:00:00. > :00:08.The man suspected of the Berlin Christmas market attack
:00:09. > :00:13.Anis Amri was stopped by police in Milan in the early hours
:00:14. > :00:20.TRANSLATION: At that moment the man, without hesitating, pulled
:00:21. > :00:22.out a pistol and fired towards the policeman, who had
:00:23. > :00:30.So called Islamic State releases footage showing Amri
:00:31. > :00:36.But the hunt continues tonight for any possible
:00:37. > :00:42.Two British men are convicted of using Muslim aid convoys
:00:43. > :00:50.from the UK to Syria to provide cash for extremists.
:00:51. > :00:52.The round-the-clock work on the railways that will mean no
:00:53. > :00:58.How a third of the homeless say they have been attacked on our streets.
:00:59. > :01:01.And all smiles for Big Sam as he returns to the Premier League
:01:02. > :01:08.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...
:01:09. > :01:10.The latest results in Rugby Union, and also the Scottish Premiership,
:01:11. > :01:12.with four fixtures tonight, including Aberdeen's trip
:01:13. > :01:37.The hunt for the man who's believed to have carried out
:01:38. > :01:39.the Berlin Christmas market attack is over.
:01:40. > :01:41.Anis Amri, who'd evaded capture for four days, was killed
:01:42. > :01:46.in Milan during a shoot out with two police officers.
:01:47. > :01:49.Train tickets found on his body indicate that he'd travelled
:01:50. > :01:51.from Germany to France and then onto Italy - undetected
:01:52. > :01:57.12 people died and dozens were injured when a lorry was driven
:01:58. > :01:59.into a crowd of shoppers on Monday night.
:02:00. > :02:02.Germany has said it is "relieved" that Amri no longer poses a danger,
:02:03. > :02:06.but officials have warned that he may have had accomplices.
:02:07. > :02:07.From Berlin, our Europe correspondent Damian
:02:08. > :02:16.Anis Amri's brief, violent life as a terrorist ended here,
:02:17. > :02:20.in an exchange of gunfire on the edge of Milan.
:02:21. > :02:30.Alone and hunted, he'd managed to flee a thousand
:02:31. > :02:32.kilometres south from Berlin, but at 3am in the morning,
:02:33. > :02:38.he was stopped by two officers and tried to shoot them.
:02:39. > :02:40.TRANSLATION: At that moment the man, without hesitating, pulled
:02:41. > :02:43.out a pistol and fired towards the policeman who had asked
:02:44. > :02:48.The one who was hit is recovering in hospital, but his condition
:02:49. > :02:55.And this has been released by the so-called Islamic State.
:02:56. > :02:59.A recording made in Berlin by Anis Amri sometime before the attack,
:03:00. > :03:05.It's now believed that the 24-year-old Tunisian may have
:03:06. > :03:08.been radicalised after he arrived in Europe, perhaps during the four
:03:09. > :03:15.German security services knew he was a threat,
:03:16. > :03:18.but he talked of buying guns, not using a truck.
:03:19. > :03:21.So how did he get all the way to Italy?
:03:22. > :03:23.This is what we know about his movements.
:03:24. > :03:26.At 8pm on Monday, he attacked the Christmas market,
:03:27. > :03:29.then he vanished, but managed to get to Chambery in France.
:03:30. > :03:31.From there, a train ticket found on his body showed
:03:32. > :03:35.he travelled to Turin and then onto Milan Central Station,
:03:36. > :03:40.Finally he took the Metro to the last stop, San Giovanni,
:03:41. > :03:50.TRANSLATION: At the end of this week we can be relieved that one acute
:03:51. > :03:52.threat has come to an end, but the general threat posed
:03:53. > :04:01.We will do our utmost to make sure our state is a strong state.
:04:02. > :04:06.So Germany is now trying to root out radical Islamic networks.
:04:07. > :04:09.We visited this place today, a short distance from where Anis Amri's
:04:10. > :04:15.This is one of the places that Anis Amri was known to frequent
:04:16. > :04:19.It's a residential complex, but the reason he would come
:04:20. > :04:23.here over in this corner, what used to be a mosque.
:04:24. > :04:25.It was closed down though and became a meeting point
:04:26. > :04:32.One of the neighbours told us small groups of young Islamic men
:04:33. > :04:40.They'd meet late at night, apparently discussing attacks.
:04:41. > :04:42.TRANSLATION: Of course it was dangerous.
:04:43. > :04:45.When the men sit here and fantasise about carrying out attacks,
:04:46. > :04:53.With the immediate danger apparently over, Berliners gathered
:04:54. > :04:58.for a memorial this evening by the Brandenburg Gate.
:04:59. > :05:05.All people come together here and think of the victims.
:05:06. > :05:11.The Berlin people, we are something else they have to beat.
:05:12. > :05:14.But Germany as a country now confronting the reality it faces
:05:15. > :05:21.Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in
:05:22. > :05:34.As far as the hunt for possible accomplices of Anis Amri, that goes
:05:35. > :05:40.on for them it was by pure chance that Italian police found at all. It
:05:41. > :05:48.was. This was a stop by a routine police patrol. It was an officer who
:05:49. > :05:55.had only been in the Italian police force for nine months who shot him
:05:56. > :05:59.dead. Not a Europe-wide anti-terrorist group that caught
:06:00. > :06:02.him. There were calls from people like the far right leader in France
:06:03. > :06:07.for more border security within Europe. The view of the German
:06:08. > :06:11.Gutmann is different. Trying to control and monitor the movements of
:06:12. > :06:16.all people around Europe is very, very complicated. They would say
:06:17. > :06:20.that what this shows is that anti-terrorist cooperation did work
:06:21. > :06:26.and they were able to identify very quickly who had been shot in Milan.
:06:27. > :06:30.There are questions. The mother of Anis Amri has given an interview
:06:31. > :06:35.this evening in Tunisia saying, why was their son not deported question
:06:36. > :06:41.Italy want to send him back, Germany wanted to send him back. Why would
:06:42. > :06:44.Tunisia not accept him back? They were unanswered questions. Did he
:06:45. > :06:49.have a network of supporters who helped him plan what he did here and
:06:50. > :06:53.may have helped him escape? Angela Merkel has said there will be a
:06:54. > :06:57.thorough investigation which will look into all areas where there may
:06:58. > :07:01.have been failings and she also warned Germany is going to toughen
:07:02. > :07:08.its procedures for deporting those who do not have the right to stay in
:07:09. > :07:10.this country. For now, Germany's and says, as across Europe, the threat
:07:11. > :07:14.of terror attacks remains high here. Two men have been found guilty
:07:15. > :07:17.of using aid convoys to send thousands of pounds in cash
:07:18. > :07:19.to extremists in Syria. The Old Bailey heard how high
:07:20. > :07:21.profile Muslim community-led convoys became unwitting participants
:07:22. > :07:29.in a plan to fund terrorism. One of the targeted aid missions
:07:30. > :07:32.included Alan Henning, the Eccles taxi driver later
:07:33. > :07:34.kidnapped and murdered by militants Humanitarian aid for people
:07:35. > :07:44.stuck in one of the most Britons have donated
:07:45. > :07:49.millions to help civilians caught in the crossfire
:07:50. > :07:51.of Syria's conflict. Three years ago, these convoys
:07:52. > :07:55.were at the heart of those efforts. Now two men have been found guilty
:07:56. > :07:58.of infiltrating them, Syed Hoque, a former probation officer,
:07:59. > :08:01.and Mashoud Miah used the aid missions as cover
:08:02. > :08:06.to send cash to fighters. Hoque was sent these
:08:07. > :08:09.pictures by his nephew, who was fighting with a group
:08:10. > :08:11.affiliated to Al-Qaeda. Hoque advised him to behead his
:08:12. > :08:14.enemies but not mutilate them, and sent ?4,500 over
:08:15. > :08:19.two unwitting convoys. Aid convoys were infiltrated
:08:20. > :08:22.and the goodwill of charities abused by taking money and goods
:08:23. > :08:26.from the UK out to Syria Today's verdict is the first formal
:08:27. > :08:32.finding that the Syria aid convoys There were also tears
:08:33. > :08:37.in the public gallery for two men who were acquitted,
:08:38. > :08:41.tears that highlight how complicated and emotive the issues raised
:08:42. > :08:45.by the Syria conflict have been It is all worthwhile when you see
:08:46. > :08:50.what is needed actually get Alan Henning, taken hostage
:08:51. > :08:54.by so-called Islamic State in December 2013 and murdered
:08:55. > :08:58.nine months later. He went to Syria in one
:08:59. > :09:01.of the convoys abused Pervez Rafiq, cleared today
:09:02. > :09:04.of funding terrorism, He publicly appealed
:09:05. > :09:13.for Mr Hanning's life. We beg you to tread the path
:09:14. > :09:16.of justice and show him the compassion that Allah has placed
:09:17. > :09:19.in the hearts of the believers. Under pressure from the Government
:09:20. > :09:22.and the police, the aid convoys came In an unprecedented move
:09:23. > :09:31.and a strong rebuke tonight, the United States has abstained
:09:32. > :09:33.on a UN resolution Traditionally, the US has always
:09:34. > :09:38.used its veto to stop such It condemns Israeli settlement
:09:39. > :09:43.building on occupied Palestinian territory and passed with 14
:09:44. > :09:47.votes in favour. Our correspondent
:09:48. > :10:03.Barbara Plett Usher Well, I think the resolution shows a
:10:04. > :10:06.strong international consensus that Israeli settlement building in
:10:07. > :10:12.occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and is a threat to a viable
:10:13. > :10:17.peace deal. The Obama Administration felt there was this threat so it
:10:18. > :10:21.decided not to veto, it abstained, and therefore the resolution passed.
:10:22. > :10:25.This is something that was a diplomatic earthquake at the UN. The
:10:26. > :10:29.Americans always support the Israelis and protect Israel against
:10:30. > :10:32.criticism. It was a very strong rebuke and the Israelis are very
:10:33. > :10:36.angry. President Obama has only taken a step right at the end of his
:10:37. > :10:39.administration and it will have far less of an impact than it might have
:10:40. > :10:44.done if it were done earlier. I know he is only putting down a marker,
:10:45. > :10:48.especially as he will be handing over to Donald Trump, who has shown
:10:49. > :10:52.he will strongly support the Israeli government and its policies. He has
:10:53. > :10:56.already tweeted, things will be different after the 20th of January,
:10:57. > :10:58.which is of course when he takes office.
:10:59. > :11:00.Extensive rail engineering is starting across Britain tonight
:11:01. > :11:02.with 200 different projects being carried out over
:11:03. > :11:06.The biggest re-signalling scheme in the network's history will close
:11:07. > :11:08.the line between Cardiff Central and the Valleys.
:11:09. > :11:10.And several stations - including Paddington in London -
:11:11. > :11:13.will be either partially or completely shut for several days.
:11:14. > :11:18.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports.
:11:19. > :11:22.It's going to be the biggest rail upgrade ever taken on,
:11:23. > :11:25.and it all starts late tonight, hitting services across South Wales,
:11:26. > :11:31.The lack of trains will make the roads busier.
:11:32. > :11:36.And it's a popular time to fly away for the holidays.
:11:37. > :11:43.So why do they always pick Christmas to close the railways?
:11:44. > :11:46.We have a huge programme of works that we have to deliver as part
:11:47. > :11:50.And some of that work just can't be done on a live railway.
:11:51. > :11:55.So Christmas is the best time to do it, because it's one
:11:56. > :12:01.24,000 engineers will work on 200 sites across Britain.
:12:02. > :12:05.One of the bigger jobs they're doing this Christmas is to open up
:12:06. > :12:10.and test these new lines between the concrete blocks there.
:12:11. > :12:13.Critically, they unblock a bottleneck between the trains
:12:14. > :12:16.going from Heathrow into Paddington station in London.
:12:17. > :12:20.It'll hit services across the country.
:12:21. > :12:23.Paddington Station will actually close for six days after the last
:12:24. > :12:28.Services at other big stations, including London Bridge,
:12:29. > :12:33.Charing Cross and Liverpool Street, will be severely affected.
:12:34. > :12:35.There will be no trains late on Christmas Eve
:12:36. > :12:37.between Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Newport and
:12:38. > :12:42.the Valleys, because they're resignalling the whole area.
:12:43. > :12:45.It's affecting me in that I have to take an extra day off work,
:12:46. > :12:47.because of the replacement bus service not being good
:12:48. > :12:51.But also, I understand the work needs to be done.
:12:52. > :12:54.At this time of the year families want to get together,
:12:55. > :12:56.if they haven't seen each other for a while.
:12:57. > :12:58.And then they're all disrupted, aren't they?
:12:59. > :13:00.Totally inconvenient, because you have a lot of commuters
:13:01. > :13:04.over the Christmas period, shopping as well between
:13:05. > :13:09.As ever, leave plenty of time before you head off,
:13:10. > :13:11.and double-check your train is even running.
:13:12. > :13:18.Vladimir Putin has written to Donald Trump, calling
:13:19. > :13:19.for stronger relations and co-operation
:13:20. > :13:24.And speaking to the world's media in Moscow, the Russian President
:13:25. > :13:28.said he did not want a new arms race with the West after Donald Trump's
:13:29. > :13:31.suggested he would expand America's nuclear arsenal.
:13:32. > :13:34.Mr Putin also rejected accusations that Russia had intervened in the US
:13:35. > :13:43.From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg reports.
:13:44. > :13:47.He is always confident, but is he a little confused?
:13:48. > :13:50.As Vladimir Putin met the world's media today,
:13:51. > :13:53.there were mixed signals from across the Atlantic.
:13:54. > :13:56.Donald Trump sabre rattling one moment and talking
:13:57. > :14:07.The Kremlin leader said he hoped he and America's
:14:08. > :14:10.new president would work together to improve relations.
:14:11. > :14:17.Russia says it's modernising its nuclear missile potential,
:14:18. > :14:22.while today, Donald Trump reportedly said, let it be an arms race.
:14:23. > :14:26.We will out match them at every pass.
:14:27. > :14:30.Well, putting a question to the president isn't easy
:14:31. > :14:35.when there are a thousand of you and just one of him.
:14:36. > :14:41.Are you not concerned though that there is a danger of a new arms
:14:42. > :14:46.race, if America is talking about boosting its nuclear arsenal?
:14:47. > :14:51.TRANSLATION: The basis for a new arms race was there already,
:14:52. > :14:53.after the US pulled out of the Antiballistic
:14:54. > :14:57.Missile Treaty and started to create a missile shield.
:14:58. > :15:01.So, either we had to build our own shield or, as we're doing,
:15:02. > :15:09.Vladimir Putin made it clear today that if there
:15:10. > :15:12.is to be a new arms race, that won't be Russia's fault.
:15:13. > :15:15.He delivered a defiant message that Russia is stronger
:15:16. > :15:24.In recent months, Russia has been accused of launching cyber
:15:25. > :15:28.attacks against America, even of using hacking
:15:29. > :15:35.Mr President, your country has been accused of state-sponsored hacking
:15:36. > :15:38.with the aim of influencing the result of the US
:15:39. > :15:46.President Obama revealed that he told you personally to cut it out.
:15:47. > :15:49.So, what did you tell him in response?
:15:50. > :15:54.The president refused to say, dismissing all the talk of hacking
:15:55. > :15:58.as sour grapes from the Democratic Party.
:15:59. > :16:04.TRANSLATION: The losing side always tries to pass the buck.
:16:05. > :16:07.They would do better to look for the problems among themselves.
:16:08. > :16:11.But tough talk doesn't solve domestic problems.
:16:12. > :16:14.The Russian economy is still struggling.
:16:15. > :16:19.Low oil prices have hit hard an economy reliant
:16:20. > :16:26.To many here, stagnation breeds pessimism.
:16:27. > :16:29.We see growing problems with our living standards.
:16:30. > :16:33.They see that, you know, the health system is crumbling and collapsing.
:16:34. > :16:38.They see a lack of perspective and they see the forecast
:16:39. > :16:41.of the Government that Russia will be surviving for the next 20
:16:42. > :16:48.That is one reason the Kremlin is counting on Donald Trump,
:16:49. > :16:51.hoping he will ease sanctions against Moscow.
:16:52. > :16:54.Russia wants to be seen as a global player.
:16:55. > :16:58.But if President Putin doesn't mend the cracks in the economy,
:16:59. > :17:02.he may be building a superpower on thin ice.
:17:03. > :17:11.In Syria, where Russian forces helped seized the city of Aleppo,
:17:12. > :17:14.the last buses have left Aleppo, taking away rebel fighters,
:17:15. > :17:16.their families and residents of the east of the city.
:17:17. > :17:19.The Red Cross say 35,000 people have left their homes
:17:20. > :17:24.After four long years of bombardment, Syrian government
:17:25. > :17:27.troops are now in complete control of Aleppo.
:17:28. > :17:29.Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers the significance
:17:30. > :17:37.of the victory and how it may affect the outcome of the war.
:17:38. > :17:42.In western Aleppo, a Christmas party became a victory celebration.
:17:43. > :17:47.It was watched over by banners of Syria's three wise men,
:17:48. > :17:49.Presidents Putin and Assad and the leader of Lebanon's
:17:50. > :17:56.The regime's support is often underestimated in the West.
:17:57. > :17:58.And there was relief that the killing in the city
:17:59. > :18:03.The last buses out of eastern Aleppo delivered thousands
:18:04. > :18:08.of fighters and civilians into an uncertain future.
:18:09. > :18:12.The fall of Eastern Aleppo is the rebels' greatest defeat.
:18:13. > :18:15.And it shows how the war is now being decided by the foreign powers
:18:16. > :18:24.President Assad and his allies have won themselves some options.
:18:25. > :18:27.Their victory in Aleppo does not end the war.
:18:28. > :18:31.Thousands of rebel fighters have been bussed out to Idlib,
:18:32. > :18:36.The regime and its allies will want to win it back.
:18:37. > :18:44.They might decide to make Eastern Ghouta their military priority.
:18:45. > :18:47.It's part of the suburbs of Damascus.
:18:48. > :18:49.It's vulnerable because rebel groups that control it have weakened
:18:50. > :18:58.Foreign powers are shaping the battlefields.
:18:59. > :19:01.Turkey has troops fighting in Syria and backed some
:19:02. > :19:07.But it watched while Russia and its allies destroyed them.
:19:08. > :19:09.That's because Turkey needs Russia to stand aside
:19:10. > :19:14.while it hits the Kurds, now its main target.
:19:15. > :19:18.And while East Aleppo fell, the West was also a bystander.
:19:19. > :19:20.That is because the Syria policy of the Americans,
:19:21. > :19:23.British and their friends, never coherent, has
:19:24. > :19:31.Aleppo though looks to be a turning point.
:19:32. > :19:33.Tonight, Britain's Foreign Secretary said again that
:19:34. > :19:38.But the downfall of the President looks like a hollow dream.
:19:39. > :19:44.Early in the war there was a chance to make it happen
:19:45. > :19:48.But that chance has gone while President Assad remains
:19:49. > :19:54.It will not be easy for his coalition to move from Aleppo
:19:55. > :20:07.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
:20:08. > :20:10.Two hijackers who held over 100 passengers hostage on a flight
:20:11. > :20:13.which they diverted from Libya to Malta have been arrested
:20:14. > :20:16.after a stand-off on the runway lasting several hours.
:20:17. > :20:18.The crew and passengers were gradually released
:20:19. > :20:22.before the men were taken away for questioning.
:20:23. > :20:26.The United Nations Refugee Agency says over 5,000 migrants
:20:27. > :20:28.and refugees have died in the Mediterranean
:20:29. > :20:32.this year - the highest annual death toll so far.
:20:33. > :20:34.About 100 migrants are reported to have died yesterday,
:20:35. > :20:38.when two boats sank off the Italian coast.
:20:39. > :20:42.Strong winds and driving rain have affected much of the north and west
:20:43. > :20:44.of Britain, as Storm Barbara blew in today.
:20:45. > :20:46.Worst affected was Scotland, where many ferry services
:20:47. > :20:48.were cancelled and a number of houses in more remote
:20:49. > :20:56.A survey of rough sleepers suggests they are 17 times more likely
:20:57. > :20:59.to be a victim of crime than the general public.
:21:00. > :21:01.The charity Crisis says homeless people are regularly
:21:02. > :21:06.There are thought to be about 4,000 people sleeping rough
:21:07. > :21:13.Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reports.
:21:14. > :21:17.For some people, rough sleepers have no value.
:21:18. > :21:26.I used to come in here and sleep on the trains, essentially.
:21:27. > :21:35.He took to sleeping on commuter trains after an unprovoked attack.
:21:36. > :21:41.Got into a discussion with a young man around the fact I was homeless.
:21:42. > :21:45.He became quite aggravated, I would guess, by the fact
:21:46. > :21:48.that I was homeless, and I was saying that people
:21:49. > :21:54.And from there he ended up punching me in the face, basically.
:21:55. > :21:59.Today's report lays bare the abuse rough sleepers can suffer.
:22:00. > :22:04.They're subjected to beatings, assaulted, even urinated on.
:22:05. > :22:07.It's not just the incident itself, but it's the impact it
:22:08. > :22:11.We found that most homeless people who are rough sleeping,
:22:12. > :22:18.And surely if you are then urinated on, you are going to feel even more
:22:19. > :22:21.So your eyesight, who's looking after that?
:22:22. > :22:24.Sergeant David Deal is part of a police outreach team that works
:22:25. > :22:31.While he encourages them to report crimes, he understands why today's
:22:32. > :22:36.report says many don't trust the police.
:22:37. > :22:38.There are other aspects of their life, maybe drug use,
:22:39. > :22:45.maybe begging, maybe other forms of anti-social behaviour.
:22:46. > :22:49.When they come into contact with police regarding those types
:22:50. > :22:51.of behaviour, that's when they might not trust the police
:22:52. > :22:57.For these homeless people, this centre will provide shelter
:22:58. > :23:04.Susan Walker is currently bedding down in a stairwell.
:23:05. > :23:09.Sleep is uneasy due to her constant fear of attack.
:23:10. > :23:14.Because you can get some of these people now who do see
:23:15. > :23:18.a woman and they'll think, "I'll go for her."
:23:19. > :23:20.And if that happened, well, as a woman, we
:23:21. > :23:24.Rough sleepers are permanently vulnerable.
:23:25. > :23:29.Any stranger could attack at any moment.
:23:30. > :23:39.The former England manager, Sam Allardyce, has agreed a deal
:23:40. > :23:41.to become the new manager of Crystal Palace.
:23:42. > :23:44.Allardyce has been out of the game since having to leave the England
:23:45. > :23:46.job in September after just one match, following remarks he made
:23:47. > :23:53.Here's our sports correspondent, Richard Conway.
:23:54. > :23:56.Three months on from losing his dream job as England manager,
:23:57. > :24:01.I like the look of the squad and that's probably
:24:02. > :24:10.He was forced out of Wembley after just one match in charge.
:24:11. > :24:14.Following a newspaper sting in which he discussed getting around
:24:15. > :24:22.A period on the sidelines looked inevitable.
:24:23. > :24:27.But Alan Pardew has manoeuvred himself out of the Crystal Palace
:24:28. > :24:30.hot seat, after winning just 26 points in his 36 games
:24:31. > :24:37.And Allardyce, well, he is seen as an expert in keeping
:24:38. > :24:40.teams in the top division, in a career that spans periods
:24:41. > :24:45.in charge of Bolton, Blackburn, West Ham and Sunderland.
:24:46. > :24:47.With Crystal Palace flirting with relegation, the club's
:24:48. > :24:50.new American owners have been forced to take action.
:24:51. > :24:54.An attempt this season to play a more expansive style of football
:24:55. > :25:00.The focus now will be doing whatever it takes to stay
:25:01. > :25:06.I think any team who gets Big Sam will tell you he's never
:25:07. > :25:10.got a team relegated, so it's a great record and I'm sure
:25:11. > :25:14.Palace will have that in the back of their mind.
:25:15. > :25:16.For Sam Allardyce there's unfinished business to attend
:25:17. > :25:21.to, after his briefest of stints with England.
:25:22. > :25:23.Crystal Palace will settle for survival for now,
:25:24. > :25:26.but this ambitious club hope in time he'll do much more
:25:27. > :25:33.Richard Conway, BBC News, Selhurst Park.