amol rajan, bbc news.ll absolutely adore. an art gallery in los angeles offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy a massive amount of cake, without putting on an ounce. wendy urquhart reports. everywhere you look, there is lavishly decorated cakes with lashings of frosting and huge dollops of whipped cream. it may make your mouth water, but none of it is real. everything is fake, it needs to look beautiful. i can't go around maintaining everything, i've got to use acrylic instead of sugar, otherwise it'll be ant land, there will be bugs everywhere and we don't want that. the exhibition contains 3,000 cherries and around 250 gallons of frosting, which has been lovingly piped onto the cakes. and the walls are dripping with thousands and thousands of swarovski crystals. scott has never baked a cake in his life, but his childhood obsession with artificial food has led to the creation of one of the strangest installations ever. i love how weird it is, i love the dark rooms and the creepy things mixed with the ha

amol rajan, bbc news.tors the opportunity to enjoy a massive amount of cake, without putting on an ounce. wendy urquhart reports. everywhere you look, there�*s lavishly decorated cakes with lashings of frosting and huge dollops of whipped cream. it may make your mouth water, but none of it is real. everything is fake, it needs to look beautiful. i can�*t go around maintaining everything, i�*ve got to use acrylic instead of sugar, otherwise it�*ll be ant land, there will be bugs everywhere and we don�*t want that. the exhibition contains 3,000 cherries and around 250 gallons of frosting, which has been lovingly piped onto the cakes. and the walls are dripping with thousands and thousands of swarovski crystals. scott hove has never baked a cake in his life, but his childhood obsession with artificial food has led to the creation of one of the strangest installations ever. i love how weird it is, i love the dark rooms and the creepy things mixed with the happy pastel aesthetic of this room. it�*s bizarre. it'

amol rajan, bbc news.s the week, join up if you can. hello again. yesterday once the early morning mist and fog patch cleared out of the way, most parts of the uk had plenty of sunshine but there was a big contrast in temperatures from north to south. across england and wales, very mild weather and in parts of sussex, temperatures as high as 20 degrees but even though we had sunshine across the north of the uk in scotland, here, it was much cooler with temperatures in shetland just reaching 10 degrees and the reason, we had cooler air mass underneath an area of high pressure and moving eastwards to the next few days in this area of low pressure tour southwest really days abd this area of low pressure in the southwest really is going to dominate, it will be very slow and to even more unsuitable weather conditions, really, the transition is taking place right now and dressing up of rain arrived with strengthening winds and look at this, towards the start of wednesday morning at the end of the night, temperat

amol rajan, bbc news. irish music — has been announced. this year the award goes to little simz. # miss tanzania do or die... she has already won an ivor novello. lizo mzimba is outside the stage door at the hammersmith apollo. 0ne review called the album she made creative, clever and cool and the woman behind it is here, straight offstage, little simz. you have been nominated before but now you have won, how does it feel? it is nominated before but now you have won, how does it feel?— won, how does it feel? it is crazy but i try to _ won, how does it feel? it is crazy but i try to take _ won, how does it feel? it is crazy but | try to take it _ won, how does it feel? it is crazy but i try to take it in _ won, how does it feel? it is crazy but i try to take it in my - won, how does it feel? it is crazy but i try to take it in my stride. l but i try to take it in my stride. timing — but i try to take it in my stride. timing is — but i try to take it in my stride. timing is everything but we are here and iii

our media editor amol rajan reports. 2lo, marconi house, london.get everything off. ten seconds. over that century it has faced few bigger tests than the death of her majesty queen elizabeth ii. do we have the go? yeah. we can go, chris. let's do it. yeah. a few moments ago, buckingham palace announced the death of her— majesty queen elizabeth ii. the bbc is interrupting normal programmes. opt in. for 100 years now, the bbc has been a mirror to the nation. from the announcement of war... this country is at war with germany. ..reflecting every aspect of our lives... fairly thundery with some... oh. dear _ ..from sporting glory... they think it's all over. it is now. it's four. | ..to the birth of local radio... we've had the postmaster general to open the station. the lord mayor of leicester... after hours of shooting... gunfire ..and facing a line of troops the crowd is still here. ..and the unfolding of world history. i'm going to give you i a damn good thrashing! the corporation has created countless smaller cultural institutions, from shows acro

and you can see the full version of amol rajan interviews: greta thunberg tonight — that's on bbc2 at 18th 1922. and these are some of the thousands of people who have featured on our screens and airwaves ever since. a range of special programming and commemorative events is being held over the next few weeks to mark the anniversary. the king will be taking part in a special edition of the repair shop, and in strictly, dancers will be performing to some well known bbc theme tunes. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. the first tv weather forecast was backin the first tv weather forecast was back in 1954, not quite 100 years ago, but there have been plenty since and they have not all look quite as good as this. we had some beautiful blue skies and sunshine overhead in many places right now, however that is set to change because of this world of cloud in the atlantic,

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now on bbc news, amol rajan talks to 19—year—old greta thunberg, the climate activist who has becomeely voice of a global youth. when i was 15, i wasjust discovering the joys of hip—hop and dreaming of playing cricket for england. at the same age, greta thunberg launched an international movement by skipping school. she's not a politician or a scientist, nor is she the first to campaign against climate change. at school, she was bullied for years, before being diagnosed with asperger�*s syndrome. but in 2018, this swedish schoolgirl found herself hailed as the unlikely voice of global youth. she's become the symbol of a generation which, as she puts it, is not being listened to by older people, who won't suffer the consequences of not listening. whether you admire her or despair of her, greta thunberg's influence has already been profound. and she's still a teenager. in 2015, the eu and nearly 200 countries signed the paris agreement, attempting to limit the global temperature increase this century to 1.5 degrees celsius. greta thunberg has pleaded, reasoned and raged in the faces of

a lot has changed since then. 0ur media editor amol rajan reports. 2l0, marconi house, london, callingd use wireless communication to engage the public. and so the bbc was born. put the statement in. get everything off. 0ver that century, it has faced few bigger tests than the death of her majesty queen elizabeth ii. do we have the go? yeah. we can go, chris. 0k. let's do it. yeah. a few moments ago, buckingham palace l announced the death of - her majesty queen elizabeth ii. bbc is interrupting normal programmes. for 100 years now, the bbc has been a mirror to the nation. from the announcement of war... this country is at war with germany. ..reflecting every aspect of our lives, from sporting glory... they think it's all over. it is now. it's four. ..to the birth of local radio... we've had the postmaster general to open the station. the lord mayor of leicester... after hours of shooting... gunfire. ..and facing a line of troops, the crowd is still here. ..and the unfolding of world history. i'm going to give you i a damn good thrashing! the corporation has created countless smaller c

now on bbc news, the editor—in—chief of british vogue sits down with amol rajan to discuss his upbringingf the fashion industry, and what he's going to do next. as editor—in—chief of british vogue since 2017, edward enninful has challenged convention — not least by increasing the number of black and older women in the magazine. he's reached the summit of international fashion and media while battling depression, alcohol problems and a sickle cell condition. it's a long way from his childhood in ghana, which his family fled during the political turmoil of the mid— 980s, landing in south london at the height of social unrest in the capital. black, working class, gay and a former asylum seeker, he's now tipped by many as anna wintour�*s replacement when she eventually retires from american vogue. hello, amol. hello. very good to see you. how are you doing? i'm good. thank you for having me. i wanted to find out who he really is and how he wants to change our culture. edward enninful, thank you so much for speaking to me, thank you for speaking to bbc news. i want to start by talking a little

and you can see the full version of amol rajan interviews: greta thunberg tonight; that's on bbc2 at generally not as cold as it was last night. very mild and the far south—west. into tomorrow we see the showers drifting. some of them will be quite heavy. cloud hugging eastern parts. it will be quite windy, particularly for western coast. and for aberdeen. it stays unsettled, showers and longer spells of rain, often windy but feeling warm in any sunshine. today at six: the prime minister fights the prime ministerfights on the prime minister fights on as the prime ministerfights on as her future hangs in the balance, and the chancellor wants the cabinet spending cuts are coming. the cabinet gathered at downing street as the chancellor warned that the cuts and liz truss trying to bolster support for her leadership and regain authority. if the two of them work together and are a success, and i'm going to do everything i can to try and make sure that that is the case, then i think she will lead us into the next election. we are now having an open discussion about_ we are now having an op

amol rajan, bbc news. those are the main stories tonight.rning will start to spread up into parts of northern ireland, tending to weaken a little, i think, the further north they get. most other areas dry through the night, although rather cloudy for eastern scotland and north east england, and generally speaking, not quite as chilly as it was last night. maybe five or six degrees in parts of scotland, 15 in south wales and south—west england. tomorrow, here is our big broad area of low pressure, frontal systems drifting around it, we will see some showers or maybe longer spells of rain, and it will be quite windy, those winds bringing warm air for many, but we stick with something rather chilly across north east scotland and north east england, where it will be rather cloudy for much of the day, maybe even with the odd spot of drizzle. elsewhere, we'll see more of those showers, quite erratically drifting from the south towards the north and tending to weaken a little as they go. best of any sunshine likely to be found across central and ea

and you can see the full version of amol rajan interviews: greta thunberg tonight; that's on bbc twolose energy the further north they get. also cloud for the north—east of scotland, for the north—east of england, the best are many sunshine refer... 10 degrees for aberdeen, 24 jersey. this is bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines: the new chancellor has told ministers spending cuts are on the way on their will way on their budgets will need to be reduced. hunt and liz truss been meeting the cabinet after tore the trades congress uk trades congress uk trads at congress uk trads at breaking gress says uk families are at breaking point as the country experiences the wages �*ibcrcrs. the 1800s. we'll have more from westminster shortly. also coming up: ukraine's president says nearly a third of his country's power stations have been destroyed after another round of russian air strikes on energy facilities. fears grow for a female iranian athlete who competed in a climbing competition without wearing a hijab. her family say they have lost contact with her. good afternoon from westmin