to order payments before the election to keep two women silent about their alleged affairs with him. mr trump has denied asking michael cohen, who's been sentenced to three years in jail, to break the law. britain's prime minister has insisted talks with the rest of the european union will continue over further clarification of arrangements for the northern ireland border. theresa may said she had held robust talks with the european commission president, jean—claude juncker, after he had complained the debate was ‘nebulous and imprecise‘. australia's prime minister has confirmed that his government intends to recognise westjerusalem as the capital of israel. scott morrison said the embassy would not move from tel aviv immediately, he said australia also recognised the aspirations of the palestinians to a state with a capital in east jerusalem. now on bbc news, in a moment it'll be time for newswatch. but first, here's click. the children at this

north london school have invited lara and me to learn about one of the most important events in british history. it has been 100 years since the first women in the uk were able to vote in a general election. and this vr experience is attempting to demonstrate how important it is to make your voice heard. and now repeat after me, this is my voice. all: this is my voice. before the suffragettes,

a woman had to know her place. make noise is an eight minute interactive animated documentary story which you use your voice to interact with and it's about the story of the suffragettes. i walked down the strand and the first shop i came to, which was a jeweller's, bang went my hammer through the window. in the early 20th century the british suffragette movement fought for the right of women to vote by protesting and damaging buildings, all the while facing ridicule and anger in the media. sing a note and make a monument with your voice. holding for as long as you can. and that's something that seemed to resonate with everyone in the room. yes, it did make me feel quite self—conscious to simply make noise, but that was the whole point — for both the female,

and maybe more importantly, male participants. reminding everyone of the importance of their voice being heard and valued. what did you think of the experience today? really good and epic. how much of a difference do you think it made learning about a subject like this in vr? i know more about history compared to other games. we can understand it rather than looking at old footage, which makes it seem as though it's boring. if we this way it is more fun watch. when we think about the suffragettes we think about these women, in starched, neat clothing, and we think they're not us. and actually when you hear what they say and the way that they say it and they are giggling and punk as hell, you think, 0k, actually you can teach me something about how i need to be. this isn't just about them. do you think men and women are equal now? they're not equal.

in what ways? men still get paid more than women. look at the buckets, one by one, and call out the names of the women who've inspired you. my mum! sonia! my mum! theresa! they seemed very excited when they could shout out the names of women who'd inspired them. who were yours? um, well, i'm only here because of tomorrow's world, the bbc science programme. and so maggie philbin and judith hann. ..before it can ever fly again. sadly, we may now have taken a step backwards in terms of female figures in technology. the 1970s saw the invention of the computer—driven wordprocessor, built by evelyn berezin, who died this week at the age of 93. in the 80s, almost 40% of american computer science majors were women. but by 2012 this number had halved. today, in silicon valley,

the heart of tech innovation, women only make up a quarter of the workforce. and female founders, on average, get less than half the investment of their male counterparts. that's maybe not surprising when you hear that only 7% of investors are women. so with stats like these we end up living in the world where most things are still designed by men, even if they are designed for women. case in point, this audio interface was recently being marketed specifically to women. great, isn't it. . ? the company has since apologised. now, if the tech industry has issues with gender balance,

you want to take a look at the maritime world, were just 2% of seafarers are female. emily bates has been too snowy turku in finland, land of a thousand lakes, to track down a female captain whose career is about to be transformed by technology. there are many of them, but there are just a few ladies on board. but, yeah, if you do yourjob well, then it shouldn't be a problem. anu loved her life at sea, working her way up the ranks over many years. but once she started a family, she found it increasingly difficult. it became kind of obvious that i need to have a shorebased job to continue. i wouldn't want to miss them growing up. but new tech may allow anu to continue her career at sea while still coming home to herfamily each night. i went to turku to get on board what is being called the future of shipping. ships like these make up part of finland's road network and complete millions

ofjourneys each year. i'm about to get on one that doesn't have a driver. this ship has been retrofitted with a variety of sensors and cameras which allow it to navigate by itself. it can set sail, complete the crossing and even dock itself, all without any human intervention. anu has been heavily involved in the development of the tech. we have object detection, which is done by our intelligent awareness system, which is doing sensorfusion. it using ais radar and camera to detect an object. this is going to the autonomous navigation system, which is then the brains who is kind of deciding whether these objects are dangerous for the vessel or not and whether we need to avoid them. while ship's captains like anu went

eventually be on board, they will be piloting multiple craft from the shore. should something go wrong with an autonomous vessel, one of these places will be able to take control of it from onshore and steer it to safety no matter where it was in the world. this technology may never be a substitute for the romance of the sea, but it could let people like anu balance the life they want using their years of training and expertise with family life. afghanistan — a country in turmoil. leading an ordinary life in this war—ravaged country is hard, especially if you're female. it's been described as the worst place on earth to be a woman. kabul‘s babur gardens were lit up this week to mark the close

of the un's 16 days of activism to end gender—based violence. yet in the western city of herat, this group of teenage girls cast aside day—to—day concerns over safety, security and mere survival to do something most girls in this country can only dream of. aptly, they are known as the afghan dreamers. translation: every child has a dream, robotics became mine when i watched cartoons with robots as a six—year—old kid. seeing them walking and talking like humans made me think about how they're built, and what makes them different from us. every week, they get together to code and build robots. their inventions are trying to find solutions to very local problems. translation: more than 8096

of the afghan population works in agriculture, which is still a very manual process here. we would like to change that. 0ur bot can cut wheat and handle the first process, and eventually we would like it to separate the wheat as well, making it easier for the farmer. fatima is the team leader. unusually, her father had greatly encouraged her, only tragically she lost him last year in a suicide bombing, a stark reminder of life here. the girls won last year's prestigious robotex contest in estonia, and that gave them the chance to be able to better their device. so this year, they've gone back with the improved version hoping they could win the big—money prize on offer this time around. congratulations on reaching the final of the competition, how are you feeling? i'm so excited for this.

so we have in here two robots. as you know, saffron is so famous in afghanistan. it is hard for women collecting the saffron by hand. so with this robot, we can help them to collecting all the saffron easier than by hand. we can cut the saffron in here and then we have a process in here. we can do process, and then in here we have an elevator so all saffron can go in here. from there, they can be packaged and transported by the other robot. as a girl interested in robotics in afghanistan, what challenges are you up against? the big challenge is that some families don't allow their girls to go to a robotics convention, because they think a girl isjust for home. i think it's wrong because girls can be like man to do something. i want to be a mechanical engineer in the future, and i want to help my country to improve there, like, customs, whatever they want.

so i want to help them. while change won't come overnight, we may be seeing the dawn of a generation who want to think anything is possible, and surely that's a start. that's all we have time for for the short version of click. the full version is on the bbc iplayer. to keep up with the team throughout the week you can find us on facebook and —— twitter. thanks for watching. week you can find us on facebook and -- twitter. thanks for watching. see you soon. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. after a trying week for the prime minister with portentous metaphors being made after getting locked in the car, we will be discussing the tone of the bbc‘s political coverage. and what's it like being a bbc political correspondent at the heart of a storm? we will be talking to ben wright.

it was one of those weeks when an avalanche of breaking news all seemed to be coming from one place. turmoil in westminster as the prime minister delays the crucial vote on her brexit deal at the 11th hour. there will now be a vote of confidence in my leadership. the prime minister has eight hours to save herjob. we are live at westminster with a bbc news special as prime minister theresa may fights for her political survival. you're watching a bbc news special. live at westminster. good morning and welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt, live at westminster. there was certainly advantages to reporting from the heart of where the story was happening, allowing programmes like victoria derbyshire to capture the divisions in parliament live on our screens. i'm going to talk to your colleague now, james cleverly, conservative mp and vice chair of the conservative party. i gather that you don't necessarily want to talk to each other, so if you want to go...

are you happy to? i will go, that's fine. 0k, all right. mr cleverly, please do join us. good morning to you. and the coverage extended beyond regular programmes. viewers on bbc one were offered not just one but two live bbc news specials this week. on monday evening, nick robinson explored what theresa may's brexit deal could mean for the uk. while andrew neil hosted a prime time news special on wednesday with live coverage of the leadership challenge to the prime minister. but with events moving quickly, there were moments when even the bbc appeared unsure as to what scale of coverage was appropriate. the andrew neil special was initially scheduled to start at 7:30pm and last a full 90 minutes. within hours, however, it was scaled back, first to an hour at 8pm, and then changed again to a half—hour special at 8:30pm, which delayed the start of the apprentice. millions of people tuned in,

but was the wall to wall coverage really necessary?