the city of strasbourg, viewed by many as the home of european politics.as the capital of christmas, with its famous market festooned in lights. a mile up the road, the atmosphere at the european parliament is somewhat less festive. this man, the socialist politician martin schultz, is stepping down as president in january. his decision has triggered a fierce leadership battle over who should replace him. there has been something of a gentleman's agreement between the two dominant players here at the parliament. the socialists and the centre—right european people's party essentially divide up the five—year presidency post between them for half a term each. so by rights, it should be the turn of a candidate from the epp to take over. no, says italy's gianni pittella, the current leader of the socialists in the parliament. he wants to end the cosy arrangement of taking turns with epp. he is putting himself forward for the presidency. you know, politics is politics, and suddenly because martin schultz has decided to go back to german politics, we would give u

he's joined 49 colleagues in a joint complaint to the european court of human rights in strasbourg.rzysztof parchimowicz: we were demoted -- that was a humiliation -- a slap in the face after so many years of professional experience and well-respected work. reporter: what reasons were given? there had been no scandals or criticism of his work. he suspects the decision may have been influenced by a bitter dispute some years back over the department for organized crime. his adversary was zbigniew ziobro. was a score being settled? krzysztof parchimowicz: i'd like him to look each and every one of us straight in the eye and explain why he no longer wants to work together with us. reporter: justyna koska-janusz has also been removed from the judge's bench. she had rejected demands for a speedy trial in a case of driving under the influence of alcohol and causing an accident. justyna koska-janusz: as far as i know, there hadn't been any complaints filed. and there hadn't been any allegations of disability or anything. reporter: but there was a trial she presided over, in which the plaint

this reconnaissance video was for a planned bomb attack on strasbourg's christmas market in france, inthere, with restrictions on vehicles and checks on people going in. it's raised questions about whether germany did enough to protect berlin. translation: we did increase security measures, but we cannot turn christmas markets into fortresses. we have an unlimited number of soft targets, there are so many possibilities to kill people with a truck. france's bastille day, in nice, showed the carnage a lorry could cause, 86 were killed. so—called islamic state also claimed responsibility for that attack, although authorities never found much evidence of direct contact with the driver. in the uk, there have been years of work to protect crowded places. that included this project, developing bollards and blocks, which can absorb the massive impact of a truck and stop it reaching its target, but one former head of counter—terrorism says we can't rely on these measures alone. well, more bollards and troops on the streets is not, absolutely not, the answer to this threat. you have to build you

in 2000 there was a plot to attack a christmas market in strasbourg that was stopped by french and german somebody rammed a truck into people in france and people were killed. only a few days ago a suspect was arrested in germany believed to be planning a nail bomb attack. none of this necessarily means this was so—called islamic state linked attack. they have called for attacks using trucks on people and civilians in crowded places at this time of year so the police are keeping an open mind. you can tell where their suspicions are. frank gardner, our security correspondent, with his thoughts on what happened today in berlin. tonight's other major story is that the russian ambassador to turkey has been shot and killed. andrei karlov was addressing a meeting in ankara, when a man shot him several times in the back, shouting, "don't forget aleppo" and "revenge". the gunman was an off—duty turkish police officer. the attack follows days of protests in turkey against russia's role in syria. 0ur correspondent mark lowen has the latest. his report contains flashing images. russia's ambassador t

in the year 2000, al-qaeda plans to attack a christmas market in strasbourg, some 16 years ago. of plots, and the syrian conflict has drawn in unprecedented numbers of international jihadists, would—be fighters, and some of those have been killed on the battlefield, some have given up the fight, but a large number of them are still there or trying to come back, winning their way back into europe. there is a problem on the borders, a problem with all the different names, so the call to attack european countries is about two years old, specifically from so—called islamic state. their spokesman, tojihadist from so—called islamic state. their spokesman, to jihadist he was quite charismatic, and he issued his call —he is charismatic, and he issued his call — he is now dead, but a lot of people that call, and that has outlived him. all right, frank, thank you very much, thank you. a millionaire property developer from south wales has been jailed for life for the murder of his personal escort. peter morgan strangled georgina symonds, who earned up to £10,000 a month, at her home in new

this reconnaissance video was for a planned bomb attack on strasbourg's christmas market in france, infoiled. this year, security was tightened there, with restrictions on vehicles and checks on people going in. it's raised questions about whether germany did enough to protect berlin. translation: we did increase security measures, but we cannot turn christmas markets into fortresses. we have an unlimited number of soft targets, there are so many possibilities to kill people with a truck. france's bastille day, in nice, showed the carnage a lorry could cause, 86 were killed. so—called islamic state also claimed responsibility for that attack, although authorities never found much evidence of direct contact with the driver. in the uk, there have been years of work to protect crowded places. that included this project, developing bollards and blocks, which can absorb the massive impact of a truck and stop it reaching its target, but one former head of counter—terrorism says we can't rely on these measures alone. well, more bollards and troops on the streets is not, absolutely not, the an

in strausin strasbourg, france,d to put up a tree with just a few decorations in case they have to turn that area into a field hospital. transit stopped and all this shut down. could come to that in america? will we have to go to those great lengths at some point to stay safe? >> hopefully not. you have got to stay busy living. you don't want it to destroy the fabric of your life. you want to stay alert and be aware of your environment. to dan's point when he talked about the concrete. the perimeter security is around manhattan and other federal buildings around the country, this is not new. look at the first world trade center bombing back in 1993. you look at the islamists have been using this mechanism in various fashions for decades. it's not something new that we are facing in a sense. and we know how to deal with this from a physical security perspective. the problem is as always, identifying the potential individual prior to the attack. that's the heavy lift this equation is how do we solve that? charles: donald trump was elected on a platform of addressing this. and initially so

the council of europe at strasbourg in 1949, a book recalls how he was acclaimed in the city by cheering crowds. he wept. he spoke in french and gave wisdom and guidance to the council. when on returning to office in 1951, churchill learns that the canadian government had decided that rule britannia should no longer be played by the royal canadian air force or the canadian navy. he had the by now defense minister, british defense minister lord ismay complain to the canadian prime minister. he almost decided that he would cancel his visit to ottawa in january 1952 over the matter and was persuaded not to by clementine, who according to colville threatened to close down and move to a flat by the sea in brighton. when he disembarked from the sleeper in ottawa at the station opposite the chateau laurier, the royal canadian air force band struck up rule britannia, and churchill wept. from then on nobody ever dared to iter the mildest criticism of monseiur celeron or canada. the death of king george vi would have the effects that by now you would have expected. when i went to the prime ministe

he had quite a hard time with the actors studio and lee strasbourg and the whole clan to get it done. burgess meredith was involved in the whole process as well as a lot of great actors, including diana fens and many others. so i then went with david in 1967 to and we lived in the house. jimmy was exiting that summer. that is why i submit david ruben who written a biography about jimmy and i've known david that long. we closed the house. we went to london. we got an apartment for jimmy and his sister paula and david and i. we lived in london together in 1967, fall of '67 through the spring of '68. . . in the fall of 71 when i was supposed to be working on a medical publishing house, but i snuck away. i got an old volkswagen and we drove through the mountains and fought all the way about how to shift and not shift. i was a great driver. i had been a cab driver, by the way. i didn't know how to drive a stick until a move to europe. so we got to jimmy's at 6:00 in the morning and jimmy opened the door and had all kinds of classic status. he loved to cook and he was delighted that we came

course, places like winter markets are exactly that and we‘ve actually seen terrorists try to attack strasbourged. so when we think back to nice with the truly appalling death toll that we saw in nice, again, in your opinion was that a result of the structures that you are talking about that in place in some of our cities that they weren‘t there? yes. i mean, is it naivety, is it money, what is it that means some cities think about this sort of thing and others don‘t? i guess this thing doesn‘t come cheap? well, if i take you back 12 years ago when we were foreseeing this kind of attack in the uk, i actually did a little tour of europe and tried to review what they were doing over there to see if we could learn from them and actually we found that the idea that, the view of terrorism at that time across europe was that this was a uk and a us problem, that this was not something that affected mainland europe and you know, i spoke to people in belgium, germany, and they really did feel that it wasn‘t their problem and i think that because of that, they are five or ten years behind our learning in

in recent days authorities prevented a track —— an attack in strasbourg.tively successful, but in an open, free society this is not a society which is completely controlled, they are open places, public laces, which are hard to protect, and so there are certain limits. if a society is under threat by terrorist organisations, there is a certain limit to the security and the measures that do can develop in terms of security. it is believed that the driver of the truck was a 23—year—old from pakistan who arrived in germany around a year ago. what are your initial thoughts? we have learned that isis and terror organisations want to attack european societies. there will be a reaction from the right—wing and of society, who go after refugees, but it is relatively easy to infiltrate european member states. to question aside politics is not the right way to react. the terrorists want to shake our society, question our human rights and values, and that should not be a proper reaction. nevertheless, the damaging of refugees has a certain security damaging, and measu