and the health secretary, jeremy hunt, are chairing a meeting of the emergency response committee, cobra, this morning, to discuss the handling of the cyber attack, which hit parts of the nhs in england and scotland on friday. dozens of hospitals in england and scotland have been forced to cancel some operations and appointments today, and some gp surgeries are still experiencing problems as staff begin a new working week. lincolnshire hospital said all tests, and routine surgeries have been cancelled. meanwhile microsoft said governments around the world should treat the attacks as a ‘wake up call‘ blaming them for storing data on software vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers. it s thought over 200,000 computers have been affected worldwide with russia hardest hit. in the past half hour the national crime agency has tweeted this saying if you re a victim of #ransomware do not pay! there s no guarantee that access to your files will be restored.
britain a new world record. time for a look at the weather, with jay wynne. there is plenty of rain around, it has been captured quite nicely by some of our weather watchers. it has been coming down quite hard for some. this was in stature, not so long ago. notice in the london area, very little rainfall. in staffordshire. those bright colours are indicating some pretty heavy downpours. there is a met office weather warnings in place in the south east of scotland. northern scotland, around the shores of the moray firth, it should be drying up. not so on the eastern side of scotland. northern england also seeing afair scotland. northern england also seeing a fair bit of cloud, with outbreaks of rain. across england and wales, despite the cloud and outbreaks of rain, it is quite warm for most places. but the minute he is also fairly high. there s plenty more rain to come overnight tonight. notice the winds coming in from the south, and that s going to give us a very mild nig
prime minister. in the next hour, why the sky s the limit for this daring 101 year old. d day veteran verdun hayes becomes the oldest man in the world to complete a sky dive. i woke up this morning one of the happiest men in the world. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government s emergency committee, cobra, is to meet to discuss friday s cyber attack, which hit nhs trusts across the country. 11 trusts in england are still experiencing problems. patients have been urged to turn up for appointments unless they hear otherwise. the head of microsoft has said the attack should be treated as a wake up call , and here questions are growing about whether the government had adequately prepared the nhs for such an attack. danny savage reports. this was one of the hospital ‘s worst affected by the events after friday and over the weekend, but first impressions and lasting impressions today have been that things are very much back to normal almost. the car park is busy, lo
to complete a skydive. i woke up this morning one of the happiest men in the world. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government s emergency committee, cobra, is to meet to discuss friday s cyber attack which hit nhs trusts across the country. 11 trusts in england are still experiencing problems. patients have been urged to turn up for appointments unless they hear otherwise. the head of microsoft has said the attack should be treated as a wake up call. here, questions are growing about whether the government had adequately prepared the nhs for such an attack. this was one of the hospital ‘s worst affected by the events over friday and the weekend. first and lasting impressions today have been that things are very much back to normal, almost. the car parks are busy, lots of patients are coming and going for outpatient appointments. when you get inside and look around, it is quite obvious that it and look around, it is quite obvious thatitis and look around, it is
at formula one recently. and a little later in the programme we ll be speaking live to the boss of one of the big teams in the sport mcclaren. zach brown also has lots of other roles. so today we want to know, what would you like to ask him? let us know. just use the hashtag #bbcbizlive. 0k, everybody is going, what does trump on, trump of mean? i would explain why we get to the markets! welcome to the programme. we start with facebook, because despite predictions of a slowdown, the world s biggest social network keeps getting more popular, more profitable and more powerful. late on wednesday it reported quarterly numbers that were much better than expected. they round off another year of rapid growth that has seen it become one of the biggest advertising businesses on the planet. its massive reach has also raised concerns about the amount of influence it can have, and the reliability of information that s shared on it. so we put a little something together for you. just ho