the headlines: the united states has been widely criticised by fellow un security council members for calling an emergency meeting on the anti—government protests in iran. china, russia and france have all questioned the move. iran's representative condemned what he called a preposterous example of bullying by the us. the author of a damning new book about donald trump's presidency says he stands by everything he wrote. michael wolff says the president behaves like a child, who neither reads nor listens. mr trump has dismissed the book as phony. temperatures along the east coast of america are expected to fall as low as minus a0 degrees celsius in the coming hours, as a brutal cold spell continues into the weekend. at least 19 people have died since a powerful blizzard hit much of the east coast on thursday. in a moment on bbc news, it is newswatch. but first, it's time for click. welcome.

hello, welcome. welcome, how are you? hello... 7 welcome, welcome... second script — "how are you? how are you?" hello, everybody! i am literally being built from the skin out, currently, by these two lovely ladies who are going to try to make me look different... all right, then. we are all good to go, brendan, you happy? so what we're going to do is go to silence, please, and go to black. lose the house lights. vt10 next.

announcer: this is bbc click live. please welcome your host, spencer kelly! cheering and applause erm...right! there. hello! welcome. my own floor! welcome to click live! and have we got a show for you...! have we got a show for them? we have, we're ready to go. laughter we have some really amazing things for you tonight. we've got some things that noise, we've got some things that fly, we have some things for you to taste. some of it won't work, 0k? laughter bear with us, because hopefully the stuff that does work — fingers crossed, and a lot of it has in rehearsals — it is a world—first, and you won't see this anywhere else, and no—one has seen this before you. before any of that, i have to introduce you to the other half of the show.

please welcome to the stage kate russell. applause brilliant, isn't it? when they said i'd have my name in lights, i was expecting more broadway than boardwalk — but it's a start! it's going to be a really, really crammed show. and i don't want you getting too comfortable, because there's a lot of audience participation. so i hope you're ready to take part. do you want to see some tech? crowd: yes! good stuff. i don't believe you. do you want to see some tech? crowd: yes! i think so. all right, so first of all, we need you to settle down, because our first guest tonight is very mysterious. his name is psychicjoe, and i'm told things are about to get very strange... eerie music playing hello. computers are a wonderful thing, but we're going to put them to one

sidejust for the moment. i'd like to introduce you to the power of your own mind. breathe slowly and gently, and i'll discover more about you, with just a candle. now, i sometimes get some powers and signals through, and sometimes i get things wrong. but most of the time, it's right. so stay with me. i mightjust get pieces of information that come... i'm starting with a "".g let me just put this down for a moment. there's a "g" — so i'm going to start to pull something out of the audience. hopefully it's one of you. i'm getting a "".g let's start with "g" — gareth? i think this is him. because those are two different sites. hello, gareth. how are you? we havejoe, and he's going to identify some people in the audience, and he's

going to pretend to read their mind by telling them things about them, by reading information from them. it's actually us researching these people online and feeding that to him through a hidden earpiece. les? les...? it could have been a man, but i won't make wild assertions. is there a les? leslie? welcome to the show. glad you've got a microphone with you now. so we're researching some of the people in the audience right now. the gentleman who's just sat down in front of us — i've just found the address details of somebody who sat down at the front with her partner as well. so we're researching as much as we can about the people that are in front of us. do you have children called jack and sasha? um. . .we have cats called jack and sasha. oh, it's close! it's close, isn't it? i've set up a free wi—fi network. most people quite happily click "free wi—fi". it says please type in their name, click "connect", and that is how we start. we then have their name. it's the first thing to work from.

fortunately, as well, because it's quite a big event, people will like the facebook page. people will say, "i'm at bbc click." we can see that publicly and openly. is this legal? completely legal, yes. that's a question we get asked a lot. we're just looking at information people have made available themselves. but congratulations on your four—year anniversary. a round of applause please. applause there's two main lessons - be careful what you're signing up for. the biggest thing that's helping us the most right now — people's social media profiles are open and public. we're not saying not to use it, just check that your profile is private. i'm a complete stranger to everybody in this audience, but so far i've been able to go onto all of their profiles and look at where they were born, their pictures, their statuses. as a total stranger, you probably don't want me reading that information. so just — we're not saying don't use it — just make it private so only your friends can see. that would protect you from all of the things we've found out

so far, actually. we listen to radio, to tv, to music, to podcasts, using speakers. big speakers in your house and small speakers that you wear in your ears or that are built into your smartphones. so i'm just choosing the perfect bit of coffee for the levitation. it has to be both kind of small, but also regular, and i don't think they normally make coffee beans with levitation in mind. one of the things that steve has been working on is ultrasounds, 0k? and we've got a few ultrasound demos here. so i'll tell you what — rather than explain more about it, shall we, uh...just give it a whirl? so i'll tell you what — who's getting something there? raise your hand if you can hear this, then drop your hand as soon as you can't hear it again. so this is unusual for a speaker, because usually when you switch a speaker on, everyone can hear it. right now, we're getting a really narrow beam. really focused beam of sound. imagine this is a lot like a flashlight. imagine i'm pointing

a torch around the room. you'd only see certain parts of it. this is the same idea, except with sound. so we're focusing the sound and we can focus all that energy, all that sound energy, in a specific place. wow! this is the weirdest and slowest and most continuous mexican wave i've ever seen... i have no idea what you're hearing, because he's never pointed it in my direction. beeping whoa! seriously? sorry, it's quite unpleasant, isn't it? it can make normal sounds as well. so ultrasound is really high—frequency sound, and then you're tying other stuff into that, which you're then sending around the room? so ultrasound is out of the range of human hearing, is pretty much the definition. we can hear up to 20,000 hertz, and anything above that is ultrasound. we can't hear ultrasound, but this is an ultrasound wave that's been combined or modulated with an audible signal. i tell you what — this is not just the only ultrasound weirdness we've got.

it gets even weirder. pop that down, for goodness's sake. this looks like it's landed from another planet. this is incredible. stephen, for the second time tonight, what on earth is going on? so, if we can in here, you can see there's quite a regular pattern on some of these. i can't get too close because it disrupts the sound field. but maybe you can see there's a few balls — a bit of a gap. so how are you using ultrasound to actually make stuff levitate? well, these speakers are producing a big ultrasound signal, that's making a standing wave. and in between the gaps of the standing wave, the balls can get trapped and they get kept in the same place. oh, wow! well, that's fantastic. in fact, that's so amazing, steve, i think we deserve a drink. would you mix us one? yes, of course, spencer. fantastic, right. this is the weirdest drink... we rehearsed that, could you tell? what is this, steve? we've got a lovely, lovely delight for you today. it's a single grain of coffee with a, uh...drop of milk, all levitating in the middle of the air. it's a latte. laughter you have to have it in, though. you can't have it

to go, unfortunately. right, so i'm going to try this. my tongue's not long enough... really slowly... laughter 0h! you got it! applause that's really...coffee—y. that's like really, really strong. is that supposed to be that strong? yes, yeah. that's what we've found. sugar tastes sweeter, and coffee's bitter. fantastic. sri, steve, thank you very much. a round of applause for sri, steve and the ultrasound latte! applause there were so many amazing demos and displays in the show that we just can't fit it into this program. here's a look at some of the other highlights from our evening of delight. we transformed our tech—loving audience into musicians, as kate and i conducted the biggest ever micro:bit processor orchestra. let's have some more micro:bits

over here in the air. ok, let's have a few at the back... hold those up. 0h, great. i can see them all in the sky. we are still waiting on the guinness book of records to get back to us, though. we explored the potential of ar, with our lucky audience members left cowering as a full—scale aircraft suddenly appeared over their heads. hello, world! 300,000 peoplejoined us on facebook live during the evening as we asked them whether robots should feel pain. edward nemil, thank you for this question on facebook: "sacrificing a robot for the greater good might be necessary. why would you want it to feel pain?" if we're going to keep having a servant class of robots, then we shouldn't go down that route. but the aims of increasing intelligence may make that

impossible. we watched drones that study the landscape and drones that dive, as we looked at how they could help in the future. it's been absolutely amazing. have you had a good time? crowd: yes! thank you very much for watching, and we will see you soon. bye. cheering and applause cut it. well done, well done, well done. a happy new year, and welcome to the first newswatch of 2018 with me, samira ahmed. this week, after the bbc announces it's increasing its religious affairs coverage, we'll be asking why, and what the impact will be? the bbc‘s religion editor martin bashir tells us how he'll be tackling the competing demands of religious groups and the non—believing majority. first, the new year brought with it

some distressing news, including the deaths of six people, including british businessman richard cousins, in a seaplane accident in australia. the crash was reported extensively on bbc news — too much so for several viewers, including alan winn. he wrote to us on tuesday. you've been sending us your comments on bbc news output over the christmas and new year period and one concern that's been voiced was the contrast some perceived in the coverage of two fires that took place on december 29th — one in an apartment building in the bronx, new york, which killed 12 people, and one in a restaurant in mumbai, where at least 15 people died. imtiyaz ansari rang that day

identifying a discrepancy in the news reporting of the two incidents. it obviously showed a great deal of the fire that took place in the bronx where 12 people had died. but the same incident of fire has taken place in mumbai where 15 people have died. not a single mention of this incident. and even your website, this incident is hidden well inside the asia region while the new york fire is right on the front page. why so biased? just before christmas, the bbc published its plans to increase the ambition of its coverage of religion and ethics. the review covered all areas of programming, from songs of praise to thought for the day, but in news, it proposed increased investment and output, and a new post of religion editor. the scope and nature of reporting on religion is a subject that's

bound to divide audiences, with some feeling it's