Edmonton fire and rescue said both workers were helped down to safety. No one was injured. A quiet settled weather story over the next couple of days. That is something i have not set for quite something i have not set for quite some time. The reason is an area of High Pressure building in from the atlantic. We still have this nuisance where the front enhancing some showers in scotland accompanied bya some showers in scotland accompanied by a keen northerly breeze. So the winds will start to ease a little into the afternoon, but we keep some showers here, one or two cropping up in south west scotland and northern ireland. But elsewhere clear skies and lots of afternoon autumn sunshine. But cold out there, temperatures peaking at eight to 13 celsius. The weather pattern stays the same as we go through the evening and overnight. So the risk ofa evening and overnight. So the risk of a few showers into the north, clearer skies elsewhere. That can only mean one thing as we go through the overnight period, those temperatures are likely to fall away. A widespread frost is likely first thing in the morning with temperatures tumbling below freezing inafew temperatures tumbling below freezing in a few sheltered places. But it does look as though it will stay dry, settled, and sunny but cold. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The us military has conducted an operation against the fugitive leader of the so called Islamic State group. This is the scene of the alleged strike where Iraqi State Television says the terrorist commander has been killed. Vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved ones are among the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. The liberal democrats and the Scottish National party have joined forces to offer borisjohnson the chance of a 9th of december election. If he is serious about wanting an election, and if he is genuine that it is about having an election before christmas, then he can back this bill. Wales are out of the rugby world cup, after losing to south africa in the semifinal. An early renaissance painting by an italian master is to be auctioned today, just weeks after it was was discovered in an elderly frenchwomans kitchen. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, its the 50th birthday of the internet. We will hear how it was switched on, how democracy could be rebooted, and how hard it is to tell apples from. Apples. Every single day, we upload four million hours of video to youtube. We send 682 million tweets. We post over 67 million instagram pictures. 4. 4 billion of us use the internet and collectively, we create 2. 5 exa bytes, thats 2. 5 million tb or 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data every single day. And a significant proportion of all of that data searches, news, messages, social media, video streaming, goes through here. This is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone. Its one of four buildings here in london full of computers, cables, cooling equipment, and sheer geekery. The internet was built on many earlier ideas, but the big one happened exactly 50 years ago this week. The work had origins in 1969 when the American Defense department, specifically the Defense Advanced Research projects agency, decided that it needed a network to connect about a dozen University Computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research in Artificial Intelligence. And so they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they called arpanet. On october 29th 1969 at 10 30pm in the evening, the first message was sent over arpanet. A computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to Stanford Research institute in san francisco. The word was login. Although the system crashed before they got to the g. Nevertheless, those two nodes became hundreds and then thousands and then millions of connections. A Global Network of networks now consists of over 1. 2 million kilometres of submarine cables, sometimes layed as deep as Mount Everest is high. These connect massive server buildings, and immeasurably more smaller cables connect those to Individual Computers an interconnected network that vint cerf and robert kahn named the internet. Its important to understand that the internet is not the World Wide Web. The web is a great invention. It is the way that data, web pages, services, and documents are arranged, accessed, and addressed. But all of that sits on top of the hardware that is the internet, which allows many, Many Networks to talk to each other in a really clever way. So, say you want to watch a cute video of a cat. Well, your request to see the video shoots out of your device. Along regional networks, and at some point races through telehouse north. And off across the globe to where the video is stored, and this is where it gets really clever. See, sending the whole video in one go, down one route, will likely mean that it will get stuck in traffic and take ages. So the video is torn apart, broken up, split into little packets, and each one makes its own way back down different routes. And when they start arriving back at your device, theyre juggled into the right order. And once enough of the start of the video has arrived, there is your cat as cute as you want it. Aw this is how information spreads across the world. But unfortunately, its not always the right information. We have a tough problem ahead of us, which is to try to help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. One of the big problems seems to be that these days we are all locked in our own echo chambers. The information we hear comes from people that weve chosen to listen to. So, as well as democratising information access, the internet seems to have isolated us from rational debate and made it really hard to distinguish facts from opinions, from fake news. London is the capital of one of the oldest democracies in the world, but it is a democracy which, as you may be aware, is in crisis. Divided by a single issue struggling to move forward. Some argue that the Eu Referendum asked the wrong question. Some argue that the question was too simple for such a complex issue, and that is why we find ourselves where we are. But maybe there is another way to find consensus. Carl millers been looking at a new tool thats hoping to reboot democracy and find Common Ground even amongst the most polarised of views. And its being used in a most unexpected place. Thousands of miles away from brexit. Here i am in taiwan, a place that is sometimes known as technology island. It is famous for producing semi conductors, but now it is using technology to disrupt a completely different kind of industry, one we often dont link to computers. Democracy itself. The disruption began with the 2014 sunflower revolution, when citizens stormed the legislative parliament after trade laws were brought in. Like brexit in britain, it split the country in half, not least because many thought it brought taiwan too close to china. But mostly because they felt their views, theirfears were ignored by those in power. Amongst the crowd was a new kind of protester, called civic hackers. As well as marches and banners, civic hackers use the power of computers and data. Theyve come up with new ways of making decisions, and astonishingly, got the government on side to ask them for help, so they could listen better to. To ask them for help, so they could listen better too. One of the people in the crowd that night was civic hacker audrey tang. It was the night before they burst in, when they were just about to burst in, and i was there providing internet connectivity. Having recently returned from a high flying career in silicon valley, she turned from technologist to politician. Describing herself as a conservative anarchist, audrey became the youngest member of taiwans cabinet, and the worlds first transgender minister. She and her colleagues became the champion of a new transparent process of decision making. It was called v, or virtual taiwan, and its first big job was to get people talking. And its first big test was literally on the roads of taiwan itself. It all started at uber, just like the one that i am in now. The company moved in and was trying to get more of a share in taiwan, but like in so many other places around the world, it was disruptive. It was disrupting laws, and regulations, and no one knew what to do. Then, a new digital platform was used and a deadlock that existed was broken. Central to the v taiwan process was a platform called polis, which originated in seattle. When the question of uber arose three years ago, citizens and drivers and Industry Experts from across the divide were all invited to join that Single Online space and submit their views. Polis would then bunch them up into clusters of similar attitudes. So, what is this amazing Digital Solution . Well, first it allowed you to see just what cluster you were in yourself. But then, and this is what made it so different from other digital platforms, rather than surfacing what divided each of the clusters, it gamified what they actually had in common instead. The game here is to win consensus, not majorities. Polis works to unearth what almost everyone has in common. Not just the 52 . So, i log onto polis, ijoin the debate, i can respond to the statements of others, and then eventually draft my own. But my statement has to win support from all sides of the argument, notjust my own. So, i have to rewrite it. But if i keep drafting the same entrenched message over, and over, i wont be heard. I might as well not be there. Its only when ive refined my message enough to reach across the whole debate that polis allows me to be heard. Meanwhile, the site sits there with all the statements meanwhile, the site sifts through all the statements as they are added and redrafted to work out Common Ground. And as the discussion changes, so do peoples avatars to reflect their new relative position within the debate. After a handful of weeks, the most central statements emerge. They might not look like anything that was said at its beginning. But now, because they are consensual, they can be turned into regulations and laws. It certainly settled the uber question three years ago. But now v taiwan is tackling a new problem e scooters on the roads. Its strange to think, but these are the things that disrupt democracy. They come out of nowhere and disrupt all the laws and regulations. They disrupt all the rules and regulations that exist, and if they all adapted quickly enough itself, it quickly becomes more relevant. Whether e scooters should be around on public roads and walkways has been dragging on for about five years. Almost as long as its taken me to stand up straight on one. But these guys have no such problem. They are keen riders, and they want change. Is this giving you a route to deal with this, how we do democracy in the normal ways which we do it . It makes things go easier. Because you use facebook every day. Are you ready to listen to people who that may be listening . Are you ready to listen to people who are not thinking it should be made illegal and that is why youre here . I am back to audrey to ask why v taiwan is so successful. It is the people who know more about what to do when there is an emerging technology, when there is an emerging social issue. It shows the division and the consensus. It closes the division promotional, much more importantly, it shows that the consensus outweighs the division. If you have a platform, people focus. Because there no reply button there was no way for a troll. So far it is said to number over 20 laws and regulations. And for now on, at least some element of it will be used for all future legislation too. But it will be interesting to see if it will ever be used for highly sensitive significant divisive issues. I am not convinced politicians are ready to give up this much powerjust yet. We still have a so called digital gap in our society which means some older people or some people in other places dont use Digital Tools very much. So that is why i think we still have some function to collect opinions from different groups. But for digitally savvy groups, it found that previously distant views had actually much in common with each other regarding both taxi safety and writing convenience. Uber was allowed to operate in taiwan under certain conditions while relaxing the laws on taxis so they could operate more like uber. As for e scooters, people express fears about safety as for e scooters, people expressed fears about safety and whether roads could cope, but all the divergent attitudes and oppositions boiled down to the two main groups. Through the platform, the next agreed step was to launch a site, which is being debated tonight. So before polis there would be people on poor so before polis there would be people on polar opposites who would refuse to sit down. But when we switched to polis, it never happens again. Audrey sees these changes driven by agriculture vital for democracy. My question is whether what we have seen is really truly here to stay. The v stands for virtual, but it could also stand for vulnerable. But the spirit of collaborative governance is larger. For that, i think it is enduring and inevitable. If the Democratic Institutions do not hold ourselves accountable to this new culture, then we risk being rendered irrelevant. The relativity of institutional democracy will go down. Hello, and welcome to the week in tech. This week apple ceo tim cook became an adviser to a Top Business School in china, india announced it is to watch the worlds biggest facial recognition system and we saw what Artificial Human skin looks like on a phone. The creator of the skin case said he understood why people found his project a bit creepy. It was also the week that google claimed a milestone in quantum supremacy. In a paper published, it said its quantum computer performed a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds which it said would take over 10,000 years on a classical supercomputer. But not everyone agreed with their definition of supremacy, including ibm who said they mislabeled their achievement. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg was questioned by sceptical us lawmakers by his social networks currency libra. Lawmakers said that it could be abused by criminals and terrorists. He said it would not be once without government approval. Amazon chief jeff bezos announced his Space Company blue 0rigin would be working with a group of industries to build a Lunar Landing system capable of transporting humans to the moon. And here on earth, air taxis might be getting one step closer to reality. German start up video of what it said was its first air taxi, its electric prototype may be ready to take passengers as soon as 2025. You remember all those massive data halls filled of noisy computers . There are five floors of those above me, and it will not be long before this becomes one too. And as the internet continues to expand, we wanted to hear from one of its creators about its future. 50 years on, vint cerf is googles internet evangelist, and he sat down with us to talk about the dangerous road that the internet has taken, how to fight back and what the future holds. My name is vint cerf and i am chief internet evangelist at google but people know me as one of the co inventors of the internet. First of all, the good part, is the World Wide Web emerged there was this an enormous desire and the general population that had access to the internet to share information that they knew. And the World Wide Web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. Then, in the 2000s, we start to see the arrival of social networking. But those platforms have been essentially subverted by some people who like to use them as a way of injecting misinformation and disinformation in the system, for either political or pecuniary or other nefarious purposes. We have a tough problem ahead of us. That is to help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. People hope that this can be done algorithmically, i am not as sanguine about that. Algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation is not so easy. The expectation that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and computer programmes will somehow solve all these problems is an expectation which cant be fulfilled. Some people will say the country should have rules and enforceable rules that suppress misinformation and disinformation. Just make all that bad stuff go away. That particular practice has a very dark abusive side. It is called censorship, which is intended to suppress access to information that the general public should have. There are regimes in the world that you can, if you have any information which is critical the regime, it is unacceptable and should be uncensored. I think the best tool we have with dealing with disinformation is called what is up here, and it is an exercise of what is called Critical Thinking where you ask questions like where did this information come from . , does it have any corroborating references from other sources . all those things should be top of mind, and part of the Digital Literacy that we need to have as we use these online technologies that are so global in scope. I think, if we are trying to look towards the future of the internet, one thing thats for sure is that more and more of it will be accessible. The second thing that we know thats happening is the arrival of an avalanche of programmable devices that have the ability to become part of the internet. If we want to go a little further out into the future, one thing that we know we will see, i am sure you will see, is the expansion of the internet off the planet. Way back in 1998, we began asking ourselves what would happen if we had a network that was the size of the solar system that could support manned and robotic Space Exploration . So we now have a set of protocols that together create an interplanetary backbone network. Its in operation between earth, mars, and the International Space station. So you can anticipate that there will be an evolving interplanetary backbone over the next decades to support robotic, manned and robotic exploration. This exhibition in london provides an insight into ai data trailing. Huge numbers of pictures like these are needed to create a artificially intelligent algorithms. From apple to anomaly, attempts to show visitors how some things are simple to categorise. For example, an apple is an apple, we all agree on that, but some concepts are a lot harder to explain. And the algorithms we create have to deal with these abstract ideas. Even as a human, it can be quite tricky to identify what an artists model or a creep may look like, or in fact many of the concepts up here. But people are having to create these categories and then teach what they believe to be the right answers to the machine. A train set is a database that is organised into concepts and each of those concepts have pictures associated with them. But as you go further through the installation, the concepts get more abstract. We move through apple picker, and other things having to do with apples but towards the end we come to the concept of an anomaly. It is very abstract and yet abstract concepts like this are still built into technical systems. If you have a concept like a bad person, for example, that indicates a certain worldview. The whole point of this is that we may think that al is all about technology, algorithms, and statistics. But actually it has human bias at the heart of it. Take the search term 0bama for instance. 0bama is a figure in many different categories. It is almost like wheres waldo . It has been labelled as a good person, a greedy person. And a leader, a loser. What you find, and i think what the example of 0bama speaks to, is that you have a kind of underlying bedrock of sludge and contradictions and absurdities, quite often, that the ai systems are built on. Creating this display of approximately 30,000 images was a hefty process. To make this installation, i pretty much sat down and looked at about 1k million images that were organised into the tens of thousands of categories. The database that this is drawing from was made by researchers who went and scraped the internet and collected tens of millions of pictures. They put those images together and then hired online workers on the amazon platform to sort those pictures into many thousands of categories. All of this just leaves me feeling that there are so many different ways of seeing the same thing. And as a person, you add some contextualjudgement. But can we train a machine to do the same . That was laura appreciating the beauty of data. Now, if you would like to see lara onstage at click life, this is your reminder you have less than a week to register. Shes appearing on stage. But if you can be in dundee on november the 19th, we would love to see you there. The website you need is. That is it for now though. Thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. Hello there. A settled weather story over the next couple of days, that is something i have not set for quite something i have not set for quite some time. The reason being an area of High Pressure that is starting to build in from the atlantic. We have still got this nuisance where the front enhancing some showers in scotland. Accompanied by a keen northerly breeze. So the winds will start to ease a little into the afternoon, but we keep some showers here. One or two cropping up in south west scotland and northern ireland. Elsewhere clear skies and lots of afternoon autumn sunshine, but cold out there, temperatures peaking at eight to 13 celsius. The weather pattern stays the same as we go through the evening and overnight. Still the risk of a few showers into the north, clear skies elsewhere. So that can only mean one thing as we go through the overnight period, those temperatures are likely to fall away quite sharply stop widespread frost is likely first thing in the morning with temperatures tumbling below freezing inafew temperatures tumbling below freezing in a few sheltered places. But it does look as though it will stay dry, settled, and sunny, but cold. Hello, good afternoon. Us military sources say the leader of the Islamic State group, abu bakr al baghdadi, has been killed by us special forces, in an operation near the village of barisha in northwestern syria. President trump is due to make a statement any time now on the situation. Well be hearing from washington in a moment but first our middle east correspondent Quentin Somerville has the latest