this is the good news coming to live. bait your tropical storm it's time led already here could be one of the worst storms in decades as it calms coastal villages and tourist hot spots in southern thailand with winds and torrential rains we'll go live there in a moment also coming up. targets hundreds of german politicians media reporting that attackers have put private phone numbers credit card information at other data online have the latest on this developing story plus democrats reclaim power in the

house of representatives with more diversity and more women than ever before the first order of business ending the government shutdown without funding the president's border wall. well i'm terry march and welcome to the program at least one person has died in thailand as the country's worst tropical storm in three decades makes landfall on the country's southeast coast tropical storm public has hit the shore of not see tom or on providence bringing it rain heavy rain with it and stormy seas seventy kilometer per hour winds. already say public is moving westward and could trigger flash flooding through the night perry services have been suspended and many flights grounded. let's bring

in correspondent karl fountain hauler who is at the dawn soccer ferry terminal and sort out tony province in thailand karl storm public has just made land landfall i understand what do you see from where your. well i'm standing here at dawn sachs which is a ferry tylenol a place where normally tourists would indeed thousands go to and leave the island of. hope on god which is the famous. tower but as you can see behind me here to get . all ferries have stopped all flights healthy it stopped so. that now. you have a very very strong winds here very hot grained going on. just how dangerous is this storm karl what kind of threat does it pose. well funnily enough you have to say that thailand for the. county has been stabbed quite often topical storm

and the last one about i think it was nine hundred fifty two house calls. nine hundred people lives. and of course the public is not afraid that this might repeat itself it is a very rare event that does happen. and so what are authorities doing to prepare for this storm it's being described as the strongest storm to hit the area in decades. it is indeed a very very strong storm and yet all of this seemed to be very aware of that since about the four or five days that social media t.v. stations radio stations you hear about the storm everywhere so to avoid same catastrophe like so many years ago a guitar very well aware adapted warning to people to stay away from that post when

i drove up here even though rolled down through our homes he was stuck in a block and he thought it. thank you so much for that karl fine and in thailand thank you again. of course we'll be tracking that storm for you and giving you any developments as they become available now say look at some other stories making news around the world left wing activists in bangladesh have protested against results of sunday's parliamentary polls they allege the ballot was invalid due to electoral fraud and intimidation prime minister shake us seen it was declared the landslide winner of the election but american and e.u. officials have raised doubts about the elections integrity. russian prosecutors have formally charged u.s. citizen paul wieland with espionage and a former marine was detained in moscow last friday his lawyer is now seeking his release on bail the suspects family denies that he's

a spy and says he was visiting moscow to attend a friend's wedding. and an explosion occurred outside a local office of germany's foreign party on thursday police say an unknown substance was detonated at the store front in the center of durban in saxony no one was injured investigators are looking into whether the attack was politically motivated. or staying in germany there has been a mass leak of federal lawmakers data apparently hackers have tweeted the personal data of hundreds of politicians including credit card details and mobile phone numbers that's according to media reports it's understood that members of every german political party were affected except for the far right alternative for germany party the a.f.p. . our correspondent max millionaire call schick is covering

this story for maximiliano what more can you tell us about this alleged hack. you know what we know so far is that there has been a massive leak going on off data that is coming that's been circulated in the internet and that has affected a lot of german lawmakers in the german parliament but also on the federal state levels and this data has been already leaked and circulated in mid december and even brought attention that this happened in the last days what we know is that part of the data is very personal it's credit card information but also leaked information on family group chats for example on messaging applications and that the data was a leak in sort of compartments with the party affiliation so all members of the parties that are members of the german parliament there's been a day to think a little packages except for the far right if t. the populist party here in german parliament and yes currently there is the

question what to do with us as a government confer because so far apparently only media reports say that this leak has even happened we have confirmation of it much a million so far the german justice minister caterina body of the social democrats has reacted and called this a very severe attack to german lawmakers and the federal agency for information security has already said that she's looking into it they're looking into it they haven't confirmed the attack per se but they have said they're going to hold a special counsel today to stop the investigation of the leak what can we read into the fact millionaire that members of all political parties except the far right if he were targeted there must be a lot of speculation surrounding that. there is a lot of speculation and days about that fact and the question is of course if

there will be any attribution of who what where that leak is coming from who has been hacking and targeting the other parties as with everything regarding cyber security that is always the most crucial point so with especially high profile and . sort of your high profile attacks that have happened also on german lawmakers before the questions always who to actually view that to if nobody's sort of taken responsibility for these attacks and cyber security experts always say that have to be shown to where that attack is from coming from is the most complicated part because you can always also fake attribution you can also measure activision making it look like it's coming from some other place millionaire thank you very much brings up today our political correspondent much money on the cost. they have swept to power in the u.s. house of representatives and they immediately flex their new authority by passing a new budget bill that snow as president trumps key demand for billions in funding

for a u.s. mexican border wall them across or presiding over the most diverse house in u.s. history which for the first time includes muslim women. selfies with friends and supporters rushy that's how you can divorce two muslim women elected to congress a historic moment. really nice when people like us were in the office when we when it was really look forward to seeing all the great things that she'll do and all of those that she will represent and the voice that she will provide to to those of us that typically are overlooked. the congresswoman from michigan still has to learn her way around come up with a hill just like a fellow democrat on the press plane from massachusetts who protests family to celebrate the swearing in day with her i'm humbled i'm grateful and many people have asked me if i'm up for it if i feel pressured either because of historical

significance of being a first store because of the crossroads we find ourselves at as a country where the fact that we are coming into congress in the midst of a government shutdown and to that i would just say that i don't feel pressured i feel a tremendous responsibility and i played and doing everything possible to meet that every day. the new congress has already made history by seating the record number of women and becoming the most ethnically diverse while the republicans still have more seats in the senate the new democratic majority in the house of representatives is poised to serve as a check of the u.s. president their first challenge as the government shutdown the standoff between the democrats and strom could set the tone for a combative two years. and in these two years it's this mormon who will face off against president struck. nancy pelosi next into taking the

gavel us a new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaimed the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is an historic moment two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances that protects our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is he quickly went on the offensive approving bills to reopen the government without the money for the border will president trump demands with a conflict likely to intensify what didn't you will be elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. aid workers say the health of nearly fifty migrants stuck on a rescue ships off the coast of malta is deteriorating the migrants were rescued in waters off libya's coast within the last two weeks to rescue ships which are run by

german aid organizations are now located near multi activists say those on board are suffering severe sea sickness brought on by rough seas and heavy weather malta italy and spain have all refused to let the passengers disembark reflecting sharp divisions in the e.u. over migration policy. now. for the migrants at sea the days are beginning to melt into one. since their dramatic rescue off the libyan coast in december they've been in limbo in the narrow confines of the ships . they say that conditions on board are getting worse and that they have no idea where they will end up. i do d. i'll tell you. this new so we i'm heading to only to i'm going to you i believe would be come to hamburg. we need to head i see can see you doing students way down deep listening to. this but.

this is a lot of difficulties. several german and italian cities have reportedly offered the migrants refuge in the netherlands on wednesday agreed to take in some of them but italy has so far refused to let those on board to some park blocking their onward journey. a spokeswoman for the european commission said migration commissioner dimitris overall pulis has been speaking with member states to break the deadlock. calls for them to provide support and continue to the joint efforts to. morsi dirtiness only needed and once again. any time that the dictabelt. for disembarking and. in the military. was put as the men women and children floating in the mediterranean are learning the hard way the union is

anything but united on migration. and just for we go reminder of the top story we're following for you here today democrats to power in the u.s. house of representatives the most diverse congress in history asked for a new budget bill. in a school in a snubbed president bill trump leaving out billions in funding for his u.s. mexican border. you are watching g.w. news coming to you live from berlin we have more for you coming up top of the next hour assuming we will be with you then don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's at t w dot com thanks for watching.