this is day the news live from hodgkins infiltrate some of germany's post sensitive computer networks to government control for course of a cyber attack on systems in the defense and foreign ministers of german media say a russia backed group is to blame meanwhile in russia president putin lays out sees a vision for the country promising to hop politics and keep enemies at bay with an

impressive array of invincible nuclear weapons. on the beast from the east to savages europe to siberia in the cold front plunges the continent into a deep freeze bringing snow transport chaos and some of the lowest temperatures for years. i'm just one of the first to famous german artists of the early twentieth century a new exhibition we have valid shines a spotlight on that speck my take a look at his work and how it captures the decadence and political turmoil of pre-war germany. i'm still gail welcome to the program authorities in germany say hackers have infiltrated sensitive government networks believed to be in the defense and foreign ministries media reports say the attack has been going on for more than a year and today

a parliamentary committee said it might still be going on security agencies are said to have detected the breach in december and allowed it to continue in a controlled manner while they monitor that the group of links to the russian government is thought to be responsible. the german government's communication network has been breached by hackers the parliament's secret supervisory body has been informed by the chancellor and security services and they say it's not over this is an. actual cyber attack on the government's information network and it's ongoing the government has known about this since december it's spent weeks observing the cyber attack to learn more about the hackers activities not even the agency responsible for intelligence services was informed delegates are angry about being left out of the loop. but we would all understand if the chancellor's office said it needs to observe a critical issue a little longer. but the fact that no one said anything at all on the contrary

means we are once again in a position to learn about such incidents from the media which i think is absurd. parliamentarians agreed the situation is dire. it is not taking i mean this is a large of course although cyber attacks have been around for a long time the government and i t. security in this country aren't geared up toward them off the federal government must act on this now because it's a serious threat. the extent of the hackers infiltration of the german data network is still under investigation classified information does not appear to have been stolen. it's clear what we need to clarify now is whether documents were stolen or did not assume that sensitive documents have really been leaked because it concerns the federal information network it's all about communication there's no sensitive data on any server it's not that simple. there's still speculation about the origin

of the attack and how it was carried out some analysts point to indications of russian activity that's what others warn against premature accusations you've got just one attack on germany's integrity is one too many and i don't care where it comes from if it's from russia there's much to criticize as if it had originated from the national security agency lawmakers now want to discuss the details in a moving up the parliament supervisory body on intelligence see if we can get some answers from isabel skinner she's a researcher with the digital society institute bourbons that european school of management and technology a focus of industrial cyber security welcome to d w how worried should we be about the talk like this how worried should germany be. so what we know right now is that the security government that work with facts. will be and we know that

the information that could be accessed via this network is not that critical so it's not highly classified information so at this stage. it might not be a very serious attack but we don't have enough information to know more about this and we also don't know how much information was accelerated so how would you describe the german government's states of cybersecurity readiness. so i think that a lot more in needs to be done here i mean we've seen for example that this attack was discovered only from what we know in the media ten to twelve months into the attack so the attackers had a lot of time to be in the network and this is also why it's unprecedented and in that sense it's a very serious attack right because it seems that the detection wasn't fast enough and that then when they actually just covered the attack they could isolate the attackers and observe them but only after a year or so hackers can do

a lot of stuff in this time those that do it would go good to have the skills and the stuff to keep up with to cope with this sort of attack i think the german government has a lot of good skills but not enough you know so in terms of they have a few very good specialists but certainly not enough and we see that more than fifty thousand jobs that we need in the administration for i.t. security do you know remain. yet like that i mean no more or less. the amount of people we would need probably. oh i see a shortfall the shortfall there of the optimum target. i can say that for sure right now i don't i don't know the exact numbers but for sure for example we have a hacking agency. this center agency that is supposed to collect hacking tools they

need around four hundred employees until two thousand and twenty two. they only have i don't know maybe twenty or something like that according to media reports then the b.s.i. the federal office from have actually security has already apply and employed a couple of hundreds specialists but they need many more you know it's true to really prop up their defense and then we have the military which will in the future really need hundreds of people so this is a we really have a gap here. china out of my present job well yes like i said i'm a lots more scared now the way we started this interview china russia often blamed for the sorts of attacks is germany likely to be doing the same thing out there. that well we don't know about this because we haven't heard in the media about any german a.p.t group yet but we know that the german government is definitely

propping up its offensive capabilities and for example the coalition treaty or the draft coalition treaty between the next government probably. is putting a lot of emphasis on the well right that we need better offends the military the bundestag has just adopted a major reform to prop up with offensive career services or even if it's not doing it now it will be in the future israel secure thank you so much thank you of lot of a person who is uses only will states of the nation address toward global powers they must not reckon with russia's military might as well as boasting of his country's new generation of invincible nuclear weapons mr putin pledged to halt poverty in six years and improve the environment he's seeking unprecedented fourth presidential term elections due in seventeen days. pre-election video meant to impress and to intimidate showing

a russian missiles said to be able to penetrate u.s. defenses. russian president vladimir putin's state of the nation speech was a classic the performance he's long used an aggressive foreign policy to stoke his popularity and to air grievances. russia was and continues to be the greatest nuclear power but nobody wanted to talk with us nobody wanted to listen well listen no. the presentation also showed a nuclear armed torpedo that analysts say could strike the u.s. west coast called putin said in the name of peace. when you call when you are we are not threatening anyone and are not going to attack anyone we are not going to take anything away from anyone we have everything we need to use. but he also announced a new emphasis on the domestic economy in the but there's nothing. we need our

economy to grow faster than the world economy i know it's not an easy task but we need that to happen in order to solve our social military and for structure challenges. there was little detail on how russia would achieve that goal but the speech was a hit with the audience of senior officials and lawmakers. just recorded that nobody had to force the americans into peace and cooperation russia has a lot of strength but we don't threaten anyone but we are able to have an impact on the future of the world and putin speech today confirmed it. because you are. hardly a hostile audience with elections just over two weeks away there was a demonstration of strength and power to drive voters to the polls what's expected to be another landslide in putin's favor. let's get more from correspondent arun

tilton who joins us from moscow welcome to tell us more about these supposedly invincible nuclear weapons. well as we heard there russian president vladimir putin today announced a bevy of new missile systems and weapons systems to kind of revamp his military and i've brought in some notes here because it was actually a whole series of them he announced a new intercontinental ballistic missile system which he claimed could strike any target on the planet he also announced the development of a hypersonic cruise missile system which could supposedly penetrate any missile defense system in the world and hit targets at a speed of almost up to mach twenty he also announced that the russian military had developed high speed underwater drones and nuclear powered cruise missiles all of these systems can supposedly be fitted with nuclear weaponry and he also said that all of these systems are capable of avoiding western countermeasure those measures

and specifically the american anti-missile anti-missile shield now one thing that i would like to stress however is that these systems aren't necessarily new these are things that have been known about in military circles for years now but it was unusual that lattimer putin actually took to a stage and announce all of them at one time so as well as the nuclear stuff there was a lot of domestic issues in that as well this whole speech on the look of an election campaign speech but they seem to be targeting an international audience as well as looking domestically. well actually i would disagree threw slightly there this was very much flooding reputing playing to his hometown crowd you have to realize this took place at his annual state of the union address and typically that address takes place in december of the year of the close of the closing year and actually kind of looks forward to what people can expect of him in the future however he took an unusual step he moved it from december of last year to just two weeks in front of the or before the election and it seems very much as

if he's attempting to use his state of the union address to draw up support for his campaign with right before the elections so is that speech that likely to prompt a new nuclear arms race. well i wouldn't say the speech is the thing that's going to do it but it does seem like we are in the early days of new tensions military tensions between the u.s. and russia i'm not sure if we want to call it an arms race but we certainly are seeing some reciprocal actions on both sides that indicate that both militaries want to ramp up i mean for years the we've known that russia is developing these type of weapon systems and that's caused the u.s. to readdress its nuclear proposals basically we saw a white paper a couple months ago come out of the pentagon saying that the u.s. should lower the threshold it has for using nuclear weapons in a potential war with major superpowers we also saw the american government saying that it wants introduce new tactical nuclear warheads which are much smaller which

some experts say would not necessarily provoke a massive retaliation from another nuclear power now that in turn has caused the brusha to double down on developing its new nuclear capable weapons systems so while it does have the feeling of a new arms race it really does remain to be seen which country will take the next step and what exactly that step will be or until then moscow thank you let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi has made his only joint appearance with leaders of the center right coalition and attempts to show united front and dispel the rumors of internal rifts ahead of national elections on sunday is the best goalie so sons are right alliance is the only group with a realistic chance of winning majority. european council president donald tusk has arrived in london for talks with british prime minister theresa may or wednesday

mrs may reject isn't a plan to allow northern ireland to stay in the e.u. customs union after britain leaves the block is not challenging britain to come up with its own plan to prevent a hardboard in ireland after birth. naser officials in afghanistan say they've detained a man claiming to be a german national who was fighting for the taliban identified himself was out to would do it from front first he and three other lads taliban fighters were captured in helmand province his claims are confirmed will be one of the only europeans to have been found amongst the militants and sixteen years of war and. french judges charge far right leader marine le pen of or a number of online posts she's accused of tweeting graphic images of violence claimed to have been carried out by circle the islamic state in france circulating violent material that could incite terrorism is punishable with up to three years in jail. police in slovakia have arrested

a number of italian businessman named by a murder journalist as having a link to government corruption twenty seven year old young kusa who was shot dead at his home last week along with his fiance shortly after his murder the news websites he worked for published his last unfinished article its claims have shocked the nation. journalists 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 were found in their bratislava home. percent convinced that the murder is connected with his writings about a link between italian mafia and slovakian politics. story name two officials who

have now resigned pending an investigation one of them mario toskala a chief advisor to the prime minister another. chair of the state security department both have denied any link to the killings prime minister robert fits so saying he was 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 or that 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 to me that's. the truth with determination and didn't answer to anyone. the police to clear that he was almost surely killed to stop his investigation. incased could c.x.

grieving supporters want his work to be continued they marched and brought his lover 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. it watching d.w. news life from balance still to come they're calling it the beast from the east the siberian cold for the sport where the chaos to europe of all places from a day in the deep freeze a first in the business of david and gives. it . time to bring you up to date with the latest business news president donald trump has told steel and aluminum executives he will impose import tariffs next week twenty five percent for steel imports and ten percent for aluminum he said this was in a bid to protect america's producers hurt by cheap foreign steel while industry insiders

expect the announcement many within the trumpet was rationed have criticized the plans to massively increase the tariffs in the past we think completed by next week one and my colleague daniel winter has been following this story for us daniel it's good to have you with us while these tariffs have just been announced pretty much but we did see them coming so now that they're here what do you make of them it's hard to say at the moment because we don't know where these tires will apply to what countries all even what kinds of steel an alum in for the so many different grades that you can choose from but what it does show is an ongoing push by the trumpet ministration to put up those protectionist barriers and to show people all voters particularly i should say inside the us that they mean business and they're putting america for us but we do know that putting america first is controversial so is their concern. senses on whether doing these types of measures of we're imposing these types of tariffs will actually help and benefit the us economy and

its people it's not even consensus inside the white house at the moment and in this whole debate has pitted the chief economic advisor gary cohn and trump's trade advisor peter navarro against each other and all the different advisors coming from different angles saying tariffs should be high attire should stay the same and so they don't even know but i mean it's clear what trump thinks on this i'd like to show you a tweet which he tweeted out earlier he says we must not let our country companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer we want free fair and smart trade the issue here though is this could be anything but smart many economists saying that the us is in danger of overheating at the moment that there is plenty of the issue here though is this could be anything but smart many economists saying that the us is in danger of overheating at the moment that there is plenty of production

going on but not enough demand for what those produces and making now drone powell he is the head of the new head of the federal reserve says don't worry the economy is not going to overheat but with all of these shifting sands that are going on coming out of white house strategy it's difficult to say what effect that could be on the u.s. economy it's certainly unpredictable now let's cross the pond over here to europe because steel is a big issue here as well what effects can we expect on the european steel industry was well the kind of logical thing would be to say oh it would be terrible for europe but actually if all of that cheap steel isn't flowing to the u.s. well european manufacturers can take advantage of it that means lower costs higher profit but also european steel makers stand to benefit because of the subsidiaries that are in the u.s. if that production is kind of ring fenced by these tariffs that means that that profits will be protect. as well so for europe it would actually be strangely good news what the e.u.

is worried about though is that these steps towards protectionism will go even further so they want to try and get ahead of the curve and deter trump from doing that that's why they've already announced that they're looking into potential counter tariffs now very briefly daniel there's another big player china some say it's all china's fault is that the case kind of so basically china is the they produce hoth of the entire world's steel coal gloss all kinds of construction materials so they do produce a lot china says they're taking measures to reduce that overcapacity they've even put tariffs on steel exports out of that country they say they're taking measures but it seems the rest of the world just isn't convinced it's a story that will go on thank you very much johnny winter for the analysis actually of now because you know that you citizens can travel freely between one country and another and they can also work in any e.u. country without restrictions so far so good but there's

a problem workers can get paid different wages even if they're doing the same work in the same country and e.u. workers directive ones to prevent that what is essentially wage dumping but that's easier said than done which is why there's been a heated debate between eastern and western european countries brussels is now taking action. whether on building sites in the freight sector already caring professions hundreds of thousands of eastern europeans head to richer western european countries for work their contracts don't have to stick to the host countries pay rates making their labor cheap it's long been an issue in countries like germany and france now brussels has reached initial agreement on tightening the rules. at the heart of our proposal is the principle of equal pay for equal work at the same place and we now confirm this prison in legislation this direct leaders' phones to the concerns of many citizens the agreement opens

a new phase for fair degree lucian of the internal market our single market works for goods and services as capital it should also work for people. in future workers from pora e.u. countries will earn the same as their native colleagues contracts will be limited to fifteen months an attempt to curb wage dumping but employing eastern europeans will still be the inexpensive option for one workers will still have access to state insurance back home which is often cheaper than in wealthier countries that's a compromise for years the eastern european countries have staunchly opposed restrictions keen to retain their competitive advantage thursday's decision has to pass through several committees before being finalized later this summer. more business news later in the show to answer to for our thank you here in germany the federal court has overturned the murder verdict in a street racing case

a grabbed headlines two years ago a lower court previously found two drivers guilty of murdering a person whose vehicle was hit by one of their cars but now a judge says the mention faced a lesser charge of manslaughter. the end of an illegal car race in the middle of berlin two years ago two young men race through the city at one hundred seventy kilometers per hour a pensioner crossing the road is hit and killed so are the two high speed drivers killers or not but bill in court sentenced the two men a year ago for the first time a murder sentence against speed racers according to the judge just the drivers would have known that the death of the bystander was a high probability but this warning for racers has now been lifted by germany supreme court judge just ruled the perpetrators could not be proven to have acted intentionally. and i think it's very sad that the courts made this decision but there's no choice you just have to accept it. as well as you did i would say

negligent killing but not murder he didn't do it on purpose it happened during a game in my ice that's murder no pity for speeders a car as a murder weapon powerful cars with high horsepower i often the cause of deadly accidents half of all accidents in the country are due to speeding and illegal car races how can speeding drivers on germany's roads be punished appropriately and that question is not back in the hands of the judges in berlin if the sentence remains negligent killing the perpetrators will spent a maximum of five years in prison and not life. a siberian cold front called the beast from the east has plunged much of europe into a deep freeze and the chilly conditions are making for some studying winter landscapes like here in this drone footage from snow covered venice elsewhere

though the snow and ice is caused to have it for the public to freeze expected to continue. the wintery weather system has caused widespread disruption to public services and major travel delays like you action. evas airport the busy hub was forced to suspend all flights for several hours after snowfall blanketed the swiss city overnight. heavy blizzards and biting temperatures are continuing to last year up from the far north to the mediterranean south a red alert has been extended as parts of britain face severe weather conditions. but some have been enjoying the unusually snowy weather like these children in spain where hundreds of schools cancelled classes. in paris authorities urged commuters to leave their cars at home because of the treacherous roads many drivers were left stranded in their vehicles due to heavy snow on motorways. even reach the

mediterranean was normally sunny nice blanketed in snow. meanwhile in denmark the wintery weather spelled trouble for this fishing boat. it got stuck in the frozen waters of the linn fjord in the north of the country. after the skipper was rescued his vessel slowly drifted into the eggers and bridge breaking the boat's mast. still w. still to come very snowy weather in europe was also interrupted for the long testing ahead of the season start but was too much needed truck time in barcelona today. about an all in the way. russia hopes to get. the field out this man will win again.

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determine its origin for sale is the work of a russian backed hacking group. the wall a russian president vladimir putin has warns out his son countries enemies that's a russian ahas a new and improved nuclear arsenal he made the remarks as a state of the nation address ahead of for reelection bad a bit later this month. to syria now where the u.n. wants to deliver desperately needed aid to civilians in the besieged enclave of eastern ghouta officials say a five hour daily cease fire initiated just week has done little to help civilians i say the. window needs to be expanded in order to allow a deliverance to enter into medical cases to leave rebel held areas of eastern cuba has been under bombardment by syrian government forces more than ten days. scribal from the journalist who joins us from eastern guta welcome to detail to what's been happening today. there more than twenty people killed most of

them women. there's no ceasefire at all. until this moment that they're in this right now with the clock is like. russian are stick in there are still and and. the war been hit every building in every neighborhood in a single day more than fifteen. this moment. and yet the u.n. seems to believe that it is now in a position to start getting aid convoys to do so what gives the most idea. no united not to any of the united nations enter the group and the people here hope and wait for. they. give them food and then medical supplies i mean there are shortages of medical supplies and lot of people their family like more than four

days did not eat anything this is a situation here is like a nightmare the state are empty the shops are closed people off. and the united nations nothing and security council voted for a ceasefire but that is not had been at all people every day every day there. all day. you just describe a horrific scene. these five poles is fears nothing happened during as it was the fighting just completely continued. if i was if i think of really completely continuing i said the forces to down to entrain good from. an ever hold of job and government and not stumble like not just one minute and the russian also did not stop not therefore when before one minute he still and the moment are still and

till now in this field of hiding from the russian warplanes and the ass of the missiles and the bombing i mean. there is no ceasefire at all is there more than twenty people killed so if. they're talking about about gail load of bull i mean i was people press be international community press is for some sort of a ceasefire or indeed at least these these poles is what one does given the fact that the firing never stops people actually trust a ceasefire even if it is even if it actually started actually it people here are the civil ends and the journalists and all the people who live in ghouta they don't trust anyone because they were knighted mission talk about him everyone being denounced not security council not united states not united everyone being denounced i mean and in the last bit in there is more than five hundred

people killed and more then three hundred thousand injury i mean about any ceasefire they're talking about a lot about people killed about our street about bombing did not stop until the moment. people here are just hug their children do they don't know how much their lives i mean one minute to a lie the next minute you don't know when they are stick with your. well you just you describe a horrific situation with thank you for spending time out of any sense and i think that i think we are living here. now today german lawmakers are looking at the mistakes that prevented or thors is from stopping the deadly twenty six day christmas market attack in berlin twelve people were killed when a failed asylum seeker drove a truck into a crowded holiday market in the city center italian police shot and killed the tunisian attacker four days later in a shootout in milan after he looted german police

a special parliamentary committee will investigate a series of police and security phase that allowed the suspect to stage a terror attack and escape. on december nineteenth twenty sixteen terrorist agnes and marie steered a hijacked truck into a busy christmas market on berlin's bright child plats twelve people died and many are still suffering today from serious injuries it was the first serious to haddest attack in germany but could it have been prevented a committee of inquiry is set to investigate this question in retrospect it is clear that security authorities knew a great deal about an ace amery they had already identified him as a threat one year before the attack they were aware of his drug trafficking is phones were intercepted and his internet connections were being monitored. in the state of north rhine-westphalia several officers were on his case and raise asylum

application was rejected although he should have left germany he remained when he was once briefly detained he could have been deported instead he was released and he changed his identity multiple times at the start of two thousand and sixteen the state criminal police office in berlin was informed that emery was on his way to the capital security officials knew that he was in contact with a terrorist cell of a radical islamist. they also knew that he sympathized with the islamic state and wanted to get a kalashnikov am i often visited the foo select mosque a meeting place for violence oriented salafist it was being observed but only from monday to friday despite the fact that amery counted as a leading potential threat he was only placed under surveillance by the state police in the summer with bloody consequences how did security officials lose sight of a terrorist an answer to this question is not only important for germany but especially

for the victims' loved ones. actually space is a day from have a now on the latest from the world mobile congress wrightsville the latest and the last if you will because the mobile world congress is coming to an end today as the biggest fare for mobile communication of the buzz word this year was five g. the newest generation of mobile networks promotor stay enabling ultrafast transmission of large quantities of data will rapidly transform our lives the minute we go outside. but click on the app from there's not long to wait before the electric car comes rolling along. just to be on the safe side b m w's driver sits in the front passenger seat. the driver's seat remains empty the whole time. passengers in the back seats can use a display to do things like sound the horn or even stop the car off do you like the

german or to make a wanted first driverless model on the road by twenty twenty one. but almost entirely autonomous vehicle. and is an emotional kinda demo showcase which we've put on at the mobile world congress to see also navigate using a digital map we've made of the exhibition grounds to top. in practice it takes the latest five g. mobile technology to enable autonomous driving at the recent south korea winter olympics korea telecom set up the world's first public five g. network in barcelona it's launched a five g. virtual reality game. for technology transfers gigantic data volumes from the players vests with a response time of only ten milliseconds. the five g. is served more much faster than four g. twenty times twenty times and more we've reduced that lets you see on

a result case just their ok to step on that as you called to be at work or you don't have the weird heavy equipment and i say it's a totally wireless mobile data networks are the hot topic in barcelona this year the number of networked gadgets is expected to grow rapidly from twenty twenty on along with the attendant risks i think five g. represents an opportunity it's going to signal the entrance of multiple devices that are literally going to revolutionize the way that we. if the way that we work every component of our lives is going to be impacted but i think what that also represents is potential risk as well because you know things like driverless cars are going to remote health care and so forth security and privacy are going to be literally being number one question that we'll be it's more than just a game it's a serious matter of evaluating and minimizing the potentially disastrous risks of a new technology that would be rolled out within the next two years. countries in

africa have been fighting the so-called fall army warm for two years now the insect has damaged corn fields in forty four of the fifty four nations on the continent there are guidelines to fighting the war but most of the countries can't afford the pesticides better there is one of them. they're not that big and don't look particularly threatening. but these little monsters can destroy livelihoods throughout entire regions for nomi worm is a glutton for corn and corn is africa's stateful food finalist say the worm has devastated over half of this year's crop dusting foam has billions what if we put it into sacks we'd have less than ten sacks of maize you can work out the last thing a kilo of maize is worth one dollar fifty and. most cape verde farmers don't even have enough seeds to plant next year's crop now even the oldest among them have never seen an infestation like this there's some experience of

a domestic species of army worm but it wasn't nearly as rapacious. not being trained and i warned the people who called on me to check that we were definitely dealing with the follow me were. introduced accidentally to africa the follow me worm thrives on corn it's favorite food the female lays hundreds of eggs. after hatching the caterpillars eat their way right through the plant when they've painted the adult flies on to another field in the process repeats combating the pest is difficult. it needs a two pronged approach one of them is biological control resorting to natural enemies that we're going to introduce in a second stage chemical control be used but that we would need to import pesticides . but pesticides are expensive and not many farmers who can afford them cape verde prefers using local plant based and bacterial insecticides at least to begin

with and there where born crop spraying could be helpful the un's food and agricultural organization says the greedy pest could also become immune to the chemicals that's all from the business desk how it's back to fill in a topic many parents are grappling with these days. have a talk about social media how dangerous is it for our children new german study may well have some of the assistant did to boost their social media has become nothing has been clicking through this report welcome karl tell us who is behind this work and what it tells us this was actually released today it's the first study in germany to measure social media addiction among teenagers the surveyed one thousand german youth between age twelve and age seventeen on their usage of social media talking snap chat twitter instagram whatsapp here are some of the main findings of this study and it's the first number that you really need to pay attention to their

nearly three percent of german youth are addicted to social media that might sound low it's on the low to me but we're talking about clinical signs of addiction like a drug use drug addiction youth use on average social media about two and a half hours per day but interestingly the numbers are higher for girls so they're on social media longer about three hours per day and they're more addicted about three point four percent of them and social media addiction is linked to a higher risk of depression so in fact one third of youths say that they're using social media to avoid unpleasant thoughts concerning numbers there we actually spoke with the chair of the german insurance company dak they're the ones that helped to lead this study and here's what he had to say about these results because of. the major problems center on our inability to live anymore without regularly using social media. social media is used to escape everyday problems and challenges

. and so one consequence for adolescence is decreasing contact in the real world not only with parents but with those of the same age. those who communicate soley over social media get lonely very quickly media. i know i'm. well does it make any recommendations it does and i mean a lot of these recommendations for combat ing social media addiction there are basically mostly common sense but but take a look at this is what the study does recommend that parents do they say limit social media use in schools even ban it in fact here in berlin phil there are some photos schools that are smartphone free now you can install digital tools or filters to block social media apps on your child's phone they want better funding for media education for students to really understand what social media can do to you and the parents have to get involved and parents should set rules at home for phone free time maybe at the dinner table and you have to be

a good example phil if you want your child to start using social media you have to put your own phone away first right that's the key as well but what about the social media companies what have they had to say about this they're under pressure more than ever especially facebook a lot of people now including this study looking into the health effects of social media so facebook mark zuckerberg recently announced a change to the algorithm of facebook that would actually supposedly decrease the amount of time that we spend on a platform that's one small step but it looks like at the same time facebook is actually starting to target kids even more directly take a look at this new app this is released in december it's literally called facebook messenger kids it's meant for kids as young as six years old youth health experts say that the app is irresponsible and they ask for it to be withdrawn from app stores but facebook says this will help parents stay in touch with their kids although if you look at the video this is mostly kind of kids with other kids on the app i don't know i think we'll see even more pressure on companies like facebook other big social media companies to start coming up with real solutions

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a quarter final showdown with austria's dominant team via. germany's alexanders that have also booked his place in the last eight overcoming compadre at pizza guy of chicken straight sets he faces usas ryan harrison on friday of. i'm not expecting much as one of the most celebrated german artists of the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's a new exhibition of his works has just opened the world famous museum of barberini in potsdam just outside the ballot bowl the medal for the culture desk welcome robin tell us more first of all about knox back not when he was very troubled spirits and this is because of his experience in the first world war he was twenty nineteen fourteen at the start of the war and he volunteered as a medic because the amount to fight but of course if you if you're a medic in the first four war you saw horrific injuries use old man's inhumanity to

man it firsthand i think and he was badly affected by this not post war but back and became a leading exponent of a new kind of hard age realistic art that emerged in the early one nine hundred twenty s. and he famously he did many self portraits we see wrong here and in nearly all of them he's always staring intensely out of the painting somehow you can see the darkness in him and the disillusionment there's no doubt he was scarred for life by the war as were the other two great exponents of this sort of german expressionism alter dixon george cross they served and suffered themselves in the great war so what we expect from the exhibition well he it's called the world as a stage because back when love the stage you love the theatre he loved the circus especially a music hall and he did a lot of paintings of those that the subjects of his paintings but you can see the

paintings on the surface but underneath this very strong sort of dark on the cards . she's his granddaughter the executor of his estate and she also bears more than a passing resemblance to have famous grandfather max beckmann but my own backman never really got to know her grandfather she was only two years old when he died in america. the first things i learned about him were hanging on the wall. well of course there was a lot of talk about him. because in the period around one nine hundred fifty s. and everyone was trying to rehabilitate artists who had been forced out by the nazis. even before the nazis came to power beckman this was a world of masquerade of the theater it fascinated me expectation throughout his life his first family picture from one nine hundred twenty on stage self portraits

in a dressing gown like a musician in his dressing room or here max specter has clown around. innocent the clown can make people laugh. but this is certainly a sad white clown. one who takes away the sadness of people by taking it on see. the world as a stage is the title of the exhibition beckman love the theater in one thousand twenties he wrote a few plays him self and drew where ever there was a stage nearby. he painted his friend the actor harnish dior and his family and even visited the film studios in bubbles berg in its early days but he also posed questions in his pictures what role does the individual the artist play in this world theater. i

think where do i stand which stage of my on this is of course a big topical issue in our time when self-expression is a huge topic in politics and in social networks. an extensive program of cultural events around the exhibition the theme is politics as a stage discussions with theatre people and in the summer a real circus will drop by max is another big hit for the museum. so the exhibition looks fantastic but we have to talk about the museum bobbery need self that's that's been collecting accolades ever since it opened last year it has and rightly so i have to say it is completely stunning it's down to one man mainly very generous billionaire benefactor called hasso plattner he made his money in software and he's also one of the world's great art collectors and he bought this eighteenth century product so bobbery me

a few years back and the building was actually practically destroyed in the second reconstruction started in two thousand and thirteen and the facade now looks like the original building but inside the rooms are completely mold and in the first exhibition they had this whole room devoted to road down there you can see here some loaned by self some brought in from other museums and there's a painting to this painting very famous painting the girls on the bridge by minge and i wanted to show this because there was a great influence greatly spectrum and the others very much so. instead of just to mention about barberini last year the guardian newspaper in london voted the best new museum opening of the year it looked very impressive and there we were just discussing it's just down the road for me so i should go in and have a look at how long does this mission run its vision runs till june and this. hundred and twelve pieces of spec ones not old paintings but i think about eighty

paintings so huge exhibition for him i think site runs to. recommend it to anybody to go to the museum bobbery any itself robyn mental thank you for just time to read quickly recap the top story at the out here day w germany says a government computer now moves into the feds and foreign ministers have been subjected to a sophisticated cyber attack that's been going on since december authorities monod to be attack in secret to determine its origin and force say it is the work of a russian backed hacking group. that's it you'll have to make more of the talk. of the day. going to.

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