stacey cunningham, thank you so much for your time. thank you. hello, good morning.d enoughjust recently to bring some sleet and snow to lower levels, even into the south—east of england. but on wednesday, the coldest air and the strongest winds will push northwards across scotland and northern ireland. so we should see some improvements further south. but we've got a cloudy start on wednesday morning. the wetter weather for northern ireland moving away from northern england, up into scotland. again, some sleet and some snow, particularly over the hills. but then we should see things brightening up, a few showers coming in as well. more detail in the afternoon. you can see the showers in the west country perhaps affecting east wales and the west midlands. for eastern england this time, some welcome sunshine, much drier weather as well. and that sunshine may develop through the afternoon later on into southern parts of scotland. northern ireland still stays quite wet, frequent showers around here, quite wet for central and northern parts of scotland, some more sleet a

stacey cunningham, president of the new york stock exchange.peak near malibu. the wildfire in the area is now largely contained, but these images have just been released. a new contenderfor britain‘s fattest dog is being looked after at rescue centre in portsmouth. bopper the whopper is a collie who weighs eight stone. he‘s currently too big for the kennels at the gables farm shelter so he‘s living with a staff member while he tries to shed some pounds on a special diet. and we can actually go live to devon now to speak with that staff member. ruth rickard is the deputy manager at gables farm but currently has bopper living with her. i wonder, does he like that nickname? possibly not but he is getting lots of tlc, he is adorable. how did he come to be with you? he was given by his owner and u nfortu nately, was given by his owner and unfortunately, you know, they gave him to us at gables farm, and as a charity, we are able to give him the help he needs to safely lose some weight. how overweight is he? well, he tipped the scales atjust under 50

stacey cunningham is president of the new york stock exchange — the first woman to occupy that post anda hussain. there is still a discrepancy between the number of women and the number of men that are in fine and, particularly in senior roles. do you see that changing? when i look around at the nyc management time or more broadly at the intercontinental exchange management team there senior women in senior roles. so i do not see it... i do think there is a trend to have more senior women in these roles and i think we are moving the right direction. we are not moving as quickly as a global —— in the global landscape but we are heading in the right direction. still, the number of public company ceos that our women is dreadfully low and frankly falling which is the wrong direction to see. so i think we need society to change a little bit and help support what the expectations are of what a senior executive looks like. why are there so few women ceos? there has never been as ceo of an investment bank, a female one, either. we welcome them here all the time. if i look back, most of them are

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stacey cunningham is president of the new york stock exchange, the first woman to occupy that post anden and the number of men that are in finance, particularly in seniorship roles. i mean, do you see that changing? when i look around at the nyc management team, or more broadly at the intercontinental exchange management team, there are a lot of senior women in very senior roles. you know, senior executives. so, i don't see it quite as... i do think there is a trend to have more senior women in leader roles. and i think that we are moving in the right direction. we are not moving quite as quickly in the global landscape, but i think we are heading in the right direction. still, the number of public company ceos that are women is dreadfully low. and it's frankly falling, which is the wrong direction to see. so i think we need society to change a little bit and help support what the expectations are of what a senior executive looks like. why are there fewer women ceos? there has never really been the ceo of an investment bank, either, that's a woman. yeah, we welcome ceos of public compa

one of them is stacey cunningham, she's new president of the new york stock exchange, and samira hussainen i look around at the management team or the intercontinental exchange management team, there are lots of senior women in very senior roles and senior executives. so i don't see it quite... i think there isa don't see it quite... i think there is a trend to have more senior women and leader roles, and i think that we are moving in the right direction. we are not moving quite as quickly as it global landscape, but i think we are heading in the right direction. still, the number of public company ceos that are women is dreadfully low and frankly falling, which is the wrong direction to see. so i think we need society to change a little bit and help support what the expectations are of senior executives and what they look like. why are there fewer women ceos? there has never really been a ceo of an investment because woman. we welcome women to the fixed up woman. we welcome women to the fixed up —— stock extend all the time. if i look back, most of them are men. there were two women ceo

some names you may be less familiar with — stacey cunningham, the first female president of the new yorkale muslim comedian. and 90—year—old setsuko takamizawa is learning english to help tourists during the 2020 olympics in tokyo. you can read about all 100 women on the bbc website. un deputy secretary general amina mohammed is also there. she's been talking zeinab badawi. here i am at the united nations headquarters in new york. when are we going to see a woman's picture on there? oh, soon, i think. i think we narrowly missed it last time, and i think that we will see it soon. i think everyone feels that the time is almost there, and such great efforts were made last time, and incredible women that came to the stage for the first time were actually interrogating prospective sgs. so i think it will be very soon. now, sdg5 is the one which promotes gender equality and promotes women's empowerment, and you have described that one as the docking station of all the other sdgs. what did you mean by that? i meant that, you know, it wasn't just about us looking at the targets and the goal for

stacey cunningham is president of the new york stock exchange — the first woman to occupy that post andussain. there is still a discrepancy between the number of women and the number of men that are in finance, particularly in seniorship rolls. i mean, do you see that changing? when i look around at the nyc management team, or more broadly at the intercontinental exchange management team, there are a lot of senior women in very senior roles. you know, senior executives. so, i don't see it quite as... i do think there is a trend to have more senior women in senior roles. i think that we are moving in the right direction. we are not moving quite as quickly as the global landscape, but i think we are heading in the right direction. still, the number of public company ceos that i women is dreadfully low. and it's frankly falling, which is the wrong direction to see. so i think we need society to change a little bit and help support what the expectations are of what a senior research looks like. why are there fewer women ceos is not there has never really been the ceo of an investment bank,

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stacey cunningham is president of the new york stock exchange — the first woman to occupy that post and the right direction. we are not moving quite as quickly as the global landscape, in the global landscape, but i think we are heading in the right direction. still, the number of public company ceos that are women is dreadfully low. and it's frankly falling, which is the wrong direction to see. so i think we need society to change a little bit and help support what the expectations are of what a senior executive looks like. why are there fewer women ceos? there has never really been the ceo of an investment bank, either, that's a woman. yeah, we welcome ceos of public companies here at the new york stock exchange all the time. and if i look back, most of them are men. there were two women ceos that came to celebrate bringing their companies public and ringing that bell. but as we are standing on the bell podium, while there have been very few women, there are more women in senior executive roles of those companies. so, we see that women are rising through the ranks. and i think that is