Up more to come. There is more coming up from me after we catch up with all the business use. Live to rico hizon and Asia Business report. A huge cyber attack which started in the ukraine is heading around the world. Indonesia survived Asian Financial turmoil 20 years ago, but is it in danger of repeating its past . Good morning asia. Hello world. It is a wednesday. Glad you could join us for Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We start the programme with another global cyber attack, which we discussed newsday. Computer systems in ukraine, russia, the netherlands, france, and the uk and denmark have all been affected. When a computer is hit, users are told their files have been encrypted, and they will have two pay to get them back. Here is more from our North American reporter, dave lee. We just from our North American reporter, dave lee. Wejust had from our North American reporter, dave lee. We just had the wannacry attack. And many lessons were there to be learnt. Many of you not h
60 years of hostilities diplomatic manoeuvring at the u. N. Calling on israel to leave occupied palestinian land. Lift off indias biggest rocket. Could this herald the start of a new era of space exploration. A russian president says external factors are responsible for the recent decline of the ruble. Vladimir putin criticized the fall in the price of oil for destabilizing his currency. Lets show you the scope in moscow where he holds the annual end of year press conference. This comes at a distant time when you take into account the Economic Situation that the country finds itself in. Lets listen. It is not that different to the formula we employ with regard to europe. Regarding the coefficient it is different. This is different in the world. Anyway, this contract has is going to allow russia to concentrate great resources, and not just to create a gas pipeline. It will help us provide the russian people with gas, and allow us to link the western Gas Pipelines and the eastern pipelin
The streets. And south africa has the highest rate of hiv aids in the world, we will have the latest on efforts to stop the spread of the virus. In Northern Iraq kurdish fighters are in the sinjar mountains and its important because people are taking refuge in those mountains and have been under siege for months and we have been in the sinjar mountains in some of this and is in irbill and has more on the peshmerga offensive. Reporter the head of the National Security forces in Northern Iraq says peshmerga and kurdish fighters want to take 700 square meters of land that was originally i. S. I. L. Controlled. This land stretches from zuma south of the mosul dam to the sinjar mountains and the syria border and is made up of pockets of villages and towns i. S. I. L. Has been holding and the question is where the i. S. I. L. Fighters have been gone or they may go to mosul city and the question is if there is backlash and we have seen switching from fight line fighting to insur insurgence fi
Overwhelming. My life with my participanen course, very sad. Because there is nobody care but me. The bbc learns that fifa executives have been olding secret talks with sepp blatter over the future of the organizations leadership. Jamie joins us with the business news. Its a red letter day for air bus. Yes, it is the first day its delivering its a350xwb. Air bus has answered to boeing 787. Its the first air bus with both fuselage and wing structures made mainly out of carbon fiber. It hopes its going to give it the edge over boeing. Its midday here in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. 9 00 p. M. In south korea, where the country is testing the resilience of its Nuclear Facilities against a cyber attack. Hackers are threatening to damage the reactors if they arent shut down by christmas. Theyve already leaked sensitive designs and manuals of the plant online, and in the past, south korea has blamed the north for attacks on strategic targets. Most recently, north korea was suspected of h
Workers demand a change in law to bring a change to their lives. Israels Prime Minister has defended his scheduled speech to the u. S. Congress saying he does not mean to disrespect president barack obama. Benjamin netanyahus invitation by the speaker of the house to address congress is seen as a rebuke to barack obama. Israel is at odds of the Obama Administration over their pursuit of talks with iran over nuclear weapons. America and israel are more than friends. Were like a family. Were practically now, disagreements in the family are always uncomfortable. But we must always remember that we are family. [applause] [applause]. Rooted in a common heritage up Holding Common values sharing a common destiny, and thats the message i came to tell you today. Our alliance is sound. Our friendship is strong. And with your efforts, it will get Even Stronger in the years to come. Lets go live now to tom whos been following all the developments from washington d. C. Very strong words there of co