And feasting and cattle as war says why its the perfect time for the seas gentle giant. Now the British Government is blaming hackers associated with russias Intelligence Agency of targeting Coronavirus Vaccine research as well as its democratic process now britain and the United States and canada all say russian actors have attempted to steal information on covert 19 Vaccine Research in all 3 countries Canada Spy Agency has now warned Health Organizations to take action to prevent themselves from being hacked britain also says russia attempted to interfere in last years general election there by publicizing leaked documents related to a planned Free Trade Agreement with the u. S. They were in turn used by Jeremy Corbyn this campaign against parts. Onsen the kremlin is denying both those allegations is all is coming before a much delayed reports that britains government is expected to release next week on alleged russian interference in the brics that Referendum Campaign 4 years ago as well as the general election in 2017 well lets now speak to paul brennan hes in london for us paul as weve been saying plenty to cover his so lets start with this covert 19 hack this alleged hack what do we know about this at this stage. What happened is that the United Kingdoms NationalCybersecurity Center has issued a 14 page advisory and thats an advisory that goes out to Companies Think tanks all kinds of different organizations as to how to protect themselves from the type of attack thats detailed in it but this advisory is very specific and it talks about a group called a p t 29. Otherwise known as either the jukes or cozy bet and i think most people probably recognize that the term cozy bet as a synonym for Russian Hackers what this advisory says is that a p t 29 is targeted various organizations diplomatic Governmental Energy organizations joining 2020 it has specifically targeted Health Care Organizations that are involved in trying to develop a vaccine for corona virus for covert 19 why well the conclusion of the united kingdoms Security Center is that it is highly likely that the reason why these specific organizations were targeted was with the intention of stealing information and intellectual property relating to the development d of that vaccine other reaction has been strong. The British Government has come out and the foreign secretary said this is completely unacceptable he described the actions as selfish interests behaving with reckless behavior elisa nnamdi his counterpart from the labor party has said these actions are wrong and should be condemned that said as you mentioned in the outset russias denying this because of the way that the advisory is turned you know highly likely there is that glimmer of not totally a 100 percent certain that has to be true peskov sorry a lot of it putins spokesperson the chance to say this weve got no information on who could be involved in these attacks we only say this russia has nothing to do with it we do not accept such accusations nor groundless allegations of interference. In the 2019 election so an outright denial from the russians that they were directly involved or indeed that this Hacking Group is in any way connected with the russian state and we have also heard a number of other things from dominic today i believe and now apparently more details coming out of the issues with the 2016201729 extension 000 votes in the u. K. Can you break that down for us thats right. Yeah thats very i mean its surely no coincidence that weve got a report a long overdue long anticipated report to next week from the u. K. s Intelligence Committee a Parliamentary Committee into allegations that there was russian interference in the 2016 blocks it votes on the 2017 general election that is now going to happen next week it was it could have happened last autumn but it wasnt published for a whole variety of reasons accusations whether the government sat on it it will now finally be published next week. At the same time as that announcement was being made donna grabbers coming out and saying look we have evidence now that its highly likely that russia was involved in at least trying to influence the 2019 general election in the u. K. As well and he said the following in a statement it is almost certain that russian actors sort interfere in that election through the online amplification of illicitly were acquired and leaked government documents or talking about the leaked u. S. U. K. Trade documents which the labor party leapt upon to show they said that the National Health service was up for sale under any post bracks it arrangement with that with the United States and the u. K. It now transpires though that those documents appeared on the internet some time earlier than that and reddit which is the internet aggregator appears to have rather says its done its own investigation shows that its found a link to russia in the problem in the leak of those documents so yes again the shadow of suspicion falls on russia paul brennan across all those developments for us from london thank you very much paul. I spoke to glenn kahl hes a former Deputy NationalIntelligence Officer for a transnational threats at the u. S. Central Intelligence Agency and he outlines the steps that countries should take in defense against these kinds of cyber attacks. We know its not a secret now that for decades. And since the russians intercepted literally every telephone call me in the United States and with computers you can process. Identify words that are of interest and so on so this is just routine we also know that even after the fall of the berlin wall of and because. The russians maintained as many Intelligence Officers operating in the United States as the cia employed globally so their their effort has not diminished whatsoever theres no surprise at all that they are there stealing things that they want you need a robust Counter Intelligence service in the case of the United States as the f. B. I. To do 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 todays world Cyber Protection measures and then the 3rd thing is that you also have to exact the cost you dont just say oh please stop this we have found your hand in the cookie jar you can cause them pain too and its a cool reality through mutually assured pain danger that other countries may have a 2nd thoughts well speaking of hacking and twice a vest a gating and major breach of its systems which allowed the posting of fake messages from some of its very famous uses they include u. S. President ial contender joe biden former president barack obama as well as amazon boss jeff bezos the social Media Company says hackers targeted employees to gain access to tory case and he has all the details. The fake tweets were only on screen for a few minutes but long enough for people to capture screenshots of several before they were removed which is confirmed and identified hackers broke into the accounts of high profile politicians tech company billionaires and celebrities in a scam apparently designed to leo people into sending money to an anonymous bitcoin account twitter followers were offered 2000. 00 for every 1000. 00 they sent this was an account all about opportunity and what youre seeing is you know very high profile people reach a lot of people very quickly because you know something that can be turned into cash very quickly anonymously so i think somebody found a very clever way to extract a lot of money from people in a very quick amount of talent that might also be a demonstration of twitters weak Security Control as campaigning steps up for the president ial election in november a contest in which twitter is likely to play an influential role u. S. President Donald Trumps account which has more than 83000000. 00 followers was not among those hacked chief executive jet doocy said tough day for us at twitter we all feel terrible this happened we diagnosing and well share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened i think were probably very lucky that people who took it over and chose to use it for such a crude scam really i think it could have been very much more impactful. I cant really imagine different ways they could have played out i think were quite lucky that responsibility has been surfaced in way that was relatively benign the bitcoin account mentioned in the fake tweets received 12. 9 bitcoins by the end of wednesday equivalent to around 114000. 00 roughly half that in bitcoin was withdrawn from the account the same day Victoria Gate and be aljazeera. Now facebook the e. U. And the us say theyre studying a ruling by europes top court which scraps a data sharing privacy agreement the ruling prevents Tech Companies from transferring european citizens material to the u. S. Brian reports. The case was called Facebook Ireland and shrimps for words that could have major Global Implications sram says all the and previously activist meke shrimps so were really really happy with his judgement he launched legal action against facebook and its European Headquarters in ireland arguing his data wasnt protected when it was transferred to the social media giant servers in the us. The case went from ireland to europes top cotton oxenberg where judges agreed with him 5 Commission Implementing decision e. U. 2016 well of a 150 is in valley. The court has ordered the scrapping of an agreement called the previous the shield which was supposed to keep the diameter of european customers safe when it was transmitted across the atlantic not because many u. S. Tech companies are obliged to give some access to government surveillance the court found that safety cant be ensured this has been seen as the way in which the European Commission has bowed down to us employer ends and the court of justice claims that this formally is not enough so what happens now with the Privacy Shield is that a lot of data transfers are going to have to be stopped. Max rahms has been here before this is the 2nd major data deal thats been spiked because of him the 1st was previously shields pretty serious and called safe harbor the case is steam from revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden that the u. S. Government was snooping on peoples online data and communications i think the only solution we can possibly see is serious surveillance reform in the u. S. Because that now becomes a business interest the Silicon Valley will simply realize that either in the us laws are going to be changed to a certain extent or they will literally have to move a lot of their operation to europe and even split their systems into 2 parts the Us Government says its deeply disappointed by the latest decision of facebook in the European Union a study in the ruling i know such as us and businesses are seeking surance today on both sides of the atlantic so let me be clear we will continue our work to ensure the continuity of safe state officials. Who do not hold another global data sharing mechanism you. By thousands of companies for things like Cloud Storage payroll and finance while the e. U. And the us must now work out a new way to show the court strace that all privacy watchdogs must do more to keep uses material safe elixir brian al jazeera. Now iranian justice or 30 is considering reexamining death sentences given to 3 protesters after a mass social Media Campaign demanding a reprieve the men were ordered to be executed following their arrests during antigovernment protests last november more than 7000000 tweets years in the hash tag do not execute a cent after that decision. Now still ahead here on aljazeera 25 years of allison we look at the rise from Gary Facebook set out to the wilds biggest marketplace. And of the civil right in the 4 call several small central and eastern areas of china plenty of clout as well in that also as streaming across japan there is some more rain in the fall calls today but we have some much better dry conditions across much of the Korean Peninsula now as we go through friday the rain heading towards japan will generally states that the could just see some heavier downpours through more eastern areas of honshu but of course the system charlie all the way back you can see its actually just a slight ridge that taking it slightly to the north it does mean areas in the south will get a bit of break finally from these torrential rains however the rain is still in the 4 calls in 3 suits us today is getting a case of very heavy rain all the way from sichuan towards some very heavy downpours and again this could well lead to more flooding at this time for that to the north and then across into india plenty of rain here again the monsoon rains that hearing what they should but at the same time again here there has been some recent flooding in the last day or 2 across into mumbai but the very heavy rain is not pushing away from go giraffe that eventually that system will head across towards him on the could be some heavy rain there across into coastal areas but weve got the usual widespread rains as we go through friday and saturday nothing particularly heavy but again the rains back in the 4 causton a pull on up to the northeast. Jump into the stream and julian on Global Community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media and will online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic problems that people have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way we consume it where we do business if were going to adapt to climate breakdown this stream on out is there. The. The world. And again im a star and thats remind you of our top stories here this hour britains government says russian state sponsored hackers have been trying to steal covert 19 Vaccine Research data russia denies the allegations. Europes top quarter scrap the data sharing agreement with the us Senate Ruling that prevents Tech Companies from transferring data of european citizens to america the court says the Privacy Shield deals no longer valid because of us the veil and still its. A British Court of appeal has ruled that a schoolgirl who travel to syria to join eisel should be allowed to return to the u. K. Show me a bag of who is now 20 years old had her citizenship revoked in 2019 and she wants to return to challenge that decision or we can now speak to my fellow as she is the director of reprieve for Human Rights Charity organization and she joins us now from london my thank you for being with us i know that you are in support of the courts decision today can you talk us through why. Absolutely its not really none of that you decision am entirely appropriate we have a situation here where the British Government has failed categorically to deal with the hand although its a discrete number of british families who are currently detained in terms of syria you cannot deprive someone of best citizenship i meant deny them any access to any Court Process to charmes that its clearly armed and thats what it was that you know that youve said that a number of people are in similar situations or how many british citizens are we talking about all well former british citizens so the exact number is not know because the British Government has been transparent about that but our estimate is between 15. 00 to 20. 00 family units so barren mind that the majority of british nationals and and i would call them british children in these camps and prisons in northeast syria so then beyond the children you have women including rematch and then you have a few men i know that im a vegan has previously said that she doesnt have any regrets about how decisions will have behavior which didnt necessarily encourage sympathy for her in the u. K. What do you make of her statements. Well ive never spoken tertium him or herself and i dont know the context in which those comments were made when i think this large group this small group of families is that if we are to have in mind both National Security at the interests of