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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at lipm. this weekend's cyber attack — the largest of its kind says the head of the eu's law enforcement agency, europol, and the start of the working week could expose more victims. 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 the criminals have released. the numbers are going up. the new french president is sworn—in at the elysee palace. emmanuel macron promises to restore the confidence of the french people and said the country was on the brink of a great renaissance. nurses vote overwhelmingly in favour of a "summer of protest" over pay. labour says it's proposed ‘robin hood' tax on financial transactions would raise billions of pounds for public services. jumping into the history books — a 101—year—old d—day veteran becomes the world's oldest skydiver. lewis hamilton wins the spanish grand prix — with sebastian vettel coming second. between now and june the 8th i'll be
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travelling the country trying to see how different groups of voters are making up their mind who to support in the general election. first stop is this pub in halifax where we are talking to people who voted leave in the eu referendum. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. 200,000 people in 150 countries — the scale of the cyber attack which hit the nhs on friday makes the largest of its kind, the head of the eu's police it agency has told the bbc. europol‘s director rob wainwright says computer disruption for ransom is an ‘escalating threat‘. five nhs trusts remain affected by the cyber attack. there are fears that monday, for many the start of the working week, could reveal there are more victims.
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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 theirfault and i don‘t blame the it people. they are just fighting a battle that just goes on and on. the crisis may not be over. the head of europe‘s policing agency, 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‘ve 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 takes cyber security seriously, and that includes providing the health service with the money it needs. we‘re spending around £50 million on the nhs cyber systems to improve their security.
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we have encouraged the nhs trusts to reduce their exposure to the weakest system, the windows xp, only 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‘ve seen huge investment cuts in the infrastructure of the nhs. in the last year, i billion 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 it. most nhs trusts have now restored their critical systems but experts say this attack
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is unlikely 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. theo leggett, bbc news. another hospital affected by the ransomware was the royal london hospital in east london. 0ur correspondent simonjones explained how extensive the problem was for them. this hospital is part of the biggest nhs trust at times it seemed eerily quiet because a number of operations have been cancelled, ambulances diverted away from a&e to other hospitals and patient appointments have been cancelled, too. if you go into the emergency department behind me there are big notices on the door saying the it system remains down and as a result you might have a long wait. the nhs here has been asking people to go to other parts of the health
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service unless it‘s a genuine emergency. rather than coming here they‘ve been encouraged to see their gp instead or pharmacist or go to the hospital that hasn‘t been affected. if you coincide a andy it‘s pretty quiet, not many patients. it seems many people have heeded this advice. the hospital has been unable to say at all when the systems might be backed up and running again. as a result there are going to be problems tomorrow. they‘ve already announced they‘ve cancelled a number of operations and outpatient appointments. those affected should be contacted by the hospital in advance but they won it might be difficult to get hold of people particularly with the system is down. people may turn up and find they need to be patient, even disappointed, if they can‘t be seen. noidea disappointed, if they can‘t be seen. no idea how much longer this is going to last but the hospital says it needs to ensure patient safety. speaking to patients, they‘ve told me they are impressed with the way
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staff have responded, they don‘t blame staff, but they are angry at the hackers who cause so much disruption here. we can see the arrival of emmanuel macron at the paris town hall, a traditional visit that the president makes on their day of appointment. to his right is the mayor of paris. hidalgo—clyne a left—wing mayor. emmanuel macron was part of the socialist government but resigned from the socialist party and founded his own political movement. france forward , his own political movement. france forward, on the march forward. that political movement, he hopes, will win seats in the elections taking place next month. for now they seize the day of ceremony when people in paris and the rest of france wilbury party differences. a day for emmanuel macron to enjoy the warmth
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of the celebration of his appointment. he‘s the youngest president of fifth republic of france which was founded after the second world war. the youngest in france saint louis napoleon, napoleon bona pa rte‘s france saint louis napoleon, napoleon bonaparte‘s nephew, who had just turned a0 when he became president. a lot of hope and expectations riding on him. laurent fabius, the former prime minister, who heads the constitutional council, who formerly saw him in, that you are the man of your time and by the sovereign choice of the people you are the man of our country. let‘s have a look at the day‘s festivities and the formal ceremony for the swearing—in. hugh schofield reports. 0n the big occasions, france knows how to roll out the pomp. 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 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 preceded her husband on the red carpet by a few minutes.
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it was his former boss, francois hollande, who greeted emmanuel macron. just eight months ago, he was one of hollande‘s ministers. then the two men secluded themselves for an hour, nuclear codes and other secrets were being 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 wants to be his hallmark. inside, the results of the election were officially read out and mr macron was inducted, as all presidents are, as grand master of the legion of honour. looking on, his wife, brigitte, who looks set to play a key role now in the presidency. then came president macron‘s first words to the nation, a promise to give back to france its confidence and its pride. translation: i will convince our citizens that the power
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of france is not 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. from there, it was his first public appearance as president, driven up the champs—elysees to the arc de triomphe. it‘s been a day of ceremony and ritual and ringing rhetoric, images and impressions which show to the french the importance of this moment, sacramental handing on of power to their new, youthful leader. but, as the ceremony ends, the work begins. president macron has promised france a renaissance, a big word and a big task. hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. nurses are promising a summer of protest across the uk and possible industrial action. members of the royal college of nursing —
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at their annual conference in liverpool — are calling on the next government to end years of below—inflation pay increases. but a ballot will be needed, before any strike goes ahead. our health correspondent jane dreaper is in liverpool. nurses are particularly angry because they‘ve now had seven years of pay freezes and pay rises, a pay freeze began in 2010 and it lasted for two years and then, in 2012, their pay rises were capped at 1% and it‘s gone on since then. many here in the hall were saying they really feel they‘ve reached their limit with this. a very emotional debate, very highly charged. one of the speakers here was a man who‘d just finished a night shift in liverpool and came to speak to say he was struggling to make ends meet. the government points out that nurses, as well as the pay rises, get incremental pay as they progress in theirjobs but many people here are just saying enough is enough. talking, i think i saw a report from one executive suggesting that 1a% pay cut, in real terms, because their pay
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hasn‘t kept pace with inflation. yes, the union here, the uk‘s largest nursing union, say that its members have had a 1a% real terms pay cut. when you put that to different bodies and independent analysis, the health foundation for example thinks it‘s more like 6% in real terms over those years, since 2010 because it depends on what measure of inflation you are using. but nobody seems to be disputing that the uk‘s nurses have had a real terms pay cut. this move today is significant because if they go ahead with a ballot it will be the first time this union has balloted for industrial action. it really reflects a hardening of their position. do you think there is any concern in the rcn that what happened with thejunior doctors, industrial action, that became very messy and bitter and it‘s
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questionable whether it achieve the objectives that the junior doctors had set out when they went down what was a very controversial path for them too because they hadn‘t been on strike before either. that‘s right, a really protracted dispute and let‘s remember that doctors and nurses in general enjoyed huge public support but one speaker here today said, you know, we‘ve got the public with us at the moment and we need to make sure we absolutely keep them onside. yes, that is a risk that this union is aware of as they move towards a possible ballot. i think another thing that‘s interesting, they reported on some polling today, they had a three—week poll for members to express their opinions about strikes and industrial action and only 19% of those eligible to vote in that actually did so and expressed a view in that poll, so clearly the union has a lot of work to do to engage with its own members at the royal college of nursing as to the fundamental question of whether they want to stage the uk‘s first all out nurses strike.
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a teenager has been stabbed to death and two others injured during a brawl in north london. police found the injured 18—year—old after they were called to enfield on saturday night over reports of a fight. he was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead an hour later. two others also suffered stab wounds. scotland yard has launched a murder investigation but said no arrests have yet been made. japan says north korea‘s latest test may have involved an entirely new type of missile. japan‘s defence minister said this was the first time pyongyang had fired a missile that had reached an altitude of more than two thousand kilometres. the us military confirmed that a missile was launched near the north western city of kusong and landed in the sea ofjapan. the new president of south korea, moonjae—in, called the launch a reckless provocation. 0ur correspondent steve evans — who‘s in the south korean capital — gave us more details
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about the test. north korea is now conducting missile tests about once every two or three weeks. the previous two were duds but this one clearly wasn‘t. if the japanese defence ministry is getting it right and this missile reached an altitude of 2,000 kilometres, it marks a big improvement in north korea‘s technology. that would mean it‘s getting close to having an intercontinental ballistic missile — something president trump said would not happen. the condemnation has been pretty routine, the same words from seoul and tokyo. president trump and the white house have condemned the test. there‘s been talk of negotiation recently. president trump said he‘d be proud to meet kimjong—un if the conditions were right. and north korean diplomats said that talks may happen if the conditions were right. another missile test indicates that the conditions aren‘t right yet. the cyber attack
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which hit the nhs and affected 150 countries — is the biggest of its kind in history, according to the head of europol emmanuel macron becomes french president in an elaborate ceremony at the elysee palace. nurses vote overwhelmingly in favour of a "summer of protest" over pay. it's it‘s been a decisive weekend. hull city have been relegated from the premier league. it was a day of contrasts at selhurst park. the a—0 scoreline confirmed hull‘s drop the championship, but there were celebrations for crystal palace, as the win meant they are safe in the top flight for next season. nick parrott reports. had the season started when marco
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silva took charge at hull city they would have been tempered heading into their match with crystal palace. he made them almost unbeatable at home but couldn‘t improve their awfulform unbeatable at home but couldn‘t improve their awful form on the road. many who travelled to selhurst park were resigned to their fate and they knew it wasn‘t going to be their day as early as the third minute. 0n their day as early as the third minute. on loan defender had built this match as the equivalent of a champions league final. his error that led to wilfried zaha‘s goal was more akin to what you‘d see in a park ona more akin to what you‘d see in a park on a sunday morning. the tigers proved toothless when they ventured forward , proved toothless when they ventured forward, not managing a single shot on target. palace scored all four of theirs. christian benteke given all theirs. christian benteke given all the space he needed to make his 2—0. hull might have scored had they been awarded a penalty for this. if referee martin atkinson missed it, he was on the ball in the second half. no dispute over palace‘s spot kick. the home side went content to leave it there either. patrick ran
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an halt striking in the final minute for the eagles to soar to safety while condemning hull to the championship. nick parrott, bbc news. sad for ourfans, sad for our fans, for our sad for ourfans, for our boys, for the club. it is not a good moment. now is the moment the club gives the next step. it‘s hard to understand why this happened, with many goals during the season. today we come here to play one final. we start in a bad way. we give for them what they want for the match. there's no doubt the new players arriving in january made there's no doubt the new players arriving injanuary made a massive effort and a massive difference as well. that lifted all the other players here. for me, it's the
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hardest one i've done, because of the fixtures that we had to face going into the last eight or nine games. to come out of those fixtures with a win against chelsea away, liverpool away, and arsenal at home. if you see what arsenal have done i'iow if you see what arsenal have done now since that victory, it shows you how big a task it was for us. and in the end we've done it with a game to go, i'm glad to say. liverpool need two wins from their last two games to guarantee champions league football next season, and they look like they‘ve got the first of those under their belts this afternoon, a a—0 thrashing of west ham. daniel sturridge scored the opener, that‘s his first goal for liverpool since the beginning of the year. they added three more after the break, two of those from phillipe coutinho, but there were complaints from west ham that they should have been awarded a penalty in the build—up to his second, after a clear handball in the box from georginio wiijnaldum. in the last of the day‘s three premier league games, tottenham host manchester united in their last ever game at white hart lane, that match kicks off in around 15 minutes time. huddersfield drew 0—0 with
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sheffield wednesday in the first leg of their championship play off semi—final at thejohn smith‘s stadium. a dull first half provided few opportunities to score with huddersfield‘s izzy brown let down by his powers of balance. wednesday spent most of the second half defending but huddersfield were unable to make the breakthrough. the second leg is at hillsborough on wednesday. lewis hamilton has moved to within six points of championship leader sebastian vettel after winning the spanish grand prix in barcelona. it‘s hamilton‘s second race win of the season. joe lynskey was watching. vettel finished second with daniel ricciardo in third. british hopes of winning the giro d‘italia have suffered a huge blow on the ninth stage. team sky‘s geraint thomas and 0rica—scott‘s adam yates were caught up in this collision with a stationary police
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motorbike just under nine miles from the finish. they were second and third overall at the start of the day, but they trailed the stage winner and the overall leader. by more than five minutes. the stage was won by colombia‘s nairo quitana. disaster to the british riders. that‘s all sport for now. you can keep up to date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. i‘ll have more in the next hour. let‘s ta ke let‘s take another look at the scene in the town hall in paris where president macron accompanied by the mayor of paris, the socialist mayor, and hidalgo, meeting the crowds outside to welcome him. this is a traditional visit. it pretty splendid town hall it has to be said. dan purvis is a pretty splendid city. we can see the guard of honour in place as the new
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president of the fifth republic ascend the stairs. he‘s going to the bertrand room where he will meet not only the police prefect and other officials from paris, he‘s also going to meet the mayors from each arrondissement. after a speech which is due to slither in five or ten minutes time, president macron will also be speaking to foreign ambassadors and religious leaders. he‘s only hanging around until 5pm when he gets to head back to the lycee palace, and with great relief at his feet up for five minutes before he starts the serious business of forming a government. we expect him to announce his prime minister tomorrow before he heads to berlin to meet angela merkel. 0ne minister tomorrow before he heads to berlin to meet angela merkel. one of his big proposals is european union reform. we‘ll return to palace once we have more news. “— reform. we‘ll return to palace once we have more news. —— return to paris. here in the general election
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campaign labour says it would raise billions of pounds for public services with a new tax on financial transactions. known to economists as a robin hood tax. the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell said the levy would bring in 26 billion pounds over the course of the next parliament. but the conservatives say targeting the city of london would lead to job losses. speaking on the andrew marr show, the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, said it‘s right that all transactions including what are called derivatives, are taxed the same. the truth is is that at the moment, we have got a tax which applies when you buy stocks and shares. currently, some people called market—makers, with hedge funds and so on, if they buy these shares they do not pay the tax. i don‘t understand why that is, but the other thing is that we also think that we should extend this tax to different types of financial instruments. it is a betting on the stock market and will help to stabilise it.
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many other countries do it. hillary clinton wanted to do it if she was elected as president, nibley says that she is trying to undermine wall street. the eu is looking at that... it should be done in coordination with other countries to avoid hedge fund managers from moving to paris or dublin, wherever? you want to keep businesses here? i think the house of lords committee on this was interesting, looking at any changes of behaviour and they said they did not think it would be as drastic as some of the doomsayers say that it will. it is a question ofjust tidying this tax up. it does not seem to me to be right you can bet on the stock market or bet on the debts of a company and not pay tax, whereas it you want to invest, you have to pay tax. kate andrews, from the institute of economic affairs, says it isn‘tjust companies or major investors who would feel the impact of a robin hood tax. once again we‘re seeing this fallacy
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being highlighted that if you try to go after big corporations and tax them, there be knock—on effects. and unfortunately whether you‘re a pensioner or a saver, whether you‘re a small investor who might be hit with higher charges or if you‘re anyone borrowing money who might be hit with higher interest rates, something like a robin hood tax is going to affect ordinary people and the end of the day. even if your well—meaning attempts to get people with a lot of money, the bigger corporations and the banks, to be paying more into the system, always when we see these kinds of interventions it‘s ordinary people who are most badly affected. at the moment, especially with the financial sector and the city in particular being concerned about the knock—on effects of brexit it‘s very possible that they may move more of their business to other countries which would take them in with open arms. i don‘t think anyone thinks a bank is going to up and leave overnight but you could easily see financial transactions here in the uk decreasing and that means less tax revenue coming in. labour said that this policy is going to raise over £20 billion but realistically that has to assume
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that financial transactions will stay where they are but what they would really want to do if they were interested in getting more money into the treasury is to encourage the financial sector, encourage growth there, create more jobs and then, through thosejobs, you‘d have higher tax revenues. the conservatives say they‘lljoin forces with councils and housing associations to build thousands of new homes for rent — if they win the general election. theresa may says she wants to fix a broken market. it‘s not clear how much money the tories would invest or exactly how many new properties would be built. labour has dismissed the announcement as spin. here‘s our political correspondent, iain watson. it is my great pleasure to hand that over to you. mrs thatcher became famous for selling off council houses. but this conservative prime minister is now pledging to help local authorities build more of them. if re—elected, theresa may would give councils new powers to purchase derelict land and buildings at below market value. housing associations as well as local authorities could then use these to build more homes for rent. some homes would be sold off
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after ten to 15 years. tenants would have first option to buy and then proceeds used to fund more rented housing. the policy is aimed at voters who might not be traditionally conservative supporters, including some of the million people on housing waiting lists. while the conservatives say thousands of new homes would be provided, a precise figure is yet to be given and they have not said how much extra funding would be given. labour pledges to build 100,000 homes a year for rent and sale by the end of next parliament. the party says that conservative policy is spin, not substance, as some of the details are yet to be revealed. the liberal democrats have pledged to keep the uk‘s aid spending at the u.n.‘s target of 0.7% of national income — while keeping defence spending at nato‘s benchmark of 2%. the leader tim farron said his party‘s success in turning the 0.7% figure into law during the coalition government had prevented conservative ministers
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from ditching the promise. this announcement means all three major parties are committed to both the un and nato targets, following similar commitments from both the conservatives and labour. the snp leader, scotland‘s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has admitted that numeracy and literacy have got worse in scottish schools. a survey last week showed fewer than half of thirteen and fourteen year old pupils were performing well in writing. nicola sturgeon told the andrew marr show that action is being taken to address it. a british veteran of the second world war has become the world‘s oldest skydiver. verdun hayes, who‘s 101 years old, completed a parachute jump from 15000 feet. he made the leap with three generations of his family — his son, grandson and great—grandson. good for them. darren bett has the weather. welcome rain on the way for farmers
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and growers over the week ahead. initially coming from this area of low pressure heading from a long way south to the uk. it will draw up warm air which holds more moisture, hence the chances of heavy rain. this band of clouds brought a band of rain earlier. it cleared away and we‘ve seen of rain earlier. it cleared away and we‘ve seen showers of rain earlier. it cleared away and we‘ve seen showers and sunshine. showers will fade away this evening and it would be clear for good showers will fade away this evening and it would be clearfor good part of the night towards eastern areas and towards the west, thickening cloud with the area of low pressure approaching and wind and rain on the way. temperatures of eight or 9 degrees. into monday morning, rain beginning to spill its way across much of scotland. in dry towards the north—east of scotland. still largely dry to the east of the pennines, heavy rain for cumbria and lancashire. a wet start for northern ireland, too. 0utbreaks lancashire. a wet start for northern ireland, too. outbreaks of rain coming into northern wales. much of
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eastern england starting dry. perhaps some very hazy sunshine. the cow will be thinking to leif —— the cloud will be thickening. not much rain arriving in the south—east. rain easing off during the afternoon. we may get brightness and a bit of sunshine to that used on high ground. even with cloud it‘ll be quite a one on high ground. even with cloud it‘ll be quite a on'deg’reesr= on high ground. even with cloud it‘ll i: of juite a mommas—é 1- ” dose of rain comes on weather front, q dose of rain comes on weather front, linen another pulse dose of rain comes on weather front, then another pulse of heavy rain returning overnight. this weather front pretty much stuck across the uk where it looks like it‘s going to be more across yorkshire down to wales and the south—west of england where we‘ll see rain at times. north of that, blustery winds and bands of sharp showers. east anglia and the south—east may be dry. warm and muddy eczema temperatures as high as 22. not cold elsewhere either. 17 or
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18 typically. 0n 22. not cold elsewhere either. 17 or 18 typically. on wednesday we see the rain across east anglia and the south—east. this will be the wettest day of the week. some sunshine follows on and blustery showers in the north—west. temperatures beginning to drop away. the last of the warm and humid air gets pushed away into europe. instead, cooler air is heading our way with sunshine and showers.
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