I spent a couple of days this week in the company of robots.

They seemed friendly, they were keen to make conversation, and they could do a few quite clever things.
But I came away from the Innorobo exhibition in Paris with few fears about the prospect of an imminent robot takeover.
Perhaps that is because, as we discuss in today's edition of Tech Tent, the robotics industry is now anxious to improve the image of its products.
All the talk in Paris was of cobots, or collaborative robots. Until now, industrial robots have been expensive single-purpose machines, locked behind cages, designed to replace humans doing a repetitive task like welding in a car factory.
But cobots are cheaper multi-purpose devices that work on a production line alongside humans, who will teach them many different tasks. I was shown how to program one of these cobots, Sawyer, to move a bottle from one place to another - nothing complex but a demonstration of how flexibly a small business could use a robot like this. This kind of cobot, the argument goes, will be an ally, not an enemy, of manufacturing workers.
Outside factories, however, robots are poised to do lots of jobs in service industries, from providing information in supermarkets to leading elderly people through exercise routines.
Pepper, the French-made companion robot now owned by Japan's SoftBank, is preparing its assault on Europe, with a clutch of firms showing off applications. Among them was a Pepper estate agent, an application from the UK's Emotion Robotics.
The robot did a perfectly good job of taking me through the process of selecting a few houses to view, before calling up a real life estate agent - at which point I made my excuses and left.
There is something rather charming about this particular humanoid robot - but I was not convinced that it provides a more efficient service than simply tapping on a phone or tablet.
And there was evidence this week that the threat of mass unemployment as the robots take over may have been exaggerated. An Oxford University study predicting that over a third of jobs in the UK were under threat from automation over the next two decades has been the source of much of the anxiety.
But economists at the OECD have taken another look at that research and reached a much less worrying conclusion. Whereas the Oxford study examines entire professions - and effectively wipes them out as the robots advance - the OECD researchers say only specific tasks within them may be at risk.
"Occupations labelled as high-risk occupations often still contain a substantial share of tasks that are hard to automate." That leads them to conclude that just 9% of jobs across OECD countries might be subject to automation.
That is a point also made by Tom Davenport, author of a book called Only Humans Need Apply. He tells Tech Tent that, while the advance of robots may lead to increased inequality as low-skill jobs disappear, their impact may arrive more slowly than predicted. He points out that despite the arrival in banking of ATMs and other innovations, there are the same number of bank tellers in the US as in 1980.
Anyway, all these new robots will need skilled technicians, just as in the first industrial revolution - back then, "if you knew how a spinning jenny worked you could easily get a job in a textile factory." In other words, stop worrying about the Terminator, relax and learn to love and care for a robot.
Hear more about all this in our latest episode of Tech Tent, our weekly radio show on the BBC World Service.


Harrison Ford is being treated in hospital after being injured on the set of the latest Star Wars film.

The BBC understands that Ford, 71, broke his ankle in an incident involving a door at Pinewood Studios.
The Hollywood actor, who starred as Han Solo in the original three Star Wars films and is currently filming the new Episode VII sequel, was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford.
A spokesman for Lucasfilm said filming would continue while he recuperates.
"Harrison Ford sustained an ankle injury during filming today on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII. He was taken to a local hospital and is receiving care.
"Shooting will continue as planned while he recuperates," a statement from the production company Lucasfilm said on Thursday night.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police confirmed officers had been called to the studio, near London, just after 17:00 BST to reports a 71-year-old man had been injured in an incident involving a garage door.
"The man was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital with injuries which are not believed to be life threatening. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating," the force said.
A spokeswoman for South Central Ambulance Service said they were called to an incident involving "a door that had fallen."
Ford is set to be joined in the film by fellow original Star Wars series cast mates Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Peter Mayhew.
Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow are also starring.
Star Wars: Episode VII will be the first in a new trilogy of films.
Chancellor George Osborne earlier said the decision to shoot Episode VII in the UK was "testament to the incredible talent in Britain" and meant "more jobs and more investment".


A teenager with a rare condition which causes her limbs to dislocate is starting specialist treatment.

Phoebe Bruce, 17, from Hawarden, Flintshire, has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic condition caused by a defect in the body's protein collagen.
She was given an appointment with a specialist at hospital in London after the Welsh government agreed funding for her care.
Her father Richard said: "This is what we have been fighting for".
The family won funding for specialist consultations for the sixth-former after they made a public appeal in August.
Then, Phoebe was experiencing up to 18 painful dislocations a day and she had to go to A&E about 60 times for treatment.
But now, with intensive physiotherapy at the Countess of Chester hospital twice a week, Mr Bruce said that Phoebe suffered far fewer dislocations.
They are down to one or two a day and she is managing to a large extent to put them back herself, he explained.
"At the moment she seems to be improving slowly but surely. She is aching quite a lot but when her joints do dislocate she is managing to put then back in."
On Monday she had an appointment with a rheumatologist who specialises in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.
Mr Bruce said as well as learning more about the condition, they are hoping that this will lead to a longer stay at the hospital to help Phoebe manage it even better.
It is the second consultation her family have had since they won the funding for private treatment from the Welsh government.
But he said although they have been given what seems a large sum of money for Phoebe's private treatment, they are not sure how much private treatment that will pay for.
Before Christmas Phoebe saw an expert at the St John and St Elizabeth hospital in London who also diagnosed her as suffering from another condition called Pots - postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
Pots causes her heart rate to increase when she sits up, leading to dizziness and fatigue.
Phoebe, who turns 18 in July, has had to temporarily abandon her studies at Hawarden High School  because of her illness.
But her father said with her improved health she plans to return to sixth form next year and has ambitions to study psychology at university.
He said the appointment at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore was a "massive step" for her.


Celtic are "like a machine" and even stronger than last season, according to Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald.

The Scottish champions crushed Kilmarnock 5-0 on Tuesday in the League Cup as Thistle beat St Johnstone 3-0.
The Glasgow sides meet at Firhill on Friday in the Premiership with Archibald believing last season's domestic 'Invincibles' are even better.
"I think they are. I think that [5-0 win] just reinforced it with the amount of changes they made," he said.
"I think they made a few changes against us last year, and they weren't as strong as they were the other night.
"They are like a machine with the guys that come in. They just looked the same. They played a similar way in terms of tempo, pressing the ball and with the ball. They are certainly stronger squad-wise."
Celtic made eight changes and started with five teenagers against Kilmarnock, after opening the defence of their Premiership title with a 4-1 win over Hearts.
Thistle have never beaten Celtic in the Scottish Premiership, losing all but one of their 19 meetings - a 1-1 draw at Parkhead in April ending a run of 24 consecutive defeats overall in the fixture.
Partick have also struggled against Rangers, their opponents in next month's League Cup quarter-finals, having lost all four league meetings last season.
Archibald admits there is a degree of trepidation when it comes to taking on their Glasgow neighbours, but insists his players are ready for the challenge.
"I think that fear factor is always there," he added. "They bring such big crowds. But I think the players will still embrace it - I think we have got to.
"You see that with Motherwell on Saturday, they were really unlucky against Rangers after Rangers' good start.
"It is down to the rest of the teams in the league to make sure we put the challenge in and make sure it isn't so easy for the top two - if they are going to be the top two and it's not going to be Aberdeen [runners-up for the last three seasons] this year."


Few individuals have been as vital to preserving Jeremy Corbyn's position as Len McCluskey, the leader of the country's biggest union.

On the day when Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership for the first time, Len McCluskey was the first person to wrestle the new leader into an awkward bear hug on the small stage in the Westminster pub where his team celebrated his victory.
When Mr Corbyn has hit trouble, Mr McCluskey - the bruisers' bruiser - has been on hand to buttress Mr Corbyn's support, or even to warn off his critics.
But now, enters the contender who will take the Liverpudlian on. Gerard Coyne, the West Midlands secretary of Unite, will announce later on Tuesday that he will fight his boss for the chance of capturing the crown.
Mr Coyne has worked for the union for more than 20 years, having joined as a shop worker at Sainsbury's.
One of his supporters said he felt the union must return to putting its members' interests ahead of party politics. Mr Coyne is understood to be concerned about Mr Corbyn's anti-Trident stance, given that thousands of Unite members work in the defence industry, as well as worried about workers in the auto industry after reports suggested that the Labour leader was considering advocating a ban on petrol cars.
But it won't just be a fight between the two men. Many of Mr Corbyn's supporters will see the challenge as another attempt to undermine the Labour leader.
On the other side, many Labour MPs will see the chance of shifting Mr McCluskey as a way of changing the party's troubled dynamics.
It will ultimately be up to more than a million Unite members to have their say in the spring. But far from being an obscure exercise in ticking boxes on a ballot, it will be the next skirmish, a proxy for the battle over Labour's future.


So far, it is doubts that Rangers have acquired during the January transfer window.

The plan was to sign Toumani Diagouraga from Brentford and Michael O'Halloran from St Johnstone, but both deals stalled.
The former has since moved to Leeds United, while Saints manager Tommy Wright intends to select the latter in his Scottish League Cup semi-final team against Hibernian on Saturday.
In the meantime, focus has fallen on comments made previously by Rangers chairman Dave King, about over-investment and the level of finance required to re-establish the club.
The club ought to review their entire recruitment strategy at the end of this window, since at least one of the manager's preferred targets moved elsewhere, but that includes more than the level of finance available.
King and fellow investors will have provided between £15m and £19m by the end of the season.
That includes share purchases as well as loans for working capital and funds to pay back Sports Direct's £5m loan.
Given the ongoing investment that will be required to restore Rangers to a solid, stable, self-sustaining business, King's estimate of £30m from himself and others may well turn out to be fairly accurate.
Rangers currently run the second-highest wage bill in Scotland but are arguably not extracting full value from it as a legacy of contracts offered to players by previous regimes, making the club wary of paying out too much in wages.
Eleven players joined in the summer, with four of those deals involving transfer fees and three of them being loan arrangements with English Premier League clubs.
Frank McParland joined the club as head of recruitment in October and, in the current window, Harry Forrester and Maciej Gostomski have joined on short-term deals, while Josh Windass and Matt Crooks signed pre-contract agreements to join in the summer.
But the failure to sign Diagouraga and O'Halloran will frustrate manager Mark Warburton.
The valuations of the sellers and the prospective buyer were not significantly different but, like many deals, there are further details, including add-ons, that potentially raise the price and payment terms to be factored in.
It weakened Rangers' hand that both signing targets entered the public domain almost as soon as talks began and were clearly the manager's priorities, so handing the selling clubs the edge.
The football industry may be a hive of gossip but it is possible to keep transfer moves private long enough to prevent negotiations being influenced.
It is also common practice for a shortlist of options and alternative targets to be drawn up, since no club has a 100% success rate in its transfer dealings.
King spoke about securing players for the Premiership and investing in the squad, so missing out on transfer targets cause those remarks to be revisited.
Since Diarougaga went elsewhere and O'Halloran remains at St Johnstone, the whole recruitment process has not worked as smoothly and effectively as Rangers would have liked.
Those players signed on permanent deals last year have all contributed to the team establishing itself at the top of the Scottish Championship, in which they finished third last season. Progress is evident.
That work won't necessarily be undone in this window, but lessons need to be learned from it if Rangers are to deliver "at least another five players at an equal or higher standard before we go into the Premier League" as King pledged in September.


Bangladesh pair Arafat Sunny and Taskin Ahmed have both been suspended from bowling by the International Cricket Council for having illegal actions.

Left-arm spinner Arafat, 29, and pace bowler Taskin, 20, took two wickets apiece in Bangladesh's opening Super 10 defeat by Pakistan and have played in all four World Twenty20 matches.
The Tigers will be permitted to name replacements in their squad.
Bangladesh next play Australia in Bangalore on Monday.


Moving from a career in academia to co-founding an ad technology company that's later snapped up by News Corp, all the while scooping countless awards including an OBE, is an unusual path to becoming an entrepreneur.

Yet this is the route trodden by Sarah Wood, the co-founder and co-chief executive of Unruly, a video company that can help adverts garner millions and millions of hits worldwide.
So how did a lecturer in American literature at the University of Sussex end up launching a company that aims to make ads go viral?
"The internet was changing from an internet highway where people seek out information to a social web of people sharing and rating content," says Wood, 43.
"I was researching political and social revolutions at the time and realised that there was much more of a relevant revolution taking place with the internet and maybe I could be part of that revolution rather than just write about it."
Driven by that interest in internet culture, and with her husband Scott Button embedded in the sector as chief executive of ad serving firm Connextra, the couple, along with Button's colleague Matt Cooke, saw an opportunity to enter the burgeoning video space.
Using proceeds of the sale of Connextra, which Cooke and Button had shares in, the trio quit their jobs in 2005 and at the start of 2006 launched eatmyhamster.com, a comedy site based on people sharing and rating funny content. That was followed by a viral video chart, ranking the most popular videos across the web.
"From there we realised there was a business model to distribute brands and media agencies' content at speed and scale," says Wood.
A year later they launched Unruly's video distribution platform, pushing for brands' videos to be shared across the web.
Wood, who runs a Masters course in online video culture at Cambridge University, says their mission is to "deliver awesome campaigns, help brands create content and make consumers go 'wow', whether that's making them laugh out loud or cry tears of joy".
Famous campaigns Unruly has been involved with include Evian's Roller Babies campaign and Dove's Real Beauty Sketches, which both appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most viewed ad in 2010 and 2013 respectively.
But what gives the London-based company its USP (unique selling point) - its ability to evaluate content before it is distributed? "We measure the emotional response to that content, which is an unusual approach," explains Wood.
"We have a number of different methodologies such as panel-based surveys, facial coding and audio tracking so we're able to track the emotional intensity of the video, with the facial coding picking up micro-expressions too. This isn't a soft metric, emotional campaigns perform better when it comes to ROI [return on investment]."
Like other ad firms, Unruly also uses demographic and behavioural targeting so ads are shown to the right audience.
Many outsiders have seen Unruly's potential. In 2012, the company received its first significant round of funding to the tune of $25m (approximately £16m at that time) from Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and the Business Growth Fund, with the money used to launch in the US and Germany.
Three years later Unruly became headline news through another deal. Wooed by News UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks, the business was acquired by News Corp for £114m in September 2015.
"We weren't looking for any investment," says Wood. But when the founders met Brooks and News Corp, they were impressed by their drive.
"We could see from day one that it would deliver more kick-ass campaigns. News Corp is committed to digital and they had been looking for technology to power their ad strategy.
"We could see the immediate benefits to Unruly - we would sail faster, launch better campaigns and deliver financial returns. It felt like the right decision because the chemistry was right."
Were there any plans to exit the business? "We didn't do the deal to sell but to scale Unruly," insists Wood. "When we did the deal, we were clear that we would remain autonomous, so we're still in the same offices."
Since the investment, she says the company has integrated Unruly ad units into News UK titles including the Wall Street Journal.
Unruly, which has 15 offices across the world and employs more than 200 staff, is focused on increasing its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, says Wood.
The company's expansion comes at a time when, despite the rise of ad blocking, video ad spend in Europe is expected to more than double between 2016 and 2020, growing from €3.6bn (£3bn) in 2016 to €8.9bn (£7.5bn) in 2020, according to research firm Forrester.
Samantha Merlivat, an analyst at Forrester, says Unruly was ahead of the game in realising the potential of the video sector. "Unruly focused on video when it was still a very nascent market, and has benefited from the rapid growth in video advertising and marketing in the last few years."
In an industry known for its lack of gender diversity, Wood is a big champion of equality, ensuring there's strong female representation within Unruly, with 48% of staff women.
"I believe our strengths lie in delivering a culture as well as a company that is diverse, creative and has a positive impact on the world," she says.
Despite now being a millionaire and able to enjoy the fruits of her success - Wood recently returned from Cannes, where she enjoyed private performances from Take That and Fatboy Slim on a yacht - it was a very different story at the start of the venture.
"The first 18 to 24 months when we were developing the business and had no revenue stream and running out of money were tough. Luckily we had neighbours who would give us black bin bags of clothes for the kids. We sold our flat in 2009 to raise money but we were confident we had a good business model."
It's a vision that has proved very right.
Follow The Boss editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1


James McArthur scored twice as Crystal Palace beat Ipswich in the EFL Cup to give boss Frank de Boer his first win.

Palace had struggled to break down the much-changed Ipswich side until McArthur's driving run and curling finish made it 1-0 after 76 minutes.
Jason Lokilo smashed the post before McArthur found the top corner from just inside the area to double the lead.
Manchester City loanee Bersant Celina scored a consolation for Ipswich with a close-range finish in added time.
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy made 11 changes to his side who have won all four of their opening league fixtures and the young Tractor Boys did well to keep their Premier League opposition at bay for the majority of the tie.
When their defences were breached, goalkeeper Dean Gerken was on hand to keep the hosts out, making excellent stops from Yohan Cabaye, Sullay Kaikai and Lokilo to frustrate the home crowd.
However, it was McArthur who eventually made the difference, finding the top corner with two excellent finishes with either foot.
The lively Celina halved the deficit from Ben Morris' cross, but Palace held on to give former Ajax manager De Boer his maiden win.
Match ends, Crystal Palace 2, Ipswich Town 1.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 2, Ipswich Town 1.
Attempt missed. Monty Patterson (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bersant Celina with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace).
Luke Woolfenden (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal!  Crystal Palace 2, Ipswich Town 1. Bersant Celina (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Morris.
Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Monty Patterson (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Monty Patterson (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bersant Celina.
Attempt saved. Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Andros Townsend.
Goal!  Crystal Palace 2, Ipswich Town 0. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp.
Jason Eyenga Lokilo (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam McDonnell (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Dean Gerken.
Attempt saved. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jason Eyenga Lokilo.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Chris Smith replaces Tristan Nydam.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Monty Patterson replaces Shane McLoughlin.
Jason Eyenga Lokilo (Crystal Palace) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by James McArthur.
Attempt missed. Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jason Eyenga Lokilo with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Dean Gerken.
Attempt saved. Jason Eyenga Lokilo (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal!  Crystal Palace 1, Ipswich Town 0. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jason Eyenga Lokilo.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Lee Chung-yong replaces Sullay Kaikai.
Attempt missed. Sullay Kaikai (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jason Puncheon.
Attempt blocked. Sullay Kaikai (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by James McArthur.
Foul by Sullay Kaikai (Crystal Palace).
Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Shane McLoughlin (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jason Eyenga Lokilo (Crystal Palace) because of an injury.
Foul by Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Crystal Palace).
Luke Woolfenden (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Shane McLoughlin.
Attempt blocked. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Tristan Nydam.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Ben Morris replaces Ben Folami.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Luke Woolfenden.
Attempt missed. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sullay Kaikai.


Defending champions Barcelona maintained the pressure on Spanish title rivals Real Madrid and Sevilla with a routine win at mid-table Eibar.

Substitute Denis Suarez, who replaced the injured Sergio Busquets, opened the scoring with a crisp 20-yard drive.
Barca increased the tempo after the break, doubling their lead when Lionel Messi cushioned in Luis Suarez's pass.
Luis Suarez robbed defender Florian Lejeune to drill in clinically before Neymar converted an injury-time cross.
Victory moved third-placed Barca two points behind leaders Madrid, and a point adrift of Sevilla, at the halfway stage of the Spanish season.
Madrid - who edged past Malaga at the Bernabeu on Saturday - still have a game in hand on their nearest rivals though, after missing a league game in December when they took part in the Club World Cup.
While Barcelona coach Luis Enrique will be pleased with his team's professionalism in seeing off ninth-placed Eibar, he was less than happy at seeing holding midfielder Sergio Busquets taken off on a stretcher inside the opening 10 minutes.
The Spain international, 28, fell to the ground instantly when an over-the-ball challenge caught him on the right ankle.
He received treatment on the field before being lifted on to a stretcher by medical staff and carried off down the tunnel.
Barca later confirmed Busquets had sprained an ankle ligament and would have more tests on Monday to determine the severity of the injury.
Enrique, who is already without skipper Andres Iniesta through injury, appeared to be positive about the loss of another key member of his midfield trio.
"We leave here with one piece of bad news which is Busquets's injury although it's not as serious as we thought," he said.
Eibar, a tiny Basque club who attract crowds of fewer than 6,000 and generate a fraction of Barcelona's vast income, are one of Spanish football's remarkable success stories.
They reached the top flight for the first time in 2014, but their promotion was only ratified after they raised 1.7m euros (£1.35m) to meet the league's demands over the amount of working capital generated by a club.
Eibar narrowly avoided relegation in their debut season, going on to finish a credible 14th last year, and are aiming for an even higher final placing this time.
However, their miserable record continued against Barca as they were condemned to another heavy defeat by the 24-time Spanish champions.
Back to Copa del Rey action for both clubs. Holders Barcelona host Real Sociedad on Thursday with a 1-0 lead in their two-legged quarter-final.
Eibar, playing in their first quarter-final, will try to overturn a 3-0 deficit at home to Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.
In the other two ties, Real Madrid trail 2-1 as they visit Celta Vigo and Alaves start with a 2-0 lead at home to second division Alcorcon.
Match ends, Eibar 0, Barcelona 4.
Second Half ends, Eibar 0, Barcelona 4.
Corner,  Eibar. Conceded by Samuel Umtiti.
Goal!  Eibar 0, Barcelona 4. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aleix Vidal.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Sergi Enrich.
Attempt missed. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Pedro León (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Fran Rico.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pedro León (Eibar).
Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sergi Enrich (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Fran Rico (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gonzalo Escalante following a corner.
Substitution, Eibar. Cristian Rivera replaces Antonio Luna because of an injury.
Corner,  Eibar. Conceded by Jeremy Mathieu.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro León with a headed pass.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Antonio Luna (Eibar) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi.
Substitution, Eibar. Rubén Peña replaces Takashi Inui.
Corner,  Eibar. Conceded by Jordi Alba.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ander Capa.
Corner,  Barcelona. Conceded by Florian Lejeune.
Substitution, Barcelona. Paco Alcácer replaces Luis Suárez.
Substitution, Eibar. Fran Rico replaces Adrián González.
Offside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Neymar is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic with a headed pass.
Corner,  Barcelona. Conceded by Yoel Rodríguez.
Attempt missed. Florian Lejeune (Eibar) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Goal!  Eibar 0, Barcelona 3. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Dani García (Eibar) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Florian Lejeune following a corner.
Corner,  Eibar. Conceded by Marc-André ter Stegen.
Substitution, Barcelona. Aleix Vidal replaces Sergi Roberto.
Attempt saved. Adrián González (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Pedro León (Eibar).
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pedro León (Eibar).
Offside, Eibar. Pedro León tries a through ball, but Adrián González is caught offside.
Goal!  Eibar 0, Barcelona 2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luis Suárez with a through ball.
Foul by Denis Suárez (Barcelona).
Florian Lejeune (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


A couple have been convicted of attempting to murder a pensioner and his son in their home in north Glasgow.

Mark Lafferty, 53 and his partner Adeline Clark, 41, brandished a knife and forced their way into the house in Baillieston last December.
They robbed a woman of Â£35 - then made their way upstairs and repeatedly stabbed a man and his elderly father.
The pair claimed they were elsewhere at the time but were found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The injured men were able to flee the house in Loancroft Place.
Lafferty and Clark, from Barlanark in Glasgow's east end, were convicted of attempting to murder 71-year-old Dennis McCowan and his son, Mark, 46.
They were also convicted of assaulting Christine McCowan, 68.
In evidence Mr McCowan senior described seeing Lafferty standing over his son's bed with a blade above his head in the attic of his house, and threw him downstairs.
The retired garage owner was then attacked by Clark who stabbed him in the chest and demanded cash.
Mark McCowan said he would have been "chopped up" if his father had not intervened.
Lafferty was remanded in custody ahead of a full committal hearing next week, while Clark was granted bail.


A police force criticised for taking too long to process criminal record checks said it has made "improvements".

Government figures revealed Dorset Police had the worst figures in the UK for carrying out Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on time.
In nine out of 12 months in 2015 the force failed to complete the target of 100% of checks in 60 days.
It caused delays for residents applying for certain jobs, particularly work with children or vulnerable adults.
The force said it was now achieving above the targets and had reduced the backlog of applications by almost 90%.
Dorset's police and crime commissioner, Martyn Underhill, said: "I was shocked to find out about the delays, we had a really unacceptable backlog.
"The volume is huge as we have 600 applications a week - we didn't have enough staff, we let it slip but we have turned it round."
Figures showed the force only processed a quarter within the 60-day target in May, making it the worst out of 50 forces across a 10-month range.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are required for anyone working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults.


The UN has launched an appeal for nearly $275m (Â£183m;â‚¬255m) of aid to help civilians caught up in Yemen's worsening conflict.

About 150,000 people have been displaced by fighting, according to the UN, with 12 million short of food.
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda militants overran an arms depot in Yemen's Hadramawt province, seizing heavy weapons.
A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Yemen's Shia Houthi rebels, who are advancing across the country.
The coalition is bombing 18 of Yemen's 22 provinces, exacerbating an existing humanitarian crisis.
The UN said 731 people had been killed and 2,754 injured - many of them civilians - in three weeks between March and April. The numbers were likely to be an underestimate, it warned.
The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) is now calling for $273.7 million in donations.
"Ordinary families are struggling to access healthcare, water, food and fuel - basic requirements for their survival," said Johannes Van Der Klaauw, UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen.
"To scale up assistance, we urgently need additional resources. I urge donors to act now to support the people of Yemen at this time of greatest need."
Also on Friday, security officials said al-Qaeda militants overran Yemeni troops and took control of a massive weapons depot in the eastern Hadramawt province, consolidating their control of the region.
The militants reportedly seized dozens of tanks, rocket launchers, and small arms.
The attack came a day after the group captured a major airport in the region, as well as an oil terminal and the main military base.
The fighting in Yemen - between the Shia Houthi rebels, forces loyal to exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, and jihadists - has dramatically accelerated an existing humanitarian crisis.
Even before the current conflict, 15.9 million people - 61% of the population - were estimated to require some kind of humanitarian aid, according to the UN.
Air strikes have worsened the damage to the country's infrastructure, with at least five of Yemen's hospitals now destroyed or badly damaged.
The UN also said it had received reports of serious human rights violations.


Scientists say that planting large numbers of jatropha trees in desert areas could be an effective way of curbing emissions of CO2.

Dubbed "carbon farming", researchers say the idea is economically competitive with high-tech carbon capture and storage projects.
But critics say the idea could be have unforeseen, negative impacts including driving up food prices.
The research has been published in the journal Earth System Dynamics.
Jatropha curcas is a plant that originated in Central America and is very well adapted to harsh conditions including extremely arid deserts.
It is already grown as a biofuel in some parts of the world because its seeds can produce oil.
In this study, German scientists showed that one hectare of jatropha could capture up to 25 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year. The researchers based their estimates on trees currently growing in trial plots in Egypt and in the Negev desert.
"The results are overwhelming," said Prof Klaus Becker, from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.
"There was good growth, a good response from these plants. I feel there will be no problem trying it on a much larger scale, for example ten thousand hectares in the beginning," he said.
According to the researchers a plantation that would cover three percent of the Arabian desert would absorb all the CO2 produced by cars and trucks in Germany over a 20 year period.
The scientists say that a critical element of the plan would be the availability of desalination facilities. This means that initially, any plantations would be confined to coastal areas.
They are hoping to develop larger trials in desert areas of Oman or Qatar. Prof Becker says that unlike other schemes that just offset the carbon that people produce, the planting of jatropha could be a good,  short term solution to climate change.
"I think it is a good idea because we are really extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - and it is completely different between extracting and preventing."
According to the scientist's calculations the costs of curbing carbon dioxide via the planting of trees would be between 42 and 63 euros per tonne. This makes it competitive with other techniques, such as the more high tech carbon capture and storage (CCS).
A number of countries are currently trialling this technology but it has yet to be deployed commercially.
Growing jatropha not only soaks up CO2 but has other benefits. The plants would help to make desert areas more habitable, and the plant's seeds can be harvested for biofuel say the researchers, providing an economic return.
"Jatropha is ideal to be turned into biokerosene - it is even better than biodiesel," said Prof Becker.
But other experts in this area are not convinced. They point to the fact that in 2007 and 2008 large numbers of jatropha trees were planted for biofuel, especially in Africa. But many of these ventures ended in tears, as the plants were not very successful in coping with dry conditions.
Lucy Hurn is the biofuels campaign manager for the charity, Actionaid. She says that while jatropha was once seen as the great, green hope the reality was very different.
"When jatropha was introduced it was seen as a miracle crop, it would grow on scrubland or marginal land," she said.
"But there are often people who need marginal land to graze their animals, they are getting food from that area - we wouldn't class the land as marginal."
She pointed out that jatropha is highly toxic and can pollute the land it is grown on, even in a desert. And she also had concerns about the fairness of the idea.
"It is still somebody else's land. Why go in and grow these massive plantations to deal with a problem these people didn't actually cause?"
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Police are treating the death of a woman whose body was found near the River Forth in Stirling as unexplained.

Police were called to Lovers Walk in the city at about 04:50 after the body of the woman, aged in her 30s, was found lying between the river and the main road.
A post mortem examination is to be carried out and police urged witnesses to come forward.
The road was closed between Customs Roundabout and Dean Crescent.
A police spokesperson said: "Anyone who has any information about the incident, or witnessed anything unusual in the early hours of this morning in or around the Customs Roundabout/Lovers Walk area, is asked to call Police Scotland on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."


League One side AFC Wimbledon have signed Chris Whelpdale following the winger's departure from Stevenage.

The 29-year-old former Billericay, Peterborough United and Gillingham man scored nine goals in 24 appearances for Boro last season.
"There were a couple of players at Stevenage that stood out last season and Chris was one of them," Dons boss Neal Ardley told the club website.
"His goalscoring record from midfield has been exceptional over the years."
Whelpdale becomes AFC Wimbledon's third signing of the summer following their promotion to the third tier via the League Two play-offs.
The Dons have not disclosed the length of his contract at Kingsmeadow.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Current political attitudes are likely to lead to a "slow erosion" of existing human rights and protections, according to an expert.

Barrister Mona Bayoumi's comments come as a Welsh Assembly committee holds an inquiry into human rights in Wales.
The committee said its inquiry is instrumental in ensuring the assembly is prepared for future changes.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said the UK government was "committed" to reforming domestic human rights.
Speaking to Sunday Politics Wales, Ms Bayoumi said: "Just to put it in to some context, there was obviously existing UK legislation going back to the 70s that protected, for example, employee rights in respect of discrimination, so it's important to remember that.
"But yes absolutely, I do think that there will be a slow erosion of the existing rights and protections, that really is in line with the debate that we've heard."
The UK government has proposed replacing the Human Rights Act 1998, which could curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights.
The assembly's Equality Committee is looking at how this could affect Wales.
All Welsh Assembly laws must comply with human rights legislation, and with Theresa May repeatedly saying Britain would be better served by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, the terms of the legislation could change.
Newport East AM and committee chairman John Griffiths admitted there was "a lot of worry that some of the inclusive practises that we've built in Wales are under threat at the moment".
Wales has to "guard against that", he said.
Mr Griffiths acknowledged there was an issue with how the public view human rights laws, following recent debates about votes for prisoners and human rights regulations blocking criminals from being deported.
"There can be a problem with public perception but it can mainly come, I think, from media sensationalism around fairly atypical cases," he said.
"I think if we look at the general experience and well beyond Wales, their everyday lives are improved, their rights are safeguarded and protected by that human rights approach and the international standards that apply."
Stonewall's Mabli Jones raised concerns that possible changes to legislature could undo the progress of LGBT rights.
"Since the introduction of the Human Rights Act there have been several rulings in UK and EU courts which have advanced legal protections for LGBT people," she said.
"Our concern is that without those protections we could see progress go back decades."
A MoJ spokesman said the UK government would consider the Bill of Rights further "once we know the arrangements for our EU exit" and would "consult fully on our proposals in the full knowledge of the new constitutional landscape that will create".


Jersey have recalled Craig Gascoyne to the Island Games table tennis squad for the 2017 event in Gotland.

The sport's former development officer in Jersey was controversially omitted from the squad when the island hosted the last Games in 2015.
He is joined by 2015 singles silver-medallist Jordan Wykes, Josh Band and Luc Miller in the men's team.
Irene Bree and Kelsey Le Maistre are in the women's squad, with 2015 bronze medallist Sofia Uddnas not going.
Gascoyne won men's singles silver at the 2009 and 2011 Games and has also won three doubles bronze medals and a team silver and bronze.


Craig Brewster insists the Dundee United players must believe they can avoid relegation if they are to do so.

The former Dundee United striker and boss credits manager Mixu Paatelainen for giving the Premiership's bottom team hope.
"Mixu has got a team together that believe they can win and that's crucial," said Brewster, assistant to Derek Adams at Plymouth Argyle.
"Suddenly they have put Kilmarnock under real pressure."
United are five points behind Lee Clark's Killie with one game remaining until the league splits into a top six and bottom six.
Thereafter both teams will have five games to avoid being relegated automatically or playing either Falkirk, Hibernian or Raith Rovers from the Championship in the Premiership play-off final.
In recent weeks the Terrors have drawn 2-2 with Dundee and enjoyed a 1-0 win over St Johnstone but they lost on Tuesday to Partick Thistle despite dominating the first half.
"If they can keep bringing Kilmarnock closer and closer then they've got to believe they can do it," Brewster, 49, told BBC Radio Scotland.
"It's not looking good but they have rallied very much of late.
"It was a disappointing result the other night, but Mixu has got points and they have given themselves a real lifeline.
"I think they've got it in their grasp. They were that far out of it everybody just expected United to go down so they had nothing to lose.
"As long as they are playing well and having the belief that they can overcome it, that's the major part."
Brewster, who played for United from 1993-96 and again in 2006 when he was also the manager, said the remaining match between United and Kilmarnock will be "massive".
"No-one wants to go down but having done so well over the last few years it is a big disappointment this year to find themselves down there," he added.
"I think the chairman has already said that they would have to cut major costs off their wage bill if they do go down.
"Nobody wants to see that so they've got from now until the end of the season to make sure that doesn't happen."


A number of high-rise council tower blocks in Southampton are to be "retro-fitted" with sprinklers.

Southampton City Council has announced sprinkler fitting will be rolled-out at the city's towers from next week.
The works will start at Albion Towers, Sturminster House and Shirley Towers, where two firefighters died in 2010.
It follows calls for action to be taken in the wake of the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in west London last week.
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The tallest tower blocks, Canberra Towers, Redbridge Towers and Millbrook Towers have been identified as the next priority out of the city's 19 tower blocks.
It has not yet been revealed if the remaining tower blocks will have the sprinklers installed.
Dave Curry, chief officer of Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, said sprinklers were like "having a firefighter in every room in your home".
Mr Curry, who called for sprinklers to be fitted in all tower blocks after the Shirley Towers fire, said: "I know that if sprinklers were fitted in high-rise buildings we won't see the tragic loss of life that we've seen in this county and in London."
The blaze at the 15-storey Shirley Towers started in a ninth-floor flat and took the lives of Jim Shears, 35, of Poole, and Alan Bannon, 38, of Southampton.
An inquest revealed the blaze started after a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.
The service said fire crews were also visiting every high-rise premise in the county to reassure residents and make sure they understood the evacuation process for their building.
Residents living in eight blocks which have had or are due to have cladding fitted in Thornhill, Weston, Shirley Towers, Sturminster House and Albion Towers have also called for a demonstration to show the cladding is non-combustible to allay fears.
The council said the product used, produced by Rockwool, was non-combustible, safe and fully certified.


Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment in an effort to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction.

The scientists claim that a thigh bone found in August contains remarkably well-preserved marrow cells, which could form the starting point of the experiment.
The team claim that the cloning could be complete within the next five years.
But others have cast doubt on whether such a thing is possible.
The team, from the Siberian mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki University, said that they planned to extract a nucleus from the animal's bone marrow and insert it into the egg of an African elephant.
Similar procedures have been done before with mixed results.
In 2009it was reportedthat the recently extinct Pyrenean ibex was brought back to life briefly using 10-year-old DNA from the animal's skin. The cloned ibex died within minutes of being born, due to breathing difficulties.
The Roslin Institute, famous for cloning Dolly the sheep, no longer conducts cloning work but haspublished some thoughtson the possibilities of bringing extinct species back to life.
It said it was extremely unlikely such an experiment would be successful, especially using an elephant surrogate.
"First, a suitable surrogate mother animal is required. For the mammoth this would need to be a cow (as best biological fit) but even here the size difference may preclude gestation to term," it said.
The success rate for such an experiment would be in the range of 1-5%, it said.
The second issue would be the need for viable whole cells.
"If there are intact cells in this tissue they have been 'stored' frozen. However, if we think back to what actually happened to the animal - it died, even if from the cold, the cells in the body would have taken some time to freeze. This time lag would allow for breakdown of the cells, which normally happens when any animal dies. Then the carcass would freeze. So it is unlikely that the cells would be viable," it said.
Assuming that viable cells are found it becomes a numbers game, it went on.
"Let's say that one in a thousand cells were nevertheless viable, practical issues come into play. Given that we have an efficiency of 1% cloning for livestock species and if only one in a thousand cells are viable then around 100,000 cells would need to be transferred," it said.
Charles Foster, a fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, seemed more optimistic.
"The idea of mammoth cloning isn't completely ridiculous.
"How the resultant embryos would fare beyond the stage of a few cells is more or less unknown," he said.
While most of the genetic coding of the embryo would come from the mammoth, some would come from the elephant ovum.
"We really don't know what the contribution of that cytoplasmic material is, or how it would interact with 'alien' DNA," he said.
It would however mean that, even if successful, the clone would be a hybrid rather than a pure mammoth.


Twenty-one rhino horns worth an estimated $5m have been seized in Thailand after being found in luggage sent from Ethiopia in the biggest such haul in years.

The seizure comes days after 300kg of elephant ivory was also impounded in the country.
Thailand is seen as a transit point for the illegal trafficking of wildlife.
Several species of rhino are at critical risk of extinction, conservationists say.
The horns arrived at Bangkok's international airport where two Thai women who had travelled from Vietnam and Cambodia came to collect them.
According to Thai police, they ran off when the luggage was subjected to a random check.
Officials describe the incident as an elaborate smuggling effort which involved several other people inside Thailand and abroad.
Wildlife campaigners believe the rhinos were probably killed to order in southern Africa, a BBC correspondent in Bangkok says.
Activists say that despite improvements in Thailand's anti-smuggling efforts, its main airport remains a popular hub for wildlife smuggling in Asia.
Some 29,000 rhinos are left in the wild today compared to 500,000 at the beginning of the 20th Century, according to the International Rhino Foundation.
Earlier this month, poachers shot a rhino dead and hacked off its horn at a zoo in France in what is believed to be the first such incident in Europe.
Last month poachers stormed an animal orphanage in South Africa and killed two rhinos for their horns after taking staff hostage.
Rhino horns are prized in some Asian cultures as an ingredient for traditional medicines believed to be effective in treating ailments ranging from fever to cancer.


A previously unseen collection of photographic negatives showing Captain Scott's ill-fated trek to the Antarctic has been revealed, prior to its sale.

The 52 images were taken by Lt. Henry "Birdie" Bowers who was part of the doomed British Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition in 1912.
The entire party perished but the photos offer a fascinating snapshot of its journey to the South Pole.
The archive could fetch up to Â£50,000 at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Scott and his team never returned after being beaten to the South Pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
Andrew Aldridge of auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes in Wiltshire, said the images showed "the brutal nature of the environment these brave men had to endure".
He described the clarity of of the images as truly remarkable" and said they included "previously unseen elements", such as dog handler Cecil Meares and the mountains and ice shelves.
The collection has been estimated at between Â£30,000-Â£50,000 and is to be sold in an auction of Titanic, ocean liner and polar exploration memorabilia on 18 April.


A tsunami warning has been lifted in parts of the South Pacific following a powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands.

The 7.8 magnitude quake struck about 70km (43 miles) off Kirakira, according to the US Geological Survey.
It said it had occurred at about 17:40 GMT (04:40 Friday local time), followed by many aftershocks.
Phones and electricity went down in some areas. There were no reports of casualties.
In Malaita, an island close to the epicentre, there were reports of collapsed buildings but the extent of the damage was still unknown, Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office director, Loti Yates, told Reuters news agency.
A helicopter has been sent to assess the situation in Malaita, which is home to about a quarter of the Solomon Islands population of 600,000, he added.
People in many regions moved to higher ground, and users on social media said some places were evacuated.
Minor sea level fluctuations may continue in the next few hours, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Social media reports suggested a wave of around 20cm in the capital, Honiara.
The Solomon Islands are located in the so-called "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific, a zone of major seismic activity which has one of the world's most active fault lines.


A Dutch court has found nine people guilty of terrorism offences after one of the biggest terror trials ever to take place in the country.

At a heavily guarded courtroom in Amsterdam, the eight men and a woman were sentenced to up to six years.
Six men were convicted as members of a network aiming to recruit young people to fight with Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in Syria.
Two of those are believed to be in Syria and were tried in absentia.
Three were described as followers, including the woman, who was jailed for seven days for a retweet which constituted incitement.
The nine were arrested last year in a large police investigation into jihadist activities in the Schilderswijk suburb of The Hague.
"The criminal organisation aimed to incite and recruit 'brothers' to travel to fight in Syria and financed them to that end," presiding Judge Rene Elkerbout said.
Prosecutors said the group had formed "a criminal and terror organisation".
The nine had all denied any wrongdoing, saying that religious freedom and freedom of speech had allowed them to proclaim a pro-jihadist message.
The BBC's Anna Holligan, who was in court, says the trial has raised fundamental questions in the Netherlands about the limits of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and activism.
The defendants' full names were not given in court. Azzedine C, 33, was sentenced to six years in jail, as were two men tried in absentia - Hatim R, 26, and Anis Z, 24, who are believed to be fighting in Syria.
Hicham El O, 30, who was described as a returned fighter from Syria and active in the group, was sentenced to five years in prison.
Rudolph H, 25, and Oussama C, 19, were both jailed for three years.
Jordi J, 22, was sentenced to 155 days and Moussa L, 41, was jailed for 43 days. Imane B, 26 - the only woman in the group was given seven days in jail for sending an inciting message.


Detroit's emergency manager has filed a plan to restructure the city's debts in the wake of the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.

The plan, awaiting approval from a bankruptcy judge, includes cuts to pensions and creditors to drive down the $18bn (Â£10.8bn) debt.
Funds would also be devoted to demolishing abandoned city properties.
The city initially filed for bankruptcy protection in July 2013.
By Beth McLeodWashington DC
When Detroit was granted protection from its creditors in December, it marked the biggest public bankruptcy in American history.
The road map for how to tackle it has been long awaited by city workers, pensioners and creditors. This plan proposes to reduce benefits for city employees.
These cuts are not as deep as some feared, but will still be contested in the courts by those who face losses.
On the other side are the city's creditors, including Wall Street banks. The plan proposes to give some of them only about 20% of the money they claim.
"We must move swiftly to emerge from bankruptcy so that the financial distress harming the city can end," state-appointed manager Kevyn Orr said in a statement.
"We maintain that the plan provides the best path forward for all parties to resolve their respective issues and for Detroit to become once again a city in which people want to invest, live and work," he added.
Specifics of the debt relief plan include:
The plan is reportedly likely to face obstacles moving forward, including court appeals should it be approved in bankruptcy court.
An estimated $12bn of the city's $18bn debt is said to be unsecured, with no taxes or other revenue streams to pay it down.
Ongoing negotiations with stakeholders are also reportedly expected to result in changes to the plan, Mr Orr told US media.
Detroit has seen a dramatic decline in economic activity and population, as the big carmakers - once the city's main source of employment - shifted production to cheaper locations in the US and overseas.
The city is now home to about 700,000 residents, down from the peak of 1.8 million in 1950.


Fire crews are tackling a large wildfire in Surrey days after a blaze destroyed about 40 hectares of heathland in the same area.

About 70 firefighters were called to the grass fire at Stoney Castle Ranges near Pirbright on Saturday evening.
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said 50 hectares of heathland was alight, with 200 more being affected by the blaze.
The smoke can be seen for miles around. Nearby residents have been urged to keep their windows shut.
The heath at Pirbright is home to species including the silver-studded blue butterfly, slow worms and lizards.
A spokesman for Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said: "We have been fighting the fire overnight with six fire appliances and a number of specialist wildfire vehicles, with approximately 50 firefighters.
"These fire crews are using over 10km of hose."
He added: "The fire is affecting 200 hectares, with 50 hectares alight, this can be seen from a considerable distance, with smoke affecting surrounding areas including Pirbright Common, Ash Ranges, Deepcut and Mytchett."
People living nearby have been urged to keep their doors and windows closed due to the smoke.
Surrey Police want to speak to a man wearing a camouflage top, blue jeans and black boots who was seen in the area when the fire started.


A driver has been convicted of a hit-and-run crash in Leeds which left a girl permanently disabled and her brother seriously injured.

Sabah Saleem, 11, and three-year-old Rayhan were hit by a car driven by 37-year-old Mohammed Khalil Anwar on Brudenell Road in August 2012.
Leeds Crown Court heard that Anwar, of Brudenell Mount, failed to stop as he feared being attacked by local people.
Anwar is due to be sentenced on 29 November.
Sabah and Rayhan, who were 10 and two at the time of the incident, were knocked down by Anwar's Vauxhall Astra car on 18 August last year.
They were returning from a greengrocer's shop with food for the family's Eid celebrations which were due to take place the following day.
Both underwent surgery at Leeds General Infirmary.
While Rayhan was discharged from hospital a few days later, Sabah remained in hospital for about six months and surgeons operated on her several times.
The court was told she had been left with "significant and permanent" disabilities as a result of the crash.
During his trial, Anwar told the court he was in control of his car at the time of the collision, but he had no time to react when Sabah and Rayhan ran out in front of him.
The court heard Anwar was driving at nearly 35 mph along Brudenell Road when he collided with the two children, about 15 mph faster than the speed limit.
Anwar admitted he did not know the speed limit was 20 mph along that stretch of road, even though he had regularly driven along there over the past 12 years.
He told the court he drove off after hitting the children as he was afraid he would be attacked.
Following the verdict, Sabah said she still could not remember anything about the accident.
While she still found it "very difficult" to walk, she was now feeling "okay", she said.
Sabah's father, Saleem Rafique, said his "very brave" daughter was still recovering.
The 11-year-old continues to suffer from double vision, balance problems and memory loss, he said.
"She was a really bright kid, doing really well at school and very determined to succeed.
"Unfortunately, this happened and that has put her back.
"She's tough, she's a real fighter but we don't know whether she will be the same as she was before. It's very hard to tell."


"Trapped" and feeling like a "monster" is how one young person has described their struggle with mental health.

They were just one of more than 50,000 children and young people who turned to Childline last year because of a serious mental health problem.
New data from the NSPCC shows one in six Childline counselling sessions is now about serious mental health issues.
Those aged 12 to 15 made up a third of sessions, with girls almost seven times more likely to seek help than boys.
One 16-year-old girl told Childline: "I want to know what's wrong with me.
"I have been seeing a counsellor about my mental health issues recently but they just told me to eat and sleep better and forget about the past, which didn't help me at all.
"I wish I could speak to someone who actually cared about me and I felt comfortable talking to."
Another young person said: "I'm struggling to cope with bipolar. One minute, I feel so low, like I'm trapped, and all I want to do is disappear.
"Then suddenly, I feel the complete opposite, and I'm really happy and I start thinking about everything in a really positive light.
"I feel like I push away everyone that tries to help, I tell them I hate them and blame them for everything. I just feel like I've turned into a monster."
Figures released on Monday show 50,819 children and young people received counselling for a serious mental health issue last year.
This is a rise of 8% over the past four years.
Over four years, there was a 36% rise in youngsters needing help for depression and other disorders.
In September 2016, Childline reported a record number of calls from children with suicidal thoughts.
Early signs of a serious mental health problem in young people include becoming withdrawn from friends and family, being tearful or irritable, sudden outbursts, and problems eating or sleeping.
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, said some mental health problems were a direct result of the person having previously experienced abuse and neglect.
"To ensure the next generation aren't left to deal with a mental health epidemic, there has to be a much more comprehensive network of professional support and treatment in place that is easily accessible for young people who are desperate for help to get their lives back on track," Mr Wanless added.
Dr Peter Hindley, chairman of the child and adolescent faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said the report backed up the rise in demand that psychiatrists were seeing from across the country.
"It is vital that the government thinks long-term about the level of investment needed to provide accessible, high-quality services for the most vulnerable children and young people in society," he said.
"Child and adolescent mental health services simply cannot afford to continue to be so under-funded."
Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen said children's mental health services were already "overstretched, meaning that young people aren't able to access the professional help they need".
Dame Esther said: "It's striking how many more children seem to be suffering serious mental health problems today than when we launched Childline 30 years ago.
"So many desperately unhappy children seem to be suffering suicidal thoughts, self-harming, becoming anxious and depressed, with many of them turning to Childline because no other support is available."
Dame Esther said there needed to be more emphasis on providing support for these children.
Childline offers free support and advice online or over the phone on 0800 1111.


Australia all-rounder Dan Christian will return to Nottinghamshire for next summer's T20 Blast.

Christian, 33, captained the side during this year's tournament and will be one of their two overseas players for the competition in 2017.
He averaged 41, with a strike-rate of 159.51, as Notts Outlaws won nine matches in a row in 2016.
"Dan is an explosive player who hits the ball miles and played really well for us," said head coach Peter Moores.
"He's also been around the T20 scene and around cricket for a long time. He brings all that experience to us, as well as a real calmness under pressure."
Christian has played 174 Twenty20 matches during his career, scoring 2,549 runs and taking 130 wickets.
He made three half-centuries for Notts last summer and equalled Alex Hales' record for the county's fastest half-century in T20 cricket by reaching fifty off 16 balls against Leicestershire.
"Anybody who has met Dan will know he's a brilliant team-man. He gives everything and expects the same from his team-mates," Moores added.
"He likes to get on the front foot, to be aggressive and to play attacking cricket, which is exactly what we want in that form of the game."


A man who died after a police chase in London had a package in his throat containing "a mixture of paracetamol and caffeine", investigators have said.

Rashan Charles was followed by officers in Dalston on 22 July and became ill after putting an object in his mouth.
In a statement, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the package was "wrapped in plastic".
Commissioner Cindy Butts added the police watchdog had not yet been given a confirmed cause of death.
Mr Charles' death sparked a number of protests in east London, including one which turned violent.
Ms Butts said the IPCC had decided to release information about what was in the package "given the inflammatory nature of some ongoing speculation".
Last week the police watchdog said the evidence it had seen so far suggested the 20-year-old had been followed by a police officer into a shop on Kingsland Road.
The officer then restrained Mr Charles and attempts were made to remove an object from his mouth or throat.
His condition later deteriorated and a police medic was called to provide assistance before paramedics arrived.
Ms Butts said the IPCC echoed the family's appeal for calm after a wave of angry protests and violent clashes amid accusations of alleged police brutality.
The police watchdog's announcement came after shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the initial forensic findings would cause "deep concern" after  figures showed a "disproportionate" use of force against minority groups by police.
On Tuesday figures released for the first time showed Metropolitan Police officers used "force" at a rate of around once every 10 minutes.
There were 12,605 incidents of force against people by individual officers registered in the three months to the end of June.
The data showed 45% of the individuals subject to force were white, 36% black and 10% from the Asian community.


Russia has launched the first rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome, following a 24-hour delay that drew the ire of President Vladimir Putin.

The launch of the Soyuz was watched by Mr Putin, who had flown 5,500km (3,500 miles) to the country's Far East for the event.
The Vostochny cosmodrome was built to reduce dependency on the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.
The unmanned rocket is carrying three satellites.
It left Earth at 05:01 Moscow time (02:01 GMT).
The initial attempt at launch was called off less than two minutes before lift-off on Wednesday, following a technical fault.
Mr Putin stressed that the delay was related to the rocket itself - not the cosmodrome, located in the Amur region near the Russian-Chinese border.
It was Mr Putin's personal idea to build a new space port in Russia to avoid any potential political risks of using the old Soviet launch centre at Baikonur.
But construction of the vast complex in Russia's Far East has been hit by delays and dogged by corruption scandals.
Four people have already been arrested.
"If their guilt is proven, they will have to change their warm beds at home for plank-beds in prison," the president has warned.


Plans to turn every state school in England into an academy have been criticised by Conservative councillors.

Several have called for the policy to be reversed, including the councillor responsible for education in David Cameron's Oxfordshire constituency.
Melinda Tilley denounced the "diktats from above" and said the policy could put small village schools at risk.
The government has said schools must become academies or be in the process of converting by the end of 2020.
Chancellor George Osborne made the announcement during the Budget but, after being forced to abandon his plans for disability cuts because of Conservative opposition, he now faces pressure over another key feature of his speech.
Ms Tilley told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm fed up with diktats from above saying you will do this and you won't do that. This is not why I became a Conservative."
One normally loyal MP said: "When you have a decent local authority and broadly speaking have good schools and good leadership why on earth would you force people down this route?"
Schools minister Nick Gibb told Today the proposals were aimed at giving "more autonomy to professionals" who would be freed from "interference from the local authority".
He said "the winning formula" of multi-academy trusts would be used to "change weaker schools" run by local authorities.
"You can't have two systems. You have to have one consistent system," he said.
"There are many weak local authorities that have not been as rigorous on ensuring that under-performing schools improve the academic standards of the children as they should be."
Academies are independent, state-funded schools, which receive their funding directly from central government, rather than through a local authority.
The day-to-day running of the school is down to the head teacher or principal, but they are overseen by individual charitable bodies called academy trusts and may be part of an academy chain.
These trusts and chains provide advice, support, expertise and a strategic overview.
They control their own admissions process and have more freedom than other schools to innovate.
Read more: What it means to be an academy school
Another unnamed MP said the move would remove competition from the education system, and added that ministers would face pressure from backbenchers to abandon the plans.
There are also concerns that schools will no longer be obliged to have parents among their governors.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "To drive up standards we will encourage more schools to work together in multi-academy trusts so they share resources, staff and expertise."
The department says the trusts will better support small rural schools.
Roger Gough, Conservative councillor in charge of education in Kent, said: "I don't think there is demonstrable evidence that there is a systemic improvement in performance and certainly not anything that would justify upheaval on this scale."
Conservative Peter Edgar, from Hampshire County Council, said: "To force all schools would be ridiculously expensive and in my view the wrong thing to do and also could cause in the interim a drop in standards in all our schools.
"This was not in the [Conservatives' election] manifesto," he said. "This is a step too far."
Laura McInerney, editor of Schools Week magazine, told Today the conversion process would be "quite expensive" and legal fees could be "huge".
She said there was a feeling that money the Treasury had earmarked for conversion costs "isn't enough".
Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of teachers union the NASUWT, criticised the government for taking "an ideological approach" to schools.
"It's not universally the case that academisation creates good or outstanding schools. We have a mixed picture both within academies and within community local authority-controlled schools," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"What's key to raising standards is good teaching and learning, and investment in the teacher workforce."


A grand jury has decided not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail earlier this year.

The jury ruled that neither sheriff's officials nor jailers committed a crime in their treatment of Bland.
It has not yet been determined whether the police officer who arrested her should face charges, a prosecutor said.
The 28-year-old African-American was arrested after a confrontation with a policeman who had pulled her car over. She was found dead three days later.
In recent years, the deaths of black Americans in police custody have caused much debate and protests in the US.
Police say that Ms Bland hanged herself while being held in the Waller County jail.
The family have denied that she was suicidal and have accused the jail of being "reckless" in disregarding her safety and failing to keep her free from harm.
The Waller County grand jury would return in January to consider whether to indict police officer Brian Encinia, who arrested Ms Bland in July, prosecutor Darrell Jordan said.
A video of the arrest shows Mr Encinia giving Ms Bland a warning. The situation quickly escalates, with Mr Encinia appearing to threaten Ms Bland after she refuses to get out of her car.
He unsuccessfully tries to pull her out and tells her "I will light you up".
Ms Bland's family has alleged Mr Encinia falsified an assault allegation to take her into custody.
An attorney representing Ms Bland's family, Cannon Lambert, said on Monday that the grand jury's decision was consistent with what the family believed was an attempt by authorities to cover up the events surrounding Ms Bland's death.
"They continue to do things we are disappointed in," he said.
Ms Bland's sister Shante Needham has said Sandra had called her from jail, saying she did not know why she had been arrested and that an officer had possibly broken her arm.
Ms Bland died by asphyxiation after using a plastic bag to hang herself in her cell, according to Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathias.
Video footage from the jail did not show what happened inside Ms Bland's cell, but did suggest no-one entered or left it until someone found her unconscious.
Mr Mathis has said there is nothing in that investigation "that shows anything happened but she killed herself".


A selection of letters and drawings has cast a light on former first minster and DUP leader Ian Paisley's time in prison.

He was the political "never never" man who became Northern Ireland's first minister.
Ian Paisley ended up leading a power-sharing executive at Stormont - although he had supported the strike to bring one down 30 years earlier.
From firebrand preacher, he moved on to earn the nickname of "chuckle brother" alongside deputy first minister, Sinn FÃ©in's Martin McGuinness.
He died in September 2014.
Obituary: Ian Paisley
Last year, the Bannside Library, housing his collection of more than 50,000 books, opened in east Belfast.
And among the memorabilia on display are his letters from jail. He served three months in Crumlin Road prison, 50 years ago, for unlawful assembly.
With time on his hands, the preacher decided to write a book on the Epistle to the Romans. He wrote the pages by hand.
They are written very neatly in red, blue and black ink. He then sent them home to his wife, Eileen, for her to type up.
He also wrote letters to his family at home and that collection has now been catalogued by his daughter, Sharon.
He had a guaranteed audience of one for his book in the jail, she said.
"When Daddy sent these out of prison every week, the governor had to read them to make sure there was nothing that shouldn't coming out of prison, so he had to read the book as well," she said with a smile.
Among the memorabilia is a special handkerchief.
"There was a man in prison who was a gifted artist.
"Mum and dad would have had their tenth wedding anniversary when he was in prison. And the man took one of daddy's handkerchiefs and did the picture of mum from an electioneering poster. It is painted onto the handkerchief," she said.
The same man saw the hymn written on the fly leaf of Ian Paisley's bible and decided to copy it.
"He lifted this board from the prison yard with wet paint on the back of it and made: A Father's Prayer," said Baroness Paisley.
She said her husband never got the knack of new technology when writing his books and essays.
"He asked me one day if I would look something up in a book, and I said: 'Ian I can get you that on a computer.'
"And he said 'How can you? How did it get in the computer?' He almost seemed as if he was scared to touch a computer," she said.
He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of his thousands of books, his widow said.
No matter where he was in the world, he would ring her and tell her exactly where to look in his study - the bookcase, the shelf, how far along the line of books - if he needed a quote from a particular chapter.
And among his treasures was an illustrated guide book which he received as a prize at Sunday School when he was 11 years old.
"Northern Ireland: Our Lesser Known History" by Canon Hugh Forde has been reprinted by the Bannside Library to mark its opening.
Baroness Paisley sees the Bannside library as a fitting tribute to her late husband's love of books.
"It's amazing the people that have taken an interest, right across the religious and political board," she said.
"People have come to see it and to look at books and pick out some and say 'Oh, I never thought he would have a book on this'. And I would say: 'He had books on everything.''"
Baroness Paisley talks to Anne Marie McAleese on Your Place And Mine, BBC Radio Ulster, on Saturday 28 May at 08:05 BST.


Fespaco, Africa's premiere film festival, is taking place in Burkina Faso this week, amid debate about artistic freedom on the continent.

Some argue that Africans have never had so much artistic freedom, with a proliferation of books, paintings and films since the advent of multi-party democracy in the 1990s, and the huge advance in technology which has allowed anyone with a smartphone to publish their views across the world.
But critics say artists are still subject to tight censorship, pointing out that a South African gallery was forced to remove a painting of President Jacob Zuma under political pressure, while in Uganda a play about gay rights was banned.
So, just how free are Africa's artists - in film, literature and music- to tell their own stories? Here are some of their experiences:
Having been born and raised in Uganda, it was the best place to be. It was my home and my everything.
I remember joining the film industry in 1999 - everything was still good. You didn't need a licence to shoot a film, no censor body to look at your script.
All you had to do was get a camera, run to the streets, shoot something and lock yourself in the edit suite - and later put your work out there for the world to see.
Today, I have grown to understand that not all stories can be told and not just any film can be done here.
There are topics you have to think twice before tackling or which, for your safety, are better left untold. Topics that will get even actors saying: "I think I am not the right person for that role" even when you know they can pull it off.
Here, you don't just wake up to say you are doing a film about the gay community, a film about the political situation, or a film that paints a bad picture of Uganda.
One day I had to drop a story that was inspired by the practice of female genital mutilation amongst some communities in Uganda.
I had strong interviews and had done thorough research, but everyone kept telling me it was not safe to go ahead. But it is still my home, my Uganda, my everything.
I don't think anyone is free to exercise their art. And that includes artists.
There is a cost for this freedom. Artists are no different to the entrepreneur in that financial resources are required for the capital outlay of the "work" or manuscript.
Just to be in a position to indulge in the work is time spent creating a product without the immediate benefit of financial return.
Then the work needs to be produced depending upon the format and genre, requiring additional resources.
In the case of a writer, it is then given to a publisher, who spends even more resources to fine-tune the manuscript with an editor, proof reader, type setter, graphic designer etc. which could take considerable time before it is placed on the retail shelf.
Since the work now becomes a joint investment, compromise is inevitable. So, I guess artists are free to tell their story if they have the resources to indulge in this freedom.
There is a preconceived notion and expectations regarding African films. Only in recent years have young filmmakers begun to break the mould and make more experimental films.
Funders have a clear idea of the African films they want. In most instances, those that depict African people in an unconventional light are not the stories funders and international festivals want to see.
They are content to see Africa as a struggling continent, which is corrupt and disease-ridden.
Many urban African stories don't ever reach beyond Africa because of the question: "Are those really African stories?".
The image and perception of African film is still very narrow.
I want to tell African fantasy and surreal films, but the reaction is: "Why? Don't you have more important issues that you need to address in your films?"
Each African film-maker has his own story to tell and we need to allow the "strange for Africa" films to co-exist with those that speak of identity, cultural and moral injustices, war, HIV/Aids etc.
But things have changed slightly and filmmakers are finding alternative sources of funding - for instance, private investors - to tell stories they are passionate about.
Are artists free to tell their own stories? This is a conscious choice each artist has to make.
However, in the developing world, with most artists relying solely on their practice for their livelihood, they are forced to compromise their genuine stories with some "fabricated reality" that is sellable.
This is further fuelled by the common perception that sales equal success, which leaves us caught up in creating fairy tales for sale.
In oppressive environments, artists are intimidated and live in fear of censorship or consequences of defiance.
In Kenya, having recently switched from the stereotypical African dictatorship that clamped down on creatives (mostly writers) to a more liberal government, artists whose work was inspired by bad governance, stemming from from semi-illiterate leadership, now have trouble remaining relevant.
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The whole funding situation further complicates the scenario.
There's a big chunk of "development" aid and "human rights" funding channelled through non-governmental organisations.
A handful of very prolific artists have gone mercenary. They've stopped making good art and have started championing the causes of civil society groups because the money is good.
Artists are very free to tell their stories. A lot of factors may determine whether they do but in spaces with rampant poverty, very few can resist the temptation of a fistful of dollars to tell someone else's story.
Artists just have to believe that their own stories are good enough.
Filmmakers, unlike other artists such as painters and dancers, need money to practice their craft.
And African filmmakers are especially burdened by a lack of money because our societies are financially strapped and they historically undervalue art.
Our governments have different priorities and our businessmen see no financial value in supporting art.
So African artists often find it impossible to tell their own stories.
One way around that difficulty, I find, is crowd-funding. With many people making small donations, an artist can raise enough money to see through a vision that would otherwise be impossible to realise.
That is how I completed my debut feature, Ninah's Dowry. But the lack of a speedy internet structure and limited access to credit cards still make crowd-funding a challenge on the continent.
Another not-so-obvious deterrent to an artist's freedom is the requirement by some governments that artists submit scripts for approval before filming permits are granted.
It is understandable for my beloved Cameroon, for example, to be touchy about military sites appearing onscreen. That is a credible national security issue.
But, what happens if the artist's screenplay is critical of his government or country?
Belonging to a very traditional society with conservative cultural values, I always have to make sure that what I say or what I do does not offend certain sensitivities. Which is not easy when you realise that the Festival in the Desert, while looking outward to the modern world, is organised by an indigenous people from a very traditionalist milieu.
With the occupation of a large part of Mali and the prohibition of any form of artistic expression such as music, things became much more difficult.
Expression itself was extremely risky because you exposed yourself to various punishments from the occupiers - including imprisonment.
Even on the international level, to denounce what was happening could bring you trouble.
At first you may be labelled as "an enemy of Islam" with all that implies in consequences for your daily life.
However, this does not intimidate us because we are convinced that what we do is not against Islam.
Our struggle is to show the values that are held by the majority of Muslims in the world, values of sharing and of tolerance.
In its comparatively short history, African cinema has been viewed with considerable apathy and condescension both at home and abroad.
No post-colonial African state in the continent has attempted to develop a cultural or film policy that incorporates critical debates, political and the poetic, since former Senegalese President Leopold Senghor's 1960s attempt with his idea of "Negritude".
With funding intertwined in various governmental departments and international development resources, film-makers are often forced to avoid making films dealing with their immediate surroundings.
Instead, they produce films that are neither critical of social problems and national politics nor entertaining.
That said, digital storytelling has presented film-makers with essential tools to battle for the freedom to create and distribute their work.
In the last 10 years, young Africans have brought amazing energy to drama by embracing digital technology and therefore producing work that has been able to reach its audience across multiple platforms providing film-makers the freedom to imagine and free from the global hegemony.


Middlesbrough showed togetherness with the squad's celebrations after Adam Forshaw's late winner against Reading, says boss Aitor Karanka.

Boro looked to settle for a point after Simon Cox cancelled out Emilio Nsue's opener, but substitute Forshaw netted in injury time to win it.
The win took the Teessiders to the top of the Championship table.
"When Adam scored, once again we were together and the crowd was amazing," Karanka told BBC Tees.
"It was a difficult game, I can understand the frustration [of supporters] when they want us to win the games but they trust these players and together is best way to go about it."
Karanka's side have won their past five games following the Spaniard's absence from the defeat at Charlton on 13 March, when he was contemplating his future.
With that episode resolved, Boro have rediscovered their form to lead the table from Burnley by two points.
"It was our third game at home in a row, and it's always difficult after the QPR game - people already had nine points in their pockets," he said.
"I feel how difficult is to win every game so now we're in a really good position, I'm pleased for them and I couldn't be prouder than I am at this moment."


In the remote region of Putumayo in southern Colombia, the economy depends almost entirely on one thing: coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine.

From the stores that sell fertiliser and pesticides, to the ubiquitous pool halls where "raspachines" (field hands who harvest the coca leaves) come to spend their modest earnings on cold beer and fried empanadas, it all comes back to one plant.
Colombia's government wants to change this, as part of the peace deal it reached with the country's left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) last year. It will not be an easy task.
"Everyone from here who has gone to university has done so because of money from growing coca," explains Jon, who has been harvesting the leaf since childhood and is now studying forensic science at a technical institute in Mocoa, Putumayo's capital.
As per the terms of the peace deal, the government has signed up almost 76,000 families to an ambitious campaign to substitute the growing of coca, poppy and marijuana with legal agricultural projects.
Jon's family was one of 500 selected from the communities around the village of La Carmelita to participate in a pilot of the national programme.
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Success, in the long term, will depend not only on the viability of the new crops, but on the state's ability to transform its relationship with the marginalised regions where the 50-year armed conflict raged.
"For years, we've made clear that we're committed to leaving coca behind, given certain necessary conditions for our survival," said Luz Deify Velázquez Quintero, a community leader in La Carmelita.
"Now it's time to find out if the government is serious."
This is not the first attempt to wean Putumayo off growing coca.
Under the US-backed Plan Colombia, the authorities attempted to eradicate the plants from the air by spraying them with herbicides.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were also channelled to the country for "alternative development" assistance, resources that locals say rarely found their way to Putumayo and the pockets of farmers there.
While the new programme is largely welcomed by La Carmelita's coca growers, distrust of government programmes is an all-too-familiar sentiment.
"Unless there's transparency and a real willingness to involve and empower the communities, what's most likely is that people end up going back to coca," warns Yuli Zuluaga, a regional representative of a recently formed national coca-grower's association.
Government officials say they have learned the lessons of Plan Colombia. They think that having former Farc rebels on board will make a big difference.
The rebels financed their armed struggle through "taxes" on coca production and therefore had a vested interest in the business flourishing.
But even with a peace process now firmly in place, challenges remain.
In June, participants in the pilot scheme received the first of six bimonthly food subsidies worth 2m Colombian pesos ($665; £500) each.
In exchange, those who received it have promised to take part in a two-month voluntary coca eradication scheme.
But whether the farmers' new projects will be productive will ultimately depend on whether money is invested in Putumayo's poor healthcare, education, and infrastructure, conflict monitoring group Ideas for Peace Foundation concluded in a recent report.
There are no hospitals or drinking water and only little electricity for miles in any direction from La Carmelita.
The only adequately funded public institutions are the military bases built to protect the region's oil pipelines.
"The problem isn't figuring out what to produce," explained Jesús Antonio Toro Martínez, president of Agropal, a local farmer's association.
"The problem is that we don't have electricity to store it, we don't have the equipment to process it, and we don't have roads to bring it to market. In other words, we don't have commerce."
Mr Toro, a local farmer and former "raspachin", says that taking plantains the nearest urban centre if Puerto Asís is no easy task.
He says that the costs for transporting bundles on speed boats or local buses known as "chivas" can add up to as much as 90% of the final sale value.
In March, the US released figures suggesting that a record 188,000 hectares (1,880 sq km) of land in Colombia had been planted with coca last year, an 18% increase compared with 2015.
The report triggered renewed claims from opponents to the peace process in Colombia and conservatives in Washington that the government's reformist approach has promoted lawlessness.
With pressure mounting and the 2018 national elections looming, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he intends to eradicate 100,000 hectares by next year, half through substitution, and half through manual eradication.
"We need results, to prove to ourselves, to the country, and to the world that this is the right way forward," Miguel Ortega, a government substitution official, told La Carmelita residents.
Camilo Mejia is an Australia-based journalist and co-founder of Vela Colectivo. Steven Cohen is a US-based journalist and former editor at Colombia Reports.