northern ireland some sunshine, northern ireland lessen way of rain but more in parts of central and south—eastern scotland. the rain continues tonight, some eastern skies, shattering for north and west. going to a northerly direction, calder and the best of some morning sunshine. that is on monday and is wintry in nature through northern scotland, some in southern scotland stinks and completely dry in the dry weather which into northern england as cloud —— in southern scotland and completely dry. it will feel chillier as the day goes on. goodbye for now. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... a russian invasion of ukraine is �*highly likely�*. that's the assessment of the uk defence secretary, comparing some western diplomatic efforts to the appeasement of nazi germany — ukraine says that is not a �*helpful�* comparison. the us evacuates most

of its embassy staff in kyiv as it expects that a russian military incusion could come �*any day'. 13 people are injured after a mezzanine floor collapses at a pub in east london. an nhs doctor is arrested on suspicion of child sexual assault, following complaints about examinations of two girls at a hospital in dudley. following the resignation of the met police chief, the labour shadow home secretary warns that there is a perfect storm facing policing in the uk, and the force needs to be reformed. and it's the biggest day of the year for american football. super bowl 56 takes place in los angeles. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week — imitates arnold schwarzenegger: i need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. blimey! the terminator is on zoom! robert de niro is waiting and he's talking italian. and... sings: just one cornetto!

can you hear me? hello? yes, can you hear me? are you muted? no, are you frozen? all i'm getting is me back. i can hear me. hang on. sorry! hang on! what have you done? have you dropped the phone? yeah, sorry. i can hear you now. hello? you've got me? yes, there we go. i am more used to talking to you like this than in real life now. yeah, and i am more used to talking to you while you're walking up and down wherever you're going. did you know that a fifth of all zoom meetings last year took place while people were walking and running?

and i reckon that's all you. all me — just think of the steps! but many people have been doing it a bit more horizontally. don't know what you're talking about! but listen, love �*em or hate �*em, these platforms really have kept us together during these tough times, haven't they? and i do not think they away soon. it is some way towards seeing people properly but, of course, it is not the same — especially with strangers. it can be a bit awkward. yeah, you think of the people that have joined the click team in the last couple of years. i mean, for a long time, they did not know how tall we were, they'd only ever seen us from the waist up, they couldn't enjoy our sparkling company in person! lara chuckles. but this is something that the big tech companies are addressing, and some of them are coming up with completely new ways to collaborate online. here comes osman iqbal with more. hi! one thing is certain — the future of work is hybrid. which means we need to start working out how to best collaborate between the real and virtual worlds. for nearly two years now, i've seen my colleagues

on this screen. but that's so 2021! because, brace yourself... ..for holograms. this is cisco�*s webex hologram. ijust need to put on this headset and a life—sized cullenjennings, who is based over 4000 miles away, will appear in my study. hello there, cullen! hey, good to see you, 0z! how are you doing? i'm very well! so, it turns out that it's pretty hard to record a 3d hologram for tv. those black pixels around cullen weren't actually there during the call. you can go grab it here too as well and move it around. just reach out and grab it. 0k, get out! right, i've got it! i've got it in my world! i don't know if this is will ever came across on screen. in a way, i should be amazed by the hologram. see that — see that is cool, that is! but really, it was the passing

of those cad objects — that's the thing that really blew me away. it's one of the areas i think this will be used a lot is when you are trying to do these design reviews, understand what people are building, see something, see a part that you were designing and those types of issues. we are betting on the hologram as being the next big kind of immersive medium of communication. just for ease, to kind of help you out, make it a bit smaller. there you go. 0op. what the hologram does is exactly the opposite of what others are working on, for example, with avatars, but what you want to do is make it very photorealistic, you want to make it very lifelike. wasn't expecting that. there we go. oh, that's terrifying! and what the technology that we're talking about and that we're working on does is fundamentally levels the playing field, so that an individual in a village in bangladesh has the same opportunity as someone in the heart of central london.

say hi to auntie! oh, my gosh! i love you! and with other concepts like google's project starlight in the works, holograms may be with us sooner than we think. but for most of us, video calls will remain as our standard way of communicating, so nvidia have been using artificial intelligence to solve those day—to—day problems. and staring at a screen during an endless meeting is definitely an issue, so gaze correction can make it appear like you're always looking straight ahead — something that seems minor but is actually really important. let's say you're in an interview and you want to sneakily read some notes. or even in a not—too—interesting meeting, you can just look like you are paying attention. right.

left. so it could look great or it could look weird. does it look like i'm looking at the screen now? is that weird? chuckles. another obsession sweeping through the tech world is the photorealistic avatar. this handsome chap can even track my expressions in real time. it freaks me out a bit, but let's see what the team thinks. have you ever seen max headroom from the �*805? i have not. i recommend you check it out because you're basically him. but those rugged good looks may be intimidating for some. i guess if everyone has — if the whole world has plastic surgery, i suppose you start to feel like you maybe need to have plastic surgery or something. i don't know! yeah, i'd rathertalk to real people, i think. call me traditional! and while not as sci—fi, one vitally important thing that nvidia claims they

perfected is removing all the background noise when we're talking on calls, no matter where we are. siren wails. inaudible the company to let me train this in the wild. fire engines, 0k? anotherfire engine. background noise: central london — construction, motorbikes, cars. no background noise: central london — construction, motorbikes, cars. bus engine hums: all right, richard, there is a big bus going by — can you hear me? ok. no bus noise: all right, richard, there is a big bus going by — can you hear me? no, i can hear only you! you keep saying there is all this noise but i don't hear it. ..the smart gallery creates individual video feeds... but the big question is what is zoom doing? their focus is now on using hardware to create hybrid video—calling solutions, like installing cameras in meeting rooms to allow in—person and remote participants to interact. right, and that is our mindset at zoom. it's like, you know, you can come up with a marketing video

that talks about the metaverse and says, you know, the world is all going to be holograms some day, but what are you doing for me today? chuckles. i have real problems right now that i need help with and i just want to be able to talk to my colleagues around the world, whether i'm in the office or i'm at home. can you help me with that? you know, rewind back a few years ago and it was — mindset was "i have to be in the room to be effective" and remote people are second—class citizens, it's very challenging to break in, it's very challenging to be heard. it's — they mayjust forget about me up on the wall. and now, it's reversed again, so how do i maintain my individuality when i'm in a group meeting space? where am i? where are you ? over here. come with me.

but maybe we don't need avatars and virtual reality to get back that real—life office feeling. it could be as simple as this retro—looking platform, gather, where you can wanderaround and bump into colleagues. so in the right virtual setting, maybe the chaos of office life can live on. half of my team have disappeared. can i interrupt this meeting to point out we've just found there's a rooftop bar. crosstalk. hello! so am now i allowed to get off the board? cheers, lara. cheers! i have to say the digital drinks do not taste as good as the real thing, do they? true, but it's a nice virtual view — take a look at that. yeah! it's beautiful, isn't it? and what's great about this table is that it's an intimate 2—person setting that only you and i can hear, even while our producer kittyjust randomly wanders around nearby. which is great for all of that amazing click gossip — not that there actually is any. but sometimes, it's not about what you say, but how you say it, and that's

particularly true when it comes to actors. so, i've been taking a lot and how cinema has been getting an ai upgrade. fassen wil’ zusammen. ein mann in vorgestern geferiert haben klaut drei millionen dollar... no, robert de niro has not learned fluent german. kriminelle familien in dieser stadt in verbindung bringt und... this is the work of uk start—up flawless ai, whose artificial intelligence can recreate lip sync when dubbing, meaning movies can effectively be reshot in different languages without losing the nuance of an actor's performance. all of this journey really started for me is when i worked on a film called heist and then, i saw a foreign dub of the movie and i was listening to it, and i spoke a bit of the language which was being — that it has been dubbed into, and i was kind of horrified because the dialogue that we'd spent years working on, like, had been changed, the performance was completely different, the kind of — the scene itself was fundamentally altered.

the technology digitally captures the acting, transforming it into a 3d computer model. after training the al to learn a specific actor's facial and vocal performances, a modified version is created that can precisely match the facial expressions to an entirely different language. speaks japanese. robert de niro was saying an "ooh" 20 minutes later in the film, but that ooh is need for — that mouth viseme is needed for a foreign performance. it's able to take his actual word that he says it and plays it in the right spot, so that it's actually him saying it. and aside from allowing film—makers to translate their films accurately, there's also the benefit to the audience — who, let's face it, can be put off by poor dubbing. it's a miracle you ever get to fighting at all! and with the streaming giants

bringing us more international content than ever, this new technology could be timely. disney, netflix, amazon — all these guys, they've created global content distribution businesses, but without global content, and we've created a tool that gives them global content. it relies notjust on capturing facial expressions of an actor, but someone speaking the same lines in another language. combining both creates a 3d model for that specific actor, merging their face with the lip movements of the dubber. so we create a dataset for each of the performers and then, essentially, that dataset contains their idiosyncratic style — it looks like they would have performed it because it is their performance. flawless a! says we'll be seeing the first films using this tool within the next year so maybe soon, we will be watching programmes with no idea what language

they were originally made in. dubbing sometimes is a barrier to enjoy that content. we don't really have the same empathetic understanding of other cultures because we don't access their material, we don't hear their stories, we don't see it from that point of view, we have this very kind of walled—off version of the view of the world. hello! it's your 90—second tech news round—up. meta warned it could pull instagram and facebook in europe if it's unable to process local user data on us servers. the uk government said that adult websites will be legally required to verify the age of users under new internet safety laws. and nvidia's $31 billion deal to acquire the uk chip firm arm from softbank is off. the company's cited regulatory challenges. robot caterers showcased their agility at the beijing winter

0lympics. yes, cooked dumplings arejust one of the dishes served to visitors on site. winter sports fans can also use comcast�*s vr app to tune into 150 hours of interactive action from home. drones have been helping to clean up a belgian port. this fleet uses machine learning to scan and detect floating waste, so companion trawlers can clean rubbish efficiently. and finally, ai gets everywhere these days, even science fiction book covers! sadly, these are not real. they look great, though! they have been generated using an the online database imagenet and machine learning tools trained on millions of images. lewis hackett, the british artist behind the project, also used natural language processing to generate the titles and said these techniques can help with idea creation. i'd totally read counting mars or green grass is the colour of the wind! when i was 13, i was speaking

to somebody online. they said that they were a woman a few years older than me, and we started speaking and i thought that we were making friends with each other. as the conversation progressed, she was asking me lots of questions about myself — whereabouts did i live, what were my hobbies, who were my friends? and she told me that i was pretty, i was beautiful. um, she told me that i could be a model. and then a few hours into the conversation, she asked me to send a topless photo. so i sent her a topless photo. and everything changed at that point. she wasn't nice and complimentary any more — she was threatening, and she said that if i didn't send more photos, she was going to make sure that everybody saw the photo that i had already sent. the next morning, a man came to my house.

he sexually assaulted me in my bedroom and he took more photos of everything that happened. luckily, i didn't see him again after that day. six months down the line, the police contacted me and said that they'd found the photos and my information on this man's computer. rhiannon now works for the marie collins foundation, an organisation which supports children who've suffered sexual abuse via the internet or mobile technologies. it's one of a number of groups, including bernardos and the nspcc, that have advised and are backing a uk government campaign called no place to hide. the campaign encourages the british public to pressure companies like meta — formerly facebook — not to bring end—to—end encryption services to their messaging services like facebook messenger and instagram direct messenger. formerly the ceo of the national cyber security centre, ciaran martin says he thinks the government's got it wrong on this issue.

encryption has been a source of tension between government and the tech industry. end—to—end encryption is a specific form where, unlike in previous forms of encryption, there is no actual key. so, historically, you could go to a provider of a communication service, whether it's post or high—end internet communications, you can serve a warrant and say "we need access to this." with end—to—end encryption, the company can say "there is no way of giving you that access." so privacy campaigners and many in the tech industry will say this is a very good thing, because it means that hackers, hostile foreign governments and so forth, cannot get at these types of communications. meta owns whatsapp, which already uses end—to—end encryption. it had planned to introduce similar features by default to facebook and instagram's messenger services. however, it's pushed back its encryption plans to 2023 after campaigning by child welfare groups.

we now see more grooming offences on instagram than any other platform on the market. so, we've got a situation where the highest risk platform, instagram, is now proposing to put on a blindfold and, at a stroke, eliminate its — its ability to even see what's happening on its site. to complicate matters, the government campaign has provoked the uk information commissioner's office to say:. we find ourselves in a position where two public bodies are on opposing sides of the argument — the information commissioner's office and the national crime agency. we find ourselves in a position where two public bodies are on opposing sides of the argument — the information commissioner's office and the national crime agency. the nca points to the case of convicted sex offender david wilson. he posed as teenage girls online, blackmailing 52 boys into sending him indecent

images of themselves. wilson was jailed for 25 years for his crimes. it was facebook itself that passed on wilson's details to the nca. the information commissioner's office says that law enforcement doesn't need access to encrypted messages — that it already has sufficient powers. well, to give you some sort of an idea, as a result of the information that we receive from the tech companies, we're currently arresting 500 suspects a month between the nca and uk policing, and safeguarding 650 children. so the input that we get from the tech companies, through the material that they're finding on the internet and sending to us, is quite substantial. if we run the whole of the debate through the prism of one very important, very emotive idea, then we're likely to get solutions which are not proportionate, and not actually going to solve the real problem. do you think that there's a solution to this problem that

will keep privacy and child safety advocates happy? me, in particular, as a survivor of online grooming and child sex abuse, with images being created, i particularly want privacy. i don't want those images to be circulated around the internet. it's not privacy versus protecting children — we can have both of these things, and we need to be moving towards that. it — it's become a very binary debate. you're either on the privacy side you're on the child safety side. and we need to start building bridges and start moving closer together, and working towards a solution that works for both. that was rhiannon mcdonald talking to marc cieslak. and if you're concerned about any of the issues raised in mark's report, bbc action line has links to organisations that can help. now, earlier, we talked

about how movies may be changing, and it got me thinking — you know it makes it watching any movie more enjoyable? ice cream! 0h, of course! and it's no surprise that it's nick kwek who volunteered for this story. he's been to america to check out some technology that will make freezing your own at home easier. mm. 0k, admittedly this is a pretty sweet gig — see what i did there? the average american gobbles over 20 litres of ice cream per year, compared to the paltry seven for us brits. so i've come to the suburbs of boston to set the record straight. i'm actually here to see a new type of appliance reminiscent of those coffee pod machines advertised by george clooney. wouldn't change a thing. now, the way this works is that each pod has its own unique qr code, and when i put it into the machine, a camera scans it and tells

the machine what the product is — if it's a cocktail, a coffee, an ice cream — how long it should freeze it for, and do what consistency. we're all set up for all kinds of stuff in the same space. andrea invited me to the test kitchen to conjure up my very own flavour. oh. it's good. yeah? yeah. imean... what would you do to make it better? you can't improve this. you can't improve it? this is going straight to the shops. we're done. the ones that have been a struggle or challenge has been the smoothies, because we want them to be healthy. we are adding nutraceuticals, which are like plant — food ingredients that have benefit — nutritional benefit — creating a combination that tastes good, that's healthy, that's shelf—stable is a challenge. cold snap aims to overhaul the frozen treat industry — from how food's made, to how it's stored, to how it's shovelled down my throat. the way that ice cream is made today is it's frozen in the factory, kept frozen in the grocery store, you rush it home, you keep it frozen in freezer. all the while, you're putting energy and cost into that pint

of ice cream before you consume it. there's a lot of carbon emissions associated with that that's going up into the atmosphere. our technology, with cold snap, we just freeze it when we need it, and so we think we can reduce the carbon emissions associated with making ice cream by like, anywhere from 50% to 75%. it could mean less waste, but will come with a hefty price tag of around $2000 — or £1500 — but is initially entered the commercial sector. cheers. everything has been designed from scratch, right down to the unique caps on the pods. we wanted absolutely no ice cream touching the machine. we wouldn't be able to use a regular soda can style, so we developed our own top. the aluminium cans are important, because they can be recycled. but they also allow for good heat transfer, so the liquid inside can be chilled quickly on demand. by being able to churn the ice cream and draw air into the can as it's freezing, you can actually create the ice cream.

at the risk of stating the obvious, the technology actually affects the taste of the ice cream. we're intentionally making the ice crystals smaller than anything you can buy on the market today. so it's — in addition to being 14% buttermilk fat, we control the ice crystal size, and you essentially get a very dense, thick, creamy dessert. i guess you can say the proof is in the pudding? but is this one machine too far in the age of convenience? do we really need this? then again, do we really need ice cream and frozen cocktails? oh, it's been a tough day. oh, it's enough to make you feel hungry, isn't it? oh. it is, and conveniently, we can eat something now, because that's all we have time for this week. ah, brilliant. don't forget check us out on social media. we live on youtube, facebook, instagram, and twitter — @click. thanks for watching. see you soon. bye bye.

not the prettiest of sundays ever. heavy rain, strong winds for some, too. and it sets the scene for the week ahead. we have got a strong jet stream coming out of north america, right across the atlantic. little bubbles in that helping to develop various areas of low pressure. this one here created today's low pressure system. all this cloud which is spilling its way northwards and eastwards. plenty of rain so far across western areas, easing off a little bit through the rest of the afternoon across northern ireland and slowly across the western fringes of england and wales. maybe a little bit of brightness around the irish sea. but after a dry day for some across east anglia and the south—east so far, the rain will push in here. the strongest of the winds in the south, touching gale force at times.

head further north — well, quite a wet afternoon across parts of eastern scotland. but the further north you go, some hazy sunshine and the letter of the winds. temperatures today, because the air is generally coming off the south and south—west, we will be above where we should be for this stage in february. 7—ii degrees. and a mild evening across east anglia and the south—east, but it will be tempered by the strength of the wind. outbreaks of rain continuing here into the night. elsewhere, rain will come and go, some dry, clear moments. and with winds then switching into a northerly direction, for scotland and northern ireland where we have got any clear skies there could be some frost and ice around into the start of the new week. so, for the commute on monday, we have got an area of low pressure to begin with but a ridge of high pressure just in its wake will slowly turn the shower is fewer in number. plenty around in western areas to begin with, quite a noticeable breeze making it feel rather cool. cloudiest across parts of england and wales. that cloud pushing its way south. taking away some early sunshine and brightening up further north. but scotland and northern ireland continue to be a story of sunshine and showers here. showers wintry, particularly for northern scotland. as the air turns colder, some snow over the hills. windiest down these eastern coasts, and these are the temperatures

at their highest on monday. it will feel colder than that. cold start to tuesday. some snow across the scottish mountains, quickly turning to sunshine and wintry showers for scotland and northern ireland, and eventually for north of england. england and wales, though, cloud and outbreaks of rain pushing its way southwards and eastwards, and stalling by the end of the day. temperatures here up to around ten or 11 degrees. another chilly one across parts of scotland and northern ireland. significant area of low pressure through the middle part of the week spreads to the north. gales are severe gales, but with it it brings in for a time winds from all the way in the mid—atlantic, so we will see temperatures climb into the mid—teens. but throughout this week, as you can see from my capital cities forecast, a fairly changeable one. expect some dry weather but a lot of rain at times, and strong winds, too.

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