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welcome to bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the british parliament has rejected the ayes to the right, 286. a withdrawal agreement the noes to the left, 334. from the european union for a third time, in a major setback for the prime minister, theresa may. parliament says no to theresa may's mps defeated it by 58 votes, eu divorce dealfor a third time. on the day originally set for britain to leave the eu. it's no deal or another delay, after the defeat on what should've the head of the european been departure day for the uk. council, donald tusk, has called a special meeting of eu leaders two days before the new brexit deadline of april 12th. they will consider any request that britain might make for a longer extension, but the european commission has said a "no deal" brexit was now a likely scenario. hundreds of thousands of people in algeria have taken to the streets of major cities, demanding the resignation of president bouteflika. police have used teargas and water cannon to disperse the crowds.
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there was anger both inside and outside parliament on friday. but what do people away from westminster think about the uncertainty surrounding brexit? the city of leeds had one of the closest referendum results in the country, with just over 50% voting to remain and just under 50% voting to leave. our correspondent sarah campbell has been getting reaction from voters and businesses in the city. the opportunity now is for us to embrace the certain legal right for an extension. we will be taking a huge leap into the unknown. parliament's green benches are 200 miles away from these greens in leeds, but golfers here are well aware that what's said and done there matters here. march 29th. was that in your calendar as the day that we were going to leave the eu, and now we're not? absolutely. yep. so how are you feeling today? frustrated. as a person who voted to leave, very frustrated that my decision to leave hasn't gone forward.
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and do you think it will, ever? it's questionable now. and naveen, if i could interrupt. how are you feeling? you voted remain. the vote has gone exactly how i expected. the government is having major issues here and is in turmoil. and i really don't know where this is going, but my gut feeling is that the government will collapse. opinions on today's vote are split among members. enjoying a well—earned drink after their round of golf, two remainers and two leavers, all wondering what happens next. i really don't know where parliament's going to go. i don't know where the government's leading. i don't think there's been leadership from the government right from the start. i think our mps have made a real bad job of this whole thing. the vote was to leave, and i think we should leave. i've changed my mind, yes. i now want to remain, because we've made a complete mess from the beginning of negotiating. i'd do a no deal on the 12th of april. that doesn't worry you? that doesn't worry me.
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this tile company is in the middle of a city which was split in half in the 2016 referendum. remain achieved 50.3% of the vote in leeds. leave only very marginally behind at 49.7%. almost all of the stock here comes from europe, and profit margins have been hit since the vote. we do need clarity because, as a business, all we want is to move on, be positive about what's going to happen next. nobody knows what's going to happen next, so that uncertainty that is out there in the marketplace is creating problems. today was to be the day the uk struck out from the european union. instead, britain will be staying put — at least for now. sarah campbell, bbc news, leeds. 0k, now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, we investigate the sexual exploitation of children unencrypted
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messaging ups. and the undercover bot trying to catch the perpetrators. —— apps. often on the show, we talk about the positive impact of technology on our lives, its power for social good fingers together, solving pressing problems and generally enriching our lives, but there are of course, much darker sides to technology. we have often heard stories of exchanging material on the so—called dark web 01’ material on the so—called dark web or grooming children in chat rooms, sometimes to meet up with them and physically exploit them. but in
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recent yea rs, physically exploit them. but in recent years, the un has been warning of a trend towards what is being called webcam sex tourism. and in some countries, like the philippines, it has become particularly acute. the un's children agency unicef has dubbed the nation the global epicentre of the nation the global epicentre of the live streaming sexual abuse trade. we sent richard taylor to investigate the problem and look at how technology is being turned against the perpetrators, to help try and bring them to justice. children crying ina in a remote sanctuary in the central philippines, the sound of child sexual abuse trauma rings out. this is primal therapy, used with these negative emotions. it is one of a number of different approaches used here. the foundation's mission is to
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rescue kids from sexual exportation. the facility can how is around 30, but it is thought as many as 100,000 kids across the country may be at risk. in recent technological risks are threatening to turn what has long been endemic, nationwide scourge long been endemic, nationwide scourge into a global epidemic, with the philippines at its core. over the philippines at its core. over the past decade, police have been trying to catch facilitators of abuse in so—called cybersex stands, sharks and urban slums where kids are taken to engage in sex acts over webcams for the pleasure of a largely western audience, with the means to pay. a handful of the victims were rescued and offered specialist cybersex rehabilitation centres, like this one in the capital, manila. stories abound of abuse, shockingly often sanctioned by their own families. angela is one such victim, taking by a family
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friend and trafficked across the country into a cybersex stand at the age ofjust 12. country into a cybersex stand at the age of just 12. —— country into a cybersex stand at the age ofjust12. —— taken. country into a cybersex stand at the age ofjust12. -- taken. it is really shocking because i did not expect that... i do not have communication with my parents and i cannot go out. i do not have the right to say no because he is going to slap me too. cybersex, it really breaks our heart because a lot of the victims's parents actually part of the time, and sometimes they even believe that there is really no harm brought to these children because they are just performing, but in reality, that is not what happens because the psychological impact of the abuse to the girls is really severe. but what makes the philippines the epicentre of the cybersex trade? it is complex but poverty clearly plays its part, using kids to make a fast buck is especially alluring for large family
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struggling to get by, and the widespread use of english he smooths direct communication with westerners. —— here. but today, this already combustible mix is being fuelled by yet another ingredient, access to cheap smart phones and internet, which together are threatening to transform this already toxic phenomenon into something far more deeply rooted in philippine society. investigators say it has been a game changer.m the past, when we were combating this form of climb, what we were finding was we were looking for computers and now really, what we're looking for is what is mobile and what is cheap, and so it is really cellphones with a camera, internet service to the cellphone, that is usually not registered, and that broadens you can actually abuse a child in this way. and initial contact today takes place in live streams pornography and dating sites, alongside consenting adult interactions, some women hear themselves act as facilitators, not
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simply flaunting their own sexual west phone is pimping out younger girls too. you will have girls of 12 yea rs girls too. you will have girls of 12 years age trying to sell a girl of eight or seven years old, you have girls of 17 —year—olds selling the sister of four years old, any age you want or any age you can imagine, they will, some will even show a baby. today, the online monetary transactions are frictionless, the performances take base in private settings, using legitimate mainstream apps, where anonymity is all but guaranteed and paedophiles can realise their wildest fantasies. there is no break on the behaviour, so there is no break on the behaviour, so the most female unfriendly, aggressive and violent things come out of these men. some pay for really maiming a child orfor cutting a child. so, what can be done? police resources have been mobilised but there is only been a handful of successful prosecutions
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over the years and the impermanence of live streaming means evidence is ha rd to of live streaming means evidence is hard to us. the international justice mission specialise in this kind of fieldwork, they believe successful law enforcement will be a big deterrent, but the tech companies themselves need to take responsibility. the police actually requires the capacity to investigate, but aside from that, they do not operate in a vacuum and so, since online sexual exploitation of children involved electronic service providers, they are part of the solution. we contacted some of those tech companies, whether cybersex carry out their abuse. both what's up and viber told as they co—operate with the authorities and law enforcement when required. whatsapp also says it uses microsoft's photo matching technology, this matches uses's
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photos to those already on database. but this does not address the core problem, namely that all live streams between users unencrypted and not subject to any oversight. —— are encrypted. some organisations they were proactively creating —— creating technology to ward off the predators. sweetie began five years ago as the brainchild of the kids's welfare organisation. what sweetie does is it is primarily a chat bot but also involves an avatar, that can be used on occasion. it goes into chat rooms, is present in the room, into chat rooms, is present in the room , never into chat rooms, is present in the room, never initiates a conversation for legal purposes and is approached by predators that will be in this chat room, and the main purpose really is to identify people to a sufficient degree of detail so that you can say hey, we really do know who you are and you cannot get away with this. early versions of sweetie required human operators. today, she
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is fully automated. people start chatting with her and the preprogrammed lines, the conversation take place and she can do that simultaneously with hundreds of people at the same time. but despite amassing tribes of detailed personal information, resulting prosecutions have been thin on the ground. ideally, we have sweetie out there deployed 24/7 globally, but we need to find that within the legal systems in which we can operate, actually having law enforcement use the software to develop their own m essa 9 es the software to develop their own messages makes it so much more effective. that is what we try to do when we're working with law enforcement in the various countries in asia also now in africa, where we are developing cooperation with law enforcement as well. you in the philippines, many are waking up to the urgent need to protect the young. —— are at least. the hope is that step—by—step, co—ordinated international response can save more
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vulnerable children from falling prey to the cybersex predators. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week in which the galaxy‘s first all—female spacewalk was cancelled due to a lack of appropriately sized spacesuits. the eu passed a law which holds tech firms responsible for material posted without copyright permission, and google announced an artificial intelligence ethics panel to oversee projects such as facial recognition and the potential algorithmic bias, something which will be handing in estonia, which to create its own artificial intelligence powerjudge. it is hoped it would be able to rule on small claims disputes of less than £6,000 and so clearing the backlog cases faced by human judges. new cars sold in europe will probably have to be fitted with speed limiters from 2022. the new
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rules, provisionally agreed by the eu, with the on—board cameras and gps systems used to spot roadsigns and automatically slow speeding vehicles down. speak to the hand, the world's first airport security system when operational this week in korea. fujitsu says its product is more accurate than other biometric tests, passengers taking part will be able to take domestic flights without the need to show their national id card. and finally, researchers at google seem to have had some time on their hands. they have created the tossing bot, is a robot that uses deep learning and trial and error to figure out the best way to throw something. we are back at the steve jobs theatre of apple h 0 once again. this time the announcement will be a
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little different. instead of a new device, apple now want to talk about entertainment. from spielberg to big bird, apple is bursting into hollywood with what it hopes will be a wildly popular tv service of its own. unlike anything that has been done before. it has announced apple tv plus. a subscription service launching later this year designed to rival what is already out there from netflix and amazon. the company hasn't said how much it will cost that it has promised you will be able to access exclusive content from stars like oprah, reese witherspoon, jennifer aniston, and more. and you'll be able to get shows from other networks for an additional fee, shows from other networks for an additionalfee, just as shows from other networks for an additional fee, just as you can on amazon prime video today. because of that i think it is fair to say apple will need to stand out. oprah
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winfrey is a great star and it is great for her to come in and say i will do uplifting stuff to raise spirits. i don't know if you can sell a tv service with that. speaking of additional fees, sell a tv service with that. speaking of additionalfees, you may find yourself being asked to pay a lot more from now on. also announced it was a subscription new service that cost $9 99 a month. for that you get access to around 300 or so magazines you would normally have to subscribe for individually. however, only two newspapers have signed up — the los angeles times and the wall streetjournal. apple also came up with a gaming subscription service apple rk which sounds similar to some of what google recently launched. you won't find these games in any other subscription service. and then there was this. apple card. the credit card apple has made in
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partnership with goldman sachs and mastercard. what apple is trying to do with all of this, if you haven't noticed, is make more money from what you do with your phone. apple is seeing a dip in demand for its iphone. that is its biggest moneymaker and iphone sales have dipped. asa moneymaker and iphone sales have dipped. as a growth engine it is not what it was. in the past year we have her talk about services. and certainly in the last few earnings they have been getting a lot of money from services and that is where the growth is. so when it comes to tv, apple did just what we expected. stars, paid up and ready to go. i'm wondering whether they can truly be as creative as netflix and even numbers on when it to making exciting television. maybe it will not matter because as soon as they launch this thing it will be on
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a deagan device isjust like they launch this thing it will be on a deagan device is just like that. that was dave in california. now, an estimated 700,000 people are living with autism in the uk alone. across the world, more and more people are being diagnosed with the condition. april two is world autism awareness day which aims to help us all to understand more about the challenges faced by people with autism on a daily basis. high levels of anxiety are one of the most common difficulties faced by people on the spectrum. and paul carter has been looking at some of technology that aims to help manage stress levels. the situations that can kind of make me really anxious is almost every timei me really anxious is almost every time i leave the house because then it leaves my control and i don't really know what is going to happen beyond that. being in a big crowd of people makes my whole brainjust shut down. i get anxious in social
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situations, when there is a group conversation. i feel anxious when meeting new people. the autistic people i have been speaking to have developed their own coping mechanisms. anxiety is a huge part of being autistic in a way around this for many people is writing lists. little things like you'll see me doing something called stemming where my hands start to fidget and thatis where my hands start to fidget and that isjust to where my hands start to fidget and that is just to try and regulate your energy a little. train stations are a very relaxing place to be because everything is systematic. london king's cross. this train is formed of eight coaches. personal coping strategies aside, the role of technology is something that academics are increasingly looking into. technology can help autistic
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people understand their emotions, self regulate and seek help. and one of these examples is the early—stage work being ko'd out by digital education research at the university in the west of england. he is looking at how they help to reduce anxiety in teenagers learning practical tasks. it is being tried out at the somerset school where pupils are training to work in a cafe. our children with the diagnosis of asd comes with the belief that they will fail. the skill of making a coffee was the easiest thing to teach them so that is where vr came in. and that allows them to concentrate on the social side as opposed to the skill side of thejob. side as opposed to the skill side of the job. it will help me overcome new places. when i go in it isjust me. it will help me with fear of
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messing up and it will help me to know that that is ok. you can do that. another technology in the offing is the molehill mountain amp being developed by kings offing is the molehill mountain amp being developed by king's college london and a research charity. choose the worries you want to add to molehill mountain. this is a big one. we gave it to three volunteers to try for a couple of weeks. based on cognitive behavioural therapy adapted for autistic people, this self managing at tracks anxieties by asking autistic adults to import their daily worries into bubbles that then flowed over a mountain. the task is to then pop those bubbles. when the user captures their worries they are rewarded with tips to help them learn more about the situation. it sounds fine but what did our users make of it? it seemed a bit illogical. how does p°ppin9 seemed a bit illogical. how does popping an imaginary bubble help but
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it did, massively. it is not going to solve anxiety and it should not be used instead of that but as an add—on and absolutely. be used instead of that but as an add-on and absolutely. if i was having a bad day to reflect on it at the end of the day that potentially would have been good tojust the end of the day that potentially would have been good to just look over what has happened. but there are definitely the negatives to the app are definitely the negatives to the app like it asks you to add your worries. i added seven and then it told me i had too many. i was like... don't tell an autistic person that. that is not ideal.m asked me to describe things in my owi'i asked me to describe things in my own words and the words describe and explain ijust... and imagine... yeah i think either if you ask direct questions on a number scale say how did you feel this on a scale of one to ten? what seems to be
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clear is that the anxieties around autism are very individualised. a cloud —based software now offered by some areas on the nhs giving personalised solutions is called brain in hand. this system is also based on established therapies and poaching and rests on health professionals working with users to devise answers for particular situations. when users are anxious they use the app to access solutions that have been preprogrammed. a worry that third year university stu d e nts worry that third year university students is king has is getting lost. the app provides solutions and helps to manage emotions. a logical pa rt helps to manage emotions. a logical part of my brain knows that everything will be fine. but there isa everything will be fine. but there is a big part of my head that is banging pots and pans and screaming you failed! you failed! we are lost and we will never get home! what will we do?! the app's anxiety
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monster helps rosie reflect on how she feels. but something that is comforting is the 24/7 red button backup that connects to a real live person. i try doing the best i can. i only use the red alarm service when i am at my worst. when i am really low a nd when i am at my worst. when i am really low and cannot control myself andi really low and cannot control myself and i really need to talk to somebody. and that somebody is a lwa ys somebody. and that somebody is always there and thatjust feels great for somebody in my situation. while all of the technologies we have looked at can be beneficial for people on the spectrum, not least because they've had input from autistic people, there are more and more becoming available all the time. another project launching later this year is gathering a database of what is out there including technologies to help tackle anxieties stop there are technologies that target the general population that cannot be used by autistic people. but those who have
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sensory autistic people. but those who have sensory issues for autistic people and technology needs to adapt to those things to be nonthreatening and to be effective. how many lenses do you actually need on your phone camera? one, two,... nokia has come in with nine. it depends on how you use your camera phone. so 60 seconds. it is time for your guide. let's go. do you like to take pictures of your food or generally spend time in a dark environment? you are shooting in low light a lot and experts say that the google pixel three and one way p 30 are leading the field. next up, are you a pension zoom leading the field. next up, are you a pension zoom or leading the field. next up, are you a pension zoom or do you prefer what i call the human zoom? look for optical zoom if you want to get close to the action and keep the detail. but it will cost you. the top is the iphone ten, the galaxy s9
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plus and the p 30 again. shooting on your phone gives it a massive workout so you need to check you have something that has decent battery life and lots of space. those in the know rate the sony exterior x said three for its fantastic salome features and the one plus six t is a viable budget alternative with bright along explosion night mood. made it. only a few seconds just... and that is it for this week. don't forget if you need is during the week you can find us on need is during the week you can find us on social media. facebook, instagram, youtube and twitter at bbc click. thank you for watching and we will see you soon. hello.
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the clocks may be springing forward this weekend but the temperatures are falling back. why? a cold front, a leading edge of cold air that will gradually work its way southward, not with much rain but certainly with a change in the feel of the weather. and that is the most noticeable thing on the way this weekend. plenty of dry weather away from the weather front which has not got anything particularly wet associated with it but a drop in temperature that we will all notice. it will be cold enough as the weekend begins for a touch of frost in parts of england and wales and fog patches gradually clearing. here is the cloud. patchy rain, hill snow in scotland, a few spots of rain in northern ireland slowly working southward towards northern england as we go through the day. when you get behind that front it will brighten up again with blustery wintry showers in northern scotland and especially in the northern isles. south of the front for much of england and wales, broken cloud, sunny spells and temperatures rising again.
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warm spots reaching high teens in south—east england. can't rule out an isolated shower in east anglia and south—east england in the afternoon but most places will avoid them and stay dry. saturday evening and notice the weather front. a bit of patchy rain spreading through more of northern england into parts of wales, the midlands and east anglia keeping temperatures up which means a frost as sunday begins is more likely as the further north you are. especially northern ireland and scotland. of course it is, on saturday night, the early hours of sunday, the clocks go forward. it marks the arrival of british summertime. nothing to do with the weather. the irony is that, as we established, temperatures are actually dropping. more of us in the blue as the cold air percolates southwards, for part two of the weekend. with some cloud, maybe a few spots of light rain affecting parts of england and wales that will be the extent of it. for northern england, northern ireland and scotland, you may start with sunshine. there will be a lot of cloud around
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on sunday afternoon. some sunny spells. we are all in the cooler air. temperatures at their highest through south—east wales. 13, 14 degrees most of us will fall short of that. clearing skies on sunday night into monday morning with high pressure close by, expect a frost. more unsettled weather to come next week. there will be some wet and windy weather at times but have a look at these temperatures. single figures at or below average through much of the week.
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