and we re starting with the latest incident in the volatile gulf region oil prices have surged after what is believed to have been a missile strike on and ukrainian tanker in the red sea benchmark brant crude oil rose over 2 percent in trading to reach $60.40 a barrel after this beauty was hits off the saudi port city of jeddah the ship was headed towards iran or in the gulf it was the latest strike by an unknown attacker on oil facilities in the gulf region a bombing office saudi arabia s largest oil processing facility this summer caused a 10 percent spike in the oil price but markets calmed quickly as output was restored. for more i m joined now by joseph head of oil and gas and alice is at fitch solutions in london good to have you with us so you comparison to this attack on saudi oil processing facility in summer how serious is this latest incident for the oil market. thank you monica the latest it s the to is relatively minor in comparison to last month s attack on iran co s facilities there was no impact on oil facilities here and we don t expect any disruptions markets you know with the trade of crude going for as you mentioned earlier in the segment prices did rise above 2 percent however they have since moderated about one percent gains off the news so this point it seems to be a relatively minor impact of the oil markets but the international energy agency certainly warns that there is some volatility that is having an effect on energy prices but there are all the also all the factors weighing on the energy market could you elaborate on that. that s correct so from our view here what we see is some definitely bearish sentiment in the marketplace this person meant is really predicated off the view that the global economy is slowing we re seeing weakness in a lot of key markets fuel demand is down in both the emerging and the developed markets in addition to u.s. china trade war tensions escalating with the kind of tit for tat tariffs that we see going forward the geopolitical risk premiums that we would have expected from tensions in the middle east have failed to hold the gains that they have so the us any kind of disruptions that we see of the type that were announced today with the apparent tanker attacks you know we expect those to have little little weight in prices going forward in terms of upside pressure all right joseph get your head of oil and gas analysis if it s the lucian s in london thank you so much for your time . thank you. well trade talks between china and the u.s. are entering their 2nd day with president on a tramp striking an optimistic note it s described today one of the negotiations in washington as quote there is a very good nevertheless. as a reminder of what s at stake now so far the u.s. has slapped tariffs on $550000000000.00 worth of chinese products china intern has said levies on $185000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods that amounts to $735000000000.00 in total and that figure could just be the tip of the iceberg but it would have terrorist cover a wide array of goods products from steel and many and to meat and fish vegetables mushrooms and nuts to tobacco and jews many sectors are affected on both sides of the pacific now later today donald trump will meet a chinese vice premier you he passed meetings between the 2 have yielded progress for example in january china increased its soybean purchases and their february talk resulted in a delay in tariffs level less this of course is the 13th attempt to break the negotiation deadlock and earlier we asked rank of berridge from one x. europe in london to tell us about the main stumbling blocks. so it s pretty clear now that if the u.s. wants the deal to cover every cultural purpose purchases maybe some are juiced tariffs and some changes to for example chinese regulation of foreign investment into china that deal could be struck it s clear that this episode on the trainee side to do the deal the roadblock has always been the u.s. is desire to place binding constraints with the legal mechanism on china s ability to appropriate intellectual property from overseas because this directly ties into chinese ambitions to grow the economy and to increase their position on the manufacturing chain so that s the real roadblock it s the ip provisions. and meanwhile chinese president xi jinping is paying a courtesy call on india s modi the 2 leaders will be looking for common economic ground together india and china make up nearly one 5th of the global economy china wants to boost straight with india and as its conflict with the u.s. continues to bite india is hoping for chinese investment. situation powerhouses have a complicated relationship and india is putting on a smiling face to welcome xi jinping. the heartfelt hello can t mask the challenges though in the past few years india has been left behind as china s economic growth is shot ahead china s economy is now 5 times out of india s. the 2 leaders will try to break the lengthy deadlock over a free trade agreement china is india s largest trading partner to trade war with the us means china wants to boost trade with india. foreign direct investment into india has risen to about $45000000000.00 and china is keen to be a major player in the growing indian market. indians love chinese smartphones and other quick meant but india wants more trade going the other way to bring down the $57000000000.00 trade deficit. there are common interests but warm friendship has proven elusive the indians dislike china s close ties with bitter rival pakistan to china pakistan economic corridor is a key part of she s belgian road initiative she met pakistan s prime minister imran khan this week for talks. only if india and china can put these disputes on hold and they face into a future of joint cooperation. in india and china are 2 giants of course in terms of population in terms of economic growth and the huge rivals and for more i m joined by china expert clifford going to give it someone came up with a term for the 2 of them frenemies what s this summit all about then i think from his very optus scription there are 2 countries that know each other very well their neighbors their rivals they both for many years they were sort of growing up the same pace and then suddenly in the last few years china s just straight ahead and india sort of in the background a lot they have a lot in common but then they have these huge regional differences as well they ve got a lot of this kashmir there they differ on the relationship with pakistan so i guess they re going to me so it looks to me more like a friendly meeting a courtesy call rather than an official summit but they re going to meet and try and at least. you know overcome some of these differences or give the impression that they were able to overcome some of these differences but i said they did 2 rivaling powerhouses in asia what is the common ground where they can benefit from each other well the indians are a bit concerned because at the moment the trade deficit with china is so large at the same time china is worried because india is getting closer to the u.s. and it s keen to bring regional powers together so i think they re both members of brics so along with brazil russia south africa and you know they re keen to sort of to come together a bit closer to the chinese would be keen for everyone to come together a bit closer and to build on the need for india s need to have increased. trade with china now let s say there was to be closer ties between beijing and delhi what would that mean for the region well it could be very interesting i mean i think india is always concerned that china has now become so far ahead economically that it could leave india very far behind it could become like mexico to the united states as we were discussing earlier and i think. so the result was our concern there but ultimately they do need to grow so i think regionally. if the if they if there are better economic cooperation that can only mean good things in terms of of the geopolitical questions so over the longer term maybe there will be better economic cooperation and just just very briefly is this meeting in any way. having an influence on the relationship between china and the u.s. i think it s china s looking china needs all their options now as things become strained with the u.s. even if there are signs a we ve just seen that there may be they may be getting closer on trade i think that china still needs it still needs to have big partners like india in the way it s also done with russia. does it has these big partners that it can it will some way of opposing the u.s. or standing up to the u.s. so you can put all your eggs in one basket we all know that cliff is going to thank you so much for your time. and now to some of the other global business stories making news. french comma go on or has fired chief executive officer of the boy law it comes after rain also partner this son named a new c.e.o. both car makers want to get past the scandal around former chief economist goan jailed in japan for alleged financial misconduct. the c.e.o. of a german software manufacturer s.a.p.t. bill mcdermott has unexpectedly resigned germany s most valuable listed company has not given a reason for his departure after 9 years in the post has been replaced by a board members jennifer morgan and kline with immediate effect on. the u.s. federal aviation administration has been accused of failing to properly review the safety system on the boeing 737 max and as you still make an estimate has been play into 2 deadly crashes an international panel of safety regulators says the f.a.a. hadn t been adequate understanding of how it worked. india is considering restricting imports of some products from malaysia as a diplomatic route over kashmir spreads india s plant restrictions are in reaction to malaysian prime minister mahathir mohamad scritches some of new delhi s 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time to celebrate if you re single and buy yourself a gift to mark singles day in china. hello i m monica jones welcome to the business asia china s president xi jinping is in greece today to strengthen ties his visit comes just one week after the greek prime minister met him in shanghai for the 29000 international import expo where greece was the official partner country at 1st glance the asian powerhouse and europe s debt stricken member states they can even cop or they both seem to tend to the other s needs greece needs money and china needs access to infrastructure and one of beijing s key purchases in greece was a majority stake in the historic port of today china s gateway to europe. this is a carefully choreographed business the aim to showcase existing economic ties and to foster new ones. among the deals the 2 sides have already signed off on is a 600000000 euro investment by chinese company cosco in greece s largest port of parade yes it s set to play a key role in china s math of infrastructure development plan known as the belt and road initiatives. today will have the chance to visit the cosco facilities and prayers to see and examine up close the further development of this very important investment following the approval of the master plan by the greek government but our target is mutual for parades to become not just the largest port in the mediterranean but why not the largest in europe after all it is a gradual becoming the most vital transit hub between europe and the ari. because of. the investment in parades is one of 16 business deals in curing the business and a reminder of just how close these 2 countries have grown over the past decade in 2000. neither when greece found itself in the grips of a financial crisis it welcomes chinese investment. beijing for its part sees the opportunity to invest in a strategically important location at the crossroads of europe africa and asia. but not everyone sees these kinds of deals as an agreement between equals. in greece and elsewhere in europe there are those who are more wary than welcoming of china s growing influence. yes a massive amount of money flowing from beijing into government coffers in athens some however are worried so much chinese attention could have a such downside to and secrecy never told us this from athens these ties over all between greece and china are being viewed with a critical eye and it is a difficult balancing act for the government here on the one hand had to heed concerns being surrounded by washington which is concerned about growing strong growing influence of china into the western markets there is concern also among the e.u. of which greece is a member of. the e.u. is calling for stringent screening of chinese enterprises and is critical about greece. bringing in and providing access to china to the western markets at the same time though greece has to look at its own very interests and it s coming out of a decade of a very brutal financial crisis and the new prime minister here to get this meet that guy is business minded his his legacy is pinned on literally reviving the fortunes of this country jumpstarting the economy getting jobs going so china plays a very very important part in that so and also for example cosco which is china s giant shipping operator. has played an important role it sunk as you said almost $2000000000.00 in investments here in greece and it wants to see in the chinese leader is here to see that being pushed forward and deeper expanding on these ties and the greeks will move ahead with this but with a tight balancing act. at the carousel of their speaking to us from athens it has been a week now since singapore banned electric scooters from sidewalks the decision came after a woman died after colliding with one of the vehicles the 2 wheelers have become a common sight on the streets with tens of thousands of people embracing them as a quick way to get from a to b. but concerns over safety have prompted calls for more regulation similar bans are ready in place in france germany and in spain. always with the decide effect certainly going by what i see here on the streets of berlin let s find out more about the situation in singapore where andrea hang joins me now under what s changed since the ban was introduced last week well obviously monica pedestrians are happier now with the ban it means a safer footpaths for them but really if there is one group of people that are really unhappy with this decision and that is that that s the food delivery riders which comprise a grat of food pender and deliver these are the 3 food delivery giants in singapore and a lot of singapore is depend on quick and easy food options from these delivery writers and the delivery writers are using cheapo mort s of transport i.e. scooters to get around and depend their livelihood on these jobs and on these personal mobility devices now recently right after the ban the government introduced a 7000000 dollars grant to help these east pool to write as tree in for an electric bike or a regular bicycle instead and i believe that you are actually using east cujus would you go for an epoch instead. i personally actually don t really use an idea one savvy kick scooter which actually did not have any electrical components so that may be that may be something that people can think about but i think i do see a lot of r.p.m. do users now switching to electric bikes because they are faster and less strenuous to use compared to the bikes and not forgetting some of these food delivery riders are not exactly physically able to push a pedal a bike so an electric bike might actually be a better better suited device to use right but i mean what about the infrastructure there for bikes for scooters what kind of mobility concept is there in place. unfortunately none of the in singapore larger vehicles rule the road. i m not allowed on the road neither are they not allowed on footpaths now there isn t really an official commuting by clean in singapore severely lacking in infrastructure and we do have connected networks now these are parts that are shared between pedestrians as well as cyclists and any other device users to use in within parks but they re not effective or neither are the. straightforward enough for commuting purposes so there s a severe lack of infrastructure for such devices here well i feel that s a problem that we share in singapore and in berlin and other parts of the world andrea hang there in singapore thank you so much. and now to some of the other business stories making news the u.s. federal aviation authority the f.a.a. has downgraded malaysia s air safety rating to category 2 according to media reports the new rating means that malaysia s air carriers can either add new service is to the u.s. to extend existing once the carriers will also be subjected to additional inspections at u.s. airports. a judge in malaysia has ordered former prime minister najib razak to enter a defense as part of his 1st trial over the one m d b scandal billions of dollars were stolen from the state investment fund logic told to the courts he plans to testify in his own defense. australia s main carrier quantas has pledged to achieve 0 net emissions by 2050 it s the 2nd airline to do so after british airways oh no i agee quantize is also investing about 30000000 euros of developing more sustainable aviation fuel. the united kingdom has avoided a technical recession after a contraction in the 2nd quarter or fishel figures show an expansion of point 3 percent in the 3rd still the economy is growing at its lowest annual rate since 2010. it is the 11th day of the 11th months and with all those ones flying around it is single stay in china but what started off as a day for lonely hearts has become a yearly online retail extravaganza led by shopping websites alibaba and normally spending outstrips america s black friday and cyber monday combined this year has been disappointed so far. on the stroke of midnight the money started rolling in alibaba singles day usually brings mind boggling numbers this time sales surged past the $1000000000.00 mark in a little over one minute for a. list in a matter. in superstar taylor swift front at the opening celebrations in shanghai or to persuade online customers to fill up the cyber shopping carts online customers like wang lu who admits she ll buy things that she probably won t even use your in a. single day takes place in winter but many clothes on sale or summer clothes i don t wear them straight away i keep them for the next year but the next summer i don t like them anymore it was quite the tendency for people to overbuy has led environmental groups to denounce singles day as wasteful some shoppers plan to show a little more restraint this year. but. this time i m only buying dana sensibly not much else. in the past i just spent as much as they wanted to this but this year i m being more rational with my. singles day 2019 fines are something of a crossroads for the 1st time employees aren t being led by flamboyant co-founder jack ma he resigned as chairman in september the event also comes just as the company looks to raise up to $15000000000.00 in a hong kong share sale later this month meanwhile ali barbour s latest global bid for funds seems to have gone to plan. and that s all for business asia here on g.w. for me and the team member len as always thanks giving us company. lucky. their wealth isn t cultural over their egos insatiable. their rivalry deadly. the bathroom princes. dream of the power of mortgage. the wife of the princes of. sports nov 27th on t.w. . cologne and song in ventura some of the famous naturalist and explorer. to some racial comics on the phone while its 250th birthday we re embarking on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on the d.w.m. plane. a jewel with words from. where i come from you don t want to weigh from a call from station. when i was 5 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different languages we fight with different things that s fine let me also think up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of voice global news that matters d. w. made for mines. germany maybe europe s industrial things are quite different in the digital space in terms of infrastructure the country is behind most of its european pairs will look at how the government and in industry plans to change that. and consider the lobster fisherman in the u.s. state of maine are suffering from trump s trade war canadian colleagues snap up the market share. this is t.w. business. welcome germany s digital infrastructure continues to live behind other european countries today politicians and lobbyists will be discussing how they can go about improving its industries summers here in berlin what s the current reality on the ground in europe s leading economy let s have a closer look well that s far from world class 1st coverage of high speed internet is still very patchy studies show that just 88 percent of households here even have access to the internet at speeds required for streaming video for example that s pretty bad for a country that prides itself and its technological prowess in international ranking germany finds itself odd on the list in 37th place to be exact and things don t look much better when it comes to while it s covers that is 4 g. there are dead spots everywhere only around 77 percent of the population have continuous. says to high speed wireless internet connections and especially when you re driving down the country s famous also bon motorways at high speeds preferably you ll find that the podcast you streaming on spotify just stops now let s have a closer look at this with my colleague rob ward s who is looked into this story a bit more detail why is germany struggling so much with this problem well in terms of the internet there are various factors but one of them is good old fashioned german bureaucracy. is there for example for mobile internet there is a great deal of regulation that means that if you want to have a new master example it can take up to 2 years so if you want to improve the signal to an area you start on a long road that can take a while whereas you know it can take less than 6 months in other countries there s an argument that there s also a lack of competition among mobile providers there are just 3 main providers here in germany that less than a lot of germany s competitors and there s a feeling that there s perhaps a lack of the competition that s required to drive up standards of the cartel than if it s only only 3 well i absolutely agree that the fact is that there are not enough of them pushing each other to cut costs and to try and improve the services because the cost of it s there in interesting also remains very high and in terms of broadband there s been a lack of modernization there as well for example telecom which still runs much of the infrastructure has opted to rather than install a hyper fast fiber optic cable to stick with the copper telephone wire that has been in there for decades and just slowly improve that and there s a feeling that that was probably short sighted we do know that many german businesses have struggled to digitalize who s to blame for the us or the lack of good internet it s obviously. a factor in that because you know if you want to improve your technology you need to have a good internet connection new technologies are acquiring better connections not worse connections there s also a suggestion that germany s corporate culture might be to some extent to blame for this thought doesn t encourage innovation so traditional sort of set of german corporation is this pyramid of management whereby if you want to if you re at the bottom of new if you want to get an idea through where you have to ask your boss just to ask their boss who has to ask their boss and things of based on decisions made with consensus rather than people being allowed to act on their own and try things out and there s a feeling that that perhaps stifles creativity and so stifles digitalisation to some extent and also we can come back to your ocracy again if you want to call it that i mean data protection for example germany is very hot on protecting people s data but one of the side effects of that is that companies tend to be wary of new technologies new software that might pose a risk to their data protection credentials so they tend to stick with old tried and tested systems so sounds very familiar what s being done about it well the government has got to act on this because it s already being used as a stick to beat them with in elections for example that the poor quality of connection in rural areas is something that the f.t. the far right party in germany has been using to to suggest that the government doesn t care about people in rural areas so the government is putting its money where its mouth is as such it s investing $100000000000.00 euros over the next 5 years to improve 5 g. to roll it out indeed and also said to improve the amount of fiber optic optic connections around germany because you saw you know the than 10 percent of germany s connections are done through fiber and for a developed democracy that was that sees itself at the forefront that s not enough for the prophetic actually thank you very much rob warts from your business. outgoing mario drug officially steps down in a ceremony with european leaders today he will be succeeded by francis christine legarde the former chief of the international monetary fund is the 1st woman to hold the office the 63 year old business to focus on issues such as gender equality and climate change is no expected to bring major changes to e.c.b. these seabees monetary policy. now let s go straight to frankfurt the seat of the e.c.b. we have chosen to lead the standing by chelsea is that true what can we expect from of the e.c.b. led by pristina god just business as usual look art is pretty closely mirror and most of her public statements since being appointed to succeed him she s talked about the need for a loose monetary policy for the foreseeable future she s also echoed in saying that you know monetary policy can only do so much and we really need governments to do more in terms of fiscal spending so they re definitely on the same page there at the same time look art is not she s not an economist and she s not a central banker so there is some talk about some some potential changes she s she s discussing doing a review of the c.v.s. policy in part to sort of men to their all of these rifts sort of that happening right now within the e.c.b. so we could see some changes through things like inflation and inflation targets through that. starting today what else can we look forward for this week. it s going to be an extremely busy week we continue to see earnings roland here in germany we re expecting volkswagen deutsche bank which investors are going to be watching closely for updates on restructuring we re also looking at the fed meeting on wednesday where the fed is expected to cut interest rates and also you know the continuation of and to read out the we us jobs report where jobs are expected to job growth is expected to slow. busy people like you or me thank you very much shows the dilemma in front of. and to some of the other global business stories making headlines today europe s largest lender has p.c. s said that its profits slipped 18 percent to $4800000000.00 in the quarter and want to further headwinds the bank has its headquarters in london it earns most of its profits in hong kong which has been crippled recently by widespread demonstrations since. french luxury goods group. reportedly offered $14500000000.00 u.s. dollars for jewell a tiffany the financial times reports that the owner of louis we told made the offer for the iconic u.s. company earlier this month tiffany is expected to reject the big. space tourism is about to go public in a few hours investors can trade shares of virgin galactic on the new york stock exchange for the 1st time since its founding in 2004 virgin galactic has raised more than $1000000000.00 to develop a commercial service to take tourists into space. back here on earth is big business as specially the northeastern u.s. state of maine the industry built up a thriving trade with china now the trade war between the 2 countries has caused exports to collapse canadian fishermen are seizing the opportunity while the u.s. is looking for new markets. maine is renowned for its rocky coasts and indian summers a week or 2 of warm weather that often comes and fall when the brilliant hues of the leaves are a major tourist draw now the a delicate state up in the northeastern most corner of the u.s. has also become a battleground in the trade war with china lobster fishers there are being hit hard by tariffs lobster exports to china are down 80 percent and michael libby is feeling the pressure. we have a good chinese market and we ship directly that we get these tariffs that are buying for us the buyer from canada s dad but there s they re buying our products in care because there s a terrorist from the chinese from here it s just it s kind of frustrating. there s a lot of hands on labor in catching lobster like baiting the traps michael and his crew men have put out $400.00 today. the industry in maine is strictly regulated to ensure it remains sustainable michael has to measure every single animal caught and he too small have to be thrown back. they ve caught around $500.00 of the cross stations today in portland harbor part of the catch and up with a distributor that packs the animals for transport around the world. last year the u.s. exported around 5 and a half 1000000 kilos of lobster to china this year it looks like it ll only be around a 1000000. not long ago china raised the tariff on them from 25 percent to 35 percent bad news for business owners like tom adams. we need all markets it s a big industry it s a big business for the state and they are there to be a secluded from 2 major market places due to tariff disadvantages is really makes it that much harder for a business to thrive and grow. canadian competitors have now seized around 90 percent of the law. star trade with china to make up for collapsing exports manes lobster industry has to unlock new markets fortunately other asian countries like singapore and malaysia have begun to develop a taste for the product. as the trade war between the us and china drags on michael libby is now also seeking to sell as many of his lobster as possible to local restaurants. he doesn t get as much for them as he used to. but at least the beer at the end of the day is on the house. and that s it from me and the business to my station to the w. well stores is next right after this quick look. after the fall of the berlin. in one night. this week on world story. brick city and britain s e.u. citizens. alba berlin goodbye to cheerleaders. but 1st to turkey hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria are living there but the mood among turks is said to be souring the guests are not so welcome now reports say many have already been expelled including to areas that are not considered safe.
we have a special report on influencers being offered thousands for sex . we ll be getting the inside track on a business brainwave that aims to use tech to reduce healthcare waiting times. today is said to be #bluemonday the gloomiest day of the year but what do you do to lift your mood when you get the blues? let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. hello and welcome to worklife. we start with new research that shows those who carry out care work are not being adequately reward for their time. oxfam says it s a situation which exacerbates the gap between rich and poor, and that extreme inequality is trapping millions of people in poverty around the world. oxfam says that although estimates of the wealth of the world s poorest have been revised upwards this year, half the world s population continue to live on less than $5.50 a day, and women in particular get a raw deal. it says women and girls are putting in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work globally every day, such as looking after children and the elderly. this amounts to a contribution to the global economy of at least $10.8 trillion a year in unpaid work. with us now is katy chakrabortty, head of advocacy at 0xfam. what seems so damning about this, this is a cycle which is very difficult to get out of in terms of inequality. it s kind of more than a cycle. it s a stark illustration of how deeply unfair and lets say sexist our global economy is. one of the things our report finds, if you ta ke the things our report finds, if you take the 22 richest men in the world, their combined wealth is more than that of every single woman on the continent of africa. i think what it illustrates is that the wealth we respect and celebrate and revere at the top is actually built on the backs of the unpaid care that mostly women do around the world, which subsidises business and also subsidises governments who arguably should be doing that role. how can people afford care? if the money is not there, then it s not there. we are calling on governments all around the world to invest more in services meaning more things like simply collecting fuel and water in some of the poorest countries, but also educating children and caring for the elderly is taken on by governments. 0ne illustrative statistic to show you that the money is there, we have calculated for insta nce is there, we have calculated for instance that just taxing is there, we have calculated for instance thatjust taxing 0.5% of the wealth of the global richest 1% could pay for 79 million carejobs around the world to help redistribute some of those response abilities. in many cultures it is so deeply embedded that you care for your elderly relatives and take the time out to care and raise for your children. for some people, the idea of monetising and putting a cost, a financial reward on that, would seem almost distasteful. i did both those things. and it s certainly not talking about monetising care. it s firstly about recognising it as proper hard and skilled work. why is it that care work when it is a job as some of the lowest paid and lowest status work there is. it s about recognising it, paying it properly, but also about redistributing it. there is no country in the world where men do more care work than women. is that something you would like to be raised at davos this week and are you doing that? absolutely. we have put out the report on the same day as davos for a stark reason. in some ways davos is a celebration of the entrepreneurship, wealth and status people have and we want people to recognise that is quite literally built on the backs of women who find it very hard to escape poverty because they are doing so much unpaid work. thank you forjoining us. let s take a look at some of the other stories making the news. a bbc investigation has seen documents that show how africa s richest woman isabel dos santos made her fortune through exploiting her own country and corruption. the documents show she got access to lucrative deals involving land, diamonds, oil and telecoms while herfather was in power. isabel dos santos has denied any wrongdoing. australia s government has boosted its emergency grants and loans for small businesses affected by bushfires that have ravaged much of the country. the government said it would increase grants for small businesses affected by the fires to $32,000 and offer intrest free loans of up to $650,000. and in the uk, the construction of the high speed rail link hs2 which would connect london to the north of england could cost up to $137 billion according to an unpublished report seen by the financial times. the report also recommends pausing the second phase of the project while experts look at whether conventional lines could help link birmingham to manchester and leeds instead. china, one of the world s biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single use plastics across the country. let s go to singapore, where monica miller is following the story. what are their plans and how will they do this? just to give you an idea of how big the problem is, the country s largest dump is the size of 100 football fields. that s already at capacity 25 years ahead of schedule. 0fficials already at capacity 25 years ahead of schedule. officials on sunday announced this aggressive policy to eliminate single use over a five year period, but starting this year people will start to see non degradable bags by the end of this year in major cities. restau ra nts this year in major cities. restaurants have been asked to roll over their use of single use plastic straws by the end of 2020. this isn t the only initiative of its kind in asia. looking at malaysia, they sent 140 boats back to their place of origin for importing illegal plastics. we also see thailand as well as parts of indonesia that have ruled out similar plans. thank you, monica. asian shares held near their highest level for 20 months even as investors took some money off the table following a strong run recently. 0iljumped to more than a one week high after two large crude production bases in libya began shutting down. trading on monday could be a bit lighter in europe as it was in asia that s because us stock and bond markets are closed for the martin luther king jr holiday. looking at the week ahead eyes will be on us corporate earnings with netflix, intel corp and texas instruments inc set to report, while central banks in the europeanunion, canada and japan hold policy meetings. now, in the us, americans may be worried about a potential hit to their personal finances from impeachment of president donald trump. samira hussain has more from new york. if history is anything to go by, the impact should be limited. the economy was already in a recession when richard nixon was impeached and it didn t take a hit when bill clinton was impeached. the lesson well, political drama doesn t necessarily alter economic fundamentals. now, that doesn t mean financial markets might not react, especially if this process influences how the president acts and how he carries out economic policy. for now, the record stock market suggests investors aren t worried about impeachment, and with good reason. the us economy is humming along. the trade war with china is on hold and wall street is betting the senate won t convict, believing the president will stay in office. time now for our daily look at some of the newspaper and website stories which have caught our eye. joining me is sophie hackford, co founder of a data and ai company, 1715 labs. a futurist as well. speaking of the future, the guardian, spacex crew capsule escape test a success. watched by crowds. it s interesting how fast this is moving. absolutely. i m super excited about the space economy and arguably spacex is at the forefront of developing that kind of commercial space economy that didn t exist before. it used to be governments, nasa, russia and china, and now it s a commercial space. elon musk behind it, trying to recycle a lot of these things. but in this latest test, they didn t recycle. and it went up in flames although as i understand it the rocket had already been up three times delivering satellites to low earth orbit. i very much a dress rehearsal for humans to be delivered ina kind rehearsal for humans to be delivered in a kind of space taxi service to the international space station where they have a contract with nasa. that s the sci-fi bit, humans are going up into space for tourism and travel purposes, but in terms of the business and practical effect, this sort of technology could have in our lives, what s the benefit most of us would get? it s twofold. the first is, it s very exciting to do this economy in space, whether it s interplanetary internet, manufacturing in space or colonising mars. all of that is a great experimental area for us new technologies, things that are difficult and dangerous for humans to do, they can use space as a playground and use technology is back on earth. the other thing more earthbound, i guess, back on earth. the other thing more earthbound, iguess, is back on earth. the other thing more earthbound, i guess, is that a lot of these rockets are delivering satellites to low earth orbit. that s very interesting, particularly with elon musk and ferry others because that will provide connectivity on earth. looking at the figure, they will be visible from the ground. you ll absolutely, and astronomers have quite publicly recently complained about the fact it will ruin the vision of the night sky for those trying to study the origins of the universe and whatever else. that brings us to another story we have chosen, the eu might ban facial recognition in public because all these satellites will be used as pa rt these satellites will be used as part of linking up the whole world in terms of ai and everything else. from satellites to autonomous vehicles, cameras on the streets, our phones, amazon echos in our homes. there is a surge in this happening forced up for facial recognition, we have to be careful about it being personal and intimate data. it s important we think about a moratorium for a few years now, maybe we could start doing emotional recognition and surveillance, as it is already happening in china. why are they planning to ban it in public, facial recognition? at the moment because it s a bit of a wild west. they want to pause it so they know there enough study into the impact of the technology, the ethical, security and privacy in plications of these technologies. there is also no social consensus. we don t know how to think about this level of intrusion in our lives because we haven t had to do it before. and it s not always 100% accurate before. and it s not always 10096 accurate and less so for women as well. absolutely. a lot of these technologies, there is a correlation based on the training data that they we re based on the training data that they were given. they were trained on a certain set of images that perhaps we re certain set of images that perhaps were not representative of the whole population and once that perpetuated through the economy, those biases can live on for a very long time and we have to be very careful about that. no more time to look at other stories but thank you for coming in. still to come in today s show, we ll hear how top social media influencers are being propositioned daily by strangers with offers of thousands of dollars in return for sex. you re with worklife from bbc news. graduate jobs at the uk stop employers grew by 6.2% in 2019, the largest annual rise for five years. martin birchall, the report author from high fliers research joins us now. it was interesting looking at salaries as well and the sort ofjob growth. talk us through the figures are. the biggest growth for 2019 was in the public sector but we have seen growth right across the graduatejob seen growth right across the graduate job market. we seen growth right across the graduatejob market. we have been tracking the number of vacancies available from the country s top employers for the last 15 years and it s interesting that in the last five years, following the referendum in 2016, companies cut back but we have seen strong growth in the last three years and some generous starting salaries for new graduates as well. the top of the market is things like investment banks at £50,000 with some great salaries available in areas like consulting, accountancy and a range of others. median salary of £30,000 but that has only risen by 1000 in the past five or ten years. it s actually over the last ten years. looking back at how the job market fared after the recession, just like much of the rest of the economy, we have had a decade of stagnation so very little increase in terms of starting salary. it was £29,000 in 2010 and it will be £30,000 in 2020. if we benchmark the salary from a decade ago and adjusted for inflation, that s actually worth £37,500 in today s money. how much uncertainty over the future now we are committed to brexit? employers always invest in graduates on a medium to long term basis. it s not about filling vacancies in september so much as training staff who will become middle and senior managers in five or ten years. a lot of employers i work incredibly hard in the last three years to maintain a business as usual message but the stability we will potentially have over the next two or three years because of the new political climate, i think that will undoubtedly help and it means employers can start to plan much more effectively for the future. fascinating, thank you for joining us. 30,000 as a median salary at 22. joining us. 30,000 as a median salary at 22. .. plenty joining us. 30,000 as a median salary at 22. plenty of business news updated through the day on the live page. you can read why fever tree seems to have lost its fizz on the bbc business page. you re watching worklife. a reminder of our top story new research from 0xfam says women and girls are putting in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work globally every day. now, if you ve had a medical check up recently, maybe you had to wait a while to get that all important appointment or faced a long wait to see the doctor. well, our next guest johannes schildt is hoping to change all that. his swedish based company, livi, has created an app that allows you to consult a qualified health professional anytime using a smartphone or tablet. this is fascinating. the pick up seems to be growing really quite remarkably. it is. in sweden we have 10% of the population signed up with the services. we do around 5% of total primary health care volumes in sweden. to the medical staff answering these calls, whether it s on the screen or whatever, are based solely working for you or are they meeting people in the flesh as well? you see they combine it with doing something else, which is a great benefit of the service because it adds a lot of flexibility to clinicians. they can be part time, retired, we have all the doctors who are part time tired who can work for are part time tired who can work for a safe few hours a day. they can even work from abroad. usually they combine it with doing something else. how would it work in the uk? some services, if you want to use a video call appointment with a doctor, they say to you, you have to register with us as your family doctor and you lose the right to see your local gp. is that how it works? you have to make the choice, because some people won t like that? we don t operate like that in the uk. we work closely with the nhs and we are partnering with local gp practices so you can use the livi service and register with your local gp. we do have some limitations and if you are in need of a physical gp then we can refer you to your own gp. can doctors prescribe medication on this as well, and it will be sent to you through e mail and you can go through to a local pharmacy? you can prescribe, they can do a sick note and oral advice. if you get a prescription you can pick it up from any pharmacy and you can even get it home delivered within a few hours. interesting you say you do it through the nhs here, working with nhs doctors was the pot about in other countries? is it only open to those who can either pay or have private medical insurance? not at all. since we started, it s important for all of us that it should be a service for everyone, not the wealthy few who can afford to pay for better services and access. it brings a lot of efficiency to the system. it should be for everyone. we mentioned the regulatory background which is different around europe and the world. in terms of immunity in terms of any sort of indemnity for making medical mistakes, how complicated is that if you use somebody online rather than in the flesh? we do work ina rather than in the flesh? we do work in a regularly leeds heavily regulated environment. we act as the health care provider and it s no different really. the big difference is we deliver health care in a very different way, mainly by video but also by text. what prompted the idea? my own experience was not like eve ryo ne idea? my own experience was not like everyone else, i am a patient and i have been super frustrated with how badly things are structured in health care. we have great clinicians had a high quality of ca re clinicians had a high quality of care but why should i wait days or weeks, call a landline early in the morning and travel long distance and sit ina morning and travel long distance and sit in a waiting room. we thought we should change that and create something better. we have a pretty u nfortu nate record something better. we have a pretty unfortunate record with our technology here in terms of health care, so many things have been written off, tens of millions of pounds, dollars, have been lost so do we have the infrastructure here to marry up with someone like you because you are getting quite a lot of investment. you had an investment of investment. you had an investment of several hundred million euros just a few weeks ago. we are happy to help and there are examples around europe of governments spending a lot of money trying to build systems. our record here is not particularly good, it s not flattering. in the uk? i don t think the record for any market we are in is super, but there are pieces of infrastructure here that are great and we are able to pool your summary records from the nhs. i m interested in who you are mainly targeting. who are your customers at the moment? is it time for business people who don t want to take a day off? what trends are you seeing? ice i said earlier, we want to be for everybody. in the first week we launched in the uk, we had a man of 90 years old using the services. we have a lot of younger families. we doa have a lot of younger families. we do a lot of children. in sweden we do a lot of children. in sweden we do mental health as well. how do you make money out of this? who pays you? we preferred to partner with the big players of health care in the big players of health care in the world. nhs here, and in sweden, that s how we make money. fascinating. really good to talk to you and thank you for coming in and explaining it to us. in a moment we ll run through some viewer responses to our twitter question. it was about blue monday and how you cope with it, the gloomiest day of the year so far apparently. but first, let s turn to the social media world, where top influencers are being propositioned daily by strangers with offers of thousands of pounds in return for sex that according to bbc‘s the victoria derbyshire programme. ellie costello has this exclusive report. instagram influencers sell us a lifestyle. they make money through advertising brands in exchange for payment. more followers means more paid work. but as the influencer circle becomes more saturated, it s become harder than ever to make money, opening the doors to exploitation. one of those people offered money for sex is rosie williams. she starred in series four of love island. it was an offer to move across to dubai and be paid to be somebody‘s companion out there. but you had no idea who that person was? no, never met this person at all. was there a monetary value on that? i think it was around 100,000 a year, and then with all my clothes and bags paid for on top, and my lifestyle paid for. the propositions vary. sometimes directly from a man asking for sex. 0thers come from an agency acting on behalf of a wealthy client. tyne lexy clarson was only 19 when she was sent herfirst proposition. she then went on to star in series three of love island. i had someone message me offering me £20,000 for purely dinner and drinks. and then when i hadn t responded to that, within the next three days, it had doubled to £40,000. and then when i came off the show, obviously my profile had gone up and the same person had offered me £100,000, so obviously i was worth £60,000 more for being on love island. and then an agency contacted me on behalf of a dubai businessman offering me £50,000 for five nights in dubai. we shared ourfindings with the feminist group 0bject. i really understand why young women do that. but ultimately it s about exploitation. and the reality is, most probably that young women will end up doing things for that money that she doesn t want to associate herself with, and that actually make her feel shamed. instagram told us in a statement that sexual solicitation is not tolerated on their platform and anyone seen to be breaking their rules would be banned. what you see on instagram is not real life. but for tyne, fears for women who take up these propositions are very real. there s got to be cases where it s gone wrong. there just has to be, and ijust wouldn t advise anyone to put themselves in that situation where they can be that vulnerable. ellie costello, bbc news. and viewers in the uk can hear more on this story on the victoria derbyshire programme from 10 o clock. at the top of the show, we asked you about beating blue monday and whether or not it was just a marketing gimmick. supposedly the gloomiest day of the year, the third monday injanuary. let s take a look at how some viewers have responded: alexandra says, go on holiday via credit card? always a mistake, i think. and sarah suggests, it s only blue monday if you listen to the media. everywhere else, it s just monday. finally, charles lloyd, seems to be winning at beating blue monday he s booked a holiday, put plans in place to have the house decorated and walked the dog. got a big mug of coffee and in a very good mood. very upbeat for january. very upbeat forjanuary. thanks. what do you do to lift your mood?|j go what do you do to lift your mood?” go for a run. a lot of people talk about exercise. injanuary, the endorphins you get from that when it is dark and grey. we are talking about the northern hemisphere. i had about the northern hemisphere. i had a tweet from someone in south africa saying it was lovely, the sun is rising earlier and setting later, there is nothing to be blue at bout at all. we should go to south africa later this week. that s it from worklife today. there will be more business news throughout the day on the bbc live webpage and on world business report. for many of us it was a glorious weekend with plenty of sunshine around, but it was cold with a sharp overnight frost. the reason for it, this strong area of high pressure which has parked itself across the uk and should be with us through much of this week. we have more isobars and a weather front close by to the north west that will feed in more cloud generally to scotland through today and also across north west england and into northern ireland. breezy here, windy for the north and western isles. but it will be milder here because of the stronger south west winds. further south, wind will be lighter and after a cold and frosty starting places, we should see the best of the sunshine here. pleasant in the afternoon with temperatures reaching 7-9, afternoon with temperatures reaching 7 9, milder in the north, ten or 11. as we head through tonight, staying cloudy across northern areas with a weather front moving in. cloudy across northern areas with a weatherfront moving in. a weakening feature, barely anything on it as it reaches much of scotland by the end of the night but still some patchy rain and it will remain breezy. a temperature contrast starting tuesday, less cold in the north and cold and frosty in the south under clear skies. we could see some issues with fog patches for southern england and wales giving rise to poor visibility so bear that in mind if you are heading out first thing. essentially the high pressure is with us through tuesday, generally fine and settled with a weather front still affecting the northern half of the country bringing thicker clout and some spots of light rain and drizzle. quite misty and murky generally but across england and wales we could see more cloud on tuesday than we have had in the last few days. probably the best of sunshine in eastern scotland and eastern england. temperatures again in single figures for england and wales, maybe ten or 11 across the north. as we head into wednesday, the area of high pressure still dominates and we start to lose that weather front. it will be a drier day for most. quite a bit of cloud around on wednesday, rather grey and leaden skies for some with mist and murk and hill fog in places with the best of the sunshine in eastern scotla nd best of the sunshine in eastern scotland and eastern england once again. you will notice temperatures higher on wednesday, highs of nine or ten for many. this week staying largely dry with an area of high pressure. cold at first and less cold as we move through the week with cloud increasing. you re watching bbc news at nine, with me, carrie gracie. the headlines: the duke of sussex says there was really no other option in stepping back from being a senior royal. prince harry spoke at a private charity dinner last night for the first time since announcing he s standing down. the decision that i have made for my wife and i had to step back is not one i made lightly. it was so many months of talks, after so many years of challenges, and i know i haven t always got it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option. two men arrested on suspicion of murder after three men were killed in east london. despite paramedics at the scene they were declared
it s been confirmed a new virus spreading across china can be transmitted between humans. more than 200 people have been infected with the virus so far, and in the last hour a fourth death has been confirmed. cases have also been reported in japan, thailand, and south korea. the world health organisation will hold an emergency meeting later this week. our medical correspondent, fergus walsh reports: it s official. china s mysterious new virus can pass from person to person. health authorities there are urging the public not to panic. most cases have come as a result of direct contact with animals, but human to human transmission means this virus is potentially a far bigger threat. the outbreak centres on the city of wuhan, population 11 million, where the source is thought to be a seafood market. 170 people in wuhan are being treated in hospital. several are critically ill and three deaths have been confirmed. there have been a handful of cases of the virus in south korea, thailand and japan, all travellers who had come from wuhan. the infection is a new type of coronavirus, which originated in animals. although person to person transmission has been confirmed, it does not, thankfully, spread easily. signs of infection include breathing problems, fever and cough. it s the height of the flu season, meaning it s hard to know initially what infection patients have. hundreds of millions of chinese are expected to travel over the coming week to celebrate the lunar new year, making further spread inevitable. at train stations and airports, temperature scanners are being used. some airports in the united states, singapore and japan are screening travellers. the outbreak is a reminder of the sars epidemic, also caused by a coronavirus, that killed nearly 800 people worldwide nearly 20 years ago. then, there was an initial cover up by the authorities. this time, global health officials say china has learned from past mistakes. it may be weeks or months, though, before we know how big a threat this new virus poses. fergus walsh, bbc news. let s stay with that story now. james palmer is senior editor of the global magazine foreign policy. he joins us from washington. thank you very much for your time, i know you have been writing on this, what is your thinking currently? and i think that at this point it seems as though the government has acknowledged the scale. and problems in chinese healthcare in the way that the government handles the way that the government handles the spread of information and a possible academic. it is very difficult on the chinese system for. disasters or to share with colleagues, because they see them as. james, you will have to forgive me. if you can hear me all right, we re having a lot of trouble with the connection with you but at the moment it is breaking up quite badly. we will come back to you if we possibly can. moving on for the moment. republican party leaders in the us senate have proposed rules for president trump s impeachment trial that could mean no witnesses are called and no new evidence is discussed. a resolution unveiled by mitch mcconnell, who leads the republican majority in the senate, could see a vote on impeachment as early as tuesday. chuck schumer, who leads the democratic minority in the senate, has called the proposals a cover up and a national disgrace. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, has more details. let s get more on this now from our north america correspondent, peter bowes. as far as the democrats are concerned, this is a very bad move and as you have just implied, they are livid but it seems as if the republicans are trying to push this process through very quickly. it is certainly what the white house has been saying in its pre trial documents, that there should be a swift resolution to this, but it may not be that straightforward. essentially what has been announced is that each side will get 2a hours split over two days, so two days, 12 hours long, it will be a gruelling few days for all concerned that the initial first four days will be set aside for the opening statements from the house managers, the prosecutors in this case, and the president s lawyers, but within that framework, there is a possibility that the president s lawyers could call for a vote to dismiss the charges. it seems unlikely at this very early stages that would pass, but it is possible. what chance do you think then, that the witnesses and the evidence that was not available to the house of representatives but is available now, will actually be heard? if this framework were to proceed, it is looking less and less likely, but it isn t a far gone conclusion because there is a lot that can happen over the next few days. one thing that could happen is that some of those republicans that are sitting on the fence, wavering a little bit may decide to side with the democrats and agree that there ought to be some witnesses and ought to be evidence, documents that have been revealed in the last two days. so at this stage you can t say that it is impossible that it is going to happen, itjust seems a little less likely and it seems as if it is what the republicans want to happen but the democrats are putting up quite a fight. let s get some of the day s other news: prince harry has carried out what are likely to be some of his last engagements as a senior royal. it s reported he s now flown to canada to be reunited with his wife and baby son. the duke of sussex left the uk after meeting prime minister boris johnson and world leaders at the uk africa investment summit in london. malaysia has revealed its sent back 150 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the developed countries it came from, including the uk. richer countries have been sending plastic to malaysia since 2018, when china banned most waste imports. but malaysia s government has taken a stand, saying it doesn t want to be the world s garbage dump. mung wan joe, the senior huawei executive detained in canada, is in court for a hearing to decide if she should be extradited to the united states. the us wants her handed over to face accusations of fraud and breaching sanctions on iran. she says the charges are politically motivated. after many years of expert argument, a painting of vincent van gogh has finally been confirmed as a self portrait. painted in 1889, it s the only known artwork which shows the dutch artist in a depressed state, while he was in an asylum in france. hundreds of people, mainly from honduras, who are trying to reach the united states, have waded into a river on mexico s border with guatamala. mexican national guard troops with riot shields have been trying to stop them climbing the river bank. mexico has cut off migration routes to the us under pressure from president trump. rich preston reports. 0n mexico s southern border, men, women, and children wading through the suchiate river, many of them eventually reaching mexican territory. they were met by mexico s national guard. they used shields and teargas to push the people back. the migrants hurled stones and rocks at the police lines. many of the migrants were thought to have originally been from honduras. guatemala says several thousand migrants have crossed into its territory from honduras since wednesday. these migrants had been camped out in the town of tecun uman on the guatemalan side of the border, and wanted to cross to the town of ciudad hidalgo in mexico. when they were refused permission, they took to the water. those crossing the river are part of a larger group of between 2000 and 3500 people, which has been called 2020 caravan. many of whom are ultimately trying to reach the united states. translation: i m a mother, i left my daughter there, i have to support her and i m a single mother. we only want to work. please, i am just scared and i don t want to return to my country. there is no work there, there is nothing. my daughter and i go hungry. mexican officials say they have already taken in over 1000 people and that many will be allowed to stay and work, but will not be given free passage to america. amid tense relations with its northern neighbour, mexico is under increasing pressure to help stem the flow of migrants to the us. but despite the firm response on the border, many say they are so desperate, they will keep trying anyway. let s ta ke let s take you back to that story of that new virus spreading across china and the confirmation it can be transmitted between humans. james, i hope the connection is all right this time, thank you very much for staying with us. part of the difficulty here is knowing whether we can trust the information that china is giving out? that is absolutely true. we have already seen the number of cases jumped dramatically over the weekend, after the authorities felt under pressure because cases were being watered in south korea and thailand, and the chinese public was asking if these cases are spreading elsewhere, how can the number has stayed static in china. systematic problems with the data given up by the chinese health system, because officials often have a strong incentive to underreport numbers to make their own performance seem numbers to make their own performance seem better or because they feared their enemies will use that information against them. clearly, james, disease control methods have improved greatly since the 1918 lou epidemic but it s not at all clear to people at the who that screening is the answer? yes, it is very hard to know. we know very little about the structure of this virus at the moment and one of the purposes of the who conference is to determine the best techniques. we re already seeing screening of flights out wuhan and increasingly of flights out of china into the us and elsewhere, but it is uncertain whether that will stop all possible cases, especially because we don t know what the dormancy period might be. what are the hopes of containing this, given millions are on the move? i think that they are probably quite slim, it will probably spread yonder wuhan to outbreaks elsewhere in china but have lee at that point, we will know more about it and the damage will be contained. next week, we will see hundreds of millions of people moving before the lunar new year and that is a complete petri dish of disease with people on crowded trains, sharing dishes, and those in the worst possible circumstances. it sounds like we will be talking to you again. james palmer, thank you so much. thanks to you for being with us. stay with us if you can, there is much more to come on bbc news, including this. thousands of heavily armed protesters march against stricter gun laws in the us state of virginia. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it s going to be only america first. america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set up on by police dogs. anti apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him ‘the butcher of lyon . klaus altmann is being held on a fraud charge in bolivia. the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there, he was the gestapo chief klaus barbie. millions came to bathe as close as possible to this spot. a tide of humanity that is believed by officials to have broken all records. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: doctors confirm that a new virus in china can be transmitted from human to human, as the outbreak continues to spread, and a fourth person dies. in iraq, three more protesters have been killed as demonstrators loose from each side will have just 24 loose from each side will have just 2a hours to prevent the arguments. lawyers from either side. manage national visitors are expected to stay away even though many of the fires are now out or under control. tourism is estimated to account for more than 3% of australia s economic output and one in every 13 persons jobs. for more on this, we can talk to our australia correspondent, phil mercer. he joins me from the small town of kangaroo valley in new south wales. you can see the bridge behind me, one of the most famous landmarks in this particular region. this area should be bustling with tourists. there are many attractions here or visitors but it s very, very quiet here and this is a sea that has been repeated in many other holiday parts of australia, given itsjust repeated in many other holiday parts of australia, given its just over halfway through australia s summer. this should be an error that you are generating lots of money for local people. just to give a sense, it s a lie of the land over here. we have a local museum, we have a business hiring kayaks and bicycles, these are businesses that rely on the summit trade here but there are a few weeks ago there were serious bushfires not too far away from here at the net result is that many visitors have either been scared away or worried about the fires returning. it s coming towards the end of the school holidays here in australia and there is a big fear as you say that australia s tourism industry is likely to take a very significant hit because of this bushfire crisis. the government over the weekend pitched in with millions to the tourism industry, what is going to take to help these businesses stay afloat? australia s trade minister is a man called simon verma given his saying the bushfires that have banned across many states in australia since september of the biggest dent to australia s international tourism reputation ever. so what vesting is about $15 million spent towards the government to try to read try to repair the image. many visitors are cancelling the trips, many domestic travellers are turning the back of the domestic tourism market because of the bushfire crisis. this government money will be spent trying to rehabilitate australia s image both here and overseas. the message from the australian government that australia, yes it is being scarred make yes it has been scarred but it very much remains open for business. in iraq, three more protesters have been killed as demonstrators and iranian interference. at least 500 people have been killed by security forces and pro iranian militia in months of demonstrations. our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville, and cameraman nik millard, have spent the past few days following protesters in baghdad. iraq is both a country in gridlock and coming apart at the seams. for months, young iraqis have been on the streets, intent on sweeping away the old guard. they say their government isn t listening, so these young iraqis are piling on the pressure here in baghdad and in cities across iraq. they say their demands won t be forgotten and their protests won t end. they ve already brought down the last government, but it s not enough. in a country of fierce division, they ve emerged united sunni, shia, christian, rich and poor. translation: we want a life, like the life others have, in europe, america and elsewhere. we want politicians who are of the people, not men who are supported by iran, saudi or the united states. but old iraq hasn t vanished. nearly 500 protesters have died, killed by security forces and pro iranian militia since october. today s push is to bring iraq to a standstill. they want a new prime minister and fresh elections, and they mightjust get their way. but not without a fight. after a long stand off, the security forces are now coming down the off ramps. it looks like they re just using tear gas for now. they are also sick of iran and the united states fighting their battles on iraqi soil. chanting. both be damned, they chant. three more young protesters were killed today. more names for a crowded memorial wall. this revolution already has too many martyrs. safaa al saray is one of them. he wanted an iraq without corruption and sectarianism. an idealist and a revolutionary, safaa s face is now everywhere. he was shot on this bridge unarmed, his brother says, and clutching only the iraqi flag. translation: safaa was a painter, a poet. he loved iraq very much and sacrificed his life for it. we were not surprised by his martyrdom, and we are all willing to sacrifice for iraq. their struggle now is to stop the movement being hijacked by those they oppose. in iraq, power, religious, political and foreign, lies in the shadows. these protests may look familiar, but they re not they transcend social class and religious sect. that and their scale make them unprecedented for iraq. the odds are stacked against these young people, but they say they have no choice. their lives and their future will depend on what happens on the streets. so tonight they re back at the barricades, resisting and waiting for the new iraq. quentin sommerville, bbc news, baghdad. thousands of gun owners, heavily armed, have converged on the american city of richmond to protest against stricter gun laws in the state of virginia. they claim their constitutional right to bear arms would be violated if the state s democratic governor and newly elected democratic majority legislature presses on with moves to tighten controls. aleem maqbool is in virginia for us. all chant: usa, usa, usa! they came from all over the country, bearing arms, after this state, virginia decided it is going to try to push through what are very limited gun control measures. well, we re just on a regular street in downtown richmond, virginia, and yet almost everyone around us is carrying a handgun or a rifle, and that is all perfectly legal. but they re out here to say they won t allow that right to ever be taken away from them. no one is even talking about that happening, though. politicians here just want to introduce rules that would, for example, only allow people to buy one weapon a month, and allow guns to be banned at some public events. that is too much for everyone here. if this saves one life, is it worth it? i mean, not if it s going to impede on my right to defend me and my family. that person who lost their life should have had a gun in their hand and should have taken their responsibility and had their second amendment exercised, and it would have saved their life. you don t just get to say there is mass shootings. i think it accounts for less than 0.001% of the population, but we re going to make it a nationwide. tens of thousands die as a result of, you know, gun violence. hundreds of thousands die of heart failure. like, come on. for all the arms on the streets and all the fears of violence, the protest did pass off peacefully, but with the promise that, if any other states try to introduce even the smallest of measures to curb gun ownership. we have only begun to fight. ..more shows of strength are to come. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in richmond, virginia. an attempt to set a world record in sri lanka for the largest gathering of twins seems to have failed because too many turned up. organisers wanted to break a record stretching back more than twenty years but the size of the crowd meant strict rules on registration couldn t be met. tim allman‘s report does contain some flash photography. if you happen to be visiting the sports stadium, you may have been forgiven you might be seeing double. this was a venue full of twins. lots and lots of twins. thousands of them, in fact. the call had gone out, a record was there to be broken. when i heard the news i thought, yes, this is the moment that we as twins should go and do best and have a responsibility to do that because being a ten is a placid thing that can happen to anybody. but setting a record is easier said than done. the numbers are turned up lead to long queues and that meant registering the twins wasn t straightforward so a new world record was very much in the balance evenif record was very much in the balance even if the organisers sounded fairly confident. while accounting is still going on we have counted 12,492. by that we have broken the world record it will submit the final count and the documentation back to the world record committee and i m confident we will be informed in writing that behold the record. among those turning up was sri lanka s prime minister, the brother although not the twin of the president. they should find out in a couple of weeks avenue record has been set. if not, they say they will try all over again. we will be back if they are back. much more on the bbc website and on twitter. hello. monday brought some beautiful winter sunshine to large swathes of the uk. unfortunately, the prospects for the rest of this week are distinctly dull for one reason or another, be it a lot of low cloud lurking about, orfor this morning, some pretty stubborn fog. the high pressure that s keeping things dry is going to be staying with us, but it s just going to reorientate itself a little through the next few days, eventually shifting away south westwards and pulling in more moisture from the atlantic. that s what s going to help to thicken our cloud. for this morning, the densest of fog likely to be an issue, i think, across the southern counties of england and into south wales. a lot of our major motorways, of course, in this area. please do bear in mind when you take to the roads that the fog could be patchy, so you could be in it one minute, out of it the next, then back in, and that is particularly dangerous. and tuesday, as promised, a pretty grey affair. best of any breaks probably to the lee of higher ground, east of the pennines, sheltered spots to the east of scotland. further west, some rain actually for argyll and bute. topsy turvy temperatures, actually, our mildest weather to the north of the uk, with that atlantic feed to the north of the high. to the south, just six or seven, colder if you get stuck by the fog that lingers. overnight tuesday into wednesday, plenty of cloud across the uk, plenty of moisture, generally very murky, and because of all that cloud around, our temperatures will be held up. so frost limited possibly to a few pockets across southernmost counties of england for first thing on wednesday. and you can see the high here, as promised, sitting a little bit further south westwards. and i ve put the colour on behind me here to show you the air mass, to show you the atlantic air tipping over the top of the high and spilling its way south into england and wales for wednesday. things on the ground not looking too different, unfortunately. how many ways can you say cloudy and grey? best of any breaks in the east. but the temperatures do just nudge up a little, about 10 12 degrees typically across the uk, certainly the biggest increase to the south. and for the rest of the week, same old, same old. the high still with us, always slightly milder to the north, a little cooler to the south. some signs of more rainfall perhaps across scotland, for a time, as a front works its way in. but, by the end of the week, the high really does start to break down, and then friday into saturday, it looks like we ll get an area of low pressure sweeping across the uk. that gets rid of a lot of the murk. we should see the return of some sunny spells, but they will also be accompanied by showers, and look out it will turn windier once again, as well. this is bbc news, the headlines: doctors in china confirm a new respiratory virus that s spreading across the country can be passed from person to person. officials say more than 200 people have been infected four people have died. the world health organization has called an emergency meeting later this week. the us senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, has laid out plans for president trump s impeachment trial. under the proposals there s no guarantee that witnesses or new evidence would be allowed, and arguments for both sides would have to be presented injust 24 hours. democratic leaders say it would be a cover up. the authorities in mexico have prevented hundreds of people from central america entering the country on their way to the united states. after some skirmishes, security forces rounded up those who managed to cross the river marking the border between mexico and guatemala.