:00:00. > :00:08.The man suspected of the Berlin Christmas market attack
:00:09. > :00:14.Anis Amri was stopped by police in Milan in the early hours
:00:15. > :00:32.TRANSLATION: At that moment the man got hold of a pistol and without
:00:33. > :00:36.hesitation fired in the direction of an officer who had asked the
:00:37. > :00:40.documents. I pledge allegiance to the command of the faithful.
:00:41. > :00:42.So-called Islamic State releases footage showing Amri
:00:43. > :00:45.More questions about the police investigation as it emerges Amri
:00:46. > :00:48.was able to travel from Germany to France and then
:00:49. > :00:56.The round the clock work on the railways that will mean no
:00:57. > :01:04.President Putin faces the world's press,
:01:05. > :01:08.And says he is not worried about Donald Trump's talk of a new arms
:01:09. > :01:10.race. And why a third of the homeless
:01:11. > :01:12.say they have been And coming up in Sportsday later
:01:13. > :01:16.in the hour on BBC News, we'll look ahead to the start
:01:17. > :01:19.of a busy Christmas fixture list, with Chelsea top of the tree.
:01:20. > :01:39.But can they stay there? Good evening and welcome
:01:40. > :01:42.to the BBC News at Six. The man suspected of
:01:43. > :01:44.the Berlin Christmas market attack has been shot dead
:01:45. > :01:48.by police in Italy. Anis Amri had been missing
:01:49. > :01:51.since the attack on Monday - it appears he left Germany
:01:52. > :01:56.for France, before crossing into Italy,
:01:57. > :02:00.able to move undetected around the continent despite
:02:01. > :02:02.a Europe-wide manhunt. Italian police stopped him
:02:03. > :02:04.in the early hours this morning at a train station in Milan,
:02:05. > :02:06.shooting him dead after The Italian authorities
:02:07. > :02:10.say his fingerprints match those found on the steering wheel
:02:11. > :02:12.of the lorry which killed twelve Our Europe correspondent
:02:13. > :02:28.Damian Grammaticus has the latest. Anis Amri's brief violent life as a
:02:29. > :02:34.terrorist ended here, in an exchange of gunfire on the edge of Milan.
:02:35. > :02:39.Alone and hunted, he managed to flee 1000 kilometres south from Berlin
:02:40. > :02:43.but at three in the morning, acting suspiciously, he was stopped by two
:02:44. > :02:50.officers and tried to shoot them. TRANSLATION: At that moment, the
:02:51. > :02:53.man, without hesitating, pulled out a pistol, fired towards the
:02:54. > :02:58.policeman who had asked for identity documents. The officers reacted
:02:59. > :03:03.immediately. The one who was hit is recovering in hospital. His
:03:04. > :03:07.condition is not life-threatening. And this has just been released by
:03:08. > :03:11.so-called Islamic State, a recording made in Berlin by Anis Amri sometime
:03:12. > :03:16.before the attack, pledging his allegiance. It is now believed that
:03:17. > :03:18.the 24-year-old Tunisian may have been radicalised after he arrived in
:03:19. > :03:49.Europe, perhaps in the four years he was in jail in
:03:50. > :03:52.Italy. German security services knew he was a threat and he talked of
:03:53. > :03:55.buying guns, not using a truck. So how did he get all the way to Italy?
:03:56. > :03:57.This is what we know about his movements, at 8pm on Monday he
:03:58. > :04:00.attacked the Christmas market then vanished, managed to get to Sian
:04:01. > :04:03.Berry in France, a train ticket in his pocket showed he went to Turin
:04:04. > :04:06.and then onto Milan central station arriving at 1am and finally he took
:04:07. > :04:08.the Metro to the last stop, where he was shot. TRANSLATION: Row at the
:04:09. > :04:11.end of this week we can be relieved that one acute threat has come to an
:04:12. > :04:14.end but the general threat posed by terrorism will continue. We would
:04:15. > :04:16.our utmost to make sure our state as a strong state. So Germany is trying
:04:17. > :04:20.to root out radical Islamic networks. We visited this place
:04:21. > :04:25.today, a short distance from where Anis Amri's new video was recorded.
:04:26. > :04:30.This is one of the places that Anis Amri was known to frequent in the
:04:31. > :04:47.months he was in Berlin. A residential
:04:48. > :04:52.complex but the reason he would come here, in this corner, what used to
:04:53. > :04:54.be a mosque. It was closed down and became a meeting point for radical
:04:55. > :04:56.Islamist. One of the neighbours said small groups of young Islamic men
:04:57. > :04:58.continue to use the building, they beat late at night, apparently
:04:59. > :05:01.discussing attacks. TRANSLATION: Of course it was dangerous, when the
:05:02. > :05:03.men sit here and fantasise about carrying out attacks, yes, I was
:05:04. > :05:10.worried, my children and my family live here. With the immediate danger
:05:11. > :05:16.apparently over, Merlin is gathered for a meeting by the Brandenburg
:05:17. > :05:22.gate no matter what, we are all one, we come together and think of the
:05:23. > :05:27.victims. It is something they have to be. Germany is now confronting
:05:28. > :05:29.the reality, it faces new and hidden threats.
:05:30. > :05:32.Damian, the main suspect is now dead, but this is unlikely
:05:33. > :05:34.to be the end of the road for the investigation
:05:35. > :05:46.Fiona, what the authorities are now saying, here, is that what they must
:05:47. > :05:50.focus on now are the lessons to be learned. The first thing they are
:05:51. > :05:54.looking at, was there a network of people, supporters who helped Anis
:05:55. > :05:57.Amri carry out the attack and then flee? Angela Merkel says there are
:05:58. > :06:02.many lessons to be learned from this. She talked about the need to
:06:03. > :06:07.speed up the deportation process of those whose asylum claims fail. I
:06:08. > :06:12.think they will also look at the intelligence and police services's
:06:13. > :06:16.handling of this case. Remember he managed to leave through here and he
:06:17. > :06:20.got through France to Italy and was stopped this morning, not by a
:06:21. > :06:25.police operation but by some young officers. The one who shot him had
:06:26. > :06:29.been in the Italian police force for nine months. So there are political
:06:30. > :06:34.questions, far right politicians like Marine Le Pen in France already
:06:35. > :06:39.raising questions about Europe's border security. What the interior
:06:40. > :06:43.Minister says this shows is the need for more cooperation although he
:06:44. > :06:45.emphasises that the terrorist threat against Germany remains high.
:06:46. > :06:48.Damian, thank you. Here extensive rail engineering work
:06:49. > :06:50.starts across Britain tonight...with two hundred different projects
:06:51. > :06:52.being carried out over The biggest re-signalling scheme
:06:53. > :06:56.in the network's history will close a line between Cardiff
:06:57. > :06:57.Central and the Valleys. And several stations -
:06:58. > :07:00.including Paddington in London - will be either partially
:07:01. > :07:02.or completely shut for several days. Our transport correspondent
:07:03. > :07:04.Richard Westcott is in Paddington now, so no trains coming in or out
:07:05. > :07:16.of there from midnight tonight. No, absolutely. Loads of people
:07:17. > :07:21.rushing past with suitcases trying to get on the last trains, they are
:07:22. > :07:26.shutting Paddington for six days. Network Rail always chooses the
:07:27. > :07:30.holidays to do the big disruptive engineering work because it says the
:07:31. > :07:35.trains are only half full. That is when they say it affects the fewest
:07:36. > :07:37.number of people. But it also means every Christmas thousands of people
:07:38. > :07:39.get disrupted. It's going to be the biggest rail
:07:40. > :07:42.upgrade ever taken on, and it all starts late tonight,
:07:43. > :07:44.hitting services across South Wales, The lack of trains will
:07:45. > :07:48.make the roads busier. And it's a popular time to fly
:07:49. > :07:54.away for the holidays. So why do they always pick Christmas
:07:55. > :08:01.to close the railways? We have a huge programme of works
:08:02. > :08:04.that we have to deliver as part And some of that work just can't be
:08:05. > :08:09.done on a live railway. So Christmas is the best time to do
:08:10. > :08:14.it, because it's one 24,000 engineers will work on 200
:08:15. > :08:23.sites across Britain. One of the bigger jobs they're
:08:24. > :08:26.doing this Christmas is to open up and test these
:08:27. > :08:29.new lines between the Critically, they unblock
:08:30. > :08:32.a bottleneck between the trains going from Heathrow into Paddington
:08:33. > :08:35.station in London. It'll hit services
:08:36. > :08:40.across the country. Paddington Station will actually
:08:41. > :08:43.close for six days after the last Services at other big stations,
:08:44. > :08:47.including London Bridge, Charing Cross and Liverpool Street,
:08:48. > :08:50.will be severely affected. There will be no trains
:08:51. > :08:53.late on Christmas Eve between Cardiff Central,
:08:54. > :08:56.Bridgend, Newport and the Valleys, because they're
:08:57. > :08:59.resignalling the whole area. It's affecting me in that I have
:09:00. > :09:06.to take an extra day off work, because of the replacement bus
:09:07. > :09:08.service not being good But also, I understand
:09:09. > :09:11.the work needs to be done. At this time of the year families
:09:12. > :09:14.want to get together, if they haven't seen each other
:09:15. > :09:16.for a while. And then they're all
:09:17. > :09:18.distracted, aren't they? Totally inconvenient,
:09:19. > :09:21.because you have a lot of commuters over the Christmas period,
:09:22. > :09:23.shopping as well between As ever, leave plenty of time
:09:24. > :09:26.before you head off, and double-check your train
:09:27. > :09:29.is even running. Two British men have been found
:09:30. > :09:35.guilty of using aid convoys to send thousands of pounds in cash
:09:36. > :09:40.to extremists in Syria. The court heard how high profile
:09:41. > :09:44.Muslim community-led convoys became unwitting participants in a plan
:09:45. > :09:47.to fund terrorism. One of the infiltrated aid missions
:09:48. > :09:50.included Alan Henning, the taxi driver from Eccles,
:09:51. > :09:52.who was subsequently kidnapped and murdered
:09:53. > :10:08.by so-called Islamic State. A la Po... Humanitarian aid for
:10:09. > :10:12.people stuck in one of the most dangerous places on earth. Britons
:10:13. > :10:16.have donated millions to help civilians caught in the crossfire of
:10:17. > :10:19.conflict. Three years ago these convoys were at the heart of those
:10:20. > :10:27.efforts. Their two men have been found guilty of infiltrating them,
:10:28. > :10:33.Slade, a former probation officer, and another man used the convoys to
:10:34. > :10:38.send cash to voters. One said these pictures by his nephew who was in a
:10:39. > :10:43.group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, he advised him not to mutilate his
:10:44. > :10:47.enemies and sent thousands of pounds through unwitting convoys. The
:10:48. > :10:50.convoys were infiltrated and the goodwill of charities abused by
:10:51. > :10:56.taking money and goods from the UK to Syria to help terrorists. Today's
:10:57. > :10:59.verdict is the first formal finding that the Syrian aid convoys were
:11:00. > :11:05.exploited for terrorism. There were also two years in the public gallery
:11:06. > :11:09.the two men acquitted, two years that highlight how complicated and
:11:10. > :11:16.emotive PSU has been for Muslim communities. When you see what is
:11:17. > :11:21.needed getting to where it needs to go... Alan Henning taken hostage by
:11:22. > :11:25.Isis in December 2013 and murdered nine months later, he went to Syria
:11:26. > :11:31.in one of the convoys abused by the guilty men. One man acquitted today
:11:32. > :11:36.of funding terrorism was on that convoy, he publicly appealed for the
:11:37. > :11:39.life of Alan Henning. We beg you to tread the path of Justice and show
:11:40. > :11:44.them the compassion that Allah has placed in the hearts of believers.
:11:45. > :11:49.Under pressure from the government and the police the aid convoys ended
:11:50. > :11:52.after the kidnap of Alan Henning. Dominic Casciani, BBC News.
:11:53. > :11:55.The hijackers of a Libyan jet have been arrested following a stand-off
:11:56. > :12:01.The domestic flight with 118 people on board was hijacked this
:12:02. > :12:03.morning after taking off from Sabha in the south of Libya,
:12:04. > :12:06.After spending several hours on the tarmac,
:12:07. > :12:08.hostages were gradually released - the hijackers were then
:12:09. > :12:16.The United Nations Refugee Agency says over 5,000 migrants
:12:17. > :12:20.and refugees have died in the Mediterranean this year,
:12:21. > :12:22.the highest annual death toll so far.
:12:23. > :12:24.Almost 360,000 migrants entered Europe by sea
:12:25. > :12:25.this year, according to the International
:12:26. > :12:32.Most of them arrived in Italy and Greece.
:12:33. > :12:38.Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested he expects US
:12:39. > :12:46.-- he has said he does not want to see a new arms race with the United
:12:47. > :12:53.States but will develop new arms of necessary. Blood amid Putin also
:12:54. > :12:55.denied any hacking or involvement in the US presidential campaign.
:12:56. > :13:01.From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg reports.
:13:02. > :13:06.On the international stage Vladimir Putin has been centrestage in 2016
:13:07. > :13:11.and today shared his view of the world with the world's media.
:13:12. > :13:18.Putting a question to the president is not easy when there are 1000 of
:13:19. > :13:23.you and just one of him. But he agreed to take my question. Mr
:13:24. > :13:27.President, your country has been accused of state sponsored hacking
:13:28. > :13:30.with the aim of influencing the result of the US presidential
:13:31. > :13:35.election, and president Obama revealed that he told you personally
:13:36. > :13:42.to cut it out. What did you tell him in response? The president refused
:13:43. > :13:49.to say, dismissing all the talk of hacking as sour grapes from the
:13:50. > :13:53.Democratic party. TRANSLATION: The losing side always tries to pass the
:13:54. > :14:00.buck. They would do better to look for the problems among themselves.
:14:01. > :14:03.Russia, says President Putin, was modernising its nuclear missile
:14:04. > :14:08.potential but he claimed he was not worried by Donald Trump's tweet
:14:09. > :14:12.yesterday pledging to boost America's nuclear capability. Are
:14:13. > :14:17.you not concerned that there is a danger of a new arms race if America
:14:18. > :14:22.is talking of boosting its nuclear arsenal? TRANSLATION: The basis for
:14:23. > :14:26.a new arms race was there already. After the US pulled out of the
:14:27. > :14:28.antiballistic Missile Treaty and started to create a missile shield,
:14:29. > :14:49.so either we had to build our only shield or as we are doing develop
:14:50. > :14:52.weapons to penetrate theirs. But this was not our choice. Vladimir
:14:53. > :14:55.Putin made it clear today that if there is to be a new arms race it
:14:56. > :14:57.will not be Russia's fault and he delivered a defiant message that
:14:58. > :14:59.Russia is stronger than any potential aggressor. Yet tough talk
:15:00. > :15:02.does not solve domestic problems, the Russian economy is struggling,
:15:03. > :15:06.not just because of sanctions, low oil prices have hit hard and the
:15:07. > :15:10.economy is reliant on exporting energy. This year Russia has been
:15:11. > :15:14.flexing its muscles. It wants to be seen as a global power but if
:15:15. > :15:19.President Putin does not mention the cracks in the economy he will be
:15:20. > :15:23.building a superpower on thin ice. Steve Rosenberg, BBC News, Moscow.
:15:24. > :15:28.The main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack has been
:15:29. > :15:35.And still to come, could Big Sam be on his way back to the big time?
:15:36. > :15:44.He agrees deal to become Crystal Palace's new manager. In Sportsday,
:15:45. > :15:47.Petra Kvitova says she is determined to return to tennis. She has left
:15:48. > :15:53.hospital following a knife attack. A survey of rough sleepers suggests
:15:54. > :15:57.they are 17 times more likely to be a victim of crime
:15:58. > :16:00.than the general public. The charity, Crisis,
:16:01. > :16:02.says homeless people are regularly There are thought to be about 4,000
:16:03. > :16:07.people sleeping rough The report found 30% of rough
:16:08. > :16:13.sleepers questioned said they had Nearly a third said they'd had
:16:14. > :16:19.things thrown at them, and 7% said they'd been urinated
:16:20. > :16:22.on. The charity says it
:16:23. > :16:25.demonstrates again the need Our Social Affairs Correspondent,
:16:26. > :16:31.Michael Buchanan, reports. For some people, rough
:16:32. > :16:36.sleepers have no value. I used to come in here and sleep
:16:37. > :16:56.on the trains, essentially. He took to sleeping on commuter
:16:57. > :17:00.trains after an unprovoked attack. Got into a discussion with a young
:17:01. > :17:00.man around the fact I was homeless. He became quite aggravated,
:17:01. > :17:04.I would guess, by the fact I was homeless, and was saying that
:17:05. > :17:07.people are homeless And from there he ended up
:17:08. > :17:12.punching me in the face, basically. Today's report lays bare the abuse
:17:13. > :17:21.rough sleepers can suffer. They're subjected to beatings,
:17:22. > :17:24.assaulted, even urinated on. One man told researchers
:17:25. > :17:27.who was actually dropped from a height while still
:17:28. > :17:31.in his tent. It's not just the incident itself,
:17:32. > :17:34.but it's the impact it has on that individual,
:17:35. > :17:37.and their mental health, and their We found that most homeless people
:17:38. > :17:43.who are rough sleeping, And surely if you are then urinated
:17:44. > :17:50.on, you are going to feel even more Sergeant David Deal is part
:17:51. > :17:56.of a police outreach team that works While he encourages them to report
:17:57. > :18:03.crimes, he understands why today's report says many don't
:18:04. > :18:08.trust the police. There are other aspects
:18:09. > :18:11.of their life, maybe drug use, maybe begging, maybe other forms
:18:12. > :18:17.of anti-social behaviour. When they come into contact
:18:18. > :18:19.with police regarding those types of behaviour, that's
:18:20. > :18:23.when they might not trust the police For these homeless people,
:18:24. > :18:29.this centre will provide shelter Susan Walker is currently bedding
:18:30. > :18:36.down in a stairwell. Sleep is uneasy due
:18:37. > :18:40.to the constant fear of attack. You can get some of these
:18:41. > :18:46.people now who do see a woman and they'll think,
:18:47. > :18:49.I'll go for her. And if that happened,
:18:50. > :18:52.well, as a woman, we Rough sleepers are
:18:53. > :18:56.permanently vulnerable. Any stranger could
:18:57. > :19:01.attack at any time. President Putin has called
:19:02. > :19:12.for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria, now that government forces have
:19:13. > :19:14.fully taken control The final evacuations of opposition
:19:15. > :19:19.fighters and civilians from the east of the city took place last night,
:19:20. > :19:22.in the biggest victory for President Bashar al-Assad
:19:23. > :19:26.since the uprising against him began Our Middle East Editor,
:19:27. > :19:29.Jeremy Bowen, looks at the significance
:19:30. > :19:30.of that victory, and how it may now affect
:19:31. > :19:46.the course of the war. In western Aleppo, a Christmas party
:19:47. > :19:56.became a victory celebration. It was watched over by banners of Syria's
:19:57. > :20:01.three wise men. President Assad and the leaders of Hezbollah. There was
:20:02. > :20:07.relief that the killing in the city might finally be over. The last
:20:08. > :20:11.buses out of eastern Aleppo delivered thousands of fighters and
:20:12. > :20:16.civilians into an uncertain future. The fall of Eastern Aleppo is the
:20:17. > :20:18.greatest defeat the rebels. It shows how the war is now being decided by
:20:19. > :20:21.the foreign powers that have intervened. So what is next in
:20:22. > :20:23.Syria? President Assad and his allies have
:20:24. > :20:25.won themselves some options. Their victory in Aleppo
:20:26. > :20:27.does not end the war. Thousands of rebel fighters
:20:28. > :20:29.have been bussed out to The regime and its allies
:20:30. > :20:35.want to win it back. They might decide to make Eastern
:20:36. > :20:43.Ghouta their military priority. It's part of the
:20:44. > :20:45.suburbs of Damascus. It's vulnerable because rebel groups
:20:46. > :21:02.that control it have weakened Foreign powers are shaping the
:21:03. > :21:07.battlefield. Turkey has troops fighting in Syria and back some of
:21:08. > :21:10.the rebel groups in Aleppo. But it watched while Russia and its allies
:21:11. > :21:14.destroyed them. That's because Turkey needs Russia to stand aside
:21:15. > :21:20.while it hits the Kurds, now its main target. And while eastern
:21:21. > :21:25.Aleppo fell, the West was also a by standard. That is because the Syrian
:21:26. > :21:29.policy of the Americans, the British and their friends, never coherent,
:21:30. > :21:33.has now failed completely. Last week the British and American defence
:21:34. > :21:38.secretaries fell back on old slogans. Not credible. As the Syrian
:21:39. > :21:47.regime scored its biggest victory of the war so far. We don't see a
:21:48. > :21:53.future for President Assad in Syria, even if he defeats the opposition in
:21:54. > :21:58.Aleppo. Aleppo though looks to be a turning point. Tonight, Britain's
:21:59. > :22:02.Foreign Secretary said again that President Assad must go. But the
:22:03. > :22:06.downfall of the President looks like a hollow dream. Diplomacy hasn't
:22:07. > :22:12.done it. Earlier in the war there was a chance to make it happen. But
:22:13. > :22:18.that chance has gone well President Assad remains Russia's man. It will
:22:19. > :22:23.not be easy for his coalition to move from Aleppo to victory in
:22:24. > :22:30.Syria. But now they have the momentum. Jeremy Bowen, BBC News.
:22:31. > :23:01.Former England manager Sam Allardyce has agreed a deal to become the new
:23:02. > :23:01.manager of Crystal Palace. A formal announcement is due this evening. He
:23:02. > :23:02.has been out of the game since leaving the England job in September
:23:03. > :23:02.after one match. Here is Richard Conway.
:23:03. > :23:02.Three months on from losing his dream job as England manager, Sam
:23:03. > :23:02.Allardyce is on the brink of a return to the Premier League.
:23:03. > :23:02.He was forced out of Wembley after just one
:23:03. > :23:06.match in charge, following a newspaper sting in which he
:23:07. > :23:08.discussed getting around FA transfer regulations.
:23:09. > :23:10.A period on the sidelines looked inevitable.
:23:11. > :23:18.But Alan Pardew has manoeuvred himself out of the
:23:19. > :23:21.Crystal Palace hot seat after winning just 26 points in his 36
:23:22. > :23:26.Well, he's seen as an expert in keeping teams in the top
:23:27. > :23:29.division, in a career that spans periods in charge of Bolton,
:23:30. > :23:35.With Crystal Palace flirting with relegation, the club's
:23:36. > :23:38.new American owners have been forced to take action.
:23:39. > :23:41.An attempt this season to play a more expansive
:23:42. > :23:43.style of football looks likely to be abandoned.
:23:44. > :23:46.The focus now will be doing whatever it takes to stay in
:23:47. > :23:51.We look at Sunderland last season, he did a
:23:52. > :23:56.And that was based really on being strong defensively.
:23:57. > :24:00.So if it is Sam, then that would be one of his strengths that he would
:24:01. > :24:03.For Sam Allardyce, there is unfinished
:24:04. > :24:07.business to attend to after his briefest of stints with England.
:24:08. > :24:10.Crystal Palace will settle for survival for now.
:24:11. > :24:13.But this ambitious club hope in time he'll do much more
:24:14. > :24:18.Richard Conway, BBC News, Selhurst Park.
:24:19. > :24:22.Storm Barbara has paid the UK a visit, with the north west
:24:23. > :24:25.of Scotland bearing the brunt of the heavy rain and winds -
:24:26. > :24:28.but it's also blown through parts of Northern England,
:24:29. > :24:36.Our Scotland Correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has more.
:24:37. > :24:39.Storm Barbara barrelled in from the west.
:24:40. > :24:42.With conditions difficult out at sea, ferries to many
:24:43. > :24:48.For those who couldn't get home early, Christmas travel plans
:24:49. > :24:56.However, the northern area is definitely off.
:24:57. > :24:59.We're reviewing those services ongoing, and we will make
:25:00. > :25:04.announcements regarding tomorrow evening.
:25:05. > :25:07.In some areas, the worst of the winds are yet to come.
:25:08. > :25:10.But gusts of up to 70 mph have already been recorded
:25:11. > :25:13.in the Western Isles, where, for a time, many homes in
:25:14. > :25:20.The stormy conditions were forecast well ahead.
:25:21. > :25:24.Extra generators shipped out and others, including farmers
:25:25. > :25:29.I slept quite well until five o'clock in the morning
:25:30. > :25:34.I spent all day yesterday preparing for it, moving
:25:35. > :25:46.livestock to sheltered areas, making sure that everything was tied
:25:47. > :25:48.With disruption to some train routes, plane routes and on ferries,
:25:49. > :25:48.Storm Barbara has been an unwanted early gift.
:25:49. > :25:51.This Christmas tree in Dunoon survived the high winds
:25:52. > :25:58.But there is more stormy weather expected in the coming days.
:25:59. > :26:12.I don't know how long that Christmas tree is going to be standing. Darren
:26:13. > :26:17.Bent is here. This weather is not unusual for
:26:18. > :26:22.winter. But it has come at the wrong time. We have got two storms. This
:26:23. > :26:29.area of Cloud is going to develop into storm Connor. That is probably
:26:30. > :26:34.going to arrive on Boxing Day. But ahead of that, if we run the
:26:35. > :26:40.sequence, you can see that we have had some very strong winds from
:26:41. > :26:45.Storm Barbara. The winds will peak in the North of Scotland during this
:26:46. > :26:51.evening. AT, maybe 90 mph. At midnight, the amber warning is gone.
:26:52. > :26:55.-- at midnight. A lot of snow showers in Scotland. Icy conditions
:26:56. > :27:00.as well. The rain clears from England and Wales. A little bit
:27:01. > :27:06.chilly. Some sunshine on the way. Showers are more frequent and heavy
:27:07. > :27:08.in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Gusty winds and more snow over the
:27:09. > :27:16.hills of Northern Ireland and Scotland. It will feel cold further
:27:17. > :27:22.south. As we head towards Christmas day, Connor is a little bit closer.
:27:23. > :27:27.It is bringing with it some very mild air. Temperatures between 14
:27:28. > :27:35.and 15 degrees. Very windy. Gusty winds. A lot of Cloud. Outbreaks of
:27:36. > :27:40.rain. This weather fronts slips south during Christmas Day. Behind
:27:41. > :27:44.it, colder air. By the end of Christmas Day, we may have a white
:27:45. > :27:51.Christmas in the North of Scotland. And then storm Connor is closest to
:27:52. > :27:56.the UK on Boxing Day. It is really again the far north of Scotland. A
:27:57. > :28:00.bit like Storm Barbara. 80 to 90 mph, especially in the Northern
:28:01. > :28:06.Isles. Windy and lots of showers on Boxing Day across Scotland. Further
:28:07. > :28:10.south, the winds will not be as strong. More sunshine. It will not
:28:11. > :28:17.feel as cold. After Boxing Day, things get quieter.
:28:18. > :28:24.A reminder of the main story. The main suspect in the Berlin Christmas
:28:25. > :28:29.market attack has been shot dead by police in Italy.
:28:30. > :28:33.And on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.