on the issue of climate change. we'll explore how this might impact trump's policies this term. we will talk about that in just a moment, but let us pause right now and check in on the latest sports headlines, lizzie greenwood—hughes at the bbc sport centre. lots going on including a huge rugby match in dublin. i'll have a score update in a few minutes, but we're starting with tennis because we have the line—up for the final of the wta finals. coco gauff made it through after a straight sets win over aryna sabalenka and she will play china's zheng qinwen whose impressive breakthrough season finishes on a high. the olympic champion beat wimbledon�*s winner barbora krejcikova in straight sets at the season's finale in saudi arabia. the big serving 22—year—old will now face gauff

in saturday's final. meanwhile, cameron norrie's brilliant end of year form continued today after he reached the final of the moselle open. the british number two has had a torrid season with a forearm injury and this is only his third tournament since july. but he beat france's corentin moutet in straight sets to reach his first atp final for nearly two years. he'll face another frenchman benjamin bonzi for the trophy. onto football, and manchester city could go back to the top of the premier league this weekend. they'll have to reverse their poor string of recent results, though, when they take on brighton. pep guardiola's side have lost their last three games in all competitions and the manager says he does understand where things are going wrong. of course, we are not used to playing three games in three different competitions but it is football, it happens. so we know the reason why we struggle but, yeah, looking forward to the game and after the international

break, after that a few players will come back better and recover and for all the problems that we have, little problems that every player has, we will solve it. i hope so. tottenham hotspur have been charged by the football association over alleged homophobic chanting by their fans during their league win at manchester united earlier this season. an fa statement said tottenham "failed to ensure" that fans "conduct themselves in an orderly fashion" and "don't use words or otherwise behave in an improper, offensive, abusive, indecent or insulting way or imply reference to sexual orientation". spurs have until next wednesday to respond to the charge. there are a couple of cricket results to give you and india cruised to an emphatic win over south africa in the first of four t20 internationals in durban. opener sanju samson made 107 in india's total of 202—8. south africa's fast bowler gerald coetzee took three wickets, but his side really struggled with the bat.

they were bowled out for m1 — so lost by 61 runs. earlier, pakistan took their one day series with australia to a deciding third match after a thumping victory in adelaide. pakistan only needed just over half their overs to chase down australia's under par 163 all out. the final match of the series is in perth on sunday. golf now, and england's paul waring broke the course record at the abu dhabi championship to head the field going into the third day. waring, who is the world number 229 — shot an 11 under par 61 at yas links with nine birdies and an eagle to go 19 under overall — the lowest 36—hole score in dp world tour history. waring said he hit the best shot of his life to finish five ahead of fellow englishman tommy fleetwood whose one of four players tied for second. i've got a nice lead at the moment but even before

i tee off tomorrow someone might have caught me. while i am in the lead at the moment, if we are rational about it, everyone is still going to go nuts and fire a load of birdies in there. if i want to be involved come sunday afternoon i have to keep going in the way that i am and i know that. it is a nice thing for me to know that ihave to keep making birdies and we will add them all up after sunday afternoon. finally, there's a huge rugby match going on in dublin. ireland, the number one raked team, are playing the mighty all blacks. the score at the moment is a level, 3—3 in dublin, 21 minutes on the clock, you can follow the latest on that match on the bbc sport website. as promised... so, as donald trump assembles his team to help him run the us government, there's speculation that one of the seniorjobs could go to the world's richest man, elon musk.

the two become close on the campaign trail — here's mr musk in a photo with the trump family. in fact, in the last couple of hours, we've heard that elon musk took part in a phone call between the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky and mr trump after his election victory. that news coming from a senior ukrainian official. but whilst they may see eye—to—eye on major issues — they hold very difrferent views on climate change — and what governments need to do to tackle the issue. elon musk describes himself as pro—environment" and "super pro—climate" — whilst mr trump has dismissed global warming as a hoax. if we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand and think it is all about vegetation management, we are not going tosucceed together at protecting californians. ok, it will start getting cooler. you just watch. i wish science agreed with you. well, i don't think science knows, actually.

so, as donald trump prepares to return to the white house, could elon musk�*s views on climate change and clean energy influence how the new president tackles the issue? let's speak io dodds, senior reporter at the independent and elon musk expert. good to have you with us, and let me ask you that, first, we have seen the man will close on the campaign trailand have seen the man will close on the campaign trail and they have each other�*s air, but they stand differently when it comes to the issue of climate change, i wonder if there is a middle ground and if we expect that elon musk can bring donald trump closer to his view of what needs to be done but to mark? . �* , . what needs to be done but to mark? ., �*, ., mark? that's a good question and i don't — mark? that's a good question and i don't know _ mark? that's a good question and i don't know what - and i don't know what the answer is, i think at the very least, it is reasonable to say there is doubt he would manage to do that. we have seen, since elon musk began his all in alliance with donald trump, we have seen donald trump become a

little bit more welcoming towards electric vehicles. he has often denounced them at rallies, and recently had said he is not against them, not for everyone but ok for some people, and that seems likely to be an elon musk influence, and elon musk, might tackle it like a lot of tech people and those in silicon valley calculate, and what the see in donald trump is someone who is very easily influenced. many people who have worked with donald trump claim he is susceptible to whoever it is whispering in his air at the moment and is in —— impression on issues he has not had much on issues he has not had much on before. it's difficult to predict what areas he was to be put on, so lots of people in silicon valley got late if anyone can beat whispering in donald trump's air, they can

change if you will. donald trump, ithink change if you will. donald trump, i think it is doubtful the fact that he would come around on climate change and be around on climate change and be a climate action person, that b said. , a climate action person, that b said, , ., a climate action person, that b said. , ., , said. sorry to interrupt, the question — said. sorry to interrupt, the question would _ said. sorry to interrupt, the question would be - said. sorry to interrupt, the question would be if- said. sorry to interrupt, the question would be if elon i said. sorry to interrupt, the . question would be if elon musk gets some role in the cabinets at the white house, what role he would have and also what influence you can exert. the question will be what his motivation is? is he there to advocate for things like tesla and twitter and space or be a lobbyist or influence for the common good, people will wonder about his motive. i5 common good, people will wonder about his motive.— about his motive. is he doing this for idealistic _ about his motive. is he doing this for idealistic or - about his motive. is he doing this for idealistic or for - this for idealistic or for the sick of our say that answer is yes, it is both, possibly an actual —— inextricable, and we can't deny the fact that tesla

is cars which are regulated, sam wood space and starling, he is reliant on the government regulation and government contracts, there's a lot of government federal money that goes to his companies, so we can ignore that. however, i also think that elon musk has a strong philosophical philosophical and ideological belief and one can his philosophy may also be self—serving but i think you generally believes it and he said as much. he is effectively claimed and argued pretty consistently that there is this thing called the work— mind balance, aggressive ideology, it is taking over the planet, it is taking over the planet, it could prevent humanity from growing and becoming advanced and getting off this planet and being eight multi planetary species. if that happens, elon musk, if anything that happens

will be important for humanity in his view, and his claim is that if donald trump did not win this would be less real election in the united states and the democrats would die or clearly elon musk makes a lot of money from the government contracts, whether it is through tesla or space x, but there will be a question of a conflict of interest here, or the? i'm laughing because it donald trump government and actions have always been riddled with conflict of interest. i am not sure conflict of interest is a term that donald trump and the people around them recognise. we have seen repeatedly how he has been unashamed in using his government position to benefit his family, his family business —— businesses, ashamed that making policy and choosing contractors in a way that benefits people supported them.

he thinks of it is a synergy of interest and he also owns a social media company, and no sign he will dilute himself of that and in the american context, there interest in questions, regarding the serving president owning a venue into which people exercise their free speech, and for elon musk also, we should keepin for elon musk also, we should keep in mind that not with heavy tech industries but his social networks, he has said he believes a harris administration would effectively shut it down, either through l�*affaire or legal disputes or through creating a culture of environment where advertisers feel they don't want anything to do with it. that obviously wastes the —— sorry he did not spend the 44 billion, but less of the money he spent but he

had others coming in to do so by twitter, but he also believes that x is important for the future of humanity. we watch closely, _ for the future of humanity. we watch closely, fascinated to see how this turns out, i io dodds there from the independent, thank you. some breaking news from here in the uk in the last hour. the police watchdog is to review how metropolitan police officers handled allegations of sexual misconduct against former harrods owner mohamed al fayed. the independent office for police conduct will review two cases the met police investigated in 2008 and 2013 after the force referred itself. hundreds of women have alleged the billionaire, who died last year aged 94, raped or sexually assaulted them. our investigations correspondent daniel de simone has more details. there are real questions now over the met�*s response.

those questions have been growing and today we're seeing the met referring itself to the police watchdog. and what they're saying is that the women who have come forward have raised real concerns about the quality of the response that they received in the two cases from 2008 and 2013. and they're saying that in the 2013 case, there is also an issue about how details of the case came to be disclosed publicly back then. so they're saying that they're referring themselves to the police watchdog because of these complaints. there's an element of contrition in the police statement. they're saying they're determined to do better, and they cannot change the past, and that they're reviewing all the other cases that they'd had prior to his death. i think the other thing, important thing to say is the met has also, on their latest numbers, said that 60 more women have come forward to them since the bbc film. that makes a total of 81 women who have come forward to them. and we at the bbc have received accounts from at least 70 women since the bbc film in september who have contacted us to report sexual offences by al—fayed. daniel de simone there with the latest. around the world and across

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china has unveiled a 1.4 trillion dollar debt package on friday tp ease local government financing on friday to ease local government financing strains and stabilise its flagging economic growth. the world's second—largest economy has sputtered over the past year — and is now facing fresh pressure from the re—election of donald trump — who has threatened tariffs in excess of 60% on all chinese goods. duncan wrigley, chief china economist, pantheon macroeconomics good to talk to you. let us talk about the money what will it be used for, do we know? this money would be used to restructure some local governments off balance sheets debts, risk its debts and the ones that have higher interest rates, and by doing that it

would result in local governments having lower interest outlays and it may seem strange for some people, but local governments in china are engines of the economy. they invest in infrastructure and manufacturing and by doing this, china will be in a better position next year to be able to stimulate the economy in the event of donald trump increasing tariffs, as you say, to high levels.— increasing tariffs, as you say, to high levels. one of the more fundamentals _ to high levels. one of the more fundamentals problems - to high levels. one of the more fundamentals problems of - to high levels. one of the more fundamentals problems of the l fundamentals problems of the chinese economy is the domestic demand. it is hard to see how cancelling the debts of local authorities will help that, it's a more fundamental problem. it's a more fundamental problem-— it's a more fundamental roblem. ., ., problem. you are right, the source of — problem. you are right, the source of this _ problem. you are right, the source of this is _ problem. you are right, the source of this is the - problem. you are right, the| source of this is the property sector, home sales are down by more than half since pre—coronavirus, about $1 trillion, and it is hard to replace that level of spending with people buying houses with an acting sales. experts have done it to some extent but that is not domestic demand, so

china is trying to rebalance the economy but it is inevitably going to take a wife. �* ., , . ., , wife. and one big challenge is if donald trump _ wife. and one big challenge is if donald trump does - wife. and one big challenge is if donald trump does follow l if donald trump does follow through with the threat to impose tariffs on chinese imports of up to 60%, that change is a fundamental relation between the two economic powers. who suffers worse from that arrangement? i think it is fair to say the us economy is in much better shape right now. although, people are us is about inflation, generally speaking it is going for a soft landing where china is in a fragile state, starting to repair some areas, but probably not in the best position in the event of a head on head trade war. the position in the event of a head on head trade war.— position in the event of a head on head trade war. the us, us consumers _ on head trade war. the us, us consumers rely _ on head trade war. the us, us consumers rely on _ on head trade war. the us, us consumers rely on those - consumers rely on those cheap chinese made products that are imported today into the us, so the us would need, and there is a suggesting putting those tariffs would massively ramp up

information for us consumers, but that the same time, china relies on the us is a key export market, doesn't it? china relies on the us for about 15% of total exports, down a bit from the peak, but there is one other thing that happens. when the us levees high tariffs on china as it has donein high tariffs on china as it has done in the past, what happens is traders in china find other markets, and sometimes those exports going to southeast asia or mexico, gold buyer those countries up in the united states, so it is not as simple as it seems at first sight. find as it seems at first sight. and there will _ as it seems at first sight. and there will be _ as it seems at first sight. and there will be a _ as it seems at first sight. and there will be a question as well if those tariffs are imposed and donald trump idea is to bring the production back to the us to protect the domestic economy and make more stuff in the united states, it is not that simple, stuff in the united