rio dejaneiro is a city famed for its passion for sport.me 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. a government decree said it wasn't "suited to the female form," so from 1941 to 1979, women could not play. 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. 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 in the o

rio dejaneiro is a city famed for its passion for sport.nd 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. 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 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 oth

well, that's the question being asked at this further lower in rio dejaneiro. asked at this further lowerro. boys and girls playing a different kind of ballgame. something that took a little getting used to. we arrived four years ago with four oxford rugby players and the reaction from the kids was obviously, what are you doing here? this is quite an isolated favella so there was a mixture of having an oval ball and having four massive by oval ball and having four massive rugby players from the uk and one from australia coming was a bit of a shock. the kids train twice a week, supported by volunteer coaches, but if they want to play, they have to go to school. this isn'tjust about sport, it's also about raising ambitions. translation: in brazil they say for example that because i'm black i will never manage anything in life, i'll obviously become a builder or a drug—trafficker. being a builder is a good job but why can't i become an architect, a doctor or a lawyer?” find it cool and it keeps us busy, doing a sport we love as well is going to school allows us not to worry about what's goin

and coming up in half an hour, 100 women is in the brazilian city of rio dejaneiro, tackling the issuesexism in sport. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is in iran, where he's pressing the authorities to release nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and others with british—iranian dual citizenship on humanitarian grounds. mrs zaghari—ratcliffe is serving a five—year prison term on charges of spying and trying to overthrow the iranian government, which she denies. adina campbell reports. a big day for the british foreign secretary. ahead of a highly anticipated meeting, borisjohnson greeted by his iranian counterpart, looked keen to get the discussions off to a quick start. where the topic of the imprisonment of dual nationals will be high on the agenda. one of them is nazanin zaghair—ratcliffe, seen here with her daughter, who she has been away from since being arrested in tehran 18 months ago. the iranian authorities have accused the 37—year—old of spying and trying to overthrow their government, something she and her family have strongly denied. in a st

now on bbc news — in 100 women — julia carneiro is in the brazilian city of rio dejaneiro tackling ther lives... in the workplace... we need a working prototype by tomorrow morning. in education... this is not functional — 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.