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this is bbc news. i'm clive myrie. the headlines at 8pm. the cabinet's emergency team has met to discuss the fallout of the nhs cyber—attack — home secretary amber rudd says no warnings were ignored. the nhs itself, if you speak to the trusts, you will find made a lot of good preparations just trusts, you will find made a lot of good preparationsjust in trusts, you will find made a lot of good preparations just in case. on the election campaign, jeremy corbyn promises an extra £37 billion for the nhs and shorter hospital waiting lists if labour wins power. theresa may promises the greatest expansion of workers‘ rights if she wins the general election. in essex, a block of garages is searched in an attempt to find the body of the schoolgirl daniellejones, who was murdered 16 years ago. france's new president emmanuel macron visits germany to boost the relationship at the heart of the eu. good evening and
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welcome to bbc news. the home secretary amber rudd has chaired a meeting of the government's emergency cobra committee as it grapples with the aftermath of last friday's cyber—attack on the nhs. she's been giving an update this evening on how the nhs has been coping today. what we have found today is that the nhs have had a strong response. they we re nhs have had a strong response. they were prepared, they were resilient for this sort of operation. over the weekend, we were very grateful for the nhs staff that came in to make sure patients could come in as normal today and over a million patients were seen today, and all gp surgeries did open, although some of them had to use pen and paper, but them had to use pen and paper, but the vast majority of patients have noticed no difference. so it has
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been a very strong response. with more than a dozen hospitals and some gp services still experiencing problems attention is now turning to why the nhs was vulnerable to the attack and what more can be done to protect it. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, has been talking to our security correspondent gordon corera. officials and ministers arrived from eating of the emergency committee cobra to discuss the cyber attack on the nhs. mr hunt, is everything under control? among them, the health secretary, who before the meeting denied accusations from labour and liberal democrats that computer security had been underfunded and the nhs underprepared. we have been making huge efforts to modernise and invest despite the financial pressures, and that's why we were able to maintain our emergency services, why more than 95% of services were up and running within 2a hours, and i think that's an extraordinary achievement. i think the perception is this was a form of malicious software that was blasted out, and only the institutions that weren't secure enough
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were affected by it. we have a criminal investigation going on at the moment by the national crime agency to understand exactly why people chose to target who they did, but if you look internationally this has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries. but those who didn't have good enough security, and that looks like it includes the nhs. the nhs is a huge network, the world's largest health it network, and over 80% of the nhs was unaffected. some of the other companies and institutions affected include fedex, renault in france, german railways, spanish telecoms and nissan. the malicious software was first discovered on friday, released by hackers whose identity is still unknown, and it spread rapidly around the world. victims were faced with this message, that they were locked out of their computers and would have to pay a ransom to regain access. it only works on computers which were not updated and secured.
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today the organisation responsible for britain's cyber security said government had issued warnings but institutions needed to do more. there's a lot of information out there about vulnerabilities and there's a lot of information out about how to defend against them. my message to all organisations is to go and find out what those basic steps are that you can do to raise your defences, and implement them. the race is on to track down those responsible. one company who works with law enforcement say it is a question of waiting for the money to move. the attackers will be sitting, waiting for as much money to collect as possible before they start working out when and how they will move that, and that will be a complicated process for them, to try to move it without being detected. officials are hoping the worst of this attack is now over, but there's no guarantee there will not be others to come in the future. gordon corera, bbc news.
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over the weekend, there were fears that there might be a second spike in the cyber—attack. that, according to the government, hasn't happened — but some hospital trusts are still experiencing some disruption. patients have been urged to turn up for appointments unless they hear otherwise, but routine surgery and gp appointments have been cancelled across the nhs. our health editor hugh pym reports. it's an it problem, but it has a human cost. clare hobday is receiving intensive treatment for breast cancer, but it's been put on hold since the cyber attack brought down systems on friday. i'm very frustrated, i was in tears this morning. i've only had one treatment. i was supposed to have it friday, i didn't. not having it today. they've rung me this morning and said it's not happening today, possibly not tomorrow — that's five days out. if i'm supposed to have it every day and it's very intense, what happens with missing five days? if i don't have this, am i being given a death sentence? jess laughton had waited months in constant pain, which she hoped would ease when her leg was amputated. she was in hospital on saturday
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ready for the operation, but it was cancelled. she said that was devastating. horrible, i cried a lot. i didn't really know what to say. it was the last thing i expected them to come in and say, that there had been a cyber attack and it was cancelled. nhs england told people to go to hospital appointments if they hadn't heard otherwise. some took the advice and travelled in, only to be disappointed they didn't happen. i thought i have got to go, i wonder if it will affect me, then i thought, no, because somebody would have phoned me, so i thought i will go. and then it didn't. this gp practice has been running normally today but on friday all systems had to be shut down. it was impossible to issue electronic prescriptions and bring up patient notes. today, there has been a backlog of work, dealing with messages and taking paper notes and transcribing them to put on the system.
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the technology is not running normally at this gp practice in nottingham. this morning, they were open but weren't sure which patients were booked in. patients know they're coming in. we are dealing with them as they come. when we have phone calls for emergencies or people turning up at the desks, we are then improvising, you might say, but this is something we used to do in the past. although we had a written system we didn't know who would contact us on the day, and it's back to how we used to work 15, 20 years ago. hospital managers have been working round the clock to make the information network safe. at colchester say they have fixed half of their 3,000 computers colchester say they have fixed half of their 3,000 computers and there's still a lot of work to do. it will take a long time to get all our systems back up and running. we have enough to make the organisation safe but we do need to get the other systems back up and running as soon as possible. wales and northern ireland were not caught up in the cyber attack. the nhs in england and scotland has coped as well as it can, but there's no doubt it has been a difficult day for staff
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and patients alike. dr daniel dresner is a professor of cyber security and governance at the university of manchester. hejoins me from our studios in salford. good evening, thanks very much indeed forjoining us. can it be really the case that a number of trusts simply didn't update with the latest security software their computers, and as a result, we saw the meltdown that happened over the few days? whereas in wales, for instance, they conducted all their upgrades ages ago and they weren't affected at all. i think this is a sign of the widespread distribution of different sorts of systems. some people will have made a conscious decisions not to update because of the changes might have had to their systems and therefore, as a result
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of the update of the systems, you might have heard stories running months ago as a result of updates. there was a case when the department for work and pensions ran update and people couldn't get their benefits, so people couldn't get their benefits, so it is not quite so clear cut although listening to your report, what does seem to be clear is that we have got all shades of the spectrum. we got some organisations who long since should have updated their systems and, again, this is not something which is a fundamental security problem, it is down to the security problem, it is down to the security of the software. what is quite good with this is we are now starting to measure things in the cost of availability and how it hits people, rather than doing silly league tables on the number of records lost. 50 some league tables on the number of records lost. so some trusts may not have upgraded their systems because of the potential havoc that would have caused in the system itself? we all do it at home, when we upgrade, ta ke all do it at home, when we upgrade, take the latest security package, the whole thing goes down for a while and you wait ages for it to come back up again. on a much bigger
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scale, across in an age trust, that could have been problematic? absolutely, if you think about how you actually have to time it, so it goes on at a time staff or the administrative staff don't actually need to use it, for example. so we have quite a complex mix of getting the right systems but part of the problem, of course, is the ease and the outdated nurse of some of these systems, that people are actually tried to because people went for the originalfunctionality tried to because people went for the original functionality and locked into old systems which can't actually be upgraded. we have now also got the wave of integrity issues. we are always worried about confidentiality, which is very important but we also have to remember about availability and integrity of systems, because we will now have a raft of paper records which are to be transcribed safely onto the systems. and to be clear, there is no standardised system for dealing with it across the nhs in england. individual
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trusts do what they like. there are no standards in terms of overall procurement of the kinds of systems, but there are very, very basic requirements. one of the best bits of work which has been done by the national cyber security centre and its predecessor, different parts of gchq, were to identify five basic activities that ought to be done to everybody‘s systems, almost at a level that people could do at home, which will protect people from 80% of these low—level automated attacks. it is a bit like having a garden fence, it doesn't stop people climbing over but at least you have the opportunity just climbing over but at least you have the opportunityjust concentrating on those people who have the audacity to do that bad stuff, whereas most people go around. and those five basic requirements, are there some trusts in england that simply don't fulfil those basic requirements? it would certainly seem to be the case that that is so
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and there is certainly a mismatch across the public sector in general. there is a system of demanding that suppliers now comply with this, but it is much more of an organisational standard, rather than as standard for the products which are supplied into the actual parts of the nhs, for example. so as a result, you got the nhs or certain government procurement arms demanding that people make these features, or put these features into their systems and run themselves, but they don't actually sort of look closer to home to see whether they are maintaining them. it is like me having a driving licence, obviously i passed the driving test. whether i continue to drive at that standard is something that needs to be scrutinised and there is a very good system of scrutiny, very, very simple, across business, across government sectors, to make sure that these five cyber security essentials are actually inc
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place. it is just unfortunate that with so many of these problems which hit intangible things, it is a bit like insurance, you often think can i get away without doing it? oked, good to have your perspective, thanks forjoining us. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are camilla tominey, deputy political editor at the daily express and the broadcaster, david davies. top team, join us for that. in the election campaign, labour is promising an extra £37 billion for the nhs in england over the next five years — if they get to form the next government. the investment would be funded by tax increases and extra borrowing. jeremy corbyn told a nursing conference in liverpool that the conservatives have driven the health service "into crisis after crisis". here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. they gathered in yorkshire to cheer him. like other labour leaders before,
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could jeremy corbyn use the nhs to rise to victory? on behalf of millions of people, thank you to everyone in the nhs that looks after us all the year round. meet the man who wants to be labour's health secretary in less than four weeks. this election is about the future of the nhs. he says labour would spend 37 billion extra over five years on the nhs in england, roughly an extra 7% each year, paid for by higher income tax at the top, but can he be completely precise about how he would spend it? pay, winter crises, reducing the waiting lists, treating 1 million more people in a&e, public health budgets will be ring fenced, the reversal of pharmacy cuts, and capital investment in the infrastructure on the nhs. but that's still a long
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way off 37 billion. it does cost money to run the nhs. how much do you expect there to be coming from that new tax for people at the top? the lion's share of extra investment will come from new personal taxation levels on the top 5% of earners. so that new personal tax for people at the very top, that's money for the nhs? every single penny piece. exactly how much, you will have to wait until tomorrow. how's business generally for you? it's one of the perceptions she wants to overturn. ..we will be up there fighting hard. that the tories somehow don't really believe in the health service. voters sceptical about the handling of the public services. i'm sticking of the mental health and learning disabilities. cathy moen in oxfordshire took the prime minister to task on mental health and welfare. the tories won't reveal their plans for the health service until later this week but question labour's sums. the thing about the labour party's proposals is you have to ask where the money would come
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from because you can only fund the nhs, you can only ensure we have a first—class nhs if we have a strong economy. behind you! it is politics not panto, honestly, but like labour, the lib dems would raise income tax to plug the nhs's gaps. if you want the best nhs and social care in the world then it will cost you, but you will get it, it will cost 1p on income tax for an additional £6 billion a year, £30 billion over a parliament. scottish babies get kissed in elections like everywhere else, but health‘s devolved like in wales and northern ireland too. we are committed to increasing the nhs budget by £2 billion over this scottish parliament, that's £500 million more than inflation. a huge turnout forjeremy corbyn tonight in leeds, but a huge turnaround is what he needs if the nhs or anything else is to end up in labour's hands.
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for the conservatives, theresa may says that she would oversee the biggest expansion of workers' rights by any conservative government — if her party wins the general election. the general election. the tory manifesto will promise to keep eu laws protecting workers, act to protect pensions and give people the right to a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative. but labour said mrs may was "taking working people for fools". our economics editor kamal ahmed reports. it's certainly a different life. olga was a marketing executive who now cares for her 90—year—old mother, earning a fraction of the amount she enjoyed when she was working full—time. she says today's proposals are welcome to a point. i have had to give up so much of my life in order to be that carer, and i think that taking the year out, to try to settle the caring needs, my needs, my mum's needs, was something that would really have benefited me.
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theresa may launched her proposals at tech pixies, an oxford firm that helps women return to work after parental leave. we are announcing the biggest ever enhancement of workers' rights by a conservative government, and yes, there are various elements to this but we are for example committing the national living wage will continue to rise in line with median earnings, yes, that people will be able to request time off to care for a relative, and we want to support and encourage return ships. here are the workers' rights the conservatives are offering: a right to leave to care a family member or after a right to unpaid leave to care a family member or after the death of a child. a guarantee that all rights under eu law would be secure, such as maternity rights and equal pay. and protections for gig economy workers and those on zero hours contracts, although there was little detail. but surely, this is the party of the workers, the labour party?
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it is proposing to end zero hours contract and repeal trade union law. it is proposing to end zero hours contracts and repeal trade union law. critics lined up to call foul on the tories. let's judge the tory party and theresa may on her record — zero hours contract, employment tribunal fees, the trade union act, the most pernicious anti—worker legislation of the last century. leopards don't change their spots. at best this is vacuous, at worst it's more tory lies. these are the firms that will be doing the heavy lifting. a manufacturer in reading, yes — backing good worker conditions but worried about what they see as anti—business noise and costs. if one of our members of staff did that, if they came to us and said they needed time off because, say, a parent or partner was dying, and they needed time off to care for them, of course we would look at that. the disappointing thing, as always, is the government are not offering any help to do that.
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there is a stark truth underlying every political party's offer to people in work. the economy has been pretty good at creating jobs, employment is at a record. but it is the quality of those jobs that is the issue, particuarly in a world where average incomes are not rising, they are falling. this company literally punches holes in metal. cutting through the vexed issue of equality at work will be the test set for the party which wins the general election. the first minister of scotland, 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 european 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
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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. and you can find out more about today's election pledges and the latest on the campaign on our website — and at 7:30 on every weekday night here on the news channel we have a round up of the day's campaign news in the election wrap. the headlines on bbc news: the cabinet's emergency team has met to discuss the nhs cyber attack — the home secretary denied that any vulnerability warnings were ignored.
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on the election campaign, jeremy corbyn promises an extra £37 billion for the nhs and shorter hospital waiting lists if labour wins next month. meanwhile, theresa may promises the greatest expansion of workers' rights if the conservative keep their hold on power. now, let's walk away from the election and all the other stuff and get some sport. thank you very much. now, they won't be presented with the premier league trophyjust yet but it is still an evening of celebration at stamford bridge as chelsea host watford in their first game since winning the title. as is customary, the champions were given a guard of honour by watford before kick—off. nine changes to the chelsea side. one of those changes wasjohn terry, who made his first
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start in 2017. it looked as though he had scored a goal a few moments ago and actually, he has. it is 1—0 at sta mford ago and actually, he has. it is 1—0 at stamford bridge at the moment. highlights of that game will be on match of the day tonight at 10:45pm on bbc one. so the celebrations keep on bbc one. so the celebrations keep on coming at the stamford bridge. the fa chairman greg clarke says football has a responsibility to take the lead on fighting homophobia and make sure players feel comfortable about coming out as gay. he says there's still a big problem in the men's game and he hasn't found any gay players willing to speak to him. at stonewall‘s rainbow laces summit at old trafford, professional footballers' association chief gordon taylor said he didn't know of a single gay male footballer currently playing the game. it may well be that a player wants to be known as a football player and not as that first gay footballer, but it's the same with putt it's been the same with many of our
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issues, without somebody prepared to ta ke issues, without somebody prepared to take the lead and others to follow and confident to follow, it becomes very difficult. roger federer has pulled out of this month's french open . federer says he's decided to skip the clay court season. he's not injured, he says scheduling is the reason for missing the grand slam, as he wants to concentrate on the grass court season that follows. britain's number three aljaz bedene will face novak djokovic in the second round of the italian open, after being given a walkover. bedene lost the first set against gianluca mager on a tie—break, before the italian 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. and bedene will be joined in the second round by fellow briton kyle edmund. he saw offjoao sousa of portugal in straight sets and faces world number nine kei nishikori next. andy murray is in rome to defend his title — but he's still not firing
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on all cylinders, after a month out with an elbow injury. he starts his campaign against fabio fagnini, against fabio fognini, after being knocked out in the third round of the madrid open last week, by the world number 59 borna coric. it's tough to certainly analyse losses and a couple of days, when you are also looking to the next tournament, but that's also sometimes a positive thing, that you have another event to look forward to it immediately. you get a chance to it immediately. you get a chance to play better only four or five days after a tough match. maria sharapova is guaranteed a place in the qualifying competition for wimbledon, after she won herfirst—round match at the italian open. she earned enough ranking points with a straight—sets victory over christine mchale — and if she reaches the semi—finals in rome, the five—time grand slam champion, who's returning from a 15—month doping ban, will qualify for wimbledon‘s main draw. jonny brownlee says he cannot afford to make any mistakes, if he's
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to become world triathlon champion. he was caught up in a crash in yokohama at the weekend — his bike was broken and he finished in 42nd place. brownlee's fine, though, and ready to continue his campaign in leeds on 11th june. i'm actually ok. surprisingly, yeah. i'm actually ok. surprisingly, yeah. i'm very, very lucky i didn't break any bones but i'm disappointed more than anything. obviously, it is a long way to go to not be able to raise properly and ifeel like i was in good shape. i'm looking forward to changing it in leeds and making it around. it puts it on the back foot because there have been three races so foot because there have been three races so far and i haven't got any point in any of them, because i missed the first two in injury —— with injury and in yokohama, i crashed, so no room for error and every ra ce crashed, so no room for error and every race i do, i got to get points, come top three to have a chance of becoming world champion. it means leeds is very important. chance of becoming world champion. it means leeds is very importantm has been a busy few minutes at
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sta mford has been a busy few minutes at stamford bridge, it is their 1—1, etienne capoue has equalised for the visitors. i will keep you up—to—date with that through the evening, that's all the sport for now. on his first day as french president, emmanuel macron has appointed a prime minister from outside his political party — edouard philippe of the centre—right republican party. he's also travelled to germany, where he's meeting with chancellor angela merkel. the two leaders said they would continue to build on their alliance at the heart of the european union. translation: we have exchanged our views today and we have agreed that we are going to continue to very closely together. translation: with our respective teams, we will be able to work for projects over the medium term and have a common road map for the european union and the eurozone. these are very, very important
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subjects, as we have seen over the last few years. police in essex have begun searching a block of garages in thurrock, for the body of a schoolgirl who went missing 16 years ago. danielle jones was 15 when she was abducted and murdered by her uncle stuart campbell in 2001, but her body was never found. nick beake reports. daniellejones, the girl who simply vanished on her way to school and was never seen again. but could this be a breakthrough? this morning, specialist teams moved in to search this garage. danielle's parents, tony and linda, soon arrived at the place where detectives now believe she may be buried. the schoolgirl‘s uncle, stuart campbell, was jailed for murder even though her body was never found. essex police say they are acting on what they describe as new and credible information received earlier this year, but it hasn't come from stuart campbell. for the past 16 years, he's refused to tell detectives what happened to his niece and he's refused to say where her body is.
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essex police have revealed they did receive a tip—off about this location when danielle first went missing, although it wasn't one of 1,000 garages they searched. the officer now leading this operation hasn't yet worked out why. there was some similar information, not identical to that we received earlier this year, but clearly we'll work to understand why. my priority this week, though, is to make sure we do everything we can to reunite danielle with herfamily. and after 16 years, they hope that wait could finally be over. just shy of 8:30pm, time for a look at the weather with nick miller. we had some chilly nights last week but it is very different tonight, a mild and muggy night to come, temperatures not going down too far. plenty of cloud and still some rain
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to be had across parts of southern scotland, north—west england into wales in particular, heavy bursts at time and a few showers elsewhere. low cloud to the south and west of the uk, that means bog on the hills and look at the temperatures holding into the mid—teens the many as the day goes on but it turns dry and bright, it will feel fresher by the end of the day. this band of rain will move further south—east england and wales in parts of wales and northern england will turn drier into the afternoon. east anglia and south—east england staying mainly dry, a few sunny breaks with temperatures heading up to around 20-22dc. temperatures heading up to around 20—22dc. sunshine and a few showers in scotland and northern ireland on wednesday. this band of wet weather affecting parts of england and wales, heavy and thundery at times. hello. this is bbc news at 8.30pm. the cabinet‘s emergency committee has met to discuss the fallout of the nhs cyber attack.
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the home secretary amber rudd defended how the crisis was handled. nobody ignored these warnings, we put aside £50 million specifically for cyber security for the nhs. the nhs itself, if you speak to the trust, you will find made a lot of good preparations just trust, you will find made a lot of good preparationsjust in trust, you will find made a lot of good preparations just in case. on the election campaign trail, jeremy corbyn has promised an extra 37 billion pounds for the nhs and shorter hospital waiting lists if labour wins power. meanwhile theresa may has promised the greatest expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win onjune the 8th. in essex, police search a block of garages in an attempt to find the body of the schoolgirl daniellejones who was murdered 16 years ago. france's new president emmanuel macron visits germany to boost the relationship at the heart of the eu. a "second spike" in cyber—attacks
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has failed to hit the nhs but some hospital trusts are still suffering disruption due to friday's ransomware attack. routine surgery and gp appointments have been cancelled across the nhs as it recovers from the global outbreak. but the number of hospitals diverting patients from a&e has decreased from seven on sunday to two. the home secretary, amber rudd, has praised the nhs for a "very strong" response to friday's mass cyber—attack. professor bill buchanan is from the school of computing at edinburgh napier university, and a fellow of the british computer society. hejoins me now via webcam. thanks forjoining us. the failure ofa thanks forjoining us. the failure of a second spike to materialise, good news obviously, but is it surprising? it's not. ithink
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good news obviously, but is it surprising? it's not. i think we should recognise that this is a different type of branson than we have typically seen. just now, often, it's a ransom distributed through e—mail fishing alerts. it's often sent to individuals and small businesses who are more liable to pay for it. when ransomware is sent to larger organisations you find they will cope with it and fix it. they will typically not pay. the current time, we are sitting about 227 transactions and 33 bit coins, which ends up at about $58,000. which is nowhere near the peak of crypto wall at 225 million. so people are heeded the warning: do not pay. wait and get it fixed?” would say it is organisations, large organisations such as the nhs which has xp. i would think very few people sitting at home are sitting on xp, computers, they will
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typically have upgraded. it really is the organisations who have large—scale legacy networks that have been hit hard here. the suggestion is that some of these trusts like using the networks that they have because they understand them, they are easy to manage and so on and so forth. they are reluctant to change and upgrade?‘ on and so forth. they are reluctant to change and upgrade? a change to xp should have happened a long time ago. microsoft stop supporting it, it is 14 ago. microsoft stop supporting it, it is 1a years old, and probably negligent in an organisation not to be patching upgrading. it does not cost anything really. really, no computer should be allowed to join the nhs network that is supported by a legacy operating system. do you think that should be a directive now? should the government say, every network has two conform to certain standards and that means upgrades? yes. we often will
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actually tell individuals to say they will migrate away from current systems, there will be a time limit to be able to get the systems online and updated. if they are not updated, then they will not be allowed tojoin updated, then they will not be allowed to join the network. 0k, thank you professor. well the labour leader, jeremy corbyn has said that he never thought about being prime minister when he was growing up. but he now wants the job to bring about change. he was speaking on itv‘s tonight programme, as part of its leader interviews. mr coburn also said he was not prepared to put a figure on the amount of people who would be prepared to come to britain after brexit. well let's speak to our political correspondent, ben wright, who's been watching that interview. he joins us from westminster. sounds as if he has been quite candid and personal? he was. talking
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about his upbringing in shropshire and why he became quite a radical socialist, as a young man. why he committed himself then to the labour party through years of backbench toil, never really promoted to the front bench. why he believed in the causes that he did. it was an interesting. he was asked about many things, whether he would quit if he lost this election, a question he sidestepped again as he does. whether he thought that if he lost, the labour party could be in its death throes. he pointed to evidence that he said, justified the positions he was taking, by pointing to the labour membership figures which he says are the largest of any political party in europe. on that front, sidestepping really pressing issues for the party. he was asked about breasts it of course, and whoever wins the next election that will be the dominant issue facing the prime minister. —— he was asked about brexit, of course. this is
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what he said about his numbers after the election. obviously immigration and free movement is intrinsic as a memberof the eu, and free movement is intrinsic as a member of the eu, that will become a different issue whenever the final departure takes place, say 2019. what would happen in terms of the numbers of people coming here? there would be immigration, there would be a emigration. we have skill needs and skill shortages. family reunion issues. let's just and skill shortages. family reunion issues. let'sjust say, tens of thousands would you bring it down?” won't quote figures. theresa may has done that for the third general election, promising figures none of which she has come near to achieving. would there be controls on immigration? free movement ends when we leave the eu. but there will be manage migration and it will be fair. -- be manage migration and it will be fair. —— managed migration. be manage migration and it will be fair. -- managed migration. a
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contrast to the conservatives who have recommitted to their aim of bringing net migration down to the tens of thousands, were they to be re—elected, a target they have never met. jeremy corbyn not saying he would bring migration down while labour to would bring migration down while labourto win, would bring migration down while labour to win, while excepting of course that free movement as we know it now will have to win because we are leaving the eu. we do not know what labour are planning in terms of a new immigration structure post brexit, nor do we know what the tories are planning either. thank you. a couple from buckinghamshire who were wrongfully accused of hurting their baby, say they still feel under scrutiny from social services, despite being exonerated in court. craig stillwell and carla andrews from aylesbury, have been reunited with their daughter after nearly nine months in foster care. they proved effie has a rare genetic condition, which makes her prone to bruising and bleeding. the couple say theyjust want to rebuild their lives, but are still being monitored by social workers. katharine da costa reports. a new home, and what
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should be a new start. carla and craig from aylesbury had hopes to put their nine—month ordeal behind them. but since moving last week, they have had two unannounced visits from social services. i thought it was all going to be over, the judge said we wouldn't need parenting assessments of things. assessments or things. they are still trying to get involved, and they want to constantly come out and assess us. ifeel that we have proved our innocence and it's not enough. it's quite stressful. last august, effie suffered a seizure and was taken to stoke mandeville hospital, a ct scan showed she had had a bleed on the brain. 12 hours later, craig was arrested, accused of shaking his three—month—old daughter. carla was also questioned, buckinghamshire social services placed effie in foster care, and applied to remove herfrom her parents permanently. it destroyed us i think, because effie was all we ever
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wanted, and to have herjust ripped away from us the way that she was, it was absolutely disgusting. they should have kept her, did a bit more testing, but to do that point the finger straightaway, it's like... we were treated like monsters, really. the family was able to prove both carla and effie have eds, a rare inherited condition that can cause internal bleeding and skin to breathe easily. bruise easily. the council withdrew its application and the case was dropped last month. buckinghamshire health care trust has written to craig and carla to apologise, and offered to meet with them to understand and learn from their experience. meanwhile, the county council says it does not comment on individual cases but said: doctorjohn richer, a child clinical psychologist,
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says effie should be able to rebuild the bond with her parents despite months apart. all that upheaval does not help, but most children would be resilient enough to cope with that at this sort of age, and form an appropriate attachment to the parents from here on. effie turns one this week, and the couple hope it marks a new chapter in their lives. they are not seeking compensation, but to be allowed to parent in peace. i want to move forward with effie without having any more interference. being told what to do. we are not really fussed about money, we just want to get on with our lives. and live as a family, as we have always wanted. it's coming up to quarter to nine.
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the top stories: the cabinets emergency team has met to discuss the nhs cyber attack, the home secretary denied that any vulnerability winds were ignored. on the election campaign, jeremy corbyn promises an extra £37 billion for the nhs and shorter hospital waiting lists if labour wins next month. meanwhile, theresa may promises the greatest expansion of workers' rights of any conservative government if she wins onjune eight. and an update on the market numbers for you. the ftse and acts not looking too bad at the end of the day. the dow up slightly with about 1k minutes until closing. the nasdaq down ever so slightly as well. with a week to go until the deadline to register to vote in the general election more than a quarter of young voters still aren't on the electoral roll. research indicates that most 18 to 2a—year—olds are pro—eu, but they voted in smaller numbers than expected in the
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brexit referendum. so what are the issues they want politicians to address in this election? our social affairs correspondent elaine dunkley reports. meet the millennials. birmingham has one of the highest numbers of 18 to 2a—year—olds in europe. it's the generation least likely to vote, but one facing huge uncertainty about the future. amano is a 21—year—old graphic designer. for him, the big issue in this general election is brexit. i do feel like we are going to be the ones that bear the burden. being in the european union, it kind of subsidised art and music programmes and a lot of the public facilities that we enjoy in birmingham in particular, so that would be kind of one of the things that i'd be looking out for. birmingham has five universities. the cost of studying is a big talking point.
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second—year art student phoebe says she's undecided about who to vote for, but university fees would be her big issue. it's definitely the fees that are a worry. you're coming in already preparing yourself for that debt. i came into first year like, ok, i'm already nine grand in debt. i think it would definitely be an amazing thing if we followed along the lines of, say, scotland and we did free education and just made sure people have the a—levels and the grades to get in. whether studying or in employment, money worries come high up on the list for millennials. angelo still lives at home with his dad. he would like to own his own place but unaffordable housing and the cost of living means he's unable to fly the nest. whilst i'm working, i've got to have a car. car insurance nowadays is ridiculous. but my second year is like1,700 quid. my rent with my dad,
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that's another couple of hundred quid a month. that's half my wages gone, i've not even touched them. i can't see myself moving out for another three or four years now. there's no shortage of issues facing millennials. the challenge is ensuring their political voice is heard. contrary to popular belief, we are actually quite engaged and we actually do see through the lies and the political tactics that a lot of the politicians employ. the young generation has got their heads screwed on, we know what we're doing but we definitely need to remember that we need to vote to achieve what we want. elaine dunkley, bbc news. you can find information on each of the party's policies, along with detailed analysis of what they mean in practice, that's on a special section of our website. visit bbc.co.uk/ reality check.
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fans and players have been invited to a big party in gloucestershire tonight following forest green rovers promotion to the football league for the first time in their 128 year history. the club, based in the tiny village of nailsworth, won their playoff final at wembley yesterday. alistair durden reports. commentator: forest green winners the history makers of forest green rovers, now a premier league club. finally a chance to unwind on what they have achieved. there is no better feeling than playing at wembley and getting promoted. it's amazing. i'm very grateful to be given the opportunity to represent forest green and take them up to the football league is such an honour.
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next year, why can't we do it again? get promoted? next year, why can't we do it again? get promoted ? bristol next year, why can't we do it again? get promoted? bristol rovers the last year. nailsworth, population of just 6000, will be the smallest place ever to host a football league club. a0 years ago they were playing in the gloucestershire county league. it's fantastic, isn't it? for the whole stroud area. the foot ball for the whole stroud area. the football league club. amazing! , believing. it's amazing. 1953i've been waiting for this. my father and my brother paid for them. yes!l ta keover my brother paid for them. yes!l takeover by green energy businessman vince has transformed forest green. believed to be the worlds only be given football club. but at wembley yesterday, it was the football the headlines. phil is brilliant. what
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an achievement to have this little clu b an achievement to have this little club against all the odds in the football league. it's incredible. i can't believe it. i am chuffed to bits, but i am more chuffed for the chairman because he has such a cool quy- chairman because he has such a cool guy. he wants to take the club to the championship and he is going to build a new stadium. when he says something, you tend to believe it. in new league and a new ground. plus afan in new league and a new ground. plus a fan base that is growing in numbers year by year. a small club on the hill continues to dream big. celebrations have continued at the club this evening and alistair has been speaking to the forest green rovers. dale vince. it really is a remarkable story. nailsworth population just 6000, most of them are here tonight getting players autographs and shirts signed. they will be the smallest place to host a football league team. the man that has made it possible is the owner and
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chairman, dale vince. is this more than you could have imagined? we have never held an event like this before. don't know how many people would come, but it has been a fantastic turnout. there is a real buzzin fantastic turnout. there is a real buzz in the film much this means to the bands which is fabulous. have you come to terms of yesterday in what it means? in parts. there's more to come to terms with yet. it does make a lot of difference in a numberof does make a lot of difference in a number of areas. does make a lot of difference in a numberofareas. i does make a lot of difference in a number of areas. i woke up this morning, big smile on my face. it will be the same tomorrow morning and it will be like that until the summer and it will be like that until the summerl and it will be like that until the summer i think, at least, until the season starts. then i will still be smiling. it's a different ball game almost. is forest green ready for life in the league? yeah, a reporter asked me that yesterday. he said is leaked you ready for forest green? i don't know if that's right but we will find out. —— is league to ready? how far do you think this could go? we hope about the
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championship. this first step out of league into league 2 is a really big one. i think getting out of league 2 to league 1 will be relatively more easy. then we will see where we are. you generated lots of headlines when he took over the club. it's organic, you have solar panels. the club is big. how important has that ben is pa rt big. how important has that ben is part of the journey? it's really important part of what we do. combining football with environmentalism. bringing this message. important message, bringing it to be new audience and using foot ball it to be new audience and using football as a platform. we need to change how we live, because of the state of the world, and depleting resources and stuff like that. we focus on energy, transport and food and here we try to show our fans a different way to do things. you have been here seven years now. how the people of nailsworth and the greater stroud area and gloucestershire taken to that? really well. it's
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just fantastic. the whole club are behind us, behind the green ethos. which gets us coverage beyond our size. therefore we can punch above ourweight, size. therefore we can punch above our weight, absolutely. the fans are completely behind it on here we are, in league 2. is leaked to ready for that message? do you think you can spread that message further? absolutely. football is behind the curve on the environment of front for sure. that is part of the reason we are doing this. it's an important area to bring the message, but also to use football as a platform to ta ke to use football as a platform to take the message wider which is working. we went in to wembley with a message of support from 20 different countries. exciting times. hopefully some of them will make the journey to come and watch you in the cotswolds. congratulations. the meetings have already started with the management team, as forest green start to plan for life in the football league. congratulations to them. it was 100 years ago this
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month that us president john f kennedy was born. across the united states, a series of events are marking the anniversary. an exhibition of photos of the 35th president — some well known, others never seen before, is being held in washington. the show‘s curator, lawrence schiller, spoke to the bbc about president kennedy and his relationship with the photojournalist‘s camera. hi, i'm larry schiller, here at the smithsonian american art museum, a film—maker, former photojournalist and once in awhile i write books. kennedy lived at a period of what we call the golden age of photojournalism. television had not really emerged as the communicator of the world or the educator of the world. kennedy did not care how he looked, he did not care whether you photographed the silhouette of him or whether he was in the bright light. he knew that in essence, his mere presence would present the right image to the american public.
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we have a political climate which is emerging right now in america, some people say that our leader is learning on the job and he should have understood what the job was before. but i have to tell you, kennedy was learning on the job as well. his first 100 days was not easy. he had the bay of pigs, he had a lot on his plate to figure out. jacqueline kennedy was probably, i would say, jfk's greatest asset. she was cultured, she had taste, she had humour, wit. jackie never really wanted to exploit the children. sojfk would always wait until she was out of the white house, then he would have the kids running around, up and down the halls, and of course he would invite a
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photographer. there are those famous photos ofjohn john crawling photographer. there are those famous photos ofjothohn crawling through the desk. but there is this wonderful picture ofjfk walking to bed at night. as he would often do. in the exhibit, you have those iconic images that we have seen before, but there are also bookends of the images you have not seen before. those that set the stage to understand the tension whichjfk was understand the tension whichjfk was under comedy humour and wit, the social events. his life was not as glamorous as you would think. fascinating. time for a look at the weather. less iconic but unusual all the same. the pictures of rain coming in
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from our weather watchers today. if we look at the main picture over the last few hours, it is the west that has been seeing the heaviest outbreaks of rain and fact in galloway it has been turning wet again in the past hour or so. it is binny soaker today. this is belfast earlier. medlock had 30 or nearly 30 millilitres rain. not very much in south—east england. that could change, particularly late wednesday. low— pressure change, particularly late wednesday. low—pressure controlling our weather. whenever you see that you know it is unsettled. rain hanging around for a few more days to come. overnight, heavy rain at times in the southern scotland and north west england and wales. patchy arenas where to be found, though northern ireland looking mostly dry. across the board, quite an monday night to come. we have some chilly nights last week but that really has changed as this temperature is holed up. starting mainly dry tomorrow in
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northern ireland but outbreaks of rain set to move through from the west and eventually across scotland as well. prior to that through eastern parts of scotland, sunshine, could see around 20 degrees just as we saw today on the moray coast. north—west england, wales, wet weather for many of us. patchy rain showers and south—west england into the midlands and east anglia the south—east, however, will be dry. some sunshine at times as temperatures head up into the 20s. a muqqy temperatures head up into the 20s. a muggy day for many. for scotland northern ireland, once the sun comes back, northern ireland first men in scotla nd back, northern ireland first men in scotland to end the day, it will feel pressure. that band of rain pushing further south—east into the midlands and south west england. not wasting east anglia and the south—east, again, a reminder of the high temperatures here. sunny spells occasionally, in the low 20s. tomorrow night, scotland and northern ireland, clear skies. chilly night to come. an expanding
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area of wet weather into england and wales. some heavy bursts. towards the end of the day, notjust heavy bursts but some torrential thundery bursts but some torrential thundery bursts are possible. keep an update on that for you. by the end of the week, thursday and friday, some fresh airand week, thursday and friday, some fresh air and sunshine and showers. could well say the weekend, even to next week as well. i'm ros atkins with outside source. emmanuel macron's in berlin with reform of the european union top of the agenda. translation: the success of our two countries is very closely related and on that depends on the whole success of europe. back in france, the president's chosen edouard philippe, you can see getting out of the car there, as the new prime minister and he's not even from mr macron's party. we'll examine that decision. microsoft is saying friday's global cyber attack
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should be a wake—up call. we'll talk about that. and we'll talk about pressure mounting on president trump to hand
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