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.
also on tonight s programme. after the death of the moors murderer, ian brady police say they won t close the case of keith bennett, whose body was never found. the squeeze on the cost of living inflation hits 2.7% outstripping rises in average pay. ruined by rubbish, the british island in the south pacific which has more plastic waste than anywhere else in the world. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, an important night in the premier league as arsenal try to stay in touch with the top four. good evening from bradford where the labour leader jeremy corbyn has launched what he s calling a radical and responsible manifesto, promising to govern for the many, not the few . among his key policies are nationalising the railways, water companies and the royal mail. scrapping tuition fees and reversing some benefit cuts. and spending £37 billion on the health service in england. the pledges would be paid for in part by £48 billion of tax rises
is growing suspicion that north korea was behind last week s global cyber attack. a number of people have been looking at some of the code. this was shared by a google researcher, clearly i can t explain it, but he is telling us it is a sample of the code used by the hackers in the attack. lots of people who know more about these things than me spotted similarities toa things than me spotted similarities to a previous cyber attack, namely the attack on sony pictures. it came just ahead of the release of the film the interview, based around the assassination of kim jong un, a comedy. that attack was carried out why the lazarus group, a criminal organisation with no links to north korea. so we climb and gives an assessment. the manhunt is on to try and find the who was responsible. one of the clues is analysing the code that has been found in this ra nsomwa re. code that has been found in this ransomware. it seems to be similar to an earlier form of malware that was used by the
president trump asked the former director of the fbi james comey to close down an investigation into links between mr trump s national security adviser michael flynn and russia. the times reports mr comey was so appalled at this suggestion that he noted it down in a memo, and a powerful committee of congress is now demanding to see that memo. white house officials insist the story is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of what was said. james comey was sacked last week. general flynn was forced to resign in february after giving a misleading account of his contacts with the russian ambassador. reaction from politicians in congress has been swift. the republicanjason chaffetz, chairman of a house of representatives oversight committee, said in a tweet his committee is going to get the comey memo, if it exists. i need to see it sooner rather than later. i have my subpoena pen ready. in the letter to the acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, he says the fbi has a week to g