iat i at 631 at 651 and at i at 651 and at 532 at 651 and at 532 on women go off at a31 and at 532 on this stretch, this historic stretch of the thames. formula 1 is back and it would appear that lewis hamilton is getting better and better. he will start tomorrow's australian grand prix from pole position after producing a qualifying lap but he said was as close as he could get to perfection. formula 1 is back and before qualifying, the excitement was understandable. you supposed to be about to witness a challenge to lewis hamilton and his mercedes team's dominance. ferrari looked like they might have closed the gap in pre—season testing and when sebastian vettel took the time she did the second session, it felt like things were about to get tasty. mercedes suffered another blow at the start of the final session. mechanics were given a sleepless night trying to rebuild his car. there were no such trouble for

hamilton as the reigning champion clocked the quickest time ever seen in qualifying. the gap but the ferrari was a massive one of over half a second. it was hamilton was like the consecutive pole down under and a record seven in australia,. you would think that the results for these years, it would be the norm but it doesn't, it is stilljust as intense and my heart is racing. i am so intense and my heart is racing. i am so happy with that lap. it was such a nice lap. i am always striving for perfection. it will take something remarkable to stop him from retaining his title. rain wiped out the entire day between new zealand and england. only 17 balls bowled this morning as the hosts increased their lead to 175 runs. there was time for batsmen henry nicholls to reach a half—ce ntu ry henry nicholls to reach a half—century but the umpire decided to abandon play and the kiwis will

lose date four on 233 for four. international footballing weekend continues this afternoon. northern ireland take on south korea a 2pm kick—off. after the coming so close to play—offs are russia, the manager says he is looking to the future. we are playing a team who are technically very good and it will be a big challenge for us but this is all part of the learning curve for some of the younger players coming in to the squad and potentially into the team so we have nine games between now and march 2019 and all of those games are vital in terms of the preparation and the growth of the preparation and the growth of the team for the next campaign. that is your sport for now. that's it from us, the next news is that 6:30 p:m.. not everyone is happy

about the rise of the robots. 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 crane 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 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, so far these workers are doing the same work in other terminals at the ports. the port of rotterdam told us that although: niek, though, is not convinced everyone will want to retrain. we still need jobs for people who are low educated, that like to work, like to be a comrade on the working place. they still want to work with their hands. what's wrong with that? battersea power station.

one of the uk's most ambitious restoration projects. at a2 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 increased 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 lee in san francisco. that's it from us here at battersea power station. this is the short cut of the show, the full—length version is up on iplayer to watch now, and we have loads of backstage photos on twitter as well. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. last weekend we were talking about

snow and severe winter chills. still the prospect of some snow butjust not yet. a typical spring weekend ahead. the rainbow ease across inland and wales. we will see a lot of sunshine but also showers. we have this swirl of cloud to the south of the uk. this is storm hugo, bringing some stormy conditions of the spain through the weekend. for us, a lot of cloud across england and wales and that will continue to bring light rain and drizzle through the afternoon. slowly easing off and that cloud getting nibbled away across northern england so we see sunshine here. sunshine and showers for scotland and northern ireland. though showers could be wintry over higher ground and even the rumble of thunder. nine to ii

higher ground and even the rumble of thunder. nine to 11 sources for much of the country through this afternoon. that cloud continues to get eroded from the northern through this evening and overnight the clear skies here and temperatures tumbling to close to freezing. hanging onto that cloud across parts of south east england and southern countries of england and here temperatures between four and seven celsius. a chilly start to tomorrow but bright for many. a good deal of sunshine. the one exception will be south—east england, still hanging on to the cloud and patchy drizzle but elsewhere, spells of sunshine, one oi’ elsewhere, spells of sunshine, one or two showers elsewhere, spells of sunshine, one oi’ two showers are elsewhere, spells of sunshine, one or two showers are mainly for north west scotland where again, they could be wintry. the winds will be like tomorrow so highs of between ten and i2 celsius should feel quite pleasant. things change slowly next week. it will start to turn colder again and a risk of some snow on tuesday and wednesday. still some uncertainty about the details so keep an eye on the forecast. when

the dons dry, bright, cold with some sunshine through the morning. slowly that sunshine disappears as cloud built from the west. rain arrives in western parts of scotland, northern ireland and wales later in the day. ahead of the rain, highs of ten or 12 ahead of the rain, highs of ten or i2 celsius. we need to keep an eye on what is happening on tuesday and wednesday. we pick up and used or north—easterly wind, some colder air across the uk and the prospect that some of us could see some snow. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at one. hundreds of thousands of americans prepare to take part in rallies calling for tighter gun controls. tributes are paid to the policeman who died of his injuries after swapping places with hostages during yesterday's terror attack. president macron says he was a hero. owen smith says he'll continue to argue against brexit, despite being sacked from the labour front bench over the issue. and in half an hour sex, lies and murder

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