and nearly a million people have been affected. water levels in rivers are also running high in bangladesh where about two million people have been hit by the floods. now on bbc news, time for click. this week, we re going to sea to see what the seals can see. really?! yes. and what can they see? an enormous turbine. we re going to find out whether sea life and sea machines can happily coexist. this is a harbour seal, and this is what we re looking for in the data. shiona takes control of this monster. paul gets up close to this beast. oh. - wrong room. and zoe gets attacked by a giant ironman. hello and welcome to another scenic glasgow location. mm hm. behind us is a victorian ship. for a long time, we ve known the power of wind at sea. but we re getting better than ever before at harnessing wind power. yeah. now, the year 2020 won t be fondly remembered for much, i d say. but it was at least a very windy year. apparently in 2020 we produced 50% more wind power than 2019.
now on bbc news, click. this week, we re going to sea to see what the seals can see. really?! yes. and what can they see? an enormous turbine. we re going to find out whether sea life and sea machines can happily coexist. this is a harbour seal, and this is what we re looking for in the data. shiona takes control of this monster. paul gets up close to this beast. 0h. wrong room. and zoe gets attacked by a giant ironman. hello and welcome to another scenic glasgow location. mm hm. behind us is a victorian ship. for a long time, we ve known the power of wind at sea. but we re getting better than ever before at harnessing wind power. yeah. now, the year 2020 won t be fondly remembered for much, i d say. but it was at least a very windy year. apparently in 2020 we produced 50% more wind power than 2019. and one of the best places to have a wind farm is at sea, where there s lots of wind and also lots of space. but how do you look after it? well, paul carter s taken the plunge t
and manchester city win the premier league title byjust one point. the deadline for downing street officials to object to being named in sue gray s report on lockdown parties has passed. the senior civil servant, who has led the investigation, is expected to publish her findings within days. this morning, the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, defended a meeting which took place last month between ms gray and borisjohnson insisting it would not have influenced the outcome of the inquiry. our political correspondent jonathan blake has the latest. borisjohnson, the prime minister whose political fate could rest on the findings of a report by the senior civil servant sue gray. weeks ago, the two held a meeting who called it, what was discussed depends on who you ask. one cabinet minister says the row does not matter sue gray has complete control over her inquiry, and the prime minister would never interfere. i do not know why they had that meeting. all i can say is, i do
working in challenging and hazardous conditions. but here at heriot watt university, they re developing underwater robotic solutions to help take the strain. and they ve come up with this the orca autonomous drone. we ve got our scanning sonar, a mechanical scanning sonar. that can see all of these structures and items around the vehicle at quite a long distance. we ve got an acoustic modem. this means that when we don t use the tether, we can communicate with the robot using sounds underwater. and how does it move around in the water, is it with these propellers that i can see here on either side? there are eight thrusters that are used and it can move it in all six directions. you ve got forward, backwards, left, right, up, down, then you ve got roll, pitch, and turn. oh, wow, so it s pretty manoeuvrable then? yes. all this technology allows the device to work autonomously, planning its own route to fully scan a structure with little human intervention. so, the system tha
temperatures going into tuesday morning. on tuesday, eastern areas see outbreaks of rain pushing south, elsewhere you may see some sunny spells, showers will develop again, a few heavy ones, tending to fade away from the west during the day, brazier on tuesday, windy on wednesday with rain moving east. now, how do you do this thing? it s been a while! hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kevin schofield, political editor of huffpost uk, and john stevens, deputy political editor of the daily mail. they have not forgotten, so we will be all right. tomorrow s front pages, then, starting with the cost of the crisis here. cost of living crisis. a rise in shoplifting due to the cost of living crisis that s according to the metro s front page. the i also leads on cost of living, saying that help is on hold as the prime minister focuses on partygate and the sue gray report. speeding up the approval for gene edited crops