on income tax to generate billions more for the nhs and social care were they to get into power. french presidential candidate emmanuel macron says he's the target of a huge hacking attack, the day before the people of france go to the polls. let's ta ke let's take a look at the sport. good afternoon. the first match in the premier league isjust afternoon. the first match in the premier league is just about to kick off. manchester city could go up to third with a win. crystal palace do need points as they could still mathematically be relegated. need points as they could still mathematically be relegatedm need points as they could still mathematically be relegated. it is in our heads. we will see if we can make our step forward to qualify. if we win all four games we will definitely be in the champions league. it depends. our competition

in our home games were not perfect. we wa nt in our home games were not perfect. we want to play in europe next season. we want to play in europe next season. it is another big hurdle to get over to get say. we want to not rely on people slipping up or it can make you nervous in the last three games you must hold your nerve and deliver an outstanding performance to get over the line. in the scottish premiership, in the early match... there has been a goal. bottom match... there has been a goal. botto m clu b match... there has been a goal. bottom club inverness have scored. england have travelled halfway around the world and are heading for around the world and are heading for a win against samoa in sydney. five tries, including this breakaway one from josh hodgson have put them 30-10 in from josh hodgson have put them 30—10 in front. that match hasjust

finished. wayne bennett's side with a comfortable victory. that is all the sport for the moment. next it is time for 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 bang 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 am 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 are 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 is 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 the teachers can still be there and they can see actually 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 leads 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. it actually represents all of you. the pictures are amazing. looking at the difference between the healthy lungs and the smoker‘s lungs i definitely think we should stick with the kit. 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 are 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 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 is 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 has proposed an underground network where your car gets shuttled from a to b on an electric skate that could go up to 130 mph. 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 have 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 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 are involved in alcohol

there is always a degree of risk to your 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 am 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 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. it is 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. 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 towards the end. 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 then it is 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 nano car race. the nano cars 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 with some kind of a chassis and four wheels and ideally a motor. but in some cases it turns out to be much simpler molecule work as well. six teams competed representing france, switzerland, japan, germany, the usa and a joint us and austrian team. the tiny racetrack for most teams was made of gold. 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. that does take some time to prepare. since we bring different types of molecules to the surface or the sensor face, 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 ioo nanometres and back. six teams started with no guarantee that they would all finish, but there is historical precedent here. in 1894 there was the first ever car race in the world. of course microscopic 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. we never reveal 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 automatic wheels and we knew that was going to slow them down. even though it was originally deemed a 36—hour race, we knew we were going to be able to finish much faster than that. the second team to finish

was on the standard gold surface 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 the world's first ever 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. it turns out someone was listening. notjust someone, but the doctor. he invited kate russell to hear all about it.

go and have a look. why me? you are physically bigger. maybe it's 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 the sound effects all around the listener so they feel like they are actually inside the room with the actors. 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 top of the range 5.1 surround sound speaker systems will not deliver results as the microscopic time delays and sounds arriving at your ears are vital to creating the 360 degrees immersive effect. that was super, super scary and spooky and atmospheric. very subtle. if you are expecting a 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 sound space. 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 are in the age of the smartphone and the tablet and people are consuming their media with headphones. the headphones are hugely popular. even in my family my kids will sit down watching their own content that they are 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 will feel a little bit claustrophobic, 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 am 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. mixed fortunes for many of us today. the best of the sunshine further north and west was taken look at this weather watch picture from the la ke this weather watch picture from the lake district. there is some rain in the forecast. a day of contrast in the forecast. a day of contrast in the south west, the isles of scilly, cornwall and the channel islands seeing some heavy and persistent rain. we are desperate for some wet weather but it will only be across

the extreme south—west. a few showers ahead of it brushing with devon and maybe somerset was thicker cloud in the north of england. that will thin and break from time to time if that does happen temperatures will respond. the western half of scotland we will see highs of 19 degrees here. more cloud coming in off the north sea. in northern ireland and north—west england there will be some lovely spells of sunshine and warmth. this afternoon many of us will see 13, 1a degrees. maybe along the south coast temperatures could be as high as 19 where the rain lingers in the south—west. it will be a different story. that front will skirt off into the near continent on saturday night and into sunday morning. there will be a few isolated showers and mist and fog patches in the north. the wind will strengthen and change direction. we could seek gusty winds across the northern isles by the end

of the date of the strong winds will make it feel chilly on the east coast. a little more shelter and more warmth to go with it. nine, 10 degrees. with sunshine coming through, 1a to 18 degrees not out of the question. dave. it looks as though this quiet story is set to continue into the early half of next week as well. the good deal of dry weather again. there will be changes to the theme of the weather this week we have seen the best of the weather, particularly out to the west for the temperatures of 18 to 21 degrees. with a change of wind direction, in the north—west temperatures will struggle. where has been bleak, a lot of low cloud. a breeze coming in off the sea will make it feel cold. things will be warmer and getting brighter. take care. cloud with some fudging further west. here a little warmer, enjoy. good afternoon. the liberal democrats have pledged to increase spending on the nhs and social care by raising income tax by a penny.

they say the extra six billion pounds would be ring—fenced in england but scotland, wales and northern ireland would be able to decide how to spend the extra cash. it comes as party leaders are out campaigning this weekend for the general election following the conservatives' success in the local elections. here's our political correspondent, matt coles. the three days until the election, it is game on.