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it's been a deadly 48 hours around the globe and an isis attack in yemen killed 12 people. police say the attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism. this is what we know. 12 were killed 48 hufrt when a tractor-trailer barrelled through the market monday evening. witnesses say it happened in just seconds. they say people were screaming and running to get out of the way. some of the images you are about to see are graphic. this is a cell phone video, recorded moments after the crash. one man, now under arrest authorities are questioning him. another man found dead inside of the truck cab. police say he is polish and was not driving the vehicle.

where this happened, the christmas market is in a central square in western berlin and at a famous church of remembrance. bring in max foster live this hour. german investigators knowing for certain this is a terror attack? >> what we have security sources quoted by the news agency in germany says so far the information indicates it maybe an islamist terrorist attack. they say the driver is an afghan or pakistani asylum speaker according to their sources. security services are working hard on this trying to get what information they k. we are hearing from the ap news agency the truck did crash in to the market intentionally. that was police, according to the ap news agency. the story is coming together. germans, as you know, john, are very cautious in these cases.

an attack in munich earlier this year, a knife attack, where initially there were reports it was a terror attack. it turned out the pepper 2r5i9er w -- perpetrator was mentally ill. >> we know the extent of the injuries of those people who were wounded but survived? >> some very seriously ill in hospital and there's concern the number of deaths may rise as a result of this. it does, of course, have echos with the nice attack earlier in france. not the same scale but really is frightening. the idea that a truck would go in to a holiday market, this is a traditional in germany. tourists flock to these outdoor christmas markets, just as they flocked to the promenade when they were celebrating bastille day. the other angle to this is a lot of people pointing out the symbolism of attacking a christian celebration, as it were, a christmas market.

so huge concern in germany and across europe about what this may mean in terms of this threat of people living there, their western lives here on the continent. >> max, thank you. max foster with the latest reporting live from london. it has been a few hours now. how are you doing? >> still stunned. still a bit stunned. it's pretty early here. i'm getting a lot of phone calls an the world from family and friends and news crews trying to get some sort of story but yeah, still stunned. >> have you had a chance to process everything you went through and experienced, everything that you saw on monday? >> not really. i haven't had much sleep. every time i try to sleep tonight it's just been thoughts about what i saw and thinking about all the people who died.

pretty rough. >> it must have been horrific to be there. when you saw the truck hit the marketplace, do you remember if it appeared the delivriver was deliberately trying to run people down. >> it looked like he jumped the curb and was going out of control in the truck and swerved in to the crowded market. it came -- it went so fast and it sort of jumped the curb and went sideways from where i was at. and people starting running and dropping their -- which is a traditional here in the market. iechlt an american and only lived here three months. i knew enough to run. i ran in the other direction. there's not much cover in these markets. there's really no place to run. you have to sort of hide in a

stall or keep running. i heard popping and thought maybe there is a guy with a gun. we see it a lot in america with these people going on a rampage with guns. so i tried to duck and cover and hid behind a stall with a bunch of other people until we thought it was safe to come out. >> do you remember seeing much security at the market before the truck went in to the crowd? >> there's always security around these markets and around berlin. they are not as obvious as what you see in the u.s. with the guys in the army fatigues and guns. they are kind of very little -- hidden, not so obvious but always there and always looking around. this is very, very free society, a very open society. it's not like it's in your face so people can come and go as they please, which they like to do at the christmas markets because it's like your previous correspondent said it is a

tradition here in germany and people really love christmas here in germany. >> do you remember how long this all lasted before the truck actually stopped? >> it felt like ten hours but it was probably ten seconds. i was texting on my phone, i stopped to respond to a text and if i hadn't responded i probably would have been hit because i was only 20 feet away at that time. i looked up and people started running and scurrying and screaming. i looked up and saw this, looked like a giant u.p.s. truck and it didn't last long but it felt in slow motion trying to get away from it. very surreal. >> to say the least. thank you for being with us. obviously we are glad you are okay and that you got through this all right. and sharing this story. thank you. >> thank you. here with me is a former

member of israel's counterterrorist special operations unit. what are your thoughts on what she told you about the way the truck was driven. i thought that was interesting. >> based on what she said about the truck seeming like it was jumping the curb, that would imply that the truck would have been out of control. i think it's too early to speculate and the reason why is because i know that when it comes to this type of situation, the adrenal dump is so overwhelming. you heard what she said. what felt like ten hours was probably ten seconds. you are not necessarily the best witness when you are in and around that type of situation. so i feel like -- i feel like we need to be careful, not jump to conclusions, both on the terror side and on the fact this could be an accident. but if it walks like a duck,

smells like a duck, feels like a duck -- >> the reason i brought that up, last hour we spoke to a reporter in poland who said there's reporting there that the gps showed the truck was stopping and starting for several hours between 3:00 and 4:00 an indication they were trying to learn how to drive the vehicle. maybe whoever was driving this truck wasn't familiar with it, may have been hijacked and that's why when they hit the marketplace it wasn't like nice where the guy was experienced in driving the vehicle and maybe he -- this could have been a lot worse if it had been a much more experienced driver behind the wheel. >> i agree. i think those are all very valid points. we need to find out whether or not the truck was stolen. from what i remember hearing, the owner of the trucking company has been absolutely adamant that the driver is not connected with his company in any way, which means there's a high probability the truck was stolen, too. based op the gps, if the truck was starting and stopping it

could have been an attack that wasn't planned or maybe it wasn't was and the he thought it would be ease year to drive the truck and with this new information that trickled in, based on what she said, the truck, this could have been an accident but i'm still leaning towards the let's look at it as terror and work backwards only because the target, if it was a terror attack, is too significant and the crowd is too significant for this not to be a coincidence, if that makes sense. >> with that in mind, this was a big truck, loaded with steel, which seems to imply they picked a payload which was -- would make the truck harder to stop, more deadly. >> looked like a 52-foot truck or large transit or trrpt truck. with that weight in the truck, it would seem to do more damage. my question, john,er is where's the security? how are we protecting these

targets? that's the conversation that germany will start to have now. again,er what are we doing to make sure even if this was an accident on this type of day, how do we keep any type of vehicle from being weaponized and how do we prevent these types of attacks. >> after nice and berlin, it's a question a lot of people will be asking. thank you for joining us. and joining me is the chair of department of studies in ucla. dominick, officials in germany haven't said if the attack was linked to a jihadi group. if it was, what are the political implications for germany and chance lar angela merkel? >> the political implications are going to be absolutely overwhelming. we already see this in the response from the interior ministry who is reluctant to call it an act of terror. people are being airful about what they say. angela merkel is well aware of the fact that in 2017 a general

election is coming up. she's already had to make several statements concerning the treatment of the migrant and refugee crisis going back to the summer of 2015. she also, more recently, made a statement about possibly trying to ban the full-face muslim veil in german society. she understands clearly that anything to do with terror, islam, migrant refugee crisis and ie sigh lum seekers will defy the election. which whether this is an act of terror, inspired or copycat act, german society will be talking about this for the months to come and be a difficult conversation. >> a politician with the right wing national party alternative for germany tweeted this out minutes after the attack. this is in german. the translation reads "when will the german rule of law strike

back? when will this curse and hypocrisy end" it is merkel's death. is it an extremist view or could they be blaming the chancellor in some way for this attack? >> yes. people are aware of the fact that germany economically has been very stable, but the question of migration and national identity has become increasingly important. the alternative for germany political party has capitalized on these divisions in society. they did extremely well a few months ago in berlin elections, and they are well aware of the fact they are capable of shaping the electoral landscape in 2017. the kinds of statements you are hearing, though, are very divided in the german society. on one hand a desire to be open and not have a society policed in the way that the state of security has been dealing with attacks in france over the past year so people can circulate freely, attend things like

christmas markets and move around in german society. however, given the fact these attacks have happened yet again, in a european capital, that there was so much talk about the fact that these christmas markets were specific targets, it's going to be extreme lif difficult for her to defend what happened here last night. >> dominick, thank you for being with us and giving us perspective on the political implications of what we could expect in this coing months. we will take a short break and have more on the other breaking news. the russian ambassador to turkey has been assassinated. the possible ramifications around the world. you are watching cnn live. known for its perfect storm of tiny bubbles, it has long been called the champagne of beers. ♪ if you've got the time welcome to the high life. ♪ we've got the beer ♪ miller beer why are you checking your credit score? you don't want to drive old blue forever, do you?

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welcome back, everybody. it is 10:18 here in los angeles. both countries are investigating what they call an obvious provocation. brian todd has more from washington and a warning, his report contains graphic images. >> reporter: seconds before the chaos, russian ambassador andrei karlov's killer looms behind him at the art gallery. then, the ambassador is

instantly cut down. his attacker, a young, clean-shaven man in a suit yells god is great. do not forget aleppo, do not forget syria. do not forget aleppo, do not forget syria. get back, get back. only death will remove me from here. everyone who has taken part in this oppression, will one by one by for it. this man was rushed to a hospital now russia's ambassador to turkey is dead in what they are calling an act of terror. the turkish news agency says the gunman has been neutralized. in a plot twist out of a spy movie it appears the shooter identified as mevlut mert altintas was an officer assigned to turkey's riot police who stood behind the ambassador as if he were guarding him. what remains unclear is if he was working alone or part of a

larger conspiracy. the as in a nation cou the assassination puts pressure on the turkish government over an urgent security problem. what analysts call a growing number of turkish police and security forces who have been radicalized in recent years. >> junior people knew to those organizations and sources within the turkish government have indicated those problems have been greatest within the air force and the turkish national police. >> reporter: on the russian side, analysts say this incident, along with the shootdown of a russian passenger plane over sinai last year was part of the military prop up. >> the second way to understand it is as the continuing destabilization of the situation inside of turkey that's been going on several years and that is growing as the war in syria

continues. >> reporter: experts say expect significant and immediate blowback from this as in a natio assassination. they say recep tayyip erdogan will likely issue a crackdown on forces he suspects radicalized or otherwise turned against him. brian todd, cnn, washington. cnn producer is standing by in istanbul and jill dougherty is in seattle, washington. first on the latest on the investigation, are officials any closer to see if this police officer was acting alone or if anyone else was involved? >> well, you just don't know at this point. what we do know is he has been neutralized. we know some biographic information about him, where he went to high school, where he went to police academy. we know he's been with the riot police the last 2 1/2 years but don't know if he is linked to

the usual suspects that carry out terror attacks in turkey, mainly the kurdish separatist pkk or isis. we don't know any of those things or if he was acting alone. what we know is turkish police a have deand theed three members of the attacker's family and his roommate. that is pretty routine in turkey after terror attacks. police will detain family members and people who are close for questioning. so we don't know whether or not they were involved and whether or not any of that -- those people that have been detained are giving the turkish police anymore clues as to whether or not this attacker had any possible links to terrorist organizations or whether or not he carried out this horrific attack all on his own. john? >> thank you. jill dougherty in seattle. we had statements from the russian and turkish presidents very little daylight between the

two. listen to this. >> the committed crime is a provocation designed to spoil normalization of russia turkey relations and derailing the peace process in syria. >> after the incident, during the talk with mr. putin we agree this is a provocation and there isn't a dispute. on behalf of my country and my nation i send my condolences to mr. putin and all of the russian people. >> how long will that united front last? >> i think gul made a good point. both sides now will try to come together, show united front. but i think they can also use it to their own advantage. i mean, president recep tayyip erdogan can use it to crackdown on enemies he perceives as enemies and i think president

putin can use it to make the charge, which he has made all along, that these terrorists are the worst of the worst. we have to go after them. there are no good terrorists. what the united states is trying to do in terms of saying there's the opposition fighters and rebels. president putin can paint them all with one brush and say they have to be eliminated. what that means exactly could be continuing action. aleppo, basically, obviously, is taken, but in other areas, but i think you are going to see president putin following through on what he said, which was the killers are going to feel it. so they are going to go after them even more fervor. >> if this wubz aas an attempt drive a wedge between the russians and the turks, we don't know that, but it least for now backfired. >> least on the official level. both governments, as you said,

are taking the same approach, a united front, but among the people, especially in turkey, that could turn out somewhat differently because after all turkey has been supporting the people of aleppo, critical of president bashar al-assad. they have been supporting the people of aleppo and now we see at least no at least nomally this man used it as a reason he wanted to kill him. a lot of this is very delicate and it brings in other parties that you might not expect. for instance, in the united states could be brought in because of the rebel leader, who's in pennsylvania, and whom the turks have wanted extradi d extradited. >> the clerk who is actually

denied having anything to do with the failed coup in july as well as this assassination of the ambassador. we also heard from the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, he too stressing the unity between these two countries. here's what mr. lavrov had to say. >> translator: we are sure the main goal of those that plotted this barbaric act was to undermine the process of relations between russia and turkey. in many ways and not allow an effective fight against terrorism in syria. >> just to pick up on the last part of what lavrov said about the effective fight against terrorism in syria. is that the kind of retaliation which the russians are likely to embark on now, essentially ramping up on the groups in syria? >> i would think that is the case. you have more fighters moving in to different areas. this has been the worry all along. so where they go, how russia

continues to take that fight to the terrorists, as it metastasized through veer ya is a real problem. this is not exactly the way russia wanted it to happen. they wanted to wrap it up, destroy the terrorists, but obviously as is happening in many areas around the world, they continue, the terrorists continue to move from place to place. >> we have seen that from yemen over the weekend, as well as in berlin. of course now the assassination there in turkey. jill, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. 10:27 here in los angeles. we'll take a short break. when we come back, it is official, the electoral college has confirmed donald trump of president elect of the united states. we'll have trump's reaction in just a moment. who says i shouldn't have a soda every day?

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in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. welcome back, everybody. we are -- you are watching cnn newsroom live from los angeles. i'm john vause. the headlines this hour, monday's deadly truck attack at a christmas market in berlin is investigated as an act of terrorism. 12 people were killed, 48 injured when a truck barrelled in to the crowd. one suspect is in custody. another man was found dead inside of the truck. police say he is a polish citizen, and was not driving when it plowed through this market. turkey and russia are investigating the assassination of the russian ambassador to turkey. police officer shot andre car lo love at an art gallery. he shouted do not forget aleppo and god is greatest.

police are looking for a gunman who shot and wounded three men at an islamic center in zurich. they found the body nearby but have not said if it is related to the shooting. there's no word yet on a possible motive. u.s. president-elect trump is speaking out about the latest string of attacks in europe. he tweeted, today there were terror attacks in turkey, jit, r switzerland and germany and it's only getting worse. >> he said innocence civilians were murdered in the streets as they prepared to celebrate the christmas holiday. isis and islamist terrorists continuely slaughter christians in their communities and places of worship. we have a situation where

president-elect trump seems to be acting more like candidate. >> this is all the hallmarks as you have been discussing but donald trump did during the campaign has gone ahead of that conclusion. you wonder what will the policy process be. it is one thing as a candidate and another as a president. in the u.s. government there's an exhaustive process with deputies committees and principals committees leading to statements by the president. donald trump maybe preempting all of that. if you are rex tillerson or michael flynn are you seeing these tweets before they go out? and will he make policy on the fly? it is very much an open question. >> he said he will work with willing partners, peaceful partners to wipe out terrorists. that's a broad statement. what are the implications of a president saying those kind of things. >> you look at the first 20 minutes of the broadcast and you can understand why donald trump is president. there's a sense where many things in the world feel out of control to american voters,

safety wise, the economy, changing demography, he is promising to make all the world seem orderly again. it is a big task. there's no question, he's given us -- he's going to be aggressive in pursuing this fight against isis and terror. the question is whether more aggression produces better results, or whether it produces more of a backlash, a spreading of the ideology, even if you crush individual networks. >> it is now official, the electoral college voted for president-elect trump. he tweeted this out. we did it. thank you to my great supporters. we just officially won the election despite the distorted and inaccurate media. two went against donald trump, five did not vote for hillary clinton. >> perfect metaphor for the election year. for all of the division within the republican leadership,

elected officials finance, former government officials, at the base there was enormous unity behind donald trump. the republican leading constituents gave every last ounce they had to elect a nonurban and college whites in particular. on the other side, perfect metaphor again, there was a little waiver, it wasn't a collapse but key groups, millennials, minority voters, college-educated voters did not you know fie around hillary clinton quite as much as expected through mid october. that slight imbalance, 80% of people avopproved of clinton vod for clinton. >> we had bill clinton one of the electoral voters today. he must have been a bittersweet day for him. a bitter day. >> right. >> clearly was not happy. listen to this. >> i've never cast a vote i was

prouder of. you know, i watched her work for two years. i watched her battle through that bogus e-mail deal. be vindicated at the end when secretary powell came out. she fought through that and fought through everything and prevailed against it all, but, you know, at the end we had to russian and the fbi deal but she did everything else and still won i'm proud of her. >> is this a problem for the democrats, there are reasons why hillary clinton lost but doesn't seem to be an acknowledgment. >> that is an interesting statement she did win popular vote but she lost pennsylvania, ohio, florida and north carolina. the problems she face went beyond comey and the russians. yes, at the end, did the jim comey letter have an impact on

college educated voters, yes. she lost noncollege white voters by 40%. she had historic deficits outside of the urban centers and she lost four states they competed in most intensely on each side. there was more to it. she was a flawed candidate, limited message, limited appeal but did won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes. >> if they don't recognize those problems within the democratic party how do they rebuild? >> is the answer to go out to nonurban areas and noncollege voter and improve and try to find someone like a joe biden if not joe biden or is the answer unify the coalition that elected president obama and double down on millennials, minorities and college educated whites. you have to talk to a broader realm of the country than they are now. >> that would be 77-year-old joe biden. >> he has left it open.

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welcome back, everybody. one man is under arrest in the aftermath of the deadly truck attack at a berlin christmas market. investigators say the driver deliberately aimed for the crowd. at least 12 people were killed, 48 others wounded. police say a polish citizen found dead in the truck was not driving. this is a tactic we have seen before. the truck being used in a deadly attack. here's tom foreman. >> reporter: 86 people dead, more than 400 injured. the attack in nice, france, five

months ago proved how deadly a big vehicle can be. in that case, it was a huge rented truck, traveling close to 60 miles an hour, plowing through holiday revelers. >> i had a choice to either jump to my right or jump to my left, because the truck was swerving, so i had to make a decision which way to jump. i decided to jump to my left and thank god i did, because if i didn't, i would have been dead. >> reporter: purposeful attacks using vehicles have happened plenty in recent years. at the university of north carolina in 2006, a man rams his suv into a crowd. luckily, no one dies. but in the netherlands in 2009, a car slams into a parade and eight people are left dead. in canada, in 2014, a pair of soldiers are run down in a parking lot and one dice. that same year, in israel, a driver veers off the road and steps on the gas to hit people waiting for a train. two were killed. and in france, a pair of incidents, one right after the other, leaves 20 people injured

and one dead. in each case, questions of terrorism were raised and the prevalence of such attacks prompted homeland security to issue this warning during the holiday season, a half dozen years ago. vehicle ramming offers terrorists with limited access to explosives or weapons an opportunity to conduct an attack with minimal prior training. among the warnings signs, vehicles reinforced with homemade metal plates on the front and large trucks in heavily-trafficked pedestrian areas at unusual times, especially if they're driving erratically. still, just last month, it happened again. at ohio state, a young man ran into a crowd with his car before he was shot by a police officer and became the only fatality that day. >> there is plenty of available evidence to indicate that this individual may have been motivated by extremism and may have been motivated by a desire

to carry out an act of terrorism. >> reporter: the simplicity and effectiveness of this attack are clearly why terrorist groups keep pushing them on the internet, knowing all it takes is one radical to get one started, and yet it requires a whole lot more resources to detect such a plan or stop it. >> our thanks to tom foreman for that report. >> joining us is a policy analyst on counterterrorism. speak up on tom foreman's report there. when it comes to using trucks, as weapons, is there a way to deal with that from a counterterrorism point of view? how do you deal with that? >> from a counterterrorism point of view it is hard to deal with it. as we have heard it is so hard to preempt because anything can become a weapon, especially with trucks. in this case it was nothing that security forces could have done. i think they have done an

amazing job this year. they have prevented and foiled dozens of attacks. some security forces thought it would be a matter of time until germany is hit. i think wa hat we can do is do e preventative phase and start extremist ideologies that would lead someone to carry out such an attack. >> julia, looking around the world the past 48 hours, a suicide bombing in yemen that killed 53 soldiers, a shooting at a mosque in zurich, of course the assassination of the russian ambassador in turkey and now this attack in berlin. there seems to be a sense e sense of something that is almost out of control. there's violence which is gripping many parts of the world right now. >> yeah, absolutely. i think the attack in syria yesterday is the best example that we are seeing extremism

rising on all levels, far right and islamic extremist inspired. it is becoming more common across the world. this is also why it is so important to not give in to the fears and the hatred that these terrorists want to provoke and to not widen the tensions and the risks within our societies because this is exactly what they are aiming at. this is their strategy of savagery that they are after. >> given -- with that in mind, there's a lot of anger in germany, even before the attack in berlin with the big intake of refugees from countries like syria and elsewhere, from a security point of view, having such a huge immigrant population from those countries, does that increase the security risk? is there any way to prove that is the case? >> no. there's actually been studies. i think there was a study that

came out in early 2016 that showed that immigration actually decreases terrorism in statistical terms. decreases the risk of terrorism. that came out right before the brexit referendum. there are, of course -- there's no way to say how high the risk levels are within those refugee centers, but there's something that drives there and that is the hatred they encounter from germans, from the society that is increasingly shifting towards hatred and xenophobia. >> sorry to interrupt. you are saying attacks in places like germany where they have taken in immigrant population, these attacks have been deliberately designed to generate that anger toward the refugee population? >> right. this is exactly what i think the

terrorists were after. what they want to provoke is chaos and more hatred, incite fear so they drive society apart so it leads to a collapse of europe and so they can see they want to achieve. >> thank you, julia ebner there in vienna, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. it is 10:28 here on the west coast. when we come back, more on our breaking news in ank ra, the assassination of russia's ambassador to turkey. why one says that turkey is sitting on a volcano.

welcome back, everybody. it's 10:52 p.m. in los angeles. russian investigators will be in turkey after the assassination of the russian ambassador to turkey. turkey and russia say the attack will not hurt their relationship. for more on the fallout of the assassination, we're joined now

by bob behr. good to have you with us. and russia and turkey appear united, but many turks are increasingly angry at russia for what is happening in aleppo in neighboring syria. >> turkey is sitting on a volcano, about ready to go off. thanks to aleppo, and the war in syria. a lot of turkish citizens are angry that erdogan is not doing more. a lot of people very worried about the fallout from mosul, alep aleppo, and this mess is syria they are worried will move up into turkey.

and and the same goes for mosul. whoever this guy was, the policeman who shot the russian ambassador, the sympathies among turkish citizens really matters. >> and he said don't forget about aleppo. would you see increased syrian operations in aleppo as russian retaliation? >> i think the russians will retalia retaliate, i don't think putin can let this go. erdogan and putin are getting along these days, the best they can. i think the russians, getting involved in syria to this

degree, have gotten on the back of a tiger, and we're going to see more of an escalation of russian involvement. >> and it seems the president in turkey is not in control of domestic security. a situation going bad from worse, after the situation in july. >> i know that erdogan is worried about his security himself. that coup in june came as a complete surprise to him, he got away just by chance, and he's worried about his military and police, and with this assassination, now, he should be. >> do you see this as a pretext in turkey for another widespread range of arrests, thousands of more people being locked up,

anyone who could oppose erdogan domestically ending up in jail? >> i think erdogan is, like i said, truly frightened. he will retaliate, purge more police. but the more he purges, the more tenuous the situation gets. he will also go up against the kurds, more arrests there. turkey is not particularly stable at this point, let's put it that way. >> bob, thank you so much. >> thank you. you've been watching cnn "newsroom" live from los angeles. more on our breaking news coverage right after this. welcome to the high life. ♪ we've got the beer ♪ miller beer oh, how waso good!en house? did you apply? oh, i'll do it later today. your credit score must be amazing. my credit score?

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