winds are expected to pick up again — strengthening the flames — and a further 166,000 people have been warned they may have to leave. the uk's prime minister has been urged to sack anti—corruption minister tulip siddiq after she was named in a corruption investigation in bangladesh. ms siddiq was appointed economic secretary to the treasury injuly and her responsibilities include tackling corruption. she has insisted that she's done nothing wrong. the nobel peace prize winner, malala yousafzai, urges muslim leaders not to legitimise the taliban government in afghanistan. she says the taliban doesn't see women as human beings.

now on bbc news: click. this week, we brave the arctic permafrost to visit the ultimate data storage vault. it's a remote destination, far away from wars, crisis, terrorism, disasters. so, what could be safer? nick goes down under to meet the people helping to preserve one of the great wonders of the world. though some of the techniques are quite old—school. it looks like a giant thermos flask. it really is. spencer challenges the boss of lg to gaze into his crystal ball in a no holds barred 0&a. the year is 2030.

my hair is still suspiciously brown. what does the home of 2030 look like? and alasdair goes behind the scenes at disneyland paris to find out how tech is being used to bring the characters to life in one of the attraction�*s most popular shows. what happens if our most valuable data is lost? or if, years from now, the technology it's stored on becomes obsolete? the search is on to find solutions that will stand the test of time, and one answer may lie close to the north pole. svalbard is an archipelago high above the arctic circle. isolated and far away, its home to a vault that aims to be the ultimate back—up for our data.

we're about to head inside a former coal mine. it closed down three decades ago, and now its home to the arctic world archive. it's certainly an unlikely location. it's a remote destination, far away from wars, crises, terrorism, disasters. and it's regulated by an international treaty. it's a demilitarised zone, so what could be safer? far away from everything, accepted by all the superpowers in the world. well, i guess we can switch our lights on and head into the darkness. let's go. let's do that. we're going 300m deep into the permafrost, where temperatures are sub—zero. and behind these doors is the vault. it's inside this container where all these precious artefacts are being stored, safeguarding a snapshot of our

culture, history and technology for future generations. it's all put on reels of film kept in these silver packets. what sort of things are stored on that film? now we have more than 100 deposits from 30 plus countries across the world, so it's a wide selection of cultural heritage, history, literature, art, music, you name it. and since its launch seven years ago, the archive has been filled with treasures. there are surveys of the taj mahal, old manuscripts from the vatican library, observations of our planet from space, plus music, movies and paintings. and among them, norway's most treasured artwork, the scream. this is a very special container... and in this box is a copy of all the world's open—source code, the building blocks of most of the world's software and websites that we use.

it's incredibly important for humanity to secure the future of software. it's become so critical to our day—to—day lives, we're essentially building another wonder of the world every day by working together to write software. we looked at a variety of different storage mechanisms and also how you'll actually be able to read them. ultimately, you can read it optically. you canjust magnify the film and read it optically. it's dark, dry and very chilly down here, conditions which its owners claim are ideal for storage that could last centuries. storing this information down here in the depths of a mine, how does that help preserve it? today, there is a lot of risks to information and data. there is terrorism, there is war, there is cyber hackers. nobody can guarantee what will survive, so this is a place to make sure that information survives technology obsolescence, time and ageing.

it all sounds rather dystopian. even here in the arctic, there are questions about security. and a thousand years from now, will people understand what's here? so, the data are stored on reels of piquilm, which is an information carrier that cannot be hacked, data cannot be deleted, data cannot be changed. and it's self—contained and self—descriptive, so that means on the film itself, stored in this vault, you have all the instructions future generations will need to have to really understand what it is and how we can use it, and how we can get the data back. the archive�*s owners also run the data preservation company piql. and back at its norwegian offices, all those files are printed onto film. there is a sequence of bits and bytes. we convert the sequence of the bits, which come from our clients' data, into images. in some ways, it's quite

old—school technology, but that's the idea, and its intended to be easily readable even far into the future. this is the latest group to travel all the way to svalbard to deposit their reels in the archive. just behind those doors, a deposit ceremony is taking place right now, and there are individuals and organisations from around the world who are depositing their films inside the vault. so, we will invite you... one by one, reels are added. for many here, it's a significant moment. the latest deposits include original manuscripts of chopin's music, archives ofjaguar car models, and recordings of threatened languages. even images of islands that could disappear as sea levels rise. today, i deposited a footage, photography footage, visual witnesses of the marshall islands. it's an atoll state, which means it's, like,

the highest point of the island is three metres, and they're facing a huge impact of climate change. no—one knows how long this archive will last, but people are making plans to preserve the data we have today, no matter how uncertain the future. one of the seven wonders of the world, the great barrier reef, is the largest living structure on the planet. it's home to a quarter of our marine life and serves as a carbon sink, removing c02 from the atmosphere. at its core is coral. the animal has suffered rising sea temperatures, leading to recent mass bleaching events, turning them ghostly white and sometimes dying. at the latest cop29 event

in azerbaijan, it was announced that 44% of the earth's corals are under threat of extinction. but innovations are unfolding and at sydney's taronga zoo, efforts are under way to help. one idea being developed here is to preserve coral for many, many years to come and it's very cool. this is the world's largest cryopreservation bank of living corals. they're freezing them for the future. they have had a pause button pressed on their biological clock, so these cells are frozen in liquid nitrogen, and the temperature of the liquid nitrogen is —i96 degrees celsius. it's very, very cold. so, you can see exactly what we're looking at. wow! i won't pull it out, because we don't want to warm the samples up... yeah, of course, yeah. ..and damage them, but they're sitting nice and safe

inside that tank there. they can go up a little bit warmer and not be damaged. uh-huh. but anything above —150, we don't want. right, 0k, well, let's get the lid back on, then, and keep them safe. let's do it. they're frozen in time, but these are living cells that we can thaw out decades, centuries into the future to ensure that genetic diversity is not lost and that genetic diversity can be introduced into populations. roughly half the samples survive, but using computer—assisted analysis, researchers are able to determine which sperm to put on ice. this particular sample has a large number of sperm moving. you can use it to monitor sperm quality over time and there's a bit of artificial intelligence in there, that machine—learning approach for predicting, for example, which colonies we should be biobanking from. they've got around 4,000 vials. it equates to more than 4 trillion sperm. a lot of sperm in those vials. getting them here requires careful transportation. so, this is a mini tank.

it looks like a giant thermos flask. yeah, it is. it really is. and this one's empty, so you can actually see a canister, and this will hold the samples in place when they're being shipped. oh, wow. you can see that bar code there, which identifies everything from the species of coral, the number of sperm in that vial, the sea country of the corals, so where those samples came from. and so that vial... there'll be about five vials sitting on this cane. yeah. and that cane, after the samples are frozen, will be put inside that canister. yeah. and then that canister... so that goes inside there. ..goes back inside the tank. set for travel. let's put it back. how much of an impact will this work have on restoring the reef? we're seeing corals not being able to withstand these higher temperatures and so we're losing genetic diversity each summer. you can screen certain colonies for those heat tolerance traits, and then we can prioritise our biobanking activities for those

particular reefs. spawning, which is the mass event when coral release their eggs to be fertilised, only happens once per year, but the team are designing a workaround. we can only cryopreserve sperm and use that sperm during spawning. if we can cryopreserve larvae, because they represent the male and the female genome, we could potentially put them out on the reef at any time of the year. coral ivf is only part of the preservation puzzle. over at queensland university of technology, robots are being developed to help raise coral babies. we want to image the corals in order to automatically assess and measure their health, so that we know that the corals are growing well, how many there are and when they'll be ready to go back onto the great barrier reef. traditionally, all of the counting is done manually, which involves a trained expert hunched over a microscope, counting very tiny microscopic corals one by one over a small

area that is only about 30 by 30cm. while it takes an expert about an hour to count one tile, it takes us a couple of seconds. couple of seconds?! the system is 88% accurate, which dorian says is as fast as a human. even so, they've got their work cut out for them. we need to grow over 10 million corals per year, and so to do that, we need to have tens of thousands of these coral tiles being measured and counted every single week for up to 12 weeks. you end up costing, just in pure counting time, over $6 million per year. as well as cash, it could save lab time by generating heat maps. by generating heat maps. you can just look for you can just look for the brighter spots and know the brighter spots and know that the corals are doing well. that the corals are doing well. do you really think do you really think that this project will that this project will help save the reef? help save the reef? decades to come. there's certain high—density there's certain high—density megacities across the great megacities across the great barrier reef that if you target barrier reef that if you target those, you can have those, you can have maximum effectiveness. maximum effectiveness. we are targeting the damaged we are targeting the damaged reefs and trying to tip them reefs and trying to tip them over to surviving for many more over to surviving for many more

decades to come. now for a look at this week's tech news. the consumer electronic show is open a store in las vegas. four and half thousand startups and everything from robotic dogs to strenuous guitar. plus all the biggest names in tech are showcasing the next—generation tvs and smart home innovations.

for the up the bbc says several of its headlines were rendered in accurate. the technology giant sent an apple intelligence will be rolled out in the coming weeks. finally, a robotics company has just shared the open source data set that is used to make its robots dance just like humans. unit three robotics is for its four—legged robots for them it helps by making a data set widely available it will be easier for other developers to create robots that can interact more naturally with the world. music: together we are one by disney music group. i'm exploring behind the scenes at disneyland paris to find out how they bring some of cinema's best—known characters to life, including on the stage at the together musical. it's a performance that mixes traditional theatre

with technology to immerse the audience in different pixar worlds. it's all about charlie... ..a child who is passionate about music and he dreams of conducting the orchestra. but something unexpected happens. it always does. of course. band plays. 0ur favourite disney toy story pixar friends join forces and we're going to travel all around and through the pixar stories with them. this is the music charlie's supposed to conduct, and it's everywhere. and...oh, no, it looks like lots of pages are missing. we want for our audience to be part of the story, to be part of the show with our characters. it's notjust you are coming and watch the show right here on studio theatre, you are part of the story

with them, so you feel the emotion with our characters, with charlie as well, and you are part of the show. toys cheer. look, buzz, be careful! buzz grunts. vers l'infini et au—dela! the real magic is the technology and the screens that you're using. right. as you can see, we truly create an immersive environment on stage right here on studio theatre for that show. we actually have ten led video screens on stage, almost 453 square metres from floor to ceiling. nemo? er, une minute, c'est qui, nemo? he's my son. five of them are moving and able to open and to close during the performance, as well as passing through a side to another of the stage. it's truly incredible. i think the favourite bit for me was when the house

from up was flying through the stage, but actually we were all flying with it. the screens were showing clouds, there was smoke, there was even wind hitting our faces. to be truly immersive, we, as well, are using multi—sensory effects, from winds to water to sense, as well. you want the audience to not feel like they're watching...? no, that's the goal of our show. like, we forget everything all around us. we arejust, like, flying with our friends, dive into the water with our friends. it's like we are truly into an environment which is immersive. wait, the music score may have changed, but what if our adventure made it even better? there is always something new, something to discover, and something new to learn about technology more specifically, as well. so we always have to be updated on new technologies and we are disney live entertainment, always trying and seeking

to develop and create, like, next—level live show experiences for our guests. cheering and applause. if you've bought a tv in the last decade, you'll probably have come across lg. it's one of the biggest makers of displays in the world, especially 0led screens that promise better contrast on your living—room telly. it's also a company we frequently run into at tech expos with their big, flashy stands. and despite having been one of the biggest companies in korea for many, many years, it's only relatively recently become known in the rest of the world for its home appliances. well, at a recent big tech show, i sat down with lg's boss to find out what the home of the future might look like, and also to talk about how the company, like many others, is having to reposition itself as the world changes. since i became ceo, i've been travelling extensively,

you know, almost 20 laps around the globe. that's more than me. that was a long journey, but i was able to identify the three inflection points taking place in the world. right. the first is servitisation. the devices are getting smarter and getting more connected and generating a lot of data. with that, the devices are really becoming service—providing platforms. the second one is electrification trend. and when you think electrification, think electric cars. with brand—new designs, and also the possibility that vehicles in the nearfuture might drive themselves,

cars are the site of a new land grab by tech companies. there's no established operating system, no incumbent to overthrow. forget the hardware, cars will become another platform to provide services to paying customers, with new onboard experiences and new ways of doing things. so, that's two inflection points covered. the third is digitalisation, and i strongly believe this is the most significant inflection point, with the emergence of ai. it will provide infinite opportunities a! has been used in industry for a long time now, making efficiencies behind the scenes. but despite more and more home devices collecting data and connecting to the internet, a! hasn't really made our homes noticeably smarter so far. well, that may be about to change. there has been a lot of discussion around the concept of a smart home, but no—one really delivered the ground—breaking use cases,

and the ai is changing the way we experience the home. devices are rapidly evolving and becoming more connected, to ultimately provide hyper—personalised solutions as a platform. ok, the year is 2030. mm—hm. you're looking great. mm—hm. my hair is still suspiciously brown. what does the home of 2030 look like? 0ur a! home hub will recognise, will sense your...the behaviour and usage pattern of devices. mm—hm. for example, it will learn the level of noise of a washing machine. it will learn you are there in a specific location and the air flow direction will adjust direct to you. if you don't like the air flow directly into your face, if you dislike, it will automatically adjust the airflow direction to avoid yourface. so, that's a home that learns your likes,

but on the ai front, something new has just rolled into town. hey, ballie, i've got plans on saturday. can you suggest some places to check out with a friend? sure. i'll recommend some places you can visit l on weekends in berlin. both samsung and lg are promoting these little ankle biters as part of the home of the future. ballie pings. mitch, it's time to i take your medicine. thanks, ballie. i almost forgot there. the arrival of large language models and the ability of ai to have more human—like conversations means we might finally get those robo—butlers that we've always been promised. so, you have a personal assistant that can roll around the house, but i wonder whether i would just want to speak out loud and the fridge hears me, but i want to ask it to turn up the air conditioning. and i'm not sure whether i want this thing to have to be there

in orderfor...to be heard. so, wouldn't that be a more practical solution? it will evolve eventually as a companion robot... right. ..with you. it will again understand your behaviour, usage pattern. it will have a camera and sensors, and it will learn from your environment through the sensor technology and it will evolve. having spent the last couple of years talking to large language models for the first time, i can actually believe that home help companion bots may earn their place in our lives. like cars, the smart home is another opportunity to win in a new market. and both samsung and lg have announced open platforms, inviting other manufacturers to hook in to one of their overarching apps that will control the entire home. as the margins on selling hardware shrink, it's the services where big companies may end up making their money. if we let them through

the front door, that is. that's it from us for this week. thank you so much for watching and we will see you soon. it has been another very cold start this morning. frost crossed east areas but less cold across the west. temperatures above freezing. it will be turning less cold or even milderfor some of will be turning less cold or even milder for some of us through the week. mostly dry thanks to high pressure but we will have some issues with mist and fog particularly at night where winds will be lighter under this area of high pressure but breezy conditions across scotland and northern

ireland through today. mild airing here. vapid snow and ice thor two. 0utbreaks airing here. vapid snow and ice thor two. outbreaks of rain. breezy, cloudy, a mild night to come but for england and wales, lighter winds. variable cloud, mist and fog and another cold one. not as cold as it has been but a touch of frost here. very different to scotland and northern ireland. that rapid thaw could lead to localised flooding as we head into monday. further rain falling on that snow and ice melt as well. that weather front weakening. england and wales, monday, mostly dry, variable cloud and a bit of sunshine and turning less cold. 5—7 but double figures across scotland and northern ireland. the weather front fizzles out as it moves into the area of high pressure and leaves a legacy of cloud. a milder theme for most. away from the far south and south—east which could see the last cold night here but double figure values as you can see

for glasgow and for belfast. a lot milder here. tuesday, variable cloud. i think it will be mostly dry apart from drizzle. a little bit of mist and fog where we will have lighter winds thanks to that area of high pressure but a milder day. less cold for all. 8-13 milder day. less cold for all. 8—13 from south to north across the uk. wednesday, thursday, friday, that area of high—pressure bring similar conditions. grazing the far north—west where it will be a bit breezy and it will always stay milder here as well as you can see from the darker all orange colours. less cold than what we have had of late. there is the outlook. a lot of fine weather around. mist and fog. mildest for the north and the west where there will be a little bit of rain at times. take care.

live from london. this is bbc news. the number of people killed in the los angeles

wildfires rises to 16, with firefighters battling to contain the two biggest blazes. an aerial attack on the enormous palisades fire, which is menacing brentwood, one of la's most exclusive neighbourhoods. in the uk — a police officer is struck by a lorry and dies. detectives issue an appeal for witnesses. the nobel peace prize winner, malala yousafzai, urges muslim leaders not to legitimise the taliban administration. , i'm kasia madera. the wildfires emergency that's engulfed parts of los angeles shows no sign of letting up this hour. while firefighers have made progress in some areas, the winds that have been a huge factor in spreading the flames, remain strong. four fires are blazing and 16 people are confirmed to have been killed in the fires, ii in the eaton fire and five in the palisades, with 13 people missing.

the largest fire — the palisades — is now