Airports worldwide are reporting delays for passengers, with several reverting to manual systems. Where they are operating, passengers are being warned that it might take time to take off because of backlogs with air traffic control. Hospitals have also been affected, many elective operations have been cancelled. As have patient consultations. With doctors reporting theyve had no access to patient records. Media organisations have also been affected. Here in the uk, Sky News were off air. And here at the bbc Childrens Channel Cbbc experienced problems broadcasting. Our Cyber Correspondentjoe Tidy gave this explaination of how the outages happened. Some of the biggest companies in the world use crowdstrike. And they are, they have a very popular piece of software called falcon, which is what we call an End Point Protection piece of software. So its like an Antivirus Software that you would download and you would have on your home computer. But theres one of those thats for big companies
Now on Bbc News, The Media Show. Hello. This might sound like the plot of a hollywood spy movie, and indeed in the future it might get made into one, but this week, something called the Pegasus Project is news. A group of News Outlets from ten countries has banded together to expose the alleged use of Phone Hacking to spy on leading journalists, politicians and Human Rights Activists across the world. Among them are Heads Of State emmanuel macron s Phone Number appears on the list of alleged targets. The spyware used is called pegasus and it is made by an israeli surveillance firm. The revelations have been dropping all week, so how do you pull off a series of global scoops like this . We are joined by some of thejournalists behind it. Also today, the role that specialist Fact Checkers play in journalism. In the last 18 months, this has been a story of what is and is not true. Some stories of course are easy to disprove. The vaccine does not contain a microchip from bill gates, but how
The governments handling of the covid pandemic. Hello and a warm welcome to the programme. Its day three of the olympics and we have all the latest from japan. Sarah mulkerrins is Live In Tokyo for us, where the first medal of the day has gone to norway. Tell us all about it. It certainly tell us all about it. It certainly has. Welcome to Tokyo Bay early on Monday Morning in the japanese capital and the behind me is where the triathlon took place. It is also where we saw that False Start occur. What happened is that all triathletes were on the pontoon and ready to dive in, half went in but there was a big Lack Boat covering one half of them so they were blocked from entering into the bay here and they had to pull the swimmers already in the water back onto the pontoon and then they finally got under way. They had a 1500 metres swim around the bay here and then on their bikes for a0 Kilometres Cycle around the streets of tokyo and then they transitioned into that ten kilometre run. And
Now on bbc news, Dateline London. Hello and welcome to the programme bringing together leading uk commentators, bbc specialists, and the correspondents who write, blog, and broadcast for audiences back home from the Dateline London. This week, will england pay a price for borisjohnson s Freedom Day . And a trifecta of global worry afghanistan, iran, and lebanon. The Dateline Panel trying to put your mind at rest or not are the sudanese author and journalist, nesrine malik, bronwen maddox, director of the Institute For Government and before that, foreign editor at the times. And with me in the studio, the middle East Editor for the bbc world service, sebastian usher. Welcome to you, sebastian, and welcome to both of you, thanks so much forjoining us. Now, the sound of an english summer. No, not leather on willow, nor the clink of ice against glass but the electronic ping of an alert on your Mobile Phone advising you to self isolate because youve recently been in contact with someone who