cooks in the kitchen. good morning. the sport. jordan spieth leads the open championship. he's two shots clear of the field, after mastering all the british summer had to throw at him, at royal birkdale. and prince george at four. a new official portrait is released to mark his birthday. and we have the weekend weather. good morning. looking like a sunshine and showers weekend for most of us. sunday looks like the better of the two. all of the details in about 15 minutes. we will see you then. thank you. first, our main story. almost 1,000 children are being forced into temporary accommodation every month because more families are becoming homeless, according to councils in england. the local government association says the number has increased by a third in three years. it wants more powers to build what are described as genuinely affordable homes. 0ur social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan, reports. councils say more than 900 children are what they describe homeless each month. in total, they say more than 120,000 children and families are in temporary accommodation. that has increased one third since 2014. councils in the south—east and major cities are dealing with the largest numbers. though other places have significant problems. the councils say they need more affordable homes built. they need investment in new housing development. councils need the power to intervene more in the home market. we need more affordable housing built in the right place to provide decent affordable housing. we need to intervene earlier as well. rather than waiting for people to become homeless, we need to stop them becoming homeless in the first place. ministers say they are spending £550 million attacking homelessness. a new bill passed earlier this year will prevent families from losing homes in the first place. michael buchanan, bbc news. later we'll be talking to a couple currently living in temporary accommodation with their children, about the effect it has had on family life. that's at 7:20. drone owners will have to complete a safety awareness course under plans announced by the government. the unmanned aircraft will also have to be registered, amid growing concern about the dangers they pose to aircraft. earlier this month, five flights were diverted from gatwick airport because a drone was flown too close to the runway. our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, reports. they have quickly become a very popular gadget, mostly used to take great aerial pictures. but as the use of drones has grown, so have concerns about the dangers. professional users already have to pass proficiency test. now, the government wants to bring in wider regulation. any drone weighing more than 250 g needs to be registered and the owner needs to complete a safety awareness test. and it will be expanded that they will not be able to go near prisons and airports. people flying safely have nothing to worry about. research by the union found a drone weighing 400 9 the union found a drone weighing 400 g could damage a helicopter windscreen. though it would take a two kilograms drone to harm an aeroplane at high speeds.“ two kilograms drone to harm an aeroplane at high speeds. if there isa aeroplane at high speeds. if there is a collision between a drone and a manned aircraft, plane or a helicopter, it could be catastrophic. we have to do something now to make sure that does not happen. there are plenty of commercial uses for drones. amazon is testing them for parcel delivery. the government says it is keen to promote exciting technology while making sure it is used responsibly. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. boots the chemist has apologised for its response to a row about the cost it charges for the morning—after—pill. the chain initially rejected calls to reduce the price, saying it didn't want to encourage the misuse of emergency contraception, but after criticism from a string of labour mps, it now says it's "truly sorry." 0ur reporter, tom burridge, is outside one of their flagship stores in london. tom, this is a bit of a u—turn, isn't it? the story is quite complicated. will they reduce the price after saying sorry? yes. good morning. the advisory service provider abortions in the uk, calling on boots to reduce the price of the morning after pill. the cheapest at present is more than £26 at boots. at tesco you can get a version of it for around £13, half the price. 0n version of it for around £13, half the price. on thursday, boots said they would not reduce the prices and said the reason was because they did not want to, in their words, incentivised inappropriate use of the morning after pill. that statement prompted more than 30 female labour mp is the write to the company, accusing boots of treating women like children, and of basically encouraging people to basically encouraging people to basically take a moral position on an issue of choice, whether to take it or not. and then, basically, last night, we had a complete reversal of the position from boots, with the company saying it is truly sorry for their position which has caused offence and misunderstanding. as you say, boots is now looking at providing cheaper alternatives, cheaper versions of the morning after pill, at their stores in future. thank you very much for explaining that. will talk to you again later in the programme. —— we will. the outgoing white house press secretary sean spicer has told a us television network that he resigned because he feared there would be "too many cooks in the kitchen" if he remained in hisjob. the american media reported he decided to quit because he was unhappy about president trump appointing the wall street financier, anthony scaramucci, as his new director of communications. financier, anthony scaramucci, as his new director of communications. 0ur washington correspondent, laura bicker, reports. it is all change at the white house. sean spicer is saying farewell. for six months and one day, he has been defender in chief for the tortuous the west wing. he says he is stepping down to give the newly appointed communications director a fresh start. the president obviously wa nted fresh start. the president obviously wanted to add to the team more than anything. ijust wanted to add to the team more than anything. i just felt wanted to add to the team more than anything. ijust felt it wanted to add to the team more than anything. i just felt it was wanted to add to the team more than anything. ijust felt it was in the best interests of the department, the press organisation, do not have too many cooks in the kitchen. sean spicer had controversy from his first briefing, just after the inauguration of donald trump. heber rated reporters who said the crowd size was smaller than farmers. —— he berated. this is the largest around the globe. he left to give this man a clean slate to work with. wall street financier, anthony scaramucci, a different style with the press. 0utspoken and slick, fiercely loyal to the president. the president is fantastic. the world turns to him. he is genuinely a wonderful human being. 0nce members of congress get to know him better and get comfortable with him, he will lead them to the right things for the american people. this young administration is desperate to break free from the swirl of controversy over russia helping donald trump win the white house. a new face may help, but that will still still need to be dealt with. laura bicker, bbc news, washington. britain's got talentjudges have paid tribute to the dog, pudsey, after his death was announced yesterday by his owner, ashleigh butler. they won the contest in 2012 with their dance routine to the mission impossible theme. ashleigh described pudsey as a "beautiful boy" who had changed her life. sir chris hoy has warned british cycling they risk losing over £40 million in public funding, unless they vote in favour of reforms at a special meeting today. the six—time olympic champion has written a letter to all the regional chairmen and women, urging them to back changes to the way the organisation is run. mike bushell has more. british cycling is one of the country's best funded and most successful sports governing bodies. it was the driving force behind the unprecedented success in the olympic and paralympic game is. but its continued funding hinges on the new governance code. from november, boards of governing bodies must be more independent and diverse. the reforms need to receive at least 75% of the vote to go through today. jess varnish made her accusations about jane sutton more than a year ago. 0nly about jane sutton more than a year ago. only one of the nine accusations against him was upheld. in his letter, sir chris hoy warns that if the reforms are rejected and funding is then cut, future generations will not get the opportunities for medals that he had. but peterkin has said he expects the proposals to be rejected. —— peter king. he believes there is opposition among the members who feel the proposed changes are too severe and are being rushed through and members are losing control. mike bushell, bbc news. an official photograph has been unveiled to mark prince george's fourth birthday. the young prince has just returned to the uk, along with his parents the duke and duchess of cambridge and sister princess charlotte, from an official visit to poland and germany. 0ur royal correspondent, peter hunt, reports. beaming george at four, a prince poised to start school soon. a happy little boy, according to the photographer who took his official portrait. once more. he let loose on a violin. hamburg's young being encouraged to take up music almost something kate did in her youth. 0ne day, william will be centre stage. not this day, which was left to his wife to take up the baton he declined. for a helicopter mad young prince, a pre—birthday treat, being shown around one like the one his dad uses as an air ambulance pilot. this is the sort of moment when being on public display has its drawbacks. a princess not overly keen on being filmed. peter hunt, bbc news. mo farrah may be one of our most decorated 0lympians but now a graphic designerfrom swindon claims to have broken one of his world records. sir mo set the record for the 100—metre sack race in 2014 with a time of 39.91 seconds. but yesterday, dad of two stephen wildish took on the challenge and hopped over the line in just over 28 seconds. he's now waiting for his time to be officially verified in order to claim his new world record. yeah, you get an idea of the technique. clearly he is 1—handed and holding it with one hand and has and holding it with one hand and has a lot of arm waving. that is for balance. i have never done one of those races. the papers. the times. a story to do with politics. jeremy corbyn. hard left labour supporters plotting to dispose of the deputy leader. that is tom watson. the main picture is dick van dyke, who has apologised all these years later for the 1964 musical, mary poppins, in which he had, by all accounts and his own admission, an atrocious mockney cockney accent. but the film would not be the film without it. commuter trains. many people understand this story. the first—class department will disappearfor first—class department will disappear for crowded train. chris grayling, the transport secretary, has pledged that, saying he understands how passengers can be miffed because they are forced to stand in crowded carriages when the first—class carriages are empty. he has committed to scrapping them. the picture is prince george on his fourth birthday. not all of my newspaper contributions this morning will be about dick van dyke. but here is the full quote from him about the film. announcing the confirmation of a britannia award of excellence from bafta. i am sorry for inflicting the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema. how will we move on? the daily mail looking at labour in the boots boycott furore, which we were talking about with tom burridge. it has made a u—turn and reduced the price of the morning after pill. it had said it was trying to discourage the use of it by pricing at higher than some of its rivals. a royal birthday. george is four yea rs a royal birthday. george is four years old. are you a little bit confused by that headline? the owner of pudsey has got a new dog. u nfortu nately, of pudsey has got a new dog. unfortunately, pudsey had died. the new dog has been renamed pudsey. you with me? sorry, it took a little while to explain that having lost pets, however people cope. it's very sad. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. the main stories this morning: here's stav with a look at this morning's weather. it was brutal at some points yesterday? really wet, windy. trees down as well. i have had to put the rainbow picture in because this weekend, low pressure is fairly nearby. it will be a feeling area of low pressure so the winds will continue to fall light which is good news for the south—west. here it is again. isaid, news for the south—west. here it is again. i said, is news for the south—west. here it is again. isaid, is pretty news for the south—west. here it is again. i said, is pretty influential to our weather. there is a weather front across southern scotland which has been bringing lots of rain. it will continue to move northwards and become more confined to central southern scotland and northern england. the north of scotland and into northern ireland, a fine start. there will be some sunshine around but a bit of a great start from southern scotland and northern england. parts of north—west england and the midlands, you will start off with a mist and fault and low cloud and then it will lift for some sunshine. —— fog. there will be showers moving in and some of these will be widespread and heavy through the afternoon as they spread north and east. there will be getting into much of england and wales but they will be quite heavy across this south—western quadrant and some of them will be quite heavy as well. some torrential downpours. northern ireland, nice and warm, 20 degrees, maybe 21. for the golf. there could bea maybe 21. for the golf. there could be a few showers on saturday, today, obviously. and then tomorrow, it could be cloudy but potentially dry. the weather isn't that great for the tournament through the weekend. through the overnight period, showers fizzle out for most and becoming more confined to northern england and scotland. it will turn quite chilly with fog patches. sunday is looking like a better day of the two. there will be some showers developing again. the odd heavy, thundery one. it will feel warmer across—the—board, temperatures in the low 20s celsius in the south and maybe across parts of southern scotland. average of high pressure then builds in. —— and then high pressure builds in. now it's time for the film review with mark kermode and jane hill. hello and welcome to the film review and to take us through the cinema releases as ever, mark kermode. what have you been watching? a big week. we have dunkirk, about which everyone is talking. we have city of ghosts, a very harrowing documentary. and we have captain underpants, which is very funny. everyone is talking about dunkirk. the scale and ambition of this is remarkable. it is and also the ambition of the release. it is the story of dunkirk told by christopher nolan and it is the story of the evacuation told through three intertwining strands that loosely follow land, sea and air. but although the story itself is fairly straightforward, it is told over three different timescales, one of the stories lasts one day, and one last one hour and these strands... if you know anything about christopher nolan, you would know that he likes to play with time. that to play with time. temporal elasticity. the brilliant thing about this is that he does in a way that is very clear, you understand what is happening even though it is a complex structure. it is shot on large format film and you have seen from the images, they are astonishing, great big cameras, plaudits to the cinematographer, carrying around these bulky cameras and doing really extraordinary work with them. the film is available in numerous different formats and depending on where you go to see it, you can see it in digital, 70... the picture will be different and look different. the advice i would give is that make sure you see it in the cinema that you know does the best possible presentation and sound. sound is very important, it plays a huge part in this. it has an extraordinary score. christopher nolan talked about this being a movie about tension, it is not to do with explicitly what you see, it is about the build—up and the score is like a rising tide and it thrills all the way through the film. i think the most impressive thing, you know i am huge fan of christopher nolan, the most impressive thing is that for a film on this scale, it is actually, the thing you take away from it, the smaller images, the image of a man walking hopelessly into the sea, the image of kenneth branagh‘s face looking over a lost horizon, those are very impressive pieces of work and it is great to see someone making a blockbuster movie that imagines that the audience are smart enough to keep up with this complex structure. christopher nolan's whole thing has been that the audience are clever than anyone imagines. that is really refreshing. look how well he does. why be michael bay when you can be christopher nolan? ijust don't get it. it is what everyone will be watching. stories of the terror of dunkirk and stories of heroism and there are stories as well in your next choice of some very brave individuals and i have to be honest, the more i read about this, another one i am not sure i quite have the stomach for, but it is important work. it is a documentary and it is the harrowing account of isis' brutality as seen through the eyes of a citizens' journalist collective in syria. they formed a collective and they decided that what they would do was document what was going on, to let the world know and they did that at great personal cost. here is a clip. the thing that i think the film does really well is that it pays greater tribute to the bravery of these people in doing this citizen journalism reporting and it contains horrifying images. there are several occasions while i was watching where i had to look away. the bravery of it is that the people who were doing this, they did not look away, they saw it as their responsibility to document this. as you quite rightly say, it is a documentary that takes on very, very difficult subject matter and i think is really important, but it is absolutely necessary to say that there are things in this documentary, quite rightly, that are very harrowing, but it is a real tribute to the bravery, that they were trying to get the message out all the time, even though their own lives are under threat. many of them now live in germany. even there of course, there is the sense that they are never completely safe. we approach the summer holidays and we move to entirely different matters and perhaps for a younger age group? is there something for adults? i'm 54 and i love captain underpants. this is based on the much—loved books. if you're familiar with the books, and i am, i was worried that someone would make a movie but now they have. kids accidentally turn their headmaster into captain underpants with the help of hypnotising ring from the cereal packet. here is a clip. what's this? it's the paperwork to separate you two! it's really incredible. i can actually see the end of your friendship. george, do something. put the pen down or we will hypnotise you! what's happening? when i snap my fingers you will obey our every command! you're now be amazing captain underpants! we've got to stop them. why? you laughed all the way through that. you're still laughing. i started laughing at the beginning of this movie and i did not stop. the more it went on, the funnier it became. i was sitting with critics who were enjoying it but they tend to be well—behaved, but i was laughing like a hyena. it is really funny and how great that we have a family movie out that you can take young kids to see and you will enjoy it every bit as as them. captain underpants is a real standout delight. that's one day at least that's sorted. it is lovely, when there are not the best kids films around to see. it is very hard to find something that you think will work both for the young audience and also for an older audience. i would quite happily go and see this again tomorrow. i laughed all the way through it and you know what a fan i am of the minions. this made me laugh more. funnier than the minions and that is really saying something. that is all we need to hear. what is best out? i have gone back to baby driver, it is still in cinemas and i love it. edgar wright has managed to cross a car chase movie with a romantic musical and make this film which is funny and sharp and smart and as a piece of cinema, i think it is really great and i want people to see it in the cinema. it will come out on home video, but it is one of those things. you've been to see it? i am going to see it. ok, you have to go. i am going to see this. you need to see it in a cinema. that's your summer homework. i did not do well on homework last week. what is the dvd? as i said last week, you need to see the levelling. get out is out, it is a great horror thriller. jordan peel is one of the voices in captain underpants and he wrote and directed this movie. he comes from a comedy background. what this does is, it is kind of inspired by the books of ira levin, who wrote the stepford wives, and tells a about white middle—class liberal america and it is more of a psychological thriller than a horror movie, although there are moments of horror in it. it is sharp and satirical and really well played and what i loved about it, it was one of those films, you couldn't quite see where it was going. it has great performances, it is very bright and i didn't know much about it when i went in and i was really surprised and i love the books anyway, it is not directly adapted from the books, but it is a really fine piece of work, but try not to read too much about it before you see the film. thank you very much. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye. i have made a list of my homework. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode — including mark's top ten films of the year so far. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. hello. this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. coming up before 7am: stav has the weather. but first, a summary of this morning's main news. a big rise in the number of children declared homeless. councils in england say nearly a thousand each month are being forced into temporary accommodation. the government says it's taking action to tackle the problem. people who fly drones will have to pass safety courses and register their devices following concerns over the danger they pose to aircraft. earlier this month, five flights were diverted from gatwick because of them. boots the chemist has apologised for its response to a row about the cost it charges for the morning—after—pill. the chain initially rejected calls to reduce the price, saying it didn't want to encourage the misuse of emergency contraception, but after criticism from a string of labour mps, it now says it's "truly sorry." it's also said it's looking for cheaper alternatives. white house spokesman, sean spicer, explains why he's stepping down from the job afterjust six months. he said there were too many cooks in the kitchen. us media said he was unhappy about the new director of communications. mr spicer said he didn't want to be in the way. an official photograph has been unveiled to mark prince george's fourth birthday. the young prince has just returned to the uk, along with his parents the duke and duchess of cambridge and sister princess charlotte, from an official visit to poland and germany. he was mary poppins's lovable chimney sweep with a rather dodgy cockney twang. now dick van dyke has apologised for his accent, calling it "atrocious." the 91—year—old american actor made the comments after he was chosen by bafta to receive the britannia award for excellence in television. the star has long been derided for his attempt at an east end accent, but this is the first time he has publicly apologised for his efforts. i don't think he needs to apologise. that made the film personally. i should try... no, it will be atrocious. that clip we had was not the worst of it. he had mastered during the songs. it was not as good out of them. that was part of the charm, though. still going strong. the open, the golf. who would bet againstjordan spieth? playing in winds of 35 miles per hour! have you ever played in that? yes. into the breeze, swing with ease. you have to be calm. don't get flustered. and so it's the american, jordan spieth, who heads the field at the halfway stage of the open championship. he negotiated some foul conditions at royal birkdale yesterday afternoon. the two—time major winner, lies on six under par, two shots ahead of his nearest rival, despite playing in the worst of the conditions. ian poulter is the best placed brit. he's three shots off the lead, after a consistent round yesterday. and after rory mcilroy feared he might miss the cut in the first round, he's bounced back, into a tie for seventh place on one under par. anything around even par, conditions will bring a good score. i got off to the best possible start. i made some birdies early on. i needed some big up and downs. it will be great to tee off late and have a lie—down in the morning, look at the pin locations, see how other players are playing certain holes. how the course should be played. i just want a nice weekend without too much rain. fat chance. the american leads after two rounds from his compatriot matt kuchar who's two back. ian poulter is the best—placed british player on three under par, with rory mcilroy‘s 68 putting him back in contention. defending champion, henrik stenson, lies at two over par. his preparations for the second round were less than ideal, after the house that he's staying in, was burgled on thursday. clothes, personal effects and jewellery were stolen but stenson refused to blame that, for a poor round yesterday. not too much on, you know, the effect of today's round, i would say, but being with the police rather than staying where you want to do, it was a difficult evening, ifi to do, it was a difficult evening, if i could put it that way. kadeena cox won britain's 14th gold at the world para athletics championships last night, winning the t38 400m. cox, who holds the world record in the event, beat the rest of the field by six seconds for her second medal of the championships. she'll run again today in the t38100m. cox won gold, silver and bronze on the track in rio last year and another gold in cycling. i was confident for 300 metres. it is massive. it was good. i did not know if i had the strength. i have not been on the bike. ijust needed to give myself a gap to have a bit ofa to give myself a gap to have a bit of a buffer. usain bolt was victorious in his final race before his swansong at the world athletics championships in london next month. competing in the monaco diamond league, bolt produced a season's best, running under ten seconds for the first time this year. britain's cj ujah finished fourth. and there was a great run from laura muir in the women's 3,000 metres. smashing her personal best by eight seconds as she finished third, a place ahead of her fellow scot eilish mccolgan who also set a new pb. 12 seconds faster than her previous best. chris froome is just two stages away from a fourth tour de france title. he finished in the bunch on stage 19 yesterday as norway's edvan bosen—hagen took the win. froome has a 23—second lead to protect going into today's time trial in marseille this afternoon. if he emerges unscathed, he'll be crowned champion on the champs elysses tomorrow. tom daley is through to the men's ten metre platform final at the world aquatics championships in hungary daley, who won bronze in this event in london, qualified in second place for this afternoon's showpiece. compatriot, matty lee, is also through. i think this year it has been all about enjoying it. last year was such a serious year with it in the 0lympic year. i just wanted the such a serious year with it in the 0lympic year. ijust wanted the best shot i could have. i wanted to have fun with it. wigan completed their regular super league season with a crushing 34—0 victory over leeds wigan had already qualified for the super eights, but ran in seven tries against an injury hit rhinos. there were wins elsewhere for leigh and hull fc, who move up to third. now on a weekend, when england and scotland's women play their second matches at euro 2017, are the stars of tomorrow, completely in the dark about their potential ? if you're too embarrassed or self conscious to take up football, would you be more encouraged to, if no—one could see you. that's the thinking behind a new league, which has taken off around the uk. i've been to join stoke city's women to find out more. we are all dressed up with facepaint on. some more than others, admittedly. we are ready for kick off. it seems like an ordinary game at the moment. all of that changes with the flick of a switch. it all started with glow badminton and squash, then football a few years ago in stoke. it has spread to the north and other parts of the country as well it is three factors, playing with your friend, the as well it is three factors, playing with yourfriend, the music is playing. it is great. no one cares about how you look, everyone looks the same. it is great for teenage girls. there is now a weekly uv league run by the stoke city community trust, backed by the fa. it is like ping—pong at times. sometimes you arejust it is like ping—pong at times. sometimes you are just looking for an orange shirt. it is part of a wider push, looking to start leagues at many clubs to reach girls who would otherwise not get into it, like this girl. you are in the dark so like this girl. you are in the dark so you like this girl. you are in the dark so you can see like this girl. you are in the dark so you can see anyone. if you are embarrassed or anything, it doesn't matter. no one can really see you. is that what helps you get into it? yeah. girls can show themselves. the game is finely poised, level. the opposition are making a substitution. and what a substitution. and what a substitution it was! tackled. that super sub made all the difference. it is no surprise. 93 caps for england. yourfirst it is no surprise. 93 caps for england. your first experience with glow football. it was so much fun. it is great to show girls and boys who don't have confidence you can do it. you don't know who is there. it was good. i managed to score an own goal. but it could have been anyone. it certainly makes for some interesting team photos. that is scary. did you make your make up up? i had some steel on my ears and! make up up? i had some steel on my ears and i didn't realise until the gas attendant said why have you got blue ears? —— still. they're vital modern—day tools used for search and rescue operations and crop surveillance but drones also have the potential to be dangerous. last year, there were 70 near misses with aircraft. the government wants to stem their misuse by introducing measures that will help authorities trace their owners. joining us from our london newsroom is phil binks who is in charge of managing drones for the national air—traffic services. good morning. thank you for your time. before we go into the new measures and what they mean, give us an outline. you will represent air—traffic controllers. tell us about the problems they have caused. drones have caused many problems. airports by merrily have these problems. —— primarily. it is not just about delays. think about the people on the aircraft. aeroplanes may not be able to land at the appropriate airport. it can cause problems. we need to address this. we are pleased the government is looking into establishing a drone registration scheme, electronic tagging, and education. it is a fantastic way forward. talk us through this. i am sitting at home andi through this. i am sitting at home and i have one. it is over a certain size. what i obliged to do and what happens if i don't? size. what i obliged to do and what happens ifi don't? the size. what i obliged to do and what happens if i don't? the fine details have not been established. but if you have one over 250 g, relatively small, you will be asked to register your drone. that can be tied into education. if you sign up for registration, you can do an on line education piece to become more aware of what is around you, the air space you cannot fly, the ground issues. it sounds good if you can do it. but ifi it sounds good if you can do it. but if i have one in my cupboard, who makes sure i take this course and register? well, there are laws, there will be laws, introduced, if we do go down this route. the police can take you to court and you can be fined. there will be custodial sentences if you cause hazards. there is a significant threat around that. we have to encourage people to have safe usage. we want to promote drones, they are fantastic new tool. the only way to do that is safe operations being encouraged. are a air—traffic controllers are loaded by pilots? you mentioned some electronic devices whereby there could be detected by air—traffic controllers. can you explain the sequences? what we get today is pilot reports. the pilot will say, "we have seen a drone." and then they will see a report written. they will write one up, the location. we have the radar tapes, everything is recorded. we see if we can drone on radar. unfortunately, the drones are too small for us to see them sometimes but we will still investigate. we want to make sure safety is maintained. because we can't see them using traditional radars, we can use a thing called a let to —— something that allows us to see the drone electronically even though we can't physically see it using traditional air—traffic control radar. then once we know the —— where the drone is, we get a better picture of what is going around us. here's stav with a look at this morning's weather. i have got a sunshine and showers picture behind me because that is what we will see this weekend thanks to low pressure. some of the showers could be poky with hail and thunder mixed in. the winds will be falling lighter issues could use after yesterday's gales. —— good news. the wind has moved north overnight and is across northern parts of ireland, england. eastern england and behind, the skies will brighten up. the rain a lwa ys the skies will brighten up. the rain always threatened easter nereus in the morning. northern scotland doing very well. —— eastern areas. a dry start, a bit of mist and fog that there should be sunshine. showers pushing into the south—west. these will become more widespread. pushing their way eastwards to the afternoon. some of them could be heavy. some heavy showers across northern england. some sunny spells in between for northern ireland and north of scotland. the odd 20— 21, 30 south. beverley, high—teens were you get the showers. generally cloudy skies. the sunshine will be limited for the golf. the showers stay away from much of england and wales that they will be patchy rain across northern england and in towards scotland. dry, clear skies otherwise. particularly rule places will have missed and fog and chilly skies. mr and fog will clear away. —— mistand skies. mr and fog will clear away. —— mist and fog. —— skies. mr and fog will clear away. —— mistand fog. —— mistand fog. they could have hired around 19— 24 degrees. as we had to next week, i reach of high pressure builds. northerly winds but they are light. —— a ridge of high pressure. now it's time for click. this week spencer kelly and the team are immersing themselves in the world of virtual reality. there are sharks all around me! virtual reality. it's action—packed. it's immersive... argh! there's a mouse! it's terrifying. argh! it's collaborative... laughter. it's a knockout! ok, you hit me. it's... oh, god. it's frozen. it's... ..frozen. it's fun, but it's not going to change the world... it's not going to change the world... it wouldn't fit in as much as, say, my phone would. it wouldn't fit in... it's such a shame, it's so annoying. it's annoying. not really what you want to hear when you are talking about vr. especially since the technology has actually been around since the 1960s. this helmet is from the mid—1990s. but it wouldn't be the first bit of amazing looking tech to simply fade into novelty. one of the problems is the media goes mad over it and then everything gets overhyped, not that we would be guilty of that of course... this is amazeballs! but the truth is, sometimes stuff gets overblown and the people who buy the thing end up getting disappointed by the thing. well, this week, the bbc, in partnership with ipsos mori, has published research into the reality of virtual reality. 16 ordinary people were given samsung gear vr headsets for three months, and asked to use them in their free time at home. and for any long—term observers of tech, the results probably aren't surprising. let's start with the sheer faff. actually finding your headset in the first place, it might be shoved in a drawer or somewhere, under your bed, dust it off, it might be dirty, it might not be totally clean. getting your phone and putting it into the headset, if you have a mobile—driven vr headset, and making sure that the phone has high battery because that will often be drained very quickly. finding a piece of content to actually watch, the phone might overheat and the experience will then stop. you might be a family, friends or flatmates pranking you as you are doing it so you will feel self—conscious. your hair might be messed up, or your make—up, or whatever. and all of those various barriers come to be quite significant behavioural hurdles to get people to do this. these things just aren't ready for prime time yet. they are not easy to use and they are not easy to share. for example, as soon as i take this off my head, it switches off to save power, which means i cannot get something going and then give it to someone else to enjoy. it will switch off and they have to navigate to the content all over again themselves. it means i've ended up putting a sticker over the sensor so it doesn't know when it's been taken off, which is stupid! look, a doggy! there's really no argument that vr can blow your mind. i'm on a roller—coaster! look, i can go down! but after those initial experiences, keeping people interested is another huge problem. once they are exhausting the key experiences, the novelty experiences around the roller—coaster rides, and the horror experiences, those kinds of things, then their enthusiasm ebbs away quite quickly. and one of the reasons why people get bored is that there was not much new to watch. with vr content, i think there is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. obviously, to encourage more people to buy vr headsets, it would be good to have more and more vr content. but it costs a lot of money to make and you don't necessarily want to invest in making the content unless you are confident a lot of people will see it. so, it is difficult to put a lot of money into something if you do not know that people will buy the headset but then to convince them to buy the headset, maybe you have to do that? it's a problem that's also beset blu—ray, 4k, and 3d tv. we've moved incredibly far in the last two years in terms of what has been produced, but there was a lot of interdependent things here. there is consumer uptake of headsets, technology needs to be betterfor production, tools and things to produce that. all of these things are happening at once and incredibly fast, but not fast enough. this might explain why last week facebook cut the price of their 0culus headset for the second time. it's a lot to shell out for something that mightjust end up being a novelty. by reducing its prices, oculus will probably appeal to more people who were already considering buying the headset, but i'm not sure it will convince many people to buy it, to try it. it is still a lot. it still costs about the same as a games console. and it's notjust the price of the headset itself, you need to have a pretty high—end machine to run these things on. and even sony, the company that provides a high—end playstation 4 with its vr headsets, which has sold 1 million of the things, told us not to get too excited about it. i think that, in the last six months to a year, we have seen a little bit of overhyping of the category out there. certainly not by ourselves. we saw this as the start of a very long process of bringing vr into the mainstream. you will see a lot more technology innovation. i think content makers, game makers, and others, including folks making television programmes, they are really only just starting to learn what the tools are to make really good for your content. everybody knows it will take some time before we produce really good and compelling content, but we are inventing a new medium here and that is obviously going to take time. but unless we start somewhere, we will never do it. so we need to wait a few years while you guys get it right, so there is something worth watching? hmm... laughter you cannot develop anything unless it is in conjunction with the audience too, say if we have no audience, we would never be able to create something and make it really work for them. it certainly seems that vr is struggling to become commonplace in the home at the moment, but that is not the end of the story, not by any means. this little fellow is called sea turtle. designed to move, like, you guessed it, a sea turtle, his arms are shaped like the fins found in nature. he has been developed by researchers at arizona university to detect landmines, and sadly for him, detonate them. unsurprisingly, current de—mining bots on the market, cost a pretty penny, but sea turtle has been made on the cheap. powered by a raspberry pi zero computer, this disposable device is £50 a pop. not bad for a machine that learns as it goes. we put a robot in front of a camera. and every time a robot makes a move, it essentially gives itself some positive reinforcement, in terms of, maybe i should try that again. if it gets negative, or it does not do very well, in trying a new type of control, then it is set negative reinforcement, then it does not try that type of motion again. in reinforcing it, by giving it good or bad feedback, it was able to learn to walk upon its own. not only could the lightweight robot, potentially save lives here on earth, he could also potentially be used to further research in space. one of our goals is to use this in order to manufacture robots in space. the idea is, rather than altering the design of the robot here on earth, where we do not have the environment, in which it is going to be deployed, we can actuallyjust ship the materials into space and manufacture the robot on the spot. currently battery—powered, sea turtle is fairly powered after about three hours of charge, so researchers want to add solar cells to his back so that he can charge himself. they also plan to manufacture loads and alternate them, so swarms of bots working together could quickly cover large areas. —— automate them. this robot is really good at powering through sand, so not just landmines detection, but applications such as farming, for anywhere where you do not want a very expensive robot, interacting with very dirty environments, this robot is very good and well tuned for that. iam i am studying at university. i have had a starter ever since i was six yea rs had a starter ever since i was six years old. although a starter isn't curable, gareth has dedicated his master ‘s degree to finding a way to treat it as best he can through virtual reality. exposure therapy. it is to treat social anxiety and people who stutter. eye movement can be affected when somebody is stuttering. they can close, it —— flicker in a certain space. fixing 1's eye movement is part of established therapy for stutter rivers. gareth is able to suggest similar exercises and techniques and in the future he hopes his research might be used by speech therapists in treatment. when the person is in the environment, they will see an animated avatar and they are to talk to the avatar. about a certain topic like their favourite holiday and they would have had time tracking their behaviours and seeing what they do when they stutter. they will be advising them what to do and how to improve their speech as well. gareth has previously improved a more basic headset to improve people ‘s confidence for an entire audience for them to speak in front of. and although he is only addressing the iron movement and not the speech element directly, he hopes this research might be able to improve the confidence of those who stutter andindeed the confidence of those who stutter and indeed those who don't. —— eye movement. and that is it for the short click. the full—length one is on—line right now. thank you for watching. we will see you soon.