emma glasbey, bbc news. 50 years ago today on a street corner in new york, a phone call was made that changed modern life across the planet the first ever call from a mobile phone. our technology editor zoe kleinman has been talking to the man who made that historic call, back in 1973. mobile phones we love them. the un estimates three quarters of the world s population owns a mobile phone, and there are more mobiles than people in the united kingdom, according to the industry s trade body. this man helped make it all happen. marty cooper was an engineer at motorola. on the 3rd of april, 1973, on a street corner in new york, he made the world s first public mobile phone call. i was on sixth avenue demonstrating this cell phone. i took out my phone book that gives you an idea
coming get me on social media. i am lewis and vaughanjones, this is bbc news. it s been a bit dull and cloudy today to start the 3rd of april, thatis today to start the 3rd of april, that is the legacy left by yesterday s area of low pressure, however, as you move into part two of the weekend, with and overhead it should turn drier and bright for most of us with increasing amounts of sunshine. it will start to feel a bit warmer. as yesterday s low pressure sitting on the new continent, legacy of weather fronts around, quite a lot of cloud and a breeze and noticeable breeze coming in off the north sea. making it feel chilly down the north sea coast. the rain in the west of scotland, northern ireland, should slowly peat out overnight, many places will turn dry, very low cloud, simply spells, western skies could be quite chilly, hold onto the cloud and then 5 7 many of us. the part two of the
next game at everton on the 3rd of april. on the pitch, arsenal s women face an uphill battle if they re to reach the semi finals of the champions league. they lost the first leg of their quarter final tie 1 0, away at bayern munich, lea schuller with the goal. arsenal haven t reached the semi finals of the competition in a decade, and have been knocked out at this stage in each of the last three years. the second leg is next week. on the international stage, it s a big week for the home nations as they get their qualifying campaigns for euro 2024 under way. england start in naples against italy on thursday the team that beat them on penalties in the final of euro 2020. england haven t beaten italy, in italy, for over 60 years. england will then be action again on sunday at wembley, when they face ukraine. i think these are two perfect fixtures for us. you know, these are the kinds of nations that we want to be beating, we have to be beating if we want to win the major trophies. so w
their countries and continents, it s at policies most at home. so good was his first spell, he got the freedom of croydon now south london hopes the man five years off his 80s can steer them to safety. zielinski, bbc news. joe wolinsky. tottenham midfielder pierre emile hojbjerg says his manager antonio conte needs to be more precise, following the italian s outburst on saturday. after tottenham gave up a two goal lead against bottom club southampton, conte called his players selfish and criticised the club s culture. it s now expected that conte will not be in place for tottenham s next game at everton on the 3rd of april. 0n the pitch, arsenal s women face an uphill battle if they re to reach the semi finals of the champions league. they lost the first leg of their quarter final tie 1 0, away at bayern munich, lea schuller with the goal. arsenal haven t reached the semi finals of the competition in a decade, and have been knocked out at this stage in each of the last three ye
peak month for applications and during the five weeks of this strike from the 3rd of april to the 5th of may, you can expect perhaps a million passport applications. as we saw last year when we had all of those queues, even when things are working well, it s not necessarily a smooth process. and what really worries me is that people will decide, oh, i betterapply now worries me is that people will decide, oh, i better apply now even though my passport doesn t expire until the end of the year. the worst thing that can happen is that this is, just the announcement of the strike, and let s hope there is a settlement in the strike doesn t go ahead, but that that could trigger a surge in applications which itself causes a bottleneck. so if you, like me, have an old password, i am off to america this morning, my passport had its tenth birthday last week so is not valid for the eu but it is still valid for a america until november this year. i m not applying but an awful lot of people will ad