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At least four people, including a child, were killed after a car drove into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

More than 68 people have been injured, with 15 of them in a serious condition, according to city officials.

The suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, is believed to have acted alone. Video footage shows the moment the suspect was arrested.

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Melanie Woods is the 30-year-old wheelchair racer and Paralympian from Scotland.

Since 2018, she has competed at two Paralympic Games and several World Championships putting her in a unique place to inform new research from Loughborough University.

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A Christmas market in Germany has been turned into a scene of carnage after a car ploughed through crowds, leaving at least two people dead - including a small child - and injuring around 60 other people.

It took place in a market in the centre of the city of Magdeburg in east Germany.

 

 Emergency services and police have been deployed in large numbers as local hospitals are prepared for a mass casualty event.

The driver of the car is said to be a 50 year old doctor who's a Saudi national and who has been in Germany since 2006.

 

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Frances Read.

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A car has reportedly been driven into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

German media report that at least one person has been killed and dozens others injured - we are still awaiting official confirmation.

Local police in the central Germany city said "operations are currently taking place" at the market, which has been closed, without providing further details

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This week, Yang Tengbo was identified as the 50-year-old Chinese businessman and alleged spy banned from the UK.

It's triggered questions on an issue multiple governments have grappled with - the UK's relationship with China.

As the UK's Chancellor prepares to visit China in the new year, the BBC's Analysis Editor, Ros Atkins, looks at how relations between the two countries became so strained.

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The UK has announced a stepping up of its international leadership in the support of Ukraine into 2025, with a new £225m package of military support.

But it’s not just weapons and aid that the UK and its allies are providing.

A programme known as Operation Interflex has now trained more than 51,000 Ukrainian troops on British soil, as soldiers work to defend their homeland from Russia’s illegal invasion.

The BBC has been granted inside access to the final two days of a high intensity five-day exercise at a military facility in the East of England.

Former Assault Helicopter pilot with the British Armed Forces & host of The Security Brief programme, Mikey Kay, takes us behind the scenes of the world’s largest training programme for Ukrainian troops.

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Adam Fleming speaks to a panel of new UK MPs about whether they felt prepared when the election was called in 2024, what mistakes they’ve made in Parliament so far and what really goes on behind the scenes in the House of Commons.

Labour MP for Kettering Rosie Wrighting, Conservative MP for Huntingdon Ben Obese-Jecty and Liberal Democrat MP for South Cambridgeshire Pippa Heylings join Adam in the studio.

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00:00 - The MPs Give Their Maiden Speeches

08:05 - How the MPs Lives Have Changed

14:45 - The Responsibilities of an MP

17:12 - What the MPs would change about Parliament

23:00 - Have the MP’s witnessed any bad behaviour

26:50 - What the MPs are most proud of

30:00 - Leaders Christmas Cards

“Their mission is to infiltrate enemy lines.”

Former North Korean soldiers have given their insight on the condition of thousands of troops deployed to the frontline in Russia's war against Ukraine.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, has reportedly sent around 11,000 troops to help Russian forces reclaim part of its Kursk region taken by Ukraine.

Washington and Kyiv say the soldiers have now entered the fight "in significant numbers" and Seoul says more than a 100 had already been injured or killed.

However, defectors and other military experts have told the BBC these troops should not be underestimated.

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