Suggested that there might be take recordings of conversations. James comey had been leading an inquiry into possible collusion between trump Election Officials and russia. He was fired on tuesday. Now the president has tweeted that is a summary of the news. Newsday is coming up later, actually, it isnt, we say that, it is just actually, it isnt, we say that, it isjust a bbc actually, it isnt, we say that, it is just a bbc world. Now it is time for newsnight. A global cyber attack has disrupted nhs hospitals and gp surgeries in england and scotland resulting in cancelled operations and it shutdown. It replicates itself on one computer to the next and theres really no stopping it. It spreads itself like a plague. So who and what is behind the attack and can they be stopped . Tonight a former hacker, a former gchq boss, and the chair of the gps council are here. Whats it like for one of the rising young stars of the labour party, whos not a corbyn fan, selling the manifesto on the doorst
Operations. Really interesting detail is that salman abedi, the manchester attacker, and also khalid masood, who committed the westminster attacks several weeks ago, were both former subjects of these enquiries. They will not live suspects at the time of their attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fa ct attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fact to learn, that they had been under suspicion that they had been deemed safe enough to move on enquiries from. You wonder how the Security Services are meant to cope with that number of potential suspects. Extraordinary. 20,000 who featured in that previous risk category, which is pretty scary. I heard an interesting debate on radio 2 today about, if we did not renew trident, we would release 400, sorry, £40 billion. Somebody was suggesting, we could put that straight into Security Services, because it takes 30 officers to monitor one suspect. Its incredibly labour intensive. They are just overwhelmed with work at the moment. There isjust too muc