for more than a century. his appointment cements conservative control of the court. mr kavanaugh has denied allegations of sexual assault. the turkish authorities say they believe a prominent saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi, has been murdered inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul. mr khashoggi, who has criticised some of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman‘s policies, has not been seen since entering the consulate last tuesday. the vatican's announced that pope francis has ordered a thorough review of all the documents related to accusations of sexual abuse against a former us cardinal, theodore mccarrick. the pope accepted cardinal mccarrick‘s resignation in july. he'd been accused of sexually assaulting a teenager nearly 50 years ago. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week: we're feeling the love whilst the robots do the work.

and i'd better start packing for the moon. you want to go? is that really right? yeah! i'm if we want to take a quick snap these days, we tend to use one of these. but if you're serious about those photos, then this is still the camera of choice — the dslr. of course, it's notjust the camera itself that is bigger. the sensor used to capture the image is also larger, providing the professional standard known as full frame, which is the equivalent in size to the old 35mm film. the mobile phone had clearly

taken its toll on the compact camera but the dslr had remained largely untouched until the last couple of years, when a new system, called mirrorless, started to gain traction and respect. digital single lens reflex cameras use a mirror system to bounce the light coming through the lens up to the viewfinder, so you can see what you're shooting. but that has a fewer drawbacks. —— but that has a few drawbacks. when you do take the shot, the whole mirror system has to flip away to reveal the sensor — that's noisy and can cause vibration. so enter mirrorless. now the light hits the sensor directly, which also handles autofocus and exposure. and, in doing so, it's also able to offer other features, like face or eye detection. the newer full—frame mirrorless camera houses larger sensors,

capturing more light for a better picture. now, to do all of this, the viewfinder is no longer optical. it's a tiny electronic screen with a live feed from the sensor, which initially put off some professionals. but is this the moment that the dslr has finally met its match? dan simmons has been to the world's biggest photo expo, photokina, in germany, to find out. photography isn't about cameras, it's about taking great pictures. but the introduction from heavyweights nikon and canon in the mirrorless full frame market is turning the heads of pros as well as enthusiasts. i am an extreme sports photographer and i had the chance for about two months to test the new eosr. this is canon's new system.

on sale from tuesday, it'll work with existing eos lenses and offers several big advantages is over dslr. —— lenses and offers several big advantages over dslr. this new camera enables me to shoot scenarios is that they couldn't shoot before. for instance, if i get close to an athlete, he is in his zen mode where he prepares for a stance and it's quite critical. if i disturb him too much, he might lose his stance and i might lose my picture. but eosr, i can put into silent mode and then it's really completely silent, you know? it's like there is no noise at all. the only way you can understand that there is a picture being taken is little flash around the frame in your viewfinder. to be really honest, i was sceptical about electronic viewfinder. i was scared about how would work. but when the light drops, it is a whole new ball game. it's like putting on night vision goggles because you actually see more with this camera then you can see with your eyesight. you can shoot images and you can create compositions that i could never have done before. canon fans have been waiting

for this system for a long time now. they watched sony introduce the world's first full—frame mirrorless model back in 2013. so why has it taken canon so long to catch up? well, you know, we come from a digital slr big leadership. we had to ensure that we offer people what they want. but they wanted this full—frame mirrorless camera two years ago, that's when they wanted it. well, i don't know when they wanted it, but we believe this is the right time. sony had been out for five years with a camera similar this. it was a growing market. are you saying it wasn't worth putting out earlier? it was maybe worth it, maybe not. were you ready to put it out earlier? we are ready today, clearly. but were you ready before? with this quality, with — this is canon.

if we come up with something, it must be the best. the best in mirrorless is understandably a bone of contention. so before i tell you why it not be, let me tell you four good reasons why it might be the best. canon claim the fastest autofocus, at one two hundredth of a second. more autofocus points than any other system — more than 5,000, if you need them. and the ability to autofocus in darker situations than any other camera in the world — —6 ev if you're interested. for the true hardcore, they have a new zoom that is f2 throughout the range. but is the eosr the best? nikon hasn't updated its famous f—mount camera system since it was introduced in 1959 — until last week, when it, too, went mirrorless. the new full—frame 26 and z7 models are slimmer and lighter,

an adapter allows them to work with existing nikon lenses and they sport a visible wider z—mount, allowing more light to hit the sensor. the idea is to create lenses which are as sharp. which perform at a wider aperture. the new z—mount from nikon is more than 1000 times faster than the previous f—mount. that is the speed the camera talks to the lens, and then the lens can then respond? exactly. to be honest, we are actually not using that speed yet, but that is looking forward. i don't know what we're talking about — in five years to ten years — when you might have a few applications. why could that be useful? basically everything which has to be connected to artificial intelligence, augmented reality applications, whatever. i don't know yet what the future holds. i would be a rich man if i did! is there any reason why it we should keep dslrs in the future? definitely.

i mean, dslr are still the ones which have, let's say, the longest battery life. they are — sometimes, you actually need the sturdiness and the weight. the mirrorless cameras will come there eventually. back in march, i first saw the camera, first handled it, and then, along the way, you're getting it — before the rest of the world knows, it is all very exciting. rob whitworth specialises in what he calls flow—motion films. while on location, he had to keep nikon's cameras secret with his granny‘s specially knitted cosies. so what does he think? in a gimble it's a gamble, or there is no way to operate the focus, so you are relying on autofocus. the example in the video was shooting our talent using a 105 millimetre lens at f1.4, so a great depth of field. and it nailed it — reliably and from multiple takes. that is very exciting.

this is the first time that i would rely on this feature with nikon cameras. japan seems to have upset many pro— shooters when it comes to memory slots. both the canon and nikon offer support one memory card slot, which does not allow pros to backup on the move. so i asked nikon's head of marketing what the deal was, and he said they recognised the problem and were looking to add a second slot in future models. in fairly low—light conditions, i took out the z7 and sony's equivalent, the a73, and they both performed did a decentjob. that's no surprise, really, because as sony created the full—frame mirrorless sector years ago. its cameras cost less than me nikon and canon. and many say it performs the dslrs — especially in video. now, all these cameras shoot in ak but sony has had the time to perfect that. and they provide two memory slots. they've developed eye recognition

for reliable autofocus, and now animal recognition. but even as the clear market leader in full—frame mirrorless cameras, i found out there's a lot more to come from sony. elsewhere, panasonic announced its full—frame mirrorless system on sale early next year. its lumix brand will partner up with leica and sigma to offer a complete system. so while full frame merrill is kill off the dsl? eventually it is

likely. but remember it is what you should that makes the biggest difference. it may not be the brightest lens or have superfast autofocus, but it is mirrorless. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that elon musk was forced to step down as the chairman of tesla. kim kardashian was named as the most dangerous celebrity to search for online. and the irish data protection commission launched a formal investigation into facebook‘s recent data breach, which affected over 15 million accounts worldwide. it was also the week that microsoft showed off new surface products. and amazon said it would raise wages in the uk and usa. the move will affect tens of thousands of employees in the uk, and follows criticism of the company's low wages and warehouse working conditions. and japan's advanced industrial

science and technology institute has developed a robot that could make diy at a thing of the past. staying injapan, researchers at the university of tokyo created the world's strongest inbuilt magnetic field, promptly blowing up their own lab. none of the team emerged as magnetically powered superheroes after the incident, though. and finally, they may be famous for their wholesome image, but even disney can not resist the occasional bit of graffiti. disney research and eth zurich have partnered in the creation of a graffiti drone, or, as they call it, the paintcopter. fitted with a spray paint gun and cameras to detect what it's looking at, and researchers hope it could replace scaffolds and ladders on large—scale painting projects. but it may need some practice, first. in a warehouse in silicon valley, what might be the future of farming.

a farm that is indoors, autonomous and apparently incredibly productive compared to traditional methods. the man behind it believes he is working on technology that is essential if farming families like his are to thrive for generations to come. so i grew up in texas and oklahoma. and we had a few thousand acres over there. even there, we had the issue of my granddad cannot get enough help. and none of his daughters took it up, so, luckily i guess i am. it's also the cleanest farm you have ever seen. in fact, it's more like a food lab, which is why i need to look like this before i can go in. well, now i've got my best look on, let's check out the farm. the first thing i can see is this enormous great machine, tell us about this. this is angus, this is our 1000—pound mobile robot. angus.

angus can autonomously navigate our farm. angus controls the floor. —— angus patrols the floor. he is omnidirectional and self—driving and knows where he's going, thanks to these markers up on the ceiling. he brings the modules, which are filled with water, over to the second robot in the room. the arm is used to harvest which in this farm means moving the produce from one container to the next to help it have more room to grow. there's a lot of technical challenges to overcome here. the arm must pick up each plant but do so delicately, and not damage the other plants in the process. once the harvesting is complete, angus moves it into the light. so just give me a sense of what different food this can grow. these are some of the baby plants. so we have some butterhead,

red romaine, some really tiny baby red beans there. —— red beans sorrel. this is the only iron 0x farm so far and it doubles as the company's offices. their business is relying on the fact that not only is their farm supposedly more efficient, but the food itself is more consistent, and it means it needs to taste great. genovese basil, what i recommend is tearing it in half first, and smelling it. oh yeah. yeah, right? that is really nice. very, very good. that was dave. now watching this now, you have absolutely no idea what i'm going to say or do next, let alone the ability to control it. but nick kwek has been to see some technology that could change that. i've been invited to york's inaugural mediale arts festival to see interactive film called "what is love?" and i hope to find the answer. wish me luck.

here, the audience is invited to not only view but shape the narrative of a love story. they affect what happens as the video itself changes to complement the viewer's individual responses. how am i feeling today? every so often, floating icons are projected in space in front of the screen, subtly encouraging onlookers to reach out and virtually guide the mood of the production. well, that's the idea anyway. took me a while because we had to interact and do stuff, i didn't understand. i was trying to interact but we couldn't make it work, so we just went along with the flow. it was great, it was different. a leapmotion sensor tracks hand movements and depending

on where and when you intervene, different pre—recorded scenes play out. the installation uses a storytelling medium known as 0bject based media. and this is billed as the first public airing of the tailor—made tech. basically 0bject based media gives people options. if you like to mix it up and change the camera angle, you can play director. if the character or presenter is simply rabbiting on too much and you want to skip to the next part, then you can simply... or if you have started watching something after the watershed, it can automatically show you stuff a little more adult friendly. a new piece of editing software had to be created to produce the experience. we spent about a year developing some underlying technology. these three groups are all different dialogue choices, and based on the decision that the viewer

makes, it go down one of these paths and then it will select from these possibilities. as a director is very interesting because it is a far more exciting challenge to put a story together like this. because you allow the user to interact and change depending on what they want out of that piece. and then they will get out of it what they have put into it. that's exactly what broadcasters are working on. netflix is set to broadcast a choose—your—own—dystopian—future episode of black mirror later this year among other interactive experiments. bbc r&d, who helped develop the york installation, have been working on similar projects for a couple of years now. this is our origami frog make—along. if you want to see a different view, maybe you need to see it top—down to get the frog right, you can switch to top down and there's an even closer—up view of his hands. matt and his team have concocted

personalised tutorials, weather updates and even some dummy news packages. 0bm for news is quite interesting. we have got that in—depth analytics in the content that you might expect from multi—player video games, we know where people are losing track or failing or repeating stuff. and obviously with that object—based approach you could go back and tweak it. but of course if we over—personalise we could be in danger of the filter bubble effect, of only showing people opinions they already agree with. and also if you flip that idea, maybe we can introduce counterexamples to people. i don't know if it is the opposite of personalisation, but introducing things to their media that provide an opposite point of view to try and make sure we don'tjust reinforce everyone‘s views. but is 0bm ready for prime time, and are audiences up for it? dr smith foresees an 0bm in future where artificial intelligence might know what we want and help guide our viewing.

if you imagine it kind of like google maps where instead of taking the fastest route from a to b, you get the most interesting route from a to b. and that is where i think the logical form of the artificial intelligence will take, but the direct will be providing the map. we will soon see if that map is worth the expedition. that was nick. and apologies, you can't choose who you do or don't watch quite so easily right now, or what they are wearing. this is the zozo suit and generally you would be wearing it in the privacy of your own home. the aim is that it helps create 3d measurements of you so you can order custom—made clothes online. around 400 unique markers are tracked by the phone's app. the company behind the suit, zoonown, although you may not have heard of it, is the biggest online fashion retailer in japan. a business which turned its founder yusaku maezawa, from a drummer in a band into a billionaire.

but he may be feeling a little distracted right now, as he has bought the first tickets for elon musk‘s 2023 mission to the moon. he doesn't want to travel into space alone though. i met up with the avid art collector at the louis vuitton foundation in paris where his $110 million basquiat painting is currently on show. ever since i was a kid, i have loved the moon very much. after hearing about spacex, at what point did you start ever since i was a kid, i have loved the moon very much. after hearing about spacex, at what point did you start to think, yes, i actually want to go and do this? yusaku wants to bring

artists along with him, at his expense, to see how their experience inspires their work. maybe it will be a musician, a painter, a dancer, a film director, i don't know yet. so right now there are still a lot of things in question, a lot needs to be developed. how likely do you think is that this is going to go ahead? do you trust elon musk, you know him, do you like him,

are you friends, would you like him to come? he is crazy, like me. (laughs). is he crazy enough to want to go to the moon? i am very honoured to do that. what do you hope that you may come back thinking, feeling, or having learnt?

how much does a ticket to the moon cost? i cannot say about that. but huge. hundreds of millions? you're not allowed to say... thank you very much. and safe journey. thank you. you want to go? really? i mean, iwasn‘t expecting an invite! that's it for this week's show. you can keep track of what we are up one facebook and twitter at @bbcclick, and of course we will be back next week. good morning.

i think is pretty safe to say whatever the weather you had yesterday you will have the opposite today. let us look at why. we had a weather front moving across england and wales yesterday which brought heavy prolonged rain for a time. further and west under an influence of high pressure we had some drier sunnier weather conditions. it was a north—south divide across the country. the best you could do to entertain yourself in the afternoon was perhaps a splash in muddy puddles across england and wales. the north it was a glorious afternoon for getting out and about. a little on the chilly side but beautiful with some sunshine. those clear skies continuing. that means a chilly start to sunday morning. we will see single figures quite widely across the country. and maybe a little bit of mist

and maybe in some areas light frost. we could be greeted to a scene like this first thing. the only exception to that is further north and west. there is a weather front pushing into scotland as we speak, it is bringing strengthening winds, gusting to gale force through the day and some heavy, persistent rain into scotland and perhaps gradually into northern ireland. a real contrast in what you had yesterday. further south, it is a completely different story. we will continue with the blue sky, the sunshine, and a degree or so warmer as well. a beautiful afternoon for spending time outside. temperatures will be up on where we were yesterday. we should see highest values perhaps of around 14—16 degrees. further north, 11—14 at the very best. we still have this north—south divide into monday. much of england amount under the influence of high pressure. this weather front acting like a conveyor belt. bringing a pulse of rain. there may be the potential for localised flooding before it eases into western scotland, as we see another day through northern ireland and much of central and western scotland seeing some persistent rain. further south, the south—westerly bloke driving in more cloud.

a degree or so warmer with some sunshine, highs of 18 degrees. that will be the trend as we go through the middle part of the week. we keep the south—westerly flow and temperatures will start to pick up. notjust across england and wales, even into scotland, particularly eastern scotland. if it's the warmth that you are after, you won't be disappointed with this forecast as we go through the middle of the week. likely to see high teens, low 20s across the country. with elements like early—morning frosts, a little bit of mist, but also some warmth, we could be asking the question, are we going to experience an indian summer? until then, take care. this is bbc world news. our top stories: a major victory for president trump — his controversial choice for the supreme court brett kavanaugh is sworn in, despite allegations of sexual assault, which he's fiercely denied. against the backdrop of vociferous protests, the nomination was narrowly approved. all chant: shame!

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