Talks are under way again in brussels with both sides warning theyre unlikely to reach a post Brexit Agreement by tomorrows deadline. The former bank of england governor outlined his concerns about the situation. Undoubtedly, there will be challenges even if an agreement is not reached. Four Royal Navy Patrol ships are being put on standby, to help protect britains fishing waters, in the event of a no deal brexit. World leaders are holding a virtual Climate Summit addressing the summit, borisjohnson laid out his priorities in renewable energy. Were putting our foot to the accelerator in a carbon friendly way, of course, with a ten point plan for a green industrial revolution. The us regulator authorises the Pfizer BiontechCoronavirus Vaccine donald trump says itll be rolled out immediately. In boxing, anthonyjoshua
defends his ibf, wba, and wbo world heavyweight titles against kubrat pulev at wembley arena tonight. Now on bbc news, time for click. This week spluttering safely to a stop. Out of the house and into the gamebox. And what do gaming and protests have in common . Hey, welcome to click hope youre doing 0k. It may be getting cold up here in the Northern Hemisphere but this is the year when were all being encouraged to spend as much time as possible outside
ventilation and all and one person who spends a lot of time outside is lara lewington. Yes, ive been running outside more than ever. I think itjust gives you a sense of freedom and at the moment, some sort of sense of normality although i have been getting very annoyed. This week, people have not been indicating properly the cars are just turning around the corner but i do understand that runners arent actually that popular at the moment. Dont run on the road now, listen, talking of which, a lot more people have been doing this as well lately. In the last year or so, ive e scootered around bits of london, copenhagen, wellington and auckland. Seems like a lifetime ago now. It certainly does. They are legal in many countries but in the uk, you could only ride them on private land untiljuly this year, that was, where a trial to see how rental e scooters could work in uk cities commenced. There are some concerns though one being the safety of the riders and other people, and another being the fact that not every e scooter on the road
is allowed to be there. In a follow up to last years report, omar mehtab has been taking a look at whats being done to tackle these issues. Sirens wail. Well, hey im riding a e scooter around ona road brakes sqeual. Chuckles. Whoa chuckles. Right. That might not seem like a big deal, but it is. And the reason is because up until recently, you couldnt ride e scooters on public roads in the uk. Ok, lets rewind to last year when i first looked at these light e vehicles. Even then, e scooters were taking over cities around the world. Their growth was supercharged by a cheap and easy rental system. Find one, download an app, scan a code and ride away, paying by the minute. But while they have excited consumers, they have proven a major
headache for regulators and the uks position was to put the brakes on their roll out both for rental companies and private ownership. It hasnt stopped people buying and riding them on the road. Now, lets fast forwa rd to may 2020, when the uks transport minister grant shapps announced a years trial of rental e scooters, designed to give people an alternative to Public Transport during the pandemic. This is a big deal, because the uk is finallyjoining the likes of france, germany, most states in the us, australia and many others in allowing e scooters on public roads. We went to Milton Keynes to visit e Scooter Rental Company lime and their warehouse, and ride one of their vehicles. Theyre the first operator allowed to rent them in a town in the uk. Now, this was filmed a couple of months ago and since then, places in the uk such as nottingham, birmingham, manchester have started running these trials,
and london as well is close to having most boroughs running these services in the near future. But there are some caveats. You must ride your rental e scooter on the road not on pavements, just roads. And other light e vehicles such as hover boards or e skateboards, theyre still illegal you cant ride them out in public. And when it comes to your e scooter, it must be a rental, it cant be privately owned. If it is, because it is classed as a motor vehicle, you need things like tax and mot, insurance things you cannot readily get for e scooters at the moment. But not everyone is getting that message. Like other areas around the city, where i live in east london has not yet allowed the rental of e scooters but thats not stopping people from riding their personal ones around. This one even zipped past as we were filming a couple of times. So i asked a couple of riders if they knew. Did you know that these are illegal . Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know they are illegal . Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you still ride it around anyway . They say if you want to use it, you can use it, it is up to you, but you can use this one only on the park. Only on the park, ok. But you used it on the road as well, so yourejust hoping that they dont catch you . Yes, sometime i can use it. Even when i go to brick lane, there is a lot of people then. And the police as well, they dont complain about it. Now, as you heard, someone thought that its still ok to ride one, despite knowing its illegal, just because they saw others do so, too. Is that a good enough reason . No, thats a. Thats a pathetic argument, isnt it . To say i know its illegal but i see other people doing it, therefore im going to do it is a pathetic argument that just, you know, passes the buck to other people. If youre riding this, youre committing the offences, youre putting yourself at risk and youre putting other people at risk. But now, companies are coming up with Innovative Solutions to keep riders safe. E Scooter Rental Company tier
includes a collapsible helmet as standard. So all you do is you take it out, build the thing if i can. But that is not the only innovation that they have come up with. Theyve also got indicators on the handlebars, letting pedestrians as well as cars know when youre turning. Theres even a Wireless Charging slot for your phone. Dog barks. And then theres link e scooters. They have some pretty unique features. Link scooters can check their gps location against maps stored directly on the vehicle and immediately enforce geofences around no go zones, such as pavements or restricted land. And so, this bypasses any phone to cloud lag that you would normally have. So what should happen, thanks to the geofencing here, is that as soon as i get on the pavement, it starts cutting out. You get a beeping. Scooter beeps. There we go, there we go. And its limiting my speed, like, a lot. Its not going, its not going chuckles. Now, it did take a second or two to power off, but that is because i dont want to suddenly stop and launch over the handlebars. But thats not the only thing. The scooter is also able to self diagnose, so what its doing is its constantly asking itself, am i working all right . Are my components all working absolutely fine . Are any of them about to fail . So in theory, what should happen when i put this scooter on its side. It comes up as a notification on that interface there. And it does hasnt stopped but its features did not always work perfectly. This is. This is not working again. It has cut out again. Now, to be fair, the e scooter needs to ride in the geofenced area quite a few times to increase its accuracy, and it did improve over time. It has cut out. I cant ride it any more and there is another company that allows automatic braking of their e scooters. Voi has integrated an ai Computer Vision system. Developed by luna, an array of cameras and sensors allows scooters to detect hazards in its path, even if the rider does not see them, and by accounting pedestrians, the system can even detect where the scooter is being ridden. So it looks Like Companies are quickly innovating to try and combat any objections. And with the uks transport committee of mps pushing for legislation, it doesnt seem like a question of if they will be legalised, but when. So what does the uk have to look forward to . Lets hear from a city where theyve been legal and hugely popularfor a while. My suggestion would be do as Much Community led engagement and safety sort of launches around how to safely ride a scooter, how to ethically ride a scooter. Its nice to be able to convey to somebody how many miles have been ridden,
how many trips have been taken to really demonstrate to people what how important this is and how its offsetting trips from their commute. I dont see an end to it anytime soon. The popularity of it is too great for us to not to lean into it and find a way to make it safer over time. So whether you like it or not, it looks like e scooters are probably going to become an integral part of future urban transport. And there are loads of benefits for riders in the cities. But questions about infrastructure and about regulations still need to be answered. And so, the work needs to be done now to make them as well integrated and as safe as possible. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that uber sold off its self driving car division and its flying taxi arm elevate. Weve barely got 5g but now, nokia has been named leader of europes project to develop 6g. And japan is turning to ai matchmaking to boost its record low birthrate, investing 2 billion yen thats around 90 million. In other a news, nvidia has found a way to train models with 10 20 times fewer images than usual. The advanced Neural Network approach has been used to generate artwork in the style of famous painters. It also created images of cancer tissue, starting with under 1,500 images. A robot kitchen could now make you dinner and then wash up as long as you have nearly £250,000 spare. This chefs algorithms are trained on human movements to allow it to retrieve ingredients, work at the hob, pour, mix and, of course, plate up. And finally, mit has created
a shape shifting basketball hoop that makes shots harder the better you get. This tightens and raises upward when players get consistent baskets, thanks to sensors that track the balls movements. Its makers say it could help players who cant afford coaches. Now, thats a slam dunk for science for the first time in months, im making a video outside of my house so ive gone straight into a darkened room to play games in front of a computer screen back in 2016, i went to a tech show in paris where i tried out a Virtual Reality gaming booth that worked with projectors instead of a headset. And four years later, this mightjust be an idea whose time has come. This is the electric gamebox. Its sort of like a cross between an escape room and Virtual Reality. But instead of the headset, ijust need to wear a visor with this tree of tracking dots on, and those let the cameras and computer know where in the room i am. There are eight rooms at this venue with four projectors in each, providing 360 degrees of visuals. The walls are touch sensitive and, of course, there are motion tracking cameras. In this game, im being tested by aliens to see how intelligent i am, and ive got to control this character and collect as many coins as i can, moving him around with my body. 0h no, this way the business was co founded by will dean, who is also behind the tough mudder endurance events. This years have had to be postponed due to the pandemic, but electric gamebox has been able to reopen two of its venues. At the moment, you can only play with your household or bubble, but groups are separated from one another and the equipment is all easily cleaned after use. The question is after months of zoom quizzes and video calls, will people want this type of screen time . Well, we believe that what were
doing here is making screen time social again. I went and did an immersive vr experience, and i went with a friend of mine, and when we finished i realised i really hadnt been with my friend at all. The trouble with vr is its almost too immersive. Here, the fundamental ethos and mission of the business is bringing people together through the value of shared play. Some people have compared this to an escape room. Obviously, in an escape room, theres a lot more physical props. Wont people find that more immersive . Well, an escape room is a static adventure. Its once and done. Here, in some ways, were a bit more like a movie theatre or a cinema. You can come back, you can play different content each time and, as such, we believe we have far more potential because people keep coming back time and time again. Theres also the potential to beat your old score, and we see a lot of people coming back to do that. As well as providing a pandemic proof activity for families to do, venues like this could help breathe new life into the high street, which has seen big brands fall into administration or even close this year. While shops are struggling, there is a growing appetite for experiences. Electric gamebox is about to open its first venue in the United States and its manchester venue will reopen once restrictions there are relaxed. Now, hong kong has seen a year of pro democracy demonstrations after china passed a Controversial National security law, which reduced hong kongs autonomy and made it easier to punish demonstrators. Just this week, three prominent activists were sentenced to jail for their involvement in protests last year. In fact, one of the activists joshua wong featured on click, talking about how internet freedoms were being threatened by the newly imposed law. Danny vincent has been keeping us posted with the protests from inside hong kong. And this week, hes been meeting some protesters who have been
explaining that the strategies that they use actually come from Multiplayer Online games. In a gaming room somewhere in hong kong, a team of young protesters dressed in black bloc have agreed to meet. They are what is known as frontliners. Last year, they were active in the citys Anti Government protest movement. They took to the streets in their thousands. In hong kong, activism is unconventional. Protests are fast moving and leaderless. To some, the tactics, the collaboration, resemble Multiplayer Online gaming. Translation the hong kong protest evolution was just so quick. It was quicker than any protest movement you could have seen before. We learned a lot from the games, and also from real life in hong kong. Hong kong has one of the most innovative protest movements in the world. But many of the young people on the front lines say that many of the strategies and ideas, they come from computer games. Translation this game is called league of legends and its liked by lots of the younger generation. I personally think, since it has a map and objectives, its like during a protest. In hong kong, more than one third of High School Students play three hours of online games a day. 10 of primary School Students are said to suffer from gaming addiction. For some, gaming is a way of life. But real world divisions have also played out in the Virtual World. Last year, hong kong gamers dressed as protesters in grand theft auto v and started a mass violent campaign. They were met with mainland chinese players dressed as riot police. Bella is a former protester. She agreed to speak to us under the conditions of anonymity. Translation there are some correlations between playing games and the actual protests. For example, you can learn a lot of strategies from playing. During the protests, you are like the protagonists inside the games, fighting against rivals, trying to run to escape. Its quite the same. Protesters, she says, learn from their mistakes, like in games, and adapt. Some scenarios in the games, like standing up against rivals, are similar to protesters standing up against the police. But you also learn from failed missions and look at what worked and apply it to the next protest. Since the introduction of a new National Security law, hong kong has seen fewer organised mass demonstrations. There have been more than 10,000 protest related arrests since last year. More than 1,000 are under 18. Translation what is the difference between reality and the Virtual World . Well, in reality, when you fail, you cant restart and complete again. You might get injured in a protest or put injail, or even killed. The consequences in real life are more serious. You would need to face the consequences as a team, notjust on your own. Its not like in a game, where you can replay after youve failed, you can try unlimited times. In reality, you just have one chance. That was jeff talking to Danny Vincent in hong kong. Right, before our next story, lara, i would like you to have a guess at what these three things have in common. You ready . Im ready. Fire away. Ok cyberspace, flying cars and dreaming sheep. Well, it sounds Like Research for this show but im guessing its not going to be, so enlighten me. Chuckles. But im guessing its not going to be, so enlighten me. No, they are all mainstays of or inspirations for the sci fi genre known as cyberpunk. 0h, 0k love a bit of cyberpunk yes
now, one of the biggest video games of this year is cyberpunk 2077. And marc cieslak has been chatting to the brains behind the game. So lets find out if any of those things turn up in his film. A giant megalopolis to explore. Cybernetic enhancements. Futuristic hacking skills. And, to top it all, keanu reeves as a rock star who lives inside your head. Maybe well fit together after all. Welcome to one of the most anticipated video games of the year cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk for me, as a sci fi genre, has always had something of an 80s vibe about it. Instead of adventures taking place in outer space, cyberpunk is concerned with urban sprawls and cyberspace, dark futures blighted by environmental collapse and Technology Run rampant. Is any of this starting to sound familiar . Lets put it this way the cars dont fly. Thats about it. Um, ok, lets see. Weve got a plague, weve had some nuclear accidents, weve had some wars. Weve had a lot of really amazing hacking exploits going on. Governments fold before corporations. Weve had corporations rise, fall, gut countries and then move on. I personally know somebody who hires mercenaries for corporations in foreign countries. You know, all of this stuff, its all there. Um, so, you know, if youre about living in a cyberpunk future, i suggest you look at the news. The cyberpunk game has its roots in pen and paper rather than pixels. Created in 1988 by mike pondsmith, it started life as a tabletop role playing game. Pondsmith had a background in video games and managed to filter the films and books of the time into a successful role playing franchise. And in doing so, he managed to predict much of the world we live in today. Its just amazing whats out there. The problem becomes we dont know how to vet it, we dont know how
to tell whats going to be true. For example, i wrote a variation of cyberpunk called cyberpunk v3. 0, where its primarily message is about what happens when you have an information collapse and people are able to pick their own information to build realities. So we have whats called culture cough, where people are fighting over my realitys better than your reality, and heres what really happened back in 1962 or something. Well, were there. Were looking at it right now. Worldwide, people are rewriting realities and theres nothing out there to really balance that out, and so people are going to have to become a lot smarter. Pondsmiths table top fiction has been digitally realised by polish Developers Cd Projekt red the team behind the hugely successful witcher video game series. Cd projekt red are responsible for, of all the things in the past ten years, the witcher 3 wild hunt, which is one of the most exciting, sprawling, huge rpgs that we have seen,
and people absolutely love it. When the pandemic hit, the developers carried on, completing their work from home. The game has been plagued by reports of crunch in its later stages, though, with Developers Working a six day week in an effort to get the title completed on time for release. And even though work continued on the game, its release has been delayed several times. These delays have sparked anger on social media. In extreme cases, it led to threats being levelled at the development team. We try not to take in too much of the negative comments when they arrive. And, of course, there are also situations which never can be really accepted, like some kind of threats and situations like those, which also happened, unfortunately. So, has all of that effort on the part of the developers been worth it . Well, on first impressions, night city certainly is a good looking mash up of every cyberpunk visual trope. Rain, neon and intricately details
urban squalor theyre all here. Like the setting, missions draw on the history of the cyberpunk genre. Tech heists abound. Combat can be approached different ways via stealth and using technology, or the player can choose a more direct let the boomstick do the talking approach, or a combination of all of these things. Cybernetic upgrades enhance the players body, improving your chance of survival in night city. Something else which is less fun are the bugs, which is not really surprising, considering the size and detail of the world and the effect of the pandemic on Developers Working from home. Patches will no doubt follow, but more worrying are reports of flashing lights at particular sections of the game, inducing an epileptic seizure in one reviewer. The Games Developers have responded by saying theyll add an additional splash screen, warning about potential triggers. And theyve created an alternate visual effect, replacing the one which has caused this problem and will change it via an update. So far, cyberpunk 2077 is an ambitious and good looking example of an open world fps,
but its not without its problems. That was marc in full cyberpunk mode, and that is it for this week. As ever, you can find the team on social media throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook, and twitter at bbcclick. Thanks for watching and we will see you soon. Bye bye. Hello. Where youve seen some rain today youre likely to end drier, clearer overnight. Where youve seen some sunshine this afternoon, youve some rain heading
in as the night goes on. Itll be very wet across eastern parts of scotland, especially towards aberdeenshire. That rain turning lighter and more patchy as we get into the evening and night. But here is the next weather system coming our way which will bring another spell of rain for all of us as we go through sunday. But this is how things are looking to the evening and into the night. Still some cloudy rain the further east you are. A lot of this will clear but will stay with us into parts of north east scotland. But for many of us it will be dry, clearer, theyll be a patchy frost around, theyll be a few fog patches developing. But later in the night, temperatures are going to be up again across northern ireland, wales and South West England as we see the next spell of rain moving in and with the freshening wind as well. And that is going to spread its way north and east across the uk as we go on through sunday. So we will all see some rain at some stage of the day. Some heavier bursts in it as well. Looks Like Northern ireland will gradually brighten up into the afternoon, therell be further heavy showers following on behind here as well. And it is going to be a windier day for all of us. These are average speeds, well get some gusts around a0 miles
an hour or so and on exposed coasts, closer to 50 miles per hour. Still feeling on the chilly side for much of scotland and north east england as the rain moves in. Look how much milder it is turning though, for some of us to the west as temperatures get to around 12, 13, perhaps 1a celsius. Through sunday evening there will be further heavy showers following the rain as we go on through the night and into monday. It stays blustery with low pressure close by, the isobars close together on this chart so monday will be another windy day. If anything it looks windier across the Northern Isles and there will be some sunshine on monday, but there will be a few heavy showers following in. Some of those showers will be quite heavy towards the north and west in particular but i think all parts have a chance of seeing some showers spreading eastwards as we go on through the day and on these blustery winds. But even where temperatures have been in single figures over the weekend, many of us will be leaping back into double figures, offset by the strength of wind and the chance of finding yourself getting caught in a heavy passing shower. Looks like the wetter days in the week ahead will be wednesday and friday and this is where we will see the windiest weather as well. But throughout the week it looks as if temperatures will stay
on the mild side of average. Bye bye. This is bbc news, the headlines at apm. Talks continue in brussels with both sides warning theyre unlikely to reach a post Brexit Agreement by tomorrows deadline. The former bank of england governor expressed his concerns. Undoubtedly, there will be challenges if an agreement is not reached. Four Royal Navy Patrol ships are being put on standby, to help protect britains fishing waters, in the event of a no deal brexit. World leaders are holding a virtual Climate Summit addressing the summit, borisjohnson laid out his priorities in renewable energy. We are putting our foot to the accelerator, in a carbon friendly way of course, with a ten point plan for a green industrial revolution. The us regulator
authorises the Pfizer Biontech