Against spreading information hacked from the campaign of the centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron. Aides to mr macron say the Hacking Attack was intended to undermine french democracy. James reynolds has sent this report. Emmanuel macron arrived last night for his final interview, assuming that his campaign was basically done. But whilst he was speaking, documents stolen from his team were being circulated online. His campaign had been hacked. Coming in the last hour, his team said this intervention is an attempt to destabilise democracy, as happened in the usa during the last election. Who stole these documents . In the past, Emmanuel Macron said that russian backed hackers were out to get him. One cyber expert said this hack looks different. It is very low level, compared with what they have done in the United States. That was a highly creative and high end Information War mixed with a cyber war. What we are witnessing now is very low end, very amateurish. But many french people brav
And london, this is bbc world news. It s newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london and seven in the morning in singapore. North korea has fired what appears to be a ballistic missile, according to the south, as tensions have been flaring over the norths nuclear ambitions. The unidentified missile was fired from near the north korean coastal city of wonsan. It reportedly landed in the sea ofjapan. Japan has strongly condemned the launch, saying these tests cause a threat to ships and planes, although no damage has been reported. President trump has been briefed on the situation. South koreas new president , moonjae in, has ordered a meeting of the National Security council. We can go live to seoul and speak to the bbcs steve evans. What has been the reaction so far to the latest provocation . Condemnation by clearly. The National Security council in south korea is going to meet. Really, its like groundhog day. This is the third missile since the new president took over here in south
There was an absolute problem on saturday. The extent of the effect of the actual disruption affected some of our communication systems. We were unable to send out the standard messengers that we always do whenever there is a Destruction Ora do whenever there is a destruction or a delay or cancellation. On saturday was a big problem. Many of those messages were starting to come through, we began to reach out to people and yesterday on sunday we we re people and yesterday on sunday we were able to reach out to most of the customers on an electronic method. At the airport we have been handing out individual letters with specific instructions to follow in order to deal with the individual problems. We will continue to do so, we have a back log right now on social media but we will attend to it. We will not stop until we have actually answered each and every message. We have attended to the needs of older customers. We are fully aware that communications must get better, particularly on so
Acting defense minister are on their way to crimea as pro russian activists enter the naval base in sevastopol. South african president jacob zuma under pressure for benefiting for a multimillion dollar upgrade to his personal residence. Plus, more than 20 years after the death of hollywood legend Marlena Deitrich, some of her personal belongings go to auction. Hello everyone. There have been emotional scenes at the airport in kuala lumpur in malaysia as frustration boiled over among families of people on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. At least two people thought to be relatives of passengers were bundled away when they complained about the lack of information. 12 days after the plane disappeared, theres still no sign of the missing aircraft. 26 countries are involved in the search operation covering two giant arcs to the north and south of the planes last known location. The bbcs jonah fisher is at the media center where that confrontation happened. A warning, his report c
Taliban presence in many parts of pakistan. Lahore has certainly reeled under militant attacks several times in the past few years, not so much recently, but they have reached they reached their zenith in 20102011. Scores of people kled in different types of attacks, sometimes sectarian attacks, victimizing the shia population of pakistan, sometimes attacks sometimesfi tribes, in areas popular with forests tourists. Yes, pakistan secondbiggest city. The u. S. Is clearly worried about what it calls a specific threat, but it is not explaining what that means. How long will the consulate be closed for, do we know . U. S. Officials have been asked about this, and they are saying, we really do not know. As is interesting because pakistan was not included in the list of mainly muslim countries in which the u. S. Diplomatic missions were closed starting from last sunday. Is notsion in islamabad open today because of eid, but it has not closed. At diplomats withdrawn from lahore will be taken