the royal family have been attending st george s chapel for the first now it s time for click. this week we ve plenty of stomach to whet your appetite. we are in singapore to taste the future, with the starter of pink gold, followed by your main course. this is my first ever taste of cultivated chicken. there is a special 50th birthday treat as we chatted a man who made the first mobile phone call. and for dessert, an internet legend tells us what it was like to be part of the twitter takeover. i really did get to see what was happening, right in the thick of it. it s hot, it s bustling, it s intense. welcome to singapore. i have come to a city state that is home to more than 5 million people and atjust 50 kilometres wide and less than 140 kilometres from the equator, this place feels like it is at the centre of everything. east meets west here, nature meets future. this is a thriving financial hub that seems to be doing pretty well for itself. when you think of singapore you
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breeze are always strongest across southern counties of england. that ll be the case through this evening and overnight. in east anglia and the south east, a few more showers cropping up towards the morning. lots of cloud across parts of scotland. that will stop the temperature dropping too much, but any cloud breaks here, down into single figures in the countryside, and it will be a bit fresher through some rural parts of england and wales. where we start with lots of sunshine tomorrow, another sunny day to come here. the cloud in scotland breaking up a bit more readily, just one or two showers in the west, but a greater chance of cloud and showers in eastern and more particularly south eastern, east anglia parts of england, where temperatures will be down a bit in the breeze. up to around 23 24 towards the south west of england and south west wales. bye for now. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. nasa cancels the launch of the artemis space rocket on its mission to the
in a late night tweet. the football club has been owned by the florida based glazer family since 2005. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion? can it be done without degrading ecosystems and exacerbating climate change to a calamitous extent? well, my guest today, the writer and environmental campaigner george monbiot, has spent decades addressing these questions and framing radical answers. why are so many politicians and voters seemingly unwilling to listen? george monbiot, welcome to hardtalk. thanks, stephen. you have been a campaigner and writer on environmental issues for decades, warning about the toxic relationship between human beings and our planet. i just wonder how you prioritise? how do you decide where to focus? mm, it s very hard. i mean, every week when i m writing a column for the guardian, for instance, or m
and surrounded by fear, also. i mean, it s not easy to see how we re going to get through this century, let alone those that follow. your latest book, regenesis, essentially describes the way we produce food around the world as perhaps the single most damaging thing we are doing to the natural world. and yet we all need to eat. mm hm. and thanks to farming, almost all of us can sustain ourselves with decent amounts of food. why do you see this as such a problem? well, this is the great dilemma we face. i mean, it s notjust a question of seeing it as a problem, there is a huge weight of empirical evidence showing that farming is by far the greatest cause of habitat destruction, of wildlife loss, of extinction, of land use, which is perhaps the most important environmental metric of all, of soil degradation, of freshwater use, and one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown, of water pollution and of air pollution. so it s notjust a matter of opinion, this is the industry w