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Hello, I'm Karin Giannone - this is Outside Source. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Vigils are held in Berlin 24 hours on from the deadly attack | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Police have released a Pakistani asylum seeker | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
because of a lack of evidence, which means the attacker is likely | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
China tells millions of people to stay indoors | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
Extreme air pollution alerts have been issued for 24 | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
We meet the brave Paralympian who has signed papers | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
allowing her to choose when she will die. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Scientists say they've made a "remarkable" breakthrough | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
in treating the early stages of prostate cancer. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
The drug, activated by a laser, successfully destroys tumours | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
without the severe side effects surgery can cause. | :00:59. | :01:18. | |
Let's bring you back up to date on our top story - | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the person responsible for the Berlin truck | :01:22. | :01:22. | |
A man detained by German police on Monday night has been released | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
due to lack of evidence linking him to the incident. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
12 people died and 48 others were wounded in the attack. | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
Jenny Hill has been following events in Berlin. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
The lorry itself, which belongs to a Polish firm, appears | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Today, its owner identified the man who should have been at the wheel. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
The young Polish driver was found shot dead in the passenger seat. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Today, every Christmas market in the city was closed. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
Time to remember the dead - and for some, to reflect | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
It is just amazing how a peaceful, festive, happy atmosphere | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
just changed instantly, and | :02:07. | :02:07. | |
you just have this scene of utter devastation. | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
It will be a long time, Rees and Sara told us, | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
that they will be able to forget what they saw. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
We weren't sure if it was red wine, or if it was blood, but we did see, | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
I remember, people were picking up a stall, so we decided | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to put our food down and try to lift the stall up with them. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
And we realised unfortunately that people underneath | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
Germany is a country in mourning. Its Chancellor under pressure. | :02:37. | :02:56. | |
Earlier this year, asylum seekers carried out what are thought to have | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
been the first IS-inspired terror attacks on German soil. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Angela Merkel must reassure a nervous German electorate | :03:03. | :03:03. | |
that her open door refugee policy hasn't put them at risk. | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
TRANSLATION: It would be particularly hard to bear | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
if it turned out that the person that did this was someone | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
who sought protection and asylum in Germany. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
It would be particularly offensive to the many Germans engaged daily | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
The attack took place next to a bombed out church, | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
left in ruins as a reminder of the horror of war. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
But once again, violence and terror has torn through | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
Our correspondent in Berlin, Robert Hall, has been | :03:34. | :03:55. | |
speaking to Karl-Heinz Kamp, the president of the Federal Academy | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
for Security Policy, which advises the German government | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
He explained the complexity of the investigation. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
We had no guy shouting, "Allahu Akbar," we did not have | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
any self confirmation, we didn't have any videos, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
so a number of things are still completely uncertain, | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
and that is why authorities said, yes, it is an attack, but we are not | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
sure whether it is an IS/Muslim attack so we have to wait | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Does this feel to you, Karl-Heinz, like an attack that has been | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
long in the planning, or something more spontaneous? | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
It doesn't look long in the planning. | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
It looks more like being spontaneous, because the pre-emptive | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
measures we all take in all our societies - | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
in your country and my country - are pretty good in the meantime. | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
Which means you are trip-wiring phones, you hear things going on, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
you hear about something cooking up there, but since there was nothing | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
it pretty much looks like a spontaneous act | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
in which apparently the driver of the truck has been killed, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
So much more questions than answers so far. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
In your experience, how difficult is the job that the police now face? | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
With no clear leads - well, there may well | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
be a lead to follow, we don't know, but no clear | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Well, on the other hand we have a number of other issues - | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
we have a car, we have certain traces. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
It is always difficult to do this but if you see the recent | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
terror attacks we had, for instance in the US, | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
usually after a day or two they were able to come up with some | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
evidence - YouTube video screening, YouTube witnesses - | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
I mean there were thousands of people there, so the likelihood | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
that you will find something if they are, but it just takes time, | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
because it was as I said not like the Nice thing | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
where you had just the incumbent, so to speak, lying on the street - | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Let's bring you some dramatic sports news. | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion, Petra Kvitova, has undergone surgery | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
to her hand after a knife attack at her home in the Czech Republic. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
She's been on social media since the attack, tweeting, | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
"In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
I am shaken, but fortunate to be alive." | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
Damian Johnson is at the BBC Sport Centre. | :06:15. | :06:26. | |
A really dramatic event. What happened? This was clearly a | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
terrifying ordeal for the world number 11. The intruder got into her | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
flat, as you said, close to the edge of the town, the man attacked her | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and she fought him off, and I understand he held a knife to her | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
throat and it was in grabbing it with her left hand crucially that | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
did the damage. That is her racket hand, the one she holds a tennis | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
racket with when she is playing. Crucially, she could be out of | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
action for some time. She has undergone surgery today and that | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
lasted four hours, I understand. We are still waiting for further | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
details from that. I suppose. Still too early to say at this point how | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
able she will be to play again? At least three months is the reckoning. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
I understand there repaired tendons in all five digits of hand and there | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
was also some nerve damage done. It is very serious. She will certainly | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
miss the Australian open, the first grand slam tournament of the New | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
Year in January 20 17. The 26-year-old is twice Wimbledon | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
champion, 2011 and 2014. She has had a number of messages of support from | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
fellow players on the women's circuit. Muguruza said stay strong | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
and do well. The former world number one, my thoughts and prayers are | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
with Petra. And Kvitova herself and said she will stay strong about | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
this. We await more information from the surgeons performed the operation | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
on Thursday. Thank you very much, from the BBC sports centre. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Mareeke Vervort is a gold medal winning wheelchair sprinter, | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
who has had an incurable degenerative spinal | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
She's paralysed, suffers chronic pain and fits regularly. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
The 37-year-old is from Belgium where euthanasia is legal - | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
and eight years ago8 she signed the papers allowing her to choose | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
In this special BBC report Mareeke tells her story. | :08:20. | :08:50. | |
I had to stop because my mind said, yes, you still can do it, but by | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
body cries and says, helped! Stop training! You are breaking me, stop. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
It's not... I immediately supported her. I | :09:05. | :09:36. | |
knew... She is stubborn, she knows what she wants, but she also knows | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
what she doesn't want. Living hell is not the life Marieke once. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
-- Living hell is not the life Marieke wants. | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
When I talk about real pain, so much pain you lose consciousness from the | :10:00. | :10:17. | |
pain, and the tears rolling your cheeks, and nobody can do anything | :10:18. | :10:18. | |
about it. I have prepared everything. I wrote | :10:19. | :10:35. | |
to every person who was in my heart, and I want everybody to drink a | :10:36. | :10:53. | |
glass of cava to me. She had a really bad disease, but thanks to | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
that disease she was able to do things that people can only dream | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
about, because mentally I was so strong. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
A new report on Flight MH370 - missing since 8th March 2014 - | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
has concluded that search teams have probably been looking | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
The report was issued by the Australian Transport | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Safety Bureau and it says, "There is a high degree | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
of confidence that the previously identified underwater area searched | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
to date does not contain the missing aircraft." | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
Based on a new analysis of satellite data and address pattern of more | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
than 20 items of daybreak, they have identified this new search area. -- | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
20 items of debris. It's about 25,000 square | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
kilometres and it's located further north along the arc | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
from the current search zone. But despite this new evidence, | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
it's not clear where any extra funding will come | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
from and the current search is due Still to come on Outside Source, a | :12:01. | :12:16. | |
look at a new laser treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, which | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
surgeons have called transformative. Scotland's First Minister Nicola | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
Sturgeon has set out how Scotland could stay in the European Single | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Market without the rest of the UK. She says leaving the free-trade bloc | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
could be devastating to Scotland's long-term prosperity. Our Scotland | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
correspondent Lorna Gordon has this report... | :12:38. | :12:50. | |
Since the referendum there has been plenty of back and forward on what | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
the negotiation should involve but not much detail. Now Scotland's | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
First Minister has set out how she feels Scotland's interests should be | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
protected. We propose the UK as a whole should remain in the Single | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Market by remaining party to the economic area agreement. I accept | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
there is a mandate in England and Wales to take the UK out of the EU, | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
however I do not accept there is a mandate to take any part of the UK | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
out of the Single Market. There were also calls for more powers to be | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Fishing and farming, she said, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
should be transferred from Brussels direct to Holyrood. She argued MSPs | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
should be able to legislate in key areas like employment and should | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
have the power to set immigration policy as well. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
This Scottish company which employs seven people sees Europe | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
is a growing market for its products and a source of talent for its team. | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
It's Finnish owner says clarity is needed about what Brexit | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
I am born in Finland, I have lived in the UK for 15 years. | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
We are a growing business, we need to know where do | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
we find future employees, and I want to know if I can | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
The Conservatives insist there will be no separate deals | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
I've always said that we want to work very constructively | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
That is the way to get the best possible deal | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
I am interested to look and see the proposals in the paper, | :14:21. | :14:33. | |
and they will be given very careful and detailed consideration. | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
In fact, they will be discussed at the next meeting of our joint | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
ministerial committee, and I am sure we will | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
hear more detail from the Scottish Government itself. | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
Some light shed today by Scotland's government on what it wants | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
from the Brexit negotiations, but with no formal | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
role in those talks, they are reliant on the government | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. | :14:50. | :15:03. | |
German police have released a Pakistani asylum seeker detained | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
following the Berlin market attack, saying they have insufficient | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
If you're outside the UK, it's World News America next. | :15:10. | :15:21. | |
They've got a report on Alan Eustace - the Google executive who in 2014 | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
broke the world record for the highest parachute jump. | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Here in the UK, the News at Ten is next. | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
They'll have much more on Monday's attack on that | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
Ed Thomas has been looking into the current state | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Let's go to Beijing because the Chinese capital has been | :15:35. | :15:54. | |
blanketed in thick smog since the weekend - | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
and that's led the authorities there to take drastic measures | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
Despite these measures things haven't improved | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
The BBC's Stephen McDonell has been out on the streets of Beijing | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
In Beijing this week people say they are living under the Dome, after | :16:06. | :16:17. | |
days on end of heavy pollution it feels like being trapped under a | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
giant toxic cloud. So how bad is Beijing's pollution at the moment? I | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
have brought this device outside to try to measure it. You would | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
normally have this little thing inside your house measuring if air | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
pollution is coming in from the outside. I sent it to measure the | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
particular. These are the small particles thought to be very | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
dangerous because they get deep into your respiratory system. The World | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
Health Organisation has a recommended annual target of ten and | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
here, according to our little egg, right now it is over 400. How is | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Beijing compared to other world cities at the moment? Tokyo has one | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
of 30, Moscow has a reading of five, Montreal... 17. And London, 36. If I | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
were to drive a few hundred kilometres to the north of Beijing | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
to the neighbouring province there, I would find cities and towns which | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
today are registering over 600. The long-term solutions are pretty | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
clear. Have less car is, cars which do not pull it as much -- less cars | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
and to phase out heavily polluting factories and coal-fired power | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
stations. In the meantime in Beijing at the moment both primary and | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
secondary schools have been closed, as have building sites. Poor | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
visibility has led to many flights in and out of Beijing being | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
cancelled, and even the highways have been shut down because they | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
were thought to be too dangerous. You also see people wearing these | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
air filter masks which you put on your face like that. I have to say | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
it feels a bit like cabin fever at the moment. We are all watching the | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
weather reports and waiting for the winds to come along to make this | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
pollution somebody else's problem. Surgeons have described a new | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
treatment for early-stage prostate The approach which uses | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
lasers and a drug made from deep sea bacteria, | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
can eliminate tumours, Here's our health and science | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
reporter, Fergus Walsh. This is the technology | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
which represents a huge leap It involves a drug derived | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
from bacteria found in the darkness This laser optic fibre | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
is inserted into the prostate, the light activates the drug | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
which kills the cancer. When Gerald Capam was diagnosed | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
with early prostate cancer, he was worried it might develop | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
and he'd need surgery or radiotherapy, which can cause | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
incontinence or impotence. Instead, he became one of the first | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
successfully treated with the new light therapy and had | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
no long-term side effects. Well, I feel incredibly lucky that | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
I was accepted for the trial. I can look forward to | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
the remaining years of my life, One in eight men will be diagnosed | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
with prostate cancer, so this highly effective | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
new treatment, known as photodynamic therapy, | :19:34. | :19:34. | |
could be hugely significant. The light-sensitive drug is injected | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
into the bloodstream. It's derived from deep sea bacteria, | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
which are efficient Through a thin tube, a laser light | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
is inserted into the prostate, the light activates the drug | :19:44. | :20:05. | |
which destroys the cancer cells. The journal, Lancet Oncology, | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
reports that half the patients given photodynamic therapy were completely | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
clear of cancer two years later, compared to about one in seven | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
of those given standard care. Crucially, it did not | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
cause major side effects. The harms with traditional | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
treatments have always been the side effects, | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
oar urinary incontinence. In other words, leaking | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
urine and requiring pads. Sexual difficulties, | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
which occurs in the majority To have a new treatment | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
now that we can administer to men who are eligible, | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
that is virtually free of those side effects, | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
is truly transformative. The treatment is likely to cost | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
around ?20,000 a patient and is expected to be approved | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
in Europe following these Its use is also being | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
trialled in other cancers. So it won't be cheep, | :20:45. | :21:01. | |
but for prostate patients, photodynamic therapy represents | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
a powerful new weapon There is more and that fascinating | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
medical development and from Fergus Walsh as well on the BBC website. | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
The humble spirit gin is having a renaissance, globally and in the UK | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
alone. They have sold the equivalent of 1.1 billion gin and tonics here. | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
South Africa, a country associated with winemaking, has seen an | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
explosion of gins using South African plans. Our correspondent | :21:38. | :21:38. | |
reports... -- explosion of gins | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
using South African plants. South Africa's botanical kingdom is | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
unique to the southern Cape. A rich variety of flowers, herbs and | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
spices. This has become the key ingredient in making South African | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
gin. In the past few years alone a dozen craft gin distilleries have | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
emerged. Lorna Scott started her own gin label having fallen in love with | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
the indigenous plants surrounding her home. Under the nose, you get | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
that sharp note coming through. When we started I was producing perhaps | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
100, or 150, bottles a month, and it became a mission for us to keep up | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
with demand. Quickly I realised we had something that had commercial | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
potential. We were literally doubling our production every six | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
months and it keeps growing. Solely limitation we have at the moment is | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
with the label smaller craft distilleries are also | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
making inroadss in the country's flourishing gin market. I think in | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
the last year gin has just taken off. This is our third micro | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
distillery here on the Western Cape. Since then, there must be another | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
ten, or 1500 trick-mac distilleries which started up. This is | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
incredible. I did not know there were so many gins and South Africa. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
That is just a drop in the ocean. -- so many gins in South Africa. They | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
are all trying to capture South Africa's growing middle class. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Guess, you become part of it, at one with the products, and that is what | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
we will go for. -- yes, you become. I think the more I have been exposed | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
to gin, the more I am learning there are so many South African gins and | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
so many around Cape Town. So that is a great surprise, yes, enjoying it. | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
The gin market is expected to keep growing as more distilleries | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
continue to search for new flavours with strong local roots, and | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
consumers go in search of the perfect gin and tonic. Just time to | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
bring you a tweet... One of our viewers sent. He has been to one of | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
the memorial services for the victims of the Berlin attack, and | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
using the hashtag BBCOS he showed us what he could see at Brandenburg | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
gate. A beautiful show of solidarity, posting one of these. | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
From Aleppo to Berlin, we know your pain, someone has pleaded that | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
there. And this one as well. Stay tuned to BBC news for all the latest | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
developments, from Berlin and all the other main news stories. From | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
here in London, thank you for watching. | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
We have been forecasting some pretty rough weather and that has already | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
arrived. Not to stormy just yet. Rain | :25:17. | :25:17. |