of nature's grace, adaptive and living. see to europe of trees. gold. january good. on d, w, the this is the w news live from berlin. a man plows a car into a crowded christmas market in germany. 2 people are confirmed dead and more than 60 others are injured in the running attack in the german city of not to board. the suspects a 50 year old saudi doctor is improving as cost to be. also coming up the u. s. narrowly over it's a government shut down after both houses of congress passed the bill to fund federal agencies until march and the us drops at $10000000.00 award for the rest of syria's new defacto liter. madell shamrock,

a diplomatic commission to damascus tales positive talks with the remo box, the mariana evans, dean, welcome. germany is in shock. after a driver plowed his car into a busy christmas market in the city of nagged, we're killing at least 2 people and injuring more than 60. 1 of the dead is a young child. authorities have a rest of the suspect. he's a 50 year old doctor from saudi arabia who moved to germany in 2006. he expressed a strong anti islam views online, and also praised the far right and the political party. the last friday before christmas, denmark, the board to the site of holiday festivities becomes a crime scene secured by authorities after

a car punched through crowds in one of the cities traditional christmas markets. the deadly incident spread sphere across the city. fear of who might have been in the vehicles path isn't them sit on, we're shaking. we have full of sympathy for the relatives. and also we hope that nothing has happened to our relatives, friends and acquaintances, respect to my of, of on we were in the church for the concepts and we sold the police lights and had the sirens on. and of course, it went on so long that you have to assume that something terrible had happened, especially like there's just to see if this rescue where is race to the scene, taking dozens of people to hospital. some of them with critical injuries footage has emerged showing what appears to be police, detaining a man authorities said the driver was arrested to set the suspect is

a doctor from saudi arabia who has been living in germany since 2006 officials were just made by the incident which resembled the 2016 attack in which a truck rammed a christmas market in berlin. dollars design and football, it is a terrible tragedy videos. it is a catastrophe for the city of mazda board and for germany in general, for the fun. is this a off, claudia, in the context of what a christmas market is supposed to bring? it really is one of the worst things i can imagine was, you know, forced to and con, we have caught the perpetrator us using we are currently in the process of collecting all further data. and also carrying out the interrogation authorities are continuing their investigation and have not yet determined the suspects motive to do the use jewels. gisler is covering the story for us in magda burke and a short time ago, i asked her about the situation there this morning. so i'm standing

right there in front of the christmas market, or let's say the closest you can get see at the moment cuz police have quoted off the area widely and still in place. they just, we moved 5 minutes ago. some of the kids here so that the truck can actually start moving again. so public transport slowly starts and starts running again. all the stops in the city center of still not covered. so it is still really quiet. we do have a couple of people just in the streets of the city is slowly waking up to these horrible news that hundreds of police officers the deployed in the city. so they are patrolling and making sure that nobody gets close to the scene of the crime. we do have also hundreds of firefight says, and 1st 8 responders to intone, trying to taking care of the injured people. and now what was security?

like if the market before this attack, i mean, normally there are security measures in place. so how was it possible for someone to drive into this market has such high speed to that is the big question at the moment mariana. cuz we do know that also this year there's been these very heavy road blogs actually in place to kind of look like big concrete lego construction blocks. but the thing is, security experts saying there must have been elected. there must have been a gap somewhere because the driver had the possibility to drive his car with quite high speed, 400 meters into the christmas market. so this is one of the questions that needs to be answered in the coming days. so the organizer of the christmas market and to city, i need to find the reasons for this,

how this could happen. so just as the unclear, we don't know yet how it could actually be that he could drive so far and jewels. i know that you arrived and magda burge last night and you've been speaking to people . what have they been telling you? so people here are still absolutely under shock. i talked to some low codes and seemed like they stood conway lagrano sport actually happened. it was a mix of anger and devastation. many people been also quite sensitive when you asked them about this. it really is a city under shot cuz nobody really thought of despite the security measures in place that something like that would actually happen in the small town of month to book. and so i think people are still trying to rep, they have had to ruins what actually happened and in the local hospitality nearby.

there is a psychological service in place now. and also police put out a number where relatives and people are effective to can actually cool and gets to help and support needed angels, i know it's still early days, but what we're authorities saying about the suspect to all what we know. so it's not about the suspect as it was so mentioned in the report is we know that he was a 50 year old male from saudi arabia, a doctor who worked as a psychotherapist. and at the moment the investigations going on also in the town of banned books and book is like 50 kilometers away from mexico. this is where he was supposed to live. um, so the authorities on are searching for any evidence in his apartment. we know that he had no criminal record sofa. he's been living in germany since 2006 since 2016 as a, as

a refugee. and what we do know at the moment is all the awesome indications, let's say on his social media that it seemed like he was afraid of being hunted. this is all we know so far. a lot of speculation, stuff going on, but we keep you updated as soon as we do have some more information coming in and jewels. just one final question for you. maybe just for our viewers around the world, what kind of a town is locked of work to sir. my vote is to state capital of 600100. it is not a very big time. so around 250000 people live here. but if you think of multiple, it's like you do have so it's like 2 hours away from berlin to give maybe people or one and a half hours to give people. i know, i dear, it is

a town where old it public lives is actually happening in the city center. so when people go full shopping, when people to go and meet the friends and family and go out for dinner, they meet in the city center. so having an attack, he'd sing a place like this that is right in the city center. and the so cool, like, you know, old part of the city. ways heavy on the, on the people here. absolutely. and it was clear that the goal was to hurt as many people as possible. so gathering in the city center during the holiday season. very tragic. indeed. that was d. w as jewels gisler reporting for us from magda burg jewels. so thank you so much for all your work as well. now, i'd like to bring in the w security and political correspondent, thomas ferro for more on this developing story. thomas, good to see you. so we heard from our correspondent, initially,

all we know about this aspect is that he's 50 years old, originally from saudi arabia working as a doctor and also in germany for almost 20 years. what else have you been hearing about this man, but one important element that will certainly help investigate us to try also and find the motive is that the mind was arrested. this doesn't always happen in these kinds of situations. so the fact that he already have this 1st arrest will help certainly to understand more about this man and to understand also what the possible motivation was behind the attack. the focus, at least from the investigation point of view, now seems to focus on his social media posts on what kind of person he was and what kind of information he posted. whether indeed he's reported the file rights according to authorities. he didn't seem to be in is limits. so he was not on any terra radar list or anything like that. but he did seem to be some critic. now

these pieces of information, if confirmed, will be vital to determine why this attack happened in the 1st place. and also then what the possible political implications of all this will be. you mentioned his social media posts. so what exactly do we know about the types of things that he had been posting? well, his social media accounts have been block, so it's not possible to actually see that now, but from what has been reported in the last few hours. it's early morning here, so it's all this investigation begun actually in the middle of the, of the night. his social media posts seem to be as i'm critic, it did show support for the fall, right. in particular for the fall, right? a f d party, according to these reports about the posts. and uh, well the truth mentioned also other elements that were found in his social media posts. but all this will be then taken by all sort these by investigators to try and understand this possible motivation. this is one element of the puzzle,

if you will, only when all those different pieces of put together will we be able to understand exactly why this happened, and then what comes next. well, what i found interesting about what the investigators initially were saying is that they seem to think it's a lone attacker as they put it. they were also quite quick to suggest that this was alone attacker. but i'm wondering how could they know if in fact this man did it act in his own initiative, or perhaps as part of some broader uh, you know, organization window thirty's. any particular, the police give these kinds of statements that doing it based on the information that they have at the time. so if you read carefully what authorities have been saying, they're saying that based on the information that they have available at the time, they believe it was a loaner tucker, but obviously this can change. however, they have been criticism. they had been criticism by experts and say that it was way too quick to already say that this man acted alone on one of the reasons behind

that is because the networks that might be active around these kinds of situations only actually come to lights when more information is found when some of the motives may be discussed when, for example, the house of the attacker is searched when, for example, the social media posts are also such. so experts have indeed set an again, overnight. that is maybe too early to just say with a basement acted alone, but to express and to explain why authorities mention this, they do it based on the information that they have. and also to avoid any further speculation. well, this sadly is not the 1st time that a christmas market has been attacked in germany. we had a real quick attack here in berlin in about 8 years ago as well. thomas, i'm, you know, in light of that, people are quite sensitive about an attack like this. it's really strikes and

emotional cord in people. how could the suspect bypass the security measures? because, you know, as we've been saying, we assume christmas markets are protected in germany, but they are protected, at least most of them. i've been to several christmas markets this season. also from this security perspective, i went totally a few days ago to the one here in berlin, where the tax happened in 2016, a new tennessee, all those barricades, all those concrete blocks that to try and prevent specifically these kinds of issues from happening these kinds of incidents from happening. so i do expect that they will be on the one hand, a lot of analysis. and on the other hand of this criticism as to why this was possible in month to book when security officials, when the interior ministry had already told in advance that they were stepping up security measures in christmas. mark is that they were making sure that something that this could not happen. they always said that they can't guarantee 100 percent security to sort of design that our thought is always stress. but the fact that this call was able to drive. so the mind drove the car through the christmas market

. we'll certainly have important questions raised as to why could happen and what kind of security gap there was. and it's important mariano, what you mentioned this is indeed something very sensitive here in germany. not only because christmas markets are a cultural institution here in germany, it's something that doesn't only attract taurus, but also many germans. but also because of a 2016 attack that you mentioned. although i would like to be careful because it's still very early to compare the 2016 attack to anything that happened right now. that was the w as thomas barrow thomas. thank you so much for your analysis. all right, let's turn our attention to some other news now and in the united states, lawmakers have approved a new spending bill to avoid and governments shut down the senate and dropped the normal procedure to fast track a vote. minutes after the midnight the deadline had passed, both republican and democrat lawmakers supported the new plan. it includes billions of dollars.