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Europol says the cyber-attack has affected 150 countries so far,

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but what can be done to stop the hackers?

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We'll hear from the boss of a leading internet security firm.

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Also in the programme, we'll take a look at China's plans

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President Xi pledges billions to rebuilt ports,

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This is the situation with markets in Central Europe. Particularly,

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cyber security stocks are doing well this morning. Sally.

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And following that cyber-attack, today we want to hear from you -

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have you been affected - what changes are you

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Microsoft says a huge global cyber-attack, which has hit more

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than 150 countries since Friday, is a wake-up call.

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A huge number of companies were targeted in the initial attack -

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including Spain's Telefonica, Fed Ex in the US, and Germany's

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Europol says the attack hit 200,000 victims in more

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than 150 countries - and warns more people

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and businesses could find they are infected this morning.

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The National Cyber Security Centre urges companies to keep security

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software patches up to date, use anti-virus software,

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Nicole Eagan is Chief Executive of cyber security firm Darktrace,

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Good morning. Just tell us a little bit more about how this attack

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worked. When you look at the attack it moved very quickly. It looked for

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vulnerabilities in the software patches and once it got inside the

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network it spread like wildfire. It uses a worm. It did not require a

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human to do anything. Usually with an attack Kuwait for a person to

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click on the link and take action but in this case it spread

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automatically. That is why it spread so far and so fast? Yes, it

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outstripped our human Security teams capacity because it moved very fast.

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It is not clicking on something which enables the virus or worm to

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go through, literally went from computer to computer. Here in the

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NHS where there are so many computers, is that why

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it spread so quickly and what can be done? Yes, it did spread internally.

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The good news is this is actually quite a blatant attack. What I mean

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by that is there is nothing subtle about it. There are detection tools

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which can spot these and find them early. We were able to prevent this

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and spotted within some companies in the UK. We spotted it in several

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minutes and were able to interrupts the attack. Those watching who may

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be vulnerable, what is your advice? be vulnerable, what is your advice?

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For the immediate actions, it is important to make sure you have a

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back-up of all of this data and then applying these patches. Long-term we

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will see more attacks. The problem with the cyber attacks is they are

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constantly changing and evolving. In fact, there are already reports that

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there are new strains of this particular attack out there already.

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Who knows what the next attack will be? I think what we need to do is

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take a more forward look of how to get ahead of these problems. Do you

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think this problem is because agencies in the United States in

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particular have been hoarding the information that has allowed this

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worm to find a back door into Microsoft's systems. Is it the US

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government which is at fault here? I think there is a whole ecosystem out

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there with cyber criminals basically selling each other's tools on the

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dark web. Knowing that that's ecosystem exists, and this is

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becoming a full on arms race, it really comes down to whose

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algorithms are going to be smarter. That is what we need to do, we need

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to use new techniques, things like machine learning. We have some great

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learning at the University of Cambridge which can help us get

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ahead of these attacks. Unless we take a big is that forward, it will

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not help us get any better. Is it the fact that those who want to try

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and disrupt and cause harm through cyber hacking, they have to operate

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on the so-called dark web in which ever way they can do so. Is that one

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of the things which benefits those of us who are trying to counter it,

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the fact that we can share information openly and

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transparently. Absolutely. One of the things we look at is how can we

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learn from the human body. We have this incredible immune system that

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when bacteria and viruses gets inside, even though we have skin to

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protect us, we have an automatic response which is very precise to

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help us battle that. That is what we are looking at at Darktrace on how

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we can use this immune system approach. We have found a way that

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we can create digital antibodies and an immediate response to these type

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of threats and those can be shared. We have to leave it there but

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Nicole, thank you very much for your time this morning and coming in from

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Darktrace, Nicole Eagan, chief executive. Of course, there is a lot

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of information on our website. Many of you have questions and you want

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to know information. We have a whole page dedicated to ransomware attack

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fallout. That is our live page so do take a look when you have time. It

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will be useful for what you can do with your computer.

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Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg has made a plea for the government to do more

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Her comments come on Mother's day in the US where she called

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for a higher minimum wage, paid family leave

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Ms Sandberg says public policies need to catch up

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The Greek government has slashed its growth forecasts

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for this year as it looks towards approving new

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According to the state news agency, the government has lowered

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The latest estimate also falls short of the European Commission's

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One of the world's biggest miners - BHP Billiton is rebranding and axing

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The Australian company BHP gained the name when it merged

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with a South African company in 2001.

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The firm says the change is all part of its efforts to emphasise

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Let's check in with the financial markets now and in Asia investors

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That figure was to do with results from department stores. Investors

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have shrugged off the effect of the cyber attack and instead, the value

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of security stocks have surged. A male positive sentiment across

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platforms has been capped with some figures from China.

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Samira Hussain takes a look ahead at what's we can expect

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On Monday big hedge fund investors like Carl Icahn and David Einhorn

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will reveal their first quarter purchases and sales of well-known

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We'll also get insight into market trends including whether billionaire

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investors took money off the table in US stocks especially

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financial stocks as the Trump trade began to fade.

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The Gap and Home Depot will be reporting earnings

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on Tuesday and on Wednesday, US retailer Target

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They've already warned of lower profits for this quarter and said it

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would lower prices to try and compete with rivals.

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One of those rivals is Wal-Mart, the world's number one retailer,

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and Wal-Mart will be reporting their earnings on Thursday.

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With us is Jeremy Stretch, Head of FX Strategy at CIBC.

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It is always nice to see you. What are you looking out for this week

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what is on your radar? I think markets are going to look at what

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the data will do over the next the data will do over the next

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quartering the US, to validate the assumptions of a June rate hike. And

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indeed, if we get reasonable data, the question is, what will the

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markets then imply beyond that? Essentially, June seems to be a done

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deal so markets will be fixating about the next leg in terms of the

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global interest rate cycle led by the US. There is a bit of a

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dampening effect on the markets and investment data coming out of China,

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does it concern you? Does not concern me and duly. Yes, moderation

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in China is not unexpected, but from a global perspective, what we will

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see is growth from a number of jurisdictions, so the US growth

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trajectory is reasonable. I think what we would argue the global

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economy is flying on more than one engine, and that has been something

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that we have not seen for some considerable time. That is the

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subtext we will be looking at. Interesting to see oil creeping up.

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This is on conversations from Opec and Russia that they will keep

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production cuts in place for a while, it is around 53 cents a

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barrel today. Unless you are getting back to 55 or 60, I would not

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necessarily overplay the inflationary consequences. We have

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seen an inflation spike on the back end of last year, so unless you see

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that really amplified then we would not worry about inflationary

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consequences. The fascinating thing will be in terms of if we are in a

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slightly better great environment, then eventually we'll see some

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reduction in global infantry is and that is what the production ceiling

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is aiming to achieve. If we start see ceiling is coming down that will

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be a more constructive environment for the oil market and will not be

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reliant on production cuts. Jeremy, thank you. He will be back later on

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to talk about other stories, especially why there are so many

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copies of the da Vinci code ending up in charity shops and why they

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don't want them. They don't want to read it,

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presumably. We'll take a look at China's plans

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to revive ancient trade routes. President Xi pledges

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billions to rebuilt ports, You're with Business

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Live from BBC News. Lonmin - the third largest producer

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of platinum in the world - has just announced an operating loss

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in the second quarter as a result of higher costs

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and lower production. Joining us now from the London Stock

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Exchange is the Lonmin's Thank you for coming onto the

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programme. What exactly is the problem here? Why is it struggling,

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is it the price of platinum? What is the most important factor and what

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to do about it? The prices are very low and the rand has been stronger.

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Those are things which are uncontrollable for us. What Lonmin

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has been doing is to remove high cost production to make sure the

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demand supply market is tightened and we could benefit from all other

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suppliers doing the same things. We have taken 100,000 platinum ounces

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and we expect that should help in tightening the market and we would

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hope that everyone is disciplined enough in that approach. We have

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been removing production from our high cost production shafts,

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shutting shafts, reducing costs, we retrain 6000 people last year and

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all these efforts have culminated in a poor quarter one performance up

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until January which was a hiccup in our performance. However, that has

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turned and we have seen much production being a record production

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and that has continued up to now, resulting in a net cash position

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improving from December last year to $49 million. That net cash has

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improved $75 million. Our liquidity has also improved to $447 million,

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so we have sufficient liquidity to navigate this tough to rain of very

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low prices. Then, thank you for explaining all of that. I am sorry

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to say we are running out of time. That is Ben Megara, the chief

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executive of Lonmin. Radical changes going on at that company to try and

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grapple with some of the issues they are facing, falling price in

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platinum and the currency in South Africa all the place. There is lots

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more on our Business Live page. We have more on the security attack and

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other stories as well. Do dig deep when you have time.

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Our top story, Microsoft says a huge global cyber-attack,

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which has hit more than 150 countries since Friday,

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A huge number of companies were targeted in the initial attack

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including Spain's Telefonica, Fed Ex in the US, and Germany's

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There is amusing pictures of chalk boards on the German railways. Just

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chalk boards telling you when the trains are coming and going.

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The Chinese government is investing billions of dollars as part

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of a plan to restore the ancient trade routes connecting

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President Xi Jinping has pledged $124 billion for the scheme known

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First unveiled in 2013 the project consists of a maritime

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route starting in China which winds its way to Europe.

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At the same time a land based network would make its way west

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Helena Huang is an economist specialising in China

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Good morning. Thank you for being on the programme. Just tell us a bit

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more about this route, the belt and road initiative and how much impact

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it will have on trade? Yes. So I think this initiative is a China

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backed global community initiative and it has started by the president

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himself in late 2013. I think the idea or the aim of the initiative is

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to revise economic growth through the creation of a new set of

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infrastructure projects and networks across 65 countries so and also I

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think what is interesting about this initiative is that it is really a

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ground-breaking initiative in its scale and scope. Spending across

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like four Continents, covering more than a third of global GDP and 16%

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of global population and I will also add that the uniqueness of this

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initiative is also its preference for the infrastructure projects and

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investment and at the same time it focuses a lot on emerging markets as

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well as frontier markets where the local currency markets are less

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developed. It has been a chance for President Xi to criticise

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protectionism. He is seeing this as a chance to champion what he calls

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free taid, isn't it? Well -- free trade, isn't it? The goal to is

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revise economic growth and trade is a part of it, but I would say that

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is Rome not built in one day and to achieve this initiative and deliver

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it well, it takes a lot of tile. And I think what's important would be

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economic co-operation. Once we can achieve concerted policy effort to

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give stronger economic co-operation there will be enormous benefits, not

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only for global trade, but global growth. It's ground-breaking in its

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size and scale and the number of countries involved, but what are the

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obstacles in the way and what about the concern of China's control and

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influence elsewhere? I think the main obstacle or the main challenges

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how shall we achieve economic co-operation aAmanda Knox so many

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different countries and that's taking a lot of effort. On the part

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of whom? On the part of both sides as well as the policy makers in the

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belt and road countries. I can see the UK take a very active part

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acting as a natural partnership to help China with this belt and roads

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initiative on the back of legal and advisory services. I was reading

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about how Greece is pinning its hopes on getting something out of

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the new partnerships. Do you think there could be it is appointment

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down the line when perhaps what has been promised isn't delivered? I

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think what's important is once again for us to really keep an optimistic

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view about what can be achieved because at the ebbed of the day,

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this is all about infrastructure growth, all about trade, and

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investment and also it is about culture and people across the

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nation. So, a better connected world or a better con cted region --

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connected region would be better for regional growth.

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Thank you for coming in today. More detail on our website.

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Rebellion is a leading video game company responsible for smash hit

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titles such as Sniper Elite and Alien Versus Predator.

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The company's boss is Jason Kinglsey.

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The video game boss says that he lives his life according

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to the knights' code of honour, which he also applies

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When I'm not sitting in front of the computer being the boss of a

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computer games company I live my life similarly to that as a medieval

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knight as I possibly can. Obviously I'm not actually a knight. But I do

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actually have horses and I do actually train them and I do

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actually wear armour! Bravery, it's the ability to charge

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forward and seize an opportunity and do the best you can with it.

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Bravery is also about exploring new territories, seeking out new markets

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for what you do in business and bravery is an essential component of

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being a leader. Honesty, honesty in business is very important. It

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doesn't, of course mean telling doesn't, of course mean telling

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everybody all your secrets, what it means is actually dealing fairly

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with people. If there is a problem, let them know about it and usually

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these things can be sorted out. It ideally means that everybody should

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walk away from a business situation feeling they've got a fair deal.

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Kindness, it's about treating things well. It's about looking after your

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friends, and your family and you are animals and your landscape around

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you. That's Jason Kingsley part of our CEO series which is online.

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There is loads of snippets from company bosses on our website. It's

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great. Geoffrey is back.

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Let me talk about Lift and Waymo. They're getting together to try and

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work and getting this product out quickly This deal, if it's brought

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together suggests that we're getting closer to a commercialisation of

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that process and also it underlines the fact that the threat to the

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traditional metrics in terms of those that have been driving for a

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living because if you're getting into a ride hailing unit with self

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driving cars then there are fairly significant strategic partnerships

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and changes in the consumer experience shall we say in cities

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such as London. Waymo is operating under Google's parent company,

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Alphabet. There is this huge race on... The first mover advantage will

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be crit ale assuming that the technology is sustainable and is, of

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course, safe which is the other ultimate bugbear for this particular

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story. But there is an incredible arms race to get to market first and

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try and get that strategic advantage. Automation meaning there

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will be fewer human drivers in the future and the social problems that

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could cause? The strategic changes that we're seeing. It's the great

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industrialisation on the next phase. We've seen mecanisation and

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technology throwing up a source of structural changes that will be

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important for the labour market. An academic in market, hose name I

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can't remember, forgive me if you're waffling, was quoted in the papers

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as saying that petrol cars will be a thing of the past in eight years?

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Some of tenants behind that story... Are they sponsored by Google? There

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are a lot of components are speculative. You saw it too? Yes.

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Good. It is one of those headline grabbing reports. We're probably

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somewhere further along from eight years. He has taken spectacular

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assumptions on board in order to facilitate that. I don't know

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anything about the academic either the one suspects he has a strong

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bias in order to move away from the petrol engine or come buston engine

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and moving towards electrification. Have you read the da Vinci vowed?

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No. Have you? Yes. It ended up in a charity shop and apparently there

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are too maeb of these books being dumped on charity shops. One charity

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shop said we can't take anymore. I'm not sure why one charity shop in

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Swansea should have got so many! If it was an aim of promoting the books

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in the Swansea area over the past few years, but it underlines the

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popularity of one certain he will the and books have a time horizon.

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Going into technology maybe that's something like the Kindle sin

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ceasing. Thank you, Jeremy. That's all from BBC Business Live.

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The other story was 50 Shades Of Grey was the other book that charity

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shops didn't want. There you go, you heard it here first!

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This week is looking unsettled. Strong winds coming up from the

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south or the south-west. Initially it will be a warm start to the week

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and cooling off later on. Today is looking wet. A lot of cloud. A lot

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of rain

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