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the royal college of nursing is calling for an end to years of below—inflation wage increases, and it's threatening balloting for strike action unless the government lifts its current 1% pay cap. back to the general election, and the south—west of england was, for many years, a stronghold for the liberal democrats. but in 2015, they lost every one of their seats there, to the conservatives. then, last year, the west country voted very decisively for leave, in the eu referendum. our political correspondent vicki young has been to penzance to talk to people about how they intend to vote next month. landing the catch in west cornwall, an area where the liberal democrats are hoping for a comeback. a blue tide of conservatives swept them away at the last election, but since then, the brexit vote has transformed the political landscape. so how is the lib dem's pro—eu message going down with fishermen in a region that voted to leave. did you vote in the referendum? yes, i was very heavily leave. the liberal democrats used to be really big in cornwall,
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they want to make a comeback here? in my opinion, that's not really a very good go is it? we are coming out and people are saying we want an easy deal, don't want to give anything. it needs to be brexit for us, i can't speak for everyone, but for us, that's what it needs to be really. conservative i'm going to be voting for. why's that? because i don't like labour, basically. it's between the two of them, isn't it? theresa may has made a smart move to force the hand for the brexit negotiations, but as a fishing community, the devil will be in the detail. the lib dem leader, tim farron, is working this patch hard. his supporters, confident they are tapping into discontent over brexit but some worry that won't be enough. there is a strong revive in the south—west and when you talk to people out on the streets, you can feel it. and you've got to keep away, to a degree, from the brexit issues as well, because i really think down here, we have major, major problems with the nhs,
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education, housing and jobs. people think, they weren't happy that we went in with the tories a few years back. but i think they are now returning greatly to us and we'll carry on. if theresa may is to achieve her aim of a decisive election victory, she'll have to hold onto the dozens of seats the conservatives won here last time round. and that means fighting off any suggestion of a liberal democrat revival. the tories think brexit could be their winning card. in many cornish seats, ukip performed strongly two years ago, but recent local elections show them on the slide and the tories are ready and waiting to plunder their votes. last time i voted for ukip because i wanted out of the european union. so, i think the conservatives will take us through. how do you think ukip will do in the south—west now? their main thing was to get us out of the european union and they've managed that. so, theirjob is done
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really, i think. what do you think of theresa may? very strong woman, very strong woman. i'm going to vote labour. he is genuine, isn't he? he's going to be looking out for my interests. labour's always struggled to convert votes into seats in this region and in most constituencies, it's a long way back for the lib dems. no wonder, privately, conservatives are sounding confident about their chances. vicky young, bbc news, cornwall. football now, and hull city have relegated from the premier league. they were beaten 4—0 by crystal palace, who themselves were fighting for survival. david ornstein was watching. every club strives to be in the premier league, no one wants to leave it, the threat of relegation turns fun into fear. and when hull city conceded afterjust two minutes, it seemed their fears would be realised. wilfried zaha pushing the visitors towards the drop well putting towards the drop while putting
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crystal palace on course to beat it. nobody has let in more headed goals than hull this season, so the second was hardly surprising. christian benteke the latest to benefit. both of these teams have improved since appointing new managers, yet on the day, that was where the similarities ended. milivojevic made it three from the spot. patrick van aanholt completed the rout, kick—starting the celebrations. palace required only a point to guarantee their survival and did it in style. hull needed a win to stand any chance and what seemed inevitable for much of the campaign, was now a reality. david ornstein, bbc news. lewis hamilton has won the spanish grand prix. having started on poll, lost the lead to rival sebastian vettel at the start of the race, only to regain it in the final stages of the race. he moves to within six points of vettel in the drivers championship. stars of the small screen are gathering on london's south bank ahead of tonight's british academy television awards.
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the netflix drama the crown leads the way with five nominations. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba is at the royal festival hall where the ceremony starts shortly. yes, some of the biggest stars in television have been arriving on what is a significant event for the ba ftas. what is a significant event for the baftas. five years ago, programmes that were only screened by online only broadcasters could not be entered. this year, the crown is not only eligible, it is leading the way with five nominations including recognition for its lead actress who plays the queen. in other acting categories, the performance nominating benedict cumberbatch the shakespeare, hollow crown series and you one lumley is receiving the fellowship, reflecting a prestigious career that has lasted around half a
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century. thank you very much. there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel, hello. this is bbc news. 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, spoke to my colleague ben brown and said he fears the number will grow when people return to work tomorrow. we are well used to, at europol, seeing how ra nsomwa re 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 worm 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.
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and right 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 by a second variation in the criminals have released. so numbers 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 the infection will be worming its way across different networks. 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 you are saying
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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 the german rail network and the telecoms operator in spain, fedex in america, russian interior ministry, 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 and you need to do something to protect yourselves. and you talk about criminals
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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 nca and fbi to try and get a better handle on this and it is a live investigation. we are analysing malwa re 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 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. it is the number—i cyber threat over the last two years but nothing on this scale. there have been many other cybercrime operations.
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0nly last week we announced a major operation with the fbi against child sexual exploitation networks with 150,000 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 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 from 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 the here and now and notjust the future. we have seen how the internet has propagated a different kind of criminaland 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. of course, cyber security costs money.
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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? there are minimum levels of investment required but a large proportion of the cybercriminal problem we have is by poor digital hygiene by users and companies. if you get the basics right it is 75% 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. wet and windy weather at the start
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of this week, patches of cloud bubbling up. not many showers for england and wales, heavy in the north—west of the uk. through the evening, they will fade away. sunshine to end the day. clear skies in eastern areas for a good part of the night. in the west, the wind picks up and cloud increases. rain comes into western areas as well. temperatures come to eight or 9 degrees. in eastern england, a dry and bright start first thing. thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain affecting the country. wet weather over the hills in the west where the winds are the strongest. not much rain in south—east england. the rain eases off, so much so we may get sunshine east of high ground around the murray firth and north—east england. under the cloud and with rain around, temperatures at 16 or i7 rain around, temperatures at 16 or 17 degrees. this is bbc news, the headlines at seven: seven nhs trusts are still having
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problems following the cyber—attack. 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. nurses vote overwhelmingly in favour of a "summer of protest" over pay. emmanuel macron says france is on the verge of a great renaissance as he becomes the country's youngest president. chancellor merkel‘s christian democrats unseat rival social democrats in germany's most populous state, a world war ii veteran breaks the record for the world's oldest skydiver at 101 years old.
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