From the prior boys with the intention of creating social unrest to that end we have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters incite social unrest and damage President Trump repeatedly recently when asked to condemn the proud boys President Trump instead asked them to stand back and stand by both the director of National Intelligence and the f. B. I. Head been accused of attempting to downplay russian interference allegedly in accordance with the president s wishes but russia was also named 1st we have confirmed that some Voter Registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy barack obama had been warned of russian interference in the months leading to the 2016 election won by President Trump but the only thing apparently on his mi
A short 2 week closure will ease the burden on its Health System now reports as the United Kingdom wonders whether it will soon be under a full lockdown wales has taken a big step down its own path to devolve government is starting what it calls a 2 week fire break from friday the type of restrictions last seen back in the spring between for the 23rd of october and the 9th of november everyone in wales will be required to stay at home this means working from home where ever that is possible and the only exception. Will be critical workers and jobs where working form home is simply not possible the Welsh Government says the measures need to be short and sharp to fight an exponential rise in covered 19 cases its offering almost 400 1000000. 00 in support for businesses affected. Moneys a Sticking Point in Greater Manchester in northwest england earmarked for the toughest restrictions local politicians want similar support to the previous lockdown when workers forced to stay at home got 8
Killed the governments been forced to hold a referendum to hold the constitution. In time on protesters and ended their friday demonstration not the defying a government ban on gatherings for the 3rd day. Organizers urged the crowds to return home and avoid more confrontations with Police Security forces used water cannon to break a barricade set up by demonstrators in the center of the capital bangkok haida has more from the capital. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protesters in tahrir police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd date thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before. As promised in an announcement just after the violence began taia thordis began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demanding a new constitution reform of the monarchy and the resignat
Through the first line of russian defences. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has been working with the bbc verify team to determine whether ukraine is making any significant process. Ukraines big Counter Offensive in the south is making progress, but how far have their troops really got and can they break through russias defences to turn the tide of this war . Lets just remind ourselves. The Dark Red Area is the area occupied by Russian Forces. The purple area is ground that the ukrainians have recaptured. The russian defences consist of two major lines, each composed of several interlocking obstacles trenches, anti tank devices, minefields, all covered by artillery. The ukrainians have had to spend most of the last three months picking their way through minefields like this one. You can see the hidden mines circled in red here. And theyre doing this on foot, sometimes at night, often underfire, hence the slow progress to date. Theyre also having to find their way through obsta
Around this low thats out of the atlantic and the winds are tough out of the north and northwest. The rain kind of shuts down around 9 00, 10 00. Just light drizzle and rain and its damp and chilly but then we have some sunny breaks late in the day and we get close to 59 degrees. Well talk about the rain for tomorrow and the weekend too which looks really nice and falllike and your accuweather seven day forecast. Heather is looking at some mine stuff on the roads this morning. Lets you take a look at this web cam on the wantagh. It was originally reported on the Northern State parkway but look at this. A parking lot on the northbound side of the wantagh parkway. So its the wantagh north at the Northern State where we have this vehicle fire being extinguished and cleared away. Going in through queens on van wyck south at linden boulevard. Theres an accident. Minor delays George Washington bridge. The lincoln is minor, the holland is about 15 minutes coming inbound. We had the earlier ac