tv 100 Women Challenge BBC News December 10, 2017 2:30am-3:01am GMT
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this with some great advice for our young players... it's time to see if coach helena has been equally inspiring, as our team thinks about ideas to beat sexism in the sport. the women also came up with an idea for an internet channel for female players by female players. so the women have three solid solutions. now theyjust have to make everything happen in three days in time for saturday's match. a new day and it's time to start turning ideas into reality.
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for the match in two days. the girls‘ shirts say "i play like a girl". the boys‘ shirts ask "i play with them, what about you?" and even the parents get a shirt with the message, "my girl plays football with pride." good job, good job. the young players taking part in saturday's game come from all over rio. and it's time to get them back together for one last training
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session before the final match. is the all girls back together for one last trading session before saturday's match. it's time to get all the girls back together for one last trading session before saturday's match. we've brought them to rio‘s temple of dreams. this is the maracana stadium. two football world cups have been played here. to train on the pitch at this world —famous football ground is beyond the imagination of most aspiring players. it's lights, camera action for the team's internet tutorials.
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as the filming of the tutorials continues, a new face appears. 13—year—old mc soffia is on familiar ground at the maracana. this talented rapper performed here during the opening ceremony of last year's olympics. she's come to meet our team and get inspired to write a special football anthem for the final match on saturday. with her performance at the match just two days away, mc soffia uses the iconic stadium as her rehearsal venue. the maracana has played host to some exceptional sights over the decades.
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i hope this visit by the 100 women challenge will make its way into the stadium's history books, too. there's just one day to go until the mixed gender football match. the young players are resting up ahead of their game. 0vernight, our bbc crew edited the video tutorials and it's time to reveal them to the experts. the youtube channel is beginning to take shape, but it needs to be finished by tomorrow morning so they can share it with the young players. but they still need more soccer on this website. it's the last day of the final 100
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women challenge of 2017. we are very happy with the results. we are very happy with the results. we are very happy with the results. we are so excited. i am very tired. it was hard work. but i think it was worth it. all week the women have been working on new rules to make a mixed gender football match fairer for females.
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to get some inspiration, two of the team, maira and bia went to see a korfball game where both sexes play alongside each other. when they were there, they recruited the school's pe teacher, sheila, to referee today's match. while they're doing that, the other experts are showing off their completed youtube channels to the players. a british university surged into the differences of genius. girls lose the goal more frequently and have a
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lower pass completion rates are so the new rules are specifically set up the new rules are specifically set up to help the girls with their passes and amount of playtime. with the new rules in place, it's time to hand out the kit. the 100 women team are in orange. the 100 women team are playing against a mixed gender team from the american school of rio. the school's players train together regularly but because there is no mixed gender league, they've never played together in a competition before. it's a great game so far, very competitive. it is time for kicks off. it's a great game so far, very competitive. the 100 women team is a little bit behind but everyone is giving it their best. at half—time there are pep
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talks from parents, and words of wisdom from the coaches, before the whistle for the second half blows again. the match hasjust finished. the 100 women team lost. it was 9—3 for the other team. the girls are a bit upset but they played really, really well. maria, how do you feel, how did you like the game? despite her disappointment, maria's talent hasn't gone unnoticed. all this week there has been
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we are claiming victory for the week itself. the messages the women wanted to convey came across loud and clear and the internet channel is a lasting legacy of the challenge. i hope and i wish that maybe in the next years we can see more and more girls playing soccer. after a very inspiring week, everyone has gathered for mc soffia to play the rap she made especially for this occasion. about the empowerment of women in
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sport. now it is time to celebrate. the bbc 100 women challenge is over. they came up to innovative solutions to the challenges we set them. we attempted to close the gender gap in the boardrooms of silicon valley. attempted to close the gender gap in the boardrooms of silicon valleyli didn't think we had anything left to get to this project and then ijust looked to my teammates and i realised, it's not whether i can do it it's if we can do it together. we try to find a way to end in literacy among women in delhi. the best solutions are the most simple. and if you can just bring those to life, it can change the world. and we made a brave effort to stop sexual harassment on public transport in london. what was most powerful was
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hearing the accounts of women and then ellie doing her dance performance upstairs on the bus and the two together were really profoundly moving. we finish here in rio, trying to level the sports field for females. there was never going to be a quick fix for any of these challenges but just maybe with some of our solutions and the raising awareness of the issues, we have proved that anything is possible forfuture generations. hello.
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sunday morning starts on a bitterly cold note. temperatures down at around —12 or perhaps —14 degrees across the snow cover of scotland. further south, a band of rain, sleet and snow and increasingly, it is turning to snow as it pushes into the very cold air. ice also an added hazard during the course of sunday morning. the met office has issued an amber warning for that snow. be prepared for disruptive snow through mid and north wales into parts of northern england and down to the midlands. 5—10 centimetres of snow at low levels, 20 centimetres possible over the higher ground. we will continue to see the band of sleet and snow and towards the southern edge, it may turn into rain but the wind is an added hazard. 60 mph or more in the english channel and bristol channel. further north across the country, drier with sunshine but temperatures
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will struggle to get far above freezing. keep up—to—date with the latest forecast. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the world. i'm duncan golestani. the british foreign secretary will meet the president of iran on sunday. her husband gives the visitor a cautious welcome. it can only help improve relations and improved relations can only lead to a better case for us. as palestinians continue to protest, arab foreign ministers urge the us to abandon its decision to recognise jerusalem as israel's capital. barack says its war against the so—called islamic state is over, but has warned that the group poses a threat from across the syrian border. —— iraq says.
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