this is bbc news. the headlines: areas of greater manchester and lancashire are to get extra testing and military support, after a rise in covid cases . this includes rapid response teams, putting in extra testing, military support, and supervised in school testing. i want to encourage everyone in manchester and lancashire to get the tests on offer. the death of sarah everard in march a serving metropolitan police officer pleads guilty to her kidnapping and rape. hundreds of suspected criminals are arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an fbi run encrypted messaging app that lured them into police hands. a leading internet delivery service is investigating an outage on its platform which may have taken
to arrive home safely. lucy manning, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. areas of greater manchester and lancashire are to get extra testing and military support, after a rise in covid cases. the boss of ryanair criticises the government s traffic light travel system, as uk holiday makers scramble to get home after portugal joined the amber list today. the death of sarah everard in march a serving metropolitan police officer pleads guilty to her kidnapping and rape. a worldwide sting organised by the fbi has led to the arrests of hundreds of suspected members of organised crime. gangs around the world were tricked into using a secure messaging app what they didn t know is that the app was developed by agents who were able to monitor millions of messages about drug dealing, money laundering and planned murders. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera has the story.
see a scenario somewhere down the road where west virginia gets quite a big hand out for something. how many bridges to the need there, do you wonder. bring to boil more patients with his colleagues then others, i suspect. for those watching on bbc world news we ll be right back. greater manchester and parts of lancashire will receive extra help to tackle a rise in the delta variant. health secretary matt hancock said a strengthened package of support would be provided to boost covid vaccinations and testing. it will include military support and supervised in school testing in the areas hardest hit. working with local authorities, we are providing a strengthened package of support based on what s working in bolton to help greater manchester and lancashire tackle the rise in the delta variant that we re seeing there.
officers quickly move in. a number of major websites are back online after a widespread outage that left many unable to access critical services such as the uk government s website. gov.uk was among a list of sites affected, the location for things like passport applications and vehicle taxing. some newspaper websites were affected, too. the problem was caused by a technical hitch linked to an external services company. the headlines on bbc news areas of greater manchester and lancashire are to get extra testing and military support, after a rise in covid cases the boss of ryanair criticises the government s traffic light travel system, as uk holidaymakers scramble to get home after portugaljoined the amber list today. the death of sarah everard in march a serving metropolitan police officer pleads guilty to her kidnapping and rape.
working in bolton to help greater manchester and lancashire tackle the rise in the delta variant that we re seeing there. this includes rapid response teams, putting in extra testing, military support and supervised in school testing. i want to encourage everyone in manchester and lancashire to get the tests on offer. we know that this approach can work. we ve seen it work in south london and in bolton in stopping a rise in the number of cases. this is the next stage of tackling the pandemic in manchester and in lancashire. and of course, it s vital that people in these areas, as everywhere else, come forward and get the jab as soon as they re eligible, because that is our way out of this pandemic together. the health secretary, matt hancock there.