and we're determined to do something new for the next generation gloomy view barmen series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. this is it every news line from berlin a student confesses to stealing a personal data from thousands of prominent germans the twenty year old tells police he acted alone and that he was the hacker behind a twitter account which shared politicians and celebrities details online also coming up assailants attack in seriously injure a far right german politician police say the incidents could have been politically

motivated. and dollar terms for leaders did get and europe the white house downgrades brussels a diplomatic mission in washington. thank you so much for your company everyone here in germany a twenty year old student has confessed to stealing the personal data of thousands of public figures including politicians and celebrities the youngster who has not been named released a slew of information via twitter exposing private messages pictures and even credit card details he's the latest high profile hacker to expose the holes and german official cyber security. when two year old german has shaken the german political world over the last few days now the suspect has clinched. asked to

police saying he was behind the massive data breach so as i am with you but soon concerning his motive i hope you understand that at this point we cannot provide you with a final picture of the underside but the suspect said he searched for and published data the reason was that he was angry about specific statements the injured parties made publicly the twenty year old suspect is believed to have acted alone he published personal information on twitter such as phone numbers home and e-mail addresses and in some cases private messages and photos as well an estimated one thousand celebrities journalists and politicians were affected including from all german political party eggs except from the far right. thirty's acted very quickly very efficiently and around the clock. i can say with full conviction that our security agencies are guaranteeing the safety of the public and our politicians at all times.

authority is learned about the data theft late last week and now say there are still a lot of work to be done to find out what exactly happened and if the suspect really acted alone. well did abuse frank hoffman has been following developments the authorities are frank have come under fire for not spotting of the data breach or sooner what kind of fallout can we expect from all this. well there will be of course a lot of criticism towards the security agencies because they have not been investigated this until the very beginning and until it all came out a couple of days ago and this is this is surprising a lot of questions in the political scene here in the police put it goes fear here in berlin it specially a lot of politicians and not only celebrities were targeted by by this leak and i think in about the couple of weeks we will have also

a very tough debate about social security on social media platforms here in germany . what more do we know about the suspect and why he might have done what he did. he was obviously angry about the public would ing off certain politicians and celebrities again and as we saw in our report it was only a twenty year old young man who was in touch with another person in the city of hebron north of that is serving as a witness at this point and obviously again it was a young man hacking and not only that he was hacking at home you know like you know from from a lot of media discussions about the hacks no it was only social media platforms and this is again in the core of the public debate in future in the few in the few in the follow up of the week's all right well let's talk about that because this case is likely is this case i should ask you likely to change the german public's

attitudes to social media. one of the party late as mr harding of the center left grain tante said he's going to cut off his social media platforms like facebook and twitter as of this point which means that this will have a political signal into the electorate of the sensor left green party which is traditionally a very. very intensely following security here in the country and therefore if you also may personally i really have i really do believe that the c.e.o.'s of certain organizations media social media organizations in united states like facebook or twitter will have to focus and follow up this more closely in the coming weeks germany as the biggest market in the european union and i think this will not this will have indeed an effect on these companies as well when it comes to their german and your pain operations to be as frank osland reporting thank you. a farmer

a german lawmaker has been seriously injured in an attack in the north of the country frank magnet says the leader of the anti immigration a party in britain he says he was assaulted by three men in the city center on monday evening the d. published a photo of him in the hospital and said he was beaten unconscious with a piece of wood police suspect the attack was politically motivated. while the earlier d.w. news spoke to one of the leaders alexander gaul and he said the mainstream political a mainstream political parties in germany are partially to blame for the attack because of their efforts to sideline the far right party and its anti immigration rhetoric. and about to id democrat discovery it is a sinister mccraw when you call a democratically elected party undemocratic if you're socially inviting folks to get violent and that's what happened here this is it's an escalation of the type of undemocratic behavior we're seeing even in the german parliament. well the

political opponents were however quick to condemn the attack foreign minister heiko mosque has tweeted that violence can never be an answer to political arguments regardless of the target or motive there is no justification for it whatsoever anyone who commits such a crime must be punished the leader of the social democrats meanwhile andrian allah sat this to say they have he is a political opponent of our tolerant and peaceful society but those who fight the party and their politicians with violence the tray our values and jeopardize our coexistence i strongly condemn the attack on frank magnets and gemma's de mer of the greens one of the a fierce as adversaries tweeting i hope the assailants are caught and prosecuted swiftly there is no justification for violence even against the if you fight hate with hate hate always wins. all right now to the story of

a brewing diplomatic to between the european union and the us after the trump administration downgraded the status of brussels diplomatic mission in washington while this step seen as a slap in the face for europe was exclusively reported by g.w. news well the move appears to be in line with donald trump's long running opposition to the european union and other international bodies. all right let's get you more. on this a story with max hoffman use of brussels of brewer chief hi max so when this downgrade happen. we understand it happened towards the end of last year but it didn't become clear right away because as you mentioned the officials in washington d.c. weren't notified by the u.s. administration so as we understand they noticed by not being invited as much as they were before they lost that status and then that became obvious at the funeral

of george bush sr the former president because usually the e.u. embassador to the united states would have been called among the first twenty or thirty embassadors but he was called last and that's when it became clear and that's why when they also got official confirmation that's a very painful low what does it say about how the trumpet ministration were guards the european union first of all i think president trump has made it quite clear that he's not a supporter of the european your union or international organizations multilateral system as a whole he's repeatedly taken swipes at the european union for two things basically he's claimed that the european union was founded to take advantage in trade matters of the united states and he also says that they're not doing their part of fair burden sharing for example in the nato or for other things and we have two quotes here that really illustrate that in a very very clear fashion where they say i'm not popular in europe i should be

popular and you're always popular in europe i wouldn't be doing my job because i want europe to pay so you know when i say i'm sorry folks you have to pay up i shouldn't be popular in europe they do a poll i was at eighty eight percent and now of at you know very low number in europe i don't care about europe i'm not elected by europeans i'm elected. max i understand that the status of the european union has now been restored i just wonder has there been any lasting damage made by the downgrade to a bilateral relations between the e.u. and the us. yes we understand at least one of our sources confirm that the colonel bassett or the you to the united states has been now been restored or upgraded as you will to the status that he had before this whole conundrum lasting damage well you know it all adds up this is of course not the only thing where this to be the only incident between the two about ministration in the european union that maybe

could just be swiped away but of course this this is this is part of a growing number of concerns but the real battlefield is not in the diplomatic field it's not diplomacy it is trade with the european union still having that threat hanging over their heads by the trump administration to slap some tariffs on their car exports something that would really hit especially of course germany that's what they're trying to prevent at the moment and that's what they're not why they're trying not to make a big fuss about this latest chapter with the diplomatic incident in the u.s. because they don't want to sour relationships even further because they've got bigger fish to fry thanks max hoffman brussels bear our chief. our let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around. turkish president richard tayyip erdogan has harshly criticized u.s.

national security advisor john bolton who was in ankara today and said u.s. forces will only would draw from syria if turkey guarantees the security of kurdish fighters views the fighters as terrorists in an apparent snub turkish media say i don't refuse to meet with bolton. north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in china by train for talks with president xi jinping the surprise visit is kim's fourth to beijing in less than a year the two leaders are believed to be discussing a plan second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump. heavy snowfall in avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five lives some one point five metres of snow has fallen in the northern alps in less than a week thousands of tourists are now stranded in villages and more snow is expected this week train services and roads have been disrupted and authorities have warned

that the risk of avalanches remains high. this ski village in austria is all but deserted roads are closed rescue helicopters grounded residents and tourists were forced to evacuate after it was inundated with snow. there's an old in the thread if there was we took this necessary precaution because we couldn't guarantee that there would be adequate food and medical supplies. rescue teams are on standby but the extreme weather is hampering their efforts. residents were also caught off guard. we know a little i was alone and raced here i'm never seen anything like this in the last fifty five years. in southern germany officials have declared a state of emergency schools are closed and train services have been suspended

residents are overwhelmed. tyros opinion them off of. getting up at three am to clear the snow otherwise it's not manageable i never seen so much snow fall in such a short period. where we knew the leapt into could so it's. daily life has been up ended here as officials struggle to clear the snow many people are unable to go to work or buy groceries. this nie is that if the. the snow is too heavy and wet to move with the plow side the trees are also snapping under the weight of the snow which is dangerous for motorists and why we've had to close a lot of streets like ants he just wasn't i didn't have some first bit. more snow is expected in the coming days and the risk of avalanches remains high. don't forget you can always get on the go just download our app from google play or

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