this is worklife from bbc news, with ben bland and tim willcox. counting the cost of care — new research finds billions of hours of care are going unpaid around the world. live from london, that's our top story on monday the 20th of january. with a third of the global population in need of care by the end of the decade, what can be done to reward those that take on the work? elsewhere, the world s biggest plastic polluter, china, says it will ban single—use bags. and the price of fame.

we have a special report on influencers "being offered thousands for sex". we'll be getting the inside track on a business brainwave that aims to use tech to reduce healthcare waiting times. today is said to be #bluemonday — the gloomiest day of the year — but what do you do to lift your mood when you get the blues? let us know — just use the hashtag bbcworklife. hello and welcome to worklife. we start with new research that shows those who carry out care work are not being adequately reward for their time. oxfam says it's a situation which exacerbates the gap between rich and poor, and that extreme inequality is trapping millions of people in poverty around the world. oxfam says that although estimates of the wealth of the world s poorest have been revised upwards this year, half the world s population continue

to live on less than $5.50 a day, and women in particular get a raw deal. it says women and girls are putting in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work globally every day, such as looking after children and the elderly. this amounts to a contribution to the global economy of at least $10.8 trillion a year in unpaid work. with us now is katy chakrabortty, head of advocacy at 0xfam. what seems so damning about this, this is a cycle which is very difficult to get out of in terms of inequality. it's kind of more than a cycle. it's a stark illustration of how deeply unfair and lets say sexist our global economy is. one of the things our report finds, if you ta ke the things our report finds, if you take the 22 richest men in the world, their combined wealth is more

than that of every single woman on the continent of africa. i think what it illustrates is that the wealth we respect and celebrate and revere at the top is actually built on the backs of the unpaid care that mostly women do around the world, which subsidises business and also subsidises governments who arguably should be doing that role. how can people afford care? if the money is not there, then it's not there. we are calling on governments all around the world to invest more in services meaning more things like simply collecting fuel and water in some of the poorest countries, but also educating children and caring for the elderly is taken on by governments. 0ne illustrative statistic to show you that the money is there, we have calculated for insta nce is there, we have calculated for instance that just taxing is there, we have calculated for instance thatjust taxing 0.5% of the wealth of the global richest 1% could pay for 79 million carejobs around the world to help redistribute some of those response

abilities. in many cultures it is so deeply embedded that you care for your elderly relatives and take the time out to care and raise for your children. for some people, the idea of monetising and putting a cost, a financial reward on that, would seem almost distasteful. i did both those things. and it's certainly not talking about monetising care. it's firstly about recognising it as proper hard and skilled work. why is it that care work when it is a job as some of the lowest paid and lowest status work there is. it's about recognising it, paying it properly, but also about redistributing it. there is no country in the world where men do more care work than women. is that something you would like to be raised at davos this week and are you doing that? absolutely. we have put out the report on the same day as davos for a stark reason. in some

ways davos is a celebration of the entrepreneurship, wealth and status people have and we want people to recognise that is quite literally built on the backs of women who find it very hard to escape poverty because they are doing so much unpaid work. thank you forjoining us. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. a bbc investigation has seen documents that show how africa s richest woman — isabel dos santos — made her fortune through exploiting her own country and corruption. the documents show she got access to lucrative deals involving land, diamonds, oil and telecoms while herfather was in power. isabel dos santos has denied any wrongdoing. australia's government has boosted its emergency grants and loans for small businesses affected by bushfires that have ravaged much of the country. the government said it would increase grants for small businesses affected by the fires to $32,000 and offer intrest free loans of up to $650,000.

and in the uk, the construction of the high—speed rail link hs2 — which would connect london to the north of england — could cost up to $137 billion according to an unpublished report seen by the financial times. the report also recommends pausing the second phase of the project while experts look at whether conventional lines could help link birmingham to manchester and leeds instead. china, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single—use plastics across the country. let's go to singapore, where monica miller is following the story. what are their plans and how will they do this? just to give you an idea of how big the problem is, the country's largest dump is the size of 100 football fields. that's already at capacity 25 years ahead of schedule. 0fficials

already at capacity 25 years ahead of schedule. officials on sunday announced this aggressive policy to eliminate single use over a five year period, but starting this year people will start to see non—degradable bags by the end of this year in major cities. restau ra nts this year in major cities. restaurants have been asked to roll over their use of single use plastic straws by the end of 2020. this isn't the only initiative of its kind in asia. looking at malaysia, they sent 140 boats back to their place of origin for importing illegal plastics. we also see thailand as well as parts of indonesia that have ruled out similar plans. thank you, monica. asian shares held near their highest level for 20 months even as investors took some money off the table following a strong run recently. 0iljumped to more than a one—week high after two large crude production bases in libya began shutting down. trading on monday could be a bit lighter in europe — as it was in asia —

that's because us stock and bond markets are closed for the martin luther king jr holiday. looking at the week ahead — eyes will be on us corporate earnings with netflix, intel corp and texas instruments inc set to report, while central banks in the europeanunion, canada and japan hold policy meetings. now, in the us, americans may be worried about a potential hit to their personal finances from impeachment of president donald trump. samira hussain has more from new york. if history is anything to go by, the impact should be limited. the economy was already in a recession when richard nixon was impeached and it didn't take a hit when bill clinton was impeached. the lesson — well, political drama doesn't necessarily alter economic fundamentals. now, that doesn't mean financial markets might not react, especially if this process influences how the president acts and how he carries out economic policy. for now, the record stock market suggests investors aren't worried about impeachment,

and with good reason. the us economy is humming along. the trade war with china is on hold and wall street is betting the senate won't convict, believing the president will stay in office. time now for our daily look at some of the newspaper and website stories which have caught our eye. joining me is sophie hackford, co—founder of a data and ai company, 1715 labs. a futurist as well. speaking of the future, the guardian, spacex crew capsule escape test a success. watched by crowds. it's interesting how fast this is moving. absolutely. i'm super excited about the space economy and arguably spacex is at the forefront of developing that kind of commercial space economy that didn't exist before. it used to be governments, nasa, russia and china, and now it's a commercial

space. elon musk behind it, trying to recycle a lot of these things. but in this latest test, they didn't recycle. and it went up in flames although as i understand it the rocket had already been up three times delivering satellites to low earth orbit. i very much a dress rehearsal for humans to be delivered ina kind rehearsal for humans to be delivered in a kind of space taxi service to the international space station where they have a contract with nasa. that's the sci-fi bit, humans are going up into space for tourism and travel purposes, but in terms of the business and practical effect, this sort of technology could have in our lives, what's the benefit most of us would get? it's twofold. the first is, it's very exciting to do this economy in space, whether it's interplanetary internet, manufacturing in space or colonising mars. all of that is a great experimental area for us new technologies, things that are difficult and dangerous for humans to do, they can use space as a playground and use technology is back on earth. the other thing more

earthbound, i guess, back on earth. the other thing more earthbound, iguess, is back on earth. the other thing more earthbound, i guess, is that a lot of these rockets are delivering satellites to low earth orbit. that's very interesting, particularly with elon musk and ferry others because that will provide connectivity on earth. looking at the figure, they will be visible from the ground. you'll absolutely, and astronomers have quite publicly recently complained about the fact it will ruin the vision of the night sky for those trying to study the origins of the universe and whatever else. that brings us to another story we have chosen, the eu might ban facial recognition in public because all these satellites will be used as pa rt these satellites will be used as part of linking up the whole world in terms of ai and everything else. from satellites to autonomous vehicles, cameras on the streets, our phones, amazon echos in our homes. there is a surge in this happening forced up for facial recognition, we have to be careful about it being personal and intimate

data. it's important we think about a moratorium for a few years now, maybe we could start doing emotional recognition and surveillance, as it is already happening in china. why are they planning to ban it in public, facial recognition? at the moment because it's a bit of a wild west. they want to pause it so they know there enough study into the impact of the technology, the ethical, security and privacy in plications of these technologies. there is also no social consensus. we don't know how to think about this level of intrusion in our lives because we haven't had to do it before. and it's not always 100% accurate before. and it's not always 10096 accurate and less so for women as well. absolutely. a lot of these technologies, there is a correlation based on the training data that they we re based on the training data that they were given. they were trained on a certain set of images that perhaps we re certain set of images that perhaps were not representative of the whole population and once that perpetuated through the economy, those biases can live on for a very long time and we have to be very careful about that. no more time to look at other

stories but thank you for coming in. still to come in today's show, we'll hear how top social media influencers are being propositioned daily by strangers with offers of thousands of dollars in return for sex. you're with worklife from bbc news. graduate jobs at the uk stop employers grew by 6.2% in 2019, the largest annual rise for five years. martin birchall, the report author from high fliers research joins us now. it was interesting looking at salaries as well and the sort ofjob growth. talk us through the figures are. the biggest growth for 2019 was in the public sector but we have seen growth right across the graduatejob seen growth right across the graduate job market. we seen growth right across the graduatejob market. we have been tracking the number of vacancies available from the country's top employers for the last 15 years and

it's interesting that in the last five years, following the referendum in 2016, companies cut back but we have seen strong growth in the last three years and some generous starting salaries for new graduates as well. the top of the market is things like investment banks at £50,000 with some great salaries available in areas like consulting, accountancy and a range of others. median salary of £30,000 but that has only risen by 1000 in the past five or ten years. it's actually over the last ten years. looking back at how the job market fared after the recession, just like much of the rest of the economy, we have had a decade of stagnation so very little increase in terms of starting salary. it was £29,000 in 2010 and it will be £30,000 in 2020. if we benchmark the salary from a decade ago and adjusted for inflation,

that's actually worth £37,500 in today's money. how much uncertainty over the future now we are committed to brexit? employers always invest in graduates on a medium to long term basis. it's not about filling vacancies in september so much as training staff who will become middle and senior managers in five or ten years. a lot of employers i work incredibly hard in the last three years to maintain a business as usual message but the stability we will potentially have over the next two or three years because of the new political climate, i think that will undoubtedly help and it means employers can start to plan much more effectively for the future. fascinating, thank you for joining us. 30,000 as a median salary at 22... joining us. 30,000 as a median salary at 22. .. plenty joining us. 30,000 as a median salary at 22... plenty of business news updated through the day on the live page. you can read why fever tree seems to have lost its fizz on the bbc business page.

you're watching worklife. a reminder of our top story — new research from 0xfam says women and girls are putting in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work globally every day. now, if you've had a medical check—up recently, maybe you had to wait a while to get that all important appointment or faced a long wait to see the doctor. well, our next guest — johannes schildt — is hoping to change all that. his swedish—based company, livi, has created an app that allows you to consult a qualified health professional anytime using a smartphone or tablet. this is fascinating. the pick—up seems to be growing really quite remarkably. it is. in sweden we have 10% of the population signed up with the services. we do around 5% of

total primary health care volumes in sweden. to the medical staff answering these calls, whether it's on the screen or whatever, are based solely working for you or are they meeting people in the flesh as well? you see they combine it with doing something else, which is a great benefit of the service because it adds a lot of flexibility to clinicians. they can be part—time, retired, we have all the doctors who are part—time tired who can work for are part—time tired who can work for a safe few hours a day. they can even work from abroad. usually they combine it with doing something else. how would it work in the uk? some services, if you want to use a video call appointment with a doctor, they say to you, you have to register with us as your family doctor and you lose the right to see your local gp. is that how it works? you have to make the choice, because some people won't like that? we don't operate like that in the uk. we work closely with the nhs and we are partnering with local gp

practices so you can use the livi service and register with your local gp. we do have some limitations and if you are in need of a physical gp then we can refer you to your own gp. can doctors prescribe medication on this as well, and it will be sent to you through e—mail and you can go through to a local pharmacy? you can prescribe, they can do a sick note and oral advice. if you get a prescription you can pick it up from any pharmacy and you can even get it home delivered within a few hours. interesting you say you do it through the nhs here, working with nhs doctors was the pot about in other countries? is it only open to those who can either pay or have private medical insurance? not at all. since we started, it's important for all of us that it should be a service for everyone, not the wealthy few who can afford to pay for better services and access. it brings a lot of efficiency to the system. it should

be for everyone. we mentioned the regulatory background which is different around europe and the world. in terms of immunity in terms of any sort of indemnity for making medical mistakes, how complicated is that if you use somebody online rather than in the flesh? we do work ina rather than in the flesh? we do work in a regularly leeds heavily regulated environment. we act as the health care provider and it's no different really. the big difference is we deliver health care in a very different way, mainly by video but also by text. what prompted the idea? my own experience was not like eve ryo ne idea? my own experience was not like everyone else, i am a patient and i have been super frustrated with how badly things are structured in health care. we have great clinicians had a high quality of ca re clinicians had a high quality of care but why should i wait days or weeks, call a landline early in the morning and travel long distance and sit ina morning and travel long distance and sit in a waiting room. we thought we should change that and create something better. we have a pretty

u nfortu nate record something better. we have a pretty unfortunate record with our technology here in terms of health care, so many things have been written off, tens of millions of pounds, dollars, have been lost so do we have the infrastructure here to marry up with someone like you because you are getting quite a lot of investment. you had an investment of investment. you had an investment of several hundred million euros just a few weeks ago. we are happy to help and there are examples around europe of governments spending a lot of money trying to build systems. our record here is not particularly good, it's not flattering. in the uk? i don't think the record for any market we are in is super, but there are pieces of infrastructure here that are great and we are able to pool your summary records from the nhs. i'm interested in who you are mainly targeting. who are your customers at the moment? is it time for business people who don't want to take a day off? what trends are you seeing? ice i said earlier, we want to be for

everybody. in the first week we launched in the uk, we had a man of 90 years old using the services. we have a lot of younger families. we doa have a lot of younger families. we do a lot of children. in sweden we do a lot of children. in sweden we do mental health as well. how do you make money out of this? who pays you? we preferred to partner with the big players of health care in the big players of health care in the world. nhs here, and in sweden, that's how we make money. fascinating. really good to talk to you and thank you for coming in and explaining it to us. in a moment we'll run through some viewer responses to our twitter question. it was about blue monday and how you cope with it, the gloomiest day of the year so far apparently. but first, let's turn to the social media world, where top influencers are being propositioned daily by strangers with offers of thousands of pounds in return for sex — that according to bbc‘s the victoria derbyshire programme. ellie costello has this exclusive report.

instagram influencers sell us a lifestyle. they make money through advertising brands in exchange for payment. more followers means more paid work. but as the influencer circle becomes more saturated, it's become harder than ever to make money, opening the doors to exploitation. one of those people offered money for sex is rosie williams. she starred in series four of love island. it was an offer to move across to dubai and be paid to be somebody‘s companion out there. but you had no idea who that person was? no, never met this person at all. was there a monetary value on that? i think it was around 100,000 a year, and then with all my clothes and bags paid for on top, and my lifestyle paid for. the propositions vary. sometimes directly from a man asking for sex.

0thers come from an agency acting on behalf of a wealthy client. tyne—lexy clarson was only 19 when she was sent herfirst proposition. she then went on to star in series three of love island. i had someone message me offering me £20,000 for purely dinner and drinks. and then when i hadn't responded to that, within the next three days, it had doubled to £40,000. and then when i came off the show, obviously my profile had gone up and the same person had offered me £100,000, so obviously i was worth £60,000 more for being on love island. and then an agency contacted me on behalf of a dubai businessman offering me £50,000 for five nights in dubai. we shared ourfindings with the feminist group 0bject. i really understand why young women do that. but ultimately it's about exploitation.

and the reality is, most probably that young women will end up doing things for that money that she doesn't want to associate herself with, and that actually make her feel shamed. instagram told us in a statement that sexual solicitation is not tolerated on their platform and anyone seen to be breaking their rules would be banned. what you see on instagram is not real life. but for tyne, fears for women who take up these propositions are very real. there's got to be cases where it's gone wrong. there just has to be, and ijust wouldn't advise anyone to put themselves in that situation where they can be that vulnerable. ellie costello, bbc news. and viewers in the uk can hear more on this story on the victoria derbyshire programme from 10 o'clock. at the top of the show, we asked you about beating blue monday and whether or not it was just a marketing gimmick. supposedly the gloomiest day of the

year, the third monday injanuary. let's take a look at how some viewers have responded: alexandra says, "go on holiday via credit card?" always a mistake, i think. and sarah suggests, "it's only blue monday if you listen to the media. everywhere else, it's just monday. finally, charles lloyd, seems to be winning at beating blue monday he's "booked a holiday, put plans in place to have the house decorated and walked the dog. got a big mug of coffee and in a very good mood." very upbeat for january. very upbeat forjanuary. thanks. what do you do to lift your mood?|j go what do you do to lift your mood?” go for a run. a lot of people talk about exercise. injanuary, the endorphins you get from that when it is dark and grey. we are talking about the northern hemisphere. i had about the northern hemisphere. i had a tweet from someone in south africa saying it was lovely, the sun is rising earlier and setting later,

there is nothing to be blue at bout at all. we should go to south africa later this week. that's it from worklife today. there will be more business news throughout the day on the bbc live webpage and on world business report. for many of us it was a glorious weekend with plenty of sunshine around, but it was cold with a sharp overnight frost. the reason for it, this strong area of high pressure which has parked itself across the uk and should be with us through much of this week. we have more isobars and a weather front close by to the north—west that will feed in more cloud generally to scotland through today and also across north—west england and into northern ireland. breezy here, windy for the north and western isles. but it will be milder here because of the stronger south—west winds. further south, wind will be lighter and after a cold and frosty starting places, we should see the best of the sunshine here. pleasant in the

afternoon with temperatures reaching 7-9, afternoon with temperatures reaching 7—9, milder in the north, ten or 11. as we head through tonight, staying cloudy across northern areas with a weather front moving in. cloudy across northern areas with a weatherfront moving in. a weakening feature, barely anything on it as it reaches much of scotland by the end of the night but still some patchy rain and it will remain breezy. a temperature contrast starting tuesday, less cold in the north and cold and frosty in the south under clear skies. we could see some issues with fog patches for southern england and wales giving rise to poor visibility so bear that in mind if you are heading out first thing. essentially the high pressure is with us through tuesday, generally fine and settled with a weather front still affecting the northern half of the country bringing thicker clout and some spots of light rain and drizzle. quite misty and murky generally but across england and wales we could see more cloud on tuesday than we have had in the last few days. probably the best of sunshine in eastern scotland and eastern england. temperatures again in single figures for england and

wales, maybe ten or 11 across the north. as we head into wednesday, the area of high pressure still dominates and we start to lose that weather front. it will be a drier day for most. quite a bit of cloud around on wednesday, rather grey and leaden skies for some with mist and murk and hill fog in places with the best of the sunshine in eastern scotla nd best of the sunshine in eastern scotland and eastern england once again. you will notice temperatures higher on wednesday, highs of nine or ten for many. this week staying largely dry with an area of high pressure. cold at first and less cold as we move through the week with cloud increasing.

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