Mcdonalds says its aware of a Technology Outage impacting restaurants, and that the issue is being resolved. They said its not related to a Cyber Security event. Joining us now from new york is michelle fleury. Not michelle mcfleury as i would be tempted to say in other circumstances. What is going on . Restau ra Nts Restaurants have been affected overnight and it seems to be able to play a big issue in bangkok, australia, also where you are in the uk and ireland. Some stores had to close reportedly because the it systems went down, people were not able to order because of the touchscreens are not able to place mobile orders. In some cases they went back to pen and paper to take orders and that old thing of accepting cash. All of this has been accepting cash. All of this has been a black eye for the chicago based company who have come out and said it is not related to a Cyber Security attack but they have not given any more details about what caused the outage. They said in a statemen
President biden has called to advance it swiftly so it can head to his desk in the oval office so he can sign off on it. The pentagon for its part watching the political infighting going on has been trying to pre position weaponry where it can so that those weapons can head to ukraine, head to troops on the ground sooner rather than later. Potentially within days as opposed to weeks. That doesnt rule out the prospect of further political infighting despite the fact that Congress Woman nancy pelosi had called to sign off on the bill for ukraine. We know that it had been facing resistance from the republican party. They had wanted ties to strict immigration laws, Stricter Border security with the us mexico border. That particular vote failed. They needed a two thirds majority so that did not come to pass. Instead what you saw with the ukraine bill is that more republicans voted against it. Than actually voted in favour. We know that republican Congress Woman Marjorie Greene has signalled
North koreas Leader Kimjong Un Has arrived in russia to meet putin. Theyre expected to talk about an arms deal. What impact could that have on the war in ukraine . Here in the uk, female surgeons say they are being sexually harassed, sometimes around the operating theatre. The Royal College of surgeons say the findings are truly shocking. Our panel ron christie, former Special Assistant to president george w bush, and jenny kleeman, journalist and broadcaster. Welcome to the programme. We will start in libya with the flooding and the latest figures we have, 10,000 people still missing, thats according to the red cross, red crescent. Lets take a look at some of the pictures we are getting here to see some of the damage. You can see some of the water flowing here and the damage done to buildings. One city in particular, derna has been impacted because two dams have seemingly collapsed and that has caused widespread destruction. Latest numbers we have, 2800 people have been killed so far.
Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will take to push out those last pockets of resistance while the group. They have shown themselves to be tenacious, very well armed and very tough to get out of the city. They cannot put a timeline on it. The military has regained control of most of the city, controlling people going in and out, there will be interesting to see, once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group who got involved in this attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape than once th
Here in singapore, and this city has been under siege in philippines. On monday the government said it had a decisive progress to retake the city, but at least 100 civilians have been killed in 2000 people may still be trapped in a militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We are seeing and much more optimistic note coming from the Philippines Bollettieri Spokesperson now, they seem to be making more progress in regaining the city, but in the first place we do not know how long it will take to push out those last pockets of resistance while the group. They have shown themselves to be tenacious, very well armed and very tough to get out of the city. They cannot put a timeline on it. The military has regained control of most of the city, controlling people going in and out, there will be interesting to see, once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group who got involved in this attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape than once th