this is bbc news. the headlines at apm: the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says he won't be a candidate in next month's general election. do i find a seat, try and get myself into parliament, or do i serve the cause better traversing the length and the breadth of the united kingdom, supporting 600 candidates? i've decided that the latter is the right one. ministers confirm that the benefits freeze introduced by the conservatives three years ago will end next april. income tax will rise for the top 5 per cent of earners and corporation tax will increase, under a labour government, according to shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell. the vietnamese community comes together for a vigil for the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. delhi's toxic smog forces airports to cancel flights,

the city's chief minister says the air has become unbearable. lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth position on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers‘ championship. and click checks out what "made in taiwan" means now in the 21st century. that's in half an hour, here on bbc news. good afternoon. the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he won't be a candidate at next month's general election. mr farage, who has tried to become an mp seven times, says he'll focus instead on touring the country to support his pa rty‘s candidates.

the announcement comes after he offered an electoral alliance with the conservative party, an offer which was quickly rejected by the prime minister borisjohnson. here's our political correspondentjessica parker. walking into this election, nigel farage says that borisjohnson‘s deal is a gigantic con and that the brexit party is ready to field hundreds of candidates but he won't be one of them. do you think is a party there is anything you can offer nigel farage at this stage? i would say that nigel has spent his entire career

fighting for this and i think he has i'iow fighting for this and i think he has now negotiated a very good brexit. fighting for this and i think he has now negotiated a very good brexitli can paint fully. away from brexit, borisjohnson is trying not to be on the back foot when it comes to spending pledges. today, serving up an end to the freeze on a working age benefits from next year, is scheduled to happen anyway, labour says it is a cynical election ploy. they have suspending plans to. a £60 billion programme with interest free loa ns. billion programme with interest free loans. there will be fitted to ensure they are fully inflated and that will be part of our contribution towards a zero carbon emissions will stop it will happen very quickly. it is early days in this campaign, all the parties are trying out their opening pictures. this campaign, all the parties are trying out their opening picturesi ama trying out their opening picturesi am a candidate to be prime minister in this election, and frankly, when you look at the way that boris

johnson and jeremy corbyn are carrying on. i think i could do a betterjob than either of them. we will be fighting hard for every vote and every constituency, putting forward a very strong prospectus of the future of scotland. parliament hasn't even been dissolved yet to come of that happens this week. then, those after your vote will be out across the uk, hoping for a chance to work out where the country goes next. jessica is here with me. in one sense a surprising announcement but also understandable given what has happened before and in the way that he is the best asset for the brexit party and so is visible across the country. that is certainly his argument and nigel farage knows that if he was to go for any particular seat, the

conservative party would throw a lot of resource out that seat in a bid to defeat him. he has stood for parliament around seven times and hasn't yet been successful. i think there will be a charge from some of his political opponents today that they think he is running scared and can't win the seat. he argues that he is trying to spread himself across the country and support 600 odd candidates across england, scotla nd odd candidates across england, scotland and wales. he is certainly suggesting that he is not short on ambition. the application of that is that he is not expecting a reversal of the position by the prime minister and he is exciting to be fielding candidates are pretty much everywhere in the uk. no sign, as of yet, that the conservative party or the prime minister are remotely tempted to go into this electoral pa ct tempted to go into this electoral pact that nigel farage has offered. the leader of the brexit party has suggested that borisjohnson ditches a brexit deal and they can reach

some kind of agreement to get brexit done the way it nigel farage would like to see it done. borisjohnson is really going on the hard sell for his brexit deal, saying it is ready and he can get it through parliament ina number of and he can get it through parliament in a number of weeks, if he wins a majority. he is going to have nigel farage campaigning throughout the election arguing that in his view, the brexit deal doesn't amount to brexit at all. a mass has been taking place in a catholic vietnamese church in london to remember the 39 people who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in essex ten days ago. police have not confirmed the individual identities of the victims, but believe they were all from vietnam. 0ur correspondent chi chi izundu was at the service and sent this update. well, it has been an understandably emotional service for the vietnamese community here in britain that have congregated in the church just behind me. it started with a projection of the container containing those 39 bodies from that industrial park in grays being removed

followed by a minutes silence. the mass is being led by bishop nicholas hudson who said that he wanted to offer prayers to some members of the congregation who could possibly be relatives of the dead and the victims. he also offered prayers for the emergency services that had to deal with that incident but he interestingly also offered prayers for the traffickers and said that he hoped, as a result of this tragedy, would have a change of heart. dozens of flights to the indian capital, delhi, have been diverted, because of poor visibility caused by toxic smog. schools are closed and a public health emergency is in place, in a city that's home to 20 million people. pratiksha ghildial has sent this report. for a fifth day now, people in delhi are breathing the season's worst and most toxic air. pollution returns to delhi every winter but many are saying this is the worst they have ever seen.

in many parts of the city, the pollution levels were more than 20 times their safe limit. these people have gathered outside the prime minister's house to demand a basic right, clean air. they believe there isn't enough political will to find a solution to the crisis. you can obviously see how terrible it is and it's actually scary you can't see things in front of you. patients are coming with more lung respiratory diseases like more affected with asthma. one of the main reasons for the pollution every year is the burning of the crop stubble by farmers in delhi's neighbouring states. they say they don't have any other way to dispose of the crop residue. german chancellor angela merkel, who was in the capital for a visit, chose not to wear amask. the visiting bangladeshi cricket team continued practising, despite the severe air quality.

the worst sufferers are people who work on the streets like traffic policeman, tuk—tuk drivers and the homeless. the government says they are doing what they can and has banned construction activities, is limiting the number of cars on the road and has asked for schools to remain shut for a few days. but a long—term solution does not seem to be in the site and latest studies show that lung cancer and premature deaths are rising in the city. let's return to the story about the freeze on benefits which is going to come to an end next april. therese coffey is the secretary of state for work and pensions. let me ask you, there has been a lot

of attention on this and presumably this has been part of a longer process , this has been part of a longer process, not just this has been part of a longer process, notjust attached to the election? each year the secretary of state has to make a decision about whether or not to increase the benefits or by how much. the last four years, the law has said we can't increase benefits so i have undertaken a fair amount of analysis andi undertaken a fair amount of analysis and i had to make that decision by the end of november. i thought it was better to announce that before parliament raised to make sure that, there are about 10 million people of working age, he will see this no longerfrozen. working age, he will see this no longer frozen. didn't philip hammond tell us it was going to happen?m was not for him to make that decision. it is actually down to me entirely and that is why i do look carefully at the strength of the economy, recognising the different factors that we need to take into

account and i thought it was a sensible decision to get off benefits freeze and we will have to keep making a decision a year on year. although you are saying it is coming to an end in the next financial year, that is no commitment to long—term? it could be introduced? we have to make a judgment but the good news is that the economy has been getting stronger and stronger and for the first time we have seen significant increase in average earnings and thatis increase in average earnings and that is why pensioners will be seeing a 3.9% increase next april, sharing in that growth in wages and the general strength of the economy. thejoseph the general strength of the economy. the joseph rowntree the general strength of the economy. thejoseph rowntree foundation observed that that means... is it a fair distribution with pensions? after being ignored for many

years... when they got into power with the coalition government we introduced something which means that the pension would go up by the minimum inflation or average earnings and it so happens that it is 3.9% and that is because we have seen a good strong growth in the economy where we are now getting into the stage where people are getting average earning increases every month. what you are saying to me on that is that actually, this is another automatic thing. it is not really a choice you have made in this case but it is something, this is the percentage that it had to go 7 is the percentage that it had to go up? that is correct. i think that the 3.9% increase in earnings is partly due to how we have stewarded the economy after a very difficult time in our lifetime in government. the people who have lived through this freeze, they have been the recipients of benefits in this

freeze and they will not be able to really recoup the money that they have lost so in a sense that they have lost so in a sense that they have seen their incomes lowered and that has a long—term effect. have seen their incomes lowered and that has a long-term effect. our approach to increasing prosperity is to help them get into work through universal credit, they will be better off in work than not in work u nless better off in work than not in work unless you can't work and then we will be protecting you. i think it is important that this is our route out of poverty, notjust putting a lots more money into benefits without that kind of reciprocal arrangement that people do work their way out of poverty and we are doing whatever we can to help people with more skills, with a growing economy and that is why there are many millions more people in work than ever before. one of the criticism that is made of government policy long—term, that is under the last labour government and conservative government with the coalition is that the evidence was

too much on topping up the incomes of the poorest, in effect subsidising employers through the taxpayer and allowing them to get away with paying wages lower than they should have been paying so they got the financial benefit and the cost was picked up by the taxpayer. what are the conservatives hoping to do to shift but away or do you not think that is important?” do to shift but away or do you not think that is important? i think we have seen a definite change with the move away from historic benefits when there was actually a cliff edge. people would only work up to 16 hours otherwise they would lose all sorts of support so the kind of things we have done is increase the national living wage, bring that in much higher and that is going to keep increasing. there are elements of that and we will see absolutely people's income increase as well as the take—home pay being a lot higher due to the lot higher personal tax allowa nce due to the lot higher personal tax allowance so there are a number of different things by conservatives in government have been able to make sure that people keep more of what they earn but also making sure employers do their bit by increasing

the wages that they have. let me ask you finally about this general election campaign. are you at all concerned that an election at the end of the year, when the nights are longer and darker and the weather is less good, is a difficult time to motivate people to vote and that actually, having effectively forced this election on the public, two yea rs this election on the public, two years earlier than you needed to have one arguably, you are going to be punished by putting them through something they didn't need to go through? in the end parliament voted to have this election. we asked the opposition it several times because we are in an impasse in parliament. people are fed up with the anything, largely being on the tv, is brexit. i believe that to get back to it and we need that clarity rather than having a parliament that is largely trying to frustrate brexit referendum results. i believe that is the wrong approach for

parliament, it is an element of distrust and we now have a fresh opportunity for people to put forward what their priorities are. 0ne forward what their priorities are. one is to get brexit done but i'm very proud of our approach in investing more in different things like the health education, police officers and law and order. the headlines on bbc news: the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says he is not going to stand as a candidate in next month's general election. the government confirms the benefits freeze introduced by the conservatives three years ago will end next april. income tax will rise for the top 5 per cent of earners and corporation tax will increase, under a labour government, according to shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's 0llie foster. good afternoon. leicester city have moved up to third in the premier league table

after beating crystal palace 2—0 at selhurst park. brendan rodgers named an unchanged side to the one that beat southampton 9—0 in their last league game. it was goaless at half—time but the foxes took the lead from a corner inside the hour mark. caglar soyuncu with the header and jamie vardy scored his tenth of the season with a crisp finish. leicester are two points behind second—place manchester city. it's the second scottish league cup semifinal at hampden park. rangers are facing hearts for the right to face celtic in next months final and rangers have the lead, filip helander, who scored his first for the club last weekend, with the first goal of the game just before half—time. alfredo morelos has added a second early in the second half. 2—0 with around 30 minutes to play. england's cricketers have lost the second t20 on tour in new zealand.

the black caps won by 21 runs in wellington it's now 1—1 in the five match series michael redford reports. under bright sunshine in wellington, a moment to rememberfor this bowler. an international debut and he will remember his first over. new zealand started brightly. brown had impressed on his england debut but not today. it was not helped by some poor fielding. there were five it dropped catches in total, three by vince. new zealand making hundred and 76 from their 20 overs. from poor fielding to poor batting. james vince followed in after. captain eoin morgan went on the attack

whilst malan went in. england all out to 455 and the five match series is level at 1—1. that continues on tuesday. lewis hamilton should win his 6th formula one world title later he'll start from 5th on the grid for the us grand prix in texas and only needs to finish in the top 8. his mercedes team mate valteri bottas is on pole. a sixth title would leave hamilton one short of michael schumacher‘s record, the german's last title came when he was 35. hamilton, who's 3a, will move clear of argentina'sjuan manuel fangio, they're currently tied on five. great britain's women will defend their 0lympic hockey title in tokyo next year. they came through their two—legged qualification tie against chile 5—1 both legs were at lee valley in london, they led 3—0 after yesterday's match so had

a comfortable cushion coming into today's match which they won 2—1. rory mcilroy won the world golf championship event in shanghai after a play—off. the northern irishman beat the defending champion xander schauffele after the pair were tied at 19 under par. mcilroy won the first extra hole for his fourth title of the year. south africa's 1995 world cup winning captain francois pienaar believes the springboks victory injapan yesterday is more significant than his historic triumph when he lifted the trophy on home soil alongside nelson mandela. they also won the title in 2007 but pienaar believes this world title tops them both. in many terms it is better than 1995. the first ever black captain of ourteam, his 1995. the first ever black captain of our team, his story coming from a town and what he has done. his dad

flying for the first time in his life to watch his son play, that is hollywood stuff. south africa dominated the world rugby awards, flanker pieter—steph du toit was player of the year, rassie erasmus, coach of the year, and emily scarratt was women's player of the year. the 29—year—old centre helped england to the grand slam in the women's six nations championship earlier this year. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. at least four people have been injured in a knife attack in hong kong after another day of clashes between pro—democracy protesters and riot police. local media say that the assailant had been arguing over politics before taking out a knife. he was then turned on and subdued by an angry crowd. riot police had stormed the shopping centre in tai koo district earlier after some protesters forming a human chain inside and began vandalising restaurants.

i spoke to our correspondent richard lister about these developments in hong kong. this is the 22nd weekend of protests so this has been a long—running drama plaguing hong kong. there are rallies actually staged outside multiple shopping centres around hong kong. as you say, there are some protesters in this one particular incident, formed a human chain, eyewitnesses said that restaurants were vandalised before riot police intervened. and subdued some of the protesters with pepper spray. this incident that seems to have caused these injuries seems to have been sparked when someone went up to argue with the pro—democracy protesters. at some stage, he pulled a knife it said. there was a fight, a pro—democracy councillor saw what was happening, he intervened and in the course of the scuffle that followed, he seemed to have got part of his ear bitten off. at the protesters then turned on the original attacker and seems to

have beaten him very badly. much of this was captured pretty much live by cameras that were following some of these protesters around. as you say, police say there have been a number of arrests and as we also know there have been at least four people quite badly hurt was that it gives you a sense of the intensity of these protests that today's were not even as sustained and violent as those that took place yesterday when police were using tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets against protesters who were using molotov cocktails and setting fire to subway stations. what are the long—term prospects for bringing some kind of entity these protests? as you say, we have been going on for 22 weeks now and we saw with the giletjaune protests in paris that they eventually subsided when there was some movement by the french government. the chinese authorities certainly don't seem to be moving at all in the protesters direction in hong kong. they did move in the protesters direction in september which, if we cast our minds back tojune, that was the original source of these demonstrations. this extradition?

the extradition proposal whereby it was proposed to make it easierfor mainland china to extradite some criminal suspects from hong kong. protesters went out in their millions back injune and in september it seems that beijing blinked and they withdrew that bill but these demonstrations have developed a momentum of their own. now there are a number of other demands that the protesters have they want an amnesty for those arrested, they want an enquiry into the police brutality and crucially, they are calling for universal suffrage. the chinese leaders have signalled that they are preparing to change in the way they deal with these demonstrations but we don't know how. a three hundred year old violin, valued at a quarter of a million pounds, which was accidentally left on a train in london last week, has been safely returned to its owner. the instrument was handed over in a supermarket car park to its owner stephen morris after secret negotiations. the man who'd taken the violin said he'd made a mistake and apologised.

earlier my colleague ben brown spoke to the musician stephen morris, who told him more about the 300 year old violin. it was made in 1709, the same year that samueljohnson was born. it was made in rome, by tecchler. sorry... don't drop it! i'm struggling for words because i'm still getting over the shock of getting it back. it is 300 years old and worth about £250,000. tell us the story — you lost it on a train? i had a very busy week, i was tired, finished very late at night at abbey road studios, and when i got off at my local station, i got off and left the violin where i had put it. and i didn't realise until the following morning that it was missing, which was a terrible shock. that is a heart attack moment, isn't it? it certainly is! how did you go about

trying to find it? first, i had to make sure i had a violin to play on tour, i was on tour with bocelli, and my wife lent me a violin. the btp took control of the search. the british transport police. that's right. their amazing team ran the search. and then you found it, and the person who had taken it gave it back. tell us a bit about how that happened. i got a message on my newly created twitter account to say that somebody knew somebody who had the violin, and a few phone calls later, we managed to negotiate a location to return the violin. you must have been gobsmacked, thrilled, delighted. all those things. a lot of prayers answered. let's hear a bit of that beautiful violin, because you are playing a little bit

earlier, and it makes the most amazing sound. thank you. plays amazing grace. that is sumptuous. is it fair to say that you will be a lot more careful with that wonderful violin? that's a fair comment! may be just chain it to your wrist when you are next going on a train. i think a tracker is probably in order. but you are grateful to everyone who helped. hugely grateful.

mike pannett, the author, who was the engine room of the search, what a hero. couldn't have done it without him. let me bring you some news from france of a coach crash. the coach had been travelling to paris and london. it is a flixbus, people have been injured, some seriously. seats are on the ground spilling out from the crash. a nasty accident there on the crash. a nasty accident there on the ai in france. that coach was on its way to london. no fatalities tha nkfully its way to london. no fatalities thankfully but four people have been

seriously injured. we will bring you more on that as soon as we get it. now let's look at the weather. 0ver over the next few days things are going to be staying quite unsettled. i think you will notice a bit of a dip in the temperature. into this evening, some heavy showers for south—west and wales. they will be working their way eastwards. more persistent rain for eastern scotland overnight when we could see some flooding issues over the next day or so. flooding issues over the next day or so. heavy and persistent rain likely here. it isn't going to be a cold night. low pressure is still with us as we head through the day. several weather fronts rotating around that area. this one will be the troublemaker over scotland bringing that heavy rain. if you flooding issues. some sunshine for northern ireland and much of england and wales but a scattering of showers,

could be heavy, particularly down in south—western parts. temperatures between ten to 13 degrees. bye for now. hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines... the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says he is not going to stand as a candidate in the general election. do i find a seat, try and get myself into parliament, or do i serve the cause better traversing the length and the breadth of the united kingdom, supporting 600 candidates? i've decided that the latter is the right one. the government confirms the benefits freeze introduced by the conservatives three years ago will end next april. income tax will rise for the top 5% of earners and there'll be increases to corporation tax, under a labour government, according to shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell. the vietnamese community comes togetherfor a vigil 33 people have been injured in a coach crash in france, 11 of them we re coach crash in france, 11 of them

were british. let's get more now on the government's confirmation, that the freeze in benefit payments is to come to an end next year. the department for work and pensions said working—age benefits such as universal credit and job—seeker‘s allowance will rise by i.7% from april 2020. but labour called it a "cynically—timed" announcement ahead of the general election on 12 december. earlier i spoke to helen barnard — deputy director for policy from thejoseph rowntree foundation, which is a think tank focused on tackling poverty in the uk. she explained what this announcement means in practical terms... we hoped it was coming but the government refused to confirm it, which was worrying. i think what we need to understand is there has been a rising tide of poverty across the country. years and this freeze on benefits has been the single biggest factor in pulling families under, especially those with kids. when we spoke to families about what difference it makes, one person, ashley, said that she could just about keep ahead above water but as

the benefit freeze tightened its grip, she could not make the money coverfood grip, she could not make the money cover food and bills and just the essentials. there have been hundreds of thousands of people pulled into poverty because of it and more and more people pulled deeper into hardship. it's great to know that is ending, of course it does not turn back the rising tide we've already seen. back the rising tide we've already seen. i think what this shows is all parties know they've got to give a good offer to low income voters who are one of the biggest swing groups of voters in the selection. but it has to be just the start. we need to see more action to make social security the kind of anchor people need to be able to rely on. you cannot get back the money you were not given in the first place, and i suppose the question is raised by this good news story, that the restriction of the growth of benefits is to end, that is good news to people in receipt of them.

how much poorer they are in real terms are than if this policy had never been introduced ? terms are than if this policy had never been introduced? it's possible to get a sense of where benefits would have been had that not happened? yes, average low income families have been losing around £560 from their income every year. that is about three months worth of food shopping. 0bviously, people are having to make much less money stretch across those essentials. that does mean some people are pulled into debt, people have to go without essentials and it tightens that grip. 0ne without essentials and it tightens that grip. one of the things that is a real shame is it has undercut some of the good policies, like raising minimum wage, that's a great thing to do but for many families they would have felt pretty much no benefit from that because at the same time, we've been weakening the social security that for people who are locked in by low pay, and high rent, that is how you make it work for you as a family. that needs to

be just as strong as what the parties are offering on minimum wage, for instance. what impact has it had on the benefit and welfare system it had on the benefit and welfare syste m m o re it had on the benefit and welfare system more generally? is it helping to shrink the proportion of the national wealth that is going into welfare ? national wealth that is going into welfare? it has always been an ambition governments have had, finding other ways to support people rather than through the benefit system is necessary? and there i think it certainly has saved money from the welfare budget but i think we need to question whether that is actually the right way to do that. when you think the majority of people who have been pulled under by this are in work already, and minimum wage has been going up, there's been a lot of good news on that side, it has just been such a shame to really pull the rug out from under all of those good policies and the success we have had in the labour market by knocking out the thing people who are stuck on low pay, trying to bring up kids, really need to rely on. i remember

speaking to one mother, she said she works two jobs but has to fit in a trip to the food bank between those jobs because she still cannot make the money stretch across the essentials. i think we know that is not what any of us want in our society, it is not compassionate or just. it's a good start to say, let's reset and let's fund it like other public services. we want the nhs funded so we can rely on it, many of us have to rely on social security when we have young kids, when we are ill or caring for someone, when we are ill or caring for someone, when we when we are ill or caring for someone, when we are on when we are ill or caring for someone, when we are on low pay, when we are trying to pay high rents. we need to rely on that as a public service alongside all of the others. now on bbc news... it's click.

taiwan. an island shaped like a leaf at the meeting point of four seas. between the i960s and the i990s, 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 the chips inside some of the best phones, including the iphone 11.

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 are semiconductors 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 could go into the fab, there was quite a process to undergo. i have to take my shoes off on the carpet. and that was just the start. i had to put on a hairnet, wash my hands, and wear this to keep the dust out. cute. but it is time for an air shower.

weird. i feel like i'm in the tumble dryer. the manufacture of wafers has to be extremely precise. they cannot tolerate any particles that may fall onto the wafer and 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 am talking tiny, i am talking nanometres. so even specks of dust would matter. i don't really know how to describe how fine that 5—nanometre or 7—nanometre is, but i think people very often say if you look at 28 nanometres, it was like 1000th 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're 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. and so basically, we do not allow cameras to freely roam inside ourfabs because inevitably, they may pick up customer information. between all the automated devices in this facility, they travel 400,000 kilometres 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 etched devices that are smart, that can compute at any time, and communicate and link and that will be the future enabled by semiconductors. 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 — how very early naughties 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 that 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 transmitted by its servers to roughly 1,400 mobile devices for the purposes 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 is not playing attention, the glasses darken, preventing them from seeing the distraction. the glasses will cost $690 when they launch in december. thankfully, nobody was injured. we have come out in central london to try three of the latest smartphone cameras to see how they cope with low light. the huawei mate 30 pro, iphone11 pro and google pixel 4 all boast that they take impressive shots at night, but will any leave the competition in the dark? i will also take some photos with the iphone 7 plus from 2016, to give us an idea of how much phone

cameras have improved. my first stop is this bridge in london. we're gonna capture a cityscape at night, starting with huawei mate 30 pro. and huawei says its phone takes really good pictures at night because the camera sensor in here is 125% bigger than the one in the iphone 11 pro max, so it lets in more light. so, how did they stack up? all three of the new phones took sharp, bright photos of the skyline at night. the mate 30 pro picture looked slightly more crisp, but the colours were less saturated. the iphone11 pro photo seemed more vibrant, but not quite as sharp, while the pixel 4 seemed to have a nicer colour balance with a blue—ish sky, rather than the orange tint that we saw in the others. but, for me, there was no clear winner here. all of them took nice photos. so my next stop is the embankment. i've come to have my picture taken with the london eye, and i've got soila here using the google pixel 4 first. google says its special sauce is computational photography. so it's going to take a string of photos and stitch them all together and use machine learning to clean up any noise

or artefacts, so i have to hold still. all three of the new phones took a brighter photo than the old iphone 7 plus. once again, the mate 30 pro seemed to take the sharpest photo. if you look at my face, it's in focus, and it also picked out a lot of detail on myjumper. the pixel 4 photo was pretty sharp, too, and i felt the colour balance was more flattering. i'd be probably happy to post this one on my instagram. but in this location, i think the iphone 11 pro struggled. it didn't pick out much detail in myjumper and the coloursjust looked weird, no matter how many times we took the shot. when apple introduced the iphone11 pro, it said it would be better at taking photos in dimly lit bars, and it does not get more dim than this — this is gordon's wine bar in london, mainly lit by candles, so let's see how the phones manage.

and the difference with the iphone 11 pro is that i don't have to activate night mode. it does that automatically when it detects it's dark. and it is telling me to hold still while it stitches together several photos, just like the pixel 4, though apple calls this "deep fusion." all three new phones took a picture that would not have been possible on a phone a few years ago. just like the previous shots, the mate 30 pro photo came out brighter overall, and sharper. and it's hard to believe this was taken in candlelight. once again, the pixel 4 had a more flattering colour balance and there was less detail on the iphone 11 pro shot, which you can see if you zoom in on soila's hair. so this might be the biggest challenge for the phones yet. we're in stjames' park. it's very dark, there's no lights here, so will the cameras be able to pick up any photos at all, and will we get robbed for waving around a few grand worth of cameras? let's find out. that's — looks just

like it's daytime! the fact that any of these phones took a clear shot in near—darkness is impressive. if you zoom in, you can tell that none of them are crystal clear, but that's probably not the point here. the new phones all took snaps in the dead of night that look like they were taken during the day. it's pretty impressive how much phone cameras have improved injust a few years, thanks to new hardware and a lot of heavy lifting by the software. now, i found some of those night mode shots for me looked a little bit artificial and, in some cases, the phones took, in my opinion, nicer shotsjust in the regular camera mode. the real test was that near—darkness shot taken in stjames' park. that was truly impressive. but i wonder how useful that will be for a majority of people, and whether people will really want to take lots of pictures in near complete darkness remains to be seen. that's it for the short version of click.

the full—length programme can be found on the bbc iplayer. throughout the week, you can keep track of the team on facebook, instagram and twitter at @bbcclick, as usual. thanks for watching. we have seen a real autumnal mix of weather types through the weekend. strong winds and heavy rain yesterday. much lighter out there today and more sunshine too. this picture taken by one of our weather watchers in shropshire earlier. beautiful and sunny and blue skies out there. not everywhere. some showers. through the next few days, an unsettled theme. showery rain, and things will be turning a little colder through the next few days.

this area of low pressure has been slow—moving, stubborn to shift through recent days. still with us for the rest of today and through the next 2a hours. areas of rain rotating through that low pressure. heavy showers for the south—west of england and wales, moving gradually northwards. persistent rain in eastern and northern parts of scotland. breezy overnight. temperatures are holding up at five to 9 degrees. whether frontal systems rotating around this, more rain to come. it comes courtesy of this weather front through parts of scotland. heavy rain ploughing in on that brisk easterly wind, across northern and eastern scotland. brighter up towards the shetlands. we see sunshine. for northern ireland, england and wales, dry weather. scattered showers, frequent

and heavy in south—western parts of england, the odd rumble of thunder. sunny skies for many central parts of the uk. temperatures of ten to 13 degrees. some showers lingering on tuesday, especially through the irish sea and eastern scotland and eastern england. we draw in the winds into a northerly direction. that brings colder air in, especially in parts of scotland. single figures. reasonably mild, 13 degrees down towards the south—east of england. this colder air mass sinks southwards. three into wednesday. a colder spell of weather as we look to the middle part of the week. fog and frost problems on wednesday morning. unsettled through the week, showers at times. for many, temperatures gradually dipped down over the next few days. goodbye for now.

nigel farage says he won't be running for a seat in parliament at the election, but instead will focus on backing brexit party candidates nationwide. it comes days after his offer of an electoral pact with conservatives was rejected. into parliament? do i cause the serve better by travelling the length and breadth of the united kingdom, supporting 600 candidates? —— do kingdom, supporting 600 candidates? ——doi kingdom, supporting 600 candidates? —— do i serve the cause better. i have decided that the latter is the better course of action. a bbc investigation finds some children in care in england and wales, are living in caravans, and holiday homes. as south africa celebrates victory in the rugby world cup, we travel to the hometown of captain siya kolise, proud of their local son. and leicester continue

theirfine form, going third in the premier league with a win over crystal palace. good afternoon. the leader of the brexit party nigel farage has announced he won't be standing as a candidate in the coming general election. he says he'll focus instead on touring the country to support his party's candidates. it comes days after his offer of an electoral pact with the conservatives was rejected by borisjohnson. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. love him or hate him, nigel fry's has been a key face in british politics for years. its like sponsored drinking! there might be fewer pints of beer these days, more chats with us presidents, but after yea rs of chats with us presidents, but after years of trying, seven elections, to

be precise, he will not be standing to be an mp. i don't want to be in politics for the rest of my life. do ifind a seat, politics for the rest of my life. do i find a seat, try to get myself in the parliament, or do i serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the united kingdom supporting 600 candidates and i have decided that the latter course is the right one. will you stand yourself? no, very difficult to do both. not that he is disappearing, after borisjohnson rejected the offer of a pro "brexit" pack, he is stepping up attacks on the government deal. does not get us out of anything, does not work on any level, is a gigantic on. we should not sell out to this, it is a remainers brexit, virtual worse than staying where we are and if we go through this root, we will end up rejoining. some believe this could split the pro leave vote, allowing labour through the middle. perhaps a repeat of last years by—election. the only way to end this indecision and uncertainty and move on to focus on what they want is to vote for a

majority conservative government thatis majority conservative government that is going to get brexit done in a matter of weeks but also has an exciting and inclusive agenda. the brexit party are gunning for labour votes, too, jeremy corbyn said this about nigel farage's decision not to stand. a bit weird to lead a political party apparently contesting all, almost come off the seats in the election, and he himself is not offering himself for election. he is obviously very comfortable on his mep salary. nigel farage still wants to be part of the brexit debate, but in this election, that does not mean standing. the brexit party will unveil hundreds of candidates for the westminster election tomorrow, some will wonder if the fact that there are a star name is not among them is a tactic admission that this could be a difficult general election. for nigel fry's himself, a personal question too, over whether the possibility of an eighth u nsuccessful possibility of an eighth unsuccessful attempt possibility of an eighth u nsuccessful attem pt to

possibility of an eighth unsuccessful attempt to become an mp was really worth it. —— nigel farage. the government has confirmed it will end the freeze on increases to benefits next year. ministers say universal credit and other welfare payments, will rise in line with inflation from april and the state pension will increase by 3.9%. labour called it a "cynically—timed announcement" in the run up to next month's election. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan is here. so, how has this freeze affected millions of people over the last few yea rs ? millions of people over the last few years? since the benefit freeze was introduced in 2016, seven million poorerfamilies introduced in 2016, seven million poorer families have lost on average around £560 each year. now, that is more than £2200 that they have had to do without, it has been one of the reasons people say there has been an increase in the use of food banks, ending the freeze will not restore that money, but if you are onjobseeker‘s restore that money, but if you are on jobseeker‘s allowance, you will see your weekly payment increase by

just over £1 20. —— £120 p. useful, but hardly —— the increase is useful but hardly —— the increase is useful but hardly reason for a wild celebration. karl has been on universal credit for the past two years, the 57—year—old has struggled to find work since being made redundant and has to get by on little more than £200 a month, he doesn't think the extra money he will get next year will make much difference. ok, they may take off the cap, an extra £5 every month. but, within three or four weeks, the cap, an extra £5 every month. but, within three orfour weeks, of them altering that, you will get letters, you will get letters from the council tax, saying, this is going up £3 a month, that is going up going up £3 a month, that is going up £2 going up £3 a month, that is going up£2a going up £3 a month, that is going up £2 a month. so, they have that money back a few already. the benefit freeze has seen most welfare payments for people of working age stay at the same level as they were in 2015 rather than rising with inflation. while confirming the policy will end next april, ministers again emphasise their

belief that what was the surest route out of poverty. one of the key things we want to do is make sure people work their way out of poverty u nless people work their way out of poverty unless they cannot work and there is a key difference, that is part of what the philosophy with the universal credit is, better off in work than if they do not work or if they cannot work. one thing to note on that point is that, having a job is no longer a guarantee of not being in poverty, the number of people who are in work but are in poverty, is rising, at the fastest level. labour have described it, the entire announcement, a cynically timed in the middle of an election campaign and they emphasise that the benefit freeze will continue for a number of months yet. meanwhile the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has been setting out his plans to upgrade almost 27 million homes in the uk to make them more energy—efficient. the work would include installing loft insulation and double glazing, at an estimated cost of around £60 billion. the conservatives say

the plans don't stack up. 0ur deputy political editor, john pienaar, is at westminster. a couple of big major spending pledges from the two main parties. yes, and parties generally save their big expensive promises until well into the campaign but this campaign has in truth been running for weeks and months. today we have seen a for weeks and months. today we have seen a supermarket sweep of expensive promises, many of them with questions about credibility or affordability hanging over them or both. borisjohnson, affordability hanging over them or both. boris johnson, his affordability hanging over them or both. borisjohnson, his promise to end the freeze on benefits, is on top of the promise to pump billions into schools and hospitals, to end austerity. austerity which he was happy to support as an mp and a cabinet ministerfor so happy to support as an mp and a cabinet minister for so long. happy to support as an mp and a cabinet ministerfor so long. the tories are also promising to cut taxes. we do not know the scale or timing of that. jeremy corbyn was never going to be outbid by a conservative party when it comes to public spending. his promises are

also one part of a massive renationalisation programme, with effect on the pound, on markets, on the cost of borrowing, we cannot calculate that just yet. it the cost of borrowing, we cannot calculate thatjust yet. it is unlike any we have seen, and the a bbc news investigation has found children in care under the age of 16 living in unregulated caravans, narrowboats and holiday homes. many placements don't have to register if they're mobile such as boats or if they say they are providing holidays or support, and not care. 0fsted says it's investigated over a hundred others that should be registered one has been prosecuted. but the bbc understands not a single one has been prosecuted. information requests sent by the bbc to councils in england and wales now show that unregistered placements have tripled in the last two years. the department for education says councils have a legal duty to make