this is bbc news. the headlines at 3:00 — the government's emergency committee, cobra, are meeting to discuss the cyber attack which has disabled nhs computers in england and scotland. the government is ensuring through out the government is ensuring through our national cyber security centre that we are reading this article attention and working with all the organisations concerned to resolve it. europol say the scale of the attack is unprecedented as thousands of organisations in around 100 countries are affected. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, has admitted that the party has a "mountain to claim" if it is to win the june general election. jeremy corbyn has insisted that he and his deputy are working flat out for a victory in the june general election. it is eurovision night! will britain face a brexit backlash? we will look ahead to tonight's event. i am live at wembley, where a record crowd is expected for the final of the women's fa cup game between birmingham city

and manchester city. and click investigates how a university lab is working on fillings that heal your teeth. could this mean fewer trips to the dentist in the future? that is in half an hour, here on bbc news. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the government's emergency committee, cobra, is meeting this afternoon in response to the global cyber attack which has disabled nhs computers in england and scotland. the home secretary, amber rudd, said 45 different parts of the nhs had been affected. it's not yet clear whether patient safety has been compromised. the prime minister has insisted the government is giving the issue "its full attention". europol, the eu—wide law enforcement agency, described the cyber attack, which has struck in

about 100 countries, as unprecedented in its scale. here's simonjones. a major incident declared at this hospital to ensure patient safety. saint bartholomew's in east london is part of the largest nhs trust in england. some ambulances are being diverted to neighbouring hospitals and there will be no outpatient appointments today. some treatment has been delayed. i was a bit worried, actually. they told us all this morning that the computers are down, someone is hacking them. i have got to stay in here, it is frustrating. it is after this message came up on countless computers across the nhs demanding a ransom to access files. i saw a patient yesterday and they had a severe stomach pain for ten days. we needed to obviously find out why he was in pain.

we couldn't find out because we could not get the blood results. the disruption to the nhs is part of a global situation. cyber attacks are at an unprecedented level, according to europol. it is thought organisations in as many as 100 countries have been hit. 45 nhs organisations have been affected in the uk, including 11 of scotland's14 health boards. the nhs is now very much in the recovery phase there is a great deal of work ongoing to get systems back to normal. every effort is being made to make sure any impact on patient care is kept to an absolute minimum. it is windows operating systems that are hit. they attack locks users' computers before demanding money. it is believed the nhs is particularly vulnerable because of its ageing it systems. they have been asked to move from windows xp, the secretary of state for health has been clear in that direction. people do not always move as quickly as you would like in these situations but there

will be lessons to be experts say it is vital technology is up—to—date. this is a little bit like making sure that you lock the doors and the windows before you go to bed. it will not necessarily stop the burglars getting in, but it will keep most of them out. the government says it does not believe patient data has been stolen. there will be a meeting of the emergency committee, cobra, this afternoon. 0ur correspondent, richard slee, is in westminsterfor us. richard. that cobra meeting started at 230 this afternoon, and we are told it might not take that long. amber rudd, home secretary is chairing the meeting, and we also saw going into the meeting jeremy hunt, the health

secretary. we expect there are also cyber security experts and senior nhs officials. the aim of this meeting is to try to clarify exactly what happened during this cyber attack, who and what was affected, and perhaps most importantly, what is being done now to try to repair the damage, and thoughts are now turning to who was responsible for this cyber attack. there has been some criticism on behalf of the government and the nhs of their computer operating systems not being up to date. not enough was done to defend the nhs from this sort of attack, but in the last hour or so, jeremy corbyn, the labour leader, has made this comment. what we've now got is a bunch of 21st century highway robbers that have hacked into our nhs and are basically offering protection money to get the information back in order to treat cancer patients or anybody else. it's unbelievably disgusting, and i've got nothing but contempt for the people who have done it. also this afternoon, theresa may,

the conservative leader and prime minister, has been giving her own thoughts on what has happened. the home secretary will be chairing the cobra emergency meeting this afternoon. i think that is entirely right. the home secretary has responsibility for these issues, but the government is ensuring through our national cyber security centre that we are giving this our full attention and working with all the organisations concerned to resolve it. this afternoon, we heard it was not just nhs organisations who have been victims of this cyber attack. nissan, the car—makers in the north—east of england have also been targeted. it has also affected organisations in at least 99 countries throughout the world. richard, thank you. with me is ross brewer, a leading security commentator at security intelligence firm, lothythm. thank you forjoining us. what do

you make of this attack? this is typical, it is not a case of if they will get into your network, it is when. so you can monitor your systems, but how do you prevent it happening in the first place? there area number of happening in the first place? there are a number of preventions, best practice, and in this particular example it is making sure that systems a re example it is making sure that systems are patched and that certain protocols are in place, the malware is turned off and not utilised. how do these hackers find they victims? it isa do these hackers find they victims? it is a case ofjust scanning the whole internet and looking for vulnerable systems. they have robots that look for the whole internet —— scan the whole internet, and when

they find a vulnerable system, download the software and start to propagate from there. some of those systems then become what they call zombies themselves, as the text gets bigger, they become part of the system that is doing it. the system gets bigger, the attack gets bigger, which is why this is grown so so rapidly. a lot is being made about a back—up system. could this worm still have entered a back—up system? funnily enough, in industry speak, it is called spoilation of the back—ups. so the first thing that this type of malware would do is to delete the back—ups, they do not wa nt delete the back—ups, they do not want the data to be available, so they will try spoilation, they will try to spoil the back—ups. they will try spoilation, they will try to spoil the back-ups. when you say that we might hear people saying, don't worry, the data is backed up, are you thinking, no it isn't? i am smiling and trying to

keep a isn't? i am smiling and trying to keepa grip, isn't? i am smiling and trying to keep a grip, because it is frustrating. you hear a lot of people talking about this, talking about the fact that the nhs has not lost patient data. it is notjust about the data, it is about the availability. if the nhs cannot a nswer availability. if the nhs cannot answer emergency phone calls, we are not worried about patient data at that point, we are worried about critical national infrastructure. so when i hear people saying you have just got back up, this infection is massive and it will go on for weeks and months, you will see. what does this say about where we are going? because everything is networked, everything about our lives. i don't know if you saw pictures of the flight know if you saw pictures of the flight boards that, i think, a spanish airport, it got as far as that. the message had come up saying, you have been encrypted. it really is hitting home now isn't it, it is not a hollywood film? as i was sitting in the studio whizzing through this interview i was thinking about what i should say,

and the reality is, this is not a drill. -- and the reality is, this is not a drill. —— waiting for this interview. it is impacting every industry, and organisations need to protect their infrastructure, thinking that they can stop these things, they need to change to be more proactively monitoring what we call indications of compromise, digital fingerprints, call indications of compromise, digitalfingerprints, and call indications of compromise, digital fingerprints, and they need to identify what is happening in the network and then respond that mitigate the risk as quickly as possible. a real philosophy changes neededin possible. a real philosophy changes needed in the industry. quickly, yet know, virus software, is redundant? . thank you! know it is not redundant. jeremy corbyn has insisted he and his deputy tom watson, are "are working flat out" for a labour victory at the general election. mr corbyn's comments come after tom watson told the guardian that there could be a "margaret thatcher—style landslide" for the conservatives, if labour maintained its current lead in opinion polls. mr watson said it would be "very very difficult" for labour to turn the poll numbers around,

and the party had a "mountain to climb". there are a couple of different interpretations of these comments, one is that it is a statement of the obvious, labour being very much behind in the opinion polls. some polls put labour behind up to 20 points. but there is another interpretation that this is an unhelpful addition to the diagnosis of labour's travails at this point in the election campaign, tom watson warning that if labour does not narrow the poll difference, then the conservatives could be on course for a majority of more than100 mps, meaning that theresa may, if she was prime minister, would be able to do what she likes. we have heard within the last half hourfrom jeremy corbyn who is out campaigning in great yarmouth, and he was asked whether he was worried about a conservative landslide. i am out round the whole country, and so is the party, putting out a message. we are a party, for the many, not for the few.

we will invest in our nhs and our education system, we will protect our pensions and pensioners, and ensure that there is an expanding economy that works for all. there will not be six million people earning less than the living wage under a labour government, there will not be tens of thousands sleeping on our streets every night. that is the difference that a labour government will make. are you not worry that your deputy leader has said that? i have spoken to my deputy leader this morning, talking about the nhs cyber attack and our policies for sport, art and culture, which are within his brief. we are both working absolutely flat out to get labour mps elected onjune the 8th. jeremy corbyn has always insisted that he is in it to win it, but there have been more comments from gordon brown this afternoon, the former prime minister, in a speech to labour members in scotland, who said that theresa may wants a blank cheque. it is up to you, labour voters, to select your local candidates who will be champions

for things like the nhs, for education, for socialjustice. no mention of a future labour government, so the subtext is that labour will be in opposition, so let's make it a strong one. that is not the message thatjeremy corbyn will be trying to put out today, but a hint there from other senior labour figures today, a slightly different message. thank you very much. the prime minister has been on the campaign trail in northern ireland today. visiting an agrictultrual show in county antrim, she discussed the impact of brexit, and also urged local politicians to "come together" and restore power sharing at stormont. our correspondent nick higham is there. it looks busy behind you, nick, was it busy for the prime minister? absolutely, yes. this is the balmoral show, about 100,000 people

expected here over the four days. the prime minister paid a visit, stopping off at the women's institute stand watching some of the judging of beef cattle. it was a flying visit, she was only here for about an hour flying visit, she was only here for aboutan hourand flying visit, she was only here for about an hour and a half, flying visit, she was only here for aboutan hourand a half, and northern ireland, from the point of view of a conservative election campaign, isa view of a conservative election campaign, is a sideshow. they are only fielding seven candidates in the 18 northern ireland constituencies, and their share of the vote here has been minuscule historically, less than 0.5% in the northern ireland assembly elections in 2016. this is northern ireland's farming and agricultural community, and one of their main worries is what brexit might affect this. i am joined by a representative of the farmers' union. i think one of the biggest issues in northern ireland is the border, and it is good that

he has recognised that this border is in its top priorities. probably about 30% of milk produced here in northern ireland heads south on a daily basis, 40% of our lambs that are produced here head south, and quite a bit of product comes from south to north, so there are serious everyday logistical issues. you did not have a chance to talk to the prime minister, but you have spoken to james brokenshire, the northern ireland secretary. what do you say to him that the northern ireland should be doing about this as mac —— that the government should be doing about this? there have to be imaginative situations to all of this. time will tell that what that means, but anything that is going to head towards a hard border we will present huge challenges to the food industry in northern ireland. you hear about models elsewhere, the

border between sweden and norway, for instance. has anybody put a finger on what an imaginative solution might be? we have not had any suggestions of what that might be. the main thing is that there is a recognition they are within the uk government and, when we speak to our counterparts in southern ireland, we do realise that this is one of the key areas, and there will have to be some serious thinking done about this one. goal thank you very much. high on the european commission's agenda. it looks as though it will have to be high on the british government's agenda. how do you maintain cross—border trade in northern ireland and the republic of ireland if one is in the eu and one is no longer? thank you, nick. the government's emergency

committee, cobra, are meeting to discuss the cyber attack which has disabled nhs computers in england and scotland. the nissan plant in sunderland has also confirmed that it has been affected. europol say the scale of the attack is unprecedented as thousands of organisations in around 100 countries are affected. jeremy corbyn has denied that senior members of the labour party are already admitting defeat in thejune general election. and in sport, manchester city are up to third in the premier league after this leicester city penalty was co ntroversially leicester city penalty was controversially ruled out. rangers have sealed third place in the scottish premiership after a 2— when over heart of midlothian. i will

have more on all of those stories in the next hour. united states presidents donald trump says he wants to move quickly to select a new fbi director after he fired james, a earlier this week. ——james he fired james, a earlier this week. —— james comey. he appeared to threaten james comey that he —— james comey. he appeared to threatenjames comey that he has tapes of their conversations. for patients who need palliative care in the final who need palliative care in the final days of their lives, the option to be cared for, and die, at home, isn't something that's always available. a new survey suggests that one of the main barriers is a shortage of specialists, who can also offer the right

training to family members. graham satchell reports. my husband, roger, i'd been married to for 47 years and he was raf aircrew. a brave man. 13 years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer. when his condition was terminal, the only thing he wanted to do was to die in his own house, with his own things and me looking after him. ok, so we'll practise with some water. we'lljust draw up a ml of water. zilla took part in a trial project. with the help of a district nurse, she was trained to give controlled doses of pain relief to her husband at home. how easy did you find this process? yes, it was easy for me, with your adequate instruction. zilla didn't have to actually inject the pain relief into her husband's arm — a thin tube or cannula was already in place and the dosage was closely controlled. it allowed her to relieve her husband's pain in his dying days,

without relying on a nurse, who could be several hours away. this was such a godsend to me, to be able to do that. it took away all of the hopeless, helpless feeling you have to see someone you have loved for so long in pain, and it was wonderful. it is so important for people to have the death they want, where they want it to be. it has a lasting effect on the family they leave behind and i think that if that family can see they died peacefully and pain—free, at home, where they wanted to be, then that's the overriding factor. and we just secure that... according to the national council for palliative care, most people would prefer to die at home, but a survey of 370 healthcare professionals suggests, for many, it's not happening. more than one third of nurses and gps who support dying people at home say staffing levels are not sufficient to meet pain management needs. 20% said their caseload was not manageable and nearly one third said the availability of end of life care training in theirarea

was inadequate. our study shows that we are really failing people who want to spend their final days and weeks at home. we know that pain is people's greatest fear and if it is not controlled, that will lead to emergency admissions to hospital and bad memories for the families who live on. the department of health in england says everyone should be involved as much as they want in plans around their death. having family members administer pain relief won't be for everyone, but it is becoming one option in the final days of life. it certainly gave me such a feeling that i'd been here to the end with roger and made his last days completely pain free. and he died with me and both his sons here, holding his hand, just as he would have wanted. drayton manor theme park has reopened, four days

after an 11—year—girl died after falling from a ride. evha jannath, from leicester, fell from a boat on the splash canyon ride. the park's owners say the ride will remain shut, along with ones that overlook it, as a mark of respect to her family. two illiterate shepherd children have been declared saints by the pope at a mass in portugal. hundreds of thousands of people attended the service in fatima, where francisco and jacinta marto were canonised. the pair are believed to have seen an apparition of the virgin mary there 100 years ago. it was 100 years ago today that three children tending sheep near the village of fatima said that the virgin mary had appeared to them. two of the children, jacinta and francisco marto, died young. they are canonised

by pope francis today because of the case of a boy in brazil who inexplicably recovered from severe injuries after his family prayed to the fatima visionaries. the third little shepherd of 1917, their cousin lucia dos santos, later wrote down three so—called secrets that mary had told them. over the decades, fatima has become one of the world's most important catholic shrines. we must be here to make stronger our faith and to show other people that if you want, you can do everything. this is an excellent opportunity to see him drive by and to celebrate mass with him. on the eve of his trip, the pope described himself as a pilgrim of hope and peace. at the shrine, he prayed with the faithful before the traditional candlelight procession. francis is the fourth pope to visit fatima but the centenary and the canonisation of the two little shepherds give this year's

ceremony is a special significance for catholics in portugal and around the world. manchester city will bid to win the first ever women's fa cup. they are set to play birmingham city in front ofa set to play birmingham city in front of a record crowd. we will now cross to speak to our correspondent at wembley where that match will be taking place. jessica, i have picked up taking place. jessica, i have picked up on all the excitement on twitter, tell us more about the teams. manchester city are certainly the favourites going into this one, chasing the domestic travel, having already tied up the league title and the league cup title. —— the

domestic treble. this would be the third trophy and just eight months if they were to win today. it is a tea m if they were to win today. it is a team with so much quality throughout, with a whole host of england internationals, and also the world's best player, carli lloyd. but in birmingham city, they face tough opposition. birmingham city might not be doing as well in the league as they want to, but they have had an impressive cup run, beating last year's winners, arsenal, in the quarterfinals, and then in the semifinals, they beat last yea r‘s then in the semifinals, they beat last year's finalists, chelsea. birmingham city are certainly considered the underdogs in this match, but the players have said that that is a tag they are keen to dismiss today. record crowds expected today, you probably have the figure there for me, but this must be fantastic news for the sport. yes, it really does show that

the women's game is going from strength to strength. i was lucky enough to be here at wembley stadium last year for what was then a record crowd, just shy of 33,000, and this time the fa is predicting more than 40,000 people. such is the growth of the women's game, when birmingham city wonder this event back in 2012 they played in front ofjust 9000 people, a remarkable rise in the last five years. children will be allowed in free to this event, so i think we can expect a very family friendly atmosphere and the game will be live across the bbc, kicking off at 5:15pm. the univision song contest is being held in ukraine this evening, with italy's entry involving a man dressed as a gorilla the strong favourites to win. lucy dressed as a gorilla the strong favourites to win. luchones will be representing the uk performing

her ballot, never going to give up on you. it is eurovision 2017, and it is all rather confusing. take azerbaijan, entry, the horsehead up a ladder, while? the audience is not understanding it, iam while? the audience is not understanding it, i am leaving the whole meaning to them. that is very clear, then(!) why the monkey? why the ape? "the monkey," francesco gabbani tells me, "is a symbol that at the end of the day we are all naked apes." among the frontrunners are bulgaria and portugal. but what about the united kingdom? you know, there was a time when the uk was always a contender in eurovision. we always seemed to be

in with a shot at the top spot. more recently, we have been propping up the table. but could this be the year that britain is back? i am hoping that i will go home with the respect of the nation that watched the show at home. i work in theatre. if the uk wants success in eurovision, this could be our golden opportunity. time now to take a look at the weather forecast. there is sunshine to end the day across many parts of england, the showers being chased away. we still have thick cloud and showery rain being chased and not across

scotland. we have a change coming in from the west with this band of cloud bringing some rain into northern ireland and wales during this evening, and that weather front will force overnight. one or two heavy bursts of rain overnight, too. it should not be too cold across these parts tonight, but further west there could be a pinch of grass frost in a brutal parts of northern ireland. —— in rural parts of northern ireland. a south—westerly breeze that brings a mixture of sunshine going into tomorrow morning, perhaps some heavy showers for scotland and northern ireland. temperatures similar to today, could be around 20 in the south—east of england, but somewhat wet and windy weather on the way on monday.