the uk government defends plans to begin reopening primary schools in england from next month. it says there will be measures to ensure the safety of children and teachers. it is the case that it is extremely unlikely that any school is likely to bea unlikely that any school is likely to be a source of a covid—19 outbreak and if for any reason there are risks, then we can take steps to mitigate them. barack obama has launched a scathing attack on the trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis. the italian prime minister admits the country's taking a calculated risk by easing a number of lockdown measures from next week. borisjohnson says he understands people will feel frustrated at changes to the new lockdown guidelines in england. the government is spending millions

of pounds to accelerating the mass production of a vaccine — but the prime minister has warned a vaccine may never be found. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, revving up your router. giant rappers in lockdown and longships and loud vikings. odin is with us. hello you, and, hello, lara, how are you doing? hello. i'm good, thank you, and you seem to have cut your hair.

yes, the haircut has finally happened, and i have to say, the relationship survived. there was no blood and, to be honest, i think she has done a pretty good job, don't you? it is looking good, but has the colour changed a bit? yes, i am trying a new artificial silver colour, shall we say — don't worry, i will be returning to my natural colour of suspiciously brown as soon as i can get back to a proper hairdresser. you have had a good week, you had a lockdown birthday. that's right, it was very nice but i don't think the years need to count in lockdown. in your house, though, there has been an important birthday. i had the terrifying task of hosting a 10th birthday party for my son and seven of his friends on video chat. and i thought, what am i going to do? i normally do the silly games for the party. what am i going to do? in lockdown. i decided to do a quiz. i knocked up some google slides, i used screen sharing so everyone could see them and off we went. here is what we did, we played guess the object will stop that a

—— that is a cat. then i got a photo of my son and everyone had to suggest his eyes i had put on him. most interestingly got henry viii, steve from minecraft and elsa. fascinatingly, no one got hacker the dog and the only person to get this one was my four—year—old daughter, any ideas? that's a my little pony. its pinkie pie, you're absolutely correct. of course. and it's notjust children who are missing events. we all are. and music has been a real casualty of this — so much has been cancelled, music festivals are off, the venues are closed, and it's hard to imagine when we'd next be going to a concert. true, but musicians are not giving up so easily. this is not your typical gig venue. but, earlier this month, more than 700,000 people logged in live to watch helsinki's annual may day concert performed in this virtual arena, complete with digital fireworks.

fans as far away as the usa and germany jammed online with finnish rappers jvg. now, virtual gigs aren't new. last year, 10 million people watched dj marshmello headline the first concert held inside the game fortnite. then in stomped rapper travis scott to smash that record in april when 12.3 million players logged in to watch his astronomical event live. now i assumed that despite the huge audience figures, thisjust wouldn't appeal to the more traditional musicians, who thrive from playing to a live audience. i mean, world—famous jazz genius jamie cullum would think this was an absolute travesty — right? i love this idea. i am a big computer game fan, so, in recent years, as computer games have got more advanced,

i am not an online player so much but i love the big open—world games like grand theft auto, the last of us, red dead redemption — they really thought very hard about their soundtracks. i've actually discovered music through the radio stations as you drive around in a stolen car in grand theft auto. i would be first in line if they had opened up a jazz club in grand theft auto and i could play in it — or any type of concert. so all bets are off, it seems, and anything is possible. while i have been at the jazz clubs, minecraft gamers have taken it upon themselves to create their own massive gigs from their bedrooms. 0pen pit started in may 2018 when producer/dj/friend max schramp decided to throw his 21st birthday in minecraft. it went way better than anyone expected. since then, hundreds of thousands of fans attended their festivals to see massive music stars like 100

gecs and charli xcx. it's the only game that really allows us to do what we do. we have no affiliation to microsoft or minecraft and we can still run our events completely independently. and musicians have started to build their own arenas too. as a tribute to the cancelled music fest south by southwest, indie band courier club have launched block by blockwest. if you are a small artist in a small musical niche, it's going to be really hard for you to pack a club out and tour the world, or rather, even tour your nation. but if you can book a show on a virtual platform and bring everyone that is spread out in your community together, you can put on a full show, and you could monetise it and the money can go directly to the artist, rather than kind of circumventing through third parties. the idea is that it breaks down financial barriers, it breaks down geographical barriers and it kind of disrupts

the whole festival circuit. and for artists like pussy riot, breaking down political barriers is just as important as breaking financial ones. to me it opens up the possibility to play for a russian audience, like i really wish i could play physically, but even when it was not coronavirus, pussy riot are still enemies of the state so sometimes when we just leave the house, cops are arresting us forjust bleep leaving the house. i'm originally from a small provincial town, and western musicians never come to these cities, it doesn't matter if it is coronavirus or not coronavirus time. so it doesn't matter where you are, you can have access to this concert, that's awesome. so i think that is the future, to just cut all the people in the middle who take the money, basically, while producing nothing. and so to the question of money. in these extraordinary times,

many artists are giving their performances away for free, or, like during twitch streamaid, to encourage donations for health workers. but if artists are already making less money from their music sales, can they really afford to give away their live performances for nothing? you have got what erykah badu is doing, who is charging for hers and making it like a full production. and her argument is even though i'm not about to go bankrupt, i have a big crew of people and by bringing them together and making some money out of this we can keep things going. she has done some incredibly experimental stuff. of course, there is no substitute for a real gig, but i think it is wonderful for artists to stay connected to the people who love their music. and just as physical venues split concerts fees with the artist, virtual venues are exploring the same idea. over the course of the last few years, we have seen a quadrupling in the amount of non—gaming

content on twitch. i do think that one of our sustainable strengths over time which ensures that musicians have a high likelihood of broadcasting on twitch after social distancing ends is that they will see this as an entirely new revenue stream. even if artists can make money from online performances, you have to admit the atmosphere of an actual live performance is pretty unique. i asked chart topping artist andrewjohn hozier—byrne, better known as hozier, about gigging online. it is just that hard feeling of knowing that there could be hundreds of thousands of people looking at you at that moment and you are in stark silence. that is very odd. once the messages start coming in, there is a sense of 0k, there is a community there, and that is a very, very good feeling. i am reading your messages,

guys, thank you so much. i was quite surprised i have to say at how fulfilling that was, having interacted in real time with people — which, to be fair, is not something you can do in a gig. # take me to church # i'll worship like a dog # at the shrine of your life # i'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife.# hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that google subsidiary, sidewalk labs decided to pull the plug on its controversial smart smart city project in toronto. london based facewatch said it will update its security cameras to recognise people, even when they are wearing a mask, and chinese autonomous aerial company ehang announced they were building a hotel themed around passenger drone travel. the company has recently shown off several demos of passenger flights without pilots.

it was also the week the twitter ceo jack dawsey said his employees can work from home for ever. he said it will be his decision when to reopen the offices at twitter but it is up to workers if they want to come back with the option to work at home indefinitely. razor blades and needles have been found hidden in anti 5g posters on telegraph poles in the uk. these discoveries follow a series of attacks on engineers, fuelled by conspiracy theory were only linking 5g to the spread of the coronavirus. singaporean release robot hands to billy's social distancing. spot, boston dynamics robot dog has been fitted with a camera to monitor how busy one of the countries parks gets. it has a loudspeaker to bark messages on keeping far enough apart. finally, some of the highest resolution images ofjupiter ever seen were released this week after years of observations. using a technique called lucky imaging, scientists applied multiple

exposures of the planet, bringing them together in a mosaic. the team behind the images says it rivals the view from space. audio glitching one of the biggest culprits for bad quality video on a conference call is poor wi—fi signal. maybe you are sitting too far away from the router with solid walls between you and it, or perhaps other people in your household are hammering the wi—fi network with streaming videos and games. we also host diplomats and other foreign leaders when they visit. or it could be that the channel your wi—fi is being carried on by your router is just too crowded with other routers. this wifi analyzer app for android will reveal what is going on around you. there are a range of channels available and most routers default to the same few. that is why you see everybody crowded around down here. but see this? that's me out on my own, a bandwidth hog of the ninth order. so how did i get that vip

channel just for me? well, it's not that hard. but don't tell everyone, 0k? you need to open your router's admin tools, which can be accessed by entering the default gateway ip in the address bar of any browser on a device connected to the router. your ip address may well be the same as mine, so give that a try. if not, open your network and internet settings, then view your network properties to find the default address. you will need the admin password, which if you have never accessed this part of your router before, should be in the paperwork that came with it. in the wireless settings, if five gigahertz is available make sure that is enabled. to change your wi—fi channel you might need to take it off auto settings, then just use a different channel and see if it improves the signal. one final quality tip to get you going — set your camera at eye level

and make sure the strongest light source is in front of and not behind you. so all of us have had to adapt the way we work but for some disabled people, that's meant getting to grips with a completely new way of communicating. paul carter has been finding out more. in just the course of a few weeks, through a screen has rapidly become one of the main ways we stay in touch with friends, family but also our colleagues. but for one section of the community, that change has brought some other very specific challenges. i am profoundly deaf. my voice is very deceptive but i don't hear you. you sound awesome. for the deaf and hearing impaired community this change has meant an increasing reliance on a rapidly developing and improving technology,

live captioning, which uses ai to produce real—time, on—screen transcriptions of what a person is saying, as you can see below. most of the major platforms now include it. one person with experience of this on both sides of the fence is microsoft's chief accessibility officer, jenny lay—flurrie, who i spoke to with assistance of her sign language interpreter. the accuracy on captions has steadily increased very quickly as a result of artificial intelligence. they are now in really, in most scenarios, a superb illustration of what is being said. are they perfect? no. i think captioning was something where there was a lot of nerves in some ways, ways, a lot of empowerment in some ways but a lot of nerves. that is changing.

but live captions are only one solution and they are not suitable for everyone. the disability charity scope has put together a comprehensive breakdown of the accessibility features of all the major video calling platforms. and they have concerns about the range of access across different programmes. inaccessible video call software was already an issue for disabled people. this technology, it was available before covid—19 and automated captions have been around for a really long time. the fact there is not consistent accessibility features, quality, availability across the different platforms really demonstrates how low on the priority list accessibility has been. what i would say about disabled people is they are the original lifehacker is. when you talk to disabled people that is not ideal. what they really deserve is equality

of access to products and services for any business. a message to individual developers and organisations developing the apps can ensure the needs of blind and partially sighted people are taken oi'i partially sighted people are taken on board when you are designing and developing apps. developers have to continue to test. they need to test, test, test, apps and updates when new versions of the apps as they come to development phase, they need to be tested with real users. come to development phase, they need to be tested with real usersm there is one thing we as a community are is born problem solvers. i think this was a little bigger than their normal size problem we had to deal with. every aspect of disability is having its own learning curve. in yea rs having its own learning curve. in years to come, we will write down these learnings for future

generations. but even with new solutions comes new problems. one of the challenges is eye contact. the difference between captions on top of the screen, i am looking at the screen of the screen, i am looking at the screen and am actively engaged. could one of the tiny glimmers of light from this pandemic be that it kick—starts even greater accessibility development? when you put technology and use through a com pletely put technology and use through a completely new set of scenarios, which is what we are doing right now, you're going to get an enormous amount of money. you are going to

generate a huge amount of innovation on the back of it. i would say there is an enormous on the back of it. i would say there is an enormous amount on the back of it. i would say there is an enormous amount of stuff out there to help employers and employees work in a remote world. we are doing it and there are moments and days where it is not easy but it isa and days where it is not easy but it is a lot easier than we thought it would be and so, really, really, just know it is entirely possible. that was paul. i had been looking forward to this for weeks. this is mark. how have you been? we are ok. juggling childcare and working from the same space, which is interesting, is probably the best way to put it. very politely put. we talked earlier about music event is being cancelled for the foreseeable

future. film and tv production is off at the moment as well, isn't it? it is very difficult to socially distance on movie and tv drama sets so they have had to completely shut down. interestingly, some directors have said they are working on postproduction of movies, suicide squad at home. if you are trying to film anything now, all of that is shutdown. then you have another form of entertainment, like video games. we would normally be going to the video game show injune but that is not happening. what is your take on how the video games industry has or has not been affected? video games, every bit of a video game is generated on software and on hardware. the video games industry is in hardware. the video games industry isina hardware. the video games industry is in a unique position. instead of

working together in an office or studio, they have packed up their kit and are continuing to work from home. it is incredible. i spoke kit and are continuing to work from home. it is incredible. ispoke to kit and are continuing to work from home. it is incredible. i spoke to a lot of game developers over the last couple of weeks. they were happy to work from home and had no distractions. unlike other creative industries, they do not need to be in offices, they are connected and can work wherever they are. the next assassins creed is expected to be released later this year. in a move next —— less surprising than discovering bears use the words as a lavatory, we had vessels that rim is that a third person action game involving hats and horns have been swirling around the internet for months. buy 0din's raven, i caught up

months. buy 0din's raven, i caught up with the game's director by video call. we chatted about valhalla. how is the lockdown due to be covid—19 pandemic affected the development of this title? some adapting had to be done to work in this new reality. but we have a lot of incredible software. you realise all of a sudden when you are pushed into this kind of context that it is actually quite feasible. we are in quite good shape to be able to manage the way we handle our communications, our reviews, we have the tools we need. it is going quite well overall. franchise like assassins creed is quite big, like a juggernaut. it is there pressure to get it completed despite the coronavirus lockdown?” would say with our fan base, there

is always internal pressure to deliver a high—quality experience. this is what we strive for, our ambition. we checked by week on how we are in terms of productivity and efficiency and it is something we continue to monitor, for sure. 0ur ambitions and goals have not changed. it involves a viking who leads his people from norway to resettle in england, a move which does not go down well at all with the locals. vikings are famous for turning up, smashing stuff and stealing things. how will that be expressed? of course there is raging. you have a long ship and accrue on that ship, a raiding party you can customised. then a settle m e nt you can customised. then a settlement which is at the heart of the motivation journey. settlement which is at the heart of the motivationjourney. we are building a new home, a new settle m e nt building a new home, a new settlement in england. players can

pretty much any weapons they want me any combination of weapons. if you wa nt to any combination of weapons. if you want to fight with two shields, we let it happen, go nuts. the finished game is slated to release on pc and next gen consoles. now we have been looking at some of the entertainment that has had to be cancelled and this weekend. i have been looking looking forward to the eurovision song contest, but what has happened is the ai eurovision song contest that we talked about a few weeks ago. and something ifound rather amusing was that britain's entry was called rentree. would you believe, i picked the winner? my favourite was australia's uncanny valley and it was the favourite with the public too. i think it was the totally bonkers lyrics that won it. maybe and, wow, clearly you are very talented at predicting the desirability of partly ai—generated, cheesy pop.

well done. yes, it's my main superpower. listen, that's it for this week. and you can find us on social media, facebook, instagram and twitter. thanks for watching. good morning. a lot of cloud and rain to come across northern ireland and scotland. england and wales brightening up with sunshine. what a glorious start to the day it was on the south coast. 0ver glorious start to the day it was on the south coast. over the next p days, the weather will become drier,

sunnier and warmer. by wednesday temperatures could reach 27 celsius, likely to be the hottest weather we have seen so far this year. not that hot today. we have extensive cloud in the north and west of the country. that is rain bearing clouds. we have had damp weather across northern ireland and scotland. a few patches across wales and northern england built into the afternoon we see sunny skies in the south. most areas should enjoy brighter conditions. the rain is enough for a time in scotland. there will be a spell of sunshine. listing temperatures in aberdeen to 16. the rain will ease off for a time but there is more wet weather to come. 0vernight the rain will spread to scotland, in across parts of northern england, maybe the midlands and wales seeing damp weather. wherever you are it will be a mild night, temperatures nine to 11

celsius. into the week ahead, mild weather will drift eastwards and there will be warmer air across the uk. on monday we will start to see warmerair uk. on monday we will start to see warmer air ride across the south. in parts of wales, northern england and scotla nd parts of wales, northern england and scotland there will be quite a bit of cloud with further outbreaks of rain at times. temperatures 18 degrees in aberdeen, so feeling pleasa nt degrees in aberdeen, so feeling pleasant but up to 2a in london and the south—east. tuesday more dry weather and more of us will sunshine and high temperatures. still rain in the west scotland. in the brighter moments, in belfast, turning warmer. 18 celsius the forecast high on tuesday, 25 in the south east. wednesday will be the warmest day of this week with temperatures reaching 27 around london. it would turn more and settled across the north west

with rain returning. that is the weather.

hello, good afternoon. the cabinet office minister, michael gove, has insisted the government is confident that teachers and students will be safe, if a phased reopening of english schools begins next month. mr gove has been defending the government's plan to gradually re—start lessons in england next month with social distancing measures following criticism from teaching unions. labour has urged the government to publish the scientific advice guiding the proposals. 0ur policical correspondent jessica parker reports.