it's really sad. well, is there a fine line, though, when it comes to saying an experience where you want to make it engaging but maybe not too immersive? you shouldn't overwhelm someone, emotionally. and i think especially because of this, we decided to use 3d animations. it makes things real, but it's not realistic. and so you get a sense of what was going on and of course you hear from inge first hand, but still, you know, there's some sort of a distance because it's not like you see real soldiers, it's not like you see real people getting hurt. i've been working on genocide and holocaust commemoration issues for many years. these topics are not easy. the immersive part of it really

makes you also feel like you're part of the life of the people and seeing inge where she is today and seeing that there is a life for survivors and how she made a life for herself and how strong she is. have you got to try the experience yourself? have you seen what you look like in virtual reality? yeah. yes, i look pretty good. i was satisfied. when you read a book, sometimes you would like to speak to that person in the book, to converse with that person but you can't, you have to continue reading. and i think this way, this new method gives you this insight. unfortunately, you can't ask anger any old question. it has to be in some way connected to answers that she originally recorded. but what's really clever here is how the application expands once you get to know inge more. her grandad's just popped up there. as your curiosity peaks and you come

back to inge after the first story has been told, you find there's a sequel to that, some follow up that you can then ask about, which then takes you on this journey and these branches through her life. and that's how we structured this, not as a linear storytelling — we're not watching a movie, we are actually delving into her life and allowing, just as we would do in conversation, different aspects of that life to unfold as we talk to her. right now, you can only hear from inge in english and german, but down the line, stephen says, using ai, she could be translated into various languages so everyone can access it. what was the experience like, being in the studio, being asked all these questions? i don't know, i'm a talker, i don't mind answering anything because when i'm gone, i'm gone. it's finished, history is gone. this is more than bringing back a dead person, you know, because that's not possible. but this way, you can make

that person give them a thousand years of life. i think that's wonderful. now, there's been a recent explosion of misinformation on social media encouraging women to ditch hormonal contraception due to fears about side effects. and influencers are promoting the use of apps to prevent pregnancy instead. investigative journalist katie mcevinney has been meeting women who've used these apps, with a very mixed bag of results. let's take control of our fertility. so—called natural alternatives to hormonal contraception are everywhere on social media, from the fertility awareness method to period tracking apps. this is my birth control. one popular app is called natural cycles. with 2.5 million registered users, it sells itself as digital contraception.

the company behind it says it is 93% effective with typical use, the same, they say, as the pill. and influencers advertise it a lot. this is my app. foramelia, it's worked for five years. she tracks her fertility by measuring her temperature. you press the button. so you just put it under your tongue and you wait for it to beep. beep. like that. and it'll tell you what your temperature is. so you put in your temperature for the day. if you're sick, it could change your temperature, obviously, like if you didn't sleep very well, if you're hung over, then it kind of discounts your temperature for that day. that's something that i would really worry about. like if you have a long lie—in or you're hung over, it would affect how accurate? yeah, it definitely does. so it like rules out that whole temperature for that day.

it tells you when you're not fertile and when you're fertile. so when it says not fertile, it's safe to have unprotected sex. but if it changes to red, that means you need to be more careful and use a condom if you're having sex. it's made a big difference and that i'm not relying on a hormonal pill every day that could mess with my mood. it does take a lot of work on your part to get used to taking your temperature and putting it in the app. it works for amelia, but does it work for everyone? say hi! meet penelope, matilda's much loved but very unexpected baby girl. matilda tried the pill, the injection, and the coil, but none of them suited her. i went back to the doctors and within like a couple of weeks i felt back to myself again, but was of course, suffering with my period still. i didn't want to go on any hormonal contraception. i don't feel like anything's suited me. i've been doing this for like eight years at this point from like 12

to 20 where i'm either bleeding all the time or not bleeding or suffering and in pain. and theyjust kind of turned around and said that there wasn't really anything that you could do to help with that. at this point, i'm, like, 22 in a relationship, but by no means at a point where i'm ready to like try for a baby or have a family. she says she found natural cycles advertised on social media and followed the apps instructions immediately. ijust saw, i think, green and red. most people think if you sat at a traffic light, red mean stop, green means go. i assume the fact that i entered my data meant that they knew enough about my body and my cycle that i could be having unprotected sex. i had been using it from the december and by the january i'd found out that i was pregnant. natural cycles says the app is effective from day one and that it will only give you green days when it has enough data to do so. i think effective from day one is a very bold statement to make. i think the app putting something

forward that after six months you can be having a happy and hormone free life — that would be a better statement to make than saying it's effective from day one, but that was definitely what attracted me to the app in the first place. for someone who may be getting pregnant today wasn't quite the plan, but if it happened, it would still be a happy surprise. then methods that are a bit less effective, like the period apps can be great for them. but for somebody who really doesn't want to be pregnant, actually ditching potentially a very effective method of contraception for an app that requires a lot of user input and might be less effective is really worrying. natural cycles told us that no method of contraception is 100% effective, even when used perfectly. in a statement, it said less than one in 100 women become pregnant due to the algorithm

assigning a green day when a user is fertile. and the methods real life effectiveness is the same as its published rates. and that's it for the short version of the programme. full length show can be found on iplayer. yeah, thanks for watching, we'll see you soon. bye. hi, i'm levi with the catchup. tonight, new pictures of sara sharif. an asteroid heading to earth. and a feathery pillow. but first let's start with some positive news. an eight—year—old girl has become

the first child in the uk to receive a special type of kidney transplant that means she doesn't have to take long—term drugs to stop her body from rejecting it. doctors did it by reprogramming her immune system and using bone marrow cells from her mum. here is her parents' reaction. so happy, actually. yes, i had given the blood cells and the kidney. i am so happy, yes, of course. i feel perfectly 0k, yes. i am so proud of her. she is amazing, she is doing very fine each and every day. some other stories now. new images have been released of ten—year—old sara sharif whose body was found at her home in woking in august. surrey police have released the pictures in hope that it will prompt people to come forward with information. tributes are being paid to sheffield united midfielder maddy cusack who has died at the age of 27. she had been at the club since 2017 and became the first player to reach 100 appearances for the women's team last season. and in science, this weekend,

a capsule is expected to forefront space and land on the american state of utah. it contains rocks and dust from an asteroid which could give important clues about how our planet was formed more than four billion years ago. and now i'll leave you with ten seconds of laughter. michael from nottingham was walking to the shops when a pigeon crashed into him and hit him on the head. he said it felt like being whacked with a feather pillow. hope you enjoyed that as much as i did. have a good night. hello. it's the autumn equinox on saturday morning so the first day of autumn, officially. how about the weather? it's looking a little mixed this weekend and quite an interesting headline there. the tail end of a hurricane is expected to bring us some warm weather to some parts of the country, but also a dose of wind and rain.

and here it is, hurricane nigel soon to become an ex hurricane, also being absorbed by the weather systems in the mid—latitudes and all of that is heading our way. and also a south south—westerly wind ahead of it will develop, ahead of this large area of low pressure and that means somewhat warmer weather streaming in from the south. so it's a tale of two halves, quite literally. so the forecast sent through the early morning shows clear skies across most of the uk. having said that, it is going to be quite chilly despite this remnant storm heading our way. temperatures will be around eight degrees even in the south of the country and close to freezing, if not below, in the sheltered glens of scotland. now, here it is, that weather front by this stage bringing cloud, a shield of cloud to northern ireland, wales, and the southwest. within it, some outbreaks of rain. but out towards the east and the north, it's a cracking day both in the morning and the afternoon. we're expecting sunny spells, temperatures around 18 in london,

a bit fresher there in scotland. and then it's saturday night into sunday that that weather front sweeps across the uk. the winds will freshen and we are expecting some rain. some of the rain will be heavy at times. so here's the forecast then out towards the west and the north, increasing winds, gale force winds around some of the coasts and some heavy rain at times. the further east and southeast you are, the sunnier and warmer it will be. in fact, 20 degrees in london. but even further north where it's cloudy and rainy, temperatures will be close to 20. but let's take a closer look. and here are the gusts of wind, 50 to even 60 miles an hour. now, that is a strong wind blowing out to the south. and then all of that rain sweeping across the country as well sunday evening into the early hours of monday. now, here's the outlook into the week ahead. those temperatures remain in the low 20s across the south of the country. but be warned, at times we could be seeing some pretty gusty, rainy, windy weather in the week ahead. bye— bye.

live from washington. this is bbc news. ukrainian president zelensky makes an appeal to another key ally — amid a crucial wartime push. us democratic senator bob menedez is facing growing pressure to resign after being indicted on bribery charges. us democratic senator bob menedez is facing growing pressure to resign after being indicted on bribery charges. and us president biden willjoin thousands of auto workers on the picket line on tuesday, as the strike expands. hello i'm caitriona perry. you're very welcome.

we begin with the war in ukraine — and kyiv claims — it has struck the headquarters of russia's black sea naval fleet in occupied crimea. black smoke was still rising from sevastopol hours after the attack. russia's ministry of defence said one serviceman was missing. james waterhouse has the latest from kyiv. this is clearly a continuation of ukraine's tactic of specifically targeting sites in occupied crimea, but the apparent direct hit of russia's naval headquarters in sevastopol is hugely symbolic. it's not yet clear what operational damage will be caused for russia, but this is a place where it has exerted such dominance through its navy, where it launches missiles across ukraine, it blockades ukrainian ports. and i think what this attack does is undermine russia's