:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at Ten - an attack on a busy Christmas market in Berlin.
:00:08. > :00:10.At least nine are dead and dozens injured.
:00:11. > :00:14.Police say a lorry mounted the pavement at speed and crashed
:00:15. > :00:15.through one of Berlin's best-known markets, packed
:00:16. > :00:20.Members of the public tended to the injured,
:00:21. > :00:22.as police urged Berliners to stay indoors until
:00:23. > :00:29.As emergency services responded swiftly, officials
:00:30. > :00:32.said they were dealing with a possible "terror attack".
:00:33. > :00:35.TRANSLATION: It is terrible to witness this, I had hoped
:00:36. > :00:38.we would never experience something like this here in Berlin.
:00:39. > :00:43.Police on the ground are doing everything they can.
:00:44. > :00:45.We'll have the latest from Berlin, where police say they've
:00:46. > :00:48.detained one person - believed to be the truck driver.
:00:49. > :01:02.An off-duty Turkish policeman, moments after he shot and killed
:01:03. > :01:03.the Russian ambassador, urging the world to
:01:04. > :01:07.He'd been seen in the background, as Ambassador Karlov
:01:08. > :01:10.Moscow said the murder was an act of terrorism.
:01:11. > :01:12.Also today - in Syria, a group of orphans is among
:01:13. > :01:16.thousands of people brought out of the ruins of Aleppo.
:01:17. > :01:19.Postal workers on strike over jobs and branch closures.
:01:20. > :01:22.Downing Street says they're showing contempt for the public.
:01:23. > :01:25.And we ask if flat-pack homes could be part of the answer
:01:26. > :01:33.Could Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool move up to second place
:01:34. > :01:35.in the Premier League, with a win in the Merseyside Derby
:01:36. > :02:05.At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured
:02:06. > :02:08.in an attack on a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin.
:02:09. > :02:12.Police say a lorry mounted the pavement at speed,
:02:13. > :02:14.crashing into the crowded market in a central square.
:02:15. > :02:17.And they say the incident is consistent with a
:02:18. > :02:22.Within the past hour officers said they'd arrested a suspect -
:02:23. > :02:24.believed to be the driver of the truck.
:02:25. > :02:26.Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill has the latest.
:02:27. > :02:35.There are some distressing images in the report.
:02:36. > :02:43.Syahrin 's, panic in the heart of Berlin. This, the immediate
:02:44. > :02:49.aftermath of what police suspect was a deliberate attack. -- sirens. The
:02:50. > :02:54.truck ploughed into one of the city's biggest business markets.
:02:55. > :02:59.Moments before these pictures were taken, people were eating, drinking
:03:00. > :03:03.and shopping. As we were leaving, a large truck came through, it went
:03:04. > :03:07.just passed me and my girlfriend, I think it missed me by about three
:03:08. > :03:12.metres, missed her by five. It came in through the entrance, hit the
:03:13. > :03:17.sides of the barriers and carried on past us. The driver of the lorry,
:03:18. > :03:21.which has Polish numberplates, fled on foot. Police arrested a man
:03:22. > :03:26.nearby about an hour later. But there was a second man in the truck
:03:27. > :03:30.who died at the scene. So many questions, but for now, such shock.
:03:31. > :03:36.At least 50 people were injured. It's feared the death toll could yet
:03:37. > :03:41.rise. TRANSLATION: It's terrible to witness this. I'd hoped we would
:03:42. > :03:44.never experienced something like this here in Berlin. Police on the
:03:45. > :03:48.ground are doing everything they can. They are working with fire
:03:49. > :03:53.crews and hospitals and making sure the injured are being taken care of.
:03:54. > :03:56.The situation here is under control. Now the experts have to do their
:03:57. > :04:02.work and hopefully on the basis of that we can determine what happened
:04:03. > :04:08.here tonight. Horror enough that such events should unfold less than
:04:09. > :04:12.a week before Christmas. But there is fear too. Because if, as police
:04:13. > :04:18.believe, this was a deliberate attack, it's possible that what yet
:04:19. > :04:20.I'd also emerge is this, that terrorists have succeeded in
:04:21. > :04:23.striking again in one of Europe's capital cities.
:04:24. > :04:32.What more can you tell us about the way the investigation is proceeding
:04:33. > :04:40.and the latest information from police? The police have actually
:04:41. > :04:44.told us they are trying to keep an open mind with their investigations.
:04:45. > :04:47.They say it's possible it was a traffic attack. They also say it's
:04:48. > :04:53.possible this was deliberately planned. They can't rule out at this
:04:54. > :04:56.stage an act of terrorism. It will come as no surprise to you that
:04:57. > :05:05.Angela Merkel is holding all sorts of meetings, in contact with the
:05:06. > :05:09.Interior Ministry and the mayor of the city tonight. This might turn
:05:10. > :05:13.out to be what Berlin and Germany has long feared, that this is a
:05:14. > :05:18.terror attack... INAUDIBLE STUDIO: We had a satellite issue
:05:19. > :05:18.there with the link to Jenny Hill in Berlin.
:05:19. > :05:23.With me is our security correspondent, Frank Gardner.
:05:24. > :05:29.Jenny was underlining the police want to keep their options open, it
:05:30. > :05:33.could possibly some kind of extreme form of traffic accident. But the
:05:34. > :05:38.signals are pointing in another direction, are they? Yes. The police
:05:39. > :05:42.have said they think it was a deliberate attack, and if it was,
:05:43. > :05:46.it's likely to be terrorism. We don't know for certain but I would
:05:47. > :05:49.expect a statement from the Berlin police in the next 24 hours that I
:05:50. > :05:57.think will clarify. Particularly because they have somebody in
:05:58. > :06:04.custody, a live suspect to question. The obvious incident people are
:06:05. > :06:10.referring to on Twitter is the attack in Nice on July 14 where a
:06:11. > :06:15.truck was run into a crowd of people gathering at an event. In 2000 there
:06:16. > :06:18.was a plot to attack a Christmas market in Strasbourg that was
:06:19. > :06:25.stopped by French and German intelligence. Two years ago somebody
:06:26. > :06:29.rammed a truck into people in France and people were killed. Only a few
:06:30. > :06:33.days ago a suspect was arrested in Germany believed to be planning a
:06:34. > :06:38.nail bomb attack. None of this necessarily means this was so-called
:06:39. > :06:43.Islamic State linked attack. They have called for attacks using trucks
:06:44. > :06:47.on people and civilians in crowded places at this time of year so the
:06:48. > :06:52.police are keeping an open mind. You can tell where their suspicions are.
:06:53. > :06:54.Frank Gardner, our security correspondent, with his thoughts on
:06:55. > :06:56.what happened today in Berlin. Tonight's other major story
:06:57. > :06:58.is that the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was addressing
:06:59. > :07:03.a meeting in Ankara, when a man shot him several times
:07:04. > :07:05.in the back, shouting, The gunman was an off-duty
:07:06. > :07:09.Turkish police officer. The attack follows days
:07:10. > :07:11.of protests in Turkey Our correspondent Mark
:07:12. > :07:27.Lowen has the latest. Russia's ambassador to Turkey
:07:28. > :07:32.opening it an exhibition in Ankara. Waiting behind him, his assassin. As
:07:33. > :07:33.Andrei Karlov speaks, the gunman opens fire, killing the ambassador.
:07:34. > :07:47.GUNFIRE He screams, Allahu Akbar, God is
:07:48. > :07:53.greatest. Before in Turkish, don't forget about Aleppo, don't forget
:07:54. > :07:58.about Syria. If they are not safe, you will not taste safety either. As
:07:59. > :08:03.the attacker was shot dead by police, the ambassador was rushed to
:08:04. > :08:08.hospital. His wife was led out, clearly shaken. Soon after, Andrei
:08:09. > :08:12.Karlov succumbed to his injuries. The gunmen was named by the
:08:13. > :08:17.authorities as a Turkish police officer, born in 1994. He had been
:08:18. > :08:22.working for the riot police for two and a half years. His sister and
:08:23. > :08:28.mother have been detained. 62-year-old Andrei Karlov had 40
:08:29. > :08:33.years of diplomatic experience, ambassador in Ankara since 2015.
:08:34. > :08:38.Russia and Turkey have been on opposite sides of the Syrian war,
:08:39. > :08:45.but a recent rapprochement between the two halted the fighting in
:08:46. > :08:51.Aleppo. TRANSLATION: I describe this attack on Russia's ambassador as an
:08:52. > :08:57.attack on Turkey, an attack on Turkey's state and nation. After the
:08:58. > :09:01.incident I talked to Mr Putin and we agreed it was a provocation and
:09:02. > :09:06.there isn't any dispute. President Putin called the attack a ploy to
:09:07. > :09:09.wreck the Syrian peace process. Syria's war has killed hundreds of
:09:10. > :09:14.thousands. It's just had another deadly impact.
:09:15. > :09:19.Tonight, more reports are coming out about the gunmen including some
:09:20. > :09:25.reports he worked as a bodyguard at some of President Erdogan's rallies.
:09:26. > :09:29.There has been international condemnation from the White House.
:09:30. > :09:33.Turkish and Russian presidents say they will open a joint investigation
:09:34. > :09:37.to look at this killing. They both used similar language tonight,
:09:38. > :09:42.saying provocation, vowing that the merger would not derail Turkey-
:09:43. > :09:47.Russian relationships, and nor would it derail attempts to reach truce in
:09:48. > :09:51.Syria. There is a lot of public anger in Turkey about Russia's
:09:52. > :09:57.actions in Aleppo and Turkey's failure to condemn them with
:09:58. > :10:01.protests outside diplomatic missions in recent days. That anger has
:10:02. > :10:05.spilled over into an act of hatred. STUDIO: Mark Lowen with the latest
:10:06. > :10:08.from Istanbul. As Mark was underlining,...
:10:09. > :10:10.The diplomatic channel between Russia and Turkey is one
:10:11. > :10:12.of the most important in the Syrian conflct.
:10:13. > :10:15.Diplomats agreed a deal last week to evacuate parts of eastern Aleppo,
:10:16. > :10:16.where thousands of civilians and rebel fighters
:10:17. > :10:22.The evacuation resumed today with thousands more brought out.
:10:23. > :10:27.Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports.
:10:28. > :10:33.Noisy demonstrations in Turkey at the weekend condemn Russia's support
:10:34. > :10:38.of the Assad regime. Throughout the war, Turkey has been on the other
:10:39. > :10:42.side, backing the rebels. The protests were organised, but it
:10:43. > :10:46.could be that the man who killed the Russian ambassador acted alone. He
:10:47. > :10:50.seems, though, to have been part of a sense of national and religious
:10:51. > :10:56.humiliation among some Turks after Russia's decisive action. Turkey
:10:57. > :11:01.shot down a Russian warplanes it said had violated its airspace, not
:11:02. > :11:05.long after Russia's intervention just over a year ago. Since then
:11:06. > :11:09.Turkey and Russia have tried to avoid clashes. Too much is at stake.
:11:10. > :11:17.Both say the assassination will not change their warmer relationship.
:11:18. > :11:21.These are Russian special forces troops in Syria. The Turkish
:11:22. > :11:26.equivalents are also in the country, mainly preoccupied with the Kurds.
:11:27. > :11:29.But there is an obvious rivalry between two major powers who have
:11:30. > :11:35.intervened on opposite sides in the Syrian war. Andrei Karlov, the late
:11:36. > :11:40.Russian ambassador, accompanied his president on trips in the region. He
:11:41. > :11:47.died in the fallout from Mr Putin's decision to make Russia a power in
:11:48. > :11:51.the Middle East again. Also paying a heavy price are Syrians, being
:11:52. > :11:57.bussed out of eastern Aleppo into an uncertain future. Nearly half of
:11:58. > :12:01.Syria's prewar percolation has been displaced by the war. The evacuation
:12:02. > :12:04.from eastern Aleppo has been so difficult to arrange because of all
:12:05. > :12:08.the factors that make the war in Syria so hard to solve. It isn't
:12:09. > :12:13.just about doing a deal between those who support the regime and
:12:14. > :12:16.those who don't. Foreign powers have intervened in Syria and they have
:12:17. > :12:22.their own rivalries that go above and beyond the war. And they have
:12:23. > :12:26.the biggest say. In New York, the UN Security Council passed a new
:12:27. > :12:30.resolution calling for monitors to watch over what's happening and
:12:31. > :12:34.proper access for humanitarian aid in Aleppo. It might be too little,
:12:35. > :12:40.too late. And it's not clear how soon it can be implement it, if at
:12:41. > :12:43.all. Right now, it's an important step that I think a couple of days
:12:44. > :12:48.ago people would not have thought the Russian Federation would have
:12:49. > :12:52.allowed to go through the council. But until it's implemented, it's
:12:53. > :12:56.just a piece of paper. The Syrians, closely allied with Russia, are
:12:57. > :13:03.deeply suspicious of Western motives. We oppose the attempts of
:13:04. > :13:09.some member states to draft and submit, under humanitarian cover, a
:13:10. > :13:13.crafty and vague terms and loose phrases that tolerate more than one
:13:14. > :13:20.interpretation. The fall of Aleppo does not end this complex and
:13:21. > :13:24.unpredictable war. The fight for Syria creates an export prices. The
:13:25. > :13:27.assassination in Turkey is the latest and there is still no
:13:28. > :13:33.coherent international desire to bring peace any closer. STUDIO:
:13:34. > :13:40.Jeremy is with me. An important summit Clandon Moscow tomorrow
:13:41. > :13:47.involving Turkey, Russia and Iran. -- planned in. How will today's
:13:48. > :13:52.events affect it? It will overshadow it. But there is growing tension
:13:53. > :13:55.between Turkey and Iran. That might be put on the back burner.
:13:56. > :14:00.Interesting that Mark Lowen said that the Turks and Russians are
:14:01. > :14:04.using the same language to describe this, a provocation. But the fact
:14:05. > :14:07.remains that they are on different sides in a bloody war and they are
:14:08. > :14:12.talking to each other because they have a wider interests, but there is
:14:13. > :14:16.a built in propensity for trouble because of that very fact. And
:14:17. > :14:20.that's what we have been seeing. There is also something to think
:14:21. > :14:26.about in the way the Syrian war works. It's desperately
:14:27. > :14:30.unpredictable because of its complexity. We have seen another
:14:31. > :14:33.example of that in the assassination tonight, and this unpredictability
:14:34. > :14:37.factor is something you can see elsewhere in the world as well. The
:14:38. > :14:45.world is a dangerous and unstable place right now. Syria is exporting
:14:46. > :14:48.a lot of that trouble, and what is really sad and worrying for
:14:49. > :14:53.everybody, whatever your political views about the whole thing, is that
:14:54. > :14:57.there is no end in sight to any of that trouble. Whatever they say at
:14:58. > :15:00.the UN, it's not been able to deal with it. Jeremy Bowen, Middle East
:15:01. > :15:05.editor. Three people were injured
:15:06. > :15:07.after a man opened fire on people praying at a mosque
:15:08. > :15:09.in Zurich this evening. Witnesses say a man aged around
:15:10. > :15:12.30 fled the building. Swiss Police said a body was found
:15:13. > :15:15.nearby but it is not yet clear whether there is any link
:15:16. > :15:22.to the shootings. Thousands of workers are taking part
:15:23. > :15:24.in a series of strikes in the run-up to Christmas,
:15:25. > :15:29.affecting rail and postal services. Talks have also been taking place
:15:30. > :15:31.at the conciliation service, Acas, to try to stop BA cabin crew walking
:15:32. > :15:35.out over Christmas. Downing Street said unions were
:15:36. > :15:38.showing contempt for the public. Our business correspondent,
:15:39. > :15:45.John Moylan, has the latest. Postal workers brought a special
:15:46. > :15:49.delivery for the government today. Outside the Department for Business,
:15:50. > :15:53.mail bags containing 70,000 postcards backing a campaign
:15:54. > :15:55.to fight closures of The dispute has been running
:15:56. > :16:02.for months but the five days of strikes this week represent
:16:03. > :16:07.a major escalation. We are defending postal
:16:08. > :16:10.services across the UK. The very future of high Street post
:16:11. > :16:19.offices are under threat. The government and the company
:16:20. > :16:22.are lining up to make further This dispute has been
:16:23. > :16:26.going on for months but the timing of the industrial action is designed
:16:27. > :16:29.to put maximum pressure This is the busiest week
:16:30. > :16:32.for handling parcels and letters. But there doesn't appear to be much
:16:33. > :16:40.Christmas cheer elsewhere, with a number of unions
:16:41. > :16:44.calling Christmas strikes. The holiday getaway could be hit
:16:45. > :16:47.with baggage handler is set to strike on Friday and Saturday,
:16:48. > :16:49.which could affect some Thousands of cabin crew are also
:16:50. > :16:54.planning industrial action British Airways insists it
:16:55. > :17:08.will run a full service. And the months of misery
:17:09. > :17:10.for Southern rail passengers continues as 400 conductors began
:17:11. > :17:13.a 48-hour walk-out. There is certainly a growing
:17:14. > :17:18.appetite in parliament We fully respect the right to strike
:17:19. > :17:26.but it needs to be proportional and I believe they have been abusing
:17:27. > :17:29.the power as trade unions 2016 has seen a jump in the number
:17:30. > :17:37.of working days lost to strike. At 300,000, it is up 50%
:17:38. > :17:43.on the previous year. But compared to the 70s
:17:44. > :17:45.and 80s, strikes are at We are talking about
:17:46. > :17:52.a tiny number of disputes What do you say to members
:17:53. > :17:58.of the public who see these strikes and think,
:17:59. > :18:02.what are the unions playing at? I feel enormous sympathy
:18:03. > :18:05.for the public and I really regret the disruption,
:18:06. > :18:08.as do the unions, who feel they have no alternative
:18:09. > :18:14.but to take this last resort. Dozens of city centre post offices
:18:15. > :18:17.were closed today including this one in Glasgow,
:18:18. > :18:21.but the vast majority remained open and the action is set to continue
:18:22. > :18:26.until Christmas Eve. Cluster bombs made in
:18:27. > :18:31.the United Kingdom were used by Saudi forces in Yemen
:18:32. > :18:33.earlier this year, according to the Defence Secretary,
:18:34. > :18:36.Sir Michael Fallon. But he told MPs that Saudi officials
:18:37. > :18:39.had assured him they would not Cluster bombs are banned
:18:40. > :18:43.by an international treaty because of the risk
:18:44. > :18:45.they pose to civilians. And there are calls
:18:46. > :18:48.for Britain to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia,
:18:49. > :18:50.because of the scale of casualties in Yemen,
:18:51. > :18:55.as Fergal Keane reports. It's been going on for
:18:56. > :19:03.nearly two years. Amnesty International claimed
:19:04. > :19:19.British-made cluster bombs sold to the Saudis in the 1980s,
:19:20. > :19:22.were used last January. Today, earlier denials
:19:23. > :19:30.were reversed. Saudi investigations showed
:19:31. > :19:31.the weapons had been used. As a result of that investigation,
:19:32. > :19:35.and as a result of our pressure, we have now an undertaking that
:19:36. > :19:37.Saudi Arabia will not use cluster munitions
:19:38. > :19:41.of this kind in the future. The Convention on Cluster Munitions,
:19:42. > :19:48.an international treaty which bans their use,
:19:49. > :19:51.was signed by the UK in 2008. 100 nations have now
:19:52. > :19:57.ratified, but so far Saudi Arabia is Cluster bombs can be
:19:58. > :20:01.devastating for civilians. We met this 15-year-old,
:20:02. > :20:03.who was wounded six months ago. But cluster bombs have been just
:20:04. > :20:20.a small part of the British arms Exports are worth about ?3.3 billion
:20:21. > :20:28.to companies like Bae Systems. An estimated 50% of Saudi combat
:20:29. > :20:32.jets are UK supplied. We are extremely disappointed today
:20:33. > :20:37.that the UK government has on the one hand admitted
:20:38. > :20:39.that the Saudis had indeed, despite denying it, used
:20:40. > :20:41.these illegal weapons. But hasn't decided to
:20:42. > :20:44.do anything about it. And what we say is that it's clear
:20:45. > :20:48.evidence that what the UK now needs to do is suspend all further sales
:20:49. > :20:50.of similar types of The US has already limited
:20:51. > :20:54.arms sales because of Ten people were killed
:20:55. > :20:59.here by a conventional bomb. The Saudi military contracts
:21:00. > :21:20.are good for the balance sheets of British companies
:21:21. > :21:22.and for British jobs. And there's also the argument that
:21:23. > :21:25.Saudi Arabia is a valuable strategic But the war drags on,
:21:26. > :21:32.with more and more civilian casualties, the moral pressure
:21:33. > :21:34.on Britain will grow. A brief look at some of the day's
:21:35. > :21:41.other other news stories. Northern Ireland's First Minister,
:21:42. > :21:44.Arlene Foster, has survived a vote of no confidence in the Stormont
:21:45. > :21:48.Assembly. She's under pressure
:21:49. > :21:50.because of her involvement in a controversial renewable energy
:21:51. > :21:52.scheme which overspent by hundreds Sinn Fein has called
:21:53. > :21:57.for Mrs Foster to step down A man aged 101 has been jailed
:21:58. > :22:04.for 13 years for historical sex Ralph Clark - from Erdington
:22:05. > :22:09.in Birmingham - is believed to be the oldest person in British legal
:22:10. > :22:12.history to be convicted of a crime. He'd admitted nine charges,
:22:13. > :22:26.and was found guilty of 21 others. The Football Association dub
:22:27. > :22:29.England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have all been fined for
:22:30. > :22:34.displaying poppies during World Cup qualifying games last month. Fifa
:22:35. > :22:36.regards the poppy as a political symbol, something which is banned.
:22:37. > :22:41.The FA has said it will appeal. The shortage of affordable housing
:22:42. > :22:43.is one of the biggest issues facing Britain,
:22:44. > :22:45.and modular housing - where homes are pre-fabricated,
:22:46. > :22:47.then quickly installed on site -has Today, plans were announced to build
:22:48. > :22:51.six factories in England that Behind the venture is an investment
:22:52. > :22:55.of ?2.5 billion from China. This report from our
:22:56. > :22:57.Home Editor, Mark Easton, It's a house on the back of a lorry,
:22:58. > :23:06.turning heads in Derbyshire today. But in what is hailed as a game
:23:07. > :23:09.changer for Britain's housing sector, massive new investment
:23:10. > :23:13.in factory-built homes may mean this will soon be
:23:14. > :23:15.as unremarkable as a cement mixer ?2.5 billion of Chinese investment
:23:16. > :23:22.in six British factories producing 25,000 modular houses
:23:23. > :23:26.like these every year. In their factory-built
:23:27. > :23:31.offices in Warrington, one of the UK partners in the joint
:23:32. > :23:34.venture says the factory built homes will cost less than half
:23:35. > :23:37.of what it takes to build Currently in this country to build
:23:38. > :23:43.property it is usually Once our plans are up
:23:44. > :23:47.and running it will come down to about ?400 per square metre,
:23:48. > :23:50.a massive quantum shift in our ability to provide
:23:51. > :23:58.affordable housing. Not only will the pricing, grow
:23:59. > :24:04.down. -- come down. The running cost of these houses,
:24:05. > :24:06.because they are highly energy Cost and availability of land
:24:07. > :24:10.will still be a factor, but if the consortium can deliver
:24:11. > :24:13.on their promise, something like one new British house in every six
:24:14. > :24:16.or seven won't be built on a building site,
:24:17. > :24:18.but in a factory. In the jargon, today's
:24:19. > :24:20.announcement is said to be "sector disruptive",
:24:21. > :24:21.changing the UK housing The billions in new investment come
:24:22. > :24:25.from the China National building Their factory-made homes are
:24:26. > :24:30.a familiar feature in the Far East. They may have seen an opportunity
:24:31. > :24:34.to expand the business to the UK. Six factories are planned
:24:35. > :24:36.across Britain, one in Scotland, another in South Wales and Cornwall,
:24:37. > :24:41.dotted around England. 1000 more jobs and a boost
:24:42. > :24:43.for suppliers, including If we are going get this country
:24:44. > :24:57.building the homes we need, we need to make maximum use
:24:58. > :24:59.of modern methods of construction, but also homes can be
:25:00. > :25:01.built much more quickly. In Britain, we tend to associate
:25:02. > :25:04.factory-made homes with cheap But modular homes are very
:25:05. > :25:11.different, designed to be These factory-made homes
:25:12. > :25:16.being launched in South London are similar to the kind of product
:25:17. > :25:19.the new factories will produce. I invited my friends
:25:20. > :25:29.to come and see, they said, I did not expect it to be
:25:30. > :25:34.properly soundproofed. I live on the high street
:25:35. > :25:37.and you can hardly hear any noise. Some might question why Britain
:25:38. > :25:39.needs Chinese investors But if actions match the words,
:25:40. > :25:46.today may go down as the day when British homes no longer meant
:25:47. > :25:53.bricks and mortar. Last Christmas, David Cameron
:25:54. > :25:59.was seven months into a five-year term as Prime Minister
:26:00. > :26:01.of a Conservative government. Donald Trump was six
:26:02. > :26:03.months into his campaign for the US presidency,
:26:04. > :26:05.and still seen as a maverick Syria is still in turmoil,
:26:06. > :26:18.but the other political realities have been turned upside down
:26:19. > :26:21.amid much talk of fake news In first of a series looking at how
:26:22. > :26:25.the world changed in 2016, here's our special correspondent,
:26:26. > :26:33.Allan Little. How does it know
:26:34. > :26:37.who or what to trust? Traditionally the news has come
:26:38. > :26:41.from places like this. The Tribune Democrat
:26:42. > :26:43.of Western Pennsylvania still rolls off the machinery
:26:44. > :26:47.of a predigital age. You find conflicting
:26:48. > :26:48.opinions in its pages, It offers its readers
:26:49. > :26:56.a shared public reality, within which they can disagree,
:26:57. > :27:03.dispute and challenge each other. But does that guiding journalistic
:27:04. > :27:07.purpose also now belong I think of the mission
:27:08. > :27:14.here as both to chronicle the life of a community,
:27:15. > :27:17.and also to help it move When I grew up and went to college
:27:18. > :27:23.there, we were always challenging ourselves to look
:27:24. > :27:25.at where the message came from. I don't know if people
:27:26. > :27:28.want to know that any more. I think they just want to be,
:27:29. > :27:32."I'm here and this is what I think." And that's interesting to me,
:27:33. > :27:35.but it's also terrifying. Traditional journalism
:27:36. > :27:38.is losing its power to the Internet and the echo chamber
:27:39. > :27:40.of social media. Each listening to its own
:27:41. > :27:46.preferred news sources. This is something that appeared
:27:47. > :27:54.frequently on social media. And it's a quote attributed
:27:55. > :27:57.to Donald Trump and it says, And the quote is, "If I were to run,
:27:58. > :28:03.I would run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group
:28:04. > :28:05.of voters in the country. It sounds very
:28:06. > :28:08.authentic, doesn't it? It sounds like the real
:28:09. > :28:11.Donald Trump! Fake news has now
:28:12. > :28:21.infiltrated US politics. Online, made-up stories
:28:22. > :28:27.look like real ones. And they will confirm
:28:28. > :28:32.what you already believe. "Pope Francis shocks world,
:28:33. > :28:36.endorses Donald Trump for president. And this was shared like a million
:28:37. > :28:42.times on social media. The debunking of that fake piece
:28:43. > :28:49.was shared 30,000 times. Are there also now two Britains,
:28:50. > :28:54.each with their own parallel truths? Remember this claim made
:28:55. > :28:58.by the campaign to leave the EU? This is what that
:28:59. > :29:02.bus looks like now. New livery, new colours,
:29:03. > :29:04.the "?350 million a week Just as it's gone from
:29:05. > :29:09.the national discourse. Is this Britain's version
:29:10. > :29:13.of post-truth politics? We knew exactly who made the claim
:29:14. > :29:17.made on the side of this bus. They were challenged
:29:18. > :29:19.every day on television. There is still a shared public
:29:20. > :29:23.reality in British politics, a common square where news
:29:24. > :29:26.is generated and consumed. But it's gone in America
:29:27. > :29:29.and it could go here, too. The dangers to
:29:30. > :29:33.democracy are obvious. I think if you want to have a vision
:29:34. > :29:36.of the future, look to Russia, where one of the things under
:29:37. > :29:39.Vladimir Putin has been about creating a regime where no one
:29:40. > :29:41.can really know anything, and keeping people in this
:29:42. > :29:45.fog of uncertainty. Someone trying to create
:29:46. > :29:48.an atmosphere in which there are no experts, nobody can know anything,
:29:49. > :29:50.so you probably better let a strongman kind
:29:51. > :29:53.of take charge and govern. And that's not great
:29:54. > :29:54.for democracy, is it? And actually, terrible
:29:55. > :30:00.for journalism. But democracies also
:30:01. > :30:03.value freedom of speech, the right to say things
:30:04. > :30:05.others find offensive. Who in the new media
:30:06. > :30:09.landscape is to police what's valid and what's fake,
:30:10. > :30:13.what's true and what's post-truth? 2016 has given the
:30:14. > :30:28.question new urgency. Alan will be back tomorrow night
:30:29. > :30:34.with the second of those special reports on the momentous changes in
:30:35. > :30:39.2016. More on the main story, the attack on the busy Christmas market
:30:40. > :30:43.in Berlin. According to sources, at least nine people have died. Dozens
:30:44. > :30:51.were injured. Jenny Hill is at the scene. It is near the Kaiser Wilhelm
:30:52. > :30:59.Memorial Church. Bring us up-to-date on any further information you have
:31:00. > :31:04.had in the last half an hour? Yeah, the police are very much keeping an
:31:05. > :31:10.open mind on this one. They say it is possible this was a deliberately
:31:11. > :31:15.planned attack. They can't rule out macro terror motivation. Equally,
:31:16. > :31:21.they say, it may just have been a traffic accident. Very early stages
:31:22. > :31:26.in their investigation. Very few details to be gleaned at this stage.
:31:27. > :31:31.Many questions. What we do know is that earlier this evening thousands
:31:32. > :31:36.of people came to Berlin's biggest Christmas market to enjoy the
:31:37. > :31:41.festivities. Instead they witnessed scenes of horror. Nine people lost
:31:42. > :31:45.their lives. More than 50 people were injured. Some of them are
:31:46. > :31:49.fighting for their lives. It's feared the death toll may rise.
:31:50. > :31:54.Thank you very much, Jenny. Jenny Hill in Berlin. After that incident
:31:55. > :31:59.earlier this evening. There will be more on that and any development on
:32:00. > :32:00.the BBC