Spyware that targeted indian journalists. And china launches ultra fast fifth generation or 56 mobile phone services but will it make china a Technology Superpower . And tackling the worlds Fastest Growing waste problem electronic waste. Well get the inside track on what happens to all our old discarded mobile phones, laptops, tvs and other appliances. And its well known that a good nights sleep is good for your health but scientists now say sleep could also be the key to avoiding alzheimers. Do you regularly get eight hours sleep or do you get by on less . Let us know just use bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. A warm welcome to our new business show, and we start with the tv streaming war, which heats up from today as apple launches its tv plus service in 100 countries. Apple hopes to take on Market Leader netflix and rivals hulu and amazon with its aggressive pricing of 4. 99 a month. Netflix charges 9 for its basic service. Apple already has a potential captive audience of 900 million iphone users, and anyone who buys a new apple device will get one year of apple tv plus free. But what will there be to watch . The morning show a tv news drama tackling the me too era and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reece Witherspoon is among eight new series commissioned for the apple launch. Thats a modest line up compared with disneys vast library of classic films. Disney launches on november 12th, with hbo max coming in may next year. With us now is paolo pescatore, analyst and founder of consultancy pp foresight. How pp foresight. Do they best sell beyond saying it how do they best sell beyond saying it is 4. 99 a month . Apple has a huge base. We had the numbers already have 900 million iphone users. In the broader ecosystem there arei. 4 users. In the broader ecosystem there are 1. 4 billion ios devices so they certainly have eyeballs so it is attractive for content and media owners to distribute their content through apple tv plus. There is a bigger game here in trying to protect apples core base. Jennifer aniston is a big name. How much material are they going to be tight and is that the key to their success . And is that the key to their success . Yes, quantity is very important. You need to have big shows and big hollywood names and blockbusters. Netflix has thousands of shows. What drives engagement and revenue is going to be the quality of those shows and that is what apple needs to learn quickly. There is so much quantity. You only have so is so much quantity. You only have so much time on the day and there is a proliferation of content. Why should people have to pay for a proliferation of services as well . You are not going to pay for four or five or six of these. That is the challenge. People want to watch more content on the go, on their mobile devices, but with that chef nobody really wa nts devices, but with that chef nobody really wants to sign up to four or five different services. You have to pay different billing cycles and you have to go into the apps. You cannot find what you want and you come out. Apple is uniquely placed to position itself as an aggregator. Netflix and amazon prime are available on apple tv but they are trying to differentiate by having the next big blockbuster on apple tv . They are going to be around for a while. And they will be making some big moves that you have to worry about the future of television as it exists today. We will leave it there lets take a look at some of the other stories making the news. Chinas three state telecoms firms are launching ultra fast fifth generation or 56 mobile phone services from today. Its seen as a key step towards chinas ambition to become a Technology Superpower. It comes at a time when beijing and washington are embroiled in a power struggle over trade and technology. Shares of Virgin Galactic have been crashing back to earth after their stock market debut earlier this week. Billionaire Richard Bransons Space Tourism company lost 13 of its value on thursday. Its dived 29 since its peak on monday. Elon musk has put his solarglass roof system to a halloween test of durability, dropping a carved pumpkin on the tiles from the top of a two storey building. The tesla founder tweeted this video of the stunt in an effort to ease fears about the products ability to withstand bad weather. The tiles are a key component of teslas solar roof system launched last week. The Indian Government is demanding more details from whatsapp of the Security Breach that could have seen dozens of indian journalists, activists and lawyers hacked through the messaging service. Whatsapp is suing an Israeli Company in a San Francisco court, accusing it of helping governments to break into phones around the world. Arunoday mukharji is in delhi. Complex story. Absolutely and the worry complex story. Absolutely and the woiiy as complex story. Absolutely and the worry as it is to snowballing into a political controversy because the principal Political Party is accusing the government of being in some way part of this controversy, accusing them of having engineered what they are calling a snooping exercise, and the question they are racing inspired the people who have been targeted in this particular case all individuals who have in the past question the government . Senior human rights lawyers and lawyers, why have they been targeted . The government of india has sought an explanation from whatsapp by the 4th of november and issued a warning demanding what happened privet standards to ensure this kind of breach not repeated. It has been a pretty mixed picture in asia. Chinese factories look like they are recovering from the worst of those trade tariffs. Not such greatness coming out of japan. Factory owners and activity following to a three year low. They have also had to deal with the deadly typhoon and changes in sales tax. That is affecting japanese factories. The european markets, this is how things have opened. All the european indices trading in positive territory. Now to the us, where the latest jobs figures are expected to show growth ofjust 90,000 workers last month, due to the impact of a strike at general motors. Samira hussain has more from new york. On average the us economy has been able to add about 160,000 jobs every month this year. That trend may not continue. Some Analysts Expect that the october employment report will showjob growth ofjust 90,000 for the month, so why the big drop . Its the impact of the strike at general motors. Although workers at gm have voted in favour of a new contract, 46,000 workers were not working for six weeks. That means they were counted as off payroll, but when you add the knock on effect the gm strike had on other parts of the supply chain, like Trucking Companies and auto parts manufacturers, if you add all of that up youre looking at a possible drop of about 150,000 to 200,000 jobs for the month. Time now for our daily look at some of the newspaper and website stories which have caught our eye. Joining us is natalie sauber, senior strategic researcher, arcadis. This is about toronto becoming a smart city. It has been a Long Time Coming and we appear to have some kind of deal. Very much so, although we are not there yet. In 2017 we wanted to have this master plan of Internet City with Driverless Cars and underground robots and Sustainable Housing but all of those fostered by a huge amount of data on top of that and i believe that was one of the main reasons why toronto and its citizens were putting a bit ofa and its citizens were putting a bit of a stop on it and seeing lights that back and really evaluate what we are trying to achieve and what cost. How much skill by cavett fay had to accept . How much less are they going to see as a futuristic city compared to what we thought we might get . They initially wanted 12 hectares of land and then they tried to get much more than that. In addition to wanting to build up a new headquarters for its Parent Company google on top of that. They also wanted to house some of the data by an independent trust trying to harness all of that data and i believe that was one of the key reasons why not only the citizens but also toronto city itself said we cannot move that fast, we have to evaluate what we are trying to achieve. Data and privacy concerns at the heart of another story we have been following which is the roll out of 5g, fifth Generation Technology when it comes to mobiles, at the heart of this that between the us and china but now hearing china is rolling out the largest commercial operating 5g network anywhere in the world today. Yes, andl anywhere in the world today. Yes, and i believe 10 Million People already signed up for that, so that is significant. There is lots to be done but it is good news for china oii done but it is good news for china on the Technology Side and the infrastructure side but also hopefully having a bit of a roller knock on effect on other countries. They are not going to hang around. They are not going to hang around. The huawei controversy hangs on. You might think that would put a stop on progress but not at that event. Not at all. 60 other countries already signed on top of that so it does not matter what is going on in the us. I believe they have banned huawei and europe is considering it. We need to see do we want that much control embedded with one company . Consumer pressure. We have seen major changes across the world when it comes to changes in Consumption Habits but one wonders whether consumers around the world will look to china and say they have got much faster streaming services. In the same household i can stream a tv programme that i wa nt can stream a tv programme that i want while someone is playing a video game, all in the same network, all through 5g, why cant i have that . We are still struggling to get 36 at the moment and some of the cities. I believe there are certain steps to be taken on some of the other countries are on the right pathway. It may take time and we can learn from some of the lessons. Thank you. You know once it is their people are going to be gagging for it. People will certainly wanted and one wonders how much people are going to care about it when we know that everyone has it and everyone is using it for their own benefit. Go on. Still to come tackling the worlds Fastest Growing waste problem electronic waste. Well get the inside track on what happens to all our old discarded mobile phones, laptops, tvs, and other appliances. Youre with worklife from bbc news. Mps are calling on banks to do more to protect their customers. And refund customers hit by economic crime. They say customers have lost more than £600 million in the first half of this year through their accounts and banks arent using enough measures to keep the money safe. Rushanara ali is from the house of Commons Treasury Committee and the lead memberfor this report. This is when unsuspectingly they are making payments until two accounts that are not meant to be receiving the payments. Since 2016 this has been on the rise and we are concerned that banks have not done enough to address the problems and asa enough to address the problems and as a result it is the second most common form of crime people experience. Can you lean on the goodwill of banks to do this or are you going to have to find some kind of sanctions . The banks have introduced a voluntary mechanism which they can sign up to to reimburse those that have been defrauded through no fault of their own. We believe this should be compulsory because there are still many consumers affected who are not able to receive reimbursements. We believe that should be done retrospectively going back to 2016 because many consumers have not been reimbursed for when they have been out of pocket for significant amounts of money and certain demographics are more susceptible to economic crime, vulnerable people, elderly people, so we believe banks need to do more. Some of them have made significant progress but that needs to be backed up by the regulators and we have set a deadline for march next year for banks to make certain changes to improve. They will have to get a move on. Thank you. Youre watching worklife. A reminder of our top story apple tv launches in 100 countries as it hopes to bring the fight to netflix in the battle for tv streaming. Now, you may have ditched your plastic straws, even started using reusable cups all to save the planet. But what about your discarded old mobile phones, laptops, tvs and other appliances . The United Nations says around 50 Million Tonnes of so called e waste are created each year. But only 20 ever gets recycled. The rest often ends up in landfill causing pollution of soil and water systems. Many appliances have harmful chemicals such lead and arsenic. 0ne us firm, ecoamt, has a solution to the problem. Its set up kiosks in Shopping Centres where you can trade in your old phone for payment. With us now is nick buckland, general managerfor ecoatm. You have just come you havejust come back you have just come back from you havejust come back from germany which is where you are starting to roll the out across europe. What differences are you seeing in terms of peoples attitudes towards recycling . Does it change depending where you are . In germany we see lines, people lining up to trade on their phones. 0ne store manager said to me their phones. 0ne store manager said tomei their phones. 0ne store manager said to me i need another kiosk for the holiday period. Too many people are trying to trade their phones and. It is because it is part of their culture. They are much better at it. I will be honest, before i came in this morning, i picked this up. We have dozen surveys. What is it worth . What will i get . Have dozen surveys. What is it worth . What willl get . These have dozen surveys. What is it worth . What will i get . These are very much feature phones. These are old phones. We will take these free of charge but we would recycle them responsibly. Everything would be done to iso standards. So that is hanging again on this issue of aesthetic sense that its the right thing to do. I am not going to get money but they are not doing anything at home. We guarantee it will not go into landfill and we will not go into landfill and we will re cycle will not go into landfill and we will recycle these responsibly. Will not go into landfill and we will recycle these responsiblylj will not go into landfill and we will recycle these responsibly. I am going to grab one of these feature phones as they are called. They are very old. What is to stop me stealing this from david than taking it into one of your kiosks and saying i would like money for this . Typically for a feature phone like this we wouldnt be any type of money. It is only when you have what we call value phones that is when we would pay for it. We check it against the database and quarantine thanks. We check it before we do anything. The database of phones that have already been handed in, already reported stolen, but what if i have just already reported stolen, but what if i havejust done already reported stolen, but what if i have just done this and i go straight down to your kiosk and do that . Presumably this is a big issue and something you have admitted is already happening in the us which is where your marketers most developed. We tried to do the right thing for the consumer. We are focused on doing the right thing for the consumer. Doing the right thing for the consumer. We always take it at the database at the kiosk. If it is not done it goes to the processing ce ntre done it goes to the Processing Centre in europe and before we do anything with the phone with check it again and if it is reported as stolen we contact Law Enforcement can we make sure it goes back. So there is a process. We try to do the right thing by the consumer every time. Where does the stuff go . Where are you selling it to . About 40 are completely recycled, broken down for parts, or the ones that we resell out parts, or the ones that we resell our result directly to consumers within europe are they going to wholesale depending on the type of phone. Again the full supply chain is checked. Wholesale where . We hear stories of other countries spying on things because they know that there isa things because they know that there is a market for them and these things sometimes do and end up in landfill but the other side of the world. We have been doing this for over ten years. We have learned a lot of lessons over the last ten years. We have over 4000 kiosks and collect over 100,000 for the eiger globally. We know the companies to deal with the not deal with. You hope it is a growing business. You already have a customer here. |j hope it is a growing business. You already have a customer here. I tell you what, that is only. In a moment well look at some of your tweets, but first the japanese consider them to be the countrys greatest invention of the 20th century greater even than the walkman or the tamagotchi. They were created in response to Food Shortages in post warjapan and have since become a feature of peoples diets worldwide. Aaron heslehurst has their story. Hey, its the instant noodle, yeah . The quickest and simplest meal ever invented. The genius behind these, the japanese man, there he is, momofuku ando. In post warjapan food was rationed and fresh noodles very hard to come by, so he cooked up noodles using of course flour and then he added some salt and of course he needed some water. Then he flash fried them and once they were dried out they would keep for months. In 1958 he sold his first packets of chicken ramen for 35 yen apiece. In todays money thats five bucks. And despite the steep price sales soared. Then in 1971 he came up with another brain wave, the cup noodle. The cup is both the cooker and the eating bowl. Genius. After that instant noodles went global. In the west they became a favourite for hard up students but in the east they inspired loads of new dishes. In india they came up with maggi masala and in south korea army based stew. Nowadays 103 billion servings of instant noodles are sold every year. Now that is cracking. There we are. At the top of the show, we asked you about how important sleep is to you. Lets take a look at how some viewers have responded. Kevin says i never get more than six hours a night i wish for more when you dont have enough you start thinking you are a superhero until you crash. John has tweeted its pivotal to my health. Andj lever says i love sleep but go through ridiculous phases ofjust 3 4 hours a night. This is a big issue if you are a shift worker. They say that sleep hygiene isjust as important in adults as in children. In terms of setting a routine and trying to stick to it. And the suggestion it is may be linked to alzheimers explains why. I was looking for some tips on how to manage these things. Better than dodgy coffee which is the only one we have. Do you get any material guilt about recycling . Not so much about things like e waste but definitely about food waste to i would say compost if you can. |j solved my conscience getting rid of those phones. Thats it from worklife today. We have had some sunny days and chilly nights. It is all change for the next few days and is unsettled with heavy rain and strong winds. This morning has been a very wet start for many of us with a number of weather systems moving across the uk throughout the course of today. Low pressure uk throughout the course of today. Low pressure driving conditions but within that is because the air is from the south west we have milder conditions. Very misty conditions this morning for many of us. Rain moving north and east but enter the north east of scotland some drier interludes and may be a bit of brightness towards central and south eastern areas this afternoon before further heavy rain spreads into the west. Maximum temperatures will be higher because of the milder air moving in. Tonight further heavy rain spreads from the south west to the north east. Another batch of a medicine into the early hours of saturday morning. The mild air is in place. During saturday morning we have this area of low pressure, moving and, and the isobars are quite squeezed across southern areas which means we are going to see some strong winds across southern parts. 60 to 70 mph event coastal areas and 5560 60 to 70 mph event coastal areas and 55 60 mph inland. There could be some disruption. Some of that rain moving northwards and they will be heavy rain in the north of scotland and strong winds but elsewhere the wind is not a strong and into the afternoon even across southern parts ofan afternoon even across southern parts of an temperatures 10 13dc. If you are going to fireworks on saturday night the winds will have eased but quite gusty conditions. It becomes wea ker quite gusty conditions. It becomes weaker so the ones are on sunday. The rain is not as heavy but there there will be some heavy showers and lengthy spells of rain particularly the far north of england into wales and the south west and of scotland. There will be drier and brighter spells compared to saturday and temperatures the low teens. Youre watching bbc news at nine, with me, annita mcveigh. The headlines nigel farage calls for an election pact between his brexit party and the conservatives but a tory minister rules out any alliance. Were not interested in doing any pacts with the brexit party, or, indeed, with anybody else. Were in this to win it and we know that only a vote for the conservative party will deliver brexit. The government defends borisjohnsons brexit deal with the eu, after criticism from president trump. The human rights of young people with autism and learning difficulties are being breached in Mental Health hospitals in england, according to mps. The Online Market in domestic slaves enabled by google, apple and instagram. Coming up at 9 15 how hundreds of thousands of dangerous tumble dryers could still be posing
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