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hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. you're watching the context on bbc news. more than 100,000 people have their personal data in the hands of cyber—criminals from russia. the data includes their names and bank details. instead of targeting an organisation directly, they target a piece of software and organisation uses. in this case the file transfer software a bunch of companies use. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre . it's been a day of big announcements in the football world. we start withe the news that lionel messi has agreed to join mls side inter miami, following his departure from the french champions paris saint—germain. argentina's world cup—winning
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captain is said to have rejected a more lucrative offer from the saudi arabian side al—hilal — to move to major league soccer. it's thought messi wanted to stay in europe — but there were no satista ctory offers. messi already owns a house in florida — and his contract with inter miami includes sponsorship deals with adidas and apple. elsewhere, real madrid have agreed a deal with borussia dortmund to sign the england midfielder jude bellingham for $ 107 million dollars — or £86 million pounds. 19—year—old bellingham, who joined dortmund only three years ago from birmingham city, was one of england's top performers at last year's world cup in qatar — and was recently voted player of the year in the bundesliga. bellingham — who's agreed a six—year deal with real madrid — is due to have medical in the next few days. staying with football, the final of the europa conference league is well under way in prague where fiorentina are playing west ham united. west ham are looking to win their first european trophy since 1965, and fiorentina theirfirst since 1961 — both were in the old european cup winners�* cup.
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we are 31 minutes in and not worth telling you much more that it is 0-0. the winners will qualify for the group phase of the europa league next season. top seed and defending champion iga wiatek is through to the semi—finals of the french open. the world number one remains on course to retain the title she won last year after a straight sets win over the number six seed coca gauff — the woman she beat in last year's final. wiatek won this one 6—4, 6—2 — injust under an hour and a half. wiatek will now face beatrice haddad maia — the number 1a seed from brazil who came from a set down to beat 0ns jabeur, the tunisian who reached two grand slam finals last year. haddad maia raced through the deciding set 6—1 — to become the first brazilian woman to reach the last four of a major since 1968. in the mens singles, alexander zverev is through to the semi—finals. he beate the unseeded argentine tomas martin etcheverry in four sets — to reach the last four
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at roland garros for the third year in a row... australia's cricketers are on top against india — after the opening day of the world test championship final at the 0val in london. they were put into bat after india won the toss — and recovered from 76—3, to close the day on 327—3. travis head scored a sparkling century — his sixth in test matches, and he'll resume 011146 not out. steve smith is only five tuns short of his 31st test century. their unbroken stand is worth 251, so far. rory mcilroy said he felt like a "sacrifical lamb" and still "hated" liv golf, when he spoke to journalists after the shock merger between the pga tour, dp world tour and liv golf. he had been one of the biggest critics of the saudi backed venture that split the professional game, but he added that he believes the deal would secure the financial future of the sport.
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they will keep spending money in golf and at least the pga tour will determine how that money spent. if you're thinking about one of the biggest funds in the world would you rather have them as a partner our enemy, at the end of the date money talks and he would rather have them as a partner. it's not for me to be as a partner. it's not for me to be a and feel like something like a sacrificial lamb and have put myself out there and this is what happens. again, remove myself from the situation, i see how it is better for the game of golf. there is no denying that. for me as an individual, yes there would have to be conversations that would have to be conversations that would have to be have. and that's all the sport for now. let's talk about obesity now, because people here in england could be offered weight—loss jabs by gps to reduce weight—related illnesses, as part of a two—year pilot scheme being launched
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by the government. our medical editor fergal walsh explains. the drug suppresses appetite by mimicking a hormone released after eating, so making you feel full. in trials, obese patients lost around 15% of their body weight. the initial plan was for it to be available only via specialist weight loss clinics, which would limit it to 35,000 people a year. this two year £40 million gp pilot scheme will add several thousand patients to that, but if successful could open it up to many more. and there's no doubt about the scale of the problem. over 12 million adults in england are obese with a body mass index of at least 30. obesity is estimated to cost the nhs around £65 billion a year. so, the hope will be it could reduce pressure on hospitals. sarah from north yorkshire says she's tried every diet going, but continues to struggle with her weight and has a bmi of over a0. she believes wegovy could
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make the difference. i want to live in a smaller body and i want to be able to do that so that i can spend time with my daughter. i have a four—year—old daughter and i want to be able to be active with her, and live for as long as i possibly can to see her grow up. so for me, something like this that allows me to become a healthier version of myself is crucial and exciting. like all medicines, wegovy can have side effects. the most common include nausea, diarrhoea, stomach pain and bloating. and when patients come off the drug, most start piling on the pounds again. of course, this doesn't deal with some underlying problems behind obesity, poor diet, the promotion and availability ofjunk food, and lack of physical activity. and for now, there are no stocks of wegovy in the uk. live now to dr duane mellor, a dietician and aston medical school lead for nutrition and evidence based medicine.
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thank you for coming in programme. good evening, how are you? i'm well, what do you make of this as a pilot scheme? it’s what do you make of this as a pilot scheme? �*, ., ., , ., scheme? it's good news that the government _ scheme? it's good news that the government are _ scheme? it's good news that the government are invested - scheme? it's good news that the government are invested in - scheme? it's good news that the l government are invested in weight management services. people struggling with obesity need extra tools to help them. this will only have several thousand people and the government did decide not to take into account a gentle tragedy. it's partly down the stream in terms of hope that we need bigger upstream solutions. 50. hope that we need bigger upstream solutions. ., ., , ., ., _ solutions. so, what do you mean by that? what — solutions. so, what do you mean by that? what kind — solutions. so, what do you mean by that? what kind of _ solutions. so, what do you mean by that? what kind of practical - solutions. so, what do you mean by that? what kind of practical things i that? what kind of practical things do you mean? 50. that? what kind of practical things do you mean?— do you mean? so, we need to get school food _ do you mean? so, we need to get school food better. _ do you mean? so, we need to get school food better. we _ do you mean? so, we need to get school food better. we need - do you mean? so, we need to get school food better. we need to i do you mean? so, we need to get l school food better. we need to help families make healthy food choices and make them enjoyable and affordable. we need to change our food environment because a lots of food environment because a lots of food that is highly palatable, very
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high in energy and fats and salt and sugar, it's tempting, so we need to make the foods like vegetables fruits, beans and vegetables, they have the food we know we should eat it, more available and attractive. we can do that through levies and how we use our food system to help not be a nanny state, to pete push people insertjunk not be a nanny state, to pete push people insert junk food not be a nanny state, to pete push people insertjunk food but give more healthy options. that people insertjunk food but give more healthy options.— more healthy options. that is exactly what _ more healthy options. that is exactly what it _ more healthy options. that is exactly what it does - more healthy options. that is exactly what it does sound i more healthy options. that is l exactly what it does sound like. more healthy options. that is - exactly what it does sound like. you want to use nudges but in does involve significant state intervention?— involve significant state intervention? �* . intervention? we've had state intervention _ intervention? we've had state intervention in _ intervention? we've had state intervention in our _ intervention? we've had state intervention in our food - intervention? we've had state | intervention in our food system intervention? we've had state - intervention in our food system for years, through subsidies and farming subsidies. this is about production. we need to have a feud system that looks at the human health and it doesn't do that when this is about production and volume. it's a good thing having this being offered to people if it's available and there's a problem which is by, but that's only part of the solution. we need
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to have a multipronged approach because it would be impacting individuals but we need to look at how it affects their families. we may have parents dealing with it but that the food side support supply coming into the family's as everyone. notjust the one person. good to have you umpire: ??forced green game and set, a cyber crime gang thought to be based in russia has claimed it's behind the hacking of payroll data affecting companies including the bbc, boots and british airways. the group — called clop — has posted a statement on their darknet site, threatening to publish the stolen information if the companies don't email them by the 14th ofjune. here's our cyber correspondent, joe tidy. it has been described as a massive cyber heist. data stolen from underneath companies�* noses. and now, on a hackers�* website, a warning in broken english. the gang, called clop, boast,
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"chances that we download a lot of your data as part of exceptional exploit." as well as the boast, an ultimatum was issued to the dozens, maybe even hundreds of organisations affected. "get in touch with us to discuss a ransom payment or we will publish your data online." the bbc, boots, aer lingus and british airways are just some of the organisations we know about. the scale of this mass hack has really shocked the cyber world. it all started with a relatively obscure but popular piece of corporate software called moveit. the clop hackers managed to find a unique way into the system and that gave them access to all the companies that use moveit, for example, the uk payroll provider zellis. that allowed them to download some of the data of their customers, including the bbc and british airways. they are often dubbed supply chain attacks and what that essentially means, instead of targeting an organisation directly, they target a piece of software and organisation users, so in this case they will use file
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transfer software that a bunch of companies use and this really kind of opens the gate a little bit. you use this as your initial entry point, it is your back door, if you like. clop has been a persistent cyber threat for years. an international police operation in 2021 saw arrests in ukraine of alleged members of the gang but with the leaders of the crew thought to be based in russia, clop has continued to make millions extorting organisations around the world. their latest victims are faced with a dilemma of paying the ransom or not. the advice is don�*t, as it fuels their criminal enterprise and they might sell the hacked data online anyway in secret. for staff whose national insurance numbers or even bank details are potentially in the hands of hackers, it is a concerning time. but these criminals are less interested in going after individuals, when organisations could pay them more, so the advice is to not panic but be vigilant of any suspicious activity or e—mails. joe tidy, bbc news.
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let�*s speak to peter mackenzie, director of incident response at sophos. he is a ransomware specalist. thanks for coming in programme. thanks for coming in programme. thank you very much. how worried should people be? shy, thank you very much. how worried should people be?— should people be? a fairly normal home user — should people be? a fairly normal home user shouldn't _ should people be? a fairly normal home user shouldn't be _ should people be? a fairly normal home user shouldn't be worried . should people be? a fairly normal| home user shouldn't be worried at home user shouldn�*t be worried at all, really. it�*s the organisations and companies who have been affected who either country and sit on their response at the moment. for the companies using that moveit software, they should concentrate on patching their servers and conducting an investigation to see if they have been compromised. for those that have been. is there a way, clearly there�*s no way that data is gone, is there a way they can quickly identify what happens, where the weaknesses and repair it? for the organisations using the software, they should look at the logs on their servers to see if the
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attackers gained access and should conduct an investigation. the short answer is, no there is no simple way to find out what the attackers stated or if anything on your network. fir stated or if anything on your network. , ., , ., ., 4' network. or we should be looking. this is more _ network. or we should be looking. this is more of— network. or we should be looking. this is more of a _ network. or we should be looking. this is more of a moral _ network. or we should be looking. this is more of a moral or- this is more of a moral or philosophical question, it may be outside your remit, it�*s difficult to justify paying any kind of ransom and yet in these circumstances you can understand why someone might be prepared to overlook their moral code to do so?— prepared to overlook their moral code to do so? yeah, unfortunately in an id world _ code to do so? yeah, unfortunately in an id world no _ code to do so? yeah, unfortunately in an id world no one _ code to do so? yeah, unfortunately in an id world no one would - code to do so? yeah, unfortunately in an id world no one would pay - code to do so? yeah, unfortunately in an id world no one would pay a l in an id world no one would pay a ransom and no one wants to do that and if everyone stopped, these crimes would most likely stop happening, but when your data is being stored in its hide hard to take the moral high ground. share being stored in its hide hard to take the moral high ground. are we auoin to take the moral high ground. are we going to see. _ take the moral high ground. are we going to see, therefore, _ take the moral high ground. are we going to see, therefore, more - going to see, therefore, more attacks like this? is the classic case that the criminals will always be one step ahead? i case that the criminals will always be one step ahead?— case that the criminals will always be one step ahead? i hope not. but the fiuht be one step ahead? i hope not. but the fight between _ be one step ahead? i hope not. but the fight between the _ be one step ahead? i hope not. but the fight between the defenders - be one step ahead? i hope not. but| the fight between the defenders and the fight between the defenders and the attackers is an ongoing battle
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and they�*re improving their techniques, just as the defenders are as well. it requires organisations to putting a lots effort into their security and be very diligent and investigate these type of things when they happen. and type of things when they happen. and lastl , on type of things when they happen. and lastly, on the group itself, what do we know about these hawker hackers? they are rumoured to be, at least some of them, based in russia. people involved could be in any country. it doesn�*t really affect the victim, you know. if your data has been taken where the attack is doesn�*t have an impact on you. if you are worried and look into do something about this, if you�*re working for a company that is using that software, speak to your employer and ask them for guidance on it. but for the actual group behind it, it�*s, unfortunately, it�*s not good to make much difference
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where they are.— not good to make much difference where they are. thank you for coming in programme — where they are. thank you for coming in programme peter— where they are. thank you for coming in programme peter mckenzie. - around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. on a glorious evening in halesowen, the racing is fast and furious, but they having lots of fun. it�*s a regular friday night track league, which attracts riders from across the west midlands. i like racing with the boys and the girls, so they push you harder. halesowen have more than 100 members of all ages and the evening kicks off with a chance for the youngest riders, the cubs, to share what they�*ve been learning in their weekly coaching sessions. we're a racing club so we promote road racing, track racing here tonight and cyclo—cross races. road racing isjust as important to the club. ben healy, who recently run stage of the giro d�*italia, started at halesowen as a six—year—old. the sport is not without its current challenges. there�*s been a steady decline in the number of road races, but halesowen still organise their own event, with athletics,
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tennis and weightlifting also based at manor abbey, this is the heart of the town�*s sporting life and they are determined to keep it that way. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you�*re live with bbc news the first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in costa rica. she produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself. the phenomenon of so—called "virgin birth" has been found in species of birds, fish and other reptiles, but never before in crocodiles. the crocodile who laid the egg was obtained when she was two years old and was kept apart from other crocodiles for its entire life. because of this, the park�*s scientific team contacted a us team from virginia polytechnic, which specialised in virgin births, known scientifically as parthenogenesis.
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brenna levine was a member of that team who wrote
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the code that allowed for this discovery.
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due to both zoological reflections in good record—keeping by route zookeepers. also genomic technology that allows us to look at the genomes of all spring and their mums and look for paternal contributions to those genomes. so and look for paternal contributions to those genomes.— and look for paternal contributions to those genomes. so because the uenome to those genomes. so because the genome mapping. _ to those genomes. so because the genome mapping. we _ to those genomes. so because the genome mapping, we know- to those genomes. so because the genome mapping, we know what l to those genomes. so because the| genome mapping, we know what it to those genomes. so because the - genome mapping, we know what it is, in the passes could have been happening right under our noses but we wouldn�*t have the technology to go in and look at it and determine if this didn�*t have a separate parent? if this didn't have a separate arent? ~ ,,., , ., if this didn't have a separate arent? ~ , , ., ., if this didn't have a separate arent? ~ , ., ., ., ., parent? absolutely. you also have a phenomenon — parent? absolutely. you also have a phenomenon called _ parent? absolutely. you also have a phenomenon called long-term - parent? absolutely. you also have a | phenomenon called long-term spurn phenomenon called long—term spurn storage where female reptiles can store spurn from a mating event even
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up store spurn from a mating event even up to six years. this is the first time in the crocodiles that we�*ve been able to see this is not a sure green case of long—term spurn storage for the very compelling evidence to back this up. absolutely fascinating- — evidence to back this up. absolutely fascinating. talk _ evidence to back this up. absolutely fascinating. talk really _ evidence to back this up. absolutely fascinating. talk really appreciate i fascinating. talk really appreciate your experience in your hard work put up thank you. next, in a few hours�* time downtown manhattan will be hosting one of the biggest film events in the us put up the tribeca festival, co—founded by a movie legend robert de niro. he will be on the red park two carpet tonight as our correspondent tom brooks who was therejoining us from new our correspondent tom brooks who was there joining us from new york. our correspondent tom brooks who was therejoining us from new york. tam. there joining us from new york. tom, treat to there joining us from new york. tom, great to see — there joining us from new york. tom, great to see you _ there joining us from new york. tom, great to see you what _ there joining us from new york. tom, great to see you what can _ there joining us from new york. tom, great to see you what can we - there joining us from new york. torn, great to see you what can we expect there? well it�*s going to be a big night here at the trevor becker festival. robert de niro is proud that he has created this event with
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his long—time producing partner. basically, the remit of this festival is something that is new york oriented, inclusive celebrating independent film and celebrating diversity as well. did niro is an interesting figure, for 79 years old, he�*s made more than 140 films, some incredible movies like taxi driver and raging interestingly, the other day in an interview almost at the side he announced he�*d become the father of a young baby girl. i went to meet him, he�*s not an easy man to interview because he�*s reticent it away, a very nice and very way, he doesn�*t complete his sentences. he�*s become of a one note person for the vehicles on and on about donald trump who is his nemesis. i asked about donald trump who is his nemesis. iasked him, had he become more politically outspoken as he got
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older? ,., ._ , older? in some ways i feel i might have the right, in _ older? in some ways i feel i might have the right, in some _ older? in some ways i feel i might have the right, in some ways. - older? in some ways i feel i might have the right, in some ways. but| older? in some ways i feel i might i have the right, in some ways. but as far
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it strikes a note that for them is an important medium, and film is an important medium and in times of hardship they cannot have a galvanising effect. some we may have had a technical issue. i believe he also spoke to matt damon, let�*s take a list of that. yeah, yeah, yeah. i am a very, very big fan. you know, they actually succeeded in supplanting the beatles. for me as my desert island band. i just love them. i grew up with them and you know, i�*m about a decade younger than them. so i was right in the wheelhouse of kind of fandom. what i love about this movie is what it says about the role of art and music, as an act of defiance
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and as an act of resistance, and as a way to kind of build community and as a way to, to to be alive. now i know we have a interesting few hours tom, not ask about films, but we have to talk about the air quality because we were talking about that later on. newark, one area, has been impacted by it. how is it where you are? it�*s area, has been impacted by it. how is it where you are?— is it where you are? it's really surreal in _ is it where you are? it's really surreal in a — is it where you are? it's really surreal in a way. _ is it where you are? it's really surreal in a way. it's - is it where you are? it's really surreal in a way. it's like - is it where you are? it's really surreal in a way. it's like the l surreal in a way. it�*s like the beginning of a bad movie stop i was on my way here coming on the west side of manhattan earlier, and it was very smoky, very hazy. i really couldn�*t see that far at all. i couldn�*t see that far at all. i couldn�*t see that far at all. i couldn�*t see anything in newjersey, which is only one mile across the hudson river. if a little unsettling because you can taste it, you can smell it, the mayor of new york says
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