to help treat an inherited form of blindness. also: a rise in violent crime committed by the over 65s. offences ranging from minor assault to murder have increased by nearly 80% since 2012. good morning and welcome to bbc news. german security services face growing questions about why they ended a surveillance operation on a suspect who s now the subject of a europe wide manhunt for the berlin lorry attack. anis amri was known to have ties to a radical islamist group. a big police operation has been going on this morning near the dutch border, where agents from special units have been searching a refugee centre amri stayed in. let s go to berlin now. and robert hall is following events for us. what is the latest about the search for anis amri? good morning. what you see behind me is that search continues is an indication of the level of concern gci’oss indication of the level of concern across germany now. the workers from the civil defence team putting concrete barriers ar
welcome to bbc news. german police have carried out raids across the country in the search for anis amri, the tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly lorry attack in berlin. attention has focused so far on addresses in dortmund, berlin and a refugee centre near the dutch border. we can cross to robert, who is in berlin. good morning from the market around kaiser wilhelm church, the target of monday night s attack, crowded with passers by. stalls still closed, at least many of them, i think stallholders conscious of the fact they still want to maintain a level of respect for those who died and who remain injured. away from here, as you have been indicating, that police operation is spreading, aided by pictures of the man they are now referring to as the prime suspect, which are on social media and have been circulated to police forces and security forces around europe. so, what do we know about annis amri? wet spring ourselves up to speed as to what we do now. he is
containing the three other victims who died. the prosecuting qc said mr potter s laurie continued to career down the lane in western village out of control, and these are pictures from the time of the crash. because on the 9th of february last year. by the time the lorry came to a stop, four people had suffered fatal injuries, the four year old girl who had been crossing the road with her grandmother and three men who had been travelling together in the same car. this is a picture of the four year old victim, who died as she was crossing the road with her grandmother, margaret rogers, who was also injured. and three other victims as well, 59 year old robert parker, philip allen, who was 52, and stephen vaughan, who was 34. let mejust and stephen vaughan, who was 34. let me just repeat the findings of the court today, at bristol crown court, haulage boss matthew gordon and his mechanic, peter would, both haulage boss matthew gordon and his mechanic, peterwould, both found guil
other end of the uk we ve had some proper wintry christmassy weather with snow over some highland villages. as you are probably aware, it s storm barbara we are most concerned about over the next 24 36 hours. it is looming in the western atlantic. it s intensifying all the while. it s underneath a strong jet strea m while. it s underneath a strong jet stream which will direct storm barbara up towards the north west of the uk come tomorrow evening. i had of that we have the wintry showers across scotland. snow down to quite low levels. a strong wind. it feels cold. further south are bright and breezy afternoon. the fog has cleared. in the more southern parts of the uk into the night, maybe a touch of frost, hopefully the fog won t be as widespread as it was this morning. the reina rides across western northern ireland and the far west of scotland, the wind intensifying the rain arrives. barbara arrives on our doorstep. it will head towards the far north west of the uk, brin
of care to the public. matthew gordon had no transport manager and effectively flouted every regulation laid down to ensure safety. peter woods signed off vehicles as safe when clearly they were not. as the evacuation of eastern aleppo continues, we ll be speaking to the head of the international rescue committee and former foreign secretary, david miliband. and, prince charles warns of the growing danger of religious persecution, comparing it to the dark days of the 1930s. it s 5.00pm. our main story is the continuing investigation by german police into the attack on the christmas market in berlin on monday evening, in which 12 people were killed and dozens injured. the chancellor, angela merkel, has said that she is hopeful of an arrest very soon. police raids have been carried out across germany as they search for the main suspect, anis amri, a tunisian, whose identification papers were found in the lorry which was driven into shoppers. a europe wide warrant for the susp