now on bbc news... click. this week, lara's checking out some fast food — sort of. i've just been told to stand back as things might get messy. don't know how messy. the laundry making fast fashion greener. and... oh, no! er, yeah, i think that's fast enough, thank you. pizza baking, burger flipping, salad tossing. over the years, we've seen food robots chop, fry and saute their way across the kitchen, saving us from one job at a time. i'm such a lazy chef. i love eating the food but i want to make making it as quick as possible. see, i don't mind cooking, as long as you don't mind eating the same stuff every day. well, i think there's a solution for both of our problems. right! lara: over the years, we've seen more and more things become automated in the kitchen with various gadgets but now, the robotic kitchen may be upon us. this is the first—to—market robokitchen from moley robotics. it's a fully reliable product which you can put, actually, at your home or restaurant, everywhere, and it's safe. it's time for lunch. what are you making me? today, we actually want to make omelette. choose the recipe. its arm sets the temperature, grasps items and moves with military precision to deliver ingredients. next operation is pour the egg. and it knows how much to measure? yes! look, it's got the egg in the ladle! yeah. and it's just trying to get any extra bits off so it doesn't drip. got to keep the kitchen clean, otherwise a human�*s got to do that cleaning. yes. pre—training with recipe data and sensors teaches the arm exact amounts and actions. and now, it's taking the next implement. how's it going to mix? in a slightly robotic way but it's doing the job! of course, you don't have to stand by and watch but for the first time, at least, it's pretty mesmerising. it's off to get the cheese! ah, it dropped a bit. still a bit stuck to the tongs. it's going to shake that off and then, the tongs back there — tidier than any human would ever be. also, it's designed for constantly cooking, so it can cook without stopping in the hotel or in senior house or in restaurant. i wants to serve for ten people at two o'clock, for example, and it can start cooking to be able to serve ten or 15 people at two o'clock. a human does still need to do the dishes, though. there we go — so far, so good. and now, to try it. lovely! and the big difference between this and my own is this should turn out the same every time! so far, ten chefs have contributed to over 50 recipes to the moley database, ranging from stir—fries to curries, and more will be added when it becomes available in september. but there is still manual labour involved. a lot of chopped—up vegetables here, which looks like a human has done most of the work already. yes, but these vegetables and this container could be delivered from a delivery service as a pack for this particular recipe. ok, so you could even avoid the chopping. dishes like this sweet potato soup can be personalised and, in future, you'll be able to input your own recipes as well. i don't eat garlic or onion, so i've asked for it to be taken out. though it does take the robot several days to get the new recipes right. like anything, you know, you usually need time to perfect anything which you are making. that's right. practice makes perfect, even for robots. absolutely. now for the liquid. that's stock, spiced coconut milk and some seasoning. ah, time for salt and pepper. laughs. that looks like such a clumsy stir! it is impressive, but costing a whopping 50,000 quid, who's going to shell out for this spectacle? first of all, it's a lot of place when the chef doesn't want to work — for example, night shift, because nobody wants to sit down during the whole night and wait the order, you know? or if he wants to have a nice dish in the middle of nowhere and, for example, a chef doesn't want to work there, he wants to work in the centre of london, so that could be also the good options. i can imagine it being used in the commercial space but i do struggle to imagine many people actually having it in their home. the strategy of the company is continue working on the machine and continue to make it more and more affordable so, one day, for sure, as we promised before, it will cost much less — maybe 25, maybe 30k, so that's our goal. that's still quite a jump from a standard kitchen and it will sometimes need a wipe down. i've just been told to stand back as things might get messy. don't know how messy. i normally make more than that, to be fair. for me, it's been totally effortless, but the real proof is not in the pudding, but in this soup. mmm! delicious! oh, it's got a bit of a kick to it. mmm, yeah, it's really good. very well blended by the robot and the blender. yeah, and the chef who create this recipe. and the software engineer that trained the robot what to do — there's more people involved in the making of this soup than i'd have thought. good, though! spencer: now, then, the race is on — not on the race track, but in our city centres. see, lots of companies are vying to lead the way in remote—controlled cars — full—sized ones, this is — with tests being carried out in the uk, estonia, the usa and germany, where alasdair keane has been behind the wheel. alasdair: this car might look like it's moving on its own, but the secret behind it is a team of drivers based in an office on the other side of berlin. the idea behind vay is that in a city, you won't need to own a car — simply order one to be delivered to you whenever you need it. with vay app, then, the car is being remotely driven by the teledriver to the customer, so the customer doesn't need to search for the car. just get into the car on the driver's seat, drive themselves to the destination and, at the destination, theyjust get out without the need to search for parking lot, etc. theyjust get out because the teledriver can then take over control until it drives the vehicle to the next customers. that took us about 30 minutes to get here. this is a telestation, where they drive the cars as they move all over the city of berlin. and in a television first, they're going to let me have a shot. alina is one of the drivers. she's moving a car around the streets of berlin, controlled from here. as i prepare to take over the wheel, i can't help wondering if it's easy to forget you're in control of a car. it looks just like a normal car. the steering wheel has all the buttons that i recognise but, of course, there's this big red button. exactly. what does it do? that's an additional safety measure which vay implemented in case something happens with the session, then the teledriver is trained to react to that by pressing the brake very hard and at the same time, the emergency button, which basically will also bring the vehicle to a safe stop. so, that's me now in drive. you have full control. 0k. foot off the brake. yeah. and we're starting to move forward. there we are. ifeel like i'm getting very close to these cones. yeah. 0h! it's very strange, the spatial awareness of where the cones are. yeah, it's something that you have to get used to. yeah. perhaps my driving reputation came before me but while i was behind the wheel, there was a safety driver, just in case things didn't go to plan. so, chris in the car is telling me to take my time. yeah. at this point, ifeel like i'm speeding around the track but the car is going less than iokm/h. just as i'm getting confident... oh, no! i think i have a lot more training to do before i get let loose on the roads. drivers here go through hours of training, including theory and practical. controlling these cars relies on 4g and a signal between the car and the driver. we all, of course, have been there, where we've not been able to get a signal for whatever we're doing. what happens if one of these cars loses a signal? it's a very good question. what we have built is like that, as you know from your private experience, that some network providers in this corner have better quality than the others, so what we're doing, we have redundancies, meaning we're not only relying on one network carrier, we have, like, four multiple carriers, so if one falls, we still have three and so on. and in the unlikely scenario that all drops, the vehicle detects this in real time and comes to a safe stop. and then, depending whether they recover, we can resume operation. in hamburg in the north of germany, vay are the first company in the eu to have permission to run this tech on the roads with nobody in the car. you can imagine seeing a vehicle on public streets and there's no—one inside. people, like, their reactions vary from disbelief to enthusiasm and excitement, and what we have learned is that they actually trust this technology when they understand there's actually a human that controls this vehicle and not a computer. and i think this is, like, very important because it also shows the opportunity and, like, paving the way towards an autonomous future which we believe in. there are still hurdles to overcome — not least building trust in this tech. but as connectivity gets better, we could be seeing more remote—controlled cars on our roads in no time. and now, it's time for a look at this week's tech news. x, formerly known as twitter, is facing a bill from local authorities in san francisco after an unauthorised x was placed on the roof of the company's headquarters. authorities said that the company did not have permission to put up the sign and will be charged for the cost of its installation and its removal. the scottish island of 0rkney has become the first place in the uk to have mail delivered by drones. thejoint operation by royal mail and drone company skyports will initially run for three months but has the potential to become permanent, due to the island's landscape. all three islands are within close proximity so we can use something called extended visual line of sight flying so, effectively, you rely on people track to see eyes and ears of the pilots flying the drone. youtube has announced an expansion of tools for its short video platform youtube shorts. some of the features include adding effects and stickers, going live and collab, which allows a creator to record a video with another video next to it. and nasa is launching its first on—demand streaming service called nasa plus. the platform will allow viewers to watch live coverage and enjoy new series on nasa missions. nasa plus will take off later in the year. lara: in february this year, a devastating earthquake hit turkey. but what's been barely reported is that google was operating an earthquake early warning system, which it claims had sent out millions of alerts to people before the quake hit. however, a bbc investigation failed to find evidence that this warning was actually received by most turkish people in the earthquake zone. anna foster in turkey and james clayton in san francisco have more. james: it was one of the most deadly earthquakes in modern times. february's quake happened in the middle of the night. many people died where they were sleeping, in their beds. 50,000 people were killed. however, there was an earthquake warning system run by google in turkey, and the company claims millions of people got a warning before this earthquake. it works on any android phone — that's about 80% of all of the phones in turkey — and this is google�*s explainer on how it works. android phones have these tiny accelerometers built into them which can sense earthquakes. people will now be able to have their phones become part of this network of mini seismometers looking for earthquakes around the world. we call this the... when the phone detects an earthquake, it sends a message back to google�*s servers. when enough phones do this, google can pinpoint the epicentre and send out an earthquake warning. and so you'll hear it go... phone chimes it looks like this, and it says, . "drop, cover and hold. " so it's pretty loud. it's pretty loud. this is micah berman, the product manager for the system at google. if it was on "do not disturb," it would override that? exactly the same behaviour that you just heard, no matter what state your phone is in. you should get that warning? yes. the further you are from the earthquake, the more notice the system can give you, up to around a minute — enough time to try and find a safer location. so our system did activate for both of the major events in turkey, as well as for a number of aftershocks. here's my colleague anna foster, who'd been reporting on the ground from the earthquake zone. i was really puzzled by that claim, because i was here on the ground in turkey in the hours and the days and the weeks after the earthquake. and nobody had ever mentioned in any interview with me receiving an alert before the earthquake. so we decided to go to three cities that had been impacted — adana, 0smaniye and iskenderun. i simply asked people whether they'd received an alert. everyone you're about to hear from has an android phone. so when the earthquake happened, the first one that happened in the night, did you get this alert on your phone at the time of the earthquake? no. and what about... ? so it looks like that and it makes a sound. phone chimes no. no? no. no, no, no. no? no. we spoke to dozens of people on the streets. most people hadn't even heard of google's system. no, no. no? funda lost 25 members of herfamily, including her sister and nephews. so you didn't receive any alert, nothing on your phone? in all three cities, despite our attempts, we didn't find one person, not one, who got a warning for the first earthquake. i put our findings to google. how sure are you that, firstly, it did fire and secondly that it actually got to people during this earthquake? i'm as sure as we can be that the system activated and that we did send alerts. it's possible, you know, that given all of the... ..like, the massive impact of the first event that this just quietly happened in the background while users were really paying attention to other things. at the end of the day, i think that's probably the most likely explanation, that users were focused on something else and might not even have noticed if they got the alert. have you spoken to anyone who got it? i have not, no, though i don't speak turkish and, you know, i'm not in turkey! so... i would love to. has google spoken to anyone? i don't know. harold tobin is a professor of earth sciences and director of the pacific north—west seismic network. these systems are extremely new, right? they're at the cutting edge of what's possible. i feel that if you are delivering an essential sort of...life safety, public safety piece of information, then you have a responsibility to be transparent about how it works and how well it works. we can't be sure that no—one got this alert, but we can be sure that many people didn't. there was no blanket warning — a warning that could have saved lives. now, we know that fast fashion isn't great for the planet, yet many stores still sell trendy cheap clothes that are here today and gone tomorrow. but there are ways to make this trillion—dollar clothing industry more sustainable, as francesca hashemi has been finding out. millions of tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill every year, making the industry a major contributor of greenhouse gases and a massive consumer of a finite resource — water. fashion is the second most polluting industry after aviation and shipping. it accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, and it's very water intensive. from manufacturing textiles for cotton t—shirts to washing or dry—cleaning clothes, the industry relies heavily on h20. but some people are trying to change that. here at acs, we also use water, we're large laundry. we believe that, in the next 12 months, we will get to a stage where we won't take any water from the mains. this fashion hub rents, resells repairs and sanitises pre—loved clothes from the high street or luxury brands. but how sustainable is it? even though we might be working with some of these fast—fashion brands, we're wanting them to help change their consumer mindset, so in being able to rent or get second—hand fashion, rather than this kind of model ofjust consuming constantly. so working with these brands, we are helping them to increase their sustainability credentials, and we're stopping garments from ending up in landfill. the way in which we handle the clothes on site and how we are carbon neutral, how we have gone through a process to minimise our co2 emissions on ourjourney to net zero, on our reduction of water, we know that how we handle them here is a much more sustainable way than what we all do in our own homes. talking of water, the entire operation once used about 20,000 litres of the stuff every day. about 50%, that's 10,000 or 11,000 litres, that was used in laundry. but they've managed to halve this by using something scotland has plenty of. acs now harvests rainwater from the roof, then recycles it to use for cleaning and preparing clothes for customers. what we have is, there's three pipes. the first pipe is actually the reused water, so this is the water from the laundry, and what it's done is, at the end of one of the final cycles, it's actually pumped out, and you can see along the pipe, and pumped into this tank. the computer inside the laundry knows when the next cycle starts. it activates the pump that pumps the water out the tank, brings it up and brings it in at that inlet there. the second pipe that you see is actually the reused water from the coolant system. there's a tank in the floor above that's a hot tank, and that water is actually pumped in, activated by the computer in the laundry machine. that's actually hot water in there, and what it does is, it means that we don't have to heat it. and then the next one is for cold washes, and that water is the rainwater harvesting, which is actually, again, stored in a tank upstairs. so all the water collected for use on the laundry, it's not always clean if you're reusing it. how do you deal with that? you can see the waste pipe there, and the waste pipe goes through this very large filter, and it takes all the microplastics out. and the waste water then goes into the normal drainage system, the mains, and then what it's done is process the way that normal water would be processed. the team partnered with the university of west of scotland to create a digital twin of their water consumption, and some of their findings are pretty interesting. so at the moment, acs utilises 5.5% of the roof area, which is about 1,000 litres of water per day. if it utilised the whole of the roof area, it would be able to collect around 18,000 litres per day. this would almost be sufficient not to utilise anything from external sources. the entire operation being self—sufficient in terms of their water consumption is aspirational and, of course, variable. but it's also a great example of what one clothing hub is doing to increase their sustainability credentials. but in this fast—moving fashion economy, what more could the industry do? in terms of technology, we need a lot more data in the fashion industry. currently, the majority of fashion brands will only publish tier—one suppliers on their website, so the people who manufacture and make the clothes. when it comes to tier two, which is things like the making of the fabric, and then tier three, which is your raw materials, the majority of brands don't know where that's coming from. and i think, moving forward, that's the type of data we're going to need to be capturing in order to avoid greenwashing. that's all we've got time for. thanks for watching. we'll be back next week. see you. for most places sunday was a dryer and calm her day than most other places. it wasn't particularly warm. we will see something drier and warmer developing for a time at least. in the short term actually quite a cool and fresh monday morning under this ridge of high pressure, but there is a frontal system here that will be moving its way in from the west. so for monday, some spells of sunshine around, scattered showers, not many as we saw during sunday, but as this weather system a purchase from the west we'll see thickening cloud and perhaps misty murky conditions. the odd splash of rain here late in the day. temperatures 17—21 . monday night will bring this weather system eastwards, not a huge amount of rain with it, there will be some shower rain but certainly going to bring a lot of cloud, missed particularly around the coast and some of the hills, northern half of the uk, far north of england, ireland, scotland, see a lot of sunshine on tuesday albeit with a brisk northerly breeze affecting parts of scotland. temperatures generally between 16—20 in most places. through tuesday night, increasingly humid air in from the southwest, fog developing around the bristol channel into parts of wales, murky over some of the hills as well, and this zone of somewhat cloudy or whether, northeast through the day, could generate the odd light showers weather, northeast through the day, could generate the odd light showers and bits and polices of rain, certainly across some of the southern half of the uk, it's going to start to feel quite a lot warmer. and scotland will turn warmer too as we head into thursday, all of us getting into more of a southerly floor temperatures to rise. some areas of fog and low cloud to start thursday morning, tend break up to review reveal sunshine, temperatures up to 26 degrees in some parts of scotland, we can see 27 or 28 here in the southeast of england. a muggy affair indeed thursday night, temperatures not dropping down further then 14—16 . further than 14—16 . that muggy feel will not last. on friday we'll see this weather front pushing in from the west, this is a cold front, it will change to fresher, cooler conditions as it brings in a westerly wind off the atlantic. this band of rain pushing its way up north, some showers falling on behind, spells of sunshine, too. east in parts of england will get around 2a or 25 degrees, out west it will start to feel cooler and fresher. and that takes us into the weekend, and the return of the low pressure which will at least to some extent, be in charge of our weather, bringing some rain at times and some brisk winds. but high—pressure is just to the south of us and it's this high, it's a little bit stronger and exerts little more influence there is a good chance that some southern parts will see some spells of sunshine at relative warmth, the further north and west you are next weekend and into this start of next week, we will return to something a little more unsettled and cooler as well. bye—bye for now. who now progress to the quarter finals. live from london. this is bbc news. as a deadline for the military junta in niger expires — thousands gather in the capital to support the leaders of the coup. talks seeking to find a way to end the war in ukraine have concluded with no sign of concrete progress. in the uk — the first group of asylum seekers to be housed on a barge are expected to be moved on board on monday. and barbie hits one billion dollars at the global box office making history for it's director, greta gerwig. hello, welcome to the programme. first to niger where, in the last few hours, a deadline for the militaryjunta to step down has passed. the leaders of niger's coup have hours to restore the ousted president, or face the possibility of military action.