her rival rishi sunak is on the front of the sunday telegraph urging sanctions for iran following the stabbing of salman rusdie. and finally, the sunday times focus on the cost of living crisis with reports the treasury is developing a plan to hand out more money to cope with energy costs. let s to cope with energy costs. begin with the observer picture, let s begin with the observer. this picture, emma, of wimbledon common. i m guessing that this pond normally looks a bit bigger than that. it’s looks a bit bigger than that. it s astonishing. i think we ve all seen in our local parks so called green spaces. they rejust in our local parks so called green spaces. they re just absolutely dry, kind of sahara conditions. we took the hosepipe ban in our gardens but the hosepipe ban in our gardens but the parks and green spaces are absolutely drying up and what can be done? wejust absolutely drying up and what can be done? we just desperately need some rain. done? we “ust desper
and all of this is being monitored by the gardin sensors here, which are mounted on the mobile platform. so our sensors are able to monitor this whole environment they move around. and what they re looking at is particular leaves. we re able to use optoelectronics, which is smart physics, to understand how the leaf is performing. it works by combining the images it collects with machine learning, which has been trained on lots of pictures of plants at various stages of growth. this allows the system to monitor how well the process of photosynthesis is working in each plant, and this tells them how efficiently they re growing. so we re really talking to the plants, and they re telling us how happy they are. and we re able to then feed that back to growers and able to tell them which crops are performing the best. and then we can understand why that might be with the environment around it. i love that you re breaking it down to talking to plants because a lot of people do tha
as part of a new trial. and could koalas become extinct? they ve been declared an endangered species in much of australia s east coast. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, has told the bbc his country will only enter peace talks after the last russian soldier has left ukraine. some ukrainian officials have expressed concerns their country may be pushed towards a peace deal with russia, as the war continues to put pressure on food and energy supplies. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has meanwhile warned of what he called ukraine fatigue setting in. mrjohnson has just returned from a visit to kyiv on friday. our correspondent, nick beake, reports from kyiv. singing the russians killed roman ratushny on the ninth ofjune. today, his father buried him, before returning to the front line. a funeral for a 24 year old who answered the call to defend his country. his grandmother, joined by hundreds who came to bid him farewell. with so many young lives being lost every day,
In sport, liverpool manager, jurgen klopp, says he has Nothing To Say about Phillipe Coutinhos future as his side prepare for theirfirst game in the Champions League and can you be fat and fit . I have been down to this gym every day for the last 20 years and have never had a day off. I am full of fitness. Scientists say the ideas a myth, and being overweight can increase your risk of a heart attack by around a quarter. More from them later. And the weather. Good morning. Rain going east and into the north sea. Behind that, sunshine and showers. Some will be heavy and thundery. In the sunshine, it will be quite pleasant. I will have more in 15 minutes. Thank you, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. The government is pushing for a temporary Customs Union to be put in place when britain leaves the European Union to try to smooth the way for business and prevent chaos on the uks borders. Thereve been warnings about the extra pressure ports could be under if they face an increase i
Beans bhajis the story of the corner shop, bbc presenter babita sharma, the daughter of shopkeepers, continues her exploration of the growing and shifting fortunes of the corner shop and its place in the social fabric of britain. She picks up the story from the 1980s and a word of warning, babitas film discusses the historical use of some language which some viewers may find offensive. What is it about the british and the corner shop . The corner shop has a lwa Ys Corner Shop . The corner shop has always been there for us, a british institution. There are almost more corner shops than there are corners. It was on the front line of what was happening in society from the 1940s to the 1990s. Happening in society from the 1940s to the 19905. It happening in society from the 1940s to the 1990s. It saved our bacon during the Second World War and it also became a Rite Of Passage for new immigrants, including my family. Iam the new immigrants, including my family. I am the daughter of shopkeep