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the headlines: police in the spanish region of catalonia say three of the suspects in thursday's terror attack are now confirmed dead. moussa oukabir, one of five men killed in a police raid on friday. the men were reportedly planning bigger atrocities using explosives. steve bannon has joined bigger atrocities using explosives. steve bannon hasjoined a growing list of casualties from the white house being fired from his role as chief strategist. each helped shape the america first message of donald trump and is returning to his role with the right—wing website breitbart. more than 460 people are now confirmed to have died in the sierra leone mudslide. the mass burial has taken place with rising fears of an outbreak of cholera. more on those stories later but now it is time for click. this week and next, a repeat
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of click‘s stellar trip to india, with banghra bangers... smoggy sunsets... and angry angle grinders. get ready, your indian experience starts now. as soon as you step off the plane, india hits you like a big, hot wall of noise. it is everything you've ever imagined it to be. it is life turned up to ii.
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the first thing you'll notice will be the traffic. it's always the traffic. is the tip just to kind of step out? oh, this looks like a gap. the sound is deafening! everyone‘s honking. for 70 years this country has been independent of british rule and the cities that have sprung up around the old colonial grandeur seem chaotic, but they do kinda work. kinda. and india has found a niche in the wider world. half of its 1.2 billion people are aged 35 or under. maybe that's why it's known for its it know—how, its outsourcing. and the bosses of some of the biggest tech companies in the world are indian. but it hasn't had as much luck in taking over the world of consumer technology. after all, how many indian tech brands can you name? the truth is that although there is a middle class of consumers
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here willing to buy brands it's not actually that big or that rich. not that many people here can really afford the latest of very much at all. we're here to see how india is preparing for its future and, let me tell you, it is reaching for the stars. in 2013, india became the fourth spacefaring nation to launch a probe into orbit around mars and, unlike those who came before them, they did it on their first attempt. the indian space research organisation, isro, has been gaining a reputation for doing tons of successful space stuff on a shoestring budget. their mars mission came in atjust $74 million, that's less than it cost to make the film gravity. and, in february this year,
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they made history again by launching a record 104 satellites on a single rocket. it could just be that india has created the perfect combination of big brains with big space experience, but a mentality for doing things on the cheap. just the sort of place you might go if you wanted to, say, land a robot on the moon for the space equivalent of small change. how confident are you that this will work? laughs welcome to the earthbound hq of team indus, one of the handful of start—ups competing for the google lunar xprize, that's $20 million for the first commercial company to land a rover on the moon. december, 2017, blast off. the team indus space craft goes into two days of earth orbit and then, boom, 4.5 days to the moon. 12 days of spiralling
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down to the surface and, if all goes well, out comes the rover, travels half a kilometre, sends back hd video and wins the prize. what could possibly go wrong? rahul narayan is the co—founder of team indus and has been here since the start of the project, way back in 2010. at that point you had no idea how you would acheive it? yes, i googled it and figured out what wikipedia had to say about landing on the mood. you did an internet search on how to land on the moon? absolutely. laughs did it have any useful information? yes. it said there had been 85 attempts and i think every second attempt failed to the moon. six years later, there are about 100 people working very hard here and it certainly looks like they know their space stuff.
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star wars in particular. even the toilets are appropriately labelled. and they've built themselves all the things that a serious space company should have, like a mission control room, a model lander that makes smoke and a simulated lunar surface complete with a rover to go in it. so what do you use to simulate moon dust? you could go to an expensive lab and try to buy lunar simulant, we just went to a stone quarry and asked them to give us the milling output. that's what this is — about 150 microns. it has electrostatic properties, which we're not able to replicate. it's supposed to be very, very electrostatic. so that means it will stick to the rover? that's correct. that's one part that will get into every perforation, the lens of the camera, everywhere. just like national space agencies, testing every component and simulating every stage of the mission is a huge part of what they're doing here. we're making sure we do everything right. we're just not making it fancy.
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we will make it frugal, specific to the mission, but there's absolutely no corners that we're cutting. and, to look at it from a more philosophical way, we have one shot to win this. we don't have a flight spare, so if one blows up we can go and fly the other, we have to get this right. team indus is one of five start—ups from around the world that have secured launch contracts for their rovers. while they can't say for sure, they think they'll launch before any other team and so perhaps be the first team to land and win! that's except for the fact that to save costs they have had to sell some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover. japan's team hakuto will onboard too. you're both going to get to the moon at the same time. how is that going to work? it's whoever touches down first and whoever has the fastest rover? it's going to be crazy!
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in a manner of speaking, yes. so what do you expect to happen? so it's a race, it will be a very interesting race, and once we touch down and both the rovers are deployed, let's see which one makes 500m first. i would put a laser gun on yours. all of that assumes of course that the rovers make it to the moon in the first place. space exploration is a risky business and when it goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. six years, hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions spent and there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right. you mitigate the big pieces and then the you start mitigating the smaller risks and, at the end of the day, absolutely, one small wrong piece of code that made it through could kill the entire mission. there is a word here in india that i think describes team indus‘s low—cost, make do approach.
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jugaad. i've come to the centre of mumbai, to dharavi — asia's second largest slum. here, in its tiny alleyways, jugaad is all around, as a desperately poor population reuses as much as is physically possible. built by workers who flocked to the city over hundreds of years, some of the houses here date back to the 1840s. it is an intense experience in the middle of an intense city. you really do get a sense of the scale of the place from up here and it's a weird scale as well, because it's actually quite small. it's only two square kilometres, but around 1 million people live here. it's phenomenally densely packed
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and it's notjust people living here and doing nothing, either, this place has a working infrastructure and a working economy. this place really does work. 10,000 dharavi businesses generate 30 billion rupees for mumbai every year. they make things and they recycle things. like all those plastic bottles drying on the roof, which are shredded into reusable plastic pellets. the whole production line is in itself a work ofjugaad. this is where they make the machines that recycle the plastic, so i guess this is a factory. brace yourself. 0nce finished, these machines will chew up the plastic, which is then washed, sorted and dried. the work is heavy and hard
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and for a wage that affords the most meagre of existences. it's incredible to think that 55% of mumbai's population lives in slums like this one. up ahead, there is a pile of shredded denim which they use for fuel. they burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they burn a lot of stuff forfuel here. and there is smoke everywhere here. you can really tell the air quality is very poor. you just have to take a few lung fulls and it starts to burn the back of your throat, it makes your eyes sting. the smoke is a necessary evil for the people of dharavi. like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price india is paying for a booming economy. the smog that gives mumbai
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its spectacular sunsets has also made it the fifth most polluted mega city in the world. and when the sun disappears before it hits the horizon, you can well believe it. in november, 2016, the indian government declared the air pollution in delhi a national emergency, with harmful pollutants more than 16 times the safe limit. and it's notjust caused by all of the traffic. so, where does it come from? i was surprised to find out a lot of it comes from diesel generators. see, the electricity in india isn't very reliable, but plenty of businesses need guaranteed power, so they have there own individual generators that fire up whenever the electricity goes down and that means there are loads of exhaust pipes like this all over the city, which regularly belch out
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all kinds of unpleasant stuff. when you start looking for them, they're everywhere. even the mobile masts have backup generators. hello. here in bangalore, we've come across a small project to capture the soot and turn it into art. so what we have built is a device that attaches to the exhaust pipe of the chimneys and this can be attached to pretty much any exhaust pipe, irrespective of what is the age or type of engine you are running, and it captures practically whatever matter comes out of it. once you capture matter that is substantially carbon, which is like the basis of practically everything that exists in the world, at present we recycle it into inks, which we believe is something used by practically everybody
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on the planet. the headquarters of graviky labs is a mix of art studio and mad laboratory, the perfect combination, if you ask me! their so—called air ink does have a few restrictions. it will only ever come in black and at the moment it's not good enough quality to be used in printers. graviky is giving it to artists, who are finding their own uses for it. painting and screenprinting, for example, for use on clothes and bags. if the idea catches on, users would expect to remove the exhaust pipe device, called kaalink, literally black ink, as often as every 15 days, depending on how old and dirty their diesel engines were. that's about three or four minutes of revving. once we read the scale of, you know, for example, city—wide insulation, we plan to install what we call
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carbon banks in multiple locations, to be either trapped by the people or by our own staff. even in the shorter term, the thought is to place these carbon banks in business headquarters and lorry depots, where large numbers of vehicles are centralised anyway. and while the ink may only have limited uses at present, nikhil insists it is still better to put the carbon to good use rather than just collect it and dump it. there are many technologies that have captured pollution in one way or the other, but if you don't recycle it you are actually leaving it for the future generations. love is in the air in india. it's reckoned there are 10 million weddings here every year. and as in many aspects of indian life, religion often directs the dating game.
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the country's online matchmakers have traditionally put faith at the forefront as well. but now there's a new crop of dating tech and it's, well, agnostic. tinder has reported rapid growth here. it matches people based on proximity and doesn't ask about belief. it's not the only dating service where faith is slipping down the priority list either. a single mingle in one of delhi's most romantic spots. these love seekers have been handpicked based on a range of factors. they're open—minded about religion, but it's still clearly a biggie. i do not see religion as a barrier. when i talk about any kind of connection, be it friendship, be it professional connection, be it even marriage for that matter, but i'm sure that's not what everybody in india
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would agree to. even though we don't necessarily mind liking someone from another religion, we don't want to hassle ourselves and hassle our parents, because it's going to be a big thing. some dating entrepreneurs believe that tech inevitably challenges religion. we know so much about people that we're actually able to serve you profiles of people that we believe will be compatible with you, and that does not include necessarily religion or caste, but it actually includes a much more foundational human level. i think that's the beauty of technology. some areas of india have reported big rises in interfaith marriages. so how are the country's religious communities responding? catholics make up a tiny minority here and church leaders are worried, particularly about young women who convert to their husbands religion and abandon catholicism. but the church has developed a secret weapon: their own dating website. the unique selling point? well, honesty. there'll be no massaging your dating profile here because you'll have
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to go to church to register and get your picture taken. the verification times of the education qualifications is got, so we put that all together and once that's in place, the website will probably go live and you would have opportunities for young people to find an alliance online. but what about the majority religious group? one of hinduism's most high—profile branches says they have got no problem with interfaith dating, it's the technology they‘ re concerned about. they've got some blunt advice for love hungry teens, and it might not prove popular. try to avoid mobiles. everyone has to remember, you know, how he wants to lead his life. are you going to talk romantically to half a dozen people and then try to fish out which is better?
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that is not good, you know? whatever time is available for you, for your conversation and entertainment and understanding, education, you have to make the list of priorities. religion, technology and romance. three forces that aren't going away any time soon. question is, can they alljust learn to get along? living in the developing world means living with the possibility of developing particular health problems. but there are many diseases that can affect everyone, rich and poor. this is your hospital? religion, technology and romance.
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three forces that aren't going away any time soon. question is, can they alljust learn to get along? living in the developing world means living with the possibility of developing particular health problems. but there are many diseases that can affect everyone, rich and poor. this is your hospital? i'm the head of this breast cancer awareness with our breast scanning. this is our outpatient department. wow. this is the ecg cardiography room. this is our x—ray department. breast cancer is now the most fatal cancer among women worldwide,
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and it's the same here. the problem in india is it's often not spotted early enough, with more than 60% of the women diagnosed here at stages three or four. i've come to the cama and albless women's and children's hospital in mumbai to find out why, and also to see something new. a low—cost device that could aid early breast cancer detection. mammogram devices are, of course expensive, and taking one, plus a skilled operator to remote areas is impractical. mammogram devices are, of course expensive,
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and taking one, plus a skilled operator to remote areas is impractical. doctor katkiss hospital is one of those using ibreastexam, which works in a very different way. instead of using x—rays like mammograms do, it has 16 sensors which vibrate and collect pressure data as it's moved around the breast. any tumours, which are stiffer than normal tissue, will register on the accompanying app, and any areas of concern can then be referred for further examination. it's this portability that grabbed the attention of the minister for medical education, who's helped to fund the ibreast exam programme. translation: on the government level, we have installed these machines in all the medical colleges for women to come and get checked for breast cancer from various parts of the state.
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we also plan to send this machine to other places like civil hospitals and medical colleges. with this machine, we have been carrying out screenings in villages, townships and cities and plan to cover the whole of the state of maharashtra. the ones who are affected are to be brought to mumbai and pune, thus saving many lives. so this is the device. what surprised me is how gentle it feels. so these are tiny vibrations that it's giving out. that gentle vibration is all that's needed to detect lesions as small as three millimetres, and that's far better than the three centimetre lesions present in late— stage breast cancer. and achieving that level of accuracy has been the real innovation here. it's a tiny sensor that when given a little bit of power can create these micropalpations on the breast
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and inherently that's why it's different to mammograms, which uses x—rays. but is this better than mammography? i think we have a long way to prove that it is better than mammography. we are not there yet. it is already creating access where mammography is not able to reach, so in that sense there is no competition between the two modalities. ibreastexam helps provide prescreening and identifies women that are at risk, and mammography can provide a diagnostic affirmative answer as to whether that woman needs to be moved upwards or not. our goal is really to help provide this as a standard of care solution to all the developing countries that are struggling in the same way. that's it for click in india, for the moment at least. we've had an absolutely fascinating time here and you can see plenty more photos we've taken around and about the place on twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching
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and we'll see you soon. we are looking ahead to the weekend weather prospects. let's delve into the weather menu and see what's on offer. we will all get decent spells of sunshine this weekend, but it won't be completely dry. a few showers and maybe more persistent rain into the west later on sunday. this is how the pressure chart looks. low pressure comes in. this weather front will move into western scotland during saturday, bringing a lot of the cloud to start the day across north—western areas. gusty winds and a fair number of showers. not the most promising start. away from that, wales and south—west england probably with the sunny skies first thing.
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patchy cloud across eastern areas of england, breaking up quickly with sunshine. we are all going to see sunshine during the day on saturday. there will be showers around, but there will be larger spaces between the showers. the highest chance of showers across scotland. elsewhere, showers are hit and miss in nature. lengthy spells in the day that stay dry. the rich are wise, still no great shakes. similar to friday. noticeably warmer in scotland, especially in the north—east. for the cricket at edgbaston there's a small chance a passing shower, but most of the day will stay dry. the wind is continuing to lighten into the evening. that's true across most of the country. winds for lighter through the night—time. temperatures 12—13 degrees. for the second half of the weekend, want to show you this fronts
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to the west. they contain the remnants of hurricane gert, which died down sometime on friday. on sunday, increasing cloud coming into the west. there could be hill fog patches. outbreaks of drizzle for wales and south—west england. becoming increasingly humid. even with the sunshine it will feel warm and oppressive. in northern ireland it could get a spell of rain. for much of the north and east of the uk it is dry, with further spells of sunshine. then for some of us things will warm up next week. the dividing line is this weather front and it will bring some fairly heavy rain. probably northern ireland, where scotland, north—west wales will be at risk of some of that.
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the warming trend continues on tuesday. it looks like some of us may have found summer. that's the weather. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is gavin grey. our top stories: the key suspect in the barcelona terror attack is confirmed dead. moussa 0ukabir was one of five men killed in a police raid — it's thought he deliberately drove into crowds of pedestrians. after 24 hours of violence, spain stops to remember the dead — crowds chanting "we are not afraid"." another departure from team trump: steve bannon — the white house's controversial chief strategist — is removed from his role. nice to see you. to see you nice. and king of saturday night tv for seventy years. britain says goodbye to sir bruce forsyth.
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