we re in korea to visit the country s best known exports. we re in ukraine to meet the hacktivists trying to help win the war. and if you ve ever wondered where the sounds in your phone come from, prepare to be.underwhelmed. he smacks lips low-pitch groan that s your new ringtone right there! you know how it is. you re wandering through a bustling capital city and you fancy a coffee, so you call up an app, select your drink ooh, iced banana latte, don t mind if i do and send the order through so the barista can make it in advance. and the barista s name is beat. hello, beat. well, right now, i m struggling to see the point of him. all he s done is put the cup on to the machine. i m in seoul, south korea, for the first time since the pandemic, and i m looking for signs of this hyper advanced nation s continued push into the future. machine speaks korean ..of which my banana latte is a small sign. see, in 2020, the government at the time introduced a new policy called untac
to improve traffic flows. 1a stretches of carriageway have already been paused or cancelled. you are watching bbc news. now, it s time for click. this week. sit up straight. ..the phones are taking charge, the robots are doing the cooking and the humans are. ..well, just lying around, really. we re in korea to visit the country s best known exports. we re in ukraine to meet the hacktivists trying to help win the war. and if you ve ever wondered where the sounds in your phone come from, prepare to be.underwhelmed. he smacks lips low-pitch groan that s your new ringtone right there! you know how it is. you re wandering through a bustling capital city and you fancy a coffee, so you call up an app, select your drink ooh, iced banana latte, don t mind if i do and send the order through so the barista can make it in advance. and the barista s name is beat. hello, beat. well, right now, i m struggling to see the point of him. all he s done is put the cup on to the machine. i m i
from electric cars and robo taxis to one of the world s biggest floating cranes, capable of lifting 10,000 tonnes. and sk group has a firm grip on telecoms, sg, chips and semiconductors. but all of these names are dwarfed by the country s best known brand, samsung. its h0 is a massive campus in the city of suwon, and it s certainly on a par with those of tech companies that i ve seen elsewhere in terms of scale. ..although not every tech campus i ve been to has a climbing wall. but these days, you do need to give your staff the freedom to work the way they want, and that includes new ways to achieve new heights. c lab stands for creative lab . all the samsung employees can submit their own idea. once they are selected, they are excused from their assigned work and focus only on developing their ideas. many big tech firms have seen the benefit of setting up in house accelerators, and since c lab started in 2012, it s supported over 500 start ups. every year, 30 to a0 project
the father of an aristocrat who s gone missing with her newborn baby and her partner appeals for her to get in touch with the police. shock in new zealand as the prime ministerjacinda ardern unexpectedly stands down she says she doesn t have enough left in the tank. and the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s bafta film awards. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news. levelling up has been one of the government s key policies the idea of spreading public money more evenly across the uk. well, today ministers have announced more than £2 billion worth of projects acoss the country. they say the north of england and wales will do best, per head of population. but labour claim the system for allocating money is unfair. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart blackpool, one area that was a winner in today s levelling up allocation announcement, with £40 million for a new education campus. levelli