tonight after arriving back in ireland from los angeles. emma vardy has more. sorry about your mother. set on a farm in rural northern ireland, an irish goodbye tells the story of an estranged family brought back together by loss. i told you, i'm staying down here looking after the farm. i'm not getting stuck here for the rest of my life. mother and you! cheering the big success achieved by this small cast and crew has not only brought pride for northern ireland's film industry but been life changing forjames martin who worked in a belfast starbucks while taking on acting jobs, and celebrated tonight with his father. just to be at home to see my family and friends, it's really good. for us, myself and my co—writer, tom, my co—director, we wanted to create a character that was well—rounded. the film deals with tensions

between the brothers over what will happen to james�*s character lorcan after their mother's death and as the first actor with down�*s syndrome to win an oscar, he hopes the world of the big screen will become more open to storylines which involve disability. it's really down to the actors themselves, really, but i think we should be included because it doesn't matter what disabilities you have, as long as you can act, that is the main thing. what is crucial for representation is not making the disability the main event. after the glitz and glamour of the awards, james said the next stop is to bring the oscar home to his drama group in belfast. they hope their next project will be a feature length film and believe it was northern ireland's characteristic dark humour which helped win over the academy judges and bring a bit of red carpet prestige back home. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich.

good evening. northern ireland had its warmest day of the year so far with temperatures getting above 16 degrees, partly because of that warmth we had a big shower clouds that developed and thunderstorms moved over northern ireland this afternoon with heavy downpours now drifting across scotland and at the same time we have a band of cloud and some patchy rain moving south and some patchy rain moving south and east across england and wales. through the rest of the night we keep some sharp showers over parts of scotland and a few more into north england and north wales, and a mild night for most back a bit chilly in the north of scotland and a few places he could have a touch of frost. that is where we will have the coldest weather tomorrow with a northerly wind but elsewhere it with a southerly wind it will be a mild day. we will also see some showers and these showers where they pop up will be heavy and they could be thundery in nature and between the showers, though, spells of sunshine

which will make it feel quite warm, maybe not as mild as it was today in northern ireland, with the highest and further east, 16 in newcastle. —— highest temperature further east. with the wind in the final, it will be about six in lerwick. this low lumber eastwards and it will continue to dry some showers and light winds in the centre of the low sofa saturday if you do see a shower, you could be with you for some time, the shower is very slow moving, but again it sunny spells and also more persistent rain into western scotland and northern ireland but it will be mild. temperatures 8—11; and maybe slightly less mild in to sunday with a more north—westerly wind but not as many showers as well, mostly dry, with some sunshine. thanks, ben. that's bbc news at ten on thursday 16th of march. there's more analysis of the day's main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark which isjust getting underway on bbc two.

the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team it's goodnight. hello i'm marc edwards with your sport. three british teams in european action tonight, including arsenal who have been taken to extra time by sporting lisbon in their europa league last 16 clash. meanwhile, manchester united have booked their spot in the quarter finals of the competition at the expense of real betis, marcus rashford, who else, with the only goal of the game. that one his 19th in 2a appearances since club football resumed following the world cup it gave united a 1—0 win on the night in spain and 5—1 on aggregate. he is an example for the team, sol think his performance, once again, the recent weeks, he is in brilliant

farm, looked like he is getting better and betterfrom game to game. west ham has cruised in with a thumping 4—0 win. jared bowen becoming west and's leading european goal—scorer. two on the night taking his tally to eight. fifa has dropped plans for saudi arabia to sponsor the 2023 women's world cup, says fifa president gianni infantino — who has just been re—elected unopposed to the position. it's after a backlash from co—hosts australia and new zealand, players and sponsors about the proposed deal, with infantino confirming that talks had taken place. he also said fifa is aiming to have equal prize money for the men's and women's world cup by 2027. he did though say — despite dropping plans for saudi arabia to sponsor this year's tournament — that the argument had been blown out of proportion. there was a storm in a water glass, how do that in english? a storm in a

teacup. there wouldn't be anything bad coming there is anything bad and making sponsorships from saudi arabia, from the us, from brazil, india, as faras arabia, from the us, from brazil, india, as far as we are concerned. brentford's striker ivan toney has been called up to gareth southgates first england squad named since the world cup. toney is the only uncapped player included ahead of englands euro qualifiers against italy and ukraine. he's the second highest goal—scorer in the premier league this season, with 16 goals, just behind harry kane. however, he is facing a potential ban having accepted breaking fa betting rules. the fact is that he spent doing maclean for his club, he is available for his club. he has not been to trial as yet for any judgements, sol been to trial as yet for any judgements, so i don't know on what basis we wouldn't pick him, really. he is playing really well. i like

the way he is present in games. he is going to arsenal where he i thought he was outstanding. yeah, he deserves this opportunity. at the fifth time of asking — castleford tigers have finally got their first win of the new super league season. they beat leeds rhinos 111—8 — bureta faraimo with both of castleford's tries. the win means bottom side wakefield are the only team yet to win this season — while defeat for leeds leaves them in eighth. scotland boss gregor townsend has made four changes to his starting xv as they look to close the six nations with a win. ollie smith and blair kinghorn will start in place of stuart hogg and finn russell in scotland's final six nations home match against italy on saturday.full—back hogg and fly—half russell were ruled out after sustaining injuries in sunday's defeat by ireland.richie gray drops out after being withdrawn early at murrayfield, with sam skinner taking over at lock. lupe will win his 100th cap on

saturday. lupe will win his 100th cap on saturda . . . , . lupe will win his 100th cap on saturda . . , . , saturday. the coach has made six chances saturday. the coach has made six changes from _ saturday. the coach has made six changes from the _ saturday. the coach has made six changes from the team _ saturday. the coach has made six changes from the team that - saturday. the coach has made six changes from the team that beat| changes from the team that beat italy as he reverts to experiences, and aaron wainwright will replace jack moore. and former south africa captain dane van niekerk says its with great sadness that she's announced her retirement from international cricket she played 194 times for south africa and was the first bowler to take 100 odi wickets for the women's team. she was left out of the squad for the women's t20 world cup last month after failing to meet the minimm criteria forfitness after an ankle injury — a decision which she said left her feeling "absolutely broken". and that's all the sport for now. from me and the rest of the team, bye—bye.

here is something that is hard to get your head around.— here is something that is hard to get your head around. attractions are clocking how important social media is in getting their name out there. we important social media is in getting their name out there.— important social media is in getting their name out there. we are at the new twist museum _ their name out there. we are at the new twist museum that _ their name out there. we are at the new twist museum that is _ their name out there. we are at the new twist museum that is filled - new twist museum that is filled with the multitude of mirrors and instagram about illusions that will play with your perceptions. oh, this makes a change — look at you down there! i know — and for reference, this is our true social standing that you're looking at right now. and what's weird is this isn't even the strangest thing i've filmed recently. it is a fundamental law of the universe that nearly everything looks better

in slow—mo — something that the the slow mo guys have been proving since 2010. three, two, one, go! their 1a million youtube subscribers regularly watch gav and dan slow things down as they blow things up. no—one stand in front of the cannon for obvious reasons. dan is ex—military and weapons trained, which means he can do this sort of thing. dan is ex—military and weapons trained, which means he can do this sort of thing. you, on the other hand, can't. and today, i've come to gav�*s studio in texas to add to the list of silly things that he's filmed in speaks slowly slow motion. yeah, this is either stuff that we're about to film with or just leftover stuff that we've already done. like, that's what's left of a newton's cradle after dan shot it. i like the one that stayed on — it's quite nice. spencer chuckles. this is probably 500 mousetraps. this is when you threw dan into these mousetraps? yes. they way they all just sort

of triggered from the outside inwards, just amazing — and that was all within, you know, a few milliseconds when that happened. right, here comes the science bit. now, whereas normal video cameras record something like 25 still images orframes per second, gav uses cameras that capture thousands per second. if you play these back at 25 frames per second, that's where you get your slow—mo. so, what would your tips be for what works well in slow—mo and what you need to think about when you're trying to set up a slow—mo shot? if you can shoot 1,000 frames a second on your phone, just point at everything. spencer laughs i love anything with liquid. like, a water balloon is the classic subject — it's what everyone does first — but i still find it fascinating that you pop a water balloon, the rubber whips out of there almost

immediately, even in slow—mo, and then, you'rejust left with the shape — you're left with a big glob of water. i think the most important thing for shooting slow—mo, especially when you're getting towards 1,000, is you need the right light and you need lots of it. so, for example, undera regular incandescent light bulb orjust like a lamp that you might find at home, chances are you're gonna see the flicker rate of the electrical grid and it looks really unattractive in slow—mo, it's really distracting to see all the lights doing this. yeah. so, shoot outdoors under the sun — the sun doesn't flicker — or get massive lights like i've got, which is the more expensive option. laughs but after spending a day being a guest slow—mo guy, i have learned this — you don't always need elaborate stunts to make great slow—mo. sometimes, your best prop is right under your nose. blows air through closed lips laughs pretty good from what i saw. thank you! laughter

it almost looks as though, like... laughter continues i've filmed this a few times on a few different people and this one is just really good for some reason. lara: i am going to remember that image for the rest of my life. - and interestingly, that's not the last we've seen of gav, either — he's gonna be back in a couple of weeks' time to help us film something very cool in slow—mo. cooler than that? surely not? even cooler than that. anything to forget that. our next story, though, is about preserving memories — those of our loved ones, particularly our elderly relatives. yeah, and someone who has his fair share of stories to tell and wants to make sure they live on forever is hollywood legend william shatner, and nick kwek went to meet him ahead of his 92nd birthday. los angeles — the city of angels, where everyone wants to get in front of the camera. camera shutter clicks

welcome to the storyfile studio. oh, check this out! this start—up in the heart of hollywood will give you that opportunity. it'll record your entire life story. get in the hot seat. ok, here we go. here, customers are asked hundreds, sometimes thousands, of questions over several hours and even several days. and the idea is that once you've passed away, anyone with access can ask you anything and you'll answer them. tell me about your eyebrows. chuckles these eyebrows are quite extraordinary. the concept has attracted someone with more than their fair share of stories. an absolute pleasure and privilege to meet you, sir. how are you doing? hi, nick. how are you? you know this place quite well. you've been here before, right? every nook and cranny, every crease and crack i know. just think of what the possibilities are of what you and i are doing right now. why did you record yourself?

i ask myself that question day in and day out. i mean, artificial intelligence is a fascinating subject for everybody. the discourse now is, is it coming alive? will it be the equivalent of our human creativity and devilishness? or is it stilljust mechanical, so ok, why don't we just pull the plug? that's why i'm here. do you think that other people using storyfile's technology even come close to, like, what you can do in the way that you can tell stories? like, who cares about people that are not william shatner? everybody has a story. were there any questions you were asked where you thought, i'm not going to answer that, i don't want to go there. i don't recall ever saying "i'm not going to answer that", because... a lot of this is for publication, it's i'm dead, so... laughs as well as playing back answers straight, for some clients storyfile is putting artificial words into virtual mouths.

we don't call them deepfakes because they are not a hack of somebody�*s identity, they are done in an authorised way often with that person's estate, where we will recreate the character using their archives, their videos, their voice and create an absolutely lifelike version of that individual, say for a museum or a family trust. is there a danger there that you might misrepresent them or perhaps convey a different side of their personality they never actually had ? are we capable of being able to misrepresent somebody? yes — in the same way that any, you know, film—maker could do that when making a movie or whatever. we created an a a! ethics policy and an ai ethics committee and advisers, external advisers. some people will be watching this thinking, oh, i'm not sure about communicating with a loved one after they have moved on — and is that a healthy thing to do? we as a technology company can't determine how people are going to live their lives when their loved ones have gone,

any more than we can with a book or an album or anything else. that's not to say we are not responsible, what we're saying is that each of us has different ways of thinking about our loved ones when we are gone and dealing with grief in different ways. while the notion of chatting with the dead is certainly bewitching, arguably as a! advances, an ethical tightrope lies ahead. but for bill, this technology could enable him to boldly go where no—one has gone before. it is the oscars this weekend — and 13 years after the original avatar movie cleaned up at the awards, the sequel is finally here. avatar: the way of water is up forfour oscars, including best visual effects. so it is time for us to meet the team behind the scenes.

to me, the film is all about the characters. i hear her heartbeat. we are able to bring the performance of these great actors onto cg characters and have audiences still react, that's the amazing part for me. what does her heartbeat sound like? and so for that we wrote a whole new neural network— based facial system to understand a little better what the actors are doing and to give the animators a finer level of control over their faces. a lot of times you think effects and you think big scale, and that is all part of it as well, but we also like to make sure that the small intimate moments work, because those are really where the audience gets to understand and know the character.

you are very hard on them. i'm theirfather, it's myjob. every day is a school day, studying what water looks like at different depths, you know, if you are one metre under, if you are 50 metres under, what happens to the light depending on how clear the water is, we looked at water from all around the world to see which types would play best for the film. the sea is your home. you have that expansive canvas to work with. but then you also have the big dramatic things that happen, the hunt. strong heart. the battle scenes. you have all of that on one side and then you have families understanding how to live together, and sometimes working and sometimes not. like, it's all very familiar. i see you. i think the great thing

about science fiction is it lets you see what is kind of normal to us but in a new light. so maybe you think about it a little bit more than you would otherwise. this family... ..is our fortress. that's it for the short version of the programme. the full—length show can be found on iplayer, as well as a full size spencer. yes, here i am. thank you for watching! and we will see you soon. bye— bye.

hello there. let's take a look at the weather for the week ahead. we're into some much milderfeeling air now. so thursday's temperatures a lot higher than they were on wednesday. some rain around at times, particularly for western parts of the uk. this is lancashire, some rather soggy footpaths here. no big changes as we head through the rest of the week. so it stays mild — temperatures above the seasonal average and it will be really rather unsettled. so more wet and windy weather to come particularly out towards western spots. low pressure remains a dominant. it's just sending these atlantic fronts our way, so wet and windy and also really very mild. that mild airfeeding through on the brisk south—westerly winds. you can see that marked in yellow. the cold air hangs on in blue towards the far north of mainland scotland and across the northern isles and that's true for the rest of the week. now, on friday morning, a cold frontjust reinvigorates across the channel islands, the far south east of england, east anglia. so some heavy downpours here potentially through the morning,

but it will clears off into the afternoon. elsewhere for the rest of the uk, there will be more sunshine than on thursday. the winds are a little lighter, but the daytime heating could help to spark off a few heavy, even thundery downpours, but they will be fairly localised temperatures again on a par with thursday, so 13 to 15 degrees celsius. a local 16 always possible in all of that mild air. and of course, the air stays mild on friday night into saturday. another weather front approaches western scotland here. but elsewhere, a lot of dry weather, a few clearer spells, but temperatures frost—free between six and nine degrees celsius, maybe just a touch of frost where we see prolonged clear spells in sheltered glens of scotland. now a weather front approaches scotland, west of scotland as we head through saturday morning, some showers, some longer spells of rain here or so moving through northern ireland and approaching northwest england by the end of the day. elsewhere for much of england and wales, a lot of dry weather, but some more showers popping up as we head through the afternoon. it's certainly more showery than on friday. temperatures between 11 and 1a degrees celsius for most of us. the south—westerly wind becomes a bit more north—westerly, though, as we head into the second half

of the weekend, as our area of low pressure just continues to push its way eastwards. and that, of course, is going to bring us some slightly cooler feeling air by the time we get to sunday with that north—westerly wind. the temperatures are still a little above the average for this time of year, but the air will feel cooler than on saturday in that north—westerly. it's quite a cloudy start to the day, a cooler start as well. there will be some brighter skies developing, i think, as the day wears on. another weather front approaching from the west as we head into sunday evening, but it should stay dry for most of the daylight hours. temperatures a little lower, peaking between nine and 13 degrees celsius for most with a little bit of added wind chill towards exposed coastal areas, of course. now into the start of next week, we're back to the south—westerly winds, we're back to that very mild air. again, it's going to be unsettled for the start of the week. wet and windy again at times, possibly turning a little colder by the weekend. but it's still quite a long way,

meteorologically speaking. so the south—westerly wind returns — you can see that in yellow here. we've still got the easterly across the northern isles, still staying very cold here. and as you can see, it's very mobile. all of these atlantic fronts just working their way in from the south—west. it will be wet, it will be windy, particularly towards western facing coast. low pressure is dominant. and here is the outlook for some of our towns across the uk as we head through the rest of the week. so on tuesday, temperatures already lower than they are at the moment. those temperatures will dip as the week wears on, but it does stay unsettled. so more wet and windy weather to come in the forecast. would you see any... obviously, part of the reason the government has brought this in is because of doctors and consultants who are not working longer hours because they are caught up in the nhs pension scheme and have to contribute and therefore have to pay more tax, and it's not cost efficient for them to work. can you see any way around that? so make it about doctors and consultants, then. don't make it about financiers, don't make it about the other people

in society who are already incredibly wealthy in their own right. there are people seriously struggling at this moment in time and the tories have got their head in the sand, as always. anne. if i canjust return to the budget as a whole, i think the question was would it make britain great again? let's remember where we were starting from.

�*welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm monica miller. the headlines. south korea and japan's leaders hold talks in tokyo in what's been hailed as a milestone in their fraught relationship. the us military releases the first declassified video of a russian jet crashing into one of its drones over the black sea. the united states does not seek conflict with russia, we do not seek escalation with russia. anger in france after the government pushes through pension reform without a vote. a community on a remote scottish island are told they have a high risk of cancer after scientists

discover a harmful gene.