world. documentary starts january thirteenth on or you. this is the w. news live from berlin a massive cyber security breach rocks the german capital as data from hundreds of politicians and public figures is released online i've had phone numbers documents and credit card details were published on twitter last month victims want to know why it took until yesterday for them to be in for also coming up u.s.

presidents donald trump raises the stakes in his showdown with democrats saying the two week old government shutdown could go on for months or even years unless he gets money to build his mexican border. i'm carl kasell and welcome to the program many of the victims of a massive data leak in germany are asking why it took them so long to be informed personal information from hundreds of german politicians and celebrities was published online in december but only became public on friday the head of germany's cyber security council says the leak shows it must be quicker to react. for a german m.p. florian post finding out that his credit card information and private chats were available for all to see is a digital nightmare turned reality this is. a very nice feeling knowing that your

most private. insurance information. on the internet and it lets anybody anywhere in the world. experts call it docs ing publishing sensitive information to violate victim's privacy online the link has been deactivated but not before data involving hundreds of politicians and celebrities was shared via twitter the data was leaked in daily batches throughout december all germany's political parties were affected except the far right f.t. . i don't think we're dealing with an army of professional hackers here it looks like someone was snatching data over a long period and looking to steal passwords. the breach was discovered by former s.p.d. leader martin schultz who received calls from strangers on his private telephone number and reported it to police. chancellor merkel was briefed on the matter but

many lawmakers first learned of the mass hacking from the media. and what i heard shocked me this is a grave attack on democracy in our country. there are massive problems in the digital security architecture we put titian's have a look office enough in recent years the government has crossed and neglected it. we have to take action this is a turning point. and this will findings suggest no politically compromising data has been leaked still the government says it is a serious case and that almost all security agencies are involved in the investigation good come on you can't really make money off this since the data have been made public so there's limited blackmail potential we used to speak of hacktivism but we'll see what all the investigation turns up. it's not yet clear what authorities knew when should bomb says his agency had

become aware of the security breach in december and contacted individual lawmakers but not florian post he only found out late thursday after a call from his political party so far he's had no word from security officials even though he's among the politicians most affected by the hacking. similarly kosik has been tracking the story for us she joins me now in studio max you heard there german authorities they've known about this for weeks why did it take them so long why didn't we know about this sooner well it's not uncommon for investigators for example in criminal cases to keep the public on inform for certain terms of like keeping the investigation going like strategic reasons but in this chis it's rather problematic because they said they knew by mid december when the initial publication of the links where the data was circulated with became public but the early yesterday stated that the now looking into it they had yesterday and crisis

meeting with the intelligence services and the internet the german federal agency for information security problematic it is because the links that have been circulated within the last month could contain potentially malware so if people are just digging into it which is sometimes quite tempting if you think of like oh i want to be a detective myself then that could contain malware which then again course could cause harm to the computers of those use it and of course that didn't inform a lot of the victims as some people had been informed but not everybody and that's of course a concern because people trust these agencies to take care of this during your personal information is out there you want to know right in twenty fifteen so that suspected russian hackers they infiltrated the german parliament what about this time around how serious was this act well this is not a hack in the classic sense as it happened in two thousand and fifteen in two thousand and fifteen the german parliament tree infrastructure technological infrastructure was attacked it was created a data leak that been a factor over twenty thousand accounts in the german parliament tree system and

that was data leaking continuously throughout the year what happened this time is that it was an ex malaysian facts data coming from previous data breaches but also some data that has just recently been hacked and that data has been accumulated into profiles of public personas for example politicians but also other celebrities german moderate. host present is journalists and these days have profiles have been also analyzed so the people behind this data breach have time to kind of profile certain public personas and really think of like how can we make them look one of all how can we target them pacifically and that is something that is different because it's more of a psychological wolf in a sense you mentioned who is affected so hundreds of politicians nearly every german political party except for the far right does that tell us anything about the motivation may be behind this attack so experts looking at the account that had initially published these links where the data was circulated with said that the account which was found in two thousand and fifteen on twitter on the social media

platform had affiliations to the far right at the same time the cow was in active for a while so there's now suggestion that it may have even been hacked itself and one problem that security x. was always one about is that it should view ssion and hacking with cyber security cases like this is always very difficult because you can always make it look like a certain picture like this paints in the sense of very clear picture that maybe this is coming from the far right but that could also be something that hackers have been manipulating to look like so it's very important and how can cause like this to always jump to jump to conclusion and always be careful and white interesting stuff is not going to be on the kosik thanks very much to washington now where another round of talks between president donald trump and democratic leaders failed to end the partial shutdown of the federal government after those talks trump told reporters he's prepared to let the shutdown go on for months or even years unless congress allocates billions to build

a mexican border wall democrats in congress are refusing to provide the money saying a border wall would not improve security. the shutdown is now going into its third week and while d.c.'s politicians are still getting paid things aren't so easy for local businesses use by a schrader reports. kevin kelly spent christmas without his family while they took a vacation he decided to stay behind in d.c. and earn some extra bucks striving for the ride sharing app lift on an average day kevin said he would drive her around ten hours and make two hundred dollars since the government shutdown though he said he's made less than half that usually it's you know pretty active a lot of people coming in and just about but combine that with the time off with the holiday with the furlough so there's a ghost town around here and sort of really impacted and. didn't have the opportunity to make the money that that i anticipated on the way to. the most

visible effect of the shutdown is the closed national museums and parks this affects tourism which affects local economies in most quarters the shutdown is thought of as a purely political move one without any actual ramifications in the real world but it's not just government workers who are getting shorted on their checks the ripple effects of people being out of work are being felt across the district especially by small business owners. even local stores but don't depend on tourists have to survive on the government workers who live in the neighborhood. sam works at this local dry cleaner's and he said business has been extremely light since the shutdown. i have to shape my my life a little different now because i never know what's going to happen next and i never know when you know my boss might say yeah i don't have that much i don't i don't need you today or tomorrow and that would hurt

a close government means its workers have no extra money to spend even on essential is like food gigi an immigrant who has owned and operated this convenience store for twenty six years said there's been almost no one in her store for two weeks when after the scamp. you know i wanted and i hope you know and and the solution would come. soon so you know it's not right this is the human cost of a political fight with no end in sight full shelves and an empty store. now to some of the stories making news around the world five teenage girls have died after being lost in the scaife rheumatic game center in northern poland authorities say a fire broke out fatally trapping the group is popular around the world players are voluntarily locked inside and have to solve issues in order to get out in iraq at

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rally one of the world's most arduous racing events gets underway on sunday with competitors from across the globe battling it out in the unforgiving ruffian desert conditions are tough for every competitor in this grueling ten stage event but this year one homegrown racer faces a bigger test than most. lucas peron is about to make history the twenty five year old is set to become the first person with down syndrome to compete in one of motor racing is most demanding events the deco rally if a five thousand kilometer ten day marathon race through the peruvian desert doesn't sound tough and awful ready to look at his condition means he'll be at a significant cognitive disadvantage to his fellow competitors but he doesn't let that hold him back. if you want to do something special work hard and reach that goal. he won't be driving the car yourself that responsibility rests with his father lucas

will be his copilot gets on with the hands on aspect of the drive lucas will have to keep his wits about him. he's the eyes of the car you can see if there's another competitor out there we're going to test this to do this not like you're on a track someone can come straight at you and when you see them. in preparation for the grueling ordeal the father son duo competed in september's the suffer in courageous a warm up event also hosted on the sand dunes of peru. seven well the i in this time is the simply finish nobody would be shocked if they did a whole lot better than that of the rule lucas has a habit of surprising people. in ski jumping japan's rio you kobayashi is continuing to dominate the or hills turn and he followed up two wins at the german stages with another victory at the ski jump in austria and the omens are good ten

of the previous eleven jumpers to take the tournaments first three rounds went on to claim the overall title she hopes to do that at the final jump on sunday. re are you kobayashi is standing on the verge of a four hills grand slam innings broke like he had twice this tournament already the japanese jumper launched himself into first place he won with the two biggest jumps of the day as he aims to become just a third man to claim a tournament clean sweep. only stefan craft came anywhere close to kobayashi austria's double world champion back on form on home snow and after to pull rounds in germany the opposite was true for marcus ice in the german had to second place finishes to his name coming into this round but he could only manage thirteenth since broke and now trails by actually by more than forty five points overall equivalent to around twenty five meters in distance the tournament wraps up on sunday as well as winning the grand slam kobayashi could become the first japanese

jumper in twenty one years to claim the four hills crown. you're watching news from berlin more coming at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's d.w. dot com or follow us on twitter at g.w. news let's watch.