:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK
:00:08. > :00:10.I'm Karin Giannone The Headlines Tunisia says it's uncovered
:00:11. > :00:15.a terrorist cell linked to the Berlin Christmas
:00:16. > :00:32.A nephew of Anis Amri was among one of the three men arrested
:00:33. > :00:34.Benjamin Netanyhu orders a review of Israel's relationship
:00:35. > :00:36.with with the United Nations after a vote condemning
:00:37. > :01:11.Security forces in Tunisia say they've arrested three members
:01:12. > :01:14.of a terrorist cell linked to Anis Amri, the Tunisian
:01:15. > :01:17.who killed 12 people by driving a lorry into a Christmas market
:01:18. > :01:20.The interior ministry said one of those detained was Amri's nephew.
:01:21. > :01:23.24-year-old Anis Amri was shot dead by police in Milan in the early
:01:24. > :01:43.This is Anis Amri, the man suspected of being behind the attack on a
:01:44. > :01:46.Berlin Christmas market. And now, authorities across Europe and the
:01:47. > :01:58.Middle East are trying to piece together his extremist connections.
:01:59. > :02:00.Now a clearer picture of his network is emerging.
:02:01. > :02:03.Officials in Tunis say he was connected to a militant cell,
:02:04. > :02:08.Amri is thought to have sent his nephew money
:02:09. > :02:12.The nephew's now in custody in Tunisia.
:02:13. > :02:20.The Spanish authorities are investigating whether Amri may have
:02:21. > :02:30.In Tunis today, hundreds of people took to the streets
:02:31. > :02:33.They gathered outside the Bardo Museum, which was attacked
:02:34. > :02:40.In recent years around five and a half thousand Tunisians have
:02:41. > :02:42.joined jihadist groups, making the country one
:02:43. > :02:49.of the largest exporters of militants in the region.
:02:50. > :02:52.TRANSLATION: The terrorists damage the image of Tunisia in the world,
:02:53. > :02:54.and have harmed the expats who are living abroad.
:02:55. > :02:57.TRANSLATION: Our message is from the heart, it is a panic
:02:58. > :02:59.wave, and you need to understand, Tunisians are afraid,
:03:00. > :03:12.Shot dead in an exchange of fire with the police
:03:13. > :03:26.And the hunt for more clues about the attacker goes on.
:03:27. > :03:28.What began as a horrific attack here in Germany has become
:03:29. > :03:31.an investigation spanning Europe and beyond.
:03:32. > :03:33.German investigators want to know if he had supporters here,
:03:34. > :03:36.people who may have helped him planned the attack and his escape.
:03:37. > :03:39.As the city turns down to Christmas, the authorities are still at work.
:03:40. > :03:52.So following the arrests in Tunisia, are the suspects now likely to be
:03:53. > :04:01.The BBC's Rana Javad is in the capital Tunis.
:04:02. > :04:07.It is highly unlikely they will be extradited. I did speak to an
:04:08. > :04:11.official at the foreign ministry earlier asking if there was any
:04:12. > :04:16.request from the German authorities in that regard and he said so far,
:04:17. > :04:21.no request. But in any case, this matter will be handled internally
:04:22. > :04:27.here with Aran investigations and he also said there is no hesitation on
:04:28. > :04:30.the Tunisian parts to cooperate fully with the German authorities,
:04:31. > :04:34.but given the information that has so far been made available to us
:04:35. > :04:41.from the Interior Ministry, it does not seem to suggest that this attack
:04:42. > :04:50.was something necessarily planned from here, but rather that Anis Amri
:04:51. > :04:55.tried to recruit his own nephew in recent months and succeeded in doing
:04:56. > :05:00.so if all of the stamens we've gotten so far are accurate, as well
:05:01. > :05:11.as to whether people links to him here as well.
:05:12. > :05:13.Israel's re-evaluating all of its contacts
:05:14. > :05:15.with the United Nations, including its funding UN
:05:16. > :05:17.institutions and the presence of UN representatives in Israel.
:05:18. > :05:19.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement a day
:05:20. > :05:22.after the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a halt
:05:23. > :05:23.to Israeli settlement-building on occupied Palestinian land.
:05:24. > :05:25.praised US President-elect Donald Trump,
:05:26. > :05:27.who's suggested he will reverse America's position on the issue
:05:28. > :05:44.at the UN, which allowed the resolution to pass.>
:05:45. > :05:50.TRANSLATION: We are entering a new era and as President-elect Trump
:05:51. > :05:58.said yesterday, this is going to be much quicker than people think.
:05:59. > :06:01.The passing of the resolution has been celebrated by Palestinians,
:06:02. > :06:04.as our Middle East Correspondent, Yolande Knell explains.
:06:05. > :06:11.Here in Bethlehem, there is the festive mood, for many Palestinians
:06:12. > :06:14.feel they have bigger reason to celebrate after this UN Security
:06:15. > :06:18.Council resolution which said Israeli settlements are a fragrance
:06:19. > :06:24.violation of international law. It has been welcomed by over different
:06:25. > :06:27.political factions in Palestine and they are hoping it will strengthen
:06:28. > :06:33.their legal case when they pursue action against Israel in the
:06:34. > :06:41.international courts. For it's parts, is really officials have come
:06:42. > :06:45.out and said this is disgraceful and shameful a resolution and the
:06:46. > :06:50.Israeli Prime Minister has said he will not abide by its terms. There
:06:51. > :06:54.are more than 600,000 Israelis living in settlements in the
:06:55. > :07:01.occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, that is on land that
:07:02. > :07:05.Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. And the US really feels
:07:06. > :07:10.that at the Security Council it was betrayed by his closest ally, the
:07:11. > :07:14.US, which usually uses its veto power to block any resolution
:07:15. > :07:18.critical of Israel. Now it is looking to President-elect Donald
:07:19. > :07:22.Trump for support and he has already come out on Twitter saying things
:07:23. > :07:24.will be different after January 20, which is of course when he takes
:07:25. > :07:31.office. The Nigerian president
:07:32. > :07:33.Muhammadu Buhari says the army has captured a key base of the Islamist
:07:34. > :07:40.militant group Boko Haram. The president said the group
:07:41. > :07:42.now had nowhere to hide after being forced out
:07:43. > :07:45.of what he called its last enclave. Boko Haram still stages suicide
:07:46. > :07:47.bombings in the northeast and in neighbouring
:07:48. > :07:59.Niger and Cameroon. Despite the progress, the Nigerian
:08:00. > :08:02.Government still has some way to go before victory over Boko Haram is
:08:03. > :08:08.achieved. We have to recognise this comes in a long line of quite strong
:08:09. > :08:11.statements from the president about Boko Haram. A year ago or so he told
:08:12. > :08:15.the BBC that the war against the militant group was technically one
:08:16. > :08:20.and the Government had one at that war and yet, in that past year, we
:08:21. > :08:24.have seen suicide bomb attacks and other attacks by Boko Haram. What is
:08:25. > :08:28.clear is the militant group have lost an awful lot of territory and
:08:29. > :08:31.do not control big towns. It seems according to the President's
:08:32. > :08:37.statement that they may have lost their territory in the north-east of
:08:38. > :08:41.the country. But the group's tactics have changed and they've become an
:08:42. > :08:46.organisation that uses more suicide attacks and sneak attacks rather
:08:47. > :08:51.than old and territory. So it would be premature to say that Boko Haram
:08:52. > :08:55.was finished, they still operate in Chad and regional countries, too. It
:08:56. > :09:01.was also striking that the president referred to new efforts to get the
:09:02. > :09:07.release of the schoolgirls who were taken over two years ago and around
:09:08. > :09:13.200 of them are still believed to be in captivity of Boko Haram. He did
:09:14. > :09:17.not say we have taken them back from this camp, it had been assumed
:09:18. > :09:20.they'd been captured. So the implication would be they do not
:09:21. > :09:26.know exactly where the girls are and I would also imply that Boko Haram
:09:27. > :09:28.is still in places in Nigeria or in neighbouring countries where the
:09:29. > :09:33.Nigerian Government cannot get to them. So the war is definitely not
:09:34. > :09:35.over, but the Government at least, the Nigerian Government, is saying
:09:36. > :09:46.this is a major step forward in that war. Reports from Congo said talks
:09:47. > :09:49.of the deal Senate President leaving power at the end of next year I'll
:09:50. > :09:52.close to agreement. The president has refused to step down even though
:09:53. > :09:56.his term of office has expired. Under the proposed agreement, a new
:09:57. > :09:59.Prime Minister will be chosen from the opposition and elections would
:10:00. > :10:03.be held next year. Temperatures in the North Pole could be up to 20
:10:04. > :10:07.degrees higher than average today in what scientists say is a
:10:08. > :10:11.record-breaking heatwave. They say an air temperature of just below
:10:12. > :10:19.freezing instead of the usual level of around -30 is preventing ice from
:10:20. > :10:21.forming. Researchers say the unseasonably warm weather patterns
:10:22. > :10:24.have a direct link to man-made climate change. Actress Carrie
:10:25. > :10:27.Fisher is in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a
:10:28. > :10:31.heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She is best known
:10:32. > :10:36.for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films. Miss Fisher who is
:10:37. > :10:46.60 was flying back after finishing a tour to promote her autobiography.
:10:47. > :10:55.Rick Parfitt has died in Spain at the age of 68. He was being treated
:10:56. > :10:57.in hospital for a severe infection. He was still recovering from a heart
:10:58. > :11:06.attack he suffered earlier this summer.
:11:07. > :11:24.I've got to where I wanted to go, to become a pop star or a rock star.
:11:25. > :11:27.To Status Quo fans he was easy to spot, the bobbing blond head.
:11:28. > :11:29.He was responsible for some of rock music's greatest riffs.
:11:30. > :11:37.From 1972 there was a Status Quo album in the top ten
:11:38. > :11:45.Rick Parfitt met Francis Rossi when they were teenagers.
:11:46. > :11:53.Their first single was a bit of 60s psychedelia.
:11:54. > :11:57.But their passion was something a bit more raw.
:11:58. > :12:06.All our records sound alike, of course they do,
:12:07. > :12:11.They are going to sound like us, who are we supposed to sound like?
:12:12. > :12:18.As soon as I had the idea, I couldn't think of anyone better.
:12:19. > :12:31.MUSIC: "Rockin' All Over the World" by Status Quo.
:12:32. > :12:33.When it came to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll,
:12:34. > :12:40.This riff arose from the consequence of a huge dose of amphetamines.
:12:41. > :12:46.Good night, Rick, see you in the morning!
:12:47. > :13:00.I came back in the morning and he was there.
:13:01. > :13:15.He has a particular type of woman, blondes!
:13:16. > :13:18.Even when he was recovering from heart surgery he was still
:13:19. > :13:30.When it came to turning rock into hit songs,
:13:31. > :13:59.Pope Francis 's lead in the Catholic Church by celebrating Mass at Saint
:14:00. > :14:07.Peter 's Basilica in the Vatican. There he is. David, the first major
:14:08. > :14:16.event of the Christmas season for the Pope? Yes, and there is heavy
:14:17. > :14:20.security in the Vatican. There are policemen and soldiers stationed
:14:21. > :14:28.every few hundred yards, so the crowds attending tonight's midnight
:14:29. > :14:34.mass inside Saint Peter's Basilica have had to pass through metal
:14:35. > :14:41.detectors. There's a general sense of insecurity I think here in Italy
:14:42. > :14:49.after the attacks in Berlin and the shooting of the main suspect up in
:14:50. > :14:55.Milan. The Pope at is just making his money, his first public
:14:56. > :15:05.appearance during the Christmas holiday. And he is talking about the
:15:06. > :15:13.necessity for Christians to humble themselves before Christ and he is
:15:14. > :15:22.saying that in the world today, if you look around, there are many
:15:23. > :15:31.children are suffering in ways that defied dignity. It talks about
:15:32. > :15:34.children suffering in ships with other migrants cross in the
:15:35. > :15:39.Mediterranean. Children who are hungry and have been trying to
:15:40. > :15:47.shelter from the bonds in Aleppo. -- the bonds. I think it is a muted
:15:48. > :16:01.Christmas message, nonetheless though, it is... David, I am afraid
:16:02. > :16:09.we are losing sound there. Apologies for this. Thank you from David and
:16:10. > :16:17.you can see what is going on in Saint Peter's Basilica. Pope Francis
:16:18. > :16:22.celebrating Christmas Eve Mass. Stay with us. Still to come. We meet the
:16:23. > :16:23.French oyster farmers using a high-tech solution to stop thieves
:16:24. > :16:30.from stealing their catch. The Queen's granddaughter
:16:31. > :16:32.Zara Tindall and her husband Mike The couple announced
:16:33. > :16:39.they were expecting their In a statement the spokeswoman said:
:16:40. > :16:43."Very sadly, Zara and Mike Tindall At this difficult time,
:16:44. > :16:55.we ask that everyone Buckingham Palace last thing it is a
:16:56. > :17:00.private matter. Zara was always an ambiguous situation. Although she is
:17:01. > :17:03.the Queen's granddaughter, neither she nor her husband are members of
:17:04. > :17:08.the working royal family. They both carved out distinguished careers in
:17:09. > :17:12.their respective sporting fields. They married in 2011 and have one
:17:13. > :17:17.daughter who will be three next month. This pregnancy announced a
:17:18. > :17:20.month ago, and it was thought this baby would have been born in the
:17:21. > :17:26.spring, so it is thought that she would have been around four months
:17:27. > :17:36.pregnant. No medical risk to her, but as you say, very sad for both of
:17:37. > :17:40.them. You're watching BBC world News today. The latest headlines. Tunisia
:17:41. > :17:41.says it has uncovered a terror selling to the Berlin Christmas
:17:42. > :17:53.market attacker, Anis Amri. orders a review of Israel's contacts
:17:54. > :17:55.with the United Nations, after a resolution demanded a halt
:17:56. > :18:26.to Israeli settlement-building Fatima is a child of war. All three
:18:27. > :18:28.years old, she is to understand why her countrymen have turned their
:18:29. > :18:32.guns on each other the knots too young to bear the scars. She was
:18:33. > :18:35.seven years old when a tank shell tore through her home in
:18:36. > :18:38.north-western Syria. The final followed cripple the right hand,
:18:39. > :18:43.legs and vocal cords. 60% of her body was burnt. Her father went from
:18:44. > :18:49.hospital to hospital, pleading for doctors to save her life. Bred
:18:50. > :18:53.TRANSLATION: One hospital suggested giving her a lethal injection. They
:18:54. > :19:00.said Burns were too severe and that she be disabled for life. Now, when
:19:01. > :19:09.I look, I thank God she is alive and she makes us feel happy just by
:19:10. > :19:15.Cinco. -- just by seeing her. German surgeon heard the story and decided
:19:16. > :19:17.it could have a happy ending. She was instrumental in bringing Fatima
:19:18. > :19:26.and her friend -- family to Germany. She is damage treated. It is a huge
:19:27. > :19:29.challenge to operate on a child that is very underweight. She has the
:19:30. > :19:35.weight of a one-year-old. But we cannot wait much longer, because we
:19:36. > :19:38.want to walk as soon as possible. The doctors they have decades of
:19:39. > :19:43.experience, but even for them, this is not an everyday operation. The
:19:44. > :19:47.surgeons are conducting several procedures today. They want is to
:19:48. > :19:51.heal some of the scars of Fatima's face and test to see if they can
:19:52. > :19:54.help her hair grow again. But the main aim is to help her walk again
:19:55. > :19:59.and they are correcting her feet and using steel pins to keep them in
:20:00. > :20:05.place. If all goes well, they hope she can walk after three months.
:20:06. > :20:10.Three hours later, the operation is finished. Doctors say it will be
:20:11. > :20:17.sometime before they can determine whether it was success or not. It is
:20:18. > :20:20.not only if the mechanics are corrected, but also the psychology
:20:21. > :20:31.of being able to stand on her feet and climate and use her feet and
:20:32. > :20:35.start walking. So we don't know yet. For now, Fatima's wombs have been
:20:36. > :20:41.reopened. Her mother hopes that tears are worth it.
:20:42. > :20:46.TRANSLATION: We will walk together, God willing. And I hope she will be
:20:47. > :20:53.in the best position. She has suffered so much as a child. Fatima
:20:54. > :20:55.will remain in hospital for many weeks. She will receive
:20:56. > :21:00.physiotherapy and psychological support and Doctor soaps operate on
:21:01. > :21:11.her again in January. There will be more pain ahead, but the worst is
:21:12. > :21:15.now over. You may have heard of sheep rustling cattle rustling, but
:21:16. > :21:18.how about oyster rustling? In France every year, as the festive season
:21:19. > :21:22.gets underway, oyster farms on the coast are increasingly the target of
:21:23. > :21:27.thieves trying to cash in on the lucrative Christmas market. But help
:21:28. > :21:34.is at hand thanks to a new secret electronic oyster that act as a
:21:35. > :21:38.tracking device if it is moved. Every year at Christmas time, the
:21:39. > :21:44.French shell out millions of euros on seafood. And every year here, the
:21:45. > :21:49.farm shop does a thriving trade. But there is a downside to the booming
:21:50. > :21:55.oyster beds as demand goes up, so do prices and so does the temptation
:21:56. > :22:00.for oyster poaching. Oyster rustling at Christmas time in France is no
:22:01. > :22:03.laughing matter. Every year, tonnes of oysters are being stolen by
:22:04. > :22:09.unscrupulous operators and oyster growers have to spend a fortune of
:22:10. > :22:15.their own on security and night time patrols and cameras. At the nearby
:22:16. > :22:19.town there is a high-tech hub where they may have another answer.
:22:20. > :22:26.Scientists say have devised a kind of spy in the sea. This succulent
:22:27. > :22:30.thing has valves of the electronic kind. It sits with the real oysters
:22:31. > :22:38.and if they are unexpectedly taken off in the back of a truck, it sends
:22:39. > :22:43.out an alarm. They have a motion detector. The battery and a GPS
:22:44. > :22:47.process are in there. If there is a movement on the process is wakened
:22:48. > :22:57.and it sets the GPS position to your mobile phone. It can stay in water
:22:58. > :23:01.for up to two years. Being indistinguishable from the rest of
:23:02. > :23:06.the by, the Beacon will not be seen by the poacher. Here they fear
:23:07. > :23:09.night-time raids and at low tide, with a team of thieves and a truck,
:23:10. > :23:13.it would not take more than an hour to lift the terms of oysters that
:23:14. > :23:18.idea, especially if they know what they are doing. Oddly enough, the
:23:19. > :23:24.culprits are thought to be mainly other oyster growers.
:23:25. > :23:28.TRANSLATION: The problem is that orders for Christmas are made by
:23:29. > :23:31.wholesalers are very early in the year, but later, when some growers
:23:32. > :23:34.realise they are not going to be able to fulfil their orders, the
:23:35. > :23:39.easy solution for them is to steal oysters from their neighbours. There
:23:40. > :23:44.is a small amount of petty theft, it is true, but that is a side issue.
:23:45. > :23:49.Petty thieves cannot make off with five tonnes. There is one downside,
:23:50. > :23:57.of course, somewhere in here, there is a secret sleeper. Who is going to
:23:58. > :24:06.crunch into that for the Christmas lunch? President Obama has delivered
:24:07. > :24:09.his final Christmas message from the White House. Sitting alongside his
:24:10. > :24:10.wife Michelle, he said it had been an honour to serve as America's
:24:11. > :24:15.president. One of the best parts of the holiday
:24:16. > :24:19.season is spending time with the special people in your life
:24:20. > :24:22.and for me that means getting some help from my best
:24:23. > :24:25.friend for our annual Given how our first Christmas
:24:26. > :24:28.weekly address went, This is our first Christmas
:24:29. > :24:34.in the White House and... All right, you got
:24:35. > :24:47.to get it together. You are going to have
:24:48. > :24:50.to pull it together, Potus. Celebrating the holidays
:24:51. > :24:52.in the White House over these past eight years has been
:24:53. > :24:54.a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over
:24:55. > :24:56.half a million guests, our outstanding pastry chefs have
:24:57. > :24:58.baked 200,000 holiday cookies. And Barack has treated
:24:59. > :25:02.the American people Although a few got
:25:03. > :25:15.a frosty reception. We wish you and your family
:25:16. > :25:37.a happy and healthy 2017. Pope Francis is celebrating
:25:38. > :25:40.Christmas eve Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica. It is very busy and we
:25:41. > :25:47.have heard that this is the first major event of the Christmas season
:25:48. > :25:49.for Pope Francis. Of course there is his nude blessing on Christmas Day.
:25:50. > :25:50.Let us