this is bbc news, the headlines: french riot police have clashed with protesters in paris after a day of demonstrations across the country. protestors are angry at a new law, restricting the right to publish images of police. it comes after a video emerged of three officers apparently beating a black music producer in his studio. turkey has condemned the assassination of iran's top nuclear scientist. iranian president rouhani has blamed israel for the killing of mohsen fakhrizadeh. and he says the country's nuclear programme will continue. israel has previously accused mr fakhrizadeh of masterminding a covert nuclear weapons programme. voters in switzerland will decide later on sunday on whether or not to make businesses financially and legally liable for human rights violations or environmental damage. if the swiss vote in favour in the referendum, the country could impose some of the world's strictest corporate responsibility rules.

charities and nhs services who help problem gamblers say this year has been one of their busiest. more than a quarter of a million people in the uk are thought to be addicted to gambling — with the number of women increasing at double the rate of men. jeremy cooke reports. gambling to me was as normal as breathing. i was gambling from the first moment i'd wake up in the morning. i'd wake up in the night and gamble. there was no time that i wouldn't gamble or think about gambling. kerry is a recovering addict. it felt like something i couldn't stop. it was part of me. it had control. gambling cost her tens of thousands of pounds. but the true cost has been higher still. what i lost was so much more than that. it was my identity, my self—respect, my values, time, sleep, relationships, my home. the list is endless.

i did think of ways to end my life. i didn't want to be here, because i couldn't see a life without gambling. it had me, it had total control. we'lljust have a little gamble maybe... breaking the habit is not easy. this is one of the few residential centres in the uk helping gambling addicts. the process starts thinking again... and it's cold turkey. no phones, no internet, no cash. the event, as you know, could be a sporting event. for years, online betting has been shifting the problem from the bookies to the family home. and then came the covid lockdown. it just amplified the situation. it amplified their feelings, thoughts, and of course their behaviour. took them to the edge when they were desperate. for most of us, of course, gambling is harmless. but for some, it can be disastrous, and now experts say covid and lockdown have created the perfect storm for a growing and deeper problem. before lockdown, our outreach services were reaching about 30 interactions a month. we're now doing

about 1,000 a month. the volume is on the increase, but the intensity is ten times greater than it was before. studies show that the number of women living with gambling addiction is growing, and stands at around 75,000 across britain. kerri now works full—time to help as many of those women as she can. if i hadn't spoken about it, i probably wouldn't be here now. you can recover. it is possible. i never believed it, but i'm living proof. now on bbc news, to celebrate bbc 100 women, click is profiling the most inspiring and influential women in technology. this week, a global click gathering... ..high—tech ivf hopes... ..and a robot ballerina with no left feet. hey, welcome to click.

hope you're doing 0k. now, we've met some pretty incredible female tech pioneers in our time, but this week's programme is going to be particularly inspiring. we're dedicating it to women in tech. and one female—led tech company, benevolentai, has had a spot of good news this week. yes, so this is the company that you visited earlier in the year, isn't it? they're using al to try and predict which medicines — which are already on the market — might be repurposed to treat coronavirus. is that right? yes, that's right! just nine months ago, they spotted the initial indications that a drug usually

used to treat rheumatoid arthritis could have potential. and it turns out they were right! baricitinib has received fda emergency approval in the us for those who are hospitalised and on oxygen or need ventilation. in a trial of 1,000 seriously ill patients, the medicine, combined with anti—viral remdesivir, was shown to help reduce coronavirus deaths by nearly 3%. there was also a 5% reduction in those needing ventilation, and on average, hospital stays were reduced by a day. the company behind this uses ai to crunch massive amounts of data, beyond what would be humanly possible, to understand the mechanisms of disease, as well as the properties of already approved drugs. now, a lot of people were looking at virals, anti—virals, and how they might potentially treat the disease.

we looked at it from a completely different way. we said, "what are the other types of approved drugs that might inhibit the progression of that disease in the body?" so we surfaced a number of drugs, and then we did some experimentation based on that further research. and then we came up with this one drug that we think is best suited. it has both anti—inflammatory properties as well as the ability to stop what's called endocytosis, which is what enables the virus to enter the lungs, which is the most potentially dangerous outcome of the coronavirus. a brilliant use of ai there. and baroness joanna shields, ceo of benevolentai, is the first of many women in tech featuring on this week's show. every year, the bbc 100 women project celebrates women from all walks of life and highlights their stories. and as part of that, we invited more than 100 women who are just starting out in their careers in tech to meet three female leaders

who have already made it big. kitty knolls from our team hosted everyone virtually from our bbc studio in london. hello, everyone, and welcome to this very special click virtual event. joining us from their corners of the world were serene 0w from singapore, who's head of data science at grab, a multibillion—dollar ride—hailing giant dominating southeast asia. erica joy baker, who set her alarm clock very early to dial in from silicon valley. formally a pioneer at microsoft, google and slack, she's now the director of engineering at github. and nicola mendelsohn, whojoined us online from here in london. she's facebook‘s vp of europe, middle east and asia. her work has been recognised by the queen. 0ur audience beamed in from over 30 countries across the globe. each nation with its unique set of challenges, but united over the shared experience

of being a woman in tech. i'm robyn mckenzie, i'm 18, and i've just started studying product design in cardiff. hi, i'm sara. i'm 21 years old, and i'm from tehran, iran. i'm an undergraduate student in computer engineering. i'm bo, i'm 2a, and ijust finished my degree in computer science in seoul, south korea. my name is susan, i'm 24, and ijust recently started working as an ict officer for the health department in kenya. i'm alice, i'm 26 years old, and i'm currently living in birmingham. there's a kind of atmosphere of fraternity or "bro—grammer" culture, and i sometimes feel i'm not welcome. i'm just one of the few

girls in my course. and throughout pretty much my entire education, i've been put in situations where the guys have behaved a bit like they're better than everyone else. it kind of makes the prospects of being one of the women in the tech industry not only scary but kind of terrifying at times. should i present myself a little bit differently to fit in that male atmosphere? just be yourself. you are who you are, and you should be proud of that. so, you know, don't feel like you have to fit in a particular mould, or even worse, a male mould, just to get the job. and i think, you know, first and foremost, like i always say, i think capability should speak for itself, where i think personality is another thing all together. so, you know, let your personality shine, i think that's important. you can choose to try to change yourself to fit in, but that is costly. overtime, that's going to end up wearing on you pretty hard because you're going to be a completely different person at work. you deserve better than that. you deserve a company who can see you for you are, value you for who you are and support you in that. and so if you get to a company

that has that "bro—grammer" culture, who's demanding that of you, skip it. if you are having trouble finding a job with an ml background, let me know, i have many for you. when we get to university, it's kind of expected from us to fail. and when we don't, people automatically assume that we have probably had inappropriate relations with our superiors or professors or our tas. that needs to be called out. you need to find somebody in a leadership position that you can share the concerns with, and you need to rely on others. and i have had in earlier times in my career where i've had difficult situations, where sometimes i might not be able to approach the manager, in your case, you know, the professor or the lecturer. and so i've gone around and tried to find somebody else to be there. but i think it's very important that, post—university, post—studying, that you place

yourself in a situation where you are able to thrive, where you are able to feel confident in the work that you're doing. lara: but getting the job is just the first hurdle. bias in the workplace comes in many forms, and both race and gender can introduce challenges. we are meeting a new client for the first time and he walks into the room and he just starts addressing the oldest—looking male in the room at the time. and what i've learned is that, eventually, if you actually focus, just cut out the noise, and just focus at really becoming good at what you do, eventually, i think, in the long run, that will prove itself and show itself. i would really like to know how it is to be a minority in tech where you are, or to be a mother in tech, and what challenges you have faced. while i'm not a mother in tech, i am a minority in tech, and i can touch on that some. i'll be really honest, it's a challenge sometimes, you know? there was a while where

i was the only black woman in my building because i'm an engineer. and it can get isolating. it's super—crucial to be able to find community outside of work. so, right now, i have a very strong network full of women from many races, and we connect quite frequently. you know, we're just sounding boards for one another. my dream is to work at a big tech company in the uk or in the us and also to have a big family too. you can absolutely do that. i'm working at facebook, and i am mum of four kids. and i am very proud that i am able to do both. and guess what? mums are using our products and so we want to be hiring more mums as well. so, give us a call, susan. why not? and there isn'tjust one route into the industry either. i'm halfway through a coding boot camp right now, which i'm really enjoying, and ifeel like programming will be our language

of our future. it's a field that i wish i'd gotten into earlier or had more access to at a younger age. so, how do you guys feel about hiring people from boot camps as opposed to traditional education? i am absolutely thrilled to hire people from boot camps. in the us, at least, we have some biases in our school system that select young girls out of mathematics and science and we need to do better at supporting them as an industry. so, apprenticeship programmes are really popular right now at tech companies, and those are great ways to get started once you've finished your boot camp, to get your foot in the door. countries around the world actively need more people, notjust women, but boys and girls to learn these languages. often people think that if you're in engineering, then you have to just be in the engineering side of it, they don't understand that there's a design side, and that it might notjust

be in a tech company, you could be in a fashion company, you could be in a retail company. there are going to be jobs all over the place. both gender equality and the diverse workforce are essential for better technology too. quite frankly, if we're trying to build software for the entire world, the entire world has to be represented in the room. and so, if you're building software with only men in the room, you're going to end up with problems where the software fails for women, just flat out. applause thank you, everyone. that is all we have time for. a huge thank you to our expert panellists and to our fabulous audience, those who've spoken and those who've looked in as well. it has been such a blast. take care, and we'll see you soon. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that elon musk passed bill gates to become the world's second—richest person. the cryptocurrency bitcoin hit a new record high, $19,510, exceeding by $60 its previous high in 2017.

and apple's head of global security was charged with bribery. thomas moyer is accused of offering ipads worth over $70,000 in exchange for concealed firearms licenses. twitter announced it would relaunch its scheme next year. the process wasn't cancelled three years ago after twitter was accused of approving white supremacy. 10,000 jobs could go at ibm in europe with germany and the uk being the worst hit. report quoted a union official saying that the announcement was made earlier this month and could impact 20% of its european workforce. china launched a lunar probe from the southern province of hainan. the chang'e—5's mission is to bring lunar rocks to earth. it's the first mission of its kind for the chinese

space programme, and a first attempt to gather moon material for 44 years. and finally this week, if you can't get out of your house, here's a robot that can do your yard work for you. the yardoid robot looks like a small tank and cuts grass on its own. it has a water gun for targeting weeds and pests, can refuel its own water tank, and even change jobs to work as a security guard. baby cries at five pounds and 12 ounces, louisejoy brown proved for the very first time in vitro fertilisation actually worked. 42 years on, and some eight million babies have been born the same way, after an egg has been fertilised in a lab. but ivf costs thousands. it remains an expensive gamble and emotionally stressful. just one in three women get pregnant after their first cycle.

so, we met two women who've turned to tech to help. going through infertility is one of the most difficult things ever that i've ever had to experience. you're constantly in and out of hospital, you're having to make up kind of excuses as to why you're not in work. it literally feels like you're just throwing money down the drain. to go through the ivf, and then to get a negative test result is just heartbreaking. i think i sat in bed for about 3—4 days, just pretty much nonstop crying. with such a heavy price placed on failure, anything that improves the chances of success could have a huge impact for would—be parents. here in israel, one teen believes that al can change those odds. traditionally, a human embryologist grades how viable eggs are. but this is a time—consuming, manual and subjective process.

there are many decisions that are based on gut feeling and personal experience. and even if you go to the same ivf centres, two experts can give you different opinions on the same embryo. instead of relying on human expertise, this system uses geometric deep learning — the branch of ai that goes beyond just visual images, the written word, or voice recognition. it's been trained on data from tens of thousands of videos and images, as well as patient data and environmental data from the lab. in geometric deep learning, you're not limited to the type of information that you're trying to analyse. for example, you can analyse graphs and 3d figures, and many other types of information. a clinical paper presented by the team this year suggests its methods are almost 20% better than human experts at selecting a viable embryo.

the ai is also potentially 30% better at identifying an embryo that wouldn't result in a successful pregnancy. patients like anna are already benefiting from this type of ai egg selection. translation: of course, i'm very happy i'm pregnant now. when i told my husband the news, he cried. this is all promising, but embryonics will need to continue piloting in the wider scientific community. we can use this technology and really create good prediction models through artificial intelligence. and it's proven that it works. it can help embryologists pick the right embryo, so the patient achieves a pregnancy a lot quicker. it can help inform a patient to whether they keep having treatment, if their chances are very low. and a prediction model will say that it may influence their decision to move on to other types of treatment, or move away from treatment. so, it really will give good choices for both the clinical

staff and patients. but what we do have to do is just be a little bit cautious. it's early days, it is emerging technology, and patients just need to work out whether, if this is something they'll be charged for, that this will make a difference for them now. while ai egg selection is still being piloted, many other technologies are also helping people to become parents. third time lucky, and ligia did finally get pregnant — with support from the world's first online ivf clinic. this uses an app to offer 24/7 support to those trying for a baby, and can cut hospital visits down to just two. the clinic has also now launched an ai tool that it says will help more couples to conceive. this uses half a million data points from the government's fertility clinic regulator, and looks at a patient‘s age, weight, and lifestyle.

after giving these three elements, we'll actually give you a score, telling you what are your chances to conceive, and you will be able to play on the parameters to actually see, "0k, if i quit smoking, "how does that affect my fertility? "if i drink a bit less, what is the effect? "if i lose weight, what is the effect?" the tool estimates a woman's chances for natural conception or ivf with an egg or sperm donor, whilst keeping personal data safe. the idea is to leave the data in the clinic to have it anonymized, and that the algorithm actually travels. if you use something like waze, you know that actually, it's not all of the data from all of the people using waze that is collected and centralised. actually, the algorithm is learning on everyone's phones and becoming more clever for the others to benefit. and for patients like anna and ligia, their high—tech ivf journey isn't over yet. translation: if i want to try for another baby after this,

i will ask the doctor to use artificial intelligence. we have considered having a second child, because we'd like to have siblings. i mean, it's automatically a friend, isn't it, for your child? wow, that was literally life—changing stuff. it's not always about practical outcomes, though. some technology is just about pushing the boundaries of creativity — as this quantum physicist, trained astronaut, and ballerina has been showing us. so, my name is merritt moore, and i'm a ballet dancer and physicist. as a young kid, i never spoke a lot. and so, then, when i found dance at 13, i became instantly hooked. i was going to quite an academic school. and following those lines of not being particularly verbal when i was a kid,

and also loving puzzles, i then fell into physics. all this time, it's been — i've had to pursue physics and dance, like, totally separated. and after i graduated from my phd, ijust had this feeling of, like, "why not both? " i had access to, like, this amazing robot, a universal robot in norway that i would start to work with in between performances and after rehearsals, late at night. and that developed, and i was working with the robot, and i wasjust so inspired by the way that it moves and how it inspired new movement from me and the collaboration of technology and human and bringing that together.

working with the robots and including dance, ithink... part of the important part is — and the mission is to open up the conversation and to discuss, break down the stereotypes, and to show that, a, you can have fun working with tech, you can be super—creative and imaginative. it's not — science is not being given a book and memorising in the corner. it's all about collaboration and bringing ideas. and the more creative you are, the better you'd actually be at tech and science. so, when i was at norwegian national ballet, i got covered in motion — i went into the motion capture suit, and i was dancing to music, and we were storing my movement as data points to then train ai and to see what kind of new movements it could come up with.

and from there, we then wanted to map that onto the robot, and see what inspiring choreography it could come up with. ai and tech, and the robots can be used as a tool to inspire new creative ideas for us humans, to allow us to be more creative. tech and science is for everyone, especially for girls, where they might feel that they're excluded from pursuing that as a career path. i would say no. i want to break down that stereotype and say, "look, you can be super—creative, "you can be artistic. "it's all about imagination, it's all about pushing, "breaking down those stereotypes and being free. "and whichever path you want to take, "you and whatever passions you have, "you can combine them to be uniquely you and pursue

"what really drives you." that was one of the most beautiful reports i've seen all year. wasn't that great? absolutely. oh, gosh. anyway, that's it for this week. butjust before we go, have you heard click is doing a live show online — and you're invited? it's happening on thursday the 10th of december at 12:30 gmt, where we'll be celebrating 20 years on air! yes, and we want to share our 20th birthday with you. and let's face it, who doesn't need a virtual party right now? so, for your chance to be in the live audience, to share the memories and have a chat with the click family, then send us a direct message via instagram or twitter at @bbcclick. click at 20, a live celebration, is coming soon. in the meantime, thanks for watching, and we'll

see you next week. bye— bye. hello there. sunday looks like being a dull and gloomy sort of day for many places. there was some sunshine on saturday. in kent and here in sussex, the temperature reached 1a degrees. with some sunshine in scotland, a lot colder here, though, only 3—4 in central areas after a frosty start. and sunday sees a frost in many parts of scotland to start the day, particularly in the north east, could be down to —5. it'll be milder to start sunday for northern ireland, england and wales because we're underneath this blanket of low cloud, so misty, murky weather for most of the day. it could brighten up a little

bit across western parts of wales, perhaps into northumberland. it won't be as wet in northern england. more cloud comes into western scotland, but there'll still be some sunny spells for eastern scotland. and temperatures in a range 7—11 degrees, with the higher temperatures more likely across western parts of the uk. some changes, though, as we head into the evening and overnight because the breeze picks up towards the north west, the cloud thickens and we start to push in some rain as well. now, that means it's going to be a much milder night across scotland, and as we head into monday morning, it should be frost—free. but we start with a lot of cloud. however, the weather will change a little bit because all that mistiness will get pushed away as these weather fronts push their way southwards with a little bit more of a breeze as well. most of the rain will be affecting scotland, northern ireland, pushing into the high ground in north—west england and wales. there won't be much rain heading its way southwards into southern england in the afternoon. and through the afternoon, we could actually get some sunshine as the rain

clears from scotland. here, it'll turn a little bit cooler. 0therwise quite mild with that patchy rain, temperatures 10—11 degrees. now, that weather front pushes southwards out of the way, but willjust hang around a bit into the western side of the uk by tuesday morning. but in between those weather fronts, we've got a northerly breeze. that's bringing in some clearer skies overnight, dropping the temperatures in eastern scotland and north—east england, so a frosty start here. and it will be a cold day for these parts as well because the cloud then starts to topple in again across scotland, and we'll see the crowd increasing in wales, western parts of england. sunshine for most of the day, though, i think, for the midlands, east anglia and the south—east. temperatures 8—9 degrees. 0ut towards the west where there's more cloud, maybe making ten in northern ireland. but it does turn chilly everywhere later on in the week. not only that, the winds will pick up and it turns much more unsettled.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world: more than a0 police officers are injured in clashes with protesters on the streets of paris in a rally against a new security law. the number of covid patients in hospital hits a new record high in the united states. turkey condemns the assassination of iran's top nuclear scientist and calls for his killers to be held accountable. and the archbishop of washington dc, wilton gregory becomes the catholic church's first african american cardinal.