00:01Germany has approved a draft law to reform the legal framework governing the intelligence services.
00:09The aim is to improve efforts to combat terrorism and extremism.
00:13Nina Walken, Chief of Staff to the Chancellor, says she is worried about the future of Germany and its democracy.
00:20In the future, there is a real threat, a very acute threat.
00:29Yes, it is a threat for our free society, our value, our security, and so on, what our country is
00:35in its fundamentals.
00:37And now, this must be objective, we have left us in too many security-relevant areas,
00:44that our security will be provided by our partners.
00:49In future, the authorities are to be allowed to intervene actively,
00:54for example in response to cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns targeting Germany.
01:00Intelligence services would also get more powers to access laptops, cell phones and other devices and store the data.
01:08Meanwhile, some, including the Green Party intelligence expert Konstantin van Notz,
01:14said that although the reform was urgently necessary, the government's plans go too far.
01:20Modern Germany remains highly sensitive to data protection,
01:24shaped by memories of Nazi and later by communist East Germany's secret police.
01:30According to this, thereof for the government has been given the right information to be known to the country,
01:32Thereof for the government has been fighting.
01:33The government is serviced with the government.
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