Philippines braces for a fifth typhoon in three weeks. Past storms left more 150 dead, and thousands have now been evacuated. We get the latest. As the consequences of global warming become more clear, some of the private finance is now backing stronger moves into renewable energy to mitigate what is happening. We hear about this new trend. And around 4,000 illegal miners are stuck inside an old mine with police officers waiting for them outside. The miners fear they will be arrested if they come out but their families have a different version. We find out.
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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Heering.
And on this edition, the Philippines faces its fifth severe storm in three weeks.
Will the increase in extreme weather events that damage economies now push business into doing more to try to mitigate global warming?
A leading business voice tells us the US Election result may set that back.
When I heard that Donald Trump had been elected as the next president, I immediately increased my sort of gut feel for what the global temperature will be by 0.2 degrees centigrade.
Also, the strange standoff between police and illegal miners at an old gold mine in South Africa.