i don't want to go. into systems. or search turned her into a. w. repeat of the fact that. this is deja vu news live from berlin germany security agency defends how it handled a massive data half the security breaches rocks germany as data from hundreds of politicians and public figures is released online some victims say authorities failed to inform them about the suspicious activity soon enough we'll speak to a cyber security expert in a moment. also coming up a birthday party goes tragically wrong for five teens during an escape room challenge in poland they were trapped when fire broke out. and in the bundesliga

winter training camp is in full force with title favorites dortmund and find me during our for the second half of the season. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us germany's cyber defense agency is defending the way it handled a massive data leak of personal information from hundreds of german politicians and celebrities was published online back in december but only became public knowledge yesterday and victims are demanding to know why the cyber security body says it didn't alert them earlier because it wasn't able to connect the dots and didn't know the extent of the breach until yesterday now the data was posted on a twitter account over four weeks and the leak impacted politicians at all levels including the german chancellor angela merkel of the foreign minister heikal mohsen also. the president of the put the stock both on choice in fact there were very few

politicians who were not targeted most were from chancellor merkel's conservatives also from the center left social democrats the left party the notable exception the far right a.f.d. the party confirmed yesterday that none of their lawmakers were affected german authorities say the government's i.t. network was not compromised and looking at where the information came from the intent remains on clear some politicians are demanding action. 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 haven't looked off this enough in recent years can we commit to the government has gross and neglected that. we have to take action this is a turning point i mean. for more of the story we're joined in story here by is of

us she is an expert on cyber security currently at berlin's digital society institute's isabel thanks for joining us here as we mentioned the cyber security agency the b.s.i. as it's called her and her body this is agency is defending itself right now saying it couldn't connect the dots between the information that they were seeing leaked and also that they only realized the extent of the sleek yesterday what do you make of that. so i think right now we don't have enough information to judge their exact behavior but what we do know is that in early december they were alerted by people who used data had been hacked and also politicians from political parties. so they say that they couldn't connect the dots because they did not know also at the time that the twitter account would leak the data they did not know about this twitter account. however. it doesn't really make so much sense

right now. to understand whether they had alerted other agencies because they said they fed the information into the national cyber defense center so the question is what happened with the information there and if there had been different data points could they have connected them and actually with that have let's who to the account into all of the. data earlier ok so you're not entirely convinced by the defense here that the it's giving if this was an issue probably have more information given for more information maybe that will be revealed in the coming days and weeks that we're waiting for and i think at that point in time they could have also already alerted to the police which they did not do when victims are definitely demanding answers we politicians as well we need answers that's why they agree on we need more answers what about the severity of this breach you know this was private information numbers credit card information it wasn't the government works targeted does that make it less serious in

a way. so what we can say is that this leak did not reveal any sensitive political data or secrets data as we could have imagined from hack of government computers for example so in that sense i would say on the political level it's not that serious. and it is it can be embarrassing for the people involved so it actually does carry some political damage for the people who were involved in the hacked with information has been exposed and what we do see is that these tactics can be employed for example in the in the. election right so in order to discredit politicians in order to we can trust in the political systems system and in politicians and democracy itself so i think this is a warning that we should take seriously so can be destabilizing what about who is behind this and we know attribution is difficult but is there any indication here

so we don't know who is behind that and we need to be very careful with attribution because technically right now we do not have enough details about this however we do know that there might have been more than one individual involved in this attack and it might have taken it it probably took a lot of effort to put the leaks together to get the data and then also to leak them in this advent calendar formant war over a lot of the data is copied in a way on two different service which is called mirroring so that it is very very hard to remove the data from the internet and even if you delete some of it even if you take down some of the information and the servers it's not possible at the moment to say whether it's actually in a short amount possible to delete all the data and that is what makes me say that was a lot of effort in a lot of manpower involved in this attack here at a very professional attack it's about skerrick an expert on cyber security at

berlin's digital society institute thank you so much for joining us here thank you . well going on to some other news now and five that teenage girls have died after a fire broke out in an escape room game in northern poland typically these games involve locking participants inside a room where they find clues and solve riddles to get out as caper have grown in popularity but now people are questioning whether they are safe. friends and neighbors said of a memorial at the gate outside the game center where the girls died. the small city of course and then near the baltic coast is in shock after a birthday party for one of the fifteen year olds went horribly wrong. authorities say the five girls likely died of asphyxiation well trapped inside the room. intermissions we join the families of the victims in their grief the fire broke out at five in the afternoon in one of the escape rooms and partially. used.

investigators pointed to a possible gas leak and faulty electric wiring as the cause of the blaze one official says the fire started outside the escape room and blocked employee from moving the girls to safety the employee suffered severe burns polish media reports show people had already voiced concerns on the game center's website complaining of a strong gas smell inside and said the set up was little more than a decorated garage the local fire department has called for immediate change the. decision has been issued starting tomorrow all escape rooms game centers and clubs will undergo fire safety inspections. of which special attention will be paid to evacuation plans and escape routes in these types of locations. there should be a moderator able to unlock the rooms and let people out we will check this and it

will be strictly controlled but of the. other officials are also calling for change poland's interior minister said all of poland's more than one thousand escape rooms should remain closed until authorities have run full safety inspections. let's catch up now on some other stories making news around the world thousands of delos best protesters have returned to the streets of paris calling for president a man mccomb to step down the protests began last year and now scrapped fuel taxes that are grown into a broader uprising against folding living standards. orthodox church of ukraine has been formally granted independence at a ceremony in istanbul cementing and historic split from the russian church the move was announced in october sparking an angry reaction in moscow for centuries the ukrainian church has been under the control of religious leaders in the russian capital. airports and ferry services have reopened in southern thailand after

a powerful storm caused power outages and flash flooding tropical storm public barreled across the gulf of thailand on friday forcing tens of thousands into emergency shelters and living tourists stranded meteorologists say the storm was unusual striking well outside the typical monsoon season. to washington now where another round of talks between president donald trump and democratic leaders fail to end the partial shutdown of the federal government after those talks president trump told reporters he is 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 are not 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 good 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 i that i anticipated i may do. the most visible effect of the shutdown is the closed national museums and parks this affects tourism which affects the local economy 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. that 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 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 i feel scared. you know wanted and i hope you know and the solution would come. on.

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. to sports now and the bundesliga may be in its mid-season break but that doesn't mean the teams can't put their feet up can put their feet up and relax and most have already started their winter training camps with title contenders dortmund and by munich in warmer temperatures as they prepare for the second half of the season . on spain sunny southern coast is a great excuse from the dreary dortmund winter though the newly arrived to league leaders will likely be pleased with the weather they're not in spain just to catch some rays and sign autographs head coach lucien fall of the in his squad have their work cut out if they want to stay on top of the table they're just six points ahead of a chasing buyer in munich a serious injury to stalwart dortmund defender manuel the conjuring may mean the

team will already have to dip into the sixty four million euros they received for selling christian pulis sic to chelsea to the sick head still london at the end of the season which could prove a distraction. bio munitions are calling qatar home for the mid-season break it's been an up and down start to the campaign for the defending champions it was only a few weeks ago that coach nico was under fire for his team's struggles but an up tick in form to end twenty eight team has biron now in second place and coach back in the good graces of the club and its fans. the camp is also an opportunity for eighteen year old canadian whiz kid alfonso davies to show his stuff after arriving in munich he's aiming to break into the first team but if by and keeps up the momentum it won't be easy for him. the international ice festival has opened in harbin china skulkers from twelve countries face temperatures below minus ten

degrees celsius to create their frozen masterpieces or back at the top of the hour but will leave you with a look at some of their dazzling work.