have dried or become sick or starving or freezing and this is kind of u.n. coming in to monitor what has already happened, as you reported, the buses taking people out have been attack educement you have this agreement that is on eggshells with the assassination of the russian ambassador in turkey today, meeting between representatives of the government of russia and assad s government and the iranians regime, set for tomorrow, in turkey, is still supposed to be taking place but this kind of tragickity surrounding fragility surrounding the tensions between the countries, russia and turkey and the assad regime is not providing an opening for any influence. we have to leverage in the fight. it s up to what kind of agreement turkey comes to with the russians and the iranians to allow for the flow out of syria and the care for those refugees.
current policies and policy approaches are guaranteed to failure. gordon chang, at the very much. back to berlin. nine people confirmed dead, dozens injured after what appears to be, according to the hobble officials and the authorities on scene a terror attack on a christmas market on the west side of berlin, outside a church. we ll get to berlin for the latest on this attack next.
security, just an incredible vent and yet more evidence that the wide reaching effects the syrian civil war is hoping. excuse me. now to berlin. a witness is speaking live. we sat and we were drinking and suddenly i i have to sit town for a lot longer than i would normally. my friend said let s go. and i wanted them to give me a few minutes. then we heard a loud bang, and saw some of the christmas lights to our left starting to be pulled down and then we saw the going through, people, through the stalls and just pulling everything down and then everything went dark. so, it was very difficult to be there. goodness me. the latest from sky news in london covering the attack that happened in berlin.
okay is something akin to crazy land. trump s aides have previously suggested the attack claims are just sour grapes from the democrats. fox news can confirm they re not just sour grapes. all 17 intelligence agencies reported the hacks came from the highest level of the russian government. yesterday four united states senators sent a letter to mitch mcconnell, republican, calling for a bipartisan committee to investigate the attacks. republican s john mccain and lindsey graham signed the letter as well as the democrat chuck schumer and jack reed. reporter: reince priebus says the intelligence communitied ins to get on the same page and they say they re already there the cia director john brennan says there is a consensus between them, in the fbi and the director or national be generals. the difference is the fbi doesn t dethe deep analysis the
two-lane divided street in 2014 of kaiser wilhelm church on the west side of berlin at 8:00 local time, crashed into a large crowd in that location on the map, killed nine people and wounded dozens more. from the wall street journal the truck drove on to the sidewalk. 50 now injured. a spokesman for the berlin police say it happened 8:00 local time when that semi trailer truck, or a lorry drove on to the sidewalk after hitting the people the tuck truck served back into the street and came to a stop. the holiday mark was set up in frond of the kaiser wilhelm church of church, and a popular tourist site. this month germany narrowly avoided an attack on a christmas market.