Microsoft says that the it chaos caused by a flawed update rolled out by the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike affected 8. 5 million windows devices. With thousands of flights cancelled, and banking, healthcare, and businesses all affected, we look at what happened in this special programme the worldwide computer crash. So, people are tired. They ve been handing out water. The boards don t really say anything. Thousands of flights cancelled. Due to the outage my credit card system isn t working. Payment systems down. Around the globe, remember, this could cost billions. I mean, even trillions if it keeps going on like this. If we look at the scale of the impact, it s gigantic. I was told that the system is down all over the country as well. Appointments cancelled. Computer systems in turmoil. Many people saying this is potentially the biggest it outage that we have seen, probably in the last 25, 30 years. Of course, the first thing you think is, is this the big cyberattack that everybod
As a priority pathogen by the world health organisation because of its potential to trigger an epidemic. With me is dr bharat pankhania, he s a consultant in communicable disease control at the university of exeter medical school. Thanks very much for being with us. So how much of a threat is this? it is a threat in those areas where we have fruit bats, animal farming, especially pigs and a high density human population. It can go from batch to humans or backs to be extremely humans and also humans to humans. bats. They can so would be in those areas where the fruit bats are present, the pigs and humans are present. Just bats are present, the pigs and humans are present. bats are present, the pigs and humans are present. Just talk and see what are humans are present. Just talk and see what are the humans are present. Just talk and see what are the potential humans are present. Just talk and. See what are the potential symptoms and what happens with this. You start off with a
We start here in the uk, where the chancellor rachel reeves says the government will make sure the sums add up before agreeing to fund a recommended 5. 5% pay increase to teachers and nhs staff. The above inflation rise has been recommended by independent pay review bodies. Here s our political correspondent tony bonsignore. It s a decision that will affect millions of teachers and nhs workers: whether to accept the independent recommendation of pay review bodies and give them a pay rise of 5. 5%, of teachers and nhs workers: whether to accept the independent recommendation of pay review bodies and give them a pay rise of 5. 5%, or offer a more modest increase and risk disappointing millions of labour voters, as well as potentially more industrial action. Today, in herfirst big interview since the election, rachel reeves dropped a big hint that above inflation rises for public sector workers are on the way. We also know that there is a cost to not settling, a cost of further industrial
mark kermode gives his unique take on the best and worst of the week s film and dvd release, including ammonite which sees kate winslet play fossil collector mary anning. the former leader of the snp, alex salmond, has announced the creation of a new pro independence party which will stand in the scottish parliament election. the alba party will field candidates in the may, with the aim of creating a supermajority for independence from the rest of britain. mr salmond said the party would work towards a successful, sociallyjust, environmentally responsible, independent cou ntry . let s take a listen to some of what he had to say: the tactics are to stand for the regional list to secure the supermajority for independence in our parliament. we intend to contribute policy ideas to assist scotland s economic recovery and help build an independence platform to face new political realities. at the last election there were nearly one million wasted snp votes in the regional list.