day. documentary starts january thirteenth on w. . connecticut that. this is deja vu news live from bertha a major tropical storm has thailand authorities fear a public could be one of the worst storms in decades as a town's coastal villages and tourist hot spots in southern thailand when the trench will rains and we'll go live there in a moment also coming up hackers target hundreds of german politicians with their

private phone numbers credit card information other data published all online we'll have the latest on this developing story. plus one of the world's greatest cities at risk of losing a unique part of its identity hong kong's famous neon signs have been lighting up the island for decades but cheaper and modern alternatives are becoming more popular we need activists trying to protect hong kong is a neon heritage. i'm sumi so what's going to thank you for joining us at least one person has died in thailand after tropical storm public made landfall on the country's southeast coast rain a stormy season seventy kilometer per hour winds or a slamming communities in the region authorities have feared it could be thailand's worst storm in three decades now public. making its way west over the malaysian

peninsula across the provinces of knock on sea tamarac as well as tiny where several popular tourist islands are located over a dozen other provinces are said to be affected as well does every reporter carl london hola is in the area for us will be speaking to him in just a moment's time but first this report on the efforts by thai authorities to limit damage and save lives. thai officials got to work early preparing for the storm red flags warning the public to keep out of the increasingly stormy seas. authority set up a refugee center in the province of narconon see time about on thursday helping vulnerable communities a scape public's path. some six thousand people were evacuated in this region alone . officials patrolled the beaches urging anyone still there to leave. these structures will all be knocked down every year monsoons

damaged beachfront restaurants around here but this time we've got a tropical storm coming and there won't be anything left nothing plainly the name. thousands of holidaymakers evacuated popular tourist islands and return to the time mainland the storm has brought tourist operations to a standstill here in the middle of peak season a blow to one economy heavily reliant on foreign visitors in the coming hours the storm is expected to make its way across the mainland to the southwest coast where more world famous tourist resorts are located authorities say public is said to weaken as it travels but they're warning of storm surges bringing the threat of possible flooding and landslides. our correspondent karl vanden hola is covering the story for us he is at don sac at the porch there karl at tell us what you are seeing right now. well i'm here at the fishery sports.

sock which is a place close to where the salaries for the tourists are going to the islands of course where we hope on god and go tell. these ferries of cars are not going out or coming here anymore there's no more traffic there's fisheries as well all the boats are staying in ports nobody is leaving it's too dangerous the waves are what high five to seven meters we have very strong winds at the rain has. moved it is a little bit softer than before now but still it's not over karl how are people there being affected by the storm. must cause. coasts of southern thailand there's many many fisheries still it just and all these people and lots of people have to be in. by government it hasn't been a general evacuation but as we have been informed over six thousand people have

been brought to shelters because their homes sometimes only a little huts are too close to the beach mind to get affected by to be destroyed by the winds and the waves karl tell us more about the tourist this is of course this region a very popular tourist hot spot isn't. it is of course thailand is very dependent on tourism. many many people are year now because just after the main tourist season of the year which is of course christmas and new year you can imagine there are tens of thousands of people. just here for reasons of tourism and all these people who are mainly visiting items like. the thing most of them. all these people lots of them have been brought in to security and to safety with the last ferry the last days because authorities had warned that it might not be possible anymore to leave. all right correspondent karl fountain hola

for us and don sock in thailand thank you very much for bringing us up to date. now to some other stories making news around the world a third woman has entered a hindu temple in the southern state of cantor law a first visit by two women on wednesday triggered protests across the state a traditionally women were forbidden from entering the shrine but india's supreme court lifted that ban in a ruling last year. left wing activists in bangladesh have protested against the results of sunday's parliamentary polls they allege the ballot was invalid due to elect toral fraud and intimidation prime minister sheikh hasina was declared the landslide winner of the election but american and u.s. officials have raised doubts about the elections integrity. an explosion occurred outside a local office of germany's far right after the party on thursday police say an

unknown substance was detonated at the storefront in the center of dubai in saxony no one was injured investigators are looking into whether the attack was politically motivated. and saying here in germany there has been a mass leak of lawmakers data it has been reported that hackers have tweeted the personal data of hundreds of politicians including credit card details and mobile phone numbers it's understood that members of every german political party was affected except for the far right alternative for germany party. let's bring in maximiliano kosik our political correspondent for more on the story max good to see you what more can you tell us about this alleged hack. now just minutes ago the german government has confirmed that there has been a data leak affecting german politicians on all levels from the national parliament the bonus tog down to communities and that the data has been in fact some personal

information but we also heard from security experts already who have been looking at the leaks that some of the data seems to be coming from older leaks that they've been just like write it into new packages and that they're coming from older facebook hacks for example the one of the social media platforms or from twitter hacks as well and yes the data includes a lot of personal information that some of that would may also be fake or just being constructed right max we mentioned that the a.f. to the far right party was the only party in the bundestag that wasn't affected by this data legal what do we take away from that. well with data leagues or security attacks like these there's always the question where is it coming from and who and what is it aimed and of course it's quite remarkable that of all the parties that have been affected in fact every party that is in the national parliament has been affected only one stood out that is the far right a fifty and that paints

a certain picture but one should not take so many suspicion or take up conclusion quite immediately security expos always warn that especially with attacks like these there is the ideal from behind to paint a picture it's this attack a lot of experts say already that this is a tactic is a tack that should seem sort of like a petition personally even accounts from the german chancellor angela merkel seem to be affected but again that attribution of where this is where this attack is coming from is always difficult and one should not jump to conclusions max just brief if you can we said the government has now confirmed this hacking this data leak this is not the first time that the bundestag the government networks have been accessed have been hacked why does this keep happening. well this is a different attack than to the one that has happened for example in two thousand and fifteen which was was by far the biggest attack that was an attack happening on the infrastructure of the german polman so the technical infrastructure the r.t.a.

infrastructure was attacked it was a link that was back then circulated and infiltrating the computer system linking back information to what for a long time was nowhere to this current attack is a bit different because this is being circulated in social media with links that we have to warn should not be open if you're not a security expert because it could contain malicious software and the. reason that attacks in the last years have been always affiliated with suspicions of foreign espionage while this current attack seems to be something more of a psychological sort of attack of making politicized look vulnerable it's not only politicians who've been affected there's also been sturm and celebrities german for example journalists as well known comedian among those affected and so this seems to be more of a publicist who stand in the say. much money than it kosik thank you so much.

some us football transfer news now the french league's monaco have signed brazilian defender naldo from the board just like the club shall go for a two million euro see the center back started every single going to see the game for shaka last season and even scored seven goals but has had limited game time this year and all naldo spent fourteen years playing in germany wrecking a three hundred fifty eight honestly get appearance as monica hope the thirty six year old's experience will help them keep a keep them in france's top division. manchester city be title rivals liverpool two one in the premier league's top of the table showdown on thursday the game pitted former bundestag the coaches have pep guardiola and you can call up against each other now late in the first half city save you of widow knocked in a goal to put liverpool under pressure but the visitors did respond in the second

half brazilian striker the better for nino here tying the game on the hour mark in the seventy fourth minute leroy's sunday got the winner to move manchester city within four points of league leaders liverpool. hong kong is famous for its iconic neon signs they've been lighting up rows of shops and restaurants on the island for decades but as modern alternatives were more popular on kong could be at risk of losing a unique part of its heritage unless artisans and activists can save it. is one of the last master craftsmen of neon sign a jew in hong kong business people bring in their humdrum designs that he makes to me on signs that hong kong is famous for. he works with glass tubes which he painstakingly bends into shape it's precision work. who found his profession by chance i was the boss when i felt it was the summer

holidays when i was eighteen my father thought i was doing nothing so we got me a job with the neon sign make a. who was offered the opportunity to stay on and he decided not to go back to school it's quite a challenge to form the complicated chinese characters the work has remained the same bending the glass attaching the ignition coil. and filling the tube with fluorescent gas all is done by hand but for wu much has changed and. up until fifteen or twenty years ago i worked every day for seven or eight hours making me own chirps so. today it's maybe four or five days a month. so. his incl now comes mainly from other jobs the neon signs that used to be hong kong's trademark are becoming a rare sight carden china has been documenting those that remain. this

closer to. the hong kong that used to. she runs a group that hopes to protect hong kong's neon heritage many old signs have been taken down because of new safety regulations and the cheaper alternative to neon is replacing those that remain. here until the blue and yellow one. after the l.e.d. and then one day i think you notice that. you can actually see. the signs symbolize wealth in a city that once set trends for the rest of the continent for chan a part of hong kong's identity is fading. our mind our top stories here on d w thailand's worst tropical storm in three decades has made landfall on the country's south east coast rain a stormy seas and high winds are slamming the region so far at least one person has died and hackers have struck hundreds of german politicians with their private

phone numbers credit card information and other data published online reports say every political party has been affected except for the far right alternative for germany party. monica jones will have your business headlines coming up in one minute the whole way. from. the. earth. home to news of species in the whole world saving. here which is on those are big changes and most start with small steps global

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