hello. this is worklife from bbc news with sally bundock and james menendez. a super—charged performance for the electric car maker tesla as the company makes a healthy profit. are electric vehicles finally heading into the mainstream? live from london, that's our top story on thursday 24th of october. tesla had been expected to report a loss but rising demand for electric cars has helped the company turn its fortunes around. sharesjumped on the news. is the magic of elon musk back?

also in the programme: it's all a big conspiracy. that's the message from nissan boss carlos ghosn's lawyers as he pleads not guilty to corruption charges. and are you worried about the rise of robots or can automation actually improve yourjob and life at home? we'll have a report from singapore. think all start—ups are run by millenials? think again! we'll meet the woman who took a couple of decades off to raise her children and is now making waves in the beauty industry by capitalising on collagen. the anti—ageing industry is on the rise. so how much do you spend on trying to look younger? or do you think it's better to leave it all to nature? let us know. use the hashtag bbcworklife. good to have you with us. do send in

your comments about the ageing industry and looking younger and older etc. we will share them later. we start with the electric car pioneer tesla, which has caused quite a buzz on wall street by posting a surprise quarterly profit. shares in elon musk‘s company have charged ahead in after hours trading on wall street, rising by a fifth. analysts had been expecting tesla to lose money. in fact, it made a profit of $143 million, though revenue, or money coming in, fell slightly. so, is the electric revolution finally here? last year the number of electric vehicles on the world's roads leapt to more than five million, up two million on the year before. you can see the growth. china is the world's biggest market with more than a million people buying electric cars last year. tesla has just announced the start of production at its mammoth new $2 billion factory in shanghai. we're joined by amanda

stretton, motoring editor at confused.com. good morning. great to have you with us. good morning. great to have you with us. are you surprised by the results from tesla? i am surprised, just given the fact that they are a company from whom we have seen lots of positive news in the past and then lots of negative news coming shortly afterwards. what tesla is seeing its huge growth in china. they have the launch of the suv coming out soon. the factory in china is ahead of schedule and there isa china is ahead of schedule and there is a lot of good news in the business and that is why markets have responded so positively. business and that is why markets have responded so positivelym business and that is why markets have responded so positively. is it a bit of financial manoeuvring? their revenues were down, which suggests they are not selling as many cars as they perhaps hoped. suggests they are not selling as many cars as they perhaps hopedli think this is a problem the global industry is seeing with electric cars. it is all well and good producing them, but the problem is electric cars are much more expensive to produce. you can put them out to market but what you can't do is make people buy them. the tesla cards are very expensive, at the top end, and traditional manufacturers are coming in with

their offerings, which cover the spectrum of price range, if you like. many consumers will see and feel more confident buying from established manufacturers and there isa established manufacturers and there is a bigger back—up in the country as well. i think the problem is that it is all good for manufacturers making the electric cars but you can't make people buy them unless infrastructure and government support is there. i was going to ask about that because there is the issue of range anxiety. am i going to run out of battery in the middle of nowhere with no supercharger insight? there is that whole issue and until we get over that, it be quite some time before buying electric is the first choice. absolutely. we are seeing a huge roll—out in charging infrastructure that it roll—out in charging infrastructure thatitis roll—out in charging infrastructure that it is nowhere near enough. roll—out in charging infrastructure that it is nowhere near enoughm depends where you live of course. exactly. currently, if you don't own your own driveway and you have no dedicated pay to charge your car, you have got to rely on a public

charging points, may at work. even then, andi charging points, may at work. even then, and i have said this before, there is one issue nobody really talks about and that is the thing of charging etiquette. technically i could drive my vehicle into town and park all day on a charge point, and my car could be fully charged, but i am hogging the charge point and stopping someone else from using it. until we have a huge amount more charging points available to the public, it will stop people buying electric cars. our own report has actually shown cost of purchase and lack of infrastructure being the two biggest stumbling blocks. and charging box i got to be ahead of demand! more and more people start buying the cards but the points are not there, it will make it very difficult. on the other hand, you need to give people the confidence to relax and think they will not get that range anxiety. this is it. in urban areas there is a better charging infrastructure. the big problem is when you move into the countryside

and in much more rural areas where there is virtually no charging infrastructure at all, unless you can charge your car at home. it'll bea can charge your car at home. it'll be a real issue and the government needs to make much bigger strides. they have been flip—flopping with policy. and you're talking about the uk government. depending on which city you are in in the world, there are different policies in place depending on how green the government is and whatever. amanda stratton, thank you. motoring editor at confused outcome. —— confused.com. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the president of the european central bank, mario draghi, is to make his last announcement on european interest rates today before leaving the job at the end of the month. he's been dubbed super mario thanks to his role in steering the eurozone through difficult times. the former boss of the imf, christine lagarde, will take over on 1st november. microsoft says its azure cloud services grew more slowly in the three months to august, despite better than

expected profits. since chief executive satya nadella took over in 2014, the software giant has been moving away from its windows operating system to focus on its cloud services. in the uk, the royal bank of scotla nd in the uk, the royal bank of scotland announced a loss in its latest results, due to the cost of its payment protection insurance. the edinburgh—based bank, in which the uk government owns a 62% stake, said its investment bank had a particularly challenging three months, reporting a pre—tax loss of $10 million in thejuly to september period after it took a $1 billion charge for ppi. carlos ghosn's lawyers have asked a tokyo court to dismiss all the charges made against the former nissan boss. his lawyers also accused the japanese government of conspiring against him, along with prosecutors and nissan executives. rupert wingfield—hayes is ok for us.

what is the legal team saying?m rupert wingfield—hayes is ok for us. what is the legal team saying? it is a very interesting form of legal defence. they have not really addressed the charges against carlos ghosn. they are essentially saying that they are groundless. they are trapped up, and they shouldn't even be answered. what they have decided to do instead, it seems, is taken pretty much the whole of the japanese establishment. they are alleging a conspiracy between executives at nissan, the tokyo prosecutors office, and the ministry of economic trade and industry. one of economic trade and industry. one of the most powerful ministries and the japanese government. they are saying they conspired to trap charges against carlos ghosn in order to get rid of him as the head of nissan. —— trump up charges. and they said this was done because all three of those organisations, nissan and the ministry in particular, wa nted and the ministry in particular, wanted to go ahead with plans to

merge nissan with renault and mitsubishi. they are saying this is a political prosecution. notjust but political. they are essentially looking to the public and other governments, and saying carlos ghosn isa governments, and saying carlos ghosn is a political prisoner, and a political trial is taking place. very interesting take on that whole case. thank you for that. rupert wingfield—hayes nl bureau in tokyo. let's look financial markets. lots of companies have been coming out with their earnings news and we have mentioned tesla and the royal bank of scotla nd mentioned tesla and the royal bank of scotland and london, and another big one was microsoft with better than expected results, which has really boosted the tech stocks and sentiment in general with most companies coming out with surprisingly strong numbers. markets in europe have been trading for a0 minutes now. the ftse is up by not .6 of minutes now. the ftse is up by not .6ofa minutes now. the ftse is up by not .6 of a percent, and positive across the board because the overall

picture coming from global companies is confidence and growth. —— 0.6 of a percent. now what impact has the rollout of one—day prime shipping had on how much money amazon is making? the e—commerce giant will deliver earnings later on wall street. samira hussain in new york takes a look ahead. amazon is the largest online shopping site in the world. remember, this is the company that was briefly worth $1 trillion. now it hovers around, you know, $870 billion. one thing that may drag on amazon's numbers is one—day shipping. sounds great for the consumer but amazon invested a lot of money in the last quarter to make that happen. and then there's amazon's cloud computing business. although we all know amazon for its retail offerings, it's actually its web services that really bring in the cash. but investors are worried that the overall slowdown in that space will hit amazon a bit harder,

given just how much the company depends on that revenue. so mary hussain in new york. —— samira. let's have a look at some of the stories making it big in the papers and on the news websites. joining me is the journalist and writer marisa bate. you wanted to talk about this story, rose mcgowan suing harvey weinstein, and this was a massive story that launched the #metoo movement. what is happening now? harvey weinstein is happening now? harvey weinstein is trying to stop rose mcgowan from publishing her men now and to silence her, —— publishing her memoir. this fits in with a pattern of books published by people including the new york times

reporter who exposed him. on top of the crimes of sexual harassment and rape allegations was a culture of silencing through things like nondisclosure agreements. things that people are sometimes forced to accept. absolutely and often the way the legal system works, it is often their only choice and women feel pressured to sign these peace agreement that many of the victims did because it was easier than going out again someone of his stature. he also employed an israeli organisation, kind of intelligence and security operation, to essentially spy on the reporters in the hopes of getting to their sources, and again silencing these women. yes, it is another lawsuit against harvey weinstein but it exposes this big cultural problem that we have in which the powerful can silence victims. harvey weinstein, we should say, this will bea weinstein, we should say, this will be a civil suit, and he is facing criminal charges that he had pleaded

not guilty and we are awaiting that trial. yes, we are awaiting the trial. yes, we are awaiting the trial and it continues to refute all allegations including these. that seems to be his plan. later we are going to be talking about beauty products that help you to look younger like collagen and it is interesting that instagram is all over the press to date for banning filters with plastic surgery effect. when you look at the pictures, and we have got it on bbc online and it is in the independent, some of the pictures are repulsive and terrifying. it is good news that instagram are taking this step to ban the filters which allow users to look like they have got plastic surgery because look like they have got plastic surgery because anyone could apply them. instagram might do this that there are so many apps and other forms of social media where it is all over the place. is instagram hoping to trail blaze this area? the problem is that even if they are

hoping to trail blaze, lots of very young people are looking at people who have had extreme bouts of surgery. who have had extreme bouts of surgery. and they will want them regardless of whether they have the filter or not. there was a report in vice not so long ago where we know that women are asking for the kylie package, referring to kyliejenner, which is the whole package of your face, lips and cheekbones, to morph your face to look more like today's celebrities. it is limited what instagram can do, not that they shouldn't take action and they have a responsibility. but what people are trying to emulate are often celebrities who have the surgery anyway. some of the manufacturers of the act said the point of it was to show how bad surgery can be and the bruises and marks it can leave. —— of the app. very interesting.

still to come: move over millenials. we'll meet the baby boomer whose start—up is aiming to take the beauty industry by storm. you're with worklife from bbc news. 85,000 jobs have been lost in the retail sector in the last year according to the british retail consortium. it's the 15th straight quarter of year—on—year falls in what is a very challenging market on the high street. helen dickinson is the boss of the british retail consortium. 85,000 is a lot of people and a lot ofjobs. it is amazing. mps rally round when we have job losses in other industries but when we are talking about retail it falls on deaf ears. these are no less importantjobs. deaf ears. these are no less important jobs. local jobs come deaf ears. these are no less

importantjobs. localjobs come off in entry—level jobs for importantjobs. localjobs come off in entry—leveljobs for people with not many qualifications. —— often entry—level jobs. and not many qualifications. —— often entry—leveljobs. and this is a backdrop of transformation we are seeing in the retail industry. technology is changing the way that we all shop and retailers want to invest in innovation, into digital and that technology, and what we don't have is the policy environment, government policies, to enable that to happen. that is why we are seeing such significantjob losses. brexit? the big factor? brexit and the general uncertainty is one factor because it is holding back and the pressing demand from consumers, s0 back and the pressing demand from consumers, so we are back and the pressing demand from consumers, so we are all being a little bit more reticent in our spending and it is that sluggish demand combined with the transformation that we are seeing, which is a perfect storm of various effects. it comes back to the government action that is needed around things like business rates,

the apprenticeship levy, which gives retailers the opportunity to be able to make the investment that they need to get through this challenging period. helen dickinson from the british retail consortium. thank you. there is plenty more on our website on the business pages and i have got to admit i find all kinds of features i love to read. when to fire the boss? a tale of three seconds. add a new man on the far right has just been moved out. elizabeth holmes, who was the boss and founder of a company that also went defunct. it is a really interesting read. all other details on the bbc business pages. you're watching worklife. a reminder of our top story: the electric carmaker tesla has surprised investors by reporting a profit.

the company had been expected to make a loss but rising demand for electric vehicles around the world has helped boost its fortunes. have you been anyone? tesla? not moving. i have sat in a stationary one, looking at a screen. moving. i have sat in a stationary one, looking at a screenlj moving. i have sat in a stationary one, looking at a screen. i have been anyone with a boy racer and it can move! it is like being in a spaceship. note to 60 in three seconds or something? it sounds exciting. —— zero to 60. think of someone running a start—up and you're likely to visualise a millenial in a hoody running their first venture out of a garage. our next guest has turned that on its head and started her own business after quitting work at the age of 25 to raise her kids. fast forward a couple of decades, she decided to start her own beauty supplement business after experiments in her own kitchen with bone broth!

maxine laceby, founder of absolute collagen, is with us now. that bone that sounds disgusting. it was pitch otters and chicken feet andi was pitch otters and chicken feet and i was looking at bigger that in my kitchen. people asked me what i was drinking and said i looked great and fast forward i discovered it was the collagen in the bone broth and now we buy in marine collagen which is much better. it is quite smelly boiling up bones. definitely. my children were wondering what i was doing. midlife crisis! tell us about the collagen and why you think it helps. there is a lot of debate out there as to what extent collagen supplements can help you to look younger. each of our sachets has got eight grams of high—grade marine collagen, which has been hydrolysed. and that is natural? yes, 100% natural. and that is natural? yes, 10096 natural. that means it has been broken down and it can go into your bloodstream. collagen is a protein

and it can't go into the protein, that idolisation means it goes into the bloodstream and works its magic. you eat it. you add five grams n, which is the minimum you can make the claim and we are all about results, so we have got eight grams and hours. but if you eat it, does your stomach break it down and get rid of it? the beauty is that it is a liquid and it gets ingested higher up a liquid and it gets ingested higher up in the stomach and because it has undergone the hydrolysis process, it gets broken down goes into the bloodstream. it is attracted straight to your fibroblasts and it stimulates them to create collagen. why do you think we need to do this? you have two daughters and two stepdaughters. should we not be able to age naturally and look our best regardless? i am all about being the best version of you. i am 53 and i have no desire to be 23. i am about

enhancing what you have got. do you desire to look 23? absolutely not, just be the best version of me. collagen is not just just be the best version of me. collagen is notjust great for hair, skin and nails, it is great for gut health and blood stability, and collagen is an investment for your body and not just collagen is an investment for your body and notjust hair, skin and nails. is there any proof that it works? if you go on to our website... any independent proof? i think the industry needs regulating. there is not much at the moment. we only by certain collagen from two suppliers and we make sure it is certified. there is a lot of collagen out there that is not and it worries me. i do think regulator needs to come in, yes. you stop working when you had children. 25 year career break and you started boiling broth in your kitchen and you are not sure how to work computers. how did you get to the point of having a successful business and selling it online? you know, as a woman, we are solution

focused. i am dyslexic and adhd, which gives me an advantage because i have got to always think around things. i think that has been part of my success. if we want to do something, we write a list that we get it done. ijust contacted the right people. the food standards agency. i said right people. the food standards agency. isaid i right people. the food standards agency. i said i want to do this, help me. they said, great, we are used to doing cake stands and we really wa nt used to doing cake stands and we really want to help you. as a woman iam able really want to help you. as a woman i am able to put my hand up and ask for help and i did that at every stage. it ends up getting funding and investment support, how was that? i self-funded and i also think that? i self-funded and i also think thatis that? i self-funded and i also think that is a female thing. i did did everything on my own and it was only a year ago when we looked up from our laptops and said, gosh, the whole of uk is looking at us. we we re whole of uk is looking at us. we were just whole of uk is looking at us. we werejust in the whole of uk is looking at us. we were just in the moment, whole of uk is looking at us. we werejust in the moment, getting on with it and the job done. werejust in the moment, getting on with it and thejob done. we werejust in the moment, getting on with it and the job done. we send out thousands of parcels a day and we have got thousands of happy customers, which is great. we are allowed one more brief one, i'm

told, so very quickly, where is all your stuff coming from? will you be impacted by brexit? not at all. the whole brexit thing, we are all confused about what will happen. we have got things in place. we buy from collagen to players in the uk. and we are manufactured in the uk. —— collagen suppliers. i don't think it will impact us at all. obviously it will impact us at all. obviously it will impact us at all. obviously it will at some level that we will cross that bridge when we have got to. maxine, thank you for coming in. founder of absolute collagen. we have been asking you about whether you should age and let mother nature ta ke you should age and let mother nature take its course or whether you spend a lot on products that keep you younger. at which point everyone needs to tweet in and say that you quys needs to tweet in and say that you guys don't need it! not for years! when you have got the bbc make up department in charge! but before we hear what you have been saying, tim mcdonald is at a robot conference in

singapore. you want to do a quick inspection of your parts, right? and sometimes people will like to scan it and do some copy. they want to do reverse engineering of the old parts. could you scan anything? could you scan my face, for example? i can do it in ten seconds. once you do a scan, you have an actual model and you can do some design changes to it and make it your own design. what i'm wearing is actually shoulder parts. this is really meant for people doing ceiling work who have to have their eyeballs high up throughout the day. what about the one i am wearing? what is this for? the one you are wearing is actually mainly back support so it's mainly meant for workers who will be doing heavy lifting all day long.

do you want to have a go at this to see how it works? i can feel the resistance. originally, exoskeletons like this were developed for military use to help soldiers carry very heavy backpacks, for example. now they can be found at construction sites, warehouses, and factory floors and even at airports where handlers need to carry very heavy bags. they might lookjust a little bit awkward but they do make life easier. tim mcdonald, bbc news. we will take his word for it, making life easier. what have you been saying about ageing? joe said: sadly ageism is still rife in this country so ageism is still rife in this country so people make an effort to look younger. carrie: i have always been told i don't look a9 but i would have nothing to do with surgery is a medical issue. and this one: the cheapest thing to do is avoid sunbathing and then you don't need

patience and that blasted plastic packaging. sunbathing, sleep plots, so packaging. sunbathing, sleep plots, so many things! thank you for watching. have a good day. good morning. it has been another misty and murky start to the day for many of us. some fog patches around and some rain and drizzle for some of us this morning. that's all tending to clear away to the east. while there will be some heavy rain around at times in eastern areas, there will be sunny spells developing. the culprit for the wet weather is this weather front here. it's going to pep up into the afternoon. low pressure towards the north. the white lines, the isobars, quite close together. quite a strong wind in the west of scotland. gales developing here later on. you notice this area of rain, which will get heavier into the afternoon in central and southern areas, the east midlands, towards lincolnshire, east anglia and the south—east of england.

further west there will be some sunny spells and the risk of some showers moving through. temperatures today about 12 to 1a degrees. tonight is when we will see the rain clearing away and then we are looking at lengthy clear spells tonight. some showers moving in and some of the showers across scotland turning wintery over higher ground. colder air filtering in across northern areas which will make it really quite chilly tonight. some frost around in scotland and northern ireland. england and wales not quite as cold. nine or 10 celsius in the south. but we've got this cold air moving in across northern parts. meanwhile, milder air is feeding in across southern areas and with that milder air we have got this weather system which is waving a little bit. thatjust means the rainfall will be enhanced and quite slow moving as it pushes in towards the south—west of england, into wales, eventually into the midlands, and northern england too. some of that rain spreads into the south of northern ireland and southern scotland. showers in the far north of scotland with some gales here. strong winds across the south where it will feel quite mild. temperatures 15 or 16 degrees. really quite a chilly day across northern parts.

only about seven or 8 degrees. through friday evening that rain will be heavy and persistent across wales, northern england, which could lead onto some problems, not only on friday but as we go into saturday as well. a lot of rainfall to come, especially in wales and north west england, over the higher ground. heavy rain, flooding risk and the potential for travel disruption. this is into saturday. the rain gradually moves its way further south but you can see for wales, south—west england, the midlands, eastern areas, really quite an unpleasant day on saturday. further north and west the rain will clear with showers into the west but again that temperature difference. chilly in the north and not so cold towards the south—east. goodbye.

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