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Police in Germany have arrested a Saudi national after a car was driven at high speed into shoppers at a crowded Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg on Saturday night. Two people were killed when the vehicle hurtled between market stalls. Dozens were injured, some critically.

Also in the programme: the US House of Representatives has passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown with only a few hours to spare; we hear about the search for a Van Gogh painting which hasn't been displayed in public for more than 30 years.

Joining Gary O'Donoghue to discuss this and more are Dimitar Bechev, lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, and Olga Oliker, programme director for Europe and Central Asia at the Crisis Group.

(Picture: Emergency personnel stand next to a damaged car that was allegedly used to drive into a group of people in Magdeburg, Germany. Credit: Axel Schmidt/REUTERS)