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Suspected Truck Attack in Berlin

A truck has been driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine people with many more injured - we speak to an eyewitness.

A truck has been driven into a crowd in the German capital, Berlin, leaving at least nine dead. Police suspect it was a deliberate attack on the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church. We speak to an eyewitness.

Also in the programme, the Russian ambassador to Turkey has been assassinated; the head of the United Nations in West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, on the options for Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, and we speak to Christopher Baker, the lawyer for the Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, who has been found guilty of negligence when she was French finance minister.

(Picture: A policeman stands near the site where a truck sped into a Christmas market in Berlin. Credit: Getty Images)

23 minutes

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Mon 19 Dec 201621:06GMT

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  • Mon 19 Dec 201621:06GMT

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