of being shutdown, if the senate doesn't approve new budget measures by midnight local time. president trump says hopes of making a deal "are not looking good". senators are voting on a stop gap measure to keep federal agencies funded. russia has denied withdrawing its forces from the syrian region of afrin ahead of an expected turkish attack. turkish media earlier said moscow had started pulling its personnel out of the enclave, which is controlled by kurdish fighters. but the russian foreign minister said these reports had been refuted. pope francis has made his first visit to the amazon on the final leg of his trip to chile and peru. speaking to thousands of indigenous people on the edge of the rainforest in peru, he said amazon tribes had "never been so threatened", and that they "bore deep wounds". in a few moments it'll be time for newswatch. but first, click. i'm on my way to a reported incident

on one of las vegas‘s busiest highways. with the last rain falling overfour months ago, the oily roads mixed with the fresh water have become a lethal recipe for disaster. in the driving seat is sergeantjohn erreus, from nevada highway patrol. he's using waycare, software that alerts him to an incident as soon as it's reported via someone calling 911 or through driving apps like waze and it provides him with details and the best route to get to the scene. it'll tell me the location, what kind of accident,

if it's debris, how long it's going and if there's any responders that are assigned to the call that are on their way. it constantly updates him on the situation as it develops. having a robust system in place doesn'tjust help with weather—related collisions. with our route 91 shooting that we had at mandalay, for the portion that we handled in the highway patrol, it's really getting the public that's on the strip off the highway as quickly as possible, or closing off the freeway so we can have those critical resources, fire, medical, ambulances, to get people to the hospital and quickly. in 2017, 15,000 crashes were tended to, with over 300 people dying on average each year in road accidents in nevada. getting emergency services to the scene as quickly as possible is critical. we're gonna send injury to it and it's camera 217. the system has been running

through the regional transportation commission's traffic management centre for the past three months. now because we're getting information through so many different data streams, not just the dispatchers, but we're getting it through social media, things like the waze app, so people are tagging them in as they're driving. because all of this is happening so quickly, we might have already sent out all of that information and had everybody in this room aware before the first 911 call comes in. so we're talking about possibly ten to 15 minutes of improvement in response time in some of these incidents. that's major when you're dealing with traffic incidents. waycare pulls in data from various sources — traffic signals, cctv cameras, in vehicle sensors and information from driving apps. it factors in things like what day of the year it is, the time of day and the weather. responding to incidents rapidly is one thing, but the point is to be able to predict incidents before they happen, so the responders

can be better prepared using deep learning, what we do is we look at the historical data, run it through algorithms to develop patterns that are emerging and tie it to what's happening now on the road. by doing that we're essentially able to look forward in time to identify where these incidents are likely to occur. unfortunately, waycare wasn't able to predict this one. the trooper‘s taking pictures. it looks like it's the rear. you see how she was spinning out? she did a full 180 and struck right here. being able to foresee accidents here could really save lives. the hope is that as the data gets more sophisticated, the predictions will become more accurate. every day we get more and more evidence about what causes... ..what triggers an incident and the artificial learning gets smarter and smarter

and more capable. for nevada now, though, the initial results are promising. they get there faster, we clear it faster and that means less secondary accidents and, if you think about it, secondary accidents have... basically 18% of secondary accidents are fatalities. so we're reducing the fatalities on the roadway. and of course the goal is to prevent accidents altogether and richard taylor and lara lewington have been looking at some in—car technologies that may help make that a reality. at ces, as you might expect, there's a lot of interest in self driving cars and it's pretty clear that we are on a one—way street towards full autonomy. but that does still seem to be a way off, although we don't know exactly how far. in the meantime, though, there is plenty of innovation to be seen before we reach our final destination. unsurprisingly, the move

towards autonomated driving is focused largely on safety, with hyundai creating a system to intervene when we need it the most. the car's fitted with a combination of biometric sensors in the seat, they're tracking heart rate, and a low resolution camera which is tracking your facial movements. the reason it's low resolution is so that the refresh rate is quicker. so if there's a problem, if it seems you've lost concentration or you're drifting off to sleep, then the car can quickly react to autonomously be moved off the road to a safe spot. and the basic premise of this technology could be available figgafimg el§§§§ ree §%'h%f%i on biometrics, using my grey matter. the idea of this system is really to provide an interaction between man and machine, between my brain and the ai. and the concept here with nissan is that even in a world of autonomous vehicles,

there will be roles for humans to play. after all, a lot of people do find driving quite a positive experience. it can interpret the signals coming from the human and actually enhance the ride. this so—called brain to vehicle tech currently involves wearing this bizarre looking electrode studded helmet to capture my brain activity and interpret the signals as much as half a second before my muscles do. so, as i'm about to say "change lane" or "hit the brakes", it will initiate the action for me, giving me a smoother ride, and yet still allowing me a sense of control. they do need to sort out that helmet, though. laughs oh, dear. i'm not driving very well here. yet what we can't hide away from is the fact that when full autonomy does come to pass, it's not simply about cars. this is yamaha's concept motorbike. a self—driving racing vehicle that should be able to do speeds of over 120 mph, although not

on actual roads you'd hope. but whatever the form of autonomous vehicle, it'll need to interact safely with pedestrians and cyclists too, a challenge ford are hoping to overcome in their vehicles. initially, cyclists will have to be seen by the vehicles and we are building perception into our autonomous vehicle that allows it to detect the cyclists, objects, to understand their intent and ensure that we can be safely navigating in the same space. and ford are just one of the big brands who've called on the help of nvidia, whose processes, combined with intelligence software, can make the environment around the vehicle safer. for example, using lidar sensors to alert a driver who is about to open a car door onto a cyclist. and ai is fuelling other experiences inside the car, too. speech recognition specialists nuance power many of today's in—car

interactions and they showed off how they'll look in future as well. today we think about the assistant as something that we interact with using voice, but there are other modalities. of course we have the screen, we have touch, but maybe we can use gestures and in this particular prototype we introduced eye tracking, as a way of helping the assistant understand what am i, as a driver, looking at and then i can ask questions about my environment. so if i see a coffee shop in front of me, i can just ask a question about it. what is the user rating of this coffee shop? starbucks coffee has a user rating of three stars. until when is it open? it closes at 11pm. send a message to frank baker,

saying, let's have coffee tonight. ready to send it? yes. so the other part of this system is that there are microphones placed in different parts of the car, which means the ai can respond according to where the different passengers are. so here on the passenger seat i can say, "hello, dragon, i'm cold". 0k, raising the temperature in zone two to 71.0 degrees. there's definitely a trend towards making ourjourneys more enjoyable as well as safer. toyota have even updated their happiness tracking concept car, aiming for a more pleasurable journey and even suggesting where you might want to go, for anyone who needs their car to tell them. since you are a foodie, i'll tell you something interesting. there are many options around union square from casual dining to michelin starred. high—end restaurants as well as popular cafes. do you like it? that was a bit of fun,

but i didn't need the al to tell me that i was ready for dinner. sushi? yeah, let's go. let's go. and, from boeing to boozing, i'm on my way to the tipsy robot, where mixology has been given a hi—tech makeover. here, the drinks are shaken and served by these two chaps. i can even invent my own cocktail, by choosing from some of the 120—odd spirits hanging from the ceiling — or, i assume, all of the 120—odd spirits in one. can i do that? no, i can't do that, apparently. these droids can mix 100 cocktails an hour between the two of them. that sounded impressive, until i discovered some human bartenders can do ten times that. and that's it for click in the us for this week. don't forget you can

follow us on twitter, where you can see loads of extra backstage videos and photos. although, trust me, you don't want to see what happens after i have one or two of these. cheers, see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. flu, a nursing shortage — the nhs winter crisis is dominating headlines. but is bbc news overplaying the negative? we ask health editor, hugh pym, weather bbc coverage could be damaging confidence among nhs staff and the public. first, it's not always what you see on the news which captures the attention of newswatch viewers, but when you see it. on wednesday evening, a football match was showing live on bbc one. if you're interested, an fa cup third—round replay between chelsea and norwich city. unfortunately, not everyone was

interested and when the broadcast overran because of the start to the game and they go into extra time and then a penalty shoot out, some of them were pretty angry, as the news at ten became the news at 10:a5pm. here is deborah. last night, my husband and i got home after a long day at work and we do like to sit down and watch the ten 0'clock news. but it turns out a football match was over running and the news had to be displaced by 45 minutes. i just don't think somebody‘s got their head screwed on. if the football match is that important, put it on a different channel. but i feel news comes before football. another sport caught the attention of some viewers last saturday, although not all of them might describe it as a sport. breakfast decided to look at the world of bare knuckle boxing, with this report from johnny i'anson. liam cullan in leeds has spent a lifetime in combat sport, but this weekend, he's fighting for a world title in one of the most extreme of all.

when i say the words, bare knuckle boxing, you possibly think of gangsters settling feuds in old victorian times. but there are a group of people but determined to bring the sport back to the mainstream and take it legally to the masses. a twitter user called suzie q objected to that report, writing that she was "disappointed" the bbc is promoting and endorsing violent sport. "gratuitous violence. what's the difference between this and a street brawl? hope there aren't too many children watching. shameful." now, not for the first time, we are in the middle of a winter of difficulties and challenges for the national health service. bbc news has been reporting them with considerable attention. tonight at six, an apology from theresa may after new figures reveal pressure on the nhs this winter. from ambulance transfer delays, unprecedented calls to the helpline and operations postponed.