the attorney general of venezuela has broken ranks with president nicolas maduro to condemn a supreme court ruling that stripped the opposition—led congress of its powers. luisa ortega expressed great concern, describing the court ruling as ‘a rupture of the constitutional order‘ in the country. the president of the european council, donald tusk, has warned of tough and sometimes confrontational talks ahead, as britain and the eu start two years of brexit negotiations. the eu has now published its strategy, refusing theresa may's request to have parallel talks on a future trade deal. now its time for click. today i'm in the lair of a wizard.

a wizard who likes decibels, who has won grammies, who writes a good book or two. a wizard called brian eno. the former member of the band, roxy music, has added his unique production sound to the biggest acts in the world — groups like u2 and coldplay, and some chap called david. and it is his love of random, so—called generative art, that has brought us here. eno, whose sonar music is very atmospheric and ethereal, is regarded as ‘the godfather‘ of ambient music and his new work, reflection, is also rather unpredictable. it is a generative music app which follows rules defined and refined by eno but which plays differently every time you listen. so 14% of these notes, a random 14%, are going to be pitched down by three semitones.

the second is a1% of them are going to go an octave down — 12 semi—tones. can i just say. . .scientist. i would go further, quantum scientist. all about probabilities here. yeah, it is probabilities. brian eno has spent weeks, even months, tweaking these rules and probabilities which, they're all when combined, cause these sounds to randomly echo, bounce, transpose or not play at all. so these are all different types of scripters. and then there's a whole lot of other stuff. buried maths. i like my chains. who doesn't! we will make that a tedious loop. music beat loop. a lot of music is based just on things like that and it goes on for ever.

now i will putting in some scripters. first thing i'm going to put in is a way of reducing the number of beats. music beat loop. it is only playing 80% of the beats. now, let's have it hit some outdrums, occasionally. already it is a pretty crappy drummer, i have to say. well, no, i have to say, actually, this is way more interesting, with the greatest of respect, than the original drumbeat, isn't it? yea. it makes it sound human. we'll hit some rolls. traditional music, you have a piece which you lock down but you are not locking that down. you are locking down a kind of process. it's almost like you're taking this, or part of it, and you're locking that down, this is how i might want the piece to be but i don't mind so much if it changes every time.

that is a good way of explaining it. i am trying to make a version of me in the software, my taste, if you like. i'm always interested in what is at the edge of my taste envelope, if you like, and randomness is a way of finding out. have you ever thought about whether you can copyright the music that comes out of...? that is an interesting question. if you sell the app to somebody, do they own the music that comes out of it? because they have constructed it, in a way. all the bits are mine but the final construction is that theirs so. what did you conclude? i do not think it is very easy to make a case for saying it is my music, because it sort of is in a modern sense of what composing means. we spent about an hour with brian eno and in the next few days, you can see more inside brian eno‘s brain online. look out for the link on twitter. this week, samsung launched

its latest mobile phones. just a few minutes to go until the launch starts and there is an incredible level of secrecy here but i guess there is a lot at stake for samsung after the note 7 debacle, we're just waiting to see what the s8 has in store for us. soon the hype turned to cold hard facts, out of this samsung unboxed event, a phone... well, two phones were born. so here we have it — the s8 and the s8 plus. my first thought? not even the plus seems to be that large — that's because the screens on both of them curve over the edges. there's been a lot of hype about this. personally, i'm not really sure it feels like that big a deal, but it does mean you get a screen which is bigger on a smaller sized device.

a few of the features that we've been told about today — a fingerprint scanner. iris and facial recognition as well, meaning you should not need a password but should still be able to achieve all the security that you want. there's also what they call an invisible "home" button. it's part of the screen there. as you press it, you can feel some sensation. one thing we have heard a lot of talk about is the launch of bixby. when fully functioning, the system aims to make interacting with your phone easier. interacting with 10 samsung apps, controlling other samsung devices — yes, there is a theme here — and using artificial intelligence to learn your habits and suggest what you might be looking for next. naturally, i want to test this new personal assistant, but there is one substantial problem

— bixby is currently only available in korean. it is not until may that it is going to be released in american english, and then after that some other languages are going to follow. it may well be great, but i cannot tell you about it. in the meantime, the image recognition function is in action. you photograph an item and it aims to find it for you online... with varying success. so, the hairbrush. it thinks my hairbrush is a fork. the phone will be released this month from $650. the company believe they will see explosive sales, but let's hope not exploding phones! now, to cyborgs and when hollywood imagines them they look way too futuristic to be anywhere close to becoming a reality. they did not save your

life, they stole it. but are they? dan simons has a very special appointment with professor someya at the university of tokyo injapan. i have come to see a professor who is apparently going to turn me into some sort of cyborg, so it's very unusual. it's one of the first times a camera crew has been allowed in to see the process happen, and it will all take place through this door, here. this research team have come up with the world's thinnest organic circuits, lighter than a feather, they could be worn like a second skin.

either monitoring the body or as an e—skin display. we can introduce the electronic functions directly on the surface of the skin without causing any discomfort. this is human and machine coming together? the display they are putting on to me has taken three days to manufacture, so the research team are being very careful. it is just two to three microns in thickness. the magic is controlled by polymer semiconductors and transparent electrodes with organic semiconductors and diodes firing up the display. they are surprisingly resilient. they can scrunch them and, on rubber, even stretch of them. the circuits still work, and that is something i have come to put to the test. professor someya has used this

e—skin to measure heart rate and oxygen levels in the blood. could we use this out and about? is it robust enough to go running with, for example? yeah. so, first, please move your hands. something like that. and... it doesn't cause any mechanicalfailure. it's flexible. yeah, that's truly flexible. would you expect us to change this every two or three days? yes, that's another possibility. so if we can manufacture everything very cheap, so after you go to the shower and then delaminate your skin, and then put the fresh one. i expected that to break by now. and it's still very much alive. this is just a single digit display today, but what could this be the future? so, the second step will be much

multiple digits and then going to the high—definition display. so we could have maybe 1,000 pixels? yes, 1,000 pixels, that's technologically possible. so on our hand, so we could, what, talk to people? yes. on our hand? this could be a picture of my mum, for example? i could say, "hi, mum", and my mum would appear on my hand? yes, that would be possible in the future, maybe four or five years. but lifetime will be the biggest issues. this is the start of the rise of the cyborgs. that fit for the short version of

click this week. the full version is available online. there is much more from brian eno coming soon as well, we will tweet you when it is ready —— that's it for the short version. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. brexit is officially under way, but is the bbc playing down the views of unhappy remainers, like the tens of thousands who marched through london last weekend? plenty of complaints too that bbc news is far too negative about leaving, so how do you cover this incendiary subject impartially? 60 years ago last saturday the treaty of rome, the

founding agreement of what came the european union, was signed. the anniversary was marked across europe, at a march anniversary was marked across europe, ata march in anniversary was marked across europe, at a march in london that date was less a celebration than a paint processed against the decision for britain to leave the eu. —— pained protest. after the violence, a protest with peace and love at the heart. thousands made their way to parliament square. many like this pensioner had never protested before. many of her generation voted to leave in the referendum, but she sees that as a disaster for her home city of that. —— of london. that report ran on bbc london news, but bbc one‘s national network mentioned the march only in passing, withjust ten seconds or so of footage shown. many complained to the bbc about what they saw as insufficient coverage, with two of those viewers recording levels for us on camera.

as article 50 was being triggered on the 29th, i would have thought that much more credence would have been given to the march taking place. the evening news put the number attending at about 20,000. i consider there were a great deal more than this. as leaving the eu is such a momentous decision for this country, and for some of us a disaster, we should have had a lot more coverage than we actually got. we deserve better. it was disappointing them to find an organisation of the bbc's reputation as supposedly an impartial reporting body neglected to give appropriate coverage to this huge event. i would like to know why the bbc did not deem it sufficiently newsworthy. thank you. well, we put those points to bbc news at a spokesperson told us: