which wa nts also her sister in bavaria which wants and upper limit.d were registered. this year, around 230,000. the flow is going down although there are now more refugees coming from northern africa across the mediterranean to italy and that will of course increase the pressure on the north of europe but the external borders of european union are much more close than in the past —— closed at the policy of countries, including germany which was quite open, a much more closed. the conditionality for asylum seekers are much tougher will stop people get deported who are rejected as asylum seekers and there is a much more forward—looking policy of both german and the european union to help countries, particularly in africa, but also in the middle east, to avoid migration. that means that the turkey deal will have to be continued despite all of the problems with turkey and that much more aid will be given to africa and the european union just more aid will be given to africa and the european unionjust gave 600,000 euros to one country in europe that has —

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only by the extreme right, the new small alternative the germany but also by her sister party in bavaria which she has resisted but probably will accept. last year, 890,000 people came and were registered. this year, around 230,000. so, the flow is going down although there are now more refugees coming from northern africa across the mediterranean to italy and that will of course increase the pressure on the north of europe but the external borders of the european union are much more close than in the past and the policy of countries, including germany which was quite open, are much more closed. turkish police have detained six people after the assassination of the russian ambassador in ankara on monday. it's believed those being questioned are related to the off—duty police officer who opened fire. as the body of ambassador andrei karlov was flown back home, both the kremlin and turkish officials said the killing would not derail their negotiations about the war in syria. from ankara, mark lowen reports. a farewell to russia's ambassador, but in a way nobody could envisage. andrei karlo

people who need help should be given help, but there are many others, notably her sister party in bavariay have two really rethink the whole of the migration policy, the security policy. then the other group blaming angela merkel for terrorist attacks. this isa merkel for terrorist attacks. this is a split country when it comes to it, but what angela merkel said yesterday is that she was very pleased to see the way the germans had reacted. ithink pleased to see the way the germans had reacted. i think what you see in this christmas market now today, there are people coming to look at there are people coming to look at the flowers and the candles in memory of the victims, but also to visit the market itself, to go out and drink mulled wine and eat sausages in a demonstration that life must go on. thank you very much indeed from berlin. you're watching bbc news. let's return to our other developing breaking news. that is about an internal flight in developing breaking news. that is about an internalflight in libya which has been hijacked and diverted to malta. these are the latest pictures

there is the pressure from her sister party in bavaria and also from the anti—migrant party, which wantwhole security regime here tightened up very much indeed. the anti—migrant party have accused her of bringing in everyone. 0ther germans say no, we mustn't react in too much of a panic, we have to wait and see what kind of balance we can strike between our security needs on one hand and our free society and freedom of movement on the other. the queen's granddaughter zara tindall and her husband mike tindall have lost their baby, a spokeswoman for the couple has confirmed. equestrian champion zara and former england rugby player tindall announced at the end of november they were expecting their second child. in a statement the spokeswoman said... "very sadly, zara and mike tindall have lost their baby. "at this difficult time, we ask that everyone "respects their privacy." extensive railway engineering works are starting across britain today, with 200 different projects being carried out over the christmas break. passengers in london, manchester and cardiff are expected to be the hardes

in november, the cfu economy minister of bavaria gave a clear warning on coalition partners in berlin on the uncertainties that could damage the bavarian economy as the uk one of its most important trading partners. does the prime minister appreciate the significant forces in europe supporting her timetable to trigger article 50 at the end of march in order to bring a conclusion to the arrangements of the pre-trade which existsbetween us and bavaria ? >> the gentleman makes an important point, he makes specific in relation to bavaria but this is not just about what is in the interest of the united kingdom. it's also about what is in the interest of the remaining 27 members of the european union and as we negotiate that deal i expect we negotiate a deal which we like for the uk but would retain a strong european union which went with which we will be trading and with which we will be working on matters of mutual interest. >> an extension of sanctions against russia for another six months, it's been difficult progress on the midst abroad during the time in these months, what does she th

not his berlin bunker, but one way up in the mountains of bavaria. they would like to have a team to come there. when we got back to england, i told them about this. i said i would like to volunteer to take my team in to train these austrians and do the same thing there. the british were not too friendly with that idea, and i guess the bureaucrats were involved in some way. we were turned down on that. they said, we would be interested in you going out to china. we are building resistance in china, and that's detachment 202. i said, okay, i'll volunteer, since we couldn't do the austria mission. it was pretty embarrassing at the time, but the day that i left scotland en route to the states with the 30 days leave in my orders, i was at sea heading away from the continent when the battle of the bulge started. i thought that was a bad signal. in any case, that turned out all right too. i went back to the states, married my fiance, who was in navy intelligence breaking the japanese code. i might mention now. i did not know that at the time. it took me ye

many of them did return -- hermann lang was deported to germany and lived out his life in bavaria. but you are right, after the war andted, after pearl harbor him are declared war on us, you look at the papers, every other day, there were raids in german and shortwave radios were seized and such. some of the evidence he brought forth, some of the individuals he identified were later arrested. being 43k it wound up people actually brought to justice by his acts, including later cases. >> thank you very much, peter. [applause] >> author alex kirchoff talks about the jacksons, and american family that aided the resistant to not see-occupied harris. they lived were many not see and ss officers resided during the occupation. this is part of a multi-day conference at the conference ate national world war ii 2 museum in new orleans. >> i hope everyone had apple time to get your books and stretcher legs and have lunch. up next is one of the museum's most featured historians. alex kershaw. alex has shared a deeply personal stories of individuals who made it traumatic differences -- dramatic

this is a clear attempt to appeal to some of the csu, southern, bavaria, party has been talking aboutam and these kinds of questions. >> the head of the csu, the sister party to merkel's cdu saying after the attack we have to look again, we have to re-examine the refugee policy. how will that change? >> this is interesting because you are seeing it in other areas of europe with the french elections coming up, dutch elections coming up. so there's a general europe-wide move to the right and to the far right and to discussing these kinds of questions. however, what chancellor merkel has been careful to do to disassociate terror with migration. but obviously it is a difficult case to make given the fact that the primary suspect in this particular case is somebody who entered germany precisely through those lines. >> thank you very much. we will talk more later about that. let's look more at the internal politics of this. we are talking to kai whittaker via skype. a member of the christian democratic union party. can you hear me? >> good morning. >> good morning. let's talk more about int

many of them did return -- hermann lang was deported to germany and lived out his life in bavaria. but you are right, after the war started, after pearl harbor and hitler declared war on us, you look at the papers, every other day, there were raids in german neighborhoods and shortwave radios were seized and such. there was a big trial of a pro-nazi organization that some of the evidence he brought forth, some of the individuals he identified were later arrested. while this was 33 in the case, i think it wound up being 43 people actually brought to justice by his acts, including later cases. >> thank you very much, peter. [applause] on americanend history tv on c-span3, this evening just before 7:00 eastern providence college history professor patrick green and author of the book "and shall be -- shall be shelby deluged in blood." the to madh embodied at differences that existed in the black community as some including artists decided to support the revolt while others elected to support the whites. at 8:00 university of maryland's on the advertising as a profession in the early 20

we saw this in july, there was an ax attack on a train in bavaria and it was this same claim of inspiration and it turned out in that case that an isis operative overseas had been in touch communicating with this tranl attacker in the hours before the attack so in that case they had insider knowledge so they may have reasons or they be be being completely opportunistic. we have to see. >> we have talked before about how the similarities of using a vehicle as a weapon, both what we saw in berlin and nice. david you make that point in your piece. you wrote "the domestic fallout promises to carry far beyond the borders of germany or france, spreading a radical shift to the right that holds the potential of upsetting not only the ruling elite but the very glue that holds europe together. >> right. >> how do you mean. >> well, first of all let me back up one step, there's no real evidence, of course, that isis actually commissioned this attack. >> could be self-radicalized, we don't know. >> absolutely. there are 1.3 million refugees that have come into germany in the past year and a half. many

partner, the right—wing but also her partner, the csu chairman, who is also the prime minister of bavaria change of refugee policy. so i think this is going to bea policy. so i think this is going to be a very bitter battle now in a political area. but i hope that at least now, we are focusing on the victims don't try to exploit the situation. hans-olaf henkel, thank you forjoining us. we will keep you updated on the latest on the attacks. plenty more reaction in the one o'clock news shortly. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon has unveiled her government's proposals for handling scotland's future in europe when the uk leaves the european union. ms sturgeon proposes a substantial further transfer of powers from westminster to holyrood. and she said it would be democratic for the uk to stay in the single market despite the brexit vote on june 23. the paper sets out the primary ways in which scotland's place in the single market can be protected. it has three main strands. firstly, we propose that the uk as a whole should stay in the single market by remaining a party to the european

. >> the plastic smiles on the face of this new police unit in bavaria protect the anonymity of the firstcifically trained to fight terror groups. >> what happened between '72 and '76 in germany and in other parts of the world is a complete revolution of the military and much more emphasis on counterterrorism. >> don't miss! don't miss! >> here's the situation in what's turning out to be the year's most spectacular hijack story. 101 hostages released today were flown to paris, but another 110 are still being held at the airport at entebbe, uganda. about 85 of them israeli nationals. >> relatives of the israeli hostages held an emotional meeting with government representatives this morning. they didn't care that israel has a basic policy of not dealing with terrorists. they wanted action from their government. >> israel set the example for many countries. they told the terrorists point-blank, we are not going to negotiate with you. we do not recognize your legitimacy. >> if you're going to be hard line in your response, how do you end the episode? do you just stand by while all the hostage

july in germany with the attack on a train that didn't lead to fatalities but led to injuries in bavaria, an afghan refugee in that case. we'll have to wait and see. it might turn out isis will look really foolish. it might turn out that they know something the german investigators don't know. >> paul, thank you so much. >>> joining me to discuss terrorism abroad and the u.s. response to the attacks. u.s. state department's john kirby. thanks for being here. >> isis issued the statement claiming one of its soldiers purposely drove the truck purposely through the berlin croixes market. does the information the u.s. department has match up with the reporting that it seems to be isis-inspired but not isis-directed? >> we don't have enough information to back up the claims by isis that they inspired or directed or were in any way involved in this. we think it's prudent for the germans to treat this as a plausible terrorist attack. that makes sense. as you have heard yourself, there is no direct evidence. clearly, though, jake, it bears the hallmarks of what happened in nice in july. we think

translation: there are some political voices like those from bavaria, who is making connections between the investigation. about the drivers of the lorry. you spoke about someone who was possibly shot. apparently there is information from those who owned the lorry in poland. they said the polish driver had been stabbed several times. do you know how many people were on the lorry? you can ask these questions to the head of the federal criminal office. i know about a wound from a shooting. when this happened, we don't yet know. i ask you to understand that the investigators are working under high pressure day and night. and it obviously takes time. and the information has to be correct. these investigations don't just take hours. we are looking at every angle of the investigation. you will probably hear about that later. it is not myjob to tell you about that. but the public can be assured that. but the public can be assured that the security services will not re st that the security services will not rest until complete clarity has been established about the background of this action. an

for example,horse hol fd, the prime minister of bavaria, the leader of the csu, he immediately said germanysecurity and immigration policies. now there's been a bit of a backlash against that because people are saying, well, we don't even know who did this, so why are you jumping to conclusions and saying that we now have to completely rethink our refugee policies? so i think, you know, people are saying it could be that this person who committed this crime is from a neighboring country, wasn't even from germany, as we saw with some of the terrorist outrages in france. it could be that it's someone domestic, a skrrm. who knows? it could be they had absolutely nothing to do with islamic terrorism. for example, we saw this attack in munich earlier this year. everybody jumped to conclusions then and said it was islamic terrorism. and then of course it turned out to just be a mass shooter who was actually influenced by right-wing ideology. so police are just sort of saying and officials as well are saying let's calm down, not jump to conclusions, and i think there's been a bit of a backlash aga

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in november the economy of bavaria gave a clear warning to her coalition partners in berlin uncertainty could damage their bavarian economy if the u.k. is one of its most important trading parliaments. does the prime minister appreciate the significant courses in europe with a timetable to trigger article l at the end of march in order to bring conclusions with the arrangements of free trade. >> he raises a specific relation, but the point i'm a very simple line is that it is not just about the interest of the united kingdom. it also in the interest of the 27 members of the european union. i expect does to negotiate a deal with a strong european union with which we will be training and work together on mutual interests. >> for another six months there's been very physical products as during the time and the recent months. but the shooting extension of sanctions was achieved? >> the council is not dated by chancellor merkel who've obviously been leading the nation in discussion on the minsk agreement. everyone is concerned we have positions for the minsk agreement is not being put into p

. >> the idea that her daughter would marry this german and take my mother off to live in bavaria inle made hr apoplectic, and my mom's grandmother began to plot to find a way to stop this from happening. and she is a vanderbilt and she should be in the united states, and this is her birthright. >> i used to, as child, lie in bed in the house in paris in the dark at night and i was afraid to go to sleep without the light on in the bathroom without my nurse there. so she would stay in the bathroom every night until i went to sleep. then my grandmother would come in and that is when i would hear them whispering, you know. it was like something was being plotted and planned. >> my mother's grandmother, grandmother morgan hatch ed thi plan with my mom's nanny. why do you think that dodo went along with the plan? >> because she totally agreed with it. she always thought that i should be brought up in america, because i was an american girl. >> it is crazy to me that is how it began. that is how the seed was planted and grew unto this thing which completely changed the course of my mom's l

and musical performances, it's a slice of bavaria right here in the u.s.ersary with hundreds of thousands of lights throughout 25 acres of the park. including the botanical garden, story land, and carousel garden. hop on a two mile train ride through ancient oak trees lit up at night or spin on a whimsical carousel. in branson, missouri, expect big time holiday lights, 5 million dazzling lights, 1,000 decorated christmas trees, two broadway style productions and a five-story special effects christmas tree. of course, no visit to new york around the holidays is complete without a walk down 5th avenue and a spin on the ice under the world famous rockefeller christmas tree. >> three, two, one! >> reporter: there's much more to see around the holidays in new york city. like the luminaries light installation at brookfield place. every 30 minutes you'll be mesmerized under a candy of hundreds of lighted lanterns set to three holiday songs. and othver in brooklyn, if you haven't seen the lights, you are missing out. ♪ over 100,000 people come to the neighborhood

here are quoting that and are quoting security sources saying that some believe he entered through bavariatand. but this is pure speculation at this stage. we are expecting those reports to be firmed up through the day. kate, thank you. interesting details. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. the main stories this morning: at least 12 people have died and dozens more have been injured after a lorry drove into a busy christmas market in berlin. police now say they suspect terrorism. the german authorities are questioning a man thought to be the driver. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. yesterday you were talking about a feisty jetstrea m. yesterday you were talking about a feisty jetstream. what have yesterday you were talking about a feistyjetstream. what have you got today? through the week it will be quite feisty at times. not all the time. we will have quiet interludes. this morning we have a relatively quiet start. there is quite a lot of cloud for england and will. for scotla nd cloud for england and will. for scotland and northern ireland it is cold, frosty wit