stage of the journey.” between each stage of the journey.” wa nt between each stage of the journey.” want one final question to you again. it is all very well and it is great having an opportunity to talk of summits, but how confident are you that the people who can actually make a difference listening to what you are saying? i think that they are starting to listen more now than ever before. i think they are starting to wake up and realise that young people do know what they're talking about. at the same time, i do experience a lot of people telling us that we are doing well and supporting us with words rather than with actions. sadly we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us. now it's time for a look at the weather.

hello there. it's been quite a quiet saturday, hasn't it? a lot of dry weather but rather cloudy weather across the country. and the cloud is thick enough for a spot or two of light, drizzly rain sinking its way out of scotland into northern england overnight. further south, we keep some clearer skies and here, there will be some patchy mist and fog. temperatures are perhaps widely into single figures. what's in store for sunday? pretty much more of the same. we see this cloud with light, drizzly rain continuing to linger over scotland and northern england. hopefully some brighter spells further south. there will be one or two isolated coastal showers dotted around and with light winds. if you catch a shower, there will be pretty slow moving. temperatures are similar to the last couple of days, slightly below par for the time of year, but we are looking at highs of eight to 30 degrees. make the most of it. there is a sign of a change as we go into the early half of the week as areas of low pressure starts to push in from the atlantic, it turns increasingly wet and windy.

hello, this is bbc news with rebecca jones. the headlines. millions of people are now facing tighter coronavirus restrictions in england. lancashire moves into the highest alert category, but there's still stalemate over greater manchester. france's anti—terrorism prosecutor says samuel paty, the teacher who was murdered near paris yesterday in a suspected islamist attack — had received several threats before he died. new zealand's prime ministerjacinda ardern and her labour party have won a second term in office with a landslide general election victory, after campaigning on their success in handling the coronavirus pandemic. hundreds of people have been queuing at a hospital in eastern china, where a covid—i9 vaccine is being offered to the public for the first time. it costs about 60 dollars but has not yet completed clinical trials.

now on bbc news. click gets hands on with the new microsoft xbox. this week: how technology is being used as a tool of abuse. and how it can help survivors. the latest offering from apple. and the next generation of games consoles is here... nearly. welcome to click. for many of us, 2020 has been the year we have all been stuck at home more than we would have liked. now for some, spending more time with our partners has been great.

for some, it has started to grate. but there are those for whom being locked down with someone else has been no joke at all. we've heard a lot about how mental health issues have been on the rise because of the pandemic, but so has domestic abuse. and sadly, some technology can make it easier to abuse a partner or even ex—partner who's been trying to break away. the abuse in my relationship was kind of emotional abuse. things being said rather than physical. nothing really being done that was obviously tangible, but that changed very quickly. compounded by a lot of issues during the lockdown, a lot of stress, financial stress as well. i've realised, you know, it was a lot of financial control, control of sort of how often i could work, i realised actually how much he was limiting my ability to work. meet kate and sue. well, those are the names we have given to protect their anonymity

for their own safety. their stories are some of many experienced during lockdown. in the first few weeks, the police received a domestic service call almost every 30 seconds. in 2019, in the uk alone, there were almost 2.5 million domestic abuse cases reported, and many still go unrecorded. when i was trying to leave, i found that he was monitoring my location on my phone, monitoring my screen time, that was being shared with him. increasingly, technology has become a tool for abuse. survivors often reporting beings stalked through tracking apps on their phones, keyloggers on their computers or their lives being controlled through smart devices in their homes.

when he left the house, that is when i started to realise he was using the ring door bell camera to track me. i could take the battery out if i wanted to because i didn't feel like i could do that because he would say to me "you are compromising your children's safety". i was worried he would go to the police and try to suggest i was a bad mother. kate sought help from women's domestic violence charity refuge. although domestic abuse can happen to anyone, women are still three times more likely to experience violence and harassment. and the charity says over 70% of those contacting it have experienced some technological abuse, one of the things it specialises in dealing with. and the law is finally catching up. the uk recently passed a landmark domestic abuse bill recognising that tech abuse is part of the problem. it will make it illegal to use modern technology to track or spy

on a partner or ex—partner. but beyond the legislation, there is a wider debate around the products themselves, and whether they should be designed to offer better protection in these scenarios. it is really important to recognise that we are moving away from a personal device, that is why it is called pc, personal computer, and to an environment where we have collected devices that are shared in the household. often the perpetrator who tends very often to be mail is the person that purchases the device, maintains the device, and also disposes of the device. and that gives that person a lot of control over both the environment they are in but also the device and its settings. so a small team of employees at ibm have decided to try and solve the problem. they've devised a new set of design principles for tech companies to build on. right at the beginning

of our research, we saw that there is help and guidance available to people who are facing this kind of abuse. but the bulk of it focuses on keeping safe by educating yourself in the technology. we believe that the burden of safety shouldn't fall solely on the shoulders of the end user. and we felt it was important to shift at least some of that onus onto thoughtful design. the list ibm has devised is long but they do have some interesting points. take for example a box like this, that looks pretty harmless, also a place where you might leave a nice gift message to somebody, or when it comes to online banking, somewhere where you may make a note of a reference. but they are also being used for more sinister purposes. a place where perpetrators can continue their abuse. one suggested solution is to make them ‘smart‘, automatically monitoring for abusive language patterns of behaviour to potentially spot

and stop them happening. but some changes suggested are hard to implement and need a bigger rethink. if the devices in our home had obvious alerts when they are remotely activated, and kept a digital record of who did what, when, this would make it difficult for abuses to obscure and distort the truth. furthermore, having a manual override on the devices would return some of the power to the local user. with smart devices becoming more commonplace, this issue has become more urgent to tackle. everything i had was like hand—me—down phones, hand—me—down laptops, so he would set up all the accounts, erm, he would set up family sharing on things, there was various alexa devices all over the property,

he could go to someone's house and ring the alexa when we were at home. family apps are another area of concern, something that many of us used to monitor our children's safety, but in an abusive relationship they're also the apps that are most open to misuse, because they're all about sharing information. even though location data is central to the apps function, most don't notify users when they've been tracked, or constantly push users to turn location settings on, even when they've been actively disabled. there are better designs out there. for example the online banking at monzo, has a share with us feature which allows customers to message the bank directly, leaving no trace behind that a conversation has even taken place. as our digital lives become more intertwined with our home lives, these issues will only become more prevalent. i think the companies should know what the products could be used for,

and when you're in a couple and the account is going to be registered to one e—mail address, when something goes wrong, the person can't rectify anything or change details, you are stuck. he locked me out of our shared amazon account, which had my credit card details for all the payments. i rang up amazon and i said, "i can't take my card from this account." they said, "sorry, you just have to cancel your bank cards." my mobile phone was registered to his apple id and i didn't even realise the significance of an apple id. i do now, i have been on the phone to apple three times and it got to the point where they said he has to give you the code. designs to better protect against controlling and stalking behaviour can improve privacy and security for all of us. but for the hundreds of millions effect by domestic abuse every year, change can't come soon enough. i just suddenly realised,

i am in this situation and i am in this bubble and i have got no idea how i am going to get out of it. he has got all the money, he has stopped me working, the kids are at home now because he is worried about covid, we are all in the house, and likes, even when i leave he can see my location through my watch or my phone or my ipad stop anything, ijust realised how little control i had over mine and the kids' life, and how much he had, and yeah, once i realised, i was like oh my god, i need to get us out. domestic abuse of course knows no geographical boundaries. and during lockdown, many countries reported seeing an increase. south africa has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the world. in the number of sexual offences including rape is rising. it has been reported that a woman

is murdered every three hours, and 51% of south african women have experienced violence at the hands of someone that they are in a relationship with. and what is more, attitudes towards abuse in many countries like south africa means that the women can actually end up being blamed and shamed, even by those whose job is to help. now, a chatbot called rainbow, aimed at south african users is trying to turn this tide. abuse is an isolating experience. victims often feel uncomfortable talking to friends or family. it invites users to take part in quizzes and stories in order to help them better understand what is and isn't abuse. the ai element is trained to learn people's behaviour and detect nuance in the language of the user that could indicate they are in an abusive relationship. survivors are then guided to areas

of health and actions open to them. i was date raped twice and i think that happened because i didn't know my rights. i didn't see the red lines that would make me recognise that i was in danger. that made me recognise that my boundaries were being crossed. ijust assumed only initially thought that i am the one that read the signs wrong. tuli, as we're calling her, is not alone. last year, 42,000 women in south africa reported being raped. when we were out and having drinks, they were spending all this money on me and i was feeling like i was special, so when it happened i blamed myself because i thought ijust spent all of this man's money on me. i did not stand up for myself. that is the case with many girls

here in south africa. using the rainbow chatbot has now helped tuli to recognise her rights. what looking through it did for me and can do for others is that a person needs to consent before a person touches you, you need to be ok with that. had i known that i would have known that people had crossed boundaries and maybe i would have been able to stop it. after levels of abuse rose around the globe during lockdown, numerous celebrity and social media influencers decided to help raise awareness of the issue. in south africa, tendaiishe chitima, star of the netflix film cook 0ff, decided to add her support to the rainbow chatbot, which now has some 18,000 users.

i had an ex—partner who was stalking me and cyber—bullying me online. you mentioned that you had an awakening, and that seemed to be the point where you realise that this is not ok in the relationship i am in. i did not see it as abuse until i started getting depressed and was not myself any more, and i remember speaking to an aunt and she literally said to me, oh my gosh, this man really loves you because you know, he kept pursuing me, but it was a toxic kind of pursuing, and so that was really bad. it was terrible really, the feeling of it, i had been getting depressed, i was not eating properly any more and i found that is just a platform that allows women to speak to a friendly nonjudgemental chat box, and how innovative is that? would there have been anything on the chatbot that would have been relevant to you? to be honest, if i had known

about before i probably would have utilised their platform even more when i was going through what i was going through, because i would have wanted to know, cannot report to the police, get a lawyer involved, what are the legal options available to me? this chat box is not designed to judge you, it is not designed to even tell you to leave your partner, it is designed to offer solutions and to trigger action. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week a rocket designed to launch and return humans to and from earth safely touched down in texas, thanks to amazon founderjeff bezos and his aerospace firm blue origin. facebook banned posts that distort or deny the holocaust after a successful campaign led by survivors of the nazi genocide. the chinese city of shenzhen has handed out 10 million yuan

in a pilot of its mobile—first currency. 50,000 citizens received the equivalent of around £20 to spend in local stores. bbc micro bit, the pocket—sized computer used by millions of children worldwide, has just announced its first major tech upgrade. initially rolled out in 2016, the device now comes with: a speaker, a microphone, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. scientists have built earpods that can monitor muscle movements to translate facial expressions. researchers say these could turn important facial cues into avatars, emoji, or speech commands in remote work or learning environments. and finally, who wouldn't want an army of tiny robot artists? in a world first, researchers have shown how robot swarms can follow instructions to create art in real—time. yes, they say the bots, which leave colour trails on the canvas, are a new tool in what remains a largely manual craft.

it looks like a brush with greatness! laughter. we are fully in the grip of tech launch season and following on from google and amazon, this week it's apple's turn, so let's see what they announce. first up is a new smart speaker, this is the homepod mini. this is the first new homepod they've announced since the original came out in 2018, whereas google and amazon have had several iterations of theirs. the homepod mini looks like the amazonian echo, because it's spherical. and a new feature is that you can now send intercom messages between homepods and other apple products, a bit like you can with amazon echo. homepod: we're late. let's go. woman: hey, siri, reply. we're onto the iphone now, this is the iphone 12, which they say has an "all—new" design. although, one that i think has taken a lot of design

cues from the iphone 4. these will be the first 56 iphones, just like samsung, google and others are adding 56 connectivity to their flagship handsets. the 56 coverage is still quite patchy at the moment and a lot of us aren't going out and about, doing very much at the moment. so, this is kind of an investment for the future, i think. i don't think many of us will be taking full advantage of 56 just yet. this is quite interesting. they say the phone will only use the 56 when necessary, if you are trying to stream a movie or something, that's to conserve battery life, because 56 can use more battery power. they're also making the screen tougher with what they are calling a ceramic shield, which makes it four times more likely to survive a drop. which is great news, because i am forever smashing my screen protector. ok, this is interesting. they say this is going to be the first smartphone to have a five—nanometre process chip. and what that means is you are packing and billions more transistors onto the processor, that gives it more brainpower and can make it more energy efficient.

and they say they will be able to use this for 4k video editing and console—quality video games. they're also bringing out an iphone 12 mini, with all the same features, it's just smaller to cover all the bases. there are two new pro models as well, they're adding a lidar scanner to both, like you might find in a self—driving car, that can help the phone sense depth, which could be useful for photography, it helps you auto—focus quickly and also augmented reality applications. i think a lot of people were hoping they would get rid of the lightning port from the iphone and replace it with usb—c, which is a common standard now. they've a ready done it for the ipad pro, and the macbook pro, and that would mean you could use any usb—c charger, even from an android phone, on the iphone, but they haven't done it this year. and that was it, nothing too surprising there was not a bit of a refresh for the iphone 12. i think people were hoping for more flashy features, but actually the introduction of the five—nanometre chip and the sg connectivity

could prove very significant, and we'll have to see what kind of experiences they enable in the future. anyway. those were the latest next—gen smartphones from apple, we're also about to see two next—gen games consoles, the pss, and the xbox series x, the xbox will be first out of the traps, launching on november 10th. ahead of a full review next month, marc cieslack has been one of the lucky few to get his hands on a series x, to be able to give us a preview. here i am playing a next—gen game on a next—gen machine — the xbox series x. but this is really only a taster of the next—gen experience, rather than the full three courses. you see, the console that i've been using for the last couple of weeks is prerelease, that means that lot and lots

of things from the user interface to its overall performance will be tweaked and changed by the time people get their hands on the finished machine. so, for the purposes of a preview, we can only really talk about a limited number of its features. the first next—gen games we get to preview are certainly an odd couple. japanese rpg, yakuza: like a dragon, and racing title dirt 5, are two completely different games that demonstrate that the next generation looks quite a bit like the current generation, though with a bit more polish. a role—playing game with turn—based combat, like ya kuza, is perhaps not the best title to show off this new machine's new abilities. man: wanna fight? punch. oof! a slightly surreal take on life on life as a japanese gangster, it looks nice enough — the smooth frame rate and sharp visuals, but it's not what you'd call a poster child for the next gen. da—da—da—daa! never fear, part—time hero is here! for that, you'd need a game with a bit more visual razzle—dazzle, which is where racing titles usually shine. off—road racing across a huge

variety of tracks in all weathers is the order of the day here. but again, apart from good, not amazing visuals, i'm yet to get any of the next—gen feels from either of these games. much has been made of the series x's ability to drastically reduce load times. this is in part thanks to its nvme ssd and the velocity architecture which joins up all of the console's new hardware to some smart software. there are still load times, but they're much shorter. when we compare it to the machine it replaces, you can see the differences appear. when you're playing no man's sky, on the one x, it takes about a minute and a half to load. on the series x, it's 20 seconds — much faster! and when the game's up and running, we see some stability improvements

in the visuals as well. then we come to quick resume. on current—gen machines, if you want to play a different game to the you've already played, loading up the next title can take several minutes. now it's just seconds. on series x, quick resume drastically reduces the time it takes to switch between titles, and games pick up right where you left them. so far i have tested this to be able to resume about five games at any one time, but that could change with the finished machine. lots has been made about backwards compatibility on this generation of consoles, and there is a very large back—compatible catalogue for the series x you can play. it's also been suggested that next—gen games could cost as much as £70 a pop, and the launch line—up of titles for the series x and p55 isn't exactly stellar. so, a back catalogue of older, but well—regarded games helps bolster the proposition. for series x, it enjoys quite a lot of backwards compatibility, with a lot, but not all xbox games, that includes games from the xbox one, 360 and original machine. onto the machine itself: it's a commanding presence in the living room — much larger than the machine it replaces — the xbox one x.

while the older machine discreetly slots away beneath tvs across the globe, the series x towers next to the tv — it looks a little bit like the monolith from 2001: a space odyssey, however, like most of us during lockdown, it seems to have piled on the pounds. it is a big bit of kit. and the console itself — while in vision it takes up a fair bit of real estate, it's whisper—quiet. and i'm stood over the top of it — i can hear almost nothing and i'm right on top of the fan. if this were a human being, i would be sticking a mirror under its nose to check that it was breathing. we're now in the final strait before the launch of all of the next—gen consoles. we'll bring you reviews of this and its cheaper, less powerful sibling, the series s, as well as the pss ahead of their launch next month. that was marc previewing what may be the last generation of physical games consoles. what do you think? oh, i don't know. streaming has certainly

shaken up tv and film, so maybe gaming will be next? maybe. it's all down to your connection speed, isn't it? anyway. that is it for this week. as ever, you can find the team throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter, @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we'll see you soon. bye— bye! hello there. two weeks ago today, the uk recorded its wettest ever day, so it has been on the dull side today but it certainly could have been a lot worse. we had a few scattered showers particularly in the south—west, and some light, patchy rain across the far north—east but extensive cloud quite

widely, so weather watchers looked a little bit like this. still quite beautiful for taking a walk along the beach in cornwall despite that thick cloud and enjoying some of the autumn colour that we have quite widely across the country at the moment. for this evening, we will continue to see some of that cloud breaking up across england and wales and when that happens, may be some patchy mist and fog forming. a weak weather front continues to move out of scotla nd weather front continues to move out of scotland into the north of england enhancing some light, drizzly rain from time to time, temperatures falling away into single figures. we are going to start off sunday with that weather front still producing a little bit of light drizzly rain here and there. the isobars widely spaced, light winds during the day, an area of low pressure waiting in the wings to arrive a little later on so make the most of sunday's quiet story. it won't last. we will have a few isolated coastal showers with lighter winds here, they could be pretty slow—moving at times, but it's a quiet story. a rather grey

story with light winds across the country and temperatures peaking, similar values to the last few days, eight to 13 degrees, a tad under par for the time of year. at the end of the day, the low pressure is starting to push on and we will starting to push on and we will start to see some wetter weather moving on from the west, the isobars are squeezing together once again, the winds strengthening where we have the rain. into northern ireland and western scotland, gusty winds and western scotland, gusty winds and wet weather through the day. clouding over ahead of it, maybe some early morning brightness if you are lucky in the far south—east. the wind is picking up generally and starting to swing round to a southerly direction so it does look as though temperatures will start to climb upa as though temperatures will start to climb up a little, not too much, but we could see highs of 15 degrees by monday afternoon. more wet weather with low pressure not too far away as we move into tuesday and again, plenty of isobars on the charts, we could have gale force gusts into the far north and west without rain. it does look as though, as we head into next week, an unsettled story. windy at times with some rain as well but

at times with some rain as well but a little milder. take care. this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones, the headlines at apm: millions of people are now living with tighter coronavirus restrictions in england — lancashire moves into the highest alert category, but there's still stalemate over greater manchester. french police say samuel paty — the history teacher who was beheaded in a suspected islamist attack — had been threatened for several days. in new zealand jacinda ardern is re elected with a landslide victory — she was widely praised for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic. thank you to the many people who gave us their vote, who trusted us to continue with leading new zealand's recovery. hundreds of people have been queuing at a hospital in eastern china — where a covid—19 vaccine