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I'm Julian Marshall.
And later in the program, we'll hear from the minority Alawite community in Syria.
It once enjoyed the patronage of former President Bashar Al Assad.
So what are their hopes and fears under the country's new rulers?
Who to have an Islamic militant past?
So far we are okay.
Hayat Tahrir Al Sham has been respectful to us, but there are groups pretending to be HTs who are making threats.
And that report in full later in this edition of NewsHour.
@ church services across the country, Germans have been mourning those who died in an attack on a Christmas market in the eastern town of Magdeburg on Friday.
Five people were killed and more than 200 were injured, 40 of them critically when they were struck by a car being driven at speed through the crowds.
The suspect, Taleb Al Abdelmhsen, is a 50 year old doctor from Saudi Arabia.
He's been placed in pre trial detention, charged with murder, attempted murder and multiple counts of dangerous bodily harm.
The attack has been widely condemned by German politicians and it's put the issue of political violence back at the heart of the upcoming election.