several thousand properties have been left without power as strong winds sweep across the south and south west of the country. gusts have also blown over trees and there's been travel disruption. the environment agency has issued 22 flood warnings while police are urging people not to make unnecessary journeys. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. some very wet and windy weather in this forecast and we have already seen gusts in excess of 80 mph in when england this morning. a number of met met office warnings in place. widely inland gusts of 50 to 60 miles per through this morning into this afternoon. for a time this morning, we could see those gas touching 80 mph in england and gci’oss touching 80 mph in england and across shared best hampshire and isle of wight. the system working

its way eastwards, heavy rain for the far north of scotland, but per southern skull, northern england and parts of northern ireland, drier, brighter and sunny spells. temperatures not above what we saw first thing this morning, highs of ten to 13 celsius. areas of rain spiralling around the area. becoming more charity. clear skies in between and the winds are slowly starting to ease. “— and the winds are slowly starting to ease. —— becoming more charity. less windy tomorrow but still summer showers around. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... south africa have won the rugby world cup final after convincingly beating england 32—12 at yokohama injapan. jubilation in capetown as the sprinkboks win the trophy for the third time, the first with a black captain. so near, yet so far for england fans who take comfort in team coach eddiejones‘ achievements.

the government halts fracking for gas in england until there is evidence the controversial process is safe. president trump ridicules former democratic presidential hopeful, beto o'rourke, saying his rival "quit like a dog". now on bbc news, click. taiwan. an island shaped like a leaf but the meeting point of four seas. many around the world came to know it from the words made in taiwan stamped on electronics, toys and bikes. it became a brand people recognised. but the world has changed again.

hardware is out, software is in. ai is the future, handsets of the past. handsets are the past. stephen and i have been to find out what ‘made in taiwan‘ means in the 21st century. welcome to taiwan. 500 years back, taiwan was known as a pirate kingdom, a base for chinese and japanese entrepreneurs who traded in the south china sea. but more recently, it's chased legitimate business but still,

legitimate business but still with an entrepreneurial zeal, leading the world of technology manufacturing since the 1960s. over 30 years, taiwan underwent massive industrialisation in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. huge tech firms grew, becoming household names. asus, htc, acer. at the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of... ..tsmc. it is the one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing chips in some of the best phones, including the iphone11. it is most likely if you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc. and these chips were only made possible thanks to the discovery of semiconductors.

why semiconductors are important or interesting? because it changes your life. with factories, or fabs as they are known across the globe, the largest is here in taiwan. and we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of our electronic devices are created. but before we can go into the fab, there was quite a process to undergo. i have to take my shoes off on the carpet. then put them in a locker, it seems. and that was just the start. i had to put on a hairnet, wash my hands and wear this to keep the dust out. phew, but it is time for an hour shower. —— few, but it is time for an air shower. i feel like i —— few, but it is time for an air shower. ifeel like i am in a tumble

dryer! the manufacture of wafers has to be extremely precise. they cannot tolerate any particles because they fall onto the wafer then damage the chips. so finally, we were allowed in the factory and there was a good reason for all that faff. the speed of these chips relies on how many transistors you can cram into a tiny space. and when i say tiny, i mean tiny, i am talking nanometres. i don't really know how to describe how fine that 5—nanometre or 7—nanometre is but people often say if you look at 28 nanometres, it was like 1,000 of the diameter of a human hair. in this fully automated factory, the lights are kept yellow to protect the product and the machinery is moving all around but there are quite a few things in here we are not allowed

to film because this is seriously cutting—edge technology so it needs to remain pretty secret. we have to protect our customers‘ information. whichever way we can. so basically, we do not allow cameras to freely roam inside our fabs because, inevitably, they may pick up customer information. between all the automated devices in this facility, they travel 400,000km a day. to put that into context, that is ten times around earth. all of this is about the concept of keeping up with moore's law, as predicted by intel engineer gordon moore in the ‘60s. it refers to the doubling of transistors on a chip every two years whilst the cost is halved. a concept increasingly hard to keep up with, despite us expecting a lot more

from our ever connected lives. the next driver is what we call ubiquitous computing. it is computation everywhere at any time. all the devices are connected. billions and billions of devices that are smart, that can compute at any time and communicate and link and that will be the future enabled by semiconductors. it's a future that's not too far away for taiwan. ai is making substantial progress here, especially in health care. i am here at taipei veterans general hospital where they are already experiencing the benefits of of ai. experiencing the benefits of ai. whilst many ai systems are hidden behind closed

doors, in this hospital, we were given behind—the—scenes access. we have a patient actually inside the tunnel and he is scanned for his brain, to see any brain metastasises coming from the lung cancer. many of the patients who come here already have who come here already have preliminary diagnosis of cancer so they come here with anxiety so our purpose is to administer and guide anxiety, to treat anxiety and shorten the process. in the real world, i have to read the images one by one. it's pretty heavy physical loading work but with al systems, i can ask al to help me read the images. but what could take a doctor a couple of weeks can be done by the ai in seconds. you can see how quick the images

are uploaded for the system. and from the ai, you can see the lesion already there. and another one here. that time can make all the difference. beyond diagnosis, the ai is also assisting the surgeons with surgery decisions. already the patient has been stage four lung cancer. so he shouldn't be operated. why, though, has taiwan and this hospital managed to lead the world in al? people in taiwan, we're proud of two things. one is computer science. the other one is medicine. all of our medical affairs was computerised for more than 20 years. is the fact that you've been collecting data

over a number of years what puts you in a really good position to be able to put into practice a lot of this ai? oh, yeah, because we can train the machine. they can learn to write, make the diagnosis. so the imaging is the same you would have used before but it's at the point of diagnosis and the computer can now diagnose that instead of a doctor. oh, yes, yes. it's kind of a deep learning. everyone in taiwan has a health care card which is used to access medical records. basically, once you have a card, you can use it everywhere because i think 99% of people actually use our health care insurance system as a means to see doctors so that makes all the data central in one place and you can imagine that if there is a database that has all the medical records, no fragmentation, that is the first step of ai. but the data can only be read if the doctor also

inserts their card into this device. it is also like a key. and authorisation by the patient. otherwise i cannot access her information without her improvement. you can see this information. i can put my card here. you can see the ct, see that information. we also upload the image within 2a hours after starting. that's very convenient. so if she visit the other hospitals or the primary care physician office, the doctors there can also access the same information like me. but it's notjust big hospitals using ai and health care. i travelled across town to a small start—up. i travelled across town to a small start—up at the cutting edge of medical science. this brain tracking system is used to assess stress in the rain. and the likelihood of someone being susceptible to depression. over the last decade, many, many neuroimaging studies have

proved that the brain activity of patient with depression have some abnormal condition. but this evidence is found by mri, not eeg, for mild depression, but this evidence is found by mri, not eeg. for mild depression, mri cannot find anything, but we can find the mild depression from eeg signal. that is, the brain wave signal. the cap is cheaper and, unlike and mri, portable. it allows doctors to diagnose depression in a more scientific way. and we use the ai analysis method to analyse the patterns of the data from the patients with depression and finally, we found some biomarkers and we can detect whether the person has depression or not with about 80% accuracy. the company hopes to launch the product next year and is also looking at how it might be used

to identify alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder and susceptibility to insomnia. welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that a device dispatched by samsung to send selfies to space came back to earth with a thud, crash—landing in a back garden in michigan, usa. thankfully nobody was injured. on a slightly safer note, the korean tech giant has teased a flip phone. teased a flip phone — how very early noughties of them, with a foldable screen. let's hope this one's more successful than its last attempt at a folding phone. twitter has banned all political advertising worldwide on its platform, saying the reach of such messages should be earned, not bought. the move puts pressure on rival social media outfit facebook, which recently ruled out banning political ads. in other facebook news, the social network has agreed to pay

a £500,000 fine issued by the uk data protection watchdog over the cambridge analytica scandal, ending a year's worth of legal wrangling over the issue. as part of the agreement, facebook has made no admission of liability. facebook subsidiary whatsapp is suing the nso group, an israeli surveillance company, alleging it created various whatsapp accounts and caused malicious code to be sent by its servers to over 1,400 mobile devices for the purpose of spying. the nso group said it disputed the allegations and would vigorously fight them. and finally, an american company has developed a pair of smart glasses designed to improve concentration and prevent distraction. narbis claims sensors in the smart specs measure the wearer's brain activity. if they decide the wearer isn't paying attention, the glasses darken, preventing them from seeing the distraction. the glasses will cost $690 when they launch in december.

back in taiwan, one of the biggest causes of health care problems is pollution. and there's a lot of it — as stephen can smell and see. this is taipei's famous or perhaps infamous scooter waterfall. it's one of the main routes into central taipei for thousands of commuters every day. it is mind—boggling how many mopeds there are here. thousands of them and they just keep on coming. and, you know what, you just get a sense ofjust how much pollution that these guys are probably causing, because it stinks, it's horrible, and, i think when you're walking around the city you don't notice, but here you really get a sense of it. it's really quite disgusting. it's not often that you can see, smell, and even feel the pollution in a place. this is an extreme example of a problem that's a growing issue not only in taiwan,

but around the world. imagine sitting at a stop light behind a gas scooter that is puffing, you know, puffing just toxic gas into your face just every day. this is what people have to go through every day because they didn't have any other option. air pollutants will affect your health, especially for the respiratory system. pollution and congestion is becoming a very big problem for us as everybody is moving into cities and living on top of each other. so i've come to taipei's institute of information science to find out how they're tackling air pollution here in taiwan. dr chen is one of the founding researchers behind airbox. the idea is pretty simple, help people better understand and tackle the pollution around them by teaching them to make their own diy, low—cost air sensors. since launching in 2015, they've built a network of thousands of community—run air—quality

sensors across the island. initially, when people started to use the local sensors to sense their environment, they found a lot of interesting findings, which are never reported by the governments. so, initially, the government doesn't like the results. but, finally, theyjust realised, well, this is the real environment people are living in. today there are over 4,000 of their pollution sensors around taiwan, including one in every primary and secondary school. some schools may change the schedule, so if the air pollution is more severe then they will cancel the outdoor activities. research like this has revealed that there are a few major sources of pollution in taiwan. the usual suspects like industry, power generation, and transport, but also a few surprises, things like pollution blown across from mainland china and some sources you might not expect at all. in changhua, also in central taiwan,

there are some new devices that always show you a purple colour. that is very bad. and the reason, so someone reported the reason is the temples. 0h, they went out to investigate and they found the source. yes. so what was going on in the temples? well, by going out and taking a look, the community discovered the culprit — traditional incense burning. you know, in taipei, the two major temples, the longshan temple and the qingshan, there is no incense burning any more. 0k. yeah, because they also install airbox. and then after observation they decided to cancel. so it makes a real difference knowing about the impact. yes, right. solving a problem like pollution almost certainly means changing the way we do things as humans. remember this place? well, this is the same spot a few weeks later.

believe it or not, a big chunk of those bikes are producing —— are not producing any pollution at all. this is a publicity stunt for gogoro, a taiwanese start—up that is pioneering the uptake of electric scooters in taiwan. taiwan has the highest density of scooter per capita anywhere in the world. as everyone‘s moving into cities and living on top of each other and the need for adopting electric transportation as a cleaner mode of transportation. but here comes the problem — chicken and egg, right. without the proper infrastructure nobody would ever adopt a mobility solution that is electric because charging in these big cities is next to impossible. and this is gogoro's solution to that problem. riders own special electric bikes, but not the batteries inside them. instead, when they're running low on power they just visit a station like this to swap out the flat battery and pick up a fully charged one. a subscription of around $10—$30 per month gives you access to any of the 1,400 substations around taiwan.

the more you pay, the further you can go. so eric here has very kindly agreed to give me a ride around the block on one of their scooters. and you know what, it does feel a little bit different. the sound is slightly different, there's kind of a higher pitched whine, rather than the chug of a motor. and otherwise, though, it feels like a normal moped. i visited gogoro's head officejust as they were getting ready to launch their latest top—secret scooter. this is our new baby. right. with a lighter weight, colourful desires, and a grab bag —— with a lighter weight and colourful designs and a grab bag of accessories of accessories, gogoro is trying to expand the reach of scooters nontraditional riders. but with a price tag of around $2,000 and just one battery instead of two, it may not be for everyone. the fact that the range of smaller,

do you think that matters? we see people riding about 15—20 kilometres a day on average in taiwan. this vehicle can provide about 70—80 kilometres. so you are talking about three or four days between swaps. we think that's plenty. gogoro estimate that their customers have saved 80,000 tonnes of c02 between them — that's roughly 25,000 across the world flights. there's no one magic solution to society—wide problems like pollution, but it's encouraging to see how taiwan is leading the way and finding some new ideas. taiwan doesn't look like a place with a population crisis, but for many, too much hard slog has meant too little time for family. some hope for a traditional solution. in taiwan, the children are getting less and less, so we worry about that. so if we want to be a family, you want to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend and get married.

laughter. this is city god temple, where we've got a famous guy, a matchmaking guy for love. so that's why so many young people come here and pray for a good marriage, happiness. every year we got 6,000 couples — the success. others have turned to tech. the hugely successful singaporean dating app, paktor, has been going strong here. in taiwan, people have no time for their personal life, especially in the tech company. during work they are not even to bring their phone in their company either. so it's really hard for them to have a normal social life. as i met some of those leading the way in taiwan's start—up scene, it became apparent that, especially in the hardware business, historically, expectations on staff have been high.

any call you receive, you probably need to answer the call and go back. most of the time you're working six days or six and the half day and the others you still need to be on call. so it's more like 24 hours. but times are changing. the work—life balance is very, very important for this young generation. and international influence is often at loggerheads with maintaining taiwanese tradition. taiwanese people are humble at heart. it's built into our confucius belief system. when you manage a us engineering team, what happens is usually yourjob as manager is to try to get everyone to argue and agree on something. in taiwan, the issue is trying to get people to argue in the first place, just because they don't want to offend people. they think that their boss should be smarter, more intelligent than they are. but that's just not the case.

there have been many positive steps forward though. the education rate is rising, especially for females. so females are more getting to theirjob, rather than family. we're starting to see this very interesting cultural shift where entrepreneurship, starting your own business, is actually a viable pathway to actually sustain a family here. but even for those who have made it, innovation still comes with its challenges. the shared economy, when it first evolved in the bay area, you know, with airbnb and other types of businesses, it was more of a disruption statement, you disrupt the kind of existing economy or existing infrastructure. it's much more difficult to do that in taiwan, because it's very frowned upon.

because there's not a law for it. you don't try to disrupt the industry first. that's it from click in taiwan. it seems that exciting times could lie ahead, plus hopefully a solution to this pollution problem. throughout the week, you can keep up with the whole of the click team, wherever they are in the world, on instagram, facebook, twitter, on @bbcclick. thanks for watching. hello, we've got a deep area of low pressure bringing some very wet

and in places very windy weather across parts of the uk. today, we've got a number of warnings in place from the met office for the strength of the wind and also some heavy rain — likely to see some disruption and potentially some damage as well. it's all down to this deep area of low pressure, slowly sliding its way eastwards today. the strongest winds on its northern and southern flank and its southern parts of england and south wales that we're most concerned about through this morning. for the strength of the wind gusts for a time of 70 to 80 miles now across southwest england, also along the coast towards hampshire and the isle of wight, 50 to 60 miles an hour, quite widely inland. and we could see some gusts around 50 miles an hour across southern parts of lincolnshire. for a time today as well. also, some heavy rain across wales and southwest england that will slowly slide its way eastwards through the afternoon to the north of this, drier, brighter conditions across northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland. but to the far north of scotland, again, some wet weather, potentially as much as 80 millimeters of rain

across some of the higher ground of northern scotland and gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour. though shetland probably escaping with a mainly dry day. temperatures not much higher than what we saw first thing this morning. so ten to 13 celsius, the afternoon high. now, through this evening and overnight, the winds do slowly start to lose their strength. we'll keep some outbreaks of rain spiraling around this area of low pressure, tending to become more showery. and in between, there'll be some drier, clearer interludes where we see the clearer skies, temperature perhaps falling to four or five celsius. where we have got the cloud and the showers holding up to between six to eight celsius. and we still got low pressure with us tomorrow. it's not as intense. so the winds will be somewhat lighter, will have lost. the gusting is still quite windy across parts of southwest england for a time through the morning. some showers here and showers also developing across parts of northern ireland, eastern scotland and northern england, but looking like a drier day across the midlands, central, southern and eastern england. some bright or sunny spells and the winds won't be nearly as strong. so in the afternoon sunshine,

13 or 14 celsius where we've got the showers, more like ten to 12 celsius. now, low pressure is still with us in the week ahead. so it's going to stay unsettled, particularly on monday as that rain clears on tuesday we will see things turning a bit colder again by.

good afternoon. south africa have ended england's dream of lifting the rugby world cup — with an overwhelming victory at the final injapan. the springboks delivered a brilliant and relentless attacking game — winning by 32—12. for england, there's bitter disappointment. for south africans, it's a triumphant moment — for a sport that's come to represent huge change in their nation.