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The popcorn has been purchased, the house lights dimmed, but instead of preparing for the latest blockbuster trailers, ill be grabbing a game controller and firing up a console on one of the biggest screens here at the cineworld in londons leicester square. theres big, and then theres that. this screen is 2a metres across, which dwarfs even the largest television. at the moment, though, its grand scale is simply highlighting that i need to spend a little bit more time practising at mario kart. a...

And finally, a robot can now scale stairs without computer vision to guide it. feats like this usually require ai sight, but this two—legged bot has been trained in a virtual simulator to operate blind, meaning it could be used in dim light orfog. its definitely going up in the world! now, after months of shutdown, cinemas here in the uk are finally reopening. and while they wait for all of those big blockbusters to be released, they are looking at ways of making money in the meantime. so, how...

The rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees celsius — a much more demanding target than the 2 degrees celsius they are currently committed to. so what action will they take? our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt has been taking a look. the uk is due to host a landmark international climate conference in glasgow in november. so here are the key commitments made today. india and many other developing countries receive subsidies for polluting coal plants from foreign donors, includ...

Of people weve been able to employ on this has meant so much to me personally, to send those emails and make those calls, to say "weve got a job for you", that has meant the most to me in this whole project, definitely. that field there was the first place i ever camped, in the dragon field. its also clear how much it means to the acts, including wolf alice. moaning lisa smile plays wolf alice have played at three glastonburys, the last time on the pyramid stage. the venue for this is on a rathe...

And carbon capture research. making earth our priority. i thought id seen it all. ( ♪ )

Untangle all the complexity surrounding a trip this year. if youre a loyal viewer of the travel show, you might be thinking, hang on, about a year ago im sure he was saying, oh, it will all be over byjuly, will have a normal summer. well yes, i was hopelessly overoptimistic. and the confidence we used to have as travellers has been seriously dented. forthe travellers has been seriously dented. for the coming months, maybe years, there will be an awful lot of uncertainty associated with travellin...

Well, thats everything for this week. but coming up next time: we look back at some of the strangest places weve spent the night here on the travel show. from a chilly night champing in the uk... its quite cold, its got notably quite cold. i think there is a jolly good reason camping is only done during the summer. because these old churches dont have nice central heating. but it is oddly peaceful, actually.

Drone in the air above — but i think they are pretty confident the ceasefire is going to hold. on the way down from jerusalem, i could see them packing up their iron dome anti—missile system, at least from some of the batteries, and taking it away on a lorry. now, southern israel was absolutely paralysed by the attacks, even though there was that big disparity in casualty levels, and here in gaza, there is a lot of rebuilding to do. people have lost their homes but, as well as that, the mili...

Sometimes, though, it isjust worth putting your phone down and taking in the majesty of it all as we hurtle through the universe on our one tiny ball of rock. brilliant! that was sarah cruddas. how amazing were those pictures? incredible pictures, and its amazing to see what our smartphones can do that most of us will never actually use them for. right. and over the course of the past year, some people have got into new hobbies. others may have been busy sorting things out around the house, like...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines... fomer bbc director general lord hall resigns as national gallery chairman, saying continuing in the role would be a "distraction" following the inquiry in to panoramas interview with princess diana. wider surge testing has been rolled out in five west london boroughs due to a rise in coronavirus cases linked to the indian variant. germany bans almost all travellers from the uk because of the rise in cases of the indian variant of covid—i9. the firs...