Hello. The twitter account of major figures in countries including barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionairejeff barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionaire jeff blazers barack obama, joe biden and the amazon billionairejeff blazers have been hacked in what appears to be a large scale and coordinated attack. Twitter is still investigating and in the past half an hour it appears that some users are now able to send tweets again. The accounts of elon musk, bill gates and the Apple Corporation were among those affected. As you can see, the account of barack obama contains a post asking for bitcoin and giving back to the community, it is clearly a scam. Other hacked accounts that are verified displayed similar messages. Let us speak now to hacking officer for Cyber Security specialist who was jailed for hacking in the 1990s. What do you make of this, this was someone who wa nted make of this, this was someone who wanted to be noticed . It would have been much more effective
Voting machines, in swing states. So does the president s fired National Security adviser, michael flynn. He and powell met with the president , friday. Here is what he told news max, thursday, about the president s options. He could, immediately, on his order, seize every single one of these machines around the country, on his order. He could, also, order he could order the the within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place them in those states. And basically, rerun an election, in each of those states. Send in the troops. This retired, threestar general says, and rerun the elections. Essentially, at gunpoint. And in case youre wondering whether he is just speaking hypothetically, hes not. Flynn has also retweeted this press release from an outfit called we, the people, convention, advocating precisely that. What the group calls limited martial law. Its all a bit much for another friend to the president. Remember the thing that Ronald
See this coming. I mean, you refer to the new variant of covid 19 which clearly has affected the uk arguably more than any other country welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In the world, may have covid 19 is a Global Pandemic but its impacts have varied markedly. While countries like vietnam originated here it seems it did. And south korea have but the scientists were warning effectively controlled the virus, others have been as early as the summer much less successful. Britain is back in nationwide that the winter was going to be lockdown as infection rates extremely difficult surge and the death for the United Kingdom. Toll approaches 80,000. So, this really isnt the hope is that the roll out a surprise, is it . Of vaccines will vanquish i would go back even further. The virus but for now, the terrible cost of covid continues to rise. Of the initial analysis of how this virus spread and how transmissible it was that whilst lockdown measures and social distancing measures could be
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Covid 19 is a Global Pandemic but its impacts have varied markedly. While countries like vietnam and south korea have effectively controlled the virus, others have been much less successful. Britain is back in nationwide lockdown as infection rates surge and the death toll approaches 80,000. The hope is that the roll out of vaccines will vanquish the virus but for now, the terrible cost of covid continues to rise. My guest is neil ferguson, an epidemiologist who has advised the uk government. Did britain get covid wrong . Theme music plays professor neil ferguson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. How bleak would you say is britains covid situation right now . I think its probably second only to the situation we were in on 22nd of march before lockdown in terms of really the prospects going forward. And in some ways, bleaker still. The new variant of the virus everybody will have heard about transmits considerably more effectively tha
Plane that crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff. 62 people were on board. Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Stephen sackur speaks to british epidemiologist professor neil ferguson, whose early modelling of covid 19 made him an influential advocate of the lockdown strategy. The uk is back in lockdown and infections are surging, what has gone wrong and why have other countries done better . Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Covid 19 is a Global Pandemic but its impacts have varied markedly. While countries like vietnam and south korea have effectively controlled the virus, others have been much less successful. Britain is back in nationwide lockdown as infection rates surge and the death toll approaches 80,000. Britain is back in nationwide lockdown as infection rates surge and the death toll approaches 80,000. The hope is that the roll out of vaccines will vanquish the virus but for now, the terrible cost of covid continues to rise. My guest is neil ferguson, an epidemiologist who