As snags affecting its services. It is understood to have been caused by a faulty update which was released by the cyber security company crowdstrike. The firm says it is deploying a fix. Banks, supermarkets, and other major organisations reported computer issues disrupting services, with some airlines having to suspend flights, and airports worldwide are reporting delays for passengers, with several reverting to manual systems. Where they are operating, pastors are being warned it may take time for them to take off because of backlogs with air traffic control. Also, hospitals have been affected. Many elective operations have been cancelled, as have patient consultations, with doctors reporting they have had no access to patient records. Media organisations have also been affected. Here in the Uk Sky news were fair. Add that the bbc, the Childrens Channel Cbbc experience problems broadcasting. They are now back. Microsoft says it is a mess getting the issue which appears to be linked t
Industries across the world. We have heard about airlines being affected, planking, shops, the Health Care Industry is also the Cybersecurity Firm Crowdstrike says that a defect in one of its Software Updates hit windows operating systems, but they have now come up with a x for the issue, but we know that this will take a long time to work its way through the system, especially if this fix has to be a manual Fix Cross impacted computers and systems. Let us turn to our international business corresponded to join us from central london. All of this, it is going to be incredibly expensive, so many businesses in practice. Yes, absolutely. Dont forget, this is a global outage. It doesntjust matter to people behind me in londons financial district, it matters and financial districts around the world. What we are hearing is that, here, for example, although Share Trading does seem to be going smoothly, there have been issues reported in trading in energy, power, oilstocks, that issues reporte
Government calls the first free election. Good to have you with us. The biden administration is pushing the president s goal of at least partially vaccinating 70 percent of the adult population by july 4th. So far only 16 states and the district of columbia have made that objective. While the u. S. Will likely miss that goal, former fda commissioner dr. Scott gottlieb said it won t have a major impact. Instead the u. S. Should start thinking about the next phase of the vaccination effort. Now we need to think about trying to push out the vaccine into community sites where people can get it delivered to them through a trusted intermediary. Doctor s offices, schools, places of employment. We need to think about the different vaccine strategy to get the people reluctant or face challenges getting to the access sites. As people contemplate going to work and school in the fall, they will be seeking out the vaccines. We need to think about the 2. 0 strategy. Let s take moment to compare chin
china has denied interfering in uk politics, after mi5 warned an agent of the country had infiltrated westminster. ukraine suffers a massive cyber attack as more than a dozen government websites go down. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the australian government has cancelled novak djokovic s visa for the second time, in a row over his right to remain in the country unvaccinated. the country s immigration minister said the decision was made in the public interest citing health and good order grounds. the 34 year old serbian, who was scheduled to play in the australian open on monday, can still launch another legal lawyers on both sides are taking part a hearing right now to discuss the next steps. let s take a look at what happened in the run up to today s decision. last wednesday, djokovic s visa was cancelled as he arrived in melbourne. border officials said he hadn t met the entry requirements for australia. a few days later, his lawyer
my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he s been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn t working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat? no, not at all. infact, i mean, maybe i should start with your introduction, because, you know, your introduction was the common wisdom. you know, that democracy is in decline, that autocracy is ascendant. in fact, i think it s a bit more complicated than that. i mean, we are seeing the rise of autocratic voices, you know, the trumps of the world, in western democracies. but if you look at the leading autocratic countries and you put yo