being remotely controlled. not being remotely controlled. it is a fully autonomous vessel capable of making some of its own decisions. plenty to look forward to. let's first pause. sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's hugh. ruben amorim says he wants to bring some happiness to old trafford as he takes charge of his first home game with manchester united. it took just 48 seconds for his team to provide it in the europa league against norwegian champions bodo glimt. but it did not last much longer after that. that's one of ten matches in the competition that are around half an hour old. alejandro garnacho scoring early, although it's now 2—1 to bodo glimt. roma are also playing their second match with a new manager. claudio ranieri is back in england with roma to take on spurs, who also scored

an early goal, but that, too, is now level. eight europa league games have already finished. you can see those scores on the bbc sport website, and they include wins for lazio and athletic bilbao, the two teams at the top of the table. the europa conference league has already brought a win for leaders chelsea, a fourth straight victory for them. there were defeats for the other british sides involved in the early games, hearts and the new saints. all the scores are on the website, too. frank lampard admits taking the job of coventry manager is a risk, but after nearly 18 months without one, the former england and chelsea midfielder says he wants to get back into something he loves. lampard's been out of work since his interim role at chelsea ended 18 months ago. he'd previously held the full—time position at stamford bridge, as well as spells at derby county and everton. he's been given a 2.5—year deal at the championship club. our ambition is to be better. for me, personally, i don't have those far—out crazy targets, far away. i have — what's the next game? and how can i impact this team in a positive way? which is what i'll try and do.

we understand that the championship can move and change very quickly, but nothing's given to you. so every step now has to be one that's right in front of us, because you can build momentum quickly in this league. it can also kick you in the area you don't want to be kicked in if you don't stay on it, because it's the championship. so i think it's very important we don't get too far ahead of ourselves. as a i say, i could sit here and say, yes, i've got good belief in the squad because i have looked at it. and i think i can help. world number two iga swiatek has accepted a one—month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance in august. she was provisionally suspended and missed three tournaments, but after she appealed the itia, the body which looks after the game's integrity, accepted that she had unknowingly ingested a substance known as tmz which had contaminated her medication forjet—lag. she has eight days of the ban still to serve. new zealand will resume on 319 for eight in around an hour new zealand will resume on 319—8 in around an hour

and a half's time for day two of the first test against england after a breakthrough day for spinner shoaib bashir. he finished the opening day with figures of 11—69 having kept his place following a difficult tour to pakistan and a tricky start in christchurch. they backed me 100%. i bowled plenty of balls out there, and that shows how much faith they have in me. so, yeah, 100%. it brings the best out of me. just really enjoy it. meanwhile in durban, sri lanka were bowled out for their lowest ever total in test cricket, just 42, giving south africa a huge advantage at the end of day two of the opening match of their series. 19 wickets fell on the day, and even though south africa lost nine of them, they're 281 ahead of their opponents after reaching 132—3 in their second innings. it was marco jansen who did most of the damage with the ball, taking a career—best 7—13. world number onejudd trump won a deciding frame to reach the quarterfinals of the uk snooker championship.

it's the sixth time trump has been taken to a final frame this season, and he's won all six. this victory was against the three—time champion john higgins in york, where trump will play zhang anda of china in the last eight. follow the football, all 35 games in europe going on right now on the website. that's it for now, back to you. we play too much football, i don't agree with that. thank you very much, hugh. it is time for our our new weekly segment, ai decoded. we are returning this week to a theme we have touched on before, certainly worthy of more attention given recent developments — robots on the battlefield. ai—powered drones in the air, on land, even beneath the sea. we have got an extraordinary film to show you this week, which really does underscore

the cat and mouse game that's being played that is driving this autonomous revolution. entirely relevant this week as tensions mount in the baltic sea. there have been reports you may have seen of the suspected sabotage of undersea cables. the chinese ship yi peng 3 which sailed over these cables about the time they were severed remains anchored in international waters between sweden and denmark. how do you monitor the threat above and below the waves? and in the air, the drone wars already under way. humans battling ai—powered machines. the ukrainians say they are now using first—person view, fpv, cameras on board these drones to track and take out the autonomous russian invaders. it is the terminator—style dystopia we were warned was coming. with us tonight our colleague and regular contributor priya lakhani, the ceo of century tech. and mikey kay, 20 years a helicopter assault pilot. if you watch us regularly, you will know that mikey often lends us his military expertise on the security brief. this is the scary part of ai

that we have discussed several times through the series. what are we going to discuss tonight will meet discuss these robots? what we are going to see is how modern warfare is turning to autonomous systems. it is like the war of the robots which is really, really scary. in the first part of the programme, we have got the wonderful marc who is going to share something underwater, and autonomous submarine, and it's really interesting. bae systems developed this summary and it's modular. we can deliver different kinds of payloads to surveillance underwater to autonomous weapons to helping you identify where maintenance is required. in one of the stories you just picked out, you talked about the undersea cables and we have seen there are many reasons why you need to monitor what is going on under the water. the cable pipeline damage can happen because accidental damage or

fishing or chipping and natural disasters, so in taiwan you had the 2006 earthquake that caused multiple cables to be damaged and it created use disruption in the internet sectors. then you have sabotage, and sabotage is all about this kind of hybrid warfare. and we saw that with the north stream pipelines in 2022 what they said that was sabotaged but then they said they stalled the investigation any further. so what we're about to see in terms of these unmanned is the ability to monitor, surveilled and not people at risk and then they are using state—of—the—art at the heart of this, artificial intelligence technology which they have developed. we thought about that in _ they have developed. we thought about that in a _ they have developed. we thought about that in a second _ they have developed. we thought about that in a second and - about that in a second and then let's watch this package from the south coast of england having a look at this new technology. something stirs below the waves just off england's south coast. the submarine that's just

surfaced right next to us doesn't have a human crew. it isn't being remotely—controlled. it's a fully autonomous vessel capable of making some of its own decisions. it's called herne. it's designed to operate completely independently. it's still in its testing phase, and here in this harbour, we're going to see it perform some stealthy surveillance manoeuvres. a collaboration between bae systems and canadian company cellular robotics, it's been created with military use in mind. this is the first time it's shown off its capabilities in uk waters. today, it will demonstrate a covert intelligence—gathering mission. it will respond to the environment it's in to gather intelligence and to understand more about a vessel which has arrived and is unknown and poses a potential threat to the local environment.

equipped with a variety of sensors, including audio and video, herne has been tasked with locating any suspicious shipping which enters this harbour. it can make decisions around the best way to navigate into the area of operation. is it now the right time to deploy the payload? and in this instance, that payload is about camera and video collection. it can then make decisions on what's the best way to transmit that data and that intelligence back to command. after sneakily navigating its way around the harbour, it spots a suspect vessel and reports its findings back to base. mission accomplished. it can be fitted with a range of equipment, including weapons, a move as controversial at sea as it is in the air. this vehicle will not do anything without a human instructing it to in an offensive or a

defensive capacity. uncrewed platforms have been used in the air domain now for a little while. we've used autonomous platforms in sea bed survey and in ocean—gathering and operations already. this is an evolution of that capability. one of its key missions in the future will be to help protect critical undersea infrastructure, things like internet cabling and power and energy pipelines. all of them are vulnerable to accidental damage, but more worryingly, they're vulnerable to sabotage. in 2022, explosive blasts destroyed part of the nord stream 1 and 2 undersea gas pipelines between europe and russia. sabotage was suspected, and to this day, we still don't know who was responsible. 99% of the world's international telecommunications are carried by cables laid across the sea bed. just last week, cables between finland and germany

were cut by unknown means. what we're seeing today that the world is a much more unsettled place, and that means that we're trying to be in more places all at the same time. but we still have the same number of crude platforms available to navies, and so the adoption of autonomous platforms, it can provide a far wider area of surveillance and data—gathering to the navies. the demonstrator is powered by electric batteries, but the operational sub will have a hydrogen power plant to help it with missions like infrastructure protection which require extended periods at sea. this vehicle's designed to runl on a hydrogen and oxygen fuel cell system that'll give it a 5000—kilometre range| and an endurance of. approximately 45 days. yeah, so a typical— similar—sized vehicle would go about approximately half that distance and about _ half the range. so hydrogen has a much more significant energy density- compared to any conventional

battery technology that exists today, and that gives i you that extended range in a much smaller package. the autonomous system powering this sub is called nautomate. it's what some might call an electronic brain in a box. it can be adapted to other types of underwater or surface vessels. it's already been tested on this military motor boat. just as drones have changed warfare in the air and on land, technology like this could dramatically alter conflict above and beneath the waves. marc cieslak, bbc news. just go over for us a technology- just go over for us a technology that - just go over for us a technology that thisj just go over for us a . technology that this is just go over for us a - technology that this is using. it's got — technology that this is using. it's got centres _ technology that this is using. it's got centres all _ technology that this is using. it's got centres all around . technology that this is using. it's got centres all around it. it's got centres all around it so it's building a real world view. .. , so it's building a real world view. , ., ., �*, view. exactly and that's the oint. view. exactly and that's the point- its — view. exactly and that's the point. its infrastructure - view. exactly and that's the | point. its infrastructure they could update it, adapted to new scenarios and automate this

technology used on vessels above the water and also under the water and he had this ecosystem. we can ask you more about the nuclear powered submarines that could be used for low tier missions but you could use those for low tier missions or used for all sorts purposes and then you were i worked alongside in the joint force 7; and then you were gathering intelligence as you purposes and then you were gathering intelligence as you go along. and in that go along. and in that real—world model, is incredibly real—world model, is incredibly important so you can have smart important so you can have smart collision detection so if a collision detection so if a humanist trying to avoid a humanist trying to avoid a collision and they would collision and they would manoeuvre the vessel to avoid, manoeuvre the vessel to avoid, if it unmanned vessel that's if it unmanned vessel that's been able to do that been able to do that autonomously without having to have any sort of human... the autonomously without having to have any sort of human... the force — question _ have any sort of human... the question is — have any sort of human... the question is what _ question _ have any sort of human... the question is — have any sort of human... the question is what _ have any sort of human... the question is what would you build the conventional weapons have any sort of human... the question is what would you build the conventional weapons when you can build this kind of when you can build this kind of drone technology? that drone technology? that when you can build this kind of drone technology?— drone technology? that the economy- _ drone technology? that the economy. looking - when you can build this kind of drone technology?— drone technology? that the economy- _ drone technology? that the economy. looking - drone technology? that the economy. looking at - drone technology? that the economy. looking at that l economy. looking at that report, _ economy. looking at that drone technology? that the economy. looking at - drone technology? that the economy. looking at that l economy. looking at that report, _ economy. looking at that report, the thing that instantlyjumps out is a report, the thing that instantlyjumps out is a commander, naval commander that commander, naval commander that i worked _ i worked _

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attacking drone on fpv has the advantage in i wanted to do is collide — advantage in i wanted to do is collide with it and take it out but what _ collide with it and take it out but what we are seeing there is 'ust but what we are seeing there is just one — but what we are seeing there is just one. imagine now you have 30 of— just one. imagine now you have 30 of them _ just one. imagine now you have 30 of them and it becomes a very— 30 of them and it becomes a very different problem. that's a drone war — very different problem. that's a drone war as _ very different problem. that's a drone war as we _ very different problem. that's a drone war as we are - very different problem. that's a drone war as we are talking | a drone war as we are talking about. �* a drone war as we are talking about. . ., ,., i. �* , about. and also if you're using ai about. and also if you're using at technology. _ about. and also if you're using ai technology, they _ about. and also if you're using ai technology, they could - ai technology, they could rearrange themselves like a swarm and so you would essentially overwhelm the skies and so the ukrainian arms minister put it really well when he said it will be the war of the robots. and i was looking at the programme when i was on with mikey and yourself some time ago, and some of our wonderful reviewers are commented at the bottom of the youtube channel that we put this on him at one of them was saying this is terminator style drones. and then this one was like adding this to a sci—fi film and actually when you read this and you see what's really going on in the skies, this is over ukraine, it does not feel like anything less than sci—fi.

we talked on that security breach recently about the spending review this under way in the five ships that have just been taken out, chin up, puma, where would you spend money on that sort of get and white with the chinese and russians spend money on that kind of get when they can be disabled? we have seen it with the ukrainian see drones almost keeping the black sea fleet in the dock because they cannot cope with these drones. when i was in strategic _ cope with these drones. when i was in strategic ministry - was in strategic ministry planning and so the ministry of defence. — planning and so the ministry of defence, we use to colour in terms — defence, we use to colour in terms of _ defence, we use to colour in terms of procurement the war versus— terms of procurement the war versus a — terms of procurement the war versus a war. a war being heaven— versus a war. a war being heaven to _ versus a war. a war being heaven to protect yourself conventionally using conventionally using conventional ships, tanks, aircraft _ conventional ships, tanks, aircraft and then the war, which _ aircraft and then the war, which is _ aircraft and then the war, which is what we were fighting in afghanistan and iraq at the time — in afghanistan and iraq at the time which is all about counterterrorism and counterinsurgency encounter ied and the _ counterinsurgency encounter ied and the iranians made the explosive form projectile which basically— explosive form projectile which basically ruined every single us tank— basically ruined every single us tank that went into

fallujah. and so it's constantly trying to get ahead of that — constantly trying to get ahead of that attack curve but you need — of that attack curve but you need the _ of that attack curve but you need the money to do that. and in the _ need the money to do that. and in the procurement timelines. so it's— in the procurement timelines. so it's about trying to find the — so it's about trying to find the balance of the war versus a war~ _ coming up after the break on al decoded, reuters are calling it the "war of the robots" — 1000 days of russia's invasion of ukraine has spurred a boom in drone manufacturing, making its innovative military—industrial sector the fastest—growing in the entire world right now. meanwhile, business insider says former google ceo eric schmidt says future wars will be fought by ai—powered drones and is urging the us military to do away with what he calls "useless" tanks. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

my my key�*s alarm is going on. need some ai my key�*s alarm is going on. need some al on that. welcome back. the pressures of a crisis can be fertile ground for innovation. we could point to numerous inventions and scientific advances that emerged during the second world war.

radar, which became an important tool for meteorology, was later applied to cooking food in the microwave. the atomic bomb, the jet engine, ultimately we put a man on the moon. and now with the advent of artificial intelligence, we are witnessing another seismic era in battlefield advances. these unmanned weapons that we discussed in the first part of the programme are transforming the global threat environment in ways we are onlyjust beginning to understand, but perhaps we have not even started to imagine how they might also be applied to the more mundane aspects of our lives. i want to talk about one element of this war that really surprised me the other day and a report that i saw on channel 4 where you had one of the ukrainian ministers standing in a factory u