German Christmas market attack: Five dead and 200 injured
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The suspect is a doctor from Saudi Arabia, living in Germany since 2006. We hear from a local member of the state parliament and a counter-extremism expert in Berlin. Also on the programme: Both houses of the US Congress have voted in favour of a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown; and the wonders of swimming mice, dwarf squirrels, and blob-headed fish.
(Picture: Tino Chrupalla, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party visits the site of the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, Germany. Credit: Reuters/Christian Mang)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. Coming live from London, this is Owen Bennett |
| 0:09.3 | Jones. And coming up in a minute, we'll be heading to Germany where a car has been driven at people |
| 0:14.4 | enjoying a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg. Also today, the US Congress has voted to avoid a government shutdown. What has that told us |
| 0:24.8 | about President-elect Trump's relationship with Republicans on Capitol Hill and how the civil |
| 0:31.1 | war in Syria affected musicians there? It seemed that any lyrics I would writing, they don't express what really happened. |
| 0:39.2 | No words can express what really happening back then. |
| 0:43.7 | So all those involved in music are wondering what the new authorities in Damascus will allow them to do. |
| 0:49.3 | We'll take a look at that. |
| 0:50.1 | But first we're going to Magdeburg in eastern Germany where people had gathered at one of those |
| 0:55.0 | traditional Christmas markets where there are little huts laid out selling fine food and glue vine and Christmas decoration and gift. |
| 1:04.4 | Not for the first time. One of these markets became a target for a vehicle used as a weapon. |
| 1:14.0 | Shortly, Arnabye. became a target for a vehicle used as a weapon. Shortly after the attack, police detained the driver of the car, |
| 1:18.7 | and here's the moment they arrested him. |
| 1:26.3 | Lars Frouhot Muller from the local public broadcaster MDR told the BBC what it'd seen. |
| 1:33.7 | Everywhere were ambulances, there were police. There were a lot of fireworkers and this was a real chaotic situation. |
| 1:42.7 | We saw blood on the floor with people sitting beside and having |
| 1:47.9 | these golden and silver foils around them. And we saw many doctors and so on and trying to |
| 1:56.2 | keep people warm and help them with their injuries. There are many emergencies. |
| 2:02.1 | There is a helicopter. |
| 2:03.1 | They bring people to the hospitals in Magdeburg and around the city. |
| 2:08.4 | And also many ambulance mobiles parked in a big line at nearby the Christmas market. |
| 2:16.3 | It's a big shock. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.