Spiraling outbreak. Anger at the president as the coronavirus case count crosses 2 million. Russian cyber spies have been accused of trying to steal research on a possible coronavirus vaccine. Sayu. K. , u. S. , and canada hackers who are part of Russian Intelligence Services are attacking Research Institutions 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 covid19. 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 protect themselves. The u. K. Reveals Russian Hackers interfered in the countrys general election last year by trying to spread and amplify leaked documents online. A criminal investigation is going on. At this stage, it would be inappropriate for us to say that. The statement is so vague and controversial, it is almost impossible to understand. If it is inappropriate to say it, then do not say it. Lauren there is also there is also evidence of meddling in the brexit vote and the election that followed a year later. The government says it will finally release the report with details next week. In fourhlevel attacks years. Security experts say they are not surprised. What has changed is vladimir putin, starting in 2013, changed thepolicy and ordered Intelligence Services to engage in a more systematic, aggressive series of actions to destabilize disrupts and to russias rivals, which is the european union, nato, united kingdom, france, united dates. Say Vaccine Development is a priority target for intelligence agencies in russia would not be the only state involved. Al jazeera. Lauren fbi is investigating a major twitter hack that targeted some of the worlds most followed people. They used the accounts to try and scam people into sending them digital money known as bitcoin. Twitter says there is no evidence that passwords were stolen. Those hacked included barack and jeffe biden, bezos. The tweets were only onscreen for a few minutes but long enough for people to capture screenshots of several before they were removed. Confirmed unidentified hackers broke into accounts of highprofile politicians, tech company billionaires, and celebrities in a scam apparently designed to lure people into sending money to an anonymous coin account. Twitter followers were offered 2000 for every 1000 they stand. This was an account all about opportunity. And what you are seeing is very highprofile people reach a lot of people very quickly. Bitcoin is something that can be turned into cash very quickly, anonymously. I think somebody found a very clever way to extract a lot of money from people in a very quick amount of time. The hack might also be a demonstration of twitters week 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 83 million followers, was not among jack dorsey area says tough day for us at twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened. We are very lucky that the people who took it over chose to use it for such a crude scam, really. It could have been very much more impactful. I cannot imagine different ways it could have played out but we are quite lucky that this has been surfaced in a way that was relatively benign. The bitcoin account mentioned received 12. 9 bitcoins by the end of wednesday, equivalent to around 114,000, roughly half that sum can bitcoin withdrawn the same day. Victoria, al jazeera. Top court hasu. s canceled the Data Transfer deal over concerns the American Government will snoop on peoples personal information. The pact allowed 5000 Companies Including facebook to send data across the atlantic. Diversey activists are celebrating the ruling. Business groups have warned their operations will be disrupted. 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 two largest economies, which are 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. William barr accused china of mounting an economic blitzkrieg, trying to become the worlds leading superpower. Casesmber of coronavirus in the United States has passed 3. 5 million, the highest of any country in the world. Surge. Ections more are making face masks obligate tory. Pandemic and covid19 obligatory. By shortageseset 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 ominousthe trends are with covid19 infections reported to be rising rapidly in 40 of the u. S. s 50 states. We were previously seeing about one in 10 or even one and eight of our tests that we were doing in the community. They were coming back positive. Now, we are seeing one in four. About 25 of all the tests that we are doing, which we have also ramped up, but we are seeing more of those that are coming back positive, which concerns us for increased transmission in the committee. Cases are spiking in places like california and washington, which thought the virus was contained after Strict Lockdown measures that were later relaxed. There are spikes in states which initially seems to have escaped the worst of the pandemic and where combating coronavirus became explicitly political, with restrictions on behavior presented as unamerican. For example, texas. Two weeks ago, the state did finally mandate mass wearing in counties with 20 or more will be cases, but the governor is still pleading with texans to follow the rules, to prevent an economic shutdown. All we need is for people to wear masks. If everyone wears a mask, nothing will be locked down. Alabama mandates mask wearing. In georgia, the governor signed a latenight executive order on wednesday prohibiting cities from ordering mask usage. In oklahoma, where cases are rging. U the governor is standing firm. This will complicate the actions of major retailers who now do mandate mask usage in their stores. Walmart, one of the latest, saying in a statement, because the virus can be spread by people who do not have symptoms and do not know they are infected, it is quickly important for everyone to wear a Face Covering in public. More than one third of Walmart Stores are in areas with no mask mandates. No, i am not going to put it on. I am not going to do this. Retailers feel they are being told to enforce the mask mandates with no support. I am not doing it because i woke up in a free country. The fact is, american food, retail, food packing, Health Care Workers should not have to be the want to do the enforcement. It should be the companies and government. Even if they mandate masks in their stores, they refuse to disclose how many of workers have been infected, are sick and have died, both in stores and across their supply chains. Al jazeera. To go back to the figures, there has been quite a surge, isnt there . Indeed. A massive surge. Figures released by cdc indicate that the death toll by august 8 could rise to 170,000 people aad, so certainly, this is grim figure, grim statistic. Incidentally, the Trump Administration had cut the cdc out of the loop, insisting all coronavirus data come directly to d. C. , to their health department. After 24 hours and a Massive Public uproar, the cdc has been reinstated as the premier collator of coronavirus data, but certainly, these figures are staggering. Spikes continuing in a number of states. Theow have 27 states plus district of columbia, which mandates the wearing of masks, but there are still some states that do not, such as oklahoma, as we heard mention. Certainly, there is no clarity. There is no central process in terms of conducting this particular pandemic and this was emphasized by marylands hasrnor, larry hogan, who written an article in which he says at the very beginning of the pandemic, because there was no assistance from federal government, maryland itself had to import hundreds of thousands of masks from south korea. This he did as the governor. He points out he is a republican governor who got no assistance whatsoever from the central government. This is something we are hearing from a number of governors throughout the United States as the infection rate and the death toll continues to rise. Lauren thank you very much indeed. Still had this halfhour, one of indias poorest dates goes back into lockdown as medical workers battle a coronavirus surge. A young woman who was stripped of her british citizenship for joining isil is told she can return to the u. K. And fight to regain her nationality. There has been a giant area of low pressure circulating for a couple of days. It has produced a very windy weather up the coast of new south wales, huge smiles, with some people, but only some people can take advantage of. I am not one of those. Those swells are dying down. Shedding rain in the north part of new zealand. Keeping the swell on the coast of new south wales. Another cold front working its way through western australia. That has been active, windy, and wet. Probably welcome rain or the forecast for sydney, the wind dies down after friday. We have fine skies after that and the swell will eventually die away altogether. A quiet looking picture for that part of australia. The next frontal system will produce some showers in adelaide and eventually melbourne. Perth enjoys a slowly improving situation. It has been very wet in the north part of new zealand. Easterly breeze on friday. Directly north, and rain has been the story in japan. Not so much in the last 24 hours or the next 24 hours, but in china, over the yangtze, flooding. Top stories here on al jazeera. The kremlin has denied russian cyber spies are 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 e. U. s top court has canceled a Data Transfer deal between europe and the u. S. Over concerns the American Government will snoop on peoples personal information. The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has passed 3. 5 million, the highest of any country in the world. More than 2 Million People have now been affected by coronavirus in brazil, as the outbreak accelerates in latin americas largest country. Anger is growing that president bolsonaro, despite contracting the virus himself, has been dismissive of its effects. Figure that itt passed the 2 million mark in infections, have been today . Havent they . Thats correct. 2 Million People have been infected with coronavirus, an average of 1000 people dying every day. Over 76,000 people have lost their lives in brazil. On wednesday, president bolsonaro tested positive for a second time in the country for coronavirus. He is currently being treated with a controversial antimalaria drug that he says is working for him in spite of the side effects that the World Health Organization says that this drug could have. In the meantime, some cities like sao paulo, rio de janeiro, have started to open up. Restaurants and shopping centers. What most experts are saying and is that the virus is spreading. It is reaching cities that have been spared until now. This is the Public Hospital in the city in brazil, just northwest of sao paulo. Video from the hospital shows no available icu beds left to treat covid19 patients. The footage was recorded by a doctor who works at a facility but does not want his identity to be revealed. Health officials in the city have acknowledged the coronavirus has become a Major Public Health threat. With have had many days 100 of icu bed occupation. For around 10 days, some people had to wait to get an icu bed. They could all get medical care but had to wait for vacancy. Ofeven though the number covid19 cases has started to decrease in brazils main city, it is in smaller ones where the number of Coronavirus Infections continues to rise. Outside the hospital, people wait in line to be treated. Marco is one of them. His father is receiving treatment for the disease. Test for covid because my father got the disease and he is actually in intensive care right now. I could not do it. Brazils president tested positive for the virus and remains in isolation. He says he is being treated with hydroxychloroquine despite some warning against using the drum by the World Health Organization. For me on manyd people. Many doctors say it works. Are not for it. Others do not like doing it for ideological reasons but the fact is, it is working. Bolsonaro is being criticized for his handling of covid19. He opposed lockdowns early on. Two Health Ministers resigned because of differences of opinion with the president. Now, the ministry is being run by an activeduty military general. Leasthe took office, at 25 members of the military have been appointed in his ministry. Human Rights Groups say they are concerned. Ministers. Nine around 3000 people in the whole administration, the biggest number ever. There are several cases. In particular, in the ministry he was challenging his own ministers. They were not accepting it. Gave it to somebody who will follow his instructions, so its very problematic. Over 75,000 people have died of covid19 in brazil. Many people believe those deaths could have been prevented if only the president had responded differently. Tobolsonaro continues have support of 30 of the population but theres a growing number of people that are infuriated of the way the federal government has dealt with the crisis. They believe that what is going on in brazil could have been prevented. Most experts are saying the amount of cases in brazil are currently underreported mostly because of lack of testing and lack of tracking. Also, a model being used by brazilian institutions and universities to say the amount of people infected in brazil could be closer to 10 Million People. Lauren thank you very much indeed. Mostf indias poorest and populous states is being locked down for two weeks to stop a surge in coronavirus cases. Infections arising after hundreds of thousands of Migrant Workers returned to their homes. Medical services in the region are weak. Authorities feel hospitals could be overwhelmed. India is one of the worlds worst hit countries behind the United States and brazil. It has reported nearly one million infections in 25,000 deaths. Is happening is significant because it is the entire state, indias second most populous state, population of nearly 130 Million People who are going into lockdown, and as you mentioned, it is one of indias most impoverished states. The number of cases is concerning because it has one of the if not the Worst Health Care systems in the country, conducting some of the lowest numbers of test. Than 1 10se less of the tests delhi has been conducting everyday. There is a very large number of Migrant Workers who returned when the National Lockdown was imposed in late march. Nearly 2. 5 Million People who work outside of the state returned, often traveling in unhygienic conditions. Now, it is for all of these reasons that the State Government has imposed a lockdown but one of the criticisms, whether it is an rehot or elsewhere, of these lockdowns, which we are seeing more and more across india, is accompanied with very Little Information given there is such a harsh measure. We have not heard from the government about how they are going to use the time of the lockdown, whether they are going to increase testing or improve contact tracing, all of which are just as important measures to contain the outbreak as a lockdown itself. Lauren a British Court says a young woman who was stripped of her citizenship for joining inle in syria cant isil syria can return to the u. K. She left in london with two other girls when they were still in school.