in pittsburgh in the united states. the gunman is reported to have shouted anti—semitic abuse. president trump says he'll travel to pittsburgh after the shootings, which he described as an evil attack and an assault on humanity. a helicopter belonging to the thai billionaire owner and chairman of leicester city football club has crashed and burst into flames. witnesses say it had taken off from inside the stadium an hour after a match between leicester and west ham, but then span out of control. the leaders of turkey, russia, france and germany have again stressed that a permanent peace in syria can only be found through political means. following a summit of the leaders in istanbul, they promised to work to ensure the current ceasefire in the northern province of idlib became permanent. the duke and duchess of sussex have attended the closing ceremony of the fourth invictus games in sydney. the sporting event, established to inspire recovering soldiers,

and help them deal with the trauma of combat, has seen more than 500 competitors from 18 nations take part. prince harry and meghan will be travelling onto new zealand as part of their 16—day commonwealth tour. our royal correspondentjonny dymond reports from sydney. announcer: joshua david smith. a week of competition and camaraderie comes to a close. today, athletes from militaries around the world received medals with a royal touch. one of the british medallists this week was former lance corporal andy white. our invictus games sydney 2018 medallists! dragged out of depression by what he calls the invictus spirit. because we're all ex—military and the things we've done, we are another family, we are the invictus family. we'll always look out for each other. there are sporting competitions that are bigger than invictus and there are sporting competitions

that are richer than invictus, but you would be hard—pressed to find a competition with greater unity of purpose. they came to celebrate that purpose in sydney tonight, competitors and meghan too, who spoke of the importance of family and friends. once home, the need for that anchor of support from loved ones, especially given how much it accelerates recovery and rehabilitation, is immeasurable. and then the man who brought all of it together, who dwelt again on the mental wounds of war and loss. i've been there, you've been there, and we now need to reach out to those who can never imagine themselves in that place. applause he told competitors that they had shown us all that anything is possible, and with that, he closed the games. jonny dymond, bbc news, sydney.

now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, we're back injapan with new legs, spare arms... hello? ..and too many heads. hello, japan. you're looking fab. it's great to be back in this crazy old world of the future. from the middle of tokyo,

it feels like you can see for years and years. here's a country that's no longer afraid to mix globalfashions with its own unique culture. and it's a place that loves, loves, loves a robot. they've been dreaming of them since astro boy in the 19505, and as the world of robotics has advanced, some of their visions are coming true. hello, and...oh. but even before we have properly intelligent bots, could this be the country to bring forth the superhumans? it's time to meet the machines that may one day be augmenting humans, and the humans behind the machines. camera there, camera there? yourface. my face, sorry about that. applause

this robot has certainly pulled in a big audience. now, as you've probably guessed, those were purely preprogrammed moves, and like many robots that we've seen, this is a self—balancing robot, which means...it does pretty well at staying upright. but one day, this robot may be taught to work autonomously. toyota is looking at ways to train machines using human operators whose movements are synchronised to theirs. the operator also wears a virtual reality headset to show them the robot's perspective. it's really strange because i know there is someone on the other side of these eyes. it feels like this robot is looking at me. one of the most impressive things

about thr—3 is its dexterity, and the control that it gives its operator when touching and interacting with objects. now, what's really interesting is not only can the operator control the robot's arms, hands and the fingers through the data gloves, but he can actually feel what the robot feels. so, as the robot grasps the object, he can feel the resistance of that object in his fingers. and actually, the entire robot mirrors anything that it senses back to the operator. so. . . it can feel the fact that it's being pushed. that means that the operator can sense what's happening to the robot. even if it bumps into something that they can't see, they still know it's there. translation: these technologies could be made to work in many industries. at first, we want to develop the robots to assist with everyday household chores.

and then in the future, for teleworking, to remotely support work, which is more physically demanding. toyota isn't suggesting that all robots will be humanoid in the future. at the moment, this is just an experiment into how humans might show robots what to do. but how about a robot that can show a human what to do? this is fusion, my new robot backpack. fist bump? i now have four arms, two of which are controlled by someone else, who's wearing a virtual reality headset. this surrogate can be mounted on your body, then he can actually assess your motion and guide your motion. so it's kind of like skill transfer. the operator of the robotic arms, who could be on the other side of the world, really can teach you things.

they can pick things up and they can even grab my arms and move them around. we wanted to create this kind of collaboration idea between two people, that they are sharing the same body. so, if we share the same body, we share the same point of view, then this probably will enhance the quality of communication. it takes a bit of getting used to, but once you do, well, it's time for the hard work to begin. can you scratch my nose for me? laughs hmm, as strange an experience as it is to have someone else's movements on my back, i'm betting it'll be even stranger from the other side. so, as i move my head around, sensors track that motion and the robot head moves in response. different buttons enable different finger functions, so i can move each finger

individually, or i can move them all simultaneously with a single button, which allows me to grip an object. i'm grabbing the ball! ohhh! perhaps one day in the future, fusion will be used to help two people work together when they're far apart. for the moment, though, being my personal assistant will be just perfect. phone rings hey, you've got a phone call! hello? yeah, hi, boss, i'm really busy at the moment. can you talk to my personal assistant, please? ok, thanks. hello! yep, i copy that. all clear. i love the vision here. it's not unique by any means, there's plenty of these kind

of ideas in many universities around the world, but every so often, japan still throws up something special. so let's pop over to the brain department — which, fortunately, isn't here. come with me, because we have been invited to a very special place. this is nissan's advanced technology centre. not many people get to go inside. in this modern, airy creative space, which is unusual forjapan, i have to say, engineers, scientists and designers worked together on some pretty advanced projects. in the name of technology, we're ruining my hair. this is the brain to vehicle research centre. now, it's not telepathic driving, but this headset is measuring

my real—time brain activity. the idea is that one day it will predict what i'm about to do just before i do it. there have been experiments which have shown that long before we realise that we have made a decision, our brain has started making the decision. there's electrical activity in our brains about 1.5 seconds before we realise we've conducted an act of free will. it means that if you're a particularly bad driver, the car can begin to react as soon as your brain registers that you want to turn or to brake, but before your hands or your feet actually make the move. on tight corners like these, it means that your car may one day smooth out your late reactions, and make you feel a better driver than you actually are. now, the computer can't actually tell what movement you want to make,

all it can detect is activity in your motor cortex, the part of the brain associated with movement. the car's sensors will then check for bends in the road and other cars and work out what it was that you wanted to do. we should develop smart systems, and this is a smart system, that should not all the time be replacing the human being, but in many cases should be enhancing the human capabilities. and this brain to vehicle, it is doing this connection, it is connecting human intelligence with artificial intelligence, not replace this one, but to enhance it. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that uber said a clean air fee will be added to all london—based fares starting early 2019. the extra money will be used to help drivers to buy electric cars.

electric scooters were banned from sidewalks in the city of madrid. and does this signal the death of the disk? john lewis announced this week that it is to stop selling dvd players. also this week, netflix, which already has over $8 billion in debt, plans to fund new content by getting further into debt. the video streaming company will add another $2 billion to the amount it already owes. apple and samsung were fined millions of euros each for software updates that the italian authorities say deliberately slow down users‘ phones. samsung says it will appeal the fine, apple has yet to make a statement. the water abundant x—prize, a competition challenging teams to build machines that harvest water from thin air, has a winner. these machines can pull moisture from the air, condense it and then filter it into fresh water, up to 300 gallons a day. and to round things up, check out this mini flying robot.

the insect—inspired flycrotug can pull objects up to a0 times its weight. stanford university say the bot can be useful during sea rch—and—rescue missions by helping find victims, carry water or move debris. 0k. a quick break from japan now for a look at the biggest video games release of recent times. mark cieslak has gained rare access to the team behind it. red dead redemption 2 allows players to experience a vast, virtual version to the old west, robbing trains, riding horses, and even playing poker. i'm waiting for someone interesting to turn up. rockstar are a huge deal. they are a development studio behind the gta series. even if you have never touched a controller, you know what grand theft auto is. you know that this is the biggest entertainment product. not just in games.

but grand theft auto made $6 billion as an entertainment product. that leaves every thing else — films, television — in the dust. the game is so big, it has had to be created with nine different studios in four different countries. rockstar north here in edinburgh is the largest of the studios working on this game. not many get a glimpse inside the building. security and secrecy is tight. well, ain't this a rare treat? located in the former home of the scotsman newspaper, they're so secretive around here, we were only allowed to film the bulging awards cabinet. everything else was out of bounds. we did get to meet one of their head honchos, though — rob nelson. this world has its consolation. rockstar is famous for creating games with open worlds. what's new in this open world?

for us, the biggest game that we've ever made. notjust going bigger and broader, but striving for a depth, being to go into more environments. and when you go into those environments, being to pick up interact with things and being able to interact with people and animals and interact with the world in a way that we have not been able to do before. if we were trying to create world that you believe in, a character that you believe in, you have to have that connection. so we're always try to push, i think, with every game, to go deeper with that, you know, with that sort of idea. for things to mean something, things need to cost something. in the old game, if your horse died, you whistled for it and a new one came. it was very convenient. but it meant that the horses were somewhat disposable. that's a nice horse. so we decided that the horses will not be disposable. hold still, girl.

if you go too far from your horse, it's not going to come magically. you will have to go back to it. but if you spend more time with this horse, you will bond with it, and then it will come to you from a greater distance. or it will stay with you under duress. it might be less afraid to go in the swamp where there are alligators. there are things like that which we balance. so, are you pushing the boundaries of what is capable with interactive entertainment at the moment? you know, i think everything that we've done is to serve that goal, and to try and really blur the lines between on mission and off mission, and what is narrative, and what's ambient open—world experience. finding a balance between realism and believability and fun and playability is something that we're always trying to achieve. you hope that you've hit it as well as you can, but you don't know until people play it. that was mark. meanwhile, back in japan. .. they couldn't walk when i came in. japanese music.

they couldn't walk when i came in. now they're walking. mitsuko negashiyo suffered from polio as a child, which left her in a wheelchair...until now. today, she's wearing a hal suit. hal — hybrid assisted limbs. when you want to move your arms or your legs, your brain sends electrical signals to the muscles to tell them to move. this suit detects those signals and that's what makes it move. so, if you can't move your arms or your legs, the suit still detects the signals, and so it can walk for you. for example, if i stop my arm from moving, but flex the muscles, it still detects the will to move the legs.

lower limb disabilities are often caused by a damaged and disconnected nervous system between what the brain wants to do and resulting muscle movements. however, even in severe cases, there are still weak electrical signals that do make it through. and just to prove that it is detecting intention, rather than copying any detected movement, if it's not my brain making my limbs move, the suit doesn't replicate. hal is being used for rehabilitation in serious spinal cord injuries and other neuromuscular diseases, where previously, patients had no prospect of being to move their legs again. the legs' purpose is not to strengthen muscles, but to rebuild the new neural loop between brain and legs. we watched the development of these power—assisted suits

for quite a few years here on click. but one thing has always concerned me. the company that makes this robot suit has chosen to call itself cyberdyne. well now i finally had the opportunity to ask the founder of the company if he knew that this was the name of company that makes the terminator that then goes back in time and tries to wipe us all out. similar? it is the same, man! ok, coincidence it is. moving on.

really, this is just the start of the exoskeleton story. for the next part, we go to steve, who is in nara city, in the west ofjapan. atoun has been trying to make exoskeletons a reality for 15 years. while they have come a long way from some of their earlier prototypes, only now are the legs trying to leave the labs. very good to meet doctor. should i step in? it's not like putting a normal trousers, is it? what you want me to do? lovely. so these are the prototype robotic trousers. the idea is if you're working in the woods, say, planting a forest of you might wear these, and it would help you with the load and also help you navigate the terrain.

please, switch on my trousers. just off for a stroll. it's interesting to see the different forms exoskeletons can take, from full body suits to power wear, that helps with one task or one part of the body. this prototype was designed to help people working in nuclear power stations navigate while wearing heavy protective suits. don't be like walking? no problem. it can also roll along. while speed is not its strong point, it can also go up stairs. translation: if powered wear was in more common use, the limitations of physical power could be expanded. elderly populations could continue to be a workforce. many of the prototypes have been designed to tackle very specific problems, but atoun has bigger ambitions. translation: firstly, human augmentation could open up new opportunities for everyone,

and their behaviour and actions could change. this could really change the way we live. secondly, powered wear may become part of popularfashion, just like choosing your favourite outfit, if human augmentation becomes a natural part of our body. but getting people to actually use these things means making a simpler, lighter, and cheaper. this one is called himeko. it is easier to put on and use. it is just a couple of knee pads connected to ropes connected to the motor back here. itjust gives a little bit of help walking. it might be the elderly people who have trouble walking — it could encourage them to go outside — orjust help people who walk around a lot in theirjob and get tired. this just takes the load off.

it is quite subtle, but i can feel it is doing something. over the course of the day, that is when you might notice the difference. so this little demonstration gives an idea of what the exoskeleton is doing. i have this 25 kg weight here, but i can move it, just using my finger. really, i am not making any effort at all. this is taking all the weight, but i'm still in control of what happens. that is what happens with the exoskeletons. packing all that it is you would be happy wearing every day, though, is the real challenge. this is the model y. it's the commercial version they're selling, you can see the boxes around here. their selling this in industries across japan, and the idea is to get a little help to protect your back. so moving crates around every day, this will give you that help when you stand up and put things down, so you don't hurt yourself.

this is like a simple backpack, and it is giving a little bit of extra pull and protection when you move. so i've got a 25 kg crate of beer here, the party i'm having later. there we go, back protected. off i go. that was steve. i never did get my invite to that party. anyway, as far—fetched as they seem, japan is exactly the place where these robot machinations really can take form. its ageing population and shrinking workforce means robots are needed. and its love of technology means they are welcome. it has been and other earth—shattering, high—flying, eye—opening visit, but that is it from here. for now. thanks forjoining us. sayonara! good morning. another cold day for

many, but a bit of a west east divide with the weather. today, the best of the sunshine the further west you are, and that is because of the wind direction. more of a north—easterly driving cloud off that north sea, so eastern areas always at the risk of a few showers. top temperatures struggling again, 8—11 degrees. a cold feeling by day, but by night the winds will fall and it gets colder still. some showers along the east coast but they will start to ease away. with lighter winds and clear skies those temperatures are going to fall away really quite sharply. a widespread frost first thing on monday morning, a chilly start but a sparkling one, with sunshine to look out for and light winds and fewer showers. not a bad day in prospect. clouding over from the west with the risk of isolated showers into the western isles as well. highest values of 7—10. take care.

welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is lewis vaughanjones. our top stories: a man has been charged after at least 11 people were shot dead at a synagogue in the us city of pittsburgh. in other news, a helicopter belonging to leicester city's thai owner has crashed after taking off from the football team's stadium. hello and welcome to bbc news. a man's been charged after at least 11 people were killed in pittsburgh in a gun attack on a synagogue. the shooting took place during a baby—naming ceremony. the alleged gunman has been named by us media as robert bowers