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the international cyber attack, which hit the nhs on friday, has affected 200,000 people in at least 150 countries, according to the head of the eu's police agency. europol‘s director rob wainwright spoke of an escalating threat and said he feared the number hit would grow when people return to work on monday morning. five nhs trusts remain affected by the cyber attack. here's our technology correspondent, theo leggett. 0perations cancelled and appointments delayed, friday's cyber attack affected nhs organisations throughout england and scotland. systems at some hospitals like the royal london are still down. other patients have told me their operations have had to be cancelled but i must say, i don't blame the staff in any way. it's not their fault and i don't blame the it people. they are fighting a battle that goes on and on. the crisis may
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not be over. the head of europol says there could be a new wave of infections when people return to work tomorrow morning and he says the size of the attack is deeply disturbing. we have never seen anything like this, unprecedented in its scale. we are seeing over 200,000 victims in over 150 countries so clearly a global phenomena. the government insists it ta kes phenomena. the government insists it takes cyber security seriously and that includes providing the nhs with the money it needs. we are spending around £50 million on nhs cyber systems to improve their security. we have encouraged nhs trusts to reduce their exposure to the weaker system, windows xp, less than 5% of the trusts use that system any more, and there is money available to strengthen these systems. labour claims the attack has demonstrated the consequence of chronic underfunding. we have seen1 billion
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taken out of infrastructure in order to plug wider gaps in the nhs so what i'm saying today is a labour government will put 10 billion into the infrastructure needs of the nhs and a big priority of that will go to investing in cyber security and upgrading the it. most nhs trusts have now restored less critical systems but experts say this attack is not likely to be the last and insist politicians will need to help the nhs build proper defences against new viruses rather than just treating the symptoms of the latest infection. judith moritz is outside one of the affected hospitals in york. judhh? what's the latest there? here at york, one third of their computers, around 2000 machines out of 6000 in total, were affected, and
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consequently the it department here have been working around the clock since friday to try to get things back to normal. but the process is laborious because i'm told they have to reset individually, physically, every single one of those machines so every single one of those machines so the approach they have taken is to go department by department to make sure every one of those areas has at least one functioning computer, but there have been department like pathology and radiology, the mri scans here and different areas individually, breast screening for example, where there we re screening for example, where there were problems, particularly on friday when it first happened and they had to switch to manual working oi’ they had to switch to manual working orfind other they had to switch to manual working or find other ways of coping. they had to switch to manual working orfind other ways of coping. i think at peak the biggest problem perhaps was yesterday when they had to cancel 30 operations. they say on the bright side that the patient information system, the notes if you like for individual patients, they
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weren't affected but to access the machines to get in to fix overall everything else they do have to get onto windows machines so it is something they are still having to look at individually. they say going forwards they hope not to have to cancel operations, they are asking oui’ cancel operations, they are asking our patience to turn up as normal, but there is a meeting being held in the next hour when they will decide what to do. more advice to come from here. judith, thank you very much indeed. labour says it would raise billions of pounds for public services with a new tax on financial transactions — a so—called ‘robin hood' tax. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said the levy would bring in £26 billion over the course of the next parliament. but the conservatives say targeting the city of london would lead to job losses. meanwhile, nicola sturgeon has admitted numeracy and literacy has got worse in scottish schools. a survey last week showed fewer than half of 13 and 14—year—old pupils were performing well in writing. ms sturgeon told the andrew marr
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show that action was being taken to address the issues. the new president of france, emmanuel macron, has been sworn into office at the elysee palace in paris, a week after his decisive election victory. mr macron has promised to shake up the political order, and revive the economy. he said france had to find answers to the great crises of our time. 0ur paris correspondent hugh schofield was watching. 0n the big occasions, france knows how to roll out the pond. this morning at the elysee palace all of the display and colour of an old, proud nation was put to effect as the youngest ever president arrived to ta ke the youngest ever president arrived to take the helm of state. all the great and the good of france were there and emmanuel macron‘s family, led by his wife, brigitte, who
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preceded her husband on the red carpet by a few minutes. it was his former boss, francois hollande, who greeted emmanuel macron. 18 months ago he was one of his ministers. then the two men secluded themselves foran then the two men secluded themselves for an hour, secrets passed on. then the old president was gone and the new one bounded up the stairs of the palace with the youthful energy he clearly wa nts palace with the youthful energy he clearly wants to be his hallmark. inside, the results of the election we re inside, the results of the election were officially read out and emmanuel macron was inducted as president. then came president macron‘s first words to the nation, a promise to give back to front its confidence and its pride. translation: i will convince our citizens that the power of france is 110w citizens that the power of france is now declining, that we are on the
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edge of the great renaissance because in our hands we have all the assets which make and will make the powers of the 21st century. from there it was his first public appearance as president, driven up the champs—elysees to the arc de triomphe. it's been a ceremony of ringing rhetoric, images and impressions which show to the french the importance of this moment, handing on of power to their new youthful leader. but as the ceremony ends, the work begins. president macron has promised france renaissance, a big word and big task. nurses are promising a summer of protest across the uk, and possible industrial action. members of the royal college of nursing at their annual conference in liverpool are calling on the next government to end years of below—inflation pay increases. but a vote will be needed, before any industrial action goes ahead. jane dreaper is in liverpool for us.
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so we could see nurses going on strike? we could. there has been lots of emotion here in the hall today, some nurses were in tears as they gave their speeches, including one man who had just finished a night shift here in liverpool and he told of how he was struggling to make ends meet. we don't know what form this summer of protests would take, it could be known as the summer take, it could be known as the summer of discontent. we are likely to see banners outside hospitals and nurses going on protest marches. if this culminates in a ballot for industrial action that would be significant because this union has never held such a ballot and the uk's nurses have never been on all—out strike so they have some way to go in engaging their members in the fundamental question of whether they want to walk out. a poll this morning at only 19% of those
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eligible who responded to that question about industrial and strike action and their views on it, but in the meantime there is a lot of anger here in this hall. thank you. a british veteran of the second world war has become the world's oldest skydiver. verdun hayes, who's101—years—old, completed a parachute jump from an altitude of 5,000 metres over western england. he made the leap with three generations of his family — his son, grandson and great—grandson. well done to them. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next hello. you're watching the bbc news channel. more now on one of our main stories — that the new president of france,
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emmanuel macron has been sworn into office. speaking at the ceremony, which was held in paris, mr macron said he would give the french people the confidence to believe in themselves, and the country was on the brink of a great renaissance. translation: the world and europe today more than ever need france. they need a strong france, sure of its own destiny. they need a france which raises high the voice of liberty and solidarity. they need a france which knows how to invent the future. the world needs what the french people, men and women, have always wanted. the daring of freedom, the requirements of equality and a will for fraternity. and for decades now france has devoted itself in its cultural and social model and its deep beliefs it has doubts of what it is made of.
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that is why there will be two demands in my mandate. the first will be to give to the french people this confidence in themselves which for too long has been weakened. i can reassure you i have not for a moment thought that things would stay as they were on the 7th of may in the evening. no, it will be slow work, demanding but indispensable. it will be my role to convince the french people, men and women, that our country, which today seems to be in difficulty with the sometimes contrary currents of the world, that they will use all its resources to be among the first of nations. i will convince our citizens that the power of france is not
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declining, that we are on the edge of a great renaissance because in our hands we have all the assets which make and will make the great powers of the 21st—century. the new president of france, emmanuel macron. friday's cyber attack hit 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries according to the head of the european union's police agency. europol‘s director, rob wainwright, told me that he fears the number will grow when people return to work tomorrow. we are well used to, at europol, seeing how ra nsomwa re we are well used to, at europol, seeing how ransomware has become a major cybercriminal problem but we have never seen something on this scale. that is because ransomware itself has been combined with a one application, that allows for the infection of one computer to quickly spread across other networks. that is why we have seen these numbers increasing all the time. and right
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across many different sectors and across many different sectors and across the world. i think numbers are still going up and we have seen the slowdown of the infection rate over friday night after a temporary fix around it has now been overcome bya fix around it has now been overcome by a second variation in the criminals have released. so numbers are going up. and i think that you are going up. and i think that you are worried about people going to work tomorrow morning after the weekend and turning on their computers, and there is the virus? yes, that is a concern as the attack was launched on friday afternoon, perhaps deliberately, to catch companies when they had downtime over the weekend. computers may have been left on over the weekend so that the infection will be worming its way across different now works. for those companies that are not running on up—to—date systems that have not patched where they should do, they better make sure that they have done that before people turn up to work on a monday morning. and on friday it appeared that this was an attack on the nhs, didn't it? but
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you are saying it is a much broader attack on a huge number of organisations and businesses? essentially an indiscriminate attack across the world on multiple industries and services. we have seen industries and services. we have seen the german rail network and the telecoms operator in spain, fedex in america, russian interior ministry is, across the world and indiscriminate in nature. preying on the fact that in some sectors in some countries they are very vulnerable as they process a lot of sensitive information, often on legacy it systems that are not up—to—date and the criminal knows that they can exercise a point of leveraged by holding health sectors to ransom because the implications of it failure there, as we saw over the last few days, are more serious. i think it is a massive reminder to sectors across the world that cyber security should be a top priority
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and you need to do something to protect yourselves. and you talk about criminals behind this, do you have any way of hunting them down? at europol we run a task force with investigators around the world and here in the uk, working with the fbi to try and get a better handle on this and it is a live investigation. we are analysing malware samples that were given to us, checking the flows, financial flows, from any ransoms that have been paid. a remarkably low number so far. the profit generated by this global impact is very low. we are looking across that with other partners across that with other partners across the world to get a better handle on who is behind this. the scale of the attack is extraordinary, is it the biggest attack of its kind so far? certainly for ransomware. attack of its kind so far? certainly for ra nsomwa re. it attack of its kind so far? certainly for ransomware. it is the number—1 cyber threat over the last two years but nothing on this scale. there
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have been many other cybercrime operations. 0nly last week we announced a major operation with the fbi against child sexual exploitation networks with 150,000 users worldwide. symptomatic of the fa ct users worldwide. symptomatic of the fact that cybercrime has become a huge part of the cyber industry and a huge part of the private sector. we need to take it as a topline strategic priority. a topline strategic priority. a topline strategic priority. a topline strategic priority and what more, apart from increasing computer security in a business or organisation, what more can be done to stop this happening? what can you do at europol? we help police agencies across the world to investigate cybercriminals behind this. and in the last year we ran an excellent prevention campaign with over 70 partners for the police world. in a0 cases, we have had thousands of people being able to
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download the decryption and solve the problem. then when we get to the bottom of it, we will add this to the campaign. this is about going after the bad guys in a difficult environment and sending out the message to the industry is concerned. take this as an important top—level strategic responsibility. going after the bad guys, as you say, this is the crime of the future? it is a very difficult kind of crime to fight? it is the crime of crime to fight? it is the crime of the here and now and notjust the future. we have seen how the internet has propagated a different kind of criminaland internet has propagated a different kind of criminal and terrorist activity. dealing with institutions like the national crime agency, we are running a task force style arrangement at europol to make it a global response. it is a tough fight. we are making some headway.
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of course, cyber security costs money. if you are a reasonably affluent business that is ok but if you don't have much money to spare it is difficult to have the right resources to fight this critter mark there are minimum levels of investment required that a large proportion of the cybercriminal problem we have is by poor digital hygiene users and and companies. problem we have is by poor digital hygiene users and and companiesm you get the basics right it is 75% of the problem fixed. this is partly, i think, of the problem fixed. this is partly, ithink, about of the problem fixed. this is partly, i think, about a state of mind and making sure that we have a simple and clear strategic framework in place and attach a priority to it that we should to take care of the basics and work with law enforcement and other industry partners to protect against more advanced cyber threats. that is rob wainwright, director of europol speaking to me a little earlier. let's see what is happening in the world of sport...
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a lot of action this afternoon. sport now and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre here's tim haig. hull city are going to be relegated from the premier league at this point — ben.... anything other than a win at crystal palace would mean they're effectively down... and they are losing 2—0 at selhurst park. they made a terrible start — a bad mistake from andrea ranocchia and wilfrid zaha scored after two minutes. christian benteke got a second before half time. 60 minutes gone so far... elsewhere, liverpool can move into third with a victory at west ham united. that match kicks off at 2.15. the pressure is coming at the end of the season, that is how it is. if there isn't pressure you don't go for anything. of course, we have this kind of pressure and we know that all of the competitors in the table are very strong. they can all win football games, but we are also strong.
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we have a difficult game against west ham and it is very important. how important? we will see. we will be focused already come a bit focused, on ourjob. it's tottenham's last match at their old white hart lane ground before they move into a brand new stadium the season after next. in the meantime, they'll play their home games at wembley. it's bound to be an emotional occasion when they host manchester united at a.30 this afternoon. i think that it will be special. it will be special for our fans, first of all, the staff and the players. and the people that love tottenham. but, at the same time, i think it will be exciting because we are all excited and we will come to the new stadium. huddersfield are taking on sheffield wednesday in the first leg of their championship play off semifinal. the match kicked off at 12. these sides finished fourth and fifth respectively. and there's not much to separate them so far either. into the second half
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at huddersfield. ian poulter has rediscovered his form at the players‘ championship in florida. poulter only played 13 tournaments last year because of a foot injury and has slipped well down the rankings, but he'sjust three shots off the lead going into the final round at sawgrass after shooting a 71. americanjb holmes and kyle stanley share the lead on 9—12 under par. to go bogey free out there today, that was incredible. as you said, the only bogey free round of the day. obviously i have kept mistakes of my card, and played very patient golf. i tried to play as sensibly as i could. trying not to take on any silly risks out there. saracens full back alex goode says his side can still improve despite securing back—to—back european titles. sarries beat clermont auvergne 28—17
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at murrayfield yesterday to remain on course for an historic double—double of continental and english titles. we have got a young squad, and a squad that is very hungry to keep getting better and improving. today's performance was really special to be part. everybody was phenomenal. as i said earlier, the attack was brilliant at times. it was a joy to be on the field with the rest of the team, and i think the great thing is that we will go back in a couple of days and look at that, and see where we can get better. that is the strength of the group, that we are constantly looking to improve and get better, and we never feel like we are the finished article. britain's double olympic gold medallist nicola adams continued her 100% record in professional boxing. she beat mexico's maryan salazar with a third—round stoppage in her home town of leeds. it was her first knock out since turning pro. adams is aiming for a world title fight next.
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the spanish grand prix is underway, and lewis hamilton began on pole position but fell back to second behind sebastian vettel. max verstappen is already out, but now on bbc news let's go back to ben brown. studio: thank you. a cutting edge defence system has been installed at prison in the channel islands, in a world first. drones are often used across the globe to illegally smuggle items to prisoners — but guernsey prison will now be able to combat the problem. the ‘sky fence' system seizes control of the drone if it comes within certain airspace. mike wilkins went to see the system in action. this remarkable footage shows a drone being used to smuggle drugs into a uk prison. it is unclear how big a problem it is. the only drones they catch are the ones that crash.
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and here in guernsey, prison chiefs are leading the way in tackling this aerial menace. you are about to see a drone stopped mid—flight. the system hacks the frequency of the drone, holds it and sends it back to where it came from. you can see it has stopped. it kind of rears up, doesn't it? yes, absolutely. the aircraft is disconnected and it is into return—to—home mode. you no longer can see what is coming from the screen. and drones are getting smaller all the time. do you think the system could cope if there was a swarm of tiny drones? yes. as soon as any type of drone is detected, the whole perimeter fence sort of becomes live, so no drones can cross any of the perimeter fence at all. it is the first prison in the world to be using a drone detecting fence called sky fence. it is part of a £1.7 million security upgrade, but some of it has come free of charge. we bought the drone detector package which told us there were drones within the prison,
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but it didn't actually stop them coming in. this new technology which has been introduced we were offered as an upgrade and didn't have to pay for that. the payback hopefully will be that other prisons will come and see it and both the prison and the company will benefit from that. the anti—drone system will be activated at the end of next month and experts tell me it could also be applied to other places such as airports. portugal has won the eurovision song contest for the first time in the history of the competition. salvador sobral, who is awaiting a heart transplant, lifted the trophy after winning over both the internationaljuries, and the tv viewers. the uk's lucie jones delivered the country's best result in six years, as our correspondent steve rosenberg reports. he could not believe it.
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but salvador sobral had just won eurovision. his victory is portugal's first in the contest after a9 attempts. as for the song, amar pelos dois, his sister wrote it and it is very un—eurovision. no gimmicks, no video screens. just a melancholic melody and his charisma and charm. bulgaria came second. portuguese eurovision fans have been waiting for this moment for such a long time. they had grown so used to losing that winning sparked plenty of emotion. amazing. it will be amazing. it is like a dream come true. flying the flag for the uk was luciejones. a power ballad, never give up
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on you, placed 15th, our best result for six years. were you aiming for a particular place? no, ijust did not want to come last, so actually i did really well. and, of course, this being eurovision there was weird... there was wonderful... and what on earth was this?! but perhaps it won't be the music we remember. it's the mischief. during the interval act, a man got up on stage and bared his bottom live on tv. a bum note indeed. an estimated 200 million people will have watched tonight's contest. the show always delivers high ratings. personally, i wish you could have
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delivered a few more points to the united kingdom. steve rosenberg, bbc news. let's see what the weather is doing... darren has the latest forecast. good afternoon. welcome rain on the way forfarmers good afternoon. welcome rain on the way for farmers and growers. the rain is hit and miss. way for farmers and growers. the rain is hitand miss. we way for farmers and growers. the rain is hit and miss. we have sunshine for many parts of the country. a lovely weather watch a picture from weybridge in surrey. we did have some showers further north in rochdale, where we had some rather threatening skies. rain in eastern england and north—east scotland. we can see some specks of cloud about. not as much as we had yesterday. more places enjoying sunshine through the day. some showers around, some heavy ones cropping up in scotland. the showers
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are likely to be across northern ireland, blustery winds and a rumble of thunder as well. in england and wales, the showers are well scattered. most places are dry with sunshine. watch out for these developing showers in the south—west. creeping up towards the home counties in the next few hours. along the coast this is where we see things that are sunny. things change tomorrow, low pressure coming a long way south. dragging in warm air. and some cloud and rain as well. some showers you see today will fade into the evening and then clear skies for a while, especially in the east, the cloud increases. as that weather front approaches, rain in western areas. temperatures of eight or 9 degrees. a dry start in eastern areas. 0utbreaks degrees. a dry start in eastern areas. 0utbrea ks of degrees. a dry start in eastern areas. outbreaks of rain, the heaviest over these hills in the south—west of scotland, north—west england and north—west wales. some
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strong winds, the rain eases off a touch in the afternoon. shelter in the east of high ground, with cloud and warmer air, temperatures of 16 or 17 degrees. the weather front takes a burst of rain through. that keeps rain going overnight. this weather front in some parts of the uk, but on the tuesday, it is more across yorkshire, wales and the south—west. north of that, winds and heavy showers. south—east england and east anglia are dry with warm and humid air. temperatures likely to

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