Laugh along at themselves. Ricky gervais always says he takes no prisoners, gervais always says he takes no risoners hes gervais always says he takes no prisoners, hes doing it for the little people, and he really does ta ke little people, and he really does take them into his captivity and then mentions everybody from the surgeons that are making fortunes in early two mel gibsons drinking. Most controversially in previous yea rs, most controversially in previous years, he mentioned caitlynjenner when she was just emerging as a prominent transgender figure so clearly all bets are off. Hes also raised the stakes by saying, this is the last time he will be doing it. But he has said that before. Give us the big nominations. A couple of stories, this is the year once again of netflix. We know it has been moving into that tv world but it has increasingly been putting its stamp on the film pedigree tax agrees. It has 3a nominations in total with the irishman, Martin Scorseses film. All eyes will be on Phoebe Waller bridge because we will be hoping she goes home with a clutch of awards for flea bag. We goes home with a clutch of awards forflea bag. We should mention olivia colman, a National Treasure turned icon for her performance as elizabeth ii, Helena Bonham carter, daniel craig, sasha baron cohen, and a british nomination for game of thrones. Plenty of people to root for anybody tuning in overnight. And a certain star ofjojo rabbit as well. If it gets boring, im sure there will be something on netflix. Now its time for a look at the weather with phil avery. Hello once again. A fairly quiet weekend of weather continues apace for many parts of the British Isles for the rest of today. Still got a weather front close by to the north of scotland, so thicker cloud there, some bits and pieces of rain and rather more noticeable wind than will be the case elsewhere. The cloud just thick enough across the high ground in england and wales for the odd spot of rain, not amounting to much on what is going to be a fairly mild afternoon. Not a great deal changes through the course of the evening. Perhaps the rain quits the scene from parts of scotland overnight. And with a fairly complete cloud cover, temperatures holding up, four to about 10 degrees or so. A mild start to the new day on monday. It is a dry start for many, but dont be fooled by that. Certainly into northern ireland, scotland and the north of england, and increasingly later on in the afternoon, wales, the south west and eventually into the midlands too, you will all get to see the rain. It will brighten up behind it. You dont get to see the rain in the south east until quite late in the day. Bye bye. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. Iranian mps chant death to america , as President Trump warns the United States has a list of 52 targets that will be hit very hard if iran retaliates for the killing of its top military leader. Royal Navy Warships are ordered to escort british flagged vessels in the persian gulf and the Prime Minister is returning to the uk from his caribbean holiday. The australian Prime Minister warns that the bushfire crisis could last for months. 2a people have now died. Now on bbc news, its click. This week spotting a face, a ticket to space, and a drag race. It can only be the finest tech from click in 2019. Hello, welcome, and a very happy new year to you. Gosh, 2020 always sounded like the future, didnt it . now that its here, i guess its not. We are going to get stuck into the new year next week but first were going to take you on a trip back through 2019. It was the year that we celebrated our ioooth show with an interactive episode online, where you could choose your own path through. Imagine if everything that you watched was interactive, and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires, or even how much time you had. If you go online at the address that is on screen now you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. You get to choose which tech stories you hear about and in how much detail. As you watch, youll be given options to dive deeper or to look at things from a different perspective or maybe to skip on entirely. I tried out nasas next moon buggy. By the way, we are on a slight incline right now. And we visited taiwan to see how Green Technology was helping to clean up the environment. I think 2019 was a year when many of us regarded technology with a healthy degree of scepticism. Instead of just openly welcoming tech advances, we worried about data privacy, about the management of social media sites, and about online security. It was a year when the police around the world stepped up their use of facial Recognition Technology and while, yes it could help track down criminals, as the police here in the uk discovered, big brothers not everyones cup of tea. Police cameras in an east london street, everyone gets scanned. If you refuse, heres what can happen. If i want to cover me face, ill cover me face dont push me this man didnt want to be caught by the Police Cameras so he covered his face. Police stopped him, they photographed him anyway, an argument followed. How would you like it if you walked down the street and someone grabbed you . You wouldnt like it, would you . Whats your suspicion . The fact that hes walked past clearly marked. I would do the same i would do the same. It gives us grounds to stop him and verify. No, it doesnt the police said this was disorderly behaviour, so they gave him a fine. The chap told me down the road, he said theyve got facial recognition. So i walk past like that, its a cold day as well. As soon as ive done that, the Police Officers asked me to come to them. Got my back up, i said to him. Basically. I dont want my face shown on anything. If i want to cover my face, i will cover my face. Its not for them to tell me to not cover my face. Got a £90 fine, there you go, look at that. Thanks, lads £90. Well done. He was caught up in the last of ten trials carried out by the metropolitan police. The met have had successes there were three arrests from facial recognition on this test day alone, but the trials have proved controversial. Opponents claim they are taking place in a legal vacuum. There is nothing in uk law that has the words facial recognition. There is no legal basis for the police to be using facial recognition. There are no legal limitations on how they can use it, no policy, no regulation. Its a free for all. We are reviewing all capabilities in terms of live facial recognition. Absolutely, the technology is there for body worn or smaller devices to be fitted with facial Recognition Technology as is cctv, so absolutely, we will look at that, but again, the right safeguards and the right reviews and learning has to be put around that. And it turns out that warning was timely, because a few months later, it emerged that facial Recognition Technology was being used to identify members of the public without their knowledge or consent at the london Kings Cross Station estate. And it was with the help of londons metropolitan police. The owners of that area and the police have both since apologised and the scheme was scrapped, but there is still no laws in the uk specifically relating to how facial recognition cameras should be used. Now, whats your Top Technology of 2019 . Well, the one that we think really came of age this year, really started to take off, was electric cars. For the first time, if you were thinking of getting a new car, you probably at least considered getting an all electric one. So we did a whole show on them. And to prove how quick they can go, we raced one against a lambo. Now, both cars are in their fastest set ups, and whatever happens today, we recommend you dont try this at home. We have several Safety Measures in operation. First of all, johnny is a professional racing instructor here at drift limits, he does this day in, day out to scare the living daylights out of members of the public. In the passenger seat will be mark, ensuring fair play and probably screaming his head off. And who can we get to give one of the finest sports cars a run for its money in a tesla . Its only top gears the stig oh, im sorry, the stig wasnt available, so im standing in. Is that 0k . Its only clicks Lara Lewington drivers, start your engines ready. Im the passenger here so myjob is really simple, ijust have to observe. 0h i did brake a bit early, but i have so clearly won. Im no expert, but that was no contest. Wow and i can tell you that lara hasnt stopped bragging about that race since. 2019 was the year when many more manufacturers joined the electric party. Better infrastructure, decent driving ranges and guarantees on battery life all added to the mood music and so dan simmons went to the frankfurt motor show to catch the electric buzz. There was really only one big question for the big execs of the huge german Car Companies at the worlds biggest motor show. Why are they ten years behind tesla in offering us an all electric car . We are not each time the fastest or the earliest, but if we come, we come very strong. Tesla is a company that has been solely focused on electric vehicle production, you have to give them credit for blazing the trail. Electric may only represent less than 3 of all new car sales last year, but vw have taken a close look at them and reckon its the future. Well, its obviously not real. These cool designs are actually for the future. Maybe. Each car manufacturer brings out some concept ideas. Interestingly, on the volkswagen stand, they were all electric. The real car they were launching was the ids, a sort of electric golf. With a 205 340 mile range depending on the exact model, with prices starting from a competitive 30,000 euros, and a first from vw. They will guarantee the battery for eight years, meaning that if it loses more than a quarter of its full charge when new, they will replace it. Audi hasnt done much in the way of electric for the past ten years either, although now they have this. Sorry, thats another concept car. Now they have this. They have started with the popular style family suv, but at more than £70,000, can many families afford it . I think there is this perception in the market that i have to pay more for the electric version of the same size vehicle than i would for gas or diesel. I think what you are going to see is, at least at audi, we are going into a lot lower segments in order to make electrification much more affordable. There are not many families that could afford 90,000 euros for a car. Sure there are but surely some things will never lose the roar of a combustion engine. When land rover decide to make the defender electric, then you know there is a trend going on. It also updates its own software over the air. And then there were the sports cars. The taycan is porsches first all electric car and it shifts 0 62 in 3. 2 seconds, with a range of up to 279 miles and a guarantee on that battery. Ok, its £115,000, but thats a 12k saving on its petrol performance equivalent, the 9 11 actual turbo. Good value, maybe, but i have a feeling that its that vw that will turn out to be super competitive as an entry model for most. That was dan playing with the everyday and the not so everyday. Now, from electric to self driving cars. For the past couple of years or so they have been tested on the roads of arizona, usa. But in 2018, things went badly wrong when one of them failed to stop and killed a pedestrian. Last year, i visited the state to find out how the locals felt about living with autonomous vehicles. In chandler, there is the same mix of excitement and concern about self driving cars that we have seen everywhere. The difference is, for these people, it is happening right in front of them, right now. It is big money saying, hey, listen, this is cool, this is new, im sure you will like this because you see it and its fascinating, but at the same time, you are costing people theirjobs and people who are taking care of their families. This is something you would see on tv when you were a kid in old 905 movies of self driving cars and the fact that it is actually here at our fingertips, i think it is incredible. Lyft drivers are going to lose theirjobs, and not only will they lose theirjobs, i promise you they are going to try to figure out a way to make machines create these cars, so they are not even going to let humans create the cars. Do i trust a machine with my childrens lives . I dont know if i could do that or not. And last year, the fears of the community became a reality. But the number of accidents involving self driving cars is very low for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. Testing continues, both in the states and elsewhere around the world, but most experts agree that we are still quite a few years away from seeing the widespread use of cars that can safely drive themselves. Not least because the Legal Framework to allow it is still being thrashed out. Now, another Big Development in tech this year has been the long awaited arrival of 5g. Has it changed your life yet . Amongst other things, 5g promises to connect everything all of the time. And when my say everything, i mean. Everything. In this idyllic patch of british countryside, the birds are cheerfully singing and the cows are peacefully grazing. But look closer and you will see there is something very different about these cows, linking them to a unique experiment. This dairy farm in somerset is one of the first test beds for 5g in the uk. The cows are wearing sensors and all of the data is being sent to the cloud and then back to the farmer who can make decisions based on this data. Almost every task on this farm can be automated. These cows are queueing up to be milked. The robot picks up how much milk is coming from each of the cows others and controls the sensitivity of the milking as well. The cows here come and go as they please with little Human Interaction their movements. So one of these cows has just taken itself for a massage. 5g could change the life of cows forever. And from one minor miracle to the promise of another now, space travel for ordinary folk. Like us last autumn, mark was invited to new mexico in the United States to see the worlds first commercial spaceport. Fire its a little after 7am and im heading into the desert in new mexico, about 20 miles past a place called truth or consequences. Thank you very much. The only way that you can get to space today is with the russians and they are currently charging nasa around 80 million per ticket. Spaceport america is the new home of Virgin Galactic, the Company Founded by billionaire Richard Branson to take paying customers on 90 minute flights to the edge of space. The spaceports exterior is the product of a dish architects also eventually, five spaceships and to make carrier and aircraft will reside in the hang up. Passengers will also receive three days training here before blasting off into the upper atmosphere. You are go for launch. Its also home to Mission Control where all Flight Operations are monitored from and this is the very first time a tv crew has been allowed to film inside this room. The winds are holding exterior at ten knots and 30. When do you think Virgin Galactic is going to be putting paying customers into space . What is the day, when is that going to happen . Right now, according to our current projections, we think we can Start Operation next year. The world, of course, has bigger problems to solve than just trying to get us off it and in 2019, green issues and sustainability came to the fore. Extiction rebellion, greta thunberg, and the uks commitment to become Carbon Neutral by 2050. Last year i met up with the first scientist to suggest that as well as stopping emitting greenhouse gases, we might be able to use technology to pull them back out of the atmosphere. Its called the artificial tree. The air passes through these filters which are made of a very special material, because the co2 actually clings to this material as the air passes over it. Once these filters are saturated with carbon dioxide, this whole thing moves down into a container of water where this particular material releases the co2 into the sealed container and then congratulations, youve captured yourself some co2 from the air. This is the brainchild of clouse, here at the aptly named negative emission centre at Arizona State university. I realised very early on that this is a Waste Management problem. We are dumping co2 into the atmosphere and itjust stays there. It was very clear to me in the early 90s that sometime in the 21st century, will have to stop omitting. Emitting. He was the first scientist back in 1999 to publish a scientific paper suggesting that Carbon Capture from the air was a feasible way of combating climate change. And once youve captured the carbon, the next problem is what are you going to do with it . We can use the co2 to create drinks, beer or soda or whatever. We can also use co2 forfuel production. There are also currently studies ongoing to see if we can somehow use the co2 as a building material. Yet, in the future, we may be able to lock co2 into concrete. Climate change is getting ever more urgent and so the work to combat it is getting ever more important. Isnt that right, alexa . Yes it is, spencer. You been quite popular over the last year, havent you . I have, havent i, spencer . Everything. Im always listening to you, spencer. Not so good are reacting to other types of sounds like alarms or dogs barking. Iam. Yes, thanks alexa. Paul carter, earlier in the year went to see a British Company that is teaching voice assistance some new tricks. These waveforms that i can see here on the screen at represe