there advancing bringing some rain. there isa advancing bringing some rain. there is a lot of cloud with it. behind it as the skies are clear, a fresher night. in the south, lingering cloud, that weather front difficult to clear away with the odd shower. misty weather across cornwall and pembrokeshire but it should clear. a few showers across the peak district. showers over scotland. there will be a lot more sunshine across england and way of tomorrow, light winds, and with the sunshine returning tomorrow, it will feel very warm again. temperatures back down to what they should be for this time of yearfrom down to what they should be for this time of year from the low teens to the 20s.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines... conservative party members

are warned not to vote more than once in the leadership election, after a bbc investigation found some had received multiple ballot papers. murderers who refuse to say where they've buried their victims could be more easily denied parole under a proposed new law. about 20 people are injured — two seriously — after a powerful gas explosion rocked a florida shopping center. a powerful earthquake has hit southern california for the second time in a matter of days. it's the strongest in the region for twe nty—five yea rs. the duke and duchess of sussex's son has been christened at windsor castle. only close family and friends attended the service for archie harrison mountbatten—windsor.

there's been criticism for excluding the public and keeping secret the identity of archie's godparents. the two pictures were released to the public. hundreds of thousands of people have been on the streets of the capitalfor the pride parade. london mayor sadiq khan said he hoped it would be the biggest pride event to have been held in the city. we will shortly be crossing to get the latest sports news, but first let's find out more, travelling the globe here is the travel show. hello, and welcome to the travel show with me, christa larwood, coming to you this week from dublin,

capital city of ireland, home to guinness, u2, and for one weekend only, costumes like this. it's comic con, ireland. and a big feature is cosplay. this year marks 35 years since the term was first coined in this article by japanese journalist, nobuyuki takahashi. but really, fan costuming began 70 years ago at the first world science fiction convention in new york city, when this couple attended wearing a futuristic costume they designed and made. the cosplay industry is now a multibillion dollar business, with some reports saying it is worth over $20 billion, of £15 billion, worldwide. everyone is here injust incredible costumes, of all shapes and sizes and frankly, it would be a bit rude not tojoin in.

the cosplay experts have got me a costume. oh, this one's for me? thank you very much! so, i'm not sure what this is, the grand reveal... hopefully it's one i recognise. oh, it's totoro, from my neighbour totoro, the studio ghibli film! this one i know and am very happy to wear. very happy cosplayer today. let's go! thousands of people have come for the comic con, ireland edition. many are taking part in the cosplay competitions, hoping to be picked to represent ireland

in the euro cosplay championships. others are here to play their favourite characters. running the cosplay side of things, is guild of nerds. i think years ago, cosplay was seen as sort of an oddity, but now it has become very mainstream, where like 50% of the convention will be in cosplay and i think in the last ten years, there's actually people who have made a living out of it. so, why has it become so big? i mean, how did it turn from a couple of people going to a convention in costume to all this? the internet. and there's some people who may be isolated, and when they come to conventions, that's when they can meet like—minded people and some people when they're actually in costume, they get a bit more confident and their acting in the character, it makes them act like the way they normally wouldn't. pretty much most people i know are introverts, but you see them and they will be extremely hyper. we are going to start things off, anyone who would like to come up in costume and show us something!

are you ready to start? if i rub this lamp, will i get three wishes? only if you say, "i wish." how about questions instead? but you still have to start them with, "i wish." oh, ok, well, iwish for you to tell me... tell me a little bit about the costumes and the competition here because it seems fierce to me. well honestly we are all... we are all big nerds. we love what we love. we all love anime, we all love videogames, we all love movies. like myself with aladdin, i have non—stop. .. non—stop been listing to the aladdin songs. on repeat, 24/7. oh dear! so now you get to, kind of, come and show your passion for this? yes, a lot of people here, we have our day jobs which go into our hobby, a lot of people can spend a lot of money. but some people — some people who start out especially, they could use their own clothes

at home, your costume could be just a tank top and shorts, something very basic. and, boom! you are cosplaying! so have you heard, just anecdotally, like, oh such and such spent like 2 grand on a dress? or... yeah! no, that's happened. that has happened a lot of times. back to the competition, and there has been a development. they have allowed me to come up on the judge's panel, and i even get to give my own specialjudge's award. a very wide array of costumes so far, including some pretty gory ones. contestants are judged on effort and performance for portraying the character, with those making their outfits from scratch gaining extra points. we all get to pick one place. oh, god! you've chosen all my picks! but it means i'm like, on point with myjudging. so that's good!

despite all the fun, there has been controversy over recent years about some cosplayers getting the wrong kind of attention, with accusations of sexual harassment, inappropriate behaviour and body shaming and offence. that's why this slogan, "cosplay is not consent", has started to appear at many conventions along with a set of rules that mean that nobody should be touched or photographed without their permission. hello, everybody! first of all, may i say, everybody‘s costumes were just incredible! thejudge's choice award to go to rachel smith, with her character, yennefer from witcher iii, looking incredibly awesome in black! for the winners, it is national cosplay glory. for the other entrants, there's always next year. i knew only very little

about cosplay before i came here, but i feel like it had a crash course and i found it to be such an interesting community of creative people but the most important thing that seems to have come across today, is the passion, and the dedication that people have towards embodying these characters they love so much. well, to finish off, we've got the perfect place to put the sun beats down in dubai pretty much all year round so you wouldn't think it is the best place to grow flowers but that hasn't stopped them creating one of the world's biggest outdoor gardens. we sent ade to go check it out. heading for the entrance here, at the miracle garden, three things immediately strike you. first, the smell, then it's the colour, and then it's the scale. this place is enormous!

since it opened on valentine's day back in 2013, almost 8 million people have come to take a look around the miracle garden. and i am off to meet the man whose idea it all was. it's full of surprises, where did you get your inspiration? actually, my inspiration, first of all, i am a landscaping engineer. and since i was a child, always reading about heaven, paradise, and it is filled with flowers, so always this idea in my brain, and always when i see my kids playing, you know, games on screens, on tv, i always... it comes to my mind, really i need something for people to go out. so this has inspired me to create something to take people outside, to take people to nature. and it is on such a grand scale! so many flowers here! how many flowers do you have in this park? we are always sustaining above 50 million flowers. 50 million flowers? yes. this place must take a lot of water, where do you get it from and how do you keep it sustainable?

we are using the recycled water from dubai municipality, so all the grey water over the city, the municipality recycle it and pump it to us and from our side we refilter this water and convert it to very high quality water. and what about your challenges? what is the biggest challenge for you? actually, the biggest challenge is just the wind. if we have strong wind, it is really our best challenge. we can't control it. we can control pests, we can control irrigation, temperature, everything can be controlled but not the wind. this place is like the chelsea flower show on steroids. but you know what i'm looking forward to? it's when all these people leave and i get to hang out with the gardeners and find out how they keep everything looking so immaculate. this place takes on a completely different aura at night, it is actually quite scary. those giant animals staring down at you, they feel more lifelike.

it hasjust gone 10:00, and it's only myself here and 200 gardeners that worked all night to keep this place looking pristine. i'm going to find one of them now. hello, ade! how are you? nice to meet you. lovely to meet you, this place is so different at night. of course it is. what is going on here? it seems like it's raining, should i have brought my umbrella? no need for that, just we are doing our irrigation work. we wait til the people leave the garden and then we start our irrigation. is there anything i can do to help? of course, you can do! as you can see here, we are approaching the sunflower. you can see how it is blooming, it is nice... it's beautiful! so we need to keep it beautiful, as you said. how we would do that, of course, we need to get rid of the dried ones. to trim it, prune it from time to time. so if you like, you can try by yourself. so, i'm looking for these dried

sunflowers where the leaves are... the wilted ones, the dried ones. i was speaking to one of the gardeners earlier and he said, you almost develop this relationship and a connection with the plants. i'm not even messing about, i feel like they are speaking to me. you know, these ones are saying, "stay away from me with those scissors! stay away from me, you madman!" now, this looks a little bit more complicated than what i was doing earlier. yes, of course. why is he shaving the clock? it is almost time for bed for me but the team of gardeners will be working here throughout the night until the gardens reopen to the public at 10:00 tomorrow morning. making sure that all of those millions of flowers are in blooming, tip—top condition. sorry if you're expecting to watch sports day, our sports news room is having technical problems, so for now, he has clicked.

a warm welcome to click. welcome to click. welcome to click, i am spencer kelly. finally we have reached a very special milestone. we have been on air every week of every year, without a break, since we launched in the year 2000, which means this week you are watching season 1, episode 1000. and to celebrate, we are making a world first. doing new things is in our dna. i am floating on air.

which is why we don't just show you the tech, we use the tech to push the boundaries of what's possible on tv. here is the team. it is marc on camera one and two, simon on camera three and four, jen on five, nima on six and seven, ben on eight and this is thalia on nine. this was the world's first full tv programme to be filmed and edited only on mobile devices. fyi, it was a nightmare. this week's click has been filmed entirely in 360 degrees. this was another world first, where we reinvented how tv was made, for an audience that could look in any direction at any time. and this week, for click 1000, we have really gone for it. do i explore the cave, or do i look behind the tree?

i'll explore the cave. so turn to page 8a. this is how i spent a lot of my childhood, reading books where i could choose my own adventure, where at every point, i got to decide what happened next, and every time i read it, the story changed. i absolutely loved them. not only was i in a different world, but because i was in charge of the story, that story came to life. it felt so real. come on then, spen. so, after choose your own adventure books, came computer adventure games, first with text, and then with amazing graphics. but both would let me explore vast worlds, bigger than any book.

the problem is tv doesn't let us do that. it tells one story, it makes one set of choices, and we just sit back and watch. until now. i demand freedom! imagine if everything that you watched was interactive, and if you could change your experiences depending on your mood, your desires, or even how much time you had. if you go online at the address that's on—screen now, you will find a special version of this programme that is interactive. you get to choose which tech stories you hear about, and in how much detail. as you watch, you'll be given options to dive deeper, or maybe to look at things from a different perspective, or maybe to skip one entirely. the technology used to make this possible is known as object based media, or obm, and it could be the future of how we watch video content.

broadcasters have been developing the tech for years now. bbc r&d has explored the concept with various online tutorials. the step by step nature of obm is particularly useful there. netflix has had a dabble with its puss in boots, and more recently, with charlie brooker‘s interactive bandersnatch. and now, premiering the bbc‘s first ever obm tv show is us. to say it's been a tricky, brain—melting minefield would be an understatement. it's a little bit like trying to pick up ants from space using tweezers with a blindfold on. these are all the plans that we've made to figure out how we're going to structure this episode. doing obm is really different because you have to think of the story in different ways, because people might have seen other bits of the story,

they might have chosen different path through the story. i have been told to create 700 million versions. it has taken more brainpower than any episode i have ever worked on, and more teamwork, to get the thing out there. trust me, we're not talking to each other the moment. what does that stand for? wizard. but we couldn't have done it without r&d‘s otherworldly expertise. matthew and his team have been devising an obm strategy for the last few years. a couple of years ago we decided we wanted to try and transfer this capability to create this stuff. we were busy engineering it, but we didn't have any tools. so we decided to build a story kit, essentially. custom—made software can handle hundreds of pieces of content, like video, audio and text, and put them together on the fly, as viewers make their choices. so it's a tool that is aimed at producers who have no hot software development skills,

so the whole idea was to allow these people to then easily use an interface like a drag—and—drop interface like story former, to create those experiences. all in all, we think we have 148 different chunks of video, which to my mind makes about a gazillion different paths through the content. also tons of footage, and we've used up every hard drive that we have. i suppose it's been keeping me up at night, thinking are we going to get it finished in time? it really has been a challenging process. there's been times when i had to dojust like... but we think, we really think, it's been worth it. putting you in the driving seat will mean, hopefully, you at home can enjoy the show more than ever before more. at the core of being able to give you all these choices is the idea of branching narratives, possible options that lead onto the next bit, or reroute you to a park where the story can flow from there.

to get advice on how to create a multiple—choice click, i went to create one of the creators of the fighting fantasy books i grew up with, ian livingstone. it involves writing multiple storylines at once. and how i used to do it was create a map, on which i kept a record of all the encounters as you went through the adventure. it's giving you a choice like do you want to turn left or right, which is a simple choice, or do you want to try and tiptoe past the sleeping goblin or attack him with your sword. and the choices are quite varied. so when i'm writing i have to keep a record of where the reader would go. so if you make this choice, i need to make sure that they can actually get out of there, and then these are all the encounters. they find gold, they find treasure, they find magical items. can i show you our version of an adventure map? this is the layout of this actual interview, which is multichoice. what do you think? minimalist.

not too many options, so we should be done in less than four hours. because it can take you days to get through a fighting fantasy game book. good luck on your adventure. that was ian livingstone talking to one of his biggest fanboys. now, currently, normaltv doesn't allow us to show you a fully interactive programme, so to give you a feel of what click obm will be like when you watch it online, we've added a dash of it to this week's tech news. you will see some options pop up on screen. you won't be able to click them, we will do that for you. but it should give you an idea of what to expect. here is lara. hello and welcome to the week in tech. this week, the church of england issued its first guidelines for social media users. its release came the same time as the archbishop of canterbury streamed his own live video.

nearly a decade ago, alphabet, the company that owns google, announced its balloon spin out, loon. this promised floating masts which would deliver 4g services to the world's most remote places. it is now planning to launch its own trial with african telecom. loon‘s balloons are each the size of a tennis court, but they need to be as they are filled with enough helium to keep them afloat while carrying solar powered networking gear. this robot there is quite aptly called huggable. the new trial suggests it could help poorly children feel better in hospital. more than 50 sick kids took part in the study with mit media lab, northeastern university and boston children's hospital. the hi—tech toy not only brought out more smiles, but also got the kids out of bed

to be more active too. huggable is far from the only cute robot on the block, though. in europe, this little robot even goes to school for sick children. this means they can virtually attend classes and play with their friends. and finally, an american artist has built robotic arms to let you poke, inflate and generally play around with famous paintings. neil mendoza's mechanical masterpieces is displayed at the children's museum of pittsburgh. that's it. that is the short version of click but check out the long version this week. the machine keeps on turning next week to celebrate the anniversary

of the moon landings. we will bring you click 1001, a space odyssey. until then, on behalf of everyone who has worked on this programme and there have been many, thank you very much, thank you for watching and taking part and we will see you soon. hello there, cloudy skies certainly across southern half of the country today but still fine for most, rain and has not amounted to a great deal for many, but it's freshening up behind the weather front. glorious day as you can see here, looking out

over the irish sea, different pictures siding i did the quad. it's still quite great at times underneath the weather front but it's a fairly weak they are starting to dim the light across the southeast of england, may bring a few splashes of rain this evening. this is the reality, a little while ago clear skies behind it like a cloud across northern scotland, so bright rather than signing here, could be the odd spot of rain around from showers here, but actually through the night divided front continues meandering progress southwards, still quite warm across southern areas especially to have rain but actually fresh night notably cell across wales midlands east anglia northern england, cooler still across scotland, showers last night prevalent across northern islands and north of scotland which will be with us into our second bite at the weekend into sunday, whether from still dragging its heels were elected to clear away from southern

england may extend the clop of the coast for a time by a shed either way, as most would see sunshine cloud bouncing later in the day, but actually we are really chasing things to say there'll be a few showers here and there and northeast scotla nd showers here and there and northeast scotland but pretty one. light wind and sunshine and strong sunshine. continuing from any of us, and to monday, odd shower and eastern areas and at the day progresses cloud builds up and frank cloud, layered clouds to build up across northern ireland but it looks like later in the day playing the weather system coming in to and pushing east during the crisis to stay because we have a range of high—pressure hanging on, airplay on wimbledon but then tuesday, but accomplishing across scotla nd tuesday, but accomplishing across scotland and northern ireland as well so we will see parts of northern england as well, different sort of day by the annular receipt showers and long spells of rain and clouds farther south as you can see

terence moore and settled further south as we head to the end of the week with showers. more unsettled looking we can next week but still fairly pleasantly warm temperatures in the high teens and low 20s and that's how the weather should be this time of year.

this is bbc news. the headlines at eight: conservative party members are warned not to vote more than once in the leadership election, after a bbc investigation found some had received multiple ballot papers. murderers who refuse to say where they've buried their victims could be more easily denied parole — under a proposed new law. about 20 people are injured — two seriously — after a powerful gas explosion rocked a florida shopping center. a second earthquake in a matter of days. police say it's hard for the world to understand just what southern californians have been through. by the grace of god we have had no casualties and we have only had minor injuries. which is amazing considering these two big earthquakes