Executives are paid compared to the average worker. But shells boss, ben van beurden, who earned £7. 5 million last year, argues that the governments proposal is flawed. Our business editor, simonjack, reports from rotterdam. Big business, how do you stop too much money flowing to the top . The government has a plan, but does it make sense . This is shells rotterdam refinery, it has customers and employees all over the world. Its the most valuable company on the London Stock Exchange and pays more dividends to uk Pension Funds than any other company. How do you get a grip on a company like that . Thats the old refinery, but also a lot of the new stuff. Ben van beurden is shells chief executive. The uk governments flagship proposal to curb pay is to force companies to publish how many times more the boss gets paid than the average worker. Simple. Its a matter of public record, you got paid £7. 5 million last year, that was a 60 increase from the previous year, and could you tell me what the multiple is of your pay versus the average shell employee . Do you know that number . Well, no, i dont have that number to hand, not because, you know, i wouldnt care about it or i would forget about it or whatever, its who is the average shell worker . The average one in the uk . The average one in the United States, or globally, or do we include the people who work on our forecourts or not, etc . So this is going to be a very complicated definition piece. The governments clear, it should be average uk pay, an incentive to push up pay here, but does it make sense for a company that operates in over 70 countries . It sounds to me that the natural conclusion from what youve said, is that your position with government saying look, measures like this dont work for Companies Like ours . Sometimes it comes down to that. Sometimes we say, well, why dont you do this or why dont you look at this particular way of strengthening etc . So conversation doesnt mean push back, push back, push back, it means finding constructive ways forward. Shells not alone, of course, the premier league of uk business is stuffed full of multinationals, who will also feel this government attempt to put a lid on payjust doesnt fit. Simon jack, bbc news. Now on bbc news, click. This week and next, a repeat of clicks stellar trip to india, with bangla bangers. There will be dancing and singing. Driving in india is an experience. The roads are cramped, the horn is omnipresent and the rules are. Well, the rules are here somewhere, im sure of it. And thats why we wont be doing a piece about self driving cars in india any time soon. Despite the fact that it seems like everyone in india travels in the car, thats not true by any means, many People Choose to travel by train instead. But, if you think thats any less intense, think again. Yeah, about those rules. Central station is a massive heaving hub connecting the city to the north and east of india. But, if you look closer youll see Something Else connecting the commuters to the rest of the world. 116 wireless Access Points provide free wi fi to anyone with an indian phone number. It has been provided by google which at the moment says about two and half terabytes are being downloaded here every day. And heres the interesting part, this is notjust about the station, along Indias Railway tracks lie 16,000 kilometres of optic cables and google is piping Internet Access down those cables to feed wi fi access to 114 other train stations as well. I caught up with he man overseeing the project while he was waiting for his train. If you had to take one place in the country where you want tremendous fibre and you had to have reliable power, relatively speaking power is a challenge across the country and you had to have an entire country walking there at that one place, there is only one place that is the railway stations. Can you guarantee that all services on googles wi fi will be treated equally . Absolutely, i think the whole motivation for us, if you look at the reason why we did this, was to see if we can provide an open internet completely open with access for the entire web, the way the web was designed. So, there is a Fibre Optic Network thats rolling out from train stations like this to the vast global areas of this enormous country and david reid hopped on a train to find out what affects thats having elsewhere in india. Its hard not to be romantic about Indias Railways. British colonial rulers laid tracks for control, shifting resources mostly out and prising open markets. Now, its about moving people, millions a day thanks to optic fibre data. I took the train here to jaipur to investigate, it has proper broadband and its free. People are filling their boots. Apart from some controversy at another station where commuters were using free wi fi to download hard core pornography, the provision of high speed wi fi has been almost universally praised. 90,000 people pass through jaipur station every day. Im using my wi fi for entertainment, the news, the office work. Ifind it quick, yeah. For this studentjournalist it means she can keep tabs on breaking stories. In the morning the world changes like. There are so many things that have changed so i have to come and check. Indian stations are full of thriving businesses feeding off, or simply feeding the thousands streaming through them every day. Free wi fi has actually been a boost to local businesses here, this man runs a tea store on the station platform, hes making more money now that his customers can make online payments to him. Translation i use the wifi when my ag signal doesnt catch. When thats not working i used the wi fi. Especially when a customer is paying through digital payments, i needed to confirm that i have received the payment. Digital payments are worth about 40 50 of my takings. This is music to the ears of people managing Indias Railways, a nationalised industry that runs at a loss. They are thinking that high speed wi fi could be a good pool for a station like jaipur, they plan to build a huge concourse and attract retail and service businesses. It mightjust be an earner. As wi fi expands and becomes taken for granted then i think people will transact more and more of their business. Jaipur is a kind of domestic, tourist hub and an International Hub of high refuge. People are coming out here from all parts of the world so now when you have a huge concourse it becomes an area where you can have shops, entertainment spots. For google more people online is more people to sell to, Indias Railways the countrys backbone, its public wi fi is poised to be as least as far reaching. Hello, welcome to the week in tech, it was the week that laptops and other Electronic Devices larger than smartphones were banned you may have noticed by now that the roads here in india are. Well, utterly chaotic. Thats all the more astonishing when you consider that so few people own a car here. There are just 32 Motor Vehicles per 1000 people in india. In the United States there are 707. But, that number is changing and ill tell you a secret, its not going down. On these roads, thats pretty scary thought. One solution could be to make better use of the cars that are already on the road. Enter 0la cabs, indias biggest taxi hailing app, or the uber of india, if you will. Or as they would rather we say. Uber is the 0la of india. Right, right. Founded back in 2010, three years before uber launched in india, 0la has taken full advantage of its head start. 0la has historically been number one in india, but uber has said that thats changing. Looks like the battle that indias cab cash is onlyjust beginning. These are 0las head offices in indias silicon valley. Hello. Bangalore, and this is 0las employee number one. India is not designed to have a car in that shape, not even 10 . What are the specific needs of customers and drivers in india . They need a platform that is notjust about cabs. The black and yellow medallions, the buses that we have, the minibuses, bikes, electric rickshaws, except. It is an inclusive platform for mobility. You have different transport options, and different prices for different cases. That drinks in a lot of options for users. 0la says its better because its local and it knows what works in india. That means offering things like walking centres for drivers and being the first to allow customers to pay by cash. Uber is coming into the indian market, how you different from uber and how would you stay ahead of them . There is a fundamental difference in the way in which we operate. We believe in what we want, not in what we have. In terms of, plugging in things. You need to build it from the ground up. It is about the connection that you make notjust above transactional relationship to have with the drivers. Part of that connection is offering incentives like this, here drivers can talk face to face with 0la, for example when they join the service, training or if they have a problem. If theres an issue with their wages for example. But 0la doesnt actually employ any of these people, they call everyone here a partner, in reality theyre self employed. That means they dont get things like holiday pay and they are responsible for maintaining their car and paying for fuel. The flip side is that drivers can, in theory, set their own schedule work when they please. It is a controversial system that 0la, uber and also transport companies around the world have used to keep costs down. Despite this 0la really, really wants drivers to drive, a lot. So much so that there are carrots if you stay on the road and sticks if you dont. What india really needs to focus on is to enable mobility than a billion people that we have, we need to leapfrog road constructions, highways, that dont take as to where we want to go. We need to promote shared mobility, with things that are sustainable and dont produce the pollution that we have here. Electric vehicles are some think that. 0la is one of the most successful start ups to come out of indias Education System in the last few years. Called Indian Institute of technology, these top level universities are dotted across india and they are the driving force behind many of indias tech successes. Getting into one of these universities is an incredibly competitive business, only a tiny fraction of applicants get in in any one year, but if you do you get to work in incredible campuses like this. My first appointment is at the olympic sized swimming pool. Although its not me who is taking a dip. This is matsya named after the avatar of vishnu that takes the form of fish, its an multipurpose, underwater robot that can operate autonomously without a human controller locate sounds and recognise grab and manipulate objects. The team tell me that it might be used to find flight recorders from crashed aircraft, although they are also pitching to the military to fire torpedoes. The project is in its fifth year at the team leader tells me the work is hard but can be massively wide ranging. Can ijust say, like a racing car or satellite. Brilliant. It is one of 100 projects that are being supported by the iit bombays society for innovation and entrepreneurship since 200a. It is an umbrella for start ups and as with incubators everywhere youll find all kinds of ideas bubbling away behind its doors. As you might expect there are aerial ideas, there are medical ideas, but there are also musical ideas, which is why you found me making strange noses with my face. Do dee do very good, so you got some score over here. I got some score. If you do it better you can get more score, your score will be increasing. Yes, the worst karaoke india has ever had but then this singing training app is so much more then normal karaoke style games. Do dee dee most karaoke apps have a very cursory evaluation of your singing, they dont even value your singing, you just open your mouth, and you get a good reading. What we do is a multidimensional evaluation of your singing on different aspects of music, pitch, rhythm, falsetto, dynamics, timing. You asked for a hard exercise. He sings. If my singing went right through you, well, ive got something upstairs that will really cut to the bone. The algo search team are working on a system to help surgeons to plan surgery. Theyve created software that is learned to create a 3 d model of bones from just two two dimensional x rays. I can imagine after a lot of experience, if ijust look at an x ray come i can imagine it in 3 d. Can we do the same thing with computers . A surgeon can do it because they have learned from what they have seen during surgeries. So we use the same logic to develop the software. We have a machine learned algorithm, which has learned the 3 d shape so we have created a lot of 3 d models from these scams. Of bones across the population. So we have created a lot of 3 d models from these ct scans. We use these as a, kind of, data base. And we get them to understand the database in a particular way to predict a 3 d model from an x ray image. These 3 d models also allow for tools and guides to be designed to the patients specific dimensions. For example, if a surgeon was preparing to cut and realign legs. We have this patients specific information, which uses the bone surface in 3 d, and it is like a negative of the bones. If you make that part and print it. And put it on the real one. It will exactly fit on the real one in the patient. So what we do is we use that concept to cut, to make the surgeon cuts more accurately. So this part will be the exact fit on the bone. But also have a slit which will align with the cutting plate. So it can be used during the surgery to guide with cutting, too. Two x rays are, of course, cheaper than a full sd or mri scan. It means patients can be assessed who cannot get to a fully kitted hospital. Its no surprise many of the projects here and concentrate on low cost, Rugged Solutions to developing world problems. You may have come across braille displays before which allow you to connect via bluetooth to your android tablet. And whichever menu item is highlighted on the screen the text is mirrored on the braille read out here, and you can control navigation using up and down buttons here. This is a prototype braille display called braille me, which works in a slightly different way. The braille displays currently on the market are based on electric technology. Because of that very thing the cost of these devices are around 3000 each. So we developed a completely new Technology Based on magnetics through which we are able to reduce the cost ten times. So we can sell it to the user at a price point around 300 400. But this machine needs to work for at least 10 million cycles. It has to be quiet. Low power. All of those features make it very difficult to make such a compact and rugged device. So that is the challenge. This is the anjuman Urdu Primary School in the town of kundapur in kamataka. My names spencer. This 155 kids here from grades one through to seven and a whole bunch of dedicated teachers. And this is how they start their day. They sing. Over in this classroom things are a little more serious. At the back of the projector there is a device which is plugged in and is running videos on english, maths, and science. The videos are made for the entire region, but then they are dubbed in different dialects, different languages, depending on where they are being sent to. Today we are learning about fractions. It is a great teaching tool as long as there is electricity. But there are plenty of times when there isnt. Translation this is a new school. Earlier it would have been difficult to teach due to power cuts. We would get electricity in the mornings, but as the day passed by in the afternoon we would have power cuts for more than two hours. Thats why the projector and tablet are hooked up to this box, which is itself attached to a solar panel on the roof. Together they can provide up to five hours of electricity a day, meaning that classes dont have to be interrupted or cancelled if the power cuts out. Translation then we started using solar power as it is an easy and natural source of generating electricity. We have introduced the study of generating power through solar energy to our students and are teaching them the importance of working with it. We also explained to our students that this process will help us in the future to generate electricity. This whole system has been provided by the selco foundation, an Indian Charity with the hope to alleviate poverty by improving access to energy. With this students can get better education. And then there is no problem of electricity. At any time they can take their students to the classroom, they can teach through this medium. Selco and other ngos they work with pay for half of the cost of installing the projector and solar system. The other half comes from local schools or local government. How important is the projector . Translation before this project came into use it we had very few students. But since we have started using the solar power, our number of students has increased in a good way. We have students coming to us from different villages to learn. And not only students, we have other schools coming down to our institute for smart classes. The smart class is a good way of teaching kids these days. They seem to enjoy and learn more than usual. After we introduce smart class our school stands proudly in the educational sector. We plan to grow large as the years pass by. Cool 0h the same system is already in hundreds of rural schools and they are aiming to add hundreds more this year. And its notjust key for schools. Across rural india businesses can be helped massively by having a reliable power supply. Sumana is a seamstress who lives a short drive from kunapur. She became the main breadwinner for the family after her father was taken ill. The more clothing she can repair the more she gets paid. With her old hand operated sewing machine she could fix a couple of items a day, but thanks to the solar panels on her roof her electric machine can whizz through five or six clothes per day. Plus, she has a fan, a tv, and a light, so she can work earlier and later. 0ne quarter of indias rural population lives below the official poverty line. Thats 216 Million People whose livelihoods could be improved by the addition of basic facilities like electricity. And, of course, one key way of helping people out of poverty is education. Its always such a privilege to come to a place like this and see how the simplest technology can make a world of difference. Thats it from india for the moment. You can see plenty of photos and more backstage gossip on twitter. Thanks for watching. See you soon. Cheering hello there. Were moving into the last day of august, but in some places, yesterday, it felt like september had already arrived. Because there was a lot of cloud, there was some rain around, and temperatures across some south eastern areas only got up to 13 degrees. But further north and west, the day brought brighter skies and some spells of sunshine. Just a few showers. And thats the sort of weather that we will take with us into thursday. The cloud has now been chased away to the east. Weve got some clear skies following on behind, with just a few shower clouds. And during the day ahead, we are going to see a mixture of sunshine and showers. The showers quite heavy from the word go in western areas. And then extending eastwards as the day goes on. But with some bright or sunny spells between those downpours. So, lets take a closer look at 4pm in the afternoon. Across the south west of england, well see quite a few showers in places, with some sunny spells in between. Temperatures around 16 17 degrees. Some of those showers stretching across the south east and into east anglia. But a big improvement in temperatures here. 20 degrees in london, 19 for ipswich. Some heavy showers across the midlands, up into northern england. Some of the showers could contain the odd rumble of thunder. And for scotland, it is that mixture of sunny spells and heavy showers. 1a degrees in aberdeen for the middle of the afternoon, 17 in glasgow. For northern ireland, some decent sunny breaks between the showers. I think some places will avoid the showers and stay dry all day long. And a similar story for wales. Sunny spells, the odd downpour coming along here and there. Some of those showers could be heavy, but they will then tend to fade away as we go through the evening. Through the night, into the early hours of friday, well see clear spells, the odd fog around, and a chilly night. Towns and cities 9 12, but in rural areas, one, two, three, four degrees. Quite a cool start if youre out and about early on friday morning. But the prospects of friday are fairly promising. A lot of dry weather and some spells of sunshine. Still the chance for a shower, particularly for central and eastern areas, but many will stay dry. 17 in glasgow, 21 in london, about where wed expect to be. And then we get on into the weekend, and it is not bad news, especially if you like dry weather. Because this area of High Pressure will give us a fine start to the weekend. Weather systems, youll notice, out west, they wont make much progress into eastern parts, so, even on sunday, eastern areas of scotland, eastern england, should stay dry, with some spells of sunshine. Further west, a fine saturday, a chilly saturday night, but then cloud and rain with some strong winds will work in from the west on sunday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. Im mike embley. 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