People like barack obama bill gates and musk. And as the number of corona virus infections in the u. S. Passes 3 and a half 1000000 state and stores take the lead in requiring people to wear masks. In sport ramadan have just won the Spanish League title for a record 34th time a victory over the loreal seldom secure the championship with a game to spare. Russian cyber spies have been accused of trying to steal research on a possible Coronavirus Vaccine the u. K. U. S. 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 29000. 00 general election the kremlin has denied the allegations Charlie Angela has more than. Its 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 its 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 denies the u. K. Government says the hackers are using fishing and malware in their attacks and theyve supplied coding instructions that were going to his asians can protect themselves this latest attack comes as the u. K. Reveals Russian Hackers also interfered in the countrys general election last year by trying to spread an amplifier leaks documents online video to go in there as near the win yes that sure up or a criminal investigation is going on but id this stage it would be inappropriate for us to Say Something britain has said this is the many so vague and controversial that its almost impossible to understand if its inappropriate to say it then do not say if you do any of the straight the fact is. Theres also evidence of meddling in the 26000. 00 bricks it vote and the election that followed a year later the government says it will finally release a report with details next week for high level attacks in 4 years but Security Experts say theyre not surprised what is changed is that what amir putin starting about 2013. Changed his policy and ordered the Intelligence Services to engage in a more systematic aggressive series of actions to destabilize elections and to. Disrupt russias. 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 would be the only state involved in a aljazeera an extinct off as a russia analyst and a lecturer in modern european history at queens invest in belfast thanks very much for the being with us i just want to ask you initially about that the group that the u. K. s National Cybersecurity center said was behind this is a p 20 a p t 29 and it is cosy best sometimes and they say its almost certainly part of the criminal Intelligence Services what more do we know about this group and how they operate what sort of group which is usually referred to whenever there is a high profile russian king is involved and i think im the most famous it was or was the 2016 you know the Democratic National council. With the allegations with release of relations all the Hillary Clintons emails. They are usually leaked to the russian. Military intelligence so there is going to a big backlog of cases that with that group. You know that seems to be kind of quite firmly linked to the russian intelligence and how unusual is it for several countries like the us u. K. And canada to specifically name another country as being behind hacking operation. Well i mean i think we were not foreign to this geishas against russia i think theres been ongoing since the. Quite high profile frequency since 2060 in the general election i mean the president ial elections united staes. I think the us and canada. Can of course close intelligence all eyes. You know members of the 5 ice zation including start a new zealand so its not surprising that would become a coming together but its certainly going to indicates a high level wolf compression between them i mean the Prime Minister said that russia has nothing to do with this but they would have a history of denying these kind of incident how much information do you think theyre not going to have managed to get hold of an in this particular way. We dont know anything about me you know how level and i you know your guess as good as mine but obviously there is a 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 as your reporter said you know most of Intelligence Services in the world begin a fishing feel that thats going to they job in a sense but i think you know you also have to look in the kind of wide that 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 government since they had elections at the 19 finally being released by his which is to be to be gods and i think you know you have to kind of see the overall. Bringing up of the russian interference with within the context of that and of dosia being released finally id like to talk thank you very much indeed thank you. Now the f. B. I. Is investigating a major twitter hack that targeted some of the worlds most followed people the hackers used the accounts to try to scam people into sending them digital money known as bitcoin twitter says theres no evidence that passwords were stolen those hacked included former u. S. President barack obama president ial nominee joe biden and the billionaire amazon boss jeff bezos it origami reports. 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 1000000000 as 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 the 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 very chose to use it as 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 we were quite lucky that responsibility has been surfaced in a way to 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 gave him be aljazeera. Top court has canceled a Data Transfer deal between europe and the u. S. Because of concerns the American Government will snoop on peoples personal information the pact allowed around 5000 Companies Including tech giants like facebook to send data across the atlantic privacy activists are celebrating the ruling but business groups are worried it will disrupt their operations next year brian explains. The case was called Facebook Ireland and shrooms 4 words that could have major Global Implications sram says all of that and previously activist make shrooms so were really really happy with his judgment he launched legal action against facebook and its European Headquarters in ireland arguing his darter 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 on that 50 is invalid. The court has ordered the scrapping of an agreement called the previously 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 can 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 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. That shrimps has been here before this is the 2nd major data deal thats been spiked because of him the 1st was previously shields pretty desists are called safe harbor cases 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 of 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 u. S. 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 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 are doing up hold another global data sharing mechanism used 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 share data the court stressed that all privacy watchdogs must do more to keep users material safe elixir brian aljazeera. Coming up on this news hour from london a young woman who was stripped of her british citizenship for joining us so is told she can return to the u. K. And fight to regain her nationality but of thousands of other women and children also trapped in camps in syria. Anger in brazil as the coronavirus case count is 2000000. And in sport one of basketballs best Young Players makes an unexpected move ahead of the n. B. A. Season at least on. The white house is considering banning travel to the u. S. By all Chinese CommunistParty Members and their families the move could inflame tensions between the worlds 2 largest economies which already high over the coronavirus pandemic and the Hong Kong Security law meanwhile the u. S. Attorney general says americans have become overly reliant on chinese goods and Services Including protective equipment for the coronavirus we embark use china of mounting an economic blitzkrieg and trying to become the worlds leading superpower and every year at the Academy Awards americans are lectured about how this country falls short of hollywoods ideals of social justice but hollywood now regularly censors its own movies to appease the Chinese Communist party i suspect it will disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with foreign dictatorships today. The number of confirmed corona virus cases in the United States has now passed 3 and a half 1000000 the highest of any country in the world at least 46 u. S. States have registered daily increases in the number of current virus cases in the past 2 weeks more than a quarter of the 67000 new infections reported overnight are in 3 republican states florida texas and arizona which were quick to lift restrictions and in the last few hours florida has reported a record daily increase in deaths with 156 fatalities well 138000 people have now died from cave in 19 across the country mike hanna is live from washington d. C. Mike tell us more about those 8 aspirants numbers. Well once again they are continuing to spike in a number of states as you mentioned these are the states that were quick to reopen under pressure from President Trump and certainly these figures are increasingly daunting now part of the problem is any lack of central response to the ongoing Pandemic Take the issue of mass for example the governor of georgia has now instructed all cities that they are not allowed to impose the wearing of masks in oklahoma the governor will not mandate the wearing of masks in 27. 00 of the states including the district of columbia mosques in public are now mandatory so there is complete confusion as to one central way in which to deal with the ongoing pandemic what kind of mitigating measures to be in place and this according to many critics is because of the lack of direction from the federal government and were going to impact is all this having on President Trumps popularity and his election campaign. Well it would appear to be having a major impact one poll conducted recently indicates that 62 percent of respondents believe that President Trump is hurting their campaign against a pandemic rather than helping it now thats a pretty stunning number the reaction of many to President Trumps dealing or not dealing with this pandemic has been pretty harsh and now youve got the latest issue emerging and that is the opening of schools which will open in the u. S. At the end of the summer president absolutely insistent that not only will all the schools open they will also be open 5 days a week now Many Health Workers and Health Experts are arguing very strongly that each case is got to be determined by each case the metrics of the pandemic within particular areas has got to be taken into account when it is decided if the schools are going to open up or how they are going to open up now this is now become a Massive Public debate and once again polls indicate that the vast majority of americans are deeply concerned about the children returning to school and a large numbers will deeply opposed to president insistence that schools will open on a nationwide basis i can i thank you very much indeed. It was my pension that as an infection said more states and businesses nationwide a moving to make face masks a bigotry despite no official ruling from the government she had to tansey has more on that. Several months into the pandemic am coded 19 testing is still beset by restrictions shortages and delays in several states for those eligible for a test long waits have to be endured and it may be a week or more before results are disclosed even with many unable to be tested the trends are all minnes with coded 19 infections reported to be rising rapidly in 40 of the us is 50 states we were previously see about one inch and or even one in a large house we were doing in the community they were coming back now were seeing one inch or so about 25 percent of all the tests they were doing which weve also ramped up were seeing more of those that are coming back which concerns us for increased transmission in the Community Cases spiking in states like california and washington but the thought of virus was contained following Strict Lockdown measures that were later relaxed but there are spikes too in states which initially it seemed to have escaped the worst of the pandemic and where combat in corona virus became explicitly political with restrictions on behavior of presented as uname