hello and welcome to newswatch. why did abc news set up an operation in bradford this week? i will be speaking to the correspondent who is a idea it was. and an exasperated eye roll. how we all feel this week? or brexit bias? not by any means the first week of crucial votes, chaos and confusion over brexit and clearly not the last either. a man has appeared in court bbc news responded with three in new zealand to be charged special early evening programmes. two on bbc two and one on bbc one. with murder over the attacks. brenton tarrant, who's 28, did not enter a plea. further charges are expected to be brought against him. the police commissioner has reassured locals that there is no those on tuesday and wednesday known imminent threat carried live, the statements of another similar attack, but say they will remain vigilant. from theresa may and jeremy corbyn. a total of four people were taken into custody on friday, one of whom was released but on both occasions cut back a short time later. to the studio just as the snp 39 people remain in hospital — some in a critical condition. leader ian blackford families have an agonising wait for news as the list of missing people grows. started speaking. coming up shortly, it'll although clips from his speech

be time for newswatch. were shown later, one viewer but first, click. was not happy. arguments have raged over the past week, notjust in parliament but also in television studios. last friday's politics live saw there brexit supporting mp mark france trying to clarify what the author had just told him. what exactly are you saying? it is you seem to be a little exercised. it's amazing to think that next well, because i am offended. year, this place will play host say it again, so we to the greatest show on earth. can all understand. what i said was every racist by the time 2020 rolls around, and anti—semite in the country come it'll have been 56 years since japan up pretty much probably voted for brexit. last hosted the olympic games. how do you know that in a secret ballot? i don't know that, i suspected. i think you should apologise. back in 1964, they used the event to who? to signal the rebirth of the nation, following the disruption to millions of people. of the second world war. he tried to sway anyone who is ultimately as a bigot. then, the focus was japan's economic i think you should apologise. on social media this face—off achieved a particular notoriety on twitter.

and technological explosion. now, japan once again wants to show the world that it's still leading the claim about brexit voters the way in innovation. offended a number of news but with the country's explosive watch viewers including... growth spurt now in the past and an ageing population on the horizon, the story this time might not be so simple. it's playing heavily on its image as the land of the robots, but finds itself as just one of many countries researching all of the other big tech areas, including sg, sk broadcasting, and self driving cars. and transport is the subject of this project by mobile operator, ntt docomo. it's trying to predict traffic congestion, by tracking phone users‘ movements throughout the day.

docomo knows the age, demographics and home address of each of its 76 million subscribers, and also knows pretty accurately where their phones are at any time. it's used in artificial intelligence to watch how and where they travel throughout the day, and also how and when they return home at night. it can now predict where traffic congestion will occur in the evening, based on where everyone is during the day, and it's hoped that the ai may also be able to cope with the different traffic flows that will be associated with the olympics. now with so many visitors flooding into japan, safety is paramount, and for the first time, the olympics will be using facial recognition to ensure speedy identification. paul carter has been to find out more. at next year's olympic and paralympic games,

tokyo is expecting millions of spectators to pack into the city for its festivals of sports. among that number will be over 300,000 accredited people, including athletes, volunteers, media and other staff — all needing access to restricted areas. developed byjapanese firm nec and based on their ai engine, called neo face, they claim the system is 99% accurate and almost immediate. but how well does it work in practice? i've come for a demo to find out. in orderfor a facial recognition system to work, it needs a record of your face. so unfortunately for this system, it's now going to have to get a record of this ugly mug. translation: the system recognises your eyes, face, size of your face and other features, using hundreds and hundreds of points, and then matches that with the photos that

are registered on the cards. now that the system has a record of my face, all i need is this card. i'll see if it works. good to go. but you can't talk facial recognition without concerns about privacy. i asked the spokesman for the organisers what they'll do with all those faces. the personal data collected through the application process will be securely guarded and will be destroyed in the most appropriate way, once the games is over. now, when anyone tells you things are going to be more efficient, and in this case near instantaneous, i'm always a little bit suspicious, but i have to say the thing that's most impressive about the system is that in the dozen or so times i've tried it, it's recognised me pretty much instantly every single time and it's seen my face from a wide variety of angles and it still seems to work, so i think in this case, those claims actually hold up.

but of course, controlled demos are very different from real—world applications. the proof will ultimately be in the queueing. one of the memories that will always stay with me is our visit to the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant that was devastated by the great 2011 tsunami. today i have come to waseda university to meet a machine that was inspired by the fu kushima disaster. warec—1 is a big beast weighing more than 150 kilograms. each of its limbs stretches to more than one metre in length. the need to move across uneven terrain has caused roboticists to investigate many

kinds of designs. and although robots with wheels or with snakelike bodies can handle tricky terrain, they're not so good when you need to get hands—on. after we reached the destination the robot has to perform, it has to do tasks like turning a valve or manipulation of switches or opening doors, something like this. it requires big power. in order to actually manipulate things, warec—1 would need additional hands or fingers of some kind. for now, the team are just investigating the best way to move. crawling low and slow over the rubble. i notice that it is notjust using its four legs, it's also using its belly. yes. so all the legs can come off the ground at once. i don't think i have seen that before. yes. actually this is a new locomotion style proposed by us. it's quite difficult, even for a human to along this place.

but if a robot moves with a crawling motion it will be very stable because its belly is almost on the ground. so it has a very low centre of mass. spikes on the belly help to stop it slipping on the rubble and also help it grip onto corners as it hoists itself up and down. and although it's not strictly a self—balancing robot, it doesn't really matter if it takes a tumble because it's symmetrical. so it can still work back to front and upside down. japan is one of the few places where robots are leaving the laboratory and entering society more widely. where other places may have reservations about robots taking jobs, japan desperately wants this to happen. welcome. in the run—up to the 2020 olympics, japan is looking for more ways than ever to have bots do the hard work. here's kate russell. these self—driving electric wheelchairs made by panasonic have already been rolled out for testing at tokyo's haneda international airport.

but what's new is my luggage buddy here. you can pop your suitcases in there and it will follow the wheelchair wherever it goes, slowing down and speeding up as necessary when it goes up and down sloping surfaces. perfect for the airport. if a roaming traveller walks in front of the chair, it'll stop, along with the luggage caddy. although in a crowded airport, i can see wandering people getting in between the luggage and its chair, which might lead to some frustration. panasonic hopes to have the chairs available in airports and public spaces across japan in time for 2020. in the past, japan hasn't had the greatest record for accessibility. with a0 million visitors expected to come to the olympics and paralympics, organisers have pledged to use this as an opportunity to fix these problems and make tokyo a more inclusive and accessible city. disabled passengers in need

of assistance will be able to summon a wheelchair through an app. it'll then take them where they need to be without stress or hassle. something i'm sure able—bodied travellers could appreciate after a long journey as well. for many visitors coming to the olympics next year, the japanese language will be challenging to say the least. now, we've looked at several translation tools on click before but the one that paul carter's found looks like it's straight out of a comic book. perhaps the olympics‘s and pa ralympics‘s greatest achievement is their ability to bring people from all over the world together. but as well as being a positive, it can also bring challenges, notably around language. one japanese graduate student, supported by an accelerator alongside tech firm panasonic, has created a special project to try and get the world talking.

fukidashi is the japanese word for speech bubble. it's a system with a screen on each side linked by bluetooth. words spoken by one person will be translated on the opposite screen and vice versa. we'd investigate whether people use, actually, a phone to communicate with foreigners, but nobody uses that. i think it is because a phone is more like a way to ask a concrete specific issue like "where is the station?" or something like that. the technology behind it is not necessarily anything new. although only a prototype at this stage, it's hoped the system can be rolled out at points across the games. and beyond, the creator hopes to take the system much further. at the next stage, maybe people can have small devices like fukidashi

to use everywhere, anywhere, any time. it would be great. at present, the system can work between four languages — japanese, english, chinese and korean, though there are plans to extend the language range much further. the prototype also currently requires access to a data signal to function. i almost want to take this with me and carry it with me for the rest of my time injapan. can i keep this one? and that is it for this short edition of click. don't forget that we live on facebook and twitter. thank you very much for watching and we will see you soon.