environmental challenges. and for copp 27 agreement, help developing nations be enough to avert climate catastrophe. that is global questions sri lanka, surviving climate change. as it marks 75 years of independence from britain. i have a panel from here and sri lanka were going to be answering questions from my audience here. i ve got a panel from here in sri lanka who are going to be asking questions from my audience here. let me tell you who s in the hot seat for this edition of global questions. ruwan wijewardene is deputy leader of the united national party, and is the president s right hand adviser on climate change. he recently launched a climate prosperity plan to tackle the crippling effects of the climate crisis. professor mohan munasinghe is an eminent sri lankan climate scientist. he was vice chair of the un international panel on climate change when, as an institution, it was awarded the 2007 nobel peace prize with al gore for efforts to combat climate change. an
has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more on today s statement. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one central question at the heart of this scrutiny and that is whether he used an offshore entity to hold shares in the polling company yougov which he set up before he came to politics back in the year 2000, and also whether subsequently he has paid a settlement to hmrc for tax that he owed as a result of potenti
is 2023 shaping up to be a year of big drop offs? a growing number of major companies are already laying off workers in their thousands, so our employers also now taking back control of pay and conditions? i will hear from the head of the un international labour 0rganisation about why the global jobs market international labour 0rganisation about why the globaljobs market is under pressure and why that could mean more social unrest. the big boss of global recruitment firm robert waters tells me what companies are demanding of new recruits as they try to keep profits flowing. also, is travel the answer to our economic woes? expedia is one of the biggest travel firms, it s big boss will tell me if all that pent up demand is still strong enough to keep us opening our wallets. riveryou enough to keep us opening our wallets. river you arejoining me from, a big hello and welcome. january, the time of year when many take stock of our lives, that often involves looking at our careers
i ll be back at the top of the hour but now it is time for a special programme. now its time for menopause and me: too young to feel so old. in which women share their experience of menopause early. i thought menopause was something that happened to older women and ifelt like i skipped a whole chunk of my life. i start menopause tomorrow. even saying it, i m like, sorry, is this real?! she laughs i didn t know how to react. l i didn t know what. to say. many of us don t think about the menopause until we re in our forties, but it could happen to you earlier. at least one in 100 women in the uk experience it at a much younger age. i don t think there is enough i conversation about menopause in the younger age groups at all. i m getting the word out there for every woman. being able to control my appearance in any way, shape and form gives me strength because, like, i don t have control over my health and, most of the time, the lack of control is what causes a lot of mental dis