new zealand may have come future. new zealand may have come last on this royal tour, but the couple are making their mark. two police officers in australia pulled off a dramatic beach rescue with a difference, when a kangaroo got itself into difficulty at sea. the animal was drowning when sergeants christopher russo and kirby tonkin ran into the sea off the coast of melbourne to fetch it. they dragged the unconsious kangaroo to the shore, where they performed chest compressions and managed to save its life. now it's time for a look at the weather. it is now the cold day. there will be sharers in eastern scotland. ——

showers in eastern scotland. the afternoon should be dry and quite sunny. we have some strong winds in the south—east bringing in showers. those temperatures will fall this evening. will be a few sharers in the north sea coast. there will be clear skies and light winds. temperatures will be down to —3. it will be a dry day. there will be cloud in the western isles. the role be missed and fog in wales. the robison spells of sunshine. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... air accident investigators are trying to establish why a helicopter, belonging to the owner

of leicester city football club, crashed just after taking off from the club's stadium. bbc news understands that the thai owner was on board the aircraft which burst into flames. prosecutors in the united states have filed hate crime charges against the suspect in the murder of 11 people at a synagogue in pittsburgh yesterday. robert bowers is accused of opening fire at the tree of life synagogue during its sabbath service. the chancellor has warned he will have to adopt a new economic strategy if britain leaves the eu without a deal. philip hammond said he thought that a no—deal brexit was extremely unlikely, but he would have to set out a new budget if it happened. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week we are back injapan with new legs, spare arms... —hello?

..and too many heads. hello, japan. you're looking fab. it is 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 is a country that is no longer afraid to mix globalfashions with its own unique culture. and it is a place that

loves, loves, loves a robot. they have been dreaming of them since astro boy in the 1950s, 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 is 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. as you have probably guessed,

those were purely preprogrammed moves, and like many robots that we have 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. 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'll still know it is there. translation: these technologies can 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 as 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, boss, iam really busy at the moment. can you talk to my personal assistant, please? thank you. hello! yes. copy that. all clear. i love the vision here. it is not unique by any means, there are 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, 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. it is 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 their decision.

there is electrical activity in our brain about 1.5 seconds before we realise we have conducted an act of free will. it means that if you are a particularly bad driver, the car can begin to react as soon as your brain registers that you want to turn or 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 cannot 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 replacing 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 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 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 will $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 waterfrom 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 search 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. 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! 0k, 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! hello there.

it is another cold day for us today. we have got a mixture of sunshine and some showers. the showers perhaps in different places than what we had yesterday. one area that will keep some showers going into the afternoon here in west sussex. the showers are coming in from the north. the wind direction has changed a bit. yesterday the wind was coming from the arctic. today it is a northeasterly wind which is feeding in those showers. a bit more sunshine to the afternoon in the southeast of england and east anglia. sunshine and scattered showers here up the eastern side of england into eastern scotland. one or two showers perhaps getting into the midlands. a stream of showers for the channel islands. wales, northwest england, northern ireland, much of scotland will be dry and sunny into the afternoon. here is the winds will be lighter. it may not feel quite so cold. the strongest winds feeding in the showers towards the south. that will take the edge off those sort of temperatures. on the whole, those numbers are a little bit higher than they were yesterday.

if you are in the sunshine, out of the wind, it should not feel too bad. it is cold and it will get much colder quickly during the evening. light winds, clear skies for the most part. the showers keep bumping into these north sea coasts feeding through the english channel. more cloud coming in to northern ireland and the western isles. may bring a shower here as well. but in between, clear skies, light winds, we have got more blue on the charge and frost will be more widespread. temperatures coming down to —3 or “4. a cold start to the new working week with some more frost around as well. but for most of us, monday should be a dry day. don't need to worry too much about this cloud and rain here. it is not really going to reach us. we have got one or two showers coming in off the north sea. on a gentler breeze this time. most places will be dry. some morning mist and fog, the wales, the west country, some patchy cloud developing here into the afternoon. but those temperatures again, nine or 10 degrees. similar to what we are expecting today. things get very interesting

as we head into tuesday. there is a really nasty area of low pressure across continental europe. it is going to bring a lot of snow to the alps, it is going to bring some really damaging winds up into scandinavia. we're just on the edge of all that excitement. the chance of some heavy rain and heavier winds down the eastern side of mainly england. as that pushes away, things quiet down around the middle part of the week. it should be a little less cold, there'll be some sunshine, maybe or two showers. we end the week with some rain in the northwest with some widespread gales. hello, good afternoon. the bbc has been told the owner of leicester city football club was on board the helicopter that crashed and burst into flames only minutes after taking off from the team's stadium last night. it's believed there were five people on board includng people on board including vichai srivaddhanaprabha. he bought leicester city eight years ago, pouring millions of pounds into the club which helped them win the premier league two years ago. sima kotecha is at king power stadium this lunchtime. sima.