Today, we’re looking at a cyber attack on Marks and Spencer, which started three weeks ago.The retailer said today that some personal customer information has been taken. To understand what has been going on, James speaks to Joe Tidy, BBC’s cyber correspondent, and to Ciaran Martin, the founding Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre.Also, Donald Trump gave a speech in Riyadh where he announced the US-Saudi bond is ‘more powerful than ever’. They’ve signed a $142 billion arms deal. Sarah Smith, North America editor and Americast is there to talk the trip through.You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://discord.gg/m3YPUGv9New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Chris Flynn with Julia Webster and Shiler Mahmoudi. The technical producer was James Piper. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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