To prevent damage to of financial adviser. Their mental health. Lets start with the microsoft story, the Seattle Times reporting two ofjeremy corbyns front bench team rebecca long bailey it widely, not surprising because and Emily Thornberry launch their campaigns to succeed him as the labour partys they have a big office there. My leader. Question is to its a huge pledge but is it enough . Can they really the race to zero. Alter the course of Climate Change . Glasgow has committed to beat edinburgh and become the first net microsoft, as you said earlier, is zero emissions city in the uk five years ahead of the scottish one of the big us giants, in fact target. Is it possible . Im here to find out. Its one of the big global tech giants. It has the muggy, the willpower and the expertise to make a difference. I think together with amazon and other companies, microsoft can really make a difference, perhaps even encourage Smaller Companies to follow suit. This is notjust an isolated incident. Theyre going to be discussing this at davos. It is ahead of every organisation in the world from finance companies to take. They are all discussing how they can minimise their Environmental Impact and it will become i think a shareholder imperative that shareholders will wa nt to imperative that shareholders will want to hold companies to account for their esg credentials. There seems to be a change in thought. We know blackrock, one of the big investment houses, changing their policy. On this particular one with microsoft, some of these reports about going carbon negative, affectively taking out more carbon than they put in, and largely ignores the questions of microsofts own relationship with the big oil and gas companies. There have been good complaints raised about the tying with this, because if they tie in with the Oil Companies, does it mean Oil Companies can keep the price of oil and the energy they produce artificially low, therefore encouraging consumers to keep consuming . Thats a very good point, but i also think technology has the ability to help people remove their use of carbon, their use of energy. Other Tech Companies like the canadian Charles Taylor has a pollution database where it is charting initially in four canadian states Oil Pollution and looking at spills. If technology can be used to help companies reduce the chance of accidents and oil spills, they can perhaps also be used to help these big Oil Companies reduce their own reliance on oil for their profits. Therefore it could end up being a sea change in how consumers use energy. Will we become less gas dependent . You did a report earlier on glasgow, lets get homes that are less carbon intensive. Thats the tricky point, isnt it . Theres lots of debate on this going on on twitter at the moment, do get in touch with me. The hash tag is bbcthebriefing. Would you be prepared to reduce your tech consumption to make a difference on Climate Change . Get them coming in. Our next paper, staggering headline from the times 11 million global deaths a year from sepsis, twice as many as previously thought, and not necessarily all in sub saharan, where you would imagine they have the blooms with hygiene and being able to get people to hospitals in the first place has problems. One in five deaths in the united states. A massive story and to be honest, sepsis can affect anyone. Ive had friends affected by this and a local pub where we live raises muggy on behalf of the sepsis trust on behalf of andy turner, a pub in carshalton. We saw a tv campaign in hollyoaks, lily mcqueen, in the uk, lots of work with the sepsis trust to raise awareness because anything as small as a cut or a chest infection can lead people to develop sepsis if its not treated. We are told all the time not to go to the doctor and get antibiotics, but if you have a persistent illness and nothing is being done about it, you should really get up and go to the doctors and get seen by them because otherwise it could develop into something worse. Absolutely. Theres more Information Online about that story if you are concerned about it thanking you all your family. Lets turn to a story hardly ever off the front page these days, harry and meghan, mexit, the daily mirrors ta ke meghan, mexit, the daily mirrors take is all about the muggy. To be honest, harry and meghan ands did to break free from the firm could ta ke to break free from the firm could take six months to finalise and mexit seems easier than brexit. Mexit seems easier than brexit. Mexit means mexit harry and meghan have made a big statement. We know they dont want to take any more from the sovereign grant, which is 596 from the sovereign grant, which is 5 of their funding at the moment. Dont forget, meghan has already had a successful career in the us as an act first, so theres no reason why she cant carry on using the talents she cant carry on using the talents she has been given as an actor for this. Harry has great standing among vetera ns this. Harry has great standing among veterans and hes a huge champion of the games, theres lots of respect for him among the sporting and military world so theres no reason why they cant start earning their own money in a corporate environment. Lets head back to all things Climate Change and sustainability. This is an interesting idea, the mail online have picked up on this, a supermarket store called asda in a store in leeds they are trialling this. The idea that you will be able to refill various bits and bobs, whether you need rice or coffee or anything else, rice, pasta, coffee, by bringing in your own cups and containers. Theres a chicken and 999 containers. Theres a chicken and egg aspect to the sustainability debate, do you invest in the facility s first hoping customers use them . Or do you wait for another customers to get in touch asking for it and then you put it in facilities. Asda taking the lead. It and then you put it in facilities. Asda taking the leadm you build it, they will come. We have seen whole foods doing the same thing. You can go in and you can get your sago and your rice in containers. Good old leeds always leading the way in things like this asda has cut down on 8000 tons of Plastic Packaging already. A really good start. If the trial works, and they will be measuring it to if it works and whether people understand how to do the weighing of the coffee et cetera, perhaps it can work. I would like to see it. I would like to it in superdrug and boots and ta ke to it in superdrug and boots and take our herbal essences bottles herbal essences bottles. We could have filling stations everywhere. Herbal essences bottles. We could have filling stations everywherem my home, as a quick aside, we contacted the supplier of the shower gel we always use and we said please dont send us the one with the little bottles, we want the big refills. They have done that and they send it in a huge amount of Plastic Packaging in the first place. It is tricky and difficult to make these changes. Small steps. Yes. Big big bens brexit bongs. Borisjohnson likes the bongs. Mark francois is a huge leaver and he has put a lot of money into this. £140,000 has put a lot of money into this. £1a0,000 has been raised of the £140,000 has been raised of the £500,000 which was the target. They arent going to be able to use it. The Parliamentary Commission said breaches regulations on financial donations and it might not be ready to bong in the first place. For 30 seconds, only the people in the immediate environment would gable to hear, and most would be tourists anyway but no doubt it would be on social media and various feeds, so you canjoin in virtually. Virtual bonging virtual bonging what dont we cover on this programme . Thank you for your company, simoney, we cover on this programme . Thank you foryour company, simoney, going through the papers. A really interesting selection of stories. Join us on twitter if you want to be part of the conversation. Stay with us here on bbc news so much more to come. Hello there. After all the rough weather, the wet and windy weather weve had to contend with this week, you may be pleased to hear that things are about to calm down. But its not all plain sailing just yet. This is the earlier satellite picture this stripe of cloud has been bringing outbreaks of rain. There are shower clouds and following on behind and this hook of the cloud is the centre of an area of low pressure bringing a swathe of very strong winds still across the far north and west of scotland through the first part of friday. Starting the day generally between 2 9 degrees. Through the day, a couple of clutches of showers to contain with, one moving across the midlands, wales and southern england and some heavy with hail and thunder mixing in and this band of showers drifting across scotland and Northern Ireland will contain snow over high ground in scotland, say, above 300m, more showers in the far north and staying windy in northern scotland. Colder from the north west with temperatures 7 ii degrees. As we go through friday night we will lose most of the showers from the south east and we see more showers pushing in across scotland and these will be wintry to slightly lower levels at this stage. It stays windy in northern scotland but for many, the thing you will notice on saturday morning is a colder feel. Widely around freezing and some spots will be below. An overnight frost will be a feature of the weekend but we will also see a lot of dry weather and a lot of bright weather. Much calmer weather because the areas of low pressure that has been dominant through the week get muscled out of the way by this big, strong, powerful area of High Pressure that is going to build its way in on top of us and really suppress all of the shower activity for the most part. That is going to build its way in on top of us and really suppress all of the shower activity for the most part. So there is going to be a lot of dry weather around. I think still some showers blowing in across scotland on saturday, some of which will be wintry. Still windy in the north of scotland as well, but generally speaking, with those sunny skies overhead, after the cold, frosty start, temperatures will struggle a little but when you get lighter winds and you get more sunshine, not feeling too bad. Saturday night will be a cold one, a widespread frost on sunday morning and even the towns and cities will be at freezing or a touch below and some spots in the countryside could be at 3 or 1 degrees. Again, after the cold start, were looking at lots of dry weather and spells of sunshine. Showers across scotland will have gone by this stage but in the far north west, we could see extra cloud and the odd splash of rain moving into shetland. Those afternoon temperatures again, between 7 9, but not too bad where you get some sunshine. As we head through sunday night into monday, it will be chilly for many and theres the greater risk of fog
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