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Tonight at ten: the bank bailed out by the taxpayer - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
now a damning report accuses Royal Bank of Scotland | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
of the systematic abuse of many of its business customers. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
It reveals how businesses in trouble were deliberately | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
mistreated by the bank - RBS has set aside hundreds of | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
It was like the Gestapo walking in, their aggression, | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
their divisiveness, the whole way in which they'd talked. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
RBS - the biggest business lender in the UK - | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
has apologised for some of its practices but denies | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Police in Brussels shoot dead a man who attacked two | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
soldiers with a machete - it's being treated as | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Hurricane Harvey gathers strength as it heads towards Texas - | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
it could be the biggest storm to hit America in more than a decade. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Riots in India after a self-style spiritual guru | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
is convicted of rape - at least 28 people die | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
The driverless cars being deliberately crashed as insurers | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
try to work out who'd be to blame in an accident - | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
And one of the most hyped contests in boxing history. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Floyd Mayweather comes out of retirement to take | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
on Ireland's Conor McGregor in Las Vegas. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
Ben Stokes hits a century for England at Headingly but a | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
revitalised West Indies dominate the first day of the second test. | :01:28. | :01:52. | |
They were small businesses that found themselves in trouble | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
But instead of helping them, their bank - | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
the Royal Bank of Scotland - has been accused of systematically | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
A leaked report for the Financial Conduct Authority - | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
and obtained by the BBC - reveals the extent of that abuse. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
It shows that hundreds of companies which the bank said needed | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
restructuring were treated inappropriately, | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
One business owner has told the BBC he considered suicide. | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Here's our business correspondent Joe Lynam. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
We bailed out RBS when it was in trouble, but when thousands | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
of its business customers got into difficulties, the bank, in many | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
The UK's biggest business bank has admitted that it | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
mistreated many small firms, but now we have learned about | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
Tracy Standish was the former owner of the Bowlplex chain and had been | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
When profits fell during the recession, his bowling business | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
was placed into RBS's restructuring unit, GRG, supposedly to get | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
Their aggression, their divisiveness, the whole way | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
They would bang tables, shout, point fingers. | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
The whole thing was, like, they weren't in anyway here to help | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Mr Standish says GRG loaded additional debt on the company | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
and tripled the interest rate to 15%. | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
In the end, his family had to surrender 80% of the company. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
I had to be referred to a counsellor for treatment, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
I was prescribed antidepressants and I became suicidal. | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
He's now suing RBS for breach of duty and conspiracy. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
RBS said that the case was currently the subject of litigation | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
and that the bank would be vigorously defending these claims. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Hundreds of RBS customers had long complained | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
of mistreatment by GRG by 2013, so the Financial Conduct Authority | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
commissioned its own independent report which it received last year, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
but only published a limited summary of, but now the BBC has acquired | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the full report and it highlights the extent of the widespread | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
inappropriate treatment faced by RBS's own customers, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
some of which was systematic or orchestrated from within the bank. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
And crucially for RBS, the report said that the bank had | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
shown "narrow compliance" with the investigation | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
instead of co-operating fully, as it said it had. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
RBS disputes this though, it says it provided the investigators with more | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
The report for the Financial Conduct Authority found that 92% of viable | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
or otherwise healthy companies experienced some form | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
of inappropriate action by RBS, such as hiking up lending costs | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Only 10% of those companies placed by RBS into GRG returned | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
Many of the rest were either sold off, forced to hand over substantial | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
stakes to RBS or liquidated. Even in the midsts of the recession | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the restructuring group was earning a profit of ?1.2 billion for RBS. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
The bank said that it had not always handled customer complaints | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
It's put in place a ?400 million compensation fund to be overseen | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
And the issue of mistreatment of RBS business customers has already | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
been examined by MPs, who urged the FCA | :05:40. | :05:40. | |
The bank used inappropriate behaviour, forced lots of companies, | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
that could have survived, could have been put back into | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
health, they went out of business because they were mistreated | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
because the bank simply wanted to make profits out of them. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
I think we have to learn that lesson. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
We have to have a general system whereby small companies have | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
"The activities carried out by Global Restructuring Group | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
are largely unregulated, therefore, the FCA's powers | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
However, we're investigating issues raised by the report | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
For the bank, which is 73% owned by UK taxpayers, | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
this is yet another obstacle on the road to full health. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Being accused of wholesale mistreatment of its own customers | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
It has certainly taken its toll on the customer you spoke to, he said | :06:27. | :06:43. | |
he felt suicidal. What more can be done to protect and must? There are | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
whole range of measures to protect consumers if they have been wronged | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
by a bank, but that does not seem to be the case when it comes to small | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
and medium-sized enterprises. The report highlights that there is a | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
regulatory gap in what the FCA do when companies are wronged by their | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
bank. It says it will take action where it has powers and where it | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
sees wrong doing. If you are a former RBS customer, and you are a | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
business customer and you were sent into this restructuring division, | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
and you feel that you were treated badly, you should turn to the bank | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
first where they have a ?400 million compensation fund. It will be | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
overseen by a retired High Court judge and that is your first port of | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
call. RBS are keen to put this particular chapter in their | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
chequered CV behind them. Thank you. A man has been shot in Brussels | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
after reportedly using a machete to attack soldiers on duty | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
in the city. Eye-witnesses reported hearing | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
the sound of gunfire. Kevin Connelly is in Brussels. The | :07:49. | :08:01. | |
man has since died? That is right. Brussels is one of those European | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
cities where soldiers on patrol carrying rifles has become a | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
commonplace sight. It is designed to reassure the public in the wake of | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
attacks. However, to some individuals, those armed soldiers | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
are a target. A man armed with a knife or machete attacked two | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
soldiers in a busy district of shops and restaurants. He was then shot. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
He is reported to have died. Two soldiers were lightly injured. The | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
authorities are saying they do consider it to have been a terror | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
attack. They are investigating it in that spirit. It is worth saying that | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
these attacks do not happen all the time, but there is a consciousness | :08:44. | :08:44. | |
in places like Brussels that they can happen | :08:45. | :09:07. | |
at any time, and that does produce a persistent bubbling low-level sense | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
of anxiety in places like this. Thank you. Here are man has been | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
arrested in an incident outside Buckingham Palace. Scotland Yard say | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
two police officers were injured. This happened at the same time but | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
there is no suggestion they were connected? We know this happened on | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
the mouth outside Buckingham Palace at around 8:35pm tonight. A man has | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assaults. | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
The man was stopped by police. He was in possession of a knife. Police | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
detained him and while doing so they did sustain minor injuries to their | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
arms. The London ambulance was called. They assessed and treated | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the police at the scene but they were not serious injuries. Tonight | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
we know the investigation is ongoing and there are police still there. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Laura Trant, thank you. One of the most powerful hurricanes | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
to hit America for more than a decade is heading | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
towards the Gulf Coast states Hurricane Harvey is gathering | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
in strength as it heads towards the coast - | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
it's expected to reach land in the next few hours with winds | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
of around 120 miles per hour. This is the satellite imagery | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
of the category three storm Thousands of residents are boarding | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
up their homes and heading inland, following warnings that parts | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
of the state Hurricane Harvey is expected | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
to huge amounts of rain - The view from space as Hurricane | :10:20. | :10:40. | |
Harvey barrels towards the United States of America. The storm blew up | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
fast in the Gulf of Mexico, taking Texans by surprise. Now time is | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
scarce to prepare for the worst. It is a hurricane that will prove more | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
dangerous than many hurricanes. Not only are we going to be dealing with | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the high winds that typically come with what should be a category three | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
hurricane, but we are going to be dealing with immense really | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
record-setting flooding. In some coastal cities, evacuations were | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
urged not ordered. Many people here are determined to ride it out. We | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
will go ahead and stick it out here. We have got sand bags ready, food | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
for about a week, we have water, everything we need. But even before | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
it arrives, Harvey is threatening lives. Here, ten critically ill | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
babies are being evacuated from its path. Getting out is not easy. The | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
roads are clogged as tens of thousands of people seek shelter | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
away from a dangerous storm surge. The oil industry is bracing for a | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
battering as well. The area at risk produces some 7 million barrels a | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
day. With production slowing, oil prices are rising and at the pumps | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
there is a rush to fill up, meaning supplies are running short. So too | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
is food and water. Supermarket stocks are dwindling amid warnings | :12:11. | :12:11. | |
about catastrophic flooding after torrential rain which might linger | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
for days. In neighbouring Louisiana, those warnings sent a shiver through | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
New Orleans. In 2005, the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
city was ill-prepared and disaster followed. Pumping stations are not | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
at full capacity. This is the first big domestic urgency for President | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Donald Trump, but the White House rejects claims that his | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
administration is understaffed and inexperienced. Some may define the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
storm for now but not for long. The authorities say an major disaster is | :12:47. | :12:47. | |
just hours away. There've been riots | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
in parts of northern India after a self-styled but hugely | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
popular spiritual leader Nearly 30 people have died | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
in the violence that erupted after a court found him guilty | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
of raping two women 15 years ago. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh claims | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
to have millions of followers. Thousands of his devotees | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
went on the rampage, setting fire to vehicles, | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
buildings and railway stations. Violence broke out almost as soon | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
as the guilty verdict was handed More than 100,000 of | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's followers had flocked to the town | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
to demonstrate their support. They went on the rampage, burning | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
cars and attacking the police, who responded with tear gas | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
and water cannons. When that didn't subdue the crowd, | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
they fired live ammunition, and there have been | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
clashes elsewhere, too. This train was torched by an angry | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
mob here in the Indian, Delhi. Elsewhere in the city, | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
buses have been set on fire. The guru has an absolutely | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
enormous following, he estimates 50 million people, | :13:55. | :14:06. | |
and the fear is that violence Guru Ram Rahim is a charismatic | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
figure, he makes movies calling His huge beard and flamboyant style | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
has led to him being called But despite his sometimes | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
extraordinary appearance, he is regarded as a living saint | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
by many of his followers. This is the latest in a series | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
of scandals here in India involving ascetics who claim | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
exceptional spiritual powers. Guru Ram Rahim insists his sect | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
is a social welfare and spiritual group, but these two rape | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
convictions aren't the only He has been accused of helping plan | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
a murder and it is also claimed he persuaded 400 of his acolytes | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
to have themselves castrated It is that kind of devotion that | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
explains the scale and intensity of the violence here in North India | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
and also why the authorities A brief look at some | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
of the day's other news stories. The billionaire boss of the Samsung | :15:08. | :15:27. | |
electronics empire, Jay Y Lee, He was found guilty of paying | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
$6 billion in bribes to South Korea's government, | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
embezzlement and perjury. Here, a suspected international | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
drugs dealer has appeared before magistrates in Westminster to face | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
extradition to the United States. Muhammad Asif Hafeez, | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
also known as the Sultan, is wanted there for importing | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
heroin and methamphetamine. A former rock star, who's | :15:50. | :16:03. | |
been jailed for multiple cases of child abuse, | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
could have been caught years earlier if the police had | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
investigated him properly. Ian Watkins, the lead singer | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
of the band Lostprophets, was sentenced to 29 years | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
in prison, four years ago. But an investigation | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
by the Independent Police Complaints Commission found that | :16:20. | :16:20. | |
South Wales Police missed a series The United Nations says air strikes | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition have killed more than 40 civilians | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
in the past week, The United Nations says air strikes | :16:28. | :16:49. | |
in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition have killed more than 40 civilians | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
in the past week, The latest hit a residential | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
neighbourhood in the capital, Sanaa, killing at least 12 people, | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
women and children among them, sparking more | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
international condemnation. Yemen, one of the poorest | :17:01. | :17:01. | |
countries in the Middle East, 17 million people are struggling | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
to feed themselves, 7 million The war is between a Saudi-led | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
coalition, backed by the US and UK, which supports the government | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
and the Houthi rebels who have Another ruined building | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
in Yemen's battered capital. This is what's left | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
an apartment block in Sanaa. Amongst the rubble, | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
bodies of dead children. The pictures, too | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
distressing to show. This man says civilian homes | :17:23. | :17:23. | |
are always targeted. Local people are convinced | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
the attack was from a Saudi Today, the coalition has | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
responded and said it We were in the same neighbourhood | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
just two weeks ago when we met nine-year-old Nujood, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
you could hear the sound She told us they hit everywhere | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
and how she and her family have "Stop the war", she told me then, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
but today another tradegy has struck just a few streets away | :17:42. | :17:54. | |
from her home. Wednesday's attack on a hotel has | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
now led to a call from the UN for an independent investigation, | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
more than 30 were killed here. The Saudi-led coalition said | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
they were targeted armed Houthi militants who they've been fighting | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
in this brutal war. But aid agencies on the ground | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
in Yemen say they're increasingly concerned about what they call | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
"the blatant disregard The high cost paid by civilians, | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
in terms of deaths and casualties, is unimaginable and that comes | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
in a situation where the war sees no sign of ending and we see a lack | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
of political progress and, therefore, people see | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
this as a daily... This is the new normal | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
for people here in Sanaa. The war, now in its third year, | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
has crippled Yemen. Disease has spread, more than half | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
a million people here have cholera and a quarter of the population | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
are on the brink of famine. This war has created what's now | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
being called the world's worst humanitarian crisis, | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
and with the failure of international diplomacy | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
and the growing threat to civilians, there's no end in sight | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
for the people of Yemen. Millions of people have | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
been on the move today for the traditional | :19:11. | :19:23. | |
bank holiday getaway. But there are more problems | :19:24. | :19:24. | |
than usual because of major engineering work planned | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
on the railways over the weekend. The south-east of England will be | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
badly affected with station closures at Charing Cross, | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Euston and Liverpool Street In the north-west of England | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
engineering works will affect stations in Manchester, | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Preston, Blackpool and Bolton. Our correspondent is at London's | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
Euston Station. Are they getting ready to close completely now then? | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Yes. So over the next couple of hours or so this station will | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
completely shut for the next couple of days ahead of this major | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
engineering project. There have been some very busy periods today. You | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
may be able to see hundreds of people still waiting for their | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
trains home tonight. The project itself, it starts tomorrow, it's a | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
major programme, costing more than 130 million. The work itself, it | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
involves more than 17,000 engineers, what they will be doing, they will | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
be extending platforms for longer trains, improving signalling and | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
tracks as well as preparation work ahead of HS2. Of course, this means | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
major disruption up-and-down the country for passengers. One of the | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
main routes affected will be the West Coast Main Line, train from | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
those areas won't come into London over the next couple of days. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Network Rail say it is has to do this work because this is one of the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
quieter periods of the year. They say 50% fewer passengers use the | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
trains during the period. The advice, check before you travel and | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
of course give yourself plenty of time. Thank you. | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
Driverless cars, they are the future, so we are told, | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
and some have already been trialled on British roads. | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
Now it's the turn of lorries because from next year | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
convoys of semi-automated, self-driving lorries will be | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
They will connect to each other via Wi-Fi, | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
As the reality of driverless cars moves ever closer, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the insurance industry is grappling with the impact that it will have | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
There are still key questions to resolve, such as who would be | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
responsible for a driverless car crash - the driver or the computer? | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
The insurance giant AXA, which is advising the UK Government, | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
has begun tests to try to get some answers. | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
Our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, reports. | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
On a military base in Switzerland, important tests are going on. | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
One of the world's biggest insurance companies | :21:52. | :21:52. | |
For the first time, they're simulating what driverless vehicles | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
might do when things go wrong, like if the computer was hacked, | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Well, this car is obviously a complete write-off, | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
you can really smell that the airbags have gone off, | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
but all of the sensors are now full of data, | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
telling them what the car did, what happened to the driver | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
here and all of that information will be used to determine how much | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
Not too many rockfalls in Britain, but it is a problem in Switzerland. | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
There's not a lot a computer can do about this. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
So what are insurers hoping to learn? | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
We want to demonstrate that we cannot have the same | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
accident investigation methods as we had before | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
We need to know whether the driver or the car was in charge | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
If a computer's driving, who'll be responsible for the crash? | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
I don't think people need to worry about whether it's their fault | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
The UK Government has decided an insurance policy will be required | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
and that will deal with the claim in the first instance, | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
so people will be compensated and then the insurance companies, | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
motor manufacturers, they can argue amongst | :23:19. | :23:19. | |
This next test is about giving the computer a moral dilemma. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
When an accident is inevitable, does it hit the person on the quad | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
The bike's causing the accident, but the rider's more vulnerable, | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
For this test, they simulate a car choosing the rider. | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
It's just a dummy, but it's still hard to watch. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
Computer-driven cars are inevitable and these tests will determine | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
They already predict that premiums will come down because computers | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
Richard Westcott, BBC News, Zurich in Switzerland. | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
The countdown is on in Las Vegas for what could prove to be | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
the boxing match that breaks all records. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
The American boxer Floyd Mayweather has had 49 fights during his | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
professional career and he's never been beaten. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Now he's come out of retirement to take on the mixed martial artist, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
It's a pay-per-view match and it could rake in ?550 million. | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
Around ?175 million, that's how much Floyd Mayweather will take home. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
A little less for Conor McGregor, he will have to make | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
It's all happening in Las Vegas on Saturday night, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
or rather the early hours of Sunday morning here. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
On face value, it is an unlikely match up. | :24:57. | :25:09. | |
Floyd Mayweather, one of boxing's all-time greats will, | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
this weekend, step into the ring with Conor McGregor, | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
the 29-year-old Dubliner who has never boxed professionally. | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
Most experts give him little chance of victory. | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
But then this is Las Vegas, where the bright lights act | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
as a beacon for those hungry to make their fame and fortune. | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
Exact figures are hard to pin down, but both men are expected to earn | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
tens of millions of dollars in the most lucrative | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
What will be the impact for boxing if you were to win? | :25:29. | :25:41. | |
There'll be a new king and that's it. | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
They'll begin to implement my methods and that's it. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
McGregor, ornately tattooed and nicknamed 'The Notorious' | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
is already a star of the Ultimate Fighting | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
Championship, in which competitors use a brutal mix of martial arts. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
Claiming unemployment benefit four years ago, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
he's had a meteoric rise and a shock win on Saturday would see him | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
propelled to a whole new level of global recognition. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
His opponent, meanwhile, insists this fight will be his last. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
At the age of 40 and undefeated, Floyd Money Mayweather wants | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
I'm not the same fighter I was 21 years ago but, | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
mentally, no athlete is stronger than me, mentally. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
The usual hype and hoopla in the build-up to the first bell | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Last month's publicity tour was tarnished by homophobic slurs, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
allegations of racism and pantomime behaviour, with both men now | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
Such behaviour, though, has not prevented thousands of fans | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
from flocking to Las Vegas, or millions around | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
the world purchasing the fight to watch on TV. | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
Conor McGregor may never have fought professionally, | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
but he's being greeted here as if he was the champion. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Floyd Mayweather, in this his home town, is being seen as very much | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
the outsider and McGregor is the man that the crowd | :27:10. | :27:11. | |
But one former champion, who has fought and lost | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
I think genuine boxing fans and UFC fans probably feel a little bit | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
like I'm feeling, that it's a little bit - | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
it's making a little bit of a farce of our sports. | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
What happens in Vegas, should, according to | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
You joined me at a loud weigh-in. Both boxers due on stage behind me | :27:29. | :27:46. | |
in the next hour or so. Time keeping neither man's strong point. The next | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
time they come together in this arein will be for the fight itself. | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
Don't believe the hype. We're about to find out. Richard, Conway, in Las | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
Vegas. Thank you. Now on BBC One, it's time | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
for the news where you are. | :28:02. | :28:04. |