Global rally has extended to europe. The gig economy goes down under well speak to one australian entrepreneur whos helping people who need things in touch with the others who have them for a small fee, of course. After reports that m00 cups are used every day of the uks environment department, we want to know how you take your cup of tea, plastic, paper, or some know how you take your cup of tea, plastic, paper, orsome otherway . What would it take to ditch disposable and switch to renewable cups . Get in touch. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Uk chancellor Philip Hammond will deliver his autumn budget today. One of his challenges will be to combat a decade of flat productivity. Until 10 years ago, productivity was the motor that drove uk Economic Growth. This blue crooked line is output per hour. The Straight Line is the actual measure and this broken line is what it should be at if the trends before the crisis had continued. So its a pretty big difference. The typical rate of growth in the last five years is only 0. 2 . The presumption was that the underlying factors linked to the financial crisis would eventually improve. But so far productivity has remained stagnant. Other European Countries are faring better. Germany is 36 higher than the uk and france is 30 higher. And there is a correlation between productivity and real wages. In 2013, the oecd compiled how much people actually have to spend in france its this 29,759, compared with britain 26,687. A 3,000 difference. That is quite a difference. 0ur economics editor, kamal ahmed is here. Lets start with that, we have a problem in terms of our nearest and dearest problem in terms of our nearest and d ea rest eve n problem in terms of our nearest and dearest even if we leave them soon, one budget wont resolve that, this Philip Hammond going to do something for it . Youre right, some of this is down to what businesses investing rather than what governments do. I think governments can set the tone for how the economy feels and certainly many economists say that if you borrow to invest you can increase productivity so investing in digital infrastructure, in housing, in transport links, those other kind of things that boost productivity an economy. Weve heard some of those words in the last few days, like the digital economy, that is pushing some money in the direction that would help in terms of productivity. I think from some economists the feeling is that he isnt doing enough. Thats because Philip Hammond has a fiscal rule. He wa nts to Philip Hammond has a fiscal rule. He wants to balance the government s books so that they spend one amount and the tax and then that is in balance by the middle of the next decade. You should do more to borrow now because Interest Rates are low, and to push in things like digital five d and housing. Small incremental changes which is what he is criticised for, wont be enough. Yet that seems to be what we will get. Philip hammond is also concerned about the brexit process. Does he need to save up the money he has in the economy for the moment when written leaves the eu, could that be hard brexit and a shock to the economy, would he need money then and not now . So theres cautious in the treasury and there has been a strategy to get the deficit down, to hit these fiscal targets and i cant imagine they wa nt to targets and i cant imagine they want to move off that. He is a relatively staid, calm character. L cautious man it will be ordered we re cautious man it will be ordered were he to throw caution to the wind, especially as we are literally months away from brexit. Is interesting. I spoke to rupert harrison, former chief of staff to oui harrison, former chief of staff to ourformerfinance minister harrison, former chief of staff to our former finance minister george 0sborne. He said investors looking at britain, and you need investors to fund budget deficit, will be thinking, theres the brexit risk. The last thing we need is a government to suddenly signalled a change of strategy because they have the rock uncertainties which is the direction of travel. He was urging the chancellor to be cautious, and youre quite right, he is a cautious man. I dont imagine well be sitting here tomorrow saying, that really change the dial on the way the budgets are operating. Im sure there will be incremental changes but nothing is massive. He will be on his feet and about four hours you. Thank you both. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making the news. Ikea has re launched a recall of millions of chests and dressers in the us and canada following the death of an eighth child. It said items in its malm range and other chests and dressers pose a serious tip over and entrapment hazard if not secured to a wall. Meg whitman is stepping down as chief executive of computer server maker Hewlett Packard enterprise. During her six years in the post she oversaw one of the biggest corporate breakups in history. Shares of hpe fell more than 6 in after hours trading. Skypes caller messages skypes app has been removed from source with china, after the government said it did not comply with local law, media suggests that the disruption started in october. And us prosecutors have charged an iranian man with hacking into hbo, leaking game of thrones scripts and demanding a 6m ransom. Behzad mesri is accused of computer fraud, wire fraud, extortion and identity theft. Uber has confirmed that it concealed a hack that affected 57 million customers and drivers in 2016. In the wake of the news, ubers chief Security Officer joe sullivan has left the company. Companies are required to disclose significant data breaches to regulators, something uber has, by its own admission, failed to do in this case. With me is emily 0rton, a Cyber Security analyst with the Security Firm darktrace. Thank you forjoining us. Uber say there is no indication that critical details like bank details have been downloaded. Can we know that . The details are still emerging. We cant know that for certain at this stage but clearly whatever details there were, they are important enough for them to have failed to disclose it nearer the time this actually happened. Which goes to show that these data assets that the companies are holding our critical business assets now and they will be used against firms by criminals. 57 million is a huge number, but also 600,000 for their drivers, theyve talked about ways of looking after them, do those ideas make sense, they talk about having a credit monitoring Protection System for each of the drivers, will that help now . The data is potentially out there so i think thats probably little comfort to drivers who depend on uberfor their little comfort to drivers who depend on uber for their livelihood. Cyber security is very difficult problem. There is no Silver Bullet to this. This is remedial work. Trying to cover up this is remedial work. Trying to cover up the cracks at this point. Their Silver Bullet seems to have been, we will pay our way out of this, perhaps not a huge amount of money but to stop this being downloaded. How familiar picture is that now . Pretty familiar. It is a business decision whether or not you pay business decision whether or not you pay up business decision whether or not you pay up. Either way, business decision whether or not you pay up. Eitherway, damage business decision whether or not you pay up. Either way, damage to their reputation. It begs the question how Many Companies have done a similar thing and we dont know about it. The reality is that the of corporations today have some kind of safeguard on their networks. Weve had some responses on twitter saying, quadruple the sanction that would make them realise how important this is. And we have new regulations coming out now in force. There are a lot of new regulations that we do expect to be penalising companies, if they dont report against a breach like this in a timely manner. Emily, thank you very much indeed. Lets check the financial markets, investors back in buying mood this week, hong kong stocks broke the 30,000 mark for the first time in ten years as asian markets took their cue from wall street, all three main indices in new york closing at all time highs again. Tech firms the big winners, top firms like apple, amazon and facebook and googles Parent Company alphabet firming up around i . Australias index continued the trend as well. But global rally has now reached europe. The ftse 100 and now reached europe. The ftse100 and the dax in frankfurt and paris index just up. And Samira Hussain has the details about whats ahead on wall street today. The us federal reserve, Americas Central Bank will release the minutes from its october policy meeting. The policymakers kept Interest Rates unchanged during the meeting. They pointed to strong Economic Growth and strengthening labour market. Earnings continue on wednesday with one Farm Equipment maker dear and company reporting. It has benefited from Higher International demand for its equipment. Investors will be keen to hear what the Company ExpectsGoing Forward in 2018. Richard dunbar is investment director at aberdeen standard investments. Hello richard. Lets talk about this global rally. It keeps going up, the likes of tesla for example, they are finding it hard to actually produce the cars. Its a heady mix, low Interest Rates, profits in the us, and we are likely to get a tax boost as well so thats a helpful recipe. The leader in the us and other markets have followed, Companies Like tesla generating cars, no lorries, not generating profits and not generating much cash, at some point this needs to change but investors for the moment are believers. Some say that bubbles are made to be burst. Will we get a bursting of a bubble . There are many stocks particularly in the technology sectors, some will do well and some will eventually generate earnings to justify these valuations, others wont. Its probably time to be cautious, particularly when we see in the us that Interest Rates are going up and it tends to be the price of money going up, that is the thing that pricks these bubbles. Many of us will have seen the jubilation in zimbabwe after the resignation of robert mugabe. What will investors cms . A turnaround for the zimbabwean economy cms . A turnaround for the zimbabwean economy what will they cms. Cms . A turnaround for the zimbabwean economy what will they cms. They will see hope and expectation. Zimbabwe had many advantages, tourism, great mining sector, those opportunities have been squandered in the last a0 years. They may still be there but at the end of the day we still have zanu pf in power and still got the Army Supporting them, and we have a president likely to be one of mugabes henchmen so i perhaps would not hang out as much bunting as we saw last might on tv but the opportunity is there for a fabulous country. Would you hang out any bunting . This talk about the end ofan era any bunting . This talk about the end of an era that is at the start of a new era . The suggestion from you is that probably isnt. I think it is best to be sceptical, those who are hungry in zimbabwe yesterday will still be hungry today, theres work to be done because corruption is endemic yet the opportunity is there if those people wish to take it. Thank you, richard. Richard will be back later to talk through the papers with us. Stay with us. Still to come, the gig economy seems to be everywhere one company in australia is cashing in making 90 million in transactions. Well find out more in a few minutes. Youre with business live from bbc news. Holiday prices for this winter are up a on a year ago, and for next summer travellers can expect to pay even more. Thats according to britains second largest holiday company, thomas cook, which hasjust published its full year results. Lets get more from simon calder, travel editor at the independent. Good to see you, simon, how are they doing . Think they are doing pretty well, looking right across europe. They have driven a up 9 to £9 billion underlying profits up 8 to £330 million. They do say it was a tricky summer for the uk £330 million. They do say it was a tricky summerfor the uk market. Basically because there was so much competition going into spain. However thomas cook is reporting much stronger demand for turkey and four egypt. Both of which were hit bya slump four egypt. Both of which were hit by a slump in sales due to fears about terrorism. From february it becomes the first major Tour Operator to go back into tunisia, which was on the Foreign Office know the goal list for a couple of yea rs know the goal list for a couple of years untiljuly this year. Looking positive overall but those prices you mention for a typical budget break at this time of year for which you might have paid £500 last winter that will cost an extra £20 and a two and half thousand pound family holiday would be £150 more expensive than this summer. Party to do with inflation of course, any other mention from thomas cook about the potential effects of brexit . We heard from easyjet yesterday. This is the real worry for a lot of travel companies, easyjet, rya nair more likely to be affected and thomas cook, which has a strong component, and nobody thinks that holidays to portugal, spain, croatia and greece will be badly affected, but ultimately the travel industry is clamouring for an agreement on what happens to aviation after 2019, because of course it plans its operation is a good year in advance, and so they say we really need clarity by march 2018 at the very latest. 0k, simon calder, many thanks for that update on thomas cook. We have got the budget coming up, we have a live page for you to start following now. Just a quick headline, Philip Hammond must be cautious, saying never so investors, have a look online for that. Nervous investors. Youre watching business live our top story. The uks finance minister says he will use todays budget to make britain an outward looking, free trading nation ahead of brexit in 2019. Now, taking on the gig economy at its own game. The start ups which have disrupted Traditional Industries are now increasingly facing new competitors themselves. Taskrabbit was set up almost a decade ago as an online marketplace, helping you to find workers to complete odd jobs including cleaning, moving in, or handyman work. Well, its about to face new competition here in the uk from a sydney based start up called airtasker, which already has 2 million users across australia. Set up in 2012, it processes 75m worth of tasks a year. Tim fung is the founder and ceo of airtasker. Hello there. Tell us how this. And, you were being ask to do odd jobs for a friend, somebody wanted you to help out . Tell us how this all started. I was moving house, and i asked a friend with a track, come over and help me move apartments, cleaning et cetera. At the end of the weekend, he says, this is the fourth time i have been ask to do this kind ofjob, everyone says the same thing, you have got a truck, can you help us move . So there are so many people across the world who are looking to do some jobs, so many people across the world who are looking to do somejobs, to earn some extra money. Shelves and curtains in my house, definitely i wa nt to curtains in my house, definitely i want to ask you, could that cause friction . You might be asking somebody to do a job for you who ordinarily would have done it for free, and now they will say, no, you need to pay me for this. Some of these jobs which need to pay me for this. Some of thesejobs which are need to pay me for this. Some of these jobs which are done for free are probably costing you in relationship equity with family and friends, you might think it is free, but they are probably thinking, those guys asking me again they will pay one way or another give us a sense of the nuts and bolts of this, of the range of stuff you are doing. It sounds like pretty everyday stuff, which is fairly good, but a bit more to and from time to time. The market has a lot ofjobs like time to time. The market has a lot of jobs like cleaning time to time. The market has a lot ofjobs like cleaning and handyman jobs, but what airtasker is doing differently is allowing people to create any kind of work that they wa nt create any kind of work that they want as a job for another person. So whether it is getting someone to fly to paris to drop off syngas is. For real . These are all happening every day. One of the great ones i saw yesterday was somebody who wa nted saw yesterday was somebody who wanted a game of thrones themed date night for their partner, so they had someone night for their partner, so they had someone design the entire apartment. I cannot believe there is not a Company Already doing that you have already linked in with some quite well established companies, providing services for them, building furniture, for example. Providing services for them, building furniture, for examplem australia, Furniture Assembly is done through ikea, you can hire an airtasker to do that. Well so have a Company Called good guys for electrical installations. Arent you a classic example of a company that ta kes a classic example of a company that takes business away from other people . Maybe you have experienced that, it is great that people are getting bits and pieces, but other people are losing part of theirjobs because of it . The vast majority of thejobs on airtasker because of it . The vast majority of the jobs on airtasker were already traditionally done in the independent contract model, so a tradesperson, electrician or plumber, already independent contractors. That is about half of the market. The other half is entirely new jobs the market. The other half is entirely newjobs that have been created, so it is hard to hire someone as a tree rescuer, created, so it is hard to hire someone as a tree rescuer, but these arejobs being someone as a tree rescuer, but these are jobs being created someone as a tree rescuer, but these arejobs being created out of thin air. What kind of redress do you haveif air. What kind of redress do you have if the shelves fall down . Do you have come back . We have a Great Community support team, which supports all of the airtasker platform, were public Liability Insurance which covers if things go wrong. We also have insurance for our workers, so if they are injured, they can get continuity of income. Do you vet the workers . We provide police checks, background checks, trade licences, so if you are looking for someone who will come into your house, you probably want to have someone who has had a background check, whereas if you are a Small Business and you want someone a Small Business and you want someone to do a letterbox drop, you probably do not want somebody who was necessarily. Dont you drive down wages by opening this up to anybody to do a job that a tradesman would do . The great thing is that our Business Model is ending a commission on the mat of endings that a worker makes, so we are for increased wages for workers. So we are being an agent, we are the representative, and what we dont do is show transparency with what other people are doing. You have suggested you are at 0. 1 of your potential, which suggests a vast opportunity. There will be people tried to copy this very quickly. Definitely, and we are surprised that the market for these platforms is not as large as you would think in this day and age, but certainly we think it is a massive market, and were going to be doing everything we can. Thank you very much indeed forjoining us. In a moment, well take a look through the business pages, but first heres a quick reminder of how to get in touch with us. The business live page is where you can stay ahead of all the days breaking business news. Well keep you up to date with all the latest details with insight and analysis from the bbcs team of editors right around the world. And we want to hear from you, too. Get involved on the bbc business live web page, bbc. Com business, on twitter, bbcbusiness, and you can find us on facebook at bbc business news. Business live on tv and online whenever you need to know. Richard is back to look through the papers with us, lets first of all start with this story about how the Australian Government is investing in bitcoin, or at least in a firm thatis in bitcoin, or at least in a firm that is listed on the crypto currency exchange. It is very interesting that the whole blockchain thing is becoming much more mainstream, and firms like our own are looking at how we can use blockchain plumbing for the crypto currency in our businesses. I think governments will be wondering how they can use this technology. Governments will be wondering how they can use this technologym this a step away from talking about bitcoin, which still has a row gravitation, you can see governments saying that they might be uncomfortable. Blockchain is the plumbing that supports bitcoin and other artificial currencies, and i think we will see a lot of brainpower and thought in that direction, rather than speculating on the currencies themselves. This story in the wall streetjournal, a fa ke story in the wall streetjournal, a fake and operation used to steal from publishers, what has been happening here, essentially, publishers have been giving money to them that are not what they say they are. It is a traditional fraud, albeit online, advertisers have been fooled by fake websites, advertising on the sites that dont really exist, they are not showing these adverts to customers like you and i, so adverts to customers like you and i, so they lose, the publishers lose, and the public loos. But it is a traditional ford, but in this area, and we are seeing more and more of that. Traditional fraud. And we are seeing more and more of that. Traditional fraud. The environment department, 1a00 disposable cups a day, we have asked for your views, i am using a reusable mug that i bought in 1999. Somebody else says, but a 15p task on them. Because the coffee is hard, i used to have them, i am twice as bad used a flask, it will stay hard all day long a tax and a nudge, thatis all day long a tax and a nudge, that is what we have seen on plastic bags. Thank you ray much, richard, good to see you. Thanks for watching, bye for now. Hello, its wednesday november 22nd, its 9 oclock, im victoria derbyshire, welcome to the programme. Hes known as the butcher of bosnia the commander accused of presiding over the killing of thousands of men and boys in bosnia in the 1990s will learn his fate in the next hour, after being on trial for genocide for five years. Translation i didnt think they would kill so many people, but in the end they even killed children 1a,15,16 years old and men over 70. I couldnt believe that they would kill people like that. Live coverage from the hague throughout the programme, we are told the verdict is due around 9 a5am. Also the chancellor Philip Hammond will set out the governments Spending Plans today in his budget. Hes under pressure even from some mps in his own party to put