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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 wall. i'm called aspen welcome to the program many of the victims of a massive data leak in germany are asking why it took so long for them 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 agency says the leak shows it must be quicker to react. for german m.p. florian post finding out that his credit card information and private chats were available for all to see is a digital might marry turned reality this is. true. very nice feeling knowing that

your most private data like 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 were 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 tensions haven't looked off as enough in recent years the government has crossed and neglected that if. we have to take action this is a turning point and its. initial 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 i mean it's difficult to make money with this stuff so because most is already publicly available so there's limited blackmail potential we used to speak of hacktivism but we'll see what the investigation turns up. it's not yet clear what authorities knew when shown bomb says his agency had become

aware of the security breach in december and contacted individual lawmakers but not flory unpoliced 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 this story for us he 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 incurring a case is to keep the public on inform for certain terms of like keeping the investigation going like strategic reasons but in this kaiser it's rather problematic because they said they knew by mid december when the initial publication of the lings where the data was circulated with became public but they only yesterday stated that they're 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 cause of course could cause harm to the computers of those use it and of course they didn't inform a lot of the victims or 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 two thousand and 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 three infrastructure technological infrastructure was attacked it was created data leak the bend effect over twenty thousand accounts of the german parliament tree system and that was data leaking

continuously throughout the year what happened this time is that it was an actual malaysian of data coming from previous data breaches but also some data that has prevailed like just recently been hacked and that data have been accumulated into profiles of public personas for example politicians but also other celebrities german moderator. present is journalists and these data have profiles have been also analyzed so the people behind this data rich have time to kind of profile certain public personas and really think of like how can we make them look want to bill 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 warned about is that i should view ssion and hacking on cyber security cases like this is always very difficult because you can always make it look like a certain picture like this paints in a 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 solely on the kosik thank you 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 president trump told reporters that he's prepared to let the shutdown go on for months or even years unless congress allocates billions

to build a mexican border walking across and congress are refusing to provide the money saying a border wall but not improve security. shutdown is now going into its third week and while d.c.'s politicians they're still getting paid things aren't so easy for local businesses. to reports. kevin kelly spend 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 so it really impacted and. didn't have the opportunity to make the money that i 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 the local economy and 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 that don't tend on tourists have to survive on the government workers who live in the neighborhood. and 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 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 as like food gigi an emigrant 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 scan. you know wanted . i hope you know 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 us stories making news around the world five teenage girls have died after being lost in the state room at a game center in northern poland authorities say a fire broke out fatally trapping the group escape rooms are popular around the world players are voluntarily locked inside and have to solve clues in order to get out. airports and ferry services have reopened in southern thailand after

a powerful storm caused power outages and flash flooding tropical storm rolled across the gulf of thailand on friday forcing tens of thousands into emergency shelters and leaving tourists stranded meteorologists say this storm was unusual striking well outside it's a bickel monsoon season. a fish has sold for a record three point one million dollars in the first option of the new year at tokyo's fish market the nearly three hundred kilogram bluefin tuna was caught off japan's northern coast bluefins are considered a vulnerable species to two decades of overfishing. a couple from northern ireland who won a one hundred thirty million euro watery jackpot say they plan to share the riches of giving some money to around fifty friends and family francis and patrick connelly a businessman and teacher also plan to travel and help their own community. with.

the dakar rally one of the world's most arduous racing events gets underway on sunday with competitors from around the globe battling it out in the unforgiving groovin desert conditions are tough for every competitor in this grueling ten stage events but this year one homegrown racer faces a bigger test than most. are on 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 himself that responsibility rests with his father lucas

will be his copilot was it so much a hands on aspect of the drive lucas will have to keep his wits about him. he's the eyes of the car he can see if there's another competitor out there we're going to be. is not like you are 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 this suffer you know 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 called me as she is continuing to dominate at the four hills tournament he followed up two wins at the german stages with another victory at these ski jumping ins broke 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 hopes the do just that at the final jump on sunday in. rio you kobayashi is standing on the verge of a four hills grand slam and in spirit 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 the third man to claim a tournament clean sweep. only stefan kraus came anywhere close to kobayashi austria's double world champion back on form on home snow after to pull rounds in germany the opposite was true for marcus ice and 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 a role 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 we have more at the top of the hour and don't forget you get the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's dot com or follow us on twitter at w news thanks for watching. my first by state was a sewing machine. where i come from women are bound by the social rules something as simple as learning how to write a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle of my home and it took me as them until. finally they gave up and went on

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