now, the weather with chris fawkes hello there. we've got a cold weekend coming up. today, a day of sunshine and showers, but for some of us, we've already seen some snowfall. this was dunbar in east lothian, the eastern side of scotland seeing the snow this morning. those snow showers have been tracking across fife, also bringing a covering of snow before working across east lothian, the scottish borders and into north—east england. now, i wouldn't be too surprised if some areas got around two to perhaps as much as five centimetres of snow. certainly risk of icy stretches here. and through the rest of the day, we'll see those snow showers move southwards into parts of yorkshire, perhaps lincolnshire too. although around the coastline, there's probably a tendency, really, to see them turn to rain and sleet around the east coast itself. showers across wales, moving into south—west england. many of these will be rain, but there could be a bit of sleet and snow mixed in the high levels. and we'll continue to see some snow showers across northern scotland. overnight tonight, showers will be widespread across east scotland, eastern areas of england.

the clearest skies will be where we have the lowest temperatures, west scotland and northern ireland potentially seeing lows down to about minus seven, minus eight degrees celsius. but a frost is going to be widespread. and, again, there's a risk of icy stretches to take us on into sunday. sunday, well, we've changed the wind direction, it's going to come in from the north—east, but we've not really changed how the weather feels. it's going to be another cold day. showers widespread, east scotland, eastern areas of england, pushing westwards across the midlands, into wales and south—west england with time. the best of the dry weather and sunshine for northern and western scotland and northern ireland. but even in the sunshine, it is still going to be cold. temperatures four to six degrees celsius. now, on into next week, we've still got an area of high pressure sat across scandinavia steering in these cold north—easterly winds. again, we'll see further showers, widespread showers at that, across scotland, eastern areas of england, potentially merging together to give some longer spells of rain into kent.

the best of the dry weather and sunshine, again, further north west for northern ireland and western areas of scotland. but it's going to stay cold. temperatures, again, four to six degrees celsius, feeling particularly chilly around those eastern coasts with the onshore winds. beyond that, well, it's going to stay on the cold side really throughout the week, but it's certainly not going to be a dry week. there will be some showers around and potential for some snow for some of us later on in the week. that's your latest weather. hello this is bbc news. the headlines... pressure grows to shut more schools. unions are demanding a two—week closures of all primaries and secondaries in england. a new warning over hospitals in parts of the uk. the president of the royal college of physicians says some are now facing a worse situation than at the peak of the first

wave of the pandemic. india begins a nationwide mock drill to test its preparedness for mass immunisation against covid—i9. french police make arrests after more than 2,5000 french police make arrests after more than 2,500 people break virus restrictions at an illegal rave near the city of rennes that began on new year's eve, in defiance of coronavirus precautions. now on bbc news, click celebrates over 20 years and 1,000 episodes in front of a live audience and looks back at some of our favourite moments. we've been live in the uk, in india and around the world. and this year, we went live in your living room, joined by click fans from across the globe and masterminded by a director... and his assistant. laughter. woman: keep the cat!

i thought i prepared for everything but not... ..not for the cat! ..not for the cat. hello! i get real people? you're the first people i've seen in nine months! oh, my goodness! people! cheering and applause. it's lara lewington! hello! so normally at this time of year, we like to look back at our best bits from the last 12 months but around this summer, it became obvious that no—one's gonna want to look back at 2020 ever. so we're not gonna look back at 2020 because, fortunately, this is the year that click turned 20, so we thought we would look back at some of our fave moments ever. lara, of all of the places that you've got to go, is there —

can you just say one place that really sticks out? is there — is it possible to have one place? yes! it's difficult but it has to be my trip to norway. we did a sustainability special and i think this shoot is something that will really stick with me forever. we went out on the fjords with an underwater drone and you're there on a boat on the fjords with the most stunning surroundings, then you see what is going on under the water. it was really quite something. if you want to see what goes on beneath the surface, where everything was completely immaculate above it, this is a real eye—opener because this underwater drone could see plastic all over the surface, there are apparently cars under there as well — we did not actually see any on our trip but the people i was out with had seen them before — where cars had just been dumped on the ice and the ice had broken and the cars had fallen into the fjords. really an incredible sight. we asked each member of the click team to pick their most memorable click moments and first up, a man with a reputation for breaking everything that he touches.

case in point, the "unbreakable phone" in 2010. it's dan simmons! cheering and applause. so, dan, you broke the unbreakable phone. then in 2016, you were given something even more spectacular to try and break? yeah. yeah, we travelled to central china to a place called zhangjiajie, where they were busy making a glass bridge. unlike me, they hope the thousands of visitors that will come here won't be too scared to look down 300 metres through the world's highest glass walkway. each panel of the walkway has three layers of toughened glass, held together by glue. he chuckles. well, the president has given me a hammer and said that even if i can get through all three layers of glass, i won't fall through.

ooh! it was absolutely incredible. it was stunning. i mean, those pictures look stunning. it's a stunning part of the world. but yeah, it didn't break, it was — it was fine. i did insist that the president of the bridge stand on the same bit of glass that i was standing on, just in case! back in 2007, dan and i went to san francisco looking for start—ups that were going to change the world, didn't we, dan? yeah, we did, and we took a few quid with us to find a start—up that we could invest in, because that's the way that it was done back in 2007. who did we see and who did we not give the money to? well, we saw twitter. we did not give the money to twitter, did we? nope! because we thought nah. laughter. yeah, you found a start—up that was making electric cars — and remember, this is a time when electric motors really did just mean milk floats and golf buggies. what was the name of the start—up that you found? it's a small start—up. it was called tesla and they —

they invited us along for me to try literally the third car that they made. and we took it for a spin. the roadster has a good pedigree - its ultralight carbon fibre body is designed by lotus, based on the elise — and thanks to new battery technology, it can go three times as far as the car wally built. the first hundred of these electric superca rs roll sile ntly off the production line in october. but what a success! did you have any idea back then of the success that tesla may have? i — do you know what? i did have an inkling, and i tell you why i did — because of the performance. tesla always went out right from the get go to say this — you know, we're not talking milk floats or golf carts. we are talking serious performance cars, and they captured the imagination of the public. dan, thank you so much forjoining us. it has been wonderful to see you. cheering and applause. after dan, lj rich, who has

done a tonne of stuff for us over the years. her fave moment — the time she went on a vr roller—coaster while on a real roller—coaster. seriously, don't ask. but she's been spending lockdown, well, as only lj could. hello, lara, hello spen, hello click team and hello audience! i've been immersed in al music creation, among other things. i got really into style transfer, where you mix two songs together. see, i can do it without computers, so how would an aldo? i programmed ai queen to sing let it go from frozen and ai beatles to sing call me maybe. # here's my number. # so call me maybe. # it's hard to look right at you baby. so — so hang on. this is the beatles doing carly rae jepsen, yeah? the algorithm works by sampling tiny slices of audio from everything the beatles ever made and then picks out things it thinks fits,

and that's based on training models, and it takes nine hours to make just one minute of music. so i was heavily supervising the model every four seconds into the early hours of the morning... oh, my god. ..so it is also an exercise in endurance. oh, lj, that's brilliant! and also, it is just so you. ai and music — how much more you could that be? cheering and applause. well, here at tokyo university, researchers have moved the ideas of science—fiction one step closer towards reality. this is richard taylor, the man who started click, reporting from japan. a camera projects an image of the background onto a coat like this, which is made up of thousands of tiny glass beads covered in aluminium. it's a retroreflective material which shines the light straight back at the direction it came from. as yet though, this invisibility cloak is an optical illusion that would not really fool anyone.

and even for this rather crude incarnation, the conditions have to be just right. not only is there lots of kit involved, but any movement and perspective behind the camera soon gives the game away. invisibility would bring incalculable advantages on the battlefield. to make the object appear invisible, it would be blanketed with lots of flat—screen display panels. each panel would contain a tiny camera to take images of its surroundings. these images would then be transferred to display panels on the opposite side of the object to create the illusion. yeah, i mean, that idea in particular was so left—field — the idea of miniature cameras that then project the scene behind the tank onto the tank. pretty crazy. notice in the script i said "one step closer to becoming fact" — i mean that — that particular idea never went anywhere. except there is actually a canadian company that recently filed a patent for a different kind of invisibility technology, actually also intended for use mainly on the battlefield, to cloak tanks and jets. and it's a material that kind of bends light and they called it — it's very bond—like — quantum stealth.

quantum stealth? and it actually does look pretty good. he laughs. yeah, of course, right? why not? you know, you've got to give it a sexy name — that's marketing 101. yeah, that's true. pull the trigger. there it is! and let's not mention the time that richard and marc cieslak played laser tag in real planes, richard treating the plane like it was a video game. hard right. yeah! yeah, rich was — he was really, really ill after that because he was chucking that plane around the sky like they were going to take it off him. marc is our video games guy and he's spent a lot of time and effort explaining the games industry in an alarming number of costumes. laughter. here he is running in slow motion into battle. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the console wars. here he is inside a vr video game. if vr is going to make it to the next level, developers have to design bespoke

experiences for vr—goggled gamers. and here he is inside a computer, living out his 1982 boyhood fantasy. watch out, marc! there's a visual effect straight ahead! whoa! hello, audience! hi, lara, as well! 2021 in gaming — well, most conferences have gone online this year. do you think that we will see shows like e3 in la come back, or have we nowjust moved away from the big, expensive conferences? oh, i think they're going to come back. this year has kind of proven to us that trying to do all of those big shows online, you just don't get the level of excitement that you do when you're, you know, on the, in the conferences, when you're chatting to the people that have made the games, all that kind of stuff. you, as a journalist, you don't get the same level of access, you don't get to talk to the people that have made the games

in the same way. so for me, and also a lot of people that i have spoken to over the course of the year, i think there will be some really, really big in—person video games conferences come back as soon as they are able to come back. whether that will be next year, we will have to wait and see, but i think from the perspective of a lot of the video, people making games and a lot of people actually making the hardware as well, this year has not really worked for them trying to do everything online. but, hey, you know, that is the same all over with almost every single industry. 2020 hasn't worked for anybody. well, let's hope for the best for 2021. everyone, marc cieslak! cheering and applause. yay! now, since almost the beginning of click, kate russell has been our trusted guide to the web. she has webscaped in every studio that we could throw at her. but deep down, she is a space nerd. kate russell, everybody! cheering and applause. hello! this, kate, is your most memorable piece from 2017 — space robots. meet superball — a tensegrity robot

in development in nasa ames. this lightweight sphere—like matrix can be packed down flat, taking up minimal space in a rocket and vastly reducing launch costs. because of the unique structure of this robot and the fact that it can deform and reform itself and take massive impacts, eventually nasa will be able to literally throw it at the surface of a planet and its scientific payload in the middle will be protected. it's bouncy! once deployed, superball can handle much rougher terrains than a rover, rolling right over obstacles and up and down hills. tendon wires connecting the struts spool in and out to create momentum, in much the same way as flexing your muscles moves your limbs. what we're going to have is a future of humans and robots really working together. so the biggest question perhaps of the day for me is can i drive k—rex? definitely!

let's have you do that. yes! now, lots of few think we click reporters have the best jobs in the world. but after spending a day at the roverscape testing ground, i think there is another contender for that title. giggles. look at that face! that is the face of a kid in a toy shop there! and look what you were driving the robot with! my whole life, people have said "stop wasting your time playing games" and there i am at nasa, driving the mars rover with a playstation controller. that's what they say though, isn't it? that the next generation is so used to using games controllers that that is the natural thing for them to control technology with. any update on the nasa robots? well, nasa takes quite a long time to develop things and actually get them out into space so, no. but there is a team at uc berkeley who are designing that — using that tensegrity design to detect flying drones, so that should be interesting. you'd would be able to fly your drones into things and they'lljust will bounce back and keep flying.

all right. it's kate russell, everybody! it has been said that once you join click, you never really leave. and that means that a couple of the newest members of our team have actually been with us for quite a while. let's cross to them now. please welcome omar mehtab and paul carter. hello, how are you? hey. hello! how's it going, everyone? paul, you've picked something from all the way back in 2018? that's right, yeah. me and omar went to switzerland to check out some new tech around firefighting. we went to check out a device to help firefighters detect heat in a burning building and also something i was very pleased about — a firefighting train. now, switzerland may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of fire. but it's surprisingly advanced when it comes to firefighting tech. for example, it's the only country in europe to have a firefighting train.

this cabin is actually pressurised, so in the event of a fire, this can be operated as a safe breathing environment. dramatic music. electronic music. i was over there with him. i was there, working my socks off, and then i turned around and ijust see him grinning from ear to ear, just loving it, being on that train. it was, like, the most wholesome thing ever. brilliant! let's turn to omar. cheering and applause. so, sam battle is a musician and youtuber who loves tinkering with old tech, so he's got a whole lot of speakers, you know, game boys, he also had, like, a furby organ. he got, like, 30 of them and he was playing music with it. it was really...weird. that sounds demonic! oh, it is demonic. this is basically 48 game boys and it basically

sounds like an orchestra. for instance... machines play droning sound that crescendos. but after a quick modification, the keyboard doesn'tjust play game boys any more. ah! i was very close to that! omar squeals. look out! did you squeal there, omar? i was going to say omar, that was some — some squealing going on. i mean, yeah, i did squeal. the reason i squealed is because just before we turned the cameras on, we were testing out the flame—thrower and it went so big that it singed his hair, and so i was genuinely fearful. like, 0k! let's calm down a little bit, you know? chuckles. so it's amazing to think, really, isn't it, 15 years ago, youtube was already a thing but the concept that that people could carve out huge careers online just didn't seem real at the time, did it? no, it didn't and, you know, i mean, we've gone from people making online videos and showing them, you know, around the world to now, you know, people's careers getting so big — i mean, we've got floyd mayweather junior fighting a youtuber soon

and that's it's based off the back of his fame that he's put up online. so you can actually build a real, proper career out of this, and it's only going up and up. seems like there's no end. totally. omar, paul, thank you so much! cheering and applause. thank you. next up isjen copestake! jen, welcome! jen, good to see you. jen joined click back in 2013 and has been super busy over the last year especially, covering health tech pieces during the pandemic. she's been all over the world for the show as well — to israel, las vegas, china. how has it all been for you, jen? it's been absolutely amazing and it's so lovely to see everybody today. my favourite times i think on the show, though, have been in china. there's been some incredible technology that i've seen there, and one of the most amazing things was actually getting to play sport with robots. whoa! laughs. the robot is designed to be as much like a human player as possible. its eyes are the hd cameras at the back of the court.

these computers send prediction data on where the shuttlecock will fall back to the robot via bluetooth. is there any more news on that badminton robot? yeah, they're still — they're all taking part in competitions and there's different companies and universities across china who are developing these robots and they're winning competitions. it'sjen copestake, everybody! cheering and applause. nice to see you! welcome to the aletsch glacier in the swiss alps. we've tried some world firsts over the years, and one member of the click fam has been instrumental in them all. stephen beckett produced the world's first show shot entirely in 360 degrees. and in 2015, he and i entered our mad laboratory to try and teach an artificial intelligence to walk. we're definitely getting closer to that all—powerful machine. if only steve could keep it upright. but then, in a moment of realisation, he cracks it!

so ai is this — in some ways, it's a simple concept, isn't it? it's brute force. you chuck it a problem and it tries millions of times, getting it wrong most of the time, occasionally getting it right, and then taking that answer and improving it by trying millions and millions of times again — that's basically how ai works, in a nutshell. you've summed it up. that's the whole field of research. you've done it. laughter. but no, but i mean in the case of this qwop, in the case of qwop, we — it played the game thousands or hundreds of thousands of times and eventually, kind of through genetic — a bit like evolution — it figured out the best way — well, the best way it could find — to move along that racetrack. that technology is freely available now. that is commoditised. you can just use that kind of a! learning. that's what you did — you built the qwop man on free software, didn't you ? yeah. i mean, it's all — it's all open source, a lot of it. i mean, and a lot of these discoveries are becoming more part of the public domain and the tools are becoming easier to use.

you know, an analogy i would is you look at tiktok and what that's done for kind of video editing. it's made it much more available to everyone. well, we're heading in that direction, i think, with al. obviously, we're quite a few years away from that, but we are starting to get tools that can make some of these things without necessarily being a programmer or having technical skills like that. stephen beckett, everybody! cheering and applause. right, now it's time to jet off to the south of france and when say "jet", i meanjet. here's our nick kwek. so if one of these five engines blows, then... it's still flying. you can lose two engine and still flying. the explosion will be contained by some kevlar protection. the explosion? if it explodes. undeterred, nick gave its water—powered cousin a whirl. yes! i don't think i've ever had so many painful muscles afterwards of doing any activity ever. yeah, i've never had so much salt water up my nose in such a short period of time. spencer laughs.

and you have been following franky zapata's career since then. tell us what he's doing now. yeah, so the guy has actually attempted to cross the english channel. he did it once and he failed, but then he managed to do it a second time. and now, he has actually decided to make a flying car, which sounds very safe indeed, so, yeah, look forward to seeing that. guess who we'll be sending to report on that story. bye! thank you so much! bye! applause. spencer, you've been on the show longer than i have. you've been on so many adventures. what would you say your highlights are? so, i've chosen something from 2015. so we went to south korea and we went to a university which was building a robot that was going to compete in the darpa robotics challenge. so this is a human—like assault course and they had to build a robot that could drive a car, operate a drill, pick its way through rubble — the point being that you need to be able to send a robot — you might need to be able to send a robot into a human environment that has become unsafe —

maybe there's been a fire, maybe it's filled with toxic fumes or whatever. this is the final, final, final part of the challenge. it needs to mount the podium. it's strong. it's 80kg. also, you might notice in the background a super excited little boy in a man's body bouncing like tigger. last step, hubo. 0h! applause. spencer laughs gleefully. and the amazing thing is is that was the rehearsal for the darpa robotics challenge. a few days later, hubo went to america, took part in the darp robotics challenge and came first, so we picked a winner there. yay! this has been a blast! we have made it well past our 20th birthday and through the toughest time i think any of us have ever seen. lara, thank you.

you're, like, the best co—host i could've wished for. lara lewington, everybody. lara lewington. thanks, everyone, for coming! cheering and applause. i hope that you have a restful and peaceful time off, if you can. here's to 2021. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. bye! cheering and applause. hello there. we've got a cold weekend coming up. today, a day of sunshine and showers, but for some of us, we've already seen some snowfall. this was dunbar in east lothian, the eastern side of scotland seeing the snow this morning. those snow showers have been tracking across fife, also bringing a covering of snow before working across east lothian, the scottish borders and into north—east england. now, i wouldn't be too surprised if some areas got around two to perhaps as much as five centimetres of snow. certainly risk of icy stretches here. and through the rest of the day, we'll see those snow showers move southwards into parts of yorkshire,

perhaps lincolnshire too. although around the coastline, there's probably a tendency, really, to see them turn to rain and sleet around the east coast itself. showers across wales, moving into south—west england. many of these will be rain, but there could be a bit of sleet and snow mixed in the high levels. and we'll continue to see some snow showers across northern scotland. overnight tonight, showers will be widespread across east scotland, eastern areas of england. the clearest skies will be where we have the lowest temperatures, west scotland and northern ireland potentially seeing those down to about minus seven, minus eight degrees celsius. but a frost is going to be widespread. and, again, there's a risk of icy stretches to take us on into sunday. sunday, well, we've changed the wind direction, it's going to come in from the north—east, but we've not really changed how the weather feels. it's going to be another cold day. showers widespread, east scotland, eastern areas of england, pushing westwards across the midlands, into wales and south—west england with time. the best of the dry weather and sunshine for northern and western scotland and northern

ireland. but even in the sunshine, it is still going to be cold. temperatures four to six degrees celsius. now, on into next week, we've still got an area of high pressure sat across scandinavia steering in these cold north—easterly winds. again, we'll see further showers, widespread showers at that, across scotland, eastern areas of england, potentially merging together to give some longer spells of rain into kent. the best of the dry weather and sunshine, again, further north west for northern ireland and western areas of scotland. but it's going to stay cold. temperatures, again, four to six degrees celsius, feeling particularly chilly around those eastern coasts with the onshore winds. beyond that, well, it's going to stay on the cold side really throughout the week, but it's certainly not going to be a dry week. there will be some showers around and potential for some snow for some of us later on in the week. that's your latest weather.

good afternoon. there's mounting pressure on the government to close all schools in england for face—to—face teaching for two weeks after the christmas holiday. teaching unions say a move to home learning for most children is necessary to curb the spread of coronavirus. one union has described it as "the only sensible and credible option". it comes after the education secretary said all london primaries would remain shut on monday, rather than only those in some boroughs.