The freeman foundation. Pursuing solutions for americas neglecd needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers ou. Thank you. Katty i am katty kay in washington, and this is bbc world news americafo. Warning scientists working on a covidaccine russian spies are trying to steal your work. Another grim milestone brazil newll 2 minus coronav infections as the president tests positive again. Is miami the nexk . New y the number of infections is exploding. We ask the mayor what he needs. Forget bigger riskforget icarus. A new Space Mission flying close to the center give us our best look yet at e surface. Katty welcome to world news america on pbs and arougl the e. We begin with not one, but two stories of russian hacking, and neither have to do with americas elections. Security agencies for the u. K. , canada, and the United States w say that hackeking for the russian state have been targeting organizations that are researching a coronavirus vaccine. The second, the British Foreign secretary says russian actors tried to interfere in last years general election in the u. K. Ssia has denied all the claims. Gordon corera has more. Gordon today the government rushed out lashed out at darkly of trying t stealg them research on the coronavirus pandemic. , coming together to find a in the u. K. But al peopleeople around the world. Im afraid it is pretty egregious behavior. It should be called out in the way we are doing today. Been leading the world inas developing a vaccine. I understand it is one of the ladss computers that labs w hose Computer Systems have been targeted. British inlligence acced em of tried to still data from the labs and cybe pharmaceutical companies. The Cyber Security chiefa says it is tryemg to protect with our canadian and American Partners from see russian spies trying to hack into the netwos and take some of our vital research. Wet. Ave been able to detect gordon this was russian tv news last night saying their vaccine developed jointly with the Defense Ministry was nearly ready. The british governmenot saying it has confirmation that the russians have obtained a sensitive data. Trials here are underway. T it is clear tny countries are racing to find a vaccine, both for National Prestige and to avoid being reliant on others when it is ready. The Cyber Attacks on labs are said to have been carried out by part of the russian intelligence serviceswe. But todaearned about another operation allegedly linked to russia. This went involved a more Shadowy Group whose exact identity is less clear. It is alleged to have spread Information Online to spread fear about last years general election. During the campaign, labour presented a link document arguing it showed the nhs was on e table in u. S. U. K. Trade talks. Today the government said it believed the Russian Group was involv in spreading the document. E Russian Foreign ministry mocked the allegations asd confusing contradictory. But russia has been long accused of trying toeddle, and according to the analyst to uncovered the work, theup s aim has been to so division. It ithe kind of thing where they are kind to drive wedges between different countries, and it is interesting that when ey did the ial trade documents themselves, they didnt focus on the nhs. The way they presented the leak is much more heris another case of the americans bullying the british. Idrdon in a statement today, Jeremy Corbyn sahe claim was ttempt to divert attenti from a longoverdue parliamentary report on russia expected next week. Todays claims are a reminder that even during a Global Health cris, hackers and spies remain active, and that tensions between russia and the u. K. Have not gone away. Gordon n corera, bs. Katty a lot of scrutiny on this subject, but how much action is there going to be . Set to record 2 million coronavirus infections, the secondhighest number in the world. More than 75,000 people have died there. The president , who tted positive yet again for the virus remains in isolation inside the president ial palace. He is still pressing for the country to reopen. South america reporter katy watson reports from sao paulo. Katy in these frightening times, moments of comfort or everything. K for two months, this man has been in intensive care. He only has one workingu ng. It is unclear if you will survive. The doctor asks if he is experiencing pai all he can dis blank o say these are intense times for andre works on ship with his wife, a doctor. They live this crisis together 247. Even her brazils top Infectious Diseases hospital, coronavirus has fueled them. It was t first hospital to fill up in sao paulo, and every y they are turning more people away. It is psychological. Sometimes we fail and we have t deal with the familyain, and ey just couldnt see those patients. They fear for them when they are dying. Is the lowliness 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 orem being mand the death toll gives climate, and even now that he has the virus keeps climbing, and even now that he has the virus from he supports restaurants reopening. There is little love for jair i think he is the worst thing we can have this moment. He is, in fact, irresponsible. He is person without he said, it is not my problem. So it is my problem . Katy in the midst of grief, politics doesnt matter. Everyone is affected. Gravediggers tell me their work hasried. People often say that this virus is invisible, but the suffering year is so easy to s. I meet him in the latin americas largest cemetery. He is exhuming bodies today. With burials rising, space is for those whose loved ones died three and half years ago, th are aghast to collect their bones for being asked to collect their bones. The only thinthe gravedigger is afraid of is getting covid, he says. He has been in the job 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 nowadays is that of a counselor, tty so many families have lost so much because of this virus. Here in america,ovid is tearing through much of the country, and florida has been setting reco in infections for days now. Health officials in the state have recorded nearly 14,000 new cases in the last day alone. That is the second highest daily total we have seen since the pandemic began. Another 156 fatalities were also announced which is also a record. Thoseth infections, mor 3000 came from miamida can i, which means miamidade county, which means more than 75,000 people there are infected, more than 1200 have died. Ere are fears miami could be the next new york. Francis suarez is the mayor of miami. March. Self contracted covid in thank you very much for joining me. I wonder if you could describe the situation in the hospitals in the city of miami. I imagine people are exhausted. They have been goingis for four months almost. Mayor suarez they are exhausted. The hospitalizations we have the highest number of Covid Patients pandemic began. The twice the number of people in icugh beds since the point in march. The highest number of people on ventilators from which is the indication that the death toll will begin to rise. 65 of people that are on ventilators dont make it. Right now the situation is very, very complicated and very difficul, and were doing everything we can to manage it katty you gave a pressities. Nference today and you raise the possibility of miami havingi to go bao lockdown. Do you think that will have to happen . Mayor suarez i hope it wont, but i have always said from the inbegithat you cannot discount that option, you cant take ay that option. T we know that when we wto a lockdown at the time, we had an ascending slope curve of 35 new cases a day, and immediately we saw the curve flatteneenand start deng at a rate of 14 cases a day. Today our sending slope is about 60 cases a day, which is double what it was in march, april, although not at e high point, 125 ses a day. There is some leveling off, but if things dont get better in our Hospital System does not have the ability to manage it, we will have to unfortunately locked the city down again. Katty mayor, i understand they are your voters come and im sure you are very fond of the residentserf miami, but i wo if you are a little bit frustrated that th 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 t ask me if we close to early. When we york was a death toll that reached close to 8 , we saw pele that were dying in enormous numbers, bodyin bag hallways. I think that inculcated in new yorkers a tremendous fear and respect for the virus. When we shut down from we had a high point of 533 cases. A now regularly seeing 3000 cases, five and six times that amount. If i have 533 cases tomorrow, it would be a very successful day for new cases. I donknow if they fear ever completely took hold in miami. We didnt see that kind of havior when we open back up slowly, understanding that miami katty are people afraid now,r . Ma hard to say, becaustill its dont have aggressive compliance. We have aggressive noncompliance, as one of our hospital ceos has said. Ow that the fear factor as completely sunk in. Im not sure that it wisl unless ther shutdown. That is something that again is part of the factor we are including in the decision of shutting down. Katty ok, mayor suarez, wants to go to, shutting down the city again. Thank you for joining the i program. Ow this is a busy 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. Sara rainsford is the bbs moscow correspondent and she joins us now. Thank you for staying up and joining us. What has been the reaction from russia to these allegations . Sara it is a reaction we have come to expect from russia to the many allegations that have been made against it for many dismissal, outright rejection, and some indignation. We heard from the premier and the Foreign Ministry dismissing the allegations and the accusations outright. I think theyre quite distinct. You have on the one hand the accusationf meddlin in the u. K. Election process and on the other this allegation about stealing the science. The one about the science hurts a lot more than the one about election meddling. Russia and even in the kremlin tonight might be feeling slightly pleased that it is being seen as a stroaber country an somehow to metal in ectoral processes around the world and sow chaos to influence ections in countries. Hostile to its ownest. As but when it comes to seeing science stealing signs, that makes russia look possibly week and that possibly hurts. 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 i a sen moscow that they can get away with this kind of thing. Sarah i think the starkest reaction we have seen to anything that russia has been accused of goes back to the of the skripals in 2018. Isbury after that we saw a coordinated response from emessies around orld who throughout russian intelligence ants. It was a giant explosions in the eu, the u. S. That expulsion from the eu, it was a giant expulsion from the e the u. S. I dont thinkussia 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 dpeaking, that is what they are doing behind clo doors as well as in public. Katty ok, Sarah Rainsford for us in moscow, thank you very much. You are watching bbc worldews america. Still to come on tonights program, a histo of oppression and the challenges that brings today. Oueces ofe empireries looks at the plight of australias indigenous people. Katty nearly 650,000 peop in the u. K. Lost their jobs between march and june. That number would be much higher furloughed program. Reporter in east london today, the chancellor preparing to double job center advises, aware that workers m have to move industries. Icthe clock isng. Average pay is falling at the fastest rate in years and it may ri a while before employers are confident about. There will be opportunities for tse people losing jobs in the short term. Yes, in the longterm we will have structural changes in the newte opportunities we cr it wont happen quickly enough. We will s longterm fun a climate. Longterm unemployment. Reporter 1980s from theast era of mass unemployment. Re history may at itself. There will be tough tis ahead. Katty the killing of george floyd in minneolis continues esonate around the world even as far away as australia. Recentrotests have highlighted the plight of the countrys indigenousch population, w suffers widespread poverty and inequality. Essuve governments have described the situation as a national shame. As part of the bbs echoes of empireeries, report on the eatment of indigenous people. A warning that this contains im pes of deceasedsons. Good boy. Repoer where he grew up, but a far cry from his own childhood. That is where the incident happened with my friend. Reporter taking a new care, a taken into care, age 6, h u was lockin 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 family. You just want to be led. You just feel normal. Fe you just want t normal. Reporter he says the Justice System unfairly targeted Aboriginal People like him, and this hasnt changed. I live in constant fear of my children being put in the same tipo that i was things happen to them that were out of their control and traumatizing them for the rest of their lifewo. Y about them gring older and ing arrested by 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 prisoners here. In youth detention, more than half the children locked up our aboriginal. Indigenous australians are the most incarcerated people in the world. If you are a teenage aboriginal boy, you are more lil ly to go to jan to go to uversity. Once you are inside the Justice System, it is very hard to get ngt. These are depres realities, and they have roots in australias colonial past. Fmassacres in the jailing indigenous australians enabled british settlement here fromhhe late 1 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 in the removal of indigenous children from their homes. The darkness of ignorance has beenhe banisd. Ts is not in the past for us. We feel the impact and legacy of colonition every single day, in the over policing of our people, the systemic discrimination that still exists from policing through to the courts through descendents is in prison, being tonight being tonighdeniedail. British explore captain james cook remains a hero to some, but too many, he is the man who opened th door for the displacement of australias people. Black lives matter reporter and the death of george floyd in the United States has shown a light on cooksna queste legacy. Like in the u. S. , there are resourcesshifting away from policing andrin and for structural change. A lot of them will say thatnt the governoesnt care. I would say that governments do care. O they spent a lmoney 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 ve not treated us as distinct communities who are entitled to makeheecisions on t own lives. If we listen to the Aboriginal People, we may see in these numbers. Reporter some projectsunrying a commity approach to justice are getting government funding. Although a charity that tries to keep young people away from prison relies heavily on donations. I dont want toake bad choices, but that is what police black i will wind jailcause im selling drugs, but im not like that. Reporter the violence and trauma suffered by indigenous australians has been passed from one gener 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 protestsak have place around the world and how it has made such a difference to the floyd family. You made noticed that 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 particur, the sun . Nasa and the space 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 have never seen ber re, small soares across the whole surface, which scientists have called campfires. Seeing these images for the first time was breenhtaking, and e look at the sun in these images can we are able to see explosions all throughout the suns atmohere. That is the beauty of it, finding new things for the first time, seeing t 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 designed c toe with extreme temperatures as in years our star. The earth is 93 million miles from the sun,is and otherons have taken solar pictures from just about our planet. But on the first pass, the solar orbiter got much closer, within next two years and it is heading closer still, within 25 million miles of the sun. This would give us a totally new view. In the next few years we will be able to pull off and look down onhe sun above the north pole and later on the south. Have never done that before. Weve never taken pictures from the north and south pe of the sun. Rebecca todays images are