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Dangerous conditions in egypts business. So the number of people around the world who have contracted coronaviruses exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people that have died of cave in 1000 over the past 24 hours and that brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000 and more than 10000000 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina and colombia are among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are imposing more restrictions to tackle the new wave of infections and wales is going into a nationwide lockdown for 2 weeks that starts on friday its one of the worst hit areas in the u. K. Over on then jenna hall says the well slow down did come they surprise whales of course already under restrictions much of the country and on friday to the rather unprecedented step of banning people from travelling to wales from high infection locations in england and scotland other parts of the United Kingdom of course and then mark directed earlier in the day today thats the 1st minister in the developed of ministration in wales announcing this 2 week lock down to begin on friday thats the beginning of the state schools hard to break it will last for 2 weeks it is pretty deep this locked down almost as much as the one in the National Lock down across the u. K. Earlier in the year thats the picture of wales of course wales is not the only place enduring these sorts of restrictions at the moment the north of england the middle of england in particular having an uphill battle lots of cities up there University Cities have seen infection rates going up exponentially in recent weeks after the return of students to campuses in September Liverpool under tears 3 lock down restrictions us the highest here in england the mayors of other cities like manchester newcastle and so on resisting government efforts to put them into tears re saying of the science doesnt stack up and the money isnt there to compensate for the loss of jobs and the businesses that will go under as a result of a big battle underway with downing street its ended in deadlock in meetings today the minute the mayors saying they wont do it downing street responding saying look your infection rates are out of control your hospitals are going to be full by the middle of november if you dont text sept the money and the new deal that weve got on the table now will force you under these restrictions or well do it without the extra cash incentive. Well its a nod from august on the pies there kusa Global Public Health Expert and a senior fellow at the University College of long and London School of pharmacy and she says theres hope that multiple vaccines could be ready by the 1st quarter of next year. We do have. 200 candidates currently 42 are human trials so the robot pipeline is robust which is great means we have different types of platforms being used as well its likely that it wont just be one vaccine but multiple that are going to be distributed all around the world and there is positive developments with after zeneca so we do hope that by the 1st quarter 2021 there should be ability to get those 1st doses out but still if we look at who thats going to go to it just simply wont be possible to do it all at once so it is going to have to be in a staged approach in the dont we chose working with gavi and seppi and countries to help prioritize create a framework so that the vulnerable and healthcare workers have access hearsts but it wont be readily available to people straight away which creates an opportunity for falsifying medical products to men entering the markets and thats what im concerned about Going Forward weve already seen a shift of criminal activity to work state p. P. Effect tests and all these other complications are unintended consequences. Jabari is in tehran and she says many iranians cannot afford to take the restrictions seriously. One of the main reasons and that is one of our also the cause of concern for Health Officials is that people are not taking these restrictions seriously in the capital despite the fact that many people are asked to stay home in the schools or close in your verses are all closed there is still a lot of people that are going about their daily routines the malls are open restaurants are still open and they are not hearing to the words of the Health Officials who are urging people to limit their movements in the city this is also one of the reasons that one of the main reasons for that is that many people dont have the luxury of staying home they have to earn a living there is no help Financial Aid from the government thats being offered at the moment so many people that weve spoken to say staying home for them is just not an option they have to make a living so the traffic that we see on a regular basis in the capital one of the busiest provinces in the country continues this spike this outbreak even though people are the majority of people that we see across the city wear masks there are still many people who go about their daily business and they try to earn a living in many of the taxi drivers that we spoke to say they just cant afford to stay home they have to earn their days wage because there is absolutely no help Financial Aid from the government during this pandemic chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat whos in a medically induced coma while being treated for coronavirus complications he was taken to hospital in west jerusalem from his home in the occupied west bank on sunday doctors say hes in a Critical Condition after contract to cope with 19 nearly 2 weeks. For counting is underway in bolivias president ial election and official early results suggest that losing has one use the candidate from the socialist party of the former president evo morales it was forced out of office after a disputed vote last year i was following developments from the neighboring argentinean capital a former south. Sundays elections sundays vote was a historic day for bolivia it happened peacefully with no major incidents which comes as a surprise of the what weve been seeing in the country in this past year since there was a failed election that was canceled last year that left people taking to the streets to demand it will more or less resignation hes leaving the country and being exiled here in argentina and the protests we have seen in the country since then the cold counting process is still ongoing but unofficial results are already confirming a 20 point lead by the side of say over. So what we know right now is that the official results are still out there but they need to be confirmed by counting process that many are saying its going extremely low we satisfy is a former economy minister he was it will want alice minister of economy for 12 years and many of you to him what is no one has ever known me which is a period in bolivia that saw a period of extreme growth of nationalization of the gas industry where bolivia saw growth around a 5 percent growth rate a year lifting millions of people out of poverty out of say is coming this is all happening in a country thats been polarized well many sectors of the country in cities like some. Others there are stoned opponents solve this Movement Toward socialism sparty but in spite of this most of the analysts we have spoken to say that we sort of says victory brings stability to a polarized country. Fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over new gona karabakh has killed another 900. 00 soldiers in the disputed region on media says 729. 00 of its soldiers have now died since the end of september the un secretary general and both sides to respect a new cease fire the 2nd attempt to the truce began on saturday the region is internationally recognized as part of us advice on what its controlled by ethnic indians. In armenia. And he says that like cassava medians do not have much faith in this ceasefire. But of course people here are blaming his areas for that now we were filming earlier today at a school for a report that will have on aljazeera and in a few hours time now the school was closed but it was full anyway full of women and teenagers who were volunteering to stitch together cut up bits of camouflage material and knots them on 2 great big nets now these camouflage next would then going to be sent to the front lines to help the armenian. Fighters there you have the armenian soldiers we were speaking to these these women unseen ages trying to get an idea of how they are feeling about the way things were going in this conflict and the sense that there amongst these people was that its not going very well for armenia theyve seen the videos of harry drones picking off groups of young soldiers they know that there have been territorial losses and theyre aware that in some ways the military tables have turned in the last quarter of a century from you know the time when the conflict flared up at its most serious and in the 1990 s. That was when armenia was a military school militarily stronger now we know the city is aries with its Sophisticated Technology and its help from turkey is in a much stronger position than it used to be so theyre aware things arent going very well but theyre still insisting that victory will be armenias. Thousands of us a politicians are calling on the egyptian president. To release imprisoned activists and journalists 56 members of congress wrote a letter urging sisi to free prisoners who were quote unjustly detained for exercising their fundamental human rights but expressed alarm over the conditions in egypts new tourist overcrowded prisons and said the danger is now amplified because of the risk of covert 1000. 00 outbreaks the letter specifically calls for the release of a number of politicians and activists but also aljazeera journalist mark and hussein hes been detained for nearly 1400. 00 days without trial after being arrested on a personal visit to see his family egypts government has cracked down on the sentence 2013 and thats when sisi led a military coup overthrowing democratically elected president Mohammed Morsy was surely for Months Service the middle east north african Northern Africa coordinator for the committee to protect journalists and he explains why this letter is significant but the fact that this is coming from dozens of house and Senate Members and colluding look at how republicans and the fact that those people included in their letter examples of how they stood up to neighboring saudi arabias crown prince m. B. s of and even gave an example of have they used in punitive measures to delay the collaboration of televisions on how the who is and even then. U. S. Army exports to saudi and some all of these imputed measures could be utilized and he just which if he had received a lot of u. S. Aid there might be a chance that congress can play a role in conditioning those eads starting next year. So later around 0 calling for a change in chile tens of thousands rally across the country some protests descend into violence. Thousands of indigenous colombians arrive in the capital seeking an end to drug violence an attorney. For. How they should be a few thunderstorms on the mountains of man in the rain on the coast as this tropical depression thats what it what it is falls apart is certainly picked the seas up as warning for a small craft to stay clear of that was the wind is up but beyond that the weather is quite quiet in the middle east up through levant its been rather more active in turkey recently has been active front with flash floods in some parts of western turkey this is the forecast to choose to the heaviest rain looks to be in the northeast it will induce a bit of a breeze afterwards so they fairly high temperatures of this part of the world will drop down by 3 or 4 degrees so theyre back average now but warm still in iraq and danny q right otherwise where it should be the heaviest rain africa is drifting sas with the sun seems to be slow movement but its doing to all the same so northern towns a day in uganda rwanda and burundi certainly going to be wet places in the afternoon and rather more regularly i think in gaborone on the northern part of angola there are still a few showers in south sudan as well but not as many as there were focus the galley sort of repeats robin saying sunder storms on wednesday but by thursday and friday fewer the rain then is heading slowly south where the sun. But. When covert 901st struck china and began to spread across asia. Some in the west criticized countermeasures a stew hot or too weak. But have the different experiences before asian nations in fact not shown the world to root out of this group pandemic. Coronavirus lessons from asia on a jersey into. Oh. No you watch out there are much about top stories this hour and more than 40000000. 00 people around the world to contract a Current Quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll breathe the total number of fatalities up to more than 30 pounds. Per county is under way in bolivias president ial election an official early results from a bolivian t. V. Channel suggests that you are saying as one easy candidate from the socialist party of former president evo morales who was forced out of office after a disputed photo last year. Fighting between armenia and azerbaijan that havent nagornokarabakh has killed another 900 soldiers in the disputed region armenia says 729 overt soldiers have now died since the end of september the u. N. Secretary general is edging both sides to respect a new cease fire. Demonstrations over inequality in chile have descended into violence with looters setting alight 2 churches in the capital santiago the protesters were marking a year since the Movement Began initially over the rising cost of transport but which widened into calls for social reforms and a new constitution a latin america to see a new and reports now from santiago. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled street to plazas throughout chile to mark the day one year ago when the countrys social pressure could have burst. There were dramatic performances and looting the Human Rights Violations committed by police. Cysts but there. Theres also music and celebrations its just entire families had come to show that their result to fight for social equality remains strong well get to that but today marks the day that chile awoke with fed up with the abuse of always being marginalized we had to commemorate and say that we want a new chilling cut but the peaceful demonstration that so many had called for was not to be i just 300 metres from the main gathering in santiago who did then till set fire to 2 churches the 1st known as the paris of chiles police force then they torched another regarded as a National Heritage monument was by the time firefighters arrived it was too late. I was. Shops were also needed to group had clearly come prepared to confront riot police and do as much damage as possible nearby thousands of demonstrators continued calling for more equality and respect for human rights these are in memory of some of the people who were killed last october 18th and the following days and months of protests that followed opposition leaders are now warning both sides that if the pilots during demonstrations continues it could scare people away from going to the polls next sunday during the referendum the that referring the move decide whether or not chileans agree to write a new constitution a key demand on the streets. They dont ya i hope that next sunday well have a mass for turnout in favor of the new constitution that we need but i am message that was marred by acts of shocking violence carried out by a few against the will of a vast majority who want to express their hopes for social change at. Ballot box. Aljazeera sankey al. Opposition supporters celebrating salute delhi india as victory in the guineas president ial election. With tear gassed by police at least 50 people have been killed over the past year during demonstrations against the new constitution 82 year old incumbent alpha conde has been vying for a 3rd term in office the final results arent expected for days. Members of the European Parliament are presented a letter calling for the top 2 e. U. Officials to boycott next months g 20 summit chaired by saudi arabia and thats after they passed a resolution last week to dung grade their presence at the Virtual Event in a bid to avoid legitimizing saudi human rights abuses well marked as a belgian politician a member of the European Parliament and he says that he and his colleagues would be encouraged to sign on to support this letter. We had at the 65. 00 to write this letter to show Michelle Cheryl the counsel and mrs on the lady in charge of the commission who dont read the delegation. Has invention to join the the g 20 summit in november so get it yeah because of course we underlined all the problems that we have to underline on the human rights topics i think so you have. The obvious field of governance a. Set and b. S. That said that they have to to improve and to work to improve their image but in the reality we see that we have some problems and for example d we mentioned in the result lucian the best situation of the Migrant Workers and migrant citizen coming from every 3 are in the camps but also or mrs doolan some activists or saw a member of the royal couple the prince of monday that was in southern or prison in jail but also the right. Of human activists human rights activists still in jail and journalists and i think that the. We know that the so get ive got plays a key role in the middle east and the relationship with the D Middle East is are important for europe and of course they have to show the following the lack of opinion of a lot less majority of them they have to show concrete act in this direction. The u. S. Special envoy to afghanistan says attacks are threatening to derail peace talks and what Zalmay Khalilzad calls inflammatory rhetoric doesnt help either a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people in the Western Province of gore on sunday and tens of thousands in Helmand Province fled increased fighting between taliban and Government Forces the taliban says excessive u. S. Air strikes violate peace negotiations with the afghan president s spokesman. Says the taliban should reevaluate its violent approach if it wants peace i think its an unfortunate masters that they are trying to send and i would just violence despite the fact that the International Community the atman people are now ready to talk to this group but the concentration of these kind of violence and brutal attacks on you have been people can really pose a serious threat to the Peace Process that millions are part against are hopeful of war so i think its time for the taliban to look at the their. Behavior in this look at they have to reassess what they are doing and and these should not just revise the kind of deportment you were just there for ending this war. Well 1st of all they are behind you that look at the options of a deliberate oftens upon or perhaps on helmet or look at these. Regular packs that the folk these me goes with explosives and they target government offices and so theres not that. Big claimant or deny it we know about who are behind this and thats the challenge of course these attacks is against the commitments they claim that they are doing something in the Peace Process so the the violate the terms of that agreement that they made with the u. S. In their family so the taliban has to realize that the. Peace the fall where it is to end this violence we do everything not only happen government but the International Community what we are do is to pursue the taliban to end this nonsense why while in. Thailands Prime Minister has issued a conciliatory message to protesters saying the rallies which were banned are now permitted as long as they are peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6th day to demand the 2 prou. With a turn or choose resignation they want a more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it will be about what the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the duty of all types people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to compromise as much as possible i want to ask the protesters for a few things dont destroy government and private property dont do anything wrong and most importantly dont let there be fighting scott hardly has more now from bangkok. This protest is in the custody district of bangkok now this is one of 3 that were announced very late in the afternoon on monday and within 90 minutes we were hear of that announcement there are people showing up already in their hundreds it is swollen to more than a couple of 1000 now again there are 2 other locations within bangkok again announce at the same time there are 6 across the northern part of thailand also being held on monday evening now its interesting how the organizers of the protest are doing this now theyre announcing the protest location time late in the afternoon and the people come out. Just breaking into that were going to the state department to hear them talking about how the Justice Department indicted 6 Russian Intelligence Agency has a 4 year long i can read it for you know hacking spree listener countries or otherwise assisted in our investigation all these partnerships send a clear message that responsible nations in the private sector are prepared to Work Together to defend against and disrupt significant Cyber Threats now ill turn the podium over to the u. S. Attorney for the Western District of pennsylvania to go over the charges in more detail scott. Thank you john good afternoon scott brady on the u. S. Attorney for the Western District of pennsylvania today my colleagues and i are pleased to announce that a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania returned a 7 count indictment charging 6 Russian Military Intelligence Officers for their roles in some of the most destructive most costly and most egregious Cyber Attacks ever known the defendants were all officers within military units 74455 of the russia Main Intelligence Directorate also known as the g. R. U. Unit 74455 is well known to the department of justice and to the f. B. I. For among other things its role in russias efforts to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Elections portions of which were initially investigated by the Western District of pennsylvania with our partners from the National Security division and the f. B. I. As Pittsburgh Field Office the indictment unsealed today reveals the russian governments Global Campaign of disruption interference and destabilization against the teach it adversaries across 3 continents as outlined by a. G. Dimmers the crimes committed by these defendants and unit 74455 are truly breathtaking and their scope scale and impact. A. G. Demurs spoke to the broader geo political implications of the g. R. Use campaign i want to speak for a moment about the victims in this case while the alleged perpetrators of these crimes were russian government officials the victims who suffered real harm as a result of these crimes were often ordinary citizens and businesses around the world these are citizens and businesses that rely on such things as electricity for warmth during a cold ukrainian winter a reliable Banking System as a foundation for a stable economy untainted elections free from interference by foreign adversaries the opportunity to participate in a traditionally non political event like the olympics and access to fundamentally sound hospitals for life saving medical care to name just a few the devastating crimes allegedly committed by these defendants and unit 74455 coconspirators harmed ordinary people around the world including in my district in western pennsylvania. As a result of the not pets him our attack Heritage Valley Health Systems which provides health care to tens of thousands in western pennsylvania lost access to their Mission Critical Computer Systems such as those used for cardiology Nuclear Medicine radiology and surgery their hard drives that 80 medical facilities were encrypted workstations were locked patient lists medical patient history examination files and Laboratory Records were inaccessible while Heritage Valley spent more than 2000000 responding to and recovering from the attack the disruption of Critical Health care to patients cannot be quantified monetary. Additionally a fed ex subsidiary spent approximately 400000000 responding to and recovering from no patchy attack on its Computer Systems and a large us pharmaceutical manufacturers spent in excess of 500000000 and these are just 3 of the hundreds of victims of not worldwide these are not acts of traditional spying against governments instead these are crimes committed by russian government officials against real victims who suffered real harm my colleagues and i on this stage have an obligation to hold accountable those who commit crimes no matter where they reside and no matter for whom they work in an effort to seek justice on behalf of the victims of these crimes let me talk briefly about the charges in the 7 count indictment the defendants are charged in count one with engaging in an ongoing and wide ranging conspiracy to hack into computers steal information such as Network Credentials and cause significant damage to the networks through the depot deployment of malicious code otherwise known as malware. The defendants are charge account 2 with conspiracy to commit wire fraud this offense consists of conspiring to use stolen authentication credentials to gain access to and move laterally within victims networks as well as the transmission of spear phishing emails designed to deceive the victim into clicking on a Malicious Link or attachment to gain unauthorized access to victims Computer Networks accounts 3. 00 and 4. 00 charge the defendants with substantive counts of wire fraud associated with the transmission of the not patch of malware through the Computer Systems of Heritage Valley Health Systems in the Western District of pennsylvania using stolen authentication credentials to move to other parts of the network count 5 charges the defendants with a substantive count of Computer Fraud relating to the transmission of the nut patch of malware on the Heritage Valley Health System Computer Network and causing damage to that network