22/12/2016 BBC News at Ten

Donald Trump says America must greatly

expand and strengthen its nuclear weapons capability.

In yet another message on social media,

the President-elect says expansion is needed until the world

comes to its senses regarding nuclear weapons.

The Trump team says he was warning about the dangers of terrorist

organizations and unstable regimes getting access

And earlier today, President Putin was talking

about Russia's need to expand its nuclear capability.

New images of the main suspect in the Berlin attack.

His fingerprints have been found inside the lorry driven into the

The owner and mechanic of this lorry - with faulty brakes -

are both jailed for manslaughter, after four people were killed

. You and I have sign the rise of many populist groups across the

world. The Prince of Wales warns

of the growing danger comparing it to the dark

days of the 1930s. And we meet the seven-year-old

Syrian girl who longs to return to her former life,

in the city of Aleppo. And coming up on Sportsday on BBC

News: Alan Pardew is sacked, with Sam

Allardyce primed to take over at Donald Trump, who'll be

sworn in as US President in a month's time, has called

for America's nuclear weapons capability to be

"greatly strengthened He made the call in another

of his messages on social media. Mr Trump warned that

expansion would be needed until the world "came to its senses"

regarding nuclear weapons. His advisers said he was warning

about the dangers of terrorist organizations and unstable

regimes getting hold of nuclear Our defence correspondent,

Jonathan Beale, has more details. America and Russia still hold more

than 90% of the world's nuclear stock piles. Both able to deliver

destruction on a massive scale, by ground, sea or air. For a quarter of

a century, they have been reducing their nuclear arsenal but the

question now - is the arms' race about to resume? Tonight,

President-elect, Donald Trump, tweeted, "The United States must

greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability, until such time

as the world somes to its senses regarding nukes. It's." It's caught

many by surprise, including the Obama administration. I can't speak

for what the President-elect's nuclear views or his policy going

forward, that's for him and his team to speak to. What I can speak to is

the approach that this administration has taken to try to

get us on a path to a world without nuclear weapons. President Putin,

too, has been ramping up the nuclear rhetoric. Today, addressing his

military commanders, he talked of the need to strengthen Russia's

strategic nuclear forces. TRANSLATION: We can say with

certainty that we are stronger now than any potential aggressor.

Anyone. Both United States and Russia have made large cuts to their

nuclear arsenals since the height of the Cold War but they still have

many weapons. The US have stock piles of several thousand war heads

of which 1900 are deployed already to use. Russia has just over 7,000,

with just under 1800 deployable. While the UK has 250 war heads, of

which 120 are available to use and could be fired from its vanguard

submarines. Both America and Russia are already modernising their

nuclear weapons' systems at significant cost. What is not clear

now is whether Donald Trump now wants to go much further. Tensions

have been rising with Russia. These US troops on exercise in the balance

particulars are response to its intervention in Ukraine. Russia's

military campaign in Syria has deepened the rift. But Donald Trump

has signalled he wants to improve relations with Moscow. So, his

comments might be more directed at North Korea, whose unpredictable

leader boasts of now being a new clear power, or even Iran. Donald

Trump threatened to rip up a deal over its nuclear programme - still

suspicious of Iran's intentions. What Donald Trump did with that

tweet, was, we start the nuclear arms race, it is not just strengthen

our nuclear arsenal. It is expand T we have arms controls that limit,

set caps on the weapons we deploy. He pays no heed to that, seems to

want to bust through the cap. With nuclear weapons, words matter. Once

again a Donald Trump tweet has surprised and raised plenty of

questions. Jonathan Beale, BBC News. Our correspondent, Laura Bicker,

is at the White House. To what extent are people in

Ashington taking this message the face value, they expect President

trump to move to expand the nuclear arsenal that America has. -- people

in Washington? Well, it is difficult to say, because in 140 characters or

less, it is difficult to decipher Donald Trump's policy on nuclear

weapons. So, it was up to his team to try to do it for us. In a

statement they said that "President-elect was referring to

the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it,

particularly to and among terror organisations and unstable and rogue

regimes." Who could he be aiming at? Was it simply posturing and aiming

at Vladimir Putin or was he referring to the so-called Islamic

getting his hands on nuclear weapons, which, by the way, in an

interview he said would he not rule out using weapons of mass

destruction against the Islamic State and when it came to other

organisations, he said he wanted to be unpredictable. But what can

Donald Trump do? There is a $1 trialian package under way to revamp

ageing nuclear programmes here in the United States. If he wanted to

add to that, that would be very costly. In truth here, there is only

one man who really knows what he meant and that is Donald Trump

himself. And in 29 day, he will have his hands on the nuclear code.

Many thanks, Laura at the White House tonight.

# German police say there's

clear evidence linking their main suspect, a

Tunisian man, Anis Amri, to the attack on a Christmas

market in Berlin. His fingerprints have

been found in the lorry that was driven into shoppers

on Monday, killing 12 people. Speaking at the family

home in Tunisia, Amri's brother called on him

to give himself up. Chancellor Merkel said today

she was proud of the calm way in which Germans had responded

to the attack, as our Europe correspondent,

Damian Grammaticas, reports. It's new footage

that's just emerged. The scene immediately after Monday's

attack, filmed from a A few seconds earlier,

this is what happened, From the left comes

the lorry at speed, heading straight for

the Christmas market. This is Anis Amri, the man

police say was driving it, filming himself humming

nonchalantly in Berlin. The video posted to his

Facebook page in September. Now the 24-year-old Tunisian

is Europe's most-wanted man. Police first found his ID

documents in the cab of the lorry, now tests have shown his

fingerprints on the door and the bodywork, the conclusion

that he was at the wheel. Angela Merkel, this afternoon,

thanked Germans for their measured TRANSLATION: Our thoughts

are constantly with the victims' We owe it to them to give

this our very best. I can say we've done a lot

in recent years to meet Police raids in Germany,

earlier today, targeted Anis Amri's known contacts,

turning up nothing. His family, back in Tunisia,

last saw him five years ago. They say he wasn't religious,

drank alcohol, and dreamed of owning TRANSLATION: If my brother

is listening to me, I want to tell him to surrender,

for the sake of our family. If he did what he's suspected

of having done, he'll be sanctioned But I'm sure that my

brother is innocent. Anis Amri left his family

travelling, illegally, He spent four years in jail

for violence and theft but without a passport,

he couldn't be deported to Tunisia. So, last year, he moved

to Kleve in 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 Should the authorities have

taken the threat posed But for most Germans,

as the markets re-open here with new security barriers,

criticisms of the police are less So, getting Breitscheidplatz

up and running today We have to respond to the terrorists

that we don't care, we are going to open,

we are not scared because it's The crowds were thinner

than usual, but wanted to show "I've come to show we must not

hide", says Rosemary. I was here on Monday,

luckily I left before it happened." "I feel anger and sadness,

more anger", says Annika, "I didn't know any of the victims

but it makes me really angry." Berliners determined to show

they won't give up the things Live to Berlin tonight and Damian is

there. Tell us more in the progress in this investigation that has been

reported today. Well, Huw, this is an important step forward, I think,

the fingerprint evidence that now means that police think Anis Amri

was driving that truck. The question is - where did he go after the

attack here? Late this evening some newspapers here have published

grainy photos taken in the hours after the attack, outside a mosque

in Berlin, showing a man loitering in a doorway. They say that maybe,

Anis Amri. We can't be sure. We know police raided that mosque today and

found nothing but there are serious questions to answer about why they

haven't been able to track him down. Are there people helping him? And

why, before the attacks, were the Security Services warnings not

heeded and why was he not deported? But for now it is worth remembering

that the Germans are putting that criticism to one side. This is the

first mass casualty terror attack in Germany. They are shocked but

willing to, I think, react with some patience. The question, though,

remains - where is Anis Amri, where has he gone? And tonight, remains

armed, dangerous and still on the run. Thank you very much, Damian.

The owner of a haulage company and his mechanic

have both been convicted of manslaughter,

after a truck with faulty brakes crashed in Bath last year,

killing three men and a four-year-old girl.

Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood will be sentenced next month.

The vehicle's driver, Phillip Potter, was

Our correspondent, Jon Kay, has been following the trial

A 32-tonne truck with defective brakes had careered down a steep

Four-year-old Mitzi Steady didn't stand a chance.

Businessmen, Robert Parker and Philip Alan were also hit,

killed with their driver, Stephen Vaughn,

Sian Vaughn told me that being widowed, so soon

after her wedding day, had left her heart broken.

And especially having to spend your first wedding

anniversary alone was just so far removed from the one

It's just been absolutely horrendous.

Today the boss of Grittenham Haulage, Matthew Gordon,

and mechanic, Peter Wood, were both found guilty

The trial heard the company was a shambles, failing to carry out

The jury was told that as the tipper truck came down

the hill that afternoon, its brakes were badly worn, rusty,

Philip Potter, who was at the wheel of the truck, was found not guilty

of causing death by dangerous or careless driving.

He left court sending his thoughts to the bereaved families.

He told the jury he hadn't realised the truck was in such a poor state

until the brakes failed, and he said his boss had

told him to ignore a warning light on the dashboard.

When it's blooming it comes out pink.

Before the trial, he told BBC News he'd planted

tree on the family farm, in memory of the victims.

It is like you press replay in your head every night,

you go to close your eyes and you just see it.

And you think - there was nothing else I could have done that day

Just thinking of those four people, all the time, just thinking how

horrible it must be for the families and just how hard it

would be to lose someone that you love so much.

Philip Potter told the trial that as he sat here that afternoon,

trying to take in what had just happened, his boss, Matthew Gordon,

Sian Vaughn says she's been horrified to hear in court

about the state of the truck, especially as her chauffeur husband

The words he would have used to describe them would have been

"cowboys" because there is no way that Steve would have

ever put anybody's life in danger, let alone his own.

The families hope Matthew Gordon's conviction will send a clear

message to the owners of all haulage companies.

He and Peter Wood were remanded in custody,

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have arrived

at Sandringham for Christmas - a day later than planned

because they're both suffering from heavy colds.

A helicopter arrived at Buckingham Palace to take them

The Palace confirmed their departure but wouldn't make any further

The Prince of Wales has warned of the dangers of religious

persecution and intolerance and he's likened the current threat

to religions and religious groups around the world

Prince Charles said religious freedom was particularly at risk

in the Middle East, as our royal correspondent,

Religious persecution is as old as faith itself.

Christians in Iraq and Syria kidnapped or driven

Attacks on Yazidis and Jews and others.

Tolerance and freedom of worship are important

He recently attended the consecration of a new Syriac

He is troubled by the growing evidence of intolerance.

Normally at Christmas we think of the birth...

In a broadcast for BBC radio's Thought For The Day,

Charles likened the persecution of religious minorities

and refugees to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany.

We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world

who are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere

All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of

I was born in 1948, just after the end of World War II,

in which my parents' generation had fought and died in a battle

against intolerance, monstrous extremism and an inhuman

attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.

That, nearly 70 years later, we should still be seeing such

evil persecution is, to me, beyond all belief.

He ended his broadcast with a plea for tolerance.

Whichever religious path we follow, the destination is the same.

To value and respect the other person, accepting their right

to live out their peaceful response to the love of God.

The Prince's intervention has been applauded.

I think it was bold, strong, timely and necessary.

Here is a man who will one day be Defender of the Faith in Britain,

who has always said he wants to be defender of faith itself.

And he is protesting the rise of religiously motivated violence

It was strong and courageous and deeply humanitarian.

In due course, when he is king and Supreme Governor

of the Church of England, Charles knows that his freedom

But for now, and on subjects such as this, he feels he has a duty

Nicholas Witchel, BBC News, at Clarence House.

The Syrian army says it's in control of all of Aleppo,

the biggest military victory for President Assad

The last convoy of civilians and rebel fighters was

One of those brought out in the past few days was

seven-year-old Bana Alabed, whose messages on social

media covered everything from the death of friends,

to her family's attempts to lead a normal life.

Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, has been to meet Bana and her mother.

Hello, I am Bana, I'm seven years old, I am from Aleppo.

From the rubble of Aleppo to the red carpet in Ankara,

Bana Alabed and her family are now being hosted by the Turkish

government, which opposes the Syrian regime.

When we met, this child of war told me how her own home

TRANSLATION: We were playing happily and planning to go out

So, we got scared and ran to the basement.

When our house was bombed, we got out of the rubble safely,

but we were about to die because the house was collapsing.

Her updates from inside Aleppo echoed around the world,

with help from her mother, who manages her Twitter account.

But some have questioned whose views were being shared.

When your mum was tweeting, was she tweeting your words

Her mother, Fatima, insists the Twitter account was Bana's idea,

but admits it is a way to combat the regime.

I think there now was a big fight out there.

But the tweets attracted threats and made it harder for the family

to join the mass evacuation of eastern Aleppo.

Fatima got Bana on to one of the buses, disguised as a boy.

Today, the last opposition fighters retreated from their former

stronghold, and by the evening the Syrian Army was in control

of the entire city for the first time in more than four

Just days after escaping all this, Bana dreams of returning.

TRANSLATION: I was happy to leave but sad at the same time.

I wish I could go back to Aleppo, go back home.

I want to live in my house, because I love it,

Before saying goodbye, Bana sang us a song about childhood

# I am a child with something to say...#

One voice, raised for countless others, who often go unheard.

The funeral of the Russian ambassador to Turkey,

who was shot dead three days ago in Ankara, has been held in Moscow.

Andrei Karlov was murdered by an off-duty policeman

while giving a speech in the Turkish capital.

President Putin was among the mourners at a special

ceremony, before the burial with full military honours.

Here, the planned strikes by British Airways cabin crew

on Christmas Day and Boxing Day have been suspended.

Members of the Unite union were due to walk out as part

But talks have led to a revised offer, which will now

More than 60 prisoners have taken control of a wing at HMP Swaleside,

The Prison Officers' Association says fires have been lit,

but say the situation is isolated to one landing.

It comes less then a week after a riot at HMP Birmingham,

which took 12 hours to bring under control.

Our reporter Peter Whittlesea is on the Isle of Sheppey tonight.

Peter, bring us up to date. Well, it is unclear exactly what the latest

situation is but according to the prison service it is now isolated to

a landing on one wing. But the inmates are refusing to go back into

their cells. Images of this riot are emerging and one person purporting

to be an inmate phoned the BBC, saying the prison is in lockdown. He

separate was triggered after prison staff raided cells and confiscated

property. Earlier, I went down to the prison, three quarters of a mile

down this road. From outside, I could clearly hear in makes shouting

and screaming from inside the prison. And outside also there were

fire crews and ambulance crews on stand-by, and also extra staff were

being drafted in. In the last half-hour we have seen riot vans

going towards the prison. Thank you for the update.

China has warned that relations with the United States could suffer

"complications" once Donald Trump is installed as US President.

During the recent election campaign, Mr Trump made a series

of controversial remarks about the impact of Chinese imports

He's now chosen an economist who's been highly critical of China

Kamal Ahmed explores the prospects for America's relations with China.

I graduated with my bachelor's, and I haven't been

And the way the economy's going right now, it's

It was a major theme of the presidential campaign,

Globalisation and the rise of China were blamed for economic stagnation

Today, President-elect Trump showed his hand, appointing

the man who made this film, Death By China, as his

He is the Economist Peter Navarro, and he's clear where

Every job that American corporations offshore to China or some other

country becomes less of a reason to stand up here and fight

President-elect Trump is following through on his campaign pledges.

We can't continue to allow China to rape our country,

America and China are the world's two largest economies.

If a trade war broke out, it could affect global growth.

The trade between them is huge, valued at $660 billion.

US exports to China are valued at $162 billion.

The country is America's third largest export market.

But imports from China into America are far higher,

And this, according to President-elect Trump,

is the problem, a trade deficit with China totalling $336 billion.

Mr Trump says closing that gap would create

An America that has certainly lost plenty of traditional manufacturing

jobs, like here in Pennsylvania, once the heart of

But although people may blame outside forces,

economists argue that the job market has changed and that cheap goods

from China have been good for hard-pressed US consumers.

With China, maybe just we challenge them on one of their policies

They may announce a retaliation, they may not.

But it looks like quite a bit of friction with China

China does not appreciate being called an economic bully.

TRANSLATION: China and the United States,

as two large countries, have broad common interests.

Cooperation is the only correct choice.

Mr Navarro's film is certainly provocative, and in power,

But with President-elect Trump's pledges ringing in voters' ears,

and this most hawkish of China opponents now inside

the White House, fears of a trade war between two global economic

A return to work after a three-year absence would be a daunting

challenge for most people, but Alex Lewis from Hampshire has

had to overcome difficulties that very few have experienced.

Three years ago he suffered an illness which led to the loss

But as Duncan Kennedy reports, the story of Alex's determination

to recover and rebuild his life, is one of courage and

Precious moments with the family that kept and keep Alex Lewis going.

A man whose body was devoured by flesh-consuming bacteria.

Nothing at all and I think in some respects that's better.

You know, no-one tried to blow me up in war,

Alex's "bad luck", as he puts it, started in 2013 when he went

from this, to this, after a cold became a strep A infection,

For his partner, Lucy, seeing his mouth and nose

disintegrate and his arms and legs amputated, was devastating.

I couldn't go into the room and see him after it.

I found it really difficult to go in and see.

I could deal with the legs, I could deal with the legs.

I couldn't just deal with the arms very well.

Alex began three gruelling years of recovery,

But during his 20 operations, Alex always kept one goal in mind -

What sort of feeling does that bring, being back at work?

It shows that you can get out, you can go back to work.

You're not resigned to being stuck at home because you are

Alex has become an interior designer.

He tested his ideas in this restaurant but now he's won

All with the imagination he never knew he had.

If we can get through the previous three years, like we have done,

going back to work and creating a new business is the topping

on the cake, really, the icing on the cake.

Alex will base himself at home, and make site visits

But just listen to how he sums it all up.

They have been the best three years of my life, I think,

because I wasn't making the most of the life that I had

I think falling ill made me realise what I had.

People watching this may use words like "hope",

What is your message to come out of all this?

It means that I can move on and hopefully live

an extraordinary life in a different body.

Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Stockbridge.

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