a student who in preparation for their exams is not constructing their paragraphs correctly, i can say, "ok, let's look at how you constructed your particular paragraph. what did you do? where did you develop it? what can you do differently?" if it's maybe two or three paragraphs and they spent so long on the first one then i can also just say, "look, this is how long you spent on this first document, it's like half an hour.

you only spent five minutes on the second and third one." the kids also seem to like the learning experience. lots of time there will be teachers at home and we can still do work at home and teachers can still be there and they can see actually see how much we have done. if your teacher does not believe that you have spent the amount of time required on the homework, then you can say, "actually i did because look at the edit history." it's so much quicker than handing in work waiting until another lesson to get it back whereas now you can just hand it in and in 20 minutes you can have it back. using online tools and data is one way to enhance learning in schools, but lara lewington has been looking at other tech that promises to change how children learn completely. vr, robots, holograms, it wasn't like this in my day. i am robot. at the bet education show earlier this year we saw some of the most cutting edge ideas heading to the classroom soon. over the past few months i have seen quite a few devices that bring together the idea of kids coding and toys aiming to make the activity more fun.

but good old lego here have gone a step further. they are trying to recreate real life situations where robots would be used so that children can find problems and then find the solution and the mission we have here is for a space robot which needs to move around the space base collecting these theses all together and taking them back to one place. but obviously the coding should do that bit. using the drag and drop blocks to create sequences that carry out actions is just part of the learning process as science is being taught at the same time. but brickso's vision of what could be learned through these small plastic blocks was quite different. look at this. this is a way to bring your existing lego set to life. it has got a couple of led lights, a sensor, and these blocks actually conduct electricity. from there you can create whateverspinning, moving, lighting functions take your fancy. but this use of technology isn't

just about teaching ict. this adaptive learning is also about employing new methods of teaching traditional classes. the teacher guides with experience but as a student you can really roam about. this is google expedition. now, jan here is going to play the part of a teacher. she will be talking through what we are all looking at through the goggles at the same time. that actually represents all of you. the pictures are amazing. i mean, looking at the difference between the healthy lungs and the smoker‘s lungs i definitely think we should stick with the kids. the idea of an image in your mind is certainly something that could be easier to maintain than someone just talking. but my issue is actually with the idea of wearing the goggles. they're fine for a couple of minutes but then i do feel the urge to take them off so i can't imagine actually wearing them for a full half—hour lesson or beyond. many of these ideas will be picked

up by individual schools, but although the ideas and devices are out there, the challenge comes in making them available to the masses and that is something which one not for profit in finland, a country considered to have one of the world's best education systems, is trying to overcome. i would say that education is one of the few big industries that is still waiting to be disrupted. one of the biggest challenges in our education system is that it is based on the ideals of the industrial world, so it is kind of like teaching everyone to be the same. and in tomorrow's world it is crucial to be individual. one idea turns things on its head though, focusing not simply on new ways of teaching, but firstly analysing how we learn. well, i am on my way to maths class which should cause me a bit of concern because i am not sure i remember that much from school, but with this class everybody is having their own private lesson. the teacher doesn't stand up and project their voice to start the session. the kids take their places

at computers were century ai will take you through the lesson. this artificial intelligence system aims to teach each pupil at their own pace and in a way that suits them best, constantly getting to know them better and tracking their progress. the whole purpose of this machine is to learn how your brain learns and then utilise that data, and it constantly adapts, to provide them with a top—tier education at any single moment and then takes that data and offers it to the teacher in real—time. here the students generate the data. it is provided by real—time teachers and they can intervene when necessary and they can spend more time on the human interactions with the student, the pastoral care that they need to provide to that individual. teachers can share their content around the world with other people using century, so any given subject could have numerous options the machine could select from based

on a student's focus and learning levels. and if they choose to manually switch, then it tracks and considers their preferences as well. what do you feel are the challenges? sometimes like if you are not too sure on a question and you've watched the videos and stuff, it's easy to like have a human explain it to you, but the computer does make it as easy as possible. whilst of course i can see the benefits of personalised education there is one thing playing on my mind. that is the amount of screen time. we have had plenty of teachers, notjust parents, saying do you really want them staring at a screen or an ipad? and it's not the answer and it's not binary and i think that's really important. we don't think teachers should be replaced, we think we need more teachers, we just think teachers should be spending their time teaching and inspiring and passing on knowledge of the subject that they really understand. there's no shortage of ideas yet naturally putting them to the test requires people willing to take

a chance on them. but clearly the idea of technology giving an overhaul to how we educate our kids does not seem far away. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that tesla boss elon musk talked about tunnels again. he's proposed an underground network where your car gets shuttled from a to b on an electric skate that could go up to 130mph. the name of his new venture? the boring company. it was also the week that users of messaging app whatsapp were left asking what's ‘appening? after the service mysteriously went down for several hours around the world, and the bank accounts of 02 customers in germany were drained after the ss7 mobile telecommunications system was hacked. we covered the ss7 vulnerability on the show last year. over in sweden the world's fastest camera has been developed. lund university's camera can capture 5 trillion images per second whilst other conventional high—speed

cameras typically capture 100,000. instead of capturing images one by one this captures several coded images at once and pieces them together into a video afterwards. it will be used to film things like brain activity and chemical reactions. and finally in an effort to help robots run better in the future this ostrich—like bot can spread up to ten mph and has been cleverly designed to self balance without the need for sensors or computer processing. a single motor drives the bot‘s legs forward in an elliptical motion injecting more power when it feels resistance. look at it, it's got a mind of its own. right, everyone down to the pub for a swift half, a game of bar billiards and a battle with some giant bugs. sounds like a perfect evening for mark chislak. there are a couple of things that you always find in a british pub.

number one is pints of beer. in some drinking shops there are distractions like darts. and of course virtual reality headsets. vr in pubs? how ever will you find your pint? the big problem for most people with virtual reality is space. you just don't have the space in a normal sized living room to play vr games properly. the headsets have got cables attached to them which you can easily trip over and then you have got furniture and walls that you can bang into. that is where pubs come in. pubs are generally bigger than the house that you live in so there is no problem with space and they afford you the opportunity of a truly social virtual reality experience because people can see what you are doing. so, the walls in here are green and that means the spectators that are watching me can see

the environment that i am in and also if i back myself up to them i feel that they are soft, they are padded so players cannot injure themselves if they get a little bit too energetic and throw themselves around in space. it's like a soft play area for adults. the combination of public houses and virtual reality is the brainchild of these guys. they've used their background in satellite technology, it and engineering to create this setup. so what made you guys think that vr and pubs went together like a pie and a pint? we thought we wanted to do a vr arcade, but arcades have a staid and outdated image and so we were looking for a good venue to do virtual reality in public. when you're involved with alcohol there is always a degree of risk to the gear and the equipment overall, so we have had to rig up

harnesses so if people fall over they don't damage themselves. the harnesses also protect the headsets so they don't fall on the ground. enough talk, it's time to try out the specially designed vr rig. we've got this plugged into the seat belt a rrester system which will catch you when you fall. in order to make players safe it is crucial that the cables for the headsets are kept out of the way. i have a harness that i have to put on. it goes on there. and then you put this in at the back here. and now no matter how much you turn around this cable is not going to get caught in your head or on your back, an ingenious solution to the cable problem that everybody finds with vr headsets. ok, now i have played tonnes of games in vr before and as always i'm immediately transported from the space that i was in, this pub, into this sewer and zombies are coming from pretty

much every direction. reload, reload. 0h! you don't really notice the cable that you are wearing and the harness. i thought you would, but it's kind of... i don't notice it is there at all. what have you discovered about the type of games that are best to play in this environment? our rule of thumb is basically any more than one button is too complicated. most of the people who are playing have never played virtual reality before. and it's enough of a surprise for them to find themselves in a computer game. you don't want them to then have to remember six or seven button combinations as well. double your gun, double your fun. so this is where nice, simple games can easily be demonstrated. it's a wave shooter and i have got waves and waves of bad guys trying to attack me. the aim is simple — fight them off.

how do people fare when they have been in the vr when they have had a couple of drinks? it's a bit like playing pool. you get progressively better, and then you get a lot worse all of a sudden. it's really, really frantic. i don't think i can stand more than five minutes in here. simply because i'm getting really hot! 0h! and i am done. well, it's somebody else‘s turn, and it's my turn to order at the bar. 0h. now, does this look like a race track to you? does this look like a car? well, last weekend, six teams took to the track in toulouse, in france, for the world's first nanocar race. the nanocars are specially designed molecules which are invisible to the human eye. nano things are very, very small. one nanometre is 30,000 times thinner than a human hair.

in ideal cases, we try to build molecules which have the shape of a car, that is some kind of a chassis and four wheels, and ideally a motor. but in some cases, it turns out that simpler molecules work as well. six teams competed, representing france, switzerland, japan, germany, the usa, and there was a joint us and austrian team. the tiny racetrack for most teams was made of gold. now, this is because gold is so soft its surface can be made extremely flat, as in, there is not even an atom out of place. and that does take some time to prepare. since we bring different types of molecules to the surface, or the same surface, first you have to clean the surface

to make sure you have a good track. there is a good organisation of the atom, and to free the track from the molecules that you don't want. and this will take one or two days. once the nano cars are in position on the track, the teams use the tip of a scanning, tunnelling microscope to propel the vehicles with tiny electric charges. they have 30 hours to race 100 nanometres and back. six teams started, with no guarantee that they would all finish. but there is historical precedent here. “118911, there was the first ever car race in the world. of course, macroscopic cars, big cars. we had 100 or so cars registered at that time, and only 21 succeeded to start, and only 17 arrived at the end. so we are in the same situation, but of course we have less starting cars. in the end it took one team only 19

minutes to finish the race, but they did use a different track. if we had used the gold, it was going to be uncontrollably fast. so we used a silver surface, which is actually a slower surface. so we slowed it down so we could control it better around the pylon. we never revealed the structure of our car until race day, there was no requirement to reveal the structure of the car. because we worked so hard to come up with these design features, we didn't feel that we wanted to reveal that to the world until race day. and looking at their cars we knew that they were going to be a little bit slower because number one, they were very big. the higher the molecular weight, the harder it is to move it. number two, they had aeromatic wheels. we knew that was going to slow them down. even though it was originally deemed a 36—hour race, we knew that we were going to be able to finish much faster than that.

the second team to finish raced on the standard gold course, and took over seven hours. the organisers decided to declare both the swiss team and the us—austrian team joint winners, as they had raced in different circumstances. the tech used in the race will help improve the imaging capabilities of the world's most powerful microscopes, and the car design process has pharmaceutical applications for making designer molecules. as it was, in the world's first nano race, every team will have plenty of thinking to take back to their tiny drawing boards. now, you may remember last year we tickled your earbuds with something called binaural sound. now, this is a way of recording audio so when you listen back through headphones, the sounds actually sound like they are coming from the right place in 3—d space. well, it turns out someone was listening. notjust someone, but the doctor, and he invited kate russell to hear all about it. go and have a look.

why me? you're physically bigger. maybe it'sjust the central heating. oh, sorry, didn't mean to scare you. unlike a new episode of doctor who, that uses binaural sound to really get inside your head. i have come to south wales, where the episode knock knock was filmed. in this spooky—looking house, the doctor investigates some strange noises. what's going on? using binaural sound, the show‘s producers are able to ramp up the fright factor by placing sound effects all around the listener, so they feel like they are actually inside the room with the actors. so if you see a normal, digital audio workstation, everything is layered up in tracks.

but actually, we can see those tracks on the computer as little objects, like you are looking down on top of a room. so you can see these dots with a cross showing where the left and right is, and the up—and—down axis. when the sounds are then put through into the bbc renderer, which is a piece of software that the r&d team have made, then you can see where those sounds are hanging in 3—d space. to experience the binaural effect you must be using stereo headphones. even a top—of—the—range 5.1 surround sound speaker systems will not deliver the results, as the microscopic time delays in sounds arriving at your ears are vital to creating the 360—degree immersive effect. that was super, super scary and spooky and atmospheric. very subtle. if you are expecting the kind of like sideshow act ofjumping around sound that really wows you, this is not what this is about. this is about a subtle experience of placing you in a three—dimensional soundscape.

the reason why this episode lent itself so brilliantly to the binaural mix is because of it being a kind of horror genre and a lot of what makes things scary is what you don't see and building up the atmosphere to that moment of scare is really what the audience are looking for. we were told 3—d tv was going to be the next big thing. well, that didn't happen. so why should this be any different? the reason why binaural is really taking off now is because we're in the age of the smartphone and the tablet. people are consuming their media with headphones. the headphones are hugely popular. we've got — even in my family, my kids will sit down watching their own content, that they're interested in, with a pair of headphones so as not to disturb each other. i think what will happen when people experience binaural audio with tv content, radio content, and then they go back to stereo,

they'll feel a little bit — it's quite a claustrophobic feeling. and you think i want that other sound, please. what was that? it was binaural, let me have some more of that, please. i think that is where we will start to see binaural really take off. this spooky episode will be broadcast with regular sound on uk tvs this weekend. i'm afraid viewers from the rest of the world will have to wait. for the binaural experience, watch it on iplayer. i recommend a darkened room, some decent stereo headphones, and a steely nerve. and remember, if you do hear knocking sounds in the night, it's probablyjust your pipes. probably. wow, can't wait to see and more importantly hear that episode. but then i love doctor who. can't wait to see every episode. that is it for this week. follow us on twitter throughout the week. thank you for watching, we will see you soon. hello.

this sunshine makes all the difference at this time of year. we have an abundance of sunshine across the northern half of the uk. this was sent in from highland scotland, where we saw temperatures soaring into the high teens, 20 in a few spots, in contrast with the chilly breeze off the sea. and the cloud in clacton—on—sea, in essex, just about 11 degrees. and those are the contrasts which will continue through the weekend — where we see the cloud and where we do not. of course, we've got this rather cool breeze as well, which is starting to pick up further northwards, dragging the cloud north. so a few drizzly showers are out there, as well, for the likes of east wales, the peaks and the pennines. this weather front as well to complicate our weather picture. so we've more cloud across the southern half of the uk, so not as chilly.

but again, where we have that clear airfurther north, the clear skies, it will be a frosty start in a few places and there could even be the odd pocket of fog first thing. but it is here we will see the sunshine once again, but probably not as much for some central areas as we have had. and also this weather front does complicate the picture across he south—west, particularly cornwall, some parts of devon. for those out on the moors not great news, obviously, because we could have some low cloud shrouding the hills here and some drizzly rain. we've got, of course, a little bit of football taking place, and many of the matches across england in particular are quite cloudy. much cloudier in leicester, for example, than we had during the day on friday. but head up into scotland, there's an abundance of sunshine still. so there's the cut—off. we are seeing that change, if you like, for parts of the midlands and for parts of northern england. but for scotland, lots of sunshine. i do think rather more around for the northern isles and again around the murray firth. it hangs around potentially for the northern isles through the day. plenty of sunshine for the central lowlands, across northern ireland. some parts of northern england

still enjoying the sunshine and it will be warm but we will have more cloud here than we've seen in recent day. similar so for wales and the midlands. we've got the breeze with us, not as windy as it was during the day on friday, but nevertheless still quite a keen breeze, and still that weather front lingering close to the south coast. starting to pull away into the afternoon. there will be some sunshine. i'm not saying there won't be sunshine elsewhere, i'm just saying it will be more limited in places, and therefore feel quite cool in the breeze. the breeze switches direction on sunday, it's coming down more from an northerly direction. so again the east coast quite chilly. northern ireland, parts of western wales, north—west england seeing the best or the highest temperatures, best of the sunshine. but actually, near the north sea coast, quite a change for parts of western scotland, here, because of that breeze coming in. but we could see 18, a little bit higherfurther south with a few more breaks in the cloud. and as for next week, it looks set to stay dry, and the east should enjoy some sunshine as well. hello, my name is tom donkin, welcome to bbc news. broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. here's our top stories:

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