very serious look look down for example would have effect in the long run because people would not put up with that switzerland 2 is headed for lockdown as restaurants are set to close next week the swiss government has edged people to stay inside but his left at least one decision to local authorities whether to a penske to. see if he is will have to add that 19 to the long list of alpine hazards. and for more on this i'm joined by klaus pumpers a journalist in vienna cause thanks for joining us austria's tightening restrictions can you give us the details. first of all we should be aware everybody who wants to enter austria from today on has to go into care in time for 10 days he can test himself free up to 5 days but you're still going to get to a state care in time for at least 5 days if not 10 days 2nd on. the

26 of december or so the 2nd day of christmas everything is suspended again all shops are closed for terrace and restaurants are closed already now but in all shops besides troops taurus trauma season drugstores very closed no museums are a liberal up to 17 so generally austrians are afraid that the i.c.u. was to be overloaded so that close they received down again so it lockdown in austria well sounds like a lot of measures are being taken let me ask you a multi-billion dollar question as regards the ski industry switzerland your country's neighbors letting local authorities aside and whether to open a ski lift what is austria deciding. the same the local authorities can decide whether they open or not and say we'll open area heard yesterday from the lot. as you're going to approach you're already out all the local people in the end because no germans the italians no swedes people can enter and if they do so for example

from the area when they go back they have to go and count on is where for 10 days so i suppose know what we were come for syria to go ski besides your sense themselves but they must be aware days no food days no drinks days no i appreciate this season and you can go only up and down and then you go up in a gondola or ski lift you have to wear a mask and not every seat maybe 2 ok so it's going to be strictly skiing ski season i suppose can you help us understand what cancer vasant kurt said when he said australia is not an island that has people coming in when you're describing all these complicated quarantine restrictions it sounds like it's becoming better one. he's afraid that a lot of people are living in austria coming from the rest and darkens your home on christmas up till a 6 of generally if you think of sort of architects people and he is bringing back more introductions erstad it partly in some attack these measures now short to be

imposed innovate that nobody really travels and everybody stays whole if there's your pantry we'll see later on but not about a functional billet the artist because not every bear control is so maximized that you can exclude infections coming in again into the country as a from the sounds of from the not of course it's always a struggle klaus pumpers in vienna thank you for those insights. a 2nd covert 19 vaccine has been authorized for emergency use in the united states millions of doses of the mcdermott vaccine are expected to be added to the massive american vaccination program which began this week with health care workers older people in long term care facilities are next in line the approval comes one week after the u.s. food and drug administration authorized a vaccine developed by by on tech and pfizer here's a look now at some more of the latest developments in the pandemic german health

departments reported 31300 new cases on friday and 702 fatalities related to code 19 over 25000 people have now died of the disease in germany in france the toll has passed 60000 president emanuel is asking people to remain vigilant after he himself tested positive for cope with 19 australia has put parts of sydney under lockdown to bring under control of clustered in the city's northern beaches people may leave their homes only for work care exercise or basic necessities india surged past 10000000 coronavirus cases the 2nd highest in the world although new infection rates appear to have fallen sharply in recent weeks. this weekend germany marks the 4th anniversary of the terrorist attack on a christmas market in the heart of berlin. and this list extremists hijacked a 40 ton truck and killed

a driver then rammed the vehicle into the crowded market killing another 11 people and injuring dozens before the terrorist escaped but was shot dead by italian police 4 days later near the land. berlin was unprepared for such an attack and had to learn how best to help people in the aftermath. eustis minster is an emergency pastor in the days following the december 26th terror attack he met many of those traumatized by the event he says their grief was made even worse by the disastrous response from official support agencies. it did not work well at that point from people understood very clearly that they were on their own. to a certain extent that's because the berlin agencies and institutions were themselves overwhelmed but. that's one of the. as a result people waited a long time for financial and psychological help

a public memorial service however happened very quickly the day after the attack possibly to suit. the scenes the memorial service was meant to be for victims' relatives but many of them had no idea at the time that they were actually the relatives of victims it was far too early. officials understood that there were not structures in place to deal with this kind of event a central liaison now coordinates support for victims and their families who will also get more financial help in the future. because we all know that money can't make up for the terrible pain that people have experienced it can only help with immediate problems. for the victims of the 2016 attack we've retroactively increase the payments even tripled. trungpa says that the victims of racist and anti-semitic attacks in the cities of ha now and hala have had quicker access to support he says the agencies have

learned from their mistakes. that was put to the test earlier this month interfere where a driver fatally. 5 people. that's the perspective of the victims is what matters are the perspective of the victims' families. at every step of the process you have to say slow down don't hurry things . many people who are suffering after an attack get immediate aid and then you have to come to an agreement with the victims' families and also the families of the. 4 years after the 2016 berlin attack us this minister is still stays in touch with many of the victims he just wishes the changes in victim support had come in time to help them earlier. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. supercycle own

yes flattened entire villages as it tore through the pacific are the nation of fiji authorities say at least 4 people were killed climate change has made cycle and stronger and more frequent with yes at the 3rd maximum strength storms about of the 5 years. secretary of state mike from peo says russia is likely the source of the worst ever cyber attack on u.s. government agencies and businesses in history is the 1st trump administration official to link the attacks to russia moscow has denied any involvement. more than one and a half kilos of movie rock collected by china's chiang a 5 probe have been transferred to the national astronomical observatory in beijing the samples are in a container that was sealed on the moon you will be open to china's 1st lunar samples laboratory. a pair of endangered a ragged tags have arrived in indonesia so they can be released back into their

native habitat the 2 were seized from smugglers on the border between thailand and malaysia in 2017 thailand has returned a total of $71.00 tends to indonesia in the last 15 years. the coronavirus dominates headlines these days but that doesn't mean other crises have gone away one such story is migration countless people trying to reach europe in hopes of a better life and this year has seen a sharp increase of migrants in the atlantic trying to reach spain's canary islands off of africa's western coast as are about to see is a dangerous voyage. yano was born just a few days ago but she will never know her father. he died a few weeks ago while trying to reach the canary islands by barge on the sort of cold atlantic route. all he wanted was to improve his living conditions also i am sick and he wanted to provide for many his wife and children sent to go

west africa one starting point for the atlantic route this year 10 times as many people have attempted the voyage as in 2019 hundreds of them lost their lives the pandemic is one reason behind the increase jobs are vanishing just falling tourists are staying away migration routes through libya and across the mediterranean have become more difficult many of the migrants used to make a living from fishing but they say a large troll is from the e.u. and other big countries a wiping out fish stock. so we need to normal family life is hard and there is little hope we lived mainly off the fishing built our houses that way solved our problems sent our children to school. most of the migrants are young men driven by a desire to support their families as well as misconceptions about europe.

and the number of them or many young people believe that europe is looking for more work is because of the high death toll associated with curve at 19. mr may do. they know the voyage to europe is dangerous but for a better life they're willing to risk everything. to sports in friday's blunders league of match continue to exceed expectations this season when they pull off a stunning 21 victory against dortmund. the winner came on to christopher trimble corner in the 78th minute which marvin frederick headed home for. it was his 4th goal of the campaign most of any defender in the bundesliga the win puts in 5th place right behind 4th and. heavy snowfall is clobbering northern japan leaving motorists stranded and causing power outages in some regions a strong cold air mass brought record snow this week to mountainous areas in

niigata and neighboring regions several all time snowfall records were set on friday was 2.2 meters falling on the city of fujiwara in 3 days' time. the japan meteorological agency has issued warnings for more snow avalanches and transport disruptions. you're watching d.w. news live from berlin up next this shift with reports on how criminals use the darkness i'm exposed or thanks for watching. what secrets lie behind us want. to discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. doubling world heritage 360 get here now. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

how has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the coastal special monday to friday on t.w. . fake passports trucks and weapons in the dark with illegal activity it's just a click away why is it so hard to crack down on criminal activity there and can be used for good the dark weapon our topic today on shift. the dark what is an alternative to the regular internet it's

a version that's anonymous and encrypted this makes it the perfect space to sell illegal goods like weapons a recent study found that most users engaged in illegal activities on the dark web live in democratic societies the most common legal transactions are trucks experts estimate that tracks make up 2 thirds of transactions on the dark web so i tried it out how. so easy is it to buy tracks on the dark web. at 1st glance it looks just like a regular online shop with product images and customer reviews but the products are illegal heroin and all kinds of weapons. high as shulman is head of the cyber security analytics and defenses department at the pollen over institute in darmstadt she shows us where drugs are sold on the dark web looking is legal only buying is a crime in germany the u r l's of these websites can be found on the regular internet all clear where it's

better organized than many of the legal marketplaces there is much more information the buyers are much more reliable the feedback is much better bunch more money is involved and also much more is at stake if you make a mistake you go to jail so you have to make sure that it's. secure with just a few clicks customers can buy cannabis one of the most popular drugs on the dark web it would be sent to the provided address but that means trusting the vendor to delete it once the product has been delivered payment is done in the crypto currency bitcoin so the customer remains anonymous but how likely is it for the product to actually a right in the end every vendor here has a set of customers and if he doesn't deliver the goods his reputation will be damaged no one will buy from him so the whole system and dark know it is based on reputation that's why typically the service is good and if you order something it will arrive the customers in the dark with are not 100 percent anonymous so they're not completely protected from prosecution because the location and ip addresses are

encrypted it makes criminal prosecution much harder. another challenge is the lack of national borders on the dark with. we never really know what country the service are actually located in it's not just a technological challenge but a judicial challenge to. so we need to permanently cooperate with other law enforcement agencies problem and work across various fields and speciality is really a big challenge on the. 2019 that we're finding successful working with international investigators professional criminal police and respawn was able to prosecute one of the world's largest drug that is on the dock with wall street markets the set is where eventually discovered in this form of german military bunker located in a small town in the west of germany. now that's surprising you'd never expect to find the servers in a place like that we spoke to somebody who buys trucks on the dark web he told us

that he feels much safer buying drugs on the dark wet than on the street we also asked him whether he's scared of being caught by the police more on that soon on our you tube channel in the dark with users are anonymous when we surf the internet we leave traces behind everywhere even when we use browsers in incognito mode like firefox we're not really surfing anonymously originally the dark web was created by the u.s. military to help intelligence agencies communicate and honestly today anyone can access it and then many makes the dark web useful for illegal transactions and it also allows political activists to move about freely online all they need is a certain software here's how it works. the best known way of accessing the dark web is by using the tour project a worldwide network of servers. the video for project is to defend yourself against trucking and surveillance and circumvent censorship wherever you are in the normal

internet you wrote truck and somebody spies on you and tor tries to. tries to prevent. tor employs a technique called onion routing which uses multiple layers of encryption like an onion this ensures the users intimate all search queries run through an extensive network of servers called toward nodes this way the users ip address a unique identifier is only shared with the 1st node from then on it's the nodes ip address that's used the more notes the query runs through the harder it becomes to trace back its origins which protects the user's identity more than 2000000 people use tor browser every single day activists like you. are on a mission to ensure that the technology behind tor is standard in every browser so that means anyone could surf the web and honestly that actually sounds pretty good to me this is already standard on the dark web however anonymity can also protect

people engaging in illegal activities like pedophiles in recent years the german police have to cover at several different forums for this one example was the lithium which was one of the words largest platforms for images and videos showing sexual abuse of children the farm was shut down and 2017 and this is a good example of the challenges the dark web poses for investigators with 111000 accounts and online forums in 6 different languages elisi and was a space where pedophiles from around the world to meet in 2017. they would chat and share exploitative images of children and even babies being sexually abused the police used undercover investigators to track down these dark websites. really a lot of work like finding all the pieces of a puzzle just imagine trying to infiltrate one of these platforms you have to pretend that you're interested in paedophilic material start contacting a few people and talk to them it's not just one or 2 conversations it can take you

weeks or months to get useful information. investigators also need to analyze the exploitative images and videos depicting sexual violence against children it's hard to watch but every detail is important. and to closely watch the material and you're constantly looking for leads was this crime committed in germany perhaps there's a product that's only sold in germany to be found somewhere in the background. in the case of an error in the online form helps the investigators the ip address of one of the servers was revealed which led the police to one of the perpetrators on the dark web authorities frequently depend on coincidences and errors like the. helps us when there are individual cases of humans making errors or the system not being 100 percent reliable usually once a platform is hosted on the web you can't access any real existing ip addresses anymore even if the dark web isn't exactly the root of all evil investigators like

you are convinced that the distribution of exploitative images and videos of children would be much less widespread without it. probably wouldn't see it happen on the same scale that we do today simply because people would run a much higher risk of running into somebody that might actually report them to the police. and i think this anonymous online exchange helps people encourage each other positive. another problem for investigators is that in order to access these platforms new users often need to submit new material that means the police would have to share images of children being sexually abused but just for been in many countries of course from 2020 onward however the german police are allowed to use computer generated images of children that aren't real when a dark web forum is shut down many years are simply move on to the next one that's why it is especially important to prosecutor you would have to investigate a lot. it may have been if we keep breaking up more of these structures then we

might be able to have a large impact by unsettling the users some might even say it's a bit risky maybe i shouldn't do this anymore i think this would give us the upper hand side by creating this type of uncertainty and insecurity that might force people to think twice at the dark with is also important for the people protesting for freedom tor browser is the software helping political activists around the world to surf the internet anonymously tor it withstands for the onion router is a multi-layered encryption system just like an onion web sites that can be accessed on tort can be recognized by their u.r.l. extension dot onion. facebook has it has to the new york times and door to come in on your website they can be accessed onto your browser which is especially useful in countries where these websites are usually blocked like china or iran. where the reporters without borders this makes the darfur have

a tool for more freedom of speech. but dark not or more precisely usually we talk about the toll brothers that enable people to anonymously research on the internet are clues what pages that might be censored in certain countries or to share information or share documents or video material with international news media without giving away their identity and that's quite a critical tool then especially in less free countries. it's also a space that has been used to be kind of classified information plus applause chelsea may have was snowed in each user for their leaks. during the arab spring people use the dark web to plant protests against the government without fear of prosecution. this is also being used to organize other protests offering protection from surveillance by intelligence he. it seems.

we definitely see both the use of like p.p.m. technology and the darkness playing a critical role also in recent protests russia obviously both states heavily censored the use of social media and take away our credit ations of journalists and so communicating through alternative means and circumventing the. censorship talks has become really critical. i take freedom of speech seriously journalists rely on the dark web to work and to be protected from state control for this reason that it might from reporters without borders sas that we shouldn't simply think of the dark web as being just the dark side of the internet and the document definitely has an image problem. the term brains those aspect of a sudden technology in a way to save us is about illegal activity online and it's not just stocks fundamentally it's an anonymous ration tool and that enables both legal activity

and illegal activity but it's really critical to journalists it was applause around the world for we need to talk about the positive aspects much more prominently as well i think the term dark with is misleading the word dark suggests illegal activity that it's actually just a network that offers more user anonymity what do you think does the dark with just have a bad reputation could it be the internet of the future or should it be closely monitored for illegal activity let us know what you think on you tube or facebook by and see you soon.

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