urgent assistance. channeling start to turn your return to. t.w. . this is deja vu news lots from burlesque and a massive attack attack here in germany hundreds of german politicians fall victim to a massive data breach but their private phone numbers credit card information and other data published online will have the latest on this developing story also coming up and i'm certain say for dozens of migrants stuck on the rescue ships on montauk aid

groups say dishes are each year eating onboard as eva officials are urging member states to let them land. and democrats reclaim cower in the u.s. 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. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us hundreds of german politicians have fallen victim to a hack of their personal information the stolen data includes a cell phone numbers and credit card details which were posted to twitter germany security agencies are investigating who is responsible isn't yet known and the government says the hackers targeted lawmakers at all levels. even german chancellor angela merkel might be affected her fax number e-mail address and

several letters could have been leaked online. hundreds of other german politicians have been targeted by hackers who have tweeted their personal data such as phone numbers identity cards chats invoices and even photos of their children. members of every german political party have been affected. let's not lie to ourselves our data is obviously transparent and at the mercy of such attacks and that can't be the case. germany's justice minister cuddling a bottle a condemned the leaks as an attack on the country's democracy. was first discovered thursday evening however the documents had apparently been tweeted beginning in december twenty eighth seen a twitter account released information daily in the style of a christmas calendar none of the internal documents over least are reported to be highly sensitive at the moment there is no known suspect nor motivation you know

then they can do that in general we would like to point out that data which is circulated in this way must be handled with great care. however even if a large part of the data concerned were to be authentic experience shows that in such cases falsified data may also have been mixed in face to that and i think. it's not the first time that german politicians have been hacked russia was accused of a series of cyber attacks that stole data from computers in the german parliament in two thousand and fifteen and last year the german government's network came under fresh attack russian hackers were allegedly also to blame. our political correspondent maximiliano kosik is following the latest updates for us max personal data here as we've heard has cell phone numbers credit card details the government spokesman has said that no highly sensitive data that leaked out what i mean by that. well there's always different categories in which you can

consider data leaks or hack attacks like the suspected one that we're currently talking about the attack or the leak that we currently talking about is one that contains a lot of like a mass of data and in that is a mixture of a lot of personal data but experts have already confirmed that some of the information has been publicly available for example has been drawn from public websites such as the german parliaments website some of the information that has been supposedly leaked has come from all the leaks for example from a two thousand and twelve facebook hack attack where personal data has already been leaked and some has been falsified so experts are currently looking into it and it's important to note that the original leak twitter account has already been shut down but of course there still circulation of the links that have been distributed on the internet max this is a serious breach we saw in our report also the chance of being affected what are

authorities doing to deal with this well currently we know that the federal agency for information security is meeting with intelligence services the german government has also been informed and they're now launching an investigation we have it on good authority that the american services are helping on that and of course is important to note very crucial for internet users out there the links are still circulating and it's advice that you should not open them because even though it's quite tempting there seems to be information also on celebrities german celebrities but also potentially well known figures such as german chancellor angela merkel that you do not open these links because they could contain malicious software max this is not the first tack on german politicians on german government networks in recent years a russian group were suspected behind the attacks is there any indication who was behind this steadily. no there isn't there has been a quick sort of remarkable note that it was looking like the far right party if he

has not been affected from the league but now politicians of the party have come forward and said that they have been. affected too however this what it seems like this is an attack or a leak that is aimed to sort of look at like psychological warfare so personal data everybody can be affected even the most powerful people in germany and so what is different to previous leaks is that those were for example attacking critical infrastructures public services or the german parliamentary technical infrastructure and those kind of attacks the ones that have been happening previously were always attacks they were looking like foreign espionage this one seems to be more of something that is like aimed at showing how easily everybody can be targeted and how everybody in germany and everywhere in the world should be taken care of their personal cyber security all right our political correspondent max me and of course you're covering the story for us thank you very much and

staying in germany a members of the bavarian a c.s.u. party the sister party time the americans conservative c.d.u. are holding their annual party meeting the c.s.u. or christian social union is holding that conference in their own that's not far from munich in the south of germany it is a second day of the three day event and every year the party invites prominent figures to speak this year special guest is irish prime minister blair via the car he's expected to make a speech a little bit later in the day. it was all for them and he did use chief political editor michel of is covering the conference in they on for us he joins us for more michelle a good to see you tell us more about the irish prime minister's visit today. yes he's invited here in stark contrast to viktor orbán probably the european migration critic in chief who was here last year ok to hear this is a demonstration of solidarity with allah and in this tricky weeks leading up to

what could be an uncontrolled bricks at an exit of the u.k. from the european union of course that crucial vote coming up in the british parliament over whether m.p.'s will accept the brics that deal here this is you who is actually taking a stance that it's all the way with the irish and also sending a signal that it's on top of the political agenda because we are in the first week of the year and this is the almost traditional chance for the c.s.u. the system party of anglo-american c.d.u. party to set the political agenda an opportunity they certainly try and seize every single year michel you are saying this is a show of solidarity with the irish prime minister the c.s.u. however has in the past shown sympathy for more euro skeptic positions even criticizing the e.u. for example for being too hard on britain in bragg's that negotiations are we

seeing a shift now and why. well absolutely the really shifting position is just a couple of details to consider the varia is where germany's automotive industry is it has a lot to lose if there is an uncontrolled breck's it and this you see as he was always been the voice basically calling on german leaders not to be too tough on britain at the same time also the seas he was never questioned the european union itself that is political consensus here in germany reaching into every bit of the forests here varia as well but quite clearly the sees you as never shied away from being very critical also when it came to that greek rescue package that ran out just very recently that's also why we saw the leader of the greek opposition. here in on as well of course there are elections coming up in greece as

well. our chief political correspondent michelle a cooper for us thank you very much. some other stories making news around the world an explosion occurred outside a local office of germany's far right party on thursday police say an unknown substance was detonated at the store front in the center of duggan in saxony no one was injured investigators are looking into whether the attack was politically motivated. but the woman has entered a hindu temple in the southern state of the first visit by two women on wednesday triggered protests across the state 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 electoral fraud and intimidation prime minister sheikh hasina was declared the

landslide winner of the election but american and e.u. officials have raised doubts about the elections integrity. and russian prosecutors have formally charged dual us british citizen paul wieland with espionage willand was detained in moscow last friday his lawyer is seeking his release on bail the u.k. has said that it is extremely worried about the charges and is offering consular assistance whelan's family says he was in moscow for a wedding. tryst season thousands of occasion or his entire nationals were evacuated ahead of the tropical storms arrival public was expected to be the worst thailand has seen in decades despite high winds the storm is weaker than expected it's now likely to be downgraded to a tropical depression. aid workers say the health of nearly fifty migrants stuck on ships off the coast of malta is deteriorating the migrants were rescued within the last two weeks but malta italy and spain have refused to let them disembark

activists say many are suffering severe seasickness fright on by rough seas and heavy wet. imagine being stuck on a boat in such rough seas not knowing well you'll go next since they're dramatic rescue of the libyan coast in december this is spending reality for about fifty migrants they are in limbo in the narrow confines of the two ships operated by eight organizations see watch and see i q a p n countries have so far refused to let them disembark but mayors of several large italian cities refused to obey the country's official tough anti immigration law slamming it as unconstitutional. says and the city's we apply the laws only if they conform with the constitution thus the constitution prevails are the ordinary laws that if people's rights are restricted according to the color of the skin the constitution must prevail.

and this official letter to majesty offered to let the watch come to the heart of naples assuring them that the refugees will be able to disembark. but according to see watch this is easier said than done official rescue centers have to assign available ports and the weather conditions are simply too bad deeply affecting the people on board. but the biggest problem is also that guests thirty two people that we have here on board know already for thirteen days. to show mental problems. florence and palermo as well as several german cities have also offered the migrants refuge as more and more official to unite in solidarity with the refugees hoping creases. for those in desperate need of help. well one of the rescue boats is operated by the german and geo c.i. and their head of mission is john breaux back is on board he joins us on the line

yon thank you very much for being with us here on t w i understand you've been allowed to take shelter in maltese waters because of deteriorating conditions here about a five kilometers off the west coast of malta if i understand correctly what are the conditions on board right now. we have seventy refuge rescue people involved and. that circumstances we have the last few days with heavy weather conditions. and the quakes. the people are safe but as you know they suffer from sea sickness collapse or it's already problems we have a good medical team wish to take care of them how urgent is that you is it that you be allowed to land somewhere in december it's very evident because just a small ship and. supplies of water and food are not

calculated for two days on t.v. so we really need all the safety in. in the next. two hours that is beyond a very urgent situation indeed yet malta and italy and spain are refusing to allow migrants to enter where do you hope to go we hope we hope to go to the next part of safety which could be let in a lot and we hope our governments together with other countries. and maybe the commission with find a solution for. what about the offer young we heard in a report that naples might be willing to take you in what is the reaction of your crew when the migrants on board of the ability to possibly disembark there. yeah we

thought about the solution but the transfer from here to. the coastal levels is very very rough and far and we're not sure we can handle the. transfer. all right young rebecca on board the sea i rescue boat on the waters off the coast of malta at the moment thank you so much for joining us here and you know the thank you. to the u.s. now where democrats have swept back to power in the house of representatives and they immediately demonstrated their new authority by passing a new budget bill that's not president trump's key demand billions and funding for a us mexican border wall the democrats are presiding of the most diverse house in u.s. history which for the first time includes muslim women. everybody. selfies with friends and supporters rushing to tell you because one of the first two muslim

women elected to congress a historic moment. so 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 will 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. and the congresswoman from michigan still has to learn her way around come up with a hill just like a fellow democrat on a press plane from massachusetts who brought her 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 to 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 into everything possible to meet that every

day. the new congress has already made history by seating a 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 is to government shutdown the standoff between the democrats and donald trump could set the tone for a combative to yours. and in these two years it's this mormon who will face off against president struck. nancy pelosi extant you taking the gavel of the new speaker of the house nancy pelosi reclaim the post she already held from two thousand and seven to twenty eleven nation is in stark 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 protection our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and you vision to share. the new majority quickly went on the offensive approving bill three open the government but without the money for the border wall president demands with a conflict likely to intensify for the new only elected lawmakers this is only the beginning. right now there's a new chapter in the us china trade dispute monica has more on that got a new attempt to solve the problem sumi china's government says u.s. press representatives will visit beijing on monday for talks in attempt to ease trades tensions between the two countries u.s. president starts trump and his chinese counterpart cheating ping had agreed to hold additional tariffs as of december the first the agreement last ninety days while

the two nations work out in one permanent solution and he goes ations will start by focusing on steel agricultural products and cars so for hundreds of billions of dollars worth of merchandise is affected by reciprocal terrorists. well i'm sure that that news will have gone down well on the stock markets focus and that is standing by for us in frankfurt everybody cheering their happy mood. yes i want to call that news has gone down very well not just here in frankfurt out of stock exchange but also across other european indices of the german good to blue chip dax is up over one person per cent people are happy especially after the lousy start into the week that we have seen so far talks are going to be about steel agriculture and what was it oh yeah cars that leave the shares that are profiting today we're seeing steelmaker to sin leading the pack along with fire think crop

science and carmakers are also on the up here of course especially the cars is very important for the german economy but what's all the chances that they'll actually be a breakthrough. are not really expecting a breakthrough here we are seeing talks on the vice minister ariel level so you know it's unlikely we're going to see a big big step but it has spread to optimism especially after these negative numbers that we've seen. out of china the negative data out of china earlier this week from from production now on top of these trade talks were also receiving more positive. energy hell in the safe from china planning to prop up its economy of faltering economy so that's also part of the news and has gotten investors to even

go back into some emerging market shares the risk appetite is coming back a little bit it's not ok that's good news doesn't this in sentencing to support. well inflation in the euro zone has dropped to its lowest level in eight months fueling fears of a crooning economy consumer prices rose just one point six percent year on year in december financials of the two percent stock it's at the center of that analysts say a slump in oil prices in the final months of. last year accounted for the low figure but inflation in the euro zone has been. for years prompting the e.c.b. to keep interest rates near zero. and is due to appear in tokyo at a court next week on charges of financial misconduct the former darling of the car industry was arrested on nov the nineteen's and he's been in detention since denies the charges against him and is requesting an open hearing. carlos ghosn has

been behind bars in this tokyo prison for the last six weeks japanese prosecutors accuse the former nixon boss of financial misconduct the specific accusations against him include under reporting his salary for years enabling him to avoid paying tax on. using company money to pay for personal expenses and shifting seventeen million dollars worth of his own losses on to new son go on denies the allegations. the charges follow a glittering career in the auto industry in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. go on talk over at the helm of embattled brando and oversaw a cost cutting program that turned the company's fortunes around a few years later he performed a similar feast at nist sun when it entered an alliance with. mitsubishi later joined the red only sun alliance and the group became the biggest carmaker in the

world if found guilty goan could face years in jail. the gaming industry is dominated by men especially when it comes to programming and to design a study shows that only about a quarter of people working in the sector a women but that could soon change one woman entrepreneur who's convinced the game industry is ideally suited for women. linda cruz is going back in time to ancient rome through the use of her phone she's testing a new app that shows what things may have looked like here two thousand years ago when the german city of cologne was the roman settlement of colonia the app aims to bring ancient times back to life and young people back into museums consumers hold the songs it's the opportunity to expand everything you see in a museum digitally. museum only has limited space so only certain things can be displayed still are through

a mobile device i can add many more links and take exploration of the past to a whole new level. comes up. the game designer is thirty two years old and passionate about her work as a child already she created board games and years later began programming at twenty six she launched her own game studio she won the german developer prize for her language learning game squirrel and bear. cruise has four employees and plans to hire two more but she wants to keep operation small. business one hundred sixty growing means you also have to take a look at how you're structured and of course when you have four teams all working on projects someone also has to manage organize and get money for it all. that would probably be my job but that means i could no longer work creatively which wouldn't suit me. cruz's game serena super green aims to get girls more interested

in technical jobs she says women are missing out on ideal work that place to their strengths and offers the flexibility many want they need to overcome old obstacle. i mean if you listen to. there's a correlation with technical jobs and opportunities we've neglected within our culture is all we've been telling young women that's not for you you can't do that image them for certain jobs as don't even land on their list of possible career paths really i'm going. to. crucify and thrown career ideal for women's game development is a communicate a field that can be combined well with family needs and flexible working hours but for more women to become game designers cruise a says they need to consider it in the first place. unemployment in germany rose in december compared to the previous months but for the year as

a whole unemployment was at the lowest level since one thousand nine hundred ninety one especially the number of gainfully employed workers has increased to levels the german economy hasn't seen for more than three decades two thousand and eighteen ended with a jobless rate of under five percent that leaves about two million people without. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. pakis have struck hundreds of german politicians with their private phone numbers credit card information and. published online reports say every political party and thanks to accept of a far right alternative to germany. watching the news of life from berlin coming up at the top of the hour thanks for watching. the cut.

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