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nationality. early celebrations at some of the leicester's resurgence are eased but restrictions remain on social gatherings. the harsh toll of the lockdown on jobs. new uk figures show the number of people on company payrolls fell by nearly 650,000 between march and june. the government says the lockdown in leicester will be partially relaxed from the 24th ofjuly despite the infection rate remaining well above the national average in the area. thanks to the incredible efforts of people in leicester who followed the lockdown even whilst others across the country have had their freedoms relaxed, we have, we are now in a position to relax some but not all of the restrictions that were in place. hello and welcome if you're

watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the british security services say hackers working for the russian state have been targeting organisations working on a coronavirus vaccine and trying to steal their research. the national cyber security centre has issued the warning jointly with the united states and canada, calling the attacks despicable. the uk foreign secretary, dominic raab, has also said russian "actors" tried to interfere in last year's general election by using social media to distibute leaked documents about a future trade deal with the us. russia has denied all the claims. 0ur security correspondent, gordon corera reports. today, the government lashed out at russia's spies, accusing them directly of trying to steal vital uk research on the coronavirus pandemic. given that the world is trying to come together to find a vaccine for our own people, british people in the uk but also people around the world,

i'm afraid it's a pretty egregious behaviour and it deserves and it should be called out in the way we are doing today. oxford university has been leading the world in developing a vaccine. i understand it is one of the labs whose computer systems have been targeted. british intelligence says it has seen hackers trying to steal data from universities, labs and pharmaceutical companies. britain's cyber security chief told me they'd been working to protect those organisations. we would try to come back to the report when we can. as which had to rearrange ourselves let's listen to sarah from moscow. here she is. well this is not recording. i do beg your pardon sarah ra nsford this is not recording. i do beg your pardon sarah ransford who is in moscow for us. i thought this was recorded. we have all the gremlins going in the studio. maybe you can toss with the responses been to russia to those allegations put in the by the foreign secretary today.

0utright dismissalfrom the by the foreign secretary today. 0utright dismissal from the kremlin, we heard from the russian president pounds ex post person that the allegations were unfounded and russia would not tolerate them. he was speaking about the allegation that russia has been trying to steal the science behind vaccines being worked on in the west. russia i think it is interesting to point out in this context is working on it's on vaccines and it has been very proud... in talking about this, part of the progress it says it is making. presenting that as an entirely honest and open process and i think it would be hurt to some extent by the suggestion that perhaps it has been trying to steal the science and knowledge and research behind others efforts to find a vaccine. there is an

international fight find a vaccine. there is an internationalfight on find a vaccine. there is an international fight on now a race to find the vaccine which will of course bring on awful want of money with it for whoever develops the success so vaccine. with it for whoever develops the success so vaccine. russia presents itself well in on that race and doing so with his own resources and own scientists. do we know much about this group that the foreign secretary has targeted? we hear a lot about these different groups, ept fancy bears, which we know about the control over them? we don't know and awful lot. certainly the one group that the uk foreign secretary dominic raab has mentioned in connection with these specific cyber attack allegedly looking for the science behind the vaccine, that group did come up in connection in 2016 with attempts by russia allegedly to meddle in the united states. in their pressures on troll

actions and force of taxation from the united states is that they have the united states is that they have the external intelligence agency of russia the spr, russia has highly dismissed any suggestion its agencies of any kind were involved in either the 2016 elections in the us or anything else more recently in the uk and in europe. 0k, etc it was an unorthodox start but you got everything across very well. thank you very much sarah rainsford there in moscow. let's go to westminster. what does dominic raab mean when he says there will be appropriate measures taken? i think this is a marker in the sand when you hit the government talking about russia interfering in the 2019 election at the same time as talking about the vaccine programmes and i think on this vaccine programme this was something that will resonate to the public that russia is being seen

as undermining a global effort to come and operate in an underhand waif. it pinpoints russia and raise a marker that russia is an international player on the stage not operating in a cooperative way. i think this idea of the election report, this has been a dispute here over a wider report that is going to be published next week we expect now from the intelligence committee in parliament about wider russian interference in the uk democracy taking in issues such as the salisbury poisonings and the sergei skripal case, suggestions there was interference back in the brexit referendum. i think some people see the government as trying to get on the government as trying to get on the front foot by putting these very to clear markers in the sand today ahead of that report coming next week. layla thank you very much for

that. let's speak to ian bond, a former british diplomat in russia and elsewhere. he is now the director of foreign policy at the centre for european reform. good to have you with us. maybe i can put that same question to you. what sort of appropriate measures could the uk government take, have they any leverage over russia?” could the uk government take, have they any leverage over russia? i am a bit puzzled by that. relations with russia are not very warm anyway. i'm not quite sure what we could stop cooperating on that we have not already stopped cooperating on. clearly it is unclear to do anything to improve the relationship with russia. any idea that there might bea with russia. any idea that there might be a kind of recent or resumption of business as usual is probably out of the window after this. the report wave i was talking about which the intelligence committee will put out next week looks at russian influence on uk politics. sort of people securing

within uk politics may be as bad actors. it sort of looks back in time towards 2018. do you think to the same extent russia still has the same influence on british politics? —— the report layla talked about. i'm afraid they probably do. the same pipe for people like people giving large sums of money to the conservative party who have close ties to russia. —— the same type of people. they are still there and giving a lot of money to the conservative party. it seems to me one of the things the foreign secretary was trying to do today was saying look at what the labour party has done about taking the documents about uk us trade talks as a way of diluting the impact of the report that probably everyone expects will say they were unhealthily close ties between the various live campaigns

in the brexit referendum and various russian associated actors. —— leave it is counterintuitive of russia to try to hamper and anyway coronavirus research when you think that we all have to come out of this together. and yet it speaks at the lack of trust on all sides that they think they have to seal this information because the rest of the world would not be forthcoming. i think they are probably looking to steal a march. i think it was sarah who said there would be a lot of money in the production of vaccines and i am sure thatis production of vaccines and i am sure that is right whoever can bring their product to market first will stand to make a lot of money. and you've tied macro if you can source shirk it what people have already done, —— if you can short—circuit with people of already done, if you area with people of already done, if you are a country that has traditionally

done a lot of commercial espionage? why not? it looks like a attractive target. it is bad for british and other companies who themselves are trained to commercialise a successful vaccine. can i trained to commercialise a successfulvaccine. can i ask trained to commercialise a successful vaccine. can i ask more generally about the geopolitics, i work relations with russia are suffering even further. we have had an announcement in the last few hours that mike pompeo would trance up hours that mike pompeo would trance up chinese calmness party staff and theirfamilies up chinese calmness party staff and their families travelling to the united states. we go back to the future, are we looking at a deeper cold war than perhaps we are already in? i have not studied the details of what mike pompeo is suggesting. it doesn't seem pretty extreme to me to say when you have a party of almost 100 million people that neither they nor their relatives will be allowed to visit the us. there are some serious things that would be needed to...

cracking. i think there is a general the duration and relations between the west and china as well as in relation with russia. your line is breaking up, ian. we are out of time a nyway breaking up, ian. we are out of time anyway so we will leave it there. thank you very much. in bond there. the court of appeal has ruled that one of three london schoolgirls who ran away to join the islamic state group should be allowed to return to the uk so she can challenge a decision to strip her of her british nationality in person. shamima begum, who's now 20, is unable to leave syria after her citizenship was revoked last year. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has more this was shamima begum when she first re—emerged last year, having gone to join the islamic state group four years earlier aged just 15,000

gone to join the islamic state group four years earlier aged just 15. when the bbc interviewed her, is had collapsed in syria and she was asking to come back to england. i just want forgiveness really, from the uk. everything i've been through, i didn't expect i would go through that. you know, losing my children the way i lost them. but with the public divided between those who felt she had been groomed and those who wanted her barred from britain, the home secretary took away her citizenship, leaving her stranded. a decision she had been fighting from the camp for is women in syria. the appeal court said today that she should be allowed to come to the uk, talk properly to her lawyers and fight her case in person. lord justice flo said... —— lord justice flaux said... obviously we were disappointed with the decision and the home office will be appealing it but beyond that, it's an ongoing legal matter so there is not

much more i can say. the lawyerfor a shamima begum because my mother and sisters said shamima beg| sisters. they were cautiously pleased. certainly heartened by the decision today. it's a step further towards shamima begum potentially coming back to the uk and being safe. and speaking by phone from bangladesh, her father was also pleased. translation: i certainly welcome the court's decision. i hope she gets justice. i am happy and every father would welcome this. she left britain in february 2015 with two school friends, travelling through turkey to is territory in syria where they married fighters. her two friends are thought to be dead and while the home secretary tries to overturn today's decision, shamima begum remains in north—east syria. daniel sandford, bbc news. the government says some of lockdown restrictions in the town of leicester are being eased. but they won't be

fully lifted just yet. the restrictions were imposed a fortnight ago. the city has the highest number of cases in the uk. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. volunteers going door—to—door in leicester with coronavirus home—test kits — part of the drive to curb the spread of the virus. and today, it's been announced that some of the extra measures imposed on the city two weeks ago will be lifted. we're now in a position to relax some, but not all, of the restrictions that were in place. so, from july the 24th, we'll be removing the restrictions on schools and early—years childcare and taking a more targeted approach to the restrictions on nonessential retail. it's a relief to leicester companies like this one. julie runs a garage which also does vehicle rental. she says trade was improving as lockdown began to ease injune, but then came the new local measures, affecting her business customers.

it felt we were improving and moving forward. when the second lockdown was then requested, you just felt that we're going to go right back to square one again. so, to me, it was really worrying. you know, you've just got everything back in place. the impact of recent restrictions in leicester has been all too clear here in the city centre. it's extremely quiet, with pubs, restaurants, bars and nonessential shops remaining closed when they're open in other areas of england. among some local people, there's a feeling the new lockdown two weeks ago was justified. those people who have followed all the restrictions are really doing theirjob. it's best to get it clear, cleared up out of the way, so more people can feel safer. it was a shock but, i mean, it needs to be done, you know, if they are trying to control the virus, do you know what i mean? the top—ten highest uk infection rates are all in england and wales. leicester still has the largest, with nearly 102 cases per 100,000 people last week,

but that was down just over 26 on the previous week. rochdale, kirklees and wrexham also saw falls in infection rates. there were increases in bradford, luton, peterborough and calderdale with the biggest over the week coming in blackburn with darwen and herefordshire. i'm going to take this off, because i can see that we're actually well separated here... and today, the government's chief scientific adviser gave mps a blunt assessment of the current situation. it's very difficult to know exactly where we stand at the moment. it's clear that the outcome has not been good in the uk. i think we can be absolutely clear about that. it's also clear that you can see a band of countries that have done less well. and he said working from home, if possible, was still a good option, and he saw no reason to change the guidance. sir patrick added that the virus may well come back in different waves in future years — a reminder that lockdown restrictions might be slowly

lifting, but people may have to get used to social distancing and other measures for some time. hugh pym, bbc news, leicester. the economic impact of coronavirus became clearer today here in the uk. figures show nearly 650,000 people lost their jobs between march and june, coming off company payrolls across the uk. overall the unemployment rate has not increased substantially as there are more than nine million people still on the uk government—backed furlough scheme. but as that is wound down, the british chamber of commerce has warned that almost a third of firms are likely to cut headcount in the next three months. 0ur economics correspondent dharshini david reports. # bring me a higher love... but this year, the christmas pantomime is off. with theatres shut, the curtain's fallen on their moneyspinner. i was furloughed pretty much straightaway, at the beginning.

but we've had to let you go. and itjust, it plummets, you know. your mood plummets.