here's a reminder of how huw edwards began his marathon broadcasting stint on the night of december the our exit poll is suggesting that there will be a conservative majority when all the votes are counted after this election of december 2019. the conservatives on 368 seats and labour way down on 191. now, on those figures, we are looking at a conservative majority of 86. over the next few hours, bbc news reported the results as they came in on television and also online. but articles on the bbc news website like these were generated in a whole new way, through automated journalism. with me to explain is robert mackenzie, the editor of bbc news labs, which leads innovation across bbc news. thank you for coming on newswatch. how did you use automation in the general election, then? so what the viewers will have seen is they will have seen stories that were compiled by a computer but written by a human being. so it all started months ago. we sat down and we tried to work out what possible combinations of stories might come out of every single constituency. so large majorities, smaller maj

a special programme marking holocaust memorial day from westminster, presented by my colleague huw edwards bbc two. now back to clive myrie in the bbc newsroom, with the rest of the day's news. there have been tributes around the world for the retired basketball star kobe bryant, who died yesterday in a helicopter crash. the five—time nba champion was with his 13—year—old daughter, gianna, and seven others when the accident happened. all those on board died. investigators are still trying to establish the cause of the accident, but conditions at the time over southern california were foggy. from los angeles, here's sophie long. reverse! he was one of the greatest players of all time. the two decades, the fierce soul of the la lakers, his remarkable talent and absolute devotion to winning earned him devotion and inspired a generation of young players round the world. he burned so competitively hot and desire to win, he brought it each and every night on both ends of the floor. not too many guys can say that throughout nba history. he won one of the first ones to leave high school and come t

there'll be further coverage this evening in a special programme, holocaust memorial day presented by huw edwardse breaking news to bring you this hour. we are hearing from the health secretary matt hancock who is asking anyone in the uk who has returned from the province of china affected by coronavirus or suspects that they have to disease to "self isolate". he said that the uk government is currently trying to trace people who have been in wuhan surrounding area in china the last 14 days. he said there are an estimated 200 british citizens in the affected area. he told the house of commons that as of this afternoon there are no confirmed cases in the uk of coronavirus but just confirmed cases in the uk of coronavirus butjust asking people to self isolate if they have come back to britain from that part of china. some of the breaking news just coming into us concerning prince and sure. and this is according to a us prosecutor speaking in new york for some —— prince andrew. us attorneyjeffrey berman is saying that prince andrew has provided "zero cooperation to the jeffrey epstein has provided "

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next, huw edwards has the news at five. now, it's the weather with susan powell.be higher than yesterday. still gusty to the far north—west as well, a little quieter for northern ireland and northern england. heavy rain working across england and wales, tending to clear towards the west. quite a lot of showers feeding into scotland, a few for northern ireland also. snow above the 200 metres mark, ice an issue first thing on wednesday morning. to the south, slightly milder where we keep the front. a soggy story for some spots, particularly across the south downs, could seee 30—a0 millimetres of rain before that front moves away. wednesday offers up a lot of sunshine for england, wales and northern ireland. but some more organised showers swinging into scotland. a little bit milder than today, highs of 6 and 7 celsius. looking ahead to thursday, an atlantic frontal system develops, it will swing to the west of the uk, the worst of the weather for western scotland, northern ireland, and for the south—west of england and wales later. widespread gales, 50—60 mph gusts

here‘s a reminder of how huw edwards began his marathon broadcasting stint on the night of december thetried to work out what possible combinations of stories might come out of every single constituency — so large majorities, smaller majorities, changing from one party to another, independents winning, independents losing — all the possible permutations we could think of. 0k. write all of those into a piece of software that allows you to use... number crunch. yes, exactly. so you have different sentences or different phrases will appear, according to the results. so what you do is you write it in advance and then, as the results come in, the results then control which stories get written. and then it‘s manually checked by a human? exactly, yes. everything manually checked — there‘s always a a human in the loop, as they say in computer speak. so we can see how it would make sense in elections, which is a lot about numbers and possible projections. what other types of stories have you been experimenting with, or are you thinking about using it for? so about a year ago, we did an experimen