minutes. military on the move into syria and a new operation across the border. the u.s. is pulling out of the united nations cultural body unesco claiming bias against israel which is following it out the door plus. who some easy gets for some talk to . a mother s relief as her son and his family are freed in pakistan kidnapped for five years by a group linked to afghanistan s taliban. over one hundred police officers are fired after the killing of farm workers in colombia where the drug trade still prevents peace. a convoy of turkish troops has entered northern syria and a new military operation turkey had announced it was planning to send in troops to enforce a deescalation zone it s part of an agreement between turkey which backs rebel forces and iran and russia which supports the syrian government turkish media is reporting the armored vehicles carrying troops crossed into syria is it led province late on thursday. has more from and hockey along turkey s border with syri
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.
britain a new world record. time for a look at the weather, with jay wynne. there is plenty of rain around, it has been captured quite nicely by some of our weather watchers. it has been coming down quite hard for some. this was in stature, not so long ago. notice in the london area, very little rainfall. in staffordshire. those bright colours are indicating some pretty heavy downpours. there is a met office weather warnings in place in the south east of scotland. northern scotland, around the shores of the moray firth, it should be drying up. not so on the eastern side of scotland. northern england also seeing afair scotland. northern england also seeing a fair bit of cloud, with outbreaks of rain. across england and wales, despite the cloud and outbreaks of rain, it is quite warm for most places. but the minute he is also fairly high. there s plenty more rain to come overnight tonight. notice the winds coming in from the south, and that s going to give us a very mild nig
to complete a skydive. i woke up this morning one of the happiest men in the world. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government s emergency committee, cobra, is to meet to discuss friday s cyber attack which hit nhs trusts across the country. 11 trusts in england are still experiencing problems. patients have been urged to turn up for appointments unless they hear otherwise. the head of microsoft has said the attack should be treated as a wake up call. here, questions are growing about whether the government had adequately prepared the nhs for such an attack. this was one of the hospital ‘s worst affected by the events over friday and the weekend. first and lasting impressions today have been that things are very much back to normal, almost. the car parks are busy, lots of patients are coming and going for outpatient appointments. when you get inside and look around, it is quite obvious that it and look around, it is quite obvious thatitis and look around, it is
with mental health. i m talking about everybody, not just me! everybody with mental. anybody who s got learning disabilities. the new french president emmanual macron has named edouard philippe, as his first prime minister. and in the next hour, why the sky s the limit for this daring ioi year old. d day veteran verdun hayes becomes the oldest man in the world to complete a skydive. i woke up this morning one of the happiest men in the world. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. the government s emergency committee, cobra, is to meet in a hour s time to discuss friday s cyber attack, which hit nhs trusts across the uk. ii trusts in england are still experiencing problems. patients have been urged to turn up for appointments unless they hear otherwise. the head of microsoft has said the attack should be treated as a wake up call and here questions are growing about whether the government had adequately prepared the nhs for such an attack. danny savage is in york for us. th