It is seven in singapore and midnight in london and a huge cyber attack is continuing to spread Around The World. It is freezing Computer Systems and demanding that a ransom is paid. It began in ukraine and has a ready hit Global Companies including wpp, the british advertising agency, and merck, the american pharmaceutical company. The first signs came in ukraine. Systems went down this morning. Some people tried to take money out of bank machines, found they couldnt. Even the radiation Monitoring System at the Chernobyl Nuclear plant was briefly taken offline. The scale was enormous. We had the virus spread, cyber virus on the transport, bank, media, infrastructure of ukraine, in government and in the co operative sectors as well. But during the day, it became clear that the problem was not contained in ukraine but was spreading. Reports came in of companies affected from russia across europe to the uk and also the us. Those affected included oil producers, shipping and pharmaceutica
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pretty decent relationship with the chinese state especially when you look at the product context of us tension so in terms of whether this is that serious, probably not. there has not been a massive reaction, maybe some eye rolling, it was not a human rights criticism, for example, he would have been facing a much thorny situation. but when you re doing business in china, the episode shows that there is no such thing as being too careful. ~ , ,., , ., ~ no such thing as being too careful. ~ , , . ~ ,, careful. absolutely. thank you very much- careful. absolutely. thank you very much. you careful. absolutely. thank you very much. you are very much. you are with bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: cashing the check. why pandemic lockdowns have been a win for the chess business. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster
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