Evening briefing Thursday 22nd October

0:28500 orders a month was manageable.

0:33Welcome to the Times Radio evening briefing on Thursday the 22nd of October. The former head of GCHQs told Times Radio that Russia and China will be seeking to exploit a security issue found in the software used by most of the world's websites. Sir David Oment says they could do so by using something called remote code execution. You don't really have to target the server. You just send it out. If it's well crafted, if it hits a server that hasn't been patched, it's going to get in. You can put your own code on the website and then you have freedom of access to get into any files or databases associated, which of course, if the website's selling stuff, there will be customer lists and there will be product lists.

1:2432 non-critical government services have been taken offline. Sir David says the PHP bug is a critical problem, scoring 9.2 out of 10 on an industry league table. The Defence Secretary says the British public must be prepared for food shortages and widespread disruption. West Streeting has launched what he calls a national resilience conversation. He says official guidance is being updated on how households should prepare. But we'll also need to take the country a step further and ask them, are they prepared for increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on our businesses? Last week, an army chief said a frank conversation is needed about preparing the country for a major conflict.

2:11Emmanuel Macron says what he describes as illegitimate protests have been banned in France this weekend. The president says seditious ultra-left groups and vandals were behind the riots and looting last weekend. Only demonstrations organised by groups such as trade unions will be allowed on Saturday. Times reporter in France David Chazan has been telling us who's likely to be involved. You've got left-wing unions like the CGT, you've got the Yellow Vests, remember them. They held almost weekly protests starting in November 2018 that went on for at least a year. They closed off roads with blockades and they marched through French cities.

2:54Their protests often ended in violence as well, but nothing like what we saw in Paris last weekend. Senior ministers are suggesting the Energy Secretary, Miata Farnbler, will reject the opening of the Rosebank oil field. That's despite approving drilling for gas at Jackdaw in the North Sea yesterday. The Times' environment editor, Adam Vaughan, says the sites have different environmental impacts. In terms of just the emissions, and we only know this because of the way court cases have worked out in the last couple of years, Jackdaw is circa 24 million tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime and Rosebank is about 254.

3:36So Rosebank's roughly 10 times more emissions, give or take. You can follow the Times Radio news briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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