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corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. we begin with a scathing federal report on the st. louis county juvenile justice system. the u.s. department of justice says the county discriminates against black children, treating them more harshly than white children because of their race. according to the justice department s civil rights division, black children in st. louis county are 1.5 times more likely than white children to end up in family court in the first place. black children are 2.5 times more likely than whites to be detained before their trial, and, if convic ....
other western areas, as the wind picks up and there could be gales in exposed coastal spots later in the day. looking further ahead to monday and tuesday, it remains unsettled. some spells of sunshine but heavy showers, blustery winds and a cool feel. good afternoon, this is bbc news. the headlines: hurricane irma s made land fall in cuba with heavy rain and winds of over 150mph, hitting the north of the country after devastating several caribbean islands and killing at least 20 people. officials in southern florida meanwhile have told 5.6 million people, a quarter of the state s population, to evacuate their homes before the storm arrives tomorrow. if you have been ordered to evacuate, you need to leave now, do not wait. evacuate. not tonight, not in an hour, you need to go right now. the united nations is warning of an unprecedented refugee crisis in myanmar, saying more than 250,000 rohan see ya muslims have crossed the border to reach bangladesh. hoe rohinga musl ....
this week, we ve been to ifa, the massive tech show in berlin. we ll be looking at the big launches and the cool new devices from the fair in a few minutes, and we ll also hear from the people behind them, who, we ve noticed, are once again mostly men. the lack of women in tech has been well documented and it s something we run up against every single day working on click and it s so frustrating it s extremely rare for us to turn up at a tech company and for any of the available spokespeople to be female. it s been suggested that the lack of women in tech starts developing early on. kids are going back to school this week on the heels of stats from the latest exam results here in the uk showing that girls are turning away from stem subjects that s science, technology, engineering and maths. only 20% of those who sat the computer sciences gcse exam this year were girls. for gcse engineering, it was 10%. someone who is fighting gender stereotypes is anne marie imafido ....
winds of around 130mph. let us look at the weather here now from louise. a showery afternoon for many today. the showers merging together across scotland and northern ireland for longer spells of rain. some of them heavy, with hail and thunder and a squally wind circulating around. light and patchy for the south and east. it may stay dry in london until after dark. but the rain and the winds will strengthen through the night, gusting to gale force close to the bristol channel. plenty of frequent showers being driven in by those blustery winds across those west facing coasts. 9 13 degrees greeting us on monday morning. but it s a showery start to our working week. some showers heavy and thundery. dodge the showers, you will see a bit of sunshine but it s not going to feel particularly warm. 13 19 degrees at the very best. a brief lull in proceedings, proceedings perhaps on tuesday, but not long before we see another spell of wet and very windy weather arriving tuesday ni ....
strong winds on tuesday night, sunny spells and heavy showers on wednesday. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines at 3.30: hurricane irma slams into the florida keys with winds up to 130 miles per hour. more than 6 million people have been ordered to leave their homes as the storm inches closer to the mainland. the hurricane is predicted to create a catastrophic storm surge, which could be up to 15 feet high in places. we have also got these torrential rains which are causing flood warnings across this region, on top of the deadly storm surge that is almost certainly going to happen. cuba was battered overnight. there s been significant damage as the recovery process begins. in other news: officials in mexico say at least 90 people are now known to have died in thursday s earthquake. now on bbc news its time for click: this week, the women fighting for tech recognition. berlin in the round. and attack of the swarm. it s going to be monstrous. this week, we ve been to ....