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Tonight at Ten - an attack on a busy Christmas market in Berlin.

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At least nine are dead and dozens injured.

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Police say a lorry mounted the pavement at speed and crashed

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through one of Berlin's best-known markets, packed

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Members of the public tended to the injured,

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as police urged Berliners to stay indoors until

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As emergency services responded swiftly, officials

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said they were dealing with a possible "terror attack".

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TRANSLATION: It is terrible to witness this, I had hoped

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we would never experience something like this here in Berlin.

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Police on the ground are doing everything they can.

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We'll have the latest from Berlin, where police say they've

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detained one person - believed to be the truck driver.

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An off-duty Turkish policeman, moments after he shot and killed

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the Russian ambassador, urging the world to

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He'd been seen in the background, as Ambassador Karlov

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Moscow said the murder was an act of terrorism.

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Also today - in Syria, a group of orphans is among

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thousands of people brought out of the ruins of Aleppo.

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Postal workers on strike over jobs and branch closures.

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Downing Street says they're showing contempt for the public.

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And we ask if flat-pack homes could be part of the answer

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Could Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool move up to second place

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in the Premier League, with a win in the Merseyside Derby

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At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured

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in an attack on a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin.

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Police say a lorry mounted the pavement at speed,

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crashing into the crowded market in a central square.

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And they say the incident is consistent with a

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Within the past hour officers said they'd arrested a suspect -

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believed to be the driver of the truck.

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Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill has the latest.

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There are some distressing images in the report.

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Syahrin 's, panic in the heart of Berlin. This, the immediate

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aftermath of what police suspect was a deliberate attack. -- sirens. The

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truck ploughed into one of the city's biggest business markets.

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Moments before these pictures were taken, people were eating, drinking

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and shopping. As we were leaving, a large truck came through, it went

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just passed me and my girlfriend, I think it missed me by about three

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metres, missed her by five. It came in through the entrance, hit the

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sides of the barriers and carried on past us. The driver of the lorry,

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which has Polish numberplates, fled on foot. Police arrested a man

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nearby about an hour later. But there was a second man in the truck

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who died at the scene. So many questions, but for now, such shock.

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At least 50 people were injured. It's feared the death toll could yet

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rise. TRANSLATION: It's terrible to witness this. I'd hoped we would

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never experienced something like this here in Berlin. Police on the

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ground are doing everything they can. They are working with fire

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crews and hospitals and making sure the injured are being taken care of.

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The situation here is under control. Now the experts have to do their

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work and hopefully on the basis of that we can determine what happened

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here tonight. Horror enough that such events should unfold less than

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a week before Christmas. But there is fear too. Because if, as police

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believe, this was a deliberate attack, it's possible that what yet

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I'd also emerge is this, that terrorists have succeeded in

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striking again in one of Europe's capital cities.

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What more can you tell us about the way the investigation is proceeding

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and the latest information from police? The police have actually

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told us they are trying to keep an open mind with their investigations.

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They say it's possible it was a traffic attack. They also say it's

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possible this was deliberately planned. They can't rule out at this

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stage an act of terrorism. It will come as no surprise to you that

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Angela Merkel is holding all sorts of meetings, in contact with the

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Interior Ministry and the mayor of the city tonight. This might turn

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out to be what Berlin and Germany has long feared, that this is a

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terror attack... INAUDIBLE STUDIO: We had a satellite issue

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there with the link to Jenny Hill in Berlin.

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With me is our security correspondent, Frank Gardner.

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Jenny was underlining the police want to keep their options open, it

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could possibly some kind of extreme form of traffic accident. But the

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signals are pointing in another direction, are they? Yes. The police

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have said they think it was a deliberate attack, and if it was,

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it's likely to be terrorism. We don't know for certain but I would

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expect a statement from the Berlin police in the next 24 hours that I

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think will clarify. Particularly because they have somebody in

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custody, a live suspect to question. The obvious incident people are

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referring to on Twitter is the attack in Nice on July 14 where a

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truck was run into a crowd of people gathering at an event. In 2000 there

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was a plot to attack a Christmas market in Strasbourg that was

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stopped by French and German intelligence. Two years ago somebody

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rammed a truck into people in France and people were killed. Only a few

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days ago a suspect was arrested in Germany believed to be planning a

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nail bomb attack. None of this necessarily means this was so-called

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Islamic State linked attack. They have called for attacks using trucks

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on people and civilians in crowded places at this time of year so the

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police are keeping an open mind. You can tell where their suspicions are.

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Frank Gardner, our security correspondent, with his thoughts on

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what happened today in Berlin. Tonight's other major story

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is that the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was addressing

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a meeting in Ankara, when a man shot him several times

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in the back, shouting, The gunman was an off-duty

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Turkish police officer. The attack follows days

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of protests in Turkey Our correspondent Mark

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Lowen has the latest. Russia's ambassador to Turkey

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opening it an exhibition in Ankara. Waiting behind him, his assassin. As

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Andrei Karlov speaks, the gunman opens fire, killing the ambassador.

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GUNFIRE He screams, Allahu Akbar, God is

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greatest. Before in Turkish, don't forget about Aleppo, don't forget

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about Syria. If they are not safe, you will not taste safety either. As

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the attacker was shot dead by police, the ambassador was rushed to

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hospital. His wife was led out, clearly shaken. Soon after, Andrei

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Karlov succumbed to his injuries. The gunmen was named by the

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authorities as a Turkish police officer, born in 1994. He had been

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working for the riot police for two and a half years. His sister and

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mother have been detained. 62-year-old Andrei Karlov had 40

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years of diplomatic experience, ambassador in Ankara since 2015.

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Russia and Turkey have been on opposite sides of the Syrian war,

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but a recent rapprochement between the two halted the fighting in

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Aleppo. TRANSLATION: I describe this attack on Russia's ambassador as an

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attack on Turkey, an attack on Turkey's state and nation. After the

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incident I talked to Mr Putin and we agreed it was a provocation and

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there isn't any dispute. President Putin called the attack a ploy to

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wreck the Syrian peace process. Syria's war has killed hundreds of

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thousands. It's just had another deadly impact.

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Tonight, more reports are coming out about the gunmen including some

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reports he worked as a bodyguard at some of President Erdogan's rallies.

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There has been international condemnation from the White House.

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Turkish and Russian presidents say they will open a joint investigation

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to look at this killing. They both used similar language tonight,

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saying provocation, vowing that the merger would not derail Turkey-

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Russian relationships, and nor would it derail attempts to reach truce in

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Syria. There is a lot of public anger in Turkey about Russia's

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actions in Aleppo and Turkey's failure to condemn them with

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protests outside diplomatic missions in recent days. That anger has

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spilled over into an act of hatred. STUDIO: Mark Lowen with the latest

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from Istanbul. As Mark was underlining,...

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The diplomatic channel between Russia and Turkey is one

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of the most important in the Syrian conflct.

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Diplomats agreed a deal last week to evacuate parts of eastern Aleppo,

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where thousands of civilians and rebel fighters

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The evacuation resumed today with thousands more brought out.

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Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports.

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Noisy demonstrations in Turkey at the weekend condemn Russia's support

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of the Assad regime. Throughout the war, Turkey has been on the other

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side, backing the rebels. The protests were organised, but it

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could be that the man who killed the Russian ambassador acted alone. He

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seems, though, to have been part of a sense of national and religious

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humiliation among some Turks after Russia's decisive action. Turkey

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shot down a Russian warplanes it said had violated its airspace, not

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long after Russia's intervention just over a year ago. Since then

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Turkey and Russia have tried to avoid clashes. Too much is at stake.

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Both say the assassination will not change their warmer relationship.

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These are Russian special forces troops in Syria. The Turkish

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equivalents are also in the country, mainly preoccupied with the Kurds.

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But there is an obvious rivalry between two major powers who have

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intervened on opposite sides in the Syrian war. Andrei Karlov, the late

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Russian ambassador, accompanied his president on trips in the region. He

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died in the fallout from Mr Putin's decision to make Russia a power in

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the Middle East again. Also paying a heavy price are Syrians, being

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bussed out of eastern Aleppo into an uncertain future. Nearly half of

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Syria's prewar percolation has been displaced by the war. The evacuation

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from eastern Aleppo has been so difficult to arrange because of all

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the factors that make the war in Syria so hard to solve. It isn't

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just about doing a deal between those who support the regime and

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those who don't. Foreign powers have intervened in Syria and they have

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their own rivalries that go above and beyond the war. And they have

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the biggest say. In New York, the UN Security Council passed a new

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resolution calling for monitors to watch over what's happening and

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proper access for humanitarian aid in Aleppo. It might be too little,

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too late. And it's not clear how soon it can be implement it, if at

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all. Right now, it's an important step that I think a couple of days

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ago people would not have thought the Russian Federation would have

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allowed to go through the council. But until it's implemented, it's

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just a piece of paper. The Syrians, closely allied with Russia, are

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deeply suspicious of Western motives. We oppose the attempts of

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some member states to draft and submit, under humanitarian cover, a

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crafty and vague terms and loose phrases that tolerate more than one

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interpretation. The fall of Aleppo does not end this complex and

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unpredictable war. The fight for Syria creates an export prices. The

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assassination in Turkey is the latest and there is still no

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coherent international desire to bring peace any closer. STUDIO:

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Jeremy is with me. An important summit Clandon Moscow tomorrow

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involving Turkey, Russia and Iran. -- planned in. How will today's

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events affect it? It will overshadow it. But there is growing tension

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between Turkey and Iran. That might be put on the back burner.

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Interesting that Mark Lowen said that the Turks and Russians are

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using the same language to describe this, a provocation. But the fact

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remains that they are on different sides in a bloody war and they are

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talking to each other because they have a wider interests, but there is

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a built in propensity for trouble because of that very fact. And

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that's what we have been seeing. There is also something to think

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about in the way the Syrian war works. It's desperately

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unpredictable because of its complexity. We have seen another

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example of that in the assassination tonight, and this unpredictability

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factor is something you can see elsewhere in the world as well. The

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world is a dangerous and unstable place right now. Syria is exporting

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a lot of that trouble, and what is really sad and worrying for

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everybody, whatever your political views about the whole thing, is that

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there is no end in sight to any of that trouble. Whatever they say at

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the UN, it's not been able to deal with it. Jeremy Bowen, Middle East

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editor. Three people were injured

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after a man opened fire on people praying at a mosque

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in Zurich this evening. Witnesses say a man aged around

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30 fled the building. Swiss Police said a body was found

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nearby but it is not yet clear whether there is any link

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to the shootings. Thousands of workers are taking part

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in a series of strikes in the run-up to Christmas,

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affecting rail and postal services. Talks have also been taking place

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at the conciliation service, Acas, to try to stop BA cabin crew walking

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out over Christmas. Downing Street said unions were

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showing contempt for the public. Our business correspondent,

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John Moylan, has the latest. Postal workers brought a special

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delivery for the government today. Outside the Department for Business,

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mail bags containing 70,000 postcards backing a campaign

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to fight closures of The dispute has been running

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for months but the five days of strikes this week represent

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a major escalation. We are defending postal

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services across the UK. The very future of high Street post

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offices are under threat. The government and the company

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are lining up to make further This dispute has been

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going on for months but the timing of the industrial action is designed

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to put maximum pressure This is the busiest week

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for handling parcels and letters. But there doesn't appear to be much

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Christmas cheer elsewhere, with a number of unions

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calling Christmas strikes. The holiday getaway could be hit

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with baggage handler is set to strike on Friday and Saturday,

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which could affect some Thousands of cabin crew are also

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planning industrial action British Airways insists it

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will run a full service. And the months of misery

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for Southern rail passengers continues as 400 conductors began

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a 48-hour walk-out. There is certainly a growing

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appetite in parliament We fully respect the right to strike

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but it needs to be proportional and I believe they have been abusing

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the power as trade unions 2016 has seen a jump in the number

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of working days lost to strike. At 300,000, it is up 50%

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on the previous year. But compared to the 70s

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and 80s, strikes are at We are talking about

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a tiny number of disputes What do you say to members

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of the public who see these strikes and think,

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what are the unions playing at? I feel enormous sympathy

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for the public and I really regret the disruption,

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as do the unions, who feel they have no alternative

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but to take this last resort. Dozens of city centre post offices

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were closed today including this one in Glasgow,

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but the vast majority remained open and the action is set to continue

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until Christmas Eve. Cluster bombs made in

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the United Kingdom were used by Saudi forces in Yemen

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earlier this year, according to the Defence Secretary,

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Sir Michael Fallon. But he told MPs that Saudi officials

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had assured him they would not Cluster bombs are banned

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by an international treaty because of the risk

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they pose to civilians. And there are calls

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for Britain to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia,

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because of the scale of casualties in Yemen,

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as Fergal Keane reports. It's been going on for

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nearly two years. Amnesty International claimed

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British-made cluster bombs sold to the Saudis in the 1980s,

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were used last January. Today, earlier denials

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were reversed. Saudi investigations showed

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the weapons had been used. As a result of that investigation,

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and as a result of our pressure, we have now an undertaking that

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Saudi Arabia will not use cluster munitions

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of this kind in the future. The Convention on Cluster Munitions,

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an international treaty which bans their use,

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was signed by the UK in 2008. 100 nations have now

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ratified, but so far Saudi Arabia is Cluster bombs can be

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devastating for civilians. We met this 15-year-old,

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who was wounded six months ago. But cluster bombs have been just

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a small part of the British arms Exports are worth about ?3.3 billion

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to companies like Bae Systems. An estimated 50% of Saudi combat

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jets are UK supplied. We are extremely disappointed today

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that the UK government has on the one hand admitted

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that the Saudis had indeed, despite denying it, used

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these illegal weapons. But hasn't decided to

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do anything about it. And what we say is that it's clear

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evidence that what the UK now needs to do is suspend all further sales

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of similar types of The US has already limited

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arms sales because of Ten people were killed

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here by a conventional bomb. The Saudi military contracts

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are good for the balance sheets of British companies

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and for British jobs. And there's also the argument that

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Saudi Arabia is a valuable strategic But the war drags on,

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with more and more civilian casualties, the moral pressure

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on Britain will grow. A brief look at some of the day's

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other other news stories. Northern Ireland's First Minister,

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Arlene Foster, has survived a vote of no confidence in the Stormont

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Assembly. She's under pressure

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because of her involvement in a controversial renewable energy

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scheme which overspent by hundreds Sinn Fein has called

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for Mrs Foster to step down A man aged 101 has been jailed

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for 13 years for historical sex Ralph Clark - from Erdington

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in Birmingham - is believed to be the oldest person in British legal

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history to be convicted of a crime. He'd admitted nine charges,

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and was found guilty of 21 others. The Football Association dub

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England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have all been fined for

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displaying poppies during World Cup qualifying games last month. Fifa

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regards the poppy as a political symbol, something which is banned.

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The FA has said it will appeal. The shortage of affordable housing

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is one of the biggest issues facing Britain,

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and modular housing - where homes are pre-fabricated,

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then quickly installed on site -has Today, plans were announced to build

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six factories in England that Behind the venture is an investment

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of ?2.5 billion from China. This report from our

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Home Editor, Mark Easton, It's a house on the back of a lorry,

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turning heads in Derbyshire today. But in what is hailed as a game

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changer for Britain's housing sector, massive new investment

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in factory-built homes may mean this will soon be

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as unremarkable as a cement mixer ?2.5 billion of Chinese investment

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in six British factories producing 25,000 modular houses

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like these every year. In their factory-built

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offices in Warrington, one of the UK partners in the joint

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venture says the factory built homes will cost less than half

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of what it takes to build Currently in this country to build

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property it is usually Once our plans are up

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and running it will come down to about ?400 per square metre,

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a massive quantum shift in our ability to provide

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affordable housing. Not only will the pricing, grow

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down. -- come down. The running cost of these houses,

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because they are highly energy Cost and availability of land

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will still be a factor, but if the consortium can deliver

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on their promise, something like one new British house in every six

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or seven won't be built on a building site,

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but in a factory. In the jargon, today's

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announcement is said to be "sector disruptive",

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changing the UK housing The billions in new investment come

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from the China National building Their factory-made homes are

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a familiar feature in the Far East. They may have seen an opportunity

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to expand the business to the UK. Six factories are planned

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across Britain, one in Scotland, another in South Wales and Cornwall,

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dotted around England. 1000 more jobs and a boost

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for suppliers, including If we are going get this country

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building the homes we need, we need to make maximum use

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of modern methods of construction, but also homes can be

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built much more quickly. In Britain, we tend to associate

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factory-made homes with cheap But modular homes are very

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different, designed to be These factory-made homes

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being launched in South London are similar to the kind of product

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the new factories will produce. I invited my friends

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to come and see, they said, I did not expect it to be

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properly soundproofed. I live on the high street

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and you can hardly hear any noise. Some might question why Britain

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needs Chinese investors But if actions match the words,

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today may go down as the day when British homes no longer meant

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bricks and mortar. Last Christmas, David Cameron

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was seven months into a five-year term as Prime Minister

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of a Conservative government. Donald Trump was six

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months into his campaign for the US presidency,

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and still seen as a maverick Syria is still in turmoil,

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but the other political realities have been turned upside down

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amid much talk of fake news In first of a series looking at how

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the world changed in 2016, here's our special correspondent,

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Allan Little. How does it know

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who or what to trust? Traditionally the news has come

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from places like this. The Tribune Democrat

:26:38.:26:41.

of Western Pennsylvania still rolls off the machinery

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of a predigital age. You find conflicting

:26:44.:26:47.

opinions in its pages, It offers its readers

:26:48.:26:48.

a shared public reality, within which they can disagree,

:26:49.:26:56.

dispute and challenge each other. But does that guiding journalistic

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purpose also now belong I think of the mission

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here as both to chronicle the life of a community,

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and also to help it move When I grew up and went to college

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there, we were always challenging ourselves to look

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at where the message came from. I don't know if people

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want to know that any more. I think they just want to be,

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"I'm here and this is what I think." And that's interesting to me,

:27:29.:27:32.

but it's also terrifying. Traditional journalism

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is losing its power to the Internet and the echo chamber

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of social media. Each listening to its own

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preferred news sources. This is something that appeared

:27:41.:27:46.

frequently on social media. And it's a quote attributed

:27:47.:27:54.

to Donald Trump and it says, And the quote is, "If I were to run,

:27:55.:27:57.

I would run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group

:27:58.:28:03.

of voters in the country. It sounds very

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authentic, doesn't it? It sounds like the real

:28:06.:28:08.

Donald Trump! Fake news has now

:28:09.:28:11.

infiltrated US politics. Online, made-up stories

:28:12.:28:21.

look like real ones. And they will confirm

:28:22.:28:27.

what you already believe. "Pope Francis shocks world,

:28:28.:28:32.

endorses Donald Trump for president. And this was shared like a million

:28:33.:28:36.

times on social media. The debunking of that fake piece

:28:37.:28:42.

was shared 30,000 times. Are there also now two Britains,

:28:43.:28:49.

each with their own parallel truths? Remember this claim made

:28:50.:28:54.

by the campaign to leave the EU? This is what that

:28:55.:28:58.

bus looks like now. New livery, new colours,

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the "?350 million a week Just as it's gone from

:29:03.:29:04.

the national discourse. Is this Britain's version

:29:05.:29:09.

of post-truth politics? We knew exactly who made the claim

:29:10.:29:13.

made on the side of this bus. They were challenged

:29:14.:29:17.

every day on television. There is still a shared public

:29:18.:29:19.

reality in British politics, a common square where news

:29:20.:29:23.

is generated and consumed. But it's gone in America

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and it could go here, too. The dangers to

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democracy are obvious. I think if you want to have a vision

:29:30.:29:33.

of the future, look to Russia, where one of the things under

:29:34.:29:36.

Vladimir Putin has been about creating a regime where no one

:29:37.:29:39.

can really know anything, and keeping people in this

:29:40.:29:41.

fog of uncertainty. Someone trying to create

:29:42.:29:45.

an atmosphere in which there are no experts, nobody can know anything,

:29:46.:29:48.

so you probably better let a strongman kind

:29:49.:29:50.

of take charge and govern. And that's not great

:29:51.:29:53.

for democracy, is it? And actually, terrible

:29:54.:29:54.

for journalism. But democracies also

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value freedom of speech, the right to say things

:30:01.:30:03.

others find offensive. Who in the new media

:30:04.:30:05.

landscape is to police what's valid and what's fake,

:30:06.:30:09.

what's true and what's post-truth? 2016 has given the

:30:10.:30:13.

question new urgency. Alan will be back tomorrow night

:30:14.:30:28.

with the second of those special reports on the momentous changes in

:30:29.:30:34.

2016. More on the main story, the attack on the busy Christmas market

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in Berlin. According to sources, at least nine people have died. Dozens

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were injured. Jenny Hill is at the scene. It is near the Kaiser Wilhelm

:30:44.:30:51.

Memorial Church. Bring us up-to-date on any further information you have

:30:52.:30:59.

had in the last half an hour? Yeah, the police are very much keeping an

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open mind on this one. They say it is possible this was a deliberately

:31:05.:31:10.

planned attack. They can't rule out macro terror motivation. Equally,

:31:11.:31:15.

they say, it may just have been a traffic accident. Very early stages

:31:16.:31:21.

in their investigation. Very few details to be gleaned at this stage.

:31:22.:31:26.

Many questions. What we do know is that earlier this evening thousands

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of people came to Berlin's biggest Christmas market to enjoy the

:31:32.:31:36.

festivities. Instead they witnessed scenes of horror. Nine people lost

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their lives. More than 50 people were injured. Some of them are

:31:42.:31:45.

fighting for their lives. It's feared the death toll may rise.

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Thank you very much, Jenny. Jenny Hill in Berlin. After that incident

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earlier this evening. There will be more on that and any development on

:31:55.:31:59.

the BBC

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