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Hello and welcome to Outside Source live from the BBC Newsroom Live. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Just over a 24-hour since the brutal attack on a Christmas market in | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Berlin, police have released the suspect they have been questioning, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
indicating the attacker is still at large. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Candlelit vigils are being held in Germany for the 12 people who died. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Russian investigators have arrived in Turkey after the murder of the | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Russian ambassador on Monday. Turkish police have arrested several | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
members of the attacker's family. If you want to get in touch with us | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
about any story, you can. The person responsible for the | :00:47. | :01:08. | |
Berlin truck attack is likely to still be at large. A man who had | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
been detained by German police on Monday night has been released due | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
to lack of evidence. 12 people died and 48 others were wounded when the | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Lawrie was driven into the market. Let's bring you this, and unnamed | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
police chief has said that they have the wrong man:. | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
Damian McGuinness will explain how this happened. | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
What seems to have happened is that the eyewitness who had given chase | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
very bravely to the man suspected of carrying out this dreadful atrocity, | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
he lost sight of him a couple of times. Then police detained him. It | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
might well be that in fact there was some confusion over the identity of | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the man who had given chase. The suspect had always denied that he | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
had any involvement with this atrocity, with this crime, and he | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
also, according to police, there seemed to be no evidence adjusting | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
that he could have been in that Laurie, particularly given that | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
there was quite horrific, a murder seems to have been carried out in | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the cabin, by the original driver. Some speculation that it would have | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
been difficult for someone to have carried out that murder, to have | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
killed the original driver, to have been in that cabin, and then to have | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
escaped and had no forensic DNA evidence which would link him to the | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Laurie. -- Lawrie. Police say there is not a strong enough case to | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
officially arrest him. Police can only officially hold him until | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
midnight tonight. They released him earlier than they needed to, with no | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
proof. Having said that, they said they would keep an eye on the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
suspect. There is no guarantee that he is not involved in some way | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
either. In the last hour, we have had this | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
as well, coming from Islamic State news agency, if you like, that the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Berlin truck attacker IS soldier targeting citizens of the Crusader | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Coalition. So-called Islamic State have in the past claimed responsibly | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
for many similar attacks but without providing any evidence. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Let's recap on what we do know. This is the vehicle used in the attack. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
It is registered in Poland. A Polish man was found dead in the passenger | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
seat. He had been shot. He is confirmed as the truck's 's will | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
driver. The truck was full of steel beams, due to be unloaded. | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
TRANSLATION: I found him yesterday at noon and told him that after an | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
loading in Berlin, he should go directly to load the good and go on | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
tour for the last time before Christmas. He was asking whether he | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
would be able to return before Thursday evening, because he had to | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
buy his wife a Christmas gift. That never happened. The next thing | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
we know is that at age: 15 local time, the truck ploughed into the | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
Christmas market. It had travelled to in 50 to 80 metres through the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
market on this route. Witnesses say they thought it was travelling at 60 | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
kph before coming to a halt. Here is some of what some witnesses saw. | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
We heard this massive noise, to the extent, it was so loud, and it | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
sounded like a massive explosion, like gunshots. Our instant reaction, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
the same as everyone else around us, was to get up and look, and try to | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
help. A lot of people were very shocked. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Some people were staring at the scene in front of us. A few people | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
were putting people into recovery positions. Mothers and their | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
children were trying to be taken away from the scene. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
It was absolutely horrific. I don't think we can really put it into | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
detail with enough words how devastating the scene was. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
It was a situation where we did not realise at the specific time that it | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
was a truck that went through. It hit about five Christmas stalls. The | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
stall that we saw, there were people mining on the floor. We weren't sure | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
if it was red wine or if it was blood, but we did see, I remember | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
people picking up the stalls, trying to lift it up, and we realised that | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
unfortunate the people underneath were already passed. | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
German police say that six of those who died were German nationals. We | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
are told the suspect had fled on foot, and was arrested near victory | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
column. But now he has been released and the police are back to square | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
one. Meanwhile, the city of Berlin is in | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
mourning. Angela Merkel has paid tribute this morning. She has given | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
a statement. This is a little of what she had to say. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
TRANSLATION: Millions of people including me asking this morning, | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
how can we live with the fact that at a Christmas market, a place where | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
we celebrate life, a murderer can bring death to so many. Even I don't | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
have any easy answers to that. I only know that we cannot and we will | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
not give up Christmas markets, enjoying time with our family and | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
friends, outside in our squares. We do not want to live with the fear of | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
evil paralysing us, even when that is hard. We will find the strength | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
to live as we in Germany want to live, free together and open. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Robert Hall has been among the crowds in Berlin, paying tribute to | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
the victims of the attack. In the week leading up to Christmas, | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
this part of Berlin would normally Tonight, the streets | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
around the Kaiser Wilhelm Tonight, the streets around the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Kaiser Wilhelm People throughout the day | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
and into this evening have been coming together to offer a tribute | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
to show solidarity with those who have lost their lives, | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
with families who are still grieving, and families | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
who are still desperately worried about the victims that are seriously | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
injured and in hospital. Earlier this evening, | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
there was a candlelit vigil There is a determination here that | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Berlin's life will not be disrupted by acts of terror | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
by attacks of this kind. Away from here, | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
the police investigation continues. But the mood in Berlin tonight | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
is one of remembrance. Robert Hall in Berlin. Let's update | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
you on another big story from Monday. The assassination of the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Russian ambassador to Turkey. We reported it yesterday. You will have | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
pictures of the attacker and shouting in the moments after the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
shooting. Let's show you pictures that have emerged, showing the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
moments before the attack. You can see the gunman standing at | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
the back of the room, pacing a little bit, and finally he reaches | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
for his gun and shoots dead the ambassador Andrey Karlov on the | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
right of the picture. We stopped just before that moment, of course. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
The ambassador's be has been flown home, Russian investigators have | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
concluded their investigation, and backing Turkey, six members of the | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
gunman's family have been arrested. The gunman was protesting against | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Russia's involvement in Syria, especially in Aleppo. That | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
involvement has been discussed today by the Foreign Minister 's of | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Russia, Iran and Turkey. Sergey Lavrov has said the three countries | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
are ready to achieve a deal between the Syrian government and | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
opposition, and widened the Aleppo ceasefire. The latest on the | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
investigation. What we know now is that Russian | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
investigators are in Turkey. They are working with | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Turkish counterparts. The plane that brought | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
them to Turkey took away to Russia the body back to rush | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
of the ambassador. It will probably be | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
given to the biggest and It has never happened before, | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will lead the memorial | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
service for the ambassador. There are so many questions, | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
the main question is, was it a lone wolf attack | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
or a sinister reason behind it? There is a secret cell, a military | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
cell or something more than that? That is the main thing to find out | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
for the investigators. Given the way Russian | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
relations have been with Turkey for the last year or so, | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
one might have expected them to be soured by what happened yesterday. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
But we have seen anything but. In 2015, when the Russian jet | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
was shot down over Turkey, just when the Syrian operation | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
started, the main angry response response from Russia, | :10:33. | :10:44. | |
from Putin personally, is why the president didn't call him | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
in Moscow to tell him This time, nothing | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
like that was seen. They both immediately went | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
to talk to each other, to make sure that the relationship | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
between the two We will see it later | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
with the meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs, | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
when Lavrov, the Russian minister and his counterparts | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
from Turkey and Iran, standing with journalists shoulder | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
to shoulder, saying it is the best framework to find | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
a solution for the Syrian war. It it interesting | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
that there is no Syrian We will wait to see how the talk | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
between the three ministers will reflect on the situation | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
on the ground. Remember that Russia and Turkey are | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
on opposite sides. Again, it was said this was the best | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
framework for a solution. The United States were | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
welcomed to join them. Remember, Turkey after | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
all is a Nato member, a close ally | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
to the United States. In Aleppo, the evacuations from the | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
east of the city are continuing, but there is a warning from the Syrian | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
army, saying two civilians and rebel fighters, get out as soon as | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
possible before they go in. We are not sure about the numbers in | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Aleppo, but the Red Cross is saying that 25,000 people have been | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
evacuated from the city since last Thursday. However, the United | :12:11. | :12:11. | |
Nations says:. No details on how the evacuation is | :12:12. | :12:30. | |
going. We haven't heard much today about | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
how it has been progressing. Yesterday, a large amount, but today | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
there has not been information. Two villages, part of the deal which are | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
in areas controlled by the rebels, with more people coming out of | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
there, but the other thing that makes, gave the process and make it | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
last longer, the Russian Foreign Minister said that it will be over | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
in the next couple of days. It may go on for longer. Another part of | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
the deal, two other towns, controlled by the rebels, but | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
surrounded by the government, the rebels want that to be part of the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
deal as well. There has been no movement on that. We have heard from | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
rebels in eastern Aleppo and they say they won't go until that begins | :13:15. | :13:15. | |
to happen. In terms of the politics going on, | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
we know Russia, Iran and Turkey are meeting, but noticeably absent as a | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
power broker at all, the United States simply not there. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Yes, the United States has been left on the sidelines, partly maybe | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
because the transition is going on. Resident Obama hung his colours on | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
the idea that President Assad was non-negotiable, he has to go. That | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
seems to be changing. The statement that came out from the Russians, | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Turks and Iranians was that the priority was not regime change. Once | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
upon a time, that was the tune that Turkey was singing. They have | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
changed a bit as their relations with Russia have warmed again, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
saying that the priority for Sergey Lavrov is fighting the terrorists | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
there. As far as the Russians are concerned, that is anyone that is | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
against Russia. Is the aim to get the ceasefire | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
spreading further? That is what they were saying today, | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
what Sergey Lavrov was saying, what the Foreign Minister is worth | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
saying. That is obviously a wish. Whether it can be fulfilled in any | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
way is difficult to say, because the rebels still have strong holdouts | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
where many of the people have been going from eastern Aleppo in the | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
south of the country. There is still a battlefield there. And we have the | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
Isis problem in the north-east. Talk of ceasefire, talk of negotiations, | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
all of that at the moment is a vacuum, because the opposition and | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
the rebels are to be included. The UN has said they are planning a new | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
attempt to get a general talk under way again in Geneva, as we have seen | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
a couple of times already a couple of months into the New Year. The | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Russian agenda seems to be on a separate track to that, but | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
presumably, they are meant to intermingle. The Russians now are | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
calling the shots to some extent, but can't govern what the rebels do | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
or say. The rebels, we don't know if they will feel we have reached the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
end of the road, we are not going to win any more. It is time for us to | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
sit down. At the moment, there is no sign of that. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
A quick update on a story that was overshadowed last night by what was | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
going on in Berlin, a man that shot and wounded three people at an | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Islamic centre in Zurich in Switzerland on Monday night has been | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
found dead. The 24-year-old walked into the centre near Zurich Central | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Station and opened fire before running away. His body and a gun | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
were found later under a bridge a short distance away. All three | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
victims are in a stable condition. The man's DNA matched that found at | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
another crime scene, and that was a stabbing at a playground to the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
north-east of Zurich on Sunday. Police say they don't know why the | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
man carried out the attacks. This is what the Zurich police chief has | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
said. TRANSLATION: 'S what can say is that | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
there is no indication of any kind of terrorist connection. Either to | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
the Islamic State group or any Islamic radicalisation of the | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
suspect. This is what we know so far. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Still to come on Outside Source, we are on the streets of Beijing | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
testing the air quality. Authorities are taking drastic measures to try | :16:36. | :16:36. | |
to tackle the pollution crisis. Here in the UK, a court has ruled | :16:37. | :16:49. | |
that doctors should stop providing life-support treatment to a | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
policeman left in a minimally conscious state after a road | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
accident. Paul Briggs suffered a brain injury in a motorcycle crash | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
last year while serving with Merseyside Police. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
The judge ruled that this life-sustaining treatment should be | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
withdrawn and it could be legally withheld, and he said at the end | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
of this judgment that it means the court is doing on behalf | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
of Mr Briggs what he would have wanted and done for himself | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
in what he thought was his own best interests. | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
But this may not be the end of the case, because there | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
could still potentially be an appeal. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
A statement was read out on behalf of Lindsey Briggs by her solicitor | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Matthew Culverhouse at the end of today's judgment. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
We are therefore dismayed to learn that this decision may be appealed. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
We feel overwhelming despair and sorrow. | :17:40. | :17:54. | |
This is Outside Source live from the BBC Newsroom Live. Our top story, | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
police in Germany have released a Pakistani asylum seeker detained | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
after the truck attack. There is insufficient evidence to continue | :18:09. | :18:09. | |
holding him. Other stories being reported around | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
the BBC: police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Democratic Republic of Congo. The main rival says the main reason | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
to step down. BBC China says that China have | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
returned an American underwater drone that it seized in the South | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
China Sea last week. The Chinese Defence Ministry said the handover | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
was completed smoothly after what it called friendly concentrations. | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
-- consultations. On Outside Source, we often talk about the sharing | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
economy, businesses that connect users based on needs and budgets. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Now there is a new challenger in the space taking on the model of self | :18:58. | :18:58. | |
storage. For most of us, our homes are the | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
biggest drain on our finances, no wonder so called Schering Connolly | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
sites have attracted millions of users. They have allowed users to | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
claw back money by renting out their bedrooms. But what about unused | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
storage space like attics, could that be turned into cash? | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
That the idea behind a start up. Later I will meet the co-founder, | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
but first I want to try it out. As it turns out, I'm doing a loft | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
conversion, which gives me a perfect opportunity. I need to find | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
temporary storage for the stuff stored in my attic, cats not | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
included. The website connects me with someone local that has attics | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
based that I need to borrow. With the stuff loaded in the car, it | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
is time to meet the stranger who I have been paired with. That strange | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
is Rowena, who lives a short drive away from my house. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
After a quick chat, she kindly lends me a hand. I like her already. | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
She's got loads of space. I must admit to a bit of attic envy. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Thanks for looking after my stuff. That's OK. Why did you sign up? I | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
believe in the sharing economy. I have a decent sized attic and plenty | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
of space. It's great that resources people | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
have got that aren't being used full-time are being used more | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
widely. Is it weird to look after a | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
stranger's in your own home? I am not particularly worried about | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
it. But if somebody turned up on my doorstep and I didn't like the look | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
of them, I wouldn't go ahead with it. You still have the ability to | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
pull out at the last minute. I have passed the test? | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
You have passed the test! I wouldn't let you in. I am confident I can | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
trust Rowena with my stuff, including my precious golf clubs. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Next stop, I want to check out the more traditional way to store your | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
stuff. I am at Access Self Storage Centres Mike In South London. Does | :21:08. | :21:19. | |
This Website But What You Do With Spaces That This? | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
Not At All. Someone Is Always Here Or In Reception. You Have Access To | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
Stuff 20 47. -- 24-7. If you share with a stranger, you might find | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
there is a guarantee that they will be home. The security side is quite | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
important to us. The fact that you might have personal memorabilia, | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
that is always a risk with a stranger. Here, again, the room is | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
not shared with anybody else. You keep your own padlock. We don't keep | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
copies of the key or anything like that, only you have access to your | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
goods. My final destination is Google | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
campus in central London. I have arranged to meet the co-founder, | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
David Mantle. My first question is something that has been weighing on | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
my mind. Rowena said to me, if she hadn't liked me on meeting me, she | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
could have pulled out. Was she right? | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Absolutely. We will not put people down the path of storing stuff if | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
they are not comfortable. We have not experienced this. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
He also pointed out that as well as the usual feedback, they go through | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
basic background checks, and are interviewed on signing up. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
What if there was a fire or accident like that, what would happen to my | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
stuff? 99.99% of the transactions on other | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
sites are fine. We expect the same. In that small chance, we have | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
storage agreements where we cover your stuff up to ?100 per box. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Since we spoke, they have introduced an opt in insurance policy. How | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
about the all-important question of price? | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
If I stored my stuff at the warehouse, it would have cost me | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
about ?75. Doing it be sharing economy weigh | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
costs me ?56, so a good bit cheaper. Then again, maybe I was lucky to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
have been matched with a good host like Rowena. Two months later, we | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
may up again and she has taken good care of my stuff. Luckily, she | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
hadn't gone on holiday. Though, she told me that the income she owned | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
for my belongings might pay for her next one. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Europe English and has accused Facebook of providing misleading | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
information when it sought approval for its buyout of the messaging | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
service WhatsApp.. Facebook say they have nothing to hide and it acted in | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
good faith. Let's try to explain this further. What is happening? | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
In 2014, Facebook had acquired WhatsApp. One of the big conditions | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
for this was that the EU wanted to make sure that what sat -- Outside | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Source and Facebook could not merge and share information. Now we see | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
that Facebook and Outside Source are sharing their information about some | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
of their customers. Facebook, however, says that it is not true | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
what the EU is saying, and they did not mislead the EU. In 2014, they | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
said they did not know they have the technology to be able to share that | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
kind of information. Furthermore, from Facebook's Spectre, they say, | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
look, what the EU back in 2014 was worried about was cross-platform | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
usage. Imagine using WhatsApp and that connects directly to Facebook, | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
and you can chat using either system simultaneously, really. Well, that | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
is still not possible. That is the real risk. That was the risk that | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
the EU was asking about back then. Briefly, the European Commission has | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
been active in its pursuit of tech companies recently, hasn't it? | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
It has. Facebook is facing some other issues with regards to other | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
bits of its operations. Also, we are talking about Apple earlier this | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
week and how it is contesting the big tax Bill levelled at them by the | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
EU. Google is also facing difficulties with the EU commission. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
This is part of a wider scene that we are seeing with regards to these | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
big Internet companies. Thank you very much. Samir Hussein | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
in New York. Coming up on Outside Source after | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
the weather, the latest on what is going on in Berlin. Police have | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
released the man they have been questioning since yesterday due to | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
insufficient evidence. Stay with us. Good evening. A detailed look at the | :25:58. | :26:13. | |
weather in the UK before the top of the hour and the weather for the | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
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