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tv   100 Women Challenge  BBC News  December 10, 2017 4:30pm-5:01pm GMT

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it inland. snow is on the indeed it inland. snow is on the ground, we will see caption parts of england, wales and scotland as low as —12 to minus iii. frost in places, foggy start on tuesday, one or two showers but most places will be dry and sunny before cloud and rain and slightly less cold air pressures the west later. —— pushes in from the west. hello. this is bbc news with shaun ley. i will have the headlines and the latest news at the top of the hour. but first... now on bbc news, the latest in our series 100 women. we're 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. in education. it's a small that will malfunction.
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-- little it's a small that will malfunction. —— little malfunction. emojis not showing up in the overlay. on public transport. there's only, i don't know, 50 more to do or something. and on the sports field. using bbc outlets, the teams can appeal for help from around the world. they have just one week to find a modern solution to a long—standing issue. welcome to the bbc‘s 100 women challenge. rio dejaneiro is a city famed for its passion for sport. it was home to the 2016 olympic and paralympic games. and hosted the most recent football world cup in 2014. the beautiful game is adored by millions here but has an ugly past. for almost a0 years, women were banned from playing football in brazil.
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though the ban is now lifted, its legacy lives on. it's a real struggle for brazilian women to be taken seriously in football. the 100 women challenge has come to rio to try to tackle sexism in sport. and find solutions to level the playing field, inspiring women here in brazil and around the world. taking up the challenge are five women who have just five days to come up with ideas to help improve the situation for female footballers. time for some introductions. footballer bia vaz from sao paulo has played for the brazilian national women's squad and professionally in the united states. fernanda is a rower and competed in her home city of rio fernanda
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is a rower and competed in her home city of rio in the olympic games last year. this woman grew up in one of rio's favelas, dreaming of playing football. now she's a coach for other children growing up in poverty. maira from sao paulo is director of the women in sports programme for the campaign group think 0lga. and finally, two time 0lympic beach volleyball silver
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medallist adriana from rio is now on the brazilian olympic committee, part of her role is to keep women in sport. our experts must reveal their solutions to sexism in sport at a mixed gender football match at the end of the week. it'll be a seven aside game, and at least three of the players on each side must be female. the squad playing on behalf of the 100 women is made up of talented young brazilian footballers who are meeting for the first time today. it's also hoped these young players can offer some inspiration to our challenge team. even atjust 12 and 13 years of age,
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ana and luiza have already encountered a lot of resistance to their love of the game. with ana and luiza as their inspiration, the women start making plans for the week ahead. leading up to the game on saturday. maira and bia also take some time to reflect on the first day. the team is made up of high achievers, but none of them has ever
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taken on a challenge of this scale injust a week. it's going to be an interesting few days. we've had a really early start and just drove an hour and a half to reach the school in the west zone of rio, we're going to see a very unique experience promoting gender equality in sport. korfball. korfball was invented just over 100 years ago in the netherlands so that men and women could play alongside each other on the same team. school pe teacher shayla is a big fan of the sport because the sexes
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can compete on equal terms. although watching the korfball is useful, neither of these women are spectators in life, and they are itching to get stuck in. school is over for bia and maira, they are now off to university, collecting ana and luiza along the way. arriving at rio's pontifico catholic university, luiza and ana head off for training, with the university's women's team. meanwhile, they are meeting football coach helene. she was the one who discovered one of the best female footballers in the world, the then 14—year—old marta at the stadium. helena has agreed to become the team super coach,
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they'll update her the challenge and solutions they are coming up with to address sexism in sport. meanwhile, ana and luiza have a new recruit. 13—year—old maria willjoin them for saturday's game and together they are meeting the university team captain, nicole. 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
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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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the experts want to raise awareness of women's football through some empowering messages. they've decided to have slogans printed on shirts for saturday's game. the new shirt will become the 100 women team's kit 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.
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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 session before the final 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 0lympics. she's come to meet our team and get inspired to write a special football anthem for the final
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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. 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. overnight, our bbc crew edited the video tutorials and it's time to reveal them to the experts.
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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. it's the last day of the final 100 women challenge of 2017. all week the women have been working on new rules to make a mixed gender football match fair for females. 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've recruited the school's pe teacher, sheila, to referee today's match. the other experts are showing off their completed youtube channels to the players.
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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. 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
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talent hasn't gone unnoticed. all this week there has been a team behind the team, every step of the way our girl players have been supported by their family members. luiza's mother is confident about her daughter's future, but what about the player herself? how has this week left her feeling? though the 100 women football team
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didn't win the match, they 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
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to play the rap she made especially for this occasion. good evening. the met office amber weather warning for heavy snow will gradually lapse through the evening hours as the snow continues to fall a bit lighter. transport disruption will be ongoing, especially considering we have seen over the foot of snow in some parts in some parts of wales. and it continues to fall. patchy into the evening across wales, the midlands, parts of the south and east. not as bad as earlier in the day. still some rain showers across the southernmost counties. the severe gales slowly easing. we go into the evening with clear skies. a few showers dotted around the north will become more extensive through the night. some parts of scotland didn't get above freezing all day long. ice will become a major issue here, and of course where we are seeing snow lying through the night
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into tomorrow morning. temperatures likely below freezing into monday morning. we could see temperatures as low as —10 to —12 in one or two spots. especially where the snow is lying. into monday morning, we have to keep an eye on this area of low pressure as it pushes across, giving problems in france, spain and portugal. also we have a risk of icy conditions for the monday morning commute, that could be the main issue for many of you as you start the day, as well as a widespread sharp frost. a bit of snow at times through the day as the low pressure system gets close to east anglia and the south—east. but most will have a sunny day. a few more showers towards the north and west. through the afternoon, a mixture of rain, snow on the hills in east anglia and the south—east, there could be gale force winds through the day. away from that, dry, sunny, pretty cold, frost returning by lipm. it will be wintry over the hills, causing a few issues for one or two of you. showers across cornwall.
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a mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow flurries in northern ireland and also in scotland. as we finish monday and go into monday night, showers continuing in the coast. inland it will become pretty cold. the coldest night of the week. where snow is on the ground we will see temperatures in parts of england, wales and scotland as low as —12 to minus 1a. frosty and foggy start to tuesday. one or two showers, but most places will have a dry and sunny day before slightly cold air pushes in from the west later. this is bbc news. the headlines at five. the uk is facing more heavy snowfalls with an amber weather warning issued in many parts of the country. drivers are being asked to be prepared. this is by far the worst i've ever seen, probably the worst snow i've ever seen to be honest. there has been travel disruption,
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some airports are dealing with long backlogs of flights. nazanin zagari—ratcliffe, the british woman imprisoned in iran, will not have to appear in court today, following talks between boris johnson and the iranian government. disgraced celebrity publicist max clifford has died in hospital at the age of 7a. he had been serving an eight—year sentence for historical sex offences. the brexit secretary has warned that the uk could still refuse to pay its divorce bill if it doesn't get a trade deal with the eu. captain wayne rooney scored from the penalty spot as everton
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