by monday, we start to see high pressure building from the west. that will calm things slightly but still gales, this time for the north sea coast. some showers in the east early on but things should become brighter later in the day, a chillier feel for monday. hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines... as the final few days of campaigning get underway — the conservatives promise to introduce an australian—style points—based immigration system to control unskilled migration. meanwhile, labour has set out its plans for social care if it wins the election — by offering more funding and free personal care for older people in england. good afternoon. a man has been arrested in connection with allegations of racist abuse directed at players in the final days of the election during the man city, man united game yesterday. campaign, boris johnson and jeremy corbyn are telling voters that thursday's poll is an historic a factory fire in the indian chance to move the country forward. capital, delhi, which broke out the conservatives say a points—based immigration system would reduce in the early hours of the morning low—skilled migration.

labour is using the day to set has killed at least 43 people. out its plans for social care. 0ur political correspondent, the british boxer anthonyjoshua has reclaimed his world championship belts from andy ruinr, becoming only the fourth heavyweight susana mendonca, reports. in the sport's history not long left until voters make to win a direct rematch. their call, and borisjohnson is dame helen mirrenjoined crowds hoping they'll give him a ringing in trafalgar square last night — as thousands of people in cities around the world camped overnight to raise cash to tackle homelessness. now, click takes a deep dive into the world of social media and the abuse mps are suffering during this so—called ‘outrage election‘. this week, the programmers of the future. i felt like steve jobs. the cities of the future. and the ugly politics of today.

this thursday, the general election will give more than 45 million people their chance to decide on the uk's future. is it the brexit election? is it the nhs election? is it an election that will show new divisions that no longer lie along party lines? we'll soon know. amidst all this there is the usual mudslinging towards candidates. but with social media now in the mix, much of it has transferred to platforms like twitter. here at click we decided to take

a closer look at the outrage in the final few weeks of battle. we sent carl miller to investigate. i am a traitor, a vile creature, a traitor. much of it is misogynistic. death threats, threats of violence to some of my people here. there have been moments in which i have had anxiety attacks because of the level of threat. being called everything from a lying dog to a cheat, a traitor or death threats. these are some of the 330,000 abusive tweets that prospective mps have been enduring in the run—up to the election. but we wanted to really drill down into how much of this abuse was happening, who was directed to, the nature of the abuse itself and how it was all connected so we teamed up with a thinktank, demos, to produce exclusive new numbers for the scale and nature of online abuse in the run—up to this general election. this isjosh.

he has trained an algorithm to sift through millions of tweets to identify those that are abusive and aimed at candidates who were previously mps before parliament dissolved. but the algorithm first needs to be trained by humans before it can sift through the millions of tweets. sojosh is teaching soila, a researcher on click, to help with this monumental task. crucial to this is how it decides what is abusive versus just fair criticism. that's where personaljudgement inevitably comes in. what this gives us the opportunity to do is say right now, in british democracy, that is an insult. the algorithm is about 70% accurate and only includes candidates running for re—election. but after just a few weeks it revealed some startling results. around 334, 000 tweets, around 7% of the total received by candidates, were insulting. that is ten for every minute of the campaign,

minute in, minute out. and a lot of the abuse the mps received depended on their background, their gender and their stance on brexit. what causes this insulting behaviour to arise? some researchers suggest it is down to organised groups or disgruntled individuals. those who feel isolated from the mainstream but who now can enter the public conversation more easily than ever before. hate is a tactic used by various types of organisations and individuals. they are unified by a desire for someone to respond to them and we have. as a society, as individuals, we have been responding and engaging with this kind of hate forfar too long. and so for the first time in this general election we have seen mainstream political actors using trolling techniques in order to amplify their message on social media. so, the three primary ones,

the three main ones were honesty, intelligence and accusations of treachery. when ijoined josh, i was surprised to learn that the main party leaders were not the biggest targets of abuse — at least as a proportion of all of their mentions. borisjohnson is down at the bottom. and jeremy corbyn isn't there at all. this is not a one—party issue is, is it? this is much deeper thanjust single attacks on someone. 0ne candidate who received an awful lot was iain duncan smith. he is right down the bottom. he was also sworn at a lot and if you are white you are more likely to be called a traitor and sworn at than any other ethnicity. of course, there are human beings on the other side of the screen. i visited iain duncan smith's constituency and he told me his way of dealing with this is to never engage. the problem is sometimes with elections and things, they feed it a bit more because they tell everybody, actually, we all hate each other. we don't. i don't hate labour. i have a lot of labour friends.

but the internet takes a bit of that anger and accelerate and makes it immediate and instantaneous and gratifying, like a drug. but abuse is not something that happens online. a day after i visited his office, it was vandalised. back at the research hub they've generated a huge map of abuse. so this is our universe of abuse. it connects the candidates being abused to the people doing the abusing. the bigger the clusters around a candidate, the greater the number of people that are sending them abuse. you can see that the most prominent politicians, especially borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn, but others, have their own personal entourage of people who specifically tend to abuse just them. here, the brexiteers are in pink and remainers in green. both groups angrily surrounding the two main party leaders. on this map, the abusers accusing

the candidates of dishonesty are shown as red dots, while on this, those accusing them of treachery are grey. the people who are being called traitors are from the third parties and up into labour. one of the most surprising findings was that men overall tended to receive more abusive messages than women on twitter although this does not mean that what they did receive was worse or more threatening. these are broad trends. the experience of every candidate will change. for example, angela smith. she is being insulted a lot for her honesty and being called a traitorfour times more than the average candidate. this could be because she recently changed parties. she is now with the liberal democrats. she also voted against brexit. this was against the majority in her former constituency. and she says she has faced a torrent of abuse from anti—semitism to misogyny. in order to stay sane, i do not look at most of the abuse directed at me on twitter.

i just don't think an individual can cope with that. and you can feel the anger behind the tweets and the anger behind the use of capital letters, the aggression. and i find that frightening. so it seems whether you are leaving your party or taking a stance on brexit, can make you many enemies online as well. next, i wanted to see whether the type of abuse candidates received also tended to differ based on their ethnicity. what we saw here is that if you are a bame candidate you are more likely to be accused of being stupid, to be insulted for your intelligence. a good example is david lammy who is insulted for his honesty and intelligence and sworn at an awful lot. early in the campaign, david tweeted about a report he had overseen into the disproportionate of black and ethnic minorities in the prison system and even he, no stranger to online abuse,

was taken aback by the response. i was staggered at the level of abuse that i received. that is an indication ofjust how toxic things have become. most of the abusive tweets directed at me are really pushing deeply racist stereotypical tropes. they are tropes about being stupid. tropes about being lazy. they are tropes that involve the n word. so what does the research actually tell us. there is the scale. ten insults every minute of every day of the campaign. they cut across a political divide but they are also determined by what a candidate says and who they are. and for sure it is notjust happening on twitter and notjust happening to politicians. so i think one of the big questions we now have is as politics with each passing day becomes more digital, how can we make it less angry?

hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that google founders, larry page and sergey brin stepped down from their current roles at the company. the alphabet ceo and president will remain on the board. and silicon valley tech firm peloton has come under fire for an advert in which a husband gives a smartbike costing thousands of dollars to his wife. the commercial has been viewed more than a million times on youtube and it has been called sexist, dystopian and out of touch. transport police in australia have rolled out ai cameras to help identify drivers using their mobile phones on the road. new south wales transport previously tested the technology earlier this year, catching 100,000 drivers using their devices illegally. drivers spotted using mobiles during its first three months of the roll—out will receive a warning letter and after that they could face a fine. and finally, an electric eel

is providing a shocking start to the festive season at a tennessee aquarium in chattanooga. the festive fish, called miguel wattson, powers decorations next to his tank thanks to a system of water sensors which deliver his charge on to nearby lights. his first name is a tribute to his native habitat in south america and his surname is a play on the watt, the unit of electrical power. that is a joke worthy of the worst of christmas crackers. earlier this year, amazon web services ran get it. a competition for children to design an app to solve a problem. the prize, bringing it to fruition. after stiff competition from various mental health and well—being concepts, this lot triumphed with their web app to transcribe school lessons

for the deaf and hard of hearing. a few weeks after their win, i've come here to the team's school, bishop storford college prep in order to find out a little more about what they are creating. so this is how we connect to the app and how it works. it connects to a teacher's phone and the teacher has a microphone so it will display what the teacher is saying in real—time on the student's phone so it will help them learn in class and understand the lesson more. can you tell me about your hearing issues and how this will hopefully help? i have 60% hearing loss and there is often a lot of background noise when you focus on something.. this app connects to your phone, you don't have to worry about the background noise, you just have to focus on the person speaking. how much of an issue do you find listening in the classroom? i find it hard when you sit at the front and people behind

you are talking and you're trying focus on the teacher. and for lip reading they need to be facing your direction. yes. there is also the issue of children regularly needing hearing aids re—moulded as they grow. so how do they get started creating the app? we looked through what we had noted down and thought to ourselves how could we put it together so it would be something that works. nota gimmick. so after we found our target audience we sent the information to amazon who judged it, and then the competition started. and you won. how did that feel? amazing. no—one could believe it. i wasn't there on the day but i heard you all gave a very, very good presentation on stage. how was it to get up in front of a big huge grown—up audience? i felt like steve jobs. launching your equivalent of the iphone? yes.

when ready, the app will be opensource so it will be available to other schools. but the process so far, much like creating any tech, has come with its challenges. it is just a bit disappointing that it is not coming up perfect first time. there is an unrealistic standard, but it is a bit disappointing to know that there is a lot more work to be done. this is part of a bigger picture. the direction we push kids in, in an ever—changing world. i think with the careers that are opening up technology is becoming more important. notjust being able to use it but to have an understanding of what it is and where it has come from. there is a misnomer in artificial intelligence. everybody talks about al but they don't explain to the youngsters what it means. ai is based on data. that is all that is. built up data. and they can create things from data.

that is a skill set that they can use in any walk of life going forward. do any of you want tech jobs in the future? i would love a job in tech in the future. because being an artist is just creating art, but being an app designer is creating art that is functional and usable and helps so many people. i definitely want to try and put technology into surgery and things like that and robotics because i find it extremely interesting how they manage to do certain things with technology and make it do amazing things. brilliant. lara's new friends aren't the only ones thinking about the future. last week, the european parliament officially declared a climate emergency. but while most of the climate narrative is concentrated on the predicted catastrophe, filmmaker damon gameau has taken a different approach.

the power of innovation, imagination, creativity. the film is a letter to my now six—year—old daughter, showing her what the world could look like in 2040 if we put into practice the best solutions that are already available, so i call it an exercise in fact—based dreaming. everything i show her in the future has to already exist right now and be scalable and practical and some form. 2040 is a film full of positive possibilities, where solar power generation happens on every roof and energy is traded between households. animals and diverse crops mix in small agricultural pastures that create healthier soil with deeper roots, which lock in co2 and hold more water in the land.

i met up with damon at zsl london zoo, where he explained that simply sending out negative messages charged with fear and anxiety can actually shut down the problem—solving part of our brains, which is no good for thinking our way out of climate change. when we are only hearing that one side of the story, there's a lot of paralysis for some people, so i thought if we are going to sound the fire alarm, you also have to show people where the exits are. all the cars that your mum and i ever owned were stranded assets meaning that 96% of the time they were parked or unused. damon's 2040 is a world where autonomous vehicles drive us around and because they are always active, there is no need for car parks. in fact, there is no need for even one car per household, which means far fewer cars on the roads. and that means that we could reclaim large chunks of our cities for green

spaces, and even to grow food locally in disused car parks. probably the most exciting solution in the film is seaweed. it is widely accepted that we need to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and out of the oceans in huge quantities in order to slow global heating. it turns out that seaweed is fantastic at this so—called carbon sequestration. it's the fastest growing organism in the world, it can grow half a metre a day, and up to 50 meters long. so what that means is it has just turbocharged sequestering that carbon faster than a tree. this, made from recycled material, becomes a platform for the seaweed to grow on. it sits just below the surface and sinks lower as the seaweed grows and gets heavier. the seaweed can be regularly harnessed and used for a range of purposes. 0ur stretched resources and growing emissions are partly due to our increasing consumer culture,

but also partly due to an exploding global population, and that leads damon to discuss a less talked about cause of climate change. there's about 100 million girls that don't get to complete their education every year for a variety of reasons, religious or taken out to put to work. if a girl is able to complete her education and is given access to reproductive health services, plus viable work opportunities, she gets to choose when and how many children she has, and that comes down to two. but if she is taken out of school early, the number is five or more. the un says that by 2050, that is a difference of 1.1 billion people, which has an enormous impact on our resources. so, empowering girls and women, fantastic, let's do that anyway, but we get this other bonus with our emissions and resources. well, christmas is finally here, having started in about september this year by my reckoning. it means that there are now millions

of sparkles and twinkles begging to be instagrammed. many of the latest smartphones boast cameras with impressive night mode credentials. but which one is best? we asked chris fox to put them to the test. we've come up to central london to try three of the latest smartphone cameras to see how they cope with lowlight. the huawei mate 30 pro, iphone 11 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 on 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 are going to capture a cityscape at night starting with huawei mate 30 pro. and huawei says it's 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 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 iphone 11 pro photo looked more vibrant but not quite as sharp, while the pixel 4 seemed to have a nicer colour balance with a bluish sky rather than the orange tint that we saw in the others. but for me, there was no clear winner. all of them took nice photos. so the 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 it's special source is computational photography, so it is 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 seemed to pick out lot of detail on my jumper. the pixel 4 photo was pretty sharp too, and i felt the colour balance was more flattering. i would probably be happy to post this one on my instagram. but in this location, i think the iphone 11 pro struggled, it didn't pick out as much detail in myjumper and the coloursjust looked weird no matter how many times we took the shot. when apple introduced the iphone 11 pro, they said it would be better at taking photos in dimly lit bars, and it doesn't get more dim than this. this is gordon's wine bar in london, and it's mainly lit by candles so let's see how the phones manage. the difference with the iphone 11 pro is i don't have to activate night mode, it does that automatically when it detects its dark, and it is telling me to hold still while at stitches together several photos just like the pixel 4. all three phones took a picture that wouldn't 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 and 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. this might be the biggest challenge for the phones yet. we are 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 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 is probably not the point here. the new phones all took snaps and 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. i found some of those night mode shots looked a little bit artificial, and in some cases the phones took nice 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 it 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 was chris fox in a park in the dark. and that is it from us for this week. if you would like to get hold of us during the week, you can. we live on instagram, facebook, youtube and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon.

hello, stormy times ahead with a risk of disruption for the remainder of today into tomorrow but also on tuesday. some deep areas of low pressure heading our way. widespread gales and some heavy rain to boot. here is the culprit driving the weather today, the centre to the north, lots of isobars the more you see, the stronger the winds and this weather system here turning the showers across northern ireland and scotland into more persistent rain for the afternoon. showers continuing across england and wales as well, a bit more scattered here, predominantly in the west, some heavy ones i think for the south—east later on, maybe some hail and thunder. sunny spells across eastern counties of england. temperatures, well, they are going to slide down actually through the day after a very mild start but the wind is the thing that is really picking up.

gusts through the afternoon, particularly adjacent to the irish sea up to 60 miles an hour but gales across the board. and then through this evening and overnight we get the peak of our winds as we see a band of squally showers slide down the irish sea. winds could touch up to 80 mph, strong enough to do some damage and then obviously have knock—on effects, particularly for travelling, perhaps first thing on monday and the seat will be pretty stormy as well. high pressure will try and calm things down for the west during monday but still a strong northerly wind to the east, this time affecting the north sea. pretty turbulence here, some showers in the east first thing clearing as the day goes on and that wind going to feel cold. in aberdeen, a high ofjust three or 4 degrees, and add on the wind it will feel about freezing. coming into the north—west though by the end of the day this little weather front, it has got red dots on it, it's a warm weather front. yes, we are back into a milder air

stream as we head into tuesday. the wind swings round and becomes south—westerly. strong winds again. another spell of heavy rain, widespread across the uk, perhaps a little drier in the east first thing. again a chance of something more wintry across the mountains of scotland. and look how the temperatures leap, up to 13 for plymouth and cardiff. nine in aberdeen, feeling so much milder. but that milder spell, that little finger of yellow there on the chart behind me, short lived. we are back into chillier air again for mid week, a day of sunshine and showers on wednesday, some milder weather waits in the wings for thursday and friday. but by then we face further areas of low pressure and more 00:28:32,231 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 wet and windy weather.