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this is bbc news, the headlines at six: severn nhs trusts are still experiencing problems ahead of the cyber attacks. the head of the eu's law enforcement agency, europol, says the people behind this weekend's cyber attack have released a new version of the malicious software, leading to more victims. the slow down of the infection rate over friday night after a temporary fix around it has now been overcome by a second variation of it that the criminals have released so the numbers are going up. emmanuel macron says france is on the verge of a great renaissance as he becomes the country's youngest leader since napoleon. nurses vote overwhelmingly in favour of a "summer of protest" over pay. labour says it would raise billions of pounds for public services with its robin hood tax on financial transactions. the conservatives claim it would put jobs at risk. the conservatives claim it would putjobs at risk. a world war ii veteran breaks the record for the world's oldest skydiver at 101 years old. lewis hamilton wins the spanish grand prix
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with sebastian vettel coming second. and the stars are arriving on a wet and windy red carpet for this year's television baftas. netflix's the crown leads the weight with five nominations, but there are also celebrities such asjoan collins and benedict cumberbatch at the ceremony. good evening and welcome to bbc news. 200,000 people in 150 countries — the scale of the cyber attack which hit the nhs on friday makes it 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. seven nhs trusts remain affected by the cyber attack.
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there are fears that monday, for many the start of the working week, could reveal there are more victims. 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
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the health service with the money it needs. we're spending around £50 million on the nhs cyber systems to improve their security. 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, 1 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 is unlikely to be the last and insist politicians will need to help the nhs build proper
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defences against new viruses, rather than just treating the symptoms of the latest infection. theo leggett, bbc news. 0ur correspondentjudith mauritz has been responding for your hospital today, one of those targeted in the attack on friday. she provided details of the meeting of the hospital's managers. they are hoping to meet tomorrow to be back to normal, but there is a lot of fine tuning between departments because it will not be until tomorrow morning that all of the staff come in and switch things on in their entirety. they are asking outpatients to check before coming to the hospital. the hope is the appointments will be running as normal, but they are saying there could be some fine tuning between departments and it is worth double—checking. the website is functioning fine and you can go
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online or phone up. they have been working around the clock to get things running because a third of the computers between this hospital at york and the sister hospital at scarborough, a third of their 6000 machines worth infected and everyone them has to be re—examined and switched off and looked at individually. it is a slow process and some departments like pathology and radiology on friday had to switch to manual working, they could not carry out breast screening, mri scanning was affected, and 30 operators were affected, and 30 operators were affected yesterday. but this evening they are continuing to try to work to sort things out and buy tomorrow they hope to be back to normal. rob wainwright from europol was telling the bbc earlier he had some nervousness about tomorrow because for many people it is the start of the working week. i appreciate a lot of departments in a hospital are open for seven days a week, but
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tomorrow from the office i'd a lot of people will be going in tomorrow and switching on their computers since they switch them off on friday. are they aware of that? they are making sure all staff who belong to this trust understand they should not turn on their laptop or pc until they are told it is safe to do so. every machine will have been looked at and they will know in advance if they can turn it on or not. that advice will be circulated and they will have it before they come in. they are aware of it and they have had this weekend to deal with it and they are gearing up for tomorrow. i spoke to the chief executive and i put to him the fact that michael fallon spoke earlier today saying that the nhs was warned about this type of attack and i asked if he was warned about an attack like this. he said that was an easy sound bite. he said that was an easy sound bite. he
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said the board had met in the last couple of months to look exactly at this issue and they had been reassured they were doing the right thing. he said that the it department who have been working around the clock are battling against something they had to be prepared for and they knew that and he is pleased to say that most of the systems here will be backed up and running. they have been doing it one ward, one department at a time, so there is not one area that has suffered any more than another. they have been switching the pcs on one ata time have been switching the pcs on one at a time and making sure people have support. at a time and making sure people have support. emmanuel macron has been sworn into office as president of france 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 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
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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. 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
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to france its confidence and its pride. translation: i will convince our citizens that the power 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
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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 ballot will be needed before any strike goes ahead. our health correspondent, jane dreaper is at the conference in liverpool. it has been a day of intense emotion here in the conference debate this morning. some of the speakers, also people in the audience were in tears as they talked about the effect of the years of pay freezes and capped pay rises and what they feel that has done to them and their family incomes. with me to discuss this is the man who proposed the resolution this morning, the chairman of the royal college of nursing's counsel, michael brown. what exactly is it that you want to do? is this a summer of discontent? the feeling in
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the hold this morning and the emotion you mentioned during that debate cannot be ignored. we carried out that paid poll and it told us members are feeling really undervalued at this moment in time and want to show whichever government we have in the future that nursing pay can no longer be ignored. patients will be really worried when they hear about nurses protesting. we have already seen the havoc cyber can cause in hospitals and the disruptions to appointments and they will be weighed about this proposed action. let's be clear, our argument and dispute is not with patience and the public and we are going to strive to bring patients and the public along with us. we are a long way away from taking industrial action and we have been talking to our members and we wa nt been talking to our members and we want the government to respond to ask and listen to what nurses have been telling us and what they have been telling us and what they have been saying today. will it come to industrial action or is this an empty threat? it is not an empty
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threat. we said we would be responsible and give the next government of the opportunity the opportunity to end public sector pay restraint. if that government continues to felt to listen to the hardship of nurses, we will proceed to an industrial ballot. your members get pay incremental rises on top of the pay rise because of progressing in thejob. top of the pay rise because of progressing in the job. in 2004, a paid progressive system was introduced in the nhs for nursing and other people. that starts people at the starting point of the job and over a period of five years they progress to the true value of that job. is there really the appetite among your members? this is a conference where we hear lots of fire and anger from the delegates, but around the country is there the appetite? 0nly19% responded to a consultation to this. what we entered into a few weeks ago was a
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listening exercise with our members after hearing stories of hardship and an argument that they were no longer happy with nhs pay. this was a small survey. what happened today was the next steps taking that forward and we need to talk to all our members and all the people out there and find out what their views are. this represents a significant hardening of the union's position, but how this will play out in the coming months in terms of protests and possibly marches outside hospitals we will have to wait and see. sport now and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. it was a day of contrast at selhurst park — a 4—0 defeat for hull city confirmed their relegation from the premier league, but there were celebrations for crystal palace as the win meant they are safe in the top flight for next season. for hull though it's real disappointment and a case of what might have been as nick parrott reports: had the season started when marco silva took charge of hull city they would have been
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tenth heading into their match with crystal palace. he made them almost unbeatable at home but could not improve their awful form on the road. many who travelled to selhurst park were resigned to their fate and they knew it would not be their day as early as the third minute. on loan defender andrea ranocchia billed this match as the equivalent of a champions league final. but this error that led to wilfried zaha's goal was more akin to what you would see on a park on a sunday morning. the tigers did not manage a single shot on target while crystal palace scored all four and stopped christian benteke given all the space he needed to make it 2—0. if referee martin atkinson missed this, he was on the ball in the second half.
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no dispute over crystal palace's spot kick. the home sides were not content to leave it there either. patrick van aanholt struck in the final minutes so the eagles could soar to safety in style while condemning hull to the championship. nick parrott, bbc news. at the other end of the table liverpool took a step closer to guaranteeing champions league football next season with a 4—0 thrashing of west ham. the win movesjurgen klopp's side up to third, a win from their final game against middlesbrough will see them secure a place in europe's elite competition, as maz farookhi reports. even from up here, the task for liverpool was crystal clear. anything less than a win and champions league qualification was out of their hands. the problem is, they haven't enjoyed visits to west ham in recent years. but then those were at their old ground. at the london stadium, philippe coutinho was able to slice through the hammers' defence, setting up daniel sturridge for his first goal since the beginning of the year. the home side had plenty of chances of their own in the first half but failed to make them count. it was more difficult for andre ayew not to
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score here but inexplicably, he only hit the post twice. after creating a goal, it was time for philippe coutinho to take centre stage. this run doubling the liverpool lead, before adding another minutes later. rather than celebration, commiseration for west ham. in the goal build—up there was a clear handball noticed by everyone, it seems, but the referee. west ham pause for thought for what might have been. the visitors didn't. 0rigi added a fourth. the scoreline in the end was emphatic. after the result yesterday, all the pressure had been on jurgen klopp's men. champions league football was now in touching distance. after 118 years at white hart lane, it's an emotional day for fans of tottenham hotspur as the club plays it's last game of tottenham hotspur as the club plays its last game at the ground before a season at wembley and a return to a new 61,000 seater stadium.
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their farewell started perfectly as midfielder victor wanyama rose highest to give spurs the lead in the sixth minute. harry kane added a second to make it 2—0 before wayne rooney grabbed one back for united. 2—1 currently. that's all sport for now. i'll have more in sportsday at half—seven. the uk's most prestigious tv awards, the british academy awards take place later. the event at the royal festival hall on london south bank will be hosted for the first time by sue perkins. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba is on the red carpet. you have been catching the stars as they go in. what have they been telling you? they are enjoying the evening, it is an honour to be nominated for the bafta. i spoke to joanna lumley and she talked about
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the honour of receiving the bafta fellowship, the highest accolade that the academy can give. she talked about how emotional it was being there and being clapped along by all her fellow actors, producers, the people she has worked with over about 50 years in the industry. the wonderful thing is looking back at all the clips in your career. and of course a few little things that people do not remember you are in. it will be a very emotional evening for her. it is an evening reflecting the changing landscape of television. five years ago programmes on online only channels could not be entered for the baftas. now the programme leading the nominations is from netflix, the crown, which has five nominations. it is reflecting how audiences are enjoying the kind of television across all kinds of platforms that
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is being produced today. it sees itself at the forefront of that. we are still waiting for benedict cumberbatch. joan collins just went through. we have had comedy stars like michael mcintyre. bafta recognises things right across the board, news, drama, entertainment, factual. people have been telling us time and time again what an honour it is to be here as a nominee. in the general election campaign, labour says it would raise billions of pounds for public services with a new tax on financial transactions — what's known as a ‘robin hood' tax. the shadow chancellorjohn 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. 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.
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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. many other countries do it. hillary clinton wanted to do it if she was elected as president, no one 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.
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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 if you want to invest, you have to pay tax. emily thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary. emily thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary. 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
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authorities could then use these to build more homes for rent. some homes would be sold off 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 un'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
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the 0.7% figure into law during the coalition government had prevented conservative ministers 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 13 and 14—year—old pupils were performing well in writing. nicola sturgeon told the andrew marr show that action is being taken to address it. a teenager has been stabbed to death and two others injured during a brawl in north london.
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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 2000 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 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
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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. 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.
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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. 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
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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, 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. 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 15,000 feet. dressed in a jumpsuit, he is
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determined to become the world's old est determined to become the world's oldest skydiver and is doing it with his son, grandson and great—grandson. they need to be at 15,000 feet and mr hayes is moved into position to make what is only his second ever jump. into position to make what is only his second everjump. and the former soldier who fought and was wounded in the second world war has nerves of steel. he is particularly fond of the brief freefall when they are descending at more than 120 miles an hour. then it is back down to earth. well done! congratulations. hurray!
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and with all four generations of the family back down safely it is time for everyone to celebrate the new record that he has just set. beautiful. really, iwould do record that he has just set. beautiful. really, i would do it again tomorrow. it is lovely, absolutely lovely, perfect. how was the landing? better than last time. and all this for a man who back in the second world war as a veteran of the second world war as a veteran of the d—day landings had assumed he would never return home alive. but now at the age of 101 he is more than alive, still getting thrills doing things that many half his age would not dream of. many congratulations to him and all
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of his family. thank you for your company. now the weather with darren bent. hello, there is some welcome rain for farmers and growers on the way over the week ahead and initially it is coming from this area of low pressure that is heading from a long way south towards the uk and it is going to draw up some warm air which holds some moisture, hence the chance of rain. the cloud is on its way up from the south—west already. this band of cloud brought a band of rain earlier on. that has cleared away and we have seen showers and sunshine. the showers will fade away this evening and will be clear for good parts of the night across eastern areas, but out towards the west thickening cloud with that area of low pressure approaching and some wind and rain on the way. ahead of that temperatures are eight or nine degrees. heading into monday morning and we have got the rain beginning to spill its way in across much of scotland for the rush hour.

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