announced tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium. mr trump said trade wars can be good, because the us is losing billions of dollars from existing deals.the international monetary fund has joined global condemnation of the plan. the united nations top human rights official says it's likely war crimes are being committed in the syrian region of eastern ghouta and there must be prosecutions. hundreds have been killed in the rebel—held enclave in the past 12 days. despite the un calling for a ceasefire, the violence hasn't stopped. severe weather is bringing chaos to large parts of europe. at least 60 people have died in sub—zero temperatures. heavy snowfall and blizzards are forecast to continue well into the weekend. in about ten minutes time we'll have the latest edition of newswatch, but first on bbc news, here's click. this week, 108,000 people landed in barcelona with one thing on their minds.

mobiles. welcome to the mobile world congress. the enormous annual expo where we get to hear about the latest in phones, tablets and, increasingly, anything that moves. a smartwatch with a built—in projector, anyone? roaming the floor for us this year, lara lewington. despite talk of how many of the big players are not releasing new phones at the show, there are quite a few new phones on display. and the cameras were often taking centre stage. this is bothie mode. we saw how we might interact with our devices in the future. who needs buttons when you can gesture? and the way they might interact with us. a phone screen that bends. could a bendy phone be the future? but to really get to grips with the latest news here, ijoined forces with a man who seriously knows his phones. hmd, who brought the nokia phone

brand a few years back, are again embracing nostalgia with a 2018 twist with its 8110 ag. and no, you do not need to have it in banana yellow. would you feel silly to take that out of your pocket? absolutely in that colour. i would need it to be black or any other colour except bright yellow. its operating system can only run a few apps. however they will include google assistant, google maps and facebook although not twitter nor whatsapp. but with battery life of up to 25 days, albeit on standby, and a pricetag of 70 quid, it does sound like a decent proposition. it has ag. that is all of the data connectivity you would want at a ridiculously low price. how nice is it to hold like that, frame the shot and then use centre button to take the it? even here at the big reveal

of a phone it was the camera that was very much front and centre. for a start, the samsung galaxy 59 and 59 plus shoot better pictures in low light, reducing grain by taking a burst of 12 shots at once. the larger 59 plus actually has two lenses that work together to produce photos with a blurred background, in the same way that the iphone 7 plus has done since 2016. this, however, is quite new here in the west. it is the first phone i have seen that has a mechanical aperture which can switch from f2.5 to f1.5 to let in more light. last year, we saw a sony phone that could shoot at a0 times slow—mo. that is 960 frames per second. as we predicted then, that feature is now starting to migrate into other phones. one problem i had with sony's super slow mode is that you have to be incredibly precise in order to start

the recording and capture the 0.2 seconds of action. not so with the s9. it waits until it detects motion in a certain part of its viewfinder and then it fires the slow—mo mode. so... that should mean you don't miss those of milliseconds of slow—mo magic. hot on the heels of apple's iphone animojis, the s9 lets you create and send your own emojis. they do look a little like you but quite impressively they will copy your expression using live face tracking. or you can use a preset created from your, ahem, likeness. overall, the s9 and s9 plus look and feel like their predecessors. the same size, they're

dust and water resistant and they still have a headphone socket. hurrah. the screen is ever so slightly longer. they will now accept sd cards of up to a00 gigabytes and they play dolby atmos sound. and where the s8 could be plugged into a special dock to connect to screen, mouse and keyboard, the s9 can become a trackpad. this will soon also double as a keyboard. even with the s9‘s better tech specs, critics say that the improvements are not massive. they do think the camera and the sharing functions are sure to be eyecatchers. and no super slow—mo shoot is complete without lots and lots of confetti. he has a link or the killer dystrophy which is a muscle wasting disease which makes every muscle

deteriorate over time, which means he cannot build the strength to do the things we take for granted, giving apparent to hug, things like that. he has a life expectancy of somewhere between 20 and 25, which is when the heart and lungs, the muscles give up and we will lose him. since harrison came off his feet at the end of last year, being able to create stimulating and engaging experiences at home has become more important than ever. and today he has a virtual visitor. this research prototype is currently being perfected at ravensbourne. i see the holograndpa. are you in charge

of cooking tonight? your dad would like a steak that big! he is only allowed one this big. next tuesday is pancake day. what would you have this year? definitely maple syrup. there are are both ar and vr versions. eventually, 2—way audio and video could be possible, and more than one person could be transported. but right now it is about giving the basics right. while this is not a true hologram, be displayed displays holograndpa as a 3—dimensional projection, as if he was in the room. there was when we tested at a bit of a time lapse due to a lack of processing power and connection. arsenal beat tottenham.

never in a million years or that when. 3—1 to tottenham, and harry kane scores two. and the oscars are finally here. the 90th awards are this weekend. over the past few weeks, we have been going exclusively behind the scenes with some of the nominees in the best visual effects category. this week is the fourth in our series. otherwise known as episode eight. of course i am talking about star wars: the lastjedi. it took almost a year to get to the final lookj of snoke.

we started to paint textures and build the internal controls and anatomy of the character. and then as the editors, ryan and bob, were working together, they brought together sequences only using andy's as a reference point. and he had this incredible, powerful voice. closer i said... the bombing run was in the original script, was exactly as you said in the film. we did bid how to execute this in a few different ways, practical pyrotechnics, that sort of thing. and the scheduling and cost of that was too prohibitive. the important thing to me is, when working with a director like rian, is that we can make our

cg look like any particular style. we can make it look like anything. balsawood model, a cg ship — we have that control over the way we can render things, now. after a time, rian became confident in what we could do. actually, it was a liberation. what we achieved in the bombing run i think have pushed us to a new level of believability. i think our contribution to film is getting more and more invisible in certain cases. when they are not invisible because you know they cannot be real, they are getting more believable. globally, the visual effects techniques are so advanced, now, that it is now important to good story, and it is important at that story has good ideas and greater challenges that push us

to create visuals that have never been seen before. that's it for the short clerk this week, —— that it did for the shortcut of click this week. the long version is up on my player right now. we are on facebook and twitter, thank you for watching and we will see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. too much airtime, too much fear and not enough on other big news — did the bbc go snowblind over this week's weather? and were bbc on—air staff put in danger on endless outside, live broadcasts? 0ne story this week has dominated television news output and the newswatch inbox too, so we will be focusing on this programme is what has been widely dubbed as — well, let's hear the phrase used by bbc presenters. now, it's been billed as the beast from the east, a freezing weather front sweeping in from russia this week. are you ready for the beast from the east?

weather blowing in from russia is set to make parts of the uk colder than the arctic. the blast of bitterly cold weather over the last couple of days has come from siberia. the beast from the east, as it's been called. but should the bbc have given that nickname further currency? no, thought a number of viewers, including mike. the beast from the east — why have the bbc adopted this trashy, tabloid headline for the recent weather? surely the bbc news is above such a ridiculous description? more and more, we seem to be lowering journalistic standards in order to entertain and maintain viewer figures. and ian tweeted along similar lines... and that charge of hysteria was made more widely, for instance, by a viewer called linda... and gill agreed...

another issue of concern was the wisdom of sending reporters and camera crews out to face the elements around the country. the weather today is brutal. there's freezing temperatures across pretty much the whole of scotland, and when the wind blows, it feels much colder than that. it's pretty brutal here at the moment, i have to say.