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Tonight at Ten - an attack on a busy Christmas market in Berlin. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
At least nine are dead and dozens injured. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Police say a lorry mounted the pavement at speed and crashed | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
through one of Berlin's best-known markets, packed | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
Members of the public tended to the injured, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
as police urged Berliners to stay indoors until | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
As emergency services responded swiftly, officials | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
said they were dealing with a possible "terror attack". | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
TRANSLATION: It is terrible to witness this, I had hoped | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
we would never experience something like this here in Berlin. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Police on the ground are doing everything they can. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
We'll have the latest from Berlin, where police say they've | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
detained one person - believed to be the truck driver. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
An off-duty Turkish policeman, moments after he shot and killed | :00:49. | :01:02. | |
the Russian ambassador, urging the world to | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
He'd been seen in the background, as Ambassador Karlov | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Moscow said the murder was an act of terrorism. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Also today - in Syria, a group of orphans is among | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
thousands of people brought out of the ruins of Aleppo. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Postal workers on strike over jobs and branch closures. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Downing Street says they're showing contempt for the public. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
And we ask if flat-pack homes could be part of the answer | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Could Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool move up to second place | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
in the Premier League, with a win in the Merseyside Derby | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured | :01:36. | :02:05. | |
in an attack on a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
Police say a lorry mounted the pavement at speed, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
crashing into the crowded market in a central square. | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
And they say the incident is consistent with a | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Within the past hour officers said they'd arrested a suspect - | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
believed to be the driver of the truck. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill has the latest. | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
There are some distressing images in the report. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
Syahrin 's, panic in the heart of Berlin. This, the immediate | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
aftermath of what police suspect was a deliberate attack. -- sirens. The | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
truck ploughed into one of the city's biggest business markets. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Moments before these pictures were taken, people were eating, drinking | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
and shopping. As we were leaving, a large truck came through, it went | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
just passed me and my girlfriend, I think it missed me by about three | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
metres, missed her by five. It came in through the entrance, hit the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
sides of the barriers and carried on past us. The driver of the lorry, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
which has Polish numberplates, fled on foot. Police arrested a man | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
nearby about an hour later. But there was a second man in the truck | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
who died at the scene. So many questions, but for now, such shock. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
At least 50 people were injured. It's feared the death toll could yet | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
rise. TRANSLATION: It's terrible to witness this. I'd hoped we would | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
never experienced something like this here in Berlin. Police on the | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
ground are doing everything they can. They are working with fire | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
crews and hospitals and making sure the injured are being taken care of. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
The situation here is under control. Now the experts have to do their | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
work and hopefully on the basis of that we can determine what happened | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
here tonight. Horror enough that such events should unfold less than | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
a week before Christmas. But there is fear too. Because if, as police | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
believe, this was a deliberate attack, it's possible that what yet | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
I'd also emerge is this, that terrorists have succeeded in | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
striking again in one of Europe's capital cities. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
What more can you tell us about the way the investigation is proceeding | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
and the latest information from police? The police have actually | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
told us they are trying to keep an open mind with their investigations. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
They say it's possible it was a traffic attack. They also say it's | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
possible this was deliberately planned. They can't rule out at this | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
stage an act of terrorism. It will come as no surprise to you that | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Angela Merkel is holding all sorts of meetings, in contact with the | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
Interior Ministry and the mayor of the city tonight. This might turn | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
out to be what Berlin and Germany has long feared, that this is a | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
terror attack... INAUDIBLE STUDIO: We had a satellite issue | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
there with the link to Jenny Hill in Berlin. | :05:19. | :05:18. | |
With me is our security correspondent, Frank Gardner. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Jenny was underlining the police want to keep their options open, it | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
could possibly some kind of extreme form of traffic accident. But the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
signals are pointing in another direction, are they? Yes. The police | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
have said they think it was a deliberate attack, and if it was, | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
it's likely to be terrorism. We don't know for certain but I would | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
expect a statement from the Berlin police in the next 24 hours that I | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
think will clarify. Particularly because they have somebody in | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
custody, a live suspect to question. The obvious incident people are | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
referring to on Twitter is the attack in Nice on July 14 where a | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
truck was run into a crowd of people gathering at an event. In 2000 there | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
was a plot to attack a Christmas market in Strasbourg that was | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
stopped by French and German intelligence. Two years ago somebody | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
rammed a truck into people in France and people were killed. Only a few | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
days ago a suspect was arrested in Germany believed to be planning a | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
nail bomb attack. None of this necessarily means this was so-called | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Islamic State linked attack. They have called for attacks using trucks | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
on people and civilians in crowded places at this time of year so the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
police are keeping an open mind. You can tell where their suspicions are. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Frank Gardner, our security correspondent, with his thoughts on | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
what happened today in Berlin. Tonight's other major story | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
is that the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was addressing | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
a meeting in Ankara, when a man shot him several times | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
in the back, shouting, The gunman was an off-duty | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
Turkish police officer. The attack follows days | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
of protests in Turkey Our correspondent Mark | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
Lowen has the latest. Russia's ambassador to Turkey | :07:12. | :07:27. | |
opening it an exhibition in Ankara. Waiting behind him, his assassin. As | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Andrei Karlov speaks, the gunman opens fire, killing the ambassador. | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
GUNFIRE He screams, Allahu Akbar, God is | :07:34. | :07:47. | |
greatest. Before in Turkish, don't forget about Aleppo, don't forget | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
about Syria. If they are not safe, you will not taste safety either. As | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the attacker was shot dead by police, the ambassador was rushed to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
hospital. His wife was led out, clearly shaken. Soon after, Andrei | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Karlov succumbed to his injuries. The gunmen was named by the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
authorities as a Turkish police officer, born in 1994. He had been | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
working for the riot police for two and a half years. His sister and | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
mother have been detained. 62-year-old Andrei Karlov had 40 | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
years of diplomatic experience, ambassador in Ankara since 2015. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Russia and Turkey have been on opposite sides of the Syrian war, | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
but a recent rapprochement between the two halted the fighting in | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
Aleppo. TRANSLATION: I describe this attack on Russia's ambassador as an | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
attack on Turkey, an attack on Turkey's state and nation. After the | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
incident I talked to Mr Putin and we agreed it was a provocation and | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
there isn't any dispute. President Putin called the attack a ploy to | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
wreck the Syrian peace process. Syria's war has killed hundreds of | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
thousands. It's just had another deadly impact. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Tonight, more reports are coming out about the gunmen including some | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
reports he worked as a bodyguard at some of President Erdogan's rallies. | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
There has been international condemnation from the White House. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Turkish and Russian presidents say they will open a joint investigation | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
to look at this killing. They both used similar language tonight, | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
saying provocation, vowing that the merger would not derail Turkey- | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Russian relationships, and nor would it derail attempts to reach truce in | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Syria. There is a lot of public anger in Turkey about Russia's | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
actions in Aleppo and Turkey's failure to condemn them with | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
protests outside diplomatic missions in recent days. That anger has | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
spilled over into an act of hatred. STUDIO: Mark Lowen with the latest | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
from Istanbul. As Mark was underlining,... | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
The diplomatic channel between Russia and Turkey is one | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
of the most important in the Syrian conflct. | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
Diplomats agreed a deal last week to evacuate parts of eastern Aleppo, | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
where thousands of civilians and rebel fighters | :10:16. | :10:16. | |
The evacuation resumed today with thousands more brought out. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Noisy demonstrations in Turkey at the weekend condemn Russia's support | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
of the Assad regime. Throughout the war, Turkey has been on the other | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
side, backing the rebels. The protests were organised, but it | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
could be that the man who killed the Russian ambassador acted alone. He | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
seems, though, to have been part of a sense of national and religious | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
humiliation among some Turks after Russia's decisive action. Turkey | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
shot down a Russian warplanes it said had violated its airspace, not | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
long after Russia's intervention just over a year ago. Since then | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Turkey and Russia have tried to avoid clashes. Too much is at stake. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Both say the assassination will not change their warmer relationship. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
These are Russian special forces troops in Syria. The Turkish | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
equivalents are also in the country, mainly preoccupied with the Kurds. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
But there is an obvious rivalry between two major powers who have | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
intervened on opposite sides in the Syrian war. Andrei Karlov, the late | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Russian ambassador, accompanied his president on trips in the region. He | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
died in the fallout from Mr Putin's decision to make Russia a power in | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
the Middle East again. Also paying a heavy price are Syrians, being | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
bussed out of eastern Aleppo into an uncertain future. Nearly half of | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Syria's prewar percolation has been displaced by the war. The evacuation | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
from eastern Aleppo has been so difficult to arrange because of all | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
the factors that make the war in Syria so hard to solve. It isn't | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
just about doing a deal between those who support the regime and | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
those who don't. Foreign powers have intervened in Syria and they have | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
their own rivalries that go above and beyond the war. And they have | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
the biggest say. In New York, the UN Security Council passed a new | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
resolution calling for monitors to watch over what's happening and | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
proper access for humanitarian aid in Aleppo. It might be too little, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
too late. And it's not clear how soon it can be implement it, if at | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
all. Right now, it's an important step that I think a couple of days | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
ago people would not have thought the Russian Federation would have | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
allowed to go through the council. But until it's implemented, it's | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
just a piece of paper. The Syrians, closely allied with Russia, are | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
deeply suspicious of Western motives. We oppose the attempts of | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
some member states to draft and submit, under humanitarian cover, a | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
crafty and vague terms and loose phrases that tolerate more than one | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
interpretation. The fall of Aleppo does not end this complex and | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
unpredictable war. The fight for Syria creates an export prices. The | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
assassination in Turkey is the latest and there is still no | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
coherent international desire to bring peace any closer. STUDIO: | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Jeremy is with me. An important summit Clandon Moscow tomorrow | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
involving Turkey, Russia and Iran. -- planned in. How will today's | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
events affect it? It will overshadow it. But there is growing tension | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
between Turkey and Iran. That might be put on the back burner. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
Interesting that Mark Lowen said that the Turks and Russians are | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
using the same language to describe this, a provocation. But the fact | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
remains that they are on different sides in a bloody war and they are | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
talking to each other because they have a wider interests, but there is | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
a built in propensity for trouble because of that very fact. And | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
that's what we have been seeing. There is also something to think | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
about in the way the Syrian war works. It's desperately | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
unpredictable because of its complexity. We have seen another | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
example of that in the assassination tonight, and this unpredictability | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
factor is something you can see elsewhere in the world as well. The | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
world is a dangerous and unstable place right now. Syria is exporting | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
a lot of that trouble, and what is really sad and worrying for | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
everybody, whatever your political views about the whole thing, is that | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
there is no end in sight to any of that trouble. Whatever they say at | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
the UN, it's not been able to deal with it. Jeremy Bowen, Middle East | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
editor. Three people were injured | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
after a man opened fire on people praying at a mosque | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
in Zurich this evening. Witnesses say a man aged around | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
30 fled the building. Swiss Police said a body was found | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
nearby but it is not yet clear whether there is any link | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
to the shootings. Thousands of workers are taking part | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
in a series of strikes in the run-up to Christmas, | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
affecting rail and postal services. Talks have also been taking place | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
at the conciliation service, Acas, to try to stop BA cabin crew walking | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
out over Christmas. Downing Street said unions were | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
showing contempt for the public. Our business correspondent, | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
John Moylan, has the latest. Postal workers brought a special | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
delivery for the government today. Outside the Department for Business, | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
mail bags containing 70,000 postcards backing a campaign | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
to fight closures of The dispute has been running | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
for months but the five days of strikes this week represent | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
a major escalation. We are defending postal | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
services across the UK. The very future of high Street post | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
offices are under threat. The government and the company | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
are lining up to make further This dispute has been | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
going on for months but the timing of the industrial action is designed | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
to put maximum pressure This is the busiest week | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
for handling parcels and letters. But there doesn't appear to be much | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Christmas cheer elsewhere, with a number of unions | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
calling Christmas strikes. The holiday getaway could be hit | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
with baggage handler is set to strike on Friday and Saturday, | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
which could affect some Thousands of cabin crew are also | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
planning industrial action British Airways insists it | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
will run a full service. And the months of misery | :16:55. | :17:08. | |
for Southern rail passengers continues as 400 conductors began | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
a 48-hour walk-out. There is certainly a growing | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
appetite in parliament We fully respect the right to strike | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
but it needs to be proportional and I believe they have been abusing | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
the power as trade unions 2016 has seen a jump in the number | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
of working days lost to strike. At 300,000, it is up 50% | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
on the previous year. But compared to the 70s | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
and 80s, strikes are at We are talking about | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
a tiny number of disputes What do you say to members | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
of the public who see these strikes and think, | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
what are the unions playing at? I feel enormous sympathy | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
for the public and I really regret the disruption, | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
as do the unions, who feel they have no alternative | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
but to take this last resort. Dozens of city centre post offices | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
were closed today including this one in Glasgow, | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
but the vast majority remained open and the action is set to continue | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
until Christmas Eve. Cluster bombs made in | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
the United Kingdom were used by Saudi forces in Yemen | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
earlier this year, according to the Defence Secretary, | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
Sir Michael Fallon. But he told MPs that Saudi officials | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
had assured him they would not Cluster bombs are banned | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
by an international treaty because of the risk | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
they pose to civilians. And there are calls | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
for Britain to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia, | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
because of the scale of casualties in Yemen, | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
as Fergal Keane reports. It's been going on for | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
nearly two years. Amnesty International claimed | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
British-made cluster bombs sold to the Saudis in the 1980s, | :19:04. | :19:19. | |
were used last January. Today, earlier denials | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
were reversed. Saudi investigations showed | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
the weapons had been used. As a result of that investigation, | :19:31. | :19:31. | |
and as a result of our pressure, we have now an undertaking that | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Saudi Arabia will not use cluster munitions | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
of this kind in the future. The Convention on Cluster Munitions, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
an international treaty which bans their use, | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
was signed by the UK in 2008. 100 nations have now | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
ratified, but so far Saudi Arabia is Cluster bombs can be | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
devastating for civilians. We met this 15-year-old, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
who was wounded six months ago. But cluster bombs have been just | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
a small part of the British arms Exports are worth about ?3.3 billion | :20:04. | :20:20. | |
to companies like Bae Systems. An estimated 50% of Saudi combat | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
jets are UK supplied. We are extremely disappointed today | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
that the UK government has on the one hand admitted | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
that the Saudis had indeed, despite denying it, used | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
these illegal weapons. But hasn't decided to | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
do anything about it. And what we say is that it's clear | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
evidence that what the UK now needs to do is suspend all further sales | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
of similar types of The US has already limited | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
arms sales because of Ten people were killed | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
here by a conventional bomb. The Saudi military contracts | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
are good for the balance sheets of British companies | :21:00. | :21:20. | |
and for British jobs. And there's also the argument that | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
Saudi Arabia is a valuable strategic But the war drags on, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
with more and more civilian casualties, the moral pressure | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
on Britain will grow. A brief look at some of the day's | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
other other news stories. Northern Ireland's First Minister, | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Arlene Foster, has survived a vote of no confidence in the Stormont | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Assembly. She's under pressure | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
because of her involvement in a controversial renewable energy | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
scheme which overspent by hundreds Sinn Fein has called | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
for Mrs Foster to step down A man aged 101 has been jailed | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
for 13 years for historical sex Ralph Clark - from Erdington | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
in Birmingham - is believed to be the oldest person in British legal | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
history to be convicted of a crime. He'd admitted nine charges, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
and was found guilty of 21 others. The Football Association dub | :22:13. | :22:26. | |
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have all been fined for | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
displaying poppies during World Cup qualifying games last month. Fifa | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
regards the poppy as a political symbol, something which is banned. | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
The FA has said it will appeal. The shortage of affordable housing | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
is one of the biggest issues facing Britain, | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
and modular housing - where homes are pre-fabricated, | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
then quickly installed on site -has Today, plans were announced to build | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
six factories in England that Behind the venture is an investment | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
of ?2.5 billion from China. This report from our | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Home Editor, Mark Easton, It's a house on the back of a lorry, | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
turning heads in Derbyshire today. But in what is hailed as a game | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
changer for Britain's housing sector, massive new investment | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
in factory-built homes may mean this will soon be | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
as unremarkable as a cement mixer ?2.5 billion of Chinese investment | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
in six British factories producing 25,000 modular houses | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
like these every year. In their factory-built | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
offices in Warrington, one of the UK partners in the joint | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
venture says the factory built homes will cost less than half | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
of what it takes to build Currently in this country to build | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
property it is usually Once our plans are up | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
and running it will come down to about ?400 per square metre, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
a massive quantum shift in our ability to provide | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
affordable housing. Not only will the pricing, grow | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
down. -- come down. The running cost of these houses, | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
because they are highly energy Cost and availability of land | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
will still be a factor, but if the consortium can deliver | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
on their promise, something like one new British house in every six | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
or seven won't be built on a building site, | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
but in a factory. In the jargon, today's | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
announcement is said to be "sector disruptive", | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
changing the UK housing The billions in new investment come | :24:21. | :24:21. | |
from the China National building Their factory-made homes are | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
a familiar feature in the Far East. They may have seen an opportunity | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
to expand the business to the UK. Six factories are planned | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
across Britain, one in Scotland, another in South Wales and Cornwall, | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
dotted around England. 1000 more jobs and a boost | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
for suppliers, including If we are going get this country | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
building the homes we need, we need to make maximum use | :24:44. | :24:57. | |
of modern methods of construction, but also homes can be | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
built much more quickly. In Britain, we tend to associate | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
factory-made homes with cheap But modular homes are very | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
different, designed to be These factory-made homes | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
being launched in South London are similar to the kind of product | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
the new factories will produce. I invited my friends | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
to come and see, they said, I did not expect it to be | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
properly soundproofed. I live on the high street | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and you can hardly hear any noise. Some might question why Britain | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
needs Chinese investors But if actions match the words, | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
today may go down as the day when British homes no longer meant | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
bricks and mortar. Last Christmas, David Cameron | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
was seven months into a five-year term as Prime Minister | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
of a Conservative government. Donald Trump was six | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
months into his campaign for the US presidency, | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
and still seen as a maverick Syria is still in turmoil, | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
but the other political realities have been turned upside down | :26:06. | :26:18. | |
amid much talk of fake news In first of a series looking at how | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
the world changed in 2016, here's our special correspondent, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
Allan Little. How does it know | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
who or what to trust? Traditionally the news has come | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
from places like this. The Tribune Democrat | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
of Western Pennsylvania still rolls off the machinery | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
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 | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
purpose also now belong I think of the mission | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
here as both to chronicle the life of a community, | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
and also to help it move When I grew up and went to college | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
there, we were always challenging ourselves to look | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
at where the message came from. I don't know if people | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
want to know that any more. I think they just want to be, | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
"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 | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
is losing its power to the Internet and the echo chamber | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
of social media. Each listening to its own | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
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 | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
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, | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
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 | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
and it could go here, too. The dangers to | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
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 | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
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 | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
in Berlin. According to sources, at least nine people have died. Dozens | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
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 | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
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 | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
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 | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
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. | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
Thank you very much, Jenny. Jenny Hill in Berlin. After that incident | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
earlier this evening. There will be more on that and any development on | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
the BBC | :32:00. | :32:00. |