Now on bbc news its time for click this week surveillance satellites. Medical drones. And gaming for all the family. Hello, you day 6,021 of lockdown here in the uk, and im still here. Lara isnt, though she is somewhere else. Where are you . Whats going on, mate . Well, i had a bit of a problem, there was a leak in the ceiling in the original click studio so i thought i would have a change of scenery. And while i was about it, im really starting to miss you now so i thought it was time to get a nice framed picture of you. What do you think . Uhh. Actually this isnt true, its notjust a picture of you, im missing 0mar, too. Take a look at this this is the mural 2 digital canvas. You can upload your favourite pictures and moving images, and if you subscribe, there are tens of thousands of pictures. The picture resolution is fantastic. In the flesh, it really looks like a high res framed photo. But the frame isnt great, and you do need to live with the fact that it has this slightly messy lead. But ive got another picture for you to look at here. Right. What do you think this one may be . Well, its an aerial shot, isnt it . I dont know some kind of oilfield, ill go for. Thats what it looks like, but this is actually the car park of disney World Florida during lockdown. No cars, no mickey mouse, no mini, it does not look like a theme park at all. These pictures are taken by a Company Called planet. Theyve put loads of cubesats into orbit around the earth and are collecting photos of what is going on all the time. I remember we saw planet back in 2014, i think, just when they were getting started, and they were hoping to spot daily changes on the surface of the earth with these images. Thats right. And as technologys moved on, so has their technology. Their near consta nt surveillance gives us insight into how the world is changing, covering everything from deforestation to refugee camps in myanmar. During the covid 19, crisis these images can provide surprising insights into how the pandemic is impacting our world. That data is even used as an indicator of Global Economic health. Governments can estimate crop yields, and investors can use it to monitor oil storage in areas across the world. You see a lot of effects on the economy. The most obvious cases are things like the ships either stacking up or disappearing from ports, planes stacking up at airports. We saw oil tanks getting full up because the oil was still being in supply but it wasnt being used as much, and so all the tanking capacity was being filled up. And there may be positives for the environment and new ways of working that will emerge from populations being locked down. Pollution has gone down, and we have seen some of that effect with factories going off or less people travelling on the roads and planes, and the effects of that. And in general, this is relatedly changing peoples behaviour a bid. A bit like people are moving to zoom instead of travelling to meetings, we are seeing people use Remote Sensing satellite data rather than going out to visit sites. But theres only so much that we can understand from flat images. The next step is utilising Artificial Intelligence to make the world searchable. With Computer Vision and machine learning, soon you may be able to ask for highly specific information. How many houses are there in pakistan . Give me a plot of that versus time, and you should be able to extract that out. 0rjust tell me where the trees have been cut down in the amazon between last month and this month, and give me the latitudes and longitudes so i can go and investigate that. We can now see daily pictures of every simultaneous economic, environmental and human activity all at once. When you add in al and other data sets, the insight, patterns and predictions we can glean are completely unique. It may turn out that these eyes in the sky will give us a whole new way of seeing our world. With the coronavirus epidemic only now starting to show signs of slowing in some countries, an equally big battle, termed an infodemic by the who, has also been ranging. A surge of misinformation, fake and manipulated news and some outright lies have hit our screens. False stories about borisjohnson dying from the coronavirus, or that 5g was somehow involved in the epidemic, right the way through to claims that the dangers of the virus were overhyped, and thats led to people questioning the lockdowns. So we decided to take part in an exclusive investigation to look at how both extremist political and fringe medical communities are trying to exploit the pandemic online. Carl miller has been involved in the investigation, hes online now. Hey, carl. How are you doing . Hi, spencer. Weve all kind of come across the infodemic in one way or another, weve seen posts that have been forwarded to us, but the interests and ideologies are much less visible underneath it. So we joined forces with a counter extremism think tank here in the uk called the institute for Strategic Dialogue really to try and understand how these social media posts which rubbish science, which spread conspiracy theories, which blame minority groups, how they spread and something of where they come from and the agenda which theyre really pushing. So this study is ongoing, isnt it, and youre going to look throughout the study at different groups and how theyre involved in the misinformation and why, is that right . We started with the far right, because theres more evidence tying disinformation to the far right than any other group, but theyre by no means the only people that do this kind of thing, and in the weeks ahead we will be looking at the far left, at radical islamists, of course states, to see how they too are exploiting this singular moment, spreading disinformation across the internet. What gathers pace on fringe websites or private chat rooms can quickly enter the mainstream. Stories such as that bill gates created the virus got widely circulated, and another blaming muslims for spreading covid 19, began in india before moving rapidly across the atlantic to america. The internet is awash with this kind of information. We see it in our timelines, sometimes its shared to us by friends in private groups, we know its there. But in these early weeks of the pandemic, we wanted to understand who is really propagating this and why. Fake news spans the entire political spectrum. On any issue and for any argument you can think of, theres plenty of disinformation and hate circulating. But theres one community which more evidence ties to disinformation than any other the fringe far right. Weve seen plenty of examples of false and misleading narratives, but this investigation between bbc click and the isd, the Global Think Tank for researching extremism, is one of the first pieces of research that tries to really understand its scale. We honed in on 38 english language facebook pages relevant to the global far right, analysing more than 150,000 of their posts since january. What started to stand out were 18 key narratives, ones focused around immigration, islam, gun ownership, crime. Most striking of all was that, as the lockdown progressed, there was a stark spike in chatter about the worlds elites, the likes ofjeff bezos, the rothchilds, george soros, and bill gates. Correspondingly, the amount of chatter tying them to the coronavirus also spiked. Chloe colliver headed the investigation. We started doing this research because we were interested to look at the intersection between extremism and disinformation online, and we wanted to know how the Coronavirus Crisis was affecting those trends. Ok, so the absolute number of posts today are small, and at a time when everyone is talking about coronavirus, wouldnt we expect far right groups to be doing so as well . This was just a sample of facebook groups that we could get access to do this research. This is very much a kind of top level example of the trends and proportions of the far rights interest and activity around coronavirus. It doesnt show is what is much more concerning about the scale of this the mainstreaming of their activity. Drilling down even further, analysis revealed how each of these themes interacted with each other. The algorithm sorted the different far right groups into five main communities based on what they spoke about. There were communities clustered around judaism, islam, immigration and lgbt issues. But the Largest Community by far was interested in global elites and related conspiracy theories. If you look at conspiracy theories around global elites who are trying to hide vaccines from people, or who created the coronavirus supposedly on purpose, those often have anti semitic tropes in about a global elite that is jewish, and that allows them to promote anti semitic content with a cover of talking about coronavirus. The research discovered that, along with tying it to elites, this community was more likely than any other to think the virus was engineered, overhyped or had an existing cure. Ideas that encourage remedies like chloroquine and proven and potentially dangerous ideas, despite the suggestions of donald trump. Many of the things that you hear out there are what i call anecdotal reports, they may be true but they are anecdotal, so the only thing i would say is that if you really want to definitively know if something works, youve got to do the kind of trial that you get the good information. We have been here before. Misinformation we know is a major issue during elections, but this might be a lot more potent. It really could convince people to not listen to government advice about staying at home. It could convince them to not seek medical help. It might even convince them to use untested treatments, with dire consequences. We put our findings to facebook, who said it seems that claims it seems that claims propagated by Fringe Groups will continue to thrive and exploit the pandemic. I think that we will see an increase in the ability of the far right to successfully mainstream their activity around coronavirus, as we see disaffection with the Public Health measures that are in place across the world at the moment. That was chloe colliver, finishing carls report. So, carl, do you know how many people are actually seeing this misinformation and how effective these messages are . Well, that was the other half of this study, spencer. So we took 311 websites that the far right often linked to, drawn from fringe medical and political communities largely, and that we know shared materially false information on coronavirus. Now, when you look at the number of interactions they get on a platform like facebook, all the different comments on shares and posts which links to their websites receive, the numbers are really astonishingly large. You know, baselining against say the World Health Organization that gets around 6 million interactions over the same time period, there were websites on that list that received 48 million, and across all of them, over 80 million. Of course there are caveats that are important here to remember as well, there are lots of other ways that the World Health Organization gets their message out, and interactions doesnt of course necessarily imply agreement whatsoever, but it does suggest that there is an empire of fringe medical and political communities sat on platforms like facebook that are able to harvestjust simply enormous amounts of eyeballs. Does this study tell you anything about why this infodemic is happening . I think it really reveals something that is massively important that we dont often discuss about the infodemic underneath all those pieces of information, there is community, there is activism, there is identity, there is belonging and meaning for the people that are involved. These are social architectures complete with heroes and villains and language and gift shops even. This is organisation, you know, and that really sits underneath all of this, and is really propelling the piece of information which we see, kind of, jumping into our timelines. My goodness, carl, this is chillingly fascinating. Thank you so much, as ever, for doing these brilliant studies. When you have more findings, will you come back and talk to us . We will. Thank very much, spencer. Hey there and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week when whatsapps limit on forward messaging cut the spread of viral texts by 70 . The measures were introduced to help prevent the spread of coronavirus misinformation. Film piracy in the uk increased by 43 since lockdown measures came into effect, although bootleg television is down 5 owing to the lack of live sport. And spoilers from naughty dogs highly anticpated the last of us part ii hit the web this week. After the leak it was announced at the game would be released on the 19th ofjune after previously having no confirmed release date. Forget a remote control, now its possible to conduct robots with your muscles. A team from mit csail have developed a conduct a bot system that uses human muscle signals from wearable sensors to pilot a robots movement. If youve ever wondered how an als so called brain might work, a virtual rat might be able to give us a clue. Researchers at deepmind and Harvard University have built an ai powered virtual rodent that can carry out multiple complex tasks. Its hoped that the rat will help the teams understand how its artificial brain works. And finally, forget zoom weddings during the time of quarantine, how about a ceremony via animal crossing . Steffan and jana had to postpone their real life april wedding until november, but didnt want to miss out completely so they had a virtual one on nintendos hit game instead. I wonder how many bells that would have cost them. The use of drones for delivery is often hyped, but with strict regulations, has never quite got off the ground. Will the current need for contactless deliveries jump sta rt the sector . The village of moneygall is 140km south west of dublin, and the site of a proof of Concept Partnership between Drone Company manna aero and the countrys Health Service executive. Manna aero are already testing essential food deliveries from this service station, but now with the coronavirus lockdown, theyve shifted their attention to medicine. Hello, dr 0reilly. The new Service Starts with a gp video consultation. Cough bottle for that. The doctor sends a prescription by e mail to a nearby pharmacy. And theyre going to deliver the drugs back to you by drone delivery. Ok, no problem. The medicine is attached to a drone and is transported to the patients door, in this case people who are currently self isolating. Im 70 years of age and were told to stay in, so weve stayed in, weve never gone out anywhere. 0h, sure, its absolutely brilliant. I thought id never see the day that thered be such technology that i wouldnt have to be driving into town and back home to get my medicine. The uk too considering how to use drones to transport vital medical supplies. Wed like to be there in the next few weeks, wed like to start something in the uk with a similar set up to here in ireland, to support the local communities during these times. Were in discussions. 0ur plant and office and r d is in wales, so wed like to do something initially in wales to show the uk public what it looks like. Wales has already been the site of remote drone delivery testing. Just before the lockdown, a drone successfully dropped a defibrillator over snowdonia, in wales. It was a successful beyond line of sight test in collaboration with the Welsh Ambulance service. And another first of its kind trial in the uk, bringing medical equipment by drone from southampton General Hospital to st marys on the isle of wight, is currently under way. In a joint initiative with the European Space agency, the uk government has pledged £2. 6 million for drone or satellite projects that could help the nhs, and the Uk Space Agency says we may one day see dedicated drone corridors for shipping vital supplies. The possibility of air corridors between different locations to support the covid 19 outbreak is a possibility in months. You find a few hospitals who are aware of the challenges that they are facing and up for engaging with us, and we have got some who are already engaged within nhs england and supporting this who want to engage and have these testing and these pilots in their area. Diagnostics too could also be done by drone. Trials from the University South australia show how temperature and vital signs can be seen by a drone, identifying someone who is coughing and what their temperature is. The system is now being tested by a police force in the us with a dragonfly drone. Researchers say it could one day be able to distinguish between different diseases, for example if someone is suffering from coronavirus or ebola. So is this a sight were going to have to get used to . Drone delivery may be coming to our towns and cities sooner than we imagined. That wasjen. Now, for anyone at home with kids, things have, of course, become a little more complicated of late, as were always looking for ways to entertain them. So marc cieslak has been taking games to the next level. Why dont they go outside and kick a ball about . Thats the phrase often repeated by lots and lots of television preventers right after any item about video games has just run. Well, in the current circumstances, where all real world ball kicking activities have been cancelled for the moment. 0h so sad . A lifetime spent playing video games has better equipped millions of people for life in lockdown than all the doomsday prepping of toilet paper in the world. But, for parents and carers, it can be difficult to find titles the whole family can enjoy, especially if you yourself dont play games. Help is at hand in the shape of an online guide designed to help parents who dont know their mario from their mortal kombat. Its the work ofjournalist, youtuber and father of three andy robertson. Collaborating with the games industry, hes come up with a guide that navigates the modern gaming landscape. Parents can search for an individual title to see if its right for them, or they can search through curated lists which are categorised by the type of experience games provide. Talking to families, im often, kind of, suggesting games they should play. It can be quite hard to find games in the way its presented to them with the information they need, which are things like pegi rating, how long will it take to play, whats the kind of time commitment. Its designed for parents in a form they can access. A game just released and quite timely is a game called animal crossing, played on the switch, a game where you escape the world and you go to your own desert island. But it is quite interesting as an experience because that ties the game to the real world clock, so if theres things you need to do in the game at a particular time of day, you have to wait until that time of day to do it, so theres the benefit of the games offering you that kind of routine. The list also provides a heads up about features like loot boxes and content where games could be asking players to shell out extra cash to purchase in game items. You know, children may well, and probably are, using games to cope with whats happening in the world. Theyre finding meaning in games, theyre finding calm and maybe a bit of hope and a bit of control, and so if we come in and just say what we can do to limit them, we take away something thats very supportive for this particular time. The Guardian Newspaper games editor Keza Macdonald has a podcast dedicated to parenting and gaming and shes compile a list for parents who may already be gamers but might want to find titles the whole family can play. So in my family i have a 14 year old stepson, 3 year olds and a seven month old baby. Obviously the babys way too young to play games with. I find with kids under five, they dont like levels and goals, they want to play with it like its a toy, and theres lots of really good games, especially on the ipad or an iphone for that age group. Especially anything by toca boca. And sago mini, and they are essentially digital toy boxes. Is a difficult to find games that a family can all play together . It is actually quite hard to find games that appeal to everyone, especially if youve got lots of kids of different ages. I find generally the best thing to do is to split your family up into units. So if youve got some teens, the teens and the adults can play together. So if youve got some teens, the teens and the adults can play together. And if youve got little kids, the little kids can play with each other or the adults and the little kids can play with together. Unfortunately, i dont have any kids that are old enough to play the kind of thing i want to play. So my own gaming time has to happen in the evenings now if i have any energy left at the end of the day. Brilliant that was marc, and youll find the details to all of the games marc mentions pinned to the top of our twitter feeds. Thats it for now, though. You staying in that place next week or are you moving around again . I dont know. Tweet me we could have a vote through the week, you can keep track of all the team on social media on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter . bbcclick. Thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. Bye bye. Hello, it has turned into a predominantly dry sunday across most parts of the uk. That is not the whole story. There have been some really heavy downpours further north in some of those will continue into the evening. The showers, i think, most plentiful across eastern and southern parts of scotland, tending to fade i think from Northern Ireland, but they will continue across eastern parts of england with and lightning lightly. Some showers also getting down into east anglia and further south notice quite a lot of cloud on the chart. Still one or two of those showers linger in close to the east coast, the further north and west you are across the sky will be clearest and where temperatures will be lowest. Parts of scotland and Northern Ireland likely to see a touch of frost. As we going to tomorrow High Pressure will be building in from the north west but at the same time this area of low pressure will be trying to squash in from the south. The isobars show that the wind will be picking up, a brisk easterly wind developing across some of the southern areas and as we go through the day i think you will find a fair amount of cloud across eastern and southern parts of england, the odd shower in eastern england, the odd shower in eastern england, wales and scotland i think well see a decent amount of sunshine throughout the day, temperatures for many around the mid to high teens, but it will be radical where you are exposed to the breeze on some of those naughty close rather cool. Due to get windy during the night and some heavy rain as well, courtesy of this frontal system that this front is not going to make much progress northwards because it is being blocked by this area of High Pressure so blocked by this area of High Pressure so as we go through tuesday i think we will see rain staggering its way north eastwards across southern england, parts of wales, but that they will tend to fizzle all the while, further north quite a lot of sunshine in the forecast, generally a relatively warm day but on the cool side. It does warm up for all of us through the middle pa rt for all of us through the middle part of the week but we see some rain returning towards the north and the west and then for the weekend it will turn dramatically colder for all of the uk. Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has said contingency plans were put in place whilst he was in hospital in case things went badly wrong. In a newspaper interview, the Prime Minister said it had been 50 50 on whether he was put on a ventilator. Meanwhile, the government says its considering different options for how to start taking the uk out of lockdown, including changing working hours. An announcement on some of the plans is expected later in the week. Heres our Political Correspondent jonathan blake