the cyber security firm responsible, warned of bad actors that will try to exploit events like this. in total, more than 9,000 flights have been cancelled since friday with the potential for more delays on saturday. here in the uk, airports, which saw severe disruption, say that systems are working again but advised people to check before travelling. a flawed update rolled out by the cybersecurity firm, crowdstrike, knocked many machines offline, hampering retail systems and health care, with problems for gps and pharmacies. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. yesterday, the global it outage caused worldwide chaos. today, we re still dealing with the aftermath. thousands of flights were grounded and while airports are getting back to normal, there are still many travellers who are stuck. my flight got cancelled while i coming out of my aeroplane while i was coming out of my aeroplane and i ve been stranded for around. 0ver 2a hours by now, i think. i have been on
more likely to be a team of people that were trying to rush an update before they went on holiday, ironically enough. as you say, it s likely, but maybe not 100% to be crowdstrike, they had an issue, as you say, with the azure thing behind the scenes, which of course is microsoft s cloud platform. and because microsoft is such a huge company with such a global monopoly, it means it touches pretty much everything. i think that s the most probably one of the bigger things is we ve got to start looking at, is that idea of a centralised. i mean, don t get me wrong, this is not microsoft bashing. it s just the idea alone that you can have one company and one point of failure that can affect so much. luckily for us all, of course it s not completely microsoft and therefore there is competition in the market and therefore there are other providers so the whole place, the whole world isn t crippled. but you know, if you re working from home and a lot more of us do in the future of wo
after the aston villa striker s brilliant 90th minute winner ensured a first major final on foreign soil. lost for words, really. when you score there s emotions that come through your body, but this is just a different feeling. it was slow motion when i was running over to the boys and celebrating. and there was, ah, i didn t want to get off the pitch in the end because ijust wanted to soak it all in, because it doesn t happen often, obviously. come on, watkins, get in there, my son! ollie watkins, all. about ollie watkins. he needs to start. talk about a captain s moment. earlier, after england fell behind for the third match in a row, it fell to the captain to try and draw them level. here comes kane. here come england! oh, it was phenomenal, absolutely brilliant. i couldn t imagine much more. cole palmer and ollie watkins come on. gareth southgate faced criticism at these euros. but having brought on watkins with extra time looming, once again the manager had been vindica
we start with the travel business, because as you ve been hearing, the uk is about to announce a shake up of its covid rules for international travel. airlines and tour operators have been pushing for simpler rules on destinations, instead of the so called traffic light system of green, amber and red lists. and they want compulsory pcr covid tests to be scrapped, arguing the cost has been putting people off travelling, as our transport correspondent caroline davies explains. there have been hints that now people are vaccinated, they could be swapped for lateral flow test, the cheaper option. that could still prove controversial with some people in public health. other things the industry wants to see our things like moving from the traffic light system to just a red list and an open list system as well, so simplification there. the industry are really piling on the pressure on the government. thurlow comes to an end at the end of this month and they still have thousands of