terrifying. i think they re terrifying. i think that when i saw these, i know they re fake. they have fake written all over them. but still, i had a visceral reaction to seeing them. there s something about seeing a former president. let me put up another one. here s another one. this is a this one is about donald trump. it shows him in the middle of a police. fake donald trump, of course, the middle of a police from his falling to the ground and gideon just seeing a former president. in this situation. i sort of viscerally felt sick, and i know it s fake. well this is you know, this is the latest issue of mid journey which is one of these ai image generators. my journey five and it is just leaps and bounds better than the ones that we have been seeing before. and so even though there are lots of ways in which if you look closely, you can spot that these images are fake. it s still the you know the training on trump s face. the ai does that well enough and expressions in the
as part of the bbc s counting the cost of living series at we are here in derby to see how people are coping. three will become two conservative mps get set to vote on the final candidates who will go on to fight it out to become the party s leader and the next prime minister. after weeks of protests on the streets of sri lanka protesters staged a silent protest. we will hear from staged a silent protest. we will hearfrom brittany s staged a silent protest. we will hear from brittany s newest world champion coach jake wightman, who took gold last night at the world fatic championships. fire crews have worked through the night damping down wildfires and blazes in homes which broke out in yesterday s record breaking heat. dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed and hundreds had to be evacuated. london was among a number of fire brigades that declared major incidents as fires broke out across the country. one blaze in east london, on the edge of kent, gutted several houses a
temperature heat has caused travel disruption here. also on the programme tonight: higher than expected pay rises for many public sector workers across the uk, but they won t keep up with inflation. and from four to three, as kemi baydenoch is knocked out of the race to become our next prime minister. and coming up on the bbc news channel: ben stokes is out cheaply in his final odi as england are beaten by south africa in durham. good evening. it has been a day of record breaking tempertaures breaking tempertu res across the united kingdom more than a0 degrees celsisus for the first time. the uk s top temperature today was in coningsby in lincolnshire, where it hit 40.3 degrees according to the provisionalfigures. but more than 30 weather stations across england beat the previous record of 38.7 degrees set injuly 2019. and scotland had its hottest day ever. 34.8c was recorded in charterhall in the borders. 0ur climate editorjustin rowlatt is in cambridge where the uk s pr