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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Also in this podcast, scientists in Peru have discovered 27 new species in the northwest of the country, including an extremely rare type of amphibious mouse.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Trond Blassen of Conservation International. Still to come... The Chinese President Xi Jinping has been in Macau celebrating the 25th anniversary of its handover from Portugal to Chinese rule.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Just days before Christmas and what should have been a festive event, a Christmas market in the East German city of Magdeburg has ended in tragedy as a car drove into the crowd at top speed. Dozens of ambulances were on the scene shortly after the incident. As we record this podcast, officials say a number of people have been killed, including a young child. Dozens of others were injured.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
The Japanese government says it will come up with a plan in the next few months for the disposal of 14 million cubic meters of radioactive soil from Fukushima. The soil is currently stored at a site covering 16 square kilometers. Mickey Bristow reports.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Mickey Bristow. The Chinese President Xi Jinping has been in Macau celebrating the 25th anniversary of its handover from Portugal to Chinese rule. Chinese TV live-streamed the day's event, showing children with flowers lining the streets. There were visits to Macau's Science and Technology University and a Chinese military garrison.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
It was also an important day politically, as Macau's new leader, Sam Ho Fai, was inaugurated, and President Xi was keen to point out the success of the city since 1999.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
But the special administrative region on the southern tip of mainland China is most famous for its casinos. Millions of Chinese tourists flock there to gamble, and President Xi also called on the city to diversify and cultivate new industries. So could we see Macau change? I spoke to our China media analyst, Kerry Allen.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
The phrase many people use to describe Macau is one country, two systems. We've heard that phrase before in the region.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
The German state premier, Rainer Haseloff, had this to say. This is a terrible tragedy. It's a catastrophe for the city of Magdeburg and for Germany in general. For this to happen at a Christmas market, it is hard to comprehend. Local officials say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. TV pictures showed a suspect being arrested by police with guns drawn.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
And how well is one country, two systems going down in Macau?
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
The BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen. Netflix has secured exclusive rights to show the next two Women's Football World Cup tournaments in the United States. It's the first time the streaming platform has acquired live rights to a sports competition in full. Here's Elettra Naismith.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Elettra Naismith. Stonehenge, the huge stone circle in southern England, has long been thought of as a religious monument. Now a leading archaeologist and authority on the site says he believes it was built for political reasons to unite early farming communities and not specifically for religious worship.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Earlier this year it was discovered that the altar stone, which is laid flat in the middle of the monument, could only have come from northern Scotland. The other upright stones that make up the circle are from West Wales. Professor Mike Parker-Pearson from University College London told James Menendez about his theory.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
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. This edition was mixed by Chris Hansen. The producer was Liam McSheffery. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Danny Cox.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Until next time, goodbye.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
I heard more from our Berlin correspondent, Damien McGuinness.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
And sadly, not the first attack on a Christmas market in Germany.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
And briefly, Germany in political turmoil anyway just now, with an election just weeks away.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Damien McGuinness in Berlin. Officials say the perpetrator was a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had indefinite right to remain. The police believe he was acting alone. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has this assessment of the incident.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Frank Gardner, a senior US diplomat, has said that Washington is scrapping a reward... for the arrest of Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharah. Barbara Leaf was speaking after the first meeting between senior American diplomats and de facto leaders of Syria. It was described as positive. Other Western diplomats have already met officials from the HTS Islamist group which overthrew President Assad.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
It's still designated as a terrorist group by Washington, but delisting it would ease the path towards sanctions relief that the new Syrian authorities need. Our correspondent Lina Sinjab is in Damascus. She gave us this update.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
And the Americans say they're also hoping there'll be no role for Iran in the new Syria.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
What are the Americans hoping to achieve with these talks?
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Lina Sinjab. As the new Syria struggles to take shape, old threats are re-emerging. The chaos since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad is paving the way for the Islamic State group to make a comeback. That's according to a leading Kurdish commander, General Mazum Abdi, who helped defeat the jihadist group in Syria in 2019.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Danny Cox and in the early hours of Saturday the 21st of December, these are our main stories. German media reports say a number of people have been killed and many others injured after a car drove into a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg. A top U.S.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
He's told the BBC that IS activity has increased significantly in recent weeks. The general heads the mainly Kurdish SDF, a force backed by the US. They're also responsible for holding around 10,000 IS suspects in Syria's Kurdish northeast. Our senior international correspondent Ola Guerin was given rare access to the largest IS prison there.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
diplomat has described Syria's new Islamist ruler as pragmatic after their first meeting and expressed hope for a sovereign Syria that respects the rights of all its citizens. Japan says it's coming up with a plan to dispose of 14 million cubic meters of radioactive soil. Some may be used in road embankments.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
That report by Ola Gurin. In a world where we so often hear of the threat to endangered species and of species becoming extinct, it's heartening to hear that new ones are still being discovered. An expedition to Peru's Altamira region has discovered 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse with webbed feet and a blob-headed fish.
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Fatalities and injuries in German Christmas market attack
Nestling between the Andes and the Amazon, Otamayo is a lush patchwork of jungles, wetlands and mountainous terrain. Trond Larsson was the expedition lead. He's senior director for biodiversity and ecosystem science at Conservation International. Julian Marshall asked him if they knew they might come across something new in the animal world.