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numbers. i will give you an example. in 1984, we had about 17journeys per day between london and manchester. now we have 47. we have the busiest train lines in europe. about 20% more journeys than france, 60% more than germany. about 20% more journeys than france, 6096 more than germany. that is a response to demand. british rail tailored its demands and services accordingly in the same way. this is not actually a fact that you can point to to say, it is because it is private and it has done better. it is nearly gone merely grown because of endogenous factors. is nearly gone merely grown because of endogenous factorsm terms of the practicalities of this, people may come to this neutral and say, i can remember what british ra i lwa ys say, i can remember what british railways were like, i know what the ra i lwa ys railways were like, i know what the railways are like now. if i am a southern rail customer, i might not like the fact that there have been so like the f ....
as its star takes the lead actress award and it claims best drama. good evening and welcome to bbc news. more computers are likely to be affected tomorrow by the cyber attack that hit many parts of the nhs as the working week begins and people return to their desks. the ransomware attack is now known to have had 200,000 victims around the world, with europe s law enforcement agency saying new versions are being released and an international manhunt under way for those responsible. with some nhs trusts still affected, we ll hear from our health editor in a moment but first our security correspondent gordon corera. a cyber attack that spread like wildfire around the world and may not yet be over. it was launched on friday by hackers whose identity is still unknown and what s been seen so far has already been extraordinary, say law enforcement. we ve never seen anything like this unprecedented scale, the latest numbers we are seeing, over 200,000 victims in over 150 countr ....
prices, and what you should do if you still want to book something. and in sport, leicester are given a caning. the outgoing champions are hit for six by tottenham, as harry kane scores four, and is now favourite to finish the season as the premier league s top scorer, and matt goes back to the jurassic period in birmingham for the weather. yes. good morning. my guest may be prehistoric but it is all about the weekend forecast. it contains a little bit more rain and sunshine as well. details in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. brexit dominated the televised leaders‘ debate, which was held last night despite the absence of theresa may and jeremy corbyn. the itv event saw little disagreement between the lib dems, green party, plaid cymru and snp as they repeatedly clashed with ukip s paul nuttall. our political correspondent tom symonds reports. five party leaders took part. four support britain remaining in the eu. and in the absence of theresa may and ....
or his direct heir. you felt it, didn t you? the power. it s what pulled you out. you just don t know how to control it. so what happens now? you know what happens now. you re quickly becoming a legend. there s a surprise from guy ritchie that the baddy is well spoken and posh and jude law. here is the weird thing. arthurian legend is rich and magical, i have rarely seen a film so lacking in magic. stuff happens, big snakes, swords, huge cgi beasties and you think this is dull. there are times it looks like outtakes from a ramstein video. it s just reminding me of other franchises i would much rather be watching. iquite like. i think he did a terrificjob with sherlock holmes, he took a small element of the text about fighting and turned it into something that made the movie action packed. the problem with this is itjust looks like a bunch of cgi effects thrown together around the ropiest of scripts with the broadest of performances, the whole film, nudging and winking a ....
debt crisis in greece is back in focus. we ll tell you all you need to know. and we ll be getting the inside track on one man s effort to make musical millions. it might look like a kids toy, but with some of the biggest names in music want to get their hands on it, we meet the man behind the lightblock pad. so today we want to know, what was your first musical instrument? did you learn at school? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. welcome to business live. violin. it was good, bad and ugly! we begin with us president donald trump who is about to leave saudi arabia on his way to israel. that s his next stop on his foreign tour. over the weekend in riyadh he signed agreements worth hundreds of billions of dollars between saudi and american firms. the deals are said to be worth more than $350 billion over the next ten years and build on america s decades long alliance with the world s largest oil producer. now saudi arabia is trying to diversify its economy awa ....