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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 should be a wake—up call. we'll talk about that. and we'll talk about pressure mounting on president trump to hand over any recordings of conversations between him and the sacked fbi directorjames comey, if they exist, of course, which we don't know. and we will look at a major development in the campaign to beat iran's next president. —— to become. well, yesterday, emmanuel macron
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became president of france. today, he visited angela merkel and here is some of what we heard. translation: on my side, i will always be honest, direct, i will always be an honest, direct, and constructive partner because i believe that the success of our two countries is very closely related and on that depends the whole success of europe and i'm very attached to it. translation: at this critical point in time for the european union, i for one am very much aware of the responsibility we have. we can and must take the right decisions and we have agreed to work closely together on friendly terms for the benefit of the people in our countries. next up, jenny hill, our correspondent in berlin. well, there was a warm welcome for monsieur macron at the bundestag, notjust from mrs merkel, but, unusually for such events,
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a crowd singing and dancing outside the talks. on paper, this looks like a warm and friendly relationship, but as mrs merkel herself put it, paraphrasing a german author, "every beginning has magic to it." the two leaders have pledged to create a road map for europe, they want to further integrate not just the eu but the eurozone and they both said, crucially, tonight that they are prepared to look at european treaty change in order to make that happen. so far, so good, but it's worth, of course, emphasising that there have been real difficulties in the french german relationship. once, of course, that underpinned the european project,
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it was a real axis of strength, but as the two economies have very much diverged, that has become much more tense. in recent years, is worth arguing that come reidy, arguing that, really, britain has become more of an ally in the eu the germany. now, of course, britain has decided to leave, everything's changed and these two leaders, who are both of course committed europhiles, are trying to get this european project back on track once more. so a lot of talk about cooperation and working together but we know also that behind the scenes in berlin, some of monsieur macron‘s ideas about economic reform, for example, are raising eyebrows. it's election year here in germany. angela merkel is not going to countenance any kind of suggestion or idea that german money should go into propping up or paying off the debt of other eu economies, including france, that are not doing so well. so there will be tensions between the two leaders and i think that angela merkel, for all the smiles today, is looking at monsieur macron and his promise to bring the french economy back up to speed and thinking, let's wait and see whether he can really deliver on those promises. emmanuel macron also making news in
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france, he has appointed this man, edouard philippe, as the new prime minister. he is the mayor of le havre in france. earlier, i spoke to olivierfrom bbc news havre in france. earlier, i spoke to olivier from bbc news to find out more. you don't know him but that ok because most people in france don't know him, so he is a complete unknown, you said he was the mayor le havre. what is very important to know is he is from the traditional right—wing party, he is from the republicans and he comes from the moderate wing so he's from the centre—right but macron has chosen someone, like you said, who is not from his own party and by doing that, he is sending a very strong message. remember, macron is the ultimate disruptive. the ultimate disru ptor. he wants to upend and completely change the political landscape, that's exactly what he's doing by nominating someone from the right. he is drawing broader support from the right but he's also destabilising the traditional right—wing party, the republicans, before very important parliamentary elections next month.
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is he being seen as a traitor to his party? yes, there is talk of that. some in his party seeing him as a bit of a traitor but there is this uneasy relationship with macron now, they have to define themselves, the republicans, the old right—wing party. do they work with him as a president, do they become the opposition? first of all, they are concerned about winning the parliamentary elections next month, but by opening up, by making this overture to the right, other defectors from the right might come in and we might see some tomorrow in the government because now the cabinet has been announced, there will be something because now the cabinet has to be announced, there will be something very interesting tomorrow. whenever i hear a french leader talking about reforming the economy, i always think about american presidents saying they will carry out health care reform. it is a lot easier to say than to do. what is the evidence this could be different? first of all, he has got to win elections. it will be very difficult to reform anything if next month he doesn't have a majority in parliament, but the evidence is he seems very determined.
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he said it again, macron, in his speech yesterday, he is prepared to rule by decree. , , , , to have a very clear project about reforming labour laws. that's his first priority, he is trying to loosen up the jobs market and kick—start this economy that has so much red tape and rigidity. and he seems quite determined, but he needs a majority in parliament, thatis he needs a majority in parliament, that is an absolute priority. president macron is keeping us on oui’ president macron is keeping us on our toes. thanks, olivia, for guiding us through french politics. we need to talk about friday's cyber attack globally. look at this visualisation of how it spread kamiji consider global nature. this appears to be slowing down there we are intoa appears to be slowing down there we are into a new week but not before 150 countries were affected and the attack began on friday and a lot of people around the world got this message. the software used is called ransom ware, it is called that
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because it takes over users‘ files and demands $300 to restore access. according to bbc analysis, we think around $38,000 has so far been paid. given the global nature of the disruption, perhaps not an enormous danger. there is very clear advice from the national crime agency in the uk, saying... now, microsoft is right at the heart of this story, because it is its operating systems which have been attacked and it is saying one of the reasons of the attacks spread easily is that people weren‘t keeping their computers up—to—date. the president of microsoft is also saying the tool used in the attack was developed by the us national security agency. it was then stolen by hackers and we have seen what has happened. this is one way the microsoft president put it... well, i have been talking to zoe
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klein and to get the latest on the story. it shouldn't have been a surprise in itself that the security agencies in all countries are going to have cyber weapons and cyber tools that they will have to maintain national—security. what has been deeply worrying is that in this case, the nsa‘s tools were leaked in april, so that means they went from being an essay toolkit to being a toolkit for anybody who had access toolkit for anybody who had access to the internet and people have been worrying ever since that it was a matter of time before somebody came along and exploited that. there has been a reasonable gap between those hacks and this attack. clearly not long enough for everyone to get their defences in order. microsoft did issue a patch for this back in march so if everybody accepted and updated at that time, they would have been protected and the run somewhere would not have been able to do nearly as much damage as it has. the problem is with large egyptians, they have networks of thousands of computers and they are
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all set up to do very specific tasks. here in the uk, we have the nhs computers that will be running mri scanners, they will be analysing things and they can‘tjust stick something on that might accidentally cause more damage elsewhere. sometimes you download an update and something on your phone stops working and it is a real pain but imagine it is that critical. the it departments have the test these patches and make sure they won‘t do any accidental damage and that process wasn‘t happening fast enough for hundreds and thousands of companies around the world. so this has happened with one particular area with run somewhere. presumably there were other things in the big hack of the nsa that could be usable for other people to cause trouble? time will tell on what is out there. ransom ware is a new, all of it is a new and it is finding new ways of exploiting it and that is what cyber criminals are always trying to do. and on the other side, you have
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security agencies and people offering assistance and it is very much and microsoft windows issue this time and it is who can stay one step ahead, it is an ongoing game of cat and mouse. it is an ongoing problem and a global problem and is each country trying to fashion a different way of dealing with it? there is certainly an international manhunt going on to try and find out who was behind this ran somewhere. the early days, we don‘t know at the moment but there are quite interesting signs that it might not have been one of the big, well—known cyber criminal gangs that you might expect. the malware was not particularly sophisticated, the fact that they were demanding a bitcoin ranson, which is not unusual but only offering three or four bitcoin wallets, like bank accounts set up to receive the transaction. normally, a gang would have a different one for each run somewhere the man decided could catch it in and run somewhere else ——
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ra nsomwa re. and run somewhere else —— ransomware. and and run somewhere else —— ra nsomwa re. and the and run somewhere else —— ransomware. and the fact that there was a kill switch for some code that was a kill switch for some code that was designed to something else and hadn‘t been applied properly suggests people behind this one professionals. is that going to make them harder to trace because we don‘t know them or easier because they will slip up and get caught? so many questions about this story, you will get lots of answers on the bbc news website on ransomware and on this particular attack. still to come on the programme, we will bring you up—to—date on the uranium presidential election because today, one of the candidates who was joint second in a recent poll has dropped out. we will get into why with the help of bbc persia. police in essex have begun searching a block of garages in thurrock the body of a schoolgirl who went missing 16 years ago. daniellejones was 15 when she was murdered by her uncle stuart campbell in 2001. when danielle disappeared in 2001,
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it led to a huge police but 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. the lead story is that emmanuel macron has travelled to berlin, his
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first foreign trip as president of france. he says he wants to reinvigorate relations with germany in what he is calling an historic juncture for europe. some of the main stories from the world service. the defence minister of ivory coast has gone on state tv to announce that the government has reached a deal with soldiers to end a four—day mutiny. that is the lead story on bbc africa. germany has reacted angrily to the season by turkey to not allow a delegation of german mps to visit troops at an airbase turkey. and the new miss usa has faced a backlash after declaring that health care a privilege am not a right. you will get her views and reaction to them in the most red list on bbc news. let‘s talk about iran‘s presidential election. it is on friday and there is absolutely no doubt that hassan rouhani would very much like a second term, but he has
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got some stern opposition. these five candidates... it was five yesterday, it is four now because the mayor of tehran has dropped out. instead, he is offering his backing to another conservative, this man, ebrahim raisi. before the mayor dropped out, this was one opinion poll conducted by an american —based organisation. hassan rouhani clear in the polls but those two conservative candidates neck and neck, so you would assume that for ebrahim raisi, he has a clear run with one of his rivals out of the way. but it‘s more complicated than that. bbc persia is on the one to guide us through this.|j that. bbc persia is on the one to guide us through this. i think moral mess all of us predicted it, especially because most of the conservative parties had been supporting ebrahim raisi and there was a lot of pressure on mohammad baqer qalibaf to withdraw and support him. but there was a question of how effective his
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withdrawal can be on ebrahim raisi‘s winning, because many, many analysts think it wouldn‘t necessarily help ebrahim raisi win the election. why not? on the face of it, they are quite similar in terms of policy. some analysts believe that their supporters wouldn‘t necessarily overla p. supporters wouldn‘t necessarily overlap. so about 20% of the supporters of mohammad baqer qalibaf will vote for hassan rouhani and it will vote for hassan rouhani and it will be a very close election. some people might think it will go to the second round, so they think that it probably would have been betterfor mohammad baqer qalibaf to stay in the race and take it to the second round where ebrahim raisi had a better chance of winning. in terms of policies, what other key issues that divide the main candidates?- the moment, it is economy. most of the moment, it is economy. most of the attacks on president rouhani is about the recession and the economy and they say the nuclear deal hasn‘t delivered what it promised to
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delivered what it promised to deliver and they say they will stick with it. but they say they were wipe out poverty, they will wipe out corruption, which i think is all very optimistic because there are fundamental problems with the iranians economy. at the moment, mr rouhani is the favourite to win and continue. if he does, what will be the reasons for that? why is he still a very popular leader? the reasons for that? why is he still a very popular leader7|j the reasons for that? why is he still a very popular leader? i think he has been manoeuvring a lot on social freedom, which many he has been manoeuvring a lot on socialfreedom, which many people who voted for him last time think that he has managed to deliver on that he has managed to deliver on that and the nuclear deal as well, so many, four years ago, thought it was impossible to reach a nuclear deal and he has delivered on that. he has managed to create a percentile growth in his four years. so he has delivered some parts of it and those who are supporting him now think he needs another four years in order to keep to his promises. said the election is on friday, when do we find out who has one? probably on saturday afternoon. and bbc persia
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will be helping us every step of the way. as you may have guessed, women are forbidden in running in iran‘s presidential elections. not for lack of trying, though. bishoo, 137 women put their names forward but failed to get approval from the guardian council, which is of course full of men. women can still be active in local politics and the bbc has been speaking to four women about their experiences of that. when i registered as a candidate, my husband called all our relatives, saying "she shouldn‘t be doing this." he said it was bringing shame to ourfamily, this." he said it was bringing shame to our family, what would people say? when i went to register as a
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candidate, everyone laughed at me. they said this is kazemi, how can a womanjoined the they said this is kazemi, how can a woman joined the council they said this is kazemi, how can a womanjoined the council —— mrs kazemi. isaid womanjoined the council —— mrs kazemi. i said i will try anyway and put my faith in god. the men said there was no reason view to speak, we can make a speech for you. you don't need to come and speak but i did it anyway. when my campaign posters came back from the printers, my husband saw the photos of may. do you want to plaster these all over the walls, he asked? i said of course i do. we were having brea kfast course i do. we were having breakfast when he said, so you withdrew, right? my daughterstarted laughing. the deadline has passed, mum didn‘t withdraw. laughing. the deadline has passed, mum didn't withdraw. nobody believed me, it was really tough. they told it quite clearly, you belong in the kitchen. in our counsel, there were six men and one woman, me. i had a ph.d. and a strong track record, but they didn't. but they never could
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bring themselves to vote for me. but i got the deputy head roll anyway. the hardliners told me i must wear black clothing but i am a lively and happy girl, i always wear colourful clothes and people actually like that. they say it shows you are alive, it doesn‘t tie hours. that. they say it shows you are alive, it doesn't tie hours. for 20 days, i sat down and read through all of the construction laws and regulations. the judge said, all of the construction laws and regulations. thejudge said, in all of the construction laws and regulations. the judge said, in all my years here, i have ever seen someone so my years here, i have ever seen someone so well read. if you come to our village and compare it to photos from before, 80% of it has touched —— has changed. everything, from asphalt on the main road to bringing gas and electricity. unfortunately, in ourtime, girls gas and electricity. unfortunately, in our time, girls get married when they are very young. we have started bringing in doctors to schools to educate the girls. for the first time in ourtown, educate the girls. for the first time in our town, we educate the girls. for the first time in ourtown, we build a mammographic and sonography centre.
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my husband finally came to my campaign office and when he saw the crowds and commotion, he told everyone , crowds and commotion, he told everyone, i've finally realised what kind of woman i married to. everyone, i've finally realised what kind of woman i married tolj everyone, i've finally realised what kind of woman i married to. i don't ca re if kind of woman i married to. i don't care if i win or not. ijust wanted to show them what a woman can do. we will talk to bbc persia all week as we move up we will talk to bbc persia all week as we move up to friday‘s presidential election in iran. ok, business now, we are going to go back to our lead story, the rand somewhere cyber attack —— the ra nsomwa re. somewhere cyber attack —— the ransomware. telefonica, somewhere cyber attack —— the ra nsomwa re. telefonica, deutsche bank, just to name two. let‘s bring it michelle fleury. is it possible to assess how much this will have cost big corporations?” to assess how much this will have cost big corporations? i think it is very early days at this point. you mentioned a couple of names and i can add to that. the french
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car—maker renault, i believe in tokyo, hitachi was another firm affected. companies have been shy, as well, in some cases to come forward. there may have been more that were affected that we don‘t yet know about. they might not like the adverse publicity that their clients might know that their systems were compromised. in terms of the cost, one security firm has put a figure out. b just check that figure with you. saying as much as $8 billion globally. it is notjust the disruption to business but then, of course, firms that have been affected a re course, firms that have been affected are looking again at their systems, wanting to back them up, do updates and all of that takes time and money, so we could see that figure actually climb as the days go by. good news, i guess, if you are in cyber security? well, we see this boom every time for that particular industry after very high cyber—attacks. i mean, the technique here, ransomware, cyber—attacks. i mean, the technique here, ra nsomwa re, isn‘t cyber—attacks. i mean, the technique here, ransomware, isn‘ta cyber—attacks. i mean, the technique here, ransomware, isn‘t a new one
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but the difference here is the scale. that is going to make companies look again at their systems and they will need outside co nsulta nts systems and they will need outside consultants who are so maka de laet cyber security experts. if you have any skills in that side and are looking for a profession that pays well, that would be one to go into, that would —— one would suspect.” can see here at tweet saying world this finally get everyone to leave windows xp question mark i don‘t think everyone will but you suspect quite a few well. now, oil prices, they have been on the rise in part because saudi arabia and russia have been talking about extending cuts in production, controlling supply. prices have gone up by close to 3%, up prices have gone up by close to 3%, up to $52 a barrel but there is downward pressure on oil as well through an increase in shale oil production. here is one oil analyst guiding through how those pressures come to bear. i think the critical thing with the saudi and russian announcement made today is the fact that they pre—empted it, the market
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wasn‘t really expecting it. most we re wasn‘t really expecting it. most were just expecting a rollover of a six—month deal and they have basically said, look, we are committed to getting the inventory is down to the average levels. they are aware shale production is rising and that is why they have extended the dealfor longer than and that is why they have extended the deal for longer than expected and come out with nine months. you are right to point out that shale is growing but normal supplies outside of the us are declining, be that in asia, so it is providing a big offset. now a story we have covered a few times, the chinese government‘s investment on billions of dollars into trade routes between asia and europe. this is known as the belt and the road initiative. there is a maritime route being invested in but also land routes through central asia and russia as well. now, of course, that kind of project comes ata course, that kind of project comes at a huge cost. here is our correspondent in singapore. expectations are that cost could run
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into the trillions for this one belt, one road and what we have seen so far is that leaders from 29 nations gathered in beijing on sunday. they continued their visit today to bring china‘s grand plan one step closer to reality. of course, big ambitions here. it‘s going to span around 60 different countries and as we mentioned, the chinese president has pledged billions of dollars. he didn‘t give a time frame for the distribution of those billions for the projects that have an outline. there are many sceptics who say this is all an expensive exercise to extend china‘s political and economic influence, but he was using his speech to reassure the lot —— the leaders there, western leaders, that the plan was notjust to promote chinese influence globally and said that advancing the road, they will not retread the hold path and the focus will be on partnership and mutual
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benefit, lovely words but a lot of scepticss saying corruption is another big concern china will have to guard against, because it has already in the past suffered losses when it has invested in countries with questionable governance issues. now, while i was listening, this copy has come into the bbc news from afp telling us that such parties have failed to form a new coalition government. quite a few weeks back, we will live with you in the hague for several days leading up to election day and the outcome was seen as being a rebirth of kurt welders and his far right party and also a very good evening for mark rutter, the prime minister —— of wilders and his far right party. more details on that in the second half of the programme. hello. there are no significant weather stories across the globe at the moment but that doesn‘t mean to say there isn‘t any weather to talk
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about and if we start off in north america, here the talking point is the west — east divide, plenty of clear skies and sunshine across eastern areas and shower and cloud to the north and west and whether to meet, warm moist air is being dragged through the gulf of mexico and that could potentially develop some stormy activity over the next few days. ahead of it, we start to temperatures rise across central plains and into texas but by contrast, in the north—west, but cold plunge as far south as california. temperatures generally a good 5—10d down on where they should be. for mexico and central america, largely fine and quiet. heavy rain into costa rica and panama but for the caribbean, we really are looking for at the potential for heavy downpours across cuba, jamaica, haiti and the dominican republic across tuesday and into wednesday. south america relatively quiet, heavy rain across parts of colombia and ecuador and a succession of frontal systems moving into the
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southern tip of chilly, which will bring some relentless rain and that could cause some issues as well. heavy rain starting to pile into thailand and vietnam and it is pretty unsettled generally through malaysia airlines indonesia. quiet across china and also into japan. just moving that bit further west into south asia here, he is very much the talking point over the next few days. we have seen excessive heat over the weekend. the hottest day of the pre—monsoon heat so far, in excess of 45 degrees. for africa, the recent heavy rain across durban easing away. seasonal rains through the central belt and a few showers moving west to east across libya. some of the warmth in africa will actually push up into western portions of the mediterranean and western europe in general as the heat bills. a brief, hot spell, 32 degrees likely in seville, 28 for madrid and some of the heat stretching into france as well, quite a muddy feel, 23 degrees not
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out of question across the low countries. elsewhere in eastern europe, things are relatively settled. that humid air will push into the south—east of the uk, it could be muddy but pretty unsettled with some rain at times. on tuesday, whether front will move its way from west to east. behind it, it stays pretty breezy on west facing coasts, showers or longer spells of rain to come. doesn‘t look like we will see that much in a way change over the next few days. warm in the south—east, high teens likely the further north and west are. wednesday into thursday shows a similar story with some heavy rain across the london area. more details with nick miller at the top of the hour. this is outside source. these are the main stories. the manual macron has been in berlin with reform of the eu top of the agenda. —— emmanuel macron. the success of our two countries is very closely
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related, and on that depends the whole success of europe. president macron has also chosen edouard philippe is the new premier stuff. he is not from mr macron‘s party. we will take further looks at that decision. there is pressure mounting on president trump to hand over any recordings of conversations between him and sacked fbi director james coney, if they exist. we will be live in washington a moment.
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