Now on bbc news, click. This week, it s a mobiles and music special. We re sending a robot in to explore a show floor, write a winning song, play the violin and make a pop video. And is that nick rhodes from duran duran? hey, welcome to click! i hope you re well. For months now, we ve been fantasising about places that we can t go to at the moment, stories that we can t cover in person, and the big tech expos that aren t happening in the real world they ve moved online. But not this week! lara, would you care to accompany me to barcelona? absolutely! i ve been looking forward to this! now, mobile world congress was one of the first events to be cancelled last year. And this year, despite a few delays, it is actually happening, but we re not heading off to sunny spain. Well, not really. But we are gonna be there in spirit, 0k? you ready? absolutely! let s do it! all right, let s go. And. We ve arrived! this is thira, barcelona, and this is mwc. And we re not only here in spirit, but w
Let s catch up on some of the other main news stories from today. The government has unveiled sweeping reforms of the asylum system that would make arriving in the uk without permission a criminal offence. The government hopes the new rules will deter people from making dangerous channel crossings to try get into the uk. But labour said the proposals would potentially break international law. The information watchdog has launched an official investigation into the use of private email and other correspondence at the department of health. It follows reports that the former health secretary matt hancock and current health minister, lord bethell, routinely used private email to discuss government business. And it s been announced that lord bethell is formally under investigation by the lords standards watchdog over a complaint that he sponsored a parliamentary pass for gina coladangelo, who was matt hancock s aide. Both she and mr hancock resigned from their positions last month after the
Gallery in iran. Now on bbc news, click becomes a contender at the ai eurovision event. Can we programme a winning song? this week, it s a mobiles and music special. We re sending a robot in to explore a show floor, write a winning song, play the violin and make a pop video. And is that nick rhodes from duran duran? hey, welcome to click! i hope you re well. For months now, we ve been fantasising about places that we can t go to at the moment, stories that we can t cover in person, and the big tech expos that aren t happening in the real world they ve moved online. But not this week! lara, would you care to accompany me to barcelona? absolutely! i ve been looking forward to this! now, mobile world congress was one of the first events to be cancelled last year. And this year, despite a few delays, it is actually happening, but we re not heading off to sunny spain. Well, not really. But we are gonna be there in spirit, 0k? you ready? absolutely! let s do it! all right, let s go. And. W
Thundery comic sunshine but particularly clear that we will continue to see them, particularly through northern ireland, northern england, that s a thundery element easing away but a cloud in a settled night, mile two, fewer showers and we get to dawn, also south, lengthy spells of sunshine to the day tomorrow, not ruling out the odd shower here and after a fairly damp start northern ireland and northern england and eventually the rain starting to pull away and some drier brighter spells coming through. Little bit more rain for the north east of scotland compared with today and look what is looming large towards the south. Some unseasonably windy and wet weather coming in as we go through into the weekend evening. So quite warm in that sunshine but overnight england and wales due for some wet weather and in the south particularly windy weather. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. A cabinet minister indicates that the use of face coverings will become a personal choice when lockdown
Officials in japan say two people have died and at least 20 people are missing after a landslide sent mud cascading down a hillside smashing into homes and sweeping away cars. Now on bbc news, click becomes a contender at the ai eurovision event. Can we programme a winning song? this week, it s a mobiles and music special. We re sending a robot in to explore a show floor, write a winning song, play the violin and make a pop video. And is that nick rhodes from duran duran? hey, welcome to click! i hope you re well. For months now, we ve been fantasising about places that we can t go to at the moment, stories that we can t cover in person, and the big tech expos that aren t happening in the real world they ve moved online. But not this week! lara, would you care to accompany me to barcelona? absolutely! i ve been looking forward to this! now, mobile world congress was one of the first events to be cancelled last year. And this year, despite a few delays, it is actually happening, but w