Today, we’re looking at major IT outages that have hit industries across the world. More than 1,000 flights are cancelled. Banking, healthcare and shops are also affected. Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says a "defect" in one of its software updates hit Windows operating systems You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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We're doing a breaking episode of newscast to cover the global IT outage which has been caused by an update to some security software and which has affected computers running Windows.
So Microsoft's operating system, and it turns out that's a lot of computers in a lot of sectors for transport, healthcare, banking, you name it.
But it's always interesting with these big stories, the things that just sort of really lodge in your mind because they seem really close to home.
For me, it was seeing our friends at Sky News basically not having any working computers or graphics and just having to do the news old style with their notebooks out in front of them.
Here's how it sounded.
I should say at this point that this is completely a prop.
It's not working at all.
I may as well close it.
My laptop is running fine, so we will get to the bottom of the phone.
I'm sure you're on the phone at the moment.
A large number of our desktop machines here are still showing blue screens, but others are working fine.
Yeah, we'll try and get to the bottom of that.
Absolutely.
And I can, via my phone, give you a couple more updates.
Actually.
First of all, the Liberal Democrats are.
Urging the government and newscasters have been in touch.
Some people affected in terms of their GP madder, die on discord said, my husband had a telephone appointment.