well, the jet stream still sending weather systems in our direction, but notice the way in which the jet stream angles itself towards the north—west of the uk, so that's where we are going to see the wettest of the weather, and this weather setup would allow high pressure across the near continent to try to edge back in our direction. the extent to which it will do that at this stage is a little unclear but, for some of us at least, there will be some drier weather for a time, particularly in the south and the east. further north and west, more rain and gales. generally, it will be mild. that's all from me. bye for now.

hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. two mortar rounds land near the us embassy in baghdad — as huge crowds join funeral processions in iraq, for iran's top military commander, killed by a us drone strike. iranian president rouhani visited the dead general‘s family — promising that americans will feel the impact of their actions for years ahead. the queen sends her condolences to the people of australia, as fears grow that high winds and temperatures will push bushfires towards heavily populated areas.

the shadow brexit secretary, keir starmer enters the race to become labour leader. he'll launch his campaign in stevenage tomorrow. and coming up after the papers, the click team look back at their highlights of last year. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent, and benedicte paviot, uk correspondent for france 24. and president of the foreign press association. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer says that doubts are growing over the united states case for killing qassem suleimani. it says that donald trumps decision has driven a wedge between washington's relations with its allies.

the sunday times says that british troops in iraq are trapped in a tinderbox after the assasination of qassem suleimani. it reports that they're going to be given more firepower to combat any possible attack. the mail on sunday says the prime minister is jetting back to the uk to deal with the iran crisis. the paper says a number of ministers are angry that president trump didn't give the uk prior warning before the attack. the sunday express leads with the foreign office's advice that british tourists in the united arab emirates and israel should remain vigilant — whilst telling tourists iraq or iran to leave immediately. the sunday telegraph says that the navy is set to be deployed to guard british ships in the gulf. the independent leads with a report from iran. they say that today's funeral was marked by outpourings of grief and vows of vengeance. the sunday mirror carries

a report on milly dowler‘s killer, levi bellfield. those are the front pages of the sunday papers, let's start by going through those. we will start with the sunday telegraph, the navy sending, the navy going to guard british ships in the gulf, this is a key shipping lane for a lot of the world's oil and strategically a bit ofa world's oil and strategically a bit of a vulnerability if iran did want to hit it. yes, notjust being sent there, they're actually there could bea there, they're actually there could be a whole disposal is being activity and of course the word protection comes up because actions have consequences. and although the us‘s allies were not informed clearly lifts has significant repercussions and a lot of thinking and strategizing is going on. bidwell is for example the defence secretary says that he has ordered

each of us montrose and hms defender to accompany british flagships through the strait of hormuz. your portrait being already, there's a lot of tension in the region, we seen it and we have seen confiscation and hijacking of british flagships at their before. one fit of the world's oil actually goes through that. in many ways, the us, british ships and others are very vulnerable. what they are all busy doing is trying to see, it iran has promised severe revenge, not just revenge, but severe revenge for this killing of the general. i think what's interesting about the sunday telegraph and a few other papers is the fact that we learned that dominic rob is the foreign secretary, going to meet mike pompeo. not a secretary, going to meet mike pompeo. nota big rush, secretary, going to meet mike pompeo. not a big rush, will be on thursday. although this is a crisis, it's not something, you know, it's all too short up in the late not

just of this crisis which is described by the daily telegraph as boris johnson's described by the daily telegraph as borisjohnson‘s biggest described by the daily telegraph as boris johnson's biggest foreign policy crisis of his premiership, but also of course in the context of brexit the us uk relationship. a lot of fallout in the life strategizing that will be going on. and he's not, you know the prime minister is not rushing back from this. he's had a 12 day holiday. and has not said anything so far. unlike president macron who is asking, as others are doing, for de—escalation. because this is a very serious stretching up of tensions. even sending extra, you know, sort of navy numbers to the region sends a message, doesn't it? i suppose that is the point of it. the question is, that everybody is asking obviously what will iran do

and words like revenge and vengeance are being bandied about, and the sunday times is talking about reinforcing the 400 troops we have in iraq, you know, it appears that iran more or less in iraq, you know, it appears that iran more oi’ less i’ui'is in iraq, you know, it appears that iran more or less runs iraq now which is something that most of us we re which is something that most of us were not aware of until this happened. and nobody knows what the reaction is going to be. interesting you mention the sunday times, because if you put those two up front pages together versus vulnerability at sea, vulnerability for british military presence on land and the sunday times describing them as trapped in a tinderbox, potentially vulnerable situation for them. in the sunday times also has them. in the sunday times also has the ankle about radcliffe who is a british, well, a dual national. iran does not recognise

that. obviously one of the things that we british are interested in and one of the reasons why we want to d and split the tension as much as possible because she is facing even longer in jail she fears. those two front pages deal with the fallout and the consequences of this assassination, the observer has an interesting take and it looks at the rationale and reasoning behind the killing of this general. and the us had not given much detail but sort of suggested that there was perhaps an attack being planned against us interests, the observer here casting or covering the doubts about the case for killing the general. the case does appear to be fairly thin. and there's been a lot of speculation in there's been a lot of speculation in the papers until now about what donald trump's actual briefing was

and what his motive was for carrying out this assassination. we got to bearin out this assassination. we got to bear in mind how unusual it is for a western democracy to carry out a political assassination as an instrument of foreign policy. generally that's not considered a good idea. i'm no expert on iran and iraq, and all the rest of it but in principle assassinating people does not seem like it a good idea. think what puzzles peoples who are experts and even people who are not experts is but president trump talks about, he did this because there was a plot which as you say, some people are very critical of because they say the evidence is razor thin, but he actually wanted to stop a war not start a war. that will resonate with a lot of people because this is come since 2003 in the us and british troops in the iraq war,

this is absolutely a biggest significant development which will have to see how this does play out, and there's just 400 british troops in iraq, there's 1200 just 400 british troops in iraq, there's1200 throughout just 400 british troops in iraq, there's 1200 throughout the middle east, and there's real concern, it is interesting because there will be big decisions that borisjohnson will be needing to make about this, the soldiers had already been told that rather than training soldiers they need to go to bigger centres, us controlled compounds, they are basically going to be busy protecting themselves which is totally counterproductive. what we should point out because of fairness is the fact that those british troops are there at the request of the iraqi government. but they may be told, sorry, been committed to be told one of the lines very soon there's a big chance that the uk will be asked to withdraw all of its forces from iraq. we have spoken

about the prime minister's handling of the situation in the mail on sunday leads with the headline force jets into face iran crisis. he's got, as you say, this biggest test of his foreign policy decision—making so far in his premiership, and you can't do that sort of thing when you're on holiday. you could. you could say something but he hasn't. this is what the observer talks about the prime minister's silence is deafening over the crisis. the foreign secretary has not said anything, the only person was ben wallace the defence secretary. he made a statement that was very neutral. the phrasing of it, it was talking about how safe it is to go there. and yet the americans are critical, mike pompeo critical about the response of the british government. in fact he was also

critical of france and of president macron. he said the europeans have not been as helpful as they wish they could be. which is fascinating. all ben wallace the defence secretary has said is that america is entitled to defend itself if it is entitled to defend itself if it is under attack. that's a sort of conditional statement. the word that keeps on coming back his strategy. americans have been pulling out of syria, abandons the kurds overnight, you know, which had all kinds of very quick sudden consequences, and took everybody and possibly the turks and they were fully formed and along with that. what is the strategy here? surely then it would make sense, so he told one of his favourite senators while playing golf on monday afternoon that this attack was coming. also disquiet we should point out that it's not ma nifested should point out that it's not manifested in these articles, in america at the fact that there's a

lot of democrats also who are not happy, and others, not happy about the fact that they think this is irresponsible and the consequences will be huge and misguided. let's mention the word impeachment. because what will be dominating the news in the coming week and weeks, it will be impeachment. some people wonder if this is some sort of distraction strategy. a high—risk one. it's high—risk whatever it is because of impeachment. of the high risk of consequences that is going to have across the middle east. extraordinary echoes across bill clinton's impeachment when he launched cruise missile strikes on basesin launched cruise missile strikes on bases in afghanistan. the parallels are uncanny. ijust saying a into us from our political correspondent saying that spokesmen for number ten sing the prime minister will be having ministerial meetings on monday and speaking to foreign leaders over the next two days.

it's the sort of ties in with the observer's observation that well, perhaps boris johnson should observer's observation that well, perhaps borisjohnson should have cut his holiday short. is that fair, do you think? i do think it's fair. let's not be naive. there's mobile phones and computers, of course you've been talking to his... i mean, we must not be unfairly critical. of course he is fully briefed and the five they made a judgement that he is fully briefed and the fibres they made a judgement that it did not need to or want to oi’ that it did not need to or want to or whatever the equation was, anyway he's coming back. what's interesting is he will the eu commission president in london on wednesday and hosted in meeting the prime minister. brexit was supposed to be the biggest foreign policy, but i learned from these articles that dominic rob, before he goes to washington will actually be making trips to both paris and berlin. there's also been disquiet in germany very much about this, so

let's see. there is some approval of the fact that it was necessary possibly but not everybody. we extensively covered iran, it dominated the front page but i want to touch on other stories. if a chance to ahead, if it goes ahead taxpayers will suffer a £40 billion loss. that's a huge number. this actually comes from lord berkeley who is the deputy chair of the committee to review the hs to project. he's an opponent of the project. he's an opponent of the project. chair is a supporter of that. he is a known quantity in that sense but some of the numbers he's come up with our quite alarming, and obviously feed into a decision which has to be taken fairly soon about whether the government is... by borisjohnson, this whether the government is... by boris johnson, this is whether the government is... by borisjohnson, this is a domestic issue. a big one. this is what i do

for my spare time. i read the conservative manifesto in the paragraph in there on hs to is a masterpiece of obscurity. setting aside transport in foreign affairs is also the of health was the prime minister has to deal with. saying that a pledge to eradicate long delays, you still got 11 million patients waiting three more weeks to see a patients waiting three more weeks to seea gp. patients waiting three more weeks to see a gp. which is really worrying and not acceptable. worrying for people who have to wait that long to try and get that kind of visit. if you think back to the manifesto in the vow that portions of a when he first became prime minister injuly, very much saying that he would cut that three week wait, what's interesting is a pull saying improving access to gps is the second—highest health priority for the public after increasing and staff members. clearly and hs, a touch of their daily lives. not even

mentioning the hold crisis about carers. well, that brings us to the end of the paper review for now but come back at 1130 we will get through the stories and others as well. and you canjoin us through the stories and others as well. and you can join us we would like to see you then, next on bbc news is click. hello, welcome, and a very happy new year to you. gosh, 2020 always sounded like the future, didn't it?! now that it's here, i guess it's not. we are going to get stuck into the new year next week

but first, we're going to take you on a trip back through 2019. it was the year that we celebrated our 1000th show with an interactive episode online, where you could choose your own path through. imagine if everything that you watched was interactive and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires, or even how much time you had. if you go online to the address that is on screen now, you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. you get to choose which tech stories you hear about and in how much detail. as you watch, you will be given options to dive deeper or to maybe look at things from a different perspective or maybe to skip on entirely. i tried out nasa's next moon buggy. by the way, we are on a slight

incline right now. laughs. and we visited taiwan to see how green technology was helping to clean up the environment. i think 2019 was a year when many of us regarded technology with a healthy degree of scepticism. instead of just openly welcoming tech advances, we worried about data privacy, about the management of social media sites, and about online security. it was a year when the police around the world stepped up their use of facial recognition technology and while, yes, it could help track down criminals, as the police here in the uk discovered, big brother is not everyone's cup of tea. police cameras in an east london street. everyone gets scanned. if you refuse, here's what can happen. if i want to cover me face, i'll cover me face! don't push me! this man didn't want to be caught by the police cameras, so he covered his face. police stopped him, they photographed him anyway, an argument followed. how would you like it if you walked down the street and someone grabbed you?

crosstalk. what's your suspicion? the fact that he's walked past clearly marked... i would do the same! it gives us grounds to stop him and verify... no, it doesn't! the police said this was disorderly behaviour, so they gave him a fine. the chap told me down the road, he said they've got facial recognition. so i walk past like that — it's a cold day as well. as soon as i've done that, the police officers asked me to come to them. so got my back up, i said to him, bleep off, basically. i don't want my face shown on anything. if i want to cover my face, i will cover my face. it's not for them to tell me to not cover my face. got a now £90 fine — there you go, look at that! thanks, lads! £90! well done! he was caught up in the last of ten trials carried out by the metropolitan police. the met have had successes — there were three arrests from facial recognition on this test day alone — but the trials have proved controversial.

opponents claim they are taking place in a legal vacuum. there is nothing in uk law that has the words ‘facial recognition‘. there is no legal basis for the police to be using facial recognition. there are no legal limitations on how they can use it, no policy, no regulation. this is a free for all. we are reviewing all capabilities in terms of live facial recognition. and absolutely, the technology is there for body—worn or smaller devices to be fitted with facial recognition technology, as is cctv, so absolutely, we will look at that.but again, the right safeguards and the right reviews and learning has to be put around that. now, what's your top technology of 2019? well, the one that we think really came of age this year, really started to take off, was electric cars. for the first time, if you were thinking of getting

a new car, you probably at least considered getting an all—electric one, so we did a whole show on them. and to prove how quick they can go, we raced one against a lambo! now, both cars are in their fastest set—ups and whatever happens today, we recommend you don't try this at home. we have several safety measures in operation. first of all, johnny is a professional racing instructor here at drift limits. he does this day in, day out to scare the living daylights out of members of the public. in the passenger seat will be mark, ensuring fair play and probably screaming his head off. and who can we get to give one of the finest sports cars a run for its money in a tesla? it's only top gear's the stig! oh, i'm sorry, the stig wasn't available, so i'm standing in. is that 0k? it's only click‘s lara lewington! drivers, start your engines! revs engine. relaxing music plays.

dramatic music plays. ready... i'm the passenger here. myjob is really simple, ijust have to observe and report! whoa! i did brake a bit early, but i so clearly won. i'm no expert but that was no contest. wow! and i can tell you that lara hasn't stopped bragging about that race since. now, 2019 was the year when many more manufacturersjoined the electric party. better infrastructure, decent driving ranges and guarantees on battery life all added to the mood music.

and so, dan simmons went to the frankfurt motor show to catch the electric buzz. electric may only represent less than 3% of all new car sales last year, but vw have taken a close look at them and reckon it's the future. well, it's obviously not real. these cool designs actually for the future, maybe. each car manufacturer brings out some concept ideas. interestingly on the volkswagen stand, they were all electric. the real car they were launching was the id.3 — a sort of electric golf. with a 205—340 mile range, depending on the exact model, with prices starting from a competitive 30,000 euros. and a first from vw — they will guarantee the battery for eight years, meaning that if it loses more than a quarter of its full charge when new, they will replace it. audi hasn't done much in the way

of electric for the past ten years, either — although now they have this. sorry, that's another concept car. now, they have this. they have started with the popular style family suv. but at more than £70,000, can many families afford it? surely, some things will never lose the roar of a combustion engine. now, when land rover decide to make the defender electric, well, then you know there is a trend going on. it also updates its own software over the air. and then, there were the sports cars. the taycan is porsche's first all—electric car and it shifts — 0—62 in 3.2 seconds, with a range of up to 279 miles and a guarantee on that battery. ok, it's £115,000, but that's a 12k

saving on its petrol performance equivalent, the 911 actual turbo. good value, maybe, but i have a feeling that it's that vw that will turn out to be super competitive as an entry model for most. that was dan playing with the everyday and the not—so—everyday evs. last autumn, marc cieslak was invited to new mexico in the states to see the world's first commercial spaceport. fire, fire! it's a little after 7am and i'm heading into the desert in new mexico, about 20 miles past a place called truth or

consequences. hi there. thank you very much. welcome to spaceport. thank you! the only way that you can get to space today is with the russians, and they're currently charging nasa around $80 million a ticket. spaceport america is the new home of virgin galactic — the company founded by billionaire sir richard branson to take paying customers on 90—minute flights to the edge of space. the spaceport‘s exterior is the product of british architects foster & partners. eventually, five spaceships and two carrier aircraft will reside in the hangar. passengers will also receive three days' training here before blasting off into the upper atmosphere. and spaceship from base, you are go for l—10 on top. it's also home to mission control, where all flight operations are monitored from. and this is the very first time a tv

crew has been allowed to film inside this room. winds are holding 160 at ten knots... when do you think virgin galactic is going to be putting paying customers up into space? when is the date — when‘s that going to happen? right now, according to our current projections, we think that we can start commercial operations next year. that is all we have time for the shortcut of click this week. for more of the big themes and big moments from click 2019, check out the full version which is up on iplayer right now. who knows what 2020 will bring! well, to try and find out, next week, we will be at the world's largest expo, ces in las vegas, and we would love you to be there too. hold on tight, this ride does not stop! see you there.

hello there. some fairly lively conditions heading our way for next week good evening. a breezier day on the way tomorrow. still fairly cloudy for many, too. the cloud in the west through tonight will produce the odd spot of light rain and drizzle. some heavier bursts across the outer hebrides, orkney and shetland but milder air pushing in here after a bit of a chilly night. where we see clear skies across parts of eastern scotland and eastern england, we could see temperatures drop low enough for a touch of frost but, in the west, milder conditions to take us into sunday morning. like today, lots of cloud around for sunday. best of some breaks in the northeast of scotland, maybe through parts of east wales, the midlands and the south developing through the day. the cloud in the west still thick enough to produce the odd shower

and across the hebrides and also the northwest highlands, more persistent rain expected. a breezy day and temperatures up a little bit as that breeze comes in from the southwest, 8—12 celsius. warmer air pushes into next week, but at a price — the winds will pick up widespread gales. winds may be touching 70—80 miles an hour in parts of northern scotland and we'll all see some rain at times, too. bye for now.

you're watching bbc news. i'm ben bland. the headlines at 11. two mortar rounds land near the us embassy in baghdad — as huge crowds join funeral processions in iraq, for iran's top military commander, killed by a us drone strike. iranian president rouhani visited the dead general‘s family — promising that americans will feel the impact of their actions for years ahead. fears that high winds and temperatures will push australia's bushfires towards heavily populated areas. thousands of reserve troops are deployed. the shadow brexit secretary, keir starmer, enters the race to become labour leader. he'll launch his campaign in stevenage tomorrow. councils urge the courts to impose tougher fines to curb the surge in fly—tipping. and we ll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers benedict paviot and john rentoul —