this is deja vu news live from berlin germany's i.g. security agency defends how it handled a massive data hack of the security breach has rocked 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. also coming up salvaging a fragile truce the u.n. special envoy arrives in gammon's port city old data to urge rebel leaders to uphold a cease fire there to speak to oxfam on the world's worst humanitarian crisis for

the millions on the brink of famine in yemen. and a polish city mourns after a birthday party goes tragically wrong for five teenagers they were trapped want to fire broke out during an escape from challenge. i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us germany's cyber defense agency is defending the way it handled a massive data leak 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 our twitter account over four weeks and the lake impact. politicians at all levels

including the chancellor angela merkel of the foreign minister heikal mohsen the president of the bundestag. in fact there were very few politicians who were not targeted most were from merkel's conservatives also from the center left social democrats and the left party the notable exception of the far right f.t. the party confirmed yesterday that none of their lawmakers were affected german authorities say the government's i-t. network was not compromised and they're looking at where the information came from the intent remains unclear 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 offices enough in recent years can we commit to the government has got something like that. we have to think. this is a turning point 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 being this 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 this leak yesterday what do you make of that yeah 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 whose 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. giving if this was an issue give more information they should even 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 say 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 networks 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 information has been exposed and what we do see is that. these tactics can be employed for example in the. election right so in order to discredit politicians in order it's who 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 it 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 to get to get the data and then also to leak them in this calendar form and more 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 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 the

berlin's digital society institute thank you so much for joining us here and thank you. now a u.n. special envoy is in yemen to shore up a fragile cease fire in the port city of hope data martin griffiths arrived in yemen's capital sanaa to meet with the rebel leaders he will later travel to saudi arabia for talks with yemen government officials who the loyalists in her data are calling for a full implementation of the un backed truce held as a breakthrough and are france to end yemen's for your civil war the conflict has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis the port city of ho data is the entry point for most of the food aid coming into the country. let's bring in most seem to dicky is the director of the charity oxfam in yemen he joins us from santa wilson thank you so much for being with us and as we just heard the u.n. special envoy to yemen has come there to save the cease fire deal that was reachin reached recently in sweden how hopeful are you that he will be successful.

i think due to for years the war that wald has seen the war. having to learn that suffering from malnutrition in the country the brink of i mean the economic decline the collapse and also the infrastructure. so. i think you really really hope so for. moving on the right track. again when we have seen. the conflict in person however we do not open to much in difference because it would be important to have some kind of. agreement . that we had so. even. after. his visit here and also. there will be a meeting in the end sometime in january all right so this could be an important

step forward now the city of poll data as we said to keep port city it's very crucial for aid shipments what is the situation on the ground there at the moment in terms of aid. i think the situation has improved after the cease fire as i said that both parties are constructive so for the risk we didn't have a started returning to the us. and the shops of the opening shops and been closed that began opening and aid agencies have access to provide. this system to the effort to publish and we do have been expand our programs over there so we do hope that the ball the focus will remain at the family we would also expect from the general conversation but the ceasefire is the. country wide at the same time also.

the flood is with respect to the international human laws and we will be we will be able to deliver aid any hindrance to reduce the pollution in need just very briefly if you can this is still the world's worst humanitarian crisis what do you need to see from the u.n. and the rest of the international community to stabilize the situation. i think the faster we need to see that both the book to succumb to new respecting the cease fire and who did that and they also even expand the scope of work on the conversation to have country would cease fire to end the war and then opening. airport for commercial flights and then i mean there would be no hindrance from the international community used to access. the population in need ok all right machine city from oxfam in sanaa thank you so much for joining us here in t w. thank you

very much. a polish city is in mourning after five teenage girls were killed in a fire it happened while they were inside what's called an escape a facility where people are locked in a room and have to solve clues to get out as caper 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 casa lynn 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 a sexy asian while 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 in. just being more they've.

investigators pointing to a possible gas leak in 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 employees suffered severe burns polish media reports show people had already voiced concerns in the game centre'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. our 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 under scape routes in these types of locations so 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. sports now and the bundesliga may be in its mid-season break but that doesn't mean the teams can put their feet up and relax most have already started their winter training camps title contenders dortmund and in warmer temperatures as they prepare for the second half of the seas. on spain sunny southern coast is a great excuse from the dreary dortmund winter though the newly arrived two league leaders will likely be pleased with the weather they're not in spain just to catch some rays and sign autographs. and his squad have their work cut out if they want to stay on top of the table they're just six points ahead of the chasing by. 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 london at the end of the season which could prove a distraction. munich 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 by are now in second place and back in the good graces of the club and its fans. the camp is also an opportunity for eighteen year old canadian wizkid alfonso davies to show his stuff after arriving in munich he's aiming to break into the first team but if byan keeps up the momentum it won't be easy for him i. thank you for watching good of you news christine manuel will be here at the new desk at the top

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