We speak to the mayor of freetown in sierra leone, subject of a new bbc documentary. Well hear from Award Winning actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi on whats next for irans women led protests. And iranian female djs use music to defy the islamic republic. Hello, im Azadeh Moshiri and welcome to our bbc news special programme on International Womens day. Im standing in front of the Millicent Fawcett statue, here in parliament square. She was a suffragist in the 20th century, protesting to secure the right to vote for women. Its by the artist Gillian Wearing and it was made after a campaign by a feminist writer, Caroline Criado perez, who wanted to see a womans statue here in the square. Now, of course, what were about to look at for the next half hour are just some of the issues affecting women today. Theres plenty more coverage from the uk and Around The World on the bbc news website and app. So lets begin with ukraine. And after more than two years of war in ukraine, the un says mor
that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final stages of developing the first average female crash test dummy. so, what happens to a woman s body during a crash? shona mccallum has been to linkoping in sweden to fi
mr biden accused the former president donald trump, and his supporters, of undermining democracy and fuelling anger and violence. now on bbc news, click. this week we re guarding against danger and disaster. shiona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. whoa! 0k. i m ready to be rescued right now. that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then, from cold and wet to hot and dry, laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alerts come through. i didn t even notice - that but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians. but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety te
against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. whoa! 0k! i m ready to be rescued right now! that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final st
As a deadly explosion hits the al ahli Arab Hospital in gaza city overnight, reported to have killed 500 people, including many sick women and children , in many sick women and children, in an attack which both palestinians and israelis are blaming each other for life on the front line. The front line. We have an exclusive interview with a british man who travelled to israel to fight in the war on hamas. I have to say that the people of bury fought very bravely. There are a lot of times that we saw also bodies of israeli innocent citizens in the houses , innocent citizens in the houses, but also bodies of terrorists that we didnt kill. The people of bury killed, managed to kill some of them. Some of them. And back in the uk, well have the very latest on tomorrows upcoming mid bedfordshire by election. Thats the seat which up until recently held nadine recently was held by Nadine Dorries and alex deakin has your weather storm babette is on the way bringing some torrential rain and some