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coronavirus restrictions are placing a particular strain on muslims who are celebrating the festival eid—al—adha. it's usually a joyous holiday and an opportunity for muslim families and communities to gather for prayers and feasts. but this year, many are taking precautions and altering this is bbc news. the way they celebrate. ishleen kaur reports. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america, or around the globe. i'm aaron safir. our top stories: the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mexico has overtaken britain's. it's now the third singing. eid—al—adha commences highest in the world. cracks in the murdoch empire in the start of the annual as rupert murdoch's sonjames resigns from the board pilgrimage. it is abraham's of news corporation, citing editorial disagreements. willingness to sacrifice his son on the command of god. two teenagers are among three translation: it is a glorious people charged in connection with the hacking of high day. it is the day of profile twitter users. eid—al—adha. we are so happy, and muslims worldwide are celebrating the festival of eid, but with coronavirus yet, it is sad because our restrictions, things are different this year. families are not with us here. we met celebrating with them. singing. muslims in other middle east countries that do observe the annual prayers in
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the shadow of coronavirus. in jordan, while the kingdom has largely controlled the virus, worshippers gathered but not without their masks. in iraq, egypt and syria, mosques were hello and welcome to bbc news. closed and the streets were missing the usual eid crowds. mexico has become the country with the third highest number of deaths from coronavirus. more than 46,600 people have died from covid—19 there. only brazil and the united translation: mac today is eid states have a worse record. and there are no prayers. if it comes as the head of the world health organization anyone wants to sit with warns that the effects friends, they need to be sitting away from each other. if they want to greet each of the global coronavirus other, they cannot approach each other. rhinovirus has outbreak will be felt separated us. is nearly 2.8 "for decades to come". alanna petroff has the latest. million british muslims prepare to celebrate the festival with in mexico city, the streets get a deep cleaning, loved ones, britain put the bra kes loved ones, britain put the brakes on easing its lock down. residents get testing, the decision was met with some but it is just not enough. fatalities from covid—19 disappointment. people are are approaching 47,000. very, very angry right now. their plans have been changed my food has gone to waste, the country now has the third highest death count people that would normally have in the world, just behind been with us today are not the us and brazil,
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surpassing the uk. going to visit us. we won't meet ourfamilies, the head of the world health going to visit us. we won't meet our families, our friends, oui’ meet our families, our friends, our parents, which obviously 0rganization knows how tough for anybody, it would be the last few months have been and he says there is no disappointing. upon any other end in sight. day, but eid, it makes it the pandemic is a worse. the higher sofia mosca once—in—a—century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt sure many worshippers. —— for decades to come. mosque. prayers are being held many countries that believed at the mosque. for many muslims across the world, this is far they were passed the worst from their dream eid—al—adha —— many countries that believed they were past the worst are now grappling but they continue to focus on with new outbreaks. their prayers. some that were less affected in the earliest weeks are now much of europe has been seeing escalating numbers basking in a mini—heatwave. britain, france and belgium of cases and deaths. were among the countries experiencing near—record in parts of the uk, temperatures. but this is a summer like no other — with the lockdown new restrictions snapped back and social distancing complicating matters. into place as cases the bbc‘s tim allman reports. have been spiking. moves to loosen the lockdown have been stalled. we have probably reached near the limits, or the limits, of what we can do in terms of opening up society. in britain, you don't get days so what that means, potentially, is if we wish like this are too often. to do more things in blue skies, baking the future, we may have to do hot temperatures, so why not take
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a trip to the beach? less of some other things, and these will be difficult well, there's a still a pandemic going on trade—offs. and officials were in the united states, worried too many people the country has had more wanted to soak up the sun. than 4.5 million confirmed cases. here in brighton on the south coast, new testimony from dr fauci the local council urged outlines how things got out of control. people to stay away. it was a similar story if you look at what happened across much of the continent. this was ostend in belgium. in europe, when they shut down, or locked down, or went to shelter in place — however you want to describe it the seas and the sands — they really did it full of people. there did seem to be to the tune of about 95%—plus some attempt to control numbers but safety measures of the country did that. when you actually look are hard to enforce. at what we did, even though we shut down, even though it translation: with this heat, it's very, very difficult to keep up created a great of difficulty, we really functionally with the masks. translation: people are still shut down only about 50%. on vacation but things are a little lax. the lessons learned over the last few months i hope the visitors will pull have been stark. themselves together. to save lives and keep people healthy, restrictions are needed. in rome, the authorities told the very young trade—offs are required. and the very old to stay inside. visitor numbers are down due to coronavirus. we, as a society, need mostly it was locals to make a decision taking the chance about our priorities. to admire their beautiful city. if the priority is going to be reopening schools, then we need to do whatever it takes to get
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everything else under control. and that might mean shutting in madrid, face masks are now down bars and restaurants compulsory after a surge and gyms and concert venues in cases in recent days. and not having any of those wearing them in this things until we get the level weather is no fun, of coronavirus infection low but for some, they have enough that we can reopen our schools. become a necessary evil. it is a constant balancing act for governments around the world. some are doing better than others, but all are struggling. translation: too much heat and you sweat a lot alanna petroff, bbc news. with the mask but since it's compulsory and in order to protect yourself, james murdoch, the son of media you have to wear it. mogul rupert murdoch, you have to clean has resigned from the board your face very often. of news corp, the company here in lyon, temperatures reached 41 celsius and more of the same which owns a wide range is due on saturday. of media outlets, including the city's fountain's becoming the times in london, the wall streetjournal, a useful tool to cool down and the new york post. for man and man's best friend. tim allman, bbc news. in his letter of resignation, james murdoch cited disagreements over certain editorial content, as well as other beyonce's second visual album, strategic decisions. david folkenflik is media black is king, hasjust correspondent for national been released. public radio in the us and also it's been described as a love the author of a book, letter to the black diaspora and has a star—studded murdoch's world: the last of the old media empires. appearances from jay—z, this is his take on what kelly rowland, pharrell
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the letter revealed. and naomi campbell. a terse note, indeed, that didn't spell out it reimagines the story of what those disagreements the lion king across the modern occurred on, but it's not world through a young boy's hard to discern. there are two broad categories i think you can look at. one is the question of the family's support journey to self—discovery. on the editorial pages and, in some cases, the news pages of the new york post for president trump, and also for the corporate beyonce's been praised sibling — not part of news corp for the number of independent black designers behind her outfits. earlier, i spoke to venny etienne and asked him how it but nonetheless important felt when he found out for this story — over on fox news, where the vast effort he was working with beyonce. of their opinion hosts and i'm like, what? is to hold the president aloft, are you kidding me? but also a lot of the news so i literally dropped stories are picked in order what i was doing and for the next five days me to help the president's and my design assistants just narrative. then there is the second went at it and made sure that everything question of specific storylines was perfect and ready — the ways in which the murdoch for the actual movie. and we can have a look at that press in australia tried blazer now, we can show it to minimise or, in effect, to our viewers. smother scientific studies we want to get a sense from you, what was the brief? what was the intention? and questions about what were you trying to convey? the contributions of climate yeah, so, in this particular garment, we were trying change to the deadly wildfires to portray strength and also that that country endured early this winter in australia. and similarly, the effort to discredit public health
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officials and scientists attempting to combat this incredible covid—i9 pandemic. grace at the same time. and, of course, the uprising as you can see in a lot of the protests that broke out in cities around the country of the imagery in the actual music video, you see a lot over the questions of racial of florals and so we wanted inequity and police violence towards african americans to make sure that when we were sourcing the fabric, and people of colour — which we did here locally the black lives matter movement — in which people in dallas, texas, that it would also translate to the femininity on the editorial pages but also to the strength and that's why you see those of the journal, and broad shoulders and that's particularly in the editorial really what i mainly focus and views sections of fox news, on with my clothing line discredited those protesters, levenity, which is always sought to portray them structural pieces, architectural pieces, but yet have a feminine side as less than patriotic or, like that bold print. in fact, unpatriotic and that is something with which james murdoch now, beyonce is one has increasingly become of the biggest, if not uncomfortable. the biggest, star in the world right now. she could choose to work i think you're seeing with anyone on the planet. the rise of protests, she is consciously choosing black, independent designers. the question of the pandemic how important is that right now? that is exactly what black and the shortening proximity excellence is to me, where we rally our community of the general elections and we come together all contribute to what we just and we realise the potential, saw play out this afternoon. because, just the same way does that mean — as beyonce thatjust had this are we to assume then that that video, she has her kind of influence, trying creative camp and when i then create that relationship to push things away from that with her creative team and she brings me on, editorial line, is going now, this gives me to vanish and go with james? the opportunity to give other people a chance
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to shine and, you know, i thinkjames‘s influence has like their work, like my design effectively failed — assistants who have been working tirelessly and this that fox news is, if anything, was their first week on the job trumpier than it once was. and wejust had, you know, under rupert murdoch, it has, this was our first client so it was just amazing. i think, with few and rare exceptions, proved to be very a reminder of our top story: supportive of a figure the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mexico has that rupert murdoch himself overtaken britain's. is somewhat intellectually it's now the third highest contemptuous of but nonetheless in the world after the us and brazil. has the kind of access and rupert murdoch's son, james murdoch resigns from the board to that he only dreamed of news corporation, citing editorial disagreements. of in the united states but that of course murdoch enjoyed in your country with prime ministers of both parties, both major parties, and enjoyed, in fact, in his native australia with prime ministers of both major parties. trump has offered that to him. trump has sought him out for counsel. trump's cabinet is often picked from fox news figures, including the now rebellious john bolton, who was his national security hello there. the heat on friday adviser, sean hannity is one was certainly extreme. it arrived quickly and it of the president's most is going away quickly. important counsellors, but the heat was far and wide. tucker carlson is known we had temperatures to essentially affect policy of 37 degrees in london, 29 in edinburgh. but a significant drop by appealing to the president on the way for saturday. for liverpool and sheffield, on his show at 8pm a drop of 11 degrees or more. the heat has been coming eastern time here in to an end with a bang.
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we've had this band of cloud coming in from the west the united states, bringing some thundery rain and we scooped up some and he is the most influential thunderstorms from continental europe, it's been heading eastwards, out figure on cable news right now. into the north sea, and behind that band of cloud, and on questions of racism, we are seeing atlantic air and that is a question that has spilling our way and that's been brought up even the reason why the temperatures by staffers at fox news itself, will be dropping. which is very rare. so you are seeing a moment of real tumult and a rupture play out in public, and i think james‘s resignation is a real manifestation of that and it is an indication that he doesn't expect to have any real influence over fox news or its other things will feel different properties in the immediate as we head into monday. years ahead. still going to be very and david, we're running out warm for eastern parts of england, mind you. of time — i wanted to quickly by the time we get ask you about succession. to the morning we have what happens next rain affecting shetland at this company? and may be a few showers clearly, james isn't coming into some other going to be taking over western parts of the uk. the reins, but the question throughout the day on saturday, of who does has been lingering for a while. it's going to be a mixture i think it's pretty clear that of sunshine and a scattering as things stand right now, of showers, mainly across western areas, lachlan murdoch, who is a few will push their way the executive chairman, eastwards gradually through the day. much of the day may well co—chairman with his father of fox corp and over news corp, be dry with sunshine is the next in line, at times and it stays dry right across the south—east and thatjames and their sister and east anglia elizabeth are not in until the evening. place to take over. and we'll find temperatures but one caveat — we've seen at 25, 26 degrees, warm scandals knock other people but it is a cooler day out of place. everywhere in the temperatures 18 in the central belt.
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james looked like he had i'm sure the footballers effectively won the battle for the fa cup final for succession over his brother will appreciate lachlan for a while there, the change in the weather it looks like it should until he was forced out — be dry at wembley. more showers to come or left — a few years ago. into northern ireland on saturday evening. so in reality, you never know. those will push their way murdoch likes to pit these into scotland, we keep the cool people against each other, air coming in on the but it looks as though westerly breeze. lachlan murdoch will win so temperatures overnight, saturday night into sunday by a nose at the tape. morning, a little bit lower, probably a more comfortable night for sleeping — 11 to 1a degrees. again on saturday, a day the us department ofjustice of sunshine, and showers. has charged three people probably more showers in relation to a twitter hack around on sunday. on july 15 that took over especially across the northern half of the uk the accounts of high profile and some of those could be on figures, including former the heavy side as well. president barack 0bama it's continuing to cool off, and bill gates. temperatures continuing to drop away a little bit, our high on sunday the justice department in the south—east is 23 celsius. has named 19—year—old mason sheppard from west sussex in the uk, and 22—year more of the same on monday. old nima fazeli from orlando in florida. the third person is graham same sort of temperatures, sunshine and showers, ivan clark, who's i7, perhaps heavier showers and was arrested in florida. in the afternoon for prosecutors say he the eastern side of england. was the main figure behind the hack. it's getting a long way away but i think around tuesday clark, the mastermind, and wednesday we could be in for some wetter lives here in tampa, and windier weather. committed the crimes here, but by end of next week, probably turning quite and he'll be prosecuted here. a bit warmer once again. goodbye. working together, we will
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hold him accountable. the state attorney's office is handling this prosecution rather than federal prosecutors, because florida law allows us greater flexibility to charge a minor as an adult in a financial fraud case like this. that's the prosecutor in the twitter hacking case. the bbc‘s chris fox explains how the hackers managed to breach the security system. well, twitter actually today has explained a little bit more about how the attackers got access into the system. they said it was a spear phishing attack. now, phishing attacks are those ones that most of us have probably experienced — where somebody will send you an email or text message, saying "urgent action needed on your account, please click this link and fill in your information" or maybe you get a suspicious email saying "did you order hundreds of dollars‘ worth of products? click here to cancel." that is a phishing attack. a spear phishing attack is a more targeted version of that. the attackers may know some
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information about you — perhaps the name of your bank and your username — so they can send you a much more convincing email. twitter has said that it was an attack done on a telephone that tricked some of its employees into handing over their credentials for internal twitter systems. once the attackers had those credentials, they could use them to reset the account information of 130 twitter accounts, including those celebrity ones, and get access to them. this is bbc news. and there are now questions the headlines: aboutjust how much access mexico's confirmed coronavirus staff at twitter have deaths have exceeded 46,000, placing the country's death toll from the pandemic third with the ability to reset highest in the world. accounts like this. it seems like maybe there should have been more it means mexico has security at twitter. overtaken britain, with only let's get some of the united states and brazil the day's other news. a federal appeals court has recording more deaths. overturned the death sentence the mexican health ministry of the boston marathon also registered a record 8,500 bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. new cases on friday. at issue is whether the trial judge had done enough to ensure the jurors weren't biased. james murdoch, the younger son of media mogul rupert murdoch, but the court upheld his has resigned effective conviction for helping to carry immediately from the board out the attack in 2013, of news corporation, which killed three people which owns fox news, and injured more the wall streetjournal, than 260 others. the times and the sun,
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chinese state television says citing "disagreements over editorial content". hong kong police are seeking james murdoch and his wife have the arrest of six leading previously criticised news corp pro—democracy activists living in exile. for its climate change coverage. they're wanted on suspicion of violating the new security law imposed in the territory by beijing. a 17—year—old has been arrested in florida, state media described the group as "troublemakers". —— those are your headlines. emails between the british socialite ghislaine maxwell and the late us sex offender jeffrey epstein have been revealed by a court. the teenage driver of a getaway car involved in dragging in a 2015 exchange, epstein tells ms maxwell she has done "nothing wrong" — apparently in contradiction of her earlier claims of not having contacted him. and in a deposition, accuser virginia giuffre says ms maxwell was as equally involved in sex trafficking as epstein. maxwell has denied these charges. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: beyonce's new visual album has just been released. we hear from one of the designers behind her outfits.
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the us space agency nasa has ordered an investigation after confirmation today that astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk. the last foot patrol in south armagh, once an everyday part of the soldiers' lot, drudgery and danger, now no more after almost four decades. if one is on one's own in a private house, not doing any harm to anyone, i don't really see why all these people should wander in and say, "you are doing something wrong." six rare white lion clubs are on the prowl at worcestershire park and already they've been met with a roar of approval from visitors. they're lovely, yeah, really sweet. yeah, they were cute.
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this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mexico has overtaken britain's. it's now the third highest in the world after the us and brazil. rupert murdoch's son, james murdoch resigns from the board of news corporation, citing editorial disagreements. let's have more on the who's assessment of the effects of coronavirus around the world. amir atta ran is professor of law and public health at the university of ottawa. he told me why the coronavirus will still affect our lives for years to come. this will leave an indelible mark on our history and our future, i'm afraid.
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when i heard the head of who say that it would be with us for decades, that's absolutely right. the pandemic we're experiencing now will switch into being an endemic disease. what that means is a disease that is constantly and forever with us. it will of course be much less. we'll have a vaccine, we'll have treatments. but it will come back from time to time, and more importantly, the changes that it has brought to our society will leave a deep and lasting mark for decades to come. i want to get onto some of those changes in a moment, but let's just briefly talk about a vaccine. how does a vaccine arriving and being successful, and being taken up by hundreds of millions, billions of people — how does that square with us still having to deal with the coronavirus many years from now? at present, we don't know how effective this vaccine will be. will it be a vaccine that prevents you becoming infected? possibly, but not likely. will it be a vaccine that does
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not block infection, but instead blocks the severest, deadliest forms of disease? much more likely. but, in that case, the infection will continue to pass through the population. vaccination will have to be kept up, because it's unlikely that a single vaccine will last a lifetime for a person. we will be fighting this foe forever. that is simply the way it is. now, i don't want to be heard as frightening anyone. i think that we will have the technology to hold it at bay, the same way that we've held other infectious diseases at bay. but one mustn't make the mistake of thinking that, once we're past the pandemic phase, coronavirus will become a word that we will never hear again, and that few of us feel affected by. so that means, presumably,
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we're going to have to start thinking long—term about those competing priorities. you know, opening up schools is the immediate concern in a lot of countries. but, long—term, it's that balance between economic life and human life. and long—term, just imagine what some of the changes are. of course everyone knows that we'll never work the same way again. zoom is here to stay, i'm afraid. and birth rates are down since coronavirus came. people did not use lockdown in the way you might have thought. in fact, there were fewer babies born. that shift of demographics will in turn make it difficult to service the debt that countries are running up now. after wars, for instance world war ii, britain paid off debt to the united states for over 50 years. so there will be a long—term effect of the sort you have
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