at a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria. the united nations security council is due to meet in an emergency session. rebel fighters have now also begun leaving the devastated town of douma — their last remaining bastion on the outskirts of the capital, damascus. the incumbent, viktor orban, has declared victory in hungary's general election. his right wing party, fidesz, is projected to have won almost 50% of votes and two—thirds of the seats in parliament. mr orban says his re—election is an opportunity to defend the country's borders. church services have been held across canada, following the deaths of 15 young ice hockey players, in a bus crash. prime ministerjustin trudeau is due attend a national vigil in the boys home town saskatchewan. those are the headlines. now on bbc news it's time for 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. it's very, very temperamental and really, it's really not good. well, there's some good news. 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 to every other machine. this week, the first stage of bidding to become a 56 operator in the uk ended with ee, 3, 02 and vodafone splashing out more than £1.3 billion for the privilege. now, to date, no standards have been agreed, but we do have a rough idea of what 56 should look like. 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. hd movies can be downloaded in seconds rather than minutes with speeds 10 to 100 times faster than ag. two — unlike ag masts which broadcast in all directions,

sg antennas will send concentrated beams directly to your device. three — 56 is all about superquick response times and that's crucial for things like self—driving cars, which will use the tech 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. five — the solution is new masts masks and lots of them. but the good news is that they only need be tiny. these mini masts will need to be much closer together and they'll act like a relay team transmitting signals around buildings.

56 projects are still being trialled, and the kinks in the technology are still being worked out. but lara lewington has been to see what is claimed to be the world's first public 56 testbed. the trial taking place here in bristol's millennium square aims to give the public an idea of what 56 could make possible. this communal virtual reality experience shows streaming of high—bandwidth content on many devices all at once, all on one network with no time lag or drop out. dancing in unison, we played a game involving chasing moving stars. these demos couldn't be in full 56 because current smart phones can't oblige, but every other element is there, with these 56 new radios throughout the area transmitting signal. the team here anticipate 56 to be a network of networks, combining the best elements of conductivity we have now with millimetre or extremely high frequency waves, 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 on the train, you go under the tunnel, nothing of this works, and then in the tunnel, you install li—fi network, we are demonstrating is future of connectivity, then actually your 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 come into play. 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 5g as a way to get 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! i can see it being useful for me in about ten years, when i catch up with the rest of society. i still think about...is in 36? 36 for me soon, and i'll be pleased 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. 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.

it 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 transformative. 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 map 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 0lympian 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 0mg 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. 0uch. 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. nick 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 his own bot butler. all of these robots require some degree of specialist knowledge. so if a particular specialist isn't 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 got two hands. a pincer and a suction grip. he chooses which one to use depending on what item he needs to pick. there are a lot of different ideas that we brainstormed and prototyped and engineered and finally, this is what we came up with. this is the one that actually won the challenge. not very compact, is it? cartman sees what he's doing via a depth—sensing camera which helps him visualise 3—d models of objects. so 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 to pick and where. 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 actually cannot have just a library of all possible objects ever. so your vendor puts a new sticker on an object, or the boxes changed shape and it becomes a new object, and you need to train a system to understand this is a new object and this is how to pick it up. the team now looking beyond the 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 capsicums and we export a lot as well. we have a big agricultural industry in australia and one of the things we're trying to improve is automating that technology and improving the performance and efficiencies. he's also so got two arms in one and a special camera to see what's 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 what's called a 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 out fo that 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 it's spotted 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's powered by nine individual raspberry pis and is 3d printed, so it's fairly cheap to produce. harvey is a proof of concept at the moment. the team is yet to prove how commercially viable a robot like this is.

but his designers say he could reduce crop waste by helping farmers to harvest more at peak times. he can manouever between crop i’ows and work eight hours straight without tea breaks. the other value we see in harvey is notjust harvesting the fruit, but being a full crop management system. so, 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. actually make contracts and sell his fruit before it's even harvested. thanks very much, pepper. it's been a lovely tour. i think it's time for me to go. we should say goodbye here. namaste. spencer: brilliant. that was nick in brisbane. one of the big questions that comes out of the automation ofjobs is what does it mean for us? will we all be out of work or will a new raft ofjobs be created? here's what our panel

of academic experts predicts. 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—205, you are sorted and you work some sort of the job for

the rest of your life. i think we will be continually reskilling and retraining. we are going to need to be prepared for that. universities will have to play a role in training notjust 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 really 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 al 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's 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's what we have computers to do very, very effectively. what we need to move more towards is a curriculum that encourages activities such as collaborative problem—solving. but 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 that lose out to import competition. if you can show that yourjob was lost due to globalisation, the government would 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's working and taking somebody else's jobs? 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 don't 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 sense, 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 that 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's 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, not just as consumers but as workers. a good future of work is one in which people can achieve work together. —— people and machines. that is it for us in bournemouth. don't forget we live on facebook

and on twitter @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. for much of the week ahead, our air is coming from the east but don't worry, it doesn't look particularly cold, as we'll see. not so much sunshine in the week ahead as we enjoyed in cornwall, though, on sunday. it looked pretty nice too in inverness, broken cloud and sunny spells. scotland and northern ireland will see the best of the sunny spells as we go on through monday. some fog around to start the day, it could be quite dense in places — that gradually clearing. through east anglia and south—east england, a lot of cloud here, patchy rain and drizzle. on through the day, thatjust shunts a bit further west

towards the midlands, maybe eastern parts of wales late in the day, with some spots in south—east england. looking to scotland, a few showers developing, not everybody will catch one. if you do, it could be on the heavy side. temperatures for the most part around ten to ia degrees, it could be quite misty and murky throughout the day. some eastern coastal parts of northern ireland, and some spots on the north sea coast as well. on through monday night, an area of rain expands to cover more of england, parts of wales, some darker blues, some heavier bursts developing as well as we go into tuesday morning. now, as monday begins, it'll be fairly chilly. less so on tuesday morning and frost is not a worry as we go through this week. as we look at the big picture for tuesday, low pressures to the south of us. it's around that spiralling we see some wet weather systems occasionally, like the one we start off with on tuesday. high pressure in scandinavia. the flow of air around the two means it is an easterly flow coming into the uk but look at the colours here, they're not baltic blue, the air‘s not coming from siberia, actually the eastern mediterranean so it's certainly not cold there.

so, as we go through the week, temperatures for many of us will be at or slightly above average, but there's one significant exception with that air coming across the cold north sea, the north sea coast will be chilly, single figure temperatures. some rain at times this week, not all the time. some drier and even sunnier moments to be enjoyed too. this is how tuesday's shaping up. we start off with that weather system, with some heavier bursts of rain slowly moving away from england and wales towards parts of scotland and northern ireland. the north—west of scotland holding onto the fine weather for the longest. some sunny spells, there could be some heavy and maybe thundery showers into parts of england, especially south—west england and south wales later in the day. as we go on through the week, cloud, single figures. elsewhere, temperatures could be as high as 17 degrees in london. drier, brighter weather at times as we go through this week, and it looks like a pretty decent work week to come here in north—west scotland.

bye— bye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe — my name is nkem ifejika. our top stories: western leaders express outrage at a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria — the un security council is to meet later. the self—styled defender of christian culture, viktor orban, wins by a landslide in hungary's general election. canadian prime minister justin trudeau is due to attend a national vigil following the deaths of 15 young ice hockey players in a bus crash. we will be live in humboldt, saskatchewan. sailing the south china sea — we go on board a us aircraft carrier, as washington worries about beijing's growing naval power.