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The man suspected of the Berlin Christmas market attack | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Anis Amri was stopped by police in Milan in the early hours | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
TRANSLATION: At that moment the man, without hesitating, pulled | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
out a pistol and fired towards the policeman, who had | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
So called Islamic State releases footage showing Amri | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
But the hunt continues tonight for any possible | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Two British men are convicted of using Muslim aid convoys | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
from the UK to Syria to provide cash for extremists. | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
The round-the-clock work on the railways that will mean no | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
How a third of the homeless say they have been attacked on our streets. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
And all smiles for Big Sam as he returns to the Premier League | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News... | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
The latest results in Rugby Union, and also the Scottish Premiership, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
with four fixtures tonight, including Aberdeen's trip | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
The hunt for the man who's believed to have carried out | :01:13. | :01:37. | |
the Berlin Christmas market attack is over. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Anis Amri, who'd evaded capture for four days, was killed | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
in Milan during a shoot out with two police officers. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Train tickets found on his body indicate that he'd travelled | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
from Germany to France and then onto Italy - undetected | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
12 people died and dozens were injured when a lorry was driven | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
into a crowd of shoppers on Monday night. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Germany has said it is "relieved" that Amri no longer poses a danger, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
but officials have warned that he may have had accomplices. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
From Berlin, our Europe correspondent Damian | :02:07. | :02:07. | |
Anis Amri's brief, violent life as a terrorist ended here, | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
in an exchange of gunfire on the edge of Milan. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Alone and hunted, he'd managed to flee a thousand | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
kilometres south from Berlin, but at 3am in the morning, | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
he was stopped by two officers and tried to shoot them. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
TRANSLATION: At that moment the man, without hesitating, pulled | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
out a pistol and fired towards the policeman who had asked | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
The one who was hit is recovering in hospital, but his condition | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
And this has been released by the so-called Islamic State. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
A recording made in Berlin by Anis Amri sometime before the attack, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
It's now believed that the 24-year-old Tunisian may have | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
been radicalised after he arrived in Europe, perhaps during the four | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
German security services knew he was a threat, | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
but he talked of buying guns, not using a truck. | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
So how did he get all the way to Italy? | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
This is what we know about his movements. | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
At 8pm on Monday, he attacked the Christmas market, | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
then he vanished, but managed to get to Chambery in France. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
From there, a train ticket found on his body showed | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
he travelled to Turin and then onto Milan Central Station, | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Finally he took the Metro to the last stop, San Giovanni, | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
TRANSLATION: At the end of this week we can be relieved that one acute | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
threat has come to an end, but the general threat posed | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
We will do our utmost to make sure our state is a strong state. | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
So Germany is now trying to root out radical Islamic networks. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
We visited this place today, a short distance from where Anis Amri's | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
This is one of the places that Anis Amri was known to frequent | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
It's a residential complex, but the reason he would come | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
here over in this corner, what used to be a mosque. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
It was closed down though and became a meeting point | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
One of the neighbours told us small groups of young Islamic men | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
They'd meet late at night, apparently discussing attacks. | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
TRANSLATION: Of course it was dangerous. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
When the men sit here and fantasise about carrying out attacks, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
With the immediate danger apparently over, Berliners gathered | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
for a memorial this evening by the Brandenburg Gate. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
All people come together here and think of the victims. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
The Berlin people, we are something else they have to beat. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
But Germany as a country now confronting the reality it faces | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
As far as the hunt for possible accomplices of Anis Amri, that goes | :05:22. | :05:34. | |
on for them it was by pure chance that Italian police found at all. It | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
was. This was a stop by a routine police patrol. It was an officer who | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
had only been in the Italian police force for nine months who shot him | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
dead. Not a Europe-wide anti-terrorist group that caught | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
him. There were calls from people like the far right leader in France | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
for more border security within Europe. The view of the German | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Gutmann is different. Trying to control and monitor the movements of | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
all people around Europe is very, very complicated. They would say | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
that what this shows is that anti-terrorist cooperation did work | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
and they were able to identify very quickly who had been shot in Milan. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
There are questions. The mother of Anis Amri has given an interview | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
this evening in Tunisia saying, why was their son not deported question | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Italy want to send him back, Germany wanted to send him back. Why would | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
Tunisia not accept him back? They were unanswered questions. Did he | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
have a network of supporters who helped him plan what he did here and | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
may have helped him escape? Angela Merkel has said there will be a | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
thorough investigation which will look into all areas where there may | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
have been failings and she also warned Germany is going to toughen | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
its procedures for deporting those who do not have the right to stay in | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
this country. For now, Germany's and says, as across Europe, the threat | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
of terror attacks remains high here. Two men have been found guilty | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
of using aid convoys to send thousands of pounds in cash | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
to extremists in Syria. The Old Bailey heard how high | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
profile Muslim community-led convoys became unwitting participants | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
in a plan to fund terrorism. One of the targeted aid missions | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
included Alan Henning, the Eccles taxi driver later | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
kidnapped and murdered by militants Humanitarian aid for people | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
stuck in one of the most Britons have donated | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
millions to help civilians caught in the crossfire | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
of Syria's conflict. Three years ago, these convoys | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
were at the heart of those efforts. Now two men have been found guilty | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
of infiltrating them, Syed Hoque, a former probation officer, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and Mashoud Miah used the aid missions as cover | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
to send cash to fighters. Hoque was sent these | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
pictures by his nephew, who was fighting with a group | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
affiliated to Al-Qaeda. Hoque advised him to behead his | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
enemies but not mutilate them, and sent ?4,500 over | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
two unwitting convoys. Aid convoys were infiltrated | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
and the goodwill of charities abused by taking money and goods | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
from the UK out to Syria Today's verdict is the first formal | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
finding that the Syria aid convoys There were also tears | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
in the public gallery for two men who were acquitted, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
tears that highlight how complicated and emotive the issues raised | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
by the Syria conflict have been It is all worthwhile when you see | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
what is needed actually get Alan Henning, taken hostage | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
by so-called Islamic State in December 2013 and murdered | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
nine months later. He went to Syria in one | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
of the convoys abused Pervez Rafiq, cleared today | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
of funding terrorism, He publicly appealed | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
for Mr Hanning's life. We beg you to tread the path | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
of justice and show him the compassion that Allah has placed | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
in the hearts of the believers. Under pressure from the Government | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
and the police, the aid convoys came In an unprecedented move | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
and a strong rebuke tonight, the United States has abstained | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
on a UN resolution Traditionally, the US has always | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
used its veto to stop such It condemns Israeli settlement | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
building on occupied Palestinian territory and passed with 14 | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
votes in favour. Our correspondent | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Barbara Plett Usher Well, I think the resolution shows a | :09:48. | :10:03. | |
strong international consensus that Israeli settlement building in | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and is a threat to a viable | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
peace deal. The Obama Administration felt there was this threat so it | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
decided not to veto, it abstained, and therefore the resolution passed. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
This is something that was a diplomatic earthquake at the UN. The | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Americans always support the Israelis and protect Israel against | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
criticism. It was a very strong rebuke and the Israelis are very | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
angry. President Obama has only taken a step right at the end of his | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
administration and it will have far less of an impact than it might have | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
done if it were done earlier. I know he is only putting down a marker, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
especially as he will be handing over to Donald Trump, who has shown | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
he will strongly support the Israeli government and its policies. He has | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
already tweeted, things will be different after the 20th of January, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
which is of course when he takes office. | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Extensive rail engineering is starting across Britain tonight | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
with 200 different projects being carried out over | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
The biggest re-signalling scheme in the network's history will close | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
the line between Cardiff Central and the Valleys. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
And several stations - including Paddington in London - | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
will be either partially or completely shut for several days. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
It's going to be the biggest rail upgrade ever taken on, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
and it all starts late tonight, hitting services across South Wales, | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The lack of trains will make the roads busier. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
And it's a popular time to fly away for the holidays. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
So why do they always pick Christmas to close the railways? | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
We have a huge programme of works that we have to deliver as part | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
And some of that work just can't be done on a live railway. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
So Christmas is the best time to do it, because it's one | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
24,000 engineers will work on 200 sites across Britain. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
One of the bigger jobs they're doing this Christmas is to open up | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
and test these new lines between the concrete blocks there. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Critically, they unblock a bottleneck between the trains | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
going from Heathrow into Paddington station in London. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
It'll hit services across the country. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Paddington Station will actually close for six days after the last | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
Services at other big stations, including London Bridge, | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Charing Cross and Liverpool Street, will be severely affected. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
There will be no trains late on Christmas Eve | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
between Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Newport and | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
the Valleys, because they're resignalling the whole area. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
It's affecting me in that I have to take an extra day off work, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
because of the replacement bus service not being good | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
But also, I understand the work needs to be done. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
At this time of the year families want to get together, | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
if they haven't seen each other for a while. | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
And then they're all disrupted, aren't they? | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Totally inconvenient, because you have a lot of commuters | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
over the Christmas period, shopping as well between | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
As ever, leave plenty of time before you head off, | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
and double-check your train is even running. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
Vladimir Putin has written to Donald Trump, calling | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
for stronger relations and co-operation | :13:19. | :13:19. | |
And speaking to the world's media in Moscow, the Russian President | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
said he did not want a new arms race with the West after Donald Trump's | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
suggested he would expand America's nuclear arsenal. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
Mr Putin also rejected accusations that Russia had intervened in the US | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg reports. | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
He is always confident, but is he a little confused? | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
As Vladimir Putin met the world's media today, | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
there were mixed signals from across the Atlantic. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Donald Trump sabre rattling one moment and talking | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
The Kremlin leader said he hoped he and America's | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
new president would work together to improve relations. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Russia says it's modernising its nuclear missile potential, | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
while today, Donald Trump reportedly said, let it be an arms race. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
We will out match them at every pass. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Well, putting a question to the president isn't easy | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
when there are a thousand of you and just one of him. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Are you not concerned though that there is a danger of a new arms | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
race, if America is talking about boosting its nuclear arsenal? | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
TRANSLATION: The basis for a new arms race was there already, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
after the US pulled out of the Antiballistic | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
Missile Treaty and started to create a missile shield. | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
So, either we had to build our own shield or, as we're doing, | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Vladimir Putin made it clear today that if there | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
is to be a new arms race, that won't be Russia's fault. | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
He delivered a defiant message that Russia is stronger | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
In recent months, Russia has been accused of launching cyber | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
attacks against America, even of using hacking | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Mr President, your country has been accused of state-sponsored hacking | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
with the aim of influencing the result of the US | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
President Obama revealed that he told you personally to cut it out. | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
So, what did you tell him in response? | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
The president refused to say, dismissing all the talk of hacking | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
as sour grapes from the Democratic Party. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
TRANSLATION: The losing side always tries to pass the buck. | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
They would do better to look for the problems among themselves. | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
But tough talk doesn't solve domestic problems. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
The Russian economy is still struggling. | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Low oil prices have hit hard an economy reliant | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
To many here, stagnation breeds pessimism. | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
We see growing problems with our living standards. | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
They see that, you know, the health system is crumbling and collapsing. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
They see a lack of perspective and they see the forecast | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
of the Government that Russia will be surviving for the next 20 | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
That is one reason the Kremlin is counting on Donald Trump, | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
hoping he will ease sanctions against Moscow. | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
Russia wants to be seen as a global player. | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
But if President Putin doesn't mend the cracks in the economy, | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
he may be building a superpower on thin ice. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
In Syria, where Russian forces helped seized the city of Aleppo, | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
the last buses have left Aleppo, taking away rebel fighters, | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
their families and residents of the east of the city. | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
The Red Cross say 35,000 people have left their homes | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
After four long years of bombardment, Syrian government | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
troops are now in complete control of Aleppo. | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers the significance | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
of the victory and how it may affect the outcome of the war. | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
In western Aleppo, a Christmas party became a victory celebration. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
It was watched over by banners of Syria's three wise men, | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Presidents Putin and Assad and the leader of Lebanon's | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
The regime's support is often underestimated in the West. | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
And there was relief that the killing in the city | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
The last buses out of eastern Aleppo delivered thousands | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
of fighters and civilians into an uncertain future. | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
The fall of Eastern Aleppo is the rebels' greatest defeat. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
And it shows how the war is now being decided by the foreign powers | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
President Assad and his allies have won themselves some options. | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
Their victory in Aleppo does not end the war. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Thousands of rebel fighters have been bussed out to Idlib, | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
The regime and its allies will want to win it back. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
They might decide to make Eastern Ghouta their military priority. | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
It's part of the suburbs of Damascus. | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
It's vulnerable because rebel groups that control it have weakened | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
Foreign powers are shaping the battlefields. | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
Turkey has troops fighting in Syria and backed some | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
But it watched while Russia and its allies destroyed them. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
That's because Turkey needs Russia to stand aside | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
while it hits the Kurds, now its main target. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
And while East Aleppo fell, the West was also a bystander. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
That is because the Syria policy of the Americans, | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
British and their friends, never coherent, has | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Aleppo though looks to be a turning point. | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
Tonight, Britain's Foreign Secretary said again that | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
But the downfall of the President looks like a hollow dream. | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Early in the war there was a chance to make it happen | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
But that chance has gone while President Assad remains | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
It will not be easy for his coalition to move from Aleppo | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories. | :19:55. | :20:07. | |
Two hijackers who held over 100 passengers hostage on a flight | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
which they diverted from Libya to Malta have been arrested | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
after a stand-off on the runway lasting several hours. | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
The crew and passengers were gradually released | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
before the men were taken away for questioning. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
The United Nations Refugee Agency says over 5,000 migrants | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
and refugees have died in the Mediterranean | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
this year - the highest annual death toll so far. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
About 100 migrants are reported to have died yesterday, | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
when two boats sank off the Italian coast. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Strong winds and driving rain have affected much of the north and west | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
of Britain, as Storm Barbara blew in today. | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
Worst affected was Scotland, where many ferry services | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
were cancelled and a number of houses in more remote | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
A survey of rough sleepers suggests they are 17 times more likely | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
to be a victim of crime than the general public. | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
The charity Crisis says homeless people are regularly | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
There are thought to be about 4,000 people sleeping rough | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reports. | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
For some people, rough sleepers have no value. | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
I used to come in here and sleep on the trains, essentially. | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
He took to sleeping on commuter trains after an unprovoked attack. | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
Got into a discussion with a young man around the fact I was homeless. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
He became quite aggravated, I would guess, by the fact | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
that I was homeless, and I was saying that people | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
And from there he ended up punching me in the face, basically. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
Today's report lays bare the abuse rough sleepers can suffer. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
They're subjected to beatings, assaulted, even urinated on. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
It's not just the incident itself, but it's the impact it | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
We found that most homeless people who are rough sleeping, | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
And surely if you are then urinated on, you are going to feel even more | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
So your eyesight, who's looking after that? | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
Sergeant David Deal is part of a police outreach team that works | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
While he encourages them to report crimes, he understands why today's | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
report says many don't trust the police. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
There are other aspects of their life, maybe drug use, | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
maybe begging, maybe other forms of anti-social behaviour. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
When they come into contact with police regarding those types | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
of behaviour, that's when they might not trust the police | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
For these homeless people, this centre will provide shelter | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Susan Walker is currently bedding down in a stairwell. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
Sleep is uneasy due to her constant fear of attack. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Because you can get some of these people now who do see | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
a woman and they'll think, "I'll go for her." | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
And if that happened, well, as a woman, we | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Rough sleepers are permanently vulnerable. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Any stranger could attack at any moment. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
The former England manager, Sam Allardyce, has agreed a deal | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
to become the new manager of Crystal Palace. | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
Allardyce has been out of the game since having to leave the England | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
job in September after just one match, following remarks he made | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Here's our sports correspondent, Richard Conway. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
Three months on from losing his dream job as England manager, | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
I like the look of the squad and that's probably | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
He was forced out of Wembley after just one match in charge. | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
Following a newspaper sting in which he discussed getting around | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
A period on the sidelines looked inevitable. | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
But Alan Pardew has manoeuvred himself out of the Crystal Palace | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
hot seat, after winning just 26 points in his 36 games | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
And Allardyce, well, he is seen as an expert in keeping | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
teams in the top division, in a career that spans periods | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
in charge of Bolton, Blackburn, West Ham and Sunderland. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
With Crystal Palace flirting with relegation, the club's | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
new American owners have been forced to take action. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
An attempt this season to play a more expansive style of football | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
The focus now will be doing whatever it takes to stay | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
I think any team who gets Big Sam will tell you he's never | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
got a team relegated, so it's a great record and I'm sure | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Palace will have that in the back of their mind. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
For Sam Allardyce there's unfinished business to attend | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
to, after his briefest of stints with England. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Crystal Palace will settle for survival for now, | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
but this ambitious club hope in time he'll do much more | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Richard Conway, BBC News, Selhurst Park. | :25:27. | :25:33. |