good afternoon. the countdown to brexit — hundreds of thousands of people are marching through central london, theresa may warns mp5 3 third calling for another meaningful vote may not take place brexit referendum. next week if it doesn't get ‘sufficient support‘. the demonstration, which has been organised by the "put it to the people" campaign, is marching a 17—year—old has been stabbed to parliament square, to death following a fight outside where speakers will address a rally. a block of flats in west london. labour‘s deputy leader tom watson is taking part, along with scotland‘s first minister, us special counsel, robert mueller submits his report nicola sturgeon. it comes ahead of another critical into alleged russian collusion week in the brexit process. with president trump's 0ur political correspondent campaign during the 2016 presidential election. the al noor mosque in pete saul reports. christchurch reopens one week on from a mass shooting, whether it‘s to be or not to be, which killed 42 people there. many believe another sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. good afternoon. it's been quite a turnaround for england's raheem sterling... 3 years ago after a dismal euro 2016, he was being booed by england fans but now they adore him,

after his hat trick, helped get england's euro 2020 qualifying campaign, off to a flying start. his first goal came at the end of a brilliant passing move, as england played with real style at wembley, to outclass the czech republic, who are ranked 44th in the world. in the second half, sterling turned in his second, a nice bit of skill and a curling effort at the post. a deflection completed his hat—trick which he fully deserved and it ended five — zero. sterling's manager praised his maturity. he is ina he is in a really comfortable moment of the field but on the field he is so of the field but on the field he is so mature and comfortable in himself. i am delighted for him to get the reaction he did from the crowd here because we cannot hide

from the fact he has had difficult moments with england and he has turned that full circle. england now haven't lost a qualifier for either the euros or the world cup in almost ten years, but it's the style of football, that gareth southgate has brought to the england set—up, that continues to impress. he has taken it upon himself to create a squad of young, confident young men who believe in themselves and the football they are playing. they have no gaps in that belief any more, they certainly were there towards the end of major tournaments. he is bringing through young players. even last night when it would be very easy to sit with the team who got through the uefa nations games, we have callum hudson—odoi, young players creating competition for places like we have not had for a long time. one other line from the internationals and aaron ramsey will miss wales‘ opening qualifier against slovakia tomorrow. he‘s returned to his club arsenal for treatment on a leg injury. kyle edmund may still be going at the miami open,

but fellow british number one johanna konta is out. she got herself into a real rut — losing 10 games in a row on her way to a straight sets defeat to, china‘s, wang cheeang. 6—4 6 love... it‘s been a good morning for britain‘s, 0liver rowland, at the sanya, e—prix, in china. he had his best everfinish — but it was only good enough for second. it was won by frenchman, jean—eric vergne — as the race finished under yellow flags, because of a crash on the final lap. britain‘s sam bird — who led the overall standings before the race — went out early, and is now down to fourth, in the drivers championship. that‘s all the sport for now. now it‘s time for click. this week, coding friendly drones, downing rogue drones and diy health checks in blue domes?

drones could transform our skies as we know them, making deliveries, watching over us and even saving lives. but as recent flight disruptions have taught us there are also possible downsides from unwanted ones. last december, here at gatwick airport, chaos ensued after reports of repeated drone sightings. 1000 flights were disrupted, 140,000 passengers affected and all of this was said

to add up to a cost of £50 million. soon after that there was a similar scare at heathrow as well as at newark airport in the us. but how do we take down problem drones safely? well dan simmons has been to the netherlands where the national police force is sponsoring a competition that hopes to find new ways of doing just that. in a hangar, in the middle of nowhere, in the netherlands. an epic air battle is about to commence. nine teams from across europe and america are trying to smash each other out of the sky and grab the 30,000 euros top prize in the title drone clash 2019 champions. all they have to do is down the opposition‘s queen drone. we've got a countdown. but the organisers

haven‘t made it easy. this is one of the arenas one of the teams will start from, blue and red are the colours. they will leave their queens in here. that is what the opposing team will have to try and knock out but they will leave their queen here, there are fighter drones will come through what is being called the corridor of death, doom and destruction. look, a tesla coil behind me. waiting to knock out one of those fighter drones that gets too close. c02 gas pumps here firing at those drones as they come around the corner, they have got to get past this tennis ball machine which is going to fire balls. there is going to be a man with a gun that fires a net through this hole to try to take out those drones when they come around. lights will be flashing to try and blind the pilots but once they get down this corridor of doom, death and destruction, they get to their opponents arena and a chance to take out the queen.

with all this destruction of kit going on it is perhaps surprising no one‘s called the cops. well, that‘s because they are the ones sponsoring the event. in this contest we hope to come across new creative ideas that we can adapt and use in our police methods. do you have your own ability to bring a drone down? i will not go in detail about abilities that we have. we have some abilities but it is not enough for us, for the long run. actually we were hoping to see new strategies to help us bring drones down but i did see also new threats because perhaps you noticed, there are lot of drones that carry some kind of ball around them and where some of the measures we take is attacking the rotors, the rotors are now protected by these balls. so it actually poses us with another problem.

enter a sideshow that involves this tiny drone. tell me what this is. this is one of the micro drones flying around drone clash. also the public try to hack this very tiny drone and then they can hack into the system and try to take it over. so, if one falls on our heads... you know it is successful. three years ago the dutch police introduced their own solution to downing problem drones. trained eagles, but the programme ended a year later as the birds couldn‘t be on hand quickly enough nor be relied upon to cleanly snatch the drone from the skies rather than causing it to fall, which could be a problem for anyone below. back in the theatre of battle and some teams were getting a hammering. most had three or four face—offs so quick repairs were needed. so we are just fixing our drones. they got a little bit mangled in the past competition.

this is already flattened again. how do you flatten them when they have been mangled? so she stands on them. you stand on them? yeah. our primary strategy was to use brute force which is why we have this gigantic machine. if rotors get hit it can flight without. so, for example, if these get damaged it could still fly which we thought was amazing. however, as you can see right now it is missing stabilisation, this is quite broken. a lot of drones have a big mesh around them to protect the propellers and these willjust go in there and get tangled in the propellers. these ones are pretty good for the balls as well because they will hang in one of the corners of the balls and just pull it down. but perhaps overall the event showed the human flying skills on show were often a deciding factor. it looks so easy because they are so adept at it but your brain does somersaults and you flick it around

and it is coming back the other way, and it is all bonkers. and the speed, there are drones flying over at me now, the speed... the speed in which they make decisions and flip and reverse, it isjust nuts. this is an airborne version of robot wars. my kids know nothing about robot wars but they will know about this. both my boys have got drones and so aerial battling drones, come on! it doesn't get any better! there is a tesla coil in there for god's sake. 0n the fringes of the battlefield, companies in the growing business of taking down drones were showing off their solutions. this system is already operating at a norwegian airport. it tracks and then identifies drones as a threat before jamming the frequencies used to control them. in a usual environment when you jam the drone it will either start hovering, it will go back to its centre, its operator, or it will go down eventually on the battery, it can also jam the operation system. the drone will start hovering around, it will start flying around

because it does not know where it is and then eventually it will go down also on its battery. this beast, still in research, is the drone catcher. it makes use of radar systems already in the field to get its targets real—time 3d coordinates for automatically flying to the area and lining up its prey. you shoot the net over the drone, we can carry it away with the wire and we can drop it down with a parachute. and then there is this. the gun emits a powerful electromagnetic beam, knocking out the command control, video link and gps frequency used by the drone. strict regulations in europe mean it cannot be used here but it‘s dutch makers told me they are doing good business with government in the middle east. back in the arena and the final is under way. in the end, it came down to brute

force and battery power with belgian team flying away with the 30k prize. the dutch authorities certainly have a more entertaining way of learning how to down drones than standing around and scratching their heads. dan there looking at some serious ideas as to how to take drones out of the sky as well as those that seem to turn it into a sport. but of course, initially we need to be sure if there actually is a drone present and if so exactly where it is. this electromagnetic spectrum tracking technology has just been deployed at gatwick. so, everything that emits electro frequency or radio frequency, it will be able to see and detect. it will know whether it is a drone or whether it is something else. so how exactly does the setup work? you have two devices talking to each other? exactly. so you have two sensors, each of them are getting a bearing of the drone itself. they get the bearing

by the angle of the arrival of the signal from the drone to the particular sensor. and by comparing the two directions you can triangulate the position of the drone at any one time. so, at this point now if a similar incident happened to what took place at gatwick, how much of a different schedule technology makes to outcome? we believe it will make a significant difference. number one is you would know categorically whether there was a drone there or not, certainly a drone emitting characteristic signals and number two, you would know where the control was and be able to interdict appropriately. and what are your plans to roll out this technology elsewhere? the technology has already been ruled out. we had a lot of interest both in the uk but also globally, not only from airports but also a number of other organisations organisations and situations,

from stadia to private individuals looking for privacy. ok, but for now, you think we have got a system that could make a difference. from now we have a system that makes a tremendous difference. hi, and welcome to the week in tech. this week transport group stagecoach tested out a full—sized driverless bus for the first time in the uk. google unveiled the new gaming platform, stadia, more on that soon. and on the flip side the company is also being fined 1.28 billion pounds from the eu for blocking rival online search advertisers. it was also the week that mit csail unveiled a robot that it has been kind of keeping in the dark. named kpam their system allows the robotic arm to precisely pick up and place objects it has never seen before. by mapping out key points on it so the bots algorithms can work out how best to handle it.

social networking site myspace, remember them, announced they lost 12 years worth of music uploads. a message on its website says that any photos, videos and audio files uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available. the company says the mistake is due to a server migration project. and finally, are you good at art? yeah? well, i‘m not. but nvidia has developed an ai to make you into a master artiste. it‘s called gaugan, a neuro network which is trained on over1 million images. and what it does is it takes your pencil strokes and colour fills and transforms them into bits of nature almost instantly. now, that‘s a work of art. the boss of google is the first to admit he is no gamer but who can

argue with a man who speaks this kind of hard truth to americans. for those of you who are wondering what cricket is, it‘s kind of like baseball but better. if sundar pichai as smart about gaming as he is about sport, he‘s surely onto a winner with this latest launch. google stadia is a streaming only games platform. they have promised console quality titles all delivered down your internet connection. that means no discs, no downloads and all accessible to just about any of your devices. what‘s important here is that google thinks it has found a way around some of the huge problems that have faced game stream services services in the past, such as high latency rates that cause lag. to help with this there is an optional stadia controller which connects independently to the internet to minimise any delay between you pressing a button and something happening in the game. how are you confident that is going to work

when there is millions of people all playing at once? so our vision was always to make sure we could deliver the quality and vision of the game developer all the way to the gamer in their home. and so we have put some incredible technology and hardware and software and services in our data centre to make sure that happens and that means we can deliver up to ak, 60 frames per second, hdr and surround sound, which are the latest, greatest visual and audio technologies that gamers expect but we are doing it streaming. google has not yet confirmed how it plans to sell this to gamers. most people expect a subscription model, think of it like netflix for video games. it sounds really good and interesting on paper. i love especially their whole conversation about wanting to expand gaming's accessibility to a wider audience and on paper, it sounds like this can do that. that said, i think there are a lot of question marks, left as to whether in execution this

is actually going to be the answer. google‘s announcement has definitely been the talking point of this year‘s gdc because if they manage to pull it off it is going to change this industry forever. that may not be a good thing. if it does end up being a subscription model there can be a huge impact on how games companies make their money. some people are already predicting that we may start to see an even greater number of in game payments to make up for that lost revenue. and then there is the issue of having to pay for a fast enough internet connection to make it work. with advances that we are making in compression algorithms all the time, it means we can increase the quality without necessarily increasing the bandwidth requirements. google announced partnership with ubisoft and its software, the maker of doom, but if the company is going to entice hard—core gamers away from xbox or playstation they are going to

need more than that. today was about showing our vision to the developer community here at gdc. we wanted them to see the capabilities of our platform and start thinking about how they can bring their creativity and technology. do you have more of them on board? 0h, absolutely. yeah. how many more? well, i am not going to share that with you today but we will be back... triple a publishers? totally. we started with ubisoft, bringing their absolute latest game, day in date to our platform back in october and i think that gives you a pretty strong indication of our direction of travel. phil told me the company will announce the launch date and possibly even how much it will all cost at the e3 gaming show injune. that was dave lee in san francisco. now in some parts of the world it has become pretty common place for kids to learn to code but for those with vision problems

it is still fairly inaccessible, so we sent paul carter to find out what some of the big tech companies are doing to try and open up coding to children who are blind or partially sighted. i‘m just having a word with this naughty pod who is trying to run away. this is eight—year—old ellie. like many other children her age she is learning how to code. she also happens to be blind. you have it on the one you want to have it on first, don‘t you? yeah. ellie is using a physical tactile coding language called codejumper, developed by microsoft, it is a block—based modular system consisting of a series of pods, each of which contains a single line of code, making up a story, a poem or in this case, a song. ellie and code jumper: row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. life is but a dream. coding is by its nature a visual

medium and often requires being able to see the whole picture. what makes code jumper unique is that it allows blind and partially sighted children to have an overview of the code with their hands. the woman leading the project is cecily morrison, a computer scientist at microsoft‘s cambridge research laboratory, who herself has a blind son. for blind and no vision children specifically the technologies that were available were not accessible to them so many children now learn programming starting at this age of seven with block— based languages. the other aspect we should not forget about is that we created this to be available to children regardless of their level so that means it is available to children who are blind or no vision, it is equally available to children who are sighted. one of the things we were very aware of was that we didn't want to create technology that isolated the blind or no vision child at the class, in a different class

doing their own thing. we wanted something they could engage with other children with and code together. but codejumper is only one solution to the issue of getting children with visual impairments into coding. some of you are new to apple ipad accessibility and coding, we‘re going to run a session. at linden lodge, a school for children with sensory impairments in south london, i went to see how apple have been working with the royal national institute of blind people to increase access to its own popular coding education app called swift playgrounds. apple is using its suite of accessibility tools already built into its i0s devices such as voice over, high contrast and large text, in conjunction with some much more old school assistant tech. this says go here, go here, go here, go here.

and that is where the gym is. they have created braille and tactile maps for each level of the app so blind children can navigate a full screen area with their hands. there is clearly still a role for tactile maps and for images and diagrams. yeah, i think it is a healthy kind of dynamic mix of old and new, and perhaps some experimentation as well. the children here are using swift playgrounds to create code that will make a small drone fly. you know it is incredible, i think it is a moment where kids will say things like, i didn‘t think i would ever be able to do this, this is awesome, you know, i want to do this for a career. that is fantastic and you know, it is contagious. other kids pick up on that and think, maybe i could do that too. i didn‘t know those tools were accessible, i‘ll go away and see if i can create something and they show one of their peers and before you know it, you have got lots of people interested.

that is what we want to do. just kind of spread the magic, show what it is possible to do and make sure that inclusion is at the heart of the development process. whoa, nice! now recently click has been taking a look at some of the latest tech to come out of dubai and one start—up is hoping to make health checks as easy as a trip to the shops. emily bates has been to find out more. i am about to step into a new kind of health check. it requires no gp, no nurse, not even a doctor‘s office. these pods are being produced in the united arab emirates and aim to provide a full body check up on less than ten minutes. created by start—up bodyo, the pods take a number of readings throughout the check such as your weight, blood pressure, lean body mass and blood glucose levels. all the tests are noninvasive and you are guided through

the process by an interactive display which uses the motion sensing of an xbox connect. part of the dubai future accelator program, the hope is the pods will help tackle the country‘s obesity problem. several recent studies show that over 60% of the population is overweight. over here there is an endemic problem with diabetes of course, and so trying to encourage communities to take ownership of their own healthjourney, really, to reduce their weight and sugar intake, to offset against the diabetes problem. which costs the nation, the economy in lot of money. the person can go inside and perform all of these tests without the need for a nurse, the assistance from a nurse or without the need to attend a doctor's clinic. what that does is it raises the awareness and the community

and makes the people more engaged and more concerned about monitoring their health, and also more enthusiastic about keeping track of their health in general. it is a bit surreal, sitting in a bright blue pod having your blood pressure taken. and this could be anywhere, so this could be in a mall, in a pharmacy, the idea is to put it in loads of accessible places. so anyone can pop in and have a full body scan done at any time. you can then choose to send your health data to an app which can help keep track of your results. one of the big benefits of the system is it is a user so you are an end user who has complete control over the privacy of your data, within the programme there is a prescription, you can tick off who you want to show that data with, whether you want to share it at all. you are in control really of your own wellness and at any time

you go to a doctor you can, of course, show him those measurements over a period of time. but also in the corporate set up, in terms, they might engage with the programme and decide to have a corporate wellness effort within the company. my results did match what i expected. what will not be good, and you don‘t need to see that, i‘m not taking my hand away now. however, there was a bit of fluctuation when we repeated the tests. and without a doctor present there is always a worry that an inaccurate result could lead to self—diagnosis. as for me, after that, i‘m off to the gym. emily there in dubai. well, that is it for this week‘s show. if you want to find out what the team get up to throughout the week, well, you can find us on facebook, instagram and twitter at bbc click. thanks for watching.

plenty of dry weather in the forecast, this was the scene with the best of the sunshine further north. we have a weak weather front slipping south. that is a case of sunny spells and scattered blustery showers in the fight north of scotla nd showers in the fight north of scotland and feeling a little bit cooler than it has done of late, highest values of nine to 13 degrees. 0vernight we will continue to seek that cloud producing showers into the south—west and clearer skies allowing temperatures to fall to lower figures and more showery rain pushes into the south—west of scotland. we will see wet weather across scotland turning wintry in

higher ground and i will move into the borders of northern england. elsewhere, we keep sunny spells and a bit fresher. highest temperature, seven to 13 degrees.