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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lewis vaughan jones. australia's prime minister says a major cyber attack is taking place targeting government institutions. president trump's attempt to make it easier to deport young immigrants fails in the supreme court. the news is welcomed by the so—called dreamers, those who came to the us as children. i have cried, i think, many more times in the past four years than in my whole life. the uk government gives up on its own coronavirus tracing app, switching to use technology from apple and google. and fears grow for the safety of thousands of rohingya muslim refugees stranded at sea.
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first, we begin with some breaking news. the australian prime minister scott morrison says major cyber attacks are taking place targeting government institutions and agencies involved in the country's critical infrastructure. he's just been holding a news conference. and we hope to speak to our correspondence to bring us up—to—date but first they want to renew a couple more details from that press conference. he has not said who is carrying out this cyber attack but saying it is a sophisticated state—based actor, so a country but declined to name any
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specific country, said the cyber attack itself is affecting all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers, and operators of other critical infrastructure. soa other critical infrastructure. so a major cyber attack taking place across a wide range of institutions there in australia and as we get more details of that cyber attack we will bring it to you here on abc world news. —— bbc world news. in the us, the supreme court has ruled against the trump administration. at the heart of the case is the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the united states illegally as children, and who want to regularise their status. they're known as the ‘dreamers‘. president obama protected them from deportation through something called daca, or deferred action for childhood arrivals. president trump wanted to get rid of that. but the supreme court ruled 5—4 against him. here's nada tawfik. say it loud, say it clear!
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immigrants are welcome here! news at the supreme court's ruling was a ray of light to dreamers living with the bleak prospect of deportation from the only home they've ever known. after years of legal battles, the nation's highest court rejected president trump's attempt to end daca protections for about 700,000 young undocumented immigrants. chiefjustice john roberts joined the court's four more liberal members and wrote in the majority opinion that the administration's move was unlawful because it was arbitrary and capricious. jose martinez, a dreamer from california, says the years of uncertainty were traumatising. i have cried, i think, many more times in the past four years than in my whole life. i will immediately terminate president obama's illegal executive order on immigration. this is a major blow to president trump's hard—line immigration policy that he made
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central to his 2016 campaign. on twitter, he called the decision "horrible and politically—charged." but democrats, including congressional leaders, rejoiced. i cried tears ofjoy when i heard the decision. these wonderful daca kids and theirfamilies have a huge burden lifted off their shoulders, and now they can just work and live and become americans, as they want, and i am confident they will become american citizens someday soon. joe biden said if elected president, he would work to make daca permanent by sending a bill to congress on his first day in office. and president obama expressed the need for leaders willing to fight for immigrants. the court's ruling means officials will have to provide a more robust reason if it wishes to end the programme. it's not yet clear how the administration will respond, given several recent court defeats. so what we've seen over the last two weeks is a time change that could be
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potentially disastrous for the trump administration, and this just months away from the presidential election. you've got the ruling on lgbtq, you've got the daca decision, you've got a ruling on sanctuary powers in california. daca has broad bipartisan support. despite that though, the programme's future remains uncertain. the supreme court decision is just one victory for dreamers hoping to one day be recognised as american citizens. nada tawfik, bbc news. for more on this, i'm joined from san diego in california by saman nasseri. he's an immigration lawyer with hundreds of clients who are likely to benefit from today's supreme court ruling. thanks for being with us. hi, how are you? very well, thank you. this is obviously a good day for you, good day for your clients. are you surprised by the ruling? i was a little bit
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shocked, it was one of those rulings where you plan for the worst and hope for the best but we are very happy with this outcome. just give us a reminder, who are the people who are really caught up in the middle of this? the 800,000 dreamers, the people who have the approved applications and not just of them the approved applications and notjust of them but the approved applications and not just of them but their families, their parents that depend on them, their spouses, their children, and the employment industry who wrote on behalf of the darko recipients saying that they need these individuals in the workforce, so this has huge ramifications beyond just immigration. where does it leave them now in terms of their status? their status as, daca is not technically considered status, itjust means their status as deferred, immigration is not going to
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ta ke immigration is not going to take any action against them for being here illegally but the people who are here with daca are able to continue working, able to renew and we are yet to see what us cas is yet to put out for people who are yet to apply for daca and hopefully they will be able to apply for an hour. what needs to happen next on behalf of your clients? congress needs to put something in place that protect them moving forward so that no president or anybody can't come in and just revoke this opportunity they have, so congress now needs to act and put into law something that either mirrors daca or make daca a hard light. what you think the chances are of that happening? i think now that the supreme court has come back saying that the reasons that the trump administration put forward i'm not going to be good enough to try to get rid of daca, i think congress is going to have to work a little
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bit harder because this is something that is approved by most republicans, democrats, and independents. this sounds like a partisan issue but really, all sides have come together and really no—one has that much to say against daca except people on the far—right. interesting. well, thank you very much for talking us through that issue. facebook has removed adverts for us president, donald trump's re—election campaign, which it says featured a symbol used in nazi germany. facebook‘s head of security policy said the social network doesn't "allow symbols that represent hateful organisations or hateful ideologies unless they're put up with context or condemnation." take a listen. we, obviously, we want to be careful to allow a dissemble. we don't see either of those. we don't allow it at the platform. that's what we saw with this
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ad, and anywhere that symbol is used, we would take the same action. we will be consistent in enforcing, either our systems identifies those symbols and as you'd expect, when we identify something like this, we look for other instances where it might appear so we can find and remove it automatically, and also if there's something we missed because we certainly aren't perfect, we would take action there as well. let's get some of the day's other news. the brazilian president, jair bolsonaro, has attempted to distance himself from the arrest of a former aide to his son, flavio. fabricio kay rosh was arrested outside the home of a bolsonaro family lawyer. he's suspected of being part of a scheme to embezzle the salaries of phantom employees in the rio state assembly. flavio bolsonaro denies any wrongdoing. kenya has become a non—permenant member of the united nations security council.
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it joins norway, ireland, india and mexico, serving a two—year term. canada lost out despite an expensive campaign. justin trudeau had invested heavily, including inviting diplomats to a celine dion concert in new york. there's been a major change in the uk government's approach to tracing people with coronavirus, using a smartphone app, after it failed to get up and running last month. ministers have now decided that the app, which has been trialled on the isle of wight, is now going to use technology provided by apple and google. but there's still no date for its full operation, as our health editor hugh pym reports. all eyes were on the isle of wight for the trial of a smartphone app. it was set to go live across england in may to help trace people who'd been in contact with those who'd tested positive for coronavirus. there was even an official publicity video.
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the nhs covid—19 app lets you know quickly if you've come into contact with someone who has symptoms. but technical issues were revealed in the trial. it proved not to be effective on all devices. a parallel trial with an app provided by apple and google was being carried out elsewhere. now the nhs will work with the companies to develop a new design, using data gathered from both projects. you had said that the smartphone app would play a central role in testing and tracing. it's now been delayed. when do you think the app will be involved in identifying and tracing contacts? we are working on it, is the answer. we're not going to put a date on it, i'm afraid, because i'm absolutely determined that whilst this technology can help, it's got to be working effectively. very different from what was said to isle of wight residents last month. i have a simple message — please download the app to protect the nhs and save lives.
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it now won't be launched till the autumn at the earliest, perhaps only for booking tests and reporting symptoms, and possibly never for full contact tracing. the focus now will be on human tracing. if someone tests positive, they'll get an e—mail or phone call asking for details of people they've recently met up with. since it was launched in england in late may, details of more than 14,000 people who tested positive were put into the system. of those, around 10,200 were reached and asked to provide contacts — just under three—quarters of the total. as lockdown has eased, the amount of calls i've seen over the last few days have increased, in terms of the amount of contacts that they're giving me. so, for example, previously they might have only had three or four people that they've actually been in close contact with. that's now doubled to maybe seven or eight. but some others who have to follow up the contacts and wish to remain anonymous say they've had little to do.
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i went live on the 30th of may. in that time, i have dialled two numbers, and they were both no answer. i've had no other calls since then. you've been identified as a close contact of someone who has covid—19... in scotland, more than 1,200 contacts were traced between late may and mid—june. as in england, this will be the way forward for now, rather than with smartphone technology. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: britain's iconic wartime singer dame vera lynn, known as the forces' sweetheart, has died. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge
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explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for 40 years, forcibly classified each citizen according to race. just a day old, and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. early this evening, the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat of government from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into the night, but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. the real focus of attention today was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. this is bbc news.
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iam i am there was forjones. —— lewis vaughan jones. 0ur breaking news this hour: australia's prime minister says a major cyberattack is taking place, targeting government institutions. and the us supreme court rules president trump's bid to end protection for so—called dreamer immigrants is unlawful. let's return to our breaking news. hundreds of rohingya muslim refugees are currently stranded on boats in the andaman sea. they're fleeing religious persecution in myanmar and are hoping to reach safety in malaysia and thailand. tens of thousands regularly cross over the land border to neighbouring bangladesh, but some take the sea route out of the country, which is operated by human traffickers. to find out what can be done, let's talk to the man in charge of the un's refugee agency in asia, indrika ratwatte. hejoins me now from bangkok. thank you very much for being with us. thank you for having
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me. eight through this extraordinary situation for people coming to this for the first time. there are thousands of people essentially stuck on boats in the sea right now? indeed. we have had so far this year alone about 1600 refugees who, fortunately, have been disembarked, primarily by bangladesh and malaysia, but we see an increasing reluctance of states to do this, fear being a factor. we feel disembarkation isa factor. we feel disembarkation is a life—saving humanitarian act and this is of grave concern, particularly in light of the monsoon season coming up and the potential loss of life of these boats out at sea at the moment. what are the countries' justification than, for not getting involved?” think one issue that persistently comes up is the
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fear that if these boats are allowed, we will have more and that will be able factor. the second is —— pull factor, and covid—19, that refugees may be a vector of the virus and this would be a public health. both of these issues can be addressed by ensuring that responsible disembark asian is coupled with quarantine and public safety —— disembarkation, and making a concerted effort to bring more states into this equation of action, because it is not one single state but all of the states that have to come together to share this responsibility. and on that point, we reached out to the thai government, who did respond saying their authorities are in full alert of the situation and they stand ready to provide monitoring assistance as necessary, bearing in mind the need to ensure compliance with measures to curb covid—19. you look
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about that regional cooperation needed there. how optimistic, how confident are you that that will actually take place? two challenges. i think my main challenges. i think my main challenge is also unfortunately the stigmatisation we are seeing with covid—19, and the fear with misinformation and social media that refugees are indeed a threat and covid—19 vectors. i think a concerted effort has to be undertaken to correct this and say disembarkation and public health are not mutually exclusive, as we have done with the bangladesh government in a recent disembarkation was that refugees were allowed to disembark, and after quarantine they were allowed to go back to they were allowed to go back to the camp stopped and the second is having really concerted political willingness amongst the states to take action and come together to address this asa come together to address this as a collective issue, and the international community to play its role in supporting these countries in sharing the
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burden. but much more work has to be done. action has been delayed so far and in action in this context would be fatal. 0k. indrika ratwatte, thank you very much for speaking to us. thank you. let's return to our breaking news. the australian prime minister scott morrison says major cyber attacks are taking place targeting government institutions and agencies involved in the country's critical infrastructure. he's just been holding a news conference. let's get more from our correspondent phil mercer in sydney. what more do we know about this? well, the prime minister, scott morrison, giving a fairly lengthy press conference about these cyberattacks but a p pa re ntly these cyberattacks but apparently stretched back many months. —— that apparently stretched back. not giving details on who he thinks may be responsible, he was asked in the press conference if he thought china, his relationship
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with australia has been fairly testy in recent times, could have been responsible. in response, the prime minister, mr morrison, saying there are many other state—based actors, what he means there is foreign governments and other foreign institutions you have the capabilities to carry out these sort of attacks, that as we say, have been going back many, many months targeting of levels of australian government, political parties and also the health and education sectors as well as the business community as well. so, the prime minister speaking out today, in his words, to raise awareness of what he says has been an intensification of cyberattacks in recent times. and what about people's personal data? according to the prime minister there has been no large—scale breaches of personal information. the prime minister also sang a lot of money has been spent in recent years
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trying to beef up australia's cybersecurity. but he did say these attacks were malicious and ongoing. and he also said he wasn't surprised. he said this is the world in which we live and australia like many other nations had to be wary and confront this threat. he did say he has spoken to his international allies, including the british prime minister, borisjohnson. the british prime minister, boris johnson. 0k, the british prime minister, boris johnson. ok, thanks, phil mercer. the coronavirus outbreak started in the chinese city of wuhan, it was then put under lockdown for 76 days. at the beginning of april, china claimed victory in this phase of war against covid—19 and the city re—opened. two months on, our reporter vincent ni looks at how wuhan has emerged from lockdown. life in wuhan is slowly returning to normal.
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but temporary barricades sneak through the streets to cajole the entry and exit of people in neighbourhoods. many small businesses are on the ground floor for essential buildings, so they have to operate behind fences. this woman and her mother have been selling ceremonial items for funerals and weddings for nearly ten years. to make ends meet, they set up a temporary grocery store outside the fences. but very quickly, they are stopped by the urban management police.
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next to the shop, another business is booming. since the lockdown was lifted, the demand for food delivery has risen sharply. a month after the lockdown was lifted, new positive cases were detected in wuhan. the government then launched what it called a 10—day battle to test all residents. just under 10 million residents were tested and 300 a asymptomatic cases were found. barricades are slowly disappearing in wuhan.
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customers are coming back into the shop. since the start of the outbreak, thousands of people have died in wuhan. the city was locked down for 76 days. two months on, it is beginning to recover, but the scars will take a long time to heal. vincent ni, bbc news. in our detectives —— an art detective says he has proof of life photos of a missing vincent van gogh painting. arthur brown, the detective, hasn't explained how he has received the images. dame vera lynn, one of the most popular british entertainers of the past century has died at the age of 103. the singer known was
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the forces' sweetheart throughout the second world war was enormously popular among the armed forces. # will meet again, don't know where, don't know when... # but i'll know we'll meet again some sunny day. # keep smiling through, just like you always do, till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away. # we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but i know we'll meet again some
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sunny day... hello there stop the radar picture on thursday shows just how wet it was across england and wales, the heaviest rain working into southern waqles, where we picked up 15 millimetres of rain —— in wales, where we picked a 50 millimetres of rain. this is the waterspout, you can see the spray being whipped up off the sea there. so we had all kinds of weather around on thursday and that area of low pressure remains with us over the next two hours. we have more rain to come, wales, the rain moving back into central and southern england in the south—west
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midlands. wet weather moves across northern ireland and there will be some rent—free time in northern england and southern scotland as well. some rain at times best sums up things. as we head into friday our low pressure is going to be tending to ease away quite quickly north—westward with the rain than getting shoved northwards. most of us have a partly starts of the day. rena kristen hannah, the midlands, moving into northern england where it will turn heavy and thundery through the afternoon. some of those storms will make their way into southern scotland. a few showers in northern ireland as well, it will feel a little bit fresher across the far south of england as brightest as working later in the day. 0vernight the last of that rank is northwards across the far north of scotla nd across the far north of scotland and some rain for a time in shetland, for example, friday night and a mild night. temperatures staying into double figures. 0n the weekend we do have another weather system to push through so we will get more rain at times, but actually, it's not a bad start to the weekend. you will notice, though, the weather turning a little bit windier at times. through the weekend it
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is certainly going to turn a good dealfresher as is certainly going to turn a good deal fresher as well. is certainly going to turn a good dealfresher as well. now, saturday start of a bright note, most of us having a bright start of the day with some sunshine however the cloud and rain willfairly some sunshine however the cloud and rain will fairly quickly spread into northern ireland throughout the afternoon. temperatures into the low 20s with sunny spells widely across scotland, england and wales. later in the day we will see rain arriving across wales, western england and western scotland, too. that rain moves eastwards overnight, still loitering across scotland as we head into sunday morning but followed by sunshine and heavy showers. these showers could be thundery for scotland and for northern ireland. but a fresher field the weather, sunday's top temperature around 22. that's your forecast.
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this is bbc news, the headlines: australia's prime minister scott morrison says major cyber attacks are taking place targeting government institutions and agencies involved in the country's critical infrastructure. he's just been holding a news conference outlining the attack. the us supreme court has blocked president trump's attempt to to cancel an obama programme preventing the deportation of people who entered the us illegally as children. more than half—a—million migrants will be able to obtain renewable work permits. dame vera lynn has died at the age of 103. the singer became an icon, symbolising britain's spirit during the second world war.
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