We begin in the uk where the Prime Minister is launching what he calls a green industrial revolution. 12 billion pounds or 16 billion dollars will be invested overall with a new environmental focus. Its promised the new policies will create 250 thousand new green jobs with investments in Nuclear Hydrogen electric cars and offshore wind power. The sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 will be banned thats less than ten years away, and is ten years earlier than the governments previous target. New hybrid cars those with electric motors as well as engines will get a stay of execution, at least for a few years. But will the uk be ready for these changes and how do they compare with the eus plans . David bailey is professor of business economics at the Birmingham Business school. Welcome and good morning. So, when it comes to the idea about ca is when it comes to the idea about cars and petrol, diesel cars no longer being sold from 2030 is this a goal that can be reached . I think it is doable from an environmental point of view and i think we do need to do it but i think we do need to do it but i think it is extremely challenging. At the moment about one in ten new car sales are plug in vehicles, plug in battery and hybrid cars. It means going to 100 essentially by2030 means going to 100 essentially by 2030 said thats a tough ask, really. It means a lot more support is needed for consumers to encourage them to switch over. Subsidies in the short term and not messing around with tax rates. A big investment is required in infrastructure and there has to be more support for the industry to make the transition for producers in the supply chain including in making the batteries so theres an awful lot to do to get to 2030. It is a date but it is so for a date without a plan. A date without a plan but targeted at an industry that is trying to get their heads around brexit and thatis their heads around brexit and that is so unclear . The industry is facing massive challenges. Markets around the world have peaked, big shift away from diesel and lots of uncertainty coming from brexit. Imean, if uncertainty coming from brexit. I mean, if we want to make electric cars in the uk we need a car industry that survives andi a car industry that survives and i have a realfear that in the event of a no trade today are brexit we may well see the mass car industry disappear because it cannot cope with a 10 tariffs on its exports of what happens with brexit is going to be absolutely critical as to whether we can make electric cars in the uk in the future. You can understand, you know, the Prime Ministers move to build back green following coronavirus and this pandemic that has really hit the uk economy hard. But is he being overambitious here with this particular target . Will it be an embarrassing u turn for think, in ten years time . Realistically . The mac it is doable but extremely challenging. The government has come out series of days. Theyre talking about 2040 than 2035 and all of a sudden it is 2030. If we are going to get a 2030. If we are going to get a 2030 we need to learn from countries like norway where at the moment 50 of new car sales are electric. There are tax brea ks are electric. There are tax breaks therefore electric cars and people can drive on a bus lane park for free. And people can drive on a bus lane park forfree. Charge and people can drive on a bus lane park for free. Charge for free and finish the journey using public transport. They really thought about how to make electric cars usable in peoples everyday lives and weve got to have a similar sort of holistic approach if we are going to hit 2030. So far the government has not put out the government has not put out the detail on the plan of how we get to 2030. All the detail on the plan of how we get to 2030. Right. We will find out more. Thank you very much indeed. From the road to the skies and after nearly two years of wrangling with Global Regulators and the biggest safety review the company has ever seen, boeing is set to win the approval of us regulators today allowing it to resume flights of its grounded 737 max. This model was taken out of service in march 2019 following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people. Now the federal Aviation Authority is set to approve its return to the skies after a full review of the Safety Management systems, new Software Upgrades and additional training for pilots. Joining me now isjohn strickland, director, jls consultancy. Good to see you. Are you convinced that this is safe . Are you convinced that this is safe . Well, i mean, it has been such a disaster for the company to have had these two fatal accidents aside from the loss of life that involved there is no other way but to deliver a safe aircraft, she said. It has beenin safe aircraft, she said. It has been in the graph in early two yea rs been in the graph in early two years and it should be a major source of profit for bearing with so many aircraft. Theyve gone through every hoop and every process to get it to save state. I was involved in a briefing with the company the other day which explained the process of not only do us regulators but regulators worldwide and expecting the step today from the faa. We have to see other regulators come on board but confidence and safety is what its all about. What damage has this done . Directly there is a massive Financial Impact both from compensation, of course, to relations of the families and fans were on those two flights and compensation claims from airlines for late deliveries that has been lost revenue and massive disruption to factories and supply chains. And of cause extra work involved in getting the aircraft back to service. It will take in the region of two yea rs will take in the region of two years to get all the aircraft already manufactured and delivered. 0nce already manufactured and delivered. Once it is delivered back into service the company has to restore its reputation. And the deserved reputation for safety that i had prior to these accidents. Is a 2000 orders etc, did any Airlines Withdraw their orders or change their minds . We have cancellations from companies and airlines but the order book is so substantial. About 3000. The timescale in which they will be delivered i would expect to see them recovered. It has been complicated by the fa ct it has been complicated by the fact that we are in a situation in the industry trying to handle the coronavirus pandemic which could lead to further cancellations but before the pandemic they had ordered books extended to several years in the future so i think this will become a successful aircraft in due course. I will ask my viewers if they are going to get on board. We ran out of time. John, thank you very much indeed. Please tell me twitter if you would climb on the plane going forward. Lets get some of the days other news. The uk government was not transparent about suppliers and services when it scrambled to award 24 billion worth of covid i9 contracts, the public spending watchdog has said. The National Audit office found firms recommended by mps, peers and ministers offices were given priority. It said nor enough was done to address potential conflicts of interest. Amazon has launched an Online Pharmacy for delivering Prescription Medications in the us, challenging drug retailers like walgreens walmart. The new service lets customers compare the price of the drugs they buy on the companys website and app. Company shares rose nearly 2 on the announcement, while shares of Drug Store Chains and wholesalers fell. Bitcoin has hit its highest level in nearly three years. Its trading atjust over 17,000 dollars, jumping 4 in the last 24 hours alone. Analysts say the cryptocurrency is being seen more as a safe haven asset like gold, which investors often flock to in times of economic turbulence. With just 36 shopping days left until christmas and much of europe still struggling with coronavirus restrictions, its no surprise that Online Retail is booming. Demand for deliveries has reached levels the Logistics Companies didnt expect to see for several years. Volumes equivalent to cyber monday or christmas are now routine. But with an even bigger surge in shipments expected in the actual run up to xmas, how are they gearing 7 joining me now is brie carere, executive Vice President , fedex. Welcome to the programme. So how are you managing . Well, good morning. Ithink how are you managing . Well, good morning. I think we are managing quite well, actually. It will be a Holiday Season like no other and as a result we have labelled it the ship at thorn but 500,000 team members are ready to role this Holiday Season around the world. And in terms of your staff because you have to manage human beings who are, you know, working in the midst of a Global Pandemic so keeping them safe as priority. Hows that working . Absolutely. We have, as i mentioned, 500 tea m we have, as i mentioned, 500 team Members Around the world made 500,000. We have implemented many changes to our operations from simple changes to moving to a pure Digital Signature at point of delivery. A lot more complex changes within our operations. 0bviously all about team members have ppe and hand sanitising stations and temperature monitoring stations but really we have a great culture, safety is our First Priority and always has been on our team members are really looking out the safety of their collea g u es looking out the safety of their colleagues and their customers so we felt quite confident in our ability to keep everyone at fedex. When this first kicked off in march and april this year fedex and other Companies Like yours were instrumental in getting ppe around the world and Vital Equipment to, you know, people working in the Health Service etc. Are you still having to do that on the same scale or has that, you know, and deal with christmas . Absolutely. We are playing a Critical Role in keeping kind of the global trade moving and keeping ppe moving. To date we have had over 150 chartered flights to ppe and the thousand ocean containers. We have delivered about 1. 8 billion masks around the world and that continues to be a very Important Role that we are playing and of course on top of that we are ready to roll for this Holiday Season and you know an unprecedented surge from e commerce perspective. How you impacted by various companies and their restrictions and lockdown measures . I have to say that our Leadership Team around the world is doing an incredible job. It is obviously a very dynamic situation and we are doing just what we need to do. We have to flex the network. We have lots of capabilities to be able to do that, to be able to move our shipments to different gateways or airports or sorting facilities to respond to various needs around the world but im really quite proud of our team but im really quite proud of ourteam and their but im really quite proud of our team and their flexibility so far. Thank you forjoining us so far. Thank you forjoining us and good luck. Thank you. Nobody wants to be disappointed at christmas, do they . They will not be, i promise. They will not be, i promise. Ryan edwards used to be a drummer in the rock band the lines. Now an entrepreneur, hes created a system called audoo, which logs the songs played in public venues like shops and pubs, making sure that the royalties get to the artists who made the music. The system took tens of thousands of pounds to develop and ryan was often troubled by financial backers hesitating before handing over much needed funds. If you have an understanding to give you a decision on whether they are going to make an investment theres nothing wrong with asking for yes or no. I was actually in a Popular Department store in Oxford Street with my wife. And we thought, we must be paid for this. Ive got no idea how much. Some converted very quickly and made the decision on the spot but there are those who, face to face, they say fantastic and we love it if you are doing and we want to invest in this and then they will almost disappear the two or three months. They make promises. And there were clear with them exactly how the money is going to be used, why were needed at that period of time and needed at that period of time a nd exa ctly needed at that period of time and exactly the date that we needed to happen by. It can hold up a business by them dragging that out in the clear thing for me to show the Business Plan or share them exactly, you know, how that money is going to be used and why it is a critical time. Always give thatjustification to say, yes, we really do need this now. After reaching its highest level in nearly 30 years, japans stock market is down today because of concerns over a surge in new covid 19 infections. Lets go to our Asia Business hub in singapore where mariko can tell us more. Business hub in singapore so business hub in singapore whats happening inje well, so whats happening injapan . Well, if you look at the number of new cases of covid 19 in the capital tokyo it has been creeping up on the data that was just released by the tokyo government shows 494 new cases. That is a record. Even higher than the peak that they had in the summer when the state of emergency was even declared in the numbers have been about 300400 in the numbers have been about 300 400 in recent weeks, and thatis 300 400 in recent weeks, and that is why we believe that the tokyo government will likely raise the alert level to the highest as early as tomorrow. According to the citys website about 1300 patients are currently hospitalised with covid 19 so to still far from the critical numbers of infections and deaths are seen in many western countries but if the level was to go up to the highest level businesses, for example, may be asked to shorten their hours again which would inevitably affect the economy which just came out of a session, as we discussed earlier this week. And of course earlier this morning we also had trade figures from japan which wasnt exactly what investors had been looking for. Exports falling for the 23rd month in a row. So that is why we are seeing a full on the stock market. It a tricky balancing act for the government. Critics say be surge in these new infections is because of the governments campaign to boost Domestic Tourism but the government would argue that the businesses and travel sector really desperately needed more people to visit especially in rural japan. This comes just after the boss of the international 0lympic the boss of the International Olympic committee was in tokyo saying that he is confident tokyo 0lympics would go ahead and have spectators but of course, for that to happen, the covid 19 situation has to be under control and for people to feel safe. Thank you. Thank you. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come how 16 Mountain Bike enthusiasts have made over a thousand deliveries throughout towns and villages during the lockdown. This is bbc world news, the latest headlines. President trump has sacked his top cybersecurity official, chris krebs, for issuing statements in defence of the integrity of the recent elections. And the president is to halve troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq, in a move that has been criticised by both republicans and democrats. When shops were forced to close in the lockdown, beate kubitz set up a company to help local shopkeepers fight back delivering everything from vintage clothes to cheese on cargo bikes. Her team of 16 Mountain Bike enthusiasts have made over a thousand deliveries throughout the towns and villages of the Calder Valley in Northern England and demand continues to soar. We have delivered absolutely everything from clothes dirty cheese and vegetables. Cbd oil, anything people need. It was a lockdown project because i realised at the beginning of lockdown that whips a lot more people needing things delivered and we live in an area where vans things delivered and we live in an area where vans dont always stick down our roads and we thought, what can we do instead of having these big sprinter va ns of having these big sprinter vans going up and down lanes that really cant accommodate them . I hired the bike and we had a keen Mountain Bikers in the valley all really keen to get out, help out and buy the cargo bike. People really respond well to the cargo bags because they are quiet and didnt churn out planes, they dont smell of diesel or petrol so we found that they been very well received. 0ne so we found that they been very well received. One of the interesting things about lockdown of seeing how local people in our valley really wa nted people in our valley really wanted to support their independent retailers independent retailers independent retailers independent retailer stepped up to provide us with feet when there were shortages elsewhere. I think there was a veil, you know, bond that was created so eve ryo ne know, bond that was created so everyone just from the top down to the town centre where people live together in sort of terraced houses. So for the you cant go shopping or you cant you still can be part of the local economy and support independent retailers through whatever happens next. Independent retailers through whatever happens next. Oil prices edged lower on tuesday after an Industry Group reported a bigger build than expected in us crude stockpiles, adding to worries that new coronavirus lockdowns this comes after the 0pec group of Oil Producing countries decided to take a wait and see attitude to any production cuts at its latest meeting. Joining me now is chris beauchamp, chief market analyst at ig. Good morning. Nice to see. Talk us good morning. Nice to see. Talk us through what 0pec decided, in the end. Good morning. They decided to put off any decision on production cuts until later in the year or early in 2021. And thatis the year or early in 2021. And that is expected to be the extent these production cuts. It has been such feature is the last six months. You record the torrid Year Oil Prices have had. There are 20 over the month of november so find expectations that demand might be slightly better and a lot of thatis be slightly better and a lot of that is down to the vaccine use we have had over the past couple of weeks in the expectation that perhaps the Global Economy was see an earlier than expected reopening. This is not to delay any move in extending production cuts were indeed allowing a small increase in productions. In a months time we might have a bit more clarity on when these vaccines may be introduced or when we might be back to something resembling economy. And vaccines is a game changerfor, you know, many, Many Industries but for the oil industry in particular it would be huge, wouldnt it, because that would mean lockdown restrictions eased . People start to travel again. The Airline Industry being key as well. Much of it being key as well. Much of it being grounded for months on end. The implications are huge, really. Anything that moves back to a normal economy is idealfor the industry back to a normal economy is ideal for the industry and the big question hanging over it is how long this massive demand can last and were not at the point with these vaccines are being distributed yet but we can now see perhaps a path out of the current crisis. And we can work out where we will be injanuary orjune and how oil demand will look then. 0pec will want to manage that increasing demand and maintain the unity they have had among their members in order to avoid that big fallout they had earlier this year and everyone raced to try to produce as much as possible to try to grab as much market share so the keys we go back to more normal world is making sure that they dont immediately turn the taps back on again and ruin any big spike in the oil price that comes from an increase demand. Thank you, chris. Good to talk to you. These markets have been at 30 year highs really since the first news came through about the vaccine. You can see a mixed picture merging and you can see the price of oil per down just lightly, can see the price of oil per downjust lightly, really, can see the price of oil per down just lightly, really, a quarter of a percent. Lets look at the next board seeking to get things went the united states. Markets down slightly but they were at fresh record highs the day before so may be surprised to see a little bit of profit taking going on as markets died just the continuous news flow about the coronavirus pandemic and also because about the us election as well. Still having an impact toa as well. Still having an impact to a degree. Thank you so much for your company. You are now up for your company. You are now up to date and if you are with us on up to date and if you are with us on bbc one, have a lovely day and you canjoin us on bbc one, have a lovely day and you can join the brea kfast day and you can join the breakfast in five minutes. If you are watching us around the world on bbc world news i will be back very, very soon. Have a good stay. Hello. The very mild air thats been with us for the past few days is going to get swept away, and were set to see a real change in weather type through the course of wednesday. Its going to be windy with some rain moving eastwards, and behind that, some colder air moving in, too. Its all down to this area of low pressure with its trailing cold front here, which is moving its way eastwards. Lots of isobars on the map, indicating strength of the wind as well. Still very mild out there. In fact, first thing wednesday, the temperatures well in double figures, teens for most of us. More typical, really, these temperatures of daytime highs. Now through the day, weve got some initial heavy rain across western parts of britain and northern ireland, western scotland, too. The rain will edge its way slowly eastwards. Really persistent for the Northern Isles and also for western parts of scotland as well. But it becomes a little bit more patchy as it heads across Eastern England during the course of the afternoon. So, cloudy ahead of that, with a return to some showers behind it and a drop in those temperatures. We are back into single figures in the west late on wednesday. Now, wednesday evening, thats when the winds are really going to be picking up, particularly for parts of scotland and northern ireland, western fringes of england and wales, too. Further showers moving south and across scotland, those showers will be wintry, even down to low levels, first thing for thursday morning. So certainly colder air moving in. You can see those northerly wind arrows and blue colours that are going to be spilling further south, a colder air mass across the uk as we head on into thursday. A bump of High Pressure is going to be squeezing away most of the rain, but weve still got some pretty windy conditions, especially in the east. So, gales possible for eastern scotland, down the east coast of england as well. Some sunshine for most places through the day on thursday. One or two showers dotted around here and there, and they will be wintry across parts of scotland, particularly over the higher ground. Its certainly much colder than recent days. Largely in single figures for most of us. We may welljust get 10 11 degrees across parts of wales and the south west of england. But it doesnt stay cold for very long because by the time we get to friday, we see more cloud and outbreaks of rain working into the west. The breeze coming in from the south westerly direction once again. So, many of us back into double figures by the time we get to friday, and its looking fairly unsettled through friday. Into the weekend, its a little bit up and down, quite breezy through the day on saturday. Cooler but brighter for most of us. Some sunny spells by sunday. Bye bye. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today. New petrol and diesel cars to be banned from sale after 2030 as part of the governments 10 point plan to tackle climate change. Ministers say a quarter of a million green industrial jobs could be created. It demands a lot of change very quickly. Can businesses meet the challenge . Ill take a look. Criticism for the way ministers handed out billions of pounds worth of contracts to buy ppe to tackle coronavirus. The watchdog says priority was given to firms recommended by mps and political advisers. Re united with loved ones. As trials of a new scheme to allow visits in care homes get under way,