Morning briefing Saturday 14th November

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0:37This is the Times Radio Morning Briefing on Saturday, 14th November. American airspace has reopened after a major telecoms fault grounded all departing flights across the United States for nearly five hours. Officials confirmed that aging analog switches and routers became overloaded with data, triggering radar and communication instability across regional control centers. Officials say the problem has been identified and airspace is open again, though passengers are being warned of slow operations and knock-on disruption today as airlines work to clear the backlog. U.S. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy announced the reopening but warned of delays.

1:16We've opened up the airspace. Now, does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? Check with your airline. It depends on do we have crews available? Do we have pilots and flight attendants available to fly your flight? We're going to try to move as many of those as we can tonight if we have the capacity with crews to move those flights. If not, we're going to start tomorrow morning with our airline partners moving those aircraft, but it's going to take us some time to unwind what's happened this afternoon. The shutdown has caused major disruption for British travelers, with British Airways canceling a late-night service from Heathrow to New York and three Virgin Atlantic flights from Manchester likely to be affected this morning.

1:57Microsoft says it is deeply sorry for the disruption caused by a major global outage that hit the NHS, police forces, schools and businesses worldwide. Millions of users were locked out of Outlook emails and Teams messaging from Thursday evening. CEO of consulting firm Fast Future Rohit Talwar told Times Radio that economics must be a contributing factor in this issue. And because we don't have any redundancy, because we don't have any spare capacity, when we have issues like this, everything comes crashing down, as it has done over the last 24 hours. It's unlikely that it was a cyber attack. It's more likely that there was a problem, as they said, with uploading some new software.

2:37I doubt we'd know if it was a cyber attack. I don't think Microsoft would want to tell the world that it was vulnerable in that way, given how reliant businesses around the world are on it. The BBC has sparked criticism from some parents after removing the animated Christmas favourite room on the broom from iPlayer over allegations against David Wallians. The corporation is reviewing all shows featuring the author and comedian following accusations he abused his fame to prey on teenage girls, which he denies. Channel 4 and Sky have also removed his programs from their platforms. The conservatives are calling for strict limits on classroom screen time, backing health guidance that recommends no screens in early years and minimal use in primary schools.

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