i think mind by the bbc executives? i think it is aptly fantastic. they have a lwa ys it is aptly fantastic. they have always pitched it as a family show. they said that was why they would not include same—sex couples. it was very disheartening at the time but families are now made up differently than they were and i think it is fa ntastically than they were and i think it is fantastically open that they are welcoming more inclusivity on the show. what is your experience of same sex dancing? the first time i saw it, i found same sex dancing? the first time i saw it, ifound it same sex dancing? the first time i saw it, i found it strange same sex dancing? the first time i saw it, ifound it strange because growing up, i had never seen it, generally it is between a man and a woman or two generally it is between a man and a woman oi’ two women generally it is between a man and a woman or two women darted together because they are never enough boys to go around, there are thousands and thousands of girls dancing together —— with each other. and we think of same—sex partnerships as two men but it can be two women is now “— two men but it can be two women is now —— as well. two men but it can be two women is now -- as well. how does strictly compare with other versions around the world. in australia, they've had an incredible drag act dancing with

joshua keith and it was so well received by the australian public, they were the nation's sweethearts at the time and they went all the way to the finals. it was done so perfectly. corney didn't always dance as a drag queen, sometimes it was a male as well. does a drag act equate to a same—sex dance?” was a male as well. does a drag act equate to a same-sex dance? i think it is that god that courtney was actually a man. so it was nice to see what i did with a tango. i think because it was so well received, i think it would be fantastic to do that here. of course, you don't need to be gay to dance with somebody the same sex either. all you need is ballroom dancing is about to people living together in perfect unison across the floor. as long as you have a leader and a follower, it shouldn't matter who is so. how do you think it will go down with viewers? what do you think the bbc we re viewers? what do you think the bbc were afraid of? us brits are very traditional when it comes to

ballroom dancing but like anything in the world it is evolving and it is moving on and people need to be able to see it to embrace it. i think it is one of those things of that people are scared to see or think that is not quite right but until you see something, if you go back a few years and you look at brookside and the lesbian kiss they had on their caused an absolute uproar but now it is the norm. we are looking at some shots here on the screen. it is a fun, isn't it? it is all about fun. it is, it is about two people dancing together. it's about two people just learning a new skill together. especially the celebrities. they have the time of their lives on there, and it is great for people's mental health. socialising, you name it. very quickly, other classes or schools where same sex dancing doesn't take place? once a month, i go to the river lee ballroom in london. the

first time i went it was credible to say it was incredible to say. i think everybody should embrace it. it has like now it's time for a look at the weather — with nick. most of us have seen some rain so far today as a weather system moves east across the uk. behind out, the sun is returning for the rest of the weekend but it is cooler. a bit of cloud and patchy rain pulls away from east anglia and the south—east of england as we go through the evening, the heavy rain in of his 9°”9 evening, the heavy rain in of his gong and easing two showers are quite a lot of clear weather is tonight. temperatures dipping away quite widely to single figures as we start the day tomorrow and september. showers tomorrow early in western scotland but fine and sunny weather across other parts of the

uk. the showers we move south and east during the day, some may be heavy and possibly thundery. much of south wales and southern england will avoid the wet weather and stay dry. around any showers, it is a cooler wind direction. while some may creep above 20 celsius, most of us may creep above 20 celsius, most of us went. this hello this is bbc news thousands of protestors have taken to the streets across the uk — to condemn borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament. critics accuse the prime minister of trying to by—pass democracy. the chancellor, sajid javid, insists his relationship with borisjohnson is "fantastic", despite downing st abruptly firing one of his special advisers, sonia khan there's been renewed violence in hong kong — with pro—democracy protesters defying a ban on rallying. some activists threw petrol bombs,

started fires and attacked the legislative council building and police fired tear gas and water cannon. a trial date is set for khalid sheikh mohammad — who is accused of playing a leading role in plotting the september iith attack. now on bbc news: as click passed 1000 episodes, they celebrated by creating the bbc‘s first ever interactive tv show, harnessing the power of a new technology called object based media. this week, it's our birthday. another chance to watch or at 1000 episode, when we made the bbc was my first interactive, multi—choice tv shows.

there were flowcharts, elephants, flowcharts, data, flowcharts, and wizards. theme music. a warm welcome to click. welcome to click. welcome to click, i'm 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 1, episode 1,000. and to celebrate, we are making a world first. doing new things is in our dna.

i'm floating on air! which 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's the team. it's 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 1,000, we've really gone for it!

do i explore the cave, or do i look behind the tree? i'll explore the cave. so, turn to page 8a. 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 that. it tells one story, it makes 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 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 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 maybe to look at things from a different perspective, or maybe to skip one entirely. the technology used to make this

possible is known as object based media, or obm, and it could be the future of how we watch video content. broadcasters have been developing the tech for years now. bbc r&d has explored the concept with various online tutorials. the step by step nature of obm is particularly useful there. netflix has had a dabble with its puss in boots, and more recently, with charlie brooker‘s interactive, bandersnatch. and now, premiering the bbc‘s first ever obm 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. doing obm is really different because you have to think of the story in different ways, because people might have seen other bits of the story, they might have chosen different path through the story. i have been told to create 700 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 obm strategy for the last few years. a couple of years ago we decided we wanted to try and transfer this 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 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 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 paths through the content. also tons 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, 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. 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, or reroute you to a part where the story can flow from there. to get advice on how to create our multiple—choice click, i went to create one of the creators of the fighting fantasy books i grew up with, ian livingstone. it 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 adventure. it's giving you a choice like do you want to turn left 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 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 fanboys. do you want to make decisions about the tv programmes you watch, or would you rather sit back and relax? if you want to talk to your friends about what you have seen, if they have seen a different version of the show, there is no common ground. then there is another thing. through interactive experiences, it is possible to keep tabs on your‘s habits. and you may be giving out more information about yourself when you think. extrovert or introvert,

open to new experiences or new experiences. the choices you made actually gave us an idea of your personality, it's certainly not scientific, but when you try it out, see if we were right. researchers have worked out that even simple data leaks have worked out that even simple data lea ks and have worked out that even simple data leaks and give indications about your personality. with just 75 facebook likes being as illuminating as we are asking a work colleague about you. with 300 lights, they can be as accurate as asking your partner. you can infer some very private stuff that you might not think is too meaningful. so people's personality, political views, religious views, sexuality, really private stuff. just because you like camping and a few other things. private stuff. just because you like camping and a few other thingsm course we all recognise when facebook, google or instagram do

this, showing adverts to lie to our put online behaviour. which can be good if you are looking for a specific item, but can also be a bit unnerving. the often say online advertising is a bit creepy. so you're talking about a something to a friend, then you see an advert for it later. it may be that you are talking to a friend, then someone may search for something, then suddenly you are seeing something that they are interested in. therefore, you have similar interests. if all the scripts you area interests. if all the scripts you are a little bit, we had a look at some of the tools online that may help you obstacle your data too. first, you may want to get rid of the cookies in your personal browser. the store your personal information, e—mailaddress browser. the store your personal information, e—mail address and a shopping basket. clear the cookies from your web browser using the appropriate menu, in crown it is in history settings. cookies are not

the end of the problem, other types of trackers can still follow you around. some ad blockers and and how tracking tools can show you who is watching. privacy badger is free to add to your browser, it shows you which domains are following your online movement and lets you choose to allow or block the wind you want. other services will help you stay on top of trackers, for a price. have a look at who tracks me, it shows some popular entertainment and new sites are crawling with unseen trackers. it is like more than 6% of those, you use chrome, it will not be easy to stop google keeping tabs on you.

however, an alternative like mozilla's firefox is privacy—focussed. when you install firefox, you see the privacy settings it offers straightaway. firefox is also the only major open—source browser, which means anyone can check its code, making it more trustworthy. finally, there are some more whimsical ways you can try and obscure your data. the go rando plug—in lets you confuse facebook‘s snoopers, randomising your emoji reactions, preventing their ability to build a personality data profile. be warned — this might get you in trouble if you end up laughing at something awkward. another tool designed by ben grosser is the demetricator. demetricator hides the ‘like' counters on twitter and facebook so you aren't giving out data or being influenced by what others are liking. instagram made its own version of this too. that wasjen. so, how might algorithms change what you watch in the future on tv based on your personal data? well, to simulate this,

we've taken dan simmons' report on tech in malawi and tailored it for a viewer who we know we know is interested in inventions and the environment, but who likes watching shorter reports. this could be the result. with an 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, lilongwe and the commercial centre here in blantyre are expanding — as are their horizons. 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, malawi's cities look and feel like many others,

there's plenty of shops and services, new buildings are going up, but importantly, there's 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 outstrips supply. and it gets hot here as well. in summer, even now at a cooler time of year, it gets up to the mid 20s. i'm on my way to meet a very cool inventor who specialises in sustainable tech. hey, adis, thanks for having us over! hi. nice workshop. adis 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 mashup of ideas. this skeleton car on the road

next month i'm told, powered in part by steam. this tin can electric car uses phone id for security. and that's just one sim card that that works with. even adis' pottery wheel helps power things up. so has anyone before called you a mad professor? with all of this stuff? well, yes, i've gotten quite used to that. in the heat of the day, i've come to see a prototype adis is particularly proud of. this is the zero—electric climate control system, the main thing here is what i call the cooling element. 0k. well, it takes water and presents it to the environment, right? the heat and the environment help it evaporate, that process cools 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 heat more efficiently. to close that. what sort of results have you found with this prototype? a neighbour has one he is using the whole building stop on one side of the building he had 28 celsius and on the other side of the building where one of these climate control systems installed, he had 25 degrees. right!

time to test our water climate cooler. so, did the invention work? that's the question. well, you can find out by watching the click obm show online. of course, there are many more adventures waiting there for you, too. 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 is another way too, of course, that's to crack open the archive, look at the silly old tech 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 dotcom bubble. and, in a spectacular piece of timing, click online went on air

just as it burst. as online dog walkers and winetasting services tumbled around our ears, the programme went looking for the next big thing. robot: i told you i could do it. we didn't always find it. uh—oh, i forgot to change the batteries! but every so often, we backed the winner. gmail is a free e—mail service. twitter.com is as simple as it gets. it's called bluetooth. 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—a me, mario! and i mean all sorts. la—la—la—la—la, hey! we pushed tech to its limits. 0h! sometimes we pushed it too far.

we're going to build artificial intelligence. and sometimes, it pushed back. they came here on a sort of gold rush, promised riches from waste that's slowly poisoning them. right now, over 20,000 compromised personal computers are under our control. it's been an intense experience, but the thing it has really left me with is, " want to hold onto my data." over the past 19 years, we have built it. we've have built it. we've flown it. we've ridden it. we've broken it... we've worn it, even the electric shorts. wow! and we've played it. boy, we've played it. we've gone live.

we've seen the very highest tech. this is a bit spiritual, really. and the lowest. over 1,000 shows, it's been an enormous privilege for all of us to bring all of you the tech that's changed the world... mmm! refreshing. ..or not. come on, percy. upbeat sax music.

yeah, it certainly feels like we've seen it all, but, i have a suspicion that there is much, much more to come. sucks and next week, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, on behalf of everyone who's worked on this programme over the years, and there have been many, thank you. thank you for watching, thank you for taking part, and we'll see you soon. theme music. most of us have seen some 95 today asa most of us have seen some 95 today as a weather system is east across

the uk, behind out, we are getting the uk, behind out, we are getting the sun returning for the rest of the sun returning for the rest of the weekend but it is cooler. the last of that with the system has cloud, a bit of patchy rain pulls away from east anglia and the south—east of england as we go through the evening. the heavy rain ina through the evening. the heavy rain in a loving scotland easing to showers, quite a lot of clear weather around tonight. temperatures dipping oil quite widely to single figures as we sat the day tomorrow. showers tomorrow early in northern and western scotland, but fine and sunny weather across many other parts of the uk. the showers will move south and east during the day, some may be heavy and thundery, but as much of south wales and southern england will avoid the showers and stay dry. there will be a fair amount of sunshine around, around any showers, there is a cooler wind direction. while some mayjust creep above 20 celsius, most of us will not.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 4.00 — thousands take to the streets across the uk to condemn borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament. demonstrators say he's by—passing democracy. i never thought at my age, 61 years of age, i would have to be here in whitehall protesting against the shutdown of parliament. there's been renewed violence in hong kong, with pro—democracy protesters defying a ban on rallying. more than 50 migrants have been detained as they tried to cross the english channel to reach kent. several boats have been intercepted. the charity samaritans is being criticised for entering into a year—long partnership with a gambling company.