have enough republican support to win a vote in congress. some republicans opposed his alternative to obamaca re, which will now remain in force across the us. british police have appealed for the public to help uncover the motivation of the man who killed four people in wednesday's attack in westminster. detectives are still trying to establish whether he acted alone when he drove into pedestrians, before stabbing a police officer to death. the french presidential hopeful marine le pen says she would consider lifting sanctions on russia, if she was elected. the national front leader met vladimir putin in moscow. she said he was ‘not trying to influence events‘. in about ten minutes on bbc news we'll have this week's edition of newswatch but first it's time for click. driving in india is an experience.

the roads are crammed and the horn is omnipresent and the rules are... well, they're there somewhere, i'm sure. and that's why we will not be doing a story about self driving cars in india any time soon. and despite the fact that it seems like everybody here owns a car, that's not true. many people choose to travel by train instead. but if you think that is any less intense... think again. yeah, about those rules...

mumbai central station is a massive, heaving hub connecting the city to the north and east of india. but if you look closely, you will see something else connecting the commuters to the rest of the world. 116 wireless access points provide free wi—fi to anybody with an indian phone number. it is provided by google which says that about 2.5 tb are being downloaded here every day. and here is the interesting part, this is notjust about this station. along india's railway tracks lie 16,000 kilometres of optical fibre and google is piping internet access down those cables to feed wi—fi access to 114 other train stations as well. the man overseeing the project is gulzar azad, who i caught up with while he was waiting for a train. if you had to take one place

in the country where you wanted tremendous fibre and you had to have reliable power, relatively speaking, power is a challenge across the country, and you had to have the entire country walking through it there is only one place, that is a railway station. can you guarantee that all services on google‘s wi—fi will be treated equally? absolutely. i think the whole motivation for us, if you look at the reason why we did this was to see if we could provide an open internet, completely open with access to the entire web. the way the web was designed. so, there is a fibre optic network rolling out from train stations like this to the vast rural areas of this enormous country. and david hopped on a train to find out what effect that's having elsewhere in india.

it is hard not to be romantic about the railways of india. british colonial rulers laid track for control, shifting resources — mostly out — and prising open markets. now it is about moving people, millions a day. and thanks to optic fibre, data. i took the train tojaipur station to investigate. it has proper broadband and it is free. people are filling their booths. apart from some controversy, at another station where commuters were using free wi—fi to download hard—core pornography, the provision of high—speed wi—fi has been almost universally praised. 90,000 people pass through

jaipur station every day. i use the internet for news and entertainment. mainly for office work. for this studentjournalist it means she can keep tabs on breaking stories. early in the morning, the world changes like... so many things change. i have to come and check. indian stations are full of thriving businesses, feeding off or simply feeding the thousands streaming through them every day. free wi—fi has been a boon to local businesses here. ashok runs a tea stall on the platform. he makes more money now that his customers can make online payments to him. i use the wi—fi when my ag signal does not catch. when that does not work,

i use wi—fi, especially when a customer pays digitally. i need it to confirm i have received the payment. digital payments are worth about 30%—50% of my takings. this is music to the years of people managing the railways of india. a nationalised industry that runs at a loss. they think that high—speed wi—fi could be a good pull for a station like jaipur. they plan to build a huge concourse and attract retail and services business. it mightjust be an earner. as wi—fi expands and it becomes taken for granted then i think people will transfer more and more of their business. jaipur is a domestic and international tourist hub of high repute. people come out here from all parts of the world. and when you have a huge concourse it becomes an area where you can have shops and entertainment spots. for google, more people online

is more people to sell to. india's railway is the country's backbone. its public wi—fi is poised to be at least as far reaching. this is the andumen irdu primary school in calcutta. there are 155 kids here from grade i through to 7, and a whole bunch of dedicated teachers. and this is how they start their day. over in virjaya nijak‘s classroom, things are

a little more serious... so, at the back of the projector, there's a device which is plugged in and is running videos on english, maths and science. the videos are made for the entire region. but then they're dubbed in different dialects, different languages, depending on where they're sent to. today, we're learning about fractions. it is great teaching tool — as long as there is electricity... but there are plenty of times when there isn't. this is a village school. earlier, it would be difficult to teach because of power cuts. as the day passed by in the afternoon, we would have power cuts for more than two hours. that's why the projector and tablet are hooked up to this box, which is itself attached to a solar panel on the roof. together, they can provide up to five hours of electricity a day, meaning that classes don't have

to be interrupted or cancelled if the power cuts out. then, we started using solar power, as it is an easy and natural source of generating electricity. we have introduced a study of generating power through solar energy to our students, and are teaching them the importance and working of it. we also explain to our students that this process will help us in the future to generate electricity. this whole system has been provided by the selco foundation, an indian charity with the aim of hoping to alleviate poverty by improving access to energy. with this, they will get a better education through audiovisual teaching, and there is no problem of electricity. so any time teachers can take their students to the classroom, they can teach through this medium. selco and other ngos they work with pay for half of the cost of installing the projector and solar system — the other half comes from local schools or local governments. how important is the projector?

translation: before this project came in to use it, we had very few students. but since, we have started using the solar power, our number of students has increased in a good way. we have students coming to us from different villages to learn, and not only students — we have other schools coming down to our institute for smart classes. the smart class is a good way of teaching kids these days. they seem to enjoy and learn more than usual. after we introduced smart class, our school stands proudly in the educational sector. we plan to grow larger as the years pass by. cool whoa! the same system is already in hundreds of rural schools, and they're aiming to add hundreds more this year. and it's notjust key for schools — across rural india, businesses can be helped massively by having a reliable power supply. somana is a seamstress who lives

a short drive from kindapur. she became the breadwinner for her family after her father was taken ill. the more clothing she can prepare, the more she gets paid. with her old method, she could fix a couple of items per day. but thanks to the solar panel on her roof, she can whiz through five or six per day. plus, she has a fan, a tv and a light, so she can work earlier and later. one—quarter of india's rural population lives below the official poverty line — that's 260 million people whose livelihoods could be improved by the addition of basic facilities like electricity. and of course, one key way of helping people out of poverty is... ..education. it's always such a privilege to come to a place like this and see how

the simplest technology can make a world of difference. that's it from india for the moment. you can see plenty of photos and more backstage gossip on twitter. thanks for watching. see you soon. hello and welcome to news watch. two big issues on this week ‘s programme. bbc news programming from westminster after the attack was the — was this what the attacker hope for? and did the focus on martin mcguinness‘s death focused too much on this roll as a peacemaker and

statesman, and not enough on this ira past? from early wednesday afternoon onwards, many of us watched what unfolded in westminster which offer abortion. there are also questions as to whether the coverage played into the hands of those who would conduct the outrage? you're watching bbc news. updating you on an ongoing incident outside the palace of westminster. we were treated to nothing more than an oft repeated sequence of three or four events that have happened interspersed with speculation, then the event repeated, then more speculation. bbc, you can do better than this. repeating things over and over again, highlighting the terrorism, is on that exact the what the terrorists want? i would suspect it is. -- isn't that exactly. many

other viewers felt the same way. of course, degree speculation is inevitable in the reporting of this kind. but other viewers objected to the joys may buy bbc news to broadcast extensively since the attack, not from its usual studious, but from the streets of westminster, near the scene of the crime. wednesday's news at 10pm, thursday and's practice programme, victoria derbyshire, and much of the channel's output, some felt could have disrupted police work and was the opposite of the carry on as normal approach that the prominence to herself has