we've got a camera system that scans it. we then automatically map out the most effective way for all the panels to fit on that, and then it cuts them all out perfectly. and there's the sewing room, rows of giant sewing machines, creating more options than most of us could probably even think up. mesmerising to watch. you can even have your name embroidered on the seat he wanted. we talk so much on this program about automation, but what's really struck me here today is how many of the processes are still hand—crafted. except there's one key part of the car that's about to leap into the 21st century. bentley is planning to replace its famed 12 cylinder engine with an electric motor across its range by 2030. it's investing two and one half billion pound to achieve it. but is it ready?

we're extremely ready. 100% by 2030, battery, electrici vehicle and fully carbon neutral. but i didn't get to see bentley's new electric car. not even a prototype. everything about the car is really hush hush, including the price. what price will it start out? the electric. we're not given the prices yet. but there will be a whole range of cars five models. _ if you take our current position, - they sourced 170,000 now and we top out at about 300 for the base cars. and it's probably going to be similar to that, plus maybe i five to 10%. the majority of your customers overseas where they don't necessarily have the same rules coming in for electric vehicles. yes, 86% of our revenue comes from overseas. i most of the cities where we operate, including in europe, _ they have restrictions, if not bans. so even though every country hasn't banned them, many cities _ are restricting use. and because our cars used every day, customers know and because our cars usedi

every day, customers know that it's advantageous l to drive an electric car. and what does the boss of a major car manufacturer make of the uk government's surprise announcement? it's to delay the ban on the sale of petrol vehicles by five more years. we're still reflecting on it. i if we had known that it was 2035, i maybe we would have changed some of the products between now and then because it's 12 years _ before they're banned instead of six years before they banned. - and you'll still be producing cars for other countries - that have petrol. so the plan is absolutely by 2030 we fully and only electric. - notjust that, bentley's asked all its suppliers to use only renewable energy by 2030. it also plans to switch to green, steel and aluminium and fully recyclable plastics, a reminder that electric cars being clean isn'tjust about their emissions, but also the manufacturing processes.

it's notjust the cars that we drive that are going green. even motorsport is trying to do its bit. formulary is the electric equivalent of formula one and alister keane formula e is the electric equivalent of formula one and alister keane has been to le man in france to meet the nissan team to see how they're notjust pushing batteries to their limit, but they're also tracking their brains to try and improve performance. two, three times. you know, it is a disadvantage. so. this is sport pushing innovation and electric vehicles to the limit. best championship in the world, i would call it. and the racing makes it extremely exciting because you have a lot of energy management because of course you start the race, you with the battery you have, you just don't make it to the end. you need to recharge over 40% of your battery to reach the end of the race. that makes the racing extremely exciting because, you know, you have to manage your energy at the same time, try to keep

position or fight for position. so honestly, the championship at the level of drivers is extremely high and the room of mistakes is extremely slim. but with 17 races in cities all over the world, racing fast takes its toll on the drivers. the jet lag is difficult because you go from mexico to saudi arabia to india and then cape town, you know, you're constantly traveling. now we go to tokyo. it's a lot ofjetlag. also, you're very tired after the races, that's for sure. with overcoming sleep deprivation and improving reaction times in mind. nissan have embarked on a two year research project delving deep into their drivers brains. we isolated two many areas. one is clarity. so how much the brain is able i to keep focus under distressing events and distractions. and the other one is the speed decision making process. - clarity relates to how well the drivers perform under pressure, and speed is how fast they can process information and ultimately

make split second decisions. so you can naturally map in a way how your brain is stronger- or weak in these two areas. and you can have a protocol that can improve the brain— on these two specific skills. the first step of this program has been regularly scanning drivers and other participants brains to build a map of how different people work in clarity and speed. 0k. so what, if anything, has this told you about my brain? we've seen something just above average. just above average. i've got a very average brain in terms of in terms of speed. and a driver would have a faster brain, as it were. it depends on one person. there are drivers who have a lot faster a lot faster brains.

but we also see drivers who have just above average, but a very clear, very clear brain over overall. once the scanning has built up a map of an individual, a bespoke training programme is created that involves a second bit of tech and aims to increase the brain's ability to develop new skills. basically, you put the brain in a very trainable state. we do brain stimulation. so we were passing some very weak currents through the surface of the brain. sometimes. sometimes we use magnetic magnetic stimulation. this is a really easy equipment to use. i use it basically two, three times per week and it'sjust 30 minutes of doing nothing. relax. and the machine is basically doing the job on its own. before training, you use a device like that and after training you could use it again and you would see a highly accelerated rate

of skill, acquisition, specific skill that you want to you want to improve on. what do you think is the benefits of doing this kind of training? i've seen is the ability to switch on and off my mind quicker and have noticed quite a clear improvement of my sleep, which is also quite a good thing for athletes. but there is a balance to be struck here between the tech you can put in place around sports stars and just letting them perform. when you first heard about this brain performance program, what was your reaction at the beginning at the beginning when they talked about it, i was i'm not a fan of those kind of things because i like to be myself and just get on with it. but slowly, you know, i pushed myself, of course, to try it out. and i did feel some some little differences, especially on the sleeping side of things. with season ten around the corner, the team are now committed to embedding this into their training programme. it will still only count for

a fraction of driver development, but in a sport where teams are striving to push innovation every little bit. that's it from bentley. full length show can be found on iplayer. thanks for watching. we'll be back next week. bye. hello. we've got some very different types of weather across different parts of the uk over the next few days. so some bigger contrast. much of the uk well above average in terms of temperature, particularly england, wales and northern ireland. but the blue colours across scotland

show areas expected to be colder than average over the next few days and pretty wet across scotland too. this is the expected rainfall accumulation. you can see the green and white colours here indicating some areas could see over 100 millimetres, perhaps even 180 millimetres of rain. that's enough to cause some disruption. so the met office have issued an amber heavy rain warning across parts of central and western scotland. we could see some flooding and disruption to power and travel, for instance. so here is the weather front that's going to be bringing all that rain. it's going to be really slow moving on saturday. so it's going to continue to plow more heavy, persistent rainfall into many central parts of scotland, the northern ireland, northern england and down towards wales. a little bit of patchy cloud here and there. best of the sunshine for central and south eastern parts of england where it is going to feel warm temperatures between about 19 to 2a

or 25 degrees on saturday. contrast that to aberdeen, for instance, just nine degrees under the cloud and the persistent rain as well. now that weather front still with us into the second half of the weekend. but as we head through saturday night, it'll just start to lift a little bit further north. the rain perhaps not quite as heavy as we move through into the early hours of sunday morning. so it's going to be a mild night wherever you are. temperatures in double figures towards the south, a little bit colder across parts of scotland, but frost free sunday morning starts with that rain. it's going to just push further north through the day across parts of northern and eastern scotland, something a little bit brighter developing in the south for northern ireland, england and wales, any early morning mist and fog clears away to leave spells of sunshine, blue sky and again feeling really warm. 2a degrees possible in the southeast, only about 12 to 11; for scotland moving through into monday. and we've still got high pressure dominating towards the south. so a generally dry day for most of us think for monday, stilljust the chance of the odd shower in the north, a cool wind across the northern isles and the north of scotland. but for most of us, another warm day. so we're looking at highs in the mid 20s for some

towards the southeast, typically the high teens across scotland and northern ireland heading through into tuesday. and there's that big area of high pressure sitting across europe dominating the weather, particularly in the south. but low pressure tries to move in across the north west of the uk. so some rain possible on tuesday could be the odd heavy shower for parts of northern and western scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well. england and wales having another dry day and it's probably going to be the peak of the warmth, 25 or 26 degrees possible for the london area. we're widely looking at temperatures in the high teens, low twenties, again, just a touch cooler across the far north and north west of scotland. so the middle of the week, it will be all change as this frontal system, as we move into wednesday, tries to push its way further southwards and eastward. so a spell of heavy rain possible on wednesday could be a bit further south, perhaps a bit further north, some squally, gusty winds associated with this feature as it slowly pushes towards the southeast through the day. some showers behind it and temperatures down a touch in the north, but still pretty warm. still looking at the mid twenties possible in the far southeast before that rain sweeps in. and it's going to set us up for a change during the second half of next week. so from wednesday onwards,

more showers on the outlook chart for many of us and those temperatures later in the week will return to something more typical really for this time of year. bye bye.

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hello i'm sumi somaskanda. we begin with the united nations saying it's sending investigators to the small village in the ukraine's kharkiv region that suffered the deadliest attack in the country in over a year, amid russia's invasion of the country. a missile strike in the ukrainian village of hroza killed 52 people. every family in the village was affected. un human rights officials say there appeared to be no military targets. the local prosecutor says the attack was deliberate. the kremlin insists that russia does not target civilians. ukraine says a separate russian missile attack targeted residential buildings in kharkiv city centre today. the interior ministry said a ten—year—old boy was killed. our news correspondent, abdujalil abdurasulov, has more from kharkiv. the search operation continued overnight. thousands of bodies were recovered from the rubble. among them, a