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Lee, I am sorry, I had to interrupt, thank you for joining us. You are | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
watching BBC News. Welcome to outside source. We will | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
begin in Berlin where a truck has been driven into a Christmas market. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
These are live pictures coming in to us here. At least nine people have | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
been killed and at least 50 others have been injured and police suspect | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
it was a deliberate attack. We will have ongoing coverage. We will also | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
report from Turkey were earlier the Russian ambassador was assassinated | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
at an art gallery in Ankara. The gunmen shouted about Aleppo after | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
the attack. We will have the latest. And we are working to gather the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
latest information from Berlin. That is the hash tag to use. | :00:55. | :01:10. | |
The Christmas market in Berlin that has been attacked as in the west of | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
the city. It is just in front of the Kaiser Wilhelm Church. The police | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
department in Berlin is communicating as and when they have | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
communication. This is one of their most recent tweets telling us that | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
nine people have lost their lives and many are injured. We also have | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
this coming in, to do with who may have been driving this vehicle. This | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
from BBC Monitoring. A suspected driver now being held. | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
This is the live feed coming in from the scene where, as you can imagine, | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
there are huge numbers of emergency services treating those who have | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
been injured and securing the area. There are some local reports that | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
there were two passengers in the truck and a co-passenger died but | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
we're able to confirm that. We also have this with regards to Angela | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Merkel. Let us bring in the deputy editor of | :02:30. | :02:59. | |
a Berlin newspaper. Thank you for joining us. Tell us what you have | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
seen. I was on my way back home and on the | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
other side of the street from the Christmas market and I hear a loud | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
noise from the houses that were destroyed by the truck and | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
sunscreens. -- some screens. I did not see what from which direction | :03:34. | :03:48. | |
the truck came. It went to the other side and I put a live video on | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Facebook which is no on our site. It was really horrible. Like the | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
pictures from Nice. The destroyed houses and injured people on the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
ground. And other people taking care of them. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
While you were filming, what did you see? | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
I saw the broken houses, broken glass. I saw what could be red wine | :04:22. | :04:39. | |
or could be blood, I don't know. It was really horrible and chaotic. | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
How busy with this area be on an evening like this so close to | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Christmas? It is a really busy place. We have | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
many Christmas markets in Berlin. It is not the most popular but it is | :05:01. | :05:16. | |
really popular. The church is nearby and there is a big shopping street. | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
It is a busy place. Where people go after work to have some wine and | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
talk to friends and have some fun. And how quickly did the emergency | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
services arrived after you saw the aftermath of the truck going into | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
the market? At the Christmas markets in Berlin | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
there are some police officers for security. As we now know, the police | :05:51. | :06:08. | |
officers couldn't get both of the people in the truck. One escaped. | :06:09. | :06:23. | |
There were many officers. We are looking at live pictures and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
it looks like the entire area is sealed off. Is that what you have | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
seen? That is right. Not long after the | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
attack, they closed the streets around the area. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
Thank you very much for making time for us. We appreciate it. Let me | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
show you how some German media are covering this story. They are an | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
invaluable source of information. This shows you the size of the area | :07:00. | :07:20. | |
affected by the attack. Here you get a very clear image of the truck and | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
its smashed windscreen and damaged frontage. Another report carrying | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
coverage of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey. We | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
will cover that later but as you can imagine this story in Berlin as our | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
main story. Richard Lester has been looking at this story in the BBC | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
newsroom. Just take us through the basics. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
We know that's an articulated lorry was driven at some speed at a crowd | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
that was attending a Christmas market in the West part of the city. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
The kind of market that is very busy at this time of year, a tourist | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
attraction, something that people will fly out to for a few days. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Police are saying that nine people were killed and about 50 injured. | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
This happened not too long ago so we won't get the final tally of exactly | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
how many people were hurt and killed for some time. The driver was | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
reported to have fled the scene and ran away. The police said not long | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
ago, about 20 minutes ago, that they have arrested him. He was arrested | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
close to the truck. It was also confirmed that a second person was | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
found dead inside the truck. We don't know how that has happened. | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
The truck cab is quite high up. You can see that the windscreen is quite | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
smashed. It is an ongoing scene. A separate cordoned off zone has been | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
created for friends and relatives of those who were at the market as they | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
try to find out what has happened. The police are treating this as a | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
deliberate attack but have not said formally whether they believe it was | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
a deliberate attack or what the reasons might have been if it was | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
deliberate. The police have a public safety obligation to treat anything | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
like this, particularly after what happened in Nice in July, as a | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
serious incident. I couldn't find any official comment | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
on where this truck came from. I've seen anything? Nothing official | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
but some speculation that there were Polish license plates. That doesn't | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
particularly mean too much because Poland is next to Germany and | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
polished trucks go to Germany all the time. We don't know the | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
nationality of the driver or even if he was legally entitled to be in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
truck. He could've been the driver or he could have stolen it. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
In terms of the whereabouts of this market, presumably wouldn't be | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
difficult to drive any vehicle towards this church or with the | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
market was set up. It is in a pedestrianised area | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
rather than right next to a busy road, as I understand it. The | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
suggestion was that it was deliberately driven at this area and | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
a police officer says it was driven deliberately at the crowd and did | :11:08. | :11:19. | |
not slow down before the crash. Richard will be here in the BBC | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
newsroom over the next few hours so he will bring new information as she | :11:23. | :11:35. | |
gets it. Let me just remind you that a truck | :11:36. | :11:48. | |
has been driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin and nine | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
people have been killed. You can access the live page on the BBC News | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
apps and website. Chris Phillips is Detective Chief Inspector with | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
London Metropolitan Police and a former county security officer. What | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
are your thoughts on this story? Unfortunately, it looks like a | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
terrorist attack. We have seen lorries go out of control before, in | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
Scotland and in the UK, but this appears to be similar to the | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
incident in Nice a few months ago. That was a deliberate attack by | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
someone who wanted to kill people and that is really difficult to | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
stop. Presumably that is about more than | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
-- presumably that is more about intelligence than any physical steps | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
that can be taken. There is very little as a police | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
officer you can do to stop someone driving a truck into a crowd, other | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
than shoot the driver, and you have to have guns to do that. When | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
someone gets themselves into that mindset, we can only stop them | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
before that, in the radicalisation stage. | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
In terms of how you go about learning lessons from attacks like | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
Nice, what were the conclusions after that attack. | :13:36. | :13:47. | |
We have three types of group trying to do us harm. We have this group | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
who are trained fighters and will at some stage commit an attack. We have | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
the group who are radicalising themselves on the Internet. And we | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
have another group that have not lived any form of Islamic life and | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
probably don't know much about Islamic religion but to say to go | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
out in a blaze of glory as redemption for their sins and this | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
is difficult to stop. It is interesting that you are | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
referring to Islamic radicalism. We don't have confirmation of that yet. | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
If we look across Europe, there are many groups including the far right | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
that try to become more radical. Groups like Isis have told people in | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Europe to go and do this so the first indication is that it is | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
likely to be that kind of terrorist attack. Even MI6 cue the day and | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
said we are expecting this to happen at some stage. Germany have had a | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
number of attacks that they have managed to stop to this one may have | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
got through. Thank you. If you're able to stay | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
with us I would be grateful. This is the Berlin police. | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
That is the pedestrianised area we were describing in front of the | :15:44. | :15:55. | |
church. If you want the latest updates and preferred through social | :15:56. | :16:07. | |
media, this is worth following. This from Reuters. | :16:08. | :16:26. | |
It is also worth seeing that there are no multiple reports of someone | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
getting out of the truck and running away with being detained before he | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
or she had gone very far. If you want regular updates, follow the BBC | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
live page on the website and on the BBC News apps. Let us go back to | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Chris Phillips from the London Metropolitan Police. If you had been | :16:58. | :17:09. | |
involved in operations like this, what would you want to know in the | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
aftermath? I just need to make clear that I am | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
not a serving police officer and I retired a few years ago. I was | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
involved in protecting crowded places from terrorism. We have seen | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
more attacks like this over the last couple of years. They need to locate | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
the people that have been involved in this. The first part of this is | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
to identify the people involved. Maybe this is part of a large group. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
This may be the first in a series of attacks. We saw in Turkey today that | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
an attack has taken place. These things tend to come in blocks. The | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
first thing I would want to do is identify the people involved and | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
contain them any situation where we can arrest them. The other thing is | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
to get witnesses and then to look backwards from the individuals | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
involved to see who they have been talking to, who they communicated | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
with. It is really pleased to get onto that as quickly as possible. | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
Thank you for talking to us. This is how various newspapers in Germany | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
are covering this. What do we know about this Christmas | :18:47. | :19:04. | |
market in terms of how many people would have been there? | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
It is hard to say because there are hundreds of these markets around | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Germany at this time of year. This is a well-known and quite expensive | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
shopping district in Berlin and one can imagine that the Christmas | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
market would have been very popular and well attended ahead of | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Christmas. It would've been at the height of its popularity so there | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
would have been a lot of people. It is hard to see how many exactly. It | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
covers a large area and there are a number of stalls so it would have | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
capacity to take in a number of people. There is no the efforts from | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
the establishment in Berlin to provide some sort of message of | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
calm. The idea is to maintain a sense of calm as they try to work | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
out the motive for this attack, if indeed that is what it was. Some | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
more information, the state department has stressed to Americans | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
travelling abroad that they should avoid large crowded areas travelling | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
through Europe. He put a warning out a few months ago that the holiday | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
period was a time for American citizens to be wary. They warned | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
people against going to Christmas markets without taking precaution. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
The idea that these markets would be a potential target is well known. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
It is hard to know what proportions you can't take heavy lorry is coming | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
your way. Yes, this is an unsophisticated | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
attack. If it is an attack and is similar to that which happen in | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
July. We are going to turn away from that | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
story to another story of huge significance. You may well have seen | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
this earlier. Russia's ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead by a man | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
shouting about a liberal. This happened any | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
district of Ankara. The ambassador was attending a modern arts centre. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Moments before the shooting, behind the ambassador, | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
his assassin waits calmly, rising no suspicion. | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
The gunman is shouting, he says, do not forget | :21:46. | :21:59. | |
So long as these places aren't secured, you will not taste | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
With the ambassador lying close by, his killer | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
"Get away, only death will take me from here". | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
Eventually, security forces intervene and the gunman is | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Amid chaos at the Art Gallery, Moscow is getting | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
reports of what has happened to their ambassador. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
He was 62 and had been a diplomat for 40 years. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
The foreign Ministry in Moscow confirmed | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
It is a shocking blow to Russia's relations | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
with Turkey, the countries backing opposite sides in Syria's war, with | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Turkey strongly opposed to President Assad. | :22:49. | :23:01. | |
The authorities say the gunman was killed but Turkey's president says | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
this was the man responsible for the attack. He was a police officer | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
working in the riot squad in Ankara for two years. Ankara's mayor has | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
described it as a horrendous attack described to drive a wedge between | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
Turkey and Russia. TRANSLATION: This is a cowardly | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
attack designed to ruin relations between Turkey and Syria. -- Turkey | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
and Russia. God willing, both Russia and Turkey will pursue this. The | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
ambassador's death won't be in vain. This is the reaction from John | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
Kerry, the US Secretary of We are joined by two correspondence. | :23:56. | :24:18. | |
What evidence has the government offered to back up the claim that | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
this was the man who carried out the attack? | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
There are so many photos and videos that show the moment the guy she is | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
the ambassador. Russia's ambassador to Turkey was standing there with | :24:36. | :24:47. | |
the gunman behind him. He said, we won't let you be safe over here | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
until our zones are safe, the gunman said. The interior minister said | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
that he was a police officer working for two and a half years. | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Tell me about the ambassador. He was a career diplomat. He worked | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
for 40 years but kept a low profile. He was only mentioned in the use in | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
a few cases. He served as ambassador to Turkey in recent years and these | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
were stormy years but he was only mentioned in very official cases | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
like when he was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry when the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Russian plane was shot down and cheap rates submitted in | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
negotiations. Do stay with us because I want to | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
come back to this story. You can get more on this situation and the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
situation Berlin online. I will be back in a couple of minutes. | :26:01. | :26:03. |