we are challenging teams of women in four cities around the world. to tackle everyday problems that blight their lives. in the workplace... we need a working prototype by tomorrow morning. so, argh! in education... a small malfunction, emojis are not showing up on the overlay. on public transport... i need, 15 more to do or something. seriously? and on the sports field... using bbc outlets the teams can appeal to help from around the world. theyjust have one week to find a modern solution to a long—standing issue. welcome to the bbc 100 women challenge 2017. it's the second of our 100 women challenges. and this week we are in delhi, the capital of india. just under 26.5 million people,

and counting, called the city home. and by 2020, it is on course to become one of the richest cities in the world. in this programme we are asking, why, despite all this economic success, half of women in rural india and a third of women nationwide can't read or write. we've pulled together a team of women who are ready to face the bbc 100 women challenge. they have been tasked to find out what can be done to increase female literacy. let's meet our experts. this is the ceo of the study hall education foundation which teaches children in rural india about gender quality. we teach them that they are equal people,

that they have a right to respect and a right to a life of their own choosing. a health care entrepreneur working in the us. she is passionate about using technology to increase access to education. social class and cultural disparities are the most prominent issues that girls face in india today. i think tackling that within one country with the various languages that we have here, is a real challenge. a writer and journalist who has written extensively about women and gender in india. it's going to be about women and educating them that is truly going to make india into a great nation. a teacher of some of delhi's most disadvantaged children whose parents are imprisoned. and finally, the founder of an educational technology company. she believes educating women makes

sound economic sense. the men are educated and if they are aware of their gender equality and their choices they will do the same to their children, and that is the same to the entire population. it is common sense. our experts‘ challenge is to come up with an idea that will increase female literacy both in india and worldwide, in just five days. they have been working on the problem individually for weeks. and have come together for the first time to put their ideas into action. so what is the global picture for female literacy? almost two thirds of the world's illiterate adults are women. that is a79 million women. a ratio that has not changed for two decades. the problem starts at school, with girls less likely than boys to attend. 15 million primary age girls

will never set foot in a classroom. why is this? girls miss school for many reasons. including, poverty, early marriage and menstruation. however, over the last decade, millions more girls have attended school. for every 100 boys, 94 girls completed primary school in 2014. compared to just 83 in 2002. and older women are still far behind. out of every ten women over 65 only seven of them can read. and in india that ratio is even more striking. according to the most recent census figures, only 28% of women over 60 here can read and write. and our experts want to make sure that solutions meet the needs of these older women. to focus their efforts,

we have arranged for them to meet mehroonisa. she will tell us why she thinks education is important and what she wants. she was married at 14 and had nine children. which meant her education was cut short. one of her sons is now known throughout india. he is a bollywood superstar. she can read some urdu, but

struggles to read and write hindi. in the run—up to the challenge, the tech experts have been developing an interactive electronic book that they hope could help to improve her literacy level. and they are keen to see what she thinks of the idea. can you explain, what is the

solution that we are talking about? we are creating an e—book that is image and video enhanced to make it more interactive and also more engaging for readers. and you can use it without the internet? yes, we don't need continuous connectivity, because it is preloaded and it is already loaded onto the smartphone or tablet. but not everybody is convinced by the tech—based solution. we know there is no internet penetration in vast acres of the country. and does everyone have smartphones? she has one, but most people don't.

and if there is one at home the men gets to use it, that is the issue as well. at the end of the first day there are still lots of questions about the e—book. tech experts work through the night to try and show the others what might be possible. we are here to see which capable... the tech sector in india is growing fast. internet use here has risen by 90% since 2015. to open up minds... but will that be enough to persuade the others? it's day two and the experts have stepped out of the building. don't get any ideas. they are still brainstorming,

but it is now fuelled by a strong cup of delhi chai. ladies, delhi chai! having heard more about the e—book, the team think a powerful way to use this tech would be to tell her own story. but they also need something that could appeal to the next generation. and to find out more about the challenges facing younger women, we've arranged for them to meet priyanka. she moved to delhi recently from west bengal where she lived with her aunt and father after her parents split up. but she is behind in her studies, as when she was younger her family could not see the point of sending her to school.

eventually, priyanka moved to live with her mum in delhi. and she made sure that priyanka got an education. we have got priyanka and her friends from school so we can hear more about girls‘ education. right? so everybody will tell their stories, when they raise their hand, i throw the ball. who raises their hand? these kids go to the same school in delhi slums. and they really wanted us to know about friends and family who lost out on education when they got married. the kids‘ stories are typical. but the students also have ideas for how to change things. so the experts have plenty

of food for thought. i really loved your idea as well. that we should be using everything that we possibly have, and you spoke about a street play, i think that is wonderful. the experts were already thinking of using drama as a way of raising awareness about female illiteracy. and after hearing the childrens‘ stories, they decided to turn their experiences into a play to be performed at the end of the week. and work continues late into the night. while half of the team continue to work on the play,

the others want to know how comfortable she is with modern technology, so they can see how useful and e—book would be for her. we have brought her all the way from a village in uttar pradesh, where she helps older women who have never let technology, to use some technology. she is known as an internet sathi, and has trained over 600 women in the last six months on how to use the internet and find their way around a smartphone. she helps mehroonisa navigate her way to the shops. and soon she feels confident enough to make a video call to her famous

son for the first time. it has been a successful trip. but will her new—found confidence help inspire our experts with their tech solution? hello, we are back. mehroonisa is very curious about the technology,

she is very interested and i think she had a lot of fun playing with it and learning it. i am optimistic that the e—book will be a very good solution. so if you see happy for example, and you don't understand happy you can see a happy emoji and that will help you understnad and correlate other videos and links that help you to illustrate your point clearer. inspired by mehroonisa‘s shopping trip, they decide to build chapters into the e—book about how to navigate daily life using emojis and pictures to help explain everyday situations like using an atm and increase mehroonisa‘s vocabulary. these sections will be part of the broader story about mehroonisa‘s life. where she was born, how it is really her right to get an education.

we‘re trying to put that message across. that it is every woman‘s right, no matter what age, to have education, and it is never too late to do that. and the experts are also working on the play. girls don‘t have any control over their lives. tomorrow they need to show the kids what they have done for the play‘s first rehearsal and the prestigious national school of drama. it is a nerve—racking time for priyanka and her school friends as they get ready to rehearse. after the rehearsal, veena tells me why theatre could be a great way of getting the team‘s message across. but while the play is taking shape, there is bad news for the rest

of the team working on the e—book. back at base. it is a small malfunction on a emojis not showing up on the overlay. they were working earlier, it is a little worried because it would be nice to have it done right now. we have news, you may not like it. but it is what it is, ok? so, you know this morning, all the emojis were working great. but then we wanted to change the background to white, so that it is kind of like you know... it is not happening? there is a bug, because... when will it be fixed? later tonight. and the pressure is mounting

as they need to reveal the e—book and the play to mehroonisa, priyanka and her classmates in just a few hours‘ time. it is the last day of our challenge, and despite yesterday‘s setbacks, everyone is excited to see what the team have come up with. and i‘m revealing our expert solution to the world on bbc news. we‘re at the end of the week that was exploring the second of the 100 women challenges about female literacy, and it has been such a week. we spent such a good time with experts. but more importantly, it is time for the kids at priyanka‘s school to see what they think. across india, 93 girls attend primary school for every 100 boys.

and that number falls as the girls get older. so the play could have an important message for the girls here. i will speak to the children and they said we will take it into the homes, to the street corner, which is the purpose of it. there is no internet required, no technology required, it is an oral tradition and that is what has been working here for centuries past. that is what storytelling has been done. but the experts can‘t take all the credit. the play would not have been possible without the children‘s ideas.

thank you very much. and our experts are hoping that mehroonisa liked the e—book as much as the kids enjoyed the play. there was a specific point when i had a conversation with her and words hold her back. she talked about her lack of confidence in the small things that she doesn‘t like, and i was like, that can be fixed. the use of emojis to be able to communicate education content is revolutionary. i‘m excited to see where we can take this forward in india. and the e—book also allows mehroonisa to share her story with the next generation. when the students read

it, they were like, 14 you were married?! and there were questions about the children, about her nine children and how she had no time for that because her life was work. i think it is important for women to tell a story and other women to read them and ask important questions about them. the best solutions are the most simple. and if we canjust bring those to life, they can change the world. that is it from delhi.

next week, we are in london where we are looking for solutions to sexual harassment on public transport for the next 100 women challenge. hello again. cold weather will dominate over the weekend. 0ver hello again. cold weather will dominate over the weekend. over the week we had flooding in cumbria. a lot of rain around. this was friday morning... not rain but snow and some ice around as well. and cold winds are strengthening during

saturday, blowing more of these wintry showers, not just saturday, blowing more of these wintry showers, notjust into western scotland and northern ireland, but perhaps into western parts of england and wales. if you showers in the midlands as well. snow more likely over the hills. but it will feel cold, the winds will be stronger on saturday and those temperatures, this is what will feel close to freezing in the northern half of the uk where remains windy and showery with continued risk of icy patches as well. the showers tend to ease down overnight. the winds ten to get a little bit more westerly. temperatures not quite so low by sunday morning. but still the risk of a frost particularly in the countryside. as we run through the day, we can see a line of showers on sunday over the irish sea into lancashire and possibly cumbria all the way into the north midlands. that fewer showers on the whole, more places will be dry, sunshine across the eastern side of the uk, but out to the west, cloud will be increasing, and after that chilly start, it means temperatures will be

slow to rise during the day. the cloud coming in ahead of that weather system there. this is a change as we move into monday. that weather system moving down across the uk, it will sweep rain south—eastwards across all areas of the night, a wet start on monday morning across southern england. it may take a way of the rain to clear the south—east. but it is clear away from other areas, with a westerly wind following on from that and sunshine and showers. we will find things changing again as we move into tuesday. that weather feature that could bring showers overnight, and keep rain in the south—east on tuesday. but after that clears through, you can see where the wind is coming from. all the way from the north once again. that means will be turning colder as temperatures drop away, and will start to see the showers in the north turning wintry once again. as we ran into tuesday from wednesday, we have high pressure out in the west. low pressure out in the west. low pressure in the east across europe, that means, you can see the isobars

running north to south, the wind coming down from the north. a slight change in wind direction would change in wind direction would change the pattern of the showers. it looks like we‘re going to find more showers down the eastern side of england and scotland coming in off the north sea. this is where we will have the strongest of the wind, there could be wintriness on the north york moors. that is the pattern on thursday. we may see some of these showers coming down and clipping pembrokeshire and possibly into devon and cornwall, temperatures on the low side. what is happening? as we look further ahead, it looks as if we will keep this cold at plunging down across the uk with northerly winds. mulder is not far away, it comes in the shape ofan is not far away, it comes in the shape of an area of high pressure and the atlantic winds behind. that high pressure is of movement. possibly later that weekend that high pressure may get closer to the week uk. if that does happen, we will find northerly winds, it will still be cold. nothing exceptionally

cold, nothing unusual. there will be wintry showers, more down the eastern side of the uk. but not that i cold by day, there is a risk of roster. frost at night. ——. tonight at 10pm: one of the worst terror attacks in egypt in living memory, as gunmen kill 235 people in a mosque. sirens. they burst in, shooting at men and boys just as friday prayers were ending in a remote town in north sinai. egypt‘s president says he will respond with an iron fist.