very wet start to the day. rain gradually clearing of away towards the west and brighter showers in the south—east. the best of the sunshine in the far north—west of scotland, northern ireland, without sunshine. quite chilly along the eastern coast, but down towards the south—east, with temperatures up to around 15 degrees. for the rest of the week, with areas of low pressure close by, it will stay quite u nsettled, close by, it will stay quite unsettled, quite a bit of cloud with rain at times. there were happy will be some brighter spells. that's all from me. this is bbc news, our latest headlines:

the pope condemns the use of "instruments of extermination" following reports of at least 70 people being killed in syria in an alleged chemical attack. washington says russia "ultimately bears responsibility". the home secretary is denying that falling police numbers are to blame for the recent surge in violent crime in london. amber rudd said evidence did not back up claims that cuts to resources were the cause of increased crime. the foreign secretary borisjohnson describes jeremy corbyn as "the kremlin‘s useful idiot" — the labour leader hits back saying mrjohnson has "made a fool of himself" over russia. german authorities say a man who drove a van into people outside a restaurant in the city of muenster had no apparent links to terrorism. two people were killed

and the driver shot himself dead at the scene. those are our headlines. now on bbc news, click. this week, we're talking sg, the latest mobile network tech, starring robot hands, robot feet and a robo worm. welcome to bournemouth on the south coast of the united kingdom, famous for sandy beaches, seaside amusements... and having the worst ag mobile reception in the uk.

i hate it. it's not good in anywhere, really. 56, the next generation of mobile network, is coming. but it's notjust about your phone. sg promises to enable self—driving cars, smart cities and the whole internet of things, as every machine starts talking so, let's get you 56 ready. five things you need to know about 56. one — yes, 56 will be much,

much faster than ag. 5:5:— ‘j‘ei-ef'; ”5; 5449—5495;- 5.3.8; — —— — — —— ——~ . ~ to communicate with each other at high speeds. four — it's a new wave. 56 will use a part of the radio frequency spectrum that's never been used before, meaning it will broadcast on shorter millimetre waves. that means more data for all those devices. but there is a problem. these waves can't travel through buildings or even rain. these mini masts will need to be

much closer together and they'll act like a relay team transmitting signals around buildings. plus the potential to tap into wi—fi networks and li—fi connections, particularly when we're on the move. imagine, for instance, that you are having wi—fi network or you are having ag network, while you are travelling connection automatically, without you realising,

in a similar way, is going to switch from your ag network or your 5g network to this li—fi network. we've talked a lot on this programme about the possibilities for smart homes, connected transport and of course, smart cities, and 5g could provide the catalyst for more of them to actually this prototype aims to display one way that 5g could be used within a smart city. now, what you can see on top of this cycle helmet is a 360 camera, a raspberry pie, which is doing the work, and a battery pack right here. the idea is someone cycling throughout the city would be constantly picking up pictures and they would be fed through a 5g network, so if there was any problem, that could be found immediately and dealt with without delay. and if we can rely on that low latency, then it's game changing. when it comes to robotic surgery, a split second could mean the difference between life and death. or it could be used to create

realities that seem almost impossible, like anyone being able to shoot a goal like messi via a 5g connected robot leg, off course. using 5g technology ultra low latency technology, i'm able to transmit action and reaction. i am able to transmit touch. so for the first time, we will be able to transmit engineering skills, musical skills, football skills, medical skills, and suddenly, we will build an internet which will allow us to democratise labour the very same way as the internet has democratised knowledge and information. for most of us, though, we just want better connection, and the networks seem keen to manage our expectations beyond that. the average person on the street will see 56 as a way to give them a much better smartphone experience, it will give them faster data connections, lower latency. but it's important to remember that we're right at the start of the 5g

journey and we need to look ahead over the next decade to understand what new applications beyond smart phones will start to appear as the technology matures and becomes more widespread. south korea, the us, the uae and china seem to be leading the way with commercial launches expected later this year. but in the meantime, smart phone manufacturers will be working on bringing us the 5g compatible devices that we need for whenever the time comes. that was lara in bristol. well, here in bournemouth, ag is somewhat underwhelming to say the least. so we've been asking people what they think about the arrival of 5g. perhaps there are lots of exciting things that we don't know about, in which case i say bring it on, bring it to bournemouth, first. it doesn't light any fires, for me! we can cope with that.

so, a bit ofa mixed reception for 5g so far here. nevertheless, the local authority is aiming to make bournemouth one of the first places globally to deploy 5g and become the first smart city — technically smart town — in the uk. heading up the implementation of 5g is ruth spencer, who took me on a tour to show me some of the new cabling and potential antenna sites that will underpin what will be a radical new infrastructure. ag to 5g is going to be a massive step change in infrastructure. so, for example, in ag, what you would have had before is big masts, quite long—distance parts... covering a large area. ..covering a large area. whereas with 5g, particularly in urban areas like this, you'll need lots of small cells very close together. that's a massive infrastructure challenge, isn't it, if you need lots and lots of masts to cover a city? i think what we're trying to do at the moment is understand how cost—effective that it is going to be to deploy at

this kind of level. itjust sounds like a massive ask. is it realistic? it is a big undertaking. but the potential that 5g is going to unlock is going to be completely tra nsformative. now, the problem is the 5g signal is very fragile, easily blocked by trees and buildings, and that means that ruth's team has had to produce really detailed surveys of where the antenna need to be. whenever you put a new building up, it interferes with the 5g array of signals that you've got. so, that's a problem. yes, yeah, it's a challenge that definitely needs to be looked at. so, with the mapping and planning software that we've been developing, we need to start considering how do we update those tools and how do we update the maps that we're looking at, in order to plan those networks? but it's the potential that may make the investment worth it, as 5g will be the backbone of all those futuristic technologies that we've been long promised.

so, 5g isn't necessarily about getting better signal on your phone or faster data speeds on your phone. it's about machine—to—machine communication. in machines, in advanced manufacturing, in robotics. so it becomes much more about the opportunity 5g will bring around productivity, as well as the ability to deliver services. for 5g to work, serious investment and new infrastructure is needed, so could it be that some cities will be flush with transformative technology, while other places will be left behind? i get the sense we might be about to see the beginnings of a new digital divide, where some areas have 5g and some areas don't. for example, rural areas where there's a small population, so itjust might not be worth it. but does that mean they miss out? whilst 5g is likely to be rolled out at a millimetre wave level in cities, there's still the opportunity

for rural areas to really benefit from 5g in other areas, like farming, connected autonomous tractors, for example, and you would need some 5g infrastructure to support that, but you would need something different in a city. it's about understanding what's needed for users in which locations and what's needed for infrastructure in which locations. we're talking about autonomous vehicles being able to take you anywhere. but if it turns out they need a 5g network, and you roll into a city which doesn't have a 5g network, what will that mean for your autonomous vehicle? will it not be able to operate in that city? so one of the areas that connected autonomous vehicles are looking at is where they will be deployed and what their use will be, so, for example, in the early stages, maybe you'd be looking at connected autonomous vehicles across motorways, for example, for covering long distances, with freight or that sort of thing, and then it will evolve.

hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that the facebook scandal rumbled on. the beleaguered social network has said that the data of up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared, many more than previously disclosed. it also revealed that most of facebook‘s 2 billion users may have had their data scraped from profiles using now disabled malicious search techniques. a gun attack on youtube‘s headquarters in california left three people wounded. reports in us media say that the female suspect was motivated by anger, at her belief youtube was filtering her videos and reducing the money she could make. researchers at mit have developed a new technology that allows people to use speech recognition without actually needing to speak. it uses electrodes that scan the jaw and face for signals produced when the wearer thinks about verbalising words, so now you can look a bit daft in public instead of just sounding it. an advert for the htc uii smart

phone featuring diver tom daley has caused a splash with authorities in the uk. the ad, in which the olympian was shown taking selfies in a swimming pool, has been banned after the advertising watchdog said that if customers used the phone in a similarfashion, they'd likely damage it. and finally, in russia, the inaugural test flight of a postal delivery drove was more omg than ups after it was destroyed shortly after take—off. the $20,000 drone hexacopter, which was adorned with russia post branding, smashed unceremoniously into a wall in front of onlookers. ouch. over the last few weeks, we have been looking a lot at how we may be working in the future, on building sites, in factories and even in the doctor's surgery. you know the story — robots, jobs, us on the scrapheap, repeat. in the retail space, amazon is driving a lot of the changes. for them, automating the picking process is as critical as automating the delivery process.

every year, they hold the amazon robotics challenge, and this year it was won by a team from brisbane in australia. we went to meet the brains behind the bots. 16 teams from around the globe went bot to bot injapan. the goal — to build a custom droid that can identify common objects, pick them up and sort them out in record time. scooping the $80,000 grand prize were these guys, from the australian centre for robotic vision at the queensland university of technology. and when i got an invite for a private tour of their laboratory, i expected the customary conservative welcome from the usual studious scholars. robot: 0k. let's go and see cartman.

after you. how befitting that an award—winning robot should have its own bot butler. all of these robots require some degree of specialist knowledge. so, if a particular specialist is not there on the day it is really hard to get the robot to operate. whereas, pepper, anyone can pull pepper out and start running the robot. if you want to see cartman in action, select an item on my screen. let's go for the marbles. hey, ca rtman, please fetch the marbles. a robot is telling another robot how to be a robot. cartman has three axes of movement and works like an arcade crane claw. but, he has two hands. a suction grip and a pincer. he chooses which one to use depending on what item he needs to pick. there are many different ideas that we brainstormed and prototyped and engineered and finally this is what we came up with. this is the one that won the challenge. not very compact, is it? cartman sees what he is doing via a depth—sensing camera which helps him visualise 3—d

models of objects. you can see that the sponges are sticking out further than the marbles, for example. with that information, the robot then decides what is the object that i want to pick and where is it. he is able to identify and learn products and add new ones as well. his discerning eye is critical. in the amazon case, they get so many new objects every day that they cannot have just a library of all possible objects ever. the vendor puts a new sticker on an object, or the boxes change shape and it becomes a new object and you need to train the system to understand that this is the new object, and this is how to pick it up. the team now are looking beyond warehouse walls. it's not about picking items from a shelf, but from a branch. cue harvey, the pepper—picking harvester. we grow a lot of capsicums in queensland. we grow over 80% of australia's capsciums and we export a lot as well. we have a big agricultural industry

here in australia and one of the things we want to improve is automating that technology and improving the performance and efficiencies. he has also so got two arms in one and a special camera to see what is in front of him. he knows when a fruit is ripe and uses an electric saw to cut it from the stem — or as it's known to only people in this room, the peduncle. it also uses a state—of—the—art deep learning system to detect the peduncle. this is hard because it's green on green. through the deep learning system, there's a background neural network, a deep neural network. what you get is activations and we visualise this using a heat map. what that gives us is an area of interest where it thinks the peduncle is. once you spot the pepper, getting around the leaves can be fiddly business. this is a new camera system that comprises of nine different camera lenses at different depths to give the impression of a human

looking around leaves. it is powered by nine individual raspberry pis and is 3d printed, so it is cheap to produce. harvey is a proof of concept at the moment. the team is yet to analyse how commercially viable a robot like this is in the wild. but he could reduce crop waste by helping farmers to harvest more at peak times. he can manouever between crop i’ows and work for eight hours straight without a tea break. the other value we see in harvey is notjust harvesting the fruit, but being a full crop management system. what this allows it to do is to detect fruit, detect the grade of the fruit and also inform the grower what is on his plant in real—time. this can then tell the grower where to send it. make contracts and sell this fruit before it is even harvested. thank you very much, pepper. it has been a lovely tour. i think it is time for me to go.

we should say farewell here. namaste. spencer: brilliant. that was nick in brisbane. one of the big questions that comes out of automation ofjobs is what does this mean for us? will we all be out of work or will a new raft ofjobs be created? this is what our panel of academic experts predict. i don't see anything to suggest that there will be mass unemployment over the forthcoming decade, due to technology. there is no reason to believe that the quantity ofjobs is going to be a problem in the future. what is a big problem, i believe, is that some workers will suffer from downgrading, as they lose their jobs. we need to find solutions for that. firstly, people will

need to retrain. traditionally, we have this idea that you go to university for maybe three years and in your mid—20s you are sorted and you do some sort of the job for the rest of your life. i think we will be continually reskilling and retraining. we need to be prepared for that. universities will have to play a role in training not just the kids 18—22, but throughout your career as we grow older. we will be working for much longer. what does that mean for education and training? across sectors, from schools to workplace training? are our systems preparing people for a workplace where there will be automation and there will be artificially intelligent systems and how can we improve ourselves as learners? these will be vital skills in the workplace of the future. so let's use ai...

to help us be smarter ourselves. i certainly think that is preferable to worrying about whether artificial intelligence will replace us. who wants to be stuck in the same job for the rest of their life? that is something we should embrace, the chance to do new things. we need to move away from a system that relies on students memorising information. that is what we have computers to do very effectively. what we need to move more towards is a curriculum that encourages activities such as collaborative problem—solving. we need to realise that reskilling is not going to be the solution to everything.

the best solution i know goes to wage insurance. that is being applied in the us for workers who lose out to import competition. if you can show that yourjob was lost due to globalisation, the government will give you assurance that you will not earn less than this amount if you find a newjob. we should apply that to technology as well. you may say, well should ai pay tax if it is working and taking somebody else's job? i don't think the ai should be, but i think we should perhaps put tax on data because this is what is being exploited. what i do not think people realise is that they are giving up huge amounts of data for free. and ownership of that data is going to lead to ownership of work.

in some ways, data is the new oil. who owns the oil rigs will have the power in this game. that does serve as an effective mode for those companies against new entrants. maybe this is something we want to think about as a society, in our industrial policy. maybe we want to think about ways we can continue to support innovation even when so much of the value in an industry is trapped in data sets owned by big tech players. within european research councils, there is an extensive discussion about trying to push for what they call responsible innovation. encourage engineers and scientists to think more responsibly about the processes of automation, to engage with us users, notjust as consumers but as workers. a good future of work

is one in which people and machines work together. that is it for us in bournemouth. don't forget we live on facebook and on twitter as bbcclick. this may be the worst place in the country for ag, but it is one of the best for fish and chips and that is where we are going now. see ya. hello, there. we've got mixed fortunes today across the uk. in northern and western parts, it's largely dry and bright with some sunshine, and certainly it's been a dry start

to the day across scotland. look at this weather watcher photo this morning from fife. a different story down towards the south east. early morning rain, still quite cloudy conditions in kent. the rain should though largely clear away from here. but there still will be some rain across central and southern areas into this afternoon, all courtesy of this weather front. further north and west, though, a slack weather system here, so some fairly quiet conditions really, with some sunny spells. and we keep those sunny spells, a few showers though cropping up later on across scotland, northern ireland, north—western parts of england. some of those could be heavy, perhaps even thundery. rain in the south east, just edging its way a little bit further north and westwards into the east midlands, up into east yorkshire as well. temperatures lower than yesterday across the south east, 12 or 13 celsius here, with some light winds and some sunny spells in northern western areas, feeling just a little more pleasant compared to yesterday. overnight tonight, we will continue with lots of cloud in the south east. elsewhere, with light winds and some clear spells, there will be some patchy mist and fog developing into the early

hours of monday morning. and temperatures tonight down to around 2—5 celsius in northern areas, a little bit less cold in the south east, with nine celsius. but that's really because we've got more cloud, some outbreaks of rain again across east anglia, through the east midlands and down into eastern and central parts of england. that rain gradually petering out into the afternoon. elsewhere on monday, there will be some sunny spells again in the north and the west, still some heavy showers in scotland, northern ireland and those temperatures again up in double figures, at about 10—12 celsius. then into tuesday, we have got low—pressure in charge of the weather. that's going to keep things pretty unsettled. these weather fronts thrown up from the south east, so it is going to bring some outbreaks of rain for many on tuesday, particularly england and wales. a very wet start to the day. that rain gradually clearing away towards the west and brighter skies eventually in the south east. the best of the sunshine though i think will be in the far north west of scotland, northern ireland, with that sunshine. it will feel quite chilly along the eastern coast, 7—9 degrees here. but down towards the south east,

those temperatures up to about 15 degrees. and for the rest of the week, well with areas of low—pressure close by, it is going to stay quite unsettled, quite a bit of rain at times. there will be some bright spells and it will feel quite mild where you have got those brighter spells. that's all from me. goodbye. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at i: an unjustifiable use of "instruments of extermination" — the pope speaks out after reports of at least 70 people being killed in syria in an alleged chemical attack. we have received many patients who have suffered from symptoms compatible with exposure to chlorine gas. the us describes the reports as "horrifying" and says russia "ultimately bears

responsibility" for the alleged attacks. the foreign office wants an urgent investigation. ministers deny any link between the rise in violence in london and police cuts. labour have accuse them of having their head in the sand. the foreign secretary borisjohnson describes jeremy corbyn as "the kremlin‘s useful idiot" — the labour leader hits back saying mrjohnson has "made a fool of himself" over russia.