has said a police officer who swapped himself for a hostage during a supermarket siege is "fighting for his life" in hospital. three people were killed and 16 injured in three separate attacks. officers working for the uk information commissioner are searching the headquarters of cambridge analytica in london. the company is at the centre of a data privacy row concerning 50 million facebook users. the united states attorney generaljeff sessions, has announced plans to amend gun laws and effectively ban bump stocks. these devices can make a semiautomatic rifle fire like a machine gun. they were used in last october's shooting in las vegas, in which 58 people were killed. coming up in 10 minutes time, newswatch, but first on bbc news, click. this week, we will meet the people whose livelihoods are under threat.

the robots, they go for ourjobs. and those who are doing something about it. including people who might have thought that theirjobs were safe. and we start with those who deal with the biggest things on water. this is how stuff moves around the world. your car, your tv, your phone. they all arrived in a shipping container, one of millions each year stacked on gargantuan ships and sailed from where they are made to where they are sold. offloading these containers at ports across the globe is a complicated task as they are lifted from the ships, moved to the land and then, when the right ride arrives, they are loaded onto lorries to be driven across the mainland. but at europe's busiest port, rotterdam and its third busiest,

hamburg, something new is happening. some of the cranes here don't have drivers. and some of the lorries don't have cabs. these are europe's first robotic ports. so what we've got here is a mixture of remote control and completely autonomous machinery and basically, there are no humans in that little bit at all. there is a very strict rule here. human dock workers do their work outside the red line and inside, everything is completely autonomous. ports across the world perform this graceful ballet of stacking and unstacking, but at two terminals at rotterdam and this one

at hamburg, it's a dance that humans aren't allowed take part in. so what happens is, there is a human controlling the crane that pulls the containers off the ship and then loads them onto the central platform and then the human—controlled crane goes and gets another container from the ship. another crane comes along and pulls the container from that platform and loads it onto these trucks. that is autonomous. and so are the lorries. while the world is still waiting for the mythical self—driving car, these trucks are already making their way around the ports transporting containers from crane to crane. buried in the tarmac are thousands of little tiny transponders bleeping away, broadcasting special id numbers. and that's how these trucks know where they are to within

a few centimetres. and of course, that makes this a very simple environment to drive around, with a guide track taking them from a to b to c and no unpredictable human hazards. they don't even need sensors to see what's around. the only reason that they need humans in charge of the cranes on this side is because there are humans on the ship and so the law says you can't let computers swing containers around when there are humans. so if there weren't people on the ship, the computers could control this screen as well. could control this crane as well. it's the same story at the other side of the port. the only thing the autonomous cranes aren't allowed to do is lower the containers onto the lorries because there are human drivers nearby so that part is done by a human crane operator, but from an office nearby.

i mean, it's all very impressive. it looks really cool, but there is a flipside to this which is every one of those trucks that's driving around ten years ago would have had a driver and now it doesn't. and there are no crane operators in the middle section either. so while we are looking at the future of work here, we really need to look about the future of the workforce as well. and the workforce at rotterdam has spoken. in 2016, 3,600 workers walked out to protest at increasing automation at the port. niek stam is the union official for ports. he says the dockers know they can't fight automation, but he does warn that as fewer and fewer human workers earn wages, there will be less money paid back to the state through income tax. so who is paying them at the end? if the robots take over ourjobs,

who is then paying the tax? that's why i said it is time to discuss about robot tax. we still need roads, we still need trains, we still need schools and hospitals, so somebody has to pick up the bill. so if we can have an income, say, 20 hours working week, we also have a separate income from the social benefits, paid by robots. i mean, if they don't like human beings anymore, that's fine. then we start fishing. but we want also an income. as a result of the strike in 2016, the port authority agreed not to cutjobs, and because the economy is buoyant at the moment, at 42 acres, it's the largest

construction site i have ever visited, and the race is on to complete refurb of this grade two—listed landmark by 2020. there are 2,000 skilled contractors here working around the clock. since work began five years ago, over 30 kilometres of scaffolding has gone in to rebuild the station's chimneys and painstakingly restore its 7.5 million bricks. it is no surprise that some of the more interesting work to automate the construction industry is happening in san francisco, where dave lee have been to find out more. look, don't tell anyone, but i have been trying to earn a few extra dollars —

which is why some days you can find me here, in this construction site. there is a ton of work to be done, but you know what? i don't care, because it is the end of my shift. i am really not cut out for the construction industry, but that's ok, because thanks to companies like built robotics, maybe i don't have to be. their autonomous system allows this hulking great thing to get to work without a human driver. it can be left alone to get on with the task at hand, which in this case is flattening out the land. it is fully autonomous. what that means is basically, you load in plans for what you want your finished product to look like, and the machine looks at the plans, figures out how to navigate around the site in order to accomplish the work, and then sends commands to the on—board electronics on each machine, so they can go out there and do the work. noah is a former google engineer and he uses much of the same technology that can be found in that company's self driving car.

but he says his vehicle has to consider many more factors when going about its work. so it is a lot of nuance around how different types of soils interact with the blade, how the tracks spin and slip as you move around a rough jobsite, that is really the hard part and that is what we focus on. it is notjust here on the ground at construction sites where autonomy is changing how things work. for a fuller picture, you need to look to the skies. one of the biggest challenges with construction, particularly big projects, is knowing what is going on and where. skycatch, also based in san francisco, has created what is essentially a foreman in the sky, a drone system that can analyse sites with incredible detail and share its findings almost immediately. it would normally take weeks to survey an area as big as this, costing money and of course time. now a detailed scan can be captured in just 15 minutes.

these are becoming real tools now. before we had cameras, we took video, photos, now we can do real work with them. the technology we put inside these machines can give you data that can be immediately used on the field. at any given point construction sites are changing all the time. you may know what is going on five minutes ago, five minutes later it is completely different. the success of this company is of course good news for companies that are trying to cash in on the increase automation of construction sites. but for the millions who make their living — a good living — getting stuck in on sites around the world, life is going to change. so yes, thejobs will be reallocated. i think we will be spending more time planning, on making sure that things are done on time, but it will also have other really awesome effects. buildings will be built in days. it will be a lot more

affordable to build a highway, a lot more afordable to build a home. so we believe that this will also help equalise how quickly people have access to homes. that was dave in san francisco. that's it from us here at battersea power station. this is the shortcut of the show, the full—length version is up on high player to watch now, and we have loads of backstage photos on twitter as well. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. low and welcome to newswatch with me samira ahmed. russia's attitude to the british media and the uk as a whole is chilly at best. how does the bbc‘s moscow correspondent approached the reporting of this tense relationship? and complaints about that had continued to pouring

with newsnight doctor and image of jeremy corbyn to paint him as a kremlin sympathiser? it is almost three weeks since the poisoning of sergei skripal and his daughter yulia skripal and it is fair to say that relations between the uk and russia have not improved. reporting on the deteriorating relationship from moscow has been correspondent steve rosenberg who had a rare opportunity last week to question vladimir putin then on the campaign trail to his re—election. vladimir putin then on the campaign trailto his re-election. president putin, bbc news. is russia behind the poisoning of sergei skripal all? translation: we are busy with agriculture here. to create good conditions for people ‘s lives. and you talk to me about some tragedies? first work out what actually happened there and then we will talk about it. tonight russia described theresa may's common statement as a circus show. it is good to dismissed

accusations against moscow by an accusations against moscow by an accusation political campaign based on provocation. a fairytale. the rhetoric was blunt and it has continued since, president putin to the surprise of no one was last sunday. tonight, by re-elected last sunday. tonight, by the kremlin, vladimir putin thanked his people. for re—electing him, their president. translation: we are destined to succeed, he said. russia! russia! russia, they chanted. but in vladimir putin's fourth term, are russia and