this is bbc news. 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 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 daring 101—year—old. d—day veteran verdun hayes becomes the oldest man in the world

to complete a skydive. 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. here, questions are growing about whether the government had adequately prepared the nhs for such an attack. this was one of the hospital ‘s

worst affected by the events over friday and the weekend. first and lasting impressions today have been that things are very much back to normal, almost. the car parks are busy, lots of patients are coming and going for outpatient appointments. when you get inside and look around, it is quite obvious that it and look around, it is quite obvious thatitis and look around, it is quite obvious that it is not all right yet. a lot of computers are switched off and not working, they have labels attached saying not to touch them until they have been advised, and it is all because of this cyber attack. after the chaos of friday, things area after the chaos of friday, things are a lot better here, but not everywhere. in york, any computers are still unusable after the cyber attack. the message to most patients is to turn

up message to most patients is to turn up as planned. everything is getting written down, you can't make appointments. hopefully they will send them out when they get them. did it slow things down? not really. they were professional about it and did well. it must be a nightmare for them. i asked my gp, because i got referred from the surgery. what was their advice? to go down as normal. no problems at all? as time goes on, more and more computers are up and running again. it feels like business as usual, although the staff would say otherwise. once the situation unfolded, it became clear it was almost engulfing the organisation. at the last count, we had 2000 of the 6000 pcs out of action. clearly, that is quite disabling for clinical services in a health care environment. further southin health care environment. further south in lincolnshire, it is a very different story. the united lincolnshire hospital's trusts says

work is ongoing to restore the it systems, but in the meantime we are unable to proceed with many of the appointment scheduled for the day. 0utpatient appointments, diagnostic tests a nd 0utpatient appointments, diagnostic tests and routine operations will all be cancelled. that has left patients like steve, expecting results on tests for cancer, still wondering about his diagnosis.” wondering about his diagnosisli suppose wondering about his diagnosis.” suppose it is because the nhs hasn't spent sufficient money on it safeguards. the bottom line is, there is only one person going to suffer, and as the tens of thousands like me. you knew that the nhs computer system was outdated and vulnerable to attacks. why didn't you take action when you could? could the system be better prepared? the health secretary, jeremy hunt, refused to comment on the situation

when approached early today. he has since spoken. what is being done about the situation? although we have never seen anything on this scale when it comes to ransomware attacks, they are relatively common and there are things you can do to protect ourselves against them. in particular, making sure data is properly backed up, and making sure that we are using the software patches, the antivirus patches sent out regularly by manufacturers. 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 fallout will be far reaching and uncomfortable for some. it is difficult to know why, but some other theories that are floating around is that some of the trusts might have been using older equipment and older software.

trusts might have been using older equipment and older softwarem trusts might have been using older equipment and older software. it has been a very stressful few days. and patients alike in the nhs. it has highlighted the system's dependency on computers and what needs to be done to prevent another meltdown. what happens going forward? there are those people that will have their appointments cancelled, and they will have to be rescheduled. you heard me talking to one lady in the report who could not make another appointment, going forward, because the system was not up and running and she was not able to do that. there is 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. there are still some way to go. things are a load better than they were on friday. you feel like they were on friday. you feel like the system is working again. but it is still one or two places where there is still a serious problem, but things are slowly getting back to normal. in some ways, it all going wrong on a friday, having saturday and sunday to try to get

things back up and running again, has helped things today. 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. 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 killswitch 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, says governments should treat the attack as a wake—up call. it criticised bodies such as the cia and nsa 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. 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 most important thing is as of 10:30am, action fraud, who look at crimes in this area, have had no new reports in relation to this strain. it is important that the public understand that. if they were to be a victim of this kind of crime, we would say do not pay the ransom, but contact or enforcement through action fraud. the attack, described

as the biggest of its kind, 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. 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 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 median 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 women 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 currently 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. some small businesses say they are worried about the effect of the new rights and regulations on them. a bigger 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 record on this suggests she cannot be trusted. letsjudge the tory

lets judge the tory party and theresa may on her record. 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. she might need that. while she can expect criticism from the unions, privately some of her own mps say they are worried she is shifting too far in labour's direction. a woman who raised mental health issues with prime minister has confronted her. she told theresa may how changes to benefits letter living on £100 a month. theresa may responded saying it is important to make sure more help is given to those with such difficulties.” make sure more help is given to those with such difficulties. i want you to do something for us. we have a lot of plans for people with mental health... not just

a lot of plans for people with mental health... notjust me, anybody with learning difficulties, i want them not to have their money taken away i want them not to have their money ta ken away and i want them not to have their money taken away and being crippled. jeremy corbyn has been talking more about their plans if they win the election. labour is promising to inject £37 billion into the health service and take 1 million inject £37 billion into the health service and take1 million people off waiting lists. he also criticised media coverage of his campaign in hebden bridge. dan johnson is there. he got a good response? yes, there were hundreds of people that came to the town hall in hebden bridge to hear this speech. they had to stand outside, some of them, because they could not all fit in the room. it is the rivers that really define this area, the cow —— calder valley. flooding has affected this area badly in recent yea rs. has affected this area badly in recent years. that is one issue jeremy corbyn picked up on. at his focus was mainly on the nhs, the

extra funding he is promising, and he also referred to the importance of funding mental health services correctly, and promised he would create a mental health minister in government. here is a flavour of what he had to say. i came from liverpool, where i was very honoured to be invited to speak to the rcn conference. i opened my speech by just saying thank you to all of those in our health service who worked so hard, way beyond the hours for which they are paid, with a 14% cut in their pay over the past seven years, but deliver the best service they can for all of us. i thank them for coping with the stress they are going through because of the cyber—attack. frankly, the criminal highway robbery that is going on against the nhs. isaid

robbery that is going on against the nhs. i said responsibility for that lies, of course, with those mounting the attack. but it also lies with the 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, that will support and will protect our national health service. jon ashworth and i have been discussing this. a few very quick things i wanted to say to you. firstly, i believe very passionately in this, when we say we want parity of esteem between physical and mental health, i absolutely mean it. i want to end the stigma surrounding mental health, but invest in the mental health, but invest in the mental health, but invest in the mental health services so that people don't suffer in silence and suffer alone, and, some, people don't suffer in silence and sufferalone, and, some, sadly, take their own lives because they feel a

sense of hopelessness and that they have been left behind. we, as a community, will invest in mental health services. we will do the same for our social care services. there are more than 1 for our social care services. there are more thani million people waiting for social care to be provided for them. that is not right. if the government can do sweetheart deals for surrey, how about making us all a sweetheart and all of us getting the same deal? jeremy corbyn said he needed to save his voice because he had to give that speech again. he came outside, because there were so many people, hundreds gathered in the courtyard, and he addressed them from a balcony and he addressed them from a balcony and gave that speech a second time so and gave that speech a second time so everybody here could hear his message. most of the people here we re message. most of the people here were labour activists, party members and supporters, but it was open to the public as well. plenty of people came to hear his message, and it was well received. but this is a

constituency that is closely fought. it is the sort of seat labour need to be winning if they want to be backin to be winning if they want to be back in power. is that danger sign there for you? sorry, simon? the sign behind you, i wondered if it followed you everywhere you went? don't worry! i am taking precautions, i will stay safe. no swimming. let's go to norman smith, in liverpool. no danger signs behind you. looking at today, there were two quite different campaigns being played out, weren't they? jeremy corbyn talking about the nhs, familiar territory for him. theresa may trying to make a bit of a land grab, really? very stark difference between the two campaigns. jeremy corbyn came here like the political father christmas, dispensing good is

all over the place. notjust a lot more money for the nhs, £7.5 billion a year, but more nurses, more pay, new nurses, new it, bringing back student nurse bursaries, stopping a&e closures will stop anything anybody wanted, jeremy corbyn put on anybody wanted, jeremy corbyn put on a plate for them. how do you pay for this? he gave an indication it would come from the city, business and people earning more than £80,000. tomorrow, when we get his manifesto, there will have to be a lot of sums to add up. it's notjust the 37 billion he is promising for the nhs, he is also talking about an additional 8 billion for social care, 11 billion for tuition fees, ending the public sector pay cap, sticking with the triple lock on pensions, halting the further increase in the pension age. there is reversing a whole load of benefit cuts, including extending personal

independence payments. you are talking about a total bill which seems to me to be heading north of about £80 billion. you are talking about £80 billion. you are talking about a huge spending commitment. today, jeremy corbyn gets the cheers from the nurses fall that he is offering, tomorrow he has to answer the hard sums. where is the cash coming from? he insisted today it would all be fully costed. i suspect there is going to be an awful lot of people trawling through this, line by line, to see whether his sums add up. norman, what do you make of the conservatives today, talking about workers' rights, trying to make ordinary working families their focus? i think what we learn is that this is not a conservative campaign. this is the theresa may campaign. her very distinct type of conservatism, which is a clear break with previous tory parties running

for election. i cannot remember a tory party putting at the heart of its election campaign a package of rights for workers. you can pick holes in the individual policies being proposed. sun is old, some is just consultation, some of it has no detail. some of it, frankly, seems fla ky. detail. some of it, frankly, seems flaky. but there are significant measures in it, such as guaranteeing people the right to take a year off if you have a sick relative, guaranteeing time off for child bereavement, guaranteeing the right to demand information about your company. there are so much stuff there, the tuc said, you know what, this is quite promising. it is very, very, untory. in part, it is her hoping she can take chunks out of jeremy corbyn's labour support. i think she also had an epiphany after brexit. after brexit, it was not

just about leaving the eu, it was a howl of outrage from many ordinary people fed up with what they thought was the privileged few, big business, getting on fine well babe we re business, getting on fine well babe were bearing the burden of austerity, pay cuts and so forth. she has totally turned round her politics, so much so that people are dubbing her a red tory. the sottish first minister nicola sturgeon has said that a vote for the snp would strengthen scotland's hand over brexit and allow her to argue for a seat at the negotiating table. the scottish government wants scotland to remain in the eu — and in particular the single market. well, if people vote snp in this election, it gives me a mandate to demand that scotland is represented in the uk negotiating team, that our interests are central to these negotiations. that matters because jobs, living standards and investment will be affected by the outcome of these brexit negotiations, and we've seen, before these elections, theresa may dismiss out of hand sensible, compromised 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 democratic legitimacy. throughout the election campaign, we will be taking an in—depth look at the key issues that are important to you. so if you have a questions on wages, borrowing or pensions, for example, you can get in touch via twitter using the hashtag #bbcaskthis, or text your questions to 61124. you can email us as well at askthis@bbc.co.uk. let's get more on the hacking attack that has hit the nhs. joining me now is the is the director of security and a professor of software

engineering at lancaster university, profesor awais rashid. good afternoon. we now seem to have a clear idea of how this thing works. i think what caught your eye is the ability of a simple e—mail to trigger this? yes, we need to know a lot more about the original infection point in this case. what is interesting is that it has been able to propagate itself with relative ease across across a large number of interconnected systems. that really is the key issue. normally, good security practices mean you would have a certain degree of isolation between various parts of isolation between various parts ofa of isolation between various parts of a system, in this case it has propagated widely. the critics of organisations which have been hit would say if you do not update your system is, if you do not update patches that are distributed, it is down to you? absolutely, this is one of the first things i teach my stu d e nts of the first things i teach my students in class. 0ne of the first things i teach my students in class. one of the most

dangerous vulnerabilities are the ones that are known in public and have a patch available. many systems remain un—patched, as we have seen in this case. it is notjust about patching, it is about how you structure your system. the nhs is a complex organisation, it has a lot of complex, interconnected systems. that makes it very important that these are properly secured and have a higher degree of isolation between them. it should not be so easy for a virus to propagate so widely in such a short space of time. say your organisation was hit by this particular virus, would you advise them to pay up? no, i would never advise anybody to pay up, because thatis advise anybody to pay up, because that is the business model of this particular virus. if you think about it, in technical terms, particular virus. if you think about it, in technicalterms, it particular virus. if you think about it, in technical terms, it is a fairly simple and easy attack to launch. all you are doing is locking out some very‘s files and demanding payment. the more people that paid,

the more the motive works. generally, i would the more the motive works. generally, iwould not the more the motive works. generally, i would not recommend anybody to pay up. i would recommend people follow good security practices. another important thing, things do go wrong. it is how you respond to them in terms of after the attack has taken place. if you have good recovery mechanisms in place, for example back—ups to quickly recover your systems, all the virus has done is locked out your system. if you can recover from back—ups and bring the system back online, the attacker‘s purpose is defeated. isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? it is. defeated. isn't hindsight a wonderfulthing? it is. but it is not just about hindsight. wonderfulthing? it is. but it is notjust about hindsight. going back to the earlier point, this is one of the things we teach students all the time, you don't only prepare for defence and defending systems. as i said, this seems to be a fairly easy attack into systems, but the determined attackers usually get in with more sophisticated attacks as well. you have to think of the

scenario where things will go wrong. what will you do to recover your data? what will you do to bring systems back online, especially in the case of a critical service such as the nhs. this is even more important than a regular it system. thank you so much forjoining us. we're going to take you over to paris, where an official ceremony known as the transfer of power ceremony is taking place from the old prime minister, the former prime minister, bernard cazeneuve, to the new one, named today as edouard philippe. he is the new president emmanuel macron's choice as prime minister. he was thought of as being the frontrunner. what is so interesting about him is that he is from the centre—right republican party. edouard philippe is standing to the right of the screen, listening to what is being said. the

choice is being seen as an attempt to draw in key figures from both the right and left of french politics. there is the ceremony, going on right now. a 101—year—old war veteran from devon has become the oldest person in the world to complete a skydive. verdun hayes — who fought on d—day — jumped 15,000 feet from a plane, along with three generations of his family. andrea 0rmsby reports. he became britain's oldest skydiver when he was 100 but britain wasn't enough for verdun hayes. yesterday he took on the world and won. he only needed to jump from 10,000 feet to get the record but he went from 15,000 feet and he wasn't alone, four generations in one plane.

well done. congratulations. hooray! you've done it. well done. the oldest skydiver. how are you feeling? completely over the moon. what a jump. today his achievement is 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, my great grandad, my grandad and my dad, amazing. how does it feel to know that your great grandad is the world—record holder? i can't believe it, none of my mates can believe it, he's amazing. he's not putting his feet 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 wingwalking

and if that comes up of course that would be the ultimate as far as i'm concerned. so, wingwalking next, but for now, he's content to have done his bit. terrific. let's catch up with the weather now and go over to jay wynne. good afternoon. we have been waiting sometime for some significant rainfall and it has arrived. particularly in the north and the west of the uk, it has been wet so far. we'll look at the radar for today. there has been rain in the south east, but most of that is light and patchy. it is beginning to

ease off and will continue to do so. most of it is shifting further southwards and eastwards. there maybe a few breaks in the cloud. we should see sunshine coming through and here it will turn warm, but chilly on the eastern coast of scotla nd chilly on the eastern coast of scotland with that on shore breeze. through this evening our aim doesn't really get towards the south east. doesn't really affect much of northern ireland, but it is in between the two where we are going to see the swathe of cloud and rain. notably, it is a mild night, 14 or 15 celsius to start the day on tuesday. we will see this area of rain slip southwards and eastwards. it never really gets to the south—east and here it will turn warm. it will be into the low 20s. it should brighten up in northern ireland. here we will see temperatures around about 18 or 19 celsius. hello. this is bbc news.

the headlines at 3.32pm: eleven hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday's cyber attack — but fears of a second wave, appear not to have materialised. patients have been urged to use the nhs "wisely" until the full impact of attack comes to light. jeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra £37 billion by 2022 if labour wins the election. it will be paid for by higher corporation tax and raising income tax for those earning £80,000 a year 01’ more. theresa may promises a big expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives stay in power. proposals include a statutory right to a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative. 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. it's time for sport and hugh ferris is waiting. yes, i am,

it's time for sport and hugh ferris is waiting. yes, iam, indeed. good afternoon. david moyes insists his reputation isn't in "tatters" despite sunderland's relegation from the premier league, but has claimed that some of his players haven't pulled their weight this season. sunderland went down with four games still remaining. and have now beenjoined by middlesbrough and hull. moyes is intending to stay on at sunderland. have their penultimate match at arsenal tomorrow night. they have got a chance against two really good times. a chance to show that they see themselves as premier league players and fit to be at that level. i think many of them probably believe they have got futures elsewhere. i think that you need to perform on the pitch to do that. so sunderland travel to the emirates tomorrow night with arsene wenger asking fans to attend the match rather than take part in a planned boycott aimed at removing him as manager. he still hasn't announced what his future holds with arsenal needing to win their final two

matches of the season to have any chance of qualifying for the champions league as they have done every year wenger has been in charge. liverpool could also deny them with a victory in their final game, but the frenchman believes form is on arsenal's side. we won six of the last seven games and we have created momentum again after having a period away from home. we were not stable. we look strong again. now we won our last three away games. so it's positive. premier league champions chelsea will get the chance to celebrate their achievement with their home fans tonight when they play watford. they'll have to wait a little longer to catch a glimpse of the premier league trophy though. they won't get that until after they've played sunderland at stamford bridge on sunday. chelsea secured the sixth title in their history by beating west brom on friday night. mauricio pochettino says he felt privileged to witness the final game at white hart lane as tottenham gave their home the perfect send—off with a win over manchester united yesterday. they haven't wasted any time digging up the old pitch either.

these are aerial shots taken this morning. contractors have already started work on the new site which will seat around 61,000 people. tottenham will play their home matches at wembley next season ahead of the new stadium being ready for the 2018/2019 season. maria sharapova has guaranteed a place in the qualifying competition for wimbledon after winning herfirst round match at the italian 0pen. a straight sets win over christine mchale means that she'll have enough ranking points to attempt to qualify for this year's tournament at the all england club. if she reaches the semi—finals in rome, the five—time grand slam champion, who is returning from a 15

month doping ban, will qualify for the wimbledon main draw. british men's number three aljaz bedene has set up a second round meeting with novak djokovic at the italian 0pen. he received a walk over from his match against gianluca mager after the italian was forced to retire injured. bedene lost the first set on the tie—break before mager suffered an injury to his left leg. the match resumed and mager swiftly lost the second set before calling it a day in the third. world number one andy murray will be hoping for a return to form as he defends his italian open title in rome this week. he turns 30 today. but says he is "not massively into birthdays". murray comes into the tournament on the back of a third—round loss to world number 59 borna coric of croatia in madrid last week. he beat novak djokovic in the 2016 italian 0pen final and will face local favourite fabio fognini in the second round this year. it's tough to analyse losses in a couple of days when you're looking to the next tournament, but that's also sometimes a positive thing that you have another event to look

forward to immediately you get a chance to play better you know only four or five days after a tough match. that's all sport for now. throughout the general election campaign we're going to be taking an in depth look at some of the topics most important to you and hearing from our specialist editors. today, we're focussing on the economy. 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed has been assessing what the big issues are for voters. it was james carville, bill clinton's election adviser, who, when asked what won elections, had a pretty simple answer — "it's the economy, stupid," he said. and that's probably still true today. i think for voters, there are big issues around living standards, and that income squeeze, which have pretty much been with us since 2008 and the financial crisis. the problem for politicians is that issues like that are not easy to solve — there are no easy headlines. the parties may trade promises on taxes, on pensions, on energy price caps, on making an economy

that works for all, and notjust for the privileged few. yes, those are important issues, but there is a big issue of substance which underlines all of them, and that's, how do we create economic wealth? how do we make sure that work is rewarding? they don't sound that sexy — productivity, economic growth — but they are absolutely vital to the future of thte country, now, just like in every other general election. today we've been asking for your questions on the economy and with me now to answer some of them is our personal finance correspondent simon gompertz. i will start with this e—mail from anon who gets in touch us a lot. british workers face the lowest pay

in decades. is this the government's fault? well, first of all, it doesn't mean we're going back 70 yea rs. doesn't mean we're going back 70 years. what this means is the rate of increase of our pay in real terms, that means the buying power of our pay, when you take into account rising prices, has been very poon account rising prices, has been very poor. can it be blamed on the government? well, this all stems from the financial crisis, in fact from the financial crisis, in fact from what we call the credit crunch from what we call the credit crunch from 2007 to 2008 when everything went pear—shaped and there was a rapid inflation, so prices went up and there was also a recession so companies found it difficult and too expensive to give people pay rises. recently we had more inflation because the pound dropped and imports were more expensive so that means our pay can buy less. in real terms that's a pay cut rather than a pay increase. so, to the extent that you blame the government for lax regulation and letting the city get out of control, you might say that's the government's fault, but what is

the government's fault, but what is the government's fault is the pay restraint in the president—elect. that's a government decision, whether you think it's right or wrong, ministers have come to that conclusion that it's necessary and to that extent slow pay growth is a a result of a government decision. barry e—mailed in and he's asking why is the triple—lock pension under threat? remind us what the triple—lock is. threat? remind us what the triple-lock is. the triple-lock is that mechanism for deciding how much the state pension goes up every year and it goes back to 2010 under the coalition and they decided that the state pension would be guaranteed an increase of either in line with average earnings increases in the economy or with inflation, with the rate that prices were going up or 2.0% and that had a ratchet effect. whatever happened, pensioners incomes were going to go up and that was at a time when we were looking back for the period of pensioner poverty since the 19805 pensioners have been relatively poor and we had tho5e have been relatively poor and we had those very small increa5e5, remember

75 pen5 that the pension went up one year. so to stop that happening, we had the triple—lock, but of course, it has changed now and now, you're le55 it has changed now and now, you're less likely to be in poverty a5 a pensioner than you are if you're a younger person. pensioner than you are if you're a younger per5on. that's the reason that people have been campaigning against the triple—lock. will it change? well, labour and the lib dems 5aid they're going to guarantee to continue it. we wait to see in the conservative manifesto what they're going to do. jo in lancashire, who de5cribes they're going to do. jo in lancashire, who describes himself as a single pensioner. he says that's why i'm interested in this question. the question is a difficult one because it makes a couple of assumptions, but it says will there5a may increa5e assumptions, but it says will there5a may increase the tax allowa nce ? there5a may increase the tax allowance? there is an election coming up. we make no a55umption5 about that, we assume you know what's going to happen? well, if she was to lose, would would not increa5e was to lose, would would not increase the personal allowance, it

i5 increase the personal allowance, it is currently £11500. the promise it would be increased to £12500. so by 2020. so, should that happen that the tories win, then you'd expect that the personal allowance will go up, but we wait to see what's in their manife5to, but that's what they have been promising, they have been saying that the higher rate thre5hold, higher rate taxpayers, 40% tax you start paying £45,000 now, £50,000 i5 40% tax you start paying £45,000 now, £50,000 is the promise there. we've had a text from somebody who doesn't give their name, but they say they retired over ten years ago and they're asking is there any hope foran and they're asking is there any hope for an increase in interest rates? they say they've mi55ed outside on many pouds of pounds and things are become more and more difficult? bad luck to have retired at that time. if you go back to 2009, that's when intere5t if you go back to 2009, that's when interest rates were slashed at the time of the financial crisis to 0.5%. that meant you got very little

income on your savings if you kept them ina income on your savings if you kept them in a bank or building society. is that going to get any better? one day, intere5t is that going to get any better? one day, interest rates will rise and people have been saying they're going to rise in the next year or so for the last four or five years and it hasn't happened because of the state of the economy and now because of the uncertainty over brexit. i think if you take an average of expert5 foreca5t5, it is unlikely to happen this year. possibly next year. again, it depends on the political outlook and what's going to happen to the country. how many years to happen to the country. how many yea r5 have we to happen to the country. how many years have we said that? possibly next year? it is an important point because people have sold mortgages on the basis we must fix your mortgage now because intere5t on the basis we must fix your mortgage now because interest rates are going to go up and they never did. each time they sold a mortgage they made a big fee! finally karl texted can we expect a strengthening of the pound a5

finally karl texted can we expect a strengthening of the pound as the finer details of brexit are hammered out? the pound dropped after the referendum result. in recent weeks it has been strengthening. the loss i5 it has been strengthening. the loss is less. it is it has been strengthening. the loss is less. it i510% now and that's one of the things that's been contributing to inflation and prices rising because of the things we import. it is important for holiday—makers. what will happen, if the brexit negotiations go well, if the brexit negotiations go well, if the government 5eem the brexit negotiations go well, if the government seem to be doing well it tends to be that the pound im proves it tends to be that the pound improves in value. so that's good for holiday—makers. you can't forecast that, but one thing that's worth bearing in mind if you're uncertain about the jaout look of the pound, and you're going on holiday, buy a bit now when the rate look5 holiday, buy a bit now when the rate looks good and buy more later when you're on holiday so your average is better than it might otherwise have been. a good tip. sound advice. thank you very much. you're welcome. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour 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. jeremy corbyn pledge5 the nhs will receive an extra £37 billion by 2022 — if labour wins the election. meanwhile there5a may promises a big expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win injune. good afternoon. i'm jamie good afternoon. i'mjamie roberts son. in the business news: microsoft says a global cyber attack, which has hit more than 150 countries since friday, should be seen by governments a5 a wake—up call. the latest virus exploits a flaw 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 a5 employers anticipate awarding median pay ri5e5 ofju5t1% in the year ahead, according to the latest labour market outlook survey by the chartered institute of personnel and development and the adecco group. shares in 888 holdings have fallen by 8% as the uk gambling commission is investigating "certain measures" taken by 8885 uk subsidiary to ensure "social responsibility to its customers". the online gambling company's uk business, which accounts for about 45% of group revenues, is involved in poker, casino, sports and bingo gambling. at the moment unemployment stands

at 4.7%, which some economists believe is close to full employment. unemployment is set to increase and for the first time in some eight years, the number of people in work looks set to fall. now the forecasting group, the ey item club, says that next year it will inch up to 5.4% in 2018 and 5.8% in 2019. we're going to get official numbers from office for national statistics on wednesday. joining us now is martin beck, senior economic advisor, at the ey item club. why is unemployment going to go up? it is why is unemployment going to go up? it i5a why is unemployment going to go up? it is a consequence our expectation that the economy will slow down because of the rise in inflation we have seen and if there is less economic activity going on, you expect le55 job creation and the unemployment rate to pick up a bit. it has been a curious labour market. we have had the vast ri5e

it has been a curious labour market. we have had the vast rise in self employment. we've had wages staying particularly low. what part do things play in the employment equation? i think it plays a big part. we have seen a shift in the economy towards less secure and less well paid forms of employment. self employment and pa rt—time well paid forms of employment. self employment and part—time employment. it's more difficult for workers in those jobs to demand bigger wage rises and that's helped to keep pay growth low. there is a hint in your report, there are more people unemployed or under employed out there which sn yes, there are a couple of million people who are inactive who say they want a job. there is a lot of part—time employed people who say they want full—time jobs. if add those numbers to the official roll of unemployed you get a bigger number and more slack in the labour market than the figures suggest. every time i say i want

more money, they will say, somebody is waiting around the corner to take yourjob? that's one reason. there is mo cas passity in the labour market than the headline numbers suggest. we have had this shift towards less secure and less well paid forms ofjobs like self employment and pa rt—time paid forms ofjobs like self employment and part—time employment and that's played a role too. you mentioned about ought owemation and that might reduce the number of people who work? it is uncertain as to what effect ought owemation will have. it will benefit some employees who have got the skills to compliment machines, but mid—level jobs, many could be replaced by machines and that would be bad news for those types of employment and wage growth in those areas. thank you very much indeed. toshiba has missed a deadline to file its annual results, but warned it was likely to report a loss of £6.5 billion. the japanese conglomerate is the world's second—largest chip manufacturer. the chips are used in everything from data centres to iphones and ipads. but it is widely expected to sell its computer chip business, in a move which could help shore up the losses. but its american partner in the chip

operation, western digital, is going to court to try to stop the sale going ahead. lonmin, best known for its platinum production business, has reported an operating loss of £140 million for the first half of its financial year. costs have been going up and production falling and the shares plummeted 12% in johannesburg today. so it is taking drastic action moving its hq from johannesburg to its operations in marikana and cutting its investment plans by about 22%. 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. in 1982 there were fewer than four million air passenger journeys within the country.

by 2016, that number had reached 487 million. japanese car—maker toyota is backing a group of engineers who are developing a flying car 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 all working on similar projects. a quick look at the markets. the ftse managing to creep up a bit. the dow is up a third of one percent there. 0il dow is up a third of one percent there. oil companies doing well. the oil price moving up sharply. commodity prices even, but it's oil price moving up sharply. commodity prices even, but its oil which is a star on the markets. that's the business news for the moment. back in an hour. essex police have spent the morning searching a block of garages

in thurrock for the body of a schoolgirl who went missing 16 years ago. danielle jones was fifteen when she was abducted and murdered by her uncle. when danielle disappeared in 2001, it led to a huge police investigation, and a desperate appeal from the family. come forward. i'm so desperate to get her back. but the teenager was never seen again. a year later, her uncle, stuart campbell, was jailed for her abduction and murder, even though danielle's body was never found. today, though, a search in this quiet street in thurrock. specialist teams began looking inside some garages. essex police say they are acting on what they call new and credible information. but it hasn't come

from stuart campbell. for 16 years he has refused to tell detectives what happened to his niece, and he has refused to say where her body is. the officer now leading the operation has not yet worked out why. there was some similar information, not identical, but my priority this week is to make sure we do everything we can to reunite danielle with her family. daniellejones' parents have been told about today's search. they say they hope it will bring some of the answers they have been waiting for all these years. in his first full day in office the new french president, emmanuel macron, has named edouard philippe as his prime minister. 46—year—old mr philippe is not from the president's new centrist party but from the centre—right

republicans. 0ur correspondent mark lowen has this report. the new prime minister is on the centrist wing of the right. mayor of the city of le havre, he was at mr macron's university and was originally a socialist. his immediate challenge, to get mr macron's newborn political party a majority in elections next month. france's youngest ever president was inaugurated yesterday in centuries—old tradition. all the pomp and style you would expect here accompanied the transfer of power from francois hollande to emmanuel macron. he inherits a profoundly troubled france with unemployment at 10%, weak growth and millions who voted for political extremes. there is an aching for renewal here, for something to change in french politics and that could be macron. some are optimistic, others hold their breath. translation: well, i'm delighted, because he is young and we have

to make way for the young. and i'm expecting there to be change because we have always had right or left wing presidents. translation: i think it is good that marine le pen was not elected. personally, i think it is the continuation of hollande's presidency and we will see. good luck to him, but i think it will not change much in my opinion. later today, emmanuel macron will visit berlin for talks with angela merkel, a sign of a passionately pro—european president, hoping to reinvigorate europe's most important political relationship, but stressing that the eu needs reform. with his prime 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 loosen the labour markets, 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. as mark mentioned there, emmanuel

macron is due to meet the german chancellor, angela merkel, this afternoon. we will bring that to you live. it is time to catch up with the weather forecast. nick miller has the details. there is more rain to come in the forecast. we will look at the rainfall picture. there has been heavier bursts into south—west scotland. it is west wales and north—west england and a soggy scene in the lake district so far today and some spots have seen a lot of rain. more than an inch of rain this dumfries and galloway, 33 millimetres today at last count. not so much into parts of south—east england, but that could change on wednesday as i show you in a momentment you won be surprised to see low pressure instead of high pressure last week. now driving our weather. so it has turned more u nsettled. weather. so it has turned more unsettled. it's windier too and we will continue this evening with

heavier outbreaks of rain across wales and north—west england. elsewhere, you may just wales and north—west england. elsewhere, you mayjust find a little showery burst occasionally, plenty of low cloud to the south and the west of the uk, that means there will be fog on the hills, but it is a mild to warm night to come. we had chilly nights last night. it is all change with temperatures holding up into the mid—teens. tomorrow morning, there is another spell of showery rain poised to move through northern ireland and scotland for a time in the morning before things improve into the afternoon. it is looking like a soggy picture into north—west england for many parts of wales from the word go. that means standing water on the roads and spray standing water on the roads and spray around and difficult travelling conditions for some of us for a time. it looks mainly dry in east anglia and south—east england to begin with. maybe a bit of brightness as well. so what happens through the day tomorrow as we take some outbreaks of rain for a time through northern ireland and scotland, but it will turn drier and brighter and feel fresher by the end of the afternoon. this band of rain

slipping through england and wales. east anglia and the south east staying dry and given any brightness from north—east scotland down towards south—east england, 20 to 22 celsius is possible, but again for much of scotland and northern ireland, it will feel fresher by the end of the day, but there will be sunshine to end the day. it will be a chillier night for the northern half of the uk starting off on wednesday morning, but during wednesday, look at this weather front affecting parts of england and wales with heavy and thundery rain at times. sunshine and a few showers for scotland and northern ireland. it looks like this rain will push across south—east england and east anglia on wednesday. so again, the potential for soaking rain for some of us here and this is how it looks at the end of the week. it will be a fresher feel across the uk. at the end of the week. it will be a fresherfeel across the uk. sunshine and showers. some of the showers could be heavy, thundery and the risk of hail toflt that's the forecast for where you are or where you're going. : bye for now. this is bbc news. 11 hospital trusts in england still have problems

following friday's cyber attack — but fears of an escalation today 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 s by 2022 if labour wins the election. meanwhile theresa may promises a big expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win injune. in 0xfordshire, theresa may is challenged by a member of the public