14/05/2017 BBC World News

Europol warns of a fresh wave of cyber attack victims as people

return to work on Monday- following Friday's

For those companies that are not running an up-to-date systems, who

have not patched where they should have, they had better make sure that

they have done that before people turn up to work on a Monday morning.

Victory for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats as they take

Germany's most populous state from their rival Social Democrats.

The United States warns it will continue to "tighten

the screws" on North Korea following its latest missile launch.

A World War II veteran breaks the record for the world's oldest

skydiver at one-hundred-and-one years old.

Hello and welcome to World News Today.

Europe's police agency, Europol, says the global cyber attack has hit

more than 200-thousand victims in more than 150 countries.

Cyber security experts are now warning of a possible new wave

of malware attacks around the world when people return to

Europol says Friday's cyber attack was unprecedented in its scale.

Europol says it has seen how ransomware has become a major

criminal problem in the last two years but they have never seen

anything on this scale. Ransomware combined with the worm application

which means infected computers passed on to others on its network.

The attack was indiscriminate in nature, designed to affect as many

people and as many companies as possible on a global basis. The

health care sector is vulnerable because health trusts post a lot of

sensitive information very often on old IT systems. The criminals know

of course that if they can exploit the vulnerability there, the

obligations would be serious. There were 200,000 computers infected

across 150 countries before a 22-year-old Briton hailed as a hero

stopped its ability to spread. Finding a simple kill switch in its

cold, something he warned was just a temporary fix. There

is a lot of money in this, there is no reason for them to stop. There is

not really much effort for them to change the code. Now the director of

Europol has confirmed the fears of security experts. We have since seen

the cyber criminals react to this and put out a new variant of this

which overcomes that temporary fix and I am also concerned about what

happens on Monday morning because I think this bug will be sitting in

systems over the weekend, that are so far not been used and when people

arrive for work on Monday morning and turn on their computer, I think

we will see the numbers going up again. Why the high-profile

organisations hit have largely recovered, Britain's NHS among them,

thanks to back-up systems, some victims, especially many individuals

were so prepared. Graduation is just weeks away for students at this

campus in China, with no option but to pay up if they want their files

are blocked by the hackers. TRANSLATION: The encryption of the

ransomware was pretty advanced, individual users would not be over

to recover their files. So I think for users, they'll should always

back up their files, upgrade their security software and use antivirus

tools. And with the new attack imminent, that is the main advice

from security experts, download the latest security patches from

Microsoft and regularly back-up to devices not connected to the

internet. Karl Riley, BBC News. Our security correspondent

Gordon Corera says the the latest ransomware is a large-scale

and indiscriminate attack. It is a global attack. It is not

targeted at a particular country or particular industry sector, it is

basically spread everywhere on the internet looking for machines which

it can exploit, because they have a certain operating system which has

not been upgraded in a way, which allows this worm to operate and do

its work by encrypting and making the data on it inaccessible. We have

seen this strange distribution of it where in the UK for instance, the

national Health Service has been targeted, but in other countries,

factories or in Germany, railways were targeted, different companies

in different countries because it basically comes down to which

companies or organisations or people were using a particular operating

system which was vulnerable to this attack. And are we any nearer to

knowing who is behind it? Noel is the simple answer. I have spoken to

people who say they still have not got a clear sense of who it might

be. Typically this is a criminal act rather than the State act.

Typically, not always. But because they are seeking to make money, they

are asking for a ransom payment in that guides, a certain amount of

people have paid, tens of thousands of dollars, but it looks like no one

has extracted that or taken the money out, which

has been paid. I think authorities will be hoping there might be some

way of tracing those that coins, you're not supposed to be able to,

but it might be possible. Who this criminal gang was or whether they

really understood how widespread the impact would be, whether it is a

small gang or established gang, all of that is unclear. A predominantly

companies and what do they need to need to do to protect themselves?

This is a wake-up call for anyone, to protect yourself you need

up-to-date software, you need to be running the software which has been

patched meaning the vulnerability has been closed. In this case, the

vulnerability was spotted and a patch, a fix for it was sent out and

if people had used that, then they would not have been affected. It

really is a sign that people need to take cyber security seriously and

those people who were able to upgrade and update their machines

will not have been affected in the way that others were. Gordon Corera

talking to me earlier. Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats

have won Germany's most populous state, beating their main

Social Democrat rivals, in the last electoral test before

the national poll in September. Exit polls for North

Rhine-Westphalia show Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats

taking a projected share of 34-point-five percent of the vote,

with their Free Democrat allies The Social Democrats have

30-point-five percent while their governing partners,

the Greens, slumped to six percent. Our Berlin correspondent,

Damien McGuinness, told me this result would be seen as a pointer

to the federal election That is why this regional election

matters because on the one hand, it matters in its own right, this is

Germany's largest state, 13 point something million voters are both

there and they vote primarily on regional issues. They are voting on

schools, policing, transport, these are all issues run by the regional

governments, but this region is also a bellwether and a signal for the

national elections in four months' time and that is partly because this

is traditionally a SDP centre-left stronghold and Martin Schulz, Angela

Merkel's challenger said and he assumed that they were going to win

their and they were going to set up a strong left-wing Coalition

government in that area because Martin Shilts felt some enthusiasm

from left-wing voters over the past few months and he assumed he would

do well here and that this would be a strong signal for September. He

has just said about half an hour ago that it is a difficult day for

social democracy and a difficult day for him personally because he is

well aware now that this is a signal that actually the support around the

country may not be as strong as he thinks, because what we have noticed

over the past few weeks really is that the initial enthusiasm for him

seems to have faded somewhat and that polls are showing that actually

Angela Merkel, the current incumbent Chancellor is the most popular and

it seems that most voters want her to stay and it is partly because she

is seen as a safe pair of hands in insecure times. A difficult day for

Martin Schultz, he is not exactly when to throw in the towel, but do

you think as far as his leadership challenge goes, you pretty much

predicts that it will not happen? That is what some commentators are

already saying, they are saying it is the end of the road for him but

he said he would keep fighting. It also has to be said that it depends

what happens over the next few months, but those Angela Merkel has

had a few knocks over the past few years, during the resurgence of the

refugee crisis, we have had terror attacks and all those things did not

support and there are plenty of voters who are not satisfied with

Angela Merkel and want a change, but Angela Merkel and want a change, but

I think what we have seen over the past month or so is that people here

are saying that Martin Schultz has not really come up with concrete

policies and the SDP are finding it difficult really to get that centre

ground where Mrs Merkel sitting comfortably indeed when it comes to

issues to do with migration when it comes to do with security and

terror, Angela Merkel is sitting in the popular centre ground which the

SDP is minded hard to occupy. That is the problem and until Martin

Schultz can come up with concrete policies to really combat Mrs

Merkel, it is hard to see how he will beat in September. Damian

McGuinness there. Emmanuel Macron has promised

to restore France's global standing, as he was sworn in as the country's

youngest president, Speaking at an elaborate

Elysee Palace ceremony, President Macron also vowed to see

the EU ' reformed and re-launched' His inauguration comes just a week

after his resounding victory over Not since France had

an emperor 200 years ago, 39 years old and inaugurated

president today of one of Emmanuel Macron has

seized his opportunity, propelled by a young man's

self-confidence and some The disillusion that has

fuelled populism elsewhere, has led France to back a newcomer,

but one squarely Emmanuel Macron routed

the traditional parties. The outgoing president,

Francois Hollande, leaves office as France's most unpopular leader

of modern times. But the task in front

of Mr Macron is huge. If this business friendly liberal

is to honour his pledge TRANSLATION: All labour laws

will be liberalised, Innovation and creativity will be

at the heart of my programme. The French feel left

behind by globalisation To achieve that, Mr Macron needs

a majority in parliament, but his new party has no MPs

and elections are in Emmanuel Macron has promised this

moment will mark a decisive break from the past for France,

a moment of national renewal where all his predecessors

have promised reform He will need more than useful

to optimism and energy to succeed. What Mr Macron hopes he can make it

a force at the heart of the EU, TRANSLATION: He will

relaunch the EU. If the British were still members,

they would be part of this, It is on the basis that countries

who want to cooperate further, Will. For France and Europe, much rests

on some very young shoulders. The UN Security Council will meet

to discuss North Korea's latest missile launch

within the next two days. It comes just hours after the US

military confirmed a missile was launched near the north western

city of Kusong and landed America's ambassador

to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, gave this assessment of why

she thought the North Korean leader He is in the state of paranoia, he

is concerned about everything around him and I think this was a message

to South Korea, after the election and what we are going to do is

continue to tighten the screws. He absolutely feels it. Having a

missile test is not the wake to sit down with the President because he

is absolutely not going to do it and I can tell you, he can say all the

conditions he once, until he meets our conditions, we are not sitting

down with them. I spoke earlier to Mark Fitzpatrick,

Executive Director of the International Institute

for Stategic studies he explained more about

the latest nuclear test. This appears to be the longest range

missile that North Korea has successfully tested to date. The

range would be about 4500 kilometres, if it was straight and

not in the trajectory. That is about 1500 kilometres longer than anything

North Korea has tested to date and brings it closer to having an

intercontinental ballistic missile range. How close is closer? They

still would need to add more oomph to the missile, to reach the United

States. They would need a range of 8000. There is considerable more to

go, probably at least a couple more years of development, but the pace

of North Korea's missile testing has been so rapid and the progress so

great in the last couple of years, that it is unclear that they will be

stopped before they can reach the United States. Mark Fitzpatrick

there. Stay with us on BBC

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God bless America! Experts in cyber security warn

of a possible new wave of malware attacks around the world when people

return to work after the weekend. Exit polls from elections

in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia suggest

that Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats have secured victory

in a traditional stronghold of their rival Social

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hart lane has become memory lane today. It is so true. An emotional

and happy ending for Tottenham as they said goodbye after 118 years to

their white hart lane Stadium. They beat Manchester United 2-1 at the

Stadium before it is demolished and rebuilt. The pack -- fans poured

onto the pitch with a victory confirming second place at Tottenham

's highest finish in the Premier League. Victor Wanyama and Harry

Kane scored to ensured that Spurs remained unbeaten at home this

season. They will play their matches at Wembley next year before

returning to a brand-new 61,000 seat stadium in time for the 20 18th -

2019 season. We will miss it a lot. White Hart Lane a special but at the

same time, we need to move on. I think we will be very happy to start

to play in the new White Hart Lane. You mention the celebrations, will

you try and take anything from the ground as" pacro we will see what we

can take from White Hart Lane and keep in our house. Liverpool gave

themselves a huge boost in the Champions League qualification

hopes. Daniel Sturridge scored his first Premier League goal since

January as he got there first in a 4-0 win. It means that victory

against Middlesbrough on the final day of the season will guarantee

them a place in the top European connotation next season. Daniel

Sturridge, I have to say, he has not really been training for a long but

what a player he is. It was very important for us today and all these

performances, and I think the 2-0 was a knock for West Ham and we kept

on going and it was good football and we could have scored more.

Liverpool looking good but the Premier League adventure is over for

whole city. They have been relegated after losing 4- 02 Crystal Palace.

Hull began the day four points behind Crystal Palace and Swansea

and knew that it was win or bust. They head back to the Championship.

Over in Italy, Juventus are out to win the series add title in what is

a potential decider against Roma right now at the study of Olympic

gold. They require just a draw to take their sixth title bar Roma have

come out hot in the past few minutes. They have taken a 3-1 lead.

Real Madrid are a step closer to the title after beating Sevilla 4-1.

Fernando 's, Renaldo and crews got the goals, Barcelona won by the same

scoreline at Las Palmas. Neymar scored a hat-trick with Luis Suarez

also getting his name on the scoresheet. All that means that

Barcelona are top of the league. Real Madrid are second, level on

points but crucially they have that game in hand. Senna de sedan's team

face Malaga in the remaining games. Rafa Nadal has dumped Dominic Thiem

to win the Madrid Masters for a third time. He is now 15 wins and no

losses on clay this year having also picked up his tenth title in Monte

Carlo and Barcelona in recent weeks. The Spaniard took the first set in a

tie-break before winning the second 6-4. As he celebrates victory, he is

looking I fear is favourite to take his tenth French Open title. Lewis

Hamilton has moved within six points of the Championship leaders

Sebastien Vettel after victory in the Spanish Grand Prix. Hamilton who

started on pole position lost the lead to Sebastien Vettel at the

start of the race but after taking a tactical pit stop, the Britain

regained it from the Ferrari driver in the closing stages of a truly

race. Sebastien Vettel finished second with Daniel Riccardo taking

third. That is all the sport for now. Thank you.

The leader of the reform movement in Iran, the former

President Mohammad Khatami has called on millions of his supporters

to vote for President Rouhani in Friday's presidential .

The endorsement is a big boost for the chances of President Rouhani

who is seeking a second term in Office as Kasra Naji reports:

He has been attracting the largest and noisiest crowds, this is the

stadium just outside Teheran, 20,000 people turned up at his rally. Their

slogan, we will not return to the past. This is a reference to eight

years of the former President who President Rouhani replaced four

years ago. Here he says he has kept its promises. President Rouhani said

his hard opponents in the election are following in the footsteps of

former President. Many here blame the hardliners were having brought

the country under paralysing international sanctions. Isolating

Iran and pushing the country to the verge of a war with big world

powers. To his supporters, President Rouhani has saved the country from

all of that. We are halfway through, we will not go back, says this

placard. TRANSLATION: The past four years

were too prepared the ground for action on his promises. We hope that

President Rouhani could have another four years so that he could fulfil

all his promises. Demanding the hardliners release the leaders of

the reform movement under house arrest for the past six years.

TRANSLATION: The power structure in Iran is such that the President has

only about 20% of the power. The -- President Rouhani has kept 80% of

his promises and that is why I am happy to vote for him.

TRANSLATION: The other leader of the movement, Mohammad Khatami today

endorsed President Rouhani. Censored by the hardline state television, he

released this video on social media and called on his supporters to vote

for him. President Rouhani is heading for a decisive win, if the

supporters of the green movement, it in force on Friday.

A British veteran of the Second World War has become

Verdun Hayes, who's one-hundred and one-years old,

completed a parachute jump from fifteen thousand feet.

Dressed in a yellow jumpsuit, Verdun Hayes, aged 101 and 38 days,

He is determined to become the world's oldest skydiver.

He is doing it with his son, grandson and great-grandson.

As the plane gradually climbs to the correct altitude,

they need to be at 15,000 feet, Mr Hayes is moved

into position to make what is only his second ever jump.

The former soldier, who fought and was wounded

in the Second World War, has nerves of steel.

He is particularly fond of the brief freefall when they are descending

With all four generations of the family back down safely,

it is time for everyone to celebrate the new record that he has just set.

And all of this for a man who, back in the Second World War

as a veteran of the D-Day landings, had assumed he would

But even at the age of 101, he still is more than alive,

doing things that many half his age wouldn't dream of.

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