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Will take awhile to ship. 12 spots holding on the afternoon. But there could be some more sunshine around tomorrow. Turning a little bit milder across western heroes. Areas. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines at 3. 30pm theresa may wont say whether she knew about a failed Trident Missile test when mps were voting to renew the weapons system. I have absolute faith in our Trident Missiles. When i made that speech in the house of commons, what we were talking about was whether or not we should renew our trident. Trade, nato and brexit are likely to be high on the agenda as mrs may meets donald trump this friday. The Prime Minister said she wouldnt be afraid to challenge mr trump if he said or did anything which was unacceptable. President trump and his White House Team have launched a furious attack on the media, accusing them of lying about the size of the crowds at his inauguration on friday. The former president of the gambia, yahya jammeh, has left the country, after agreeing to hand over power to adama barrow, who defeated him in a president ial election last month. Andy murrays hopes of winning a First Australian open title ended with a shock defeat by world number 50 Mischa Zverev of germany in the fourth round. A disappointing loss today for sure. A disappointing loss today for sure. A tough one. In one of the biggest events and in one that i wanted to do better at. Now on bbc news click. This week, the best view in the world, super smart singapore, and a race to save shanghai. 5 1i5am On Sunday 19th October 2014, 19 miles above new mexico, and the type of sunrise that not many people have ever seen. Its the view from a test flight which is preparing to take tourists into the stratosphere by balloon. While all the attention has been focused on Space Tourism using rockets and space planes, weve got exclusive access to one company in the Arizona Desert thats been quietly building its own spaceport. Welcome to world view. Its really the way to do Space Tourism, because you want to go and spend time and look at the view and have a Gentle Ride Up and a gentle ride back. I mean, look, the rocket rides are going to be great, im sure, but for me, i want to sit there with my glass of champagne and my best friend and look. Tickets are currently selling for 75,000 each for a two hour ascent in a pressurised capsule to an altitude of 100,000 feet. Today, one of world views co founders and his team are showing me a small piece of the balloons material, a secret blend of polyethylene and other materials. I cant help but notice that you have, i think, the worlds biggest table. Tell me you use this for christmas dinners. Absolutely, you should see the parties we have on this table so how long is the table . Its about a tenth of a mile. 0k and seriously, are you going to make a balloon that covers this entire table . So full scale balloons for heavy lift flights, so like a voyager flight, use the entire table. If you want to take a payload that is 10,000 pounds to 105,000 feet, it takes a balloon the size of this entire table, so you could take a Football Field and spin it inside the balloon when it is fully inflated. Whoa contrary to what i thought, as the helium expands, it doesnt cause the material to stretch. Instead, the gas just occupies more of the initially empty balloon. Can you navigate when you are up there . Can you actually decide on a course . Or are you subject to whichever way the wind blows . So it turns out, in the stratosphere, you very often get counter flowing winds, the stratosphere and the troposphere going different directions, and in that interface, the wind swirls. So by guiding my altitude up and down, i can sort of sail the stratosphere, much like a ship uses the currents and winds to sail the oceans. I think that is really the innovation that were pushing, how to do that navigation, when you can find the right winds and how you take advantage of different kinds of swirling in the winds. That is a large part of the innovation, along with just the ability to control your altitude and use solar energy to go up and go back down. And then theres the question of how you get back down again, which is apparently like this. They go into whats pretty close to freefall for Something Like ten seconds, so it feels very light, like going over the top of a roller coaster, just feeling light, and then we come so were just gaining some speed, and then it feels like a normal flight in an aircraft. You have to be finished your champagne by then. One of our requirements was that you dont spill your champagne, literally, when that happens, so i think we are going to have a little cup on the champagne. First world problem could you now put a little lid over the top of your champagne as we drop you back from space . The person wholl make sure you dont spill your booze or any other fluid for that matter is the pilot. Its a unique job, and thats why an ex nasa test pilot and astronaut will be the one pulling the strings, as it were. What are your controls . When you are on a parafoil or Something Like that, you have this left right thing going on, is that what youve got, two strings . You can think of it that way, but in reality the spacecraft is about 10,00lbs, weve got a parachute thats the size of a basketball court, so we couldnt physically, you know, have enough force to pull on it. So we are actually controlling probably with a joystick, were still designing exactly what its going to look like, but that joystick or that whatever controller is controlling motors that are pulling on lines on a parachute, just like you would if you were skydiving, butjust on a much, much bigger scale. What will this look like when its kitted out for passengers . When its kitted out for passengers, it will have these tremendous windows, at least four of them, four big ones and then some smaller ones. There will be seats for everybody, there will be a bar, who wants a spacecraft without a bar . and well have a bathroom, its a five hour flight, at least, so you need a bathroom on board too. You say this is the first spacecraft youve flown with a bar, so youve flown other spacecraft, then . I have. Tell me about this. So ive flown on both the us Space Shuttle and the russian soyuz spacecraft. How do you think this will compare to that . Itll be a different experience, i can tell you that, you know, when we come back with the soyuz, for instance, we hurtle through the atmosphere on fire at five miles per second, its very violent, very dynamic, lots of g forces, youre getting thrown all over the place in the cockpit, you feel the heat, youre labouring to breathe. This will be nothing like that, this will be a lot more gentle, a lot more relaxing, and, frankly, it will enable people to take in the experience a lot more. Its not like youre wondering whether youre going to survive the next second or not. We are going to have more from world view in a few minutes, but first lets come back Down To Earth and talk about the cities of our future, cities which are already capable of guiding our decisions, thanks to an explosion in cameras, sensors and artificially intelligent technology. Jen copestake has been to one of the most hi tech places on earth to see what might be in our connected future. Theres been a Great Variety of connected devices that have entered our lives in the last few years. Weve seen many concepts at trade shows around the world, with irons, fridges and robots communicating through the internet of things. Finding the best ways to put these devices to good use for Wider Society is a challenge that Large Companies and governments are now taking on. Singapore is the perfect test bed for internet of things technologies. It is a quintessential smart city, and that is because its only a0 kilometres across, so its very small, and the government here is heavily invested in technology initiatives, including investing in sensors all around the city. Along with sensors to monitor pollution and traffic, some buildings in singapore are equipped with accelerometers to monitor elderly peoples movements. Yuhua is a smart region of the city where all the homes are kitted out with smart technology. The government has now created an impressive 3d map model of yuhua where every tiny detail can be seen. What they did was they actually flew planes over the entire singapore and scanned the entire country, and then what we did was take the model and load it in here, and we enhanced the model to this level of quality. So these are separately modelled from the buildings, the buildings are separately modelled as each building, object, for example. If you click on a building, it tells you consumption versus generation, for example, all right . And you could click on the solar panel, and you just get. For those particular panels. Exactly. This is, again, very typical of singapore, high rise living. And that is the waste management. Its incredible, we are seeing these green pathways shooting out across the building, where are they going . They are not meteors or anything like that they are just simulating how garbage is disposed in high rise living, down the chute, you open the hopper, you drop the garbage, and it gets collected in a huge bin down at the bottom. Its certainly mesmerising, which is something i never thought id say about garbage collection. Its quite a science here and for driving around the city, how about a ride in an autonomous taxi . Singapore became the worlds first city to introduce the cars created by mit Start Up Nutonomy that travel around six kilometres of the citys tech district. Companies are also testing the way that Artificial Intelligence can integrate into projects. Ibm has opened a new lab here, focusing on al. This includes a pilot we saw late last year, where its Watson System is helping nurses in a Busy Icu Ward by monitoring vital signs and triaging the most at risk patients. You could even think of this as a command and control centre for multiple hospitals, right . Because parkway has a network of hospitals, and if they really wanted to, they could create a kind of command and control centre, where someone is monitoring all their icus around the region. If you see that some of your patients are trending negatively, you obviously want to focus more on them, and the ones that are doing fine, you canjust continue monitoring as per normal. The Singapore Government is pushing Digital Transformation with its new agency, govtech. We had a brief demo of its online services, including myinfo, a portal designed to make things like banking transactions easier by keeping verification details all in one place. Its protected by strict Data Protection laws and is an opt in service. The overarching idea is to make technologies such a central part of life here, to make it possible to keep pace with regulation. Weve seen this to be more challenging elsewhere, particularly with laws on autonomous vehicles. Singapore will continue to act as a Tech Testing Ground for finding ways to integrate new technologies with society and be a case study for other countries to watch. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that Mark Zuckerberg appeared in court to deny accusations that the software behind facebook owned 0culuss success was stolen. Meanwhile, instagram has followed in owner facebooks footsteps, adding a live video streaming function for uk users, although each one will Self Destruct as soon as it finishes. A Disappearing Photo Option has appeared too. Mobile network ee has been fined £2. 7 million for overcharging Tens Of Thousands of customers. And squirrels have been blamed for being a bigger threat cybercriminals. Samsung, listen up researchers at Stanford University have developed a Lithium Ion Battery that claims to release a Fire Extinguishing material if overheating occurs. If youre wondering where the robots are in this weeks news, well, they seem to have gone walkabout. This telepresence mind controlled bot has been developed to help those with severe motor disabilities. Claiming to be the first of its kind available to consumers, it connects through an off the shelf brain control device, resulting in users feeling as though they are in two places at once. And finally, if you ever travelled to japan, youll know about the toilets, which are beautifully hi tech, but you may not be quite sure what to make of them. Well, some leading manufacturers have agreed on a standardised set of icons for Common Cleaning features to help tourists know what theyre letting themselves in for. Im in the Arizona Desert near tucson at the new headquarters of world view, which is planning to take people to the stratosphere under a helium balloon. This is spaceport tucson. This is a 700 foot wide circle just outside of world views buildings, and in just a couple of weeks time, this is where they will launch a Space Balloon from for the first time. Its a circle so that they can lay the balloon out in any direction they need to, depending on the winds on that day. I dont think you really have an appreciation of how big the sky is. That is what its all about. World views boss, jane poynter, is a developer of technologies for extreme environments like space. And she hopes that the view from 20 miles up will give passengers a unique perspective on the fragility of our planet. And curiously, this project was born out of a view that was pretty much the opposite when its two founders took part in a two year study of how 8 humans, plus animals and plants, would interact and survive in a completely closed ecosystem. You come from a space background, but really interesting, in the early 90s, you shut yourself away in biosphere 2 with some other crazy. I mean, some other people what was that like . Oh, my gosh, so biosphere 2 was actually an inspiration for world view, so when we were in the biosphere, one of the most extraordinary experiences that i had, and i think most of the people in there had, was the experience of really being part of our biosphere, and you really get this sense a huge scale, but in normal life we cant even imagine it, really. And its a very similar idea to the experience that astronauts have the earth from space, and it was that experience that we wanted to give people, because of the experience that weve had in the biosphere. So i guess its easy to imagine that we are all looking at you guys in the biosphere, but i suppose youre looking out from a unique Vantage Point as well. That is right, so both truths are true, so we had people walk around the outside of the biosphere, and i got e mails from people who said, i get it now ive been hearing about the fact that this planet is a finite place for so many years, and i never understood until i walked around this miniature version of our planet. And suddenly i got it, i could see its boundaries, i knew that you guys that were living inside only had what you had in there, which is exactly the same as we have right here on planet earth, on spaceship earth. Emotions certainly run high in that kind of environment, but theyre not all bad. One of the other biosphere 2 crewmembers was taber maccallum, who later becamejanes husband. Hes explaining how, although a balloon cant technically get you into the vacuum of space, the conditions in the stratosphere are similar enough, with very low air pressure and extremes of temperature in the sun and shade, to mean that world views balloons are already carrying scientific equipment up in so called stratolites, which can hang over one location for days at a time. So theres satellites in low earth orbit that are whizzing around at 17,000 mph. There are satellites in Geostationary Orbit that are very far away, have a hard time focusing in on things. And then below that we have aircraft, that can carry cameras and drones, and where we sit is sort of between all those. We can sit over a piece, persist over a piece of land for a while, and we have a close view, because we are only about 20 miles up, but we dont have the speed and expense of being a rocket, and we dont have all of the fuel burn of flying an aeroplane through the air. It is a compelling argument, i suppose, that rockets are dangerous, and they are expensive, and they are rather noisy. And if you want to send something up close to space, and you can do it with a balloon, why wouldnt you . Its also a compelling argument that the more people who see the earth from way up there, the more people may have the kind the team here. Of transcendental shifting viewpoint that seems to be driving the team here. It changes the way you embed yourself in our biosphere, the way you think about our place in this biosphere that we inhabit. I mean, it clearly changes the way many people have gone about developing our environmental movement. It changes the way we think about communication around the planet, collaborating with people around the planet. It really does strip away the notion of boundaries, of national boundaries, because we think of this as an entity that we all inhabit at once. What has changed is my definition of the word home, and when we had the re entry of the soyuz spacecraft, we hit the ground, flipped and rolled over, and now my window was pointing down at the ground, and i remember looking out the window and seeing a rock, a flower and a blade of grass, and i remember thinking, im home. What was really interesting about that thought is i was home, but i was in kazakhstan, and so to me my home wasnt just in houston, texas, where at the time i lived with my family my home expanded to include earth, and i think our definition of that word home has profound implications for how we problem solve on our planet, how we treat each other, how we treat our planet, and i think that is one of the things that were trying to do here. Were trying to bring that perspective to as many people as we can, because i think the more people who have that perspective, the more people who have the opportunity to see our planet from that Vantage Point, the better off all of us here on the surface are going to be. There are few countries which can match the speed at which the us is boldly striding into the future, but china is certainly one of them. With an economy that is doubling in size every decade, china is in a hurry. But, unlike america, often that progress is built literally on top of some amazing history railroading through plans for new builds without pausing to preserve the past. Dan simmons has been to shanghai to meet the citys professor of preservation. I found this problem, they destroyed these older buildings, so i warned them, you cant do it. But i think they dont understand the value of these buildings, so after that i just gave the information to the newspaper. The professor is unusual for china, in that hes not afraid to speak out against plans to destroy some of the countrys finest architectural heritage. Oh, wow what a mess do you know why theyve pulled down heritage buildings like this . I think the reason is they think these buildings are not safe and not want to do some good thing, but in the wrong way. What used to be here looks like that building behind, didnt it . The same, yeah, quite old, i think most of them are about 100 years old, wooden structure, typical local buildings. I think its quite important historical memory of this, so i feel very sorrow for what they do. The chinese Authorities Say these buildings, a0 minutes drive from downtown shanghai, need upgrading. But the materials arent traditional, and neither is the style. So for the professor, this is a race against time, first to capture everything thats still here. The professors team uses a 3d laser scanner. Pictures are taken, for taller structures by drone. And then back at base, image based modelling allows them to add photorealistic skins to the inch perfect reconstruction. In many examples, from temples to colonial schools, the professor tries to stop the destruction, but where he cant, his team recreates these communities virtually. This is one of the visualisations of the rubble that we were standing on earlier. And here is the 3d model of what was there. Using old photos, some given to the team by local residents, the picture slowly builds, including of the buildings already destroyed. Materials, building styles and colour matching adds to the accuracy of what the professor hopes will be a lasting digital legacy to show future generations. Reconstructing the model is all done by hand. Its incredibly quick. Even at this speed, the project will take around six months to complete. Shanghai is changing so fast. For a city of china, we must face this problem. Removing so many older buildings, so many older districts. Comparing to a european city, i think we must focus on this kind of problem, because our city is becoming newer and newer so fast. That was dan in shanghai, and that is it from world view in tucson, arizona. What a fascinating story this is turning out to be. You can follow us on twitter, as always, bbcclick throughout the week, well put loads of backstage photos and gossip up there. Thanks for watching, and well see you soon. Its a winters tale i have to tell you, some its a winters tale i have to tell you, some emerged its a winters tale i have to tell you, some emerged from our coldest nighted for some four years. Flurries of snow in some places earlier but once the snow was up a delightful day in some places. This in north yorkshire. In other parts a gloomy day with ledden skies and temperatures in some spots havent got above 2 or 3 all day. A right mixture but a cold theme as we head into the night. Areas of blue indicating lowest temp tu, parts of Northern Ireland and the South East Of England particularly. The other elements is consider is fog. Temperatures in some spots as we saw last nightl temperatures in some spots as we saw last night l get lower than these numbers suggest so, severe frosts likely. And taking the rest of the weather off and showing you the areas of fog which we think will be hazardous over the next couple of days especially across england and wales on monday and again on tuesday, with the possibility or even probability of some disruption. Lets get into the meaty detail at 8am some airports could be affected in the sett south ease. If you are going allow wra extra time and check with your operator, because there could be delays. Not everyone waking up could be delays. Not everyone waking up to fog, brighter spells further east. There could be some clearer skies and then frost across parts of northern england, Northern Ireland and southern scotland. Further north more cloud. Again, temperatures where you have cloud wont be as low as where you have clear skies first thing in the morning. For most, nearly all of us will have a dry day, good news for many, of course, but for some itll stay gloomy and murky all day. Where the fog lingers temperatures wont get above freezing, in the best of the Sunshine Athere will be a fair bit, it shouldnt feel too bad. And temperatures bouncing back nicely, up temperatures bouncing back nicely, up to between 5 7. By Tuesday Morning, the fog will be back with a vengeance. Morning, the fog will be back with a vengeance. It could be more extensive on Tuesday Morning for central and eastern areas, slowly lifting and helpfully sunshine e merrelling. Patchy rain tracking across Northern Ireland and scotland through the day. No great amount. But it will be milder, double figures in some place, chillier further south where the fog lingers, later on this week, the fog will lift as the wind picks up. It will bea lift as the wind picks up. It will be a chilly wind later on this week before eventually, i think for all, come next weekend itll turn milder. All the latest on any warnings can be found on the bbc weather website. This is bbc news. Im maxine mawhinney. The headlines at four. Theresa may will not say whether she knew about a failed Trident Missile test, which happened when mps were debating whether to renew the weapons system. I have absolute faith in our Trident Missiles. When i made that speech in the house of commons, what we were talking about was whether or not we should renew our trident. The Prime Minister confirms she will be the first world leader to meet President Trump when they hold talks on friday. Millions took to the streets in protest against the new president , but the white house accuses the media of dishonestly reporting numbers attending his inauguration. The gambias defeated leader, yahya jammeh, flies into exile, 22 years after taking control of the west african state in a coup. Disappointment for andy murray. The world number one crashes out of the Australian Open following a shock defeat in the fourth round