The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from anewers like you. You. Katty i am katty kay in washington, and this is bbc world news america. Kiwarning for scientists w on a Covid Vaccine russian spies are trying to steal your work. Another grimes mne brazil new 2 million Coronavirus Infections as the president tests positive again. York . Mi the next new the number of infections is exploding. We ask the mayor what he needs. Forget bigger riskforget icarus. A new Space Mission flying cltee to the cenr give us our best look yet at the surface. Katty welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. We begin with not one, but two stories of russian hacking, and neither have to do with americas elections. Asecurincies for the u. K. , canada, and the United States at hackers working for t russian state have been targeting organizations thatre researching a coronavirus vaccine. The second, the British Foreign secretary ys russian actors tried to interfere in last years general election in the u. K. Ierussia has dall the claims. Gordon corera has more. Gordon today the government rushed out lashed out at russias slicing accusing them darkly of trying to steal pandemic. On the coronavirus , coming together to find a evacc for the british people in the u. K. But also for people around the world. Im afraid it is pretty egregious behavior. It should be called out in the way we are doing today. Gordon Oxford University has been leading the world in developing a vaccine. I understand it is one of the ladss computers that ls w hose Computer Systems have been targeted. British intelligence accused them of tried to still data from the labs and be pharmaceutical companies. The separate secury chafe the Cyber Security chief says it is trying to protect them. With our canadian and American Partners from we see russian spies trying to hack into the netwos and take some of our vital research. We have been able to detect it. Gordon this was russian tv news last night saying their vaccine developed jointly with the Defense Ministry was nearly ready. The british vernment is not saying it has confirmation that the russians have obtained a sensitive data. Trials here are underway. It is clear that many countries are racing to find a v ncine, both fional prestige and to avoid being reliant on others when it is ready. The Cyber Attacks on labs aree said to havecarried out by part of the russian intelligence services. But today we learned about another operation alledly linked t russia. This went involved a more Shadowy Group whose exact identity is less clear. Information online to spread fear about last years general election. During theampaign, labour presented a link document arguing it showed the nhs was on the table in u. S. U. K. Trade talks. Today the government said it believed the Russian Group was involved in spreading the the Russian Foreign ministry mocked the allegations as confusing and contradictory. But russia has been long accused of trying to meddle, and according to the analyst to uncovered the work, the aim has been to so division. It is the kind of thing where they are kind to drive wedges between different countries, and it is interesting that when they did the inial trade documents themselv, they didnt focus on the nhs. The way they presented the leak is much more heris another case of the americans bullying the british. Gordon in a statement today, jeremyorbyn said the claim was an attempt to divert attention from a longoverdue parliamentary report on russia expected next week. Todays claims are a reminder that even during a Global Health crisis, hackers and spies remain ,acti and that tensions between russia and the u. K. Have not gone away. Rdon corera, bbc news. Katty a lot of scrutiny on this subject, but how much action is there going to be . Set to record 2 million coronavirushe infections, secondhighest number in the world. More than 75,000 people have died there. The president , who tested positive yet again for the virus remains in isolation inside the president ial palace. He is still pressing for the country to reopen. Our south america reporter katy watson reports from sao paulo. Katy in these frightening times, moments of comfort or everything. K fors, two monhis man has been in intensive care. He only has one working lu. It is unclear if you will survive. The doctor asks if he is experiencing pai all he can dis blank to say yes. These are intense times for everne. Andre works on ship with his wife, a doctor. They live this crisis together 247. Even here, brazils top Infectious Diseases hospital, coronavirus has fueled them. It was the first hospital to fill up in sao paulo, and every urday they areng more people away. It is psychological. Sometimes we fail and we have t deal with the family pain, and ey just couldnt see those patients. Th fear for them when they are dying. Init is the los they feel, even when they are sedated. Katy it is a comment that says a lot. The president has shunned social distancing and regularly refused to wear masks, despite them being mandatory. The death toll gives climate, and even now that he has the virus ee climbing, and even now that he has the virus from he supports restaurants reopening. Rere is little love for j bolsonaro in this ward. I think his the worst thing we can have this moment. Hen is, fact, irresponsible. He is person without he said, it is not my problem. So it is my problem . Katy in the midst ofrief, politics doesnt matter. Everyone is affected. Gravediggers tell me their work has tripled. People often say that this virus year is so easy to see. Uffering i meet him in the latin americas largest cemetery. He is exhuming bodies today. Wi burials rising, space is at a premium. For those whose loved ones three and half years ago, th are aghast toboollect their s for ed being asko collect their bones. The only thinthe gravedigger is afraid of is getting covid, he has been in the for 25 years. His hours are long come and it has got personal. His uncle was buried here a few weeks ago. Childhood friend was also lost to covid19. He says his job nowas that of a counselor, katty so many families have lost so much because of this virus. Here in ameri, covid is tearing through much of the country, and florida has been setting record in infections for days now. Health officials in the state have recorded nearlyne 14,00 cases in the last day alone. That is the second highest daily tal we have seen since the pandemic began. Another 156 fatalities were also d announich is also a record. Came from miamida can i,an 3000 which means miamidade county, which means more than 75,000 people there are infected, more than 1200 have dieds there are feami could be the next new york. Francis suarez is the mayor of miami. He himself contracted covid in marc thank you very much for joining me. I wonder if you could describe theon situan the hospitals in the city of miami. I imagine people are exhausted. They have en going at this for four months almost. Mayor suarez they are exhausted. The hospitalizations we have the highest number of Covid Patients with had si be the pandeman. Twice the number of people in icu beds nce the high point in march. The highest number ofeople on ventilators from which is the indication that the death toll will begin to 65 of people that are on ventilators dont make it. Right now the situation is very, very complicated and very andifficultwere doing everything we can to manage it to the best of our abilities. Katty you gave a press conference todaynd you raise the possibility of miami having to go back into lockdown do you think that will have to happen . Mayor suarez i hope it wont, but i have always said from the beginning that you cannot scount that option, you cant take away that option. We know thathen we went into a lockdown at the time, we had an ascending slope curve of 35 new cases a day, and immediately we saw the curve flattened and start descending at a rate of 14 cases a day. Today our sending slo is about 60 cases a day, which is double what it was in march, april, although not at the high point 125 cases a day. There is some leveling off, but if things dont get better in our Hospital System doebinot have thety to manage it, we will have to unfortunately c locked ty down again. Katty mayor, i understand they are your voters come and im sure you a very fond of the residents of miami, but i wonder if you are a little bit frustrated that they have not managed this process of opening up more sensibly in order to cut down on the amount of transmission. Mayor suarez you know, what is interesting is people often ask me if we opened too early. People dont ask me if we close to early. When we saw unfortunatel ain new york weath toll that reached close to 8 , we saw people that were dying in enormous numbers, body bags in hallways. I think that inculced in new yorkers a tremendous fear and respect for the virus. When we shut downad from we high point of 533 cases. Lywe are now regul seeing 3000 times thae and six amount. If i have 533 cases torrow, it would be a very successful day for new cases. I dont know if they f completely took hold in miami. We didnt see that kind of behavior when we open back up owly, undersnding that miami mayor . Are people afraid now, suarez you know, its dont have aggressive still compliance. We have aggressive noncpliance, as one of our hospital ceos has said. I dont know that the fe factor as completely sunk in. Im not sure that it will unless there is a shutdown. That is something that again is part of the factor we are d including in tision of shutting down. Katty ok, mayor suarez, obviously somethingo mayor wants to go to, shutting down the city again. Thank you for joining the program. B i know this isy time, so thank you. Lets circle back to our top story, the allegations of hacking by russia into britains elections and the search for a Covid Vaccine. Sarah rainsfords the bbcs scow correspondent and she joins us now. Thank you for staying up and joining us. What has been the reaction from russia to ese allegations . Sarah iis a reaction we have come to expect from russia to the many allegations that have been made against it for many years, and that is outright dismissal, outright rejection, andn. Some indignat we heard from the premier and the foreigntr min dismissing the allegations and the accusations outright. You have on the one hand thenc accusation of meddling in the u. K. Election process and on the other isllegation about stealing the science. The one about the science hhats a lot morethe one about election meddling. Russia and even in the kremlin tonight might be feeling slightly pleased that it is being seen as a stronger country and able somehow to metal in electoralce pes around the world and sow chaos to influence elections in countries. Que frankly, it sees as hostile to its own interest. But when it comes to seeing science stealing signs, that makes russia look possibly week and that possibly hurt katty the allegations of election meddling service in the United States in 2016, and no real tough action has been taken against russia since then. I wonder if there is a sense in scow that they can get away with this kind of thing. Sarah i think the starkest reaction we have seen to anything thatha russibeen accused of goes back to the alleged poisoning in salisbury of the skrips in 2018. After that we saw a coordinated response from embassies around the world who throughout russian it was a giant explosions in the eu, the u. S. That expulsion from thes eu, it giant expulsion from the eu, the u. S. I dont think russia feels that has a huge amount to use. Relations are very bad after the salisbury attack. There are already a lot of sanctions in place. I think the public shrug that russia is doing, generally speaking, that is what they are doing behind closed doors as well as in public. Katty ok, Sarah Rainsford for us in moscowmuthank you very. You are watching bbc world news america. L st come on tonights program, a history of oppression and the challenges that brings today. Our echoes of empire series looks at the plight of australias indigenous people. Katty nearly 650,000 people in the u. K. Lost their jobsetween march and june. That number would be much higher were not for a governmoutbacked furled program. Reporter in east london today, the chancellor preparing to doub job center advises, aware that workers may have to move industries. Thclock is ticking. Average pay is falling at the fastest rate inears and it may be a while before employers are confidenabout hiring. There will be opportunities for those people losing jobs in the short term. Yes, in the longterm we will have structuraln changese new opportunities we created. It wont happen quickly enough. We will see longterm funim clate. Longterm unemployment. Reporter 1980s from the last erass of nemployment. History may repeat itself. There will be tough times ahead. Katty the killing of george floyd in minneolis continues to resonate aroundhe world, ev as far away as australia. Recente protests hghlighted the plight of the countrys indigenous popffation, which s widespread poverty and inequality. Tssuccessive governmave described the situation as a national shame. As part of the bbcs echoes of empire series, a report on the treatment ofou indigenpeople. A warning that this contains images of deceased persons. Good boy. Porter it is not far from where he grew up, but a far cryr his own childhood. That is where the incident happened with my friend. Repoer taking a new care, a taken into ce, age 6, he was locked up in juvenile detention for the first time at 14 for said. He spent the next 15 years behind bars. I turned 18 in juvenile custody. You just want to be around your t mily. You just w be led. You just feel normal. You just want to feel normal. Reporter he says the Justice System unfairlyar tted Aboriginal People like him, and this hasnt changed. I live in constant fear of my children being put in the same position that i was, and having things happen to themt that wee their control and traumatizing them for the rest of their life. I worry about them growing older and being arrested b police, being taken to prison. Reporter the numbers back up his fear. Aboriginal australians make up less than 3 of the population, but they represent more than a quarter of adult prisonersere. In youth detention, more than half there childlocked up our aboriginal. Indigenous australns are the most incarcerated people in the world. If you are a teenage aboriginal to jail than to go universityo ns once you aree the Justice System, it is very hard to get out. These are depressing realities, and they have rootin australias colonial past. Massacres in thegeailing of inus australians enabled british settlement here from the late 18th century. Police played a big part in that , also forcing people allof peor land. They are doing noble work in saving the blacks from themselves. Reporter right up to the 1970s, police too partk ithe removal of indigenous children from their homes. The darkness of ignorance has been banished. This is not in th past for us. Colonition every single day,y of in the over policing of our people, the systemic discrimination that still exists from picing through to the courts through descendents is in prison, being tonight denied bail. Igh reporter britiai explorer cajames cook remains a hero to some, but too many, he is the man who opened the door for the displacement of australias people. Black lives matter reporter and the death ofth george floyd iUnited States has shown a light on questionable legacy. Like in the u. S. , there are calls for shifting fesources awayrom policing and prison and for structural change. A lot of them will say that the government doesnt care. I would say that governments do care. They spent a lot of money and effort trying to make things better. They dont try hard enough to change the way they do business. If you start with one the british first arrived in australia, they have not treated us as distinct communities who are entitled to make decisions on their own lives. If we listen to the abiginal people, we may see improvement in these numbers. Community approachjusticerying a are getting government funding. Keep young people away fromes to prison relies heavily on donations. I dont want to make bad choices, but that is what Police Officers think, that because im black i will wind up in jail selling drugs, but im not like that. Reporter the violence and trauma suffed by indigenous stralians has been passed from one generation to the next since the early days of colonization. For these young people, the hope is that their future will be different from their ancestors painful past. Katty when we spoke to George Floyds brother on this program a few weeks ago, he told us about how important it was to the family that these protests have taken place aroe world and how it has made such a difference to the floyd family. You made noticedhat the earth is a little bit of a mess these days, so what better time to take a closer look at the wonders of the universe . In particular, the sun . Today, joint mission between nasapa and the agency has released the closest ever images of the sun. Here is science correspondent rebecca morelle. Rebecca our sun and remarkable closeup detail. These images reveal something we solar flares acroswhole small surface, which scientists have called campfires. Seeing these images for the first time was breathtaking, and when we look at the sun in these images can we are able to see explosions all throughout the suns atmosphere. That is the beauty of it, finding new things for the first time, seeing the sun in a new way that we could not have imagined. Rebecca the spacecraft started its mission in february, and building the u. K. Come it is cope with extre temperatures as in years our star. The earth is 93 million miles from the, s and other missions have taken solar pictures from just about our planet. Bu fon thest pass, the solart orbiter ch closer, within 48 million miles, and over the next two years and it is heading closer still, within 25 million mileof the