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We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
A lorry attack, on a busy Christmas market in Berlin, | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
has killed at least nine people and left dozens injured. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Members of the public tended to victims, as police urged | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Berliners to stay indoors until the all-clear could be given. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
The authorities are treating it as a deliberate attack. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
It went just past me, past my girlfriend. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
I think it missed me by three metres and missed her by five metres. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
It came into the entrance and hit the sides of the barriers, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
A man who shot dead the Russian ambassador to Turkey has been | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
The killer urged the world to remember the Syrian | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
He'd been seen in the background as Ambassador Karlov | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Moscow said the murder was an act of terrorism. | :01:03. | :01:26. | |
Let's take a look now at tomorrow's papers, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
many of them lead with the events in Berlin. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
With me are the broadcaster, Natalie Haynes, and Rob Merrick, | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
deputy political editor at the Independent. | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
'Massacre at the Market' is on the Metro front page. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
The story of a fatal lorry crash, in central Berlin dominates | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
The Daily Mirror are calling it 'the Berlin Bloodbath'. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
It's leading the Guardian front page, | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
which is reporting that nine people have died. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
crashed into shoppers at a speed of 40 miles per hour. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
The i confirm the lorry driver has been arrested, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
and that a passenger on board died at the scene. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
The Times report that the lorry belonged | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
the Daily Mail front page, showing the smashed windscreen | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
of the lorry covered in Christmas decorations. | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
We will start with the times. Christmas carnage in Berlin. Lorry | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
ploughed into market crowds, at least nine confirmed dead. Terror | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
attack suspected. This has been hallmarks of what we saw on Bastille | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Day earlier this year. That was in Nice, in the south of France. The | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
story you have been talking about all evening, of course. It does not | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
seem to be any doubt it was a terrorist attack. We wait for the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
inevitable claim of responsibility from Islamic State. I'm sure that | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
will come whether they orchestrated the attack or not. A couple of | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
striking beings in the Times coverage. -- things. The suspicion | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
is that the truck was hijacked. It belonged to a polished delivery | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
company. Contact with the driver was lost at four PM some time before the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
incident, leading to speculation that it had been hijacked -- them | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
out. There was a quote that the driver wore a mask. As he ran off, | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
he tore off his mask, which we had not seen before. That is quite | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
interesting. If it is linked to Islamic State, and the indication | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
perhaps with the comparisons to Nice is that there may be the case, if | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
terrorism is proved to be responsible for this, actually | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
trying to disappear into the crowd is something that did not happen in | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Nice. It may well have been because this man actually died in the front | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
of the scab, but having said that, so many Islamic State volunteers | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
have no problem in giving up their lives for their cause -- cab. That | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
is true. All we can assume is that this man for whatever reason, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
whether his ideology or pragmatism preferred to try to make a run for | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
it, but obviously without success. There are two people we think were | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
in the cab of the track, and one of them was dead. There are various | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
sources saying it looks like it was a cause of the accident rather than | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
the police shooting through the cab window, for example. Obviously the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
other men tried to make a run for it but was unsuccessful. He was | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
captured quite close to be seen, and one assumes the information he gives | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
the police will help their inquiries. The Guardian front page, | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
nine dead in building truck horror. Dozens hurt in accident. This was | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
not an accident, say witnesses. One arrested and another dead in the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
lorry. Many Christmas markets in Germany. This is one of the biggest. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
They have them all over northern Europe. The French say they will now | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
have tightened security and will increase the security presence at | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
their markets. I am wondering why there was no security at this market | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
given how big it is, and also given the history of violence and terror | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
attacks they have been in Germany in the last year. That is sure to be a | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
focus of the inquiry that will follow. There are about 60 in | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Berlin, 60 Christmas markets. I read some of them do have security and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
protection and bollards, which is bound to increase the focus on the | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
fact that this one in such essential and large place didn't. But it | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
boasts about its openness and that is part of the attraction, that you | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
won't have to get through any security. It won't look like or make | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
you think of the risk of a terror attack. You will enjoy it more if it | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
is apparently friendly. But whether that can continue after tonight's | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
events must be a question. The softest of targets, people simply | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
enjoying themselves and not necessarily looking out for the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
possibility of certainly this kind of attack. Just coming completely | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
out of the blue. Christmas markets, your family are in Belgium. You like | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Christmas market and go to them? Is this the kind of thing that would | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
put them off. I am afraid of cards anyway, which I don't think I have | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
told you. I am incredibly afraid of crowded places, which is why I don't | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
travel on the tube. I live my life alone, but I am already nervous | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
about all of those things. Your family in Bojan? They are more | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
mature in every regard than I am, even the ones younger than me -- | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Belgium. When I go there, I will go to a small Christmas market in | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Bruges. I would struggle to go to the big one in Brussels. That would | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
be too many people, too much humans in a small place for my taste. The | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
front page of the Financial Times, truck driven into Christmas crowd | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
kills at least nine in Berlin. 50 have been injured. There is every | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
possibility this death toll could rise. It makes the comparison on the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
front page, echoes of Nice ad sizzled market. One analyst was | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
suggesting to me the German security services, much smaller than in | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Britain, and less able to pick up the little chatter the security | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
services might be able to pick up in this country -- in Christmas market. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
And not as integrated as some of the others. I do not know about that. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
There was a quote a few months ago from one of the terrorists in the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Belgian attack last year, who apparently said there would not come | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
to Britain because they believed the British security services and in | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
with intelligence was better, which may be of some small comfort to us | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
tonight. I could not speak about this situation in Germany. Looking | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
at the FT, what it does say is that Isis may not have orchestrated the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
attack, even if they inspired the person who carried it out. But they | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
make the point that security officials have long warned that Isis | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
could smuggle operatives into Germany under the cover of the 1 | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
million refugees who have poured into the country since the start of | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
2015. It is the third terror attack in Germany in a short while, and | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
there is bound to be a political fallout from this, certainly if | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
other terror attacks follow. Angela Merkel took a heavy kit for her | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
opendoor policy towards refugees. It was unpopular with some citizens. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
She announced she would run for re-election next year -- heavy | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
hitter. One of their fees may be that there will be further attacks | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
that will damage her enter Canada -- fears. She is seemingly moving away | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
from the opendoor policy -- and her candidature. She's talking about | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
burning tobacco. There are fears her policy could have contributed to the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
security situation worsening in Germany but also clearly worried she | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
will be kicked out of power. I'm sure that is how it will be | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
presented during the election campaign. I don't see how anyone | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
running against it would resist the temptation to say she was somehow | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
responsible for anything that has gone wrong in Germany in the last | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
four years. We will see if this episode has not been politicised by | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
that. I'm sure it will be during that campaign. I don't see how we | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
can not be. Massacre at the market, the front page of the Metro. Laurie | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
mows down at least nine Christmas shoppers. And the front page as | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
well, Russia's ambassador to Turkey has been shot, assassinated -- | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
lorry. It looks on this front page as if the men in the suit would the | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
gun is somehow linked to the headline, but he is not. -- men in | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
the seat with the gun. He is linked to the attack in Ankara. Or are they | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
somehow linking the two and it is just a messy front-page? It could be | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
seen as confusing. They are probably right to bring together the two | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
stories because they are imported. When I left the office tonight, I | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
imagined we would be spending most of our time talking about the | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
assassination of the Russian ambassador, but it has been | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
overshadowed by what happened in Berlin. But it is probably right to | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
reflect both stories, because the assassination itself is a striking | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
event. It is perhaps not going to have the repercussions people | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
probably feared, because there are strong ties between Turkey and | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Russia at the moment, but it looks like it was a lone person and no | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
reason to think it will lead to some sort of conflict between Russia and | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Turkey. But a very significant story as well. Naturally, the problem is | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
you just can't... Unless you shut these markets down and have armed | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
security 24 hours a day around potentially soft targets, it only | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
takes one terrorist or one person intent on killing to get through all | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
of the security that any state may have. Yes, and you only have to | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
think how absolutely hateful it is to travel through an airport to know | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
the consequences of trying to make everything safe sometimes are so an | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
arrest that they actually destroy the pleasure in the thing you are | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
trying to do. So most of us put up with airport security because we | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
really want to get to the place we want to get to. But would you go to | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
a German market if you had to have your bags searched and if you had to | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
park two miles away and walk because it was concreted off at every stage? | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
The answer is probably lots of people would not. You have had | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
interviews with an eyewitness earlier this evening who said having | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
just been in this terrifying experience, she said they planned to | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
spend the rest of their weekend doing what they were going to do in | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Berlin and staying there. Not everybody feels like that, of | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
course. Some people's anxiety is too great and they are put off, but | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
traditionally, in Europe, we have tried to create terrorist atrocities | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
with stoicism and courage, right back to when I was a small child, | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
not even able to walk, I think, when the IRA bombed near where I grew up. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
I only ever remember Birmingham being stoic about it. I am certain | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
that Belgian has been stoic and I would be astonished if Berlin was | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
not. Donald Trump, President-elect. He put out a statement. This is the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
official statement. Our hearts and prayers are with the loved ones of | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
the victims in today's attack in Berlin. Innocent civilians were | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
murdered in the street as they prepare to celebrate Christmas. It's | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
a state and other terrorists continue to slaughter Christians in | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
the community and places of worship as part of their global jihad. These | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
terrorists and their worldwide networks must be eradicated. He said | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
that on Twitter. That was the official statement. He then goes on | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Twitter and says the attacks in Germany, Turkey and Switzerland, so | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
he has put the three together, show the civilised world must change | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
thinking. What does he mean by that, do you think? I can't claim to peer | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
into the soul of... The best guess is wrong. The statement itself is | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
extraordinary. The President-elect coming out immediately, it is OK for | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
us to speculate, but we don't know. There is no proof. Normally elected | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
politicians would not lead to the nearest microphone and scream | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
certainty where none exists. But most politicians are not Donald | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Trump. The second part of the tweets... Who knows? The official | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
statement is quite alarming. He has already construed it as a | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
specifically religious conflict, and I would feel presumptuous suggesting | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
everybody in a marketplace in Berlin was Christian, would you? There have | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
been many and will be more terrorist attacks in coming years and | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
unfortunately Donald Trump will no doubt react in a similarly worrying | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
ways. In the Sun, Slain, this is the other tack today, there have been | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
three, one in Switzerland, Germany and this, terror at Christmas, | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Putin's man executed just hours later, this is after truck bomb, | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
nine die in market truck attack, umm, so, Natalie, the Sun and the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
other papers putting these stories together, evidential in not | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
necessarily linked, and want expert I spoke with set, look, do not | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
discount the power of coincidence, it could simply be confidence, but | :16:02. | :16:13. | |
this man shouting Allah before he publicly shoots the Ambassador from | :16:14. | :16:26. | |
Russia -- Allahu Akbar. The papers haven't run with this today because | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
they have gone with him and with Germany. If ever there was an | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
example needed of how ordinary, innocent victims, especially those | :16:35. | :16:47. | |
in Aleppo, there you go. . He was an official policeman who used his | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
identity badge to get into the gallery. And while perhaps the aim, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
given what he was shouting, was to try and distance Turkey from Russia | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
and Russian attacks in Syria, ironically it could bring the | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
countries closer together in terms of cooperation. You can see that, | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
can't you, strongman turning against the west and peace and president | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
Erdogan will seize on this to unite against terror. They have the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
tension when Turkey shot down the Russian airliner and they came | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
together closer after that, so there is no reason to think this incident | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
would disturb the relationship I think. It is striking that the Sun | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
has gone with the assassin, rather than what happened in Germany, which | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
is closer to home and affected many people, and this appears to be a | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
terror at, as we said, and would resonate stronger with British | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
readers, but this picture is, it is just extraordinary, isn't it, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
holding the gun, pointing it in the air, and it is quite incredible to | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
capture that moment. Indeed. What a day it has been, pretty horrible, | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
but it has been good to have you both into the studio. Thank you | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
both. That is it for The Papers. Coming up now, it is time for | :18:20. | :18:21. |