be in the sunshine is likely to be in the south—east, generally across england and wales it is quite humid and muqqy and wales it is quite humid and muggy feel out there. some light, patchy rain across the midlands, north wales and into the north england. to the north of that, a little bit fresher. but largely fine and drive to scotland and northern ireland. as we go through the evening, we will see more persistent rain pushing across wales, to the north england into the midlands. it may be that some of that rain comes towards the south—east corner but nothing significant. the best of the drier and clearer skies are likely to remain in scotland. some early morning sunshine for you on sunday, the front sinks southwards and takes a few scattered showers across south—east england but then bright up south—east england but then bright up slowly behind it, till pretty warm, top temperatures of 26 degrees, a little bit fresher, further north and west. cooler with more showers to come for monday, the best of the dryer weather in the south—east.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines... ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, says the killings of 50 prisoners of wars at a detention centre in the russian—occupied part of the donetsk region, on friday, is a war crime. moscow has accused kyiv of killing the prisoners in a rocket strike. the first grain ship from ukraine, since russia's invasion, is ready and waiting for the signal to leave port. widespread disruption to train services is expected throughout the uk today, as drivers from seven operators walk out over pay. and former tory leadership candidate tom tugendhat is the latest conservative to back liz truss in the contest. pope francis has said he may need to consider stepping down, and would do so, if his health meant that he could not serve in the way he should. a hosepipe ban will come into effect in parts

of southern england, in response to recent record breaking temperatures and a lack of rainfall. now on bbc news... it's click. the next train to arrive at platform one is the stopping service to the future of transport. we will call at some incredible destinations and you can stop doing that silly voice, by the way. sorry, yes, we are on an augmented reality walking tour, then afterwards an oil rig

where pets are allowed! as long as there are robots, it's a spot the robot dog, sniffing after christmas time. i think you are right. and lara is preparing for her perfect night out. this time i'm going to a magic forest! it's been a while since i've been in one of these. it hasn't been in action for 60 years so you must have been 12! oi! we are at the riverside transport museum in glasgow and you can really see how things have changed over time. one thing that's changing is the way we pay for public transport. many of us are ditching paper money and tickets and instead using smartphones or, like you, smartwatches to pay for our journey. i never carry cash but one time i went to pay for this at a shop and i didn't have it on. it was a bare wrist, so embarrassing. but for the bus or london underground, it's just so easy. things might get easier with smart ticketing, which would spell the end for ticket barriers.

instead, sensors will talk to an app which tracks your journey and automatically charges you. one system using bluetooth beacons is already active in genoa and paul carter has been to take a look. our cities are changing. and so the way we navigate them is changing too. in many major cities around the world, technology being used for integrated fares and ticketing across modes of transport are now commonplace. but making such multimodal systems truly frictionless by removing the need to buy tickets is taking things to the next level. and in the northern italian city of genoa, they are doing just that. in some instances, quite literally.

in partnership with hitachi rail, the city is piloting a new system to allow seamless, hands—free payment and ticketing. all from a smartphone. the system works across the city's very networks including buses, varied networks including buses, subways, public lifts, water buses and funiculars. it's a unique city when it comes to the geography. we have the sea and we have mountains. we have up and down hills, we have elevators, whatever, so inside of the offer of the main operator, at least seven or eight means of transportation. that's really something unique. normally you have either bus, tram, underground, that's it. you have literally everything from boats to elevators. so we thought that if we managed to connect the city, which has really complex geography

and landscape, we can scale up as much as we want. it uses bluetooth beacons placed throughout the city which automatically detect the journey a passenger makes and what mode of transport they use. it's pretty easy. we cover all stops of buses, underground, elevators, funiculars, track rails of the city, we equip them with bluetooth sensors and each and every mobile telephone nowadays is fitted with a bluetooth antenna and this communicates throughout the app to the sensor and localises the position of the travellers in association with a particular stop or a means of transportation. what you have to do is literally know where you want to go and board the means of transportation you want, change intermodally between, i don't know, underground and buses

and furniculars and then the system calculates the best possible fare for the segment you travelled on. in addition to public transport, the app is also integrated with genoa's car—sharing service. e—scooters and parking can be booked for through the app. and paid for through the app. as well as benefits to passengers, systems like this benefit the transport providers. the data collected can be used to calculate congestion and even emissions, allowing companies to dynamically adapt their services. passengers also have access to arrival times and even how crowded a bus or subway train maybe. crowded a bus or subway train may be. the man responsible for public transport in genoa thinks this isjust the beginning. we only want to be on the leading edge of technology, trying to understand what will be happening not next year, by the next three years, because you need time to get ready for technology.

i think that in the future, the public will ask for a lot of transformation, technology will be much more important. so i think the future with public transport and new technology like electric, like driverless cars, so i think the future of transport will be a future of big technology change. the 360pass app and smart mobility system deployed in genoa is currently in trial but discussions are taking place with other cities around the world to expand its use further. perhaps one day hop on, hop off really will be the transport of the future. that was cool. that was paul. it can be fun to hop on a train, head somewhere new to explore, and seeing as we usually have our smartphones on us, well, we've got a map to hand, even maybe a tour. but one project is hoping to up the game. story trails uses augmented reality and virtual reality to let

you see a little bit more of the cities you visit. it is available in 15 uk locations so laura goodwin has been to dundee to check it out. this is the tale of two sides to a city. the virtual and the physical, the well trodden, and hidden. now an immersive storytelling project called story trails allows people to see the sights for the first time to see beyond a city's geography and instead gaze into a 3—d map of its very soul. it's an exciting moment in cinema history within technology and a new form of 3—d film—making, we're so excited to see what sort of stories can be told if we gave it diverse creatives from the town to diverse creatives from the town and communities, who tell the stories important to them, that make that public space a new digital kind of public space. the story map of dundee focused on places that resonated with him, from skate parks to a quirky

independent eyeglass store. i lived in dundee myself five years and absolutely loved the city. each of the stories are tied to a place. so sometimes it worked in the sense that we found the place first and we looked for an interesting story tied to that place. thejute mills, for instance, we were keen to get that in. and we found a folk singer that was carrying on the tradition of the jute mill song sung by the spinners. # warp weft and twine # tae feed an claith yer bairnie # afterio and nine...# but what is the technology that allowed story trails mappers like neil to digitally capture these people and places in 3—d? strictly speaking, it's not that new. it's been used for years to conduct geological surveys in autonomous vehicles and, yes, even robot vacuum cleaners. but what's new is this tech is now available on some smartphones. there has been such a huge advance in what is literally

in your pockets at the moment. so using a high—end smartphone, you now have access to two key technologies. one is lidar and one is photogrammetry, both systems which are used to capture 3—dimensional space. lidar uses a laser to measure the distance between your camera and object and from that works out the 3—dimensionalform. photogrammetry is actually a technology which is over 100 years old. and it uses hundreds of photographic stills and compares them to also work out the 3—dimensional form. previously, technology like lidar couldn't be accessed byjust anyone. a traditional lidar hand—held scanner in construction, for example, cost more than £20,000. it's once technology gets into the hands of the man and woman on the street, once they literally do end up on your pockets, that makes their accessibility and their creative

potential much more real. what's nice about this is that although each location is recognisable, you put a little creative play or twist on each one. we wanted to reflect the city broadly. but we wanted the people whose stories we present to, in effect, shape what the city looks like. it's one of those worlds that is somebody�*s biography. it's not a literal map, we aren't building a literal model of dundee, we are building a model almost based on people's public memories. it's notjust dundee being emotionally mapped into animated film and stand—alone 3—d scenes. the free story trails exhibit moves and focuses on a new uk location every week ending with lewisham and london in mid—september. you can capture a huge amount of detail, can't you. yeah. this is andrew, one of our designers. a full—length scan like that may take us less than a minute. we could maybe give you a try. 0k. try to be as still as possible.

it helps if you focus something like in the background. and here we go. look at the detail! we can even see the individual strands of hair. i think if you're working in a world where you are constantly doing digital avatars and representations of people, you can lose that connection. we spend a lot of our time trying to actually remove the digital and reintroduce the human. so there is 3—d mini me, all created using an app and ipad. what's really interesting about this project is how this technology is being used to capture a city's soul to tell its residents�* untold stories, and that's a very

interesting merging of humanity and the metaverse. time for a look at this week's tech news. first up, kim kardashian and kyliejenner are the latest celebs to join content creators in their criticism of instagram's new design. instagram boss adam mosseri admitted there had been a lot of changes to the app. the tempestjet demonstrator has been unveiled a few years ahead of its 2027 release. it'll use artificial intelligence to assist the pilot if they feel overwhelmed or extreme stress. procuring off—the—shelf gaming kit and trying ideas out quickly and cheaply. the idea is fail fast, let's get stuff in, let's see if it works, what benefits it could give to the operator. sticking with aviation, airbus and vrm switzerland are developing a new, innovative virtual reality helicopter simulator.

the training tool offers realistic flight behaviour and full—body immersion with high—resolution scenery. it is an advanced take on the two companies�* previous collaboration on vr helicopter training. after soaring global temperatures, cities in the us are rolling out new measures to turn down the heat. cool pavements in locations, including la and phoenix, are coated to absorb and radiate heat, as temperatures there have caused blackout spells to reach up to 67 degrees celsius. there are lots of incredibly dangerous workplaces and a drilling rig is probably one of them. we've just had a talk with the safety manager who has pointed out everything on board that could potentially explode, and the only way to get people in when you are hundreds of miles

away at sea is for a helicopter to do an inspection. so using robotics to autonomously monitor the space and keep an eye on things could be a solution. this particular rig in norway has been parked up for refurbishment so the robots can be put through their paces and get some practice in. this robot, known as weik, is making a 3—d map of the whole rig, a bit like a google street view. why is it called weik? weik — weik is a norwegian word which means to wake and watch. wake and watch, ok, so it's like a waking watch. when no—one's on the rig, weik is going around? exactly. it is not producing live footage of the rig, so what would someone want a street view of this kind of environment for? it can be used on shore, so if you plan to do maintenance. it can take images every hour, for instance.

there's a lot of information to gather. of course, for a human, it is easy to make mistakes. the robot can handle it much more easily. all this data allows the company running at the robots, cognite, running the robots, cognite, to build a digital twin, a full, virtual 3—d model of the rig. that map allows the robots to run autonomously, and the images taken can be compared over time to see if something has changed and might need repair. it's very different to how things currently work. at the moment, i think it is every two years that we do a complete ex inspection of all the explosion—proof electrical boxes on the drill floor or various parts of the rig. if you had a robot on board, you could be doing heat tracing each month. you could be doing ex inspection whenever you choose, in fact. and doing a full inspection means looking very closely in some very hard—to—reach places. as you can see on this rig back here, we have a very

high drilling tower. you typically need to inspect that pretty often to look for loose bolts and things like that. the drone can do that with a remote control. it is very easy to do that. we can automate them by using our software. we also get the images in precisely the same location as the last time so it is very easy to see things happening over time. mapping is one thing but the robots also provide important safety functions. in the case of an explosion in a given area, we may not want to put personnel in that area, so we could send in the robot in that case to take readings. and down into the depths of the rig, the star of the show is being put through its paces as a safety inspector. what spot is doing is doing a mission autonomously, which means that it is navigating an inspection round and gathering

the data we are basically most interested in. and this is one of the rooms that allen said could be explosive. how confident are you that spot is not going to bump into anything? we are quite confident about that because it has a really good track record. also, it also has sensors mounted to it so that it can sniff any potential explosive gas the area, and whenever it detects some gas, it will immediately shut off its motors. and spot has stopped here at this control panel. what is going on here? what we can see here is lots of valves and a lot of gauges. what spot is doing is taking images of this instrument panel so that we can digitise this highly kind of analogue instrument. we are comparing it, making sure that everything we see out here corresponds with what we have in the control system. so, if one of these levers is in the wrong position, spot will know? yes. aren't there already digital sensors in a place like this? surely you can get

digital readings from... yeah. not necessarily from everything. this is quite an old assest. this is quite an old asset. there are lots of analogue instruments, such as this instrumentation panel right here. why would you notjust install cctv in every room and have a fixed camera on this rig? so, typically, we are seeing that fixing tv cameras, fixing lots of sensors, it's actually really, really expensive, and if you were to mount hundreds of different high—quality sensors all around the facility that would be a waste when you can mount one piece of sensor on a mobile robot that can gather all the data you are interested in. i guess this is also a lot more fun. yes. it definitely is. until i visited this rig i did not really appreciate how dangerous a workplace like this really could be, and while oil rigs could be coming to the end of their lives,

using robots could help reduce the cost of working on industrial sites like this in the meantime, although it does make the place a little lonelier for the handful of humans left behind. that was chris. now, while facebook�*s owner meta has pinned its hopes on virtual reality, some other tech giants think augmented—reality glasses are set to change the way we interact with the world and each other. but they may not be readyjust yet. i am about to test snapchat�*s latest spectacles. this is the fourth generation and currently it is only a developers�* kit, but there is one big difference. it is all about augmented reality. i scroll through the options with my finger here. solar system. let�*s give that one a go.

i think i need to stand up for this. i am in the midst of the solar system. i could see the images overlaid on my surroundings, but we weren�*t able to capture that, so these images are of someone from a snapchat testing it outdoors. there is lots of stars. i am in space. chunky as they look, they did feel light enough to wear, but they were a bit tight, even on me. this time, i am going for magic forest. this app demonstrates how you can place things on any surface. there are some flowers growing out of chairs and butterflies are flying all around serheil, who�*s filming. if i hold my hand out, the camera should recognise it�*s there and a butterfly might land on my hand. come here! i am trying to reach for the butterfly, which is doing nothing. that is the first law of click. it all goes wrong. much like the other snapchat spectacles, you can capture a picture.

there is also a button here that provides the scan function which is the same as you get within the snapchat app, so you look at something and it can bring up relevant information or provide the lens that you might be after. but before i remove them, time for a spot of art. i am moving towards the sculpture and it seems to be telling me to do this with my hand. oh, wow. 0k. something is happening. 0h, bits are growing out of it. flowers are growing. what happens next? on this prototype, the field of view is actually quite limited. there is just a section there that gives me the augmented reality and then ijust see the room through there, all through there. but i like being able to use the hand gestures, and it is recognising my hands quite easily. this is about a lot more than just playing or art though. i think ar glasses have a huge role to play in the future, and these are hardware devices that we are asking people to wear on their faces, so they really need to provide value to the user almost every minute they are wearing them.

i think a good example is you can imagine you are walking down the street and your friend has recommended you a sushi restaurant. with a mobile phone, you would have to pull your phone out, look at your friend's messages to be able to find that a sushi restaurant. if you are wearing ar glasses, we would love to provide you the most relevant information right then and there. if you are trying to catch a bus and you are walking past the bus stop, these glasses can provide you really useful information about the bus timetable, if there are delays, just by walking past the bus stop. this will be made possible via approved third—party apps, both within snapchat as well as snap camera kit features within theirs, but a consumer version will need some improvements. they certainly felt intuitive to use, even though i did have to wear three different pairs for them to survive our filming as they kept getting overheated, but do i think that if we can overlay real—world things like maps and steps,

the kind of data you want, they could be quite useful once the battery life is sorted. right now, i havejust looked at some games and stuff that is a little bit immersive, which was fun, but would i want to do it again? i don�*t know. i think they need a real—world purpose. so, you found the field of view disappointing? yes, there is a real trade—off between battery life, the weight of the glasses, and how much augmented reality you are going to get in them. but hopefully by the time they are a consumer device that will have balanced out a bit better. let�*s hope so. we have been talking about that for ages, haven�*t we? anyway, that is it from us from the riverside transport museum. thanks for watching, and which one do you fancy driving home? i will have the bus, please. bye for now.

some breaks in the cloud and sunshine and warmth across the south coast as we can see from bournemouth earlier on it�*s been quite muggy out there. the cloud has been thicker with patchy light rain in the north and west. this is cumbria just a few hours ago. we look at the satellite and the radar combined you can see how extensive the cloud is and the fragmentation means how much of a nuisance that rainey�*s. in the south—east corner, a bright afternoon. fresher in the exposed west coast of scotland. 23 celsius. peaking at 25 celsius. as we go through the evening and overnight, there�*s more clout and outbreaks of rain to come, pushing in across

wales in the south—west, eventually moving into the midlands in the early hours of sunday morning. it�*s going to stay on the muggy side, temperatures in the mid—to high teens across england and wales but that weather front will gradually sink its way south and east. it might bring a little bit of welcome rain across the south—east corner. don�*t get too excited, not everyone will see that. they�*re amount of cloud across england and wales, temperatures ranging from 14—26 c. that bodes well for the euros final which will be taking place at wembley. if we do feel a little bit of rain it will ease away and it will be predominantly dry. as we move out of sunday into monday, more weather fronts pushing move out of sunday into monday, more weatherfronts pushing in from move out of sunday into monday, more weather fronts pushing in from the atlantic but, once again, it doesn�*t mean we will see much use rain in

the area is desperately starting to need it. they�*ll be a good deal of sunshine across eastern scotland. clouding over from the west without frontal system starting to pushing and the winds will increase. 26 celsius the high. rain, looking likely to continue to be feature in the north west but also dry, sunny and warm further south.

best of the dryer weather in the south—east. this is bbc news, the headlines. in the uk, police and ligature have issued an appeal for a the uk, police and ligature have issued an appealfor a man the uk, police and ligature have issued an appeal for a man they would like to question over the death of nine—year—old lilia valutyte. widespread disruption to train services is expected throughout the uk today as drivers are from seven operators walk—out over pay. ukraine�*s president volodymyr zelensky says the killing of 50 prisoners of war as a detention centre in russian occupied donetsk on friday, is a war crime. moscow has accused kyiv of killing the prisoners in a rocket strike. and, pope francis has said he may need to consider stepping down and would do so if his health meant he could not serve in the way he

should.