this is. from berlin tonight the german government confirming it has been hit by a cyber attack carried out by suspected russian hackers confirming that a government fire wall was breached and sensitive information stolen from both the defense and foreign ministries the hackers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election also coming up the international olympic committee lifts its doping ban on russia after the remaining tests of the country's athletes at the

winter olympics come back negative so does this draw a line under moscow's massive state run doping scandal. and fears grow in germany over the welfare of the tens of thousands of homeless people forced to live outside those temperatures plunge to record lows. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us reports tonight coming in that the german government's computers have been hit in a cyber attack berlin confirming that a hacking group infiltrated the foreign and defense ministries and may have stolen sensitive data sources say a hacking group with alleged links to the russian government broke into the government network the attacks were apparently discovered. ember but were only made

public today of the ministry of the interior has confirmed that the attacks did indeed take place all right we want to bring in now our political correspondent oversell it he's on the story for us tonight good evening to you oliver so we've got the german government confirming that federal i.t. systems were attacked do we know any more about this what sort of attacks are we talking about that's why the interior ministry confirmed these attacks they say they were isolated and brought under control right now the foreign ministry is concerned as well by these hacker attacks these attacks might have started up to a year ago they were then discovered in december but only published today it's unclear right now how big the damage really is but what we do know is that malware was installed on the government service and apparently data valuable and sensitive data will still and and we know that german media are reporting

tonight that a group called a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what do we know about this group. well these so-called a.p.t groups are among the most professionally operating hacking groups worldwide and security experts believe that there are about one hundred fifty of these groups active and they are highly professional very well equipped with money personnel and with know how to kill or and for that reason experts believe that they're run or supported by state actors simply because they could not be that well equipped otherwise now with regards to that group you mentioned a p t twenty eight this hacker group is also known as fancy bear and that my drawing of bell because they're also held accountable for an alleged attack on the servers off the democratic party in the run up to the us presidential elections

in two thousand and sixteen the german government also things there they're responsible for an attack on the server of the german buddhist took just a year before that in two thousand and fifteen so we might have russia behind these attacks here and we know that german intelligence has warned repeatedly that this type of attack. is probable or could likely happen i want to get back there to what may have been compromised or stolen do we know what kind of data may be missing. we're talking about data networks that are used not only by these mentioned ministries but by various german ministries also by the german chancellor rhee by the german parliament the bonus talk and other important all floridians and they could logically host potentially sensitive data and information and these a.p.t hacking groups are by the way not interested in money or any kind of

financial resources what they're after is politically valuable information now all four years are of course trying to find out what exactly happened what will still and what went missing here but the biggest fear of course is that the whole data network all of the german government is concerned. our political correspondent over salad on the story tonight on this cyber attack here in germany over thank you very much the syrian government has stepped up its airstrikes on the rebel held on klav of eastern ghouta after the ending of a temporary truce there at least six hundred people are feared to have been killed in the last week including many children earlier today russian president vladimir putin said that his troops have managed to evacuate some civilians but humanitarian workers say people are too afraid to leave. the so called humanity and coated or in

eastern guta as yet seemingly empty of actual humans i'm willing to stand ready to treat the wounded and provisions that aid stations are apparently plentiful. chose who want to leave can do so after a month for twenty days or they can stay even for two years because there is a school and everything they need is here they get new supplies every sixty days. but people seem too scared to risk the journey airstrikes were reported during the first five hour ceasefire and observer say that syrian government warplanes resumed their bombing almost as soon as it ended but russian president vladimir putin claims that one group did make it through. we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave from there but the second group that was prepared could not leave because the militants just did not give them an opportunity to do that putin's face haunts these ghostly aid stations he blamed rebel groups on the grown for not respecting the ceasefire but france today said that the syrian government was to blame. me the syrian regime didn't feel worried

about it and more worries continuing it feeds and large scale military operations with dramatic consequences on the civilian population of eastern. needless to say in complete violation of presentation twenty four when. the u.n. has been in talks with russia in that accelerating and hedonist of the resolution on all sade's perhaps then some of the people whose lives have been shattered by the conflict and start to stream down these empty roads to get the aid they so desperately need. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least ten people have been killed in sectarian violence in northern nigeria locals have reportedly fled a conflict between christian farmers and muslim herders the army says its soldiers killed ten herdsman who were responsible for an attack on the village on tuesday two senior government officials close to slovakia's prime minister have resigned in

the wake of the murder of journalists young. and his fiance on sunday now his story about links between alleged italian mafia groups and people close to the country's prime minister was published today the article mentioned both people who resigned today the international olympic committee has confirmed that russia's olympic day and has been lifted with quote immediate effect despite two russian athletes failing doping tests at the piano showing winter games the country was reinstated after all remaining tests came back negative. i. competed is neutral the welcomed back is russians now the country's elim peak mean statements means the russian flag absent from pyong chan will fly again. in total the band lost in less than three months but the i.o.c. has moved on surprisingly welcomed by russians and in fact committee. none the less

than yours to assure that issue today's decision of the i.o.c. is one of the most important for us because the russian olympic committee is once again completely reinstated in its rights and is now a completely full fledged member of the olympic family. the speech before it was revelations from this man gregory rowe chen calls that it helped lead to the ban the former moscow director of the whistle on a state backed plot to cheat doping tests at the twenty fourteen sochi games as a result clean athletes from russia were only allowed to take part in chang under the olympic flag the red white and blue kept family out of sight. and of those two of them including alexander crucial the failed drug tests while in south korea the i.o.c. agreed on sunday to lift the ban if no of the athletes tested positive didn't and russia's reinstatement was completely. packed the story

a little bit to do that i'm joined by jonathan crane from our sports desk good to have you on the show so was this decision a big surprise interest for and i don't think it was i think it was always going to be a case of if and when and if the russian ban was lifted we've been building up to this really ever since the i.o.c. decided to allow one hundred sixty eight russian athletes to compete as neutral as this kind of indicated a reinstatement was maybe on the cards sooner rather than later and i think actually we would have seen them marching on the growing flag of the closing ceremony had it not been for those to. really kind of change the i.c.c. thinking to some extent i think a lot of. members that would fear a backlash a bit of nervousness about reinstating russia because they had been impressed by the behavior of. the few russian athletes that did compete in the young winter games they were apparently clean so was it really enough for the i.o.c. to justify lifting the space lever i think for the i.o.c.

right from the start had been not preventing clean athletes use their lifelong dream really was to compete and then pick games for not being able to take populace of punishing russia as a country let's not forget the reason for this state sponsored doping uncovered by that man grigorieva chain called a huge huge scandal it's been dragging on for years it overshadowed not only the buildup to pyongyang it overshadowed the buildup to the rio games two years ago but it was the at the mcleod report helped by gregory of a thousand athletes across the sports implicated in this program and i see said that undermines the integrity of the entire unpick movement in this bay and i mean what does it mean it doesn't mean that doping has stopped in russia and what does it mean for the next olympics in the russian athletes and i think as far as russia is concerned it's now business as usual day as well as the i.o.c. thinking to draw a line under with this reweave in sort of day president vladimir putin there is

welcoming the russian athletes who took part to the kremlin presenting those who did win medals ordering them because i think as far as russia is concerned these are russian athletes that won those medals they were neutrals no matter what anyone else said forget the fine print and i think that's been the problem for those people who advocate things because for them the punishment was not hostile they wanted a complete ban and blanket ban of russian athletes and i think they'll be very disappointed that this reinstatement has come very very quickly and that's a good point jonathan green from our sports desk thank you you're welcome. are the talk about whether temperatures here in europe have dropped to record lows over the last few days the extreme weather is causing problems right here in germany for the thousands of homeless people forced to live outside humanitarian groups say they are doing their best to help. the cold front hit fast and hard setting records thirty point five degrees below zero on germany's tallest mountain that it set.

but low lying areas are also chilling in munich that coldest night of this winter was minus ten degrees. outreach organizations have been on the lookout for homeless people at risk of freezing i don't devote intimate to at these temperatures under these conditions it's crazy. there are around fifty thousand homeless people in germany and temperatures like these can kill four people have already died in the cold these volunteers are handing out hot meals. you know i shouldn't yes it's great that someone has come and brought hot food having something warm in your belly it's always good when it's cold out. the red cross is also helping they offer places to sleep in a tent and a place to get warm people cheer up as they warm up. the. good.

shoes to. the deep freeze has the entire country and its grip. ice breakers prevent rivers from freezing solid. and motorists need a bit more patience on the snowy roads. however some creatures have no problem whatsoever with the ice cold weather the siberian tigers at the hamburg zoo even forty below doesn't faze them their thick fur coats keep old man winter at bang. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you hackers have attacked germany's foreign and defense ministry and stolen sensitive data the hackers are alleged to belong to the russian ruble accused of attacking the democratic national committee ahead of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news

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