military intelligence service soul there is going to a big backlog of cases that with that group. you know that since there seems to be kind of quite firmly link to the russian intelligence there is the whole issue of. vaccine for the for the for the for for the coronavirus is a highly sensitive and you know important issue and i think the intelligence services in the world begin to fishing for that that's going to have a job in a sense but i think you know you also have to look in the kind of white background particularly this week in the united kingdom where there is ongoing issue of the russian report in the russian ference which is been long delayed by the current governments since the elections of the 19 finally being released despite his wishes to be able to be governed and i think you know you have to kind of see the overall . bringing up of the russian interference really within the context of that and of dosia being released finally. now the issue of wearing masks has become a divisive one in the u.s. and in the state of georgia it's leading to a lawsuit the governor is su

changed his policy and ordered the intelligence services to engage in a more systematic aggressive seriesof actions to destabilize elections and to. disrupt russia's. rivals which is the european union nato united kingdom france united states they also say that vaccine development is a priority target intelligence agencies russia wouldn't be the only state involved . al-jazeera azerbaijan's foreign minister has been sacked for what the president calls meaningless negotiations with neighboring armenia fighting on the border between the 2 countries has resumed following a brief ceasefire at least 16 soldiers and one civilian have died in several days of hostilities focused on the long disputed region i was there as robin for us to walk are reports homes damaged daily life disrupted lives lost in azerbaijan's tollbooths region this is the human cost of the fighting. on suddenly sharon goes out of his last phone call to her father she could hear artillery in the background so he went out after breakfast and was hit by show us no one was with him when he died she said. armenian civilians are a

and canada say hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking research institutions trying to develop a vaccine the british government also says it has evidence of russia interfering in its 2019 general election the kremlin has denied the allegations charlie angela has will. it's a global race to find a vaccine for couvade 19 and one country is accused of trying to cheat. the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center says russian hackers known as a p t 29 the jukes or cozy have tried to infiltrate coronavirus facilities to steal their work britain the u.s. and canada whose research into possible vaccines is quickly advancing have all been targeted to be targeting with cyber attacks the international effort not just here in the u.k. but in canada in the u.s. to try and find a vaccine which is for the greater good of the world as well as our people here at home and i think it's actually right that we called out in this measured way with our international partners the hackers are believed to operate as part of the russian intelligence service allegations that russia strongly

and canada say hackers are quote almost certainly part of russian intelligence services and celebs they've been targeting academic and pharmaceutical institutions since the start of the pandemic ok let's go live to paul brennan in london let's talk about this situation 1st of all what more do we know. well the lot of attention about russia's attacks and activities in recent days and will be more next week as well but looking at this specific claim on the specific reports i have at the documents in front of me it's an advisory that's been issued by the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center it's 14 pages long and what it essentially says is that the group called apt 29 also known in some circles as the jukes some perhaps better known to the general public because cozy that has been throughout 2020 mounting a wide range of 'd cyber attacks scanning organizations for vulnerabilities we're talking about governmental organizations diplomatic think tanks and health care organizations scaling those organizations for vulnerabilities among the organizations that have been targeted by this group accor

canadian and british intelligence services if they're actually beating with this level of confidence and also making the connection between this outfit cosi bad and the the russian intelligence service i see this as part of a strategy you know you can get the attribution yourself and then it's another strategic decision about whether you announce it publicly and in doing so and standing side by side with other allies this is an approach that we've seen over the last 2 years trying to perhaps raise the reputational costs to states like russia of doing this kind of activity and if you do have the resources the power of the u.k. the u.s. and canada here are able to track these hackers trace them should we also expect more in terms of shielding and pushing back a tip did attacks or attempt to you know the espionage in cyberspace. but this is the other part of today's announcement but it's very important is that the detailed report actually contained a lot of code where the national cybersecurity center are actually saying to deny zation to might have been affected by these cyber attacks

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yet it still comes back to this request really that this should be a massive overhaul of the intelligence services within the u.k. to try to do this. yes indeed and putting that particular crime of cyber crimes for example and sort of scrutiny really needs to be a major focus according to the committee as well they've said that the too long these kinds of issues have been sort of spread out across different government departments really not being controlled over by the intelligence agencies themselves and that that direct lack of focus that really has contributed to russia being able to uses its its own interference prices because there has been a lack of robust action taken by the u.k. as well now of course the u.k. has said that it has the u.k. government has said that there has seen no successful evidence of any interference into the brics it referendum as well but however this is something which is really impossible to know because of course these kinds of tactics that were being used to try and sway opinions were all taking place on social media as well it is very difficult to know at this ti

changed his policy and ordered the intelligence services to engage in a more systematic aggressive series of actions to destabilize elections and to. disrupt russia's. rivals which is the european union nato united kingdom france united states they also say that vaccine development is a priority target intelligence agencies russia wouldn't be the only state involved charlie under. the governor of the u.s. state of georgia is suing a city mayor who ordered the mandatory wearing of masks to help contain the virus governor brian kemp says the move violates his decree brief ending local governments from enforcing such measures several cities in the state of pushback against his orders and the number of coronavirus cases in brazil has passed 2000000 more than 76000 people have died as the world's 2nd biggest outbreak after the united states there are concerns that many more infections are going unreported due to the lack of testing as about john's president has sacked his foreign minister over what he's calling meaningless negotiations with neighboring armenia it came on the same day as a new

and canada say hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking research institutions trying to develop a vaccine the british government also says it has evidence of russia interfering in its 2900 general election a crime and has denied the allegations charlie rangel has more than. it's a global race to find a vaccine for covert 19 and one country is accused of trying to cheat. the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center says russian hackers known as a p t 29 the jukes or cozy have tried to infiltrate coronavirus facilities to steal their work britain the u.s. and canada whose research into possible vaccines is quickly advancing have all been targeted to be targeting with cyber attacks the international effort not just here in the u.k. but in kind of in the u.s. to try and find a vaccine which is for the greater good of the world as well as our people here at home and i think it's actually right that we called out in this measured way with our international partners the hackers are believed to operate as part of the russian intelligence service allegations that russia str

sayu.k., u.s., and canada hackers who are part of russian intelligence services are attacking researchnstitutions trying to develop vaccine area the british government says it has evidence of russia interfering in his 20 general election. the kremlin has denied the allegations. charlie andrew has more. charlie: -- >> it is a global race to find a vaccine for covid-19. nationals cybersecurity center says haveen hackerers known as -- tried to infnfiltrate coronavirs facilities to steal their work. britain, the u.s., a and canada, whose research into possible vaccines is quickly advancing, have all been targeted. theo be targeting international effort not just in the u.k. button canada, in the u.s., to try and find a vaccine, which is for the greater good of the world as well as our people here at home and it isis absolue right we call it out in this measured way with our international partners. tothe hackers are believed operate as part of the international service. the u.k. government says the hackers are using malware.e. they have e supplied coding instruions so organizations cannot pr

to be saying m i 5 initially provided just 6 lines of text why this antagonism between the intelligence services and intelligence and security committee and m i 5 that is after all service we're protecting as the job of that committee is to give an independent oversight into the activities of the intelligence services m i 5 and m i 6 you had sees when and so there's often an uncomfortable relationship between them because they don't always agree with what's going on we don't know a lot what's going on because as you would have seen that box i'm sure you read it from a part of the rest of it was a lot of it was redacted so and they are privy to lots of intelligence secrets that we will never know about so has always been and of course you know this is coming as the new gemini's not the chairman number one downs or do they want it chris grayling the former transport so we're just. sector a known university is failing great he was a minister when aside from the internal politics i thought that i was going to read about. if you believe the manichean the evil russian oligarch theory then names in thi

on labs are said to have been carried out by a group called cozy bear, part of the russian intelligence services we learned about another operation allegedly linked to russia. this one involved a more shadowy group called sekondary infektion, whose exact identity is less clear. it's alleged to have spread information online to interfere with last year's general election. applause. during the campaign, labour presented a leaked document, arguing it showed the nhs was on the table in us—uk trade talks, but today, the government said it believed that the russian group was involved in spreading the document. the russian foreign ministry today mocked the allegations as confusing and contradictory, but russia has been long accused of trying to meddle, and according to the analyst who uncovered sekondary infektion‘s work, the group's aim has been to sow division. it's the kind of thing where you can see they're trying to drive wedges between different countries which are critical of the kremlin. and it's interesting that when they did the initial leaks of the trade documents themselves, they didn't act

it is completely inacceptable that the russian intelligence services are targeting those working to combat the coronavirus pandemic while other sports you there are selfish interests with reckless behavior the keen and satellites are getting on with the hard work of finding a vaccine and protecting global health. the kremlin has denied any links to cyber attacks on research centers and sees no information about research institutions across russia are working on their own potential vaccines and awareness that moscow is such an off university entrance to a potential breakthrough. and with more. we've been livin in corbett shadow for months now the world health organization calls it public enemy number one and it's not to loosen its grade more than 13000000 people are currently in fact worldwide back thing remains world's best hope to return to make life and the raise to find a treatment to protect all of us has been accelerating moskos session of university has been conducting russia's 1st human trials about a month ago 38 volunteer is men and women aged between 18 and 60 stepped in to help

there's another one called fancy bear, they are tied to the g argue, the intelligence service. said that apt29, also known as the dukes, are working with the russian intelligence services. it is their boldest term to wipe out... so you're saying this goes right to the heart of the kremlin? it goes right to the heart of what drives russia's national interests. they consider these attacks to be in their national interest, and in this case, the usa and canada into covid—i9 research. i was reading that canada had warned that by medical facilities could be vulnerable a few months ago. can you tell us more about that? back in march our equivalent of the ncsc warned canada that there was potential for attacks on biomedical research into covid—i9. that has come to light, we've had biomedical research data attacked, we've had universities given grants to carry out research on covid—i9, so the warning has turned out to be true. dave, thank you very much. also here in the uk, the court of appeal has ruled that one of three london schoolgirls who ran away to join the islamic state group at

so the chinese intelligence services are very very aggressive hooty chinese nationals while. americans born of this country. stated logic property as well as conduct economic espionage in houston of course you know how a lot of oil and gas firms that the chinese are interested in stealing probably from a lot of health care systems and a lot of medical research. so it is the top spots where you conduct that i ask you now from ok good talking to you thank you for joining us to reach out pair of it from a silver out of policy accelerator. then we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now firefighters in greece a battling to control a large forest fire near a seaside village in the eastern peloponnese authorities say they had to evacuate a residential settlement in the catch and release because the blaze is moving towards a military camp where explosives were being stored south african anti-apartheid campaign andrew mellon gagne has died at the age of $95.00 he stood trial alongside nelson mandela and was imprisoned on the notorious robin island

the russian ambassador to the uk has rejected british allegations that his country's intelligence serviceshat's it from me. i'm lewis vaughan—jones. this is bbc news. the number of global coronavirus cases has hit a record single day increase. the world health organization says nearly 260,000 new cases have been recorded in 2a hours. in brazil and the us, where lockdown measures have not been enforced strictly, there is no sign of the curve being flattened. the russian ambassador to the uk has rejected allegations that his country's intelligence services interfered in british politics 01’ interfered in british politics or tried to steal vaccine research. the denial comes days before a report into allegations of wider russian interference in uk democracy is due to be published. us presidents and foreign leaders have joined the tributes to civil rights icon john lewis, who has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. lewis was one of the ‘big six' civil rights leaders, which included martin luther king jr. a weather front which first moved scotla nd a weather front which first moved scotl

changed his policy and ordered the intelligence services to engage in a more systematic aggressive seriesof actions to destabilize elections and to. disrupt russia's. rivals which is the european union nato united kingdom france united states they also say that vaccine development is a priority target intelligence agencies russia wouldn't be the only state involved charlie angela al-jazeera. coronavirus testing is being increased a strain is victorious because of a record rise in daily infections barely all of the 428 new cases and 3 deaths were in l. but despite the realisation of the lockdown in the city neighboring yourself wells has banned singing and dancing at weddings as the state restricts large gatherings to curb the spread saying a straight ahead refugee advocacy groups are warning of an impending crisis for asylum seekers many have lost their jobs are finding it hard to make ends meet because of the pandemic but like gangs reports from city it's been a year of uncertainty for many people including jackie hadari an asylum seeker from the ethnic minority group in afghanistan he's

yes well i think the the intelligence services of britain you west germany and others help each other each other shoulder each other to to promote the ideas or to promote issues that would damage russia because they there are believers in a new sort of cold war just like nato is you know i've been a plant assists for many many years by youth i was an officer in the army and so it's very strange to see that it's coming back into the nature of obviously russia is the enemy because they have nothing in them or they have no warsaw pact against them and they don't know what to do so it's in all the intelligence services for nato for governments to say that russia is to blame for everything this is a playing i flick. how do you see this playing i'd say over the coming days and weeks i don't think it would go very far i think it is it's already hard did this information because the information about the the. leaked documents about the fact that the government was negotiating with the u.s. and u.k. . this is a 2 liner there is nothing much of course next week we expect the committee parliamen

now with update now on the allegations that russian intelligence services tried to steal coronavirussian ambassador to the uk has flatly rejected the british claims. andrei kelin told the bbc he saw "no sense" in the accusations and went on to claim cyber attacks originating in the uk had ta rgetted his country. we do not interfere at all. we do not see any point of interfere as because for us, whether it is conservative party or labour party as the head of this country, we will try to establish better relations than now. i do with this or with that. now conservative party are here and we're working on this relationship. i have to mention that the commission, now studying the results, have discovered several cyber attacks. also proceeding from the territory of the united kingdom. but we do not accuse of the united kingdom what has happened. we can now speak to jason healey who is a senior research scholar at columbia university's school for international and public affairs where he specialises in cyber conflict. thank you very much forjoining me on the programme. cheers, good evening

about russian involvement which would then regurgitated back like a big echo chamber by the intelligence services to the british intelligence and security committee and then back out by the same journalist who initially printed the information and just kept it all off the intelligence and security services committee very clear that m i 5 is the problem they get is m i 5 can't prove there wasn't russian meddling in elections because it didn't look far enough it's going to santa claus father christmas argument you don't know father christmas doesn't exist because you haven't looked for him enough apologies for younger viewers. for many of these allegations against against russia russia may look at such we've heard officials use quite ambiguous terms sometimes like almost certain highly likely is this report signed this letter as a follow up from that report more of the same what some people might say accusations without a solid body of evidence. i think the committee itself said they didn't have any evidence so that's been established now this is moved on a peg because the prime minister said the m

the threat from russia was not taken seriously by the government or the intelligence services, accordingo members of the committee. the uk government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counterterrorism. the government had badly underestimated the response required to the russian threat and is still playing catch up. following numerous suggestions of russian interference in the uk's democratic system, ministers deny they've negligent. russia is a top national security priority. we are not for a second complacent about the threat russia poses when it comes to cyber. but powerful russian influence in the uk is being described as ‘the new normal‘. we'll have more on today's report. also on the programme: doctors, teachers and police officers get above—inflation pay rises to recognise their vital work during the pandemic. the high court hears that amber heard wanted to obtain a restraining order, against her then husband johnny depp, alleging violent behaviour. we meet one of the families who lost a child whose case is part of the biggest—ever review of maternity care in the nh

vital and quite secretive part of scrutiny that goes around here, they keep and i am at the intelligence services and while they denied it officially, the government had been lining up former cabinet minister chris grayling to be the boss of that committee and they expected that committee and they expected that to be confirmed in a vote today, but when it came to it, instead of following party orders, julian lewis got the labour and other opposition mps to vote for him. winning a vote, beating chris grayling and turning out to have the job himself. the tories were so serious that what he'd done, believing it was deceitful and disrespectful to party managers, that they did notjust give him a rap on the knuckles, they have thrown him out of the parliamentary party. you might think that enough, he seems to have missed work —— he seems to have misled the whips, according to tories sources, and it's something that many of his collea g u es it's something that many of his colleagues will find goes against any notion of party loyalty, but you wonder if it might be counter—productive. mps might wonder if

they protect themselves at all well yes and no the answers are that you need a robust counter intelligence service in the case of the united states as the f.b.i. the cia and other intelligence components of the united states government also have counter intelligence. functions and roles but the primary one is the f.b.i. so that's one step you take to you need to have an aggressively informed and. careful private sector you need to engage with google and amazon and choose the company and they need to have very robust in particular in today's world cyber protection measures and then the 3rd thing is that you also have to exact a cost you don't just say oh please stop this we have found your hand in cookie jar you can cause them pain too and it's a it's a cool reality that through mutually assured pain danger that other countries may have a 2nd thoughts and you need to be able to as great britain or the united states or whomever to act upon the other countries too and then you can both be restrained poss need fantasy to again call the former deputy a national intelligence officer and the transnationa

the new head of the uk's secret intelligence service has been announced.d a former ambassador to turkey — will become the new chief of mi6, known as 'c". he will take over from sir alex younger in the autumn. a railway bridge has collapsed after a freight train caught fire and derailed in tempe, arizona. it's being reported that between 8—10 cars from the train left the track at tempe town lake, just west of the city of phoenix. emergency services are currently at the scene and other train services in the area are being re—routed as a result. police have not yet reported whether anyone was injured. earlier, i spoke to april wernecke, a reporterfor cbs in phoenix, arizona. ijust i just heard from ijust heard from fire officials down there, and they say they've been no major injuries, but one person has been treated for smoke inhalation. it's really pretty incredible that we haven't seen a more injuries because this is a train which caught fire going on a bridge, and then derailed, and the bridge, and then derailed, and the bridge collapsed right over a very

the russian ambassador to the uk has flatly rejected british allegations that his country's intelligence servicesave tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research. speaking to the andrew marr show, andrey kelin also denied russia's involvement in last year's general election, and even suggested, following russia's referendum on its constitution, that cyber attacks aimed at his country originated in the uk. we do not interfere at all. we do not see any point of interference because for us, whether it will be the conservative party or labour party at the head of this country, we will try to set up relations and to establish better relations than are now, either with this or with that. now, the conservative party have won and we are working on this relationship. i have to mention that a commission, which is now studying the results, they have discovered several cyber attacks, also proceeding from the territory of the united kingdom, but we do not accuse the united kingdom of that, what has happened. the ambassador also said russia was willing to start a new chapter in its relations with the uk, which

the russian ambassador to the uk has flatly rejected british allegations that his country's intelligence servicesied to steal coronavirus vaccine research. andrey kelin also denied russia's involvement in last year's general election, and even suggested, following russia's referendum on its constitution, that cyber—attacks aimed at his country originated in the uk. our correspondent caroline hawley has more. it's interview for the andrew marr show tomorrow and it follows accusations from britain from the us and canada that russian spies in particular in particular a group of hackers called cosy bear targeted scientists trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine. now andrew marr asked bluntly if russia had been stealing british vaccine research, the ambassadors reply was, i don't think so, i don't believe in the story at all it makes no sense. then on russian interference in british politics and we got that long—awaited parliamentary report into that due to be released this week. again he denies this, he says russia doesn't see any point and interfering. and then andrew marr asked him about the poiso

and and in britain you've got the intelligence services essentially tanking for their own power the that this kind of story that the russians are coming they're trying to influence elections is essentially a canard i mean we know that some of the the. the the stuff about the hacking of the d.n.c. computers in the u.s. we've all the information we have about that is very clear that was a leak not a hack it was nothing to do with the russian intelligence services and what it showed was that date democratic national committee were rigging the the elections that is a story and of course the story became russian hacking and that of course is a classic look over there there's a school on the same thing happened here with lots of contentious matters including the scriptural case and so on but you've got to be allowed to have a different point of view otherwise freedom means nothing and if everybody ablaze the rules and everybody knows artie's the state funded organization just as a.b.c. is in australia the australian broadcasting corporation or they demand to be say we're not going to listen to

i believe they are almost certainly part of the russian intelligence service and that is also supportedcurity establishment, the department of homeland security in the us, cyber security agents, cyber security infrastructure agency and the national security agency, nsa, so they all agreed that this is most likely the work of the dukes, ‘cozy bear‘ or as the security agency calls them, apt29. give it talking us through that slightly technical and complicated issue but without boozing us, thank you very much. let‘s get some of the day‘s other news. america‘s top infectious disease specialist, dr anthony fauci, has asked young people to show responsibility to wider society over the coronavirus, by not gathering in crowds. in an interview, dr fauci said now was not the time to go to bars and have fun, while cases of the disease were still on the rise. the us supreme court has ruled that a florida law that restricts voting rights for people with past felony convictions should stand. it means that hundreds of thousands will be ineligible to vote in the state primaries in august and possibly i

i believe they are almost certainly part of the russian intelligence service, and that is also supportedty establishment, the department of homeland security in the us, cyber security agents, cyber and infrastructure security agency, and the national security agency, nsa, so they all agree that this is most likely the work of cozy bear, the dukes, or, as the ncsc calls them, apt29. we will leave it there but thank you for stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the closest ever pictures of the sun reveal the mini solar flares across its surface. 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 to contain the worse floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is traditionally called the 'great white way' by americans, but tonight, it's completely blacked out. it's a timely reminder to all americans of the problems that the energy crisis has bro

the russian ambassador to the uk has flatly rejected british allegations that his country's intelligence servicesave tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research. speaking to the andrew marr show, andrey kelin also denied russia's involvement in last year's general election, and even suggested, following russia's referendum on its constitution, that cyber—attacks aimed at his country originated in the uk... we do not interfere. we do not see any point in interference because for us whether it is conservative or labour party at the head of this country, we will try to settle relations and to establish better relations. now conservative party has won and we are committed to this relationship. the commission which is studying the results have discovered several cyber attacks, also coming from the united kingdom territory, but we do not accuse the united kingdom. the ambassador also said russia was willing to start a new chapter in its relations with the uk, which have cooled in recent years, partly due to the 2018 novichok poisioning in salisbury, thought to have been carried out by two officers in r

is a kind of or a longstanding obsession of the intelligence services so that's what i'm expecting from this report i don't think they'll be anything terribly substantial one of the elements today is that the key document russia is supposed to have stolen relates to the n.h.s. being of sorts on the table in u.s. u.k. trade talks surely such information though is it not it's not public interest should have been made secret in the 1st place something like. that is that right yes it is absolutely right that document was a matter of public interest and the same goes into $94.00 the allegation about the . emails that were allegedly stolen by the g.r.u. and passed on to wiki leaks which again we have no evidence well but there was even those were a matter of public interest i mean you know the public needed to know there was an election coming up and the information there was something the public needed to know if they were to decide whom to vote for in the election so yeah absolutely but moreover it doesn't even make very much sense because the story that we have been told was that the russi

british intelligence services have said they are more than 95% certain that hackers targetting pharmaceuticalrussian state. here's our correspondent caroline hawley. it's an interview for the andrew marr show tomorrow and it follows accusations from britain, from the us and canada that russian spies — in particular, a group of hackers called cozy bear — targeted scientists trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine. now, andrew marr asked bluntly if russia had been stealing british vaccine research. the ambassador‘s reply was "i don't think so. i don't believe in this story at all. it makes no sense." then, on russian interference in british politics, and we've got that long—awaited parliamentary report into that due to be released this week, again, he denies this. he says russia doesn't see any point in interfering. and then andrew marr asks him about the poisoning of the former russian double agent sergei skripal in salisbury. he claims russia doesn't know what happened, and this is what he told andrew marr. we do not see any point of interfering because, for us, whether it be conservative par

potential russian and parents and the report does particularly highlight deficiencies around the intelligence services it argues that lead out and services should have been much more proactive in investigating potential russian interference particularly in the 20 sects 2016 breaks it referendum campaign in terms of actually quantifying the impact of russian troops on the outcome of the referendums there is no robust evidence to suggest that russian interference necessarily changed the outcome of either referendum but of course the results of both were close and so in that sense so you have the percentage point separating the 2 sides so in that sense this parity speculation about whether. these kinds of social media activities really did affect the result or say i don't think there's concrete evidence that it did but in any close referendum campaign people are bound to look at these kinds of interventions and activities and think that they may have had a more decisive effect in other news e.u. nations have agreed a multi-billion dollar coronavirus recovery package after 4th night elf talks and intense

and 2 of the american us intelligence services department for homeland security in the national security agency as well so this for agencies involved in this what it's looked at is the activities of a group called a c t 29 otherwise known as the jukes perhaps best known around the world as cozy bet that done some high publicity high profile attacks in the past this latest report on that tactics and what they're up to says that throughout 2020 they've been targeting a whole range of organize ations diplomatic governmental energy organizations but among the groups and organizations that have been targeted are bodies that are involved in the search for a vaccine coronavirus the covert 19 virus why would they be involved in searching for vulnerabilities in those kind of organizations well according to the reports it's highly likely with the intention of stealing information now the u.k. is very angry about this and the foreign secretary dominic robb has come out the staff than in and said frankly it doesn't matter what the motivation was the actions themselves were reprehensible we'

presidential election putin they say developed a clear preference for trump over clinton so russia's intelligence services stole and leaked thousands of clinton's e-mails to discredit her. 2 weeks before his inauguration they brief trump. trump rejects their conclusions he does not want his victory to be questioned. the intelligence agencies maintain their findings and partially release them to the public they say putin ordered an influence campaign to help trump win the election. since role is immediately raised in congress which calls the chiefs of the intelligence community to testify. in. their question by democratic party sen i just go down the line in. any of your careers have you ever seen this level of russian interference in our political process and start with drucker komi and just going on the lord no. no no no. i think very few documents that i can remember would have had the political weight and the political influence of this particular document. the purpose of making that report public was to make sure the american people were aware of some of the dynamics going on behind the scenes this wa