this is bbc news i‘m lukwesa burak the headlines at four... people were moved from the area the energy watchdog demands to know last week, why nearly one million people amid fears across england and wales lost power yesterday — national grid says the nearby dam could collapse. it will learn lessons. the fund is part of a bigger £5 million pot for flood—hit communities. what we saw yesterday evening was an exceptionally rare event, one we have not seen since 2008 but we will the environment agency said it was carrying out tests on part of course be looking very hard at of the river frome in somerset what happened to make sure we after it was turned bright blue by a mystery substance. minimise disruption in future. results are expected on monday, the us financier but it is being treated jeffrey epstein — whose as a pollution incident. acqauintances included president trump and prince andrew — currently, there are no is found dead in his prison cell in new york while awaiting trial reports of dead wildlife. on child sex trafficking charges. wet and windy conditions cause a rare set of twin pandas have been disruption to travellers, with the west coast mainline born at a zoo in belgium. here they are. hit by flooding. they've been described as looking michael gove says there‘ll like little pink shrimps be a bail—out fund and are completely hairless. for businesses hit by brexit. twin pandas are extremely rare, and usually one of them won't survive, but keepers say the boy and girl are doing well. mum how how is said to be showing a "very strong protective instinct". she's 900 times

bigger than they are. now it's time for a look at the weather. it has felt a little more like autumn than august today with the strong and gusty winds across england and wales, they will be with us england and wales, they will be with us for a few hours yet. gales over the hills and around the coasts. heavy downpours have been rattling through quickly in the south, slow—moving north, reports of flooding, surface flooding, this range is continuing. parts of northern england, northern ireland, increasingly so for scotland. that amount of rain 60—80 millimetres leading to further flooding as it continues. a met office warning is in place for thundery rain, but they went at least a starting to ease during the night and should be lighter tomorrow. heavy downpours and thunderstorms across england and wales tomorrow, but this draws the

attention to wet weather forecast for parts of scotland and northern england. a real cause for concern. the warning details are on the website. hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines: the energy watchdog demands to know why nearly one million people across england and wales lost power yesterday — national grid says it will ‘learn lessons‘. what we saw yesterday evening was an exceptionally rare event, one we have not seen since 2008, but we will be looking very hard at what happened to make sure that we minimise disruption in future. the us financier jeffrey epstein — whose acqauintances included president trump and prince andrew — is found dead in his prison cell in new york while awaiting trial on child sex—trafficking charges. michael gove says there'll be a bail—out fund for businesses hit by brexit. wet and windy conditions cause

disruption to travellers, with the west coast mainline hit by flooding. the family of a 15—year—old girl missing in malaysia thank the search teams who are scouring the jungle for her. more than a million people are evacuated from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits china. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, shutting down the net. speeding up border checks. and completing the circle of life. oh, everyone, calm down. we're here. the back—up has arrived!

stand by, please. stand by, alexandra palace. switch out, regions, switch out. and cut to the palace. this is alexandra palace, the birthplace of television. on 2 november 1936, the world's first regular high—definition public television service was broadcast from there. tvjoined radio and the printed word in bringing us entertainment and information, to bring us together and broaden our minds. but these days, information has another way of getting out. social media has given us all the power to say whatever we want and show whatever we want, and that has caused several governments big problems.

some countries like china, iran and saudi arabia block news and discussions about topics they don't want their people to hear about. but many more countries will sporadically block social media sites, slow down internet speeds or even switch off net access altogether to try and stifle unrest and dissent at sensitive times. and the country that shuts down net access the most is? india. and by far, the bulk of those shutdowns are in the disputed himalayan region of kashmir. this week, the indian government removed the special status of the part of the region that it administers. it was an unprecedented move that's seen schools closed, demos banned, leaders arrested and, of course, the internet shut down. a couple of weeks ago, david reid went to kashmir to find out more about the regular shutdowns that were happening there. as it turned out, he was one

of the last foreign journalists to be allowed in. kashmir might look peaceful — it isn't. authorities here are fighting a long—running insurgency. many kashmiris and others say india is an occupier. almost 50,000 have died in decades of violence. even before this week's clampdown, authorities regularly shut down the mobile internet as i found during a recent visit. our business is an online food delivery service, it's the first online delivery service start—up in kashmir. more than a0 times this year, kashmir‘s mobile internet has been cut off or throttled back, not great for sales of chicken wraps or spicy mutton curry. what do you do when the internet is off? every time we have to call our customers, our data base customers and we try to send an smss that we are serviceable. last time, we had pamphlets and we distributed them to colleges and schools.

it's going back to the 1950s and working without internet and internet is a very important part of your life right now. normally it's only the mobile internet cut off, not domestic broadband. why don't you just use broadband? it's just too expensive. broadband is more expensive than 4g and everyone can't afford a connection at home. the measure is unpopular and there are suspicions it's less about security than just stifling dissent. they are claiming we are the largest democracy in the world, but it's not a democracy because you can't suppress the voice of dissent in a democratic system. i headed over to speak to kashmir‘s police. interestingly, their internet policy seems less about foiling militant operations, but more about preventing propaganda and rumour. we are here fighting a proxy war. we see a lot of content from our neighbourhood coming here and trying to create a propaganda which

is absolutely not correct and at times, that leads to a serious law and order problem. kashmiris joke that the internet is just a switch on some bureaucrat‘s desk and there is a feeling that it's all a bit too easy. there is no transparency. some shutdowns in india are frivolous. according to this tracker run by a delhi—based ngo, the mobile internet was cut off 30 times in rajasthan last year. no insurgency there. and at least four of those were to prevent cheating in police recruitment exams. authorities say shutdowns are signed off by magistrates and audited. we have to take their word for it. the audits are secret. our tracker is built around exposing reality of the internet shutdowns, the quantum of internet shutdowns in india. what we demand of the government is transparency. there is no government published data on shutdowns. but we also have to rely

on citizens reportage. india is probably one of the strongest democracies to utilise this policy, which is problematic. india cuts of the internet more than any other country. ok, the population here is enormous and much of the time, india's internet has been pretty open. select censorship, but without a china—style content firewall. that said, critics contend that countries are taking india's lead, cutting off comms in a crisis. by the way, they also say shutdowns actually increase violence. what you are doing, if anything, in curtailing access to the internet is disallowing people the ability to organise, again, peaceful demonstrations which are well within the confines of the law. it creates a disrupted communication environment which potentially induces more chaos, more violence.

this week's clampdown has meant a complete communications blackout — internet, phone, tv. the un's special rapporteur has called it draconian and kashmir has been gagged, cut off from the rest of the world. that was david reid in kashmir. of course, there are many parts of the world including here in the uk where governments don'tjust shut down the media or the internet to try and control public conversation. but that also has consequences. it was an attack stream live on the internet by someone apparently determined to use social media to spread a message of hate. if you can't control what's being uploaded, stop the uploads. during the christchurch massacre, thousands upon thousands of videos were being uploaded to facebook and uploaded to youtube and you could see tens of thousands of views. people all across the world,

watching this content. we will look at the role social media played and what steps we can take. they are the publisher, not just the postman. we know that that content will have radicalised people and they were sort of saying, "0h, it's a problem with our ai, "our ai is not recognising this content, " but they should have just shut it off. carol cadwallader is the journalist report facebook and cambridge analytica story to the mainstream and she is the main voice in the new netflix documentary which tells the story of how users‘ data was gathered and analysed to try to influence elections. she has campaigned to get facebook to work harder to stop the spread of violent content, hate speech and fake news across its network. everything that has sort of enabled us to develop as a country and become the society that we have is directly under threat now.

instead of shutting websites down, authorities in the west go for the financial jugular. the settlement imposes a record—breaking $5 billion penalty. this fine was for deceiving users about how it used their data. but if the threat of fines doesn‘t pull facebook and other social media platforms into line, might we start to see even more countries block access completely? carol cadwallader thinks it‘s still possible to avoid both fines and censorship. one of the really amazing statistics about facebook that i heard is that one in seven people that facebook employs to do content moderation works on german content and that‘s because germany has very strong laws around hate speech, and if you don‘t get it down, you are going to be fined. i think my colleague at the guardian,

alex hood, worked out what it would cost to have the same levels of german content moderation across the world and it would cost facebook something like 0.5% in profit. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week in which british airways passengers were left stranded after 300 were delayed or cancelled because of it problems. —— 300 flights. ouch. 500,000 bank customers were asked to change their pin for their monzo bankcards after it problems. ouch. and japan‘s newest flying car took off the first time without anyone in it and sort of bumped back to earth again with everyone standing well back there. bit of work to do. there was light at the end of the car tunnel, though. hyundai unveiled its plan to make a solar car that is up to 60% powered by the sun. it follows recent announcements from toyota that it will provide solar panels for its hybrid prius and a new manufacturer, lightyear.

britain‘s nhs is to set up an artificial intelligence unit to help work out patterns in clinical trials, existing treatments and patient flows. this is the russian military‘s new stealth drone. the okhotnik, which means "hunter", took a 20—minute flight but found nothing. samsung has revealed its biggest smartphone to date. the galaxy note 10 plus comes with a new gesture—controlled guest pen. it supports 5g and has a depth—sensing camera on the back that might help you measure the hole in your pocket if you buy one. and finally, let‘s all wear a tail. in your pocket if you buy one. researchers in japan say their a—motored motored creation helps with balance, climbing, carrying stuff and looking like a monster. it‘s the future. get over it. the history and the politics

surrounding israel are, of course, highly contentious, but its a situation in the world has made it a focal point for new security tech start—ups. stephen beckett has met a company whose technology looks set to rapidly change the way that borders and checkpoints are policed around the world. physical borders and checkpoints have been around for almost as long as civilisation itself but one thing that goes hand—in—hand with intensive checks is queueing, potentially long waits while each vehicle is manually inspected for contra band or even security threats. i‘m here in tel aviv to see how one company is using artificial intelligence to rethink the way those checks are done. this is uveye, the first of its kind advanced threat recognition system that scans the underside of your vehicles. dramatic video aside, the uveye system has been using borders and checkpoints around the world.

it‘s key selling point — the promise of detecting unexpected items under moving vehicles faster than any human possibly could. the question is, how could they do that without compromising on safety? this is sort of where you might do in a normal inspection. down on the ground with a mirror that lets you see under the car. from here i can see the edges quite well but the middle is a bit of a mystery to me. of course, professional security would have more knowledge and hopefully a better torch but without raising the car up, they would still struggle to see in as much detail as the system can. hidden under the ground are five high—res cameras that activate when the vehicle is detected. in about a second, they take thousands of photos that are then combined to create a high—res model of the underside of the vehicle. as you can see, a very high resolution. you can read the writing. you can read that this volkswagen was made in poland.

doing checks by eye like this could still take a human a long time. that‘s why the real idea is to have deep learning algorithms do it for you, automatically analysing the images for anything that shouldn‘t not be there. —— shouldn‘t be there. this is a typical 300g of size, ok? and this isi kilo. and now it‘s scanning for threats. you can see the automatic detection, we found the three boxes. i mean, these ones, ithink i would have spotted those ones but this one down here... this one was very hard. we didn‘t spot it before the system did. just like our own fingerprints, tiny details in the images like the part numbers or even small scratches can be used to create a unique identifier for each vehicle. that means that even if you were to, say, change your numberplate, the system can still recognise your car if it‘s seen it before.

ai—powered systems like these are only as good as the data they‘re trained on. here to create the data, uveye had to hire hundreds of rental cars from around their office and scanning those cars taught the system what a normal undercarriage is supposed to look like and knowing what normal looks like means the system can do more than just spot contraband. at our next stop they are using the system to help keep tel aviv‘s buses on the road. when a bus leaves the depot, they drive over a uveye detector, just like with the cars, the huge image that comes out can be scanned for unexpected items, but they can also spot if there is a maintenance issue like an oil leak or other damage. the latest version of the system uses even more cameras to create a 360—degree view of an entire vehicle. so notjust the undercarriage, but the sides as well. that means things like scratches, dents and tyre damage could also be picked up.

earlier this year, car companies volvo and toyota revealed they were investing in the tech, so in the future we could see it being used when you buy, sell or even rent a car. you can imagine that might save, oi’ even cause a few arguments with hire companies. in the meantime, though, security is still the main focus of the system. the question is, do we feel comfortable handing over this kind of responsibility to an ai? classical music plays. here at the barbican‘s life rewired season, a rehearsal is taking place. but it‘s no ordinary rendition. an array of cameras is tracking the musicians‘ every move. now from there, artificial intelligence is analysing what‘s

being seen, so it could be deciding on what gender, what ethnicity or what age it thinks someone is, but it is also keeping track of their emotions. this experience is meant to illustrate the difference between what a machine sees and what a human can see. and right now there is clearly quite a big difference. sight machine uses a mix of old computer algorithms and cutting—edge ai, much like that used by self—driving vehicles orfor reading biometric data. it then recreates its findings in a picture or as text. yet... first of all it thinks david is between four and six years old, then it says david could be up to 100 years old. there is definitely something not quite accurate here. i have to say every time i have looked up at the screen, and ai has been tracking my

emotions, it doesn‘t have anything to do with what, at least what i think i know about myself, or what is happening right at that moment. to ai, emotion comes down to certain premises. one, there is such thing as emotions, right? which seems self—evident. if you look throughout history, different cultures at different times have used very different languages and very different taxonomies to describe what we talk about as emotions, right? also, typically in computer vision systems, there are six emotions — fear, happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, and that is pretty questionable as well. i think if we imagine our emotional lives, they are far more complicated than that. trevor has worked with this tech a lot, and he says he wasn‘t anticipating greater accuracy. he‘s not trying to rubbish all the good that al can do, though — merely to highlight what he views as the pitfalls.

i think we want to have a lot of faith in technologies that are going to be smarter than us, that are going to be more objective and fair than us, and i think what the performance shows is that we‘re very far away from that. of course this system doesn‘t represent the ability of all ais, and not everything it suggests is wrong. but many of the decisions it makes are based on limited opinions orfactors, and of course the machines will keep learning. this isjust a reminder that when it comes to emotion, oi’ some more nuanced concepts, ai is not a patch on us yet. classical music continues. brilliant, that was lara and her quartet. i am on a different stage right now, this one belongs to the alexandra palace theatre, recently renovated after laying derelict for 80 years. and what an amazing space it is, don‘t you think?

in the 1930s this was also a cinema, and that‘s where we‘re going next. to the latest box office blockbuster. the lion king opening theme plays. the idea of embracing something that took what technology has to offer to create a photo real version of this story, as told through the eyes of what would feel like a documentary, a live action documentary crew, was an exciting prospect for us. disney refers to this as a live—action film, which is a bit misleading, but i think it is tonally correct, because we did use those techniques, and hopefully it does feel like something that was actually photographed, even though every shot — with the exception of one, actually, every shot in the film is completely computer—generated. and every performance is animated. we built it using tools to create essentially a completely digital 3d environment, and then you have 3d digital animals that are in that environment, and that‘s how

you would do the final render of it, whether it was a marvel movie or whether it was a film like this. but since we already have those assets we could bring that into this consumer facing vr system, using in this case the unity game engine, and because we now have this environment and vr, we can have people enter into the digital set and be able walk around and look at it as though we were on a scout, and it allowed me to hire someone like caleb deschanel, who is a great cinematographer, who i‘ve known for a long time and wanted to work with, but had no background in visual effects — and we made it user—friendly, so he could walk around with us, with the production designer, the visual effects supervisor and the director, look at the set, say, ok, we should put the camera here, let‘s see the lion rehearse the scene, and the ad would hit the button and run the animation cycle, we would watch like you would in a regular set, you think about where he wants the light, we could move the sun if we had to, move some trees around, so we had a full live—action film

crew in vr, operating camera equipment as though it were a live—action set. but we always tried to limit ourselves in what you could achieve in real life, and that is what gave it the aesthetic that people are reacting so well too. all right, let me see what we are dealing with here. it's a lion! phase one is this whole virtual shoot, where we do rough animation, we build rough versions of the sets, they look like rough video games, and you put it together, and you shoot every shot, and now you have a complete edit of the whole movie with dialogue and temporary music, and you really have every shot. it is notjust a study, these are choices that jon and caleb and the other filmmakers were putting into place. every one of those shots is like a 3d file, a data file, that comes here to mpc london and we have a layout department that works out all the space and all, and imports all those cameras and lines it up and makes sure the scene is going to work. animation department jumps right on the characters and starts

creating the super delicate, fine performances. the environments and sets department creates the entire african savannah, painstakingly making literally thousands of plants and trees and rocks. life‘s not fair. is it, my little friend? and the lighting department and the simulation departments which add the movement of the water and the movement of the fur, they all come in and complete the realism, so the world, the character in the world, the way the light works off those materials, the way every blade of grass is moving, everything has to be just right. we're here! everyone, calm down, we are here. the backup has arrived! at its core, cinema comes from the tradition of illusion, and melies, and using all of these tools to make the audience believe they are seeing something that they are not. and that is part of the delight, i think, of something

that is effects driven, especially if there is a wonderful story behind it to carry it. you must take your place... in the circle of life. lion roars. that was fascinating, wasn‘t it. if you liked that, then you might like to watch the full 20 minute chat with jon favreau, which is on our youtube channel. there he goes into everything from iron man and star wars to digital doubles and deepfakes. well worth a look, youtube.com/bbcclick is the address. don‘t forget we also live on facebook, instagram and twitter, at @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we will see you soon.

it has felt a little more like autumn than august today with the strong and gusty wind across england and wales. they will be with us for and wales. they will be with us for a few hours yet. gail is over the hills and around the coasts. heavy downpours have been rattling through quite quickly in the south, slow—moving further north so we have had reports of flooding, surface water flooding. rain had reports of flooding, surface waterflooding. rain continues, particularly for northern ireland, parts of northern england but also increasingly for scotland. that amount of rainfall, 60—80 millimetres, could well lead to further flooding as it continues, hence there is a met office warning for that. the wind at least is starting to ease through the night and should be lighter tomorrow. greater chance of heavy downpours across england and wales tomorrow, but this draws the attention to wet weather forecast for parts of scotla nd weather forecast for parts of scotland and northern england. that isa scotland and northern england. that is a cause for concern. the warning 00:29:01,006 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 details are on the website.