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
hello, again, everyone. thank you very much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. troubling new developments in the fight against the pandemic. the cdc issuing a warning as the u.s. saw another 80,000 new cases on friday. one state in particular seeing a rapid rise, michigan. the state s positivity rate is now 18%. some hospitals are now delaying nonemergency procedures amid this surge. meanwhile, the investigation into congressman matt gaetz is also heating up. the house ethics committee is now opening is own probe as the juice department investigates ae allegations of sex trafficking and prostitution. the but geas waetz will not be dete i m built for the battle and i m not going anywhere. but first, the coronavirus cases in michigan. our polo sandoval is there. what s behind the rise? you know, fred, the governor yesterday laid it out very clear for her residents here in a blunt reality check saying her state unquestionably still remains a national covid hot spot,
increase in co2 concentrations in the atmosphere. the link between c02 and rising temperatures is well established and this year global temperatures got an extra boost thanks to el nino, which brings warmer water to the surface of parts of the tropical pacific. that explains why february was 1.77 degrees warmer than preindustrial temperatures, and why global average temperatures hit a record 1.55 degrees above preindustrial levels over the last 12 months. it means we have temporarily at least breached the 1.5 degrees threshold the world agreed to try and limit temperature rise to, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. february 2024 was the warmest february on record globally, with an average temperature of 13.54 degrees, above the 1991 2020 temperature. while this is remarkable, because, for instance, it is a tenth of a degree warmer than the warmest previous february, which was 2016, it s not really surprising, because this has been the el nino year, where temperatur
strike across lufthansa through till saturday morning. 0n strike across lufthansa through till saturday morning. on top of that there is security staff at cologne and dusseldorf and frankfurt airports are causing wild widespread cancellations. anybody trying to travel to, from, or within germany at the moment is looking pretty shaky. let pretty sha ky. let us pretty shaky. let us focus on cliff why are they such trouble with the unions? partly because the entire aviation world suffered very much during the covid pandemic. things are bouncing back. there is remarkable profits numbers at lufthansa, i billion euros, around $3 billion in profits, very similar to what the company which owns iberia of spain and british airways did. they have earned that because there is huge demand for travel, but in europe in particular, capacity is still way down on pre pandemic times. very simply, supply and demand kicks in. the unions are seeing the profits that are being made and they are v
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