asking them to let me know steps and asking them to let me know their views and they have been strong in their indication to me. thank you very much. we will have full coverage of the bbc debate on monday evening with sophie raworth and chris mason and we will have full coverage between eight and nine in the run up and in the aftermath reaction from both camps. join me for that on monday evening. before we go pictures of crop fires. eight fire engines, all terrain vehicles and a bulk water carrier were sent to the scene. firefighters took people in the area to safety. there are no reports of any injuries.

hello there. we've had some warm sunshine with temperatures in the high 20s across eastern england but elsewhere it's been a rather cloudy day with some rain around at times, some damp weather across the south west with a bit of mist at times, too. now, overnight tonight, south—westerly winds will continue to bring some further pulses of rain with low pressure firmly in charge of our weather. no real rain, though, for the south east, where we desperately need it, and our temperatures on the warm side — 16 to 18 degrees, feeling a little on the humid side, probably some mist and low cloud around some of our western hills to start the day on sunday. sunday, more rain in the forecast, heavy at times for scotland and northern ireland. a pulse of rain likely to cross wales, perhaps reaching the north midlands, the peaks and the pennines through the afternoon. south—east of this, it's drier with some sunshine. temperatures across the board higher — much warmer in aberdeen — but the highest temperatures have been east anglia, where we're looking at up to 30, so it will be hot afternoon. more dry weather for england and wales in the week ahead, but across the north—west of the uk,

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spencer: we've got a tasty programme for you this week. when is chocolate not chocolate? when it's made of... lara: kinky salts! don't knock it till you've tried it! right. lj's feeling out of this world as she explores the new ways to tidy up high—speed space trash. we're going to be bathed in lights and sounds, and apart from that, i have no idea what to expect. and spencer takes a trip to an inner world. yeah, i'm looking at the inside of my own brain. 0h, did you find it? how dare you! 0k, what's this one? erm... oh, that's nice. that's 70% dark, isn't it? good. you know your stuff. mm—hm. and this one?

oh, that's very bitter. i'd go 90%. yeah? yeah, you're doing well. now for the big one. there you go. oh, gosh! 0h! oh, that's 100% chocolate, isn't it? oh, that is awful. you did volunteer to be the one to eat the chocolate. tastes like tarmac. cocoa is, of course, the main ingredient of chocolate, and it does have its impact on the environment as well as the communities that harvest it. so my question to you is, do you think it's possible to create something that tasted like that chocolate without the cocoa? well, you could probably create something that's brown, sweet stuff. but if it doesn't have cocoa in, it's not chocolate, right? well, i've been to see a man who lives on a boat who's been stirring the pot. material scientist drjohnny drain likes to wonder what things could be made of, whether it's a smartphone screen, the michelin—star restaurant dishes he's created or wanting to figure out how to replace cocoa. this is the lab on the boat

where the chocolate story begins. oh, wow. come on board. thank you. what's this?! so this is some of the ingredients that we started developing the chocolate with. kinky salt. kinky salts. that's various funky salts from different places all over the world on my travels. dried shrimp. that's not in the chocolate, is it? that is not. and there's some raw cacao, which we were trying to imitate at the very start. but of all the things we try to find replacements for, cocoa may not be an obvious one. what most people don't realise about cocoa and chocolate is that about 70% of it is produced injust two countries in west africa, ghana and ivory coast, in a way that involves outsized water consumption, so about 20,000 litres of water per kilo, and that's way more than beef or soy or avocados. and there are issues with labour in those parts of the world. at a conservative estimate,

it's thought that 1.5 million children are on these cacao farms, working with their families, predominantly. is this, however, not taking away income from countries that really need it? those countries do need that income and those hardworking farmers need to be supported. but the state of the current cacao and chocolate industry is such that those people are working on a dollar or less a day, and it's not an equitable trade. so, this isjohnny�*s story. i grew up in birmingham near the cadbury's chocolate factory, so sometimes we could smell the roasting beans, and it was delicious. so i've always eaten a lot of chocolate. and i started thinking, "why does chocolate taste like chocolate ? " and, you know, if you put your scientist hat on, it's just a bunch of compounds. and it's quite complex, but essentially it's just a bunch of compounds. and then thinking, well, can you make that flavour profile starting from something that's not cacao beans? could you start with potatoes or rice? and what is it made from? well, we can't tell you the secrets of exactly

what we do, but our hero ingredients are barley, which has this rich tradition of being used to make whisky and beer, and also carob. and we found using this combination of fermentation and roasting, which is what you do to turn cacao into chocolate, we've taken that principle, that philosophy, and turned these ingredients into our alt—choc. and that magic of mixing now happens in the lab. talk me through the process. where does it all start? melt the fat if it needs - melting and thenjust mix it all in the melanger. so, it keeps grinding for 48 hours. - and after that, yeah, - we just proceed to temper the chocolate and mould it. so this machine's got to keep going for 48 hours. yeah, that's correct. it looks like it's pretty well mixed now after about 20 seconds. but that's not mixed? no, it's not, because it's. all about the particle size.

so you want to have, like, i the smallest size as possible so you get a nice mouthfeelj in your mouth and you don't feel the different grains - of the different ingredients. wow, that's quite a process. does normal chocolate go through something like that, as well? yeah, usually it's around that time — a bit less, a bit more. | it depends on the type of - chocolate that you're having. something i never knew about chocolate. no, it's very - scientific, actually. yeah. that's science resulting in a mixture containing 15% less sugar than its chocolate equivalent. and it's full of antioxidants and flavonoids. but how does it taste? ok, that is looking particularly appetising, so i'll go for this first. right. eating on camera is always very messy. mm! absolutely delicious, but i genuinely wouldn't know that that wasn't cocoa. amazing. it tastes... i would think that was about 60 to 70% cocoa.

that's what we're aiming at with these ones, yeah. yeah. and that is the chocolate that i like. so, my daughter, who loves a kind of cadbury's or galaxy milk chocolate, i'm not sure how she'd feel about it. but for someone who is into dark chocolate, wow, i genuinely can't tell the difference. what's your price point going to be like? initially, we'll go in at that level of luxury premium dark chocolate. but within two years we aim to have price parity with mass—produced milk—chocolate prices. and are you going to produce something which is more like the milk chocolate? we'll do both, and we might even do a white chocolate, ultimately. there are another couple of companies in this space, too. but wnwn's bars will go on sale later this year. and they're not only for humans to enjoy. with no theobromine in it, unlike regular chocolate, you can give a piece to your dog... ..if you can bear to part with it. mm!

lovely. right, be honest. how many takes did you need for that? they only let me have one of each. i believe you! we believe her, don't we, boys and girls? right, i've got a question for you now. have you ever used a dating app? no. i've been married since before i even had a smartphone. wow. how about you ? don't ask, actually. 0k. tinder�*s the big one, though, isn't it? it is. and would you believe that tinder is now ten years old? wow. a decade of people swiping left and right. exactly. and for the first time now, the company is being run by a woman. but the question is, how does having a female boss affect something like a dating app? shiona mccallum's gained exclusive access to find out. let's put a bit of texture in. now relax. they laugh my name is renate nyborg. i'm the ceo of tinder, and i have the honour of allowing people all over the world to experience the magic of human connection. i actually met my future

husband on tinder. - i was on tinder six years ago until i found my boyfriend in 2017. as the first female ceo of tinder, do you feel more of a responsibility towards women on the app? i felt like we could do more to specifically focus on the experiences women were having. we increased the number of women on the product team, so the people designing the experiences...the technologies on the app by 30%. does more need to be done to increase the awareness of the safety features on tinder? since i became ceo, we've started making trust and safety the heart of some of our marketing campaigns. i think the safety features could be a bit better. i personally didn't have any. negative safety experiences. i feel like i have to be extra cautious about my safety. i mean, being a south african woman, south africa is not the safest country for a minority. 0n tinder, we encourage

everyone to be verified. and just in the months that it's been live, we've seen that almost half of our members will self—select to verify themselves. ultimately, i don't think it'sj tinder's100% responsibility to look after us. i think we have to put some personal measures in place| to keep ourselves safe. before i go on a date, there are all these funny measures i take. you know, i'll have to tell two friends, i'll have to have a code word. i have to have live location on whatsapp. it's a whole lot of admin. i would make sure that i facetime with these i guys before i met them. i wouldn't just go out - with them not having actually seen that their photo matched the person that they were. - we have a feature called does this bother you?, which makes it really easy to report something that you may not feel entirely comfortable with. we've seen an increase of 50% in people reporting things that they may not like. there's been an increase of crimes like sexual violence reported starting on dating apps. how does tinder plan

to tackle this for women? we're partnering with a uk ngo called no more, whose mission it is to end domestic violence and assault. the way that you interact with someone literally from the very first message may set the tone for the relationships that you have. what's your future vision for tinder? i believe that from the next decade onwards, most new connections, most new relationships will start online, and so we see it as our responsibility to really ensure that those connections that start on tinder, that start with that first swipe, are positive relationships. i've had the most adventurous romantic encounters from - partners i've met on tinder. it is a good way to meet people. so i recommend it, but with some safety caveats that you take yourself and obviously the features that tinder's introduced. tinder used to be the sort of, l like, hookup app, but i've been hearing more and more success stories of couples _ staying together. and so if we can, you know...

..if your app can create those sorts of relationships - by saying, "hey, we're - going to make it really safe "for you guys," people might stay in touch a lot longer, i feel more comfortable - going out and meeting people they normally never would. people will come up to me and tell me all kinds of stories. sometimes they found their best friend on tinder, sometimes they found their business partner. but most of the time it's the romantic stories that they have to tell. time for a look at this week's tech news. first up, snapchat is coming to computers. a new snapchat for the web will let users send snaps and make phone calls from their pcs. the tool is being launched in some english—speaking countries first and will be rolled out worldwide later. twitchcon has taken place in amsterdam. the convention is a gathering place for streamers and a celebration of all things twitch streaming, and it's run by the company itself. but flight cancellations at schiphol airport have left some users annoyed — and you don't want to upset a twitch

streamer. that they didn't send a single member of staff to see if we were 0k is absolutely disgraceful. so myself and god knows how many other people were left stranded last night, and probably the next few nights, in amsterdam with no... we were literally left there after waiting at an airport for ten or 11 hours. lab—grown meat company meatable has unveiled its first cultivated pork sausage. it has been working on the product since 2018 and hopes to start selling it to consumers by 2025. and microsoft has launched a flight simulator for drones. dubbed project airsim, the tool is intended to train the artificial intelligence systems of autonomous aircraft. lj: space, the filthy frontier. humans successfully put their first object into space

in 1957, the sputnik satellite. and after 75 years of spacecraft being sent into orbit, it's a lot easier to go for launch but a lot messier once you're up there. governments now have to share space with private companies, and without much in the way of regulation, it's starting to get so congested we don't know exactly what's up there any more — some estimates say around 5,000 satellites in orbit with fewer than half actually working. and when a satellite stops functioning, it still keeps orbiting, which is a problem for the useful ones. satellites, when they die on these orbital highways, theyjust keep on going at these very fast speeds. some of the relative speeds between satellites that are crisscrossing each other is like 15 times the speed of a bullet. so that's pretty gnarly to think about. and, yeah, every once in a while, two of these things find each other in space

at these very high speeds, collide and break up into very smaller pieces and that sort of stuff. and most of the things that could damage a satellite that's providing a service or a capability that we care about, most of those things are not trackable because they're too small. moriba's co—founder of privateer, which tracks space debris. it aims to collect information from many different origins, like telescopes and radars, physical sensors, even news articles, and turn it into usable data for developers. imagine a massive machine—readable spreadsheet where all the data is lined up so the column headings make sense. it's one of many companies and space agencies taking part in the summit for space sustainability at london's science museum. these are the people hoping to clean up up there. and it's harder than you think, because you can't exactly use a vacuum cleaner in a vacuum. one solution is on—orbit servicing, removing old satellites and refuelling others — yes, a robot mechanic

and tow truck in space. another outfit, clearspace's, concept shows four arms to catch and hug a dead satellite before cruelly pulling it into the atmosphere to burn it up! sounds complicated ? well, it is rocket science. it is hard, technically. so, going up to space i and removing a satellite with some claws, robotic armj or some nets, it's hard to do, right, because operating - a robot from hundreds of miles away is tough to do. but it's also tough - politically and economically, and with regulations, l because there's no real rules that govern how l we work in outer space. like me and the attendees, you'll have worked out why we want to keep things clean in orbit. we use satellites to check the weather, find our way around, even for financial transactions. and a quick look at nasa's interactive website, eyes on the earth, shows there's so much more we can do from space to help with earthbound challenges like climate change.

so what sort of things can be measured from space that we might not know about? so, space data and measurements give us notjust beautiful pictures of the earth but also information about weather changes, the climate data, population density and other things that all can be integrated into the solutions that we really need. and here i'm talking about giving farmers, for example, real—time data about when's the best time to plant their harvests and when is the best time to harvest their fields. so we depend on space every day. check. and it needs to be tidied up. check. so how do we help humans think as one big tribe? i mean, we allshare this planet, right? it's not going to be any one thing. governments are going to have to have more regulation. companies are going to have to engage in shared best practices. companies are going to have to exchange information. academia is going to have to continue to study this and give us the data so we can make decisions.

most interestingly, these solutions come from companies that compete and cooperate with each other at the same time, an incredibly effective business model, sharing data and ideas to accelerate progress for everyone, because speed is of the essence when it comes to cleaning up after ourselves, then we can keep those orbital highways open for the next generation and beyond. spencer: that was lj cleaning up her space. 0k, your turn to close your eyes now. 0k. all right. i'm going to do this. now, what can you see? erm, patterns? yeah. so, when people look at flickering lights through closed eyelids, different people see different things. it's like when you're on a train and the light�*s shining behind the trees and it comes and goes. exactly. and this is a phenomenon that's been known... you can open your eyes now, by the way. this is a phenomena that's been known about for quite a while. but now there is an experience which is part science,

part art, part music and part light that's trying to find out more about how your brain works. and it's pretty trippy. in this building... ..in this room... ..i'm about to have an experience. what kind of experience? possibly this kind of experience. what i saw was like a deep sea. so it's like a sea, and i'm walking down the stairs into the water, and the water is very blue. and i step in the water to feel the atmosphere. and ifelt calm. we've all been given blankets. we've been told that we've got to sit back and close our eyes and then we're going to be bathed in lights and sounds. and apart from that, i have no idea what to expect. so...here goes nothing. with this project, we wanted to give people a kind of experience where they for themselves recognise the power of their brain in generating everything they experience.

i'm in the dreamachine, a 30—minute sound and light show which you experience with your eyes closed. sounds weird, i know, and i think it's going to be. and, apparently, even though we're all under the same lights, our brains will do different things. some people see shapes and colours. some people are, like, just dreaming or having images of, i don't know, the sunshine or nature or the ocean or colours and rainbows and travelling through space and dimensions. the lights go down, the music comes up and the dreamachine begins. now, the full experience uses strobe lighting, which we can't show you on tv and which means that those who are sensitive to flashing lights will need to do

the more gentle version. but what i felt and what i saw, even though my eyes were closed, was really unexpected. even though the strobes are only white light, through my eyelids i saw a kaleidoscope of colours. this is my best attempt to show you the kind of things that i experienced. and along with intricate, swirling and sparkling patterns, there was even something that looked a bit like i was flying through clouds. my brain seemed to take its best guess at what was going on based on the light signals that it was getting. your brain is always trying to figure out what's going on, and we project patterns into things. and in the dreamachine this is happening, i think to a large extent because the brain is not actually getting any structured visual input. it'sjust white light, it's just flickering white light. the brain is trying to make

sense of it somehow, and it's very hard for it to make sense of what's going on so it makes up a lot of stuff. it makes up stuff that is, i think, very closely related to the underlying wiring of the brain. after the experience, we're invited to try and record what we saw by drawing or using particle simulators. but it was talking about it with my producer romana where we could best record our different experiences. i think the thing that was most amazing immediately was all the colours that i saw. i had loads of colours, whereas you... just the blues and reds. yeah. no, i really enjoyed it, because i usually don't switch off easily, and here i am very much switched off. do you think you have no choice because your senses are being overwhelmed ? so for people who can't do it in calm situations, if you do the opposite and overwhelm people's senses, they have no choice but to go into almost a defensive meditative state.

i think, yeah, because it's really hard for me to enter that stage where i don't have mental chatter, where my mental chatter was gone. but then i was also not "sleeping" sleeping. so it was, i guess, what they say with different brain wavelengths. i'd love to see, actually — which one was i on? and it turns out that romana was spot—on. we use a number of different frequencies in the dreamachine of the flashing light, but the frequencies that are most effective are ones that are around 10 hertz, ten cycles per second, because that's a similar frequency to what we call the alpha rhythm in the brain. one of the things that's happening in the dreamachine is that your brain is syncing to the frequency of the light. the dreamachine was, for me, calming but fascinating. and through thousands of drawings from participants, plus an accompanying online perception census, anil is hoping to learn more about how and why each of us experiences the world differently.

the patterns that people see, the colours that people see, the movement that people see, that's very, very tightly linked to the organisation, the wiring, if you like, of the visual cortex in the brain. and it seems that what's happening is that by the strobe light activating the visual cortex in a situation where it's not expecting to be activated because your eyes are closed, deep—seated aspects of the wiring of the brain itself kind of surface into our experience. we see reflections and shadows of the brain looking at itself. you felt like you were flying. did you really feel weightless? not really. i think my brain was just trying to take its best guess at what was going on based on the signals that it was getting. and everyone has a different experience. they do. and that's why they're trying to get as many people involved as possible, so the dreamachine is leaving london this weekend and then it's going on to belfast and to edinburgh. anyway, that's it from us. i'm going to make lara try

and feel like she's flying now. 0k. and i'm going to feed spencer some more chocolate. who needs dating apps, eh? see you. bye— bye! hello there. there have been some fairly big weather contrasts across the uk today. across western areas we've had some thicker cloud bringing outbreaks of rain. some wet weather near the belfast area earlier on today, but it's not been like that everywhere. again, across parts of south east england, east anglia, running up into north yorkshire, even, we've had lots of sunshine, so it's been another dry day and that's really been one of the themes of this month. we've hardly had any rain across southern wales, southern and eastern areas of england — indeed, there are some parts of hampshire that haven't had any real recordable rain so far this month, and there might not be much here,

because although there is going to be rain for the next few days, the majority of it will be across north—western areas. there'll be little, if anything, reaching parts of south east england, the south midlands and east anglia, those areas that have been particularly dry so far this month. now the radar picture does pick up some rainfall, but the heaviest rain today has been across northern ireland and western scotland. the rain is a bit more patchy further south, but overnight tonight, the brisk south—westerly winds will continue to bring pulses of rain across these areas, whereas across the southeast, the rain never really reaches. it's going to be a warm night. temperatures falling no lower than 16 to 18 degrees. and you'll probably find some low cloud and a bit of mist around some of our western hills to start the day on sunday. the same area of low pressure is with us, then, for tomorrow's weather, bringing some rain to north western areas, but some warm weather working into east anglia and the south east, where it should stay dry for just about everyone. the rain will be heavy at times for northern ireland and for western scotland. the rain a bit patchy in nature

as it works across wales, probably reaching the north midlands, the peaks and the pennines for a time, as well. and it's a warmer day for most of us with temperatures 21 to 2a, much warmer in aberdeen, but the highest temperatures in east anglia could hit the 30 degrees celsius mark, so a hot day here. now for monday, things will start to cool down. the same area of low pressure is with us, but as it starts to pull away, we get these north westerly winds bringing a mixture of sunshine and showers, maybe some of those showers bringing some lengthier spells of rain as they merge together across eastern scotland and north—east england. so, temperatures down, but still warm across eastern areas, 25 degrees, but otherwise high teens to low 20s. and looking at the forecast in the week ahead, high pressure continues to bring settled sunny weather to england and wales with rising temperatures. there'll be some rain at times in the northwest.

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