travel from england. but there's a warning not to book foreign holidays just yet. the former crown prince ofjordan says he's been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on government critics. a second night of violence in northern ireland. vehicles are hijacked and set on fire in a loyalist area of belfast. and it's been a scaled back easter sunday, although this choir was able to perform at canterbury cathedral. 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 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 video games. 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—i9 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 2ist—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 non—profit 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 wasjust

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 bumps 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 had 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 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. it is illustrative of the fact that a lot of work

still needs to be done. to create this vision and this city in the desert. at the moment, it doesn't have a road that you can even drive a normal car down. 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 1930s, 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 unwieldy and 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. or twitter, @bbcclick. thanks for coming to my place. or twitter, @bbcclick. it has been lovely. or twitter, @bbcclick. pleasure, lovely to see you. or twitter, @bbcclick. i will see you in your box next week, shall i? yeah, see you then. all right. we will see you soon. bye— bye.

hello there. 0ur easter sunday weather is shaping up to be pretty good for much of the country with some good spells of sunshine, especially for england and wales. a vast improvement for the eastern side of england after the grey, chilly weather of late. but we'll start to see changes across the north, a reversal of fortunes for scotland and northern ireland. this weather front sinking south will bring wet and windy weather later in the day here. but higher pressure holds on across more southern areas, and here we'll have lighter winds. after a bit of a grey start for east anglia and the south—east, parts of north—west england, skies will be sunny, certainly through this afternoon, and it will be warm in those light winds. but more cloud around for scotland and northern ireland. a bit of sunshine here and there for northern ireland, southern and eastern scotland,

but it turns wet and windy across northern scotland. temperatures here, nine to 12 degrees, 13 to maybe 15 or 16 degrees across the east or south—east of england. now, this cold front in the north bringing the wet and windy weather will slip southwards across the country during tonight, and that's going to introduce much colder arctic air right across the board. it's going to be a strong wind as well, and that'll feed in sleet and snow showers. so a huge change to our weather into easter monday. it's going to feel more like midwinter. off to a grey start with some rain across the south. that front will clear away. it's bright with some sunshine, but we'll see hail, sleet and snow showers pretty much anywhere, but particularly around the coast and especially northern scotland, driven in on a very strong and gusty northerly wind. significant accumulations of snow, in fact, across the northern highlands there. temperatures on the thermometer, three to eight degrees. factoring the strong northerly wind, it's going to feel more subzero, particularly across northern areas there, and low single digits further south, so you really will have to wrap up if you're heading out. now through easter monday night, it stays showery. further snow showers in the north and further

accumulations of snow here, clear spells as well. so it's going to be a cold and frosty night with the risk of ice in places where we've had showers. gardeners and growers take note. this is very low temperatures for the time of year. now, as we head through tuesday, wednesday, you can see the blue colour still with us, so it's going to stay cold. something a little less cold moves in from the west towards the end of the week, but low pressure arrives across the north, the uk so that could bring a little bit of rain by the end of the week to northern areas. but for most, it's going to be dry, settled, sunny spells and cold with overnight frosts.

good afternoon. the government is to trial measures in england, including covid passports, to allow the safe return of sports matches, major events and nightlife. they'll show if a person has been vaccinated, had a recent negative test or antibodies. the pilot will include the fa cup final, and will last until mid may. here's our political correspondentjessica parker. the fa cup final, 2019.