About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. A National Sport as a bron james signs an 85000000. 00 deal with the l. A. Lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. But we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. The more than 64000000 confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on covert 19 in his Opening Statements the secretary general antonio caetera she emphasized again that governments must be united in their response to the pandemic for the 1st time since 145. 00 entire world is confronted by a Common Threat regarded less of a nationality at the city or face the world Us Organization provided factual information and scientific guidance that should have been the basis for equality in a few Global Response unfortunately many of these recommendations were not followed and in some situations there was a rejection affects. And ignore those of the United Nations and when countries go in their own direction the violence goes in every direction where diplomats get said james bases at the United Nations he says the tone of the speech was a noticeable departure from are terrorists. The secretary general who is known as job to be very diplomatic was not very diplomatic in that speech calling out some of the richest nations on earth saying that the the help for developing countries with regard to covert 19 was totally insufficient for the scale of the crisis and in particular he called out that grouping the g 20 which only met a couple of weeks ago he had called at the g. 20 meeting for very specific measures for a lot more money 28000000000. 00 to get the vaccine to absolutely everyone and for them to increase debt relief to the poorest countries on earth theyre already doing that but to extend it for longer and also to extend that to some of the middle Income Countries that are in desperate need that hasnt happened and the secretary general believes that is a mistake and hes made it quite clear in this speech for the special session of the General Assembly which is under way. Well iran has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed nearly 50000 people there but the Health Minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher iran introduced tougher restrictions to counter a 3rd wave of infections which included calls and nonessential businesses said they get sent to her and he explains the discrepancy in the fatality rate many people werent tested and some people died before a covert tests could be carried out now figures are coming down slowly slowly since the country introduced this partial lockdown so with the new infections daily new infections around 13000 down from 14000 and the daily death toll come down to mid 300 to what it was last month the highest there had ever seen over 400. 00 now these new Restrictions Mean that nonessential businesses are closed that restaurants and cafes are serving takeaways only and private vehicles are banned from the roads from 9 pm till 4 am in the morning if theyre found to be out on the streets they face a financial penalty but also mosques and religious places have been closed and thats quite significant because iran is an Islamic Republic facemasks a compulsory both inside and outside in public spaces and government offices have either closed or working with minimum staff now this partial lockdown is set to expire on friday night some places could be extended or some restrictions depending on what category they fall into now iran has blamed us sanctions for stopping them and restricting their fight against the pandemic also at the start of this pandemic around march this year iran wanted billions of dollars from the International Monetary fund that was refused again iran blamed the United States in fact today foreign minister jihad the reef has been speaking and he said the United States has reached an economic war against iran thats cost many lives and said that they were able to purchase medicines to deal with patients. Well here are some of the other countries were following as coronavirus cases continue to climb russian reported more than 28000 new infections on thursday the highest increase yet its 2nd largest city the petersburg has already announced restrictions around the new year holiday indonesia has also seen a record daily rise in cases reported in more than 8300 on thursday it has the highest number of infections and deaths since the station. In europe hungary has just recorded 182 deaths its highest daily death toll pasha locked arms introduce 3 weeks ago with a curfew in force president viktor orban has yet to announce whether regulations will change in time for christmas in lebannon the Health Minister is warning there will not be an of hospital beds to cope with the increasing cases the countrys already dealing with a major financial and economic crisis and is still struggling after the beirut port explosion in august. But the u. S. Is still the worst affected country by far a wednesday it reported its highest daily death toll since april according to Johns Hopkins university there were more than 2800 deaths recorded in 24 hours for the 1st time daily hospital admissions across the u. S. Topped 100000 in a single day 200000 new infections were also reports its the heads of the u. S. Centers for Disease Control warns that are fair period and other 200000 people could die from the virus so were in that range but dont actually now to see if team 100 to 2000 to 25 on. A day. From this far so you know the mortality concerns are real. And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to foreign 50000 americans have died from this far. Well lets get reaction from the us from the White House Correspondent kimberly whole kids and kimberly were used to hearing these dire warnings from Public Health officials but this time it really seems the fakers back assaults and. Yeah theres no question the Public Health officials are concerned in fact the c. D. C. Saying that the next 3 months could be among the most difficult in Public Health history in the u. S. And so theres a lot of anxiety but to put this into context the population 330000000 the infections now topping 13900000 so most americans know somebody whos been infected but not necessarily somebody whos died so far in terms of the deaths we have 272000 and rising as you heard there the concern being that the thanksgiving holiday that just happened Many Americans did not stay home as they were advised but instead travel great distances to spend the holiday with family and so there is an expectation in about 10 days that these numbers are really going to surge overwhelm the hospitals and that is of grave concern that there just wont be enough facilities to meet the demand now in the midst of all of this a lot of anxiety but also optimism with the emergency or authorization imminent for the vaccines in the United States mid december already production underway but there is also some fear that there just isnt going to be enough of it the white house saying that there will be about 40000000. 00 doses by the end of the year again the population is 330000000. 00 so its going to be some time before all americans can be vaccinated in their. Many theyre nervous about the science and thats led multiple former president s to say that when its their turn they are going to get their vaccine on camera barack obama bill Clinton George w. Bush all saying that they are confident of the science and assisting in trying to reassure a very anxious United States population. Thank you very much indeed mexico is another country that is hoping to start immunizing people against the corona virus this month on wednesday the government reached a deal with the u. S. Drug maker pfizer to buy more than 34000000 doses of vaccine it hasnt yet decided though the vaccine will be offered c. 1st portugal is planning to immunize nearly 10 percent of the population starting in january the priority will be given sold to people with preexisting Health Conditions and front line workers vaccinations will be free of charge to all citizens france too says it will ensure free call with 1000. 00 vaccinations for all residents prime ministers own care stake says an Immunization Campaign will start in a matter of weeks and will be rolled out in 3 phases. Here sec from i. B. M. Says a sophisticated hacking scheme is targeting companies that are planning the distribution of covert 19 vaccines i. B. M. Says the hackers are specifically interested in the delivery of the delivery cold chain thats used to keep these vaccines at the right temperature during transportation or at 10 organizations involved and with just 6 have been targeted and Security Experts from i. B. M. Say this appears to be a state led operation lets get more now from jody west species or chief executive officer at the Global Cyber Risk she joins us now live from washington d. C. Good to have you with us on the program this seems difficult for many people to comprehend what do you think the hackers are trying to achieve year are they wanting to disrupt the supply chain for whatever reason or theyre looking to extort the companies whats the rationale behind this. I think its one of 2 things they are sending very specific emails internally into these companies trying to trick the employees because the emails look like a real email from someone internally that they are trying to trick the employees into clicking on something or opening an attachment and this would allow them malware in this system they could then use this malware is still highly valuable confidence among the party terry data that may be one reason the other is they may want to have someone click on i mean a link or open attachment so they could then install ransomware and encrypt all their systems and essentially disrupt the supply chain this disruption would probably force these companies into paying a very high ransomware amount and they would probably do it because the risk would be the lives lost or spoilage of the vaccine if it wasnt me tain that is very low temperatures and i would you say is behind this because Security Experts i. B. M. Are saying this could be a state led operation do you think this is states who are perhaps behind in the race for a vaccine or is this amount to trying to damage other countries and damage their National Security because this looks like a real National Security risk when you consider the scale of the the pandemic and the efforts to try to bring it under control. It is and it could very well be a nation state sponsored attack i. B. M. Certainly knows what theyre talking about we had a lot of highly sophisticated cyber tools that were developed by our National Security agency and the Central Intelligence agency and they were revealed by the shadow brokers and by wiki leaks a few years ago but this provided some highly sophisticated tools to cyber criminals and theyve been using those so weve seen an uptick in nation state attacks because they have these weapons so they could be using highly Sophisticated Software and it would enable them to get training and research and Development Materials and and very advanced scientific information or in fact intellectual property that could help them in their own countries so it could very well be a nation state and it could have some National Security implication but thats a long term thing if they have a disruption they would they would have to be hoping to to weaken the country in an attack during that time which i think is highly unlikely that when they were talking about the the sophisticated. As sophisticated as it really though if youre relying on people clicking on a link in an email i mean is this not the thing that companies especially these kind of companies that working with this material are not prepared to defend against. Well you know the companies simply have not really over all these years invested the money they should have invested to get the new tourist cyberSecurity Programs in place they not have so when Something Like this happens you have a whole lot of companies and a supply chain and if all of them dont have a Strong Security program then you have a weak link somewhere and so it is a very big opportunity for cyber criminals and its a very big problem on the on the other side because you dont solve it very Fast Companies dont stand up material cyber Security Programs overnight and the criminals are going out and theyre using things like social media pulling through contacts identifying internal executives and players and and gathering and i think they can write an email thats very credible its using the serial numbers of the models of the cold refrigeration equipment so theyre sending these then its working like a very legitimate email that someone internally might respond to so its a highly sophisticated attack so what should companies be doing to protect against this kind of thing because weve seen you know hospitals in the u. K. Being brought to their knees for it from these kind of attacks when you click on an email a pair of stations in the ukraine being brought offline i mean these kind of attacks can have enormous implications so what kind of measures should Companies Already governments be doing to protect infrastructure from these attacks which emanate from a simple email. Wellcome Companies Need to spend the money they need to put the energy into it and spend the money to make sure they have in her cyber Security Program and its appropriately staffed in resource number 2 they need to make sure they have tested backup and recovery plans with off site or off line backup data so they can quickly recover if their system gets encrypted all they have to do is restore it and go on with operations but most companies dont have very well tested systems the 3rd thing is they need to do Cyber SecurityAwareness Training with this particular risk in mind and advise the employees to train them on the tactics so they are on high alert and then last they need to establish communication trees so if an attack occurs or even if they think 1 may have occurred they notify everybody the other companies and they notify Law Enforcement and government so theres an immediate alert Warning System and so that needs to be put in place between all of the companies that would be involved in this those would be the poor things i would say would be most helpful right now ok jody where spain were out of time afraid but great to get your thoughts and your expertise on this crucial subject jodi recipe there from the Global Cyber Risk group. 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