civil marriage existed in lebanon and women generally had more rights but according to the world economic forum's gender gap report lebanon ranks $140.00 out of 149 we kind of fetish are the idea of a woman as a mother but we don't really go beyond that and see that she is an individual and a human and she she can achieve just as much as a man. so the women here are also fighting for their rights and using a particular strategy if the situation gets dicey they go out onto the front line in a calculated move to contain the violence they hope to keep the peace by standing between the police and male demonstrators and effective stressful tactics. i was crying and screaming at them to stop telling little enough is enough all the fights that i've seen that happen between men. and they always happen over some city misunderstanding that escalates so what we are trying to do is just kind of calm number one down. over all the protests have been peaceful and the idea is for them to continue in the same spirit. christina and her fellow demonstrators know that there can only be real change if they show they

world — women are paid 32% less than men on average — according to pay data gathered by the world economic forum but campaigners here in the uk have long argued there needs to be more enforcement on companies to narrow the gap. we to narrow the gap. really want to see plans over a five we really want to see plans over a five year period a proper strategy to deal with this. we want some enforcement to hide it as well. the equality and rights commission does not have a lot of enforcement power that they could bring to bear on this issue and we need to toughen that up. dr louise beaumont is executive chair of data analytics company signoi. we investigated what ordinary men and women around the world are saying on this issue. how they express what they feel. first thing to note is that they are talking about it. this is a significant topic of conversation. so we looked behind their initial comments to really understand what they are saying and it's a salutary lesson for anyone in business. they are talking about it a lot and they are refusing to accept basic inequality. they just see refusing to acc

as for the front so whether the world economic forum isn't optimistic predicting french woman will only get what that jews in the year two thousand one hundred and sixty eight. westerly there's so many factors at play in this discussion of gender pay gap around the world- and crucially experts say that what really needs to change. is societal things including and crucially parental leave and child care right because it's when women become mothers that you really see that gap increase capability with our business update thank you so much. we're gonna cross the table now to james creedon who with a media watch update what's poppin online on social media. and you're starting with accusations made by a french actress against a well known director he said she says that he sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. that's right it's a obviously raise a lot of eyebrows and got a lot of reactions here in france that christoph hoosier- in one of his big at first big feature films cold out or the devils and she played a twelve year old autistic girl it involves a quite a long. period away from

plastics are the most common form of garbage found in the world's oceans, according to the world economic forumnt of plastic dumped into oceans is equal to a full garbage truck of plastic dumped every minute. now some fishermen are casting their nets to make a difference. seth doane reports on tonight's "eye on earth." >> reporter: late in the evening a trawler lowers its net into the adriatic sea, depending on the season these fishermen can catch up to 20 different types th seafood but there is one thing they're certain to real in. you can see a plastic bag here, plastic water bottle, some plastic tubing. filled with plastic. all of this was collected in just about 30 minutes. captain nicola ciccodotto told us in the past they just tossed the trash back overboard. isn't this more work for you? >> no. >> reporter: nope, it's the same effort, he said. his trawler is one of 40 taking part in a fishing for plastic project being tested here. this is all from one fishing trip, all of these bags? >> yeah. >> reporter: it was dreamed up by eleanora de sabata who was researching the impact of plastic i

but it's notjust the uk — the world economic forum has looked at pay in 149 countries globally — findingan men. ann francke, chief executive of the chartered managers institute is with me now — she's also the author of create a gender—balanced workplace welcome to the programme. slight improvement women still working for free for the rest of the year effectively, it's pretty depressing. yes, it is, actually that's the case in every country in the world that women earn less than men. but there are two micro—dimensions to this, the first is the gender pay gap, this is about too few women in top leadership positions. the second and this is even more disturbing, men and women are paid very differently when they do the exact same job. that is the equal pay issue, compared to the gender pay gap. i mean, where does one start to improve, there is a slight improvement as we heard in the report, what isn't happening that still needs to? the fawcett society and other organisations agree that we need greater transparency, this isa we need greater transparency, this is a change in law, six in ten wom

the world economic forum at davos said climate change is the biggest risk to business and now pg&e has the first s&p 500 climate energy the time to act is now the adaptation commission they are desperately needed we can delay and pay or plan and prosper. let me introduce the dr. bierbaum: let me introduce the first of our distinct thekers to tell us about global commission on adaptation and its finding. first we have manish bapna, the executive vice president and managing director of world resources institute. before that director of the nonprofit and also served at as a world economist working on watershed and rural development projects in asia and latin america and the overall lead for the global commission on adaptation. manish: good morning everyone. thank you rosina. i have been looking at this issue the past couple years very carefully and still have so much more to learn from rosina. thank you for that lovely opening. first i suspect what is on the minds of the people the issue we are here for includes baseball with the washington nationals. just to bring these together for a mo

the world economic forum asserted that climate change is the biggest risk to business in the world and we've seen of course pg and e declared as the first causality. the global in addition on adaptation and the year of action tracks are needed. we can delay and pay or plan and prosper. with that,less me introduce the first of our speakers. so first, i guess we will hear from the executive vice president and the managing director of world resources institute. before that he was the director of the non-profit bank information center. but he also served as a senior economist at the world bank working on watershed and rural development projects in asia and latin america. and he's the overall team lead on adaptation. please come up. >> good morning, everyone. thank you. that was an -- i've been looking at this issue for the past couple of years very carefully and even still i have so much more to learn from rosina. thank you for that lovely opening. i want to start with two things. one is, i suspect on the minds of most people hear the issue that we're here for, climate adaptation and baseb

of child in terms mortality -- you know that according to the world economic forum, it is the 17th country in the world in terms of reducing gender gap. 17. way behind many, many european countries because of the policies directed to that goal. of course there were mistakes, but i think that many, many, many good things -- on amy: ambassador, we only have 30 seconds. do you think the u.s. was involved with the coup? is part of the united stateses government. of course they were involved. they were part of the coup and also they acted in coordination with the calendar of the coup. a breathe fire? -- amy: real the? >> i am recognized by credential committee of the united nations. i'm still the ambassador to the united nations. i will not recognize that is a dictatorship and i will continue to do my job the best of my capacity. amy: do you think the president would be killed if he were to bolivia? >> i have tried to kill him. for sure. protected bys peasants in cochabamba. amy: ambassador sacha llorenti ambassador, thank you for joining us. when we come back, and abrupt reversal. the trump ad

last year, the world economic forum recognized the united states as the globe's most competitive economywe have put it back into this position where we are competitive like no other nation. to fuel our economic boom, we americany pursuing energy independence, and you see that in the middle east, where ships are a great danger and they say, what happened to the american ships? they don't see too many anymore. we stopped the radical crusade to dismantle energy production and empower rogue regimes. we withdrew from the one-sided horrible, horrible economically unfair, close your business is done within three years, don't frack, don't drill, we don't want any energy, the horrible paris climate accord that killed american jobs and shielded foreign polluters was a disaster for this country. ask how they are doing in paris with the paris accord? not too good. i will tell you, clean waters of the united states, the paris accord. i said, this is going to take guts. i just close my eyes and signed it. from one day of a big hit some of the radical left to newspapers. after that, everybody thinks me

> plastics are the most common form of garbage found in the world's ocean according to the world economic forume amount of plastic dumped into oceans is equal to a full garbage truck of plastic dumped every minute. now some fishermen are casting their nets to make a difference. seth doane reports on tonight's "eye on earth." >> reporter: late in the evening, a trawler lowers its net into the adriatic sea. depending on the season, these fishermen can catch up to 20 different types of seafood, but there someone thing they're certain to reel in. >> you can see a plastic bag here, plastic water bottle, some plastic tubing. it's filled with plastic. >> reporter: all of this was collected in just about 30 minutes. captain uniqtold us in the pasty just tossed the trash back overboard. isn't this more work for you? "no, it's the same effort," he said. his trawler is one of 40 taking part in a fhing for plastic project being tested here. this is all from one fishing trip, all these bags? >> yeah. >> reporter: it was dreamed up by elianora desabata. an estimate 34,000 plastic bottles are dumped into to s

there's something i'm writing for the world economic forum but actually this would be a good time toun it by you guys also. to keep america's lead, the five or six companies that we are, google, apple, amazon, microsoft and our ai leaders, facebook and so forth, and from china, we need to have a global ai consortium based on oecd principles of corporate governance in a nutshell that shares american transparency of democracy, fairness. if we take the position to lead the consortium to create the consortium, also funded not from a u.s. and nato and other allies, we have to understand two-part solution. this is one, whoever gets to the place that only the race, but actually leading and so others follow our example. that's one part. case study that comes to estonia which is a european union small eastern country that is invalid a lot of ai in society,, autonomous cars and some other digital health and so forth already implemented for its european citizens. when you look at it to our country's and models with the eye. the next auto is going to be change. if the us wants to keep it sleep w

liz: according to the world economic forum, only 22% of artificial intelligence and only 12% i believe of machine learning candidates are female. so we've got a long way to go. but it's against the law so i am giving a pass to the actual management at goldman sachs and apple because these are two companies that have been way ahead on things like lgbtq, making sure they are hiring. i know goldman was among the first of the big banks to say here, we are giving same sex partners health care. so i don't think it's intentional but who are the companies that have been proactive and said you know what, we are fixing this, help us fix it? >> the companies that have a lot of experience in this area have been doing consumer data for a long time, like bank of america, for example. they are actually one of the big catalyst supporters and they have been looking at data from -- around bias for a long time. and what we need to do is not -- we need to build diverse teams that can identify bias and build the right type of algorithms. we've got to have teams that have more than just technology to look a

thanks to these and other policies, last year, the world economic forum recognized the united states as the globe's most competitive economy. we have put it back into this position where we are competitive like no other nation. to fuel our economic boom, we are boldly pursuing american energy independence. you see that in the middle east where ships are at great danger. they keep saying, what happened to the american ships? they don't see too many american ships over there anymore. did you notice that? we stopped the radical crusade to dismantle u.s. energy production and empower rogue regimes. we withdrew from the one-sided, horrible, horrible, economically unfair, close your businesses down within three years, don't frack, don't drill, we don't want any energy, the horrible paris climate accord that killed american jobs and shielded foreign polluters -- it was a disaster for this country. ask them how are they doing in paris with your paris accord? not too good. and i will tell you when i signed, that was another one, clean waters of the united states, the paris accord too, and i s

at the world economic forum, how do they answer year after year after year of a structure that wasn'tae: whatever it takes has become it takes forever, because we have been used to central banks being the only game in town. the question going forward, is this going to continue? the european central bank are tied -- is tied to the mandate and inflation is nowhere near their target, so they will keep doing expansionary policy to reach that, or other policy levers to support that economic recovery because there's not much more they can do. at the same time, the marginal benefit of the policies they have is diminishing and we are starting to see negative consequences of that, that a lot of the members of the governing council are worried about. tom: we are on our way to december 12, madame lagarde darkening the door at the ecb, no doubt changing the curtains yesterday as well. everyone is focused on the fiscal space. does she need to focus on the banking system? robin: the banking system remains fragmented, i would say, given the size of the european the continent remains overly reliable

thanks to these and other policies, last year the world economic forum recognized the united states as the globe's most competitive economy. we put it back into this position where we are competitive like no other nation. to fuel our economic boom, we are bolding, boldly pursuing american energy independence. you see that in the middle east where ships are at great danger. they keep saying what happened to the american ships? they don't see too many american ships over there anymore, did you notice that? we stopped the radical crusade to dismantle u.s. energy production and empower rogue regimes. we withdraw from the one-sided, horrible, horrible, economically unfair, close your businesses down within three years, don't frack, don't drill, we don't want any energy, the horrible paris climate accord that killed american jobs and shielded foreign polluters. it was a disaster for this country. ask them how are they doing in paris with your paris accord? not too good. i will tell you when i signed, that was another one, clean waters of the united states. well the paris accord too. and i sa

speaking at an economic forum chinese president xi jinping said he wanted to reach initial trade pact with the usa based on quote mutual respect and equality relations between the world's 2 largest economies have come under strain after the u.s. congress passed 2 bills backing hong kong protests. and speaking of those hong kong's polytechnic university has been an important place of learning over the years not least in computing and digital engineering.

speaking at an economic forum chinese president xi jinping said he wanted to reach the initial trade pact with the us a based on quote mutual respect and equality relations between the world's 2 largest economies have come under strain after the u.s. congress passed 2 bills backing hong kong protests. and speaking of those hong kong's polytechnic university has been an important place of learning over the years not least in computing and digital engineering but over the last week it has been the site of a siege involving anti-government protesters and students a small coal remained mobile phones the main out.

speaking at an economic forum chinese president xi jinping said he wanted to reach the initial trade pact with the usa based on quote mutual respect and equality relations between the world's 2 largest economies have come under strain after the u.s. congress passed 2 bills backing hong kong protests. and speaking of those hong kong's polytechnic university has been an important place of learning over the years not least in computing and digital engineering but over the last week it has been the site of a siege involving anti-government protesters and students a small core remain mobile phones the main outlet to the world beyond the comes online round has been as important a battleground in the protests as any other it has helped galvanize the dissent but it has also become increasingly possible for the chinese government to use technology online to work against and suppress the protests. earlier today my colleague kris kobach spoke to order time the digital minister in taiwan a democratic island with its own words about beijing he asked her how she viewed the situation in hong kong. i think in taiwan where we're looking at hong kong we're seeing the beginning of a new way

upcoming linkedin post you were talking about this on stage here at the greenwich economic forum where you say that the worldpitalism, is broken. you point to things like the wealth gap and printing of money and monetary policy, unfunded liabilities. what are we going to do about it >> well, let's first touch on what it is, okay we've -- the necessity of trying to be stimulative when there are not other monetary policies, you can't lower interest rates anymore. there's been a lot of printing of money and as a result of that printing of money investors are very flush with money and as a result, they're taking very low returns and they also are buying dreams rather than earrings and stocks we've pushed that to an extreme in techls of those returns and then at the same time, it is clogged with investors investors have an abundance of money and then we also don't have much in the way of the trickling down we do know that we have populism of the left and populism of the right and we're going to come into a period of time where that's going to be the more challenging and it will have big effects on the markets bec

staying with the bloomberg new economy forum in beijing, we've been speaking with top executives in the business world. hears the former director of the u.s. economic council on the current state of u.s.-china trade. >> i think we are having a trade skirmish. i think the two sides have disagreements on trade, and if you look at what's going on, the two countries are functioning. there's a lot of trade still going back and forth. alix: joining us now is bloomberg's francine lacqua in beijing. you've been there talking to world leaders. what's been the overwhelming theme for you? francine: gary cohn was one of the more optimistic we spoke to. risk of a catastrophic conflict were some of the warnings we had from henry kissinger and bill gates. the mood here shifted a little bit after we also saw the bill targeting hong kong protests, and people were trying to figure out exact a what it meant for their supply chains and exactly where it goes from here. gary cohn also said president trump understands how important it is to get farmers back in the growing cycle, which is why gary cohn was saying it was a skirmish, trying to downplay it, but says it is a

but if we continue down this path, the world economic forum predicts that we're on track to have plastic pollution in our oceans outweigh the fish in our world's ocean by 2050. let that sink in for just a minute. by 2050 if we continue on the track we're on, we're going to end up having more plastic pollution by weight than fish in our world's oceans. not a good thing. last time i checked delaware is blessed with more five-star beaches than any other state in america. if we don't begin to change our recycling habits, our pristine beaches will be better known for washing up plastic waste than the big waves to ride. somebody called delaware's annual coastal cleanup along with thousands of people. we started at the most southern part of delaware, a great beach town and north of ocean city, the maryland line, and we clean up our beaches from all the way -- our water fronts from the delaware-maryland line almost up to pennsylvania and the north. while we're still waiting for numbers this year, last year in 2018 my fellow volunteers, thousands of us, and i collected together 2.7 tons of waste,