04/02/2018 Newsround

Hi, guys, Naz here with your Sunday

afternoon Newsround.

First up, this week marks 100 years

since a massive change in the law

meant some women were allowed

to vote in this country

for the very first time.

And that was made possible

by a few superheroes.

Watch this...

Marvellous Millicent Fawcett

and amazing Emmeline Pankhurst...

Their mission - fighting

for the right to have their say.

These are two superheroes with two

very different superpowers,

both battling a grave injustice.

The story starts way back in 1897...

I say!

..when the only people allowed

to vote for their MPs in the UK

were rich men and no women at all.

Marvellous Millicent

was angry about it.

She set up a league of heroes

known as the Suffragists.

They campaigned for women to get

the vote and tried to get support

from men in Parliament.

But for amazing Emmeline,

this was not enough.

She started a different

group of heroes called

the Suffragettes in 1903,

who felt that they had to go much

further to bring about change.

They chained themselves to railings,

set buildings on fire

and attacked policemen.

Not everyone liked the Suffragettes

because of their tactics,

but they definitely made an impact.

And then, in 1914, a great darkness

fell upon the planet

and World War I broke out.

That meant that women

took the place of men

in lots of really important jobs,

while the men were fighting

on the battlefield.

And because women made a huge

difference to winning the war,

it became impossible to keep

ignoring demands to

give them the vote.

So, in 1918, the rules were changed

- all adult men were allowed to vote

and for the first time,

some woman could, too.

It would be another ten years before

all women could vote,

but our superheroes played a huge

part in creating a future where men

and women would have an equal vote.

Next, what's better

than a sausage dog?

50 of them!

This is the first "sausage

walk" in Hong Kong.

The dogs got together for walkies

dressed in everything from winter

jumpers to some pretty

smart-looking tweed!

Check them out

strutting their stuff!

Some big supermarkets in the UK

are promising to do more to help cut

the amount of plastic we use,

but they haven't met these two yet!

They're determined to get food

stores to change their ways...

Hi, I'm Amy.

And I'm Ella.

And we're here today

on a bit of a mission.

Every year, UK supermarkets use

a million tonnes of plastic

and all that plastic is seriously

harming our planet.

We want them to make a change.

Iceland is one of the

big UK supermarkets.

They say they want to cut the amount

of plastic that they use.

So we've come to grill one

of their bosses to see

if they are doing enough.

We know that wasting

plastic is really bad,

so why do you use so much of it

in your shops?

Because that is what we have been

used to for the last 30 years,

we have been using plastics

all the time.

It is not right now but it is just

something that we used moving away

from traditional materials

like paper and board.

See, the reason we are so passionate

about this is because plastic,

when it's thrown away,

is really harmful to the planet.

It doesn't rot like paper or food.

So we end up with

mountains of the stuff.

Animals get trapped in it,

it is eaten by fish in our seas...

And if it's the sort of plastic

that can't be recycled,

it means making more and more of it.

Supermarkets ARE making some changes

though, like trying to make more

packaging recyclable.

Iceland say that in five years

all of its own products

will be plastic-free.

Five years is quite a long time.

Now, by that time we will be around

17 and 19 years of age.

So why are you not doing it now,

why is it taking this long?

Because the materials

are just not available.

We would love to do it now.

So, if we go in and say, "Right,

we are changing direction" and go

onto another material,

and that's more expensive,

we do not think the consumer

is going to pay for that.

If it is only your products that

are going to become plastic-free,

what about everything else?

Are your shops still going to be

completely full of plastic?

We're trying to get

rid of all plastic.

We're going to push the other brands

that you see around the store,

we are going to push everybody

to do it.

Plastic has been a problem

for years, so why is the change only

starting to happen now?

Blue Planet came along,

we all watched it and we were

shattered, weren't we?

We are killing sea

turtles and seals.

Yes, we are on it,

we are all looking at things

and already changing things,

but when Blue Planet came on,

I think everybody was aware then

that we've got a problem.

Thank you very much.

Well, it was great to hear

what Ian had to say and hear

about all the changes that Iceland

are making, it just seems to lack

that sense of important urgency.

Yeah, Ian said some good

stuff, but I just can't

imagine a place like this

being completely plastic-free.

So there's still a lot of steps

that Iceland and other

supermarkets need to take.

I just wish it could happen sooner.

Now everyone loves it when you get

to watch a film at school,

but these pupils in Atlanta

in the US are super excited

about going on a school trip to see

the new superhero movie

Black Panther.

Over three million people have

watched this clip in just one day!

That's a lot of views

and a lot of happy kids!

That's all from the

weekend team today.

Newsround's back at 7.40am tomorrow

morning with Martin!

Have a great Sunday.