borisjohnson has chaired a meeting with senior ministers to assess the uk's readiness for a no—deal brexit. mrjohnson‘s attempts to hold direct talks with the leaders of germany and france have reportedly been rebuffed ahead of the deadline this sunday for a significant development in trade negotiations. the trump administration has increased pressure on the us food and drug administration regulators to approve the pfizer—biontech vaccine. final clearance is expected this weekend, which means the first americans could get their inoculations early next week. there have been nearly 2,000 deaths counted on friday already. british scientists say they've identified why some patients maybe more likely to develop severe covid—19 symptoms. in one of the biggest studies of its kind, researchers analysed mutations in the dna of more than 2000 critically ill patients. they found several variants more common than in the control group. now on bbc news, click.

this week: spluttering safely toa this week: spluttering safely to a stop. 0ut this week: spluttering safely to a stop. out of the house and into the game box. and what did gaming and protests have in common? hey, welcome to click! hope you're doing 0k. it may be getting cold appear in the northern hemisphere but this is the year what we are all being encouraged to spend as much time as possible outside, installation and all, and one person who spends a lot of time outside is lara lewington. yes, i've been running outside more than ever and i think itjust gives you a sense of freedom and at the moment some sense of normality although i have been getting very annoyed. this week

people have not been indicating properly. the cars are just turning around the corner but i do understand that one are not that popular at the moment. welcome to bbc news, i'm james reynolds. don't run on the road! now, our top stories: listen, talking of which, a lot more people have been doing president trump's attempts this as well lately. in the of overturning the election last year or so, i have result have been dealt a final blow — the us supreme court e—scootered around bits of rejects his lawsuit aimed at throwing out the votes in four states. london, wellington, copenhagen "get it done": the trump and auckland. it seems like a administration puts pressure on regulators to approve lifetime ago now. it certainly a coronavirus vaccine, asking it to do so in does but they are legal in many countries but in the uk you the next few hours. could only ride them on private land, and tilljuly this year, borisjohnson and the eu say they're unlikely to strike that was, where a trial to see a post—brexit trade deal by sunday, with differences how rental are could work in uk over how a new relationship cities commenced. there are might look. plus: some concerns though, one being the safety of the riders and other people and another being the fact that not every making music courtesy e—scooter on the road is of social media. allowed to be there. in a how a classical musician used ambient sound from people stuck at home for her follow—up to last year's report, 0mar has been taking a look at what has been done to new composition. tackle these issues. hello! i'm

riding a e—scooter around! 0n the road! whoa! right. that may not seem like a big deal, but it is, and the reason is up until recently, you could not ride e—scooters on public roads in the uk. 0k, ride e—scooters on public roads in the uk. ok, let's rewind to last year when i first looked at these light a vehicles. even then, e—scooters were taking over cities around the world. their growth was supercharged bya their growth was supercharged by a cheap and easy rental system. find one, download an app, scana system. find one, download an app, scan a code and ride away. paying by the minute. but while they have excited consumers, they have excited consumers, they have excited consumers, they have proven a major headache for regulators. and the uk's position was to put the uk's position was to put the brakes on their rollout. both for rental companies and private ownership. it has not stopped people buying and writing them on the road. now,

let's fast forward to may 2020 when the uk's transport minister grant shapps announced the year's trial of rental e—scooters, designed to give people an alternative public transport during the pandemic. this is a big deal. because the uk is finallyjoining the likes of france, germany, most states in the us, australia and many others in allowing e—scooters on public roads. we went to milton keynes to visit e—scooter company lime and their warehouse and ride one of their warehouse and ride one of their vehicles. the first operator allowed to rent them ina operator allowed to rent them in a town in the uk. now, this was filmed a couple of months ago and since then, places in the uk such as nottingham, birmingham, manchester have started running these trials and london as well as close to having most boroughs running these services in the near future. but there are some caveats. you must write your rental e—scooter on the road, not on the pavement, just roads. in other light ev

because like other boards or e skateboards are still illegal. you cannot ride them out in public. and when it comes to your e—scooter, it must be a rental, it cannot be privately owned. if it is, because it is classed as a motor vehicle, you need things like tax and mot insurance. things you cannot readily get the e—scooters at the moment. but not everyone is getting that message. like other areas around the city, where i live in east london has not yet allow the rental of e—scooters. but it is not stopping people from riding their personal ones around. this one even zipped past as we we re this one even zipped past as we were filming a couple of times. sol were filming a couple of times. so i asked a couple of riders if they knew. did you know that these are illegal? yes. you know they are illegal? but you are writing anyway? they say if you want to use it, you can use it, it is up to you, but you can use this one only on the park. only on the part but use it on the road as well so you are hoping they catch you? yes.

even when i go to here, there area even when i go to here, there are a lot of people and the police don't complain about it. as you heard someone thought it is located ride one despite knowing it is illegal because they saw others do so also. is that a good enough reason? no, that a good enough reason? no, thatis that a good enough reason? no, that is a pathetic argument, isn't it, to say i know it is illegal but i see other people doing it therefore i am going to do it isa doing it therefore i am going to do it is a pathetic argument that just you know, to do it is a pathetic argument thatjust you know, passes the buck to other people. if you're writing this, you're committing the offence is, you're putting yourself at risk and you're putting other people at risk. but now, companies are coming up but now, companies are coming up with innovative solutions to keep riders safe. e—scooter company tr includes a collapsible helmet as a standard so all you do is you ta ke standard so all you do is you take it out, build the thing, ifi take it out, build the thing, if i can, but that is not the only innovation they have come up only innovation they have come up with —— tier. they also have

indicators on the handlebars. letting pedestrians as well as ca i’s letting pedestrians as well as cars know when you are turning. there's even a wireless charging slot for your phone. and then there's lync e—scooters. they have some pretty unique features, they can check the gps location against maps stored directly on the vehicle and immediately enforce geo— fences around no—go zones, such enforce geo— fences around no—go zones, such as pavement oi’ no—go zones, such as pavement or restricted land. and so this bypasses any phone to cloud lag you would have. so what should happen, thanks to the geo fencing here, is that as soon asi fencing here, is that as soon as i get on the pavement, it sta rts as i get on the pavement, it starts cutting out. you get a beeping. there you go, there you go. and s will slow my speed, like, a lot. it is not going, it is not going. chuckles. we did take a second oi’ chuckles. we did take a second or two to power off but that is because i don't want to suddenly stop and launch over the handlebars, but that is not

the handlebars, but that is not the only thing, the scooter is also able to self diagnose thought it is doing is co nsta ntly thought it is doing is constantly asking itself am i working all right? are my components are working absolutely fine? are any of them about to fail? so in theory what should happen when i put the scooter up on its side... it comes up as a notification on that interface there. and it does! and it stops! but it —— its features did not always work perfectly. this is not working again. now, to be fair, the e—scooter needs to be fair, the e—scooter needs to ride in the geo fenced area quite a few times to increase its accuracy and it did improve over time. i can't write it anymore. and there is another company that allows automatic breaking of their e—scooters, voy has intimated an integrated computer system developed by

luna, an array of sensors allows scooters to detect hazards in its path, even if the rider does not see them and it can even detect where the scooter is being written. so it looks like companies are quickly innovating to try and combat any objections. and with the uk's transport committee of mps pushing for legislation, it does not seem like a question of if they will be legalised but when. so what does the uk have to look forward to? let's hear from have to look forward to? let's hearfrom a have to look forward to? let's hear from a city where they have been legal and hugely popularfor have been legal and hugely popular for a have been legal and hugely popularfor a while. have been legal and hugely popular for a while. my suggestion would be to as much community let engagement and safety sort of launches around how to safely ride a scooter —— communiity—led. how to ethically ride a scooter. it is nice to convey to somebody how many miles have been written and habited trips have been taken to and habited trips have been ta ken to really and habited trips have been taken to really demonstrate to people what, how important this isn't how it is offsetting trips from their commute. isn't how it is offsetting

trips from their commutelj don't see an end to it coming anytime soon. the popularity of it is too great for us to not to lean into it and find a way to lean into it and find a way to make it safe over time. so whether you like it or not it looks like e—scooters are probably going to become an integral part of future urban transport. and there are loads of benefits for riders in the cities. but questions about infrastructure and about regulations still need to be answered. and so the work needs to be done now to make them as well integrated and as safe as possible. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that cuba sold off self—driving car division and its flying taxi arm elevate —— uber. we barely got 5g but now, nokia has been named leader of your‘s project to develop 6g. and japan has turned to ai matchmaking to boost its record

low birthrate. investing 2 billion yen, that is around $90 million. in other a! news, nvidia has found a way to train models with 10—20 times fewer images than usual. the advanced neural network approach has been used to generate artwork in the style of famous painters. it also created images of cancer tissue, starting with under 1500 images. a robot kitchen could now make you dinner and then wash up! as long as you have nearly £250,000 spare. this shift‘s algorithms are trained on human movements to allow it to retrieve ingredients, worker behold, poor, mixed, and, of course, plate up. and finally, mit has created a shape shifting basketball hoop that makes shots harder the better you get. this titans and raisins upward when players get consistent baskets, thanks to sensors that struck the ball‘s movements. its makers say it

could help players who cannot afford coaches. now, that is a slam dunk for science! for the first time in months i am making a video outside of my house so i have gone straight into a darkened room to play games in front of a computer screen! back in 2016! went to a tech show in paris where i tried out a virtual reality gaming booth that worked with projectors instead of a headset and four years later this might just be an idea whose time has come. this is the electric game box. it is sort of like a cross between an escape room and virtual reality but instead of the headset i just virtual reality but instead of the headset ijust need to wear a visor with this tree of tracking dots on and those are the cameras and computer no where in the room i am. there are eight rooms at the venue with four projectors in each, providing 360 degrees of visuals. the walls are touch sensitive and of course there

are motion tracking cameras. in this game i am being tested by aliens to see how intelligent i am. i have got to control this character and collect as many coins as i can, moving him around with my body. 0h! the business was co—founded by will deane who is also behind the tough motor insurance events. this year has had to be postponed due to the presence —— pandemic but electric game boxes been able to reopen two of its venues and at the moment you can only play with two of your household bubble but groups are separated from one another and the equipment is all easily cleaned after use. the question is after months of zoom quizzes and video calls, will people want this type of screen time? we believe that what we're doing here is making screen time social again. i went and did an immersive vr experience with a friend of mine and when we finished i realised i really have not been with my friend at all. the trouble with br it is almost too immersive and hear the fundamental ethos and mission of the business is bringing

people together through the value of shared play and some people have compare this to an escape room and obviously in an escape room and obviously in an escape room and obviously in an escape room there is a lot more physical props and when people find that more immersive? an escape room is a static event and it is once and done and here in some ways we are a bit more like a movie theatre or cinema where you come back and play different content each time and as such, we believe we have far more potential people keep coming back time and time again. also the potential to beat your old school and we see people coming back to do that. as well as providing a pandemic prove activity for families to do, venues like this could help breathe new life into the high street which has seen big brands fall into administration 01’ even brands fall into administration or even close this year. while shops are struggling, there is a growing appetite for experiences, electric game box is about to open its first venuein is about to open its first venue in the united states and its manchester venue will reopen once restrictions there are relaxed. now, hong kong has

seen a year of pro—democracy demonstrations after china passed a controversial national security law which reduced hong kong's autonomy and made it easier to punish demonstrators. just this week three prominent activists were sentenced to jailfor activists were sentenced to jail for their involvement in protests last year. in fact, one of the activists, joshua wong, featured on click talking about how internet freedoms were being threatened by the newly imposed law. danny vincent has been keeping us posted with the protests from inside hong kong. and this week he has been meeting some protesters who have been explaining that the strategies that they use actually come from multiplayer online games. ina gaming from multiplayer online games. in a gaming room somewhere in hong kong, a team of young protesters dressed in black block have agreed to meet. they are what is known as frontline

is. last year there were active in the city's anti—government protest movement. they took to the streets in their thousands. in hong kong, activism is unconventional. protests are fast moving and leaderless. to some the tactics, the collaboration resembled multiplayer online gaming. the hong kong protest evolution was just so quick. it was quicker than any protest movement you could have seen before. we learned a lot from the games and also from real life in hong kong. hong kong has one of the most innovative protest movements in the world. many of the young people on the front lines say that many of the strategies and ideas come from computer games. this game is called lee of legends and it is liked by many of the younger generation. i've personally think, since it has a map and actives, it is like during a protest. in hong kong, more

than one third of high school stu d e nts than one third of high school students play three hours of online games a day. 10% of primary school students are said to sufferfrom primary school students are said to suffer from gaming addiction. for some, gaming said to suffer from gaming addiction. forsome, gaming is addiction. forsome, gaming is a way of life. real—world divisions have also played out in the virtual world. last year, hong kong gamers dressed as protesters in grand theft auto five and started a mass violent campaign. they were met with mainland chinese players dressed as riot police. bella isa dressed as riot police. bella is a former protester. she agreed to it to us under the conditions of anonymity. translation: there are some correlations between playing games and the actual protest. example you can learn a lot of strategies from playing. during the protests you are like the protagonists inside the games, fighting against rivals, trying to escape. it is quite the same. protesters, she says,

learn from their mistakes, like in games, and adapt. translation: some scenarios in the games they standing up against rivals are similar to protesters standing up against the police. but you also learn from failed missions and look at what worked and apply it to the next protest. since the introduction of a new national security law, hong kong has seen few organised mass demonstrations. there have been more than 10,000 protest related arrests since last year. more than 1000 are under 18. translation: what is the difference between reality and the virtual world is much well, in reality, when you fail, you can't restart and complete again. you might get injured in again. you might get injured in a protest or put in jail again. you might get injured in a protest or put injail or even killed. the consequences in real life a more serious stop you would need to face the consequences as a team, not just on your own. it's not like

ina game just on your own. it's not like in a game where you can replay it after you've failed. you can try to unlimited times. in reality you just have one chance. that was geoff talking to danny vincent in hong kong. right, before our next story, lara, i would likely to have a guest at what these three things have in common. are you ready? far away. cyberspace, flying cars, and dreaming sheep. it sounds like research for the show. i'm guessing it's not going to be. so unlike me. they are all mainstays of all inspirations for the sci—fi genre known as cyberpunk. love a bit of cyberpunk! 0ne genre known as cyberpunk. love a bit of cyberpunk! one of the biggest videogames of this year is cyberpunk 2077. mark has been chatting to the games —— brains behind the game was up let's find out if any of those things turn up in the film. a giant megalopolis to explore.

cybernetic enhancements, futuristic hacking skills, and, to top it all, keanu reeves as a rock star who lives inside your head. maybe we'll fit together after all. welcome to one of the most anticipated videogames of the year, cyberpunk 27. cyberpunk is or has had something of an 80s vibe about it. instead of adventure taking place in outer space cyberpunk is involved in urban sprawl‘s of cyberspace, dock futures blighted by environmental collapse and technology run rampant. as any of this are starting to sound familiar? let's put it this way, because don't fly, that's about it. ok, let's see, we've got a play, we've had some nuclear accidents, some wars. we've had a loss of newly amazing exports going on. governments bow before

corporations, we have corporations, we have corporations got countries and move on. i've personally know someone who hires mercenaries for corporations in foreign countries. you know, all of this stuff, it's all there. so if you are talking about living in the future, i'd suggest you look at the news stop by the cyberpunk game has its rules in pen and paper rather than pixels. created in 1988 by maicon smith, it started life asa maicon smith, it started life as a tabletop role—playing game. he had a back game in videogames and managed to filter the films and books of the time it was successful role—playing franchise. and in doing so managed to predict much of the world we live in today. it's just much of the world we live in today. it'sjust amazing. the problem becomes we don't know how to vet it, we don't know how to vet it, we don't know how to vet it, we don't know how to tell what's going to be true. for example, iwrote how to tell what's going to be true. for example, i wrote a variation of cyberpunk called cyberpunk p three, where

primarily messages what happens when we an information collapse and people are able to pick their own information to build realities. so we have what's called cultural cough, where people are fighting, my reality is better than your reality, and here is what really happened back in 1962 or something. well, we are there. looking at it right now, worldwide people are rewriting realities and there is nothing out there to really balance that out so people are going to have to become a lot smarter. pondsmith‘s table—top fiction has been digitally realised by polish producers, the team behind the hugely successful wicha video series. they are responsible for, of all things, the wicha three wild side, one of the most exciting, sprawling, huge rpgs that we have seen in people love it. when the pandemic hit the developers carried on, completing the work from home. the game has been played by reports of crunchiness later stages, with developers working

a six—day week in an effort to get the title on time for release. and even though work continued on the game its release has been delayed several times. these delays have sparked anger on social media and, in extreme cases, lead to threats being levelled at the development team. we tried not to take into much of the negative comments when they arrive. and there are situations which never can be really accepted, like some kind of threats and situations which also happens, unfortunately. so, has all of that effort on the part of the developers been worth it? well, on first impressions, mckennamac city is certainly a good—looking matchup of every cyberpunk trope. like the setting, missions draw on the history of the cyberpunk genre, tech heists are bound. combat can be approached different ways via stealth and using technology or

the player can use a more direct, let the broomstick do the talking approach, or a combination of all these things. cybernetic upgrades and has the player's body, increasing the chance of surviving in that academic city. something else which is less fu n city. something else which is less fun are the bulk, which is not surprising given the size and detail of the world and the effect of the pandemic and developers working from home. patches will no doubt follow, but it is worrying that there are flashing lights actions of the game, inducing an epileptic seizure and one reviewer. the game's developers say they have —— will add a warning about potential triggers. they have created an alternate visual effect replacing the one that has caused this problem and will change it by an update. so far, cyberpunk 2077 is an ambitious and good—looking example of an open world fps. but it's not its problems. that was mark in full cyberpunk mode and that is it for this week. as ever, you can find the team on social media throughout the

week, on youtube, instagram, facebook, and twitter at bbc click. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. bye-bye. hello there. friday was another unsettled day, a day that brought many of us outbreaks of rain. the rain was most persistent in aberdeenshire but, equally, there were a few brighter moments — for example, here in cornwall to allow these rather stunning rainbows to develop. we have at the moment a very slow—moving area of low pressure crossing the country. further patches of rain moving generally slowly eastwards and with the winds very light, again, we're starting to see some dense patches of fog form particularly across eastern england. visibility is already down to 100 metres in places with the foggy weather really from essex northwards into the east midlands, perhaps east anglia, lincolnshire, and yorkshire. that's where the poorest visibility is likely to be. whereas further west, the skies tending to clear.

this is where we'll see some of the lowest temperatures early on saturday morning. and saturday itself, it's a day where pressure is going to be rising across the whole of the uk. what that will do is it will squish this area of low pressure. so, in the next 2a hours, it won't exist at all, it willjust be gone. further west we get this ridge building in and that will have quite a big impact on the weather. it means across these western and southern areas, it's an improving weather picture with sunny spells developing but with that slow—moving area of low pressure close by, it stays pretty cloudy and there probably will still be some patches of rain well on into the afternoon across the north east. so, a mixed bag of weather. for many of us, though, saturday morning will be a rather grey start to the day. extensive cloud, some patches of light rain and drizzle. very slowly pushing eastwards because there's barely any wind to move those features along. but eventually, we'll get some sunshine. sunshine to start the day in northern ireland, that will tend to spread to south—west scotland, western areas of england, wales, the midlands, and much of the south of england as well. so, an improving weather picture for some of you. now, the second half of the weekend is dominated by this next area of low pressure. there are more isobars on the chart. so, you'll notice the weather

certainly turning a lot windier and also a lot wetter as well. yes, outbreaks rain spreading up from the south west, heavy as well, as it dives in across england and wales, pushes northwards across northern ireland into scotland through the afternoon. so, although it will be a dry start across northern and eastern areas, rain will arrive later in the day and it will be blowy as well. gales developing around our southern and western coasts and hills. the winds, though, coming from a south—westerly direction blowing in mild air. 00:27:22,825 --> 2147483051:50:26,128 so, temperatures up 2147483051:50:26,128 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 to 13 in the southwest.