doors but we are due to learn over the course of the next week who the social democrats will send into the six ministries that they secured amongst them the foreign ministry of course and that key finance ministry he was also asked whether he would be prepared to be finance minister he certainly being tipped as being potential finance minister he wouldn't really be drawn on that at all and the big question of course is whether the current acting foreign minister can stay in place he's deeply unpopular within the party leadership so he's not really expected to remain german foreign minister because of that at the same time he carney is the most popular politician here in germany so having avoided that live of no votes now having the strength and the backing to go into a grand coalition the debating is certainly not over. the social democrats i think that the the potential fighting is just really coming to a head on who will be going into those ministries but we did learn that they will have three men and three women going into i'm going to michael's cabinet so we might actually see a fifty fifty male female cabinet here in germany that's went. wel

computer networks the government confirms reports of a cyber attack on systems in the defense and foreign ministries of german media say a russian backed group is to blame meanwhile in russia has improved in ways ours he's vision for the country promising to hop politics and keep enemies at bay with an impressive array of invincible nuclear weapons. and the beast from the east savages europe a siberian cold slug plunges the continent into a deep freeze graying snow transport chaos and some of the lowest temperatures for years. i'm phil gale welcome to the program authorities in germany say hackers of infiltrated sensitive government computer networks believed to be in the defense and foreign ministries media reports say the attacks been going on for more than a year and today a parliamentary committee said it might still be going on security agencies are said to have detected the breach in december and allowed it to continue in a controlled manner while they monitored it the group with links to the russian government is thought to be responsible. the german government's communication network has been b

germany's foreign office he's now head of international cyber security policy at germany's new responsibility foundation think tank welcome to the w what did you think of the foreign ministry cyber security when you were there well the cyber security is maintained by a couple of people there and then they have an additional protection mechanism which is provided for by germany's federal office for information security so i do security there is quite good but you can never have enough working united security and have you to establish new security mechanisms and improve the overall security there so i think that can always be improved so it was quite good wasn't good enough well apparently if we have to believe the reports it just came out it wasn't good enough to fend off their tech us in this case but then you also have to think that these kind of attacks at some point will always go through so you never have one hundred percent security. this site was a part of discovery december and allowed to continue in this controlled manner to find out more about the attackers what do you think of this approach where right now we don't really know what it means to let it go in a cont

sarah: it was quite a sight -- a stream of investors summoned to russia's foreign ministry. they came from more than 20 countries to hear their punishment. each one had backed britain and accud russia of a nerve agen attack in salisbury. the german ambassador emerged to say that mosw still has questions to answer over the poisoning, but his countries losing 4 diplomatsere for the -- in total, well over 100 will join a mass exodus from moscow. hather been extraordinary scenes all day as one by one, ambassadors have been called in to the foreign ministry. the timing of this, the choreography, seemed to send a message that russia will hit back at any moves made against it by western governments. today, moscow decided to escalate. the british ambassador was summoned again, ordereut his staff even further. >> it is important to bear in mind w this crisis has arisen in the first place -- the use of a chemical weapon on the streets of the uted kingdom that threatens the lives of a number of people in my country. sarah: 23 british diplomats have ready left the embassy. rew the u.k. h

was really specifically said that in the swedish foreign ministry press release announcing this visit but also what's interesting is the foreign minister of north korea passed through here beijing the announcement from his side came from the foreign ministry here in china again it didn't make any mention of the talks but that is a clear move by china to stay relevant to stay involved in these talks and they don't want to be sidelined they feel as though they did a lot of the work when it came to easing tension on the korean peninsula so they want credit for that and they want to be involved in the process now over the next two days i was here china won't have any kind of representation there but you can expect to be more moves like this as we get closer to when these talks are supposed to happen by may they say that china wants a revelent and involved in a more head on al-jazeera including why leading brands of bottled water have been found to be contaminated the tiny plastic particles and why you know labor has chosen the netherlands or the u.k. for its new purpose based. welcome back we'll look at weather conditions across asia this tim

foreign ministry today what are they saying this morning. well the foreign ministry spokesperson marty has the heart of a called this whole situation crazy and she also reminded people that this situation is dangerous as well she pointed out that britain is a nuclear power and also she she accused may of basically playing to the british audience here and of continuing her political show as she called it she said that this this whole thing is part of a russophobe account pain that is that is supposed to make may look strong to her own people she pointed out that britain is in somewhat of a crisis presumably she was referring to bracks that there and that perhaps the u.k. is is for that reason looking for an external enemy in russia that's what the foreign minister or the ministry spokesperson said this morning and she also again said that russia is prepared to work with the u.k. on the investigation and called for information from the u.k. ok now the foreign ministry has also promised retaliation did you get a sense of the press presser there of any retaliatory moves shaping up. well as a lot of other spokesperson said that they're still work

ambassadors or representatives of embassies here in moscow that have been summoned by the ministry of foreign affairs and basically they're being told the russian version of the script all case and that russian version as outlined by vladimir yama covers the head of the russian foreign ministry departments of arms nonproliferation and control essentially russia had nothing to do with it see says that london. has basically sort of been putting out various hysterical accusations none of which would stand criticism that there are two options mirroring the two options that the reason may outlines the russian version of these two options is either u.k. authorities are unable to protect against terrorist acts on their own territory or they've directives this attack against a russian citizen themselves there's no third option they say they see that the u.k. authorities are becoming more and more nervous. and that the reason why this is the case is that the clock is ticking and they've driven selves into a corner that this is a blatantly frayn's illegal adventure this is the kind of stuff that we're

lots happening at both ends, let's catch up with your end, a busy day of the russian foreign ministryry7m certainly has been, there'sjust been a procession of ambassadors at the foreign ministry. as each one has come and gone, we have heard in the subsequent hours that indeed, one or two or three or in some cases for their diplomats have been told to leave. very much indeed in line with what we're expecting to see, matching diplomat for diplomat the expulsions that we saw earlier in the week, of russian diplomats. the one additionalfeature the week, of russian diplomats. the one additional feature has the week, of russian diplomats. the one additionalfeature has been recalling of the british ambassador to the foreign ministry, and this additional instruction that britain has to reduce the size of its automatic presence in russia to the equivalent of the russian presence in the uk. we're not quite sure what that means in practice. but that was described as a response to britain's provocative actions, which, according to the russians, had led to other countries following suit and expell

there's been a constant stream of ambassadors at moscow's foreign ministry several e.u. ountries were told some of their diplomats were being sent home in response to russian diplomats being expelled the german ambassador stressed the importance of bilateral relations. i'm going the. interview of the diary inventions solsbury the russian government is called on to do everything it can to create clarity and transparency an answer justified on resolved questions in the fog about . board german embassy staff have to leave russia the same number of diplomats berlin has expelled the united kingdom is being hit harder the crisis began on british soil by the poisoning of sergei screwball and his daughter in salisbury britain holds russia accountable for that and has convinced more than twenty five western nations to expel a total of one hundred fifty russian diplomats out of solidarity with its position . is the use of a chemical weapon on the streets of the united kingdom that has threatened the lives of a number of people in my country we all suffer in questions of the russian

interesting event has been going on in moscow this afternoon a roomful of ambassadors or dorell representatives invited to the foreign ministry to basically hear the russian perspective on this case now as outlined by. the head of the russian foreign ministries departments of arms nonproliferation and control essentially russia is being accused hysterically of something none of the versions that have been heard from the u.k. he says would stand criticism there are two options as he put it either u.k. or thirty's or on able to protect against terrorist acts on their own territory or they've directed this attack themselves against a russian citizen they said there's no third option we see he said that the u.k. authorities are becoming more and more nervous and it's easy to see why the clock is ticking and they've driven themselves into a corner this is a blatant the framed illegal adventure russia has nothing to do with this it's interesting to compare this sort of events with similar things that happened in the aftermath of the mh seventeen disaster where a passenger jet was shot out of the sky over eastern ukraine ams of cour

that at first she didn't believe that these lies were the proof of russia's involvement but then the foreign office thanked the russian ministry and admitted it now she also spoke about the reciprocal measures that russia is working on concerning the unprecedented expulsion of the. russian diplomats she said that the foreign ministry is working on this list of naturists and this list will be presented to the public very soon. ok thanks mindy that was artie's million a quarter of a force. this has come as the probe on the poisoning of the former double agent and his daughter unsolved three still ongoing the latest statement from british investigators say that the highest concentrations of the suspected nerve agent are believed to have been found at the front door of the script home the investigation is focusing on key locations the park bench where the year where sergei and his daughter were found unconscious b.m.w. the place where they ate that day and also their home address scotland yard detectives also reiterated that the probe may take months to you however the fact the probe is far from over hasn't stopped the u.k. and al

marching in california's capital sacramento over the police shooting of an unarmed black man on friday summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow to be told of the decision the moves in retaliation for a series of explosions of russian diplomats by the u.k. and its allies and russia says it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile defense ministry released a video of the launch from classics to the north west president vladimir putin says the new missile can strike targets and in the world and is difficult to intercept on the stock vice captain of australia's cricket team as apologize for the part he played in a ball tampering scandal in south africa david warner has been banned for twelve months and told he'll never again hold

almost two weeks ago jonah joins us now live from moscow so what is the message coming out of the foreign ministry. sami well it didn't take long for the british ambassador laura bristow to emerge from the russian foreign ministry having been informed of russia's response wednesday was of course meant to resume a made her announcement of the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats saturday now the russians have said the same thing for tat twenty three declared. u.k. diplomats and he's declared persona non grata they'll have to leave within a week leave the embassy here just across the river behind me within a week a couple of other measures as well tossed in to as well as that russia apparently revoking well this is something we're not entirely clear about to be honest but revoking permission to open a british consul general in st petersburg we're unclear on that because there's been a consulate in st petersburg since one thousand nine hundred two so we seek clarity on that the british council's activities have been ordered to cease in russia because of its quote and regulated status the briti

of election campaigns. feeling that russia is going to be moved. russian foreign ministry spokesperson as a car of a has reacted to boris johnson's remarks especially his comparison of the upcoming world cup with hitler's olympics of back in one nine hundred thirty six he does that comparison unacceptable and an attempt to portray russia as a common enemy i discussed the development earlier and the institute of democracy in cooperation empowers. britain needs to. relations with russia in order to increase its worth you know of all the comparisons of all the historical comparisons one could have drawn that really is the most hackneyed and the most frankly stupid and boring he says that the trail of evidence leads to the kremlin but the metropolitan police which is investigating the matter says the affair is very complex and will last weeks or months those two statements cannot both be true why is scotland yard wasting time why didn't they just asked morris for the evidence that he can give it to them and they can go on investigate other crimes instead so this is all a load

of terrorism and held a briefing on the case with a number of ambassadors attending the event with details he's in the ditch. the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons and he mentioned the attack could have been orchestrated by another party but then clarified that russia is not pinning the blame on anyone and asked that his words not be distorted let's take a quick look. we see that the british authorities are becoming ever more nervous and it's clear why the clock is ticking they have backed themselves into a corner they will eventually have to provide an increasing number of unanswered questions we expect from london and from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an official detailed account of developments regarding the scruple case we need comprehensive conclusions and detailed confirmations a spokesperson for the defense min

of former agents. no absolutely and russia took a very defiant stance on those precedents the foreign ministry spokesperson also mentioned. she accused british investigators of not getting to the bottom of as she said several mysterious murders of russian citizens on british soil and she particularly mentioned the yankel case which the kremlin has always denied being links to so that's a rather defiance downs there from her and also there was a statement from a duma deputy on the voice who is in parliament and he actually is one of the prime suspects in the case he actually got into parliament after that case was opened in two thousand and seven he became a member of parliament and he said that may speech was irresponsible and hasty and that the situation was following the same playbook as previous cases and that even the fact that he made a statement this prime suspect in the litvinenko case is of course showing moscow's very defiant. stance on this this whole issue emily show in force in moscow and big mosque for us in london many thanks to both of you for joining us this morning we have some breaking ne

on the personal fate on her own personal facebook page the spokes person of the foreign ministry money as a hot of a pointed out that may may have retracted his invitation to the u.k. but actually love rolf had never accepted it and it's not clear what the response from the foreign ministry will be there in previous cases russia's reaction has often been a tit for tat reaction to expelling diplomats we don't know yet what will what will happen though a member of the committee for international affairs and the federation council that's the upper house of parliament here in russia has warned that the response may not be tit for tat but it had may actually be harsher than that they may expel more than twenty three diplomats u.k. diplomats from russia so we'll have to wait and see what actually happens. so they kick out a lot of people presumed to be spies but whatever you talk about russians and the u.k. you have to be talk about oligarchs and money how have the rich people and their money been targeted of course we know that there's a lot of russian money in london businesses all russian

qualifying the alleged poisoning of a former russian agent and his daughter russia's foreign ministry that it expects. from the u.k. as as well. from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. reports the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons and he mentioned the attack could have been orchestrated by another party but then clarified that russia is not pinning the blame on anyone and asked that his words not be distorted let's take a quick look. we see that the british authorities are becoming ever more nervous and it's clear why the clock is ticking they have backed themselves into a corner they will eventually have to provide an increasing number of unanswered questions we expect from london and from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and official account of developm

ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow and the results of that conversation are as follows twenty three british diplomats same number as russian diplomats being surveilled from the u.k. have just one week to leave russia in addition moscow has revoked permission for britain to operate a consulate general in st petersburg moscow has also stated that the government could take further action if britain takes any more unfriendly moves towards russia here's how the u.k. and bassett are reacted we grieve for the opportunity to explain all the material. we asked russia to clear the material but that it will keep you up and i think. we're lucky noise that they'll be able to sit and still moscow today it is denied any involvement in the attempted murders of survey and scribble and russia's representative to the chemical weapons watchdog explains how russia has never run another top program that's the nerve gas allegedly used in the poisoning since the collapse of the soviet union. russia has no connection to what happened in salzburg as far as novacek is concerned the russia

a stream of ambassadors summoned to russia's foreign ministry. tain and accused them of the nerve agent attack in salisbury. moscow still has questions to answer over the poisoning, said one ambassador, although his country is 110w ambassador, although his country is now losing four diplomats, over 100 willjoin a mass exodus from moscow. there have been extraordinary scenes that order is one by one ambassador ‘s have been poured into the foreign ministry. the timing and choreography of this sin to send a message that russia will hit back at any message that russia will hit back at a ny m oves message that russia will hit back at any moves made against it by western governments. the british ambassador was summoned once more, ordered to cut his stuff further. it's important to remember why this was donein important to remember why this was done in the first place, the use of a chemical weapon in the uk which has threatened the lives of a number of people in my country. 23 british diplomats have already left the embassy. now the uk needs to match its

ambassadorial cars have been pulling up here outside the rather ornate silver gray doors of the russian foreign ministry and the ambassadors have been walking into essentially get a dressing down from the foreign ministry staff air and be told how many of their personnel has to be packing their bags to leave from what we've seen so far it seems to be broadly tit for tat in line numbers wise with the explosions that we have heard from western countries kicking out russians over the script all of the british ambassador was told that the total number of u.k. personnel here diplomatic and consular paster eventually match by the end of the month the number of russian stuff in the u.k. this is on top of the twenty three brits that had to pack their bags and leave some days ago that was of course because the u.k. had kicked out twenty three russians what we're seeing here is this worsening of diplomatic relations tit for tat response it's the catalyst has been the script all affair but of course there is so much else behind all this much that's gone on over the last few years with the camp of russian campaign

chiefs of countries that are expelled russian diplomats are being handed notes of protest by the russian foreign ministry and informed of reciprocal measures several countries including the u.k. germany sweden several east european countries and baltic states have already confirmed their diplomats were ordered to leave russia as he left the foreign ministry building in moscow after receiving russia's form of protest the german ambassador stressed the importance of keeping open lines of communication. like what i used to do is opportunity to outline that it's in german interests to maintain good relations with russia and the people in germany and russia understand each other we remain really and open for dialogue. on the measure comes as moscow announced on thursday the expulsion of sixteen u.s. diplomats and the closure of the u.s. consulate in st petersburg that after more than twenty countries that expelled russian diplomats with the u.s. ordering out the most artists and i guess the it takes a closer look. promised russia has responded tit for tat for every russian diplomat kicked out from the two doz

the foreign ministry of north korea put out a statement saying that the united states should not misjudge the intent of the north korean leadership, saying that it is beyond ridicule that the united states would set up these preconditions before having any talks with that regime, ana. >> all right, boris sanchez at the white house with the white house looking lovely behind you tonight. thank you, boris. as we head into another week, the white house is looking to leave the chaos of the last week in the dust. and pahruresident trump is alre planning for four more years. the trump campaign and the rnc just unveiled a new fund-raising push. and during that re-election event yesterday, that fund-raiser at mar-a-lago, the president made clear he has some issues with his own party for investigating him instead of hillary clinton. >> i'll tell you, it's a rigged system, folks. i've been saying for a long time, it's a rigged system. and we don't have the right people in there yet. we have a lot of great people, but on certain things, we don't have the right people in there. >> i want to bring in r

to pal and his daughter to be an act of terrorism the ministry held a briefing on the case with several ambassadors attending. reports. the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons and he mentioned the attack could have been orchestrated by another party but then clarified that russia is not pinning the blame on anyone and asked that his words not be distorted let's take a quick look. we see that the british authorities are becoming ever more nervous and it's clear why the clock is ticking they have backed themselves into a corner they will eventually have to provide an increasing number of unanswered questions we expect from london and from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and official account of developments regarding the scruple case we need comprehensive conclusions and detailed confirmations a spokesperson for the defense mi

video of the prime minister to say anything on mr tiller's and only the spokesperson of the russian foreign ministry mario the heart of us she joked tell us there's gong blame russia for that as well so no all fish will reaction here in moscow and had mr tillerson the been imposed long enough to develop any sort of relationship with russia what do they think of him. well to put it in a nutshell mr tillerson was a disappointment from the very beginning when president putin learned that the next american president is going to be mr trump and his first secretary of state is going to be mr tillerson he was quite happy about this news because to listen was someone who was in russia very old until it was considered a friend of russia the kremlin gave him a medal when he was the c.e.o. of exxon mobil he understand trump to improve the relationship with russia as we know this did not happen. ration ship right now between america and russia is this is really bad it may get even worse right now but. the reason why it's getting so bad one of the reason was really mr tiller's and he was not able to talk to. con

was really specifically said that in the swedish foreign ministry press release announcing this visit but also what's interesting is the foreign minister of north korea passed through here beijing the announcement from his side came from the foreign ministry here in china again it didn't make any mention of the talks but that is a clear move by china to stay relevant to stay involved in these talks and they don't want to be sidelined they feel as though they did a lot of the work when it came to easing tension on the korean peninsula so they want credit for that and they want to be involved in the process now over the next two days obviously china won't have any kind of representation there but you can expect to be more moves like this as we get closer to when these talks are supposed to happen by may they say that china wants a revelent and involved so that his prime minister is offering to step two and protests over the murder of the journalists robert chico has been under pressure to resign since he and his fiance were killed last month could be investigating alleged links between government figures and the italian mafia the interior m

of britain. the british foreign office described moscow's latest move as "regrettable." today, at the foreign ministryssia, foreign ministers summoned over the salisbury by fallout. they we re over the salisbury by fallout. they were told to reduce the diplomatic presence in the country, a further escalation of the ongoing tension. the uk has been ordered to send more of its staff home from russia, both countries have already expelled 23 star. it important to remember why this crisis has arrived in the first place, the use of chemical weapon on the streets of the united kingdom which has threatened the lives of a number of people on my country. which has threatened the lives of a number of people on my countrym salisbury, the condition of yulia skripal, the daughter of the former russian spy, is improving. she's no longer in a critical condition and the bbc understands she is conscious talking. herfather, sergei skripal comic still critical but stable. yulia was much younger than her father and the younger you are, whether you're poisoned or you have burned you break bones, the more likely you are to

of it was predictable. the russian foreign ministry had already said yesterday that they would be expelling british diplomats out it is exactly symmetrical. 23 are being thrown out of the british embassy. but they have gone further with these other measures, effectively closing down the british council in russia and also closing the british consulate in st petersburg. st petersburg is a key city, the second city of russia, with a big population. that will have an impact, particularly on russians who want to visit britain and get visas. it will be much more difficult for people based in st petersburg. so strong measures by russia, but of course, britain had a range of measures as we heard from the prime minister a few days ago. the question now is, where does it go from here? is that it, or is this going to escalate? indeed, and some people have spoken of the relationship between the two countries now as being at a post—cold war low. what is your assessment of where we are? there is no doubt that that is the situation. the whole relationship has plummeted in recent years, and this is the worst i can remember

his successor works with his counterparts abroad and but of course germany has some challenging times ahead when it comes to the foreign ministry and in foreign policy in germany of course is growing pressure in europe for germany to take the lead with france with these projected e.u. or fames but also outside of europe there's also mounting pressure for belen to take a stronger stands for example on the syria conflict or in dealing with donald trump so that other countries really know web billon stems so let's talk a little bit about what you know how that policy could potentially shift because who is his likely successor i mean it's international women's day for example are we going to get a woman. well if you'd asked me a few hours ago so i'd have said that that would have still been a possibility but what we've heard the latest here is that it will in fact be high kumar who is currently the german justice minister now he's been the justice minister for the last four years during this last merkel grand coalition so of course he doesn't have any experience in the foreign ministry so be interesting to see what personality what

so when it's that that's an open dialogue is necessary and the minister of foreign affairs in russia has the ministry of foreign affairs and russia rather house released a statement on their website saying that they express strong protest in this decision taken by a number of members and it doesn't help in the said for the paper traitors of the incident and that they will respond soon but a reminder that chemical weapons body who are conducting the investigation said it will take another two to three weeks to finalize the analysis and now they we've seen a wave of expulsion following the u.k. prime minister's visit to brussels but we will bring you more official statements since we have them. thank you to both all correspondents but we have had a reaction from russia's foreign ministry with a statement protesting the expulsion of the diplomat saying the accusations against russia are unfounded. the u.k. defacto took a prejudiced biased and hypocritical stance producing indiscriminate accusations against the russian federation in the absence of explanations of what happened and refusing to engage in s

course coming amid the ongoing investigation into the poisoning by nerve agent of a former russian spy the russian foreign ministry is just issued a statement reiterating that moscow has not been developing the sort of chemical used to target and his daughter our correspondent has done has been following this story so many strands to it but first of all it just brings up to date with the details of that latest statement from from russia well neil it begin it's beginning to feel like a verbal tug of war so to speak so what happened today was the u. issued a joint in the very careful statement on the whole case of the poisoning of the script poisoning they did not pin the blame on russia but the express grave alertness grave worry about the whole thing they've said that the are treating the incident very very seriously and they've said that the use i quote of chemical weapons by anyone under any circumstances is completely unacceptable and they've demanded some more information from russia effectively because everybody's a lot of countries are pinning the blame on russia for it and the russian foreign ministry had n

all the attempts of the russian side through oui’ attempts of the russian side through our embassy in london and through the foreign ministryce of what happened and as the uk is obliged to do under the international convention of the prohibition of chemical weapons, to provide samples of the substance that was detrimental to the health ofa number of that was detrimental to the health of a number of people including at least one russian citizen. that has not happened. i would support british efforts to define what the agent was, how it was administered and to was responsible. that is why russia has offered its assistance and cooperation in this case. much more on that as we count down to midnight. right now that's catch up with the weather. some changes on the way overnight and into tomorrow but today was a lovely early spring day with some sunshine across the board. although we did have some clout at times. so we did have some clout at times. so we have clear skies and light wind the moment, temperatures falling away quite quickly. 0ut the moment, temperatures falling away quite quickly. out of the west things change as the

strategy when dealing with difficult partners like russia lots of confidential information on that topic flow through the foreign ministry in berlin now the government has confirmed that hackers breached the foreign ministry's data network though it's not clear which data they targeted or whether it was sensitive. it is clear that this problem of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure by unfriendly states and powers is a really serious security problem we have to improve significantly in this area few . in twenty fifteen hackers infiltrated the network of the german parliament at the time it was thought to be the work of russian hackers who siphoned off data from the offices of german lawmakers back then germany's federal office for i.t. security said that the m.p.'s network wasn't linked to that of the parliament and was therefore not as well protected as the ministries but hackers have now found holes in the ministries network suggesting that the attack was likely highly professional the german interior ministry has called for calm saying that it was an isolated attack but there's been criticism over the government's