This is bbc world news. The headlines. France has registered its highest daily infection rate of covid 19 since the pandemic began. The latest figures, in the 2a hours from thursday to friday, show almost 9,000 new coronavirus cases. Russian scientists have presented the first report on their coronavirus vaccine. The report published in the lancet medicaljournal says every participant developed antibodies to fight the virus and had no serious side effects. Hundreds of people have joined anti lockdown protests in melbourne, as tensions rise over the states handling of the pandemic. At least 15 people were arrested as some demonstrators clashed with police. One of the worlds most successful footballers, lionel messi, has agreed to stay at barcelona, ten days after insisting he wanted to leave. The striker said he didnt want to drag the club into a court battle. Now on bbc news, click reveals the discovery of one of the largest collections of material belonging to the so called Islamic State group ever found on the internet. This week the largest cache of terrorist content ever discovered online. But why is it so hard to take down . Unfurling the latest phone. And, stand up comedy in lockdown its no laughing matter. Hey, welcome back. I hope you are doing 0k. We are still here for you, and we always will be. Until we get the memo, at least. Hey, lara, how are you . How was your time off . Do you feel refreshed . Oh, i certainly do, but its great to be back at work, even though that does just involve going to a quiet corner of my house and, of course, putting the click sign back up. How has your break been . It was quiet, to be honest. I managed to fill it doing all the things i have not had time to do in the last six months. Is that a break . I am not sure whether it is, really. I dont know, but it does feel like the start of a new chapter. Yeah, it does, it does. September has always been an important month for me end of summer, back to school and so on. But 19 years ago, one terrible event defined one particular day in september like none other. I am, of course, talking about 9 11. It is easy to forget that the horrific september 11 attacks on the us happened before social media,
before youtube, before it became easier to spread hate online and recruit people to your cause. These days, extremist and terrorist content keeps emerging on the internet, and it always seems to be one step ahead of the authorities who are trying to clamp down on it. And now, one researcher has discovered one of the largest living and growing collections of online jihadist material belonging to Islamic State group. Technology author carl miller met with the institute of strategic dialogue, who were behind this crucial find. Al baghdadi is dead. It was the early hours of the morning. Extremism specialist Moustafa Ayad was getting alarmed. Following the death of the Islamic State leader, the digitaljihad was raising
a dirge to baghdadi on twitter. Flitting from account to pro is account, ayad noticed something strange. Some of them had short, discrete links, not within their tweets, but nestled in their biographies. He clicked. It was a powerpoint. In a folder dubbed the mujahids bag and it taught you how to hijack planes. In that folder is everything you need to know how to build your own bombs, create your own chemicals, plan an attack, co ordinate an attack, kidnapping operations, stabbing operations. Things that teach you how to be a better terrorist, essentially. When moustafa told me his story, i was completely astonished. There, just a click away, was folder after folder, file after file, just this vast multi ethnic, multilingual expanse of terrorist content, bigger than anything that any one of us had ever heard of before. For moustafa, though, his story was just beginning. This one is much clearer. This is higher resolution. To his knowledge, this was the largest cache of is material ever discovered more than 90,000 pieces of content in all. And although he did not know it then, it was also the first time it was being pushed into the outside world. And, to his horror, this was no document dump, no static thing of the past. The contents of the cache were changing and growing. Someone was editing the cache live. That is not good what it proved was that despite concerted attempts to clear extremist and terror content from the internet, and claims by various agencies that they had been largely successful in doing so, isis is not defeated. It is still there, alive online. Voiceover this is alkhilafa,
in all its glory, remaining and expanding. So moustafa alerted the counterterrorism prosecutors in new york, as well as the met police and home office in london towards the end of last year. Ten months on, he is yet to hear back. There are thousands of schools for our cubs. Getting it removed became a passion for moustafa and his team. They understand how not just to game platforms, they understand the power of the content that is contained within the caliphate cache. While the documents remain up, the traffic going to them can be monitored. According to the researchers, access to the cache is largely from young people, mainly 18 to 24 year old males based in the arab world. Almost half of the traffic comes from popular social media sites, and most of those
clicks come from youtube. There are also the twitter accounts featuring links to the cache in their bios, or sometimes even embedded in images. These accounts are lucky to survive for a day in the face of twitters enforcements, so is hijacks accounts and tries to automatically create new ones constantly and at scale. A hijacked Justin Bieber fan page was used to host the links, as was an England RugbyTeam Supporters account, which was then unwittingly followed by the team itself. It is important to recognise here that not all of the caches contents are violent. There were a lot of other ways of trying to entice people to Islamic State, and the food and lifestyle, even the healthcare or at least heavily propagandise versions of them were all used as a way to try and entice people in. Someone who knows from her student days how young people
can be enticed is hadiya masieh. She now helps women who may be in danger of falling victim to online radicalisation and tells me it is often the lure of a particular lifestyle that pulls people in. Yeah, so this is like having a fun party, and they are saying they have all the ice cream that they want there, it like is not, again, a war zone, it is a land of plenty. It is what advertising is, so they are good at advertising. I have watched beheading videos. I have been in conflict zones. I have had people close to me die at the hands of terrorist groups. The fact that they are able to operate such an extensive operation is not only frustrating to me on a professional level, but it is personally demoralising. The threat of the caliphate cache extends beyond just propaganda on the internet. It is a means by which people become activated to do harm. The type of platform on which this caliphate cache sits makes it particularly tricky to pull out. No way, we are willing to lay down our blood on the soil mina al lami is a specialist in this area. The Biggest Development in jihadist use of technology this year has been their exploitation of decentralised websites, decentralised platforms. Decentralisation software allows users to store and share content across the web at multiple locations. The servers used are owned by people, rather than one company. The developers of these decentralised platforms have no way of acting against content
that is stored on user operated servers, or content that is shared across a dispersed network of users. It is really all about privacy, freedom, encryption. It is really the control, the full control that they promise to give to users that is what attracts jihadists to these platforms. And despite moustafas team having alerted the authorities in both america and the uk, the cache is still online. In fact, it has even got bigger. So we as a programme approached the authorities once again. Londons met police acknowledged receiving the disclosure last year, and said
the Us Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of new york declined to comment. The thing is multiplying. And it will continue to multiply, unless we take some sort of action. Fascinating yet terrifying report there. Carljoins me now. Carl, hi. Why do you think it was so difficult for the authorities to be able to police this content . What the police have is a nightmare. Youve got the perpetrators in one country, youve got the victims in another, youve got evidence sprayed all over the world, and it is unbelievably difficult if you are any police force, anywhere in the world, to reach across all those borders and bring them all back into anything that looks
like an investigation, let alone a court case. Because what we did see in the film was that counterterrorism authorities in the us and the uk had been contacted, but that didnt seem to amount to a great deal. The problem is that it is kind of everyones problem and therefore nobodys problem. We might want to blame the police, we might even want to blame the tech giants, but there is a whole new kind of player in this game which is decentralisation. So, suddenly, there is not even really a tech giant or a police force to pick up the phone and yell at. How do you think this content can ever be stopped . I think very clearly coming out of this, we are learning that information is basically indestructible. You cannot destroy it, you cant kill it, it is very difficult to get rid of. And that means that invariably, the kind of territory which so called is has managed to carve out online is going to be much, much more difficult to ever fully kind of invade or defeat than any of the territory which they once held
in the physical world. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that uber introduced selfie tech in north america to make sure passengers wear face masks. Amazons prime air fleet has been given permission to lift off by us regulators. And tesla showed off its model 3 Production Centre in china. We know face masks help stop the spread of coronavirus, and now a new device from lg comes with air purifying tech as well. The puricare mask feeds filtered air to the wearer and uses sensors to adapt fan speeds to help make breathing feel more normal. Spot the four legged robot has been deployed to take patients vitals in a us hospital. The boston dynamics machine carries a tablet so doctors can ask patients questions. Four cameras measure skin temperature, breathing, pulse rate and blood oxygen levels from up to two metres away. Artificially intelligent cctv
cameras are being rolled out to detect violence on sydneys rail network. Its part of an initiative to improve safety for women travelling on Public Transport at night. And finally, with some galleries struggling to reopen, how about this entirely Virtual Art Museum . Voma, the virtual 0nline museum of art, claims to be the first completely imagined gallery to showcase art loaned from world leading institutions. Find art on display, a cafe for catching up and even a garden for some tranquillity. This is samsungs third attempt at a folding phone and honestly, what a difference a year makes. Compared to the original galaxy fold, almost everything has been improved, apart from the name this is the Samsung Galaxy z fold 2 5g. He chuckles. When the original galaxy fold
went on sale in september 2019, it had a tiny screen on the outside, a huge camera notch on the inside and a metal finish that was a total fingerprint magnet. This time, the outside screen is a sensible 6. 2 inches, the inside bezzles reduced to a sliver and the back is a pleasant matte finish. Everything is so much more refined, it makes last years galaxy fold seem like prototype, and thats why people say its not always a good idea to be an early adopter. But what is the use . Evidently it combines the convenience of a phone with a screen the size of a tablet, and some apps support flex mode, which splits the folding display in two, so you can watch youtube videos like this, and in the camera, you can take photos like this, although im not exactly sure why you would want to. Although with the external display, you can use the phone as its own stand for video
calls, which is quite useful. I think it would be quite nice if you could keep it on your desk sideways to see notifications and calendar events, although the lock screen is vertical only, so its not really optimised for this, and you get that feeling for a lot of apps. Samsung acknowledges it needs more developers to modify their apps for this format and, in time, it will improve, but this disconnect extends to the operating system. You can put your favourite apps and a wallpaper on the home screen, close the phone, and theyre gone, because theyre two independent home screens which is not how i expected it to work. The category of folding phones has definitely put some excitement back into smartphones, but its difficult to say what will become the most popular format, if any. Companies are still figuring out what works best. Samsung has its z flip instead of expanding into a tablet, it unfolds in half, and the new Microsoft Surface duo has two displays, but the screens themselves dont fold. The latest effort from samsung
still doesnt fold completely flat, there is still a gap between two screens which i expect they will change in the future and, crucially, unlike otherflagship smartphones, this isnt water or even dust resistant, and i think if people are spending £1,800 on a smartphone, probably dont want it to get broken by dust, although if you are rich enough to spend that much on the phone, you can probably just buy a second one as a spare. That was chris. Now, over the summer, one of the many festivals to be cancelled was the edinburgh fringe. Usually thousands of performers descend upon scotland, bringing comedy, dance and theatre. This is a really big deal, i love this festival, and i especially love watching all the comedians testing out their new material. But you have been making up for it online, havent you . I have. So, i have been going to quite a few virtual comedy gigs and this is where comedians are finding new ways to get themselves heard. Welcome to the covid arms,
give me a massive cheer for the start of the show drop into the online comedy club the covid arms and you will find landlady Kiri Pritchard mclean introducing a host of stand ups, and while they do their gigs, the club has so far raised over £100,000 for charity. One of the things about lockdown is you get to know your kids a lot better because you are with them 24 7 so, like, you have thoughts like, i need to give the teachers a big present. But doing stand up without being able to hear the audiences reaction is a tough gig. And you really have to craft your routine carefully. New material is very hard to do online without an audience because its so symbiotic, that relationship working up new material, because you are basically taking this precious butterfly of an idea and like, is this rubbish and they are like, yes, or no, let it fly, so you definitely need some kind of Live Audiencewhen you do new material, but if you are doing tried and tested, you know where funnies are. Whats the point of saying anything amusing . Theres no one want to hear it. Comedy panel shows on tv and radio have also gone out without an audience and in many cases, without a studio. Ijust realised, weirdly, ive never been to your house. Thats true. Well, were certainly not to be inviting you anytime soon, nish. Yeah, good because of the lockdown. Mm. Sure. One of the first was the mash report, where Rachel Parris and nish kumar went from feeding off live laughs to hoping theirjokes hit home. At home. As a performer, i miss the audience is so much and i can tell the difference between my performances when im in front of a Live Audience and when not and when youve got an audience, this light comes on. Its Rachel Parrisand Marcus Brigstocke cheering and applause. But now rachel, and her husband, fellow comedian Marcus Brigstocke, can hear the laughs again. You keep chatting, and ill give it a go. Alright, ill keep chatting. We had a conversation. People laugh. Thats the most upstaging thing you could do. Thats made it worse. This is their weekly online show at the always be comedy club, and it has a live front row. I think the front row that we hear and see on these online gigs is only 10 people, and it makes such a huge difference. It changes the gig, in my mind, completely, and it improves, it means you can do yourjokes with the correct timing. And, as we heard earlier, a Live Audience is vital in helping comedians to workshop new material. After all, barnstorming routines dont arrive fully formed. So, i would be going out at least five nights a week to play tiny venues with a brand new hour,
you know, and they pay a very small amount of money and, i suppose, in a sense, thats what the tuesday night abc show is, its £3, which we regret, that is a bit too low, but its £3 of us tumbling through a string of ideas, some of which will turn into, hopefully, great and long lasting routines that we do for the next year. James gill is the mc and warm up for the couple, and hes found that there are certain hazards to having an audience who are live in their own living rooms. Two of our regulars, and they are such lovely people, but theyve got a dog, and so a couple of. Again, you know, you dont get this at the palladium. But a couple of times, a comedian might be in the middle of a set, and you can hear. He barks. So i know that tim, quick as a flash, is finding that box, clicking mute. This is a different world for comedians who are so used to a microphone, a stage and very little else, and some are experimenting. I am, isay. Harry hill hides on the edge of his webcam shots. 56, its 56, init . Al murrays pub landlord character now preaches from a virtual beer cellar. Straight on the van. And the virtual background video feature means that stuart laws is sometimes upstaged by himself during his gig. Probably hp, but they are both brown sauces, leave it. Different sauces for different courses. Nonsense noises. And some comedians have gone even more interactive. Boop. Boop beautiful, great. This is how comedian monica gaga teaches improvisation in online lessons. Shes also part of an online improv show called hell yeah where they line up, react, and