it's shaken by that vibration. it's a fabulous site, fabulous feeling to watch a rocket climb into the sky. and this mission seems to be going very well at the moment. the falcon has flown something like 100 times now. so, they know the system extremely well, they built it right from the word go over ten yea rs right from the word go over ten years ago to do human launches. and so, it has got all of the sensors onboard. if they know that something is not right, they can abort the mission. would a bit of an uncomfortable moment that would be for the estimates because they get p°pped estimates because they get popped off the top and brought back down on parachutes but they have practised that not with people on board i should say but they have practised that manoeuvre and it does work. and they have people waiting for them all the way up the eastern seaboard of the united states just in case that

happens and indeed, all the way across the atlantic to the west coast of ireland. but at the moment everything seems to be going well. they have had the separation, the lower stage of the rocket has come away, that will come back down—to—earth. they will land that actually on a ship in the ocean. and then use it again on the next astronaut launch in about six months' time. and the top part of the rocket, that's what ta kes of the rocket, that's what takes the dragon capsule up into orbit but those two will separate and then the capsule will make its way on up to the space station getting there on tuesday morning. a lot of people watching will remember the space shuttle which operated from 1981 to the early 2000. this essentially replaces with the space shuttle was doing? yeah, you know the

space shuttle was a remarkable vehicle. it was extraordinary. very complicated. to some degree i think on reflection now we recognise there is something of a design flaw. there were black moments, black stones in the launch of the shuttle where if something went wrong he would lose the crew. with this system that we have now that you see here, right from on the pad, right the way through the launch sequence with the flight sequence, if something goes wrong you can get the crew back. and nasser took the decision that they would retire the shuttles that have them back in 2011 and every assista nt have them back in 2011 and every assistant that been private companies to develop rocket and capital systems. space x is the first to come forward with that. —— spacex. also the boeing aerospace

company. they have a spay system, they have a capital called star liner no use in atlas rocket which is used a lot to launch american spy satellites. and nasa science missions as well. that's about a year behind spacex but they will come through. and they will come through. and they will have three systems and essence. the two american systems and they will also have the russian system. the venerable system that has been flying for so many decades. you need that redundancy. if something, you know if one vehicle has a technical issue and they need to not fly for a while because they need to investigate what went wrong then you are not in a situation where you have not cut people on the space station are have to reduce the crew on the space station, you have other vehicles that you can use in the meantime. and what that leads to is the fact that we can bump up the crew on the space station when these four astronauts get up there, they

will meet three others and that will meet three others and that will raise the complement on the station up to seven. and that will instantly triple the amount of science they can do on the space station. fully utilising it and getting the most out of that $100 billion contraption that is flying overhead and make the most of it. nasa has said, jonathan, this new model of contracting out essentially an astronaut taxi service has saved it billions of dollars in costs. how was that money being saved and what's so revolutionary about this design and so cheap about this design and so cheap about it? well, let me give you an alternative example here. they are preparing, nasa, a huge rocket. at the moment is called the space launch system. it's very much like the saturn five which launch the apollo astronauts. it is huge. when it flies it will be the most

powerful rocket that has ever lifted off earth. you can count numbers, but essentially that is true. that has been contracted in the old way, nasa will own and operate that vehicle. it has caused billions, many, many billions to develop that rocket. in contrast with have done with these private companies and say to them, look, this is what we would we would like to get us from a to b. certain requirements and obviously safety being the key one. but you go away and design the vehicle in the way that you think you can do it best. and come back to us we will check and if we are happy we will fly in it. and that process has led toa in it. and that process has led to a much cheaper way of developing these vehicles. and that has saved them the money to then go and spend it on this enormous rocket will start the sls. andy or ryan capsule that

goes on top of that. the capsule is the vehicle that will take astronauts back to the moon, and one day maybe in the moon, and one day maybe in the 20 30s onto mars as well. so nasa is trying to commit a bit like the airlines, all of those years ago, commercial airlines started up. they're hoping this is, in effect of the same thing now but in space and in low earth orbit. we will get a commercialisation rush and see a lot more companies operating up there. and in fact spacex is going to take private astronauts up next year. we are winning, actually, for tom cruise the actor, he's going to try and make a movie in space. absolutely. there's likely to be private space stations, hotels and space, that kind of

thing. it will happen. and spacex will facilitate that. it will sell you a ride. you can do it. let's talk about the space station. we're just about, i should say, just about the first stage come back onto the first stage come back onto the drone ship that is positioned off of the florida coast. it looks perfect. yes, there it is. standing there which is aptly marvellous. and the reason is marvellous is because they want to use that again. it will use it again in six months' time to launch their next crew up to the space station. see you can see how you're reducing costs here as well because you are recycling the hardware. it will refurbish it and bring it back in and check over it, see that the components are all find and change were two outs and in essence that people should be able to just be put back on the launch pad. can you see this

picture of them squeezed stubby that they look good, don't they? this quite a thing about their designs. , the uniforms will i should say spacesuits it's of snazzy. spacex have: for this all white and black book —— gone for this. there driven after the launch pad in tesla electric cars, the person that sounded spacex is the entrepreneur elon musk also the co—founder of tesla. if you see, you look at their hands slightly, go on or about to say it. no, you were in the middle, carry—on. it. no, you were in the middle, carry-on. what i wasjust about to say, the way that they are holding hands means i think that they are starting to commit the way that their stra ps commit the way that their straps are starting to jump

commit the way that their straps are starting tojump up that they are starting to feel some of the microgravity. things that if you look at the things starting to move inside the capsule then they are experiencing that weightlessness. they are still attached to the top part of the rocket. takes about 12 minutes before they get separated from the top part. and that, in essence, is when the launch is over and they are properly in orbit. and in the capsule has thrusters of its own, and that will do thejob of thrusters of its own, and that will do the job of raising a dragon capsule further into the sky and getting into position where it can join sky and getting into position where it canjoin into sky and getting into position where it can join into space station on tuesday. in this early stage when you're in that capsule, and that's a fascinating shot, they largely passengers or do they at any stage begin to pilot itself?“ you get a look we're just

seeing now the back end of the cover that's the other stages separating away from the dragon capsule. that's the dragon capsule. that's the dragon capsule we are seeing moving away from the upper stage. we are looking for the top part of the rocket. so, what was the question again, i was just getting... are they essentially passengers for this early part of the ride or do they do any technical things they themselves? yes. yeah. this is a fully automated system. you will probably see them tapping ona will probably see them tapping on a screen, a touch display. in front of them. they have the ability to drive the capsule. if they need to. they can do that. but really it's an automated system. so they are

just passengers. they may be insta nces just passengers. they may be instances where they need to ta ke instances where they need to take control, and they have, again, done that in the simulator. so they would be able to fire thrusters independently of what the computers thought might be the best course to take. but they are not expected to do that. it's not part of the plans as they go up the space station. and as they come into the space station as well on tuesday that will be fully automated. the way the capsule goes in is a series of waypoints where we can see the touch—screen. that's giving them various feeds on the status of the vehicle, where exactly they are and also giving them communication back to mission control which is, for this portion of the flight, is with spacex itself at their headquarters in california. but the way the capsule works that

goes into the space station is that the computers take it to a series of waypoints. in the computer say, read, 0k series of waypoints. in the computersay, read, 0k we've got here, are you happy for us to proceed? got here, are you happy for us to proceed ? mr control says got here, are you happy for us to proceed? mr control says yes and then it goes to the next waypoint right up to the moment reta kes itself, in waypoint right up to the moment retakes itself, in this instance, as it will be on tuesday, right to the front of the space station which is moving at seven km a second. 17,000 miles per hour. is that right? i got to do my maths. 27,000 plumbers per hour. just trying to get my numbers together. it's quick. if you've ever seen a space to shingle overhead to come if you haven't i recommend you do that on a good night to see this white dot in the sky. like a star overhead. as look at these

astonishing pictures we see a shot of mission control sitting ina shot of mission control sitting in a socially distanced way. a lot of us conditioned by hollywood films to see great drama admission control. there looked obviously extremely calm. separate, everyone knew what they were doing. presumably entirely normal. yes, well that is, you practice and rehearse and rehearse. and you rehearse for what they call the off normal as well. you are given scenarios where things go wrong and had to recover the situation. but the systems have back—ups to the back—ups, and a back—ups to the back—ups, and a back up to the back—up. they are ready for anything that goes wrong, but they are not expecting it. and as i say this system that spacex have developed, elon musk, i mean he said he wants to go to mars. at some point. it's his dream. is

that realistic? is it realistic? it probably is. i mean, i'm just old enough to remember the end of apollo. it's remarkable to think that we have not been on the moon for 50 years. if we could go to the moon 50 years ago you would think that with all of the technology we could certainly go to mars. it is challenging and there's no doubt about that. very much more difficult, very much more expensive, and energy intensive. very much more hazardous but technically it should not be possible. —— it should not be possible. —— it should not be possible. —— it should be possible. nasa is pursuing one avenue, elon musk is pursuing another one in tandem to this. he is now developing a super rocket of his own which they call super heavy and on top of that he's going to put a vehicle he calls

starship. he calls a starship. and we will dominicjohnson thank you so much forjoining us thank you so much forjoining us for the moment. thank you so much. you were watching bbc news. now on bbc news... click! hey, welcome to click. hope you're doing 0k. at the moment, we are all online much more than we used to be — i'm talking about us, the adults, but also our children too. and for many parents, there have been huge challenges trying to work from home at the same time as supervising children. and that has meant, in some

cases, handing over devices before the proper parental controls are in place. and that's compounded by the fact that they may not have had enough time to supervise in the way that they would've done in an ideal world. so with my youngest, it's simple — i'm there, i operate the computer for her, i know she's not gonna see anything that she shouldn't. but my son is starting to get to the age where i want to give him a bit more independence but i also want to keep him absolutely safe. so — so what do i do? can i rely on parental control software to block all harmful content? i feel that i also should be teaching him how to spot and possibly even become resilient to the stuff that he will still encounter online. yep, that's a dilemma that all of us parents have to face, so we've been taking a look at some of the tech that aims to help, but also how companies and legislation could perhaps do more. this is sophie. she was just 13 when

she took her own life. sophie had been suffering from depression and had had suicidal thought. like many parents, we'd given sophie a phone, and we gave her that at the age of 12, and we discovered a few months later that sophie had been accessing really difficult material, really completely inappropriate for, well, in my view, anyone, but certainly a child of her age. recently, a video of a young man taking his own life was posted on facebook and subsequently spread to other platforms, including tiktok, where it took days to be removed. just this week, instagram announced that it will extend the use of artificial intelligence to spot this type of content to its eu users. it can then make it less visible and, in

extreme cases, remove it. but this is a problem that exists across the industry. even with sophisticated tools, harmful content still gets through. so i've been looking at safetowatch, a new ai video—tracking platform that aims to help, which i've tested on an episode of the bbc‘s harlots. so the software is set to detect sensitive imagery and if it detects it, then it will grey the image out, thus prevent it from being seen. now, it's currently in alpha so it hasn't got its full functionality, but the general idea is that it can track video in real time. now, that could be something that's being streamed directly from a phone's camera, or some video that's being streamed from the internet, but it can block any nudity or any violence that a child shouldn't be seeing before it ever reaches their device.

so this is all about semantic understanding, so the artificial intelligence isn't just looking at the image, it's basically contextualising everything around it, including audio, so safetowatch also can analyse, detect and prevent threats in cartoons and anime. it's picked it up, it's saying it's picked it up, but it's not hashing it. it's very early days for the tech, it is glitchy and full functionality is still being built, but its aims are big. it hopes to work across all content providers, including home—made video. while the video tool is still being worked on, the compa ny‘s ai—powered monitoring keyboard has been available since last year. once you've downloaded safetonet‘s keyboard app, you can select it as you default. now, if i start to type something unpleasant, like "i hate you", for example, it comes up with the warning, saying "watch out!

high risk content". and you can tap on that warning for more information. of course, it's pretty clear what i've written is just simply nasty. so let me try a few other things and show you how it would respond. so, "i feel depressed". and from there, it offers some advice. "oh, no! would you like some advice? you're not alone — others do feel like you." we can all do simple things to try and protect children from harmful content. most isps offer the facility to switch parental blocks on, that will stop some sites being visited, and most devices come with parental control settings that are easy to enable. but perhaps throwing tech solutions at tech problems isn't the answer, and we should be going back to basics. first thing is what does it mean? you know, what does inappropriate mean? secondly, even if you do not, you know, know if it's inappropriate, if it makes

you feel uncomfortable, come to me. and thirdly, take a pause before you react. children, you know, unfortunately will be exposed to harmful and inappropriate content and potentially to harmful behaviour from others online. and if that happens, the most important thing to do is to sit and work through that with your child. to take away devices would not only be an overreaction, but it does not then help to make sure that your child is safer in future. there's no denying the new playstation is weird—looking. forget what the pss looks likejust for a moment. we'll come back to that in a minute. take a look at the games. under the skin, the pss has custom amd ryzen gpu, which supports ray tracing — a method of creating more realistic lighting effects.

this means more visual whiz bang for your buck! and it has an 825 gig ssd, which means load times should be drastically reduced. whoa! it comes in two flavours — the full—fat, full—price version, which features an ultra hd blu—ray drive, and a cheaper digital—only version, which lacks the optical drive. watch it! he's throwing something! as well as ray tracing, the gpu is technically capable of 8k graphics, although for now, 4k is all we've seen. it should be able to pump out 120 frames her second visuals as well, although so far, everything that i've been playing has been at 60 frames — although very smooth. i've been testing this machine for a couple of weeks and i've mainly playing spider—man miles morales... whee! ..and astro's playroom, which comes bundled free with the machine. both titles demonstrate what the next generation is capable of, but in different ways.

spider—man is simply gorgeous to look at. and the way in which spidey traverses the big apple, web—swinging, wall—crawling, running and leaping from building to building, as well as taking out bad guys with his trademark athleticism, spider—sense and web slingers are all great calling cards for sony's new machine. astro's playroom casts the player as a cute little robot who embarks on a series of adventures inside the console. while some experiences are no doubt influenced by any number of platformers and adventure games, they do serve to showcase the pss‘s new dualsense controller. so here, i have to use my little robot to pull out this cable, and i can feel the feedback and the elasticity of the cable through the controller. it feels weird to be impressed by that, but i really am! something i'm less impressed with is the playstation 5's physical box.

the pss has has variously been described as "looking like a router or an air—conditioning unit" which is fair enough, because it is one weird—looking console. but i think all of its strange styling quirks are to try and mask its massive bulk. this is a big console. it's so big that it has its own postcode. in fact, i think it's so big, it's probably visible from the international space station. houston, i can confirm i can see the playstation 5from space! 0ver. of course, the biggest challenge the pss will face is not from its own massive dimensions, but from the xbox series x. like the pss, the series x has better graphics and a superfast ssd, which drastically reduces loading times. it also comes in two versions — the series x and the less powerful, cheaper, series s. one feature that sets it apart is the brilliant quick resume,

which lets you switch between games in seconds, picking up where you left off. and perhaps the ace up microsoft's sleeve for the xbox is game pass — a netflix—style subscription service which gives players access to hundreds of titles for a monthly price. we think xbox game pass is a critically important part of our platform. we are trying to make gaming more seamless, easier to try new games, easier to experiment with new games. it's really just offering a ton of choices to players right now. so, which of the two new next gen machines to choose from? well, they are actually pretty different. the pss, at the moment, feels like the most next gen of the two — that's because the games that are available for it at the moment really do show off what this machine can do. the xbox series x, on the other hand, is the more powerful of the two machines here, and game pass really does open up a whole world of video

games to people that don't want to spend as much money per month on titles. this is an evolution, rather than a revolution. but on this evidence, it's off to a strong start. that was marc, and that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full length version is up on iplayer as usual. just before we go, though, a word on something big that we're doing next week. every year, the bbc‘s 100 women project shines a light on women's issues and women's achievements, and click has invited some of the most inspiring female tech leaders to a special event, and we would love you to be there. so if you're a woman just setting out on your career in tech, get in touch. tweet us @bbcclick and you can be in the audience and ask your questions to our special guests. look forward to seeing you. that's it for now, though. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. bye— bye.

hello. that was quite the weekend of weather, and to start the new week we find ourselves in between weather systems. so, actually, for a time there will be something drier and brighter. only for a time, another the weather system is coming in with more rain. here it is, that's the one that brought us the wet and windy weather over the weekend, but here is the next one. and in fact we'll start the day with a few outbreaks of rain from monday morning, for, particularly, parts of scotland and northern england. and that's going to fade away. it's a cooler start to the day than we have had recently. and by lunch time much of the uk will be dry, there will be some breaks in the cloud allowing some sunny spells to come through,

but remember that next weather system gradually increasing the cloud through northern ireland, wales, and the western parts of england. we will get some rain moving in during the afternoon. also reaching into words the southwest scotland. eastern areas will stay dry for daylight hours, anyway. it will begin to turn a bit milder again with the arrival of the rain, but through the evening and night we will reach under those areas that have stated try during the day and gets stuck across northwest scotland for tuesday into wednesday where it is looking very wet here. maybe up to 150 mm in the hills, so there could be some flooding. mild overnight, and into tuesday so there's the weather system sticking around northwest scotland on tuesday. the rest of us are in this flow of very mild air coming in from the southwest. but there will be a lot of cloud around. it will be quite windy. you may see a bit of patchy light rain and drizzle. particularly to western hills, but remember, the heavy and persistent rain coming in towards northwest scotland. if you see some hazy sunshine you may well. in northeast scotland, parts of northeast england with that wind direction, your temperature could be around 17 celsius.

still raining on wednesday, northwest scotland and not just here. rain spreads east right across the uk. cold airfollowing on behind, still very mild across the east and southeast of england. the rain still coming with gusty winds. the rain eventually ends in northwest scotland. very wet on thursday in shetland. and then as we go from thursday, then still into friday, and a brisk north northwesterly wind and will be colder air moving south across the uk. some sunshine on thursday, and bands of showers moving south as well. so some rain at times this week. so, it will be quite windy. very mild for a time, but colder briefly later.

this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. lift off to a new era — space x's first operational crewed flight to the international space station — launches from cape canaveral. barack 0bama tells the bbc his successor, president trump, is partly responsible for polarisation in america today. some of that is attribute —— attributable to our current resident who actively fanned division because he felt it was good for his politics. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, is self—isolating at ten downing street — after meeting