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years of independence from britain. good morning, and welcome to bbc news. european union leaders are meeting in brussels to formally agree their negotiating stance for brexit. the president of the european council, donald tusk, has said the eu won t discuss its trading relationship with the uk until it s happy that enough progress has been made on settling the costs of britain s departure. we already know the areas the eu wants to negotiate first. the remaining members are keen to ensure the rights of the three million eu citizens living in britain. they will also be looking to get a guarantee of britain s financial contributions. the so called divorce bill is the amount the eu says the uk must pay as part of existing financial commitments. northern ireland is also on their agenda. eu leaders say they want to ensure there is no hard border with the irish republic. this is not the choreography that the government had hoped for. ministers wanted to discuss the divorce ....
become prosperous. words of hope from a man whose job brings him face to face with unimaginable horror on a daily basis. if he can be optimistic, there s inspiration for us all. hello this is breakfast, with katherine downes and ben thompson. the parents of madeleine mccann tell the bbc they re convinced real progress is being made as they try to discover what happened to their daughter. speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of madeleine s disappearance, kate and gerry mccann, talk of their regret at the time they ve lost together, and of their hope that she ll be found. no parent s going to give up on their child unless they know for certain that child s dead, and theyjust don t have any evidence. we should have been a family of five for all of that time, and, yeah, it does feel stolen. good morning it s sunday 30th april. also ahead: a spectacular win for anthonyjoshua. a it was billed as the biggest fight in british boxing history, and it definitely lived up to expe ....
eight days charged with terrorism offences and conspiracy to murder. i m rebecca jones. and in the next hour, a record £a00,000 fine for making over 100 million nuisance calls. marketing firm, keurboom communications, made repeated calls, sometimes at unsocial hours, trying to get people to make compensation claims. where do you want me? bouncing on my knee. where do you think i want you? and david beckham makes his big screen debut in king arthur but his cameo performance gets mixed reviews. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a draft of labour s general election manifesto has been leaked, and it includes radical plans to renationalise the railways and royal mail; to scrap university tuition fees in england, and to end the public sector pay cap. the long document also includes plans to fund the nhs and social care through an increase in income tax for higher earners. the manifesto is due to be formally launched next week, and is being discussed today by senior l ....
nasar ahmed died as a result of an allergic reaction to his school lunch his mother says he could have been saved. thousands ofjellyfish have washed up on beaches in wales in what conservationists have described as a mega swarm . good evening and welcome to bbc news. our main story this evening the nhs has been hit by a large scale cyber attack. similar ramsomware attacks have been reported at organisations across the world. security analysts believe the incidents are all linked. services across england have been severely disrupted by the attack. routine appointments have been cancelled and ambulances diverted to alternative accident and emergency departments. 33 organisations have been identified by the bbc as being affected. nhs digital says its services have been targeted by a ransomware attack, which means nhs data is, in effect, being held hostage by hackers demanding money. it is not thought that patient files have been affected. our health editor hugh pym ha ....
a fast moving wave of huge cyberattacks has swept the globe affecting computers in thousands of locations. it s thought the hackers used tools developed by the us national security agency, and were leaked online last month. users have found themselves locked by a programme that demands a $300 payment to restore their access. there have been reports of infections in 99 countries. britain s national health service was one of those hit. hospitals and doctors surgeries were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments. a number of spanish firms, including telecoms giant telefonica, suffered from the outbreak. there were reports that staff at the firms were told to turn off their computers. russia was also hit. the interior ministry there said it had localised the virus . our technology correspondent rory cellanjones has more. it looked, at first, like an attackjust on hospitals in the uk, but it s now becoming clear that this malicious software has run riot around ....