Ransomware attacks target about 200 US businesses

Another ransomware attack has affected about two hundred businesses in the US at the start of the Independence Day holiday weekend.

Also, emergency teams in western Canada are trying to contain more than a- hundred wildfires, fuelled by an unprecedented heatwave.

Plus, the United Nations Security Council has heard that months of fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has left nearly two million people on the brink of famine.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, a Nigerian novelist and journalist; and Roger Garside, a British author, former diplomat and capital markets adviser.

(Image: A programmer shows a sample of a ransomware cyberattack on a laptop. Credit: EPA)