:00:08. > :00:15.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.
:00:16. > :00:23.A lorry attack, on a busy Christmas market in Berlin,
:00:24. > :00:26.has killed at least nine people and left dozens injured.
:00:27. > :00:29.Members of the public tended to victims, as police urged
:00:30. > :00:33.Berliners to stay indoors until the all-clear could be given.
:00:34. > :00:37.The authorities are treating it as a deliberate attack.
:00:38. > :00:39.It went just past me, past my girlfriend.
:00:40. > :00:44.I think it missed me by three metres and missed her by five metres.
:00:45. > :00:47.It came into the entrance and hit the sides of the barriers,
:00:48. > :00:53.A man who shot dead the Russian ambassador to Turkey has been
:00:54. > :00:57.The killer urged the world to remember the Syrian
:00:58. > :01:02.He'd been seen in the background as Ambassador Karlov
:01:03. > :01:26.Moscow said the murder was an act of terrorism.
:01:27. > :01:28.Let's take a look now at tomorrow's papers,
:01:29. > :01:31.many of them lead with the events in Berlin.
:01:32. > :01:33.With me are the broadcaster, Natalie Haynes, and Rob Merrick,
:01:34. > :01:35.deputy political editor at the Independent.
:01:36. > :01:39.'Massacre at the Market' is on the Metro front page.
:01:40. > :01:42.The story of a fatal lorry crash, in central Berlin dominates
:01:43. > :01:47.The Daily Mirror are calling it 'the Berlin Bloodbath'.
:01:48. > :01:49.It's leading the Guardian front page,
:01:50. > :01:53.which is reporting that nine people have died.
:01:54. > :01:59.crashed into shoppers at a speed of 40 miles per hour.
:02:00. > :02:02.The i confirm the lorry driver has been arrested,
:02:03. > :02:05.and that a passenger on board died at the scene.
:02:06. > :02:07.The Times report that the lorry belonged
:02:08. > :02:14.the Daily Mail front page, showing the smashed windscreen
:02:15. > :02:24.of the lorry covered in Christmas decorations.
:02:25. > :02:32.We will start with the times. Christmas carnage in Berlin. Lorry
:02:33. > :02:36.ploughed into market crowds, at least nine confirmed dead. Terror
:02:37. > :02:41.attack suspected. This has been hallmarks of what we saw on Bastille
:02:42. > :02:45.Day earlier this year. That was in Nice, in the south of France. The
:02:46. > :02:51.story you have been talking about all evening, of course. It does not
:02:52. > :02:55.seem to be any doubt it was a terrorist attack. We wait for the
:02:56. > :02:58.inevitable claim of responsibility from Islamic State. I'm sure that
:02:59. > :03:03.will come whether they orchestrated the attack or not. A couple of
:03:04. > :03:10.striking beings in the Times coverage. -- things. The suspicion
:03:11. > :03:15.is that the truck was hijacked. It belonged to a polished delivery
:03:16. > :03:19.company. Contact with the driver was lost at four PM some time before the
:03:20. > :03:23.incident, leading to speculation that it had been hijacked -- them
:03:24. > :03:29.out. There was a quote that the driver wore a mask. As he ran off,
:03:30. > :03:34.he tore off his mask, which we had not seen before. That is quite
:03:35. > :03:41.interesting. If it is linked to Islamic State, and the indication
:03:42. > :03:45.perhaps with the comparisons to Nice is that there may be the case, if
:03:46. > :03:52.terrorism is proved to be responsible for this, actually
:03:53. > :03:56.trying to disappear into the crowd is something that did not happen in
:03:57. > :04:02.Nice. It may well have been because this man actually died in the front
:04:03. > :04:06.of the scab, but having said that, so many Islamic State volunteers
:04:07. > :04:13.have no problem in giving up their lives for their cause -- cab. That
:04:14. > :04:17.is true. All we can assume is that this man for whatever reason,
:04:18. > :04:22.whether his ideology or pragmatism preferred to try to make a run for
:04:23. > :04:27.it, but obviously without success. There are two people we think were
:04:28. > :04:32.in the cab of the track, and one of them was dead. There are various
:04:33. > :04:38.sources saying it looks like it was a cause of the accident rather than
:04:39. > :04:44.the police shooting through the cab window, for example. Obviously the
:04:45. > :04:48.other men tried to make a run for it but was unsuccessful. He was
:04:49. > :04:53.captured quite close to be seen, and one assumes the information he gives
:04:54. > :04:57.the police will help their inquiries. The Guardian front page,
:04:58. > :05:04.nine dead in building truck horror. Dozens hurt in accident. This was
:05:05. > :05:10.not an accident, say witnesses. One arrested and another dead in the
:05:11. > :05:14.lorry. Many Christmas markets in Germany. This is one of the biggest.
:05:15. > :05:19.They have them all over northern Europe. The French say they will now
:05:20. > :05:24.have tightened security and will increase the security presence at
:05:25. > :05:30.their markets. I am wondering why there was no security at this market
:05:31. > :05:34.given how big it is, and also given the history of violence and terror
:05:35. > :05:38.attacks they have been in Germany in the last year. That is sure to be a
:05:39. > :05:44.focus of the inquiry that will follow. There are about 60 in
:05:45. > :05:49.Berlin, 60 Christmas markets. I read some of them do have security and
:05:50. > :05:52.protection and bollards, which is bound to increase the focus on the
:05:53. > :05:58.fact that this one in such essential and large place didn't. But it
:05:59. > :06:01.boasts about its openness and that is part of the attraction, that you
:06:02. > :06:08.won't have to get through any security. It won't look like or make
:06:09. > :06:15.you think of the risk of a terror attack. You will enjoy it more if it
:06:16. > :06:20.is apparently friendly. But whether that can continue after tonight's
:06:21. > :06:23.events must be a question. The softest of targets, people simply
:06:24. > :06:26.enjoying themselves and not necessarily looking out for the
:06:27. > :06:31.possibility of certainly this kind of attack. Just coming completely
:06:32. > :06:38.out of the blue. Christmas markets, your family are in Belgium. You like
:06:39. > :06:43.Christmas market and go to them? Is this the kind of thing that would
:06:44. > :06:47.put them off. I am afraid of cards anyway, which I don't think I have
:06:48. > :06:57.told you. I am incredibly afraid of crowded places, which is why I don't
:06:58. > :07:01.travel on the tube. I live my life alone, but I am already nervous
:07:02. > :07:06.about all of those things. Your family in Bojan? They are more
:07:07. > :07:11.mature in every regard than I am, even the ones younger than me --
:07:12. > :07:15.Belgium. When I go there, I will go to a small Christmas market in
:07:16. > :07:20.Bruges. I would struggle to go to the big one in Brussels. That would
:07:21. > :07:25.be too many people, too much humans in a small place for my taste. The
:07:26. > :07:29.front page of the Financial Times, truck driven into Christmas crowd
:07:30. > :07:34.kills at least nine in Berlin. 50 have been injured. There is every
:07:35. > :07:39.possibility this death toll could rise. It makes the comparison on the
:07:40. > :07:48.front page, echoes of Nice ad sizzled market. One analyst was
:07:49. > :07:53.suggesting to me the German security services, much smaller than in
:07:54. > :07:59.Britain, and less able to pick up the little chatter the security
:08:00. > :08:05.services might be able to pick up in this country -- in Christmas market.
:08:06. > :08:11.And not as integrated as some of the others. I do not know about that.
:08:12. > :08:15.There was a quote a few months ago from one of the terrorists in the
:08:16. > :08:19.Belgian attack last year, who apparently said there would not come
:08:20. > :08:22.to Britain because they believed the British security services and in
:08:23. > :08:27.with intelligence was better, which may be of some small comfort to us
:08:28. > :08:34.tonight. I could not speak about this situation in Germany. Looking
:08:35. > :08:39.at the FT, what it does say is that Isis may not have orchestrated the
:08:40. > :08:43.attack, even if they inspired the person who carried it out. But they
:08:44. > :08:46.make the point that security officials have long warned that Isis
:08:47. > :08:49.could smuggle operatives into Germany under the cover of the 1
:08:50. > :08:54.million refugees who have poured into the country since the start of
:08:55. > :08:59.2015. It is the third terror attack in Germany in a short while, and
:09:00. > :09:03.there is bound to be a political fallout from this, certainly if
:09:04. > :09:08.other terror attacks follow. Angela Merkel took a heavy kit for her
:09:09. > :09:14.opendoor policy towards refugees. It was unpopular with some citizens.
:09:15. > :09:17.She announced she would run for re-election next year -- heavy
:09:18. > :09:22.hitter. One of their fees may be that there will be further attacks
:09:23. > :09:31.that will damage her enter Canada -- fears. She is seemingly moving away
:09:32. > :09:38.from the opendoor policy -- and her candidature. She's talking about
:09:39. > :09:43.burning tobacco. There are fears her policy could have contributed to the
:09:44. > :09:47.security situation worsening in Germany but also clearly worried she
:09:48. > :09:50.will be kicked out of power. I'm sure that is how it will be
:09:51. > :09:54.presented during the election campaign. I don't see how anyone
:09:55. > :09:58.running against it would resist the temptation to say she was somehow
:09:59. > :10:02.responsible for anything that has gone wrong in Germany in the last
:10:03. > :10:06.four years. We will see if this episode has not been politicised by
:10:07. > :10:11.that. I'm sure it will be during that campaign. I don't see how we
:10:12. > :10:15.can not be. Massacre at the market, the front page of the Metro. Laurie
:10:16. > :10:22.mows down at least nine Christmas shoppers. And the front page as
:10:23. > :10:30.well, Russia's ambassador to Turkey has been shot, assassinated --
:10:31. > :10:34.lorry. It looks on this front page as if the men in the suit would the
:10:35. > :10:40.gun is somehow linked to the headline, but he is not. -- men in
:10:41. > :10:47.the seat with the gun. He is linked to the attack in Ankara. Or are they
:10:48. > :10:53.somehow linking the two and it is just a messy front-page? It could be
:10:54. > :10:56.seen as confusing. They are probably right to bring together the two
:10:57. > :11:01.stories because they are imported. When I left the office tonight, I
:11:02. > :11:04.imagined we would be spending most of our time talking about the
:11:05. > :11:08.assassination of the Russian ambassador, but it has been
:11:09. > :11:11.overshadowed by what happened in Berlin. But it is probably right to
:11:12. > :11:16.reflect both stories, because the assassination itself is a striking
:11:17. > :11:22.event. It is perhaps not going to have the repercussions people
:11:23. > :11:25.probably feared, because there are strong ties between Turkey and
:11:26. > :11:30.Russia at the moment, but it looks like it was a lone person and no
:11:31. > :11:33.reason to think it will lead to some sort of conflict between Russia and
:11:34. > :11:38.Turkey. But a very significant story as well. Naturally, the problem is
:11:39. > :11:46.you just can't... Unless you shut these markets down and have armed
:11:47. > :11:53.security 24 hours a day around potentially soft targets, it only
:11:54. > :11:58.takes one terrorist or one person intent on killing to get through all
:11:59. > :12:03.of the security that any state may have. Yes, and you only have to
:12:04. > :12:08.think how absolutely hateful it is to travel through an airport to know
:12:09. > :12:11.the consequences of trying to make everything safe sometimes are so an
:12:12. > :12:16.arrest that they actually destroy the pleasure in the thing you are
:12:17. > :12:19.trying to do. So most of us put up with airport security because we
:12:20. > :12:24.really want to get to the place we want to get to. But would you go to
:12:25. > :12:28.a German market if you had to have your bags searched and if you had to
:12:29. > :12:31.park two miles away and walk because it was concreted off at every stage?
:12:32. > :12:38.The answer is probably lots of people would not. You have had
:12:39. > :12:44.interviews with an eyewitness earlier this evening who said having
:12:45. > :12:48.just been in this terrifying experience, she said they planned to
:12:49. > :12:52.spend the rest of their weekend doing what they were going to do in
:12:53. > :12:56.Berlin and staying there. Not everybody feels like that, of
:12:57. > :13:02.course. Some people's anxiety is too great and they are put off, but
:13:03. > :13:08.traditionally, in Europe, we have tried to create terrorist atrocities
:13:09. > :13:15.with stoicism and courage, right back to when I was a small child,
:13:16. > :13:21.not even able to walk, I think, when the IRA bombed near where I grew up.
:13:22. > :13:27.I only ever remember Birmingham being stoic about it. I am certain
:13:28. > :13:33.that Belgian has been stoic and I would be astonished if Berlin was
:13:34. > :13:37.not. Donald Trump, President-elect. He put out a statement. This is the
:13:38. > :13:42.official statement. Our hearts and prayers are with the loved ones of
:13:43. > :13:45.the victims in today's attack in Berlin. Innocent civilians were
:13:46. > :13:49.murdered in the street as they prepare to celebrate Christmas. It's
:13:50. > :13:52.a state and other terrorists continue to slaughter Christians in
:13:53. > :13:57.the community and places of worship as part of their global jihad. These
:13:58. > :14:01.terrorists and their worldwide networks must be eradicated. He said
:14:02. > :14:05.that on Twitter. That was the official statement. He then goes on
:14:06. > :14:10.Twitter and says the attacks in Germany, Turkey and Switzerland, so
:14:11. > :14:16.he has put the three together, show the civilised world must change
:14:17. > :14:25.thinking. What does he mean by that, do you think? I can't claim to peer
:14:26. > :14:31.into the soul of... The best guess is wrong. The statement itself is
:14:32. > :14:36.extraordinary. The President-elect coming out immediately, it is OK for
:14:37. > :14:41.us to speculate, but we don't know. There is no proof. Normally elected
:14:42. > :14:46.politicians would not lead to the nearest microphone and scream
:14:47. > :14:49.certainty where none exists. But most politicians are not Donald
:14:50. > :14:56.Trump. The second part of the tweets... Who knows? The official
:14:57. > :15:02.statement is quite alarming. He has already construed it as a
:15:03. > :15:06.specifically religious conflict, and I would feel presumptuous suggesting
:15:07. > :15:15.everybody in a marketplace in Berlin was Christian, would you? There have
:15:16. > :15:21.been many and will be more terrorist attacks in coming years and
:15:22. > :15:29.unfortunately Donald Trump will no doubt react in a similarly worrying
:15:30. > :15:33.ways. In the Sun, Slain, this is the other tack today, there have been
:15:34. > :15:37.three, one in Switzerland, Germany and this, terror at Christmas,
:15:38. > :15:47.Putin's man executed just hours later, this is after truck bomb,
:15:48. > :15:52.nine die in market truck attack, umm, so, Natalie, the Sun and the
:15:53. > :15:56.other papers putting these stories together, evidential in not
:15:57. > :16:01.necessarily linked, and want expert I spoke with set, look, do not
:16:02. > :16:13.discount the power of coincidence, it could simply be confidence, but
:16:14. > :16:26.this man shouting Allah before he publicly shoots the Ambassador from
:16:27. > :16:30.Russia -- Allahu Akbar. The papers haven't run with this today because
:16:31. > :16:34.they have gone with him and with Germany. If ever there was an
:16:35. > :16:47.example needed of how ordinary, innocent victims, especially those
:16:48. > :16:51.in Aleppo, there you go. . He was an official policeman who used his
:16:52. > :16:56.identity badge to get into the gallery. And while perhaps the aim,
:16:57. > :17:04.given what he was shouting, was to try and distance Turkey from Russia
:17:05. > :17:07.and Russian attacks in Syria, ironically it could bring the
:17:08. > :17:14.countries closer together in terms of cooperation. You can see that,
:17:15. > :17:25.can't you, strongman turning against the west and peace and president
:17:26. > :17:29.Erdogan will seize on this to unite against terror. They have the
:17:30. > :17:32.tension when Turkey shot down the Russian airliner and they came
:17:33. > :17:37.together closer after that, so there is no reason to think this incident
:17:38. > :17:42.would disturb the relationship I think. It is striking that the Sun
:17:43. > :17:47.has gone with the assassin, rather than what happened in Germany, which
:17:48. > :17:52.is closer to home and affected many people, and this appears to be a
:17:53. > :17:57.terror at, as we said, and would resonate stronger with British
:17:58. > :18:01.readers, but this picture is, it is just extraordinary, isn't it,
:18:02. > :18:08.holding the gun, pointing it in the air, and it is quite incredible to
:18:09. > :18:12.capture that moment. Indeed. What a day it has been, pretty horrible,
:18:13. > :18:19.but it has been good to have you both into the studio. Thank you
:18:20. > :18:21.both. That is it for The Papers. Coming up now, it is time for