23/12/2016 BBC News at One

The man suspected of the lorry attack on the Berlin Christmas

Anis Amri was killed in Milan early this morning in a shoot

out with Italian police after he was stopped

Amri had been on the run since Monday's attack

in which twelve people were killed - it's thought he travelled

TRANSLATION: He was the most wanted man in Europe and he immediately

This means our security is working really well.

We'll have the very latest from Italy and Berlin.

A Libyan passenger plane with more than 100 people on board has

been hijacked and forced to land in Malta.

In the last few minutes, some passengers have

Here, the Christmas getaway gets underway -

but delays are expected on the roads and railways.

And Britain braces for Storm Barbara - with Scotland expected to bear

the brunt of 90 mile an hour winds and difficult travelling conditions.

And coming up in the Sport on BBC News - Oscar becomes the seventh

most expensive footballer in history after a ?60 million move from

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Anis Amri - the suspect in the Berlin Christmas

market lorry attack - has been shot dead in Milan.

Italian officials say Amri opened fire on police who asked him for ID

One Italian police officer was shot and injured.

The Italian authorities say the fingerprints of the dead man

match those found on the steering wheel of a lorry which drove

at shoppers at a Christmas market, killing twelve people

Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports.

The body of Anis Amri lies on a Milan street. His last act, to pull

a gun from his backpack and shoot out police. His last words, God is

great. The question for the authorities is how did he evade one

of the biggest manhunts in German history and make it Italy? Look in

the doorway. This is thought to be Amri just hours after the attack in

Berlin. Caught on CCTV leaving a mosque in the city. After that the

authorities lost track of him. But we now know he travelled to

Chambery, in France. Then crossing the Italian border to Turin and

on-again Inter Milan, arriving early this morning. At 3am according to

the Italian interior Ministry he was challenged by a two man police

patrol and shot debt. TRANSLATION: In the moment he was

stopped the man without hesitating immediately took his gun and shot at

the police officer who asked him for his identification papers. Without a

shadow of a doubt the person who was killed is Anis Amri, the suspect of

the terrorist attack in Berlin. Footage has now emerged of the

attack in Berlin. On the left, the lorry speeds through traffic lights.

The taxi dash cam keeps filming as it heads towards the market.

Shoppers run away in terror. It took German police two days to focus on

Amri. His fingerprints were found on the steering wheel. His documents

hidden in the cab. But what do we know about Amri? You left his family

in Tunisia travelling illegally to Italy in 2011. He spent four years

there in jail for violence and theft. But without a passport he

could not be deported. So last year he moved to Germany, denied asylum

once again he wasn't deported. Security services feared he was

trying to get automatic weapons for an attack, but with no new evidence

surveillance of him was halted in September. From petty criminals to

terror suspect. A journey that for Anis Amri ended here. Angus

Crawford, BBC News. We'll get the latest

from Berlin in a moment, but first let's speak

to our security correspondent, The police are saying in Italy this

is a success, but he was able to travel from Berlin to Milan. Is that

a failure? I think a lot depends on when exactly the alert went out for

him because he had a head start because the German police failed to

identify him in the first 20 hours. They wasted 20 hours, interrogating

the wrong suspect. They didn't find the documents immediately. They

didn't find the fingerprints. It allowed him to escape westwards into

France, Bourdais high-speed train before there was an alert out for

him. He took the train to Turin, so by then he had cost two

international borders all within the Schengen passport free zone, where

he was able to board a regional train to Milan. It's not 100% clear

whether this was sheer luck and good policing, the vigilant Italian

police at three o'clock in the morning outside a police station

stopped him and asked for identity documents, or another series there

was some kind of tip-off that the Italian authorities are sensibly not

talking about because there could be other accomplices. It's very rare

that somebody is operating completely on their own as a

so-called lone wolf. They've nearly always got somebody helping them.

Let's pick up on that point by going to Bethany Bell. Bethany, obviously

the confidence this is the man who was behind the wheel, but as Frank

says, investigations will continue. Very much so. There are a number of

open questions. When did he leave Germany? Did anybody help him leave

Germany? Was he going to meet anybody in Italy itself? Was there a

wider network? A lot of very big questions for the German

investigators, and we are told that they are continuing their enquiries

at full speed ahead. Here in Perlin of course there is a big sense of

relief that this money is no longer a threat to the public and I'm here

in the Christmas market, where he is believed to have driven that lorry

through, whether people were killed, people are out today looking at the

candles and flowers which have been laid to the victims, but also they

are coming back to the market as well, drinking mulled wine and

eating sausages in a sign, they say, that life has to go on. Bethany,

thank you, from Berlin. And there'll be continuing coverage

of this story here on BBC News - and you can also keep up to date

with the latest developments online A Libyan airliner has been

forced to land in Malta after being hijacked by two men

on board who are threatening More than 100 passengers

and crew are on board. The emergency services

are on the scene at the airport in Malta's capital -

Valletta. Let's speak to our correspondent

Smitha Mundasad. In the past few minutes some

passengers have been seen coming down the plane steps. Let's get more

from our correspondent Smitha Mundasad. Bring is up to date with

developments. In the last 15 minutes we have seen some passengers, we

believe women and children, making their way down the steps on the

tarmac. They've been around 100 passengers sitting on that plane

with the engine is still running for more than two hours. They were

expecting to fly from the south-west of Libya to Tripoli, the capital.

Instead we understand possibly one more two hijackers on board,

possibly with hand grenades, saying they were going to blow the plane

up. The reports are still confused. We don't have details confirmed. We

don't yet know the fate of the other male passengers on board. There are

some very key questions that are still unanswered. What do these

hijackers want? What is the threat? What is the request? Can it be met?

We don't know. And how did, if there was a weapon on board, how did it

get on board in Libya? We just don't know. For now, thank you.

If you're planning a Christmas getaway you may be

Extensive rail engineering work starts across Britain from midnight

- with 200 different projects being carried out over

The biggest re-signalling scheme in the network's history will close

the line between Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Newport and the Valleys.

Services around Manchester will be affected by work there,

while Paddington Station in London will close to allow the Crossrail

Roads are also expected to be busy and Britain's airports

are predicting the busiest festive travel getaway ever.

Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports.

It's going to be the biggest rail upgrade ever taken on and it all

starts late tonight, hitting services across South Wales, London

and Manchester. The lack of trains will make the roads busier. This is

the M6 today. It's a popular time to fly away for the holidays. Here's

Stansted. So why do they always pick Christmas to close the railways? We

have a huge programme of works that we have to deliver as part of our

railway upgrade programme and some of that work just can't be done on a

live railway. We have to shut the railway. So Christmas is the best

time to do it because it's one of the quietest times of year. 24,000

engineers will work on 200 sites across Britain. One of the bigger

jobs they are doing this Christmas is to open up and test these new

lines between the concrete blocks there, critically they unblock a

bottleneck between the trains going from Heathrow into Paddington

Station in London. It will hit services across the country.

Paddington station will actually close for six days after the last

train leaves tonight. Services that other big stations, including London

Bridge, charring Cross and Liverpool Street, will be severely affected.

There will be no trains late on Christmas Eve between Cardiff

Central, Bridgend, Newport and the Valleys as they finished the biggest

reason and a link job ever done. It's affected me, I have to take an

extra day off work because the replacement service is not good

enough on the buses. I understand the work needs to be done. Families

want to get together and they haven't seen each other for a while,

and it is disrupted. You can't get to anywhere you want to go. Totally

isn't inconvenient. A lot of commuters, shopping between

Christmas and New Year, so bus services are unnecessary. Christmas

engineering overrun two years ago, Colmcille -- causing chaos because

the back-up plan fails. Network Rail says the holiday work since then has

gone without a hitch. Most roadworks have been cleared for the holidays

but tonight could still be tricky. Between the hours of 4pm and 8pm

this evening we think will be the busiest. That's the rush hour

period. Additional traffic travelling long distances, it's

going to get busy. The pinch points will be the obvious choices of the

M1, M6, M25 and M5. As ever, leave plenty of time before you head off,

or take the sleigh instead! Richard Westcott, BBC News.

Well our correspondent Anisa Kadri is at Paddington now.

How long will the station because done what's the impact? The station

is closed for six days and from tomorrow, if you try to turn up at

Paddington station and get a train, well, it just won't happen because

trains are not running from tomorrow the full six days. This morning here

at Paddington we have seen lots of people on their way to the

south-west of England, as well as South Wales, for Christmas, with

luggage in tow, some with pets in tow as well and the concern for them

is whether these engineering works that are going to be taking place

will actually hamper their future travel plans, for instance if they

want to come back from wherever they have gone to London, for example.

But engineering works is due to the Crossrail project, which is the new

railway for London and the south-east, but it's not just in

London that engineering works are taking place. They are going on in

other places including Manchester and Cardiff. The advice is to check

online and if you are keen on Twitter user than Network Rail say

use # Christmas works. Britain is braced for the arrival

of Storm Barbara, which is expected to bring winds of up to 90mph

to some parts of the country. The Met Office has issued severe

weather warnings for much of the UK, with Scotland expected to bear

the brunt of the storm. Our Scotland correspondent

Lorna Gordon reports. Storm Barbara is barrelling in. The

worst of the weather has yet to hit, but already conditions are difficult

out at sea. Ferries to many of the islands have been cancelled. For

those who couldn't get home early Christmas travel plans are for now

on hold. Today, there is some services operating. They are

battling through. The Northern areas are definitely off. We are reviewing

those services and will make announcements tomorrow evening, and

people may be able to travel, however we can't guarantee that.

Gusts reaching more than 70 miles an hour have already been recorded in

the Outer Hebrides. Some homes on the Isle of Lewis and South Uist

left without power. But the stormy conditions were forecast well ahead.

Extra generators have been shipped out and others, including farmers

here, have taken precautions. I slept quite well until 5am, when the

winds started to hit. I spend all day yesterday preparing for it,

moving livestock to set sheltered areas and making sure everything was

tied down so I don't lose anything. This Christmas tree in Dunoon is

holding tight, for now! While festive rides in Edinburgh are

off-limits because of high winds-macro. Storm Barbara is an

unwanted early gift. Travelling may get more difficult as the Gaels

increase and those hoping to get away will be hoping the weather

eases for long enough to get home for Christmas, when more stormy

weather is expected to sweep in once again. Lorna Gordon, BBC News.

Let's speak to our correspondent James Shaw. He is at the coast. It

is looking relatively calm? Yes, I should explain that we are on the

Firth of Clyde, leading from the River Clyde to the North Channel

between Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is a relatively

sheltered, protected body of water, out on exposed coasts, in the open

sea. The conditions will be much worse than this there. You can

probably tell it is pretty windy, there is white water on the Firth of

Clyde. You can probably see that very, storm bound, one of 1926

services that they have cancelled so far today. Some of this is going to

start moving into large parts of the rest of the United Kingdom. Even as

far south as the south-west of England, there will be periods where

gusts between 50 and 60 mph and heavy rain are expected, fairly

short periods but large swathes of England in the north and in the West

are going to experience, get some taste of what Storm Barbara is like.

OK, thank you. Well today is set to be the busiest

food shopping day of the year, with an estimated 10 million people

hitting the supermarket aisles. Shops are also expecting a big rush

for the those last minute presents. Our correspondent Judith Moritz

is in East Didsbury Yes, they tell me that across the

country today they are expecting, across all supermarkets and grocers,

to sell 61 million mince pies. That is today alone. It feels to me like

a lot of them are being sold here, in Manchester, because this is

peak-time today, around lunchtime, of the peak day of the Christmas

trade. Possibly, for supermarkets, the peak day of the whole year. It

has been incredibly busy. That, of course, is how they like it. Merry

Christmas! Two days until Christmas. For the supermarket industry, this

is frenzied Friday, the day most shoppers go to buy their festive

food. 10 million British customers will keep the tills ringing today.

At peak time we will serve 15,000 customers in a minute, today. So, a

huge volume of customers will go through our checkouts. But we are

ready for it. For the grocers, it has all been building up to this

point, a peak day of trading after months of planning. Supermarkets

have to get the stock levels just right. The planning starts almost a

year in advance. The last few days are the most important time. They

will be looking at exactly how money sales of each product from each

store, are likely to happen, make sure that products are on the shelf

in the right quantity. Of course, it is all about Christmas dinner. Tesco

say they will sell more than 200,000 turkeys today. Don't forget the

vegetables, 27 million carats and, love them or hate them, they will

sell 40 million sprouts. It is because of people, the experience,

feeling something, touching something and being there. I'm not

really bothered about how busy it is, just get on with it, it's fine.

It is bizarre, just one day in the year and you panic, you think, we

need more wine, milk! In Bristol, the Christmas market is doing a

brisk trade and this spending will continue tomorrow with the hope of

an extra boost because Christmas Eve falls on Saturday this year. Some

research points to a downturn in the total amount of retail spending in

the UK this Christmas. But shopkeepers needn't despair. The

Boxing Day sales are only just around the corner.

The Centre for retail research says that spending across the whole

Christmas week has been well below expectations. Of course, there is a

lot of time left, the rest of today, and a lot of mince pies to shift.

There is still time for an upturn. A ?300 million fund to build

affordable housing for first-time buyers in England is to target areas

with high levels of second homes. The money has been raised

through increases in stamp duty and will be shared between councils

over the next five years. The biggest amount will be allocated

to the south-west of England, as our correspondent Mark Lobel

reports. A generous supply in holiday homes,

but a shortage in affordable housing blights the lives of many in St

Ives. The Government say that

if a community has 21% of second home ownership,

it becomes slightly unsustainable In the centre of St Ives,

we have 25% and increasing in some localised areas,

of second-home ownership. One idea is building so-called

community-led housing, like these affordable flats in East

London. They will be for local people,

on a local income, and they can only be sold on to similar people,

at a similar rate. The Government wants 10,000

of these over the next five To do that, the Government has

announced today it will spend ?60 million a year on affordable

housing schemes, funded A third of the pot, ?19 million,

will go to the South-west, with ?11 million for the South-east

and millions more shared I think it's a big

problem in certain areas. One of the difficulties

in my job is I have to set national housing policy,

and things are different I was in Cornwall recently, looking

at the coastal towns and villages, People are saying they need somebody

to man the lifeboat, and people can't afford any

of the homes in the village. Today's announcement

will create 10,000 homes. That's just 1% of the Government's

own annual target. Labour says it's a drop in the ocean

for the most affected communities and offers nothing to those with no

hope of ever getting Anis Amri, the man suspected

of the lorry attack on the Berlin Christmas Market,

has been shot dead And still to come, we have the story

of just one family who've fled the fighting in the Syrian

city of Aleppo. Coming up in Sport at 1:30pm:

Home from hospital in time for Christmas -

the two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is due

to be released today, after surgery on a hand injury

she suffered during a knife The Syrian army has described

the defeat of rebels in Aleppo as a turning point in

the country's civil war. Pro-government forces took full

control of the city yesterday after the final evacuations

of opposition fighters and civilians The army high command said it

would continue fighting until every last bit of Syria

had been liberated. Well, thousands of families have

left the city over the past weeks and our correspondent Lina Sinjab

has caught up with one of them. A moment of relief for Aleppo's

children, finally warm and safe, No more fear, no more tears,

but fun and laughter. And they even compete over

who gets their picture taken. This school has turned

into a temporary shelter for many families who fled the horrors

of Eastern Aleppo. 75-year-old Suliman Ahmed Badem's

family is among them. He made it through with his wife and

three children and their families. This classroom has now

become their home. They have some food and some

means to stay warm. They left with only the clothes

they were wearing, but were stripped TRANSLATION: I left

with my whole family. The regime got the men on the floor

and took everything. They waited in freezing

temperature in eastern Aleppo He is constantly coughing,

the grandmother tells the doctor. They were stuck for days

after the evacuation was suspended. They were among hundreds

who were pushed back from the crossing point,

threatened by gunfire. They are not expecting to go back

to Aleppo any time soon. TRANSLATION: We would love to go

back when things are safe. We have three houses but we won't go

back to be under fire. I would live in tents

and never go back now. What was their home,

turned into a ghost town. Ishmael's family is moving

to the border with Turkey to live in tents there but it may not be

the safe haven they were hoping for. Refugee camps were targeted before

and, as long as they stay in rebel-held areas,

they may face bombardment Two men have been convicted of using

aid convoys to supply terrorists in Syria.

Our home affairs correspondent Dominic Cashiani

This is an interesting, disturbing case. It is the first confirmation

we have had before the court that the massive community led aid

convoys to Syria, which largely took place in 2012 and 2013 were

effectively infiltrated and abused by would-be jihadists to get cash

out to other fighters in the region. At the centre of the cases a man

from Stoke-on-Trent. The court heard he sent ?4500 to his nephew, in the

region, fighting. It was extensively to buy a rifle, perhaps a sniper

rifle. They talked about how to deal with their enemies. He sent a

message from the UK, basically saying to behead your enemies, but

do not mutilate them. Two the men were cleared. One of them is a very

high well-known Muslim charity worker from Huddersfield. He has

raised literally hundreds of thousands of pounds for these

convoys. He told the court that he had no idea that he was unwittingly

involved in whatever plan that Syed Hoque had hatched. He has been

cleared today. We are waiting to find out about sentencing for Syed

Hoque and his co-accused. Part of a prison wing in Kent

that was taken over by inmates all prisoners were back

in their cells last night after specialist teams

were sent into HMP Swaledale It's the latest in a number

of disturbances over Our correspondent Andy Moore

is at the prison. As we say, it is the latest

disturbance. What happened here? This disturbance started at about

7pm. It is understood that they were carrying out a search, they seized

some items and that caused the disturbance. Fires were lift and

prisoners posted videos of themselves on social media. The

prison service said it involved one landing on one wing, and the rest of

the prison was on lockdown. Specialist teams were brought in and

they got the prison under control by about 1am. No prison officers or

prisoners were injured. This is the fourth disturbance in British

prisons in the last two months. There was a riot last week at

Birmingham prison, involving several hundred prisoners, lasting about 12

hours. Before that, disturbances at Bedford and blues.

The prison service say that Britain's prisons are enduring

long-standing problems and they will not be solved overnight.

A survey of rough sleepers suggests they are 17 times more likely

to be a victim of crime than the general public.

The charity Crisis says homeless people are regularly

There are thought to be about 4,000 people sleeping rough

Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan reports.

3am in Worcester city centre, and two men

One stamps the head, the other kicks the legs.

Casual, unprovoked violence is a daily fear for rough sleepers.

They have no shelter, anyone, at any time, could attack.

This man was homeless for five years and took to sleeping

on London commuter trains after being assaulted.

I was in Leicester Square, got into a discussion with a young

He became quite aggravated, I would guess, by the fact

I was homeless and I was saying, being homeless, everybody's

an individual and people are homeless for different reasons.

And from there he ended up punching me in the face, basically.

His experience is fairly common, says today's survey.

30% of rough sleepers say they've been deliberately hit or kicked.

31% say they've had things thrown at them.

It's not just the incident itself but it's the impact it

has on that individual, on their mental health, on their

We found that most homeless people who are rough sleeping actually

feel ashamed already, and surely if you're then urinated

on you're going to feel even more ashamed and even more marginalised.

Some rough sleepers have had their possession set on fire.

One man told researchers he was thrown from a height

Most attacks were carried out by people they didn't know.

The one question this survey didn't ask is why on earth

would somebody punch or kick, or urinate on a rough sleeper?

Rough sleepers rarely report abuses to the police,

Officers say they protect everyone and will fully

Amid the hurly-burly of the Christmas preparations, some

hurly-burly weather. It will only affect various parts of the country

at various times. We will go through sequentially. This is a shot from

the Highlands in Scotland. It sets the scene for wet and windy weather,

courtesy of Storm Barbara. The core of Storm Barbara, whistling up to

the north of the UK. Draped around it, all of those ring clouds.

Intense rainfall sweeping southwards across England and Wales over the

next few hours. Very squally wind, but a 70 mph in exposed areas right

now. As that clears through, don't be lulled into a sense of security

across the far north of Scotland. Here, the wind will strengthen even

further. This is not the wildest weather that the North of Scotland

has ever experienced. Let's put it into context. But it is enough to

cause significant disruption, possibly some power outages with

winds of 80 and possibly 90 mph, hence the Amber warning from The Met

Office. Be prepared for Storm Barbara through this evening. Gales

blowing as we head into the early hours of Christmas Eve. It turns

colder, sleet and snow down to quite low levels, a lot of snow for

Highland areas of Scotland. Quieter further south. But we will start

Christmas Eve on a chilly note, wherever you are. There goes

Barbara. We are into a run of strong, westerly wind. Chilly

westerly wind through Christmas Eve. Pledge of sunshine across southern

areas. Here, a bright and breezy day. Very strong winds still across

northern parts of the UK and further frequent wintry showers,

particularly north of the Central Belt. Showers for Scotland, Northern

Ireland and northern England. 7 degrees should not feel too bad,

colder further north. Things go downhill on was received, with wet

weather spilling in across Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland. The wind

intensifying further as the next deep area of low pressure arrives.

We will have some fairly warm air for a time on Christmas Eve,

remarkably mild. That is the story for Christmas day. For a time, at

least, very mild indeed, tempered by the wind. Temperature is open to mid

teens for many of us as we start the day on Christmas morning. Very windy

and pretty wet weather sweeping into the Northwest. That cold front is

quite important, because as we move to Christmas Day a band of rain will

push the cloud across the country. Behind that, as it is a cold front,

temperatures will fall. By Christmas night it will be cold enough for

some snow over the high ground of northern Scotland. For a few of us,

a white Christmas. Is that the end of things? Not quite. That will

develop into the next named storm, Conor. It will only affect the far

north of Scotland with any intensity, gusts of 90 mph enough to

cause disruption. Further south, a largely bright and breezy day, a

hint that things will eventually settle down later on.

That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me

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