welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america hello. this is bbc news. the latest and around the globe. headlines. prosecutors in tokyo have my name is duncan golestani. entered the house of the former our top stories: nissan chief carlos ghosn and he has prosecutors raid the tokyo home been rearrested amid fresh of former nissan chairman carlos ghosn, arresting him allegations. he was released on $9 for an fourth time. million bail last month following the ayes to the right, 313. three earlier indictments for financial wrongdoing. the noes to the left, 312. three earlier indictments for financialwrongdoing. in three earlier indictments for financial wrongdoing. in britain, mps have voted to force the prime minister to ask for an extension to a close call, as british mps vote to force the prime minister to ask the brexit process in a bid to avoid for an extension to the brexit leaving the eu without a deal. process in a bid to prevent leaving the eu without a deal. earlier, theresa may met the opposition labour party to try and break months of deadlock. and the us has warned turkey not to purchase 11 million reasons to eat healthily advanced russian anti—missile systems which it sees as a threat to some of its fighterjets. the us —anew 11 million reasons to eat healthily — a new global report warns a poor vice president said it would diet accounts for one in five undermine turkey ‘s deaths. place in nato. the home secretary has announced a

compensation scheme for those affected by the windrush scandal, describing their treatment at the hands of the home office as a terrible mistake that should never have happened. some of those who arrived in the uk from the late 19405 arrived in the uk from the late 1940s through to the early 1970s have been accused of not having the right paperwork. payments to those affected could add up to hundreds of millions of pounds. i came to the uk as a baby of six months. i went to school, it was mostly about setting up a home for my children, working. so, i was british. as well as raising four children, glenda worked for the nhs for 20 years. but when she tried to get a uk passport, like so many windrush victims, she was told she wasn't british. she lost herjob, and with no uk

citizenship, she wasn't eligible for benefits. i had to rely on my children, to maybe put money on the gas and electric. it's hard. we shouldn't have to go through all of that. so, for the last ten years, she's been struggling financially and emotionally. i got so depressed that i really wanted to take my life. i had made up my mind that i was going to take tablets and close my eyes because i'm thinking, "how do i get out of this?" glenda feels her life has been on hold. she'll now be one of thousands who will be applying for compensation from the government. i'm hoping it can reflect and validate the pain and suffering that we've gone through and the loss of earnings, loss of my pension for ten years. in the past year, glenda and her friend sonia, a fellow windrush victim, have received their uk passports.

i got mine before you! the home secretary said the compensation scheme could cost around £200 million. but depending on how many people apply, the total bill could be nearer 600 million. june kelly, bbc news. now on bbc news, it is time for click. this week: we investigate the sexual exploitation of children on encrypted messaging apps, and the undercover bot trying to catch the perpetrators.

often on the show, we talk about the positive impact of tech on our lives — its powerfor social good, bringing us together, solving pressing problems, and generally enriching our lives. but there are, of course, much darker sides to technology. we have often heard stories of paedophiles exchanging material on the so—called dark web or grooming children in chat rooms, sometimes to meet up with them and physically exploit them. but in recent years, the un has been warning of a trend towards what is being called webcam sex tourism. and in some countries, like the philippines, it's become particularly acute. the un's children's agency, unicef, has dubbed the nation the global epicentre of the live streaming sexual abuse trade. we sent richard taylor to investigate the problem and look at how technology is being turned against the perpetrators,

to help try and bring them to justice. children crying. in a remote sanctuary in the central philippines, the trauma of child cyber sexual abuse rings out. this is primal therapy, used to release negative emotions. it's one of a number of different approaches used here. the preda foundation's mission is to rescue kids from sexual exportation. the facility can house around 30, but it is thought as many as 100,000 kids across the country may be at risk. and recent technological risks are threatening to turn what has long been an endemic, nationwide scourge into a global epidemic, with the philippines at its core. over the past decade, police have been trying to catch

facilitators of abuse in so—called cybersex dens, shacks in urban slums where kids are taken to engage in sex acts over webcams for the pleasure of a largely western audience with the means to pay. a handful of the victims who were rescued end up at specialist cybersex rehabilitation centres, like this one in the capital, manila. stories abound of abuse, shockingly often sanctioned by their own families. angela is one such victim, taken by a family friend and trafficked across the country into a cybersex den at the age ofjust12. it's really shocking because i did not expect that. i don't have communication with my parents and i don't have phone. i cannot go out. they just controlled me. i do not have the right to say no, because he is going to slap me or smack me too. cybersex abuse, it really breaks our heart because a lot of the victims' parents are actually part of the crime and sometimes,

they even believe that there is really no harm brought to these children because they are just performing. but in reality, that is not what happened, because the psychological impact of the abuse to the girls is really severe. but what makes the philippines the epicentre of this cybersex trade? it's complex, but poverty clearly plays its part — using kids to make a fast buck is especially alluring for large families struggling to get by. and the widespread use of english here smooths direct communication with westerners. but today, this already combustible mix is being fuelled by yet another ingredient — access to cheap smart phones and internet, which together are threatening to transform this already toxic phenomenon into something far more deeply rooted in philippine society. investigators say it's been a game changer.

in the past, when we were combating this form of crime, what we were finding was we were looking for computers. and now really, what we're looking for is what is mobile and what is cheap, and so it is really cellphones with a camera, internet service through the cellphone company that is usually not registered, and that broadens who can actually abuse a child in this way. and initial contact today takes place in live streamed porn and dating sites. alongside consensual adult interactions, some women here themselves act as facilitators, not simply flaunting their own sexual wares, but pimping out younger girls too. you will have girls of 12 years old trying to sell a girl of eight, seven years old. you have girls of 17 year olds selling a sister of four years old. any age you want. any age you can imagine. you know, some will even show a baby. today, the online monetary transactions are frictionless, the performances take place in private settings, using legitimate mainstream apps where anonymity is practically but guaranteed and paedophiles can

realise their wildest fantasies. there is no brake on their behaviour, so the most female—unfriendly, aggressive and violent things come out of these men. some pay for really maiming a child orfor cutting a child. so what can be done? police resources have been mobilised but there has only been a handful of successful prosecutions over the years, and the impermanence of live—streaming means evidence is hard to amass. the internationaljustice mission specialise in this kind of fieldwork. they believe successful law enforcement will be a big deterrent, but the tech companies themselves need to take responsibility. the police actually requires the capacity to investigate but aside from that, you know, they don't operate in a vacuum and so, since online sexual

exploitation of children involves electronic service providers, they are part of the solution. we contacted some of those tech companies, where the cybersex abusers carry out their abuse. both whatsapp and viber told us they co—operate with the authorities and law enforcement when requested. whatsapp also says it uses microsoft's photo matching technology, photodna. this flags users' photos to those already on a database. but this doesn't address the core problem — namely that all photos, videos and live streams between users are encrypted and not subject to any oversight. some organisations, though, are proactively creating technology to ward off the predators. my name is sweetie. i am ten years old. sweetie began five years ago as the brainchild of the kids's welfare organisation, terre des hommes. i am not real.

what sweetie does is it is primarily a chat bot but it also involves an avatar, that can be used on occasion. the chatbot goes into chat rooms, is present in the room, never initiates a conversation, for legal purposes, and is approached by predators that will be in this chat room. the main purpose, really, is to identify people to a sufficient degree of detail so that you can say "hey, we really do know who you are and you can't get away with this." early versions of sweetie required human operators. today, she's fully automated. they will start chatting with her and through a preprogrammed set of lines, of course, the conversation take place, and she can do that simultaneously with tens of people of perpeatrators at the same time. but despite amassing troves of detailed personal information, resulting prosecutions have been thin on the ground. ideally, we have sweetie out there deployed 24/7 globally, but realities of course is that we need to find that within the legal systems

in which we can operate. actually having law enforcement use the software, developing their own messages makes it so much more effective. so that is what we try to do when we're working with law enforcement in the various countries in asia and also now in africa, where we are developing cooperation with law enforcement as well. here in the philippines, many are at least waking up to the urgent need to protect their young. the hope is that step by step, a co—ordinated international response can save more vulnerable children from falling prey to the cybersex predators. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week in which the galaxy‘s first all—female spacewalk was cancelled due to a lack of appropriately sized spacesuits. the eu passed a law which holds tech firms responsible for material posted without copyright permission. and google announced an ai ethics panel to oversee projects such

as facial recognition and potential algorithmic bias — something which will be handy in estonia, which is to create its own ai—powered judge. it's hoped it would be able to rule on small claims disputes of less than £6,000, and so clearing the backlog of cases faced by human judges. new cars sold in europe will probably have to be fitted with speed limiters from 2022. the new rules, provisionally agreed by the eu, will mean on—board cameras and gps systems will be used to spot road signs and automatically slow speeding vehicles down. speak to the hand, the world's first palm vein airport security system went operational this week in korea. fujitsu says palm secure product is more accurate than other biometric tests. passengers taking part will be able to take domestic flights without the need to show

their national id card. and finally, researchers at google seem to have had some time on their hands. they've created the tossingbot. it's a robot that uses deep learning and trial and error to figure out the best way to throw something. we are back at the steve jobs theater at apple hq once again. but this time, the announcement will be a little different. instead of a new device, apple now wants to talk about entertainment. from spielberg to big bird, apple is bursting into hollywood with what it hopes will be a wildly popular tv service of its own. unlike anything that has been done before. it has announced apple tv+. a subscription service launching later this year,

designed to rival what is already out there from netflix and amazon. the company hasn't said how much it will cost, but it has promised you will be able to access exclusive content from stars like oprah, reese witherspoon, jennifer aniston, kumail nanjiani and more. and you'll be able to get shows from other networks for an additionalfee, just as you can on amazon prime video today. because of that, i think it's fair to say apple will need to stand out. oprah winfrey is obviously a big star and it's great for them to have her, but for her to come in and say i am going to do uplifting stuff that will raise everyone's spirits, i don't know if you can sell a tv service with that. speaking of additional fees, you may find yourself being asked to pay a lot more of them from now on.

also announced here was apple news+, a subscription news service that costs $9.99 per month. for that, you get access to around 300 or so magazines you'd ordinarily have to subscribe to individually. however, only two newspapers have signed up to apple's plan — the wall streetjournal and the la times. apple also came up with a gaming subscription service called apple arcade, which, if you watched the show last week, you'll know sounds pretty similar to some of what google recently unveiled. you won't find these games on any other mobile platform or in any other subscription service. and then there was this. apple card. a credit card apple has made in partnership with megabank goldman sachs and mastercard. what apple is trying to do with all of this, if you hadn't noticed, is make more money from what you do with your phone. so, apple is seeing a dip in demand for its hardware. the iphone is its biggest moneymaker and sales of smartphones has kind of dipped. they still sell millions and millions, don't get me wrong. but as a growth engine,

it's not the growth engine it was. so over the past year, we've been hearing them talk about services, making money from services. and certainly, in the last few quarters of their earnings, they've been getting a lot of money from services — that's where the big growth is. so, when it comes to tv, apple did just about what we expected. big stars, all paid up and ready to go. but i'm wondering whether they can truly be as creative as netflix and even amazon when it comes to making exciting television. but maybe it won't matter, because as soon as they launch thing, they're going to be on a billion devices just like that. that was dave in california. now, an estimated 700,000 people are living with autism in the uk alone. across the world, more and more people are being diagnosed with the condition. april 2 is world autism awareness day, which aims to help us all to understand more about the challenges faced by people with autism on a daily basis. high levels of anxiety are one of the most common difficulties

faced by people on the spectrum. and paul carter has been looking at some of the technologies which aim to help manage the stress levels. the situations that can kind of make me really anxious is almost every time i leave the house, because then it leaves my control — i don't really know what's going to happen beyond that. being in a big crowd of noisy people canjust make my whole brain shutdown. i get anxious in social situations, when there is a group conversation. i feel anxious when meeting new people. the autistic people i've been speaking to have developed their own coping mechanisms. anxiety is a huge part of being autistic and a way around this, for many people, is writing lists. little things like you'll see me doing something called stimming, where you'll see my hands start to fidget and it's just to try

and regulate your energy a bit. train stations are a very relaxing place to be because everything is systematic. potters bar, finsbury park and london kings cross. this train is formed of eight coaches. personal coping strategies aside, the role of technology is something academics are increasingly looking into. technology in various forms can help autistic people understand their emotions, self—regulate and seek help. and one of these examples is the early—stage work being carried out by digital education researcher nigel neubert at the university of the west of england. he's looking at how vr can reduce anxiety in teenagers by teaching them practical tasks. it's being tried out at this somerset school, where the pupils are training to work in a cafe.

put the beans in the grinder. our children, with a diagnosis of asd, come with the belief that they are going to fail. the actual skill of making the coffee was the easiest thing to teach them, so that's where the vr came in. and what i can concentrate on while i'm in the cafe today is saying hello to someone, so i can concentrate on the social side as opposed to the skill side of thejob. it will help me overcome new places. when i go in, it'sjust me, no—one else. it will help me with fear of messing up and it will help me to know that that's ok, you can do that. another technology in the offing is the molehill mountain app, being developed by king's college london and the research charity autistica. choose the worries you want to add to molehill mountain. bright lights, yep. that's a big one. we gave it to three volunteers to try out for a couple of weeks. based on cognitive behavioural therapy adapted for autistic people,

this self—managing app tracks anxieties by asking autistic adults to input their daily worries into bubbles that then float over a mountain. their task is to pop those bubbles, processing and preparing for their anxiety. when the user captures their worries, they're rewarded with tips to help them learn more about their situations. it all sounds fine, but what did our users make of it? it seemed a bit illogical. how's popping these imaginary bubbles on a screen going to help? but it did help, massively. it's not going to solve anxiety in itself, it should not be used instead of that, but as an add—on, then, yes, absolutely, it's done great things. if i was having a bad day, to reflect on it at the end of the day, potentially that would have been good,

tojust kind of look over what's happened, et cetera. but there are definitely the negatives to the app, like it asks you to add your worries. i added seven worries and then it told me i had too many worries. i was like well, don't tell an autistic person that, that's not ideal. it asked me to describe things in my own words and the words 'describe' and 'explain' are just... and 'imagine'... yeah. what would have made it better for you? yeah, i think either if you'd asked direct questions on a number scale, say, "how did you feel this on a scale of one to ten?" what seems to be clear is that the anxieties around autism are very individualised. a cloud—based software that's now offered by some areas on the nhs giving personalised solutions is called brain in hand. this system is also based on established therapies and coaching, and rests on health professionals working with users to devise answers for particular situations. when users become anxious, they use the brain in hand app

to access the solutions that have already been programmed in for them. a worry that third—year university student rosie king has is getting lost. the app gives her solutions and helps to manage her emotions whenever this happens. there's a logical part of my brain that knows everything is going to be fine and you are going to get home just fine. but there's a bigger part of my head that's banging pots and pans, screaming, "you failed! you failed! we're lost, we are never going to get home! what are we going to do?!" the app's anxiety monitor helps rosie reflect on how she feels and prompts her on prearranged tasks. but something that's especially comforting is the 24/7 red button back—up that connects her to a real live person. i've tried just doing the best i can with it, but i'm really freaking out. i only use the red alarm service when i'm really at my worst.

when i'm really low and i can't control myself and i really need to talk to somebody. and that somebody is always there and thatjust feels great for somebody in my situation. while all of the technologies we've looked at can be beneficial for people on the spectrum, not least because they've had input from autistic people, there are more and more becoming available all the time. the beta project, that's launching later this year, is gathering a database of what's out there, including technologies to help tackle anxieties. there are technologies that target the general population and cannot be used by autistic people. but, for example, there are sensory issues for autistic people and technology needs to adapt to those needs, to be non—threatening and to be effective. how many lenses do you actually need on your phone camera? one, two? lg thinks five, even nokia has come in at nine,

but actually, it really depends on how you use your camera phone. so, 60 seconds, please. it's time for your guide. let's go! do you like to take pictures of your food or generally spend time in dark environments? sounds like you're shooting in low light a lot, experts say that the google pixel 3 and huawei's new p30, released this week, are leading the field. next up, are you a pinch and zoomer or do you prefer what i call the human zoom? look for optical zooms if you want to get close to the action and keep the details. but it'll cost you. as many say the top of the ops are the iphone x and xs, the galaxy s9 plus and, again, the p30. shooting video on your phone gives it a massive workout, life and lots of space. those in the know rate the sony xperia xz3 for its fantastic slo—mo features and the oneplus 6t as a viable budget alternative with a brighter, long exposure night mode.

made it, and with a few seconds to spare. and that's it for this week. don't forget, if you need us during the week, you can find us on social media. facebook, instagram, youtube and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. good morning. for many of us on wednesday, it was a classic day of april showers. some of them quite heavy, some with hail mixed in but there were also some spells of sunshine, as you can see by this weather watch a picture from sheffield. others were up to a slightly different flavour to your weather, it was cold and offer some snow even at lower levels and parts of scotla nd snow even at lower levels and parts of scotland and northern england for a time and it was pretty windy and

that made it feel quite warm. there isa that made it feel quite warm. there is a potential for that made it feel quite warm. there is a potentialfor some that made it feel quite warm. there is a potential for some snow over the next few hours, during the early pa rt the next few hours, during the early part of thursday but in a slightly different area because the low pressure bringing the snow was drifting its way south and west and thatis drifting its way south and west and that is where we could potentially comment with any elevation, see some snow. across the high ground of wales, there is likely to be a few centimetres, maybe some slushy deposits at lower levels. we could see little bit of wet snow maybe into parts of the west midlands but circulating around the low pressure, there will be bands of showers first thing on wednesday morning. elsewhere, relatively sunny start. we will have some rain just drifting its way across parts of scotland and east during the afternoon. underneath that low pressure, we keep the showers and still, not a particularly warm day, seven to 10 degrees. that area of low pressure continues to drift its way south—west and it is loosening its grip somewhat, and also the direction of the wind is changing.

we're starting to see it pushing in from the south—east and that will start introduce something just that little bit milder because the country by friday, should start to see and feel the difference in the story. yes, we can start off with some showers, low pressure into the south—west of wales and acosta northern ireland that some of those showers should ease in intensity and frequency as we go through the day and elsewhere will be dry with some sunshine, and as a consequence, the degree also warmer. ten to 13 degrees is the overall high. that sets the trend really as we move into the weekend, we still maintain this kind of easterly flow coming because the near continent, the only problem is as it is pushing across the north sea, that is quite a lot of moisture, so we could potentially see a little more in the way of cloud for the weekend as you can also see, noticeably milder and drier.