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rory cellan—jones, bbc news, 0rkney.phone, what should we do with all those traditional old red phone boxes? well, in the town of kingsbridge in devon, they think they've found a solution. the tiny space has been turned into the world's smallest nightclub, as john henderson explains. take your pound coin, put it in the slot, lift up the handset. # pump up the jam, pump it up. # while your feet are stomping and the jam is pumping #. a funky number. a telephone box remixed for disco dancing complete with glitter ball, flashing lights, even a smoke machine. compact but cool. they're going to come in here, they're going to put a pound in here, they're going to listen to their favourite dance tracks and all the money goes to a local charity called @115 which does activities and events for people with needs within the community here in kingsbridge, so a great charity. it's been a while since people queued to use the k6jubilee kiosk that has stood in kingsbridge for 60 years. ok, you can go in. in the last decade, payphone usag

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ia tomorrow night in moscow as the 2018 world cup kicks off. 32 teams will compete for the trophy, with the matches being played in 11 different cities. away from the games, there's been some focus on security concerns and political tensions, as our sports editor dan roan reports. russia is playing host to the greatest showpiece in sport, whether you like it or not. fans around the world a re you like it or not. fans around the world are already enjoying the buildup. politics is never far away from such occasions. today, president putin himself made a surprise appearance at a future meeting. he says the country is ready to host the world cup and give the best time and most positive experience to those who come to russia. welcome to russia. he has ordered a crackdown on the kind of russian hooliganism that marred 2016. this is one of those convicted, serving seven months in a french prison, but said there will be no repeat. there will be no hooliganism. it will be a holiday of football.

rory cellan—jones, bbc news. that's the way it's looking. you're watching bbc news news.hello. i'm tim hague, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: we're less than 2a hours away from the start of this year's world cup, but in 8 year's time, it'll be a united tournament, with canada, mexico, and the us confirmed as co—hosts for 2026. spain are in a "real" mess after a club versus country row. they've sacked their head coach just two days before their opening world cup match against the european champions. and we take a closer look at the host nation. russia are the lowest—ranked team in the tournament. but how far can they go on home soil? hello, and thanks for joining us on sport today. it's been quite a day in russia on the eve of the 21st world cup finals. we are also talking about the 23rd finals, because fifa members have voted for the united states, mexico, and canada to host the world cup in 2026. they beat off the bid from morocco and it will be the third time world cup finals matches will be in mexico, a first for ca

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ications for workers in the so—called "gig economy". the uk supreme court decided that gary smith was in effect an employee of pimlico plumbers, rather than a freelancer, and entitled to rights such as holiday and sick pay. the compa ny‘s founder, charlie mullins, says he's considering appealing to the european court ofjustice. an italian ship carrying more than 900 migrants has been allowed to dock on the island of sicily, just days after italy refused to take another rescue ship carrying hundreds of other migrants. the diciotti, which picked up the migrants off the coast of libya, was allowed to dock because it's an italian ship. on sunday, italy closed all its ports to the franco—german boat aquarius, provoking an international outcry, as our correspondent james reynolds reports. the aquarius, rejected by italy, is now on its way to spain. france has called italy's actions irresponsible. italy's response is simple. "don't criticise us when we have taken in far more migrants than you

studio: rory cellan—jones, thank you.e london bridge terror attack a year ago say they feel forgotten, and their plans to put up a memorial plaque for their son have been blocked. james mcmullan was stabbed to death when three men armed with knives drove a van into pedestrians and attacked people in nearby borough market. mr mcmullan‘s father, simon, has been talking to our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. the london bridge attack last year was part of a hugely traumatic few months. it happened days after the manchester attack, and just before the grenfell fire. on a summer night, three men drove a van into pedestrians on london bridge and then set about stabbing people enjoying an evening out. the people murdered on that saturday night were alexandre pigeard, sebastien belanger, xavier thomas, all from france, sara zelenak and kirsty boden from australia and christine archibald from canada. the only british victim was james mcmullan. but his father simon, and his mother, milagros, and sister melissa, told me

rory cellan—jones, bbc news, upper heyford, in 0xfordshire. much more coming up from 2pm.tails come from matt taylor. good afternoon. it is cooler and cloudier compared with the past few days, but pleasa nt compared with the past few days, but pleasant enough where the sun is breaking through the cloud. this is the scene in hampshirejust breaking through the cloud. this is the scene in hampshire just a short while ago, and across parts of south west england into wales we have temperatures climbing into the low to mid 20s. for most of the uk, it is dry once again. for some of you, that will change drastically in just over 24 hours' time. this bolt of cloud is being fired up i is strengthening jet stream coming towards us as a substantial low pressure system. for the time being, high pressure. showers in the south and west through the afternoon, an outside chance, but most will be dry. in the sunny spots, temperatures in the mid to high teens. the cloud disappears through tonight, with lengthier clear skies after a fresh date will be a cooler night, temperatures down into si

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is here. this sounds like a huge number.is embarrassing. it seems like the attack on dixons started injuly last year but it is only last week they uncovered it. they think the hackers may have obtained details to 5.9 million payment cards used in carriers pc world and dixons travel stores. nearly all of them, 5.8 million of them were chip and pin cards and those systems have not been breached. there were 105,000 cards, mainly from americans using them in stores which were not protected by chip and pin. the company says no evidence to date of fraud there. and separately there we re fraud there. and separately there were1.2 fraud there. and separately there were 1.2 million personal data records, not payment information but things like name, address and e—mail address. that information can be useful in things like attacks where they try and get information through e—mails. this is embarrassing for the company. systems are shown to be vulnerable. there was a situation when carphone warehouse was fined £400,000 for when carphone

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones has been to find out more. ever uploaded a photo? some music? if so, you've probably used a data centre where vast amounts of our personal information are now stored. but what if you could put all of that underwater7 up in orkney, the tech giant microsoft is trying to do just that. this white cylinder is packed with computers. it was assembled in france and then brought here to be sunk. we are on our way across scapa flow to the deployment site. but i have one nagging question. why sink a data centre? it is easier to cool a data centres in water than on land, and that means we use a lot less power to cool the data centre then we otherwise would. it is kind of a crazy experiment, that's why we do research, to try these things and sort of push us to new places. and if this is successful, maybe we will have the ability to deploy data centres anywhere in the world very rapidly in perhaps as little as 90 days. this is the exact point where the data centre is going to be sunk and on the ocean floor is a cable bringing power to it and then

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones is here. how serious is this data breach?ck began injuly of last year, but took until last week for dixons to notice anything was going on. the other serious thing, it involves payment details, which is usually the crown jewels that hackers are looking for. dixons says 5.9 million payment cards were accessed. they were nearly all chip and pin, and those chip and pin details were not accessed, so that left them safe. but there were 105,000 non—chip and pin cards, mainly belonged to american customers. dixons says while they we re customers. dixons says while they were more vulnerable, there is no evidence to date of any fraud having been carried out with them. there we re been carried out with them. there were also 1.2 million personal records, things like names, addresses and e—mail addresses. again, dixons says there is no evidence of fraud yet, but people will be concerned about the possibility of identity theft. they will be vulnerable to fraudsters sending them e—mails and the information commission is taking it very seri

rory cellan—jones.his, it sounds sinister... ? facebook part of this, it sounds sinister...? well, we should know that facebook makes money by effectively tracking you across the internet. knowing about your preferences. and this is all part of a kind of ongoing battle, really, between facebook and apple. apple is painting itself as the company in favour of privacy and is having various jabs at facebook as being more about exploiting your data and privacy. last night they were pointing out that their safari web browser which is on the iphone, in its latest form, when it is updated in the autumn, will come with warnings and give you the choice of... it will warn you that you are being tracked by facebook on various sites, if that is the case, and give you the opportunity to turn that off. which obviously i assume lots off. which obviously i assume lots of people will. what does it mean when you turn it off and i don't do facebook so i am not really... facebook so i am not really... facebook says it gives

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones is outside westminster magistrates court.morning? well uber began by outlining its case for why it should get a new licence and interestingly its barrister said that the company now accepted that transport for london had been right last september and justified in refusing it a new licence on grounds of its behaviour. but the message was we have changed, we've changed people, changed besiegers and the court must now decide whether we are now as we believe are fit and proper company to hold this license. pair prompts their london manager about a new procedure which they had negotiated with the metropolitan police to report alleged assaults by drivers on passengers directly to the police evenif on passengers directly to the police even if the containers themselves had not made a call to the police. that was seen as a major change and that was one of the big complaints originally against uber. the chief magistrate said at the start of the case that this was all about public safety. and transport for london said if she decided to

with me now is our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.o by, what our customers saying, what has been happening? it's becoming a bit more clear, for the last couple of hours we have seen the last couple of hours we have seen reports the last couple of hours we have seen reports across the last couple of hours we have seen reports across the on social media from people having card is declined, payment is not going through. retailers having problems. telling people to use cash. people thought it was all cards but i think it's coming down to being a visa problem. they said they are investigating the cause and working as quickly as possible to solve it. tesco have said we are experiencing this problem. they say it works for chip and pin but not contactless. we are getting a patchy effect. some people, i spoke to one retailer that said it worked fine. it's obvious visa have a problem and across europe. i have had messages on twitter from ireland and europe. i have had messages on twitterfrom ireland and germany europe. i have had messages on tw

rory cellan—jones has been in court. new licence. last september it was refused a new licence by the regulator on the grounds that it was not a fit and proper company. real concerns about passenger safety, about the vetting of drivers and so on. interestingly, their lawyer began by saying the company now accepted that ruling, accepted it had been to a large extent justified. the accepted it had been to a large extentjustified. the tone was very humble, we are changing, we have changed procedures radically, we have changed personnel. the people who were in charge when things were going badly, when various actions took place which we now recognise where wrong, i no longer in charge, we have new people in charge. one of those new people was brought to the witness stand, he is now manager of the uber in london, and he outlined a new procedure which sees passengers who complain about assaults from drivers now passed directly to the police. that was a real concern from the regulator that they were not being automatically pass

rory cellan—jones, bbc news, upper heyford, in 0xfordshire. the message on the tower itself is clear: loved ones will never be forgotten. nick burton was on the 19th floor when the fire started. he lost his wife, his home, everything. i still don't think it's my life. it's like i'm kind of outside and looking into this world where i'm just on this treadmill going 100 mph so many things have happened, you know? i lost my friends, my neighbours and my wife, my dog, my home... i still haven't come to terms or slowed down to think, you know, this is... this is me. the shock, the trauma here is still raw. in a community centre next to the tower, local residents are making flowers, badges, green hearts, for the anniversary. how can you make sense of this tragedy when you do not have the answers and you have no justice? it's almost as if the whole system collapsed on the 14th ofjune, and we're trying to understand why people lost their lives, why couldn't they be in suitable, safe accommodation? survivors of the fire want the country to go green for

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones has more on today's ruling.ce about the way they dealt with allegations of assault by drivers against passengers and the way they we re against passengers and the way they were not passing them onto the police. back then where really challenged that pretty hard. to my really ha rd challenged that pretty hard. to my really hard against that and said it was going to appeal. an core of the last couple of days they have really stepped back and they have committed that they were considered wrong to change that ruling and limited they we re change that ruling and limited they were not a fit and proper company. their case has been that they have reformed and come to agreements with transport for london to behave better. they have new people and for. given the ruling to the chief magistrate was pretty scathing in her description of the behaviour of the company over recent years. she said it showed a gung ho attitude. it was obviously on a knife edge whether or not this license would be granted. she did eventually say ye

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones has been to see how it works.r maybe streamed some music? if so, you've probably use the data centre, where vast amounts of our personal information are now stored. but what if you could put all of that underwater? up in 0rkney, the tech giant microsoft is trying to do just that. this white cylinder is packed with computers. it was assembled in front and then brought here to be sunk. we're on our way across scarborough flowed to the deployment site, but i have one nagging question. why sync data centre? we use a lot less power to cool the data centre then we otherwise would. it is kind of a crazy experiment, but that's why we do research, is to try these things and sort of push is to new places. and if this is successful, maybe we will have the ability to deploy data centres very rapidly, in perhaps as little as 90 days. this is the exact point where the data centre is going to be sunk and only ocean floor is a cable bringing power to it and then taking its data ashore and connecting it to the wider internet. a da

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, is at westminster magistrates court.t there were serious grounds for complaint about its behaviour, and that it had now set about doing something about it, that it had changed its procedures and change the key personnel at the top, the people who had been in charge of the policy have gone. he said the court now have gone. he said the court now have to decide not whether the decision in september had been right but whether today uber was a fit and proper company to hold this license. the first witness called was its london manager, and he went through this new procedure they have for passing on complaints about assaults by drivers on passengers or other serious activity, directly to the police, which had been a complaint from transport for london, the most serious complaint about the procedures. there were now more complaints being passed on and sometimes even without the consent of the people making the original complaint. but uber passed on the details to the police on a regular basis now. we heard at the beginning of t

rory cellan—jones has more.are questioning whether they are a fit and proper company to hold a licence. the company has tried to show it has changed its ways, agreeing to report crimes to the police and offering drivers sick pat’- it's also seeking a licence that lasts just 18 months, rather than fight years. the new boss dara khosrowshahi has tried to mend fences, admitting that uber had got things wrong. london is one of the american firm's important markets worldwide, with over 3.5 million regular users. uber has clashed with regulators in other uk cities and has also been denied licences in york and brighton. the london hearing is expected to last three days, with executives from uber and the transport regulator giving evidence. for the first time the office for national statistics has published suicide rates among students in higher education. the figures show 95 university student suicides for the 12 months tojuly 2017 in england and wales. this is lower than for the general population of similar ages, but

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, has been to see how it works.r personal information are now stored. but what if you could put all of that underwater? up in 0rkney, the tech giant microsoft is trying to do just that. this white cylinder is packed with computers. it was assembled in france, and then brought here to be sunk. we're on our way across scapa flow to the deployment site, but i have one nagging question. why sink a data centre? it's easier to cool data centres in water than on land. that means we use a lot less power to cool the data centre than we otherwise would. it is kind of a crazy experiment, but that's why we do research — to try these things and sort of push us to new places. and, if this is successful, maybe we'll have the ability to deploy data centres anywhere in the world very rapidly, perhaps as little as 90 days. this is the exact point where the data centre is going to be sunk and on the ocean floor is a cable bringing power to it, and then taking its data ashore and connecting it to the wider internet. a day on, with cond

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is here. huge numbers involved here.e. bad news and good news, as it were. the bad news is, when you hear about one of these data breaches, the companies say a lot of personal information has been leaked, but no worry no payment information. at this time 5.9 billion came —— payments cards —— 5.9 million payments cards —— 5.9 million payment cards have been accessed and it seems that the hackers started to do this injuly last year and they've only discovered it last week. that is pretty serious. dixons is saying don't worry because 5.8 million of the cards, nearly all of them, were chip and pin cards which is the system across europe, and the hackers did not get access to the chip and pin information. they don't have the pin codes so they are useless. that leaves 100,000 cards which are presumably mainly from american customers where they did not until recently have the chip and pin system looking vulnerable. again, dixons says they have seen no evidence of fraud so far. but it does look like a serious breach. the informa

well, with me is our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.ot their software developers and they were previewing what was coming out. they had a few new ideas, but there was an awful lot of focus on actually controlling the way you use your phone. i think they are having to respond to growing public disquiet, even some of the shareholders expressed concern about the addictive nature of smartphones. we as individuals worry about that, as parents we worry about that, there is a lot of pressure on the technology companies to give us more control. what will the features, the apps. control. what will the features, the apps, do? simple things like when you turn on do not disturb overnight, which of people do, i fail to turn it on the other night and got into trouble because my phone beeped in the middle of the night and woke the household, they will make that much easier, it will remove everything. so you do not wa ke remove everything. so you do not wake up and see lots of notifications and get to look. they will put in a new feature called screen

they have self—driving cars when that‘s not actually the case, as our technology correspondent rory cellan—jonesthe autopilot system works pretty well. the danger is it lulls the driver into a false sense of security. now let‘s try another scenario. this time the car we are following will change lanes at the very last moment. and with the driver not concentrating, the autopilot does not brake in time. fortu nately not brake in time. fortunately this was just a dummy car. tesla told us our communications are very clear about the functionality of autopilot and does not make the car self driving. we have continuously educate customers on the proper use of autopilot, reminding them they must remain alert and be prepared to take control at all times. i‘ve got my hands off the wheel because i am on a test track, but it will tell me every 15 seconds, put your hands on the wheel. this bmw has assisted driver features and faction prefers the way they are labelled. but the car‘s lane hugging technology fails to cope with this very tight bend. bmw says it is very clear its driving assistant feature does no

rory cellan—jones has more.on refused to grant a new licence to uber, saying it was concerned about the way drivers were vetted, as well as the company ‘s failure to contact police about a salt and other crimes. today's case isn't about whether that decision was correct, but whether uber is now a fit and proper company to hold a licence. in recent months the company has tried to show it has changed its ways, agreeing to report crimes to the police and offering drivers sit pay. is also seeking a licence that last just 18 months, rather than fight yea rs. just 18 months, rather than fight years. the new boss has tried to mend fences, admitting that uber had got things wrong. london is one of the american firm's important markets worldwide, with over five enough billion regular users. they have clashed with regular to send other uk cities and has also been denied licences in york and brighton. the london hearing is expected to last three days, with executives from uber and the transport regulator giving evidence. p

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones explains. our personal information are now stored. but what if you could put all of that underwater? up in orkney, the tech giant microsoft is trying to do just that. this white cylinder is packed with computers. it was assembled in france, and then brought here to be sunk. we're on our way across scapa flow to the deployment site, but i have one nagging question. why sink a data centre? it's easier to cool data centres in water than on land. that means we use a lot less power to cool the data centre than we otherwise would. it is kind of a crazy experiment, but that's why we do research — to try these things and sort of push us to new places. and, if this is successful, maybe we'll have the ability to deploy data centres anywhere in the world very rapidly, perhaps as little as 90 days. this is the exact point where the data centre is going to be sunk and on the ocean floor is a cable bringing power to it, and then taking its data ashore and connecting it to the wider internet. a day on, with c