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the us secretary of state mike pompeo has indicated north korea could get financial aid, if it gives up nuclear weapons. to safeguard their economic interests in iran. measures if washington punishes firms for doing new prime minster mahathir mohammad. he's also been told he could take the top job in a couple of years. the chief inspector at the un's nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency, has resigned. no reason was given for his sudden departure. now on bbc news, it's time for click. the art, replica popstar and a robot
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that we wish could replicate doing the laundry. the future starts here. more specifically at london's victoria and albert museum. i have come to an exhibition that hopes to make us think about how we want to live our lives in the future. there are over 100 items on display, a lot of them we have seen on the show before but here they are —— here they are
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presented in a different light, in a somewhat unsettling one. here is an immersive dome. a reminder of how oui’ immersive dome. a reminder of how our lifestyles are poisoning the earth. it's not everyday you an artificially intelligent sandpit —— sandpit and it really is quite compelling to play with. so there is some more water. the creators have extracted topography data from thousands of satellite images and fed that into a new rule network to create this interactive display. as idig create this interactive display. as i dig deeper, the land is level drops and it turns to see or if i pile up the sand, it times for missing to green mountains. this is a future that i could enjoy, a bot thatis a future that i could enjoy, a bot that is doing the laundry. admittedly, but here is a little bit slow. it currently takes ten minutes to fold the towel but that shows just how difficult it is to teach a
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robot mundane jobs and just how difficult it is to teach a robot mundanejobs and in just how difficult it is to teach a robot mundane jobs and in fact he does go through trial and error so the more he keeps doing that, the quicker this is going to become. that may take brett some time. meanwhile, elsewhere in the v&a museum they are facing a challenge almost as complex. there are almost 2 million works of art here, the largest collection of decorative art and design anywhere in the world and as with any museum, they want to check that hiding amongst them aren't any fakes or forgeries. telling an original from the real deal is not simple but asjeff white found out in prague, technology is making the process easier. a roomful of reubens aspire‘s national gallery. even an untrained eye can tell the work of a master but it's not always easy. recent forgeries scandals have got the art world in a
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spin. the question is, up close and personal, could you spot the impostor? the national gallery up there as a team of people whose job it is to make sure the works on display are the real deal. all the big art institutions do but it doesn't always work. some of the world ‘s greatest galleries have been caught out by the forgers. can technology help? here in prague, they are using space industry tech to see if it can spot a fake. this prague start—up has a challenge to you. which ones are the fakes? this, for example, looks like an edvard munch. if so, this conservative is handling millions of pounds. the truth will be revealed when it goes in the scanner. on this site, we have a x—ray to you tube —— tube which emits x—rays. it's not
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emitting? it's switched off. but on the other side, supersensitive detectives first developed at cern, the world ‘s largest particle physics lab. these detectors which are measuring also wavelengths, fixed rates, cert in a way, we can create super x —— coloured x—ray images. those colours can reveal layers and ingredients of paint, sometimes ingredients way to modern the alleged artist. we can sometimes distinguish different materials which may or may not be from the period the painting is supposed to be from. and with robotic arms, they are having to scan just more than paintings. sculptures, pottery, even entire pieces of furniture. what about that edvard munch? after a few hours scanning, the moment of truth. the x—rays have revealed a hidden secret. what do you see? that is a
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vase of flowers, isn't it? edvard munch rarely did flowers and the scans show titanium and the paint. edvard munch didn't use that. so whoever has got this, hasn't got the edvard munch on their hands. have you told him this yet? but geoffrey thinks he has found an authentic work and he thinks it is a very big deal. this looks like vincent van gough landscape. it's a private collection. you are seeing it for first time. and the scan reveals a vital piece of evidence. there it is now, the folders. it's an unfinished e—mail mood of exactly the type van gogh painted. the artist was so poon gogh painted. the artist was so poor, he reused canvasses. geoffrey thinks it's a big deal and it is a
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great moment. i have seen this, it is amazing, because in your life, restoration is a really special moment. the scans, along with years worth of other evidence, will be sent to the vincent van gogh foundation. if they decide it is real, it will be only one of two wheel sized van gogh paintings discovered in the last 80 years. the last one souls were almost £40 million. inside art scanning isjust one of a battery of high—tech methods authenticating art. mobile apps can be used to track pictures around the world. artificial intelligence can be used to compare individual brush strokes. high frequency scanning can reveal minute imperfections. all in an effort to keep ahead of the forgers. speaking of whom, welcome to david henty‘s house. there is a walter sickert in
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the spare room. kara budgie are on the spare room. kara budgie are on the end of the bed. and francis bacon. and out on the balcony, let's look what you got out here. several paintings here. but none of these are real? again, depends who's asking. there is only probably one 01’ asking. there is only probably one or 2% of the world that can afford a $100 million picasso so if you want to picasso, the way i look at it, this is the nearest you are going to get to it, david henty. before he was exposed by national newspaper david sold his forgeries but carefully stopped short of claiming they were definitely real deal. when i was forging, i see my paintings in the art auction catalogues. i wouldn't like to say which ones because you will get someone into trouble. not to me, because i sell them legally. now he has gone straight, his buyers know he is
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getting —— no they are getting a forgery albeit a lovingly crafted one. and anti— forgery tech is all pa rt one. and anti— forgery tech is all part of the fund for the papers. as $0011 part of the fund for the papers. as soon as you , part of the fund for the papers. as soon as you, but up with a bit of technology, we are looking at a way to get around it, which is what a good forger will do. according to one former fbi art investigator, the forgery market is worth $6 billion. and with skills like david's on display, the art world —— the art world might want to turn to the latest attack before signing off on the latest multimillion pound deal. and that was jeff. meanwhile the latest multimillion pound deal. and that wasjeff. meanwhile with a new collection of david bowie prints about to go on stale, we went to find out how technology is being used to make sure they too are the real deal. many people have of course followed his flamboyant style over the years and it is still widely imitated today but how do you separate the imposters from the original? put on your red issues and
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dads the blues. in 1983, david bowie took off on his hugely successful global tour, serious moonlight. promoting let's dance, the world saw a different side to the musician. about 2—d is ago, emi records phoned me up in australia and said, would i like to take a 25— hour flight back, and come and sit in a room with 75 journalists? 35 years ago, and no one had ever seen david like that. he had this ice cool image of ziggy stardust, he was this ice cool figure and then let's dance came along and he became more human. before he died in 2016, david was working on a project to commemorate the two and incorporates many unseen photographs i'd denis o'regan into a coffeeta ble photographs i'd denis o'regan into a coffeetable book. we left the house and we went to the car and david did
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this in no apparent region —— reason. he was driving and non— existent car. very david bowie. now dennis has expanded the project, ricocheting into five books being sold with rare photographic prints. including many candid snaps from his own collection. 0h, lovely. it's quite odd, really. if david was looking at these now, he would say, i love that. but these days, we can ta ke i love that. but these days, we can take thousands of photographs, whenever we want to, on our phones. but what makes these prints rare and worth collecting. all of these shots we re worth collecting. all of these shots were taken on film so by definition, you couldn't take 1000 pictures an hour. you would take pictures as and
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when you thought you had a good photograph. sometimes we do, there are only 25 prints of that image and there will never be any more printed from that image. but how do you make sure you have an original print from dennis and not a fake? ricochet is being secured by a company called techsmart, using synthetic dna in the uk lab retreat —— laboratory to ensure the prints. this is encoded into a stamp with david's initials. it's divided into different inks, each inc is a different inks, each inc is a different security element inside it. this one is fluorescent, 500 uv light. the process of what goes into the stamp is so secret that only two people in the company know exactly what materials are used. we use different inks and we use different
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inorganic compounds. some are read rates and a different type of element we use and sometimes use traditional ones but we use them in unusual ways. a specially developed scanner can detect the difference —— different materials and sometimes the security features are visible, —— invisible, like on the certificate of authenticity. but we are ensured they out there. we think this is more forwardthinking. it's something not particularly visible on the prints so it's something not particularly visible on the prints so its is not as hacker bull, in this day and age. hopefully uninhabitable. as long —— along with a book of photographs, there will be a remastered album in there will be a remastered album in the set celibate £3000. how would david bowie have reacted to this? well, i would like to think that as he was the most extraordinary innovator and unbelievably original, he would have been quite taken by it. hello and welcome to the week in
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tech. it was the week that the research is at the university of toronto showed up hand—held 3—d skin printer that can apply layers of skin tissue directly on to patients to cover and heal wounds. google announced it would ban all advertisements relating to the republic of ireland's forthcoming referendum on abortion. and california has become the first american state to require solar panels on almost all new homes. the ruling is not due to come into force until 2020 but has faced criticism from those who believe it may increase house prices in the short to medium term. and if you are sick and tired of your autonomous card not being able to drive you to the right place, because the area around has not been properly mapped, mit have unveiled a system using gps maps and laser sensors, maplight, to
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allow an autonomous vehicle to ride in ruraland allow an autonomous vehicle to ride in rural and previously unmapped areas. and finally, talking of rural areas, the scenery around the lake district may be so beautiful, it's earned it unesco world heritage status but its roads aren't so pretty and are often clogged with wayward walkers. one solution sought by the national park is self driving pods which could bury tourists around the picturesque landscape. a feasibility study has been launched but doubts have been raised about the pod's —— the pod‘s —— and doubts have been raised. but this is google conference, the chief executive wants people to think aboutjomo, the joy of missing out, and are ourselves from our tech addictions. jomo, the actualjoy of missing out. we think we really help users with digital well—being. this is going to be a deep, ongoing
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effort across all of our products and platforms, and we need all of your help. this is all part of a trend of technology companies becoming increasingly worried their products are making is miserable. facebook is talk lately about time well spent rather than just idle scrolling through your newsfeed, the google of course have the android mobile operating system, the most popular in the world. set it can do a lot to solve the problem. the softwa re a lot to solve the problem. the software will prompt you to take a break if you have disappeared down a youtube binge watch holes are too long. if you are the kind of person who lies awake watching your phone at night, and that is all of us, the wind down mode would set your phone to do not disturb and make it g reysca le , to do not disturb and make it greyscale, something usability experts they will make you less tempted to use your device for as long. and you can set limits to certain apps, when you get the limit, the app will be unavailable for the rest of the day. google has
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introduced shush mode, you place your phone face down and it goes into do not disturb. but while the solve the huge problem? google's system will understand et al follow up system will understand et al follow up questions, removing the need to save hey, google each time you have a command. when is the next game? the warrior‘s next game is today... google maps will help to choose the next time you are at a street corner by using the calrossie can find out which direction you are facing and most impressive of all was this. i'm looking for something on may the third. the voice on the left is google duplex, advanced ai that is able to interact with a real human being, it can book things like their appointments or tables at restau ra nts. appointments or tables at restaurants. google would not let us test this for ourselves we cannot tell you if it works or not but if it does, wow! do you have anything between ten am and 12 pm. ?
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it does, wow! do you have anything between ten am and 12 p.m. ? that was dave. back at the vna on exploring some of the other exhibits. the ability to study our dna has the potential to cure diseases. bento lab isa potential to cure diseases. bento lab is a dna lab in a box which could make by hackers of us all. we borrow a lot of ideas from how people learn computer coding and all these other great bits. i think we like to think of it as a vna for learning genetics just how you learn the language. i am very interested in the future of biotech when 16 year rob starr 65 the role can be a pa rt year rob starr 65 the role can be a part of it, having lots of oysters being unable to go into biotech through this is exciting. next week is mental health awareness week in the uk. 0f is mental health awareness week in the uk. of course the problems it is highlighting is of international
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releva nce. highlighting is of international relevance. as mental health continues to grab the headlines, we have sent paul carter to have a look at some of the latest digital tools that aim to help. when i first started to cut myself, it was just a release and it was like i was in control of something and, like, it was like i was matching the pain on the inside as it was on the outside. the rest albot of stigma around mental health and people feeling like they have got to be ok and get on with it. i've struggled from anxiety and quite a few years, since i was anxiety and quite a few years, since iwasa anxiety and quite a few years, since i was a small child, because of issues that have faced at school. i was a small child, because of issues that have faced at schoolm you address that now at school level at the younger years, then hopefully that will build a generation of people who are open to talk about mental health. in a conversation around mental health could indeed be aided by technology. often seen as the bogeyman harming children and
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young people is the suggestion that technology could now posed solutions to those very problems. it is estimated that one in four adults experience mental health issues each yearin experience mental health issues each year in the uk and that 75% of mental illnesses start before a child reaches their 18th birthday. treatment though can be slow. at present, only 20% of children and young people who have significant mental health problems that would benefit from intervention are actually receiving the sort of standard services that we recognise. we really need to think about how we can reach that additional 80%. some of that needs to come through a greater expansion of conventional mental health services but i think we also need to look to new technology to help us. one group of
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young people who may face particular challenges around mental health students. yet at the university of western england in bristol to have partnered with a platform to provide a service of young people who study here. kooth offers online forums, materials and tools and live one on one counselling sessions. one student who remains anonymous is fun to poultry interesting. student who remains anonymous is fun to poultry interestinglj student who remains anonymous is fun to poultry interesting. i struggled with low mood and anxiety and self harming in the past and that was all going on when i started university andi going on when i started university and i wasn't sure how i could build any therapeutic relationship with someone who i have never met. but it surprised me that i actually have. being able to write it down is a lot easier because sometimes i find it difficult to say what i am feeling andi difficult to say what i am feeling and ifind it easier to put it into words. another great plots of online services is the peer—to—peer support available. there are many tools and platforms out there to try and help
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young people at an early stage in the anonymity of online is often a big plus. these students found using a botapp big plus. these students found using a bot app a great help. other users can go to on—line counsellors, 99% of users is via ai chatbot. there we re of users is via ai chatbot. there were also mindful as exercises and interactive journals which help build emotional resilience. a lot of people feel like if they are talking toa people feel like if they are talking to a person than this is like a major problem we if it is a great reader can talk and talk and talk and it doesn't have too much of an effect. you the thought of support that has been put in place by people people who are professionals but it do still feel like you are such being judged by someone who is listening to what you are saying. being judged by someone who is listening to what you are sayingm has that i can just go a long day by day, having those little moments just to myself when i can go to the bot and just have that it'll orbit of downtime. because of the stress i
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have been feeling recently i have suffered from a couple of panic attacks at times. i have not really known what to do. using various videos and techniques on the app has hopped me to relax and be the anxieties i am feeling. "just noticing your breath. —— begin by just noticing. courtney from greater manchester started having problems after her parents split up, she found moderated chats and online tool through the big white wall a great help. i was really scared at first. like i didn't want other people to know and didn't know what was going to happen and i thought i would bejudged was going to happen and i thought i would be judged because was going to happen and i thought i would bejudged because i needed help but i'm glad i got help. group help but i'm glad i got help. group help with several tubal in but you can have a personal one, which is due and another person, you can have conversations with other people about like things that they have gone through and you can find that their experiences. it isjust
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something that allows people to get the help that they need as soon as they need it instead of having to sit and wait. without that i know that i would be like really, really stressed and struggling to cope with the pending exams. stopped myself harming, give me like different techniques. digital technology has the potential to be hugely beneficial in reaching children and young people with milder conditions who can take up the benefits of self— management and particularly who can take up the benefits of self—management and particularly at an early point in their experience of the mental health problem. we all know that the nhs isn't as giving as it would like to be which means that young people could suffer without technology like this. but it from the future starts here, spencer will be back next week. but in the meantime you can find out what we have been up to on facebook and twitter. but for now, thank you for
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watching. hello once again. after a bright enough start, friday rather disappointingly certainly went downhill across central and eastern parts of the british isles. bright start and then the cloud filled in, not only across birmingham, the shield was quite extensive. but as things moved from west to east, some in the west popped out in something a bit brighter to finish off the day. you can see it very well on the big picture. this whole raft of cloud gradually crept its way further east, allowing northern ireland, the western fringes of wales, down into the south—west of england to pop out into something a bit brighter. this is how we start the saturday. the remnants of that banner of cloud still there to be had
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across the northern and eastern parts of scotland. should just about be clear of the east coast but that is not the last you'll have seen of it because there could be another little ripple on it, just bringing rain back in to some eastern parts to finish off your afternoon. temperatures nothing to write home about, really. not bad for the time of year. pretty much par for the course. a scattering of showers out towards the west, perhaps, one or two flirting with the channel islands, the isles of scilly, coming up through devon and cornwall, maybe one or two getting to northern ireland but generally speaking, the western side of the british isles faring nicely indeed. that rain becoming more intense through the early part of the evening onto the wee small hours of sunday as it continues its journey up the eastern side of the british isles. now, just how far west it comes is still open to some debate. underneath the cloud, you will not have the coldest of nights but it could be a cool start to sunday. a bright one for some of you across northern and western parts of the british isles but don't be surprised if, come sunday morning, some of this rain is a good deal
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further towards the west. if you've got a plan for sunday, you'd better keep up to date with the forecast as it develops. i think generally speaking, that whole plume of cloud and rain moves a bit further north and east, allowing somewhat drier conditions eventually to break out across the south—eastern quarter. but again, sunday, rather like saturday, i think we see the very best of the weather rather out towards the west. come monday, i think you will notice across the south—eastern quarter more generally of the british isles, is that the wind will have picked up. a big area of low pressure over the near continent keeping it breezy, but you will notice on the bigger scale again quite a lot of dry weather around, quite a bit of sunshine away from this north—western quarter where you will fill in that cloud as the day goes on. trends for the forthcoming week — certainly starting off mainly dry, sunny spells, and the first couple of days could really turn really quite warm. take care. bye— bye. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america on pbs and around the globe.
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