Welcome to the show. German Security Officials have traced a cyberattacks to two emails but is not known who is behind the hacking. Anchor many are calling the st too little many are calling the steps to little, too late. Reporter the hacker attack on the German Parliament has sent shockwaves throughout the country. The government is not forthcoming about the extent of the potential damage. Use of the Security Breach has raised serious questions about cybersafety at the top. The hacking attack has shown how vulnerable our own parliamentary infrastructure is. We are always alerting german Industry Business people, and individuals to threats but even we as an authority have experienced was the Computer Security situation is like in germany. Far from ideal, it seems. The situation will require Public Service companies to report cyberattacks or face nes of up to 100,000 euros. The law would apply to hospitals, banks and transport companies. Critics say it does not go far enough. It is more like a placebo. If the will was there it could go much further. Reporter the attack on German Parliamentary computers have a seems to have spurred lawmakers. Opposition has found lots to scuff about. It is pretty embarrassing for a simple and and for you and government to discuss i. T. Security measures aimed at improving security of other Critical Infrastructure when we ourselves have not managed it. Reporter the german governor government will have to replace its entire Computer Network is a result of the hacking attack. Anchor Thomas Barrow joins us live. We heard a man theyre calling this new law a placebo. Thomas this is an initiative that is protecting up to 2000 companies. The government today said it was an important step. They said it was a vital component to internal security. Critics are saying that this is superficial. They may be right. On the other hand this is an important first step that will create basic standards for these companies. Actually see what looks like a chinese hacker attack on the federal government in the u. S. Is the risk growing . The German Parliament is not the only entity affected. A french channel was affected by a similar trojan. We are speaking of parliamentarians, people dealing with key issues, national security, international cooperation. It is something very big and they have to take measures that are also important to control these hackers. Anchor you just mentioned the criminal investigation into the hacking of the chancellors phone has been dropped. Is that the and of the story . It may be from a legal standpoint. She was seen as a victim of u. S. Espionage. Fastforward two years and she is seen as an enabler of u. S. Espionage. This is a story that affects germans very clearly and i am sure it will come again soon. It is not the end of it by any means. Anchor that will not go away. Thank you. Anchor turning to security issues. Germany is trying to come to grips with the increasing number of young muslim men fighting to leaving to fight with jihadists. Anchor some are being brought before trial. Five suspects charged with eating members of alshabaab. Reporter the men have left the fighting and are back in germany. They have to appear in court. Prosecutors have a long list of charges. Among them, they accuse the five men of joining me the alshabaab group. A sixth man tried to join but failed. They accused of previously lived in bonn. They traveled to somalia where they took part in the militias activities. What we do know is the men received heavy weapons training including machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. Reporter four years they have five to impose their strict interpretation of islamic law in somalia. The accused men admit they wanted to live in a state governed by sharia law but otherwise have refused to comment. Today the charges will be read out. We will learn what exactly the prosecutors are accusing the men of. Reporter how the six accused men managed to leave smiley and remains unclear. They were arrested as they tried to reenter germany. The trial is expected to be before the courts until the end of august. Anchor a plug public flogging of a blogger has been put off. Anchor the Kingdom Supreme Court upheld a sentence of 1000 lashes and 10 years in jail. After that decision activists expressed concern that raif badawi would be flogged immediately. He has been here since february. They built their protest camp here in berlin. Across the road is the saudi embassy. The 26yearold amnesty activists sorts out lastminute details with the police. Slowly, more people start gathering. They are here to show their support for the saudi blogger raif badawi. Last sunday, saudi arabias Supreme Court upheld the sentence against him so there is no more chance of appeal. Where demanding the saudi government releases him unconditionally. Reporter the blogger and activist has been in prison since 2012 after being charged with insulting islam and endangering public safety. The sentence called came almost 10 years later. 1000 lashes and a fine of almost 200 euros and time in jail. The support for raif is good. We need more of these campaigns who are imprisoned. We must keep up the support for human rights through the media. One day, the wind will change in favor of the people and freedom. Reporter protesters hope they can bring about that change. Critics say the German Government needs to do more to exert pressure on saudi arabia. The current german policy is twofaced. The push for human rights or they do nothing or little to help free badawi. Flogging is torture so it must be important to german democracy to have this man freed. Reporter the government has expressed indignation at the ongoing criticism. They say the judiciary system is independent and the king does not accept foreign interference in its internal affairs. Supporters hope the International Attention will at least deter saudi authorities from suggesting subjecting badawi to more lashes. Anchor Dominique Strausskahn has been acquitted of charges. He described himself as a libertine who enjoys group sex but not a pimp. The hearing brings an end to a fouryear drama. Anchor the onetime french president ial hopeful admitted taking part in sex parties which are not illegal in france but he denied that he organized them, paid for them or that he knew that prostitutes had been hired to participate. The case was one of a number of sex charges that helped derail his career. Anchor our correspondent has been covering this. Dominique strausskahn was expected to stand in when the and win the french president presidency. Reporter he is as dead as a dodo. He seems tob be irrepressible. He works as political advisor to governments and is on the board of two russian banks. There are some things that are too funny to be made up. There was a rather trashy movie made about his case, the rape case in new york and whether would play him then Gerard Depardieu who rather resembles a beached whale. There was a big public debate. French women were complaining about the macho attitudes and french government life and on the other hand there were groups of men who said they would see the return of medieval morality and they wanted to protect their sexual liberty. The socialist government it is fuel for a change they wanted to make anyway. They wanted to protect prostitutes that are. Men who pay women for sex will be punished and future. It has been made a criminal offense. Quite illegal vague legal and moral change in the framework in france. Anchor a trial that has led to wide ranging changes in the country. Thank you. Anchor the athens stock market dropped 6 on news that eu officials are preparing for a greek default. This is the first time ministers had discussed anything other than how to lift greece out of debt. Anchor athens has to convince its creditors that he can turn around the economy before it can receive billions and in much needed bailouts funding. It has less than a week to strike a deal with lenders and avoid defaulting on its massive debt. Anchor europes main markets fell friday amid those reports that senior eurozone officials are discussing a greek default scenario. We have more details from frankfurt. Conrad the main euro question is what if a dirty grexit happened . An automatic exit from the Monetary Union does not exist. There is nothing like this in the treaties of the eurozone. With a dirty gray exit grexit greece has outstanding debt of 120 billion euros. If the country went into default the repayment of this debt would be put into early into question. That is why politicians are so nervous in brussels, berlin, and other european capitals. Just as nervous or people in the financial markets. Anchor we are in unprecedented territory. Lets stay in frankfurt for a quick look. The dax lost more than 1 amid the setback. The euro stoxx 50 also down slightly more. In the u. S. , the markets fell broadly as well although trading continues. The euro staying strong there at one u. S. Dollar and . 12. Anchor we are about to go to a short great. We will have the story of a powerful and heart wrenching commemoration for the anniversary of the end of the kosovo war. Anchor this installation is called thinking of you and it features thousands of dresses hanging on washing lines in a sports stadium. It is a tribute to the countless albanian women who were raped and abused a Serbian Forces during the kosovo war in 1999. Anchor all that and more straight ahead. Stay with us. S have been fighting Ukrainian Government troops. Anchor hostilities have died down but they broke out again this week. They are there are fears that Eastern Ukraine is returning to full scale war. That despite the ceasefire agreement. Elsewhere fighting has cut a gas pipeline. Lets go live to kiev. We have the gas pipeline now cut off. What does that mean for the city what does that mean for the people there . Frank there are two major factories operating. Employing more than 10,000 people. Almost every family needs these jobs and the company threatened they have to shut down operations if the gas supply is not coming back. The company has promised to work on the damages during the next two days. All the news is destabilizing this town. When it comes to the people it is not only a gas. There is a problem with water supply and electricity cuts in recent weeks. Anchor were saying renewed fighting around donetsk. Is the ceasefire on the verge of collapse right now . Reporter we have seen heavy fighting during the last weeks. Now it is donetsk again that has started again and it is escalating. It is crucial to know that the day without casualties, a day without human losses and people injured is news here in kiev. That is unfortunately the situation, as set is a might sound. As sad as it might sound. There are talks about the future of this area. We will have to see whether this is going to help. Anchor this fighting comes at a bad time. Things are very rough on the financial front as well. Reporter absolutely. The Prime Minister has threatened private investors that ukraine might stop paying interest and loans back if they are not moving on to put together a deal for a haircut which is part of the package. Ukraine has agreed on. And only next week, and seven or eight days, there are payments to pressure which is crucial. This is a message from the Prime Minister and the message to moscow. Anchor financial and military pressures for kiev. Thanks very would much for now. Anchor a stadium in pristina has become the site of the next ordinary art installation commemorating the anniversary of the end of the kosovo war in 1999. Anchor it is called thinking of you and it is a poignant tribute to the thousands of albanian women who were rounded up and raved by the serbia militia during the conflict. Reporter world row up oon row of dresses. Some feature better messages. I have a bitter story. This was a fraction of the number raped. Maybe 4000 or 5000 skirts which is the reality of how many women were raped basically. The reality is 20,000 but this is how much the stadium can take. And being hit by the real number of the skirts of these women. Reporter there are no official statistics on the number of victims. Many have remained silent on of shame. Installation is part of a monthlong campaign for the National Council for survivors of Sexual Violence and it has the backing of customers first female president. This is a call to break the silence, to fight the stigma. It is a call to act, to raise awareness and increase acceptance for these women. Each say we have grown in number. We have come together to remember their pain. To recognize their sacrifice and to tell them they are not alone. Reporter women from all over kosovo have donated their skirts and dresses to show their support. Kosovo passed a law last year to offer benefits to war rape victims but organizers say unless this stigma is lifted thousands of women will go without preferring to keep the trauma they suffered hidden. Anchor the u. N. Is calling on all Member States to do more to protect children. Experts at the International Labor organization say 170 million children around the world are forced to work, often under horrific conditions. Boys and girls in developing countries are the hardest hit. Many work in mines and factories or industrial farms instead of going to school. Anchor if you think child labor is only a problem in developing countries, it is also an issue in rich, developed nations such as the u. S. Following up on a case in the tobacco fields of north carolina. Emily drakeage has been trying to help kids on farms. Many of them are not even 14. Most of them come from latin america and work in the u. S. Illegally. They work up to 14 hours a day and get paid a pittance. That is something amalie helps hopes to change. She is appealing to lawmakers in congress. We are aiming to and child exportation and agriculture and equal as the child labor law. Every child deserves an equal right to an education and to be a kid. Healthy and protected. Reporter salia ortiz knows this world. She started working in the tobacco fields when she was 11. You sometimes feel nausea. You feel like youre going to die. The feeling is so horrible. You feel like your about to go out. Rreporter they regularly inform lawmakers of the conditions. Half a million children have to harvest crops there. One of the things that children are doing right now in the field is working with tobacco. Children who are too young to buy cigarettes are cultivating and harvesting tobacco and literally are being poisoned by nicotine as they cultivate tobacco. Reporter the members of congress listened to the woman for two hours. I think the hearing went very well. Many very important points are made area the event was well attended. It is up to the folks who were in the room to take that information and do something about it. Reporter they Hope Congress will take action. They think it is scandalous that child labor is still tolerated in one of the richest countries in the world. Anchor here is number you do not hear everyday. 35 quadrillion. If you have that many zimbabwean dollars you might think your rolling it you are rolling in it. Starting monday, people in zimbabwe can officially exchange their money for u. S. Dollars. Reporter these images are not from a bank. This is a Cash Register at a supermarket in zimbabwe were everyday food items cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of some bob we in dollars and they get more expensive every day. Now the year of hyperinflation is coming to an end. Starting monday, banks will exchange 35 quadrillion symbolicallya zimbabwean dollars to a single u. S. Dollar. In this market, it is not unusual to find u. S. Dollars euros, South African rand and botswanan momnney. White farmers were expelled in their land redistributed to experienced black farmers. In 2008 mugabe grew frustrated with the lack of funds. He decided to print the money he knew. Larger and larger banknotes came into circulation. This one is worth 100 billion. The u. S. Dollar Exchange Program will run until september. Then the dollar will be history and the country will have to manage without a currency of its own. Anchor we have this from the german capital of berlin, marking the half we point on construction work to rebuild the royal palace at the heart of the capital. The ceremony was held today to celebrate the completion of the buildings mainframe. Anchor it was damaged during army in world war ii and then rip down by communists. The city is spending close to 600 Million Euros on this building which will house in arts and culture center. To soccer news. Norway and germany have finished with a oneall draw. Anchor scoring six minutes into the match but in the 61st minute a free kick for norway. Germany remained at the top of the group and go on to meet thailand. That match coming up on monday. Anchor that is all for now. Thanks for watching. Anchor stay with dw. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] ÷gp÷ pital. The man once viewed as a possible candidate for the french presidency, Dominique Strausskahn, is acquitted in involvement in a prostitution ring. A second round of flogging for the Saudi Arabian blogger has been postponed again. Also as well, the israeli investigation says the missile test that killed four young boys last year with a tragic accident, saying they mistook them for gunmen