west bank. jordan and israel have closed the king hussein—allenby bridge in both directions. israel's pm condemned the shooting. sir keir starmer has told the bbc that his new labour government is "going to have to be unpopular" in order to make necessary reforms. the prime minister said it was important not to shy away from hard decisions — if his government was to change the country. spain's foreign minister has confirmed his country is granting political asylum to the venezuelan opposition presidential candidate — edmundo gonzalez. jose manuel albares said he'd spoken to mr gonzalez on a spanish military plane that's taking him to spain. mr gonzalez challenged the incumbent venezuelan president — nicolas maduro. now on bbc news, click.

this week... what do you think, should we go for a ride? i think we should. let's go. alasdair keane strapped into a truck with a difference. but how hard is it to power a 40—tonner by battery? you can start with lots of robots. it is quite mesmerising to watch. love a robot. i know you do. plus from ten wheels to do but how about a scooter powered by gas? we have also been overrun by rats this week, but ai has a solution in its sights. and there is something weird lurking in the water. hey! those are my toes you are talking about, and they were freezing.

if you leave them in their long enough they will become numb. the real story here is we are exploring the depths by robots. the world of transport wants to go electric, but some vehicles are easier to electrify than others. while the tech world is going mad for electric cars, biggervehicles are proving more difficult. the bigger and heavier they are, the bigger and heavier the batteries need to be. more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from road transport in the eu comes from heavy duty vehicles. and because nearly everything we eat, drink and where will have been in a big truck at some point, the cleaner, greener future is going to need cleaner, greener haulage. and some manufacturers are pushing on with the switch to electric, as alasdair keane has been finding out. there are millions of heavy goods trucks driving on roads all over the world.

but why are so few of them running on electricity? to find out, we are near sweden's capital, home to one of europe's biggest truck manufacturers. they are on the long road to changing an industry that is having a big impact on our planet. the biggest largest change our industry has had for over 100 years, when we went from horses to vehicles actually. now trundling off the end of the production line is an increasing number of electric trucks. and scania eventually wants that to be every vehicle they make. switching to electric production has not been easy. one of the biggest challenges

is the weight of the batteries. they had to reinforce the concrete and bring in new equipment to be able to lift them, and that meant closing down the production line for three months. there are several thousand new components in the electric vehicles, and they are also, what was very important during this time, was cater for the reskilling of our workforce, so they could be able also to work on electric vehicles just as they do on internal combustion engines. unlike for cars, this move to electric trucking is going at a very slow pace. so what motivates a company to make such a big gear shift? how are you doing? welcome on board. to make such a big gear shift? nice to meet you. to make such a big gear shift? i am hitching a lift with the man with the keys to this organisation. this company has been part of the problem for 130 years almost, a very long time producing those trucks that were emitting the emissions that were not good for the planet. is there guilt behind the change? yeah, i think there is guilt, there is the notion

that we want to be able to see our kids and grandchildren in the eyes and be able to say we knew it and we chose to do something about it. instead ofjust trying to continue to optimise profits and do the things that companies do. and there is also a notion of coming early to the insight that this is the future competitiveness. if you are last into this journey you will have a problem to compete because at some point everyone will understand, and that has been really important because you have to have that as a company, when you are to convince your supervisory board, your owners and everyone around you in the ecosystem that you need to walk down this path. not only did scania stop output for several months, they also built this battery plant next to where the trucks are assembled. we are in one of the most high tech parts of the site

where lots of robots are assembling the batteries that will end up in the trucks. it is quite mesmerising to watch. these batteries weigh an incredible 4,000kg. that presents lots of challenges for those driving them. there are still lots of questions though about using battery electric. is it powerful enough to move these heavy trucks? is there the charging infrastructure to get them where they need to go and at three times the cost of a normal truck, are they a sound investment that companies will get their money back on? and part of the debate has also been about other ways to power trucks, with some in the industry suggesting hydrogen fuel cells are the best solution for green trucking. battery electric is the most cost efficient, so therefore we believe in this, and also it is possible to build infrastructure and everything around it. shall we go for a ride? i think we should, let's do it.

it is completely silent. and it is strong, the torque is amazing. you must still have a hard job convincing drivers and companies to make the switch. there is a lot of scepticism, i am travelling a lot in myjob and i was in finland a couple of weeks ago, which i would have expected to be a market ready to transition quickly. but huge scepticism. "will this really work? "can it stand the temperatures of northern finland, "the home of... "of santa claus, really cold, really tough drives, "really high vehicle weights." and i understand that. we need to take that on, with facts, and the best way to convince customers is as always when something is new, and this is a very traditional industry, we are used to that, but when there is something

new, let them test. by 2030, scania wants half the trucks they sell to be electric, and fully battery operated by 2050, but that is still a long way off. i certainly think this journey could be much accelerated if the legislature would be more active in supporting the change. this is our biggest challenge now. the vehicle is here. what we sit in now is 40—tonner, it is european long haulage but we are also supplying 60, 64, 74 and 80—tonners. we have spent a lot of time in brussels, in stockholm and berlin to try and convince politicians that this is a good thing, this is notjust for the environment, it is also great driver environment. the road to green trucking is slow. there is still a lot of work to do for manufacturers across the industry trying to convince buyers to make the switch.

that was alasdair. and now from heavy goods vehicles to something more nimble. in some parts of the world, scooters have already gone electric, with lightweight bikes and hot swappable batteries making a lot of sense. but even the e—scooter is taking a while to reach everyone. in the meantime nikhil inamdar has been to india to see a bike powered by compressed natural gas. 250 million. that is the number of two—wheelers on india's roads, emitting harmful pollutants that are adding to the worsening air quality of its cities. but one company now claims it has a solution.

this is bajaj auto's freedom, the world's first motorbike that runs on compressed natural gas, or cng. it is basically a gas that is compressed and stored in a cylinder. and it is both cleaner and cheaper than other automobile fuels like petrol or diesel. but cars, trucks and even tuk—tuks have used cng for long but mounting this tank on a two—wheeler has taken years of trial and error. what have been the challenges of designing this bike? the motorcycle has a very little space. a cng cylinder is big, it is heavy and it is of a certain shape. so that has to be integrated and designed to take care of that. just to quickly show you, this is a 2kg cng cylinder which weighs 15 kg, which has

been packed into this bike. so you can see how large this is. along with this, to give the customer reassurance that the customer will never be stranded, there is an auxiliary fuel tank which is right over here, which is another two litres. bajaj claims using this fuel effectively halves the running cost of the motorbike, and dramatically reduces emissions of several harmful greenhouse gases. but, despite being fuelled by cng, this does feel like riding any other bike. the big question and everybody�*s mind is really the timing of the launch, because this has come into the market when we are all on the cusp of that big ev revolution. the indian government wants 80% of all two—wheelers on its roads to be electric by 2030.

is that a problem? i am still saying an electric motorcycle itself today is impossible. i caught up with someone who reviews bikes for a living. do you think evs will pose a threat to cng bikes in the next few years? i think we are too large a country for things to pose a threat to others. for the last 20 years, i have heard about how this bike will end other bikes. where is the capacity in terms of power, in terms of battery manufacturing, in terms of sales and manufacturing, who will sell them, where is the infrastructure? it is a cascade of things that have to fall into place first. we are moving in that direction but i can very easily argue we are not moving fast enough to meet that goal. but there might be more immediate challenges. long lines like these of cng—run tuk—tuks

and taxis are regular site at india's gas stations. and taxis are regular sight at india's gas stations. for these new bikes to hit the fast lane, fixing these infrastructure gaps will be critical. time for a look at this week's tech news. the uk government has asked phone companies to do their bit in its quest to reduce rising snatch thefts. it wants the manufacturers to make sure the stolen devices can quickly and permanently be disabled so they cannot be reregistered for sale on the second—hand market. telegram has apologised to south korean authorities for its handling of deepfake pornographic material shared using its messaging app. it says it has removed 25 sexually explicit deepfakes from the platform. this follows the discovery

of many chat rooms containing such videos, causing outrage in south korea and the start of an investigation into telegram by its police force. clearview ai has been fined over 30 million euros by the dutch data protection authority. the dpa says clearview scrapes photos from the internet and converts them into biometric data without knowledge or consent of the person in the photograph. clearview ai says the decision is unlawful and they do not have a place of business or customers in the netherlands or the rest of the eu. also in the netherlands, it is claimed that this is the world's strongest land—based crane. it is said to be able to lift up to 6000 tonnes. rats and mice. to some, cute, cuddly pets.

to others, a pest that needs to be controlled. in the uk, reports of rat infestations are at an all—time high. with rodents causing record levels of damage to homes, businesses and even cars. i went along to see how the world's largest pest control company, rentokil, are using tech to fight back. don't worry, no rodents were harmed during the making of this film. send in the ai. well, this isn't an ai. this is riley from rentokil. but what he is carrying is using al to detect rat and mice infestations before they begin. the company have developed a new system called pest connect. essentially ai—powered

connected cameras, using google powered machine learning and object recognition to detect rodents. what we have here is a digital camera that takes digital photographs, but the beauty of this camera in relation to a standard camera is that the ai technology behind it, which allows us to go and check those stills and detect whether we have a rodent in that footage, in that image, it filters out anything that is not a rodent and alerts us and sends us that image of the rodent within the situation. so what does technology like this enable you to do that perhaps you would not have been able to do without this kind of device? traditionally a technician would turn up eight times a year to do a routine check and that would check every box on site or conventional monitoring devices. that can be quite labour—intensive, and can be intrusive for the customer, quite difficult for us to go and shut areas down. and then when they go away,

there is no more monitoring. you have to rely on them coming back in around six weeks�* time. essentially this camera is running 24/7 and with the ai technology behind it, it gives us that early alert which is what we need to be able to get on top of activity very quickly. although there is still a need for pest control after these cameras, they claim that technology like this can prevent breeding colonies before they are established, reducing the need for rodenticide by up to a0%. it is already being used in large—scale environments where pest control is crucial, such as supermarket warehouses. what we do is we partnered with some of the best in the business when it comes to machine learning technology and what it does is it takes a photo using the pir sensor that is triggered by motion and heat and when it goes up into the cloud it is processed through an image processing pipeline we have built and that pipeline is designed to look for rodents in the photographs, we have trained it to look

for all the different features of a rodent and if it does positively identify a rodent in the photo, that image is sent down from the cloud to colleague apps we have built, we have built an app for our technicians where they can look at the photos from a camera, see the pest activity and then off the back of that determine what they would like to do, how they would like to manage the infestation, they can track where a pest has come from and gone through different stages of the image, right through to how big is the infestation. naturally i wanted to see how it works for myself. this is what our technician would expect to see inside the app we have built. these are the photos that have come through and if you positively identify the rodent in the photo, even if the rodent is moving or is quite far away or in the dark we can still detect the activity. what is interesting here

is we don't need machine learning to tell us the one in the number two box is a mouse we can see that as a mouse, but i guess it is more for perhaps the number one, that is a little bit more obscure, it is a little harder to see, is that where this tech comes into play? exactly, and with cameras they can take hundreds of photos, so we could be accidentally triggered by light or a change in the environment due to heat for example, what we don't want to do is ask our technicians to go through hundreds and hundreds of photos so using the machine learning to positively identify what is in the photo and filter out the rest of the noise and in the app they can filter across to positive detections and look at only the images with rodents in them. the next stage for this technology is to identify individual species of rodent, and to incorporate other types of machine learning date sets to identify different pests, such as insects. 0k, whose stupid idea was it to film parts of this report

in the never ending cat and mouse world of pest control, may be finally giving humans upper hand. 0k, whose stupid idea was it to film parts of this report with my feet in the waters of lake zurich? 0h, oh, god! twice? i've just been told where the water in this lake comes from. the glaciers, doesn't it? if you leave them in there long enough, they become numb and you don't feel it any more. now, the person making a whole lot less fuss than me here isjulia, one of the team representing the star of the show, this underwater drone. we started off in the search—and—rescue space. so we're search and rescue and then also ammunition detection and retrieval.

so we mainly started for the swiss police departments and the swiss military. hence we created something that would work well in swiss waters, in particular rivers. so that's why our robot is built in a way that it can with stand strong currents. just as aerial drones can hold their position in strong winds, this one can stay very still, even when the water around it is rushing past at three knots. today, i guest get to see the latest upgrade to its low—drag shell and ai—powered control software, that adjusts to counter turbulence. it's the newest version of this drone. it's pretty nippy, can travel at about four knots, and it has on board cameras, but because the water is often far too murky to see what you're doing, it also has sonar, which it uses to build up a 3—d point cloud of the area. some of the applications

this is being pitched at include mapping and today, underwater toe inspection. how are they looking? blue? actually, are they still there? i can't feel them. oh, god! time to take it for a dive. and for me to avoid hypothermia. take me on an adventure. show me the sights. as is common in robotics these days, andre is using a standard, familiar and importantly tried, tested and reliable games controller to steer the drone. what is this, just a fishing boat? it is a small fishing boat, nothing crazy. it goes pretty fast. it is not that slow. i can't keep up and i was swimming seven years of my life, nearly professionally. i cannot keep up with this. you can believe that he was

nearly a professional swimmer, can't you? honestly. it can dive to 300 metres and it sends live pictures and receives steering commands through a 1.5 kilometre long cable and can operate without the cable, driving autonomously and avoiding obstacles and mapping its own area, which is no mean feat. no mean feat, given that it cannot see gps satellites from underwater. 0ur drone is able to map and localise at the same time. when it sees a new field it has never seen before, it can generate a map and when the robot returns to that position it can recognise it has been there and brings all the information together. a bit like a vacuum cleaner. a bit like a vacuum cleaner robot. exactly. more or less the same thing butjust underwater. 0k. this ability to map an area, to see in poor visibility by using sonar as well as normal cameras plus the option to fit grippers and tools will allow

industries operating in tricky environments to be targeted. in the future the drone may inspect oil and gas pipelines, communication cables, maybe even the hulls of ships. these are all areas that are hazardous even to the most highly skilled human divers. i love the fish. it is another example of what happens when students meet and study at university, in this case eth in zurich, and then decide to work together to take their research further. who knows what discoveries await this little robot? there's a chair! laughter i often see the occasional wild shopping trolley in a lake, but i rarely see a chair. ah, yes. now, where did i leave my shoes?

that is it from us from zurich, which is looking beautiful today. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. hello there. for part two of the weekend, a thundery low sitting across england and wales, generating heavy rain and also some thundery downpours through the afternoon. further north, the more dry it will be, scotland and northern ireland, but quite a bit of cloud. cooler than of late, north—westerly winds starting to set in across the north—west, whereas low pressure means warm and humid air. the weather front across southern scotland, north—east england, through north—west england, wales and the south—west, could bring persistent heavy rain. further east, the sunshine could trigger some heavy thundery downpours.

cloud in scotland and northern ireland, winds in from the north—west. cooler across the north than the last few days, but still fairly humid with some warmth across england and wales, especially the east. thunderstorms this evening across the south—east. the weather front in the west pushing eastwards. a legacy of cloud across large parts of england and wales, keeping temperatures up, not falling below 11—12, but it will be chilly in scotland and northern ireland, under clearer skies. monday, in between weather systems, high pressurejust coming in to turn things drier. a bit of cloud and rain across eastern areas, the weather front eventually into the north sea. plenty of sunshine in england and wales, but more cloudy skies in scotland and northern ireland, with rain in western scotland. a cooler and fresher day across the board, mid—to—high teens. big changes from tuesday, this area of low pressure moving down from the north, parking itself across northern scotland, into the norwegian sea.

that will open the floodgates to an arctic north/north—westerly wind, turning much cooler for all areas on tuesday. the cold front spreading southwards, squally rain. behind it, brightening up, plenty of sunshine but blustery showers as well, they may be heavy and thundery across the north—west. a windy and blustery day especially across the north—east. cold and windy with sunshine and showers. temperatures in the low teens in the north, the high teens further south. it stays pretty chilly for the time of year for the upcoming week. it will be cold at night, most showers in the north and west, staying drier the further south and east.

live from london — this is bbc news. jordan launches an investigation into the killing of three israelis at a border crossing to the occupied west bank. sir keir starmer tells the bbc his new government is �*going to have to be

unpopular' if it wants to change the country. a renowned children's hospital in london is carrying out an urgent review of more than 700 patients — as concerns are raised about one of its former surgeons. venezuela's opposition presidential candidate flees the country after the disputed election — which many western nations said he'd won. and a final chance for glory — the paris paralympics draw to a close with the last few medals up for grabs. hello. i'm rajini vaidyanathan. israel has closed all its land border crossings with jordan after three israeli civilians were killed in a shooting at the border crossing betweenjordan and the occupied west bank. israel's prime minister said it was a "hard day" and sent his condolences to the victims�* families. the attacker — reported to be

a jordanian truck driver — was shot dead by israeli security forces.