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hello, i'm karin giannone. welcome to "gmt" here on "bbc world news." rioting through the night in ferguson, missouri, after news that a white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager won't be prosecuted. violence worse than during the nights of unrest that followed the killing of michael brown in august. shops and businesses on fire. hundreds of police on the streets. >> you can't just go shoot an 18-year-old who's unarmed on the street, despite what the story
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may have been. he was unarmed. and you are an armed law enforcement officer who's been trained in combat. >> they don't trust you. they don't believe in you. >> police say hundreds of gunshots were heard as the protests spread to other u.s. cities, the president calls for calm, but says he understands why people are angry. >> the fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. also in the program, an australian cricketer is in a critical condition after a ball struck him on the head. we'll be asking what the risks are facing the world's fastest bowlers. also in the program, aaron's here, and sony suffers another hack attack. >> karin, this time an ominous skull appears on sony computers, as hackers threaten to reveal the company's top secrets. and this follows several other recent attacks on sony, so yes, we've got a hacker and we're going to ask him if the tech giant is doing enough to put its security affairs in order.
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hello. it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, 6:00 a.m. in the st. louis suburb of ferguson, where riots have erupted after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager. we're going to show you the pictures live coming into us from ferguson right now. those riots going on right through the night. it's still dark there, but dawn is approaching, and the streets seem to be deserted. all we can see there is police and emergency services activity. some of those buildings still on fire. a dozen or so raestaurants and businesses were set on fire in the violence that took place in the hours after the announcement of that grand jury decision. so the streets pretty quiet now
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after a very violent night. now, it all began in august when police officer darren wilson shot dead 18-year-old michael brown, and the case has inflamed racial tensions in the united states. president obama has joined brown's family in appealing for calm. >> reporter: things are incredibly tense here outside ferguson police station. you can see the police there. this is where a lot of protesters and activists gathered to hear that announcement. the crowd was silent around here as they listened to the announcement on a car radio. when they heard there was no indictment for the police officer who killed michael brown, there was chaos for a while, and then they did settle into a peaceful protest. one of the protesters here is with me, charles miller. charles, explain your reaction to what you've heard, that there is going to be no indictment for the police officer. >> i think a lot of people are upset. i am particularly very upset
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about it. you can't just go shoot an 18-year-old who's unarmed on the street, despite what the story may have been, he was unarmed and you are an armed law enforcement officer who's been trained in combat. so i think people are rightfully upset, and it's becoming somewhat ridiculous the way it's been dragged out. they would tell us at 4:00, then 6:00, then 8:00, then 8:15. it's been a long show with a very poor result. >> reporter: what do the coming days bring? that's what a lot of people are talking about. >> i think the next few days are going to be similar to this. i think they'll be peaceful for the most part, as you've seen tonight. there's a few bad eggs in the crowd, but that's just unfortunate. that happens with everything. the next few days will probably be like this because it's a grieving period. but i think after that is when we have an opportunity to really grow and change a lot of things and make sure his death didn't mean nothing. >> reporter: thank you very much, charles. as you heard there, a lot of activists like that one say that in spite of that announcement, they are going to keep up the fight, because they say now a discussion has begun on the issue as they see it of
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discrimination of police brutality against the african-american community across america. they're going to do whatever it takes to keep that discussion alive. >> the family of michael brown has reacted angrily to the news that darren wilson wouldn't be charged. his mother was surrounded by relatives and friends as the announcement was made. her son's death has reignited the debate in the united states about relationships between communities and the police. the bbc spent the evening at a local barbershop near the place where michael brown was shot dead back in august, and the employees there spoke of the simmering anger building up during the evening. then they gave their reactions as the announcement was made. this report does contain swearing, which we have bleeped out. >> i've been working here for five years. one time have taken my equipment home. and i'm doing it tonight. we've got college students, we got schools closed.
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these are all things that we're worried about because we have so many people out here with free time on their hands, talking about agitators and peaceful protesters, a bad mix. and now we're just really on the edge, waiting to see what happens. i can tell you for sure, 100%, if he's innocent, they're going to burn this city down, no doubt about it. >> authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. >> i've lost 80% of my clientele. i've made a thousand dollars in three months. this is horrible. i'm trying to find the money right now. my kids aren't going to have a good christmas right now.
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it's been hard for our family. >> they determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge -- >> man, [ bleep ] this! why not? going to burn this [ bleep ] city down. they're going to burn this [ bleep ] city down. they fixing to [ bleep ] this city up. it's over with. this is [ bleep ]. this is [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. i think it's [ bleep ]. i know what's going to happen already. and now look what we're going to have to deal with.
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they're going to burn this city down tonight. i'm pissed. i'm angry. i ain't gonna do it, but i feel like i wanna do it. you know what i'm saying? we knew what was going to happen the day he got shot. we knew what was going to happen. this is [ bleep ]. man. >> everybody gotta go! just to update you on what's going on in ferguson right now, we're learning that 61 people have been arrested in that unrest that came after the grand jury decision. you saw the reaction there in that barbershop. those figures coming from st. louis county. 61 people arrested so far in that unrest. president obama has appealed for calm on the streets of ferguson. but he also acknowledged the work needed to repair the reputation of the police forces across the country.
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>> we need to recognize that the situation in ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. the fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. >> let's talk to our correspondent david willis, who is in washington. david, we saw the anger there in that barbershop. one snapshot of what's being said after this decision. how does president obama make that balance between condemning violence and acknowledging people's rage? >> that's a good question, karin. there is bound to be some soul searching in the building just behind me today in the lying of what's happened. not just in ferguson, but the protests that we've seen overnight across the country, in cities like chicago, seattle, los angeles, where there is clearly tension between african-american communities and the police.
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president obama as well as appealing for calm making that point, saying that ferguson speaks to the broader challenges that we face as nation and too many parts of this country, there is a deep distrust, as he put it, between law enforcement and communities of color. so quite clearly, there is work to be done, and the next move really rests with the president. we'll wait and see what happens. i'm sure his response may well be tempered by what happens next in ferguson, and those other city that i mentioned, whether there is further rioting and protests. >> and in practical terms, what's being done to try to minimize the damage done by any outbreaks of violence? we heard about the national guard being deployed. some criticism that that was too late. >> yes. although they were, by all accounts, kept largely in the shadows. i think what we have here is a situation where this was
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predicted. it wasn't thought to be perhaps as large as it actually turned out to be in protest terms, but nonetheless, this had been anticipated, so much so that we had this sort of surreal juxtaposition here on cable tv where the president, just as he took to the white house to speak, the screen was split and we saw those first missiles being thrown. even as he was appealing for calm, the streets of ferguson were descending into chaos. so they had been expecting this. i just didn't think they expected it quite with the ferocity that we saw last night on the streets of ferguson. >> okay. david, thank you very much. david willis there in washington. now, you can get much more on the whole situation and the ramifications of that decision on our website, including a page of live pictures and updates
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from our correspondents who are on the ground there, and eyewitnesss. that is at bbc.com/news. got some breaking news for you from nigeria, because two females are suspected of a double suicide bombing at a market in the northeast of the country. at least 30 people have been killed, according to those reports. witnesses say there were two explosions. the second going off while people were helping others injured in the first blast. so 30 people, at least 30 people killed in a double suicide bombing in the north of nigeria. let's bring you some news from around the world. a parliamentary report here in britain has said that the murder of a soldier outside his barracks in london could not have been prevented, although his killers were being investigated by three intelligence agencies. lee rigby died lastier after two
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muslim extremists drove a car into him before hacking him to death. hong kong police have arrested at least 30 people as demonstrators gather at a pro-democracy protest site. the workers removed barricades in the district of mong kok. the activists have been on the streets for months demanding a free choice of leader in the election there in 2017. area workers in sierra leone have gone on strike in protests at not being paid their allowances for handling the victims of ebola. they say they haven't been paid the risk allowances for october or november. 15 bodies, most of them prepared for burial, were left abeen dan at the city's main hospital. stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come, how does traditional thai food measure up when it comes up scrutiny from a computer?
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it's known as a graceful game of patience and precision, but in the last few hours, we've suddenly been reminded that there is an ugly side to cricket. the australian batsman phil hughes is in a critical condition after he was struck on the head by a ball during a match at the sydney cricket grounds. the 25-year-old batsman collapsed after the delivery from fast bowler shawn abbott. with me, our sports correspondent joe wilson. first of all, just tell us what happened to phil hughes and how is he? >> well, how is he, he remains in a stable, but critical condition. he was put into a medically induced coma and we're not expecting any real updates until i guess people wake up in australia. one good thing you can say from his point of view is that this accident, however shocking, however serious, did happen at
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one of world cricket's major grounds, with first class medical operations there to treat him. i think he was ventilated on the scene, and then taken to a hospital. so that's something i think cricket is clinging to. how did it happen? in a way, it was just a routine delivery from a fast bowler, deliberately aiming towards his head, his throat, but that's a legitimate tactic. nothing hugely wrong with that. hughes seemed to take evasive action at the last minute. he's known as an aggressive batsman. what we think is the ball hit him, but on the back, low down on his head. in that scenario, the helmet that he was wearing may not have actually afforded him any protection whatsoever. >> right. so the helmet was there. however, this could have just got the edge of that helmet and actually made contact with his head. >> yeah. >> and in terms of how fast these balls that are coming at a batsman, what sort of speeds are we talking about? >> he's not an internationaler cricketer. remember, this is a sheffield
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shield match, but just below international standard. i was thinking miles per hour, i'm afraid, maybe 80, 85. the top bowlers might be hitting towards 90. but those speeds have been around for a long time. the most infamous example of aggressive fast bowling was england and australia in the early 1930s. the likes of lillian thompson. this is late '70s, mid '80s. batsman like phil hughes have grown up always wearing a helmet. back in the late '70s, batsmen department sometimes. if you're not wearing a helmet, your first instinct is to evade the ball. someone like phil hughes, their first instant is to attack it. some people in cricket think that maybe batsmen have grown up feeling like they're invincible when they're not. >> we're talking about 130, 140 kilometers per hour. >> yes, 140 is good, very quick. >> looking at all the reaction that there's been since this terrible event, one sports
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journalist has written a reminder that batsmen actually take their life into their hands when they walk to the middle. >> sure. i think of it as a shocking sense of perspective. this was a routine moment in a high quality cricket match, but it could have happened to anybody any time. it's almost a sense of an accident waiting to happen. and we've seen batsmen certainly in the english season that's just gone in the summer get struck by a ball. the ball maybe going through the grill between the grill and the lid of the helmet. we just have never seen a player of this profile being injured so seriously. and that just puts everything into perspective. and there is just this earnest outpouring of good will and desperate hope for his recovery across cricket. >> thank you very much. joe wilson. at least 15 people have been killed in egypt, several more injured after an eight-story building collapsed in a suburb in cairo. neighbors say that some floors
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were illegally built on to the old building. the bbc's cairo correspondent has been to the scene. >> reporter: the digging is continuing here, heavy equipment is in use, and we've also seen rescue workers searching with their bare hands, but hopes of finding any remaining survivors beneath the rubble have faded. local residents say the building came down overnight in a matter of seconds, killing the residents as they slept. this is a recurring nightmare in egypt. buildings collapse on average every few months. they blame lack of oversight on unauthorized construction. local residents tell me that this building was original three stories high. they say it was built with wooden supports rather than concrete, and then two more floors were added, bringing the level up to five floors, and then two further floors. so it became a seven-story structure. they say that the residents were
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given notice to quick at one stage, but no one left because they had nowhere to go. and locals are now asking if anybody will be held to account for this tragedy. now, pope francis has warned against allowing the mediterranean to become a fast graveyard for migrants traveling by boat from north africa. he was speaking to the european parliament in strasburg, and he made a wide-ranging speech there. he called on european leaders to promote policies that create jobs and accept immigrants. >> translator: the boats landing daily on europe's shores are filled with men and women who need acceptance and assistance. the absence of mutual support within the european union runs the risk of encouraging particularistic solutions to this problem. solutions which don't take into account the human dignity of the
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migrants, and thus contribute to slave labor and continuing social tensions. europe will be able to confront the problems associated with immigration, only if it is capable of clearly asserting its own cultural identity and enacting proper legislation that protects at the same time the rights of european citizens and ensures the acceptance of immigrants. >> pope francis. now, do you ever travel somewhere and worry that as a visitor you might not be getting most authentic local dining experience? maybe we can help. a group of scientists in bangkok have invented a machine to try to determine whether thai food tastes authentic. the e-delicious machine contains censors which act as an electronic tongue and nose. jonathan head went to put it to the test. >> reporter: so you've arrived
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in bangkok. one of the highlights of your stay is surely going to be thai food. but there are thousands of restaurants and other eating establishments to choose from just in this city. how will you know if they're any good? how do you even know if the food you're given is authentically thai? this could be one of the best places to start. jay has been called the mozart of the wok. her cooking is often praised as some of the finest in the city. >> translator: i learned this from the old women when i was a girl. in those days, you took time, did everything by hand. today's cooking lacks a proper taste and fragrance. >> reporter: this is her signature dish, the classic sour thai soup, cooked quickly on a ferocious fire. herbs and spices flung in almost
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instinctively. it's a dish you can find all over the world, but usually rather poor imitations. now that is supposed to be the finest you can get anywhere in bangkok. it's very sour, very spicy, intense flavors. the question is, can it pass the thai taste robot test? we, yes, a tasting robot. this box of censors and processors can detect whether a dish has the right balance of aromas and flavors. >> translator: what we want is to establish a proper standard for thai food. the taste you get overseas often isn't a true taste, and we want people to know the true taste. >> reporter: we gave it a sample of jay's powerful soup, but
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would it pass? >> 90%. >> reporter: is that good? >> yes, it's good. >> ror this was the best score any of the soup has got until now, so the taste robot does seem to know a thing or two about good food. but then who is to say what is the right standard for thai cooking? this is pad thai, one of the country's most popular dishes. yet, it was invented just 70 years ago and already comes in many delicious variations. no robot can hope to impose uniformity on this messy, creative process. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. >> and that report has made all of us on the "gmt" team very hungry. now, coming up in the next half-hour here on "gmt," much more from ferguson, where the protests erupted overnight after the news that a grand jury
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i'm karin giannone. riots in ferguson, missouri, after news that a white police officer will not be prosecuted for shooting dead a black teenager. anger on the streets after that grand jury decision. the president has called for calm. and this ode to vladimir putin of all people has gone viral on social media.
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we will meet the man who made it. aaron is back and it is a case of spot the difference. >> a case of copycat in china. this is priced at $60,000. but hang on, what is this? this is the chinese lookalike at a fraction of the price, just $22,000. no wonder landrover are furious at this rip-off. stay tuned, because we've got more on this very fascinating battle in the world's largest car market. welcome back to "gmt." let's take you back to ferguson, 6:30 in the morning there. the national guard still on alert after a night of rioting. the protests erupted after news that the grand jury decided not to charge police officer darren
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wilson. here's a closer look at events over the last 12 hours. >> we determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against officer wilson. >> they never did care about us. >> i join michael's parents in asking anyone who protests this decision to do so peacefully. >> you can't just go shoot an 18-year-old on the street, despite what the story may have been. >> stop trying to turn over the
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police vehicle immediately. >> what i've seen tonight is probably much worse than the worst night we ever had in august. and that's truly unfortunate. >> just after 6:30 in the morning in ferguson, missouri. let's go there live and speak to abc correspondent alex perez. we can see some of that danger just behind you. just take us through how that unfolded overnight. >> reporter: sure. the sun just rising here.
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as you might imagine, we're getting our first look at some of the damage was like. you can see some of this damage. this is what used to be a strip mall here, a group of stores. it was one of many buildings that was ignited by protesters overnight. this building here, the end of it there, you can see completely destroyed. might be able to tell the store front there, the windows completely shattered. so this is just one glimpse of what many parts of ferguson look like. this is what a lot of people here are waking up to. authorities, as you heard, are saying these were some of the worst protests they have seen here since this entire ordeal began in august. so today, a big part of the situation here will be assessing the damage and figuring out just exactly how much happened here, how much damage happened here overnight. >> what might we be expecting later? what are the authorities preparing themselves for? >> reporter: many of the protesters, demonstrators that we spoke with say they plan to continue demonstrating and
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continue protesting. so that is the big fear here. a lot of authorities are concerned that this could become a daily event, that every night you will see protesters and demonstrators. so there are more than an addition of 1,000 police officers on the ground here, and that will be in place for the next several days here, as far as we know. so authorities are keeping their eyes on the demonstrations and the protesters. they say they want to allow people to demonstrate, which is their right, but they wanted to amazing sure things remain peaceful, and last night they were far from peaceful. >> alex, thanks very much. that's alex perez from abc there in ferguson, missouri. now, we are going to take you actually live to missouri. we've got the mayor of st. louis speaking now, a live news conference. let's listen in. >> what that violence does, is it not only puts a black eye on our community, but it really sets back the cause of social justice.
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violence doesn't solve anything. and if we're going to have real change in this community, it's going to take all of us working together and not committing violence. what happened in st. louis city largely peaceful protesting, but there was some violence as well. as you can see, walking up and down the street, a number of windows were broken. we had about 21 windows broken here, about seven windows broken in other places in the city of st. louis. there were 21 arrests. six city violations as well as about 15 felony violations. the chief's going to talk a little bit more about that. i will tell you that, you know, here on grand avenue, this is a very good community of a lot of people who care deeply about our city, who are investing in their community. they are working hard to really bring back this area of the city. they don't deserve it. people of our community do not deserve even this kind of
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violence that occurred in the city of st. louis. i will tell you that, you know, we're going to be prepared for this evening as well. and i'll turn it over to the chief to let him give his thoughts about what happened, what we're planning on doing as we go forward. >> good morning. as the mayor said last night, i couldn't have been more proud of the police officers that responded to this. they were able to address the issues that were presented to them. we worked well with the organized groups to facilitate their marches up and down grand. but at some point, individuals, criminals began to break windows along this corridor, began to act in a way that none of us really like to see in our city. none of us want to see in our city. and at that point, we gave an order to disperse. we asked individuals to leave the area. many of them did, but those that didn't continued to break windows along this corridor. 21 windows smashed. we had felony arrests for unlawful use of a weapon,
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possession of firearms. so protesters brought guns to the environment. again, i couldn't be more proud of the officers. the plan that we had with the national guard to deploy them throughout the city at about 45 locations i believe did have a positive impact. we did see bands of individuals looking for an opportunity to commit crime and at every turn they encountered police officers or members of the national guard, so i was very pleased with the way that plan worked. so as we move forward, we're going to continue to see the presence of the police department at organized events just as we have seen, but you're going to see more of them, and very early on, because we know what's capable of happening in these crowds now, very early on, you will see an intervention when we see criminal activity. we do not tolerate criminal activity. we do not tolerate window smashings, looting, crime associated with these. so while we support everybody's right to come out and have their voices heard, you will see a large police presence, and when crime starts, you'll see an intervention much more quickly than we did last night.
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>> were you disappointed the rules of contact didn't hold better? >> here's what i will tell you. first of all, i'm disappointed in any and all violence that occurred. as the chief says, we don't tolerate violence. the people that were committing violence, the people that were looting and smashing windows, that's not protesting. that's criminal conduct. and it's even more than disappointed. i'm outraged by it and it's something -- as the chief says, we are not going to tolerate. i'll also say this. i will also echo what the chief said about the men and women of the st. louis police department. i'm very proud of them. they did a great job last night dealing with large crowds and a lot of activity going on once at different locations. they were professional. they handled themselves with restraint. and again, we learned -- we're learning as we go forward as well. we learned since august 9th on how to do things better, but also, we learned i think last night some things we can do to
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help prepare us even better for tonight as well. >> can you talk to us about the shutdown of i-44 and why that was allowed to happen for so long? >> really, it wasn't allowed to happen for so long. it takes time to stage resources to make sure that you can arrest people in a safe, effective way, to make sure that the officers are protected, the demonstrators are protected. so while it may have seemed like a long time, our effort was to make sure that nobody was hurt. our first goal was to shut down the highway, stabilize the situation and make the arrest. but it is interesting to note that while the majority of the protesters were at that end of the avenue, the first window breakings, smashings were happening at this window. criminals were taking advantage and starting to take advantage. so we'll have more resources deployed to this corridor tonight, to make sure if the groups do divide, we have the resources to handle that. >> chief of police there giving
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a live news conference with francis slay, mayor of st. louis. they are anticipating more of the same of what we've seen the last 12 hours, and the police chief there saying that you will see more police on the streets, a bigger police presence earlier intervention than happened last night. much more quickly than they were acting or intervening in situation, and saying we do not tolerate violence. but we will have more on this on "bbc world news." there is a lot more on our website, including a timeline of the events. all started on the day michael brown was shot in august. bbc.com/news. let's turn to the business news with aaron, and another cyber attack on sony. >> yeah. some may say poor old sony. look, big shutdown today. a lot of layers basically at sony. we only saw august a few months ago, they had to shut down their
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play station system because of another cyber attack. let me explain. thanks, karin. hello there. a group calling themselves the guardians of peace, gop have attacked sony entertainment. it follows that cyber attack in august for sew -- forced sony's system offline. a skull threatened to reveal sony's secrets, its top secrets, if the demands were not met. a spokesperson said only they are investigating an i.t. matter, and the company has certainly been struggling financially in both its tv and mobile businesses, the last thing it needed. let's get more. robert was one of the world's first computer hackers. he's now a security expert at the university in brighton. great to have you with us. this attack -- let's start with that. it seems to have managed to get through to several layers to the point of accessing all sorts of -- so they claim, all sorts of information, top secrets.
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do we know anything about this? do we know snthem? >> i don't know of them. they call themselves guard yans of peace. we've had anonymous and so on. we don't know who they are.ians of peace. we've had anonymous and so on. we don't know who they are. they haven't quite announced what they're going to do next. but it's a major attack on sony. as you say, they lost 100 million play station network accounts earlier this year. there were other attacks on sony last year. now they've got into sony's corporate network. they've released a batch of files on to about half dozen different websites, so it's interesting how long they've taken on this attack to hack these other websites on which to release the stolen data. and now we've got confidential contracts, salary information, an awful lot of stuff. because this information clearly belonged to more than one person, they haven't just hacked one sony employee's account. they've hacked some sort of administrator account or system manager and that's obviously even more serious. >> and the term has been used
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blackmail. why? why do groups do it? or why this particular tack, do you think? >> it's pretty obvious that they haven't gone down the road this way, or if they did, they certainly didn't give sony an awful lot of time to actually react to the threat and pay up, or whatever they wanted to do. pretty much as soon as the hack became public knowledge, the information was then released, which is not very good blackmail, if you ask me. somebody clearly has a grudge against sony, or at least more than one hacker group does. they want to release this information. there has been unhappiness in the past with sony and the way they protect the copyright affair of their data, the way it's very difficult to copy games. and the hackers and the pirates and so on don't like that. it could be that sort of thing. but whatever you do in terms of protecting your games, it's absolutely vital that you take just as much precautions and take just as much care to protect your corporate data on your network, and that means encryption and so on. but if they had encryption, they could have the peace of mind to say yeah, we lost these
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confidential files, it doesn't matter. clearly these weren't scrambled, but it does matter indeed. >> because we've seen attack after attack on sony, as a former hacker, does sony to do to do a lot more to get its security affairs in order? >> what makes things happen, companies put out press releases saying we take security very seriously. we're going to have inquire ris a -- inquiries. >> maybe this will awaken them. great stuff from you. we appreciate your time. thank you very much. okay, let's switch gears altogether. look, can you tell the difference? we've got this one here. this is jaguar, land rover's latest model, the land rover evoc. this one looks the same. this is china's lands winds x 7 launched in china last week. take a look. the copycat model, that one there costs $22,000, versus more
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than $60,000 for the real thing. and of course, this has caused a furious response from jaguar land rover's chief executive, who called the copying -- he called it disappointing and is planning the launch a formal complaint. here's the problem, china is land rover jaguar's biggest rival and they are investing heavily in production in china. keep those in mind. let's go to our business correspondent theo legget. great to have you, mate. seriously, if you walked into -- if you took the badges off, walked into a showroom, you'd probably think you were buying a land rover evoc, but this is not the first time we're seeing similar-looking models in china, right? >> no, it's not. not at all. if you went to china and you were out looking at cars, you could probably find something that looked very similar to a bmw mini, an audi a6, a jeep cherokee, even something that was almost identical to a
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rolls-royce. this sort of thing has been going on for years, and western car makers are very irritated by it. also some chinese manufacturers are quite irritated by it as well because their designs get copied. the thing is, if you look under the skin of these cars, they're very different. so western automotive magazine has had a look at the land wind x 7 and compared it directly to the range rover evoke and said that the build is very different. it's not nearly as good. that kind of thing. it's a fair bet that in many of these cases, the safety standards aren't very good. land wind did try to market a car in europe and had to withdraw it because it failed safety tests or performed very poorly. although they may look like twins, under the skin they're not and that could be potentially very damaging for a company like jaguar land rover. >> yeah. and that former land wind model, i think it only got two stars
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out of five for that european crash test. but looking at the legal standing for issues like this copying the design of cars. i found that there's no international copyright law. instead, what they call international agreements. is that right? >> that's absolutely right. in fact, it boils down to china being willing to take action against chinese companies. now, in the past, western manufacturers have found it very difficult to enforce any sort of copyright, partly because it's up to them to prove that the design as a whole has been copied, and if you look at these two cars, they're visually very, very similar if not identical, but underneath the surface, they're not. so proving that one is a design copy of the other is actually quite difficult. that said, the chinese authorities have been taking a stronger line towards intellectual property infringement, not just when it comes to cars, but in all sorts of areas of commerce over the past few years because they've been under a lot of diplomatic pressure to do so. and in this case, jaguar land rover has a partner in china
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with whom it's opened a factory to build the range rover evoke. the chances are they went be too happy about this design being copied either. so what the ceo of jaguar land rover has been saying is that he's going to lobby and talk to his chinese partners in an attempt to get this solved. >> right. i know you'll keep across that, so it will be curious to see how far they can get. great stuff, mate. we'll talk to you soon. do you want a land win? you can follow me. @bbcaaron. phones, and now cars. >> but just on the outside. underneath it's different. you get what you pay for. >> you get with a you pay for. there you go, karin. >> aaron, thank you. stay with us here on "bbc world news." coming up -- ♪ believe it or not, it's the russian president vladimir putin
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a little update on the breaking news we brought you earlier. two suicide bombers have blown themselves up, killing according to reports at least ten people. other reports saying up to 45 people in northern nigeria, and four witnesses are telling reuters that a woman entered the roadside trading area, blew herself up, and that was followed by another suicide bomber, once people had gone to the scene to help. so at least ten people killed. but possibly as many as 45 in that double suicide bombing.
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the bbc trending team has been speaking to the two african rappers in russia behind the song "go hard like vladimir putin." it's been viewed over a million times. many russians are uploading their own versions to social media. groups say although racial violence has decreased, it's still a part of everyday life. but the two emcees of the past say that's a thing of the past and vladimir putin is a role model. ♪ go hard like vladimir putin i go hard like vladimir putin ♪ ♪ go hard like vladimir putin i go hard like vladimir putin ♪ ♪ go hard like vladimir putin i go hard like vladimir putin ♪ ♪ go hard like vladimir putin vladimir putin ♪ ♪ vladimir putin vladimir putin ♪ ♪ i go hard like vladimir putin go hard like vladimir putin ♪
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>> the message of the song is supposed to be uplifting. the only person we could actually think about who's actually going hard in life was vladimir putin. >> and of course, we live in russia. that's the person we see the most. we don't go hard like david cameron because i don't live in england. >> vladimir putin. >> i personally like the guy. most presidents are puppets. and you see that most presidents are forced into things by the west even if he doesn't want to do that. true, he does sport. he does judo. just the way he holds himself, with his team behind him, is manly. >> a number of attacks has gone down. the peak was in 2007 to 2008 for physical violence, and so we are seeing less people being jumped by gngs of youth or people being
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attacked by skinheads. we are still seeing violence, but nowhere near what it used to be. >> i used to get attacked, we used to fight with skin heads in 2000, 2001, 2002. but after that period, 2004, basically things quieted down. ♪ vladimir putin vladimir putin ♪ >> if an african asked me about their safety at a concert, where a few hip-hop artists perform, i would tell them to be careful and i would tell them not to go alone and be very careful leaving after this event took place. >> we've been through 11 cities and right now i'm doing an interview. you know what i'm saying. so people are entitled to their own opinion. but we've been through 11 cities and no squabbles, no fights, no nothing. >> vladimir putin. >> as you can see, we're black
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