hello and welcome to the programme. a long running cyber attack targeting government departments in the united states has now affected the two agencies managing the country s nuclear stockpile. investigations into the hack are continuing, but some analysts and politicians have blamed it on russian intelligence. our washington correspondent, lebo disekojoins us now. good to see you. so, we know that a number of government agencies have been affected, but this could go even further than we think right now, couldn t it? yes, the part of the department of homeland security that deals with cyber security said that the hackers did notjust use one method of gaining access, and therefore it could be much larger than we think and as you said, this list of agencies that has been affected, from the pentagon to the treasury too, as you said, probably the agencies you would least wa nt probably the agencies you would least want to be impact said by something like this, those in charge of
has died aged ninety. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the select committee investigating january s attack on the united states capitol has unanimously approved a report which recommends that steve bannon a former aide to president trump be held in contempt of congress. steve bannon has refused to appear before the panel. the report says that mr bannon had specific knowledge of the events planned forjanuary the sixth before they happened. donald trump has urged former aides to reject the panel s requests, claiming the right to withhold information because of executive privilege. in his opening statement, the chair of the committee democratic congressman bennie thompson expressed astonishment that mr bannon hadn t given evidence: it is shocking that anyone would not do anything in their power to assist our investigation. so it is a shame that mr bannon has put us in this position but we won t take no for an answer. this position but we won t
and the oscar winning british songwriter leslie bricusse was behind some of cinema s best known tunes has died aged ninety. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe the select committee investigating january s attack on the united states capitol has unanimously approved a report which recommends that steve bannon a former aide to president trump be held in contempt of congress. steve bannon refused to appear before the panel. the report says that he had specific knowledge of the events planned forjanuary the sixth before they happened. donald trump has urged former aides to reject it is shocking to me. shocking that anyone would not do anything in their power to assist our investigation. so it is a shame that mr manning has put us in this position but we won t take no for an answer. i ve been speaking to our north america correspondent david willis and i asked him what he had learned from this vote. we learned that this committee is extremely
of submarine launched missile the white house has condemned the launch. and we ve the latest from the canary islands where the volcanic eruption on la palma continues to spew lava a month on and with no end in sight. hello and welcome. a us congressional committee investigating the attack on capitol hill injanuary has approved a report which recommends that a former aide to president trump be held in contempt of congress. steve bannon refused to appear before the panel. donald trump has urged former aides to reject the panel s requests, claiming the right to withhold information because of executive privilege. but the chair of the committee said mr bannon s failure to appear could not go unchallenged. here s our north american correspondent david willis steve bannon was one of donald trump as my closest advisers. he served briefly as white house chief of staff and was pardoned of criminal charges in one of mrtrump pardoned of criminal charges in one of mr trump as my fi