southwards across rain pushing southwards across northern ireland and scotland, but if you want some snow you will have to go high into the scottish mountains, above 500 metres elevation. so for most of us it will not be a white christmas. after christmas the air does turn colder and there is the potential of seeing some snow over the pennines after christmas, we might need to watch out for that, it could interrupt travel plans on the return home from christmas. this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has welcomed the unanimous vote by the un security council to impose tough new sanctions against north korea. he said the move showed the world's desire for peace, not war. under the new sanctions, oil imports to north korea will be severely limited. in the first visit by a british foreign minister to moscow for five years, borisjohnson has acknowledged that there are "difficulties" in relations with russia, but said he wants the situation to improve. his russian counterpart sergei lavrov said it was no secret that bilateral relations were at a "low point". two former south american football officials have been convicted

by a us court of taking millions of dollars in bribes. paraguay‘sjuan angel napout and jose maria marin of brazil are likely to be jailed for at least ten years for taking bribes to grant broadcasting contracts. now at this festive time of year, it's time to join the team from click for their christmas special. it was the night before clickmas and all through the smart home of the gizmo was wearing, not even a drone, the stock is full with gadgets galore with virtually realities primed to explore. the very next day, you gave it away.

this year, to save you from tears. i will give it to someone special. and welcome to the clickmas special! thank you very much tojohn the excellent rendition to start us off, would you believe it, the gang is all here, the are decked with nifty gadgetry that it is time to get this party started. that! this is the lyric speaker, it streams music from your smartphone from spotify and also picks up the lyrics from spotify and displays it on screen you to have a sociable conversation. and if you do want that, you can talk about the fact this cost £3600. does it play mariah carey?

technically it does but let's not test that. i tell you what, i have a christmas present for you, spencer. you've always wanted to be a jedi knight, i know this, you have always wa nted knight, i know this, you have always wanted to have a light sabre button but with this augmented reality star battling headsets, you can. fabulous. can i try it? yes, but you have to go over there because i know you and your waiting arms, you will something over. —— waving. you and your waiting arms, you will something over. -- waving. while i get lost in a galaxy far, far away, dan is getting lost in his favourite videogame. come on, come on, come on. i have just crushed it! it is a stunning

game, i would love to tell you it is just like driving the real thing but... i cannot just just like driving the real thing but... i cannotjust yet. this is the nissan gt—r, it is a—wheel—drive traction control system, it lays down almost all the 550 horses from the engine to the tarmac. it is a top speed that would make your nose bleed, and goes 0— 60 in under three seconds. i am bleed, and goes 0— 60 in under three seconds. iam ready bleed, and goes 0— 60 in under three seconds. i am ready to go again! sorry? (bleep)! are (bleep)! 0h

oh my god! you want to be a little bit... so we've played the game, we've driven the car, so how about... we do both. this is a full—sized fully expect rent—controlled nissan gt—r c, it has been made by the team atjlp design and is driven by a standard playstation controller. four baz control the transmission, staring, throttle and the brakes. the six number crunchers in the brutt couple of my adjustment is 100 times per second. so just to of my adjustment is 100 times per second. sojust to be of my adjustment is 100 times per second. so just to be clear, of my adjustment is 100 times per second. sojust to be clear, i'm going to be driving that car with

this while rob chases it in the car we are in. we don't lose contact, obviously. i know. bonkers. this is £100,000 worth of sports car and i have to say it is twitchy. just like a grand prix, a bit of break, there we go, indigo, there we turn. just ta ke we go, indigo, there we turn. just take a little bit of. he has gone around the corner, he hasn't smashed! sports car! this car has so much power and are literally have to just dab a finger and it moves, i mean, it really does. incredible. wow! just be able to control something as powerful as that is so much responsibility, actually, but once you get into which you get focused on the car, it is just incredible. we should all have one

of these christmas, shouldn't we? 0h well. nice to dream. dan, it's looked amazing. pointless. but amazing. and terrifying. absolutely terrifying, spencer. i think we created a new 0g. absolutely terrifying, spencer. i think we created a new ogi absolutely terrifying, spencer. i think we created a new 0g. i say! well, good. in an attempt, moving on, in an attempt to add some substance to this christmas debacle, we have decided to cross to a familiarfriend who we have decided to cross to a familiar friend who is a we have decided to cross to a familiarfriend who is a powerful telepresence, dave lee in san francisco. robots things. -- sings. dave, nice wheels! a serious upgrade of the old telepresence box, i suppose you are now a serious

of the old telepresence box, i suppose you are now a serious news suppose you are now a serious news corresponded. suppose you are now a serious news corresponded. thank you, finally the rubber to grade i have feel like i deserve. tell us about your 2017, you are in the heart of it all in silicon valley san francisco, what is this year be like for you?” silicon valley san francisco, what is this year be like for you? i feel like this year, the things that made the big companies really good and profitable and rich is now the same thing that is giving them serious headaches. we have seen algorithms fightback, causing all sorts of problems. fake news, propaganda from the russians, various issues that faced —— facebook and google and youtube and all of these companies are suffering from and this year has been am trying to deal with but i did they have managed it all, frankly. over here in what i call the rest of the world everyone is looking at silicon valley and it almost looks a bit large companies could topple because of these kind of scandals. what is the feeling like in silicon valley? are people

worried or are they getting on with the next new crazy service? worried or are they getting on with the next new crazy service ?|j worried or are they getting on with the next new crazy service? i think they are more grumpy about this than worried comey i think silicon valley field but when washington has a go at them about fake news or when the rest of the world thinks they are not doing a good enoughjob rest of the world thinks they are not doing a good enough job they think they are being picked on, is the sense i get from many companies, they feel like it is the thing that isn't theirfault they feel like it is the thing that isn't their fault they will be able to fix it but it may take some time or indeed we mayjust have to learn that these networks are going to be perfect all the time. that is the sense i get. i think they hope that as we going to christmas and the new year we as we going to christmas and the new yearwe might as we going to christmas and the new year we might move on from this issue and stop talking about it quite so much. but i don't think people will forget, i think people will be talking about is well into 2018. or, horror, hope, mary clickmas! this is my friend, i felt she would bring some fun to the table, it recognises me. a low! it isa table, it recognises me. a low! it is a robot who can say phrases and

play educational games and it can even do that. but look at what it does on the table. don't worry, it will not eat your chocolate coins. but its mind or bitcoin? it mines for chocolate coins. team, the food is nearly ready, 15 minutes. what is this? i know you said not to bring you anything and this is no criticism to your cooking but this is some 3—d printed christmas dinner while we are waiting. but looks delicious. beef, brussels sprout, cranberry. seriously, they are different flavours? yes, that is beefy, oh, god, why do sprout exist, and... iam beefy, oh, god, why do sprout exist, and... i am nervous like it is my own cooking and i am worried about what it tastes like. should i?|j what it tastes like. should i?” think you should try that. that is just the consistency of beef. so, what you think? that is the sprouts, actually. they do look pretty

similar. that is definitely the cranberry. so this... must be... the beef. yeah. how is it? i mean, it is genius because it does taste kind of like what you described, the consistency not really and it is stone cold. ok, well it was freshly prepared for us by dovetail who prepared for us by dovetail who prepared home 3—d food printers so you could even create something like brussels sprouts a taste of chocolate. 0r brussels sprouts a taste of chocolate. or you could do with the others wait based on nutrition. not struck up a taste like brussels sprouts, that would be ludicrous.” think it may have consumed a few calories here, probably literally a phew, just in case you want to burn off those three calories, here is my present for you. happy clickmas, it isa present for you. happy clickmas, it is a smart skipping rope. oh, a smart skipping rope. it will shall skip that every time you jump this

light flashes. 0h, skip that every time you jump this light flashes. oh, my goodness! so people can see all around how hard you are working. thank you so much. maybe you could go and have a skip and in the meantime you could take a look at how your christmas groceries would be heading to you very soon. this this is a cargo's hatfield fulfilment centre, a place where humans work alongside a process that already looks ready automated. but the robots are coming. wow! this grocery picking robot is being tested here and early next year she will be making an appearance at one of the warehouses to do the job for real. it has been trained to identify 2000 of the company boss

and 50,000 products using computer vision and as long as those products are nonporous, basically anything that would be damaged by being picked up by this vacuum, and it can ta ke picked up by this vacuum, and it can take them out of the picking box, ta ke take them out of the picking box, take them out of the picking box, take them through the scanner, and place them in the baking area. but this isn't the only robot being tested here. iam this isn't the only robot being tested here. i am off to meet a man called panels and an arm called slammer. hello. i don't know who's hand shake first. i will go for yours. 0k, hello. i don't know who's hand shake first. iwill go foryours. ok, so while this robot looks like its purposeis while this robot looks like its purpose is just have the human touch, it can pick things up without damaging them, it does also have another skill. what is this what have been taught to do is the same thing a human would. so to put your hand on it, and do that. can you help it demonstrates, please? of course. the movement is quite

something, it has a few elbows there. but it has grabbed it and it has picked it up successfully. there. but it has grabbed it and it has picked it up successfullym can put it down. thanks, happy christmas to you, too. get a sneak peek behind the scenes to find out a bit more about how you try to make a hand seem more human. zach who has been working on this project for a while, what are the challenges you face? one of the main challenges you face? one of the main challenges is to actually get this handle glove to sense the forces that a human concerns. we as humans have a very delicate sense of touch so we can handle objects like apples. so we have tried to reproduce that by having a sort of electronic skin. so this apple, apart from being a bit squashed, has obviously been approved as being

good. i don't think i need to do any shopping this week, i am disappearing with all your products. well, seeing as the robot couldn't join us for clickmas lunch, i thought it was only ferret out a cracker. let's see what it makes of it. in what country will you not find a vegetarian? you don't know? turkey. cue laughter. does it not do laughter? well, i have to say, you get a greater view of london's west end from up here. we are on the roof of john lewis at the moment. these aren't any old binoculars. these are made by iq, and they are basically a combination of a lens strapped to a smartphone strapped to a viewer. they allow you to record what you are seeing so you can watch it back

later and share it with friends. nice. i'm freezing. i say, later and share it with friends. nice. i'm freezing. isay, bahman. well, hello, spencer! if it is intelligent‘s nick kwek. well, hello, spencer! if it is intelligent's nick kwek. how are you? cold. can you give me something hot? here you go, a lovely hot chocolate. i say hot, because actually that is a smart mug you are holding. it connects to your mobile phone with an app, and that works like a thermostat. you choose the delight —— desired to bridge of your drink and that keeps it warm all day long. all day long! at least until your smartphone's battery dies, at which point the power in the month goes. i will drink it, then. that will be £80. £80! what's that, production? i needed back in the hub. spencer! i hope you are enjoying the show. good to be back inside. kate, what

are you doing with your hand?” good to be back inside. kate, what are you doing with your hand? i am making sweet, sweet music. can you not hear it? it is wonderful. this is the remedy digital music glove, and the way that it works, it connects to an apple in your phone and these four stencils here turned on and off loops. —— sensors. and these four sensors initiates apples. so you can choose lots of different musical styles that you want. drum and bass, hip—hop, edm. electranet dance music. yes, i know. you can even put a bit of flange on. this is what somebody who with absolutely no musical ability whatsoever, i am sure you can tell, can create. kate russell, everybody. fabulous. now it is time for my christmas present to you all. and indeed you at home as well. now, you might remember, last

week i got to talk art with performance art superstar marina abramovic, and during that chat, we talked about how we immersed ourselves and technology every week and sometimes it was difficult to tear away from the table of what used to be called a normal life. well, this was marina's answer to me. i think this is her christmas message to us all. you have to do come to my world, which i create some ring called the abramovic method. you can do it in your own home. you decide, one day a week, that you take your phone and your computer and switch them off and you don't put them, you don't put any electronics around. you do nothing. doing nothing is being yourself. because all that you do is look inwards. when you are surrounded by

entertainment you're not being with yourself alone, in silence. so if! was to do that, i can tell you, i would sit there and then i would... just wonder what is going on. and then i might get bored. being bought is important. it is? yes, because the board is a sign that something is wrong with you. you have to get bored. you have to go beyond the board. sit for six hours and do nothing and see what happens to your boredom. the board goes away. you start seeing that actually, you are nervous, you are hysterical, your breathing is raised. go anotherfour hours. you start breeding more slowly. you start relaxing. you start getting to the centre of yourself. it takes time. it takes effort. to relax, that is huge work. i really use technology to help make life more efficient. which means

that messages come in here and i can deal with these messages while i am walking somewhere else. so i am conscious that i've lost that piece, i've lost the peace and quiet of having a walk. the thing is, every email you write, you have done all the work, you write all the emails that you have in your computer in the morning. you can double back, every email is not important. and then what are you doing next week? that is the problem, if one person, like me, tries to do it differently, the rest of the world still operates ata the rest of the world still operates at a much higher pace and are still get those messages back, can you do this, can you pop this in here. can you imagine if you have three days to live? you would ask all these emails? no. why don't you take every day like the last day of your life? i wouldn't get paid, though. this, again, how much we need of this to live, how much supercity can we

have? it is so important to question everything, how we can create our life in a minimal way and everything, how we can create our life in a minimalway and how everything, how we can create our life in a minimal way and how many things we need to adopt. it is incredible. that questioning, only when you really put your life, it is so important to question everything. question how we can create our life ina minimalway. question how we can create our life in a minimal way. you know, question how we can create our life in a minimalway. you know, my generation is telegraph ‘s and xerox. —— telegrams. the young generation, the kids who were born with the computers in the videogames, these are the people who can actually do something about it. this is the target. that is the future. that was marina abramovic telling us to throw away our technology, which is a bit of a downer, especially for ross, because that's all we know. well, spencer, i

think i've got something that might cheer you up. technology isn't a lwa ys cheer you up. technology isn't always that bad. we've been going on about a hour all the, and kate, ifi could get a hand from you. —— going on about ar. what witchcraft is this? this is the ar air measure app, creating a painting in ar. you can paintings, measured things, all with an ar. and you stick that anywhere in space, and it's not really there. it's not really there, everybody! if you are wondering, this a photo of the quick team after we finished our live show in thought ofa we finished our live show in thought of a live studio audience. —— flange team. you can see that on tv in a couple of weeks. here is a sneak peek of the end of that show. this is the spectacular star wars ballet from propel. in true click style it endedin from propel. in true click style it ended in a fight to the death. the lone survivor from the audience took home one of the star wars drones. and that reminds me. it is time for our clickmas elfing. sticking with

the team of ar, will be adding a bit of augmented reality to the photo year. we have the into photo printer attached to a smartphone. i will need some help here, down. could you ta ke need some help here, down. could you take the selfie, please? you are in a better position than me. when need to put it on video mode. this is a video selfie? it is. you will find out why in a moment. all i have to say right now is that when dan presses the button, make sure you move and make some noise. happy clickmas, or something is appropriate. happy clickmas! more moving, more moving... move in a really unnatural way of all stock the more you move the better it will look. so, now we've got a steel that looks like that, which we can print. that's unfortunate. it is not a bad picture. let's print that out. hurrah! there you go, spencer. your memento. i like the way you framed

it. i am sure that is what it was designed for. i am going to have to ta ke designed for. i am going to have to take a selfie of that. that's it for this week. thank you so much for watching. 0n this week. thank you so much for watching. on behalf of the whole team, mary clickmas! —— merry clickmas. the rooftop sees santo, who is laughing with glee. he is trying to fit robots down the chimney. he finished the job and the gifts were delivered, around rudolf's next, the gps triggered. and on santa's step counter the total was high. three mac clickmas total was high. three mac clickmas to all. now where's my mince pie? guys, i think i've fallen over. and it told me there was a step. —— nobody told me. there hideout.

we are going to continue our run of cloudy weather right up to and including christmas day itself, but there will be a few changes going on. it is going to turn windier over the next few days and that will bring a few subtle changes. we are going to banda rain working into western scotland which could cause one or two issues in the run—up to christmas itself. high pressure in the south of the uk. we still have south—westerly winds dragging in that mild air. a rain bearing weather front approaches northern scotla nd weather front approaches northern scotland and indeed here as we start of saturday morning it will be turning wet across the northern isles. otherwise, for many of us it isa dry isles. otherwise, for many of us it is a dry start to the day and if you spot some drizzle around the west coast and hills. a mild start as well. it will be slightly breezy conditions to start the day on saturday. although there will be a little bit of mirco the high ground, it will not be quite as low as the

cloud we have seen in recent days. —— murk. saturday afternoon the ranger will is into the far north of northern ireland. for most of us it will just the dry and cloudy northern ireland. for most of us it willjust the dry and cloudy day. to pitches between ten and 12. saturday night, this area of rain will pulse. heavy pulses coming in. the rain is certainly persistent. we will see a turning heavier through the night as well. otherwise it is a similar note to what we have seen recently. nine or10 to what we have seen recently. nine or 10 celsius, 80 patches of nissan fog on the high ground. christmas eve and christmas day, this weather front will be targeting western scotland, often with heavy bursts of rain. those rainfall totals will be mounting up and we could see some localised transport disruption for western scotland in the run—up to christmas. so it could affect your travel plans in this part of the world. otherwise, for christmas eve, a windier kind of day. still some spots of rain and drizzle in those brisk winds, still lots of cloud around. a few bright and sunny spells in the east of high ground. temperatures 10— 12. christmas day will continue to be mild as well.

often cloudy. a band of rain pushing south. if you what some snow you have to go very high in the scottish mountains. 500 metres elevation or so. for most of us, it will not be a white christmas. after christmas, the air starts to turn colder. the potential of seeing snow perhaps over the pennines at christmas. we have to watch out about. that could instruct your travel plans on the return home from christmas. but is the weather. —— that is the weather. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm gavin grey. our top stories: the un security council unanimously backs tough new sanctions against north korea, severely restricting its ability to import oil. a visit by britain's foreign secretary to russia to repair today this council stand united against a north korean regime that

rejects the pursuit of peace. a visit by britain's foreign secretary to russia to repair relations ends in public discord — as borisjohnson accuses moscow of carrying out cyber attacks. two former fifa bosses are found guilty by a court in new york of accepting millions of dollars in bribes. also in the programme: a new fully—automated computer system to trap sexual predators from thousands of kilometres away.