this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as coronavirus cases continue to soar in the us, dr anthony fauci describes efforts by some in the white house to discredit him as "bizarre". indonesia sees its highest daily toll in deaths due to coronavirus. we ask if the figures tell the whole story. tensions rise over huawei. china warns of retaliation against the uk for its ban, as the trump administration takes aim at the firm itself. and a look at what's behind the recent heatwave in the siberian arctic and how that's affected weather in other parts of the world.

hello and a warm welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. do stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. i'm kasia madera. nothing seems to be able to stop the rise and rise of covid—19 numbers in the us. a further 67,000 cases and 900 deaths have been recorded in the last 2a hours. there are new outbreaks in alabama, nevada and north carolina, who are all beginning to report ajump in cases. cases have surged in oklahoma too, and the state's governor, kevin stitt, has tested positive. he says he thinks he is the first state governor to get the virus. i feel fine. i felt a little bit achy yesterday. didn't have a fever butjust a little achy, sojust did my regular testing and it came back positive. so, ijust want to be

transparent with 0klahomans. from the very beginning, i want to share every piece of data and then let oklahomans know exactly where we're at in our state, and i'm so proud of how we've handled it thus far. america's top infectious diseases expert, anthony fauci, has recently been criticised by white house officials, including peter navarro, donald trump's trade adviser, who said in an op—ed that dr fauci was wrong about everything they had discussed together. dr fauci, a key figure in the white house coronavirus task force, responded in an interview with the atlantic. in it, a journalist from the atlantic asks... dr fauci responds... today, president trump was asked for his view on dr fauci. we're all on the same team,

including dr fauci. i have a very good relationship with dr fauci. and we're all on the same team. we want to get rid of this mess that china sent us. so, everybody‘s working on the same line and we're doing very well. we're doing well in a lot of ways and our country's coming back very strong. when you look at those job numbers — we've never had job numbers like we have right now. so it's coming back very strong. dr fauci has openly disagreed with president trump, who's been eager to open up the economy amidst the pandemic. let's speak to our north america correspondent david willis. you have got the white house saying one thing, dr fauci saying another thing, but in this article, he is ultimately saying that by trying to discredit him, as the adviser to the president, it ultimately hurts the president. what a situation at. what a situation indeed, and it's

somewhat surreal that as the death toll here in the united states reaches 137,000 people, you have this feud going on between dr anthony fauci and the white house. at the weekend, the white house issued some bullet points detailing why dr fauci should not be trusted. then peter navarro doubled down today and all that in an article in the usa today. president trump has since sought to distance himself somewhat from peter navarro's comments. dr fauci has, as you just we re comments. dr fauci has, as you just were explaining, said that he doesn't believe understand what is going on. he called a major mistake, did not understand why the white house would seek to discredit him, and it is of concern to people here, given that dr anthony fauci is by far the more trusted of the two,

between him and donald trump, when it comes to navigating this country out of the coronavirus pandemic. he is the man who stood america through six previous outbreaks of disease, if you like, under both democrat and republik and presidents and his approval ratings far exceed those of president trump —— republican presidents. a short while ago, the ice president mike pence tweeted a still photograph of today's white house still photograph of today's white house coronavirus still photograph of today's white house coronavirus briefing — and there, prominently, centre of a frame, was none other than dr anthony fauci. while! let's leave that for one moment, because we've got a breaking news story from the united states. the twitter accounts of major people have been attacked. the names involved, barack have been attacked. the names involved, ba rack 0bama, have been attacked. the names involved, barack 0bama, elon musk,

bill gates, absolutely huge. absolutely. and this appears to be the biggest hacking attack of its time involving twitter. you mentioned those names, elon musk, barack 0bama, bill gates, they have all been hacked by hackers duping people into sending crypto currency bitcoin in the hopes of doubling their money. as fast as those tweets have been taken down, they have reappeared again, so there is a major attack which appears to be still ongoing, and it was said to be, asi still ongoing, and it was said to be, as i mentioned, one of the most widespread that twitter has ever seen. it is thought that it is succeeding in getting money from some people and, of course, the targets a re some people and, of course, the targets are all individuals or organisations that have considerable following on twitter. elon musk, 35 million followers, and he has been a

target of bitcoin scammers in the past. this is an ongoing situation and no comment so far on the status of it from twitter itself. david, thanks so much for being across that, that breaking story involving twitter. david willis, our north america correspondent, joining us live. we will continue following that. but i just live. we will continue following that. but ijust want live. we will continue following that. but i just want to turn to indonesia. it saw its biggest dailyjump in coronavirus deaths on wednesday, with 87 new fatalities recorded. it brings the total number of deaths in the country to almost 4,000 since the pandemic started. indonesia has the highest fatality rate in asia and one of the highest in the world. even so, many say the official figures don't tell the whole story. let's speak to febriana firdaus, an independentjournalist covering the pandemic from the island of bali. good to have you on. when it comes to the situation across asia, the numbers are going down, we have countries like singapore really controlling their numbers. what is

happening in indonesia? why is the situation the opposite there? thank you. first, because our government priority at first is not like the other governments, tilting the city to handle the outbreak, but we focused a lot and prioritise the economy considerations. for example, the president, at first he talked about how to spend more on the national budget to boost the economy because he is afraid indonesia will face economic recession. of course, this is unavoidable we are going to face the economic recession. as will happen in indonesia for stub that's why it remains among the countries with the lowest number of coronavirus debts, only 4000 per1 million —— coronavirus deaths.

countries lower per capita than indonesia. that's what happening in indonesia, because of the government more investing in the economy, especially in tourism. the government spent money on social media influencing. febriana, the president has announced plans to increase testing. and also there are plans to improve context tracing. is that something that is being described, talked about, is that something you're seeing on the ground? the president mentioned we have to improve the number of coronavirus have to improve the number of coro navi rus tests have to improve the number of coronavirus tests, the indonesian scientists told us the number is not enough. it should be like 50,000 per

day, so the number, even the target for the government, is still very low with what we need in indonesia, but what we see right now, we only have... we only test1 million right 110w have... we only test1 million right now and we have 72 million population, so we are still the lowest. what happened, the announcement of the coronavirus tests, is now being delayed for weeks. and that's why so many patients, suspected patients, died, before they know the result. and it has been delayed for three or four weeks. 0k, febriana, thank you so much for putting that into context

with us. febriana firdaus, and independent journalists joining with us. febriana firdaus, and independentjournalistsjoining us from bali. thank you so much for your time. let's get the rest of the stories making news. in india, at least 50 people have been killed and more than 2 million affected by heavy monsoon flooding in the north—eastern state of assam. the video you're seeing right now shows a regional minister wading through floodwaters to rescue people and the clip has highlighted the plight of those hit by the floods. france will cut the taxes french companies have to pay by 20 billion euros over the next two years. a package will also be launched to tackle youth employment during the pandemic. the country's finance minister, bruno le maire, said the measures will be in addition to emergency aid to protectjobs during the lockdown. a reservoir behind ethiopia's disputed grand renaissance dam on the river nile has started filling with water. satelite images showed water levels rising a day after talks with egypt and sudan ended without agreement. sudan and egypt both fear the $4 billion dam could lead to water shortages

in their own nations. here in britain, borisjohnson has thrown one of his own conservative mps out of the parliamentary party after his chosen candidate failed to get the chairmanship of a key parliamentary committee. julian lewis worked with opposition mps to get himself elected as chair of the intelligence and security select committee. mrjohnson wanted the former cabinet minister chris grayling elected to the post. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg is at westminster. this is really about control. that committee is a vital and quite secretive part of scrutiny that goes on around here. essentially, they keep an eye on what the intelligence services are doing on all of our behalf. and as you suggest, while they denied it officially, the government had been lining up the former cabinet minister chris grayling to be the boss of that committee and they were expecting that to be confirmed in a vote today. but when it came to the vote, instead of following party orders and his understanding, julian lewis got the labour and other opposition

mps to vote for him, winning a vote, beating chris grayling and turning out to have thejob himself. now, the tories were so furious at what he'd done, believing that it was deceitful and disrespectful to party managers, that they didn'tjust give him a wrap on the knuckles, they've chucked him out of the parliamentary party. now, you might think, "well, fair enough." he seems to have misled the whips, according to tory sources, and he did something that many of his colleagues might find goes against any notion of party loyalty. but you can also wonder if that might turn out to be counterproductive. many mps might wonder if it was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. and the government now has a chair of that important committee with no interest in being anything other than awkward. and i think also, this might fracture further the relationship between downing street and the backbenchers. this is about government getting things done, not the godfather,

and things have been tricky between number 10 and the green benches for some time now over a variety of issues. getting things done, even when governments have huge majorities, still relies on having friends in parliament in your own party, not just making enemies. do stay with us here on bbc news. still to come: the story of one korean woman, adopted by americans, who went to the courts to try and get recognition from her biological father. after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the eurozone. the immediate prospect of greece going bust, in the worst crisis to hit the eurozone, has been averted. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts