comedian ricky gervais will be making a comeback as host. we can speak now to the entertainmentjournalist and broadcaster caroline frost. you wish you were in los angeles, but you are in london. yes, but ealing is a pretty good substitute! tell us about the awards, the decision first of all for wreckage of —— ricky gervais to host it. not everybody will be pleased.” of —— ricky gervais to host it. not everybody will be pleased. i think all of these actors and actresses will have to put their best performances on tonight as they perfect their grins and pretend to

laugh along at themselves. ricky gervais always says he takes no prisoners, gervais always says he takes no risoners he's gervais always says he takes no prisoners, he's doing it for the little people, and he really does ta ke little people, and he really does take them into his captivity and then mentions everybody from the surgeons that are making fortunes in early two mel gibson's drinking. most controversially in previous yea rs, most controversially in previous years, he mentioned caitlynjenner when she was just emerging as a prominent transgender figure so clearly all bets are off. he's also raised the stakes by saying, this is the last time he will be doing it. but he has said that before. give us the big nominations. a couple of stories, this is the year once again of netflix. we know it has been moving into that tv world but it has increasingly been putting its stamp

on the film pedigree tax agrees. it has 3a nominations in total with the irishman, martin scorsese's film. all eyes will be on phoebe waller bridge because we will be hoping she goes home with a clutch of awards for flea bag. we goes home with a clutch of awards forflea bag. we should mention olivia colman, a national treasure turned icon for her performance as elizabeth ii, helena bonham carter, daniel craig, sasha baron cohen, and a british nomination for game of thrones. plenty of people to root for anybody tuning in overnight. and a certain star ofjojo rabbit as well. if it gets boring, i'm sure there will be something on netflix.

now it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. hello once again. a fairly quiet weekend of weather continues apace for many parts of the british isles for the rest of today. still got a weather front close by to the north of scotland, so thicker cloud there, some bits and pieces of rain and rather more noticeable wind than will be the case elsewhere. the cloud just thick enough across the high ground in england and wales for the odd spot of rain, not amounting to much on what is going to be a fairly mild afternoon. not a great deal changes through the course of the evening. perhaps the rain quits the scene from parts of scotland overnight. and with a fairly complete cloud cover, temperatures holding up, four to about 10 degrees or so. a mild start to the new day on monday. it is a dry start for many, but don't be fooled by that. certainly into northern ireland, scotland and the north of england, and increasingly later on in the afternoon, wales, the south—west and eventually into the midlands too, you will all get to see the rain. it will brighten up behind it. you don't get to see the rain in the south—east

until quite late in the day. bye— bye. hello this is bbc news. the headlines... iranian mps chant "death to america!", as president trump warns the united states has a list of 52 targets that will be hit "very hard" if iran retaliates for the killing of its top military leader. royal navy warships are ordered to escort british—flagged vessels in the persian gulf and the prime minister is returning to the uk from his caribbean holiday. the australian prime minister warns that the bushfire crisis could last for months. 2a people have now died. now on bbc news, it's click. this week: spotting a face, a ticket to space, and a drag race. it can only be the finest

tech from click in 2019. 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 ioooth 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 at 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'll be given options to dive deeper or to 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. 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's 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? you wouldn't like it, would you? what's your suspicion? the fact that he's walked past clearly marked... i would do the same! 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 officer's asked me to come to them. got my back up, i said to him...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 £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.

it's a free for all. we are reviewing all capabilities in terms of live facial recognition. 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. and it turns out that warning was timely, because a few months later, it emerged that facial recognition technology was being used to identify members of the public without their knowledge or consent at the london kings cross station estate. and it was with the help of london's metropolitan police. the owners of that area and the police have both since apologised and the scheme was scrapped, but there is still no laws in the uk specifically relating to how facial recognition cameras should be used. 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 it's 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! ready... i'm the passenger here so myjob is really simple, ijust have to observe... 0h! i did brake a bit early, but i have 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. 2019 was the year when many more manufacturers joined

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. there was really only one big question for the big execs of the huge german car companies at the world's biggest motor show. why are they ten years behind tesla in offering us an all—electric car? we are not each time the fastest or the earliest, but if we come, we come very strong. tesla is a company that has been solely focused on electric vehicle production, you have to give them credit for blazing the trail. 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 are

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 ids, 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?

i think there is this perception in the market that i have to pay more for the electric version of the same size vehicle than i would for gas or diesel. i think what you are going to see is, at least at audi, we are going into a lot lower segments in order to make electrification much more affordable. there are not many families that could afford 90,000 euros for a car. sure there are! but surely some things will never lose the roar of a combustion engine. when land rover decide to make the defender electric, 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 9/11 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. now, from electric to self—driving cars. for the past couple of years or so they have been tested on the roads of arizona, usa. but in 2018, things went badly wrong when one of them failed to stop and killed a pedestrian. last year, i visited the state to find out how the locals felt about living with autonomous vehicles. in chandler, there is the same mix of excitement and concern about self—driving cars that we have seen everywhere. the difference is, for these people,

it is happening right in front of them, right now. it is big money saying, "hey, listen, this is cool, this is new, i'm sure you will like this because you see it and it's fascinating," but at the same time, you are costing people theirjobs and people who are taking care of their families. this is something you would see on tv when you were a kid in old 905 movies of self—driving cars and the fact that it is actually here at our fingertips, i think it is incredible. lyft drivers are going to lose theirjobs, and not only will they lose theirjobs, i promise you they are going to try to figure out a way to make machines create these cars, so they are not even going to let humans create the cars. do i trust a machine with my children's lives? i don't know if i could do that or not. and last year, the fears

of the community became a reality. but the number of accidents involving self—driving cars is very low for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. testing continues, both in the states and elsewhere around the world, but most experts agree that we are still quite a few years away from seeing the widespread use of cars that can safely drive themselves. not least because the legal framework to allow it is still being thrashed out. now, another big development in tech this year has been the long—awaited arrival of 5g. has it changed your life yet? amongst other things, 5g promises to connect everything all of the time. and when my say everything, i mean...

everything. in this idyllic patch of british countryside, the birds are cheerfully singing and the cows are peacefully grazing. but look closer and you will see there is something very different about these cows, linking them to a unique experiment. this dairy farm in somerset is one of the first test beds for 5g in the uk. the cows are wearing sensors and all of the data is being sent to the cloud and then back to the farmer who can make decisions based on this data. almost every task on this farm can be automated. these cows are queueing up to be milked. the robot picks up how much milk is coming from each of the cows others and controls the sensitivity

of the milking as well. the cows here come and go as they please with little human interaction their movements. so one of these cows has just taken itself for a massage. 5g could change the life of cows forever. and from one minor miracle to the promise of another now, space travel for ordinary folk. like us! last autumn, mark was invited to new mexico in the united states to see the world's first commercial spaceport. 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. thank you very much.

the only way that you can get to space today is with the russians and they are currently charging nasa around $80 million per ticket. spaceport america is the new home of virgin galactic, the company founded by billionaire richard branson to take paying customers on 90 minute flights to the edge of space. the spaceport‘s exterior is the product of a dish architects also eventually, five spaceships and to make carrier and aircraft will reside in the hang—up. passengers will also receive three days training here before blasting off into the upper atmosphere. you are go for launch. 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. the winds are holding exterior at ten knots and 30... when do you think virgin galactic is going to be putting paying customers into space? what is the day, when is that going to happen? right now, according to our current projections, we think we can start operation next year. the world, of course, has bigger problems to solve than just trying to get us off it and in 2019, green issues and sustainability came to the fore. extiction rebellion, greta thunberg, and the uk's commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050. last year i met up with the first scientist to suggest that as well as stopping emitting greenhouse gases, we might be able to use technology to pull them back out of the atmosphere. it's called the artificial tree.

the air passes through these filters which are made of a very special material, because the co2 actually clings to this material as the air passes over it. once these filters are saturated with carbon dioxide, this whole thing moves down into a container of water where this particular material releases the co2 into the sealed container and then congratulations, you've captured yourself some co2 from the air. this is the brainchild of clouse, here at the aptly named negative emission centre at arizona state university. i realised very early on that this is a waste management problem. we are dumping co2 into the atmosphere and itjust stays there. it was very clear to me in the early 90s that sometime in the 21st century, will have to stop omitting.

——emitting. he was the first scientist back in 1999 to publish a scientific paper suggesting that carbon capture from the air was a feasible way of combating climate change. and once you've captured the carbon, the next problem is what are you going to do with it? we can use the co2 to create drinks, beer or soda or whatever. we can also use co2 forfuel production. there are also currently studies ongoing to see if we can somehow use the co2 as a building material. yet, in the future, we may be able to lock co2 into concrete. climate change is getting ever more urgent and so the work to combat it is getting ever more important. isn't that right, alexa? yes it is, spencer. you been quite popular over

the last year, haven't you? i have, haven't i, spencer? everything. i'm always listening to you, spencer. not so good are reacting to other types of sounds like alarms or dogs barking. iam. yes, thanks alexa. paul carter, earlier in the year went to see a british company that is teaching voice assistance some new tricks. these waveforms that i can see here on the screen at representations of what is coming off the microphone is in there. and in the middle is the actual dog bark threshold that the system is listening for and when it identifies them, you should hear it activate. hey marty, i can hear you barking. as it is late and you're home alone, i'm going to let your owner. turn on the lights and play some jazz because i know how much you like it. nice!

but dogs, as good as they are, are only the beginning. the space you can be used to record an enormous range of sounds ranging from the dramatic... ..to the more low—key. there is no short cuts of this sort of thing. you literally have to have the data sets. we had to go and collect all of that data so we have the world's largest collection of audio data, 15 million audio event files that help us train that technology itself. and of course, we couldn't leave without taking a sledgehammer to some windows. smashing! now, lara has been extremely busy over the past year and when we asked her to pick her highlights from 2019, she chose this next film. like many of us, she has been worried about how the bigger tech companies are using our data to target us with ads, decide what we see on social media or even possibly influence how we might vote.

in the summer, she joined two of our production crew in a unique theatre experience to make us all think twice. we've been instructed to go to a pub near london bridge where we delivered a message. we need you, sarah needs you. keep your phone to hand and await further instructions. gosh. ——josh. are you sarah? yes. do you know josh? yes. we are told about a secret mind—shifting experience where we give up our memories. memory deletion basically. and you don't remember because it is a procedure that you had done. i went behind the scenes with one of the creators to learn what is actually going on here. we get sent their name and e—mail from our ticketing provider. we can run data enrichment on the person. we can pull up things like—related people, personal e—mail address, getup, anything that could be relevant, even if we don't exactly know how it is relevant.

from that point, we can start curating the imagery which makes sense to show them. i'm looking for the dossier they collated on you. as the show unfolds, tension builds until the big reveal. the dossier on you concocted from your online life. i have no idea what we're going to find in these files. what is this?! wow! my old boss from years ago. i'm really careful about not putting anything personal online, yet still, what they found surprised me. my first thought was that if you put my name into a search engine, you would find far more relevant and meaningful information that the pictures that are here. that is true but at the same time, you were kind of know where it came from and it would lose a little bit of mystery. take the memory stick out and delete information on sales. get rid of it all! everybody out! now, you need to go. go! give me the memory sticks! because if i don't have

them, then he will. it's been a pretty intense experience but the thing that it's really left with me is that i really want to hold onto my data. the show has really stuck with me, yet a few weeks on, has my behaviour changed? of course not, i really want my online life to be easy so i'm still handing over my data left, right and centre but maybe i'm just yet to be struck by what that means in the real world. that was lara, i wonder whether she is contemplating less data—sharing for her new year's resolution. those were the big moments and the big themes from 2019. who knows what 2020 will bring? well, to get an idea, next week, were going to be at the world's biggest tech expo, ces in las vegas. we hope you can be there with us.

hold on tight, ride is nonstop. we'll see you there.

good afternoon. president trump says the united states has a list of 52 iranian sites which will be hit "very hard and very fast" if there is retaliation for the killing of qasem soleimani. iran's most senior military commander was assassinated on thursday in a us air strike in the iraqi capital, baghdad. here's our diplomatic correspondent, james robbins. tens of thousands of iranians are moaning general soleimani and