6/6/2021: What Happened in Wuhan?, Ransomware, Sir David

60 Minutes

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this week's "60 Minutes," a lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated. Lesley Stahl reports. How cybercriminals hold data hostage -- and why the best solution is often paying a ransom. Scott Pelley reports. And eighteen years after declining to take a hard stance in his first profile on 60 Minutes, Sir David Attenborough warns about the dangers of climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I wouldn't really call what's happened now an investigation.
0:10.6	It's essentially a highly chaperoned, highly curated study tour.
0:16.6	Study tour.
0:17.8	Study tour.
0:18.4	Everybody around the world is imagining this is some kind of full investigation.
0:24.2	It's not.
0:25.4	This group of experts only saw what the Chinese government wanted them to see.
0:33.8	More than a quarter of cities and counties across America say they have fended off an attack on their essential computer networks.
0:41.3	Hospitals, city halls, and transit hubs have all been crippled by sophisticated ransomware attacks.
0:49.3	Cybercrime has really become a way of life and connected to everything we do and really every crime we see.
0:57.8	At what point does this ransomware come to our phones?
1:02.0	I think it's already on the doorstep for that.
1:06.5	The living world is a unique and spectacular marvel.
1:11.3	In his stunning film, Sir David Edinburgh celebrates nature's wonders,
1:15.6	a warning against humans overrunning the natural world itself.
1:21.9	You call the film a witness statement.
1:24.4	A witness statement is given when a crime has been committed.
1:28.0	Yeah, well, the crime has been committed. And it so happens that I'm of such an age that I was able to see it beginning.
1:37.9	I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Scott Pelly. Those stories tonight on 60 Minutes.
1:50.7	In March, the World Health Organization finally released a long-anticipated and much-delayed report
1:58.4	that was supposed to be a post-mortem of an earlier trip to China by a WHO-led
2:04.3	team of international scientists. The question, how did SARS-Co-V-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,
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