the times headlines the story that the world's richest man is giving $10 billion of his personal wealth to fight climate change. jeff bezos announced on instagram the creation of the bezos earth fund. before you die, please think about your digital and genetic afterlife. the financial times speaks to researchers about the huge body of personal information left behind after death which, according to them, " requires careful handling." and liars may tell tales because they have ‘pea—sized brains‘, according to the telegraph. a new study by scientists says children who are often naughty should be given more help to save them from a life of crime. the size of the brain is a p pa re ntly the size of the brain is apparently evidenced to be an issue. with me is lawrence gosling, editor—in—chief of what investment. lots of what investment. to discuss. the verge

looking lots to discuss. the verge looking at coronavirus and apple, its earnings to be impacted. i was not surprised to hear that at all, managing oui’ to hear that at all, managing our expectations, but this is a real problem for apple. this quarter they said they would generate $67 billion of revenue, and now they are saying that that figure, they cannot put a number on how close they will be. so the markets are a bit spooked, that suggests that apple think it will be lower. with apple it is hit on two fronts. it is the making of the iphone which happens in mainland china but also this huge retail store — make these huge retail stores in china which have been closed for some time, they are opening ina for some time, they are opening in a slow, careful way. a lot of stores have been shut, this is where people are going in and buy again accessories, earphones and everything like that. and the apple that has been the fastest—growing part of its business, most other

businesses, china is an incredibly important market. it has massively slow down. and in the wider brad —— wider implications of this report, they have looked at what the impact of coronavirus might be on 51 businesses worldwide and interestingly enough, about 90% of all businesses that are active in china are in the affected region. so again you get some context from the statistics about how coronavirus is pervading out around the global economy. coronavirus is pervading out around the global economym talks about 51,000 companies worldwide having a direct effect, where you have 5 million businesses globally that could be impacted in other ways, supply chain, other knock—on effects, et cetera. this is what is hard to measure. to figure out the economic impact this will have going forward and how long this will take. absolutely and when you talk to people who run businesses linked to china in some way it is the supply

chain, it is not coming out of china that they need to com plete china that they need to complete whatever. .. china that they need to complete whatever... and is the difficulty of people travelling back and forth which is the problem. key staff members who travel back forth to china all the time to check supply of materials, goods, et cetera, they might be buyers, whoever they might be buyers, whoever they are. a lot of businesses are on lockdown. there is not a lot of trans— asian traffic at the moment from that perspective. the independent has detail on this special adviser emma andrew sabisky, who has been sacked, was in number ten and many of us were like, who is this guy? we haven't heard of him until he was removed from the position as it were. the one we have all heard of in the uk is dominic cummings, who has been working with boris johnson cummings, who has been working with borisjohnson prolonged time. this story highlights these special advisers, their role and influence, we shouldn't know their names,

shouldn't know their names, should we? we should not know their name and what is fascinating about this and u nfortu nately we fascinating about this and unfortunately we do know this quy's unfortunately we do know this guy's name because of his slightly repugnant views on things to do with race et cetera, i have been around for decades, this is a brilliant piece on the independent which looks at the history of it going back to winston churchill's time. what you find is these special advisers are very clever in one context, but they have views which we would 110w they have views which we would now find uncomfortable. these are unelected individuals who are unelected individuals who are in the heart of how i sure is true in many countries around the world where prime ministers and other key heads of state will have people alongside them who are advising them, the question is from us as an electorate, what influence do they really have? they seem to have quite a considerable influence, we have seen the now former chancellor residing last week because he was apparently told to sack his advisers. these were people he

would have been relying on the tax initiatives et cetera. so these are people we don't know, we only know andrew sabisky because his comments were found online. but normally we don't hear from online. but normally we don't hearfrom them, online. but normally we don't hear from them, and online. but normally we don't hearfrom them, and as online. but normally we don't hear from them, and as you rightly say, they are unelected and they do affect all of our lives. as dominic cummings, which is controversial and has been widely reported on in the uk, he has become a well—known character with a number ten. let's now look at the times, amazon taken pledges $10 billion of his own money to fight climate change. 0bviously he has been congratulated to one degree, but this just brings to the for all the criticism about amazon as an enormous company globally and its impact on the environment and its own policies within there. as a business it that has committed to being carbon neutral by 20110, bezos is

donating $10 billion which is less tha n donating $10 billion which is less than 8% of his wealth. you look at people like bill gates who are committed to giving all their wealth away, and it would be great if amazon was to actually work out historically what its carbon footprint has been which is what microsoft is doing, and is pledging to go carbon neutral over its entire history. personally i feel a bit cynical about this i have to say. i met cara hurst who is head of sustainability for amazon, i asked head of sustainability for amazon, iasked her head of sustainability for amazon, i asked her how big is her team given how enormous amazon is as an organisation, she has some 300 people working for her in the area of sustainability. i have to say, i met her as part of a panel discussion, she was given an absolute grilling by everybody there because it is notjust about their record in terms of their environmental impact, it is also, there is a story on the bbc news app today about amazon and how the staff are treated in their factories, wherever they are around the

world. there are lots of questions about that kind of thing. and then we have the environmental sustainable and governance, and all of those three measures, which most people in business look at closely these days. i think amazon leaves a lot to be desired, and donating $10 billion which is great, but it probably isn't enough to actually satisfy a lot of people. we have not even talked about whether it will be taxed either. let's look at the financial times. either. let's look at the financialtimes. digital afterlife, what is this about? some people will be familiar on things like google and facebook, if you think you're going to pass away you can essentially leave a legacy to your loved ones so they can access some of your data. as the ft points out there as a whole bunch of other areas, a whole bunch of other areas, a whole raft of companies now where we can get our dna analysed to see where our heritage is for example, whereas a dataset when one

passes away? the ft is arguing, it actually sits with the company that you do it with. a lot of these things is not stuff we think about, we are still used to leaving your valuable personal possessions around ina valuable personal possessions around in a little box and passing it on. it is a huge task as well. you don't even know where to begin. i think when you have so many other things going on, if you know you haven't got much time, this is very low down the list shortly. absolutely, at the end of your life the last thing you will do is scribble down your idfor will do is scribble down your id for various digital sites that you are accessing. it is something that has to be thought about because it is absolutely a minefield and very complicated. very quickly, the telegraph headline "liars may tell tales because they have smaller brains"? it is a piece of research that has looked at the size of people's brains and tried to find a link between that and their behaviour. it is perhaps not the most robust piece of science... 700 odd

people that were examined. exactly, and that is not a huge sample. the scientists who did it say they cannot be conclusive about that, but it could be a factor in explaining and to do with people's social development as they get older. those who prove tricky to handle within school, pacified as "naughty", whatever that is, and then they go on to become those who commit crimes et cetera and that becomes behaviour in the future. one of the outcomes is perhaps to give more support to adolescents to help them get through it.|j think any support they can get is fantastic, having got to in my household. thank you for being on the programme and thank you as well the company. —— foryour thank you as well the company. —— for your company. that is today's breathing, we will see you soon. “— today's breathing, we will see you soon. —— briefing. hello there.

storm dennis may be long out of the way, but its left a legacy, a legacy of severe flooding in places, water as far as the eye can see on this weather watch picture from the worcester area. now, there are still a number of severe flood warnings in force, these tending to be clustered along stretches of the river wye, which has reached record water levels, and on stretches of the river severn. aside from that, there are still well over 200 flood warnings in force elsewhere in the uk, and it's likely to be a number of days before the floodwaters completely ebb out of the way and those flood warnings start to come down. now, as far as the satellite picture goes, we've got shower clouds working into the uk, but we do have a more organised area of showers i've just drawn in here, and that's going to be crossing the uk, bringing pretty much everyone a downpour or two over the next 2a hours. now, over the next few hours, we do have showers around, most frequent across the north—west of the country, and for scotland and northern england, those showers falling as snow, above 200 metres elevation, leading to some icy conditions and the risk of some slippery roads on some of those higher scottish routes

as we start the day on tuesday. through the rest of tuesday, it is a showery kind of day but remember that feature i showed you just a moment ago? well, here it is working its way eastward across the country. everyone gets a downpour from that, and when those showers come along, they will be very heavy and accompanied by sudden gusts of wind, so it will get very, very squally. behind that band of showers, we're looking at some colder air working into scotland, northern ireland and northern england. temperatures typically around 5—7 degrees for these areas. now, the winds fall light tuesday night as a ridge builds in, but then we've got more rain on the way mid—week, so after a bright and somewhat chilly start to the day, we've got some thickening cloud and outbreaks of rain that are going to move in for wednesday. the heaviest falls of rain will be from the north of wales, northwestwards. however, there is still uncertainty about how heavy the rain is going to be around southern wales. but clearly, this extra rain could cause us some problems so we are keeping

a close eye on developments and particularly with regard the flooding situation. now, that warm front moves away and actually things will get warmer and milder overnight with rising temperatures ahead of the next front, which comes through and this is a cold front. now, on thursday, this cold front swings through. again, we'll have some very squally, gusty kind of winds. the rain not lasting too long, but it will be heavy for a time, and behind the cold front, the air gets colder, so again, the showers will be turning increasingly wintry over the higher hills of scotland later on in the day. that's your latest weather. bye for now.

good morning — welcome to breakfast with louise minchin and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: a "danger to life" as nine severe flood warnings remain in force across england and wales in the aftermath of storm dennis. we're live in worcestershire were some of those flood warnings are in place and some roads are closed but overnight, the level of the river severn has dropped. the cruise ship quarantined because of the coronavirus outbreak. the government says it will try to bring british passengers home. billie's bond ambition.