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venezuela's supreme court has released 22 people from prison, including a high—profile judge, after the un said the country uses a campaign of fear to suppress opposition. eight people have beenjailed in the uk for their part in what is being described as the country's worst ever case of modern—day slavery. police believe there were up to 400 victims. president trump is threatening to use executive powers to count the number of us citizens, in the population census. the supreme court has ruled against the practice, and the census forms are already being printed without the question. cori gauff is through to the second week of wimbledon. the 15—year—old american beat slovenia's polona hercog in a thrilling contest, saving two match points along the way.
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the former leader of the far—right english defence league, stephen yaxley—lennon, who calls himself tommy robinson, is facing a jail term after being found guilty of contempt of court. yaxley—lennon was convicted of filming defendants in a child sexual exploitation trial and broadcasting the footage on social media, in breach of a reporting ban on the case. our special correspondent lucy manning reports. crowd chant: shame on you! shame on you! the news that stephen yaxley—lennon had been found in contempt of court did bot go down well with his supporters outside the old bailey. some surged at the police, missiles thrown, batons raised. it had been calmer in court, where the man also known as tommy robinson just shook his head as the judge said he had interfered with the justice process. it was this controversial broadcast live on social media last year that meant he had broken strict rules about what can be reported
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about court cases. doesn't seem like much guilt... he had filmed and confronted defendants accused of sexual exploitation of girls outside leeds crown court. it was viewed more than 250,000 times. the judge said mr yaxley—lennon‘s behaviour, aggressively confronting some of the defendants, live—streaming from outside leeds crown court and breaking reporting restrictions, was a serious interference with the administration ofjustice. leaving the courtroom, mr yaxley—lennon claimed it was a corrupt decision, and he would appeal. you've now been found in contempt of court. you lost your chance... do you think tommy robinson has just been burst now? you don't care, do you? you don't care that people's freedoms have been taken away. you don't care that ourjudicial justice system has just prosecuted someone because of who they are, not what they've done. you don't care, do you?
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you're a journalist! do you not care about people's freedoms to report? you don't care. you're a journalist. and look... do you think you're going back to prison? i know i'm going back to prison. despite his claims, the court found he had broadcast information that no other journalist did or would have been allowed to. last may, mr yaxley—lennon was sent to jailfor 13 months, but released afterjust two, because it was found the decision had been rushed. he will now be sentenced again, and could face up to two years in prison. lucy manning, bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, it is our birthday. we are 1000 episodes young, and to mark it, we are making the bbc‘s first interactive, multichoice tv show. there will be flowcharts, elephants, flowcha rts, data, there will be flowcharts, elephants, flowcharts, data, flowcharts, and wizards.
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a warm welcome to click. welcome to click. welcome to click. welcome to click, i am spencer kelly. finally we have reached a very special milestone. we have been on air every week of every year, without a break, since we launched in the year 2000, which means this week you are watching season one, episode 1000. and to celebrate, we are making a world first. doing new things is in oui’ world first. doing new things is in our dna. i am floating on air. which is why we don'tjust our dna. i am floating on air. which
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is why we don't just show you the tech, we use the tech to push the boundaries of what's possible on tv. here is the team. it is marc on camera one and two, simon on camera three and four, jen on five, nima on six and seven, ben on eight and this is thalia on nine. this was the world's first full tv programme to be filmed and edited only on mobile devices. fyi, it was a nightmare. this week's click has been filmed entirely in 360 degrees. this was another world first, where we reinvented how tv was made, for an audience that could look in any direction at any time. and this week, for click 1000, we have really gone for it. do i explore the cave, oi’ gone for it. do i explore the cave, or do gone for it. do i explore the cave, ordoi gone for it. do i explore the cave, or do i look behind the tree? i'll explore the cave. so turn to page
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84. this is how i spent a lot of my childhood, reading books where i could choose my own adventure, where at every point, i got to decide what happened next, and every time i read it, the story changed. i absolutely loved them. not only was i in a different world, but because i was in charge of the story, that story came to life. it felt so real. come on then, spen. so, after choose your own adventure books, came computer adventure games, first with text, and then with amazing graphics. but both would let me explore vast worlds, bigger than any book. the problem is tv doesn't let us do
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that. it tells one story, it makes one set of choices, and we just sit back and watch. until now.|j one set of choices, and we just sit back and watch. until now. i demand freedom! imagine if everything that you watched was interactive, and if you watched was interactive, and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires, or even how much time you had. if you go online at the address that's on—screen now, you will find a special version of this programme thatis a special version of this programme that is interactive. you get to choose which tech stories you hear about, and in how much detail. as you watch, you'll be given options to dive deeper, or may be to look at things from a different perspective, oi’ things from a different perspective, or maybe to skip one entirely. the technology used to make this possible is known as object based media, or0bm, and possible is known as object based media, or 0bm, and it could be the
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future of how we watch video content. broadcasters have been developing the tech for years now. bbc rnd has explored the concept with various online tutorials. the step by step nature of 0bm is particularly useful their —— r&d. netflix has had a double with its pussin netflix has had a double with its puss in boots, and more recently, with charlie brooker‘s interactive bandersnatch. and now, premiering the bbc‘s first ever 0bm tv show is us. the bbc‘s first ever 0bm tv show is us. to say it's been a tricky, brain melting minefield would be an understatement. it's a little bit like trying to pick up ants from space using tweezers with a blindfold on. these are all the plans that we've made to figure out how we're going to structure this episode. being obm how we're going to structure this episode. being 0bm is really different because you have to think of the story in different ways, because people might have seen other
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bits of the story, they might have chosen different path through the story. i have been told to create several million versions. it has taken more brainpower than any episode i have ever worked on, and more teamwork, to get the thing out there. trust me, we're not talking to each other the moment. what does that stand for? wizard. but we couldn't have done it without r&d‘s otherworldly expertise. matthew and his team have been devising an 0bm strategy for the last few years. couple of years ago we decided we wa nted couple of years ago we decided we wanted to try and transfer this capability to create this stuff. we we re capability to create this stuff. we were busy engineering it, but we didn't have any tools. so we decided to build a story kit, essentially. custom—made software can handle hundreds of pieces of content, like video, audio and text, and put them together on the fly, as viewers make their choices. so it's a tool that is aimed at producers who have no
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hot software development skills, so the whole idea was to allow these people to then easily use an interface like a drag—and—drop interface like a drag—and—drop interface like a drag—and—drop interface like story former, to create those experiences. all in all, we think we have 148 different chunks of video, which to my mind makes about a gazillion different path through the content. also tons of footage, and we've used up every ha rd of footage, and we've used up every hard drive that we have. of footage, and we've used up every hard drive that we havelj of footage, and we've used up every hard drive that we have. i suppose it's been keeping me up at night, thinking are we going to get it finished in time? it really has been a challenging process. there's been times when i had to dojust like... but we think are we really think, it's been worth it. putting you in the driving seat will mean, hopefully, you at home can enjoy the show more than ever before more. at the core of being able to give you all these choices is the idea of branching narratives, possible options that lead onto the next bit, oi’ options that lead onto the next bit, or reroute you to a park where the story ca n or reroute you to a park where the story can flow from there. to get advice on how to create a
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multiple—choice click, i went to create one of the creators of the fighting fantasy books i grew up with, ian livingstone. involves writing multiple storylines at once. and how i used to do it was create a map, on which i kept a record of all the encounters as you went through the encounters as you went through the adventure. it's giving you a choice like do you want to turn left oi’ choice like do you want to turn left or right, which is a simple choice, oi’ or right, which is a simple choice, or do you want to try and tiptoe past the sleeping goblin or attack him with your sword. and the choices are quite varied. so when i'm writing i have to keep a record of where the reader would go. so if you make this choice, i need to make sure that they can actually get out of there, and then these are all the encounters. they find gold, they find treasure, they find magical items. can i show you our version of an adventure map? this is the layout of this actual interview, which is
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multichoice. what do you think? minimalist. not too many options, so we should be done in less than four hours. because it can take you days to get through a fighting fantasy game book. good luck on your adventure. that was ian livingstone talking to one of his biggest fan boys. now, currently normaltv doesn't allow us to show you a fully interactive programme, so to give you a feel of what happy click 0bm will be like when you watch it online, we've added a dash of it to this week's tech news. you will see some options pop up on screen. you won't be able to click them, we will do that for you. but it should give you an idea of what to expect. here is lara. hello and welcome to the week in tech. this week, the church of england issued its first guidelines for social media users. its release came the same time as the archbishop of canterbury streamed his own live video. nearly
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a decade ago, alphabet, that owns google, announced its balloon spin out, boom. this promised floating masts which would deliver 4g services to the world's most remote places. it is now planning to launch its own trial with african telecom. their balloons are each the size of a tennis court, but they need to be as they are filled with enough helium to keep them afloat while carrying solar powered networking gear. this robot there is quite a ptly called gear. this robot there is quite aptly called huggable. the new trail suggests it could help poorly children feel better in hospital. more than 50 sick kids took part in the study with mit media lab, northeastern university and boston children's hospital. the hi—tech toy not only brought out more smiles, but also got the kids out of bed to be more at live as well. huggable is
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farfrom be more at live as well. huggable is far from the only cute robot on the block, though. in europe, this little robot even goes to school for sick children. this means they can virtually attend classes and play with their friends. and finally, an american artist has built robotic arms to let you poke, inflate and generally play around with famous paintings. neil mendoza's mechanical masterpieces is displayed at the children's museum masterpieces is displayed at the child ren‘s museum of masterpieces is displayed at the children's museum of pittsburgh. that's it. and in the interactive version of click you can steer your own way to lara's tech news. but with great power comes great responsibility, i mean, do you really want to make decisions about the tv programme and films that you watch? would you rather just sit back and relax? films that you watch? would you ratherjust sit back and relax? and also, if you want to talk to your
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friends about what you see, they've seen a friends about what you see, they've seen a different version of the show, you don't have a common ground. and then there's another thing. through interactive experiences, it's possible to get ta bs experiences, it's possible to get tabs on viewers we pose habits, and you may be giving out more information about yourself than you think. he is more. extrovert or i ntrove rt, think. he is more. extrovert or introvert, opens a new experience, oi’ more introvert, opens a new experience, or more comfortable with tradition? we are using the data you collect while you are watching the 0bm to deliver a specific advert to you. the choices you made gave us an idea of your personality, it's certainly not scientific, if you chide out, see if we were right. researchers have worked out that even simple data leaks have worked out that even simple data lea ks can have worked out that even simple data leaks can give indications about your personality. 75 facebook likes are as illuminating as asking a work colleague about you, 300, as
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much as asking a partner about you. some of this data you might think is not too meaningful. people's intelligence, political views, religious views, sexuality, just because you like camping and a few other things. facebook, google and instagram do this, showing adverts tailored to our behaviour. this can be good if you're looking for a specific item, but also unnerving. people say online advertising is creepy, you are talking to a friend, then later on you see an advertisement for the same thing you are talking about. it mayjust be that you were talking to your friend but then the fact you are talking to someone but then the fact you are talking to someone else, they may search for something, then suddenly you are seeing an ad for something you are interested in. they infer you are friends and therefore probably have similar interests. if this gives you out of it, we look to see some of
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the tools online that moves go your data trail. you might want to get rid of the cookies stored on your browser. these store personal data like yourlogin, e—mail browser. these store personal data like your login, e—mail address and what is in your shopping basket. we are the cookies from your web browser using the appropriate menu. in chrome, it is in the history settings. in safari, choose preferences and privacy to block all cookies or the ones you want to manage access. cookies aren't the only problem, other types of truckers can follow you around. some anti— tracking tools can help. privacy badger is free to add to your browser, it shows you which domains are following your online movements and lets you choose which ones to allow or block. ghostery flags more eyes. disconnect on me has a free service for desk top as well as smart apps. for $50 a year
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you can get a full protection for three devices. still, with all of these tools you may not be com pletely these tools you may not be completely protected. this website, who tracks me, shows a list of who has my information. even with truckers, it might not be easy to keep track. mozilla firefox that is that your privacy settings straightaway. it's the only open source browser that is major, which allows people to check its code, making it more trustworthy. there are some more musical ways dash whimsical ways you can protect your privacy. randomising your social media reactions is one way to obscure your supposed personality.
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instagram made its own version of hiding your likes. that was jan. how might algorithms change how you watch in the future on tv based on your personal data? watch in the future on tv based on your personal data ? well, watch in the future on tv based on your personal data? well, to simulate this we have taken dan timmins' report on tac in malawi and tailored it reviewer who we know is interested in inventions and the environment but likes watching shorter reports. —— tech. environment but likes watching shorter reports. -- tech. with an average income ofjust a few dollars average income ofjust a few dollars a day, this part of the world is known as one of the poorest on the planet. what's less well known is how quickly malawi's two main cities, the capital, and the commercial centre, here, are expanding. as are their horizons.
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and malawi has a lot more high—tech than you might going on. do you want to know more? well, how long have you got? researchers are developing artificial intelligence, creating smart homes, predicting health problems and making old computers work again. for the whole continent. in some ways, allowing's cities look and feel like many others, there's plenty of shops and services, new buildings are going up, importantly, there is a real need here for more simple tech that makes life better without the need for power. only a fraction of the country's actually on the power grid and even those who have it, well, historically it's been unreliable, demand far outstrip supply. in summer, even now at a
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cooler time of year, it can get up to the mid 20s. i'm on my way to meet a very cool inventor who specialises in sustainable technology. hello. hi. thanks for having us over. nice workshop. adis leads a team of around half a dozen or so leads a team of around half a dozen or so at his home. all sorts of things are being hacked together here. it's a massive of ideas. this skeleton car on the road next month supposedly, powered by steam. this tin can electric car uses phone id for security. and that is just one simple card that that works with. even 0bm loop 0z pottery wheel helps power things up. so has anyone before called you a mad professor? with all of this stuff? yes, i've gotten quite used to die. in the heat of the day, i have come to see
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a prototype adis is particularly proud of —— i've gotten quite used to that. this is the zero electric climate control system, the main thing here is what i call the cooling element. ok. it takes water and presented to the environment, the heat and the environment help it evaporate, that process because things down. it sounds very simple, but is there more to it? here we have formulated materials that already are folded up so tightly that they shrink a large amount of space into a very small space. right? at nanoscale. when we put water into it, that water can be spread out. and it can use up heats more efficiently. —— use up heat more efficiently. —— use up heat more efficiently. —— use up heat more efficiently to close that. right. time to test our water climate cooler. so did the invention
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work? well, you can find out by watching the click 0bm show online. of course there are many more adventures waiting there or you do. we're adventures waiting there or you do. we' re really adventures waiting there or you do. we're really proud of our interactive programme and we would love you to stop by and choose your own path for us. the address is on screen now. we think it's a fitting way to celebrate our anniversary. there was another way too, of course, that was my to look at the crack archive —— the archive, look at the silly old tack, and our old haircuts. welcome to click online, the first of a new series for all those interested in new technology and the internet. in april 2000, the bbc decided to explore the exciting new world of the. com bubble. and in a spectacular piece of timing, click on does not click went on airjust
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as it burst. as online dog walkers and winetasting services tumbled around ourears, and winetasting services tumbled around our ears, the programme went looking for the next big thing. i told you i could do it. we didn't a lwa ys told you i could do it. we didn't always find it. oh, iforgot told you i could do it. we didn't always find it. oh, i forgot to change the batteries! but every so often, we backed the winner. gmail isa often, we backed the winner. gmail is a free e—mail service. often, we backed the winner. gmail is a free e-mail service. twitter .com is as simple as it gets. the tooth. the device with some never seen tooth. the device with some never seen before features has been billed as nothing short of revolutionary. we've met all sorts of amazing characters on our travels. it's me, mario! and we've met all sorts. we paused tech to its limits —— pushed. 0h! paused tech to its limits —— pushed. oh! sometimes we posted too far. we're going to build artificial
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intelligence. and sometimes, we pushed back. they came here on a gold rush, promised riches for waste thatis gold rush, promised riches for waste that is slowly poisoning them. right now, over 20,000 compromised personal computers are under our control. it's been an intense experience, but the thing that has really does make it has really left me with his i want to hold onto my data. over the past 19 years, we have built it. we've flown it. we've ridden it. we've broken it... we've worn it's, even the electric shorts. wow! and we've played it. boy, we've played it. we've gone live. we've
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seen played it. we've gone live. we've seen the very highest tac. this is a bit spiritual, really. —— tech. and the lowest. 0ver1000 shows, it's been an enormous privilege for all of us to bring all of you the attack that's change the world —— the tech. refreshing. 0r that's change the world —— the tech. refreshing. or not. come on, percy.
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yeah, it certainly feels like we've seen yeah, it certainly feels like we've seen it all, but, i have a suspicion that there is much, much more to come. and next week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, we'll bring you click 1001, a space 0dyssey! until then, on we'll bring you click 1001, a space 0dyssey! untilthen, on behalf we'll bring you click 1001, a space 0dyssey! until then, on behalf of eve ryo ne 0dyssey! until then, on behalf of everyone who's worked on this programme over the years, and there have been many, thank you. thank you for watching, we'll see you next time. theme music.
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hello there, it will be a different day for many, we've lost the heat or are losing the heat in the south and we will return the sunshine to the north because this area of cloud and rain isa north because this area of cloud and rain is a weather front. a cold weather front with a north—westerly following, so a much fresher end of the night, still quite a muggy enter the night, still quite a muggy enter the night, still quite a muggy enter the night in the south. we are gradually introducing mccarter because england and wales in some slices of rain. as this weather front yard is its way south through the day. that dampens the heat down for most temperatures, low 20s really, but there will be much drier, brighter weather following without north—west breeze, not a warm direction at any time of the year, but if you find shelter, it will be pleasant enough. that weather front and the old shower data on shower just weather front and the old shower data on showerjust lingering across the south, some fairweather cloud elsewhere, pleasantly warm, pies of 20 or more. —— highs.
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