Which produces peugeot vehicles reportedly reaches a deal to buy General Motors european operations. Britain is not be legally obliged to make a final Budget Payment to the eu after brexit, according to a house of lords committee. Downing street has described the report as a significant contribution. Thousands of people are marching in london to demonstrate over nhs cuts. Protestors have travelled from across the country and Jeremy Corbyn is expected to address the crowd. Now on bbc news, click. This week smoking streets, burning fruit and keeping our cool as we go live in Virtual Reality. We are about to put a whole new spin on the world of mobiles. We are at the mobile World Congress in barcelona, the big show devoted to phones, tablets and all things mobile. We are a bit behind schedule, but we are going to get there. Although, if we look a bit distracted its because we are preparing for a rather audacious experiment. It is not that we are not interested in the floating displays, connected bus stops, flash cars, smart shoes or robot drummers, it is just that we are about to bash out something a lot more complicated. Last year we filmed an entire programme in 360 degrees, allowing those watching in vitual reality to look around the fantastic locations simply by turning their heads or phones in whichever direction they please. That is the power of 360, you feel like you have been teleported into the situation. We also have the ability to stream 360 live. So imagine that the next time we send a robot to the moon, if it has a 360 camera on board, we can all put on a pair of goggles and actually feel like we are there as well. So that is what we doing today, getting ready to go live in 360, not to the moon admittedly, but to a place that is still a pretty strange landscape. So here we are at the massive mobile World Congress. Eight enormous halls of madness and noise as everyone tries to launch their product with maximum pizzazz and volume. But this event is notjust about mobiles, Virtual Reality is everywhere. Since you can use a phone as a vr headset, Many Companies have opted to up the excitement by strapping people in and hurling them about. Yes, vr can be totally immersive if you have your own 360 chair. I dont even want to think what kind of experience this chap is having. Going live in 360 is less about the headset, its more about the Camera Equipment you can and cannot use. You are currently watching me through a nokia professional 360 camera with a professional price tag to boot, about 16,000 us dollars but it is a beautiful looking thing. It has eight lenses so you can see in all directions, but it can also shoot in 3 d because the combination of lenses allows it to process a stereoscopic view. What is really weird is it has this enormous battery pack which you think would be in shot, but this thing has a blind spot to about here. So they have this almost 360 view and stretch it around. Modern 360 cameras will stitch the scene together themselves in real time, automatically wrapping the weird warped video into a sphere around your head and that is what enables them to go live. If you wanted to stream the full 360 view, you are going to need some extra kit. Two dedicated Hardware Boxes and an upload Internet Speed of at least 30mb per second. In a trade show like this, we are not that lucky. I think we have to accept that its early days, that to get really high quality, stereoscopic video, so you can really look around and feel a sense of depth and feel that you are there, it is going to take a while. There are Bandwidth Problems and just having equipment that can transmit that amount of data so that when you look, the picture gets rendered according to exactly where you are looking. It will take a while, but we are starting. We are going to be doing two lives in 360, testing two different cameras and this is no mean feat because as with last years 360 show, we are coming to this before the manufacturers have made bespoke equipment. To get good pictures, good sound and decent interaction with the audience, we have to hack together various bits of kit and hope no one trips over. My microphone goes into a transmitter which goes into a receiver which goes into a box which plugs into another box and weve got half a mile of ethernet cable, which is going to a Network Access point hidden in the garden the first 360 camera is the orah ill, four lenses which between them can shoot the 360 video in ultrahigh def, although this is the resolution of the entire 360 shot. The viewer only sees a part of this as they look around the scene. At the moment, it is not showing us anything we want. They are seeing us in london, we are a bit blurry but it will get better. It was our very first attempt so things were bumpy and rough around the edges. We were supposed to go out minus 15 minutes ago. Where did spencer go . It is my fault. We are going live now. Take one. That said, it seemed to hang together and viewers on our youtube 360 channel got to find out a bit more about a car planning to go at 1,000 miles per hour. There are three engines . Yes, it has a gas turbine from the Typhoon Eurofighter and it has two nanojets. Rockets . Rockets effectively. And you need all three of them . Yes. To get to 1000 miles an hour. Yes, so the gas turbine is for your below 800 Mph Manoeuvres and then the rockets fire you up to give you the kick to over a thousand. Streaming such a high quality picture takes a lot of data hence we had to use a fat, wired Internet Connection of about iomb a second, but for our second attempt, we went commando. This ricoh camera is the one we used to shoot the 360 Helicopter Scene last year. It is a small hand held stick with two fish eye lenses. Its full view is only 2k, so the part you see in Virtual Reality is much lower resolution. But that does mean it is possible to stream video live over the mobile network. Which is what we did, in style, with a drone. Giving a taste of what it is so like to be so close to a drone you might lose a limb. Very soon ricco is releasing the feet are with a few upgrades including more connectors, expandable storage and it will do the stitching in the camera itself rather than needing a computer to do the grunt work. For now, though, we were pretty happy with our little experiment and very soon there will almost certainly be more fully integrated kit to let us go live in 360 with much less bother. When we went up to the Hadron Collider to film this is in 360, we used six go pros strapped together to film the entire scene. We then had to stitch that footage together manually using a powerful computer and software and many, many hours. Since then go pro has released the omni which is a case in which 60 go pros fit. It has one remote start for all six cameras, which is good, and it also comes with a box that does all this stitching. And in a couple of months time, go pro says it will release an update which allows you to do that live. And if you want to create your own little 360 videos, this tiny camera plugs by life e into your android phone. The videos are not live, but the stitching is quick and you can share it easily on your social network. Enough 360, lets see some phones. Now, a couple of years ago we got to play with a sony camera which could shoot video in super slow motion and we discovered that everything looks cool when it is filmed a0 times slower. Well, almost everything. So it is no real surprise that that technology has now been shrunk down and down and has made its way into a phone. Three, two, one, go. This is the new Sony Xperia X2 premium and it can film at 960 frames per second, which is great news for Glitter Boarders everywhere. To do this sony has had to embed some superfast storage in the Image Processor Sensor itself. The problem is because there is only so much space you are limited to an extremely short burst of slow mo every few seconds within your video. Its all right when you want to catch something in super slow motion that is going on for a long time like this, but when you want to catch something that only happens once, it is quite nerve racking. Case in point, setting fire to orange zest which i didnt even know was a thing. Three, two, one, go. I was too premature that time. And that is the problem, the burst of super slowmo is only 0. 182 seconds, that is less than a fifth of second, so you have to be spot on with timing. The for the most part, i was a bit too trigger happy. But when you do get it, flaming oranges it is worth bearing in mind that sony actually makes the camera parts for many other brands of mobile phones, so if this super slow mo catches on, we could well see it in other phones before too long. What else is hot at this years mwc . Here is Stephen Beckett with a round up. Incredibly, at a convention with some of the biggest Phone Manufacturers hawking their newest and shiniest devices this is the Phone Everybody is talking about. Finnish start up hmd global has resurrected a scintillating piece of nostalgia with a reboot of its nokia 3310. Do you remember that . Hmd licensed the nokia phone brand at the end of 2016. It includes an indestructible handset with a seemingly infinite battery life and has been given a new lease of life with modern curves, jazzy colours and of course a Re Versioning of snake. Blackberry has also gone back to basics with their new phone the key1. It has a physical gesture sensitive keyboard that hides a Fingerprint Scanner under the space bar. And that is not the only slice of nostalgia here at nwc. Samsung is getting in on the action with this Classic Norris pencil, although i would not try and sharpen this one because it has got quite a lot of digital gubbins at the end allowing you to do things like this. Google would much rather you talk to your devices rather than wrote to them. It has announced its personal assistant. Google home will finally be available for sale outside the us, and by may in the uk. And in another new attempt to dominate the ai market the company also said it will roll out its voice activated digital assistant to all android phones running marshmallow and nougat. Until now it has only been available on googles own pixel phones. That is apart from huawei. Those are set to use amazons alexa instead. The upcoming moto z will get its Assistant Parts through a snap on back which they are calling a moto mod. Others are ditching customisation. Lg launched its new flagship g6 phone without a modular capability of its previous model. The company says customers do not fancy forking out for extra parts. The lg g6 also knocks the traditional aspect ratio out of the park. The screen is 18 x 9, in other words twice as tall as it is wide. Smartphones have traditionally been 16 x 9. And it would not be much of an nwc round up with out at least one mention of the words 5g. Even though no official 5g standard even exists yet, that has not stopped everyone here from snapping the term all over their stands. Nowhere more so than here with a bold claim of creating the worlds first gigabit phone. This is sucking up data around 50 times faster than the speed you would get on your 4g phone in your pocket. We are not allowed to touch or use these phones and that could have something to do with all these cables poking out of the back. It could be some time yet before you get your hands on these sorts of speeds. Over the past few years the air we breathe in our cities has become a big issue. Air pollution is an invisible killer and it is something that many people from politicians to Tech Companies feel needs urgent attention. But what to do . Well, all next week the bbc is going to be looking at the issue and possible solutions and ahead of that we have been checking out some of the gadgets that might help us to track the pollution around us, so you can choose what to do with that data. We have been finding out more. It only took five days this year for london to reach its yearly Air Pollution allowance. People were warned to reduce outdoor physical exercise as levels soared beyond those in beijing, a place where scenes like this are not unusual. And with limits being exceeded in germany, france, italy, spain, as well as other cities across the uk, never before have we been so aware of the air we breathe. Yet if there are better or worse days, or a better route that you could take, then could using a personal air quality tracker help you make better decisions about what to do when . First of all, it depends how accurate they are and that is something i am on a mission to find out about. The makers of some of these devices say they have gone through extensive testing over a long period. Whilst our spot checks today are just a snapshot, i am curious to find out how they measure up. So to carry out our first experiment i have come to this Central London mews and i have enlisted the help of the University Of Birmingham who, for fairness of the experiment, have brought along this, which is going to take some pretty serious recordings of air quality along with my four devices here to see how they do. The atmo tube can be attached to a bag to track organic compounds known as vocs as well as carbon monoxide. The Cleanspace Tag was released last year and tracks carbon monoxide. It connects to the companys app adding a personal and Crowd Sourcing Element to the official data it already displays. The I Blades Smartphone Case amidst its other functions has an air quality sensor tracking vocs. And this working prototype, Flow By Plume, works alongside the already popular plume air report app. It currently tracks Mitogen Oxide and vocs, eventually aiming to add Particle Matter and ozone as well. They are all suitable for outdoor as well as indoor monitoring. So, i have given the devices five minutes to do their thing, but right now this is a bit of a sea of numbers, but luckily i have found a man who knows what all of this means. I am joined here by Professor Roy Harrison from the University Of Birmingham. What is going on here . We are getting rather different readings on them, but they should all be giving us very much the same impression of the pollution. And this is where the fun begins. There is the atmo tube. It is giving as 0. 22 ppm, which is telling us is good air quality. 93 out of 100. It is telling us things are pretty clean and in this environment that would be a pollutant mostly coming from traffic. If you go indoors, there are other sources. Ok, comparing that to your readings, do they seem like they are on track . I would say our reading is a different pollutant, but it is telling us it is rather more polluted than this 93 out of 100. I would not call the air quality good, i would call it average. We have got the Cleanspace Device next with their tag. This is reading carbon monoxide. It is giving us concentrations that appear to be a little above 1. 5 ppm, which i would say is very consistent with what we are seeing in the Nitrogen Dioxide. It is giving as a moderate level of Traffic Pollution as we might expect. I think that in a sense is a more predictable sensor than the ones depending on volatile organic compounds because that is a very big range of substances and the sensitivity will not be the same for every compound. Now the next device we are looking at is the i blades phone case. I noticed this one set a baseline for whenever you open the app. So when we opened it here on this street it is calling this streak zero, which seems a bit of a funny way to work, doesnt it . I think it is, yes. So, ideally it needs to be zeroed in the very clean atmosphere, but if you do not have an independent monitor, how do you know where that clean atmosphere is . I think we have a bit of a difficulty with this one. Our final device that we have got here is Flow By Plume. This is the prototype, the finished version will look similar. It syncs up to an app that does not actually give numbers. What do you make of that for a start . Well, i understand the sensor is responding to Nitrogen Dioxide and volatile organic compounds, so we might expect it to be correlating with our device in the car. This is telling us that the pollution level is high and i understand that that is based onjudgments against health based standards from the world health organisation. I find it a little surprising because i wouldnt regard the levels here as high, certainly not a particular health risk for example. For the second part of our experiment we have come to a somewhat busier street, baker street, the home of sherlock holmes, where our investigations shall continue, professor. I can see the readings have been changing. What do you make of things here . It is a busy street and our Reference Analyser in the car is showing concentrations about double those we were reading in the mews, or even three times higher at times. The atmo tube registers a rise in pollution but still calls the quality good. The Cleanspace Tag reacted appropriately, the I Blades Case rose from zero and Flow By Plume still simply says high. There is an argument from some that by tracking this data and taking control ourselves we are diminishing the governments responsibility to improve the situation, but what does our scientist walk away from our days Activity Thinking . They are very variable in their performance. One could try and use them to judge which routes were the best ones if you were walking to work for example, but that would not be a simple matter because the Pollution Levels change from day to day based on the weather, so you would need to do the different routes many times in order to get a representative measure of what the actual Pollution Levels were. But i suspect your answer would be no better than looking at the traffic and saying, well, this is a very quiet road, why dont i use this one . So it seems to find my perfect Running Route i need to either run a lot with the devices or keep my eyes open without. That was lara and a big source of Air Pollution in the developing world is produced by the burning of kerosene. It is also very dangerous and can cause house fires. Obviously it would be preferable to move to solar power, but a rig like this costs 200, something that many families cannot make as a single lump sum. This company is suggesting renting a solar system like this with a panel and all this kit to families in return for Micro Payments, about 50 cents a day, which they can make over the mobile network. Once they pay for the price of the equipment they get to keep it. If they stop making payments at any point, the company can contact a box like this over the mobile network and switch it off remotely. A similar scheme is being piloted with gas in tanzania to try to move people away from cooking with charcoal. Again the Barriers To Entry mean buying an entire gas canister is too expensive, but this Smart Meter System allows Micro Payments over mobiles, which allows small amounts of gas to be released for each. You could of course remove the meter you might think, but if you do, it sends an alert to the schemes administrators. Here is Something Else that impressed us here at mwc, hence the impressed look on all our faces in this picture. This is a zt phone that was released a couple of months ago that lets you take 3 d photos with the Stereo Lenses on the back and then you can view the photos in 3 d without glasses on the screen because it has a lenticular display, which means your left eye only gets left Eye Information and your right eye only gets right Eye Information. If you hold it right at the sweet spot you get a 3 d picture. If you hold it outside the sweet spot everything goes crazy. I would not recommend that. Anyway, that is it for click at the mobile World Congress in barcelona. I hope you have enjoyed it. Feel free to let us know what you thought about our 360 live. Be kind, but be honest as well. Thank you for watching, see you soon. The weekend was always going to offer a mixture of weather and so it has proved on saturday, where some areas had this kind of miserable scene, while others enjoyed some really decent spells of sunshine, a glorious day for some. A missed that, quite heavy showery bursts of rain, especially in Northern Ireland and wales, the west of england. In the evening and overnight, pushing the evening and overnight, pushing the cloud and rain ever further north and east. The rain band that has been in the north of scotland inches further north. Into the small hours, a new area of cloud, wind and rain across the south western quarter of england and wales. Quite a chilly night under the clear skies, temperatures falling away. Sunday, this northern feature, plaguing the Shetland Isles but much improved in scotland and northern england. The cloud wind and rain confined to parts of the north sea and shetland, further south, from orkney down through the mainland, yes, a scattering of showers but there will be some brightness. Similar in Northern Ireland, decent sunny spells across the borders into the north of england. Then this slow moving area of cloud and rain from the north of wales to the midlands and the south east. Having had such a wet start by think it will be a day of blustery showers with some brightness amazed the showers as well. Wouldnt be surprised if you heard the rumble of thunder. The rain band becoming more fragmented as we move into the afternoon. If you are close to the potential of that rain, it may be very wet across the high ground in wales and then stretching into parts of the midlands and east anglia. Sunday into monday, the strongest wind into the near continent. Low pressure wind into the near continent. Low pressure in the south western quarter during the first part of monday and then things are going to quieten down, sadly overnight monday into tuesday. Later on tuesday, more cloud and rain into the Western Parts of the british isles. Tuesday will be wetter in the west. This is bbc news. The headlines at 4. Sinn fein celebrate big gains in Northern Ireland elections. The dup is still the Biggest Party but with just one more seat than the republicans. 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