:00:09. > :00:16.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:17. > :00:19.A huge cyber attack which started in Ukraine -
:00:20. > :00:22.Computer systems in Britain, India, Norway, the Netherlands and Russia
:00:23. > :00:24.also being affected - more in a moment.
:00:25. > :00:26.Google's been hit by a record fine in Europe.
:00:27. > :00:32.Google has abused its market dominance by promoting its own
:00:33. > :00:34.shopping comparison service in its search results
:00:35. > :00:53.Important development the Republicans' attempt to overrule
:00:54. > :00:57.Obamacare. They have delayed a vote. We will tell you why.
:00:58. > :00:59.Syrian President Assad tours a Russian war plane.
:01:00. > :01:02.The White House in cranking up the rhetoric.
:01:03. > :01:06.Plus we'll hear how global food supplies are reliant on a small
:01:07. > :01:23.if they're ever blocked off. and how that risks major disruption
:01:24. > :01:24.There's been another global cyberattack.
:01:25. > :01:29.The first indication came from Ukraine.
:01:30. > :01:35.The state power company and Kiev's main airport reported issues.
:01:36. > :01:39.The Chernobyl nuclear power plant's radiation level sensors
:01:40. > :01:41.were also knocked out - it's monitoring radiation
:01:42. > :01:49.Then, we heard that Russian companies such as the oil giant
:01:50. > :01:52.Companies in the Netherlands, France, Denmark and the UK
:01:53. > :01:58.all said their servers had been attacked.
:01:59. > :02:02.Now, when computers are hit, users see this page.
:02:03. > :02:05.It tells them that their files have been encrypted and that they will
:02:06. > :02:14.The WannaCry attack happened only a couple of months ago -
:02:15. > :02:25.it used ransomware - and caused huge disruption.
:02:26. > :02:27.Sheera Frankel, of New York Times: "Whatever this
:02:28. > :02:30.new ransomware is called they say it will more damaging than #WannaCry."
:02:31. > :02:32.I spoke to our tech reporter Jane Wakefield about how
:02:33. > :02:51.Jane Wakefield says how fast and how quickly this is expanding.
:02:52. > :02:53.Initially we were getting reports from the Ukraine,
:02:54. > :02:54.things like the airport, the Metro system.
:02:55. > :02:57.Then we had a Russian oil company and gradually through the course
:02:58. > :03:00.of the afternoon added to the list was Spanish companies,
:03:01. > :03:01.Danish companies, companies from the Netherlands.
:03:02. > :03:04.It seems contained to Europe but as I left my desk
:03:05. > :03:07.there was an unconfirmed story that a US hospital had been affected.
:03:08. > :03:12.It suggests some of the loopholes opened the last time there was this
:03:13. > :03:15.major ransomware attack had not been shut.
:03:16. > :03:19.Yes, security experts are now analysing the code and it seems
:03:20. > :03:21.they are using the same Windows exploit that was used
:03:22. > :03:26.with WannaCry, the ransomware attack a few months ago.
:03:27. > :03:31.Early on people were putting it down to a piece of ransomware that's
:03:32. > :03:34.readily available to hackers on forums called Petya.
:03:35. > :03:37.There is now some debate about whether it is Petya.
:03:38. > :03:39.There is also some debate as to whether it's ransomware
:03:40. > :03:41.and whether it's a cover for something else.
:03:42. > :03:45.Some people suggesting it's stealing admin,
:03:46. > :03:47.passwords and has a completely different purpose and is disguising
:03:48. > :03:52.Should you and I be worried, should people watching be worried,
:03:53. > :03:54.or is it just for organisations to be concerned with?
:03:55. > :03:56.It seems to be organisations, but that doesn't mean
:03:57. > :04:00.If you are trying to get an aeroplane in Kiev,
:04:01. > :04:08.The ticketing system at the Ukraine Metro wasn't working.
:04:09. > :04:10.And there were pictures from Ukraine supermarkets with screens saying
:04:11. > :04:18.It does have personal knock back on people and consumers.
:04:19. > :04:20.As it's rolling out across the world, are there
:04:21. > :04:23.things organisations can do to stop it affecting them?
:04:24. > :04:26.What they should have and given they had this WannaCry attack
:04:27. > :04:31.recently that was a wake-up call, if ever there was one,
:04:32. > :04:34.is great backup so they can immediately instigate systems.
:04:35. > :04:37.If they are constantly backing data up then they should be able to get
:04:38. > :04:40.back to where they were before the malware found its way
:04:41. > :04:43.Apparently it looks like lots of companies
:04:44. > :04:49.Some of the bigger utility companies being hit and industrial systems,
:04:50. > :04:52.for them back-up is difficult because they don't want downtime.
:04:53. > :04:55.It takes them a while to get back up, and maybe this
:04:56. > :05:02.Google has been fined over 2.4 billion euros
:05:03. > :05:10.It's been found to have abused its power by promoting its own shopping
:05:11. > :05:15.Here's the EU's Competition Commissioner.
:05:16. > :05:17.Google's strategy for comparison shopping service wasn't just
:05:18. > :05:24.It wasn't just about making its products better
:05:25. > :05:37.Google has abused its market dominance, in its search engine,
:05:38. > :05:42.by promoting its own shopping comparison service
:05:43. > :05:44.in its search results and demoting its competitors.
:05:45. > :05:53.What Google has done is illegal under EU anti-trust rules.
:05:54. > :06:07.Google was never going to take this lying down.
:06:08. > :06:14.In 2008 it fined Microsoft 900 million Euros.
:06:15. > :06:19.In 2009 it fined Intel more than a billion Euros.
:06:20. > :06:21.In 2016 Apple was told to pay back 13 billion
:06:22. > :06:33.This year Facebook was fined 110 million Euro.
:06:34. > :06:38.I'm joined by Michelle Fleury, in New York.
:06:39. > :06:44.Clearly I'm not a technical expert, but I would have thought it was
:06:45. > :06:51.quite easy to establish if Google was favouring its own services or
:06:52. > :06:56.not. You mentioned the EU has form on this in terms of going after big
:06:57. > :07:00.American technology companies for a variety of issues from tax to
:07:01. > :07:04.competition. The theme that seems to be emerging in some of these cases
:07:05. > :07:11.is that anti-trust regulators are concerned these American companies,
:07:12. > :07:14.that have a very global footprint, are using their dominance to squeeze
:07:15. > :07:19.out to competition from smaller rivals, and that's why they are
:07:20. > :07:23.trying to take this action. Looking back to 2015, they published a
:07:24. > :07:27.report that was aimed at trying to help improve the chances for
:07:28. > :07:34.European technology companies against the US juggernauts. The
:07:35. > :07:38.Commissioner in all of this is an interesting figure. She has been in
:07:39. > :07:42.the US and I met her in New York a couple of years ago at the height of
:07:43. > :07:46.the tax row with Apple. She's not want to back down from a fight.
:07:47. > :07:50.People are beginning to get curious to see how Donald Trump, with his
:07:51. > :07:56.focus on America first, will respond. Explain how the EU would
:07:57. > :08:00.like this to work. Say I am in the market for a large new touch-screen.
:08:01. > :08:06.I search for that on Google. What would the EU like me to get that I
:08:07. > :08:11.currently don't get? It's all about the algorithms that are used to try
:08:12. > :08:15.and present you with the result. For example, you might see ten results,
:08:16. > :08:20.but ultimately there are maybe 20 or 30 options. It's how did you just
:08:21. > :08:28.see that top selection? How did you get to be seeing those first things.
:08:29. > :08:32.How they solve the problem, they are leaving that to Google. They say
:08:33. > :08:36.they see this as the problem, and now it's up to you to come up with
:08:37. > :08:39.the solution. In return, Google says they have done lots of studies and
:08:40. > :08:43.they think it's the best way. They are not trying to favour one
:08:44. > :08:51.individual seller over a nutter, but the EU clearly disagrees.
:08:52. > :08:58.A copy from the Reuters news agency telling as the US Senate Republican
:08:59. > :09:03.leader Mitch McConnell has decided to put off a planned vote on the
:09:04. > :09:08.health care bill to repeal Obamacare until after the Sennett's July four
:09:09. > :09:14.recess. If you're watching yesterday you would know that wasn't the plan.
:09:15. > :09:20.Anthony joins us from Washington. What's changed? What's changed is
:09:21. > :09:23.that this was pretty clear that Mitch McConnell, the Senate
:09:24. > :09:27.Republican leader, doesn't have the votes to pass the bill. He doesn't
:09:28. > :09:32.even have the votes to bring the bill to the floor of the Senate. He
:09:33. > :09:35.needed 50 Republican votes to do so, and already at least five
:09:36. > :09:39.Republicans are on the record as being against this version of the
:09:40. > :09:42.bill. Since they pulled it from the floor, three other Republicans have
:09:43. > :09:46.piled on to say they are not in favour either. The reality is,
:09:47. > :09:50.people on the right of the Republican caucus in the Senate
:09:51. > :09:54.thinks the bill doesn't go far enough in repealing Obamacare and
:09:55. > :09:57.moderates in the middle think it goes too far in cutting Medicaid
:09:58. > :10:03.health insurance for the poor and too far in restricting peoples
:10:04. > :10:07.access to low-cost health insurance. It's a bind for Mitch McConnell and
:10:08. > :10:14.he hasn't found in a way to bring together 50 votes to get it past. I
:10:15. > :10:18.guess it teaches us about the Broadchurch of the Republican party.
:10:19. > :10:23.Exactly. They have been campaigning about repealing Obamacare for seven
:10:24. > :10:27.years. But they have come at different angles for what they want
:10:28. > :10:30.to replace it with. It was an easy campaign slogan, but there are
:10:31. > :10:35.things about the law that Americans like. They like the fact it gave
:10:36. > :10:39.them lower cost health insurance. They like the fact it capped
:10:40. > :10:43.health-insurance spending over a lifetime and that it allowed you to
:10:44. > :10:46.get coverage for pre-existing conditions. The Republicans have
:10:47. > :10:50.tried to keep that in their version of the bill, but it's difficult to
:10:51. > :10:55.do that while taking away the tax increase in some of the mandates
:10:56. > :11:00.within the law. Help me out with the practicalities. I assume there isn't
:11:01. > :11:03.an infinite amount of time for the Senate to consider various bills and
:11:04. > :11:08.they will have to choose which ones to prioritise. Exactly. Two years
:11:09. > :11:13.for each congressional session, but when you get to next year, people
:11:14. > :11:17.start worrying about elections and it starts getting harder to pass
:11:18. > :11:21.legislation. The winner for major legislation is in the first year of
:11:22. > :11:29.a congressional session, before the summary says. We have a week off,
:11:30. > :11:32.three weeks in July when they can possibly pass something, and then a
:11:33. > :11:34.month off in August. After that they have to start worrying about the
:11:35. > :11:37.budget and appropriations and the basic machinery of keeping the
:11:38. > :11:43.government running. They can't take time over health care at that point.
:11:44. > :11:48.If there are any changes, come back to us. In a few minutes we will hear
:11:49. > :11:52.from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who says her
:11:53. > :11:54.government is delaying plans for a second independence referendum, and
:11:55. > :12:07.that's tied up with the recent general election result.
:12:08. > :12:12.Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have rejected a plea
:12:13. > :12:15.from the parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard who want to take
:12:16. > :12:31.their son to America for treatment. The European Court of Human Rights
:12:32. > :12:33.in Strasbourg has ruled inadmissible the application by the parents
:12:34. > :12:36.of Charlie Gard to hear a final appeal that they should be allowed
:12:37. > :12:39.to take their baby son to the United States for a very
:12:40. > :12:41.experimental treatment. They said, in a brief judgment,
:12:42. > :12:44.they said that the UK courts, three courts, which all found that
:12:45. > :12:47.Great Ormond Street should be allowed to allow Charlie to die,
:12:48. > :12:49.had been meticulous and thorough. They called medical experts,
:12:50. > :12:51.independent professionals, and a guardian appointed
:12:52. > :12:52.to represent Charlie. And they all agreed that Charlie's
:12:53. > :12:55.ventilator should be switched off. And they said that it was most
:12:56. > :12:58.likely that Charlie would be exposed to continued pain,
:12:59. > :13:00.suffering and distress, and this experimental treatment
:13:01. > :13:02.would have no prospect of success This is Outside Source live
:13:03. > :13:20.from the BBC newsroom. Ukraine says it's been hit
:13:21. > :13:23.by a huge cyber attack. Companies across Europe
:13:24. > :13:26.and India are also affected. A Dutch appeals court has upheld
:13:27. > :13:28.a ruling that the Netherlands is in part legally liable
:13:29. > :13:39.for the deaths of 350 Bosnian Muslim men in
:13:40. > :13:41.the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. The judge ruled that the state
:13:42. > :13:44.was not 100% liable as many would have been died
:13:45. > :13:45.regardless of Dutch actions. FARC rebels in Colombia have
:13:46. > :13:50.completed their disarmament. It means they've been
:13:51. > :13:52.good to their commitment to do so in a peace deal
:13:53. > :13:59.with the government last year. Before I show you one of the most
:14:00. > :14:03.watched videos on the BBC news website, I have to warn you might
:14:04. > :14:10.find it distressing. CCTV footage of a man in England being hit by a bus
:14:11. > :14:26.and then incredibly getting up and walking away without serious injury.
:14:27. > :14:34.Becker Sturgeon has backtracked on demands for a second independence
:14:35. > :14:37.referendum. She has backed away from it happening in 2018. The reason for
:14:38. > :14:50.that is the general election result. Nicola Sturgeon may not look
:14:51. > :14:52.like a woman thwarted, but she cannot now march ahead
:14:53. > :14:55.with her plans for an independence referendum - admitting today that
:14:56. > :14:57.voters have rejected that idea Having listened and reflected,
:14:58. > :15:00.the Scottish Government will reset the plan I set out
:15:01. > :15:03.on March the 13th. We will not seek to introduce
:15:04. > :15:06.the legislation for an independence Instead, we will, in good faith,
:15:07. > :15:09.redouble our efforts and put our shoulder to the wheel
:15:10. > :15:12.in seeking to influence the Brexit talks in a way that protects
:15:13. > :15:14.Scotland's interests. She wants to keep open
:15:15. > :15:21.the option of a referendum The Tories want her to abandon
:15:22. > :15:25.her plans completely. I'm afraid to say that that
:15:26. > :15:28.statement will fail to give any assurance to those people that this
:15:29. > :15:30.First Minister is listening to them. Instead, she appears to be
:15:31. > :15:33.in denial about her mistakes over this last year and,
:15:34. > :15:35.as a result, is leaking credibility and confidence
:15:36. > :15:37.in her leadership by the hour. Nicola Sturgeon's message today
:15:38. > :15:42.is that she is listening to voters, and she understands they don't want
:15:43. > :15:45.another independence But she has not taken it
:15:46. > :15:50.completely off the table, and she says that she will continue
:15:51. > :15:54.to argue the case for why Scotland In 2014, 45% of Scots voted
:15:55. > :16:05.yes to independence. And the SNP know that they'll have
:16:06. > :16:09.to make a fresh case if they are ever to win
:16:10. > :16:14.an independence referendum. And they will have to pick their
:16:15. > :16:20.timing of another vote carefully. Well, it is common sense,
:16:21. > :16:23.I think another referendum would be I am an SNP supporter, but I think
:16:24. > :16:29.that it would make no sense, given the current political climate,
:16:30. > :16:32.I think it makes no sense for the SNP to move forward
:16:33. > :16:39.with a vote on it just now. I think we should have a vote on it
:16:40. > :16:44.- put it out to the public and let The Scottish Greens backed the SNP
:16:45. > :16:50.call for an early referendum and do not want to see
:16:51. > :16:54.the timetable slip. If we wait until autumn
:16:55. > :16:57.next year or even later, then we will be well out
:16:58. > :17:00.of the European Union before the people of Scotland
:17:01. > :17:02.have the chance to say Scotland has not consented
:17:03. > :17:05.to leave the European Union or to have our rights
:17:06. > :17:08.and protections as European citizens Holyrood today heard
:17:09. > :17:16.Nicola Sturgeon says she was responding to voters
:17:17. > :17:19.who don't want an independence vote, but also that she has
:17:20. > :17:21.not given up the fight. Her opponents say
:17:22. > :17:23.she is not listening. Her party hope there is no
:17:24. > :17:47.more than a rain check, We can go back to Michelle in New
:17:48. > :17:52.York. They were predicting 2.3% growth for the Americans this year
:17:53. > :17:58.and 2.5% next year. This is the revision from today. Down to 2.1%
:17:59. > :18:02.this year and more surprising, down to 2.1% in 2018 as well. That's not
:18:03. > :18:10.what Donald Trump has promised to deliver. Michelle is in New York.
:18:11. > :18:20.It's been at least five minutes! What are the reasons for the IMF's
:18:21. > :18:23.reasoning? It's very striking. This is an organisation that usually
:18:24. > :18:26.speaks in fairly diplomatic language but it's no mistake they are
:18:27. > :18:31.criticising the American president. At the heart of what they are saying
:18:32. > :18:34.is they no longer believe the Trump administration can deliver on the
:18:35. > :18:37.promised fiscal spending, infrastructure spending, and also
:18:38. > :18:42.cut taxes. Problems we have seen that you just talked about regarding
:18:43. > :18:48.health care and other legislative challenges. All of this has given
:18:49. > :18:51.the IMF pause to say, hang on a second. We thought the boost the
:18:52. > :18:57.administration would give the economy will no longer materialise.
:18:58. > :19:00.How mutual is the IMF? I remember discussing their involvement in the
:19:01. > :19:05.Greek debt crisis, and some in the Greek government said they were not
:19:06. > :19:09.neutral at all. The economists come up... This is part of an annual
:19:10. > :19:14.report on the US economy that the fund comes up with. It looks at the
:19:15. > :19:19.economic figures and has to make an assessment and has to issue these
:19:20. > :19:23.warnings. The challenge for the fund is if you don't like the message
:19:24. > :19:28.they have, it's easy for people to come out and say, hang on a second,
:19:29. > :19:32.how impartial are they? Obviously they will make certain assumptions
:19:33. > :19:37.and it will always be a challenge determining how impartial they are.
:19:38. > :19:41.This type of criticism or allegation, it's certainly something
:19:42. > :19:45.we have heard in the past. When the message is something you don't
:19:46. > :19:49.necessarily like, it's often easier to challenge it. Michelle, thank
:19:50. > :19:56.you. We will see how Donald Trump responds. Consumer borrowing in the
:19:57. > :19:59.UK has reached its highest level since 2005. Governor of the Bank of
:20:00. > :20:02.England Mark Carney is worried and has told banks they are in danger of
:20:03. > :20:07.forgetting the lessons of the past. A clear reference to the role bad
:20:08. > :20:17.loans played in the 2008 global financial crisis.
:20:18. > :20:19.Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.
:20:20. > :20:22.Dylan Brown works in IT - not badly paid, but often resorts
:20:23. > :20:27.Consumers working hard to make ends meet who are borrowing
:20:28. > :20:30.to fill the gaps and pay for those little extras.
:20:31. > :20:34.Just because obviously older, you know, renting a property,
:20:35. > :20:37.I have a car, I have a career and everything else,
:20:38. > :20:40.Turning to credit more so than a few years ago, yes,
:20:41. > :20:47.I wouldn't say that that would be the case.
:20:48. > :20:50.It's not a crisis yet, but today a warning from the Bank of England.
:20:51. > :20:53.Consumer credit growth has far outpaced that of household
:20:54. > :20:57.income over the past year, with notable increases
:20:58. > :20:59.across credit cards, personal loans and auto finance.
:21:00. > :21:01.So how bad is Britain's debt problem?
:21:02. > :21:05.The amount consumers have borrowed in loans on things like credit cards
:21:06. > :21:14.That is up 10% compared with the same time last year.
:21:15. > :21:19.Banks will now have to raise another ?11.4 billion as a safety net,
:21:20. > :21:22.in case people they have lent to don't pay the money back.
:21:23. > :21:25.I think Mark Carney wants to be proactive.
:21:26. > :21:28.He did talk of increasing additional capital a year ago, but he held off
:21:29. > :21:34.And I think he wants to make sure the banks also are reminded
:21:35. > :21:37.they have to be more cautious in their consumer lending,
:21:38. > :21:39.given the speed at which their loan books have grown over
:21:40. > :21:47.To buy new cars with personal finance deals, loans for holidays
:21:48. > :21:50.and home improvements, and we're spending on our credit
:21:51. > :21:58.I think this is an amber warning, for consumers and for banks.
:21:59. > :22:00.Not the flashing red lights of the financial crisis -
:22:01. > :22:02.when interest rates were higher and banks, frankly,
:22:03. > :22:04.couldn't withstand any type of financial shock -
:22:05. > :22:13.Could millions of people with billions of pounds'
:22:14. > :22:17.worth of loans keep making those repayments?
:22:18. > :22:22.Whether it's that continuing income squeeze or those
:22:23. > :22:24.tricky Brexit negotiations which could damage the economy.
:22:25. > :22:26.The governor struck a fairly relaxed note for the moment,
:22:27. > :22:29.but banks and consumers beware - the economy can turn.
:22:30. > :22:46.Story now on how so-called "chokepoints" in international trade
:22:47. > :22:51.By UK based think tank Chatham House.
:22:52. > :22:53.One example it gives is the Panama Canal.
:22:54. > :22:57.It's 300 metres wide - and transports 75% of Japan's
:22:58. > :23:04.One third of the Middle East and North Africa's grain
:23:05. > :23:12.Then there is the Straits of Malacca in Malaysia.
:23:13. > :23:15.More than 25% of the world's soybean exports are shipped through here.
:23:16. > :23:22.Laura Wellesley, one of the report's authors.
:23:23. > :23:32.She told me earlier what might cause the choke points. These choke points
:23:33. > :23:37.and infrastructural bottlenecks, they are exposed to a number of
:23:38. > :23:42.hazards. Security threats, climate change is probably the major threat,
:23:43. > :23:48.but also the potential for political interruptions. Ad hoc export bans
:23:49. > :23:52.for example, stopping the flow of critical grain trade out of the
:23:53. > :23:58.checkpoints. How does climate change impact on this? Climate change at
:23:59. > :24:02.the very basic level, all-weather at impacts on infrastructure. We can
:24:03. > :24:06.see it and our own streets. Heavy rainfall, storms and floods, periods
:24:07. > :24:11.of drought, they can really affect the integrity of roads and railways
:24:12. > :24:14.and waterways. That is true across the world. Climate change
:24:15. > :24:18.exacerbates those impacts, meaning we see more extreme weather and we
:24:19. > :24:24.see more extreme weather more frequently. The first thing that
:24:25. > :24:27.climate change will do in terms of worsening the problem is to worsen
:24:28. > :24:32.the impacts directly on those checkpoints. The other thing to bear
:24:33. > :24:36.in mind is that climate change will also increase global dependence on
:24:37. > :24:40.food trade to meet basic food demand. Those countries that are
:24:41. > :24:43.already feeling insecure will depend increasingly on trade out of those
:24:44. > :24:47.choke points around the world to them. Given climate change is a
:24:48. > :24:51.long-term problem requiring long-term solutions, is your more
:24:52. > :24:56.short-term response that we should be diversifying how we move food
:24:57. > :24:59.around the world? That's one of the responses. I wouldn't say it's
:25:00. > :25:07.short-term stop infrastructure problems are a long-term investment.
:25:08. > :25:10.That's why we are emphasising the need to act now to diversify trade
:25:11. > :25:13.routes and production so we don't rely so heavily on the same crops.
:25:14. > :25:18.Also to rely on infrastructure that is fit for the future, resilience to
:25:19. > :25:24.future climate impacts and it can cope with growing volumes of trade.
:25:25. > :25:27.Who can take these decisions? They affect multiple countries and
:25:28. > :25:31.long-term, at last in one reader or government. Who has the influence to
:25:32. > :25:34.take these decisions? That's a really important point. One of the
:25:35. > :25:41.key recommendations and key calls to action is for the G 22 established a
:25:42. > :25:45.task force on climate resilient infrastructure, to try to foster
:25:46. > :25:49.collaborative approach among advanced economies to invest in
:25:50. > :25:52.infrastructure that is a global strategic importance and to pave the
:25:53. > :25:56.way in setting standards for infrastructure that will support our
:25:57. > :25:57.future going forward. I will be back with you in a couple of minutes
:25:58. > :26:12.time. We will be taking a brief look at
:26:13. > :26:14.the UK weather prospects in a couple of minutes, but first of all we will
:26:15. > :26:15.go further