hello and welcome to bbc news. a two year investigation i'm reged ahmad. by the us special counsel the moment many have into alleged collusion been waiting for. between president trump's election after almost two years, campaign and russia is now complete. the special counsel's investigation key findings are expected to stay into alleged collusion between russia and president donald trump's under wraps for a few days — 2016 campaign has butjustice department sources say that robert mueller‘s report does finally come to an end. not recommend further indictments. robert mueller has delivered his report to the us attorney general, but we don't yet know what's in it. attorney general william barr here in britain, prime says he hopes to make minister theresa may says she might not bring her brexit deal key findings available. back for another vote, us media are also saying there will be no further indictments ‘if it appears there is not sufficient support.‘ recommended by mr mueller. the european union has agreed to delay brexit, but only by two weeks if british mps more than 30 people have already been indicted, reject the agreement. australia is, for the first time since 2015, experiencing two tropical cyclones at the same time. cyclones trevor and veronica are causing high winds and have forced more than three thousand people in the northern terriroty to leave their homes. now on bbc news, click looks

at the latest in anti—drone technology, to see what companies and airports are doing to prevent disruption on the runways. this week, coding friendly drones, downing rogue drones and diy health checks in blue domes? drones could transform our skies as we know them, aching deliveries, watching over us and even saving lives. but his recent flight disruptions have

taught us, there are also possible downsides from unwanted ones. last december, here at gatwick airport, chaos ensued. after reports of repeated drone sightings, a thousand flights were disrupted, 140,000 passengers affected and all of this was said to add up to a cost of £50 million. soon after, there was a similar scare at heathrow as well as at newark airport in the us. but how do we take down problem drones safely? well, dan simmons has been to the netherlands where the national police force is sponsoring a competition that hopes to find new ways of doing just that. in a hangar in the middle of nowhere in the know the lungs. an epic air battle is about to commence. nine teams from

across europe and america are trying to smash each other out of the sky and grab the 30,000 euros top prize in the title 2019 drone clash champions. all they have to do is down the queen drone. but the organisers have not made it easy. this is one of the arena is that one of the teams will start from, blue and red other colours. they will leave their queen in here and that is what the opposing team will try to knock out but they will leave our queen here. there are fighter drones will come through what is called the corridor of death, doom and destruction and test the coil behind me, waiting to knock out one of those fighter drones. c02 gas pumps here firing at those drones as they come around the corner. they've got to get past this tennis ball machine

which is going to fireballs. there is going to be a man with a gun that fires a net through this whole to try to take out those drones if they come round. lights will be flushing to try to drown — blind the pilot but once they get down this corridor of doom, death and destruction, they get to their opponent was mike arena and a chance to take out the queen. with all this destruction of kits going on, it's perhaps surprisingly no—one is called the cops but that's because they are the ones sponsoring the event. in this contest, we hope to come across new creative ideas that we can adapt and use in our police matters. do you have your own ability to bring a drone down?” will ability to bring a drone down?|j will not go in detail about the abilities that we have. we have some abilities that we have. we have some abilities but it's not enough for us for the long run. actually we were

hoping to see new strategies to help us hoping to see new strategies to help us bringing drones down but i did see also new threats because perhaps you noticed, there are a lot of drones that carry some sort of ball around them and some of the measures we take, it's attacking the rotors. the rotors are now protected by these balls so it actually poses us with another problem. enter a sideshow that involves this tiny drone. tell me what this is. this is one of the micro drones flying around, don't crash. the public can try to have these very tiny drones and can hack into the system and try to ta ke and can hack into the system and try to take it over. so if one falls on a heads... you know it is successful. three years ago, the dutch police introduced their own solution to downing problem drones, trained eagles, but the programme ended a year later as the birds couldn't be on hand quickly enough nor be relied upon to cleanly snatch

a drone from the skies rather than causing it to fall, which could be a problem for anyone below. back in the theatre of battle and some teams we re the theatre of battle and some teams were getting a hammering. most have three orfourface is were getting a hammering. most have three or four face is so quick repairs are needed. so we're just fixing our drones. they got a little bit mangled in the last competition. this is actually already flattened again. how do you flatten it? she stands on them. you stand on them? 0ur stands on them. you stand on them? our primary strategy was to use brute force which is why we have this gigantic machine. it can fly without. if it gets damaged, it can still without. if it gets damaged, it can st i ll fly without. if it gets damaged, it can still fly which we thought was amazing however as you can see right now, it is missing stabilisation, this is quite broken. a lot of the other drones, they have a big mesh around them to protect the propellers and these willjust go in

there and get tangled in any propellers. these ones are good for the balls as well because they will hang in one of the corner of the balls and just pull it down. but perhaps overall the event showed the human flying skills on show were often the deciding factor. it looks so easy because they are so adept at it. your brain does somersaults in its flicking back the other way and it's all bonkers and the speed with which those drones, they are flying over my head now, the speed with which they make decisions and flips and reverse is just which they make decisions and flips and reverse isjust nuts. this is an airborne version of robot wars. my kids know nothing of robot wars but they will know about this. both my boys have drones so aerial battling drones, it doesn't get any better. there is at his lukoil in there, for god's sake. on the fringes of the battlefield, companies and the growing business of taking out drones are showing off their solutions. this system is already operating at a norwegian airport. it

tracks and then identifies drones as a threat before jamming the frequencies used to control them. a threat before jamming the frequencies used to control themm a usual environment, when you drown —jam a usual environment, when you drown — jam the a usual environment, when you drown —jam the drone, a usual environment, when you drown — jam the drone, it will start hovering and go back to his operator or it will go down eventually on the battery. it can also jam the global positioning system. the drone will start hovering around, flying around because it doesn't know where it is and eventually it will go down also. this beast, is the drone catcher, making use of radar systems already in the field to get its targets real—time 3d co—ordinates before automatically flying to the area and lining up its prey. we ship the net over the drone. we can carry it away with a wire and drop it down with a parachute. and then there is this. the gun emits a powerful electromagnetic beam, knocking out

the command and control, video link and gps frequencies used by the drone. strict regulations in europe mean it can't be used here but its dutch makers told me they are doing good business with governments in the middle east. back in the arena, and the final was under way. in the end, it came down to brute force and battery power, with the belgian team flying away with the 30,000 prize. the dutch authorities certainly have a more entertaining way of learning how to down rogue drones than standing around and scratching their heads. down there looking at some serious ideas as to how to take drones out of the sky as well as those that seem to turn it into a sport. but of course, initially we need to be sure if there actually is a drone present and, if so, exactly where it is. these electromagnetic spectrum tracking technology has just been deployed at gatwick. so

everything that emits a electro frequency or radiofrequency, it will be able to see and detect. it will know whether it's a drone or something else. so how exactly does the setup work? you have to devices talking to each other? exactly. you have to senses and each of them are getting a bearing on the drone itself. they get to the bearing by the angle of arrival of the signal from the drone to the particular sensor and by comparing the two directions, it can triangulate the position of the drone at any one time. at this point now, if a similar happen — a similar incident happened to what took place at gatwick, how much of a difference could your technology make to the outcome? we believe it could make a significant difference. number one you would know categorically if there was a drone there or not. certainly a drone imaging characteristic signals. and number two, you would know where the

controller was and be able to take action appropriately. what are your plans to roll this out elsewhere? it's already being rolled out, a lot of interest in the uk and globally, not only from our ports but also a number of other organisations and situations, from stadium to private individuals. ok, but for now, you think we've got a system that could make a difference? for now, we've got a system that makes a tremendous difference. high, and welcome to the week intact. this week, transport group stagecoach tested out of full—size driverless bus for the first time in the uk. google unveiled the new gaming platform, stadia. more on that soon. and on the flipside, the company is being fined £1.28 billion from the eu for

blocking on line rival search advertisers. it was also the week mitc advertisers. it was also the week mit c cell unveiled a robot it's been kind of keeping in the dark. the system allows the robotic arm to precisely pick up and place objects it's never seen before by mapping out key points on it so the bot‘s algorithm — algorithms can work out how best to handle it. social networking site myspace, remember them, announced they lost 12 years worth of music uploads. a message on its website says any photos, videos and audio files uploaded more than three years ago may not longer be available. the company says the mistake is due to a server migration project. and finally, are you good at art? project. and finally, are you good atart? yeah? project. and finally, are you good at art? yeah? well, project. and finally, are you good atart? yeah? well, i'm project. and finally, are you good at art? yeah? well, i'm not. well, nvidia has developed an ai at art? yeah? well, i'm not. well, nvidia has developed an al to make you a master artiste. it is called gauguin, unusual network, it takes your pencil strokes and colour fills

and transforms them into bits of nature almost instantly. now that is a work of art. the boss of google is the first two met he is no game but who can argue with a man who speaks this kind of hard truth to americans? for those of you who are wondering what cricket is, it's kind of like baseball but better.“ sundar pichai is a smart about gaming as he is about sport, he is surely onto a winner with the latest launch. google stadium isn't streaming only platform, all delivered down your internet connection. that means no discs, no downloads and all accessible through just about any of your devices. what's important here is that google thinks it is found a way around some of the huge problems that have faced

game streaming services in the past such as high latency race that — rates that cause lag. to help with this there is an optional stadia controller which connects independently to the internet to minimise any delay between you pressing a button and something happening in the game. how are you confident that that is going to work when there is potentially millions of people all playing at once? so our vision was always to make sure we could deliver the quality and vision of the game developer all the way to the gamer in their home. so we have put some incredible technology and hardware and software services in our data centre to make sure that happens and that means we can deliver up to 4k, 60 frames per second, hdr and surroundsound which of the latest and greatest audio and visual technologies that gamers expect but we are doing it streaming. google hasn't yet confirmed how it plans to sell this to gamers. most people expect a

subscription model. think of it like a netflix or video games. it sounds really good and interesting on paper. i love especially their whole conversation about wanting to expand damning's accessibility to a wider audience than on paper it sounds like this could do that. that said, i think there are a lot of questions left as to whether an execution this is actually going to be the answer. google's announcement has been the talking point because if they managed to pull it off it will change the industry forever and that may not be a good thing. if it does end up being a subscription model, they could be argued huge impact on how companies make their money. some people are already predicting we may start to see an already greater number of endgame payments for loss revenue. then there is the issue of

paying for a fast enough internet connection to make it work. with advancements we compression algorithm all the time we can increase the quality without increasing the bandwidth requirement. google announced partnerships but if the company is going to entice hard—core gamers away from box and playstation they will need more than that. today it was about showing our vision, to see the capabilities of our platforms and how they can bring their creativity and technology. would you have any more on board? absolutely. how many more? i am not going to share that with you today. bringing absolutely the latest games. it gives you an indication of our direction of travel. the company

will announce the launch date and how much it will all cost injune. the e3 gaming. that was safely in san francisco. now, in some parts of the world it has become pretty commonplace for kids to learn to code but for those with vision problems, it is still fairly inaccessible so we sent paul carter to find out what some of the big tech companies are doing to open up coding to children who are blind or partially sighted. this is eight—year—old ellie, like many children her age she is learning how to code. she also happens to be blind. she is using a physical, tactile coding language called co—

jumper. it is a modular system developed by microsoft. each pod contains a single line of code, making upa contains a single line of code, making up a story, a poem or in this case, a song. # row, row, row your boat gently down the stream at... lyric and make. what makes co- jumper unique is that it allows blind and partially sighted children to have a partial view of the code with their hands. a computer scientist at microsoft cambridge laboratory, who has a blind son is with me. the technology were not available to them so many children learn programming, starting at the age of seven, with block base

languages. the other aspect we should not forget is recreated this to be available to children regardless of vision so it is available to children who are blind and sighted. it is one of the things we we re and sighted. it is one of the things we were aware of is that we did not wa nt to we were aware of is that we did not want to create a technology that isolated the blind child at the back of the class but something that could engage with other children. but code jumper is only one solution. some of you are new to apple ipad accessory and coding... at linden lodge, a school for sensory impairment in south london, i went to see how apple are working with the royal institute for blind people to increase access to swift playground its own coding app. apple

is using its accessibility tools already built into its devices such as large text, voice—over, in conjunction with school assistant tech. it says go here, go here, go here. and that is where it is. they have created braille and tactile maps for each level of the app so they can use it. images, diagrams, i think it is a healthy dynamic mix of old and new and perhaps some experimentation as well. the children here are using swift playground to create code that will make a small drone fly. you know, it is incredible. things will say

things like i did not think i would ever be able to do this. this is awesome, i want to do this as a career. that is fantastic, it is contagious and other kids pick up on it. they didn't know if those tools we re it. they didn't know if those tools were accessible and before you know it we have lots of people interested and that is what we want to do, spread the magic and show what is possible. applause . now recently click has been taking a look at some of the latest tech to come out of dubai and one start—up is hoping to make checks as easily as trip to the shop. i am about to step into a new kind of health

check. it requires no gp, no nurse, not even a doctors office. these pods are being produced in the united arab emirates, they provide a full body checkup in less than ten minutes. the pods take a number of readings throughout the check, such as your weight, blood pressure, glucose levels. you are guided through the process by an interactive display. part of the future accelerator programme is to tackle the obesity problem. over 6096 of the population is overweight. it is an endemic problem with diabetes, of course so trying to encourage communities to take ownership of their health journey, communities to take ownership of their healthjourney, really, to reduce their weight, to offset that against the diabetes problem which costs the economy a lot of money.

the person can go inside and perform all these tests without the need for all these tests without the need for a nurse, the assistance from a nurse or attending a doctor's clinic and what that does is it raises the awareness in the community and makes people more engaged and more concerned about monitoring their health and more enthusiastic about keeping track of their health in general. it is a bit surreal sitting ina bright general. it is a bit surreal sitting in a bright blue pod having your blood pressure taken. this could be anywhere, this could be in a mall, ina anywhere, this could be in a mall, in a pharmacy. the idea is to put it so anyone can pop in and have a full body check. you can then choose to send your health data to an app. one of the big benefits of the system is that it of the big benefits of the system is thatitis of the big benefits of the system is that it is use of control. you have

com plete that it is use of control. you have complete control of the data. you elect, within the programme itself, you can think of who you want to share the data with, whether you wa nt to share the data with, whether you want to share it at all. you are in control of your wellness. at any time you can show your doctor measurements but also into the corporate set—up, in terms of they might engage with the programme and decide to have a corporate wellness effort within the company. my results did match what i expected, what might not be good... you do not need to see that. there was a bit of fluctuation when we repeated the test. there is always a worry that an inaccurate result could lead to self—diagnosis. after that, iam an inaccurate result could lead to self—diagnosis. after that, i am off to the gym. emily in dubai. that's

it for this week's show. if you want to find out what the team get up to throughout the week, you can find us on facebook, instagram and twitter. thank you for watching. hello, welcome to a weekend which is going to deliver some dry weather but there will be blustery showers, particularly in scotland and it is going to feel cooler than it has done recently. we've seen this weather front move on southwards, coolerfresh air moving on behind but it's clearer and more of us will see sunshine over the weekend. this is how we start saturday, touch and frost sibilant parts of northern england scotland and northern ireland and cloud

through parts of southern england and towards the south coast in particular, it may hold on through the day and we have that, don't be surprised if there is a little light rain and drizzle. elsewhere across england and wales, high cloud. it's going to be quite hazy. sunny skies in northern ireland and scotland though cloud producing a few showers here and there and they are very blustery showers and scotland. average speed gusts are higher, the northern isles between 60 and 70 miles per hour initially before the wind eases later and showers moving into scotland are going to be wintry on the hills. temperatures mostly at around 9— 12 degrees. saturday evening and night, further showers coming into scotland. bit more snow to the higher ground. they be the far north of england. still some cloud into parts of england and wales. maybe a little drizzle but where you are clear, hence the touch of blue on the chart, you just get a bit of frost, particularly on the ground as sunday begins. early on sunday, a longer spell of wet weather moving into the far north—west of scotland and that

will move on southwards with more showers following on behind to northern ireland in northern england. blustery showers. elsewhere across england and wales, sunny spells. temperatures are fairly similar for part two of the weekend. highs of around 9— 12 degrees. so that is how the weekend is shaping up. let us take a look into next week and high pressure is back with us, moving right across the uk. just a few weak weather fronts into the far north—west of scotland. high pressure is going to be dry. variable cloud, some sunny spells, the risk of a touch of frost overnight but other days we go deeper into the week, temperatures look like they will be going up a few degrees. that is next week covered. let's just wreak up the weekend weather.

rather cool, chilly nights, some decent sunny spells around. you may catch a shower. blustery showers and wintry as well.