sweden is famed for its stunning nature and the people s love of the outdoors. it s so peaceful up here. and lots of pine, so very swedish. this deep connection with the environment has inspired the country to become one of the greenest in the world. down there is the city of skelleftea, a pioneer in green technology. and this small city in northern sweden is helping transform the way we travel. flight controller announcement so that right there is an electrically powered aeroplane and this is the green flight academy, one of the world s most sustainable flight schools. do you want a hand? no, thank you. well, they obviously don t trust me with such high end gear. it s fine. well, someone who is trusted with this costly tech is the school s head of training, johann. johann, hello. hi. welcome to green flight academy. thank you. nice to meet you. so, these are the planes? yeah. here they are. they re a lot smaller than i thought they were going to be. yeah. they re tiny. they
pristine peak, broken boards and piles of cheap polystyrene dump on our beaches. it’s dump on our beaches. it s reall dump on our beaches. it s really disheartening to see this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the fresh - this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the fresh sea - this amount of waste. surfers may enjoy the fresh sea air, l may enjoy the fresh sea air, but the industry relies on toxic chemicals, producing suits and boards derived from oil and living that dream of being at one with nature is getting more and more difficult. getting more and more difficult. we do want to encourage difficult. we do want to encourage people - difficult. we do want to encourage people to i difficult. we do want to | encourage people to get outdoors, but it the same time, at what cost to the planet? so i want to know, can surfing clean up its act? i have served for more than a decade, but thi
plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc s headquarters in central london. is there any sign yet of the much heralded counteroffensive by ukraine? for the west, in ukraine, if they were to go too early ahead of all of that hardware being in place, then we could see the front lines we see now in place for some time to come. after the g7 summit in hiroshima, is a chinese attack on taiwan more likely or less likely? i think for now, xi jinping has made the calculation that he simply can t afford to invade taiwan. and, should we lose sleep at night for fear that artificial intelligence, ai, is going to take over the world? we ll have to have systems in place to police it. - we almost need a new police force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russia
including a look ahead to the nail biting final day of the english premier legaue season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. with a key strategic position, a growing regional influence and difficult economic times the future of turkey is today being decided in the run off round of the presidential election. around 64 million people are eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they have a choice between two veteran candidates. immigration has been top at the topics of discussion for the last few weeks as the two candidates vying for votes. this is one of the polling stations you will see up and down the country. voting always happens in schools. i have been outside this one for a few hours then people have been coming in through the day. they head into these classrooms and each one like a separate ballot box and they give their name, because the vote and get photographs of both candidates. they have to st
hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. this is the opposition party headquarters in turkish biggest city and boats are being counted in the turkish presidential runoff election. the country hasn t seen anything like this before. in previous residential elections president one has one outright. this time it was different. he was run close by and opposition unity challenge with kemal kilicdaroglu presenting the opposition party and drawing together of other opposition parties as a candidate to try and remove the long standing leader for power. the situation we have now is that the ballots have been made, closing polling close at 5pm local time and boats are being counted. now it is the reason all the people here are playing close attention to the tv screens. you might be able to hear the sound of the tv bouncing off the walls in this opposition courses in istanbul. they re looking at the count. what they don t have here in turkey is exit polls. w