they are using, they are the same ballpark of radio waves that have their was this is bbc news, the headlines: been used and tested, more than 120 bushfires tested and tested, for decades. continue to burn in eastern the technology that goes australia as the crisis spanning two into the antennas doesn't states continues for a third day. fundamentally change the way those radio waves behave. three people have died, so while it looks and feels and authorities say the number like a brand—new technology of dead could rise. from a marketing perspective, weather forecasters and firefighters it's roots are actually inherent have warned that more dangerous mobile radio technology that has weather is on the way. been tested and used for decades now. tensions are high in bolivia as the president, evo morales, comes under more pressure to resign after accusations that last month's what is happening here is very election was rigged. similar to the smoking. meanwhile the homes belonging the actual health effects, to a governor and the sister the actual science, was hidden. and this is exactly of bolivian president evo morales what is happening here. 56 is highly, highly unlikely to cause more cancers than 2—46, and there isn't much evidence have been gutted by fire. of an increased risk in 2—46, if any. it's not the new tobacco. it's not the new asbestos. that just simply isn't true. the cyclonic storm but despite the weight bulbul has made landfall of scientific evidence,

in india and bangladesh. it's brought winds of up to 135 the anti—56 movement is growing. kilometres an hour and heavy rain. similar groups have been popping up in other areas around the world, two deaths have been reported so far. in bangladesh, troops and volunteers fuelled by social media and the internet. back in hove, the campaigners had have gone from door to door to evacuate coastal villages. the opportunity to present now on bbc news, it's their concerns to counsellors. going you working as you yetjust been highly talk about our dislike plateau made yesterday all grazing on we made this couple and like that in finish which is very slight to pay time for click. there will always be a small number this week, is 56 really of individuals who do not a health hazard 7 weather forecasting in danger. want to hear from large corporations like us. and back in time to the berlin wall. and there will always be a huge group of people who don't have any concerns about this technology. there might be a group in the middle who could be swayed, and i think that is the group that, yeah, there is a battle to be won, if you like. we do need to make sure people have access to the right information, but they can make an informed in towns and cities across the uk, decision and not be misled by what is some pretty aggressive scaremongering. that was howard jones a tech revolution is slowly being born. one antenna at a time. bit by bit, 56 is becoming a thing, and while all the infrastructure might look a bit dull, talking to paul carter.

take a look at this. this is a speed test to this phone, which right now is getting data and to try and address the concerns speeds of 390mbps. not bad. of those who may still be undecided, yeah, this new network is going to be so fast that we'll be we have come to this rooftop in london to take some measurements able to download in a heartbeat from a 56 transmitter. and stream video to multiple devices at once. in order to allow this and we have drafted in some to properly take off, independent experts to help. with high speed and minimal delay, dr richard findlay is an electromagnetic field safety specialist, and he's going to be we're going to see lots of new antennas, each measuring the strength and frequency serving small areas. of the radio waves at different distances from the mast. so, first we're going to put the probe right up on the middle and some of them may use much higher

of the transmitter. frequency radio waves than previous mobile networks. so even over the last distance, we have gone down by a factor of, what is that? that's more than 50 times? 550 down to 14.5, so... down to less than a fifth of the government safety guidelines. yes. right. time to try and make sense of those but having these antennas everywhere readings with physicist and cancer has given some people pause for thought. researcher david grimes. so, we have seen there that the power drops off really, really quickly, as you move away from the transmitter. absolutely, and that is what you would expect. as you get further and further away from a source of light, the world health organisation, which of course radiofrequency public health england and the nhs all say there's no sufficient evidence to say 56 poses a risk to health. however, that has done little really is, even if we can't see it, the drop—off is really, to placate campaigners.

really rapid. earlier this year, one parliamentary and by the time you are even at an appreciable distance away petition calling for more research from any kind of transmitter, it is way more likely that your phone itself is going to be emitting a lot more than any of these transmitters are. into 56 attracted more than 29,000 signatures. do you think one of the worries about 56 is that there is talk of using higher frequency radio waves? so what are their concerns? absolutely. i think people have an acute understanding that higher frequency is higher energy. but i think what people need to be aware of is that this kind public health england and the government say that 56 of radiation is still very, and electromagnetic frequencies very non—ionising. are safe because they all fall what that means is, it doesn't have the fundamental energy underneath the level of the international safety guidelines. to liberate an electron however, there are huge issues and cause damage. with the safety guidelines. if you want to cause cancers there is a great big in things like that, gaping black hole. you typically need to cause what the safety guidelines will tell you is whether your mast will burn or heat you, but what it won't tell that kind of dna damage. you is all of these health effects

that are known by science to be and the new 56 spectrum linked to electromagnetic frequency is very low energy. radiation. who decides who is guinea pigs? it is much lower energy who is deciding to roll this out, and on who? who are going to be the lab rats, the lab mice, whatever you want to call us, because it's not safety tested? if someone said to me, fact, 56 is safe, if our government came to me and said, fact, 56 is safe, fact, it has been tested than visible light. by the telecoms industry, i probably wouldn't have the concerns that i have. but to me, there is no fact there from them. the industry, however, have a very different view. campaigners will say 56 hasn't been tested and if it's not been tested, it shouldn't be rolled out. what do you say to that? more than that, the biophysics i hear that line a lot and it itself, the mechanics of how fundamentally misunderstands you might develop a cancer what 56 is. or something, we know that this kind of radiation is not ionising. 56 uses technologies that have been it cannot cause the level of dna in use in all countries damage that you typically expect for decades now. 00:05:42,785 --> 2147483051:39:36,107 the type of frequencies that 2147483051:39:36,107 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 are used, the radio waves oi’ need to cause cancer. and so for that reason, the combination of epidemiological evidence and biophysical evidence, we don't have any current cause for concern. that being said, it is always good to observe and keep an eye on trends to see what might emerge. but we don't expect anything will. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the us national transportation safety board flagged software flaws in the self—driving uber that killed

a woman in arizona last year. it said the car failed to properly identify her as a pedestrian while she had been walking with a bicycle across a poorly lit road. american and japanese researchers have used beams of light to hack google home, amazon echo, and apple home product devices in a bid to expose security and privacy risks. a laser managed to take control of one of the devices from over 30 metres away. and uk drone pilots have until the end of november to register their details with the civil aviation authority orface penalty fines. us researchers say they've printed skin that is alive and even has working blood vessels. scientists combined cells that kickstart blood vessel development with animal collagen. all of this is happening inside 3d—printed tissue. this could potentially deliver better skin grafts to burns patients. and finally, harvard researchers have revealed their urchinbot, complete with wiggling tentacles. the amphibious robot uses pumps, valves and magnets to move, and could be useful in ocean clean—ups. it is a touch sluggish, though, with a top speed of six millimetres per second. a pilgrimage for creativity. each year in los angeles, 15,000 artists, designers

and storytellers flock to adobe max to discover the latest tools they'll have to mix in their creative pallets. each year in los angeles, 15,000 artists, designers and storytellers flock to adobe max to discover the latest tools they'll have to mix in their creative pallets. while we humans still find the imaginative sparks, increasingly it is the guiding hand of machines doing the heavy lifting, and intuitively understanding the parts of an image we want to manipulate, from repainting a single frame of video to letting adobe's ai platform handle the entire scene. unlike the somewhat dystopian future depicted in the movies, adobe isn't too worried about a landscape dominated by ai.

in fact, they're betting the farm on it, alongside another emerging technology, augmented reality. the potential for digital overlays to truly enhance our real world, and yes, even cardboard movie sets, is creating feverish buzz. after all, ar does not invoke the same fears as ai and its terminator—esque machines. but while futuristic demos are seductive, actually creating these enhanced environments has been beyond the wit of most of us neophytes. enter adobe aero, a free ipad app making content creation relatively straightforward. just using normal everyday gestures... but there is still the challenge of finding some decent glasses to eye up our new world, and notjust peer at it through our phones or tablets. but adobe's confidence is unwavering. ar bridges the physical and digital worlds and truly has the potential to be bigger than the web. scott, you made a very bold claim in the keynote.

back it up. well, if you think about it, the web is something we have to go to, and we only go to it when we feel like we need something. ar is always going to be there, permeating everyday life when we don't know we need it. so for example, in your bathroom, every pill bottle has information on top of it and every food has calorie counts and whatever else. there is going to be layers of augmented reality and they are going to be everywhere, all the time. a peek into adobe's r&d also reveals its firm belief in al. here it's being used to blend a bird sketch with a real bird's texture to create something entirely new. and this research prototype shows how you can easily animate the mouth of a flat image to the words in an audio file. our technology works with any image, photo or sketch. but it's clear that such bleeding edge creative products can potentially be more sinister. in this post—truth era, deep fake photos and videos are becoming a serious challenge online where politicians, celebrities,

or even ex—girlfriends can be made to say or do things that they never actually said or did. to combat this, adobe has launched a system that records exactly which changes were made to images, when, and by whom, so that a viewer can see an authenticated breadcrumb trail of edits. technology alone cannot solve this. you actually really need a multitude of pieces to come together. we have a role to play as a technology player, these distribution platforms and media platforms have a role to play, but, frankly, creators also have a role to play. i think content authentication is definitely important and it's definitely in its very first stages. the very fact that they've got the new york times and twitter involved is a very good start, but it's got a long way to go and nobody really knows how it will take shape. one thing we do know is that al is here to stay, whether we like it or not.

so, we've been talking about the problems that 56 radio signals may or may not cause, and while we've established that they don't damage our health, they may actually cause other problems in very surprising areas. some scientists are concerned that 56 could affect our ability to predict the weather. specifically hurricanes and other extreme events. they say it could set forecasting back to the 1980s. peter gibbs, a professional meteorologist for nearly a0 years, has been finding out why. in 2018, the federal communications commission, or fcc, in the us, auctioned off part of their radio spectrum or a bunch of frequencies to telecommunications companies for use on the 56 network. what's that got to do with weather? andrew freedman at the washington post has been following this story

from the start. the background really is that scientists have figured out that 56 equipment that telecommunications companies want to deploy, particularly in cities, may actually interfere with signals that are bouncing out of satellites in space into the earth's atmosphere and back to sense a very important component for making weather forecasts. so, let's try to explain the problem and bear in mind i am a scientist, not an artist. so bear with me, 0k. so, what weather satellites are looking for when they monitor the atmosphere is microwave transmissions and they are coming from things like clouds, from snow, from rain, from water vapour as well. very faint microwave signals at very precise frequencies. so, for example, here's a little water vapour molecule, it's vibrating away a 23.8 gigahertz.

right next to that frequency is 2a gigahertz, which is one of the ones that's been auctioned off for use in 56. now, you can'tjust us that little molecule to tune out of the way. and that's the fundamental problem. that's why weather scientists are really worried. it looks like they're about to get some rather noisy neighbours. if they're broadcasting loudly in the house next door, or in our case, in frequency band next door, even if the leaking is quite a small amount of their power, it can still be much larger than what we're trying to measure. we're going to be in very difficult world where, you know, we're not necessarily sure what we're measuring anymore. are we measuring interference? are we measuring the signal? that's the worst fear. the complex weather models used in today's forecasts need satellite data on a global scale. a storm now hitting europe might have started life days earlier in north america.

the world meteorological organization in geneva, switzerland organises that exchange of data, and they're worried a reduction in quality could have real—life consequences — consequences that could have been avoided. if we don't have the specific measurement, in fact we will lose three to six hours to inform population of the risk of special events, meteorological special events like floods, flash floods, storms, things like that. so, the scientists are really worried. the us regulators don't seem to think there's that much of an issue. while one representative of the telecoms companies has actually called the scientists‘ fears absurd. the telecom companies have aggressively pushed back at the scientific agencies and said, "we don't think that your analyses are correct. we actually think that this is something that isn't such a big

deal and that even if it's a big deal, we can solve this some other way." although the science community has said they're not against 56, because the benefits are clear, they've tried to engage with the telecom companies about potential interference. so far without much response. i know that there is one company that really could benefit a great deal from 56 because they promote weather apps. of course weather companies want 56, but the thing is that they are opposed to this issue because they're like, "well, what's the use of having a new, faster app if we have inaccurate information?" 56 is coming and it will no doubt bring lots of benefits, but we're living in a time of rapidly changing climate, where severe weather is becoming more frequent and more dangerous. we need to be able to predict and warn of these events. it's never been more important. that was peter gibbs.

and just to add that meteorologists from around the world are meeting right now at the world radiocommunication conference to discuss this very issue. so, we'll keep you posted. 0n the 9th of november, it'll be 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall. it acted as a physical barrier throughout berlin, but it was also a symbol of the divide between communism and capitalism. now, virtual reality is being used to bring the past to life. youtube 0riginals and remarkable tv have worked with descendants of those who experienced the rise and fall of the wall, allowing them to step inside photographs and be transported back to virtual recreations of their families‘ stories. well, there's a famous

photograph of my grandma where she was just able to escape from the wall being built last minute. i don't think people really realise that the wall was something that evolved over time. so in 1961, it started out just as barbed wire that was laid out across the street. fast forward 20 years into the future, and it's a completely militarised border. so, to be able to use vr to chart that evolution and plant yourself in front of the wall and be there through that iteration felt like quite a powerful thing to do. there's a huge potential in factual storytelling and it feels like we are on the sort of cusp, if you like, of a new way of engaging people in history, of engaging people in documentary. well, my grandfather is one of the builders of the tunnel 57. seeing my grandfather digging the tunnel was really weird. back when he was doing that,

he was probably around my age. he was so close to me in that moment that i was actually like, i would have loved to talk to him about, you want to go get a beer later or anything like that. that is just a taster. if you want to watch our full report on how virtual reality has brought these remarkable stories to life, follow the link below to the bbc news website. and that's it for us for this week. don't forget you can find us all across social media throughout the week on facebook, instagram, youtube, and twitter on @bbcclick. thanks for watching. and we'll see you soon.

hello. the weekend got off to a cold, frosty start. more rain followed for many of us on saturday. notjust rain, more of the uk had its first snow of the season into the welsh hills, the higher parts of shropshire. but it's the effect of recent rain which is still causing major flooding, particularly into parts of south yorkshire and derbyshire. there are many flood warnings still in force. do head to our website for the latest details about flood and weather warnings. now, sunday getting off to a cold, frosty start. for northern england, scotland, northern ireland, there is a risk of ice on untreated surfaces, especially in northern ireland where saturday was so wet. further south, more cloud close to this area of low pressure. it is pulling away, but keeping temperatures above freezing. look, there's a gap between weather systems, but these wet weather bearing weather fronts will be coming in towards western parts at the end of sunday as we'll see in a moment. this is how remembrance sunday is shaping up. still outbreaks of rain for parts of southern england and south wales, clearing away, a few fog patches around as well. but for many of us, you can see

the extent of the dry, sunny weather during the day. the odd shower clipping easternmost parts of england around the moray firth. a chilly day, but where you're changing saturday's rain and snow for sunshine, it will feel a bit warmer. but look at this. these weather fronts coming in from the west at the end of the day. a very wet evening into northern ireland. here comes the rain pushing east across the uk going into monday morning. some snow to the higher parts of pennines, southern uplands, but particularly into the highlands, north of the central belt in scotland where could be quite tricky on some of the higher routes going into monday morning. temperatures do head up a bit overnight into monday after a chilly start of the night. the good news, if there is any, about this latest weather system — it is moving on through, so the wet weather doesn't hang around too long in any one place. the rain clearing south—eastern parts england by the end of monday morning. and then a blustery day following the sunshine and showers, the showers most frequent towards the north—west of the uk, wintry in places, especially the hills. it's going to be a colder feeling day, particularly because it will be a windier day.

and going into tuesday, low pressure then towards the north sea, around that, we've still got some bands of wet weather moving through. so notjust showers, but maybe some longer spells of wet weather sinking southwards on tuesday. but there will be drier, brighter zones around these as well. it's still going to be a chilly day. don't expect anything warmer as the week goes on. low pressure will still be close by during the remainder of the week. a little gap early on wednesday. and look at this — more weather fronts coming in from the atlantic. chilly start to wednesday, turning wetter from the west. as i mentioned earlier, low pressure staying around for the rest of the week.

this is bbc world news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: firefighers in eastern australia say they may not be able to help all those threatened by raging wildfires. more dangerous weather is on the way. our real concern is actually moving into tuesday where we are expecting temperatures in the

high 30s, early 40s. humidity down to single digits and winds gusting upwards of 80 kilometres an hour. fires burn at the home of president evo morales‘s sister, as bolivia's political crisis deepens. the authorities in bangladesh evacuate more than two million people from coastal areas as a powerful cyclone moves in. flooding continues to disrupt parts of england, where seven severe flood