hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... more pressure on the uk government as thousands of doctors back the footballer marcus rashford's campaign for free school meals during the school holidays. the prime minister of spain holds a special meeting with his cabinet to decide whether to put the country into a new "national state of emergency" as cases surge. uk ministers consider reducing the 1a days isolation period for those in contact with people who have the virus. as six us states see record numbers of infections — the vice president's chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus. and lee kun—hee — the korean businessman who turned samsung into one of the world's biggest electronics companies — has died at the age of 78.

now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week... fact—checking the presidential contenders. stormzy taking us through a ride on his hometown. and chris takes us through a ride through his kitchen. welcome to click. good afternoon. a government minister has defended the decision not to extend free school meals to disadvantaged children during school holidays. brandon lewis said providing support through local councils was ‘the right way to do it.‘ pressure is mounting on the government from many sides, including more than 2,000 paediatricians who have signed a letter saying england should follow scotland, i hope you're well. wales and northern ireland in funding meals outside of term time. as we head into autumn, the world has some pretty big milestones ahead of us. here's our political in the short term, correspondentjessica parker. the us election. the election of the moment always feels

like the biggest yet. but this comes at the time when trust in politics and politicians is at a real low. the final presidential debate has now taken place and the idea, of course, is that these debates should tell voters about the candidates‘ policies, and help them to make an informed decision at the ballot box. but as well as becoming big, mudslinging, shouty arguments, the rallies and debates have also been riddled with untruths. we live in a time when disinformation is dividing and entrenching us, to the point where it is threatening democracies around the world. if you can't believe what you see, read and hear, including what comes out of politicians‘ mouths, how can you make the right decision? it has become such a widespread issue that some organisations now have dedicated fact—checking services and there are companies around

the world whose sole job is to spot the lies. but keeping up with the volume of misinformation out there is a hard task. meet a member of a team of fact—checkers were recently tasked with monitoring the debate live. but not all of her team members were human. you need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly. sorting truth from half—truth from complete fabrication is very time—consuming, and so she had some help from an ai algorithm. if i were to manually fact—check a claim, it would take me on average two to three hours. which is minimum, because we have to manually check all of the sources, make sure our sources are reliable. but when ai steps in, our time is reduced by almost, i think, 70 to 80%.

so, we can turn a claim around in about 15 to 20 minutes, so that reliable information is spreading as soon as possible. you'll see it as soon as it's finished, you'll see it. the first presidential debate was the team's first chance to work with a live video feed using the software. over the last four years, you have promised to repeal and replace obamacare, but you have never in these four years come up with a plan... the aland human combination were able to fact—check 27 claims made by candidates. the software performed two tasks. first, it turned what was said into text. private health care that they're very happy with. that's simply not true. which was no easy feat, so it did get a few things wrong. but for those it did manage to capture, it would then consult its huge database of pre—established facts that it had pulled out of thousands of articles from trusted sources.

ok, the forest fires in the west are raging now and they have burned millions of acres. overall millions of claims made overnight were checked by the machine alone. 0ur confidence score is 0.9. this means that the ai has also pulled in a link against which the extracted claim matches perfectly. even when the ai is fairly confident of its findings, they check the results before it's published. for half of the remaining claims, the ai still returned results, but with less certainty, and so they had to pass their expert eyes over the source material first. the ai really struggled with 8 out of the 27 claims which had to be fact—checked completely by hand. now, this process still takes a little while — anything from 2 minutes up to more than 90 minutes for claims that have never been made before.

so, i asked the man behind logically whether a late—breaking truth would still allow the lie to have its impact. when you're putting your whole weight behind a claim and saying this is true or false or based on presently available information unverifiable, some things you certainly gain with latency, but they are not worth losing by getting things wrong every now and then. he is a recent cambridge university graduate and he knows first—hand how misinformation can risk lives. my grandmother passing away slightly prematurely. she read somewhere that if she gave up her meds that were prescribed to her from a proper doctor and started drinking this specialjuice of some kind, that she'd live longer and she'd have a pain—free death, etc. and obviously

that was all false. but beyond the very real health risks that misinformation can pose, the stories behind big political events in the past few years convinced him that something had to be done. regardless of the outcome above the specific democratic events. it felt process—wise, something was breaking with how we as individuals interacted with information online, how we were all being shoved into various filter bubbles and echo chambers digitally, and these certainly were impacting the decisions that we were making in our personal lives, but also important decisions that we were making as a society. for now, fact—checking services have become essential in this fight. but the defining change will ultimately come when the social networks are more able to stop this stuff from going viral in the first place. i think it's time for

a bit of star power. what do you reckon, lara? are you up for a bit of star dust? 0h, definitely. now, many a rock star and musician has swapped the mic for a go at being a movie star. madonna has done it, mick jagger has done it, beyonce too. but these days, video games are bigger than music and film combined. so it's no surprise that some of the most famous names in rock, roll and rap have appeared in games. stormzy is one of the most successful names in the music industry right now. but he's going to be swapping his next gig from the stage at glastonbury, to the virtual streets of london in a video game. mark met stormzy to chat about appearing in a game set in his hometown, and about how the art form has grown up, and is now tackling material that talks to the troubled times that we live in. multi—award—winning rapper stormzy‘s new single rainfall

has a video with a bit of a difference. (music). it features the croydon—born musician as a video game character performing inside an actual game. the soon—to—be—released watch dogs: legion. i'm about to meet stormzy in the flesh. the game that he's appearing in is set in a nearfuture london, and has themes of protest and resistance. i am keen to find out if he thinks that this video game has any parallels with things that are going on in 2020. music. one of the game's main themes is about ordinary people banding together to resist and to fight back against an oppressive regime. do you think that is saying anything about the world that we live in right now? it is very reflective of the times in the sense of,

yeah, we, as people, need to be coming together. do you know what i mean? that captures that perfectly in the sense of like, your everyday person being more important than they realise, you know. so, yeah, definitely. a third—person action title, watchdogs legion takes place in a dystopian version of a future london, a surveillance state controlled by corrupt corporate interests. the player can recruit and control any of the thousands of characters they encounter on london's streets. performing missions that will ultimately bring down the authoritarian regime. all right, everyone! stormzy plays a version of himself and in this fictional world, he is a rapper whose message of resistance is transmitted via a pirated video signal. he spent three days being performance captured at the toronto studio. so, follow the gps, that should take you there. whoa, whoa.

stormz, what are you doing? riding recklessly. absolutely recklessly. on the back of there... it's so london, it actually blows my mind. is it special being in the game that is set in london? it's the most. i am london, like, london is me. like, i've got so much... like, i'm a proper london boy through and through. and so, it's my city and i love it dearly. it is a big part of me as a man and as an artist and just my character. this is mad. my bank is up there, literally. if i turn... for people that don't know london, that's coutts and co. coutts and co isjust up here — the same bank as her majesty the queen! bro, that is me. that is more me than a flipping picture. this is mental!

stormzy is not the only musician in a videogame, he joins a long list of other artists that include the likes of 50 cent. and who could forget david bowie? you're not the first video game player to get your soul trapped. some efforts could be put down to cashing in on star power to shift games. but sometimes it's about an artist pushing themselves by experimenting with a new medium. and there are points of convergence between the two art forms. there's a long history of music being used for protest and to provoke thought about things that are going on in the world today. do you think that video games have the power to do that as well? 100 million per cent. i feel like any platform, in whatever way, shape or form, like, or whatever mediums we use as creatives and artists, it's a platform for, yeah,

to speak out against injustice, for it to be like pillars of truth or whatnot. especially with, like, video games. even down to the reach of video games is astronomical. yeah, ioo%. i think, especially with the times we're in, anything can be a platform to speak out, yeah. away from games and away from your music career, your bursaries to universities, to cambridge, is up and running. how important is it to use your position to do the things that you're doing? i feel so blessed. i have so many platforms and so much reach, and i feel that it is my duty and responsibility to share what i have. do you think that means that there's something wrong, that there is something that we need to think about things a little bit differently? these things are set up to address the uneven

and injustices in a lot of these areas of society. so, yeah, there's so many other people of influence or artists or public figures doing these things to try to just, to you know what i mean, uplift those who need it a bit more. # let the rain fall on my enemies. from best—selling grime artist to glastonbury headliner, and now taking on the world of games. the south london star continues to shine. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the us government filed a lawsuit against google, accusing the company of violating competition law over internet searches and the online advertising. two million ads breaking political campaigning rules attaching false information warnings to a further 150 million posts. and afterjust six months, video streaming service quibi is shutting down. the start—up raised almost $2 billion for its launch, but suffered disappointing download and viewership numbers. it was also the week that nasa selected nokia to build

a wireless 4g network on the moon. the proposed cellular network is part of a plan to establish a long—term human presence on the moon by 2030. developers of the covid—i9 contract tracing app for england and wales reassured users that none of their data will be shared with the police. this followed news that contact details of people told to self—isolate by the nhs test and trace scheme in england are shared with the police on a case—by—case basis. developers say that the app operates independently of this system. and finally, would you fancy a new dress that changes with the seasons? researchers at yale university have developed a fabric with sensors and variable stiffness fibres that show the fabric responding to changes in temperature. when the fabric is cool, the particles stiffen,

and when warm they melt into liquid and soften the fabric. while microsoft and sony are racing to be crowned champion in the next generation console wars. nintendo has done something very nintendo and said, never mind that ultra high—definition gaming, how about some augmented—reality racing cars? this is mario kart live home circuit, which takes the best—selling nintendo game and turns your house into the race track. and the way this works is pretty clever. the cart contains a camera that streams live footage of your living room to the nintendo switch console, which you use as the remote control. in the box are four cardboard gates that you can set up around your home in whatever configuration space will allow you to form your racetrack. the software can recognise the gates as you drive through them, creating the course as you go. you also get these cardboard barriers with arrows that will be augmented with animations. which are set up, and it's like

a regular game of mario kart. once you're set up, it's pretty much like a regular game of mario kart. there are power—ups and weapons, but it's all taking place from a mouse—eye view of your own living room. you can also race up to four of these karts together to play multiplayer in your living room if you got the space, but it will need a nintendo switch console for each one. it goes without saying that you need a fair bit of space to set this up. but you can arrange it in a modest—sized living room and that is because even though on screen it looks like the karts are zooming around the racetrack, in the real world, the kart is just trundling around the living room fairly slowly. it can also make some pretty sharp turns, so you can set it up in a smaller room, although i think you get more out of this the more space. there are some limitations to the software. not all the power—ups work in the way you expect

them to in a regular mario kart game. you cannot hold a banana behind your kart to protect yourself from shells. even though bullet bill does steer you around the track automatically, which i think is quite impressive, it cannot detect obstacles, so you end up crashing quite a lot. in fact, the augmented reality layer doesn't handle occlusions. so the race course track is always overlaid on top of the camera feed. so, here, when the track should disappear behind the table leg, it doesn't, and that means you tend to crash more than you would expect, although that is a part of the madness and we do crash, your character reacts on screen. the big question for all augmented reality applications is how much do you actually get out of this once you are over that initial moment of "ooh, this is cool"? most of the players i know that still play pokemon go have turned off the camera effects because, even though they look cool, they ultimately add very little to the gameplay. and i think that may also be the issue here. but, with all augmented reality games, i'm left with the question, how is is this better than just playing the original console game?

and, ultimately, i think it is not. it's just different. it is a different take on mario kart and i think that's fine. hard to say whether this will have the same enduring appeal as the traditional console game, but mario kart is the best—selling game of the nintendo switch, so if any franchise can take ar mainstream, it's probably mario kart. that was chris turning his floor into a race track. how cool was that? brilliant. and because we can't all go out as much as we would like to at the moment, our homes have had to become our cinemas, our workspaces and our playgrounds. that's what lara has been looking at this week. all you need is a projector. there are plenty of projectors promising to bring the cinema home, but there also some quirkier options as well as some that will provide cinema on go. it wasn't long ago that the idea of a projector turning any surface into a touch—screen, basicallyjust like a tablet, would have seemed the stuff

of science fiction. but that is what this does. take a look at this. this hachi infinite mi projector. it uses deep learning, gesture controls, object recognition, and what it calls skeleton recognition, to be able to identify and focus on its surface as well as respond to a human‘s touch. i was not holding out high hopes for the accuracy, especially when it came to typing on a keyboard like this. but actually, i found it was pretty good. the system runs on android and can be pared with an android or ios device. as well as being able to search the web and use built—in apps, there's in an ai—powered education to with letters and education to play with letters and blocks that it can recognise. a kitchen function is coming soon too, as is a fitness feature that's being claimed to track your moods, letting you know whether they're right or not. you can also use it to project on a wall, but when you do that,

you no longer have the touch control available. it also needs to be very close to a wall because if you do it too far away and accidentally shine it on the ceiling, you do wonder what is going on. that's just wrong — although it is quite cool. imagine turning up at your friend's house with this. no, it is not a drinks cooler. it is a 4k projector, and pretty much everything you need should be built into the box. it streams the content and has high—quality speakers. you can even operate it through alexa or google home using your voice. the viewsonic xio—iik vibrantly projects 8.3 million pixels. the speakers provide clear, crisp sound, but maybe not up to the volume that the picture might beckon. in a device that's trying to do so much, setting it up to achieve full functionality did feel overcomplicated, though. and, clearly, the standout feature here is that it's a portable 4k projector.

at the lower end of the scale is this pocket projector, which you can connect directly to wi—fi or to your phone — maybe you want to do a slide show of some photos or it can double up as a speaker. at the other end of the market, your expectations do you need to be managed. getting set up a simple, with a dial to focus and the ability to deal with a range of file types. i did start of the few issues. some glitches with the app. but the sound quality is different and it is a versatile device and at this point, it is ok. and here's one for the kids. it comes with a parent portal so the parents can keep an eye on what children are watching and keep them from seeing anything that they shouldn't. plus, if a child comes than 60 cm of the light here, it automatically turns to protect their little eyes.

it also has all of the streaming services built in. as well as the ability to connect via hdmi, usbc, or bluetooth, providing a screen of up to 100 inches. it's a small but solid device. the set up and the use of all the streaming apps was really slick. the picture quality is sharp and the sound was pretty decent for the speakers. but, the price is high, and, i think, for a device aimed at kids, it may be too high. so, there you have it. a few of the latest ways of bringing entertainment home. unless, of course, you'd rather entertain yourself than spend your ha rd—earned cash on a virtual screen. wow, that projected touchscreen was amazing. yes, it got far more attention in my house the most of the gadgets i'm caught testing. my husband was fascinated. my daughter played noughts and crosses. i'm sorry you haven't had a chance to play. one day. ok, well, let's go from projecting things on the services to projecting things

into the sky with lasers. back injune, we told you that this laser maestro had been showing his appreciation to carers and nhs staff by projecting love and thanks across his home city of brighton. after a trial earlier this month, laser light city is happening this weekend in leeds. with cities under lockdown and local autumn light shows unable to happen, the idea here is that 25 lasers mounted on buildings around the city will put on a show that residents can see regardless of restrictions on social gatherings. seb created all the control software himself. but this is an interactive show, meaning thousands of people were able to log on to a special website and take control of the lasers. changing the colour, shapes and direction of the beams, which can be seen up to ten miles away. as the dark nights draw in, seb is hoping he can seb's hoping that can light up more cities, and bring a little laser sparkle to these

unusual autumn evenings. anyway, that is it for this week. you can find the team online throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we'll see you soon. bye— bye. hello there. good news for november spotters, plenty of pictures coming in from my weather spotters to today, especially they have showers across. that is across the south—west of the uk especially because this area of low pressure full stomach. some of the saviour is heavy with rain and

thunder. north—east england avoiding most of the showers, for example. into the night showers keep on coming, particularly into the western through southern england, some merging to give some longer, heavier downpours and places, but there will be some others again through eastern areas that avoid most of the showers, stay dry and see the lowest temperatures coming into sunday morning. then for tomorrow we are still very the influence of that low pressure so there will be further showers moving to or through, initially towards the west, some will push on eastwards as we go throughout the day, still with gusty winds and also a sunshine as well. will be another blustery day, wind average speeds still gusting around 30 to a0 mph in places, especially when you see some of the heavy showers, and as the temperatures, mainly around ten to 14 temperatures, mainly around ten to ia degrees though by the end of the week, it looks like southern areas at least will be seeing this temperature is trending upwards once again. as we go into monday night, a lot of the showers will fade away.

quite a chilly start for some others tuesday morning. maybe be a few fog patches and, especially into scotland, but this deeper view of low pressure well to the north—west of the cases tuesday will be pushing these weather front tow away. now, that basically means more rain, of course, and that will be spreading north and east during the day. maybe the far north of scotland certainly into the northern isles missing that and the heaviest rain will be into western hills with all of that the wind will start to pick up once again so it will be another windy day particularly towards the south and west. again, temperatures are intended ia degrees. that's gone by wednesday although we are back to another day of sunshine and showers and again there are going to be most frequent across the south and west of the uk, heavy with rain and thunder and accompanied by gusty winds. looking further ahead, thunder and accompanied by gusty winds. looking furtherahead, low pressure still very much in charge for the rest of the week and even into the weekend as well. that does 00:27:54,840 --> 2147483051:50:42,878 mean some wet and windy weather to 2147483051:50:42,878 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 come.