hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... more than 70 mps launch a campaign against coronavirus vaccine passports, calling them �*divisive and discriminatory�*. the philippines, pakistan, kenya and bangladesh have been added to england's travel red list — international visitors will be refused entry, and british and irish citizens and residents will have to enter hotel quarantine.

at least 50 people have been killed and dozens injured in a train crash in taiwan. oxfam suspends two members of its staff in the democratic republic of congo following allegations of sexual misconduct and bullying. wildlife conservationists warn people to keep their distance from seals this easter weekend, over concerns that disturbing and scaring them can lead to harm. now on bbc news, click. this week, need a new career? this is where the jobs are. the new smart city in the desert, and the robots that can build more robots. what could possibly go wrong?

welcome to click. it was exactly one year ago that i stood on this beach, looked into that camera and said some pretty improbable—sounding things. first of all, click had been on—airfor 20 years. secondly, the world was going into lockdown. and, thirdly, because of that, we didn't know whether we were going to be able to continue making the programme. and then, of course, the next week, we just forgot to stop. and now, 12 months on, the vaccines are offering us a way out and that is thanks to science and technology. and also, i am still pretty much in one piece as a human being. and that is thanks in part to the person who i am so glad can

join me on the beach today. hiya! i have tried my best. we have spent a lot of time on zoom. yes, we have. but not today. it is great to be here in real—life and isn't this absolutely beautiful? every bit of normality feels so special right now, but as we edge towards the lives we once knew, work could have changed forever. many businesses have closed, people have lostjobs and for some, this mayjust be a time to change career. but some industries are thriving and hiring. home delivery outfits, streaming entertainment and videogames. mark has been spending some time with the uk games developers who are part of this growing industry. young or old, hardcore or casual, the pandemic has seen an explosion in the amount of people playing games. the size of the uk market has led to increased investment and growth for lots of

video games studios. the brains behind the football manager series, sports interactive, is based here in east london's olympic park. as a studio, we have been going forjust under 30 years. originally started in two kids�* bedrooms in shropshire. since then, we have grown very organically over the years to a team of 35, then to a team of 100, then to 150, and in the last year, we have grown to 200. so far, as a studio, we have sold 33 million games around the world, mainly football management titles. this is sumo digital�*s studio in sheffield. they most recently launched sackboy: a big adventure for ps5 and are working on a medieval multiplayer heist game hood, slated for release later this year. we make video games for all consoles and mobile. we have many studios in the uk

from newcastle in the north down to brighton in the south. in the last two years, of which the pandemic has formed 50% of that, we have grown and added another five studios to sumo digital. the group�*s headcount has grown 36% in 2020, so it has been a year of growth. these are both games companies producing blockbuster titles who have experienced recent expansion. during the pandemic, obviously it has been really hard for everyone. we have been very lucky in that our revenue hasn�*t stopped, as it has for some companies. but making games is hard and making games when you�*re distributed around the world is even harder. and we were determined to still release games last year, so we actually ended up going on a bit of hiring drive last year. we have accelerated our growth plans, so the growth we were expecting over

the next three years we have done in one, and went up from 150 people to 200 in the last year. sports interactive�*s growth means the company is moving to new, bigger offices just around the corner from its existing base. games are already the most successful entertainment medium in the world. and the pandemic has resulted in huge numbers turning to them as a means of entertainment or connection with friends and family. this has led to massive financial success. last year, the uk games market generated £7 billion, up nearly 30% on the year before. but is this growth sustainable post—pandemic? being realistic, i do not think that growth rate is going to continue, but i also don�*t think it will taper off completely. i think a lot of people have discovered games in the last year that are going to carry on being gamers, being gamers forever. a short distance from the olympic park, on brick lane, we find a company making different kinds of games.

it is notjust the blockbuster studios that had been experiencing growth. the indie development sector is expanding, too. we have been around for about three years now and we make games for teenage girls. these days, 84% of teenage girls play video games. it is actually more popular of a hobby than shopping. loveshark has developed a mobile title called mochi. follow the action on screen to achieve a better score, as demonstrated by the game�*s developer, rosa, here. my own attempt to play is perhaps the strongest evidence i will ever need that a stint on strictly is not for me. during covid, gaming has seen a huge boom and that has meant more and more investors want to invest in the space. we have been able to build more games, develop faster and also expand our team. we have doubled the size of our team in the last year. so games companies big and small are crewing up as a result of market growth and investment.

as the jobs market is left reeling from the effects of the covid—19 pandemic, could a career in video games beckon for many? but are people about to enter the world of work or those thinking about changing career equipped with the skills necessary to work in video games? the unfortunate reality is that there is a skills gap in the uk which is going to be difficult to fill. particularly in the areas of programming, but it is not just programming. there are other roles as well. there are lots ofjobs that people could retrain to be looking to do. becoming a programmer is something that i would encourage anyone at school and any parents that are watching this as well to encourage their children to get into. as big as the video games industry is, can it really have a significant impact on the uk jobs market? obviously, the games sector is a relatively small portion

of overalljobs but, you know, if you supportjobs across a number of sectors, obviously that builds up to a bigger number. and i think it is legitimate to have a strategy that focuses on specific industries. a source of entertainment and employment — video games are a truly successful 21st—century combination of art, commerce and technology. that was mark, and keeping on the theme of gaming, last week was the london game festival. there was a real focus on gaming to encourage young people to think more about environmental issues. christina found out more. at this time, forward i entry door is closed... are you getting excited to be back on a plane or wander round a different city? but have you thought about the environmental cost?

now play this festival wants to put climate change back on the agenda. now, normally it is here in somerset house, and thousands of people would come here to play video games in person. but of course this year it is all online. so what was the thinking behind the festival this year? so, a huge part of picking the games for the festival is making sure things are accessible, all of the games that we have picked are available to play online, the vast majority are available to play for free. some of the games you can play at home include exploring a deserted venice in the year 2089. and among ripples, which lets you grow fish in a lake. so this is a game where you have to create a lake and then maintain the ecosystem around the lake, so you are responsible for making sure it survives. so let�*s see how i do. i have been playing it for a little bit now and my fish are doing quite well. they are growing and, on the surface, it seems like a really fun, colourful way to explore ecosystems and how they work. 0k, go outside, are you there? yes, i�*m outside.

and if you are sick of staying inside, repurpose by british developers amy strike and tom williams aims to get you outdoors on an adventure aided by your phone. "you notice something floating in the air above you." what is it? you get instructions, which help you interact with objects that you spot around you. i can�*t actually see anything in the air above me. oh, there are some seagulls over there. so, obviously, we are doing this in london and one of the main things is litter here to find. but i can imagine this could be really fun to play with some children in the countryside and you just get back to nature, or even discover things in the urban environment, too. games and play can be a really interesting way of exploring some really serious issues, because they are low stakes and allow you to explore different solutions and different ways to look at things without too much weight,

so that you can kind of pick it up, have a play, try some things out. especially with sort of, potentially, something like role—play games, so you can actually think about large issues like how government might think about situations. and that is exactly what climate interactive has done, placing you in an online simulation of the un paris climate change agreement. you play as a nation state making decisions on policy, and then you can see how your decisions play out. the expedient thing is giving experience that lets you stand in the shoes of policymakers and be their guide to see the wider picture of what it really takes to meet the goal of the paris agreement, that is really engaging. do you think video games can actually make people change their behaviours in relation to climate change? we did a study and it found that people that take part in this game are likely to take more actions and are encouraged

to take more actions after they participate as negotiators. there is a lot on our minds at the moment. but as the world opens up, and things start to get back to normal, can video games encourage us to take more care of the planet? hey, chris here with the big tech stories that caught our eye this week. the uk government was challenged over ministers�* use of whatsapp and signal text messages that can disappear after a set time. campaigners are worried about a lack of transparency. and it was the week when wine experts discovered whether sending a bottle of claret into space for a year made any difference to the taste. they were both beautiful. the one that had remained on earth was a little younger than the one that went into space. google maps is to offer drivers more eco—friendly routes, estimated to produce less carbon. it will take into account things like traffic, the gradient of the roads and the number of traffic lights. it is also adding indoor augmented reality walking directions to help

guide users when inside some shopping malls and airports. and talking of walking, intel�*s engineers have developed a backpack that can help blind and visually impaired people navigate while out and about. the open source and nonprofit project features voice—controlled backpack that houses a stereoscopic camera and gps to track objects in real time. it then talks to the wearer describing their surroundings. and finally, car—maker volkswagen changed its name to voltswagen to highlight its cleaner electric car after that whole diesel emissions scandal. the company posted some graphics and changed the name on its american twitter profile, but the german company eventually admitted it was just a hilarious april fools�* joke, which it had posted early in march — famously, the wrong month for april fools�*. now, a few years ago, we visited mit in boston, and one of the most memorable

departments there was csail, the computer science and artificial intelligence labs, it is where they make all the weird robots. but now i worry the department might have put itself out of a job. you see, one researcher there has built a machine that can build more machines. lj rich has been finding out how it works. you are witnessing the miracle of birth. a fully—assembled drone freshly printed by machine. laser factory works by cutting out slices of acrylic, printing circuitry with liquid silver and picking components up and sticking them down, all in the right order, at the right time and in the right place. what it essentially is is a unified design fabrication pipeline for creating functional

devices and robots. so you can actually fly something off of the production line? exactly, so that was one of the main goals going into this project, that we wanted to be able to fabricate something that required no human intervention to actually get it off the ground. that�*s amazing. and this is the device. it attaches to a commercial laser cutter and transforms it from a 2d machine to a 3d all—in—one assembler. the detail in a project like this is mind blowing. for example, in this toy drone, one of the sensors has become disconnected, just one, and now it doesn�*t work properly. itjust bumped into a wall. i�*m going to try and fix it. there are so many steps involved in building electronics, so how do you programme a machine to do everything?

one thing we havd to solve was to get the process to work, we had to build these path—planning algorithms to make sure that the objects you are picking up and depositing do not collide with each other. so there is just a lot of moving parts that you have to combine in order to get it off the ground and working. the inspiration for this, like so many devices, comes from science—fiction. in this case, it is the replicators from star trek, which can make everything from tea — earl grey, hot — to more complex engineering components. these replicators that you see in star trek, where they have these really crazy machines that essentially are desktop machines and are used to create anything from teddy bears to drinks to food to spacesuits, so this idea of having a single compact desktop machine that can print anything you like, we think that is a very powerful idea.

well, it is time for the moment of truth. oh, it sort of works. well, it is back to the soldering iron for me. and it�*s back to the mit lab for martin. he�*s hoping a future iteration of laser factory could eventually help augment other laser cutters, turning them one day into proud robot parents. that was lj. now, something strange is happening in the us state of nevada. but, let�*s be honest, we have seen plenty of strange things happen in nevada over the years, haven�*t we? definitely. but now the governor is considering plans to build a brand—new smart city from the ground up with its own government laws, taxes and public services. the plan�*s being spearheaded by geoffrey burns, a crypto currency millionaire, who has bought a plot of barren land in the middle of the state.

james clayton has been finding out more. almost all of nevada is this — mountains and deserts, and that means, ever since its existence, creative thinking has been needed to attract people here. geoffrey burns is the latest in that list. he wants to build a tech city here. if it goes right, we have created a place that does not exist in the world and this becomes the epicentre for it. but not everyone loves the idea. it would be separating, carving out land and going out on their own to create their own entire government and we do not think that is appropriate. geoffrey burns�* goal is to build a self—governing tech city which he calls painted rock, and it will govern itself

as its own county, unshackled by local government, and he believes tech companies will be free to innovate. the problem is government is it is reactive. politicians, civil servants, they are risk averse, they don't want to take chances, no is a better answer then yes. ——than yes. he has already spent $170 million buying a huge area of this county, the proposed location of this new city. this is the piece of land where, in theory, the dream is going to be built. and as you can see, it is a vast patch of land bigger than the city of reno. i guess it is any company that thinks that there is a need to test out new ways of doing things and wanting to be part of developing the place to do that. you know, we are looking at potentially using flying taxis for transportation, not having cars in the city. in this city, when you go to the market, you would pick your stuff out and then a drone

would pick your stuff up and take it to your drone delivery spot in your home. burns made his money from crypto currencies and his big idea is the power of the block chain. the theory goes that crypto currencies remove the need for a bank, so maybe the block chain would remove the need for some administrative bodies. distributing, authenticating and documenting, that is a lot of what cities do, right? they are documenting information, they are authenticating information — well, a block chain can do all of that more efficiently, cheaper, more transparently, and without influence. and he is right. to a certain degree, block chain does have its uses outside of crypto currency. block chain today can be used for all sorts of activities. keeping track of property, you know, who owns digital or physical property, land registries, the transfer of land, collective voting,

keeping track and verifying supply chains, managing tax and welfare systems. so that is the vision, then — an innovative city where tech companies and ideas can be experimented. a city that says yes to things. a city that uses technology to remove bureaucracy and empower its citizens. and that vision has been embraced by the governor of nevada no less. this proposal is an exciting, unprecedented concept that has the potential to position nevada as a global centre of advanced technology and innovation. but before we get carried away, not everyone shares the governor�*s excitement. the project still has some major hurdles and many critics. firstly, we were given a tour of the land and it�*s wild. you need a buggy to get around here.

secondly, burns is proposing to leave the county of story. and guess what, story county�*s ceo, isn�*t best pleased. so you�*re going to lose a third of the county if this goes ahead. the way it is being proposed currently, yes. that is a pretty big loss of land for the county. it is. austin 0sborne believes burns could do everything he wants to do in story county, which has already attracted big tech companies — tesla recently built a giga factory here. he wants to build something and he has got some really great dreams and our response to him is, here�*s an application, please apply and go through the normal governance process. burns�*s idea for the block chain replacing some local authority functions, well, that has its critics too. block chain definitely can be used

to compliment forms of governance. but it won't replace all of the messy, slow bureaucratic and very necessary human processes that go into governance. it will not replace democracy. in the 19305, state leaders here in nevada decided to legalise gambling to try and entice people to the state. that led to the mushrooming of cities like las vegas and here in reno. there is clearly precedent in nevada for trying new ideas out. and the way burns describes this new city almost feel like he�*s describing an adult playground, like a casino town. i think of it almost like a disneyland, willy wonka, it is a place where creativity, everyone wants to be part of that. but how that works in practice alongside democracy is still hard to envisage. and perhaps that is the biggest danger here. sure, governments can be slow, but can they really be replaced with technology? we will not have long to find out.

burns�*s city is going through the state legislature as i speak. byjune, we will almost certainly know whether these plans are to go ahead or whether they will be left as a mirage in the desert. and i�*m afraid that is it for our 21st birthday show. look at that. do we get the key to the door? what door? i don�*t know. not my front door, not yet. you can get come in, just give it a few months. thank you. if you want to keep up with the team, throughout the week, you can find us on social media. youtube, instagram, facebook or twitter, @bbcclick. thanks for watching. thanks for coming to my place. it has been lovely. pleasure, lovely to see you. i will see you in your box next week, shall i? yeah, see you then. all right. we will see you soon. bye— bye. you�*re going that way, are you?

hello there. do you know what? if we hadn�*t have had that early warm spelljust a few days ago, i think most of us would be pleased with the weather story across the easter weekend. lots of sunshine out there at the moment, as you can see from cumbria just a few hours ago. west is certainly best in terms of the sunshine. you can see there is some stubborn cloud across the far north and east of scotland and down through eastern england. bit more of a breeze here, dragging in more moisture off the north sea. so we keep that sunshine for the remainder of the day out to the west. and temperatures, well, in a little more shelter with that sunshine, 13 or 1a, will feel pleasant enough. cooler along those exposed coasts, particularly when you factor in the wind. and it will be the wind that will continue to drive in more cloud overnight tonight. where we keep those clearer skies, though, particularly through northern ireland and scotland, temperatures are likely to fall away close to freezing. so it is going to be a chilly start to saturday morning but that is once again where we are likely to see the best of the sunshine. northern ireland, scotland, northern england, western fringes of wales, hopefully some

of the cloud will thin and break across eastern england as we go through the day as well. largely dry right across the country, with temperatures peaking at 16 degrees in the sunshine for scotland. cooler along that exposed east coast. but the tables turn as we move into sunday. the start of this colder air arrives into scotland with that weather front pushing in from the north. that means england and wales will see the best of the sunshine, and certainly where we have had some cloud across eastern england, we could see temperatures peaking at around 1a, 15, maybe 16 degrees. that is 61 fahrenheit. all change, though, sunday night into monday, with those weather fronts pushing their way steadily southwards, introducing that cold arctic air we have been telling you about over the last couple of days. that is going to sweep its way right across the country, and so that means easter monday will be a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather. sunny spells and scattered showers but those showers will be wintry in nature. almost anywhere could see a fleeting

glimpse of snow from time to time. we are not expecting too much to settle, top temperatures struggling, though, particularly when you factor in the wind. it is going to feel very cold, indeed, for this time of year. just to summarise for you, for this easter weekend, it is a dry start and it is not going to be too bad for a few days, but it is easter monday, much colder with some snow.

this is bbc news. i�*m maryam moshiri. the headlines... more than 70 mps launch a campaign against coronavirus vaccine passports, calling them �*divisive and discriminatory�*. pakistan, kenya, bangladesh and the philippines are added to england�*s travel red list. international visitors will be refused entry, and british and irish citizens and residents will have to enter hotel quarantine. the trial resumes of the police officer accused of killing george floyd in minneapolis last year, with the prosecution questioning a city police sergeant. at least 50 people have been killed and dozens injured in taiwan after a train derailed as it emerged from a tunnel. 0xfam suspends two members of its staff in the democratic republic of congo following allegations of sexual misconduct and bullying.