27/06/2017 Outside Source

Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

A huge cyber attack which started in Ukraine -

Computer systems in Britain, India, Norway, the Netherlands and Russia

also being affected - more in a moment.

Google's been hit by a record fine in Europe.

Google has abused its market dominance by promoting its own

shopping comparison service in its search results

Important development the Republicans' attempt to overrule

Obamacare. They have delayed a vote. We will tell you why.

Syrian President Assad tours a Russian war plane.

The White House in cranking up the rhetoric.

Plus we'll hear how global food supplies are reliant on a small

if they're ever blocked off. and how that risks major disruption

There's been another global cyberattack.

The first indication came from Ukraine.

The state power company and Kiev's main airport reported issues.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant's radiation level sensors

were also knocked out - it's monitoring radiation

Then, we heard that Russian companies such as the oil giant

Companies in the Netherlands, France, Denmark and the UK

all said their servers had been attacked.

Now, when computers are hit, users see this page.

It tells them that their files have been encrypted and that they will

The WannaCry attack happened only a couple of months ago -

it used ransomware - and caused huge disruption.

Sheera Frankel, of New York Times: "Whatever this

new ransomware is called they say it will more damaging than #WannaCry."

I spoke to our tech reporter Jane Wakefield about how

Jane Wakefield says how fast and how quickly this is expanding.

Initially we were getting reports from the Ukraine,

things like the airport, the Metro system.

Then we had a Russian oil company and gradually through the course

of the afternoon added to the list was Spanish companies,

Danish companies, companies from the Netherlands.

It seems contained to Europe but as I left my desk

there was an unconfirmed story that a US hospital had been affected.

It suggests some of the loopholes opened the last time there was this

major ransomware attack had not been shut.

Yes, security experts are now analysing the code and it seems

they are using the same Windows exploit that was used

with WannaCry, the ransomware attack a few months ago.

Early on people were putting it down to a piece of ransomware that's

readily available to hackers on forums called Petya.

There is now some debate about whether it is Petya.

There is also some debate as to whether it's ransomware

and whether it's a cover for something else.

Some people suggesting it's stealing admin,

passwords and has a completely different purpose and is disguising

Should you and I be worried, should people watching be worried,

or is it just for organisations to be concerned with?

It seems to be organisations, but that doesn't mean

If you are trying to get an aeroplane in Kiev,

The ticketing system at the Ukraine Metro wasn't working.

And there were pictures from Ukraine supermarkets with screens saying

It does have personal knock back on people and consumers.

As it's rolling out across the world, are there

things organisations can do to stop it affecting them?

What they should have and given they had this WannaCry attack

recently that was a wake-up call, if ever there was one,

is great backup so they can immediately instigate systems.

If they are constantly backing data up then they should be able to get

back to where they were before the malware found its way

Apparently it looks like lots of companies

Some of the bigger utility companies being hit and industrial systems,

for them back-up is difficult because they don't want downtime.

It takes them a while to get back up, and maybe this

Google has been fined over 2.4 billion euros

It's been found to have abused its power by promoting its own shopping

Here's the EU's Competition Commissioner.

Google's strategy for comparison shopping service wasn't just

It wasn't just about making its products better

Google has abused its market dominance, in its search engine,

by promoting its own shopping comparison service

in its search results and demoting its competitors.

What Google has done is illegal under EU anti-trust rules.

Google was never going to take this lying down.

In 2008 it fined Microsoft 900 million Euros.

In 2009 it fined Intel more than a billion Euros.

In 2016 Apple was told to pay back 13 billion

This year Facebook was fined 110 million Euro.

I'm joined by Michelle Fleury, in New York.

Clearly I'm not a technical expert, but I would have thought it was

quite easy to establish if Google was favouring its own services or

not. You mentioned the EU has form on this in terms of going after big

American technology companies for a variety of issues from tax to

competition. The theme that seems to be emerging in some of these cases

is that anti-trust regulators are concerned these American companies,

that have a very global footprint, are using their dominance to squeeze

out to competition from smaller rivals, and that's why they are

trying to take this action. Looking back to 2015, they published a

report that was aimed at trying to help improve the chances for

European technology companies against the US juggernauts. The

Commissioner in all of this is an interesting figure. She has been in

the US and I met her in New York a couple of years ago at the height of

the tax row with Apple. She's not want to back down from a fight.

People are beginning to get curious to see how Donald Trump, with his

focus on America first, will respond. Explain how the EU would

like this to work. Say I am in the market for a large new touch-screen.

I search for that on Google. What would the EU like me to get that I

currently don't get? It's all about the algorithms that are used to try

and present you with the result. For example, you might see ten results,

but ultimately there are maybe 20 or 30 options. It's how did you just

see that top selection? How did you get to be seeing those first things.

How they solve the problem, they are leaving that to Google. They say

they see this as the problem, and now it's up to you to come up with

the solution. In return, Google says they have done lots of studies and

they think it's the best way. They are not trying to favour one

individual seller over a nutter, but the EU clearly disagrees.

A copy from the Reuters news agency telling as the US Senate Republican

leader Mitch McConnell has decided to put off a planned vote on the

health care bill to repeal Obamacare until after the Sennett's July four

recess. If you're watching yesterday you would know that wasn't the plan.

Anthony joins us from Washington. What's changed? What's changed is

that this was pretty clear that Mitch McConnell, the Senate

Republican leader, doesn't have the votes to pass the bill. He doesn't

even have the votes to bring the bill to the floor of the Senate. He

needed 50 Republican votes to do so, and already at least five

Republicans are on the record as being against this version of the

bill. Since they pulled it from the floor, three other Republicans have

piled on to say they are not in favour either. The reality is,

people on the right of the Republican caucus in the Senate

thinks the bill doesn't go far enough in repealing Obamacare and

moderates in the middle think it goes too far in cutting Medicaid

health insurance for the poor and too far in restricting peoples

access to low-cost health insurance. It's a bind for Mitch McConnell and

he hasn't found in a way to bring together 50 votes to get it past. I

guess it teaches us about the Broadchurch of the Republican party.

Exactly. They have been campaigning about repealing Obamacare for seven

years. But they have come at different angles for what they want

to replace it with. It was an easy campaign slogan, but there are

things about the law that Americans like. They like the fact it gave

them lower cost health insurance. They like the fact it capped

health-insurance spending over a lifetime and that it allowed you to

get coverage for pre-existing conditions. The Republicans have

tried to keep that in their version of the bill, but it's difficult to

do that while taking away the tax increase in some of the mandates

within the law. Help me out with the practicalities. I assume there isn't

an infinite amount of time for the Senate to consider various bills and

they will have to choose which ones to prioritise. Exactly. Two years

for each congressional session, but when you get to next year, people

start worrying about elections and it starts getting harder to pass

legislation. The winner for major legislation is in the first year of

a congressional session, before the summary says. We have a week off,

three weeks in July when they can possibly pass something, and then a

month off in August. After that they have to start worrying about the

budget and appropriations and the basic machinery of keeping the

government running. They can't take time over health care at that point.

If there are any changes, come back to us. In a few minutes we will hear

from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who says her

government is delaying plans for a second independence referendum, and

that's tied up with the recent general election result.

Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have rejected a plea

from the parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard who want to take

their son to America for treatment. The European Court of Human Rights

in Strasbourg has ruled inadmissible the application by the parents

of Charlie Gard to hear a final appeal that they should be allowed

to take their baby son to the United States for a very

experimental treatment. They said, in a brief judgment,

they said that the UK courts, three courts, which all found that

Great Ormond Street should be allowed to allow Charlie to die,

had been meticulous and thorough. They called medical experts,

independent professionals, and a guardian appointed

to represent Charlie. And they all agreed that Charlie's

ventilator should be switched off. And they said that it was most

likely that Charlie would be exposed to continued pain,

suffering and distress, and this experimental treatment

would have no prospect of success This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. Ukraine says it's been hit

by a huge cyber attack. Companies across Europe

and India are also affected. A Dutch appeals court has upheld

a ruling that the Netherlands is in part legally liable

for the deaths of 350 Bosnian Muslim men in

the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. The judge ruled that the state

was not 100% liable as many would have been died

regardless of Dutch actions. FARC rebels in Colombia have

completed their disarmament. It means they've been

good to their commitment to do so in a peace deal

with the government last year. Before I show you one of the most

watched videos on the BBC news website, I have to warn you might

find it distressing. CCTV footage of a man in England being hit by a bus

and then incredibly getting up and walking away without serious injury.

Becker Sturgeon has backtracked on demands for a second independence

referendum. She has backed away from it happening in 2018. The reason for

that is the general election result. Nicola Sturgeon may not look

like a woman thwarted, but she cannot now march ahead

with her plans for an independence referendum - admitting today that

voters have rejected that idea Having listened and reflected,

the Scottish Government will reset the plan I set out

on March the 13th. We will not seek to introduce

the legislation for an independence Instead, we will, in good faith,

redouble our efforts and put our shoulder to the wheel

in seeking to influence the Brexit talks in a way that protects

Scotland's interests. She wants to keep open

the option of a referendum The Tories want her to abandon

her plans completely. I'm afraid to say that that

statement will fail to give any assurance to those people that this

First Minister is listening to them. Instead, she appears to be

in denial about her mistakes over this last year and,

as a result, is leaking credibility and confidence

in her leadership by the hour. Nicola Sturgeon's message today

is that she is listening to voters, and she understands they don't want

another independence But she has not taken it

completely off the table, and she says that she will continue

to argue the case for why Scotland In 2014, 45% of Scots voted

yes to independence. And the SNP know that they'll have

to make a fresh case if they are ever to win

an independence referendum. And they will have to pick their

timing of another vote carefully. Well, it is common sense,

I think another referendum would be I am an SNP supporter, but I think

that it would make no sense, given the current political climate,

I think it makes no sense for the SNP to move forward

with a vote on it just now. I think we should have a vote on it

- put it out to the public and let The Scottish Greens backed the SNP

call for an early referendum and do not want to see

the timetable slip. If we wait until autumn

next year or even later, then we will be well out

of the European Union before the people of Scotland

have the chance to say Scotland has not consented

to leave the European Union or to have our rights

and protections as European citizens Holyrood today heard

Nicola Sturgeon says she was responding to voters

who don't want an independence vote, but also that she has

not given up the fight. Her opponents say

she is not listening. Her party hope there is no

more than a rain check, We can go back to Michelle in New

York. They were predicting 2.3% growth for the Americans this year

and 2.5% next year. This is the revision from today. Down to 2.1%

this year and more surprising, down to 2.1% in 2018 as well. That's not

what Donald Trump has promised to deliver. Michelle is in New York.

It's been at least five minutes! What are the reasons for the IMF's

reasoning? It's very striking. This is an organisation that usually

speaks in fairly diplomatic language but it's no mistake they are

criticising the American president. At the heart of what they are saying

is they no longer believe the Trump administration can deliver on the

promised fiscal spending, infrastructure spending, and also

cut taxes. Problems we have seen that you just talked about regarding

health care and other legislative challenges. All of this has given

the IMF pause to say, hang on a second. We thought the boost the

administration would give the economy will no longer materialise.

How mutual is the IMF? I remember discussing their involvement in the

Greek debt crisis, and some in the Greek government said they were not

neutral at all. The economists come up... This is part of an annual

report on the US economy that the fund comes up with. It looks at the

economic figures and has to make an assessment and has to issue these

warnings. The challenge for the fund is if you don't like the message

they have, it's easy for people to come out and say, hang on a second,

how impartial are they? Obviously they will make certain assumptions

and it will always be a challenge determining how impartial they are.

This type of criticism or allegation, it's certainly something

we have heard in the past. When the message is something you don't

necessarily like, it's often easier to challenge it. Michelle, thank

you. We will see how Donald Trump responds. Consumer borrowing in the

UK has reached its highest level since 2005. Governor of the Bank of

England Mark Carney is worried and has told banks they are in danger of

forgetting the lessons of the past. A clear reference to the role bad

loans played in the 2008 global financial crisis.

Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.

Dylan Brown works in IT - not badly paid, but often resorts

Consumers working hard to make ends meet who are borrowing

to fill the gaps and pay for those little extras.

Just because obviously older, you know, renting a property,

I have a car, I have a career and everything else,

Turning to credit more so than a few years ago, yes,

I wouldn't say that that would be the case.

It's not a crisis yet, but today a warning from the Bank of England.

Consumer credit growth has far outpaced that of household

income over the past year, with notable increases

across credit cards, personal loans and auto finance.

So how bad is Britain's debt problem?

The amount consumers have borrowed in loans on things like credit cards

That is up 10% compared with the same time last year.

Banks will now have to raise another ?11.4 billion as a safety net,

in case people they have lent to don't pay the money back.

I think Mark Carney wants to be proactive.

He did talk of increasing additional capital a year ago, but he held off

And I think he wants to make sure the banks also are reminded

they have to be more cautious in their consumer lending,

given the speed at which their loan books have grown over

To buy new cars with personal finance deals, loans for holidays

and home improvements, and we're spending on our credit

I think this is an amber warning, for consumers and for banks.

Not the flashing red lights of the financial crisis -

when interest rates were higher and banks, frankly,

couldn't withstand any type of financial shock -

Could millions of people with billions of pounds'

worth of loans keep making those repayments?

Whether it's that continuing income squeeze or those

tricky Brexit negotiations which could damage the economy.

The governor struck a fairly relaxed note for the moment,

but banks and consumers beware - the economy can turn.

Story now on how so-called "chokepoints" in international trade

By UK based think tank Chatham House.

One example it gives is the Panama Canal.

It's 300 metres wide - and transports 75% of Japan's

One third of the Middle East and North Africa's grain

Then there is the Straits of Malacca in Malaysia.

More than 25% of the world's soybean exports are shipped through here.

Laura Wellesley, one of the report's authors.

She told me earlier what might cause the choke points. These choke points

and infrastructural bottlenecks, they are exposed to a number of

hazards. Security threats, climate change is probably the major threat,

but also the potential for political interruptions. Ad hoc export bans

for example, stopping the flow of critical grain trade out of the

checkpoints. How does climate change impact on this? Climate change at

the very basic level, all-weather at impacts on infrastructure. We can

see it and our own streets. Heavy rainfall, storms and floods, periods

of drought, they can really affect the integrity of roads and railways

and waterways. That is true across the world. Climate change

exacerbates those impacts, meaning we see more extreme weather and we

see more extreme weather more frequently. The first thing that

climate change will do in terms of worsening the problem is to worsen

the impacts directly on those checkpoints. The other thing to bear

in mind is that climate change will also increase global dependence on

food trade to meet basic food demand. Those countries that are

already feeling insecure will depend increasingly on trade out of those

choke points around the world to them. Given climate change is a

long-term problem requiring long-term solutions, is your more

short-term response that we should be diversifying how we move food

around the world? That's one of the responses. I wouldn't say it's

short-term stop infrastructure problems are a long-term investment.

That's why we are emphasising the need to act now to diversify trade

routes and production so we don't rely so heavily on the same crops.

Also to rely on infrastructure that is fit for the future, resilience to

future climate impacts and it can cope with growing volumes of trade.

Who can take these decisions? They affect multiple countries and

long-term, at last in one reader or government. Who has the influence to

take these decisions? That's a really important point. One of the

key recommendations and key calls to action is for the G 22 established a

task force on climate resilient infrastructure, to try to foster

collaborative approach among advanced economies to invest in

infrastructure that is a global strategic importance and to pave the

way in setting standards for infrastructure that will support our

future going forward. I will be back with you in a couple of minutes

time. We will be taking a brief look at

the UK weather prospects in a couple of minutes, but first of all we will

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