wake to be spending cash. superstar today on the sunday express. a0 million hit the sales early. terrible. an enormous shopping date shock. an estimated £1.67 billion... how do they work that out? i actually have not done all my christmas shopping. you will have a busy day tomorrow. the great thing is that the majority of the money was spent on high street, not online. actual physical shops. aren't you too late to buy online? 0h, not for sale shops. aren't you too late to buy online? 0h, not forsale is shops. aren't you too late to buy online? 0h, not for sale is not for christmas presents. and at the beginning of the market was down 10% and everyone was worried so it actually brilliant news the high street. you can spend it twice, you need to spend it today or after christmas but you may get some bargains. take your sharp elbows with you. let's finish with the express. eat, drink and be merry.

why? good news, easy, convenient answer to a obesity is on the way! if this story is to be believed, an injection has been invented, we are told, or it has been invented by university in israel, that can stop the sites that usually turn flat into, our bodies burn them instead, so into, our bodies burn them instead, so the trial has been successful and that could be on the market in two years. sir we can eat all the mince pies we want. we shouldn't applaud this, should we? we should show restraint. except we do exist in a culture where there is food everywhere the whole time and i think we need to address culture to make it easier for people, think we need to address culture to make it easierfor people, and think we need to address culture to make it easier for people, and also so make it easier for people, and also so much is unhealthy and packed with sugar and all sorts of things, it makes it hard, i can see the need for a magic cure and we will wait and see... we don't need new years

resolution, we can just and see... we don't need new years resolution, we canjust have an injection. that is the papers. rosamond, claire, good to see you, thank you for coming in and a happy christmas and new year. coming up next, its click. twas the night before clickmas and all through the smart home not a gizmo was whirring, not even a drone. the stockings were full with gadgets galore, with virtual realities primed to explore. # the very next day you gave it away # this year, to save me from tears

# i'll give it to...# and welcome to the clickmas special! cheering and thank you very much to john culshaw for that excellent rendition to start us off. would you believe it? the gang's all here, the halls are decked with nifty gadgetry, and it's time to get this party started. 0oh! look at that! this is the lyric speaker, and it streams music from your smartphone from spotify, and it also picks up the lyrics from spotify and displays it on the screen for you all to stare at, rather than having a sociable conversation. and if you do want something to talk about, you can talk about the fact that this costs £3600. wow! yes, so there we go. does it play mariah carey? technically, it does, but we can't afford the licensing. well, i tell you what, i've got a christmas present for you, spencer. fabulous. you've always wanted to be a jedi knight, i know this in my heart. yes. you have always wanted to have a lightsabre battle. oh, yes.

with this augmented reality star wars battling headset, you can. fabulous. can i try it now? yes, but you're going to have to go over there, because i know you and your waving arms, you're going to knock something over. 0k. while i get lost in a galaxy far, far away, dan is getting lost in his favourite video game. come on, come on! come on! come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! i've just crashed it! he laughs it's a stunning game, and i'd love to tell you it'sjust like driving the real thing but... ..i can't just yet. this is the nissan gt—r.

its four—wheel drive traction—control system lays down almost all the 550 horses from the engine to the tarmac. it has a top speed that would make your nose bleed and been clocked from 0—60 in under three seconds. i am ready to go again! sorry? 0h, bleep! oh, my...! yeah, 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—size, fully—specced remote—controlled nissan gt—r/c. it has been made by the team atjlb design and is driven by a standard playstation controller. four robots control the transmission, steering, throttle and the brakes. the six number—crunchers in the boot calculate my adjustments 100 times a second. so just to be clear, i'm going to be driving that car with this, while rob chases it in the car that we're in, so we don't lose contact, obviously. i know. bonkers. this is £100,000 worth of sports car, and i've got to say it's twitchy. just like the grand prix,

a bit of brake, there we go, in we go, in we turn. just take a little bit of kerb. he has got it round that corner! he hasn't smashed the sports car! this car has so much power, and i literally have to just dab my finger and it moves — i mean, it really goes. incredible. wow! i mean, just be able to control something as powerful as that is so much responsibility, actually, but once you get into it, you get focused on the car, it's just incredible. we should all have one of these for christmas, shouldn't we? oh, well. nice to dream. dan! that looked amazing! pointless! but amazing! yeah.

and terrifying. it was absolutely terrifying, spen. i think we created a new emoji when we filmed that. 0h, isay! but we flushed it away, it's ok, it's fine. right, well! ho, ho, ho! merry clickmas! what have you got there? this is my friend, anki. i thought it would bring some fun to the clickmas table. look, it even recognises me. hello, anki! and it's a goading robot! it can say phrases, it can play educational games and it can even do that. let's have a look at what it gets up to on the table. don't worry, it's not going to eat those chocolate coins of yours! does it mine for bitcoins? it mines for chocolate coins, at this moment. robots are the best! this is 0cado's hatfield fulfilment centre — a place where humans work alongside a process that already looks pretty automated. but the robots are coming.

wow! this grocery—picking robot is being tested here, and early next year she'll be making an appearance at one of 0cado's warehouses to do the job for real. it has been trained to identify 2,000 of 0cado's 50,000 products using computer vision. and as long as those products are non—porous — so that means basically anything that won't be damaged by being picked up by this vacuum — then it can take them out of the picking box, take them through the scanner, and place them in the bagging area. but this isn't the only bot being tested here. so i'm off to meet a man called panos and an arm called soma. hello! oh, i don't know whose hand i shake first. i'm going to go for yours. ok, so whilst this robot looks like its purpose isjust to have the human touch,

so it can pick things up that are softer without damaging them, it does also have another skill. what this one has been taught to do is the same thing a human would. so to put their hand on it, roll it along and do that. panos, can you help it demonstrate, please? of course. wow! that arm movement is quite something. it's got a few elbows there. but it's grabbed it, and it has picked it up successfully. it can put it down. 0h! thanks, happy christmas to you, too! wow, i have to say, you get a great view of london's west end from up here. i'm on the roof ofjohn

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. and 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, barman... well, hello there, spencer! if it isn't tv‘s nick kwek. it's me! how are you? cold. can you whip me up something hot? here you go, spen. it's a lovely hot chocolate. i say hot, because actually that is a smart mug you are holding. it connects to your mobile phone via an app, and that works like a thermostat. you choose the desired temperature of your drink, and that keeps it warm all day long. all day long! that is, until your smartphone‘s battery dies, at which point the power in the mug goes. i'll drink it, then. that will be £80. say what now? £80.

£80! what's that, production? i'm needed back in the hub? spen! i hope you're enjoying the show. it's time for our clickmas elfing. sticking with the theme of ar, we'll be adding a bit of augmented reality to the photo this year. we have the photo printer attached to a smartphone. i will need some help here, dan. could you take the selfie, please? you are in a better position than me. we need to put it on video mode. this is a video selfie? well, 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 else appropriate. three, two, one! all: happy clickmas! so now we have still that looks like but that we print.

that's unfortunate. it's not a bad picture. let's print that still. hurrah! there you go, spencer. your memento. your memento for having us. i like the way you framed it. i'm sure that's what it was designed for. i'm going to have to take a selfie of that. that's it for this week. thank you so much for watching. on behalf of the whole team, merry clickmas! the rooftop sees santa who is laughing with glee. he is trying to fit robots down the chimney. he finished thejob and the gifs were delivered. around rudolph‘s neck, the gps triggered. and on santa's step counter the total was high. merry clickmas to all! # now where's my mince pie? guys, i think i've fallen over. no—one told me there was a step. good evening. santa is going to be

heading into a headwind across the uk tomorrow and it is a mild run—up that will continue for tomorrow as well because we have got all of this cloud and frame, that is the difference christmas eve, rainfall scotland, northern ireland eventually the north—west of england but it is mild for the most part, maybe someone in fog to clear but it isa mild maybe someone in fog to clear but it is a mild night, a mild day, if anything a bit milder than was today than through tomorrow evening and overnight and other weather front comes in, joins forces with the first, so it gets very windy across england and wales, i don't cloudy as well, within the north and west, concerns the flooding in scotland, behind that there is a snow threat as well so we could yet have a white christmas across some parts of

southern and eastern scotland, squally winds elsewhere, the headwind as i say, santa is into, and all of us have a much colder day by the time we to boxing day. this is bbc news. i'm ben bland. our top stories: flooding and mudslides kill more than one hundred and eighty people, as a storm sweeps across the southern philippines. catalonia's sacked leader urges madrid to let him return to the region to take charge. chat/ in i have not stopping president even though they have sacked me. —— translation:. as the california wildfire becomes the largest in state history, we meet the prison inmates helping to tackle the flames in sport, barcelona beat real madrid three— nil, in the first el clasico of the spanish football season.