this is worklife from bbc news, with ben bland and tim willcox. facebook is to hire 1,000 extra uk staff, with over half the newjobs set to target online abuse and harmful content. live from london, that's our top story on tuesday the 21st of january. facebook says it is going to invest more to tackle abuse, we're going to be asking their uk boss if their plans go far enough. also in the programme, combating climate change is set to take centre stage at davos. sally is there and will be joining us sally is there and will be joining us alive. and shares in chinese drug makers have soared as concerns grow over a new virus spreading across the country. and we'll be getting the inside track on an award winning campaign that's helping women make it to the top in business. as world and business leaders in davos discuss tackling climate change, how confident are you that they can do what needs to be done? let us know — just use the hashtag #bbcworklife. hello and welcome to worklife. get those tweets coming in. a degree of pessimism so far but really keen to get your thoughts on those changes that we are being told i needed to limit global temperature rises in order to combat climate change. as we've been hearing... facebook is to create 1,000 newjobs in london by the end of the year. the new posts will take the tech giant's total number of uk employees to more than 4,000. more than half of them will be technology—focused, with roles in software engineering, product design and data science. facebook said many of the newjobs would be in its community integrity division, which builds the tools and technology the company uses to detect and remove harmful content from its platforms. we are waiting for steve hatch, the vice president of facebook in northern europe who was scheduled to speak to us any moment now. he's not got into the studio yet. i think we are going to plug him up. we will speak to him in a few minutes. let's ci’oss speak to him in a few minutes. let's cross to singapore because the shares in chinese drugmakers have jumped as concerns grow over the new virus spreading in the country. this comes virus spreading in the country. this co m es after virus spreading in the country. this comes after confirmation that the new strain of coronavirus can passed from person to person. that is a crucial development. monica miller is following the story from singapore and we heard that human transmission was possible yesterday. talk us through how those shares have moved up. all major asian industries have been in the red today, especially the hang seng, which is down more than 2.6%. investors are responding to that latest news as they approach the lunar new year, starting this week. millions of people will begin celebrating and travelling throughout the country and abroad. several pharmaceutical companies as well as mass manufacturers, their stocks have risen more than 10% which is the daily limit allowed on the stock exchanges. however it has not been a great time for the airlines as well as the hotel industries. they have seen their stocks fall. a number of people infected. we heard they had tripled over the weekend with the outbreak thatis over the weekend with the outbreak that is spreading to major cities. chinese officials have confirmed that four people have died from the virus. this is bringing back bad memories of reviving those memories of the sars virus, also a coronavirus. that killed more than 700 people earlier this decade across dozens of countries, mostly here in asia. monica with that update, thank you very much indeed. let's turn our attention now to the alpine ski resort of davos, where key figures from industry, world leaders, and even a few celebs are all descending on the swiss town as we speak. it is crammed with celebrities, and a lwa ys it is crammed with celebrities, and always at the same once! at this year's world economic forum, climate change is the hot topic of the week. attending this year will be president trump, teenage climate activist greta thunberg, and top executives from firms including google, netflix, and coca—cola. president trump will speak soon. but is there the will to tackle the issue? this is the 50th annual meeting of the world economic forum and as we we re the world economic forum and as we were saying, climate change at the top of the agenda. for those of you wondering where sally bunn duck is, she is in davos this week and joins us live from there. talk us through the issue of climate change and how it is dominating conversation so far. first of all, cani conversation so far. first of all, can i say just conversation so far. first of all, can i sayjust how cold it is here? you too are looking so cosy in that studio. climate change is absolutely dominating this yearfor studio. climate change is absolutely dominating this year for the first time in the world economic forum's annual report which is issued before this event starts. it is in five key topics. the climate crisis and what can be done about that. you have mentioned greta tim berg —— greta thunberg is hip, but also climate activists. they have been given very prominent positions at various speeches and events throughout the world economic forum. when president trump arrives, and he is due to arrive in around an hour, we are listening out for the helicopter, he will in some ways not be able to avoid the conversations about climate change. of course he famously pulled the us out of the paris agreement soon after he was elected, so it's not his favourite subject but he is addressing delegates here at 11:30am at local time, so 10:30am gmt. there is huge anticipation about what he will say. of course he has come here a week after signing phase one of the trade agreement with china. so he is expected to have a softer tone on trade but the concern on part of the europeans here is, will he turn his attention to europe? there you go, you can see the footage of president trump. he is actually landing. 0nce he has landed he will be whisked to the intercontinental hotel, which is down the road from where i am standing. he will spend about an hour there before he comes here to the congress centre, where he will be greeted by the delegates who will be greeted by the delegates who will be hanging on his every word. it's not just about trade that people will want to hear what he has to say, but also the geopolitics. it is a huge issue with regard to his decision to seek the killing of the iranian military general, kassam slimani. many —— iranian military general, kassam slimani. many -- qasem soleimani. many will want to hear what he says about geopolitics. could there be more discussion with regard to that? he has lots of one—on—one meetings with heads of state. there are 52 other heads of state here for this 50th meeting and he will be meeting, i would imagine of all the meetings he has, the most controversial is with the president of iraq, because of course iraq were not happy at all about the actions of the united states that happened just in iraq as qasem soleimani was heading out of iraq. he has arrived, so we shall join you later with more. this is the big day at the world economic forum in davos. it is chopped's day, is it worth. it looks very chilly. for now, thank you very much indeed. let's stay with the ambition for all the companies at this 50th annual meeting for net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. joining us now is madeleine cuff, deputy editor at businessgreen. a lot of countries have signed up to that. how important is it for davos to be doing this? all the attendees of davos have been written to to ask companies to set net zero emission targets by 2050. that sends a really important message that the business world is starting to really engage with the climate science and the tricky implications that has for how the economy works. you say it's wrapping it up but when you are looking at big companies like at shell and other carbon producers, they are increasing their spending by billions of pounds, still looking for fossil by billions of pounds, still looking forfossilfuels. by billions of pounds, still looking for fossil fuels. yes, it is mainly the big consumer face for fossil fuels. yes, it is mainly the big consumerface incorporates that have set these net zero targets but we are starting to see some movement in the fossil fuel industry, as well. a couple of weeks ago repsol announced it would be net zero by 2050, which will involve a huge transformation of its model and that was the first company of its type that we have seen making such an emissions pledge a. hopefully more to follow. a report out from the imf and cambridge university is out and is looking at the actual cost if we don't do enough to tackle it and the impact on people's personal wealth and well—being. absolutely. there has been a number of studies done that show that the cost of inaction on climate change is far greater than the cost of action. that is the cost of adapting oui’ action. that is the cost of adapting our infrastructure, our houses, our cities to rising temperatures, more extreme weather, but also the cost to the economy, people's lifestyles. so if we want to continue life as normal, we need to address emissions. thank you very much indeed. let's go back to our top story. facebook to create 1000 jobs in london by the end of the year. a lot of these jobs will be in its community integrity division, which builds the tools and technology used to detect and remove harmful content. steve hatch is at westminster. he is the vice president of northern europe's facebook. tell us firstly about these 1000 newjobs being created. good morning. delighted to be announcing we will create an additional thousand jobs in london across the year. more than half of those roles will be technical areas and as you have already mentioned, many of those people will be joining the community integrity team here in london which is a critical function we have at facebook made a brilliant men and women, engineers creating the artificial intelligence and machine learning that helps us detect and remove harmful content. all very well, but how many cases of online abuse have been reported? because it isn't clear when you are looking at the figures. 1000 jobs for how many cases? what they are joining in total is a very big team here at facebook and we are now in a position where we have nearly 35,000 people focused on safety and integrity. how many cases are reported every year? because those figures are almost impossible to come by. we provide on a quarterly basis now and have done for two yea rs basis now and have done for two years what we call our transparency report. that shows how many examples of this type of content we are taking down, how many we are getting to them proactively, so detecting through technology, and how many are being reported. anyone around the world can look at that, assess how well we are doing across critical areas, and in the areas we have been working the longest, for example terrorist content, over 99% of terrorist content, over 99% of terror content is now detected proactively and that is part of the long—term investment. proactively and that is part of the long-term investment. and yet fake political ads are not, even despite the best endeavours of facebook employees who would like you to tackle that. the debate around electoral integrity and certainly the role of advertising in elections has been widely discussed. we very recently has been widely discussed. we very rece ntly ha d has been widely discussed. we very recently had an election here in the uk. we certainly learnt a lot since the 2016 election in the uk when we we re the 2016 election in the uk when we were too slow to react to harms and abuses on the platform. but we have really invested significantly, taken an approach of transparency. now there is an ads library where anyone can go and see any ad that is being created by either politicians or those seeking electoral office, but also social issue that provides a transparency... except it doesn't if there are micro—targeted political ads which are factually wrong still being sent out to people. in this country in particular, getting it right, we don't believe is the role ofa right, we don't believe is the role of a private company to be arbiters of truth in this. we have certainly been calling for some time for electoral reform in this country and other countries around the world. but we haven't waited for that. we do believe that by providing tools for scrutiny so that everything can be seen and analysed by either the interested officials or those who play a critical role in our democracy in the press are able to hold people to account, to identify what has been said, and look if there is any contradiction is, look to see how many people are being reached, how much money might be being spent behind particular campaigns. steve hatch, we must leave it there. thank you very much for joining leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us, facebook‘s vice president for northern europe. time to look at some of the website stories that have caught our eye. joining me is 0li barrett — host of the lens podcast and co—founder of entrepreneurship campaign startup britain. really interesting story from the uk premised as far as investment and aid in africa. he was speaking at the uk africa summit, so all about where the uk will and won't invest its cash, particular in foreign aid. he has said when it comes to coal mines they won't be any more money coming from the uk into coal mines and power stations. to put it simply, he says not another penny of uk taxpayers money will be directly invested into digging up coal or burning it for electricity. a really important signal which has been welcomed by campaigners. what about oil and gas? this is the challenge. 0ver oil and gas? this is the challenge. over the last ten years, over 680 million has come from uk coffers into oil and gas projects. that is where the next focus would be. what it does also give the opportunity for it to swing our focus onto renewa bles for it to swing our focus onto renewables and that is what the prime minister has been talking about, saying coal is a thing of the past. now different forms of energy creation. that is where the focus will be and he has the power to shine a spotlight. it's an important decision. not a lot been going into coal of the last few years but it is changing the mood music, particularly at such an important time. another one that is interesting that we've spotted is this is on wave technology. explain a bit more about what it is they are planning to do. it has reached the news that amazon is working on biometric scanners, so you will hold up biometric scanners, so you will hold up your hand and it will analyse your palm prints and you will effectively be able to pay with your hand. this comes at a time when tech is getting closer to finance. apple have lodged a credit card, google will be launching, we hear, a current account. lots of questions around this but in principle here goes amazon applying for the patents, testing it in some of their food stores, interesting. we often hear of contactless payments with cards encouraging people to spend more. this is another step on from that where you aren't even having to ta ke that where you aren't even having to take the card out, not even the phone out of your pocket, you just wave. indeed. accidentally wave at a friend and you've got something. how will you choose between cards? we ta ke will you choose between cards? we take our socks off, we don't know. in china you can do it with a smile and blink. a whole area of biometrics raises concerns. 98% of brits use amazon. 40% have access to prime delivery service. it all comes down to data and trust. will we just amazon with our finances? there is the danger that you could unknowingly buy something. it is that all situation of being an auction, wave at someone you know and end up... since you never carry credit cards 01’ since you never carry credit cards or cash, it won't happen to you. since you never carry credit cards or cash, it won't happen to youm is all done on the phone! it is 2020! a new wave in literal terms. all right, let's see how one goes. thanks for taking us through some of the papers. we will get the inside track on a campaign getting women to the top of business. you are watching work from bbc news. a quarter of employees believe their company turns a blind eye to workplace bullying and harassment. that's according to a report by the chartered institute of personnel and development. our business correspondent theo leggett has more. a culture of fear. absolutely. perhaps the most worrying statistic in this report from the human resources organisation is that 27% of people have suffered some form of bullying or harassment. 15% say they have suffered bullying, another 4% have suffered bullying, another 4% have suffered bullying, another 4% have suffered sexual harassment, which is described as being a very stubborn problem, despite all the coverage of metoo. another 8% of suffered other harassment. to give you an idea of what this thing evolves, people say they are being undermined or humiliated in their jobs. they have suffered persistent unwarranted criticism and unwarranted criticism and unwarranted personal remarks and people have said they suffer from stress as a result, anxiety, insomnia, heart palpitations. even suicidal thoughts. that gives you an idea of how destructive this kind of culture can be in the audience and the report also suggests that there is this culture of fear where people who are suffering from harassment or bullying feel unable to report it. and therefore nothing gets done about it. how much training or advice is there within hr departments about how to tackle this problem? is a point raised by this report. it says that only 40% of managers have received any kind of people management training. if you look at the figures, a lot of the bullying is actually done by managers, but it also comes from colleagues. the report suggests that more training is needed so that managers can find ways of dealing with conflict within their teams so that any form of harassment can be discouraged, bullying can be clamped down upon, and the workplace can become a more amenable place in which to operate. feel with the latest on that report, thank you. plenty more business news updated through the day on the web page. 0n there right now, easyjet says one of there right now, easyjet says one of the factors that helped strong revenue growth for the airline was the demise of the travel firm thomas cook last year. that was one of its main competitors. easyjet saying revenue per seat climbed by 8.8% in the first quarter, beating expectations. you're watching worklife. a reminder of our top story — facebook is to create 1,000 newjobs in london by the end of the year. now, equality and diversity in the workplace has never been more important as businesses try to attract and retain talented staff. but knowing how to create an inclusive work environment is a challenge for many firms. that s where my guest — simone roche — comes in. she s the founder of northern power women — a uk campaigning group that works with companies to help promote gender balance in business. lovely to see you. i was reading a manchester conference two years ago, three years ago, on the importance of business and lack of discrimination, had i think one in nine women speaking and the rest we re nine women speaking and the rest were men. has that changed? yes. it is one in12, were men. has that changed? yes. it is one in 12, less than that, and there was no representation from the disability community and and nobody from the bame community. it was poon from the bame community. it was poor. i went on the radio at the time to say, come this way, we have grown a massive community of role models and advocates for gender equality from all genders. we will help put them on the stage and that's what we want to do, give a voice. is this a particularly northern think? absolutely not. just five years ago i decided, having worked around gender equality in london and westminster and being a champion for the government equalities office, i decided to take the conversation up north, and what would happen is we will try to accelerate gender equality from the north. we have great businesses, great individuals, great micro firms doing great things and we wanted to be able to tell that story. you talk about skills, economy, we want to be able to retain that talent so all our businesses can thrive. why does the north of england need a particular initiative separate, say, to nationwide schemes? for me because the decisions are rightly made in westminster, it is our capital city, i wanted to see what would happen. the government have developed this northern powerhouse campaign and! developed this northern powerhouse campaign and i wanted to see that if the northern powerhouse was an economy it would be the sixth largest in europe. what would happen if we brought together communities, individuals, from the top down and from the bottom up, two instead of being told what we could do in the north, why don't we just collaborate and take action ourselves rather than wait for permission? this is in business but how its local politics reflected in terms of diversity? how many chief executives do you have for example? not as many as we ought to have but one of the things is a campaigning group in liverpool very recently rewrote the industrial strategy from agenda perspective. —— eight gender perspective. you can say what we have got all we can namely enable the community to look at what is possible. that has to be where the campaign sits, what is the art of the possible? rather than the barriers and what we can't do. for me and northern power women it is about cracking on rather than saying, all, we can't because we are up saying, all, we can't because we are up north. what is the main thing hindering progress?” up north. what is the main thing hindering progress? i think it is simple things, visibility. culture of organisation. visibility of role models. there is no organisations, where are my kids going to be employed? where are my kids going to be employed ? the where are my kids going to be employed? the campaign is very much about shouting loud and proud about what is good and great. it is not grim up north. there are fantastic opportunities. let's not look at where the barriers are, let's look... you have an award ceremony every year so with us a flavour of that, who has won that. it will be the fifth year this year. the year gone by was the largest celebration of gender equality in the country. we celebrate men and women. we look at all genders, it is massively important that we aren't male advocates. in this year's shortlist we have firefighters, we have military, we have amazing, amazing entrepreneurs, fantastic academics, nhs. nuclear industry, transport industry, which we know gets a lot of conversation in the north, and great public sector because that is what the north is made up as well as those great small businesses and big corporate. let's tell a story about what is happening because if you can't. .. you can't what is happening because if you can't... you can't beat unless you can't... you can't beat unless you can see it and that is our framework. you tell the story very well. thank you very much for joining us. thank you forjoining us. that's it. what business news through the day and we are back at the same time tomorrow. goodbye. hello. 0ur weather is turning milder but with that, plenty of cloud around. that milder change already in across scotland, northern ireland, north—west england. close to this weather front, not just cloud but some outbreaks of rain. closer to high pressure, still a frost for many of us to start today through much of england and wales. some fog patches, dense in places, more especially in southern england. some of that may be slow to clear. some sunny spells, though, for england and wales, but more cloud compared with recent days. cloud in scotland, northern ireland, into northern england, you could see a bit of light rain or drizzle, more especially close to that weather front in western scotland. double—figure temperatures here and five to 8 degrees elsewhere in england and wales. but where you have any fog lingering, it mayjust be a couple of degrees above freezing. into tonight, we keep a lot of cloud. low cloud means some fog on the hills in places. it's damp and drizzly in some spots, too. where there are still some clear skies — southernmost parts of england — you could get a frost going into the morning, but it's nowhere near as widespread as it's been on recent mornings. and here's an indication of that milder change, the warmer colours have come in across the uk from wednesday, but again there is a lot of cloud around. sunshine really hard to come by. could see a bit towards eastern areas, east of high ground, eastern scotland, the eastern side of northern ireland, for example. still some patchy rain in scotland, especially towards the north and north—west, but really anywhere the cloud is thick enough, and there is plenty of cloud, you could see a bit of drizzle. the breeze starts to pick up more especially in northern scotland. it will get a bit windy here as we go on through the rest of the week, but notice more widely temperatures are into double figures on wednesday. and then into thursday, a good deal of cloud around. again, just a few sunny spells, more especially to the east of high ground. a weather frontjust pushing some more substantial outbreaks of rain on a brisk breeze towards north—west scotland. if anything on thursday temperatures just a degree or so down compared with where they'll be on wednesday. just show you the picture going into the weekend. it looks like the atlantic weather fronts are beginning to gather. it's a gradual process towards more unsettled weather into the weekend. the breeze picks up more widely and there is a chance of a little bit of rain. there will also be some sunny spells, too. you're watching bbc news at 9 with me annita mcveigh. the headlines: tougher terror laws after last year's london bridge attack — including longerjail sentences and lie detector tests before prisoners are released. the government is describing it as a major shift in approach. prince harry arrives in canada this morning to rejoin his wife and son, after saying he had no choice but to step back from royal life. a bbc investigation finds the nhs in england faces over £83 billion worth of unsettled claims for clinical negligence. final preparations have been made in washington for the start of president trump's impeachment trial — 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