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Gavin Gray: European correspondent discusses disruptive cyber attacks on European airports · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right time to hear to Europe in the UK and
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  Speaker 1: joining me now is Gavin greg Good morning, Gavin.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there, Francesca, good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen a bit of chaos at major European airports.
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  Speaker 1: What's with the cyber ticket?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I think look, if anyone from New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: knows anyone is flying in and out of major European
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  Speaker 2: hubs that just need to check break carefully with the
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  Speaker 2: airlines about delays, particularly leaving. That is because it's a
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  Speaker 2: system that basically operates the online check in and also
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  Speaker 2: some of the luggage computer programs are said to be
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  Speaker 2: at risk. So the main airports are Brussels, Berlin, Dublin
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  Speaker 2: and also Heathrow, Heathrow of course being the UK's biggest airport.
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  Speaker 2: It's thought is cyber attack has knocked out the check
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  Speaker 2: in and baggage systems. They are run by a software
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  Speaker 2: provider called Collins Aerospace, and lots of airlines have them
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  Speaker 2: so they don't have to have their own system, as
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  Speaker 2: it were, so they use their system, and that would
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  Speaker 2: appear it's software allowing different airlines to use the same
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  Speaker 2: check in desks and boarding gates at an airport. Has
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  Speaker 2: been affected. Now we don't yet know definitely that it's
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  Speaker 2: a cyber attack, that it's a hack, but we do
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  Speaker 2: know that things are going wrong and many airlines are
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  Speaker 2: having to use paper and pen manual check in and boarding,
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  Speaker 2: and that of course is taking much longer. I think
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  Speaker 2: some of the biggest problems now because Heco seems to
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  Speaker 2: be getting back not to normal by any means, but
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  Speaker 2: canceling and delaying less flights. Is that at Brussels, it's
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  Speaker 2: thought around half the flights there are going to be
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  Speaker 2: delayed or canceled.
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  Speaker 1: And Gavin, the Duchess of York. Sarah Ferguson is in
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  Speaker 1: the news again. I've just finished reading Andrew Loney's book
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  Speaker 1: entitled and Nothing would surprise me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm afraid more bad news for the Royals and
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  Speaker 2: even greater connections with Jeffrey Epstein coming back to haunt people.
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  Speaker 2: So in this particular instance, it's been revealed that Sarah
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  Speaker 2: Ferguson in twenty eleven gave an interview in which the
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  Speaker 2: interview asked her about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It's
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  Speaker 2: alleged that he gave her roughly forty thousand new Zealand
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  Speaker 2: dollars in order to pay off a debt. Now after
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  Speaker 2: that and sorry. During the interview, she was asked about
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  Speaker 2: her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, of course, the late sex offender,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, oh, I'm going to have nothing more
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  Speaker 2: to do with him. I apport pediphilia and any sexual
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  Speaker 2: abuse of children. I cannot state more strongly this is
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  Speaker 2: a quote that I know a terrible, terrible eerror of
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  Speaker 2: judgment was made my having anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: She says what he did was wrong and which he
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  Speaker 2: was rightly jailed. But it's now been revealed that actually
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  Speaker 2: shortly having after having said she wants nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with Jeffrey Epstein, guess what she emailed saying he was
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  Speaker 2: a supreme friend.
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  Speaker 1: There we go. Thank you so much, Gavin Gray. That
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  Speaker 1: book and title does actually joint men. Where about the
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  Speaker 1: Duke of the Duchess? A lot of fascinating information in there.
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