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hello. the twitter account of major figures in countries including barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionairejeff barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionaire jeff blazers barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionairejeff blazers have been hacked in what appears to be a large scale and coordinated attack. twitter is still investigating and in the past half an hour it appears that some users are now able to send tweets again. the accounts of elon musk, bill gates and the apple corporation were among those affected. as you can see, the account of barack obama contains a post asking for bitcoin and giving back to the community, it is clearly a scam. other hacked accounts that are verified displayed similar messages. let us speak now to hacking officer for cyber security specialist who was jailed for hacking in the 1990s. what do you make of this, this was someone who wa nted make of this, this was someone who wanted to be noticed? it would have

been much more effective and it would have got more money if they did it more quietly. certainly, they could have sold this access were millions of dollars. they were very noisy about this attack. it looks like they used some automation to leveraged these verified accounts and send out this bitcoin message. this was not about fraud, i don't think, it was more about doing the hack. they received, i believe about $110,000 in their accounts, so people actually believe this hack, u nfortu nately. people actually believe this hack, unfortunately. it was very noisy, in the hacker community we would actually call this type of hack a little bit lame. just on the money for a moment, that money, if it is bitcoin, you cannot be got back or traced? it can be traced to a bitcoin wallet, but then the authorities would have to do some investigation to attributed, that wallet to a particular individual. there are going to be a lot of quite

big people worried about twitter security, are there? ithink big people worried about twitter security, are there? i think so. big people worried about twitter security, are there? ithink so. i am really surprised they did not make a tweet from the account of donald trump but i guess they couldn't think of something crazy enough to tweet that would have been interesting. who knows? i am surprise. they did do a tweet from the account of joe surprise. they did do a tweet from the account ofjoe biden but you have to think, what access did they really have if they were able to compromise an administrative panel at twitter through compromising employees and their computer at home because there is a work at home environment in california now and that twitter employee had access to actually send tweets on the behalf of another user, what we call impersonation. they might‘ve had access to direct messages and you imagine what if these attackers gained access to the direct messages of donald trump? i don't know that for certain, but i would suspect that it for certain, but i would suspect thatitis for certain, but i would suspect that it is a definite possibility with the access they have. is it

likely to make people more nervous with the possibility of hacking in the us presidential election? yeah. this wasn't stealth and clever, this was a hack to really bring notice to the community and maybe it was to make money at the same time, maybe they figured, if they send these tweets out at the same time and people actually pay, they could make some money from this venture, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with any election in the future, but you have to think, if a threat actor, like a nation state game the same type of access to twitter, administrative access, can you imagine what they would potentially do to at least affect public opinion about one of the presidential candidates? sounds like we might be talking to you about this again. thank you very much indeed. you're welcome, have a great night. well,

there appear to be fresh tensions between the white house and the top american infectious diseases expert doctor anthony fauci. he is a key figure in the coronavirus passport and he has given an interview to the atla ntic and he has given an interview to the atlantic and in it a jealous as,... on wednesday president trump was asked for his view on doctor anthony faucl asked for his view on doctor anthony fauci. we are all on the same team including anthony fauci, i have a very good relationship with him and we are all on the same team. we want to get rid of this mess that china has sent us. so everyone is working on the same line and we are doing very well, we are doing well in a lot of ways and our country is coming back very strong. when you look at those job numbers, we coming back very strong. when you look at thosejob numbers, we have never had job numbers like we have right now, so it is coming back very

strong. that is the official line from the president, all this of course as the number of cases are still rising across the united states. another 67,000 cases, 900 deaths recorded, just in the past 2a hours. there are new outbreaks in alabama, north carolina and obama all,. over the weekend, the white house issued a series of bullet points detailing why dr anthony fauci should not be trusted. then peter navarro doubled down today on all that in an article in the usa today. president trump said he did not ee, president trump said he did not agree, but he is known to have been very critical of doctor anthony fauci in recent weeks and one of the

reasons for that is simply this, that anthony fauci is the person who more americans trust to navigate their way out of the current crisis. more trust him then do donald trump in that regard and dr fauci is someone who has navigated americans through this sort of thing before under no fewer than six presidents. republican and democrat both. what do you think they suggest, david, for the immediate future, as the pandemicjust continues to rage across the country? well, it does indeed and we are now approaching 137,000 deaths and it is surreal, isn't it. cases are on the rise in 38 states and you mentioned more

than 60,000 new cases. 10,000 alone in the state of florida. this is one of the points that anthony fauci has consistently returned to, to the showground of the white house. making the point that many of these states, like florida, simply reopened their economies to quickly and he has urged pushing the reset button, as he puts it, in an attempt to basically try and end the current surge in coronavirus cases here. david willis. let us round up some more of the main news. here in britain borisjohnson more of the main news. here in britain boris johnson has more of the main news. 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 the key parliamentary committee. julian lewis work with opposition mps to get himself elected as chair of the crucial intelligence and security select committee. police in moscow have detained around 100 protesters who have taken part in an unauthorised gathering against the

recent constitutional amendments that allow president putin to stay in powerfor another 16 that allow president putin to stay in power for another 16 years. that allow president putin to stay in powerfor another 16 years. there we re in powerfor another 16 years. there were chants of, putin, go, from sections of the crowd. a new york cctv has been released showing a person hitting officers with a large deck as they try to arrest protesters. three officers were hurt in clashes in brooklyn bridge. it happened after a peaceful demonstration calling to an end to gun violence was disrupted by counter protesters. a reservoir behind the ethiopian gram in ices dam on the river nile has started filling with water. satellite images show water level is rising and after talks with egypt and sudan ended without agreement. they both fear that the $4 billion dam could lead to water shortages in their own nations. health officials are saying the coronavirus pandemic has led to a sharp fall in the number of children around the world being vaccinated. the you and officials say the suffering and death caused by children missing out on the

vaccines could dwarf the suffering caused by the virus. let us speak to doctor robin nandy, chief of immunisations at unicef. in new york. how concerned are you about this? we have released recent data that actually shows 2019 immunisation coverage and even prior to the covered pandemic, approximately 20 million children we re approximately 20 million children were not receiving the full benefits of vaccines. that is globally. many of vaccines. that is globally. many of these were in low income countries, countries affected by conflict, but what we are very concerned about is a decline in immunisation coverage even in middle income countries. now, come the covid outbreak, we are seeing huge

disruptions in the uptake of vaccinations, so these are going to be further exacerbated and we are extremely concerned that countries 110w extremely concerned that countries now battling with covid will start seeing outbreaks of preventable vaccine and diseases. what sort of vaccines do you feel that children are missing out on? pretty much all the vaccines in the vaccination schedule. measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus in the african continents. yellow fever vaccine and it can all cause large and extremely devastating outbreaks impacting individuals and economies in these countries. how specifically is covid—19

causing these disruptions? yeah, i mean we have seen a mixed picture in different countries. in some countries which are heavily impacted by covid—19... the health services covid—19... the healthservices services are overstretched, resources and personnel have been diverted to respond to covid—19. we have had to temporarily suspend campaign style delivery of services to comply with physical distancing requirements and then, even when services are available people are either unable —— unable to people are either unable —— u na ble to access people are either unable —— unable to access them because of various degrees of lockdown 01’ of various degrees of lockdown or unwilling to accept these services because they are scared of going out in their homes and being exposed. and then there is the issue of health workers themselves who

are concerned for their own health and this is compounded when you have a shortage of protective equipment and that has played a part as well. thank you for talking to us. thanks to you for being with us and stay with us if you can. much more to come including this. with a loudspeaker and a storybook, the man helping mexican children in lockdown. after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the eurozone. the immediate prospect of grease going bust in the worst crisis in the eurozone has been averted. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worst floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is

traditionally called the great right way by americans but tonight it is completely blacked out. a timely reminder to all americans have the problem is the crisis has brought to them leaders meeting paris for a brought to them leaders meeting paris fora summit brought to them leaders meeting paris for a summit on third world debt. this morning they join the revolution celebrations for a show of military might on the champs— elysses dog wildlife officials in australia have been coping with a penguin problem. fairy penguins have been staggering ashore and collapsing after gorging themselves on a huge shoal of their favourite fish, pilchards. some had eaten so much they could barely stand. headlines for you. a number of high—profile twitter accounts have been simultaneously hacked to spread a crypto currency scam. the top doctor in

america's against coronavirus has described the backdoor effo rts has described the backdoor efforts by the white house to discredit him as bizarre. us secretary of state has said he will visit written and denmark next week after britain placed a ban on using 5g technology from the tiny (gasps) chinese telecoms giant huawei. they had blocked access to american ships and the us administration urged all countries to shun the company. here is what mr pompeo had to say. i think we are watching american business understand the political risk of an operating in places like hong kong and they see their supply chains are potentially poisoned by the human rights violations, literally, the state of the century in human rights violations is taking place in china. american businesses are saying they are not comfortable with this and i watch as they make different decisions about how to allocate capital. this

is all a response to the actions of the chinese communist party and i think as long as the chinese communist party continues to engage in the activities that it has been for a long time, you will see them confronted in ways that they have not been confronted before, not only by the united states but by freedom loving democracies all across the world. that was the us secretary of state. let's speak 110w secretary of state. let's speak now to robert many. thank you for joining now to robert many. thank you forjoining us. what do you make of what us is saying. do you think other countries will do what he wants them to do?|j think do what he wants them to do?” think they have made big strategic mistakes and overreached across the board and you see all over europe they are moving away from china and away from huawei. china is

skilled at economic coercion and has generated an enormous amount of distrust in europe. sol amount of distrust in europe. so i think he is correct that there is a backlash against chinese bullying across the board and we are certainly seeing that in europe stop so politically powerful all. it could deal with some backlash, couldn't it? don't forget, china is only about 16% of the world's economy. unfortunately because of trumps america first policies, instead of mobilising the europe japan australia and others to create a concerted

effort to push back against chinese predatory merca ntilism, he has made more of the us china issue when it really is china issue when it really is china versus the world. and i think he is right in the sense that we are going to see more pushback because it is beginning to build all over the place, australia, india, europe and elsewhere and so i think it is going to go in that direction and i think the chinese have made a serious miscalculation. when china threatened consequences for britain's decision to ban huawei, what consequences do you expect there will be, if any. i will try to protect its interests. they are good at economic coercion and my guess is there was a deal signed to

doa is there was a deal signed to do a deal listing in london. sta rt start fate. $z/startfeed. now, a prolonged heatwave in the arctic this year is unequivocal evidence of climate change according to an international team of scientists. they say the record high temperatures would be impossible without global warming created by humankind. that matters because the arctic drives much of the weather we experience as a cheap environment correspondent justin rowlett reports.

six months of record—breaking temperatures have fuelled massive forest fires in the siberian arctic this year. great plumes of smoke were visible on satellite images last month. the red areas on this map show just how exceptional temperatures have been — more than five degrees above average across much of siberia. that included the highest temperature ever recorded north of the arctic circle, a sweltering 38 centigrade, and now a met office—led international study has concluded this period of exceptional weather would have been impossible had the world not been warmed by man—made greenhouse gas emissions. in the winter of 2018, the uk experienced a beast from the east, a period of exceptionally cold and snowy weather. it shows us that what happens in the arctic doesn't stay in the arctic. there are six main weather systems around the uk, and four of those six come from the polar regions or from the arctic directly, so whilst a lot of this is uncertain, if something happens in the arctic, it's going to be reasonable to assume something's going to happen in the uk, too. today's report is yet more evidence that the growing

concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is changing our climate. what we're seeing really is unprecedented. it's the strongest result we've ever seen, actually. we've never seen a change in the probability of an event of more than 600 times. we've never seen a result like that. many storms and floods in europe are also reckoned to have been driven by conditions in the arctic. and we know the polar region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. the long—term impact that will have elsewhere is less certain. looking at the geological record, we don't think we've had co2 levels this high for about 5 million years, so we really don't know what to expect into the future. we are in uncharted territory. the reduction of arctic sea ice cover and melting of the permafrost has accelerated during this year's heatwave. that will drive even more warming and, in turn, means we can expect more extreme weather around the world.

justin rowlatt, bbc news. more than 100 people have died andi more than 100 people have died and i was 4 million have been affected by monsoon floods in south it asia. it has been a period of relentless rain. there have been more than 50 deaths in the past few weeks, tens of thousands of people have had to move to relief shelters. in bangladesh around a third of the country and some of the heaviest rains are in a decade, with more than a million people forced to leave their homes for higher ground. lockdown has been difficult for so many people, parents though especially, having to educate and entertain your children well a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe is a challenge. in a suburb of mexico city, one man is doing what he can to help, as to help, as tim orman explains. percival garcia is an

architect by trade, but he has become so much more. one day, he and his mother were in their apartment, when they heard a child say, i am bored. apartment, when they heard a child say, iam bored. so apartment, when they heard a child say, i am bored. so he decided to do something about it. with his loud speaker and microphone, he read stories to the children of this estate. translation: means that whatever is going on in that department, depression or watching a movie or the daily lockdown experience, it is put on hold, the moment you start laughing, dancing or letting yourself go. he tends to focus on tales about the environment, what he calls the circle of life. he also plays music, providing young people with a few brief moments ofjoy. providing young people with a few brief moments of joy. she is plain when she hears the music she start shouting at me, mum, the storyteller! and then she wants to listen to him and talk to him. he says he wants

to open spaces for the children in their minds, so they can express their feelings and thoughts. one day, and one story at a time. disneyland paris, the biggest attraction in europe has reopened its doors after four months of lockdown. there was a lot of concern about what it might mean for infection rates and there are lots of new rules, but also plenty of die—hard fa ns but also plenty of die—hard fans he went back and told us about the experience. there is sanitiser everywhere, they have got, in all the queues for the rights, there are screen so you are screened away from everyone, there are markers, all the lines all over the park to keep your distance from shops and restaurants. they are really looking after us, it feels very safe here. it is not that busy, they are keeping capacity very low, we had to make a reservation today and we have got that to get into the park, you cannot just

have got that to get into the park, you cannotjust turn up without a ticket. you need a reservation first. and it is going very well. we had some apprehensions, but having got here, i think we feel safer here, i think we feel safer here than we do even in our local supermarket. everything is outdoors, the capacity levels are so low, it is really a great experience, it is different, but it is a lot of fun. hardcore there. if it disneyland is not your thing, you could go to the beach to wash away your troubles. but you might not expect this, beach—goers in rio dejaneiro we re beach—goers in rio dejaneiro were surprised to find a rare elephant sealjoining were surprised to find a rare elephant seal joining them were surprised to find a rare elephant sealjoining them this week and swam to the surface. according to a local marine biologist, the seal most likely came up from patagonia or even at article. there is much more on all the news, national and international any time for you on the bbc website and on our twitter feeds, thank you so much for watching.

prospects do look better for thursday but wednesday did not look or feel thursday but wednesday did not look orfeel much thursday but wednesday did not look or feel much like summer at all. we have had this damp muqqy at all. we have had this damp muggy air stream, bringing in an awful lot of cloud, some drizzle earlier on as well. some sunshine did develop in the south west of england, but even those breaks in the cloud have been filling in overnight. it isa have been filling in overnight. it is a cloudy start to thursday, mild as well, typical temperatures up to 40 degrees. they may be some early drizzle around and some western hills, may stay cloudy all day, but we are likely to see things brightening up elsewhere and some sunshine where we get a bit more shelter, the east of northern ireland, east wales, the east of england and particularly the east of scotla nd particularly the east of scotland and where we get some warm sunshine coming through, temperatures were left into the early 20s, with the highest

temperatures. 18 is going to be a typical temperature in the afternoon and that is what we are expecting a manchester, old trafford for the first day of the second match should be dry. there is some rain later on thursday about whether front will take that rain south and stagger southwards, it may get stuck throughout friday and northern ireland, the north of england and perhaps north wales. to the north and south of that, there will be some sunshine coming through, much of scotla nd sunshine coming through, much of scotland it is cooler and fresher so temperature it will bea fresher so temperature it will be a bit lower on friday, but towards england and wales, especially in the south—east, it is around 2526 when the london area. that whether front still on the scene on friday and still moving very slowly southwards on saturday, it is slowing down quite a bit, eventually we will find this cooler and fresher air following in its wake. we have got some cloud and rain moving

further south in england and wales and it is unlikely to reach the south—east of england until evening, to the north in northern most parts of england and scotland we are into some sunshine, a few showers in the north—west. in the south—east of england, the highest average is 23 or 24 degrees. some rain now likely overnight, some i left a clear way the four south—east and once that goes, it is sunny spells across the board, there will be a few showers, particularly in the western parts of scotland, but western parts of scotland, but we are into cooler and fresher for all areas, with the top temperature in the low 20s.