this is bbc news, the headlines. the uk prime minister, theresa may, has moved to shore up her government, following widespread opposition to her brexit deal with the eu. mrs may has won the support of some of her key brexiteer ministers, but she has had to defend herself against further calls from critics to stand down. donald trump says he has personally finished writing his answers to questions posed by the mueller inquiry into russian interference in the last us presidential election. mr trump said he had not yet submitted the responses because he'd been very busy. he again described the investigation as a witch hunt. the white house has agreed temporarily to allow the cnn journalist, jim acosta, back into press briefings, after a court ordered it to do so. the journalist's pass was revoked last week after he argued with president trump during a news conference. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week: robo surgeons. swinging

superstars. and sean bean toilet duck. here on click, we are constantly coming across jawdropping medical marvels. from robo nurses, to ai which can out diagnose experts. we have seen the future of medicine evolving before our eyes. it is there to save medicine has, long way. this is the old operating theatre museum in london. of course

there is an old operating theatre museum, why wouldn't there be? back in the late 1800s for example, this was the cutting edge. literally. and in the 130 years since, surgery has changed beyond recognition. but, as with all technology, we mustn't become overreliant on them. we mustn't think that it will do everything and we mustn't think that it will work every time. last week, we we re it will work every time. last week, we were given a sombre reminder of this when an inquest found that a cardiac vacant the patient had died asa cardiac vacant the patient had died as a result of undergoing pioneering heart surgery using a da vinci robot. had the surgery have been the traditional kind, he almost certainly would have survived. traditional kind, he almost certainly would have survivedli think certainly would have survived.” think it is surgeon is going to use a robot, and use is the right technical term, he has to be very

well practised with it. i think that was an example where the team were not sufficiently trained or prepared to do that operation. and therefore, it was a very, very, very long operation and that ultimately went badly. we reached out to in chua tit—for—tat surgical, the company behind the robot used in the surgery. behind the robot used in the surgery. bait provided a statement expressing their condolences to his family and reiterating that patient safety is their priority. but they said they don't provide and cannot enforce a mandatory medical trend regime for a surgeon uses their robotic system. this training and validation remains of hospitals. they say that more than 5 billion da vinci robot procedures have been performed might —— why more than 40,000 surgeons trained worldwide. so, where now for robotic surgery?

well, brooke has been to see some robo manufacturers centre of operations, as well as getting an inside look at real—life surgery. at london's royal marsden‘s surgery, we have been gained access to see the surgical robots in action. following the death of stephen, it was interesting to find out all about how surgeons are trained in vr and how surgeons are trained in vr and how they overcome the sense of touch they would have if they were using they would have if they were using the hands. before anyone goes anywhere near patient they are expected to do a good deal of training on that system in virtual reality beforehand. yes, you lose the tactile feedback but you have got a very clear imaging and you can very clearly and precisely defined your dissection. i think that is important, we call that haptic feedback, tactile feedback and it is something that is very important in certain circumstances. it was something that i worried about in a

training in robotics, but he developed a visual feedback, you can tell how much tension you are putting under the tissues just by looking at them. in this procedure, robotic technology would be used to remove a cancerous tumour in the patient‘s stomach, with fluorescent dye used to light up the area. during the procedure, surgeon miles smith, with his assistant, controls three robotic arms which he neglects to re m ove three robotic arms which he neglects to remove the tumour. the aim is to greatly reduce surgical trauma as the robot method is far less invasive than walk traditional surgeries. the da vinci robot makes it possible for surgeons to operate deep inside the body through microscopic incisions. can you keep your voice down a little bit because this is a good part of the operation and what is actually happening behind me is that they are put imports into the patient‘s stomach where the robot will dock onto in order to perform the actual operation. the robotic console

actually uses keyhole surgery, whereby instruments into the patient‘s body through small holes instead of large cuts. that means less blood loss, less trauma and also quicker recovery is. the robot has four arms, three of which carry tiny surgical instruments and one of which sports a camera. ports need to be put in place before the robot can be put in place before the robot can be wheeled in to dock its arms. after the robot arms have successfully been attached, the surgeons relocate to consoles in a different part of the room. what is remarkable about this system is it is generally remote. you can see the arms moving behind me and they almost look like they are moving independently, that are actually being controlled by miles clip was consult several feet away from the patient. reconciles provide a surgeon with broody visualisation is and magnified images allowing complex dissection or reconstruction. so, through these eyepieces here we can actually see a 3-d eyepieces here we can actually see a 3—d representation of the inside of

the patient‘s abdomen, which is slightly not what i was expecting to look out to make at. compared what we are looking at before on the screens is much more vivid and you get a sense of depth in terms of what they are actually operating on. the surgery controls the arms through finger loops that mimic the hands of natural movement. the hand gestures a re hands of natural movement. the hand gestures are translated into smaller, more precise motions while filtering out tremors. they moved naturally and then what you do is to move forward, it is like pulling a newspaper towards yourself. the cameras can also switch from lack and white to colour, meaning that fluorescent dye can be used inside the body to isolate tumours. so the tumour hasjust the body to isolate tumours. so the tumour has just been cut off, for lack of a better phrase. it is extraordinary, they are putting in a little tool and back it up. —— bagged. yes, that's it. let's take

it out of the port. intuitive surgery, who make the system, have almost complete a dominant. but now new robotic surgery players are starting to emerge. will come to california to is that this company, who are developing robotics for a different type of surgical procedure. their platform concentrates on endoscopy, which allows treatments to be given through natural openings, such as the mouth, meaning the incisions are required. it can be to patient‘s airways, even to fire narrow part of the ones and combined with ct scans, it can provide a gps map of the internal organs of the patient. allowing surgeons to operate precisely on areas of concern. so it is not just a precisely on areas of concern. so it is notjust a case of a surgeon blindly navigating their way through until they find it. this is actually following and that's exactly right. exactly right. and an allergy like

use is this is my windshield, i keep my address on the patient‘s anatomy, this is my map, they will inform the asi this is my map, they will inform the as i go. what is remarkable about this system is that it is taking something that is actually quite compass, this is the representation of the insides of a person, and it is taking it down to something actually quite intuitive and quite simple. iam actually quite intuitive and quite simple. i am using what is essentially a modified games controller to operate this scope yea rs. controller to operate this scope years. and i am no surgeon, buti have been using this for a couple of bits and i am able to make quite precise movements. it is pretty extraordinary. it is clear that robotics finding different surgical missions is one area of growth, but what else does the future hold for surgical robotics? it's no reason why in the future we shouldn't be able to train robots to differentiate between structures that we want to preserve and structures that we want to remove.

perhaps a bit like driverless cars, but in this case a surgeon with robot. —— surgeon left of it possibly under the control of the surgeon. perhaps certain parts of the operation might be automated as you set things up in a certain way and press play so it great a separate programme. i don't see them taking over from us, but i see them certainly assisting us. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that amazon announced the location of its second headquarters at. well, second and third. it will be split between new york city and arlington, virginia. and the new york times has accused facebook of having a pr firm to discredit critics and competitors. facebook has responded by saying that there area number of has responded by saying that there are a number of inaccuracies in the report and they have since cut ties to the company involved. brace yourselves people, we can see this

one going on for a while. and china's seikan —— supercomputers has been pushed off the top place. the new one is summit by ibm. scientist in bristol have girl a game lab to better entertain our second closest relatives, gorillas. cameras, centres and microchips are hidden in an interactive unit which is providing service greater insight into the enjoyment and help them better understand how primate sold conflict problems. and just when you thought the world couldn't get any more bizarre, check this out. it is the happiest day of 35—year—old man's life as he was up his veiled bride to kiss her. the only snag is she is a virtual reality pop star. she was represented by a stuffed dolls during the $18,000 tokyo wedding. back home, a holographic version of her literally lights up when her husband gets in from work. yes, it is a weird, weird world.

now, we dedicated much of last week ‘s programme to issues surrounding fa ke ‘s programme to issues surrounding fake news. we took you to kosovo to look at the fake news factory is based on a and found that facebook did seem to be having some success in taming the problem. well, this week we are off to india and arguably the new epicentre of fake news. now there, it travels largely on another problem, what app, which means it is a lot harder to police and it is having some really severe consequences. david has been investigating. i am on the prowl for cheap mobile data. so tell me, what is the deal? 49 for one month. how much data do i get? 1.4 gigabytes a day, 149 rupees a month, come on, thatis day, 149 rupees a month, come on,

that is just. 42 gig of day, 149 rupees a month, come on, that isjust. 42 gig of mobile day, 149 rupees a month, come on, that is just. 42 gig of mobile data court —— costs $2 in india, in the uk, £50, in the us, $100. 0bviously people here earn far less than they do in the us or uk, still, mobile internet is so cheap here that it is knocking up around 500 million users. and that is throwing up issues. the most serious of which, issues. the most serious of which, is fake news. this man runs a site thatis is fake news. this man runs a site that is debunking the rising tide of fakery. evidenced that is debunking the rising tide of fa kery. evidenced earlier this that is debunking the rising tide of fakery. evidenced earlier this year when every story on you tube's india trending feed turned out false. scroll through his site and much there is clearly fake, but for many who are new to modern media, it is believable, even important. nowadays if you look at a lot of content is getting crated all in indian languages and that reaches out to the entire spectrum of people in india, notjust

the entire spectrum of people in india, not just the the entire spectrum of people in india, notjust the educated class. and it is in sheltered, rural communities where sham stories do most damage. many have been killed this year in mob violence triggered by false rumours of child abductions. so, how do you deal with this? well, you have to act quickly because according to recent research, bad news travels fast fake news travels fast are still. and further. and we can all spread it and we rub up against one another in public, online spaces, each of us can carry or catch the contagion. researchers at delhi's india institute of technology are using the same maths for modelling epidemic disease to understand how full is rumours spread. the main driver is trust. i believe what you say because i know you, i know that you think like the way i do. the same trust we want to use in the

opposite direction. if you trust me and you tell me something, i know to be fake, eight i told you that is fake, stop spreading it, there is a chance you may stop. we are talking about inoculation of sorts, using the trust that is already present. you can just see the trust that is already present. you canjust see how the trust that is already present. you can just see how a trusted community leader in the group could help quell panic from a mischievous rumour. but you cannot help wondering whether the tech companies could do more. in your tools, to support other languages, the answer is yes, right? it is not that sales happens out of the us or uk play. you can put a sales tea m the us or uk play. you can put a sales team out there, why can't you put a fake news relations team out there as well? google likes to waive out rhythms at issues. it is now highlighting authoritative sources for some countries and also people

to fight local factory. that was david in india. next we will talk about golf, at the stubbornly traditional sport, but one which is ready to embrace the newest technology. this is when worth club which in just a few years is going to be celebrating its centenary. but that 100 years, a lot has changed. in recent times much of that has come down to technology. so we are going to go and see how both amateurs and professionals in the making good use of that. lasers, radars, sensors, and motion capture have transformed data collection. and analysing the statistics means training and play can be more precise than ever before. and who

better to show us in one of the greatest golfers on the planet? francesco molinari, fresh from west is europe but the ryder cup and the open championship. translation: one of the difficulties of golf is that there are so many elements moving through the swing that any little difference, any little difference makes a change. those tiny differences are captured by the kind of tech used to make —— usually reserve for hollywood films. footy seven reflective markers over his body helped to create a digital double that allows registered or allow it —— francesco molinari's swing to be analysing details. this will pick up and that parameters in terms of how his body is moving and his flex ability. the system has

picked up hundreds of thousands of swings and goal shorts —— goal shots which has become a database. often motion capture analysis uses high—speed count to make cameras to ca ptu re high—speed count to make cameras to capture every movement in the body and club. this provides francesco's can be done to that would have been impossible to measure a few years ago. this is trackman. if it all the dart around the golf club and ball and pickup points of that and gives us data that we can see. so we have all speed, launch angles, we know how high the ball launched out of the golf club. 50 years ago he would have been in the field watching the ball, whereas now we can physically see. slightly intimidating being disclosed, but i guess he does know how to hit the ball the right way. the technology tracks the distance, power, and trajectory of the ball,

using a combination of hd cameras and a doppler radar. it also registers margaret transitions that move away from a golf club and ball. you hear it where players have a good feel. we are putting numbers of the feel. in aware we are calibrating feel. without the technology will we would have no benchmark. this gives us hard data. it isa benchmark. this gives us hard data. it is a crucial measuring tool. 0therwise, if you dig about it, old school, you would hit all fireballs and go look at them and measure them and go look at them and measure them and write them all out. that is the only way that you are going to learn, to have immediate feedback, and this is sensational for that. but is this in a waste in the game? before it was a lot of guessing and really going on the players. ifeel there is now just really going on the players. ifeel there is nowjust a lot more

feedback. these people with laser zapping our ball after a shot so we know exactly how far we hit every shot, how far off—line, how far from the flag, so far it has been impossible to track everything. but now we're getting closer and to getting exactly an idea of what is going on. definitely technology has been a massive help in tracking every bully getting immediate feedback, so i would would not be as good a player, so sure, without that knowledge. and that may well be true. but ultimately the plan is to be skilled enough to act on the data thatis be skilled enough to act on the data that is being recorded, and of course this is not there to turn just anyone into a star player. that was lara with one of the biggest sporting stars of the moment. and i'm going to continue that theme,

because mark cieslak has hooked up with sean bean, who is appearing in a videogame near you soon. star of stage the close of the big and small screen, sean bean has kicked the bucket a lot of roles he has played. so much so that it is a thing on the internet. and now gamers are going to get the chance to digitally do in the legendary act out when he appears as a special guest at target in the game hitman two. good morning, 47. the target is mark faber, also known as the undying. the hitman games cast the players aged 47, employed by a shadowy organisation to dispatch a series of individuals across the globe. employing a wide variety of weapons from explosives to seafood. as well as donning deadly disguises to take out their target. it is using your head. while the main game hangs off

a single player story mode, it also features a variety of online modes, including targets a only of every show period of time in which the player will only have one attempt to kill. so—called illicit targets. sean bean is one of these. he plays ex— m15 agent mark faber, known for his ability to fake his own death. it is not that that i have cheated, just humans. sean, can you tell us about mark faber, the character the plane had to? is perfect. he is very particular. he is skilful, intelligent, he has imagination, above all. he has a price on his head, and he is forever devising new methods, a very extravagant methods of assassination. so he is quite arrogant. he is quite lonely. but he has a certain amount of charm, i think. is there any difference to you in playing a character at a

videogame as opposed to playing a character in a movie or tv show? he was good. it is about never done before. a character in a videogame, only sold one day, so we have got a small kind of area of being able to develop something, some kind of personality, but i think we did, and idida personality, but i think we did, and i did a lot of boys overfor a previously, and you get some idea of who rears, and i think we captured that within a day, and it is out of my hands then. it is different in that you don't have the film for weeks or months and you can just — and did the initialfilming, then the motor gap that, they do so they didn't eat me after all, and they have done it, and i thought, great, that's it. i gave. you have played lots of characters which have met a sticky end and not got to be into the movie or tv series. is going to be weird being in a game where thousands of players across the world a re thousands of players across the world are going to be the ones that

are dispatch eu? i guess so. i mean, you know, i guess it should be strange to me, but for some reason it is not. i pick out a lot of fun and i'm a bit cocky and arrogant in it. so, you know, i'm kind of asking for it. laughter. if you play this level, it kidding yourself, killing a virtual version of yourself, what method would you choose, out of all the methods that you got that you can kill the character with? probably something drawnout and bloody and comical. because the true assassin knows the world is always your best weapon. cheers. marc cieslak and sean bean, what a double act. that is of this week. at the figure we confound all across social

media, youtube, instagram, facebook, and twitter. all you need to do is say bbc click and we will be there. thank you for watching. we will see you soon. hello. some of us got to see sunshine on friday but for many more today was spent under cloud shrouded in mist and murk. but as we progress through the weekend, more and more of us will see that sunshine. with that though, it will start to turn chilly. high pressure anchored across the heart of europe, winds moving high pressure around in a clockwise direction, that gives us a south—easterly wind which will bring us some dry air. watch the cloud, it starts to break up. we will see more and more sunshine. let's look at that in more detail. a lot of cloud, some mist and murk and fog to start the day, the odd spot of drizzle.

east anglia and northern scotland seeing some brightness, the cloud retreating westwards during the day, more and more of us see those blue skies overhead, so by lunchtime devon and cornwall and west wales might still have some cloud but for the midlands, east anglia and the south—east there should be some sunshine. north—east england and eastern scotland, particularly around higher ground, may well keep more cloud. it will take awhile to brighten up across northern ireland, but western and northern scotland will see some sunshine. temperatures around 11 or 12 degrees, but a noticeable easterly breeze particularly in the south, making it feel cooler than that. into early sunday with clear skies overhead, it is going to be a cool night, probably too much of a breeze to allow things to get really cold, but your towns and cities will get down to 4—5 degrees, maybe just a bit colder than that in the countryside. getting on into sunday it is a beautiful looking day for most of us, we will see plenty of sunshine, still perhaps some cloud at times feeding into some

of the eastern slopes of the pennines, parts of eastern scotland, and those temperatures, 9—12, just subtly creeping downwards. a sign of what is to come, because going into the start of the new working week, high pressure will still be sitting here, those winds moving clockwise, but that will introduce some colder air from the east and that will also bring back the cloud. more cloud around on monday, perhaps the odd spot of drizzle, still a keen breeze particularly in the south, and the coldest feel will be in southern areas. single digits here, we may get to 10 degrees for belfast and glasgow, but it does look decidedly chilly into the middle part of the week. there will be cloud and the odd spot of drizzle, and over high ground maybe just a flake or two of something wintry. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: the british prime minister tops off a difficult week by winning the support of some of her cabinet‘s leading brexit backers.

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