and britain from spying on germans linus newman one of the activists behind the legal action he joins me now live with more good to have you with us here so. what is your group hoping to achieve with this lawsuit. well if you look at what happened in germany after the snowden revelations or in the course of the revelations the answer is nothing the german government has deny that there are any and the breaches of german law that there is even any reason to act the german general prosecutor has denied that there is even the faintest hint at criminal activity that would give him a reason to investigate what's going on and of course this type of reaction is quite unusual if you look at the german constitution and the. criminal law so we're wondering whether. the refusal to do anything is because the people have something to hide or whether it is because they have something to be afraid of and we want to find the answer to that question now admittedly i don't know much about the chaos computer club but you are described as a group of hacktivists hacking into private computer systems and g

and britain from spying on germans linus newman one of the activists behind the legal action explained. if you look at what happened in germany off to the wooden revelations or in the course of this in the revelations the answer is nothing the german government has denied that there are any and the breaches of german law that there is even any reason to act the german general prosecutor has denied that there is even the faintest hint. criminal activity would give him a reason to investigate what's going on it is a danger to any democracy that a government reaches this kind of power over its people and we see abuse reports paula every day this is why we have been laws against this this is why we have constitutions against such to vittie and this is why we need to defend these rights because we know where history will lead us if we allow governments to become more and more in transparent and citizens to become more and more transparent. to some other stories making international headlines in yemen shia muslim rebels and sunni tribesmen ever agreed on a ceasefire in the north of the count