The headlines joe biden and Kamala Harris have been setting out their vision for the us in their first joint appearance since he chose her as his Vice President ial candidate. Mr biden said he had no doubt he had picked the right person. Senator harris said the country welcome to bbc news. Is crying out for leadership. Im mike embley. Our top stories in belarus, people have come out in the capital, minsk, for a fourth joe biden appears in public night of protests for the first time with his against sundays election result. The re elected president , new election running mate Kamala Harris. Alexander lu kashenko, has dismissed the protesters as i have no doubt that i picked criminals and the unemployed. The European Union has said the right person to join the vote was neither free nor fair. I have no doubt that i picked the right person tojoin me i have no doubt that i picked the right person to join me as doctors in the lebanese the right person to join me as the next Vice President of the capital are warning that United States of america, and many of beiruts children will carry the physical thatis and psychological scars of last United States of america, and that is senator Kamala Harris. Weeks explosion into adulthood. Lam incredibly that is senator Kamala Harris. I am incredibly honoured by this responsibility, and i am as many as 80,000 children have been made homeless ready to get to work. I am according to unicef. Ready to get to work. I am ready to get to work. I am ready to get to work. Anger continues over alleged vote rigging in the belarus election. The countrys president compares the protestors to criminals and the unemployed. Beiruts children will carry the physical and psychological three people have died scars of last weeks in a Train Derailment explosion into adulthood,
in aberdeenshire, scotland. A stark warning from doctors another six people on board in the lebanese capital. Have been taken to hospital. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon has been at the scene. The wreckage of the derailed train. 0ne passenger carriage halfway down a bank. Another carriage seemingly crushed in the force of the crash. Shocking images showing whats left of the Early Morning service from aberdeen to glasgow. The scale of the incident all too clear. Scotlands first minister expressing her shock of the days events. This is shocking news. In my condolences of the loved ones of the few people who have lost their lives and that includes the driver of the train. Clearly, this is an ongoing operation. Ijust been briefed on that, but devastating news
for the bereaved, but also for those who were on the train and my best wishes go to those who sustained injuries. The weather overnight was described as atrocious. Around the time of the crash, network rail published as footage showing poor conditions. Lines block, heavy rain caused flash flooding in stone haven, the town nearby. Early indications are that they derailment in this rural part of aberdeenshire may have been caused by a landslide. The Emergency Services working to get the injured to hospital and recover those who died. The driver, the conductor and one passenger on the train. Over the coming days, investigators will try to piece together what caused this tragedy to occur. We really need to take the time to understand exactly what caused this event. The railway is an exceptionally safe mode of travel, but we just need to take the time to understand why this has happened. The queen, who is also
currently in aberdeenshire, at balmoral, sent a message of condolence, stating that the entire royal family joined her in sending their thoughts and prayers to those who had died and those who had been injured. That sentiment echoed by the prime minister. One of the reasons that this accident is so shocking is, of course, that it is this type of accident on the railways is, thankfully, so rare. But our thoughts are very much with those who have lost their lives, theirfamilies and of course those who have been injured in the derailment. For much of the day, smoke was seen billowing out of the valley where the wreckage now sits. A sombre marker of the scale and force of what happened here and the challenges that faced First Responders on the ground. The Emergency Services this evening continuing their work to make the site safe. They are nowjoined by those investigating what caused the countrys first fatal derailment in over a decade. Now on bbc news, its click. This week hong kong activists, a touch of Space Tourism. Fire, fire . And cgi catwalks. Hey, welcome to click. Hope youre doing 0k. Laura certainly is, because, look, shes got a new friend. Thats right. Basil, meat spencer, spencer meet basil. Hello, basil, nice to meet you. Look at us were talking to plants, thats what lockdown has done to us. Yeah, this is what it has come to. This is a small example of my amazing gardening talent. You may recall a few weeks ago i planted a whole
vertical farm. Yes, i do. How was it . Is it still alive . Yes, its doing really well, and i think devices like this or that really stop you from going wrong. Because once youve got them plugged in and you make sure they dont run out of water, well, the device does the rest of the job. Later in the programme, i will be showing you all of the food that i have been growing. Wow, cant wait. Thanks, laura. We will come back to laura in a few minutes. First of all, we are going to hong kong. Now, you will probably know that there have been protests in hong kong against the chinese authorities for over a year. And now, beijing has introduced new laws to crack down on civil unrest. There are fears that these will give the authorities unfettered control over the internet, and many worry that the great chinese firewall is about to be extended. Danny vincent has been talking to hong kong tech activists on the front line. Every day at midnight, hong kongs most prominent activist, joshua wong, live streams his updates
to the world on facebook. He is using the livestream to report his safety to followers. Its one small way that young activists in hong kong are using technology in the wake of the new National Security law. Joshua thinks the authorities are building a case against him, and arrest is imminent. We have no confidence at all to guarantee all of our speech, and all of our statements could be legal under the framework of the nat sec law. Hong kong saw thousands of protesters take to the streets last year in opposition to an extradition bill. They say they are now facing an even greater threat to their freedoms in the form of a new National Security law. They say theyre not only facing heavy policing on the streets, but also online. Glacier kwong is a tech activist, she sees the internet as a new battle ground. She says the new National Security law limits freedom of speech online. Digital sovereignty, its a word that china and beijing often use. They use it to describe that they have to have the right to control what information and what is Available Online for chinese citizens. This is how theyjustified their great firewall in china. And they are now trying to expand this kind of concept into hong kong by implementing the National Security law into hong kong. They are trying to argue that they have the sovereignty over hong kong and, therefore, they have the rights to control what is available on the internet. The Central Government says the introduction of the new law is to restore order after a year of often violent protests. It criminalises state subversion. Punishment could mean life in prison. The law gives the authorities the power to force internet providers to delete content. China is evolving into a digital superpower. They have really smart
and comprehensive approaches in controlling its people, including hong kongers. For example, they have the great firewall in china, and they re implementing it in hong kong. Not the physical infrastructure, because we have the open telecommunication system, but then they are trying to implement it through having this National Security law because that will encourage platforms and their users both to censor themselves and their users, and, therefore, we have limited access to information. This footage is from a livestream of recent arrests of student activists suspected of violating the National Security law. Their phones and computers were taken into custody. Tech activists are worried about mobile phone Extraction Technology used by the police force, equipment reportedly provided by an Israeli Company called cellebrite. The software allows users to access the content of mobile phones without using security features such as passwords. When the law was passed, people were thinking of deleting telegram and
replacing with something else. When you are in custody, police can still use that hardware and software to obtain your deleted messages and recover all of them. There are cases proven that messages deleted could be recovered by that software. Encrypted apps like telegram were used for Mass Communication to organise the street demonstrations. Protesters like simon say the police are using data extracting technology to build cases against young protesters. Tony is an it professional and protester. He asked us to hide his identity. He says that protesters and residents are adapting to the new changes. He says hong kongers have been deleting past messages and starting to use encrypted apps en masse. People feel empowered that their physical identities will not be traced easily to their virtual identities. Its a wise act that people
start deleting their previous messages, because it might not have existed on a safe channel or on a secure medium. Its a prudent move that people switch to new alter egos. China and america are engaged in another tech war. Donald trump is in the process of banning chinese app tiktok over National Security concerns. American social media apps could be banned outright in china. Hong kong seems stuck in the middle. There are fears here that this city, promised Political Freedoms for 50 years, may becoming just another chinese city. Wow. 0k, well, that was Danny Vincent and danny is online with me now from hong kong. Danny, how are you right now . How are you feeling . The new law was a huge shock to notjust the activists, not just the protesters, not just the tech activists, but also, ordinary people. They didnt expect this law and these changes to come about so quickly and it feels like the city is really bracing
for what comes next. Do you get the sense that youre not going to be able to report as freely from hong kong . For me, as a journalist working here, the lines have simply changed almost overnight. In some ways, you could say it feels even stricter than Mainland China, because in the mainland, at least, have a reference point. You know what can be written about, what can be said live on tv, you know what the lines are. But here in hong kong today, its not clear what the lines are. Its not clear what the future will bring. And the city, in some ways, feels quite unrecognisable. And just to reiterate, whenever ive been to china and hong kong, the difference is very stark as soon as you cross border from hong kong into china, google stops working, other Services Become unavailable, and it pretty much does happen at the border. And so the worry maybe is then,
are you saying that that will extend into hong kong . Thats the fear. The issue of the law is that its so vague that people dont know exactly how it will be interpreted. They dont know how people will be charged, and they dont know how quickly some of these further changes will be implemented. Right now, the activists that ive been speaking to, theyre confident that at least online, when it comes to the app theyre using, like facebook, like twitter, like instagram, they think they will still be able to continue using them for a while. People i have spoken to are also very much aware that hong kong is now caught in the middle of this new cold war, essentially, between washington and beijing. Is the worst Case Scenario that the great firewall and all of the restrictions that there are on Mainland China just extend and hong kong is subject to exactly the same restrictions . That is the worst Case Scenario. There is a feeling here that hong kong is living on borrowed time. Of course, many people are now choosing to leave the city because they do think its
going to become just another ordinary chinese city with those type of restrictions. 0k, danny, listen, thanks so much for doing that report and stay in touch. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that the European Commission announced it will carry out a full scale probe into googles takeover of fitbit. Nasa launched exploration rover perseverance into space as it begins its seven month journey to mars. But while that goes up, spacexs crew dragon splashed down. Yes, the first commercial spacecraft to travel to the International Space station came straight back down to earth after a successful mission. Samsung has unveiled the Samsung Galaxy z fold 2. Its screen is 1. 6 inches bigger than the last galaxy fold as its a small and fiddly size
was one of the biggest criticisms. And, finally, the force as strong, as a key scene from star wars the Empire Strikes back has inspired researchers to create electronic skin with feelings. Its made up of a network of sensors connected by a single electrical conductor. It can be used in robots or prosthetic limbs to potentially recreate a sense of touch that feels pain, temperature, shape and texture. Its most recent development allows robots to read braille and classify objects. Vertical farming. A controlled environment to create perfect crops, sometimes even seen in restaurants or supermarkets. Now home devices allowing you to do the same on a smaller scale are growing in popularity. And in my garage. Well, here is my click grow smart garden. Yes, that is its actual name. As you can see, everything has grown pretty nicely. When i planted it i logged it all in the app because the app
does not sync up with the device, there is a bluetooth version coming soon that will do that. But it does provide a good diary function. I know that i planted these 27 days ago, and i have given that advice on how long it takes for them to be ready to eat. My lettuce is ready, my tomatoes arent. I never received the alert to refill the water that i should have done, but that was apparently down to a glitch in the app which im told has since been fixed. And walking away seeing lights left on did feel quite odd, but i was left with some really nice leaves. It will take you a few fair lettuces to get your moneys worth on buying the kit, but in the uncertainty of a global pandemic, devices like this do seem to have their own appeal. I feel like i was going to battle when i went to the Grocery Store with my mask and my hand sanitiser, and my wipes, so it has been really nice to be able to grow my own food here. To not have to worry
about that. Here you see my mature plants and these are my newer plants coming in for my second harvest. New Modular Concepts do allow you to personalise your set up. Choosing whether you want one salad shelf or two or three. And like many of the latest growers, this one connects to an app to remind you to add water or nutrients, or to harvest your veggies. One of the trickiest problems was getting the whole system integrated so that you can replace these trays, having it so you could add on trellises to the system, add on Modular Systems later, integrating all the sensor data of where the water is, and with the ph levels are and the nutrient levels. Putting all that into an app. While big brands lg and samsung have shown off some intriguing kitchen concepts, lesser known farm shelf has a device that might beat them to market. Its indoorfarm uses sensors
and Computer Vision to monitor the plants, automatically providing the right amount of water and nutrients. Were collecting data on how the plants are growing and monitoring those from a variety of equations as well as the way the images are analysed. And as that data set grows we are able to automate more and more actions in the system as well as automatic notifications. And changes to the plant recipes at the plant progresses through its lifecycle. Everyone smile for communities like this womens shelter, having an on site farm has been a lifeline through the coronavirus crisis. This huge container can house 9,000 plants to help feed more than 1,000 women and children staying there each night. Food supply chains have been varyingly broken across oui country. One thing we knew that we always had was our farm. The container farm cost over 100,000, but it has certainly proved its value. We have produced in less than nine months over 40,000 equivalency, in fresh, leafy greens and vegetables. Whether its the pandemic or just the everyday uncertainty of life in a homeless shelter, it has been a tool for learning and healing on every level. Although for most of us these high tech gardens will be more of a hobby, these self sufficient growers can seriously help out in unpredictable times. Maybe needs a bit of dressing, but its good. Now then, we have plenty of earthbound worries at the moment. But that hasnt stopped developments in commercial space travel. Spacex has now successfully sent a crew to the International Spacestation and back again.