Bernadette Keogh
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
It's Lebanon now, and it's almost a month since the ceasefire was agreed between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah had been trading attacks across the southern Lebanese border with Israel in response to Israel's bombardment of Gaza following the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Now, as part of the truce deal, the Lebanese army is tasked with ensuring there are no armed militias, principally Hezbollah, in the south of the country bordering with Israel, a duty it has never undertaken before. Our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Usher, who is in Beirut, told me more.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Sebastian, you arrived in Beirut a short while ago. What's the mood of the people there? What have people been saying to you?
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Sebastian Usher. The authorities in Guatemala say they've rescued 160 children from a farm used by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect which is under investigation for alleged child sex abuse. The group, Lev Tahor, moved to Guatemala a decade ago from Canada. The Lev Tahor sect accused the Guatemalan authorities of religious persecution. Jodi Garcia is a freelance journalist from Guatemala.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
She told Owen Bennett-Jones more about the group.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
We start in Germany and Friday evening's attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. The number of people killed has risen to five. A nine-year-old child was among them. 200 people were injured, around 40 of them seriously. The suspect, who was arrested at the scene, has been identified as a 50-year-old doctor, Taleb al-Abdelmozan from Saudi Arabia.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Freelance journalist Jody Garcia in Guatemala. It's become a familiar ritual in Washington in recent years. Politicians in the US Congress trying to come up with a last-minute deal to agree a budget in order to avoid a partial government shutdown. After two failed attempts and with a Friday night deadline fast approaching, Republicans and Democrats finally voted to pass a spending plan.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Shortly after it was passed, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said he'd been keeping in close contact with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
After the agreement in the House of Representatives, the budget was also passed by the Senate. Here's the Senate Democrat leader, Chuck Schumer.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
While the immediate crisis has probably been averted, all the scrapping and the scraping together of a compromise has also raised pressing questions about who wields real political power in Washington. My colleague Paul Moss got more details about the passing of the bill from our North America correspondent Peter Bowes.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Residents of the city have been laying flowers for the victims of the attack and there's still a sense of profound shock.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Peter Bowes. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, there have been people in the US making donations to help Ukrainians. At the beginning, the support was overwhelming, but there are now signs that well away from the front lines, war weariness could be setting in. The BBC's Christina Felk reports.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
On Saturday evening, a memorial service took place at Magdeburg Cathedral. Hundreds of people were in attendance, including families of the victims and emergency service workers. Earlier on Saturday, during his visit to Magdeburg, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the attack as a tragedy and called for unity. Our correspondent Bethany Bell has spent the day in the city.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Shanna Galeeva from the charity Bird of Light, ending that report by Christina Filk. And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at Global News Pod.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
This edition was mixed by Paul Mason and the producer was Marion Strawn. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Bernadette Keogh. Until next time, goodbye.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Bethany Bell. Other strands of investigation into the suspect are also coming to light as our security correspondent Frank Gardner explains.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Dr Hans Jakob Schindler is Senior Director at the Counter-Extremism Project in Berlin. He gave his take on why the suspect may have carried out the attack. He spoke to the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Hans Jakob Schindler of the Counter-Extremism Project in Berlin. The social network TikTok is to be shut down in Albania from the beginning of next year. The decision, announced by the country's Prime Minister, Eddie Rama, follows concerns raised over the influence of social media on children. The ban is part of a broader plan to make schools safer.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
With more details, here's our Europe regional editor, Danny Eberhardt.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Bernadette Keogh, and in the early hours of Sunday 22nd December, these are our main stories. The German city of Magdeburg is in mourning after a car was driven into a crowd at a Christmas market, killing five. We hear about the possible motives the suspected attacker may have had. Albania is to shut down TikTok for at least a year.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Danny Eberhardt. In talks on Friday in Syria's capital, visiting US diplomats called on the country's new Islamist leaders to respect the rights of all citizens. Syria's musicians will be watching closely. The 14-year civil war gave energy and focus to a nascent heavy metal scene. Electronic music and dance shows also flourished, leading to a resurgence of Syrian nightlife.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Barbara Pletusher talked to musicians in Damascus about how they see this new era for Syria after the fall of the Assad government.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
That report by Barbara Pletusher.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Also in this podcast, the US avoids a government shutdown after days of political turmoil. And the musicians of Syria pondering what the new Islamic leadership will mean for creative freedom.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Authorities in Guatemala say they have rescued 160 children from a religious sect.