professor ishiguro presented his welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers vision of the future of humanity, a in north america and around the globe. world where humans evolved into my name is lewis vaughanjones. sudan's coup takes an unexpected turn. a day after ousting the president, robots, leaving behind our organic our top stories: the head of the military council bodies of flesh and blood. jubilation in sudan, also steps down. in a broadcast on state television, as the head of the military council the defence minister steps down just one day revealed his successor would be another army officer. after leading a coup at least 16 people have died in protests demanding that ousted the president. a transition to democracy. translation: i announce as leader of the transitional military council that i am stepping down from this position to select someone whose a swedish investigation into sexual assault allegations against wikileaks founder expertise and competence julian assange could be reopened. i can trust. it follows the australian's arrest i am confident that he will take at the ecuadorian embassy in london on friday, where he has lived the ship to the shores of safety. for the past seven years. more legal trouble he denies the allegations but now forjulian assange. also faces us federal conspiracy prosecutors in sweden consider charges after allegedly reopening a rape inquiry against the wikileaks founder. professor ishiguro says his vision leaking government secrets. of one day abandoning our current against the wikileaks founder. human form is several thousand years the indian private airline, president trump says he intends jet airways, has suspended to release illegal immigrants all its international away. still, many here have doubts into democrat—controlled flights until monday. about this brave new world. this urban centres the sudden cancellation has stranded passengers across indian cities and around the world. dream isa the debt—ridden carrier about this brave new world. this dream is a terrible dream. it is was operating less than 20 planes out of a fleet of 123 on friday. impossible to unify algorithms and love. algorithms and artists. it is

now on bbc news, click. crazy, it is part of us. i prefer this week, the pope takes on robots. oui’ crazy, it is part of us. i prefer artificial intelligence takes up our limits. two are really good fishing. and gaming takes on robbie perfection. professor ishiguro said williams. one day humans would want to give robots their own rights, as we grow in relationships with them and welcome them into our homes as companions and helpers. but this is not a few shared by european governments. we are not of the opinion that robots should have rights on their own. the rights pertaining to people. if you imagine that someday they be a robot that completely behaves like a human being, moves welcome to paris. a mesmerising new like a behaves like a human being, moves likea human behaves like a human being, moves like a human being, looks like a human being, has facial expressions like a human being, has facial expressions likea human digital exhibition by a culture human being, has facial expressions like a human being, how then will you decide whether this entity has a spaces, a french museum foundation that specialises in immersive art

displays. this former i9th—century soul or not? so we have to discuss boundary has been transformed to that. whatever that means. for many bring to life the paintings of vincent van gogh. it also gives gathered here, the idea of remaining visitors the chance to influence —— human while dividing body and soul appreciate the influence japanese prince had on his work. the immersive audiovisual experience into inorganic and organic entities retra ces immersive audiovisual experience retraces the dutch master's life and is impossible. but the pace of work. using state—of—the—art visuals progress means these issues will continue to be discussed. this week the european union published a set and 140 laser video projectors, the of guidelines for ethical artificial artist's works are transformed, intelligence, wanting algorithms must not discriminate based on a becoming stunning moving images that person's must not discriminate based on a ers ' must not discriminate based on a person's gender, race or age. they are project it onto ten metre high suggested that in europe a person should always be told when they are walls. this truly adds a new depth interacting with an algorithm. earlier this year the vatican partnered with microsoft to offer an international prize on ethics and artificial intelligence, with pope to van gogh's work. you really feel francis meeting the company's you have been transported into his president, brad smith. thejudge paintings. quite an emotional experience, i have to say. those will also focus on the ethics of ai behind the exhibition are also hoping that it will help to make at its meeting next year, as it fine arts more accessible, drawing in younger audiences who can continues to explore the relationship between humans and emerging technologies. a interact with the projections and appreciate the masterpieces in a new conversation which could not only and more modern way. first, another affect our future of work, but also

shape what defines us as human surprising instance where an old beings. hello, and welcome to the institution meets new technology, this time courtesy of the vatican. week intact. it was the week that james ca pstick has this time courtesy of the vatican. james capstick has been investigating how the church is authorities in the uk announced influencing robotic research. —— proposals for a new regulator for online and social media platforms to protect citizens from so—called junco state. robots. these days they "0nline harms". wikileaks founder seem to be everywhere. from julian assange was arrested by badminton courts... to police in london after ecuador withdrew his asylum. and facebook restau ra nts. .. badminton courts... to announced changes to how it's algorithm handles the profiles of restaurants... to monasteries... and people who have died, to prevent friends and relatives getting notifications about birthdays or events. a commercial drone delivery factories. they are augmenting our lives in various helpful ways. with service has been cleared for takeoff in the australian capital city of canberra following an 18 month many countries facing an ageing trial. 0perated canberra following an 18 month trial. operated by alphabets population, issues such as elderly subsidiarity wing, the drones will ca re population, issues such as elderly care and access to doctors are being deliver food and drink and taken on by robot assists. and over—the—counter chemist products. the drones are only allowed to fly in daylight and must a 16 feet above humans while flying. supermarket policing and even warfare, autonomous systems are rolled out

for police cars and drones. and with giant walmart is to deploy autonomous machines across thousands of its stores in the us. featuring superfast sg for police cars and drones. and with superfast 56 data networks around the corner, the capabilities of self operating floor cleaners, shell these machines could increase scanners and loaders and pickup exponentially. this has led many to towers, the devices willjoin the question the responsibilities that existing machines already in use of come with these capabilities. and selected stores. the company says the questions are coming notjust from silicon valley but from the they will free up staff or other heart of one of the world's major religions. at the vatican, the tasks. and finally, astronomers have finally taken the first—ever picture ofa catholic church has brought together finally taken the first—ever picture of a black hole. photographed by scientists and ethicists to discuss network of eight across the world, these issues, and pope francis has measuring 40 billion kilometres written a letter, the human across, the black hole, dubbed an community, which emphasises the urgent need to study the relationship between humans and "absolute monster", is 500 million emerging technologies. the pope trillion kilometres away. start saving those air miles. presented the letter to the pontifical academy for life to open the special conference called robo ethics: humans, machines and health. the home makeover show itself seems to be getting a makeover. i am behind the scenes at a new bbc show

thatis behind the scenes at a new bbc show that is using virtual reality to reshape couples' homes before actually doing it in real life. com pletely actually doing it in real life. completely not what i expected. and 0ne one of the star attractions here is it could get emotional. that's not japanese professor hiroshi ishiguro, the only challenge the producers of the creator of extremely humanlike robots. i am a humanoid. i am a copy your home made perfect were up of professor ishiguro. he has used against. we are trying to make a them before to speak at his place in conferences but this time he has really emotional, transformative tv come in person. show, and when people have got headsets on it is very hard to get that. to show that. what you do do, is you get great sound. you get oohs and ahs and amazing reactions from people. the show picked -- pictures two architects visions against each other, giving homeowners the chance to really see their vision is coming to really see their vision is coming to life before deciding which option to life before deciding which option to go with. yeah, initially we didn't agree on what we wanted out of the house, whereas i wanted to keep the garden and get rid of the garage, and what actually happens is

the opposite, i think. yeah, switched. it is fascinating, we are not just seeing the switched. it is fascinating, we are notjust seeing the reaction to their home, but also the reaction to testing vr for the first time. their home, but also the reaction to testing vr for the first timem was so clever. the way they made it so real, with the dimensions. it was just like being there. it was really weird not being able to walk around because that is your initial thought process, because you are in the house and you want to see what is around the corner. you can't do that with the goggles on. but once you get used to it it is amazing. with the goggles on. but once you get used to it it is amazingm with the goggles on. but once you get used to it it is amazing. it was surreal, i thought. get used to it it is amazing. it was surreal, ithought. it get used to it it is amazing. it was surreal, i thought. it was weird. a weird experience. despite everything else involved in this tv show, all the emotions, the fact that people are seeing their real homes, this is actually a really great clear immersive vr experience. this feels so real. i almost feel like i can reach that tap. the 360 element is absolutely fantastic. the one issue it has ears, i can't actually walk

anywhere, so if i go forward i'm not actually going forward in the virtual world, i am just likely to walk into something. 0pting for the samsung gear did mean some physical limitations compared to other vr systems. we did our original tests on an 0culus, and we used a vive as well, and we found that to actually animate something people could see and walk around, you couldn't actually get the graphics to high quality unless you had a supercomputer with an air—conditioning unit attached to it, and a cable. so what we realised was, we should be thinking of the end user. the vast number of people who are going to be watching this, hopefully, will be people watching it on screen on the tv. so we were looking for a way to use those final graphics as the graphics that our contributors see. so the best way we found to do that was to create 360 wraparound vfx which could be pretty high quality and play on a samsung, just ina high quality and play on a samsung,

just in a headset. this actually gives an idea of what open plan could feel like. revamping your home with the help of a spot of vr is not exclusive to a tv show. you can do it with one of these and one of these. planner 5d is just it with one of these and one of these. planner 5d isjust one example of an app that can do that, and would the android version you can use a headset. it is pretty simple to set up a project although it is quite time—consuming putting in all the details. first of all, you need all your real measurements. you can even choose what the floor is going to look like and what the wall is going to look like to make it true to life as possible. you can move things around in exactly the right dimensions to see where they and will not work. it is pretty impressive. it does look like a real room, and the detail is absolutely amazing. so, ican room, and the detail is absolutely amazing. so, i can see the value in vr for architecture and interiors. it is just vr for architecture and interiors. it isjust a vr for architecture and interiors. it is just a matter of how people will feel about putting the work into make sure the result does it

justice. that was lara. now, videogames have evolved from arcade based entertainment into a creative art form as culturally vital and powerful as film and music. hammering data point home, the london games festival plays host to a wide variety of game —related activities across the city. mark has been checking out some of the different events that make up the celebration of all things gaming. the london games festival is a place where smaller indie games are given an opportunity to shine alongside more well—known triple—a blockbuster titles. kicking off the festival, egs res is an event packed with as much information as the big brand blockbusters. this is a mixture of

football and a first person shooter, and you may think those things go together like fish fingers and custard, but you will learn that flying robots punting the ball down the field would probably improve things in the premier league. developed by dundee based studio earth bound games, it also turns this into a spectator sport. it is not just this into a spectator sport. it is notjust designed to be played, but to be watched as well. the streaming aspect of games has become huge over the past five years, so we believe over the next stage of spectators, will be interactive spectators, in the way they would if they were at a live football match. this collection of seemingly unrelated objects as a preview of the weirdness that is about to come when playing vr game a

ton of feathers. element there is still something i don't understand... you have constructed a set up here that uses some crt monitors, what looks like an old tape deck, and a cuddly toy.|j wa nted tape deck, and a cuddly toy.|j wanted to create something for people watching. also, i want to leave people with something to take away from the whole experience, so the soundtrack of the game is processed through a tape deck with an audio cassette tape for the output, so people can take home a little cassette tape of their journey. time to check it out. the game has a story of sorts, a mystery about a serial killer. you all are right in front of me, as clear as day. it quickly becomes less of a mystery to solve and more of a pixelated psychedelicjourney, exploring what a game actually is.

remove the plug behind you. exploring what a game actually is. remove the plug behind youm exploring what a game actually is. remove the plug behind you. it is like an 8—bit nightmare thought up by david lynch with help from max headroom. there is a parting gift, my audio recording of the whole experience. now all i have to do is find a tape deck. across town, here at somerset house, now play this exhibition explores the potential of gaming technology. everybody who knows anything about games knows that this is a nintendo entertainment centre, a mid—80s platform. but you will see the controllers have had all buttons removed except for one. so, how are we expected to play games on this with just one button? we expected to play games on this withjust one button? well, with a little help from up to eight friends. each controller has a

different button that performs one function. in order to complete a gamea group function. in order to complete a game a group of people must work together. about ten years ago in 2006, there was a forum post in accessibility forums, and moderators we re accessibility forums, and moderators were wondering what the history of videogames would look like if they we re videogames would look like if they were one switch, accessible to folks with limited manual dexterity. the first post in the thread was a nintendo entertainment system controller with one a button. so i wa nted controller with one a button. so i wanted to make that image real and see what happens to play. suddenly, tetris is not just see what happens to play. suddenly, tetris is notjust about fitting blocks together the right way, it is about deciding, as if by committee, where to put the blocks. so everything becomes multiplayer. you might not expect to find karaoke at a games event, but this game raises

the art to new levels. it plays popular tunes but randomly develops lyrics, which though completely different from the originals, should roughly rhyme. another generation that we should always challenge our preconceptions of what we consider to bea preconceptions of what we consider to be a videogame, even if that is not easy listening. throughout this programme we have been looking at how the traditional has been given a technological reboot, and to finish things off, it doesn't get much more traditional than sushi injapan, but even there, stephen beckett has been finding out how ai has been lending a helping hand to the raw ingredients— i.e., fish. japan's diet is often hailed for one of the reasons behind their world leading life expectancy. but

with people living longer and births just not keeping up, finding enough people to fill jobs just not keeping up, finding enough people to filljobs is a growing crisis in the country. we are on our way to see a university fish farm. around 10 million red sea bream are born and raised here every year and they make their ways onto the dinner plates of japanese people. they make their ways onto the dinner plates ofjapanese people. fishing isa plates ofjapanese people. fishing is a billion—dollar industry, but around here they are starting to do things a little differently. you can start to see if you have the sea bream appearing now. these fish live in these ponds for about two years and then they are sold to other fish farms around japan, where they raise them even more, and eventually they are sold to restaurants. what do you think, have they had enough? it might seem serene here, but once a year things get a bit busier. during sorting season, all the fish have to be taken out of the ponds to be

sold, a manual process that requires teams of workers. workers who are getting increasingly harder to find. injusta getting increasingly harder to find. injust a few getting increasingly harder to find. in just a few days they need to check millions of fish, and to do that it check millions of fish, and to do thatitis check millions of fish, and to do that it is crucial that production line runs at peak performance. until now this has been the responsibility of this guy, whose responsibility it has been to run this dial. too slow and they won't check all the fish, too slow and they will be overwhelmed. —— too fast. well, the new skilled workers are automation ai. new skilled workers are automation al. the ai worker has been taught to recognise and count the fishes they come through the pump, meaning it can regulate the flowjust like it can regulate the flowjust like it can regulate the flowjust like its can regulate the flowjust like itss human can regulate the flowjust like its human predecessor. from dawn to dusk, somebody had to adjust the number of fish supplied, so we had to brace a highly skilled person in that place every day, but this allows us to relocate the person to do something else. the team claim

that the ai worker is 90% as accurate as a human worker. while it is not perfect it is good enough to be hired. behind the scenes, the softwa re be hired. behind the scenes, the software is running on microsoft's cloud computing platform. what is really interesting here, isjust cloud computing platform. what is really interesting here, is just how easy ai is to use now. it is available in the cloud and it is kind of plug and play. it is the democratisation of ai. so as you might expect, we are seeing ai being used in the manufacturing industry, the retail industry, but also primary industries like aquaculture and agriculture. the explosion of cloud services mean even the most remote cloud services mean even the most re m ote parts cloud services mean even the most remote parts of the world can access specialised computing power like this. elsewhere on the farm they are exploring other ways to automate this traditionally hands—on process. connected sensors are already monitoring the environment in the tanks. the hope is that in the future this data could be used to better ca re

future this data could be used to better care for the fish. kendo university is getting the immediate benefit of removing some mundane tasks such as regulating the speed of the conveyor, but this information can be used for many things. to analyse the environment, the growth of the fish, so it can lead to better quality and higher yield. only one job so far has been handed over to the machines, but next they are looking at whether the more complex task of checking and sorting the fish can be done by automation as well. doing that would mean morejobs automation as well. doing that would mean more jobs can automation as well. doing that would mean morejobs can be replaced, which is essential to solving the looming worker shortage. which is essential to solving the looming worker shortagem which is essential to solving the looming worker shortage. it feels like ai is getting pretty good at solving problems like these and it is probably a matter of time before we are seeing it all over the place in many situations. but it seems like a long time before many of these things will become a reality. it feels like this is just the beginning. that was stephen beckett injapan,

and that is it from us here in paris. don't forget that we live all across social media. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. i know all eyes are on the weekend weather, but you may recognise this forecast more in reference to next week. get to that in a moment, but first let's take a look at the big weather pattern for the weekend. low pressure battling with high pressure, for dominance of the uk's weather — it is high pressure that wins but keeps us in the blue with a stronger, colder east south—easterly wind over the weekend. it is high pressure, meaning most of us will stay dry, bar the odd shower.

there will be some decent sunshine around but it is going to be cold for the time of year, particularly in that stronger wind. gardeners take note, frosty nights as well. many of us will start with frost again on saturday morning, away from the north sea coast and away from most westernmost areas where the wind is continuing to pick up. some gusts in northern ireland of around 40 mph. a breezy picture for some, patchy cloud will develop over parts of eastern england, especially east anglia and south—east england, you may catch a stray shower. if you do there could be some small hail associated. we have referenced the wind, average speeds but gusts will be higher, particularly in the west and especially into northern ireland. around 40 mph. for many, temperatures stuck in single figures especially on the north sea coast. for scotland, avourable wind directions with temperatures up to 14, as we have had over the past few days. clear weather overnight and into sunday but cloud increasing over the far south of england,

northern ireland, and on the north sea coast with the breeze we should avoid a frost, but elsewhere we are in the blue so another frost as sunday begins. plenty of morning sunshine, some showers developing. a stray shower here or there, most places will stay dry. cornwall and northern ireland, expect cloud, the further west you are, you could see some patchy rain out of this weather front but most places will stay dry, with some cloud building during the day. temperatures similar, as is the wind, so it is feeling chilly. however, into next week, still high pressure, low pressure battling, but the orientation changing. as does the wind direction, eventually drawing some warm air from the south. although it is still high pressure and still mainly settled, it is going to feel very different. all of that happens just in time for easter. temperatures next week on the up.