just as did obvious coming to you live from berlin germany says hackers have infiltrated some of the government's most sensitive networks media reports investigators still don't know the extent of the green each of the russian think tankers are believed to have drones the cyber attack and group that has apparently hit political targets in the school also coming up president of the repros union sounds an ambitious vision for russia pledging to kutch poverty in coffee and on the nation with nuclear weapons that can be intercepted the speech and opposition

politicians in moscow published in moscow and police in slovakia detained drop suspects mean by a budget journalist to spot an article alleges games to the italian mafia at the highest levels of government music and look at the fallout after the explosive claims. i don't welcome ivan without she. coaches in germany say hackers have infiltrated south the country's most sensitive computer networks media reports say the cyber attack was discovered in december but it may have been going on for more than a year a group with links to russian intelligence is thought to be a responsible. the interior ministry has given very few details so far just a brief statement sources say russian hackers have been trying to attack the

government they planted spying software that could have tapped sensitive data the hackers apparent targets were the foreign and defense ministry as they searched for information about russia and ukraine lawmakers are now asking why they heard nothing in their intelligence briefings even though the agencies apparently knew about the breach about government to have said nothing possibly for months which is what we have to clarify it's completely unacceptable we're waiting intelligence on the reason something i cannot make sense of this is a clear violation of the law or your children before we see germany is clearly not well prepared for cyber attacks it can't be interpreted in any other way as russian hackers appear to be going and i have the foreign and defense ministries fatah defense minister you know him i don't always get him cyber attacks against german authorities are nothing new insiders say the government server is attacked more than a thousand times

a day the government already sounded warnings about russian hacking last year. yeah i'm doing we have notice that time and again german parties german politicians and individuals have been subject to cyber attacks by the hacking group a p t twenty eight or other collectives that we would associate with russian service providers. and. i would like to take the opportunity to again make unmistakably clear that germany does not tolerate spying activities or intelligence operations of any kind by any country. that came after a twenty fifteen cyber attack against the german parliament allegedly controlled from moscow it said this new breach could have been even more sophisticated and dangerous losses were just but this is a real threat a virtual war is taking place against germany possibly with the help of russian intelligence services we now need clarity. but for now you the government is

remaining tight lipped about this latest attack even as parliamentarians demand answers. and to discuss this issue with me i have in the studio let us should say he's an expert for cyber security at the german think tank w.p. welcome matusow first of all how do you explain that one of jimmies best protected networks was susceptible to a cyber attack of this kind well this is pretty much standard practice receive government that will preach just around the world in the last month so this is nothing new the reason why it's because it's really hard to keep a persistent actor out of the network you have thousands of users in these networks they sometimes they are not really skilled and i have no awareness about cyber security and then they click on a malicious link and then the network is infiltrated just as easy as that and this time a group which is called the a p t twenty it was is believed to be behind this attack tell us more about this group is also known as fancy that you know would be careful with the attribution question right now it is really hard to attribute who is

responsible for any cyber activity because digital traces can be minute manipulated it can be easily forged language indicators and stuff like that is easily manipulated so it's really hard to tell right now but there are some indicators that point into the direction but there is no smoking gun evidence so far and what do you know about this group and do you know whether this group is known to have links with the russian intelligence again the problem here is that we can determine technical things probably the model that is used for example could be russian origin is true but it's really hard to tell you about social ngs whether they are in fact instructed by the russian government or not so the social attribution question is even more complicated to answer here than there was as you saw in our report another cyber attack in germany on the german parliament the bundestag back in two thousand and fifteen in the same group the a.p. twenty eight was believed to have been behind that attack one of the lessons learned on cyber security after that attack well there were lessons learned

absolutely but as i mentioned it's really hard to keep people out but just to give you a little bit of background the twenty fifteen attacked. was discovered not by german authorities but by a but a foreign actor or intelligence partners and we were informed today we do the discovered it ourselves so this is a little bit of an improvement i would say but there's much much more to do of course so as a cyber security expert what does the german government need to do to improve security because as we heard in article one person said he appears to be a cyber war against germany yeah i would be careful with the terminology here this is standard is fear not a practice this is nothing like an armed attack or even a war so the term is a little bit misleading here what we need is better cyber hygiene within the ministries we need better educated people that are trained and have awareness not to click on every e-mail attachment that they receive we could also talk about better technical measures better network measurement techniques in the ministries but i think the education part is probably the easiest and the most effective for

now right a cyber security expert from the german thing to. be done just to have you on the program basher. russian president vladimir putin says his country has tested a new missile that could reach anywhere in the wide pushing showcased a range of new weapons a short while ago during his annual state of the union address delivered to top russian lawmakers he said the united states of abandoned nuclear arms reduction agreements and that russia had been developing their weapons in response to see both outlined domestic goals in the speech pledging to cut property with the next success and strengthen the country's democratic institutions and. joining me now from moscow is a bloody mimi loftus a former deputy energy minister turned opposition politician is a strong supporter of kremlin critic alexa navai who's been barred from running in this month's presidential election welcome to you now do you think this speech

president two scenes that russia needed for to expand liberties and all spheres and strengthen institutions off democracy that's surely something you'd welcome one to you oh i think everybody who is interested in the subject have observed the dynamics of russian civil rights democratic institutions or the best couple of decades well who was in power we are in the company of the warst countries in the world in terms of civil liberties in terms of political freedoms and less not a secret to anybody so i think this is just one another example of for total detached demagoguery about we heard from many years including many other issues that have said today i'm going to meet the election is in less than three weeks it seems a fairly foregone conclusion that putin will win your body has called for a boycott of the poets what do you hope to achieve by that. i think we want to stay on the same side as the great majority of the russian

population which basically shows no real interest in the procedure the whole the oceans because you can see that basically on a very low interest on the t.v. debates between kind of the. tremendous efforts while all the administrative folks across the country to bring people to the polls were sort of the russians are not political enthusiastic so i think really the societies on our side people demand answers they are fed up with the margaret you know they just don't want to play puppets and there's another reason still not sure when the but president bush is expected to win by a huge majority a novel he has been bought from driving in so you're encouraging people not to would why didn't you or the party put forward have another candidate to give us support as a chance to vote for someone else because if you take a look at the real russian reality on the ground it took more than a decade to actually bring this national wide nomen recognize that there's not

violently we just don't have to in the years ahead of us we have only three weeks to push forward absolutely on lone person would be. really the system stupid to me would be just another puppet kind of that would help legitimize his election would you want to do there we want our candidates to be a register of the old gentleman the constituent constitutional rights to run and give us a sense of how difficult has it been for you to being a member of the opposition in today's russia it's extremely difficult to know when every day when i will consume my home i have to look around because just a couple days ago one of the opposition heads of municipal councils in moscow was badly beaten and his car park when he was blocking his car to go home just because of his position he firmly opposes authorities in his district. co-author over a lead war is named sore for we just recently commemoratives another anniversary of

his murder it's not easy but we have to continue someone has to do this and stand up for russians for their rights and for their liberties and for the future of russia the to be rid of a former deputy energy minnesota and opposition politician thank you very much for talking to d w it's not a dig at some other stories making news around the wind white house communications head hope picks announced her resignation she's seen as one of president don trump's most trusted and longest serving ames hicks's her resignation has nothing to do with the testimony this week to a congregation of panel probing alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen elections. u.s. retained john who are modest said it would stop selling firearms and ammunition to people younger than twenty one has a fades the announcement follows a similar move by fellow retailer dick's sporting goods fresh debates about gun control have broken out after last month's deadly school shooting in florida. in

australia heavy rainfall has caused flooding in the northern part of queensland state more than thirty five centimeters of total rainfall over measured in some places along the coast the floods have cut off roads and they were reports of rock slides. a french judge has formally charged far right leader martin the pan for a number of online posts she tweeted images of graphic violence purportedly carried out by the so-called islamic state circulating violent material that could inside terrorism is punishable with up to three years in jail in france. turned into still police have arrested several italian businessman named by a moderate journalists as having links to government corruption twenty seven year old. was shot dead at his home last week along with his fiance shortly after his murder the news website he worked for published his last unfinished article its

claims have shocked the nation. journalists young could see x. final story was the most explosive in his short career it may also have cost him his large. the story details alleged links between the italian mafia and officials working in the prime minister's office. it was published by his colleagues days after the bodies of and his fiance martina kristen over were found in their bratislava home. i'm ninety nine percent convinced that the murder is connected with his writings about a link between italian mafia and slovakian politics. could see that story name two officials who have now resigned pending an investigation one of them mario toskala a chief advisor to the prime minister another villian the uncertain chair of the state security department both have denied any link to the killings prime minister robert fitz so seen here we're told

a scholar has cautioned against judging the pair without evidence he's offered a reward of one million euros for information about the murders slovakia's culture minister also resigned ashamed that something like this could happen in his country before the. us culture minister i can't deal with the fact that the journalist was killed during my term in office. in brussels european parliamentarians held a minute of silence to honor the journalists. the truth with determination and didn't answer to anyone. the police to clear that he was almost surely killed to stop his investigation. in case they could see x. grieving supporters want his work to be continued they marched in bratislava demanding safety for journalists and an end to corruption could see acts reporting may now have more impact on slovakia than he could have ever imagined. you're

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