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# the saviour reigns # let men their songs employ # while fields and floods # rocks, hills and plains # repeat the sounding joy repeat the sounding joy # repeat, repeat, the sounding joy # he rules the world # with truth and grace # and makes the nations prove # the glories of his righteousness # and wonders of his love and wonders of his love # and wonders, and wonders of his love.#
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today has been quiet enough weather—wise but we do have a storm on the way, storm bella will be causing problems on saturday night into sunday. a little bit of rain around, it will turn milder. by the end of the night we will be frost free, temperatures for eight celsius. rain through the end of the night will be persistent throughout boxing day really across western scotla nd boxing day really across western scotland accompanied by some strong gusts of wind, localised flooding possible here. showers for southern areas of england but milder day nationwide, temperatures at the highest up to ten or 11 celsius. then storm bella through saturday night and into sunday will cause problems. heavy rain could bring localised flooding. southern wales looks critically vulnerable. as well
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as the rain there will be wind. there you are, come on in i hope you're doing 0k. normally we would
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be getting around the table and having a laugh and cheering and having a laugh and cheering and having a laugh and cheering and having a good time. just because we can't all be together doesn't mean we can't all be together. hello, everyone. look at you all, it's the fan. chris, loving the jumper! candles are a go atjen‘s place. lj, that must be a musical rainbow, i'm guessing. omar, christmas furby, i see. and paul with his christmas duck, of course the well—known symbol of the festive season. the duck is brilliant and spencer your house looks so festive! you have totally outdone me with your decorations once again, not to mention the outfit. amazing. how is your clickmas going so far? costly on the electricity front, i have to say. but guys, i'm really missing you. i just want to get in the same room as you again. i just wanna do that. it has been a tough old year but we are so grateful that we have stayed on your screens, and today at least
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we can have a get—together, albeit 2020 style for the last show of this year. that's right, and for this show we've been able to go out and about filming, just a little bit, and if santa had asked me what would i like to do for christmas, if i could do anything at all what would i say? i would say, i want to be like you, big guy, and fly. it's pretty early in the morning. i've been told to meet my driving instructor richard here, and he has told me i need to wear these. don't know why. dramatic music yeah, so it turns out richard is not in a fiat panda then. he's arriving goodwood speed week in style, as the chief test pilot
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of gravity industries, the start—up that believes they've finally nailed the jetpack. i hatched this idea in 2016 of, could you reinvent flight byjust adding the minimalist amount of equipment and using your brain and body to fly in a very unusual way. no logical reason, that was just an interesting idea, i thought. so, i'm going to have a go on this? mm—hmm. any tips? well actually, it's like watching a child learn to ride a bike because if you describe a bicycle to somebody who has never seen one, it sounds very clever and complicated and difficult to learn but our experience is that when you let the inner balance brain take over, it is remarkable how well that collaboration between machine and human works and this is the same. right, so we're going to put the harness on. that will do a good job of connecting you to the suit as best as possible. if you stress and overthink it, it's really hard. walking and standing up is much more complicated than learning to fly this, so just relax into it and enjoy it. the jet suit is pretty daunting and although it is also pretty heavy, there's not that much to it.
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two turbines on each arm and one at the back and well, that's it. right, so if you look in the end, see the trigger? just get used to the pull of it. that's the throttle. so when you're up there, when you squeeze it and you can feel the engines gradually ramp up. this finger will actually nudge the power up, and this one will nudge the power down. a couple of nudges, each nudge gives you a couple of kilos more thrust. so the idea is, you are learning about lateral stability and rotation, but it will still shove you around a bit, but once you get your weight over the top of it you'll notice that it is really not very much. i mean, it's really scary ‘cause i can feel the power and i can feel the heat all around me. the diesel fuel lasts for up to ten minutes. all of which, for me, will be spent at most a few centimetres off the ground. what the helljust happened?! that was honestly really good.
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that was incredible! i don't know whether that's adrenaline orjust sheer terror or excitement, or what. the main application, richard thinks, is in entertainment. imagine seeing jetpack races across lakes, for example. but in september 2020, richard joined the great north air ambulance service to show how paramedics might quickly get to casualties in the rough terrain of the lake district. the great north air ambulance reached out and said that there appears, according to their analysis, to be a large cluster of cases where, if they could move very quickly out of a vehicle with this, that would work. and so we went up and tested it. the headline result was, i got to the casualty in 90
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seconds when it took 25 minutes to walk there. hardly surprising, since richard broke the guinness world record for fastest speed in a body—controlled jet engine power suit, twice. they're noisy, impractical and expensive. but, jet packs are now real, which is a good enough christmas present for this little fan boy. i'm going to be the ghost of christmas past and take as to jazz clu b christmas past and take as to jazz club in vancouver. it was actually demolished in 1955 but thanks to the magic of live motion capture and
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incredible singer she has recreated it for one christmas only so grab a drink, sit back and lets get back into it. the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful. and since we've got no place to go, let it snow let it snow let it snow. it doesn't show signs of stopping the lights are turned way down low, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. that was jill barber and the
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it snow, let it snow, let it snow. that wasjill barber and the phantom jazz band. and after the performance and managed to catch up with her at the bar. so, jill, just to start with can you tell us a little bit about where we both are. sure. you andi about where we both are. sure. you and i are sitting at the supper club it was demolished in 1955. how are we doing that? i'm actually sitting in front of a green screen in a studio in british columbia and you are 7600 kilometres away at a studio at the bbc in london. but through the magic of cross reality technology, we can be here together at the panama. show cap, the company behind the performance created this virtual venue using the unreal
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engine, platform created for gaming. with the performers in motion ca ptu re with the performers in motion capture suit shot against a green screen, they could be transported to the 50s while maintaining their intricate human movements. historically, motion capture and virtual production techniques have been used in the creation of blockbuster films in big budget video games. but with cinematic quality computer graphics they can be rendered in real—time, we are starting to really sort of explore the use of these things live performance. joe's first virtual concert was broadcast online in november but unlike many other performance we have seen over the last year, for me, something about this really stands out. it is more than just you performing
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this really stands out. it is more thanjust you performing in this really stands out. it is more than just you performing in a space. you have created a back story and a feeling around it. so tell me a bit about how that came about and for example why here? it has incredible history of hosting the likes of ella fitzgerald and louis armstrong and the mills brothers, billie holliday andi the mills brothers, billie holliday and i thought how cool to continue that legacy and perform on the same stage but those artist back in the day. that is so brilliant. i'm afraid that is it for the short cut of our special. the full length cut is waiting for now on iplayer. normally the show follows this is a look back at our last 12 months but who really wants to look back at 2020? i
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who really wants to look back at 2020 ? i thought who really wants to look back at 2020? i thought so. so instead we are going to bring you a special live show where we look back at the last 20 years of click. that's right. until then though you can find us on social media, youtube, facebook and twitter. spencer, are you 0k? facebook and twitter. spencer, are you ok? i am. i'mjust taking it all in really. this truly has been a special day. we didn't think we would be able to do it. posted the gifts to each other and we got eve ryo ne gifts to each other and we got everyone together. and when i say everyone, i mean everyone together. and when i say everyone, i mean everyone. everyone together. and when i say everyone, i mean everyone. it has been a challenging year for us all but we have done our best to bring you your weekly dose of click. everyone on the team wanted to be here to say thank you for watching us here to say thank you for watching us and been part of our click family. so until next time and mary click mess.
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good afternoon and are very happy christmas. the european union is expected to formally back the post—brexit trade deal reached with the uk within days. eu ambassadors have been briefed about the contents of the agreement by the bloc‘s

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