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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Affected healthcare, banking and airline systems are slowly coming back online. The crisis was caused by a faulty software update. Also: the UN's top court rules that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, and a trailblazer for women in Asian martial arts movies, Cheng Pei-pei, has died at the age of 78.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.0 | I'm Jeanette Jalil and in the early hours of Saturday the 20th of July, |
0:09.0 | these are our main stories. |
0:11.0 | The boss of the Cybersecurity firm responsible for the global IT |
0:15.3 | chaos apologizes and admits it could be sometime before the disruption ends. |
0:20.3 | The UN's top court rules that Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian |
0:26.0 | territories is illegal. The Biden administration says it's working every day to |
0:31.4 | try to bring home the reporter Evan Gerskovic who's been sentenced to 16 years in a Russian penal colony for spying. |
0:39.0 | Also in this podcast, I know nothing about martial art nothing I just try to do whatever |
0:47.8 | King Wu tell me to do even how to move my eyes a trailblazer for women in Asian martial arts movies |
0:55.3 | Chang Pei Pei has died at the age of 78. Global computer systems in health care, banking and airlines are slowly coming |
1:09.6 | back online after a digital outage disrupted networks in many countries. |
1:15.0 | Crowd strike the cyber security firm which caused the outage has said it's deeply sorry for the disruption. |
1:21.0 | The crisis was caused by a faulty software update which affected |
1:25.2 | Microsoft Windows systems. From Australia to the United States, plane and train |
1:30.7 | passengers were left stranded with thousands of flights cancelled, TV stations |
1:35.6 | were knocked off air, shoppers left unable to make payments and health services unable to |
1:40.6 | access their records. Even the Paris Olympics were affected as |
1:44.3 | organizers were unable to issue some accreditation ahead of the games next week. |
1:48.7 | Here's how events unfolded. Thank you for contacting Crowdsteak support. |
1:53.3 | Crowdsteak is aware of reports of crashes on... |
1:57.0 | Computer security company Crowdsteak has been linked to the outage that is affecting banks, |
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