hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment withjohn stapleton and benedict paviot, first the headlines: sri lankan security forces have detained the wife and child of the man believed to be the mastermind behind the wave of bomb attacks on easter sunday. the home office is being investigated after they revoked the visas of thirty thousand foreign students over claims they cheated in an english language exam. the labour party is to change its european election manifesto leaflets — saying it may support another referendum on any brexit deal.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster john stapleton and benedict paviot, uk correspondent for france 2a and president of the foreign press association. a much more longer title than you. manchester city supporter as shown by the toy. china's amabassador to the uk has spoken out about the huawei affair in the daily telegraph — saying that britain should resist external pressure over decisions on chinese companies and make ‘independent‘ choices. according to the observer, labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency — as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of its budget to support clean air projects. as the local elections approach, the sunday express claims the conservatives are expected to lose more than a thousand

of their council seats. the mail on sunday leads on the findings of a year—long investigation by the former tory peer lord ashcroft, which has found that thousands of lions are being bred and killed for their bones. and for the spice girl fan in you — the daily star says that posh spice is set to make a shock return to the girl band on their reunion tour this summer. spoiler alert too late. let's start with the mail on sunday and not direct politics for a change. exposed, horror of lion farms. this is the story people will be talking about. it sounds horrific and we've only had one read of it so bear with me ifi only had one read of it so bear with me if i refer to the notes. thousands are being bred to be killed by callous hunters are slaughtered so their bones can be turned to medicines and trinkets sold in the far east, some of the

skins are being transported through britain and this is from an investigation from former tory peer lord ashcroft. he spent a year long investigating the scandal, he exposed the fact that 5a lions were killed in two days, lion skins are being smuggled into the us via britain so they are not detected by customs officials and lions and tigers are being cross bred in captivity in a bid to squeeze greater profits out of this barbaric trade. he accuses the british government of being complicit because of its failure to ban the import of trophies skins and it seems to me that on the basis of this, he is talking on solid evidence top weight when these trophies are on social media, there is an outcry from people that this is an outcry from people that this is going on. unless this is not new

in the sense that this trade has been going on in the far east for a long time. you are right to underline that it's a year—long investigation, i didn't know lord ashcroft felt so strongly about what the daily mail calls the repulsive industry. this does include britain so we are industry. this does include britain so we are paying thousands of pounds to shoot magnificent lions and they are actually breeding them in order to shoot them in enclosures, so they are drugging them, having these pictures. we should say there is one amidstjoyous pictures. we should say there is one amidst joyous scenes that were saved and escaped. it's a cracking investigation and one which will horrify people when they read it tomorrow morning. the sunday express is the politics, tories to lose over

a thousand seats in the local elections, not surprising. if it happens. the headline says the party i’u ns happens. the headline says the party runs out of cash. they haven't literally run out of cash but they are in danger of it. because people are in danger of it. because people are not contributing because they feel the tory party made such a mess of brexit with both leave and remain no longer willing to contribute to party funds according to this piece. ican quite party funds according to this piece. i can quite well imagine they will lose a lot of seats in the local elections, whether it is a thousand oi’ elections, whether it is a thousand or not i'm not sure. people take out their national frustrations in local elections. they do and it looks like this is what is going to happen. it is on the 2nd of may and what's interesting here in the sunday

express is the party's chief executive and treasurer is understood and quoted as being in despair because remain and leave donors are refusing to fund party operations and the tories are out of money, and this lined where it says, lam unable money, and this lined where it says, i am unable to run the conservative hq and ensure we are capable of fighting and winning elections. they are the european elections. of course this is quite, very worrying, so course this is quite, very worrying, so this is a double blow from brexit. a lot of local officials don't want to play any part in these elections. very low turnout. corbyn launches bid to declare a national climate emergency, money that could have been spent hasn't been spent.

london is the capital of the united kingdom and of course in london when i see that in another paper that the protests have moved up in trees elsewhere, is it in the valley... notjust the elsewhere, is it in the valley... not just the capital, elsewhere, is it in the valley... notjust the capital, but it is very much on the back of the climate activists who did manage to paralyse central london that it seems labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency. the young 16—year—old swedish activist who has criticised politicians apparently is delighted and it would seem that mr corbyn, before he tells us what his european referendum, yes or no, when and how, is going to be really pushing for this and he says that those protests we re this and he says that those protests were a wake—up, a massive unnecessary wake—up call and he

would like the united kingdom to back this move because he would like it to be the first national legislature to declare a climate emergency because he says it would trigger a wave of action from governments around the world of. lot of his supporters would rather hear him lend his support to a second referendum. while recognising that climate is an important issue, i'm sure they have a lot of sympathy with what he is saying, the real important matter as far as they are concerned is the second referendum. let's stay with the observer, tech cuts off young from adults. this is a very eminent professor of psychoa nalysis a very eminent professor of psychoanalysis who is at ucl. 500 scientific papers, 19 books and he says reducing contact time between generations potentially damaging consequences. it strikes a chord

with every parent who are said to their kids at some point, please get off that computer, stop playing that video game, because they spent hours and hours and he raises a good point and hours and he raises a good point and he is mindful there has been young women, he is concerned that emotional disorders among young women are more common while a&e admissions for self—harm have increased. he is also concerned about violence in young boys and he puts this down to the point that young people are not talking to their parents. it seems to be a unifying problem for parents in most parts of the world, certainly the developed world. absolutely. there are conversations i have taken part in britain, france, in brussels, this is a worldwide problem and you talk about detoxifying and separating yourself from your

devices and there are so many. that selfie that went viral, actually i chaired last year something on gorillas about the national park in the former zaire democratic republic of congo and those gorillas are rare, killed by poachers and it was extraordinary to see one of their keepers hadn't met the gorillas behind posing like him. a remark was made and i think it was a good one with children is, now we are trying to get chimpanzees or gorillas to copy human behaviour, that is not the best of what we can offer them. maybe it is because they spend so much time with their keepers? they have just observed it. much time with their keepers? they havejust observed it. yes, they havejust observed it. yes, they have observed it. let's look at the sunday telegraph. two terrorism stories. scotland yard opens an

enquiry into an airy leave. reported on this ao years enquiry into an airy leave. reported on this a0 years ago. enquiry into an airy leave. reported on this 40 years ago. it was possibly the first live outside broadcast i had ever done, i was terrified, standing on the roof of the ministry of defence and i remember seeing the car, because this car was blown up in an underground car park, i remember seeing the car being pulled out and reporting on it and it shocked the nation in a way that is hard to imagine because we have so become used to this activity sadly, but in those days it was rare. mrs thatcher, it was one of her favourite ministers and by all accou nts favourite ministers and by all accounts highly respected by all concerned. the family would like a nswe i’s concerned. the family would like answers still all this time later. what is not clear is that on the first page, it would be interesting

to know why at this particular junction sergei javid has decided this needs to be reopened. what is lost when nobody is that reopening the talks between the dp dup and sinn fein, and that extraordinary, father mcgill, i watched sinn fein, and that extraordinary, father mcgill, iwatched it sinn fein, and that extraordinary, father mcgill, i watched it live at lyra mckee's funeral, says what in gods name has the death of a 29—year—old... gods name has the death of a 29-year-old. .. it gods name has the death of a 29-year-old... it made gods name has the death of a 29-year-old. .. it made a gods name has the death of a 29-year-old... it made a real impact. i saw terrace free to target tourist hot the suggestion that... as they lose the territory, we knew

that because they call themselves islamic state, it is not a state, they have lost the geographic supremacy and territory are so apparently it has freed up a lot of different terrace in different countries to actually target foreigners and this, it is not a new tactic, we are talking about the maldives, east african results in kenny, tanzania which are the most vulnerable and this will be on the one hand people will think it is scaremongering, but it is important for people to be aware of that. that is them losing in serious. that's it for the papers this hour. john stapleton and benedicte paviot will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website.

when was the last time you wrote a letter — actually handwrote one? i know, right? it is all about tippy—tappy typing these days, isn't it. well, omar mehtab has been looking at a way machine learning could help write things for you, in your own script. but is it good enough to fool the human eye? is my handwriting really that bad? yes. yeah, it is. (laughs). meet hemingway. this little robot is doing something that i hate — writing a letter. but this one is particularly

special, because it is doing it in my style of handwriting. this is writing in exactly my style. and the way hemingway here learnt how to write in my style was i sent this piece of paper and with a sample text. this took me 15 minutes to write, hemingway can do it in two. after sending through my written text, the handwriting company scans it and put it through its machine learning algorithm to figure out how i write my letters. so the interesting thing about our tech is we mimic what humans do. humans are completely unique, every time you write a character it is going to be a tiny bit different, and we pick up on those nuances, so our technology will learn how you do those and will also mimic all the variation you apply to this, and generate more on top of it. it is notjust printing the words on paper, it is applying pressure at certain points where i apply pressure. it is being able to do that. the g, i do a g like that without

a curl at the bottom, so does this. just subtle little things, it has got it down to a t. this is wicked, look at that. it's all very impressive, and even if i write underneath the robot's lines, you can see the results are very similar. there are small details like little flicks of the pen that set mine apart. but why would anyone want a handwritten letter nowadays? so it might seem a bit counterintuitive, but the noise — you get so many emails a day, and you barely read half of them. it is about cutting through that noise and adding a personal touch. so we work with big political organisations, they send them out, hotels use it for adding a personal touch, or maybe even your exams. to see how convincing this robot really is, i have brought in graphologist adam brand to see if he can tell which is which. the bottom one is written by a human being. the top one is mechanical. 0h!

laughs. yeah, that is me. was it easy to tell which one was which? it has got the spacing right, it's got the angles right, it has got the form right, but what it is fundamentally missing is the fluency. the little nick there and there. what can you tell from my handwriting about me? there is some lovely things going on here, the sensitivity, the fluency, the need for information, the mental enthusiasm. does it mean that everything you can tell with my handwriting you wouldn't tell from theirs? you can tell a lot from theirs, but in terms of actual identification, it lacks soul. is there potential for misuse as it currently stands? there are security problems, clearly. but it is too easy to pick up the fact that one is mechanical and the other is by a human being. you know, you are the first ever person that has been positive about my handwriting.

the handwriting company plans to improve the system so in future you can print your handwritten letters at home, tell your smart home assistant to write something up, and even write with a particular emotion, like light and flowing for happy, and intense pressure for angry. but until then, it is cursed with my cursive. now then, blockbuster film season is fast approaching so we thought we'd look at the amazing effort that went into creating the world of one of the big children's films of the year, dumbo. this is tim burton's reimagined take on a disney classic where some of the individual frames took 36 hours to render. and now, introducing our world—famous flying elephant! i think initially when i came onboard, my focus was, what's dumbo going to look like, what are the practical

considerations as well as the design considerations, how does tim really want to realise him as a character? even though tim wanted something that was completely photo—real, his unusual design wasn't going to sit well within a perfectly real world so we chose not to shoot location, we shot everything on stage, controlled the lighting and the set design, it was very important that we created not only this beautiful downtrodden character for the movie with the sort of unusual proportions but he also lived in a world that was equally designed to suit his character and look as well. dumbo's animation is incredibly subtle, it's very contained and most of his emotion is read either through his eyes or a subtlety in the body language so you are seeing quite a lot of work to sort of find the look and while we were filming, we do everything we can to make sure we get as much in camera

as possible and the suit is provided for the kids to stroke but to make that interaction work, we added cgi hay on top of him so they are brushing his hands, it's something to knock off and when we first meet dumbo and he tumbles out of the train carriage, we had a starting point from a stunt performer rolling down the ramp but ultimately we had to create a large volume of hay for him to interact with and slide off his head and body. similarly, water interaction, we did a combination of generating a lot of computer—generated foam and water elements to sit over our dumbo and a number of practical elements against foam elements, against black which we could then add to in the final process. welcome to the medici family circus where anything is possible!

notjust dumbo but the adult elephant in the show, they all require an extensive rigging process so the animation team, they firstly have a really good skeletal structure that they can move the joints around and allow them to move as naturally as possible, but there are also all the muscles on top of the skeleton and the skin, which all has to interact. one of the key things i wanted to make sure we did was to really capture the subtlety of motion you get in elephant skin which is incredibly loose and stretchy, the way it expands, it creates all thse different patterns of wrinkles and some of the details really important to capture and we ended up having to embark on a whole new way of creating a sort of skin simulation for want of a better word. right wing. check. left wing. check. prepare for take—off!

fa ntastic stuff. now then, i've come to east london where i'm about to make my own great escape. hi, welcome to otherworld. would you like to come with me? looking nothing at all like an episode of black mirror, this is a virtual reality arcade with a difference. step in one of the ia pods, put on the garb, and you will be transported to otherworld. i find myself on an island where i am free to wander about. i'm sliding down the slide. i like the way that you walk in this game. you squeeze your triggers and then you just do a walking motion with your hands.

being in your own private pod means the environment is controllable and as you wander into different climates, a rumble pad under your feet and heat lamps and fans which subtly change the temperature make this a multisensory experience. you can feel the heat on the back of my head now because i'm facing away from the sun. i do like that. put simply, otherworld is a way to play many different vr games all in one place. from frantic shoot—em—ups to more serene experiences. but instead of choosing them from a menu, here, you wander the islands, just as you wander around a themepark looking for different rides. the idea is that you don'tjust walk around this landscape, you find these pods and inside each one is a vr game so i'm going into one called space pirate trainer. there are 16 games currently available and in the future,

the otherworld team will allow you to convert points won in—game into real—world tokens to spend on the bar. and although i think my performance is definitely something that belongs behind closed doors, it's also possible share your experience with your friends and other pods. i want to know what they're doing and that other pod! now, otherworld is not finished and it's not locked down. it's in continual development in the slightly less glamorous workshop just around the corner. we are always going to bring improvements or taking away features that people don't like, or fixing things, and it's this very fluid development where we have an active sandbox literally around the corner of customers going in and using it all day. with £1 million worth of investment so far, otherworld certainly looks the part but as one of the first vr arcades in the uk,

it's probably too early to tell if it can keep enough people coming through its doors to keep things afloat. that's it for the short cut of click this week from otherworld. the full version is on iplayer, and don't forget, we live on social media. you'll find us there throughout the week on facebook, instagram, youtube and twitter at @bbcclick. see you soon — and if you need me, i'll be in my pod. good evening. storm hannah has made

for a turbulent start to the weekend. we had a wind gust of 82 mph in north—west wales, a lot of rain as well. you can see this one of the cloud, a deep area of low pressure but it will clear eastwards and weaken. things look a good deal, as we head through the second half of the weekend. the winds will continue to ease, there will be some showers but a good deal of dry weather starting to show its hand as well. the rain we have left across northern england, southern scotland as well, that will ease. some showers clipping into eastern england. for most places temperatures between four and 7 degrees, there may be a touch of frost in northern ireland. tomorrow sta rts frost in northern ireland. tomorrow starts off on a quiet note. it is a big morning of course in london, the marathon taking place. overhead there is likely to be a lot of

cloud, the odd shower at times, equally some glimmers of brightness but for the participants, temperatures of ii, ia degrees. for the rest of the uk, there will be a lot of dry weather and increasingly some sunshine through parts of scotland, northern england, the midlands, parts of the south—east. more cloud further west, a weather front trying to push in with some patchy rain the far south—west of england and northern ireland. not as windy as it has been and with more sunshine, temperatures between i2 and 16 sunshine, temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees. quite a complex weather pattern as we start the week but high pressure will be broadly in charge, quite a lot of fog as we start monday morning. frontal systems is trying to push in but they weren't make much process. elsewhere, any early folk will tend to lift and clear with a mix of

patchy cloud and sunny spells, perhaps the best of the sunshine in scotla nd perhaps the best of the sunshine in scotland where temperatures could get up to 18 or 19 degrees. a lot of dry weather to be had, the chance of some rain at times, particularly in the north and west.

this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11pm: a woman has died and three others are injured after a gunman opens fire at a synagogue in california. at this moment it looks like a hate crime. my deepest sympathies to all of those affected, and we'll get to the bottom of it. sri lankan security forces have detained the wife and child of the man believed to be the mastermind behind the wave of bomb attacks on easter sunday. the home office is being investigated after they revoked the visas of 30,000 foreign students over claims they cheated in an english language exam. the labour party is to change its european election manifesto leaflets, saying it may support another referendum on any brexit deal. top flight for the canaries — norwich city secure promotion to the premier league.