the headlines: the family of a us student who died after he was jailed in north korea have criticised president trump — for praising kim jong—un. otto warmbier‘s parents said "no excuse. . . can change" that "kim and his evil regime" killed their son. their comments came after mr trump heaped compliments on the north korean leader. canada has cleared the way for the us to start extradition proceedings against huawei's chief financial officer — prompting an angry response from beijing. meng wanzhou was detained in vancouver last year at washington's request. she firmly denies allegations of bank fraud and helping her company break us sanctions. pakistan has freed an indian fighter pilot captured after his jet was shot down in the disputed region of kashmir. wing commander abhinandan varthaman was handed over at a border crossing in punjab. pakistan's prime minister has called the move a gesture of peace.

the government has been forced to pay £33 million to eurotunnel, to settle a legal dispute over brexit contingency plans, in the event of no deal. the department for transport had given ferry contracts to three companies, including one with no ships and no port. but eurotunnel said the process had been "secretive and flawed". labour blames chris grayling, the transport secretary, who oversaw the contract process, and says he should resign. our business correspondent joe miller is at the eurotunnel terminal in folkestone. the department for transport has already had to step back from one of its three controversial no—deal brexit ferry contracts, and today it has spent tens of millions of pounds to avoid a trial which would likely have revealed how it went about awarding those lucrative deals in the first place. the beneficiary is eurotunnel, behind me, which has now secured public funding to upgrade its facilities.

remember this? the brexit contract for seaborne freight, a company with no ferries, based at a port that isn't ready. and, in order to make sure these ferries are still sailing after a no—deal brexit, the taxpayer is now facing a £33 million bill. rivals eurotunnel said they were unfairly treated, and sued the department for transport over what it called a secretive approach to awarding shipping contracts. the company, which has run ferries in the past, said it should have been considered as part of no—deal plans. the payout has put further pressure on the transport secretary, chris grayling. labour called it a disaster, and demanded he resign. the country cannot afford chris grayling. he's got to go, for the credibility of our nation. and, my goodness me, the people working for him must be pulling their hair out. he stumbles from catastrophe to disaster, and it's just gross

incompetence on an industrial scale. enough is enough, and this man has got to be out of his post by monday. chris grayling was nowhere to be seen, at his house, or his office, or his department today. but the government says its £33 million deal with eurotunnel was necessary to ensure vital medicines get through after brexit. the contracts and the ferries that are going to be available are critical for our contingency plans, so it's a good thing that the agreement‘s been made today. sources close to the case say the government felt it was being held over a barrel by the channel operator eurotunnel, and had it not settled, it could have faced seeing vital freight contracts being cancelled, and have to publiclyjustify why it only started no—deal planning late last year. today, eurotunnel agreed it would spend the money on improving its terminal facilities here in folkestone. but the scrutiny of mr

grayling isn't over. his department will face an independent review, and there is no certainty that the matter won't be brought back to the courts. joe miller, bbc news, folkestone. in a moment on bbc news — newswatch, but first here's click. it's that time of year again. we head on our annual pilgrimage to the world's biggest mobile event — mobile world congress in barcelona. the stands are filled with an array

of gleaming rectangles. but, on the whole, they look quite similar — on first glance at least. well, there are plenty of great phones here, but mine does a lot already, so would i really want to upgrade just for a slightly bigger screen and a slightly better camera? well, probably not. and it seems that plenty of other people are in agreement with me. two of the biggest brands, both apple and samsung, have seen sales slow down. but where there has been innovation, like 5g or foldable screens, the prices are eye—watering. huawei showed off its mate 10, which has an eight inch amoled display. when we saw the device fold it was a wow moment. the screen is thinner than rival samsung's, as the company proudly pointed out, most of the components live to the side.

with no release date yet, it did feel very much like a concept phone, though. we were told to keep our mitts off, but on a brief moment of holding it did feel a little weighty. but if you're loving the idea of getting that extra real estate on your phone, but you don't want to indulge in buying a full foldable, well, lg have a dual display. although it will initially be sold as one package, it's actually a phone case that has a second screen as part of it, allowing you to maybe play a game with a separate control pad or simply message a friend at your location two apps open. but if you don't want to fork out thousands on your device, then this is what's happening elsewhere. as always, camera functionality is where everybody is trying to make a splash. so the back of the devices are adorned with an increasing

number of lenses. the nokia 9 pureview really went for it, with five cameras — two colour and three at monochrome lenses — all working in unison to capture an image so the focus can be changed after the fact. some devices attempt to do this with the help of a depth camera, but the results are less precise. and it's been all about minimising the notch, that black bit at the top, to provide an unobstructed screen, samsung and huawei upped the ante by introducing the discreet punch—hole, which other manufacturers will no doubt follow soon. another illustration of how hard it is for big players to stay ahead of rivals like oneplus. this is their latest model. and it looks and feels pretty much

like one of the high end phones. it has facial recognition, almost an edge to edge screen, and it has a fingerprint sensor built into the screen. but this uses an optical sensor instead of the more premium ultrasound sensor found in the galaxy s10. and more chinese brands are expanding into the west. xiaomi started selling its handsets last year. and oppo showed off its latest high—end device. i do believe this is what you have been waiting for. oppo's first 5g smartphone. as the market gets more crowded with similar looking phones, the battle to cram in more functionality continues.

a few 5g enabled phones are hitting the shops this year. it is more about connecting the things that we never connected before. sta nz about connecting the things that we never connected before. stanz were full of ideas about what that could mean for the future —— stands. a robot that can instantly mean —— mimic its driver's move. imagining this happening when they are thousands of miles apart. this is the kind of collaboration that 5g promises to unlock. wearing a goggles can let you interact with the same 3—d environments, but without the kind of uninterrupted connection 5g should provide the experience will always fall short. this is so frustrating. this collaborative game is set up on wi—fi collaborative game is set up on wi-fi at collaborative game is set up on wi—fi at the moment. the reason being is to demonstrate how the haptic being is to demonstrate how the ha ptic feedback is being is to demonstrate how the haptic feedback is a little bit delayed. whereas once it is on 5g it should all be happening at the right speed, exactly as i do things.

although i don't think it is going to improve my skills. and it can truly unleash the power of ai. we already have ai capabilities in our devices, image recognition, for example, helps to enhance our photos. i played a simple game at which it shows the speed that our devices can recognise devices in an image. i really tried my best. but no matter how quick i feel like a out the computer is a lot quicker. the only thing is, at least i get it right every time. if you pull it all together with 5g, suddenly you have a very, very high performing device thatis a very, very high performing device that is connected to the cloud with a very low latency so you can actually have almost immediate responses based on where you are on the context, and that changes the

way your device interact is and what you can do with it. so you can actually have almost immediate responses based on where you are, your context, and that changes the way your device interacts and what you can do with it. for example, if you were actually going on a run and you actually — now, your phone is capable of giving notjust canned exercises, but training as you go along, that is tuned to how your body is responding to it. 5g might make the relationships with our phones a bit more personal. on a grander scale, the entire travel infrastructure around us could be transformed. this is part of millbrook proving ground, the place where cars and their components are put through their paces. but right now, it's serving as a testbed for 5g, and what that could mean for autonomous and connected vehicles. while 4g radios still need to be used at the moment, the rest of the trial sees movements and interactions tracked on a 5g network. it replicates what could

in the future keep traffic safe and well managed. the number of cars today which have it in them, that will evolve into algorithms that help those sensors connect. i think the really key thing is how are you going to use the data to be able to help make the end user's life easier? and that is what's being looked at here. can we get the vehicle to be connected, can we make sure that we're transferring the data? can we do that in a safe and secure environment, so that the data itself is secure? then, can we make sure that the cars themselves are secure from each other, but also are they secure from unexpected events? the much—talked—about low—latency aspect of 5g means no delay, and that is of course vital when we're talking about moving traffic. this mclaren is travelling at 160 mph.

within a 200 metre radius the cars would be able to wirelessly track each other too. even here it feels like there were a lot of vehicles moving very fast, but of course, in the grander scheme of things, these are just a few. we're looking at all of the vehicles on all roads being tracked in this way, and that is a big job. when we talk about millions of devices to be connected to the network per kilometre square, then we talk about cars, homes, streets, hospitals, factories. what we are exploiting here, the technology, it's parallel computing and parallel signal processing. so we have a large number of processing units in parallel, to do the number—crunching in the minimum amount of time. in terms of ai, when we talk about the automation part of the 5g, when robots are connected or devices are connected, ai plays a very important role in terms of understanding what the device wants to do, or what the device should be doing, and forecasting and

predicting in future. but, if all of these vehicles and all cars on the road are relying on that mobile phone network, what happens if it goes down? well, i think what we do as a mobile operator is we continue to look at our network. we did suffer an outage with one of our partners, and that was quite public. we're looking constantly at how we can make sure our network is more resilient in the future, and i think one of the things that will come out of here is how do we make sure that the vehicles themselves are resilient, from a network point of view? before we reach a state of fully connected autonomy, though, 5g could have its work cut out on road and rail, providing more accurate live tracking and information. we know that, from some of the work we've done on our smart cities report, that from a train transportation point of view, rail sensors working on preventative maintenance can take out £450 million of lost productivity, and that equates to about 2.6 hours per commuter per year of time saved.

and then, from a road point of view, having a really good, connected 5g road management system could help take out 10% of time waiting in traffic. and that, you know, for 5.6 million commuters on the road, that would be a real saving. well, that's it for the special. you may not be able to do it on the hour, but if you want to keep track of eating throughout the week you can find us on facebook and twitter on @bbcclick. thanks for watching —— keep track of the team.