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this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines at two: 11 hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday's cyber attack, but fears of a second wave appear not to have materialised. we have not seen a second wave of attacks and the level of criminal activity is at the lower end of the range that we had anticipated. microsoft say the attack should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake—up call" — russia says it was not behind the attack. theresa may promises a big expansion of workers‘ rights if the conservatives win the election. meanwhilejeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra £37 billion by 2022 if labour wins injune. the new french president has named edouard philippe as his new
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prime minister. in the next hour, why the sky's the limit for this daring 101—year—old. d—day veteran verdun hayes becomes the oldest man in the world to complete a sky dive. i woke up this morning one of the happiest men in the world. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government's emergency committee, cobra, is to meet to discuss friday's cyber—attack, which hit nhs trusts across the country. 11 trusts in england are still experiencing problems. patients have been urged to turn up for appointments unless they hear otherwise. the head of microsoft has said the attack should be treated as a "wake—up call", and here questions are growing about whether the government had adequately prepared the nhs
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for such an attack. danny savage reports. this was one of the hospital ‘s worst affected by the events after friday and over the weekend, but first impressions and lasting impressions today have been that things are very much back to normal almost. the car park is busy, lots of patients are coming and going for the appointments, but when you get inside and look around it is quite obvious not everything is right yet. a lot of computers are switched off and not working with labels attached telling them not to touch them unsupervised and it's all because of this attack. york is typical of many hospitals across england today, a large number of computers are still unusable after friday's cyber
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attack, leading to lots of pen and paper administration. but the message to most patients is turn up as planned. everything is getting written down, can't make appointments or anything like that so appointments or anything like that so hopefully they will send appointments out when we get them. did it slow things down? not really know, they were professional about it, they did well. it must have been a nightmare for them to be honest.” got advised by the surgery to go down as normal. and no problems at all? no. as time goes on, more and more computers are up and running again. it feels like business as usual but staff would say otherwise. it was almost engulfing the organisation and at the last count we had 2000 of our 6000 computers out of action and that is clearly disabling in health care
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environment. in lincolnshire it's a different story, the united lincolnshire hospitals trust said work is ongoing to restore our it systems, but in the meantime we are unable to proceed with many of the appointments scheduled for the day. that has left patients like steve expecting results on tests for cancer still wondering about his diagnosis. i suppose it is because the nhs hasn't spent sufficient money on it safeguards that we are in the state we are in. the bottom line is, well, there is only one person going to suffer and that the tens of thousands like me. you knew the nhs computer system was
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vulnerable to attacks, why didn't you take action when you called? the health secretary, jeremy hunt, refused to comment on the situation when approached earlier today but he has since spoken. what has been done about the situation? we have never seen anything on this scale when it comes to ransomware attacks. they are relatively common, and there are things we can all do to protect ourselves against them. in particular making sure our data is properly backed up and making sure we use the software patches that are sent out regularly by manufacturers and these are things we can all do to reduce the risk of the impact we have seen over the last 48 hours. there are clearly wide variations between hospitals overjust how badly they were hit and how quickly they are recovering from the cyber attack. the fall out will be far reaching and uncomfortable for some. it is difficult to know why but some
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of the theories floating around are that some of those trusts might have been using older equipment and software. it has been a very stressful few days for staff and patients like in the nhs. it has highlighted the system's dependency on computers and what can be done to prevent another meltdown. what happens going forward? many appointments will have to be rescheduled. you heard me talking to one lady in the report who couldn't make another appointment going forward as well because the system was not up and running, so there's a lot of administration that will have to be done behind the scenes in the coming few days at least to get things caught up with each other again. things are loads better than they were on friday, you feel as though the system is working again, but in one or two places there is still quite a serious problem but
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things are slowly getting back to normal. in some ways, it's all going wrong on friday and then having the weekend to get things up and running again has helped today. 0ur correspondent ben ando is at the lister hospital in stevenage. it is not often we have to ask the condition of the hospital itself, but how was it doing?” condition of the hospital itself, but how was it doing? i think the hospital is on its way to recovery. this is a large district general hospital, 730 beds, one of four main sites operated by the east and north hertfordshire nhs trust, which is one of the largest in the country. they say what they have been doing is going through their computer systems. this was one of the most extensively hit and it has taken them longer than most to get their systems up and running again. at the moment they say there are still some services they are not providing
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here, such as nonurgent blood tests, but they are saying to people if they have a routine appointment they should still come down because it —— if it has been cancelled they should have been told that already. some departments at —— are now reopening. it has been very difficult for the staff, managers and patients, many who had operations cancelled on friday, came this morning and had the procedure cancelled again, and we re the procedure cancelled again, and were told they would have to wait to find out when they could come back and get the treatment they need. thank you. the president of microsoft, brad smith, has been highly critical of the us national security agency, saying it should have notified them when it found serious software flaws in their systems. and in the uk, the national crime agency is warning victims not to give in to ransom demands as there's no guarantee they'll regain access to their files.
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wyre davies reports. experts say this cyber attack was unprecedented. in the way it was able to affect vulnerable computer systems, and also how it spread across the globe, hitting major public bodies like the nhs, but also individual users and several large multinational companies. the attack was thwarted with what has been described as a master kill switch before it could spread further, but companies that specialise in cyber security say further incidents are almost inevitable. i would say phase one is over, but i would wager there are more phases to come, both in terms of this attack, making sure companies are not vulnerable to this kind of malware, but also secondary attacks. they may be using variants of this. people need to be aware of that possibility. with hundreds of thousands of victims in more than 150 countries, microsoft, which makes the operating systems that were targeted,
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says government should treat the attack as a wake—up call. it criticised bodies such as the cia for developing and stockpiling software that could be exploited by hackers. microsoft's president brad smith said exploits in the hands of governments have leaked into the public domain and caused widespread damage. this is an area that involves both the government and the private sector, and there are a number of programmes where they need to work together. some of those are national critical infrastructure. as we look at everything from financial markets to travel, transportation, and the grid itself. those affected by the hack were faced with an on—screen demand for payment of $300, about £230, in the virtual currency bitcoin.
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the national crime agency warned victims not to pay any ransom, saying the recovery of files could not be guaranteed, although there is evidence that some targeted individuals are indeed paying up. the attack has exposed the inherent weakness of an interconnected world, increasingly reliant on computer systems that are not properly protected or updated, the digital equivalent of a global flu epidemic, but much more sinister, and potentially much more expensive. let's talk to our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, in central london. this morning you have been speaking to people at the national cyber security centre, what have they said about what happened ? security centre, what have they said about what happened?” security centre, what have they said about what happened? i think we have now moved onto the inquest stage of this, and what i wanted to know was what warnings had been given to nhs trusts, and whether they had acted
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on them. it seems clear that some did not act on the warning they needed to update their security in march, a warning that was repeated by microsoft in april. the head of the national cyber security centre said in general terms that had been warnings. i don't think there was a specific warning that highlighted this particular thread, but the other interesting thing is what we have heard from microsoft today, that they have played that —— blamed the national security agency for cooking up this exploit, this vulnerability in the laboratories, then having it hacked, leaking out and being used in this attack. don't forget the nsa in america works closely with gchq, which is in term in charge of the national cyber security centre. there are questions about how long they have known about this threat, whether they should have told microsoft earlier, and
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whether they should have alerted individual government organisations. i don't think i got a really clear a nswer i don't think i got a really clear answer on that. so lots of different organisations potentially involved in warning about this. when that warning went out in march, who was it who should have alerted the different nhs trusts to this potential problem? different nhs trusts to this potential problem ?” different nhs trusts to this potential problem? i think we have a cultural problem here. we have the fa ct cultural problem here. we have the fact they used to be a big, centralised process for running it in the nhs which was far more localised so you have individual trusts making their own decisions. they may see these warnings, and nhs digital says it sent out a warning in april to it staff. they may see these warnings but they have very fragmented computer systems, with some old computers and all mri scanners for example, expensive
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pieces of equipment which are reliant on old operating systems. so they found it difficult to make the decisions on whether to update or not. one person involved has also told me that cost was a big issue, and in the hospital when you have got to decide between buying new incubators and spending more money on cyber security, cyber security just isn't very sexy. banks. -- thanks. joining me now via webcam is angus marshall, lecturer in cyber security at the university of york. it may have not have been sexy before, but it is now, everybody is talking about it. yes, but for all the wrong reasons as far as we are concerned. so while the responsibility is clearly with the criminals behind the attack, there seems to be culpability among those who should have been protecting the systems in various organisations?
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there are some very difficult decisions to be made when you are running large—scale decisions to be made when you are running la rge—scale networks, decisions to be made when you are running large—scale networks, and rory made a good point that there are rory made a good point that there a re often rory made a good point that there are often machines that depend on softwa re are often machines that depend on software to run normally. that said, this exploit has been known about for a number of months and there are steps that could have been taken to reduce the impact of the attack of this type. when you say it has been known about for some time, should it bea known about for some time, should it be a matter of course that those running people's computers should be aware of that sort of thing? in an ideal world, yes. people use the term cyber security, this is really security, and it's an issue that needs to be addressed notjust by the technical staff within organisations but at board level and
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brought the attention of every user, and often that doesn't happen. you say that but if i was running a board and there was somebody from the cyber security unit were there, a simple question would be, "is everything up—to—date? " and a simple question would be, "is everything up—to—date?" and it appears for many people there weren't. it would be great if there could be somebody from cyber security on the board, but very often the recent. when you have very large organisations where responsibilities have to be devolved, communicating this sort of information can be incredibly difficult. but this is a game changer, isn't it, because there will be more attacks like this and people need to be ready. yes, we are likely to see an increase in this type of attack. it is normal that when one has got out and succeeded, criminals and wannabe hackers will
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get hold of it and try to adapt it, modify it, and i would expect to see a variant on this is starting to make its way out on the network very soon. how soon? potentially within a few days or a few weeks. angus marshall, thank you forjoining us. the headlines on bbc news: the leven hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday's cyber attack but fears of a second wave appear to not have materialised. theresa may promises an expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win the election. meanwhilejeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra £37 billion by 2022 if
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labour wins an extra £37 billion by 2022 if labourwins injune. arsene wenger has urged fans to attend the match rather than taking pa rt attend the match rather than taking part in attend the match rather than taking pa rt in boycotts attend the match rather than taking part in boycotts aimed at removing him as manager. and andy murray says he isn't massively into birthdays although he would no doubt like to celebrate his with a return to form in the italian open this week. i will have more on those stories just after 2:30pm for you. all the party leaders are out on the campaign trail today with theresa may promising the biggest expansion of workers' rights by any conservative government if her party wins the general election. the tory manifesto will include commitments on protecting pensions, giving workers more say in the boardroom, and giving people the right to a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative. here's our political correspondent, iain watson. up the workers, power to the people. not phrases you would think would fall easily from theresa may's lips. but listen to this. today we are announcing the biggest ever enhancement of workers' rights
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by a conservative government. she chose to announce this at a company that helps women get back into work, and she set out some of the detail. the national living wage will continue to rise in line with earnings. people will be able to request time off to care for a relative. and we want to support and encourage return ships. today, i am at a fantastic organisation that helps people who have taken time out of work to look after children to get the skills to get back into the workplace. so employees would be able to take time off to look after relatives, but it would be unpaid. she would also introduce a right for bereaved parents to take leave, and after brexit, she is pledging to protect the rights workers enjoy as part of the eu. she is also signalling she will help people who are not in secure employment, but specific proposals await the result of review.
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some small businesses say they are worried about the effect of the new rights and regulations on them. a big company might be able to absorb people going off for a year if they need to, but for smaller companies, that is a significant chunk of their workforce in that one person. there's notjust the cost of that but they may be quite specialised, and it might be difficult to get someone in to replace them on a temporary contract. theresa may is making a land grab forformer labour voters who have gone over to ukip. so getting criticism from business might not be entirely a bad thing. she is also subtly rebranding her party, no longer led by an old etonian. she's claiming they can address the concerns of people right across the country. labour's manifesto will include a 20—point plan for workers' rights, from a higher minimum wage to banning zero hours contracts. but some trade unions argue that theresa may's
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record on this suggests she cannot be trusted. zero—hour contracts, employment tribunal fees, and the trade union act, the most pernicious anti—worker legislation in the last century. leopards don't change their spots. at best this is vacuous. at worst, it is more tory lies. privately, some of her own mps say they are worried she is shifting too far in labour's direction. meanwhile, labour is promising an extra £37 billion for the nhs in england over the next five years, if it wins power. jeremy corbyn told a nursing conference in liverpool that the conservatives have driven the health service "into crisis". more details from our assistant political editor, norman smith. under pressure, with waiting targets slipping and a&e sitting, slipping and a&e struggling, jeremy corbyn is convinced
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that the health service remains a big vote winner for them. a warm welcome for mr corbyn today from the nurses‘ union, and no wonder, with labour promising an extra £37 billion, money to take a million patients off waiting lists. 0ur health service is being dismantled by stealth. over the past seven years, our national health service has been driven into crisis after crisis. a&e departments struggling to cope, waiting lists soaring, and we saw last week the tory cuts have exposed patient services to cyber attack. labour are also to set more targets for hospitals. a&e departments will have to see most serious cases within an hour. cancer patients will have to be seen within four weeks, and labour will reintroduce a strict
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i8—week limit for waiting times. but are nurses confident labour can deliver? he has made some really important commitments to the nhs which we have been waiting a long time to hear. he has promised to legislate on safe staffing, to dedicate a minister to mental health. these are important pledges that we look forward to seeing, if he becomes prime minister. the liberal democrats also unveiled plans today to end the pay cap on nhs staff. if you undervalue nurses and midwives and professionals of any kind whatsoever, don't be surprised if they leave the profession, don't be surprised if they find themselves, as we discovered only a few weeks ago, members of the nursing profession accessing food banks and you find a prime minister who thinks that is somehow not an
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issue. it feeds into a narrative of this conservative government treating nurses like dirt. despite the extra cash on offer from the opposition parties, with an ageing population, there are still massive pressure on the nhs and that won't end, whoever wins this election, with the government's own spending watchdog warning the health service faces a £56 billion black hole by 2020. this is the scene in hebden bridge, we are awaiting the arrival of jeremy corbyn who will give a speech and then addressed the crowds outside. we will be live in hebden bridge, we will be with our correspondent shortly. nicola sturgeon said a vote for snp would strengthen her hand in
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negotiations over brexit. jobs and living standards and investment will be affected by the outcome of these books in negotiations. we have seen before this election theresa may dismiss out of hand sensible compromise proposals that the scottish government put forward to protect our place in the single market, but this election gives people the opportunity to give these proposals aquatic legitimacy. throughout the election campaign we will be taking an in—depth look at the key issues important to you. today we are focusing on the economy and finance, and putting questions to our correspondent at 3:30pm. in his first full day in office, the
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new french president emmanuel macron has named his prime minister as edouard philippe. the new prime minister is on the centrist wing of the right, he was at emmanuel macron's university and was originally a socialist. his first challenge is to get the party a majority in elections next month. france ‘s youngest ever president was inaugurated yesterday, all of the pomp and style you would expect accompanied the transfer of power from francois hollande to emmanuel macron. he inherits a country with
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unemployment at 10%, weak growth and many who voted for political extremes. there is an aching for renewal here, for something to change in french politics and that could be emmanuel macron. some are optimistic, others hold their breath will stop translation: i am delighted because he is young and we have to make way for the young, and i'm expecting there to be changed because we have always had right or left—wing presidents.” because we have always had right or left-wing presidents. i think it is good marine le pen was not elected andl good marine le pen was not elected and i think it is a continuation of francois hollande's presidency. i don't think it will change much in my opinion. later today emmanuel macron will visit berlin for talks with angela merkel, he is hoping to reinvigorate europe's most important political relationship but stressing the eu needs reform. with the prime
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minister now in place and the rest of the government formed this week, the tough work for emmanuel macron now begins. he has vowed to reduce unemployment and reform the public sector. his honeymoon period will last only as long as he gives france the hope it so badly needs. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather now. we are finally seeing some useful rain coming in from the out—lap —— the atlantic. we can see the heaviest rain has been to the north—west of the uk, and in northern ireland. met office weather warnings in the south of scotland. across england and wales there will be outbreaks of rain, the heaviest in the west, and it feels relatively muqqy in the west, and it feels relatively muggy out there. on the cool side in
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the east of scotland. largely dry in the east of scotland. largely dry in the south—east and in northern ireland, but in between we will see afair bit ireland, but in between we will see a fair bit of cloud and outbreaks of rain, but notably it is a mild night with a southerly breeze. quite a warm start of the day on tuesday. we have this band of rain working southwards and eastwards. it doesn't quite get the south—east by the middle of the afternoon and here it will turn quite warm. it will be in the low 20s here but further north and west not too bad at all. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... eleven hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday's cyber attack — but fears of a second wave, appear not to have materialised. microsoft say the attack should be a ‘wake—up call‘ to governments. theresa may promises a big expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win the election. proposals include a statutory right to a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative. jeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra
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37 billion pounds by 2022 — if labour wins injune. it will be paid for by higher corporation tax and raising income tax for those earning 80—thousand pounds a year or more. the new french president, emmanuel macron has named his prime minister. edouard phillippe is the centre right mayor of the northwestern port of le havre. we are going to take you to hebden bridge coraljeremy corbyn on the campaign trailand he bridge coraljeremy corbyn on the campaign trail and he will give a speech there are shortly. he has already mentioned the nhs and labour's plans to give billions of pounds into the national health service in england. you can see voters, we a re
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service in england. you can see voters, we are expecting to hear more on the nhs, he was addressing nursing leaders earlier and we are expecting once again to repeat that pledge and also to say once again, off his disappointment at not facing theresa may head—to—head in any television debate. he has arrived to a rapturous welcome, not surprising, many labour party workers in the room. ready to listen to the leader. danjohnson room. ready to listen to the leader. dan johnson are correspondent room. ready to listen to the leader. danjohnson are correspondent is following the labour leader and he is outside the venue. what sort of reception is he getting? indeed, we can't even get in the room, there are so many people here, hundreds of people waiting outside and the crowds just been told jeremy will come outside after giving his speech, giving his speech again from that balcony so people get to hear his message. there are a lot of labour party members, naturaljeremy corbyn supporters but there are
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people who have come to see the guy and hear his message. i talked to a local green party member who said he wa nted local green party member who said he wanted to come and see what the labour leader had to say today because this constituency is tight, he is thinking of voting for labour. it's been tied between labour and the conservatives, switching between those parties. a tory mp here at the moment. 0ne those parties. a tory mp here at the moment. one of the issuesjeremy corbyn is likely to address is the flooding risk, towns along the sally have suffered badly in the last few yea rs have suffered badly in the last few years because of flash flooding and that's a real important local issue that's a real important local issue that people want to see action on and do something jeremy corbyn will address along with the focus he has given on the nhs. other issues... in fa ct, given on the nhs. other issues... in fact, i thinkjeremy corbyn is about to speak, let's hearfrom him. cheering good afternoon, hebden bridge!
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cheering and thank you for coming, josh, thank you for what you just said, thank you for what you just said, thank you for what you do and for what you will do when you're the mp for this area! you got a candidate who is serious on campaigning against poverty, serious about representing the area, serious about standing upfor representing the area, serious about standing up for the schools, not doing stunts and not delivering on them, i think you know who i'm referring to. and, very serious... did some do say something? serious about the needs of the community and flood defences and river management. we must face these seriously. we cannot go three winter after winter for wejust go into
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cannot go three winter after winter for we just go into a crisis, eve ryo ne for we just go into a crisis, everyone wrings their hands and hopes it is not to wed in the summer. people should not go through this trauma and stress of having their homes flooded year in, year out, it's up to us to invest properly to make sure there are properly to make sure there are proper river management procedures and flood defences. what you need is and flood defences. what you need is an mp who will do those things and joshis an mp who will do those things and josh is your man. cheering and so, this election is a very, very interesting experience. because there's two campaign is going on, one of where you read negativity, you read attacks, personal abuse, you read attacks, personal abuse, you read attacks, personal abuse, you read that in many of our national papers and there's the other campaign which is the amazing levels of enthusiasm, energy and participation by people from all ages, all walks of life. in our
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campaign, in our party because were serious about the kind of society we all want to live in! and i... i've just come from liverpool where i was invited, yes, yes... we keep off the football question! just come from liverpool for abbotsbury honoured to be invited to speak to the rcn conference and i opened my speech by just saying, thank you, to all those in our health service who work so hard, way beyond the hours from which they are paid with a i4% cut in their pay over the past seven yea rs in their pay over the past seven years but deliver the best service they can for all of us. and... i
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thank them for coping, i thank them for coping with the stress there are going through because of the cyber attack, frankly criminal highway robbery going on against the nhs, i said the responsibility for that lies of course with those that are romantic this attack but it also lies with the failure of the government to protect our nhs systems or indeed any other systems. you need a government that will intervene, will support and will protect our national health service! cheering john ashworth and i have been discussing this and there is if few very quick things i want to say to you. firstly, i believe very passionately in this, when we say we wa nt passionately in this, when we say we want parity of esteem between physical and mental health, i absolutely mean it because i want... to end the stigma surrounding mental
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health but interest in the mental health but interest in the mental health services so that people don't suffer in silence and suffer a loan and some sadly take their own lives because they feel a sense of hopelessness and being left behind. we asa hopelessness and being left behind. we as a community will invest in our mental health services. and we will do the same for our social care services we cause there are more than a million people waiting for social care to be provided for them. that's not right and if the government can do sweetheart wheels for surrey, how about making us all a sweetheart and all of us get the same deal as surrey? —— sweetheart deals. although i do realise for tory ministers, surrey is the ha rd est word! tory ministers, surrey is the hardest word! i know that was pretty awful, but it's the best i can do,
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the best i can do today! and so, our offer is that we will properly fund the nhs and ensure that it isn't privatised, £i4 the nhs and ensure that it isn't privatised, £14 billion in contracts don't go to the private sector. some people... will you do all these things you say you're going to do? yes. bank you very much! yes! and tomorrow our manifesto will be launched. now none of you have seen any but so far, i fully appreciate that, but all the spelling mistakes will be removed, the grammar will be perfect and correct and i think you are going to like the content of that. and when... i think i agree lives is what do you say? i hear
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you! 0k. lives is what do you say? i hear you! ok. i lives is what do you say? i hear you! 0k. iabsolutely lives is what do you say? i hear you! ok. i absolutely hear you. there is a story going round and some of the papers that the tory party have now become the friend of the working class and the workers! i simply ask this question. would you call a government that allows 6 million people to earn less than the living wage a friend of those in work? no! would you call a government that allows i million people to be working on zero hours contracts not knowing what their pay is going to be from one week to the next, would you call a government that charges fees and costs for those who take the case ofjustice to an employment tribunal on the side of those that are in work? 0bviously side of those that are in work? obviously not! i didn't quite
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understand the point but i am sure i agree with you! we have put forward agree with you! we have put forward a comprehensive charter which is, rights of work from day one, is the rights of work from day one, is the right to trade union representation, is the right to maternity and paternity leave, is the right to equality representation and health and isa equality representation and health and is a direct representation at work. a whole comprehensive series of proposals there. this election is at one level about the services we wa nt to at one level about the services we want to deliver, i've talked about health, i talk about education, i think all schools should be properly funded and not have to have collections amongst parents to pay the teachers, that seems to be something fundamentally wrong because i want a decent chance for every child in every school whatever the postcode! and this election is
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about how we deal with an economy, do we spend the next five years reducing tax for corporations —— and the very rich or do we spend the next five years investing all across the country in good infrastructure, in sustainable industries, in the good services that we need, in our young people and the skills they need? we all know what the choice is but it's also about the values you have, the kind of society you want to live in. do we want to live in a society for everything is so ultracompetitive we end up with thousands sleeping on the streets every thousands sleeping on the streets e . thousands sleeping on the streets every night? no. forwe thousands sleeping on the streets every night? no. for we end up with so many people living in poverty and we end up with so many people insecure in work, homes, health and education? 0r insecure in work, homes, health and education? or do we say, the whole
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tradition of the labour movement is about as doing things collectively, asked looking after each other collectively. and our national health service... cheering art national health service is an example of that. our attitude towards the natural world and the environment is an example of that. and so when you read the manifesto tomorrow, please take it in and understand all the work that's gone into it and all the ideas that are bare and the opportunities it gives to all of us. but we have three weeks, three weeks, to get that message out, three weeks to ensure that everybody who is eligible is on the electoral register, three weeks to get the message out there of how different our society and our country could be. three weeks here in cold valley to get out and get all the support you possibly can to
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getjosh elected, all the support you possibly can to get josh elected, to all the support you possibly can to getjosh elected, to get somebody elected who will truly represent this area, truly represent this area and the needs of all of the people. that is the labour party message and i tell you this, the thousands that are working for us in the party, the thousands that are coming out on the streets, it is a movement, a movement for change, a movement, a movement for change, a movement, a movement that will genuinely create a society and a government that works for the many, notjust for the view. bad is the labour party away, thatis view. bad is the labour party away, that is the message! —— that is the labour party way. i think before my voice completely disappears can i thank all of you for coming here
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today, the support you're giving and i'm sure the great friendships and comradeship you're building up during that campaign because it's that strength that owns about the real changes in society. i'm now going to make the same speech outside, thank you very much! cheering jeremy corbyn on the campaign trail in west yorkshire addressing the faithful in hebden bridge. for a list of all the candidates standing in the calder valley constituency, it's on the bbc website. let's take you outside, he's going outside, making the same speech, so we won't bring you that but we will talk to danjohnson, bring you that but we will talk to dan johnson, an enthusiastic response. indeed, big crowd here, this is the overflow, the people who couldn't hear the speech because they couldn't fit into the room, jeremy corbyn saying he hopes his voice doesn't go, he's agreed to
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come out onto the balcony, they are setting up a pa system so that people outside can hear his message as well. it's the kind of thing that's happened at quite a few of the other rallies thatjeremy corbyn has held. they love of these people will be local labour activists and party members but we have spoken to others who have come along to see what he has to say, this event is open to the public and hundreds of people have turned up to here. and as we've heard, he's addressed some of those local concerns, giving the message about the flood protection these towns and villages along the calder valley acquirer, talking about the misery of the people who have their homes flooded, some of them still waiting for proper clean—up of recovery, still waiting for some of the roads around here to be repaired. jeremy corbyn giving some of those more familiar campaign m essa g es some of those more familiar campaign messages about the nhs, talking about what he called the criminal highway robbery of the health service and addressing schools and other issues that he has been going round the country with but plenty of
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people in head and bridge willing to hear his message but it's a close fight for the labour party here, a constituency they need to be winning if they want to be in government. for now, thank you, we will be back to you later. in a moment a summary of the business news but first the headlines on bbc news: eleven hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday's cyber attack — but fears of a second wave, appear not to have materialised. theresa may promises a big expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win the election. meanwhilejeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra 37 billion pounds by 2022 — if labour wins injune. good afternoon. the business news now. microsoft says a global cyber attack, which has hit more than a—hundred—and—fifty countries since friday, should be seen by governments as a wake up call. the latest virus exploits a flaw
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in microsoft windows identified by, and stolen from, us intelligence. microsoft has blamed governments for storing data on vulnerable software which made it an easy target for hackers. workers face a squeeze on their earnings as employers anticipate awarding median pay rises ofjusti per cent in the year ahead, according to the latest labour market outlook survey by the chartered institute of personnel and development and the adecco group... more on this in a moment. shares in 888 holdings have fallen by 8 per cent as the uk gambling commission is investigating "certain measures" taken by 888‘s uk subsidiary to ensure ‘social responsibility to its customers‘. the online gambling company‘s uk business, which accounts for about 45 per cent of group revenues, is involved in poker, casino, sports and bingo gambling. the cyber attack, microsoft has laid
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the blame for the attacks at the feet of the national security agency saying the culprits used a code developed by the agency. it was explained to the bbc had arisen arms race going on inside cyberspace. the problem with these attacks, they are co nsta ntly problem with these attacks, they are constantly evolving, there is ready reports there is new strains of this particular attack out there already on but who knows what the next attack is going to be? and i think we really need to start taking a more forward look of how to get ahead of these problems. i think there is an ecosystem that exists out there with cyber criminals basically selling each other‘s tools on the dark web and knowing that ecosystem exists and that this is really becoming a full on arms race, it really comes down to whose algorithms are going to be smarter and that‘s what we need to do, we need to use new techniques, things like machine learning, in fact we
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use great machine learning ad at the university of cambridge that can help get ahead of these attacks but until we take a big step forward it‘s not going to get better. 0ur north america business correspondent samir hussein is on the new york stock exchange, so what‘s microsoft been seen today? microsoft as you pointed out has laid the blame at the feet of the national security agency, they are the ones who created this particular these of malware and it was, hackers we re these of malware and it was, hackers were then able to get into the nsa and take the malware and spread it to so many businesses. what microsoft says is that the us government cannot be stockpiling these kinds of cyber weapons, so to speak because it really leaves a lot of people at risk, so it was a very tersely worded letter penned by microsoft that was released over the weekend. really saying the nsa
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should take a lot of responsibility for this. that said, when it comes to microsoft and some of the products people are using, there are several issues, one we see consumers don‘t always update their security ona don‘t always update their security on a regular basis and that leaves computer is honourable. secondly we see a lot of people are running older versions of microsoft that the company no longer supports and we also see people are using pirated versions of microsoft, he‘s also leave consumers very vulnerable to these kind of tax. is it any damage being done to microsoft itself, do you think in all of us in terms of reputation, in terms of its brand colour you see a of its staff could be seen as vulnerable, not supporting xp which was the operating programme which was attacked? there are some people who have said microsoft should have been doing a lot more with regards to security very early on. we saw what microsoft is putting up a security
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update, a part of some of the older versions of microsoft, some of the older versions that are not currently supported but you know, this happened late on friday, so the weekend happened and now it‘s monday, i think a lot of people are waking up to more of the news about these attacks and the fact we haven‘t seen a big second wave as some people were worried about, i think now we will see a lot of these conversations happening. in silicon valley and with regards to these big tech companies like microsoft. thank you so much. toshiba has missed a deadline to file its annual results, but warned it was likely to report a loss of £6.5bn. the japanese conglomerate is the world‘s second—largest chip manufacturer, with its products used in data centres and consumer goods worldwide, including iphones and ipads. it is widely expected to sell its computer chip business, in a move which could help shore up the losses. but us—based western digital, which jointly runs toshiba‘s main chip operations in japan, has filed a request with the international court of arbitration to stop the sale going ahead.
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london—listed platinum producer lonmin has reported a first—half operating loss of 140.4 million pounds due to a drop in production and higher costs. this has also led to a 6 per cent fall in the company‘s liquidity. as a result, the south africa—focused miner is to move its head office from johannesburg to its operations in marikana by the end of the year, and it has also cut its spending plan for the year to a range of 1.4 billion to 1.5 billion rand from 1.8 billion rand. budget airline airasia has signed a joint venture agreement to set up a new low—cost carrier in china. it says it wants to tap in to demand in the country, which is set to overtake the us to become the world‘s biggest aviation market within the next decade. flying domestically within china has boomed in the past 30 to 40 years, civil aviation administration of china figures suggest that in 1982 there were fewer than four million air passenger journeys within the country. by 2016, that number had reached 487 million. japanese carmaker toyota is backing a group of engineers who are developing a flying car ——
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to the tune of £274, 000. the cartivator group operates outside toyota city in centraljapan. so far crowdfunding has paid for development of the so—called skydrive car, which uses drone technology and has three wheels and four rotors... flying cars are something of a flavour—of—the—month at present, with firms from the us, germany, netherlands, china and japan looking to turn science fiction into reality. time for a look at the markets... 0ne time for a look at the markets... one of the features is the oil prices moving up, word from russia, saudi arabia talking about cutting back on supply, but pushing the oil price up to $50 a bowl, pressure on oil. that‘s your business news. —— a barrel. a 101—year—old war veteran from
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devon has become the oldest person in the world to complete as guy died. bird and he isjob 15,000 feet from a plane along with three generations of this family, said he woke up this morning one of the happiest men in the world. he became britain‘s oldest skydiver when he was 100 but britain wasn‘t enough for third in case. yesterday he took on the world and one. he only needed to jump from 10,000 feet to get the record but he went from 13,000 feet and he wasn‘t alone, for generations in one plane. —— verdun hayes. well done. congratulations. hurray! you have done it. well done. the oldest skydiver. how are you
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feeling? completely over the moon. what a jump. today his achievement are starting to sink in.” what a jump. today his achievement are starting to sink in. i slept very well indeed. and i woke up this morning the happiest man in the world! without any shadow of a doubt. it was wonderful. it was amazing, such a privilege, migrate grandad, my grandad and my dad, amazing. how does it feel to know that your great grandad is the world — record that your great grandad is the world—record holder?” that your great grandad is the world-record holder? i can't believe it, none of my mates can believe it, he‘s amazing. it, none of my mates can believe it, he's amazing. he's not putting his speed up. i want to do something extraordinary again next year providing my health and the doctor will sign a little certificate to say i am fit. i did think about when walking and if that comes up of course that would be the ultimate as faras i'm course that would be the ultimate as far as i'm concerned. ——
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course that would be the ultimate as faras i'm concerned. —— —— wing. so, wing walking next, but for now, he‘s content to have done his bit. good for him. time no centenarians falling from the sky today but plenty of rain. some significant rainfall today, captured by the weather watchers quite nicely. raindrops on the windowpanes in worcester. let‘s look at the recent rainfall radar and you can see the extent of the ring, covering most parts of the uk, always heaviest in the south and west of scotland. matt offers weather warnings in the south west of scotla nd warnings in the south west of scotland over the next few hours,
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spray and surface water on the roads but in the north of scotland, going to be quite warm as it brightens up. quite chilly with the onshore breeze. not such a bad afternoon in northern ireland, largely dry, quite warm, middle teens across northern england, afair warm, middle teens across northern england, a fair bit of cloud and some rain, most to the west of the pennines but some to the east. heavy bursts in wales, pretty great with low cloud. a little bit of brightness in the south—east, generally speaking temperatures in the upper teens, fairly humid. this evening largely dry in the south—east and northern ireland, in between a fair bit of cloud and rain but the wind coming in from the south, a very mild direction, a very mild night, nobler work than third tea m mild night, nobler work than third team degrees. quite a warm start. —— no lower than 13 degrees. breezy from the west and south—west, weather fronts moving through, from the west and south—west, weatherfronts moving through, a line of cloud and rain moving
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towards the south—east, head of that some showers, behind at shower was getting into northern ireland. brightening up in northern ireland for the afternoon, temperatures around about eight team — 19 degrees, in the south—east, reaching the low 20s. in the sunshine might reach 23. through wednesday, we see an area of rain becoming quite heavily from the south—west towards yorkshire & these. some of the ring quite heavy, in the north—west a scattering of showers. wednesday evening, the ring pulls away, some thunder and lightning possible, you can see on thursday, the coming from iceland, various areas of low pressure around the uk, the year will be fresher, low pressure bringing showers, some of the heavy through thursday and friday, not all doom and gloom, some spells of sunshine as well! this is bbc news.
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the headlines at 3:00: 11 hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday‘s cyber—attack — but fears of a second wave, appear not to have materialised. we have not seen a second wave of attacks and the level of criminal activity is at the lower end of the range that we had anticipated. microsoft say the attack should be treated by governments around the world as a wake—up call. russia says it was not behind the attack. jeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra £37 billion by 2022 if labour wins injune. theresa may promises a big
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expansion of workers‘ rights if the conservatives win the election. the new french president emmanual macron has named edouard philippe as his first prime minister. in the next hour, why the sky‘s the limit for this

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