pledge to stop small boats crossing the english channel, and comes as a barge, set to house hundreds of asylum seekers, approaches portland harbour in dorset. our west of england correspondent danjohnson is there. how dan johnson is there. how danjohnson is there. much longer until the barge expected how much longer until the barge is expected to arrive there. flat how much longer until the barge is expected to arrive there. not much loner. it expected to arrive there. not much longer- it is expected to arrive there. not much longer. it isjust expected to arrive there. not much longer. it isjust off expected to arrive there. not much longer. it is just off the expected to arrive there. not much longer. it isjust off the coast - longer. it is just off the coast here. we can see it from our other camera. it is being towed from falmouth where it has been having a refit to get the capacity of the accommodation from 220 up to 500. there is nobody aboard the ship at the mome
there is still a long way to go in the battle against inflation for families up and in the country who are seeing food price inflation of nearly 17% and that is causing a massive hike in the cost of the weekly shop. church of england bishops won t back a change allowing priests to marry same sex couples, sources tell the bbc. government plans to scrap thousands of eu era laws by the end of this year will be challenged in the commons today. britain s emma raducanu is in second round action at the australian open tennis. she s up against the american coco gauff. welcome. we begin this morning with breaking news coming to us in the last few minutes from ukraine. the country s interior minister denys monastyrskyy died in a helicopter crash in a suburb of kyiv. mr monastyrskyy was travelling with his deputy interior minister and a state secretary they have all been killed in a helicopter crash next to a kindergarten in brovary, east of kyiv. 16 people have been killed in total,
the president has nothing further to add on that. the president has no further comment on this. for the third time, there is nothing further to add on that. chelsea clinch the premier league title. in antonio conte s first season title. in antonio conte s first season in charge. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: gloucester were hoping to win the first major trophy of the rugby union club season in the final of the european challenge cup against stade francais. good evening. the nhs has fallen victim to a major cyberattack. 39 hospital trusts and gps in scotland and across england have had to cancel routine operations, send patients home and divert ambulances. the nhs says its services have been targeted by a ransomware attack, which means nhs data is, in effect, being held hostage by hackers demanding money. dozens of other facilities have shut down their email and computer systems as a precaution. the scale of the cyberattack on the nhs is unprecedented. it s been decl
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 out by a programme that demands a $300 payment to restore their access. there have been reports of infections in 99 countries. britian‘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 companies, including telecoms giant telefonica, suffered from the outbreak. there were reports that staff there were told to turn off their computers. russia was also hit. the interior ministry has said it has 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 th
fedex were also badly hit. here s our technology correspondent rory cellanjones. it looked at first like an attack just on hospitals in the uk, but it is now becoming clear that this malicious software has run riot around the world. russia, the united states and many points in between have been hit by what is now a common form of cybercrime. ransomware is becoming the tool of choice for an awful lot of criminals, simply because it is very easy to make money very quickly. you can buy ransomware online for as little as $39. it s quite cheap. at the top end of the market it comes with support and payment systems to help you get your money. so how does ransomware work? it often arrives in the form of an innocuous looking e mail. when you click on that link the malicious software is downloaded and spreads rapidly through your network, locking up all the files on it. then a message flashes up on screen is warning that if you want your data and locked you will have to pay a ransom,