nick marsh explains the view from brussels and beijing.started, many people in europe had never even heard of byd. now you can't miss their adverts plastered around the side of every pitch in germany. interestingly, though, volkswagen was supposed to be sponsoring this tournament, but they pulled out in their home country in order to try and save money. mercedes another german car—maker also turned down the opportunity, and analysts are saying that's kind of emblematic of the wider picture. there's a perception that german brands have, , you know, suffered the consequences of the emissions scandal, uh, covid and also slow ev sales. and there's a perception that that companies like byd have stolen a bit of a march on them in terms of their ability to develop affordable, high quality electric and hybrid vehicles. now the european union is worried about this. chinese electric vehicles are cheap. you see, nearly half the price of what a european made ev costs. the eu says that these cars will flood the market and european car—makers, well, the

let's go back to nick marsh who is monitoring the situation in singapore. we saw singapore airport affected and we know that we first got wind of this from australia because i suppose that was one of the nations that was waking up and turning on their computers and finding that this problem had happened. finding that this problem had happened-— finding that this problem had ha ened, ., �*, , finding that this problem had hauened. ., �*, , . happened. that's right, exactly. we were getting _ happened. that's right, exactly. we were getting reports _ happened. that's right, exactly. we were getting reports from _ happened. that's right, exactly. we were getting reports from australia | were getting reports from australia that supermarket checkouts, seven elevens, airports and other are experiencing all kinds of difficulties, the blue screen of death as it is known was appearing in several different locations. naturally, our first conclusion was that this was a localised issue, it was only happening in australia, but slowly but surely, we were getting more and

and we can get the latest now from nick marsh who is in singapore and has been monitoring the latest.re airlines are saying they have problems, more shops say they have problems, more shops say they have problems and more hospitals and it really is spreading around the world, this problem, isn't it? it around the world, this problem, isn't it? , , . around the world, this problem, isn'tit? . , . isn't it? it seems that any organisation _ isn't it? it seems that any organisation or _ isn't it? it seems that any organisation or system i isn't it? it seems that any i organisation or system which isn't it? it seems that any - organisation or system which uses microsoft and is some way linked to this crowdstrike falcon piece of cyber security software is being affected and screens around the world are turning blue. we have seen it here in singapore. a colleague of mine who wasjust it here in singapore. a colleague of mine who was just downstairs saw it on an advertising hoarding, we have seen on airports, flights and their display screen, we have seen in banks, in supermarkets, this really

let's go to nick marsh in our asia business hub in singapore who can explain why.erican firm that makes software explicitly designed to stop cyber attacks from places like china and it has been very vocal in the past about cyber threat coming from beijing so government organisations and chinese businesses are hardly going to buy that kind of software. also you have the fact that china is nowhere near as reliant on microsoft as most of the rest of the world is. you have companies like tencent, like huawei, alibaba, they are really the dominant cloud server providers in china so when there were reports of outages, they were mainly in foreign firms, for example international chain hotels were people were struggling to check in. this is really a reflection of what has been happening over the past few years that foreign it systems have been gradually been replaced with domestic it systems. a lot of people call this the splinter, the splinter net does in one way shows how advanced and sophisticated the chinese tech is but there is also a political dimension to this becau

nick marsh is following the story from our asia business hub in singapore.t what more can you tell us? you might not _ what more can you tell us? you might not have _ what more can you tell us? 7m. might not have heard what more can you tell us? 7m, might not have heard of kakao outside south korea but if you have ever been there it is hard to miss, it is basically the main messaging at there, dislike whatsapp for many parts of the world, you order taxis, videogames and so on. they did really well during the pandemic, a lot of tech firms, share price went up and left with a massive pile of cash basically. they thought, 0k how will we grow kakao, let's go into the entertainment industry. they tried to take over sm entertainment, they tried to become the main shareholder there. tried to become the main shareholderthere. it tried to become the main shareholder there. it is one of the big kapok labels, the problem was there was a rival better, another kapok label that manage bts. what the founder of kakao is accused of having done, kim beomsu, is artificially in

let's cross back to the reporter nick marsh in singapore because nick, this all began in australia where we first had reports of problems happening. a date and as you pointed out earlier quite logically because australia is one of the first parts of the world to wake up so the first reports naturally would come from there. we reports naturally would come from there. ~ ., ,., , ., there. we were hearing reports of all kinds of _ there. we were hearing reports of all kinds of companies, _ there. we were hearing reports of all kinds of companies, banks, - all kinds of companies, banks, supermarket checkouts, telecoms networks all having problems. that blue screen of death that we have been hearing so much about the last couple of hours popping up everywhere, disruption at sydney airport, melbourne airport as well. initially, here in singapore we are just a couple of hours behind we thought it was a localised issue, something that was happening in australia but then slowly but surely more and more reports seem to be reported in different parts of the world. here in singapore we know there ha

nick marsh has the details. what more can you tell us about this?in touch with paul — this? we have been in touch with paul casal, _ this? we have been in touch with paul casal, who - this? we have been in touch with paul casal, who is - with paul casal, who is representing 15 families of the victims of those plane crashes, and he has been highly critical of what he calls a so—called sweetheart deal which has been arranged between boeing and the department ofjustice. we have had no word from the doj or boeing yet but paul casal basically says boeing has come to an arrangement with the doj, to an arrangement with the 00], which would stop it going to a criminal trial in relation to those 346 deaths, those fatal plane crashes in 2018 and 2019. i will give you a bit of background in terms of how we got here. in 2021 boeing promised the department of justice that it would improve its safety culture, its ethics in the aftermath of those crashes, and in return, it would avoid criminal charges. as we know, we have reported so many times in the past year or

are wider implications of this crisis beyond the immediate fix that is required. 0ur reporter, nick marsh singapore with the latest on the situation there. things are by and large have returned to normal. i think the biggest concern from an international viewpoint is the airport, a massive hub and they are saying that now, things have pretty much got back to the way they wear. just one airline, air asia, still doing some manual chickens. yesterday about a0 flights were cancelled. foran yesterday about a0 flights were cancelled. for an airport like this where things by a large do run pretty smoothly, is quite a lot. 0verall, things do seem to be returning to normal. overall, things do seem to be returning to normal.— overall, things do seem to be returning to normal. what sort of lessons are _ returning to normal. what sort of lessons are being _ returning to normal. what sort of lessons are being learned - returning to normal. what sort of lessons are being learned in - lessons are being learned in singapore as to how a repeat of this could be avoided?— could be avoided? pretty much the s

in terms of taking a look at what is going on in that part of the world... 0ur reporter, nick marsh isore. things by and large have returned to normal. the biggest concern is the massive regional hub airport. they are saying that now things have pretty much got back to the way they were. just one airline, low—cost carrier, that are still doing manual checking. yesterday about a0 flights were cancelled. which for an airport like this where things do run smoothly, it was actually quite a lot. but overall things do seem to be returning to normal. what sort of lessons are being learned in singapore as to how a repeat of this could be avoided? pretty much the same ones that are being asked all around the world. reliance on one piece of software, one kind of operating system. the irony really that it was a piece of software that was designed to stop cyber attacks actually being the cause of this worldwide malfunction. people now both in cyber security world and it systems, businesses, governments, as well, are going to be asking themselves, what is a contingency? what is the back—up? it is w

let's hear now from our business reporter nick marsh about how this it outage has been affecting people. nick, just how widespread was this issue? this is certainly something that has made an impact to people's lives, getting on with stuff every day. you could say that. _ getting on with stuff every day. you. could say that, it has been called the largest it outage in history by some experts, we are talking about an unprecedented situation. it actually started here in this part of the world more or less, just by simple virtue of the time zone, when people start their day. we started getting reports from australia, we thought it was a localised issue there, how long we were. then it slowly strode to changi airport in singapore, doctor's surgeries in the uk and as the us started to wake up, we started getting reports that was causing chaos there. that was the bad news, the good news is as we have been hearing, i think has been found and now the painstaking process of rebooting individual computers has begun —— effects has been found. but things are so much better now than they were yester

brandon marsh broke a scoreless tie with that sack fly with the bases loaded, and nick added some insurance double. phillies beat the minnesota twins 3-0. and to pittsburgh now. it turns out pirates rookie paul skenes is human after all. the right-hander made it all to the ninth inning last night but gave up the tie breaking signal that lifted the st. louis cardinals to a two run win and handed skenes the first lost of his stellar career. >>> team now for the weather. angie, i cannot believe it is only wednesday. >> it is only wednesday and we've got a long way to go. here in new york it's going to be a little quieter than it was yesterday, but we've got that rain we're tracking still across parts of the southeast, parts of the gulf coast, and stretching up into the mid-atlantic. we're really concerned about this area here specifically texas and louisiana the next couple of days for flooding. we still have that stationary front hanging around and going to be there for the next two days and this means we have the chance to tap into scattered showers, and those slow moving storms will be some