now this is a serious warning and today it came from the world's most powerful woman in the free world the german chancellor angela merkel she along with intelligence agencies are just now realizing how massive a cyber attack was last weekend that took out hundreds of thousands of phone connections here in germany let me simply say that such cyber attacks as outlined in russia's doctrine as hybrid disputes are part of everyday life nowadays. we have to learn how to deal with it. and to do that we must inform can phone and again this is nothing new to the powers that be here in europe take a listen to what a member of the german buddhist times foreign affairs committee told me last month we have a general election coming up in germany next year is there concern in the government in parliament that there will be attempts by russia to manipulate the election here well the manipulations but the wrong strategic distance formation is already