14/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

France has started three days of national murning for the victims of

the terror attacks in the heart of the French capital.

A wave of gun and bomb attacks across the city has left

129 dead with hundreds more injured.

Most of those killed were attending a rock concert.

As the rescue operation got under way,

amid widespread panic and confusion, the government immediately imposed

TRANSLATION: We were piled up on each other. We heard the shots,

people screaming as they were tortured. It was butchery, carnage.

The man that was covering me was dead immediately. Was guy was badly

hurt, but he was really moaning and complaining. So we tried to say

shhh. One of the attacks happened

at the Stade de France stadium, where France were playing football,

and the president was in the crowd. TRANSLATION: It's an act of war that

was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist Army, against France.

There was news this evening of three arrests on the outskirts

of Brussels, after Belgian police alerted the French authorities.

There's a very strong police and military presence

on the streets of the city, as the French try to comprehend the second

France has started three days of national mourning, as millions of

messages of sympathy and solidarity arrive from around the world.

We'll have full details of the events of the past 24 hours,

We'll be looking at the latest on the police investigation and we'll

be considering the wider impact of what has happened here on the

streets of Paris. Good evening from Paris, it's now

known that 129 people were killed in last night's terror attacks and

more than 350 were injured, when three teams of attackers launched

gun and bomb attacks at several What happened according to experts

today is that three teams, they believe there were three teams of

attackers, who went on the rampage around this city last night,

targeting cafes and bars, restaurants and one theatre, a

Concert Hall in effect, just 50 yards away. Can you see the yellow

lights. The crowd of people behind me gathering throughout the evening

to lay candles and floral tributes. There have been lots of people here

during the day. The atmosphere, I have to say, is quite tense this

evening and people are openly expressing their concerns about what

lies ahead. On network television earlier today, the president of the

republic, Francois Hollande, said what had happened was a declaration

of war by, he said, Islamic State. That was the start of the reasoning

that people have been putting around what happened here.

The shocking sequence of events started to unfold yesterday evening

in several areas. At 9. 20 local time at the Stade de France stadium,

where France were playing Germany, the first of three suicide attacks

took place. Then a few minutes later, a gunman began shooting at a

bar and restaurant, killing 14 people. Shortly afterwards, came

another attack, at the Casa Nostra restaurant. At least five bodies

there, witnesses say. Then two gunmen killed people at the bar

called La Belle Equipe. At least 80 people were killed at the Bataclan

theatre. Four gunmen stormed the venue where a rock concert was

taking place. We'll have more on the detail of that sequence of events

for you, but just to recap there on the reasoning of experts and

analysts today, they are saying that Islamic State has brought this fight

onto the streets of Paris and the streets of Europe because, they say,

they are losing the battle in Iraq and Syria. They've been under heavy

attack in recent months, led by the Americans, but crucially, and this

is important to underline here, with strong support from the French

government. They say that is the context in which we should consider

what has happened here in the past 24 hours. It is the most serious

attack on French soil since the end of the Second World War. Our Europe

editor, Katya Adler, has been looking at the events for us. The

night during which Paris came under attack and there are some

distressing images in her report. This is how a regular Friday night

in Paris, at a football match, a rock concert and round the corner at

the local restaurant. Exploded into a waking nightmare. It all started

just after 9pm. Chanting crowds here at the France-German friendly had no

clue at first that this... EXPLOSION was the sound of a suicide bomber.

Then a second. And a third. Blowing themselves up just outside the

stadium: The French president there watching the game was ushered away.

Daysed, fright -- dazed, frightened fans lingered at first, too scared

to leave. Others belted out the French National Anthem. In part to

give themselves courage, as they walked out the gates. Leaving

footballers open mouthed watching news of the unfolding carnage. The

cousin of one of the French players was killed, though he didn't know it

yet. This man was near one of the bombers as he debt nayeded his

suicide vest. His mobile -- detonated his suicide vest. His

mobile phone stopped shrapnel slicing into his skull. Others

weren't so lucky. In the space of a few hours, scores of people were

killed in central Paris, in a series of coordinated attacks. This became

a city of panic, as everyone wondered where and who would be

next. Suddenly, news spread that revellers at a rock concert in the

Bataclan theatre, had been taken hostage. Some concert goers managed

to escape onto the streets. They were shot at as they left. This

mobile phone footage shows their utter desperation. This girl tries

to escape the blood shed inside by hanging outside the window. The

ordeal ended when French forces stormed the building. But around 80

innocent people had already been killed.

TRANSLATION: We were piled up on each other. We heard the shots.

People screaming, as though tortured. It was butchery, carnage.

TRANSLATION: I saw two young men, no older than 25, with Kalashnikovs.

They told us to lie down. There was one who kept gesturing for us to get

down. We all lay down. The whole room lay down. I was under other

people. They kept shooting. Meanwhile, not far away, those

gunmen's associates continued the killing spree in a number of

Parisian restaurants. Today, the place of mourning and media

interest. Murdered while eating their evening meal, on a normal

Friday night, it's hard to find a hipper, happier, more buzzing pocket

of Paris than these streets, filled with young locals and tourists. The

attackers didn't target glitzy Paris. With these shootings and the

first suicide bombings on French soil, they want to make everyone

feel afraid and exposed. The former owner of La Belle Equipe told me he

was devastated. It's hell. The people I sold this restaurant to are

like family. Seven of them were killed in the attack. In this

neighbourhood all of us are like family. It's devastating." He said.

Today the French president was defiant.

TRANSLATION: It's an act of war. Faced with an act of war, the

country needs to take the appropriate decisions. An act of war

which has been committed by a terrorist organisation, IS, a

jihadist army against France. An act of war, which has been planned,

organised, prepared from the outside and with accomplices from the

inside, which an investigation will identify. France has declared a

state of emergency. Security is tight, with thousands of extra

troops in airports, along French borders and across the country. Fear

is everywhere, in and around France, with the investigation pointing to

links in Belgium and beyond. Tonight, iconic buildings the world

over sent a clear message of solidarity, as France mourns and

prepares to bury its dead. Most of those who lost their lives

were attending a rock concert, It's just over there, a few yards

away. Around 80 people we think were shot dead. These gunmen went in and

calmly reloaded their weapons and fired round after round. There was

terror and panic there, according to lots of the eyewitnesses. Just to

get a sense of where we are in Paris, in the south-eastern district

of the city, just a few hundred yards away, behind me, the offices

of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine. They were the target of a

terror attack back in January of this year. We're in exactly the same

part of the city as that. A few yards up along the boulevard this

way, this is the Palace de-La Republique. People come here when

they want to voice unity and express sympathy at times of great national

significance and great national importance. So that is very close to

the area where we are here, where the Bataclan theatre is. Our

correspondent Lucy Williamson reports on the events that happened

in the Bataclan theatre. Again, I should warn you, there are some

distressing images in the report. They struck France

when its guard was down. Their victims were vulnerable,

wrapped up in the music Just before 10pm last night, the

victims were dancing to an American rock band in the darkness of the

Bataclan Concert Hall. Among them British tourist Hanna

Corbet. I was having a great time. They were loving the crowd. We were

loving the band. Suddenly, there was these fire crackers. It sounded like

fire crackers. With her was her friend Jack. I remember just turning

around to see where the sound came from. As I turned around, everyone

was just like row afro, just dropping to the floor, so we

followed suit. I remember looking up from the floor for a second and

seeing just this guy walking around the edge of the room with a rifle.

Yeah, like we, I think we both thought that was it for us. As

machine gun sprayed the room and silence descended Hanna saw a chance

to escape. Some people were frozen with fear. They weren't moving. It

was disturbing that you were climbing over people. People just

like you, people your age and having to climb over them to save your

life. It's really quite disgusting, but I think that's what I will

probably remember. In a different part of the hall, was Theresa. I got

more or less buried under a man, who was shot in the head next to me. So

I was underneath him. From there, nobody moved. So then we heard some,

the terrorists were shouting "You stay down. You don't move. We'll

shoot you." But they shot any way. Outside, as the clock ticked towards

midnight, police moved into position. Metres away from them,

hundreds of people were crammed onto the floor, desperately trying to

survive. The man that covered me was dead immediately. One guy was badly

hurt, but he was really moaning and complaining. We tried to say shush,

quiet, keep it, you know, you're alive, don't move, stay. Don't move.

Every time there was movement somewhere, there was more gunshots.

It last aid lifetime, an -- lasted a lifetime, an eternity. It was

probably an hour. Outside, emergency vehicles screaming through the empty

streets began to hint at the toll being extracted here. Inside an

explosion. And then escape. I had a view to the door, where they came

in. Through that same door, then I had a view of the police force, who

slowly made their way in and people are trying to make them signs to

please help and get us out of here. They just said, whoever can get up,

crawl, whatever - out, out, out. They emerged an eerie line-up of

survivors. Behind them in the Concert Hall, more than 80 people

dead. With them the bodies of the four attackers, one witness told

French media there was a woman among them. What happened here on this

Paris street will haunt France for years to come. A target so ordinary,

seemingly so random, that singled out no specific group or person, an

attack that expressed hatred for everyone in France. Caught in the

massacre, British man Nick Alexander. His family described him

as generous, funny and fiercely loyal. Gathered tonight at the place

he died, people are contemplating a new kind of threat, a future that

suddenly seems less certain and a Friday night that changed France.

One of the strongest features of the day in Paris has been people's

reactions, response to those in need. I'm not just talking about

people here with flowers and candles. I'm talking about the

response of thousands of people across the city, offering food,

shelter, accommodation. Earlier, there was an appeal in Paris for

blood donors. They had such a big response that they had to shut down

the system and the website crashed which was taking all the donor

offers. That gives you a sense of the willingness of people, the

determination to help out. Our correspondent reports on the

response of the people of Paris. a nondescript place holds endless

grief. This was

the Paris mortuary where survivors Many were told the identities

of the dead may not be confirmed The city's hospitals took

in 300 victims last night but, across this city, people are still

searching, still uncertain. I'm looking for my sister-in-law,

she says, I have a list of hospitals So the faces of the missing are now

being spread across the Internet. Every image is somebody who's

disappeared, posted by a relative There have been over 400,000

tweets spreading the word. Elsewhere, Parisians were

re-claiming their streets, lining up in their droves to donate blood,

reasserting the city's humanity It's all we can do, the only

thing to do right now, he says. TRANSLATION: I've never given blood

before but you can't even ask yourself the

question, you just have to do it. The brutality of what it witnessed

on a November night is seared This area was full

of people out dining last night when the gunmen drove through,

spraying that restaurant with Outside the Casa Nostra restaurant,

people were out there, They were shot at before

the gunmen drove off up the street. By the tree was somebody terribly

injured, he was shaking, Jean-Paul told me,

and three dead on the terrace. Here, there was a girl wounded

in her wrist. Julie was dining on the terrace

of one of the restaurants that was She and her boyfriend survived only

because, three minutes earlier, they'd argued,

so she went inside to pay the bill. TRANSLATION:

We'd started to hear shots. My reaction was to run but I

couldn't see any way out. For three minutes, there was

shot after shot after shot. Nearby, in the same squares that

filled with people after the attacks on Paris at the start of

this year, Parisians are gathering again, a little more sombre,

a little less defiant this time. TRANSLATION:

I would never have thought that this

could happen in my I realise now that this can happen

anywhere Today, it's been made clear that

security measures are not working. We have to find other solutions or

they have to prove to us that we can get out and do our shopping safely,

normally. It will be Christmas soon

and shops are crowded. We don't know

if we can go there or not. And, along with that fear,

this is a city experiencing again the bitter tang of grief

and sadness at the carnage which, Earlier this evening, the president

visited the wounded at a hospital. Damien is there. Not just the

presidential visit but one of the saddest things to note is that lots

of relatives and friends are looking for people they simply can't find.

Exactly right. Many don't have the answers they are looking for

because, if people disappeared in the chaos, there are many who have

not been able to work out where they have ended up. We saw the president

and Prime Minister, who came here earlier. They drove out in a

motorcade after visiting the doctors and patients in the hospital. But

there are many who don't have answers. The morgues have not been

able to provide answers until they can carry out full identifications.

What is noticeable tonight is that the mood is very different from what

we saw at the beginning of the year after the attacks on the Charlie

Hebdo magazine. Then there was a kind of defiance, people came out

into the streets. Now it is much more subdued. That may be the impact

of these attacks in the street, in public places, in restaurants, down

the end of people's neighbourhoods, in the Bataclan Theatre. We spoke to

people, women who told me they were too afraid to go outside, a man who

told me his 11-year-old daughter walking down the street to school,

he was unsure whether it was safe for her. France will have to grapple

with these things in the days to come. Thank you very much, Damien.

Let's talk a little bit about the investigation. That is now not just

a national, French investigation, it is a global investigation. Although

one of the most important developments of the evening came

from rather closer to home, in Belgium, because three arrests were

made in the outskirts of Brussels in connection with the investigation.

Prints cost -- French prosecutors say that more details are coming

together about the identities of some of the people they think were

involved with what happened tonight. Our security correspondent,

Gordon Corera, reports on the investigation into

the attackers and their motives. Paris is no stranger to the horrors

of terrorism, but this attack has shocked France, not just because of

its brutality but also its sophistication. An urgent

international investigation is underway.

TRANSLATION: It is almost certain three coordinated teams were behind

this act of barbarism. We have the right who they are, who are their

accomplices, who commanded them, where they came from, how they were

financed. The statement on the bless it onslaught in Paris... Today, this

statement was posted online from the group calling itself the Islamic

State. It said what tickled its soldiers were behind the attack, but

who were they? Forensic work has been underway to identify those

involved. They identify one of the attackers as a Frenchman from a pub

Paris suburb, known to the authorities for extremist links. A

Syrian passport was found and has been linked to the suicide bombers.

Investigators say that the Syrian passport was in the name of a man

registered as a riding as a refugee on a Greek island in October. They

are investigating him and one other possible refugee. There were police

raids in an area of the Belgian capital, Brussels, with reports that

three of the attackers may have been from there. The French former top

counterterrorism judge today told me this was an experienced group of

killers. Varied professional, quite professional, not to use a rifle,

but the coordination of the teams, you know, it represents some

training and some professional scaling. -- professional skills. It

was in January that the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo what

targeted, but yesterday's attack was far more ambitious and

sophisticated, with more attackers and targets. Details of the

attackers are still emerging here tonight, with reports that one may

have been a woman, another a young man aged between 15 and 18. They may

have come from different countries, but they were equipped with similar

Kalashnikovs weapons and suicide vests. The key question will be,

what or who connected them all, and how far that trail leads from here

to Syria. This strike by so-called Islamic State has rocked France but,

with security at key sites tighter than ever, the real fear is of the

unknown and of other cells that could still be out there.

There's an intensive global effort going on to identify not only

the attackers but also their network of collaborators.

As that process takes place here in France, some community leaders in

Paris have said they fear a tsunami of hatred towards France's Muslim

community, which number around five million people, many of them living

One community leader said that they feared a tsunami of hatred towards

the French Muslim community as a result of the way the investigation

is proceeding. Clear signs of alarm there among some people in France's

Muslim community, who of course underlined very strongly, as they

did in January when the other attacks happened, that they are

fully embracing the principles of the French republic and they are

repulsed by what has happened in the last 24 hours. It is important to

underline that. Gavin Hewitt has been talking to some of France's

community leaders. This is his report on the kind of things they

have been saying. France has the largest Muslim

population in Europe. Most are well integrated. In the past year, there

have been a series of attacks, like at the satirical magazine Charlie

Hebdo, carried out by extremists. Some of them grew up in the vast

estates on the anonymous edges of French cities. Ten years ago, I

watched the angry suburbs rebel. It prompted new efforts at integration

but always there were flashes of tension. The uncomfortable truth is

that there are today willing recruits for a more radical, violent

Islamist ideology, and Muslims today were reacting to the horrific

violence. TRANSLATION: Muslims in France are

disgusted by this, what would you think? Do you think we like being

pointed at? Everywhere we go, people give us a bad luck, they don't

accept us for jobs. From conversations here, it is clear that

some young people do feel isolated from French secular society and that

some do have a sense of grievance about French foreign policy,

especially in the Middle East, but people struggle to explain why

people would come down here and just opened fire at people having a

meal. Last night in this restaurant, a Muslim helped save the lives of

two girls in one of the attacks. TRANSLATION: After a spray of

bullets, I took the girls who were bleeding into the basement but why

any of this took place, I have no idea. Earlier this year, President

Hollande and European leaders linked arms in defiance against violence,

but it has proved easy for extremists to paint President

Hollande's intervention in the Middle East as part of a crusader

campaign. 2000 French Muslims are thought to have joined the war in

Syria. There are deep political divisions in France. The far right,

led by Marine Le Pen, continues to pole strongly and already questions

are being asked about whether any of the suspects travelled with recent

groups of refugees. After the Charlie Hebdo killings, France came

together, hoping that unity would defeat the extremists. It didn't

work out that way. Gavin Hewitt, who has been looking

at some of the reaction. This time last night, this part of the city

was in absolute lockdown. Security forces, chaos everywhere, terror, as

the attacks were taking place in that concert hall theatre behind me.

There are new images emerging this evening. The publication Paris

Match, one of the most famous publications in France, have been

able to obtain images of the security forces under attack 24

hours ago. Let's look at this. The ferocity and intensity of the

exchanges of gunfire on that images that we have just received from the

Paris Match magazine in Paris, showing the security forces under

attack from the gunmen in the Bataclan Theatre last night just

after 10pm, so pretty much 24 hours ago, exchanges of gunfire inside and

then outside the theatre itself. We have just received those images.

Katya Adler, how Europe editor, is with me. Given what you said earlier

and what we have heard since, the question I would like to ask is,

where does France go from here, given what the president has said?

We have preparations for a memorial service at Notre Dame cathedral

tomorrow. There is a lot of sadness here and fear as well. There is a

big dose of defiance, even amongst witnesses, determination not to lose

the joy for living that the city is famous for. Inevitably life is going

to change. As you say, from the French president over and over

again, we heard today that those attacks were an act of war. What

will that mean exactly? What does it mean for France's foreign policy in

the Middle East? What does it mean for civil liberties back here at

home? We don't know how long the state of emergency will last here in

France. We don't know how many other European or international links are

going to appear. Details are coming out all the time. We know tonight,

across France and beyond, families, the young and old are holding their

breath and really hoping for the best. Thanks very much once again.

In London, David Cameron chaired a meeting

of the COBRA emergency committee and afterwards warned that we should

He expressed solidarity and expressed sympathy with the French

president and the French people. Saying that Britain was standing by

to do all it could to help the French and certainly their

investigation. There was an underlining too of the strategic

bond between the two nations as well and the importance of working

together. Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, has

this report on the British reaction to the events.

St Pancras EuroStar terminal today and no visible changes to security.

There were some tearful reunions for those just back from Paris and the

Prime Minister sounded a note of solidarity with France. Our hearts

go out to the French people and to all those who lost loved ones. Today

the British and French people stand together as we have so often before

in our history, when confronted by evil. Government ministers arriving

for today's COBRA emergency meeting in Whitehall, wanted to know if

anything more should be done to stop a similar attack happening here in

Britain? There's no doubt that last night was different. Some new

tactics were employed. Of course, a huge number of terrorists were

attacking at different sites. We're going to reflect on this and make

sure our plans and our resources are fit for purpose. That includes this

all too realistic exercise in London in the summer. It involved Scotland

Yard's counter-terrorism specialist firearms officers, training to

handle multiple attacks by well armed gunmen who are not afraid to

die. Ever since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, Scotland

Yard specialist units have been training intensively with the Army

and Special Forces to cut down the amount of time it takes to bring an

armed response unit onto the streets to stop the terrorists in their

tracks. There was a genuine alert today at Gatwick Airport, with north

terminal closed for several hours, after a suspected firearm was found

in a waste bin. One man was arrested and flights were disrupted. The

chances of such a terrorist attack taking place in this country are

relatively lower. It is much harder to obtain the weaponry we've seen

deployed in this attack in the United Kingdom. And really it's the

machine guns that meant that these individuals were able to murder

quite so many people in such a horrendous fashion. Tonight, in

London's Trafalgar Square, a vigil for the victims. A reminder that

Britain is not immune to attacks by those who wreaked such carnage just

across the channel. Let's get a little more on the

Our chief political correspondent, John Pienaar, is in Downing Street.

More then on the Government's response from you? We saw there in

that, I thought, deftly drafted statement from David Cameron,

articulation of the deep sense of solidarity between Britain and

France, solidarity which, if anything, if it were possible, could

deepen with the news that one, and perhaps a number more, of Britons

were among the many dead in Paris. Solidarity, which is very visible

the length of this country tonight, with major buildings and land marks

illuminated, like Tower Bridge across the River Thames here in

London. Illuminated by the red, white and blue of the French flag.

Meanwhile we are seeing security agencies of France and this country

cooperating, showing that this solidarity is more than just a

symbol. Very soon attention will turn to the question of whether

David Cameron and his ministers arms will be strengthened by the events

in Paris on Friday, as they formulate policy to confront and

take on extremism, both in Syria and in this country. And on that, what

are your thoughts on the way that these events could influence David

Cameron's thinking and you know, what are the kinds of policy changes

that you think he might be considering? Well, plans to refresh

the powers of the police and security agencies, to intercept and

monitor internet traffic are already before MPs. They got quite a broad

welcome, but there are some on both sides of the House of Commons who

would like to see the powers constrained, more powers for judges

and less for ministers. The hope of ministers, including David Cameron,

is that the events of Friday, the events of this weekend, will cause

some of those doubters to hesitate and we could now see the possibility

of air strikes against Syria, one of David Cameron's great aims, brought

closer because of the awful events of Friday. Many thanks.

To pick up on John's point, what experts have been saying today is

that they believe this fight has been brought onto the streets of

this European city, Paris, because of the fact that Islamic State has

been struggling, losing the battle in Iraq and Syria under heavy attack

from the air, led by the Americans, but crucially, the French government

very strongly supporting lots of that initiative. Our Middle East

correspondent reports now on the increasingly global threat that is

posed by so-called Islamic State. Curdish forces taking back a state.

They fled from here, but not before they'd torn the town apart. We don't

know how many died under their year-long rule. But it isn't the

only place where they are in retreat. In Syria, the Kurds and

others with US air power have taken back miles of territory in the last

week. On its home ground, the Islamic State is faltering. But

further afield, it's bringing pain and terror. In Beirut, they're

burying their loved ones, killed by IS suicide bombers. More than 40

people killed in a busy shopping street on Thursday. Lebanon is in

grief, it's one of the bloodiest attacks in years. In Egypt too,

fresh tactics and fresh horror from Islamic State bombers who may have

brought down a Russian passenger plane. The United States and Russia

stood side by side in condemning IS and its new barbarism. We are

witnessing a kind of medieval and modern fascism, at the same time,

which has no regard for life, which seeks to destroy and create chaos

and disorder and fear, and the one thing we can say to those people is

that what they do in this is stiffen our resolve, all of us. Here in

Iraq, the Islamic State behaves like an army. It captures towns and

villages and sends men onto the battlefield. In Syria it has tasted

defeat. It's far from beaten, but the Islamic State is under pressure.

That may mean pay shift in tactics that increasingly the group will

focus attacks outside of its home territory here in the Middle East.

In Iraq and Syria tonight, the offencives against IS continue, but

they don't end here. The frontlines in this war are now closer to home.

As we speak, world leaders are gathering in Turkey, for the G20

Summit. President Hollande was meant to be there. Understandably he has

cancelled. He won't be going. The events in Paris clearly will

dominate lots of the discussion that's going on there. And the

implications for lots of France's allies. Our diplomatic correspondent

is there to cover the summit for us. James, what are your thoughts on how

these dreadful events in Paris will influence the agenda there? Tonight,

I think it's more painfully clear than ever to the leaders travelling

now here to Turkey, among them President Obama and President Putin,

that they have to find some way of minimising the differences between

them about how to tackle Islamic State, how to end the Civil War in

Syria, how to slow the enormous flow of migrants as Syria empties out.

But there are just a few positive signs that perhaps progress may be

being made, signs from Vienna, where their foreign ministers have been

meeting this evening. Philip Hammond was there too, to discuss a way

forward for Syria. Signals that perhaps the Americans believe

President Assad is now more willing to engage in serious negotiations.

Philip Hammond talks about momentum. You have to set against that the

fact that President Assad has little credibility and today, he actually

insulted French law makers and journalists, who were in Damascus on

a visit by saying to them that French foreign policies had brought

terrorism to their door. Let's now talk to our North America

editor, Jon Sopel, in Washington. Your sense, we heard from President

Obama of course quite a while ago now, because he was one of the first

to respond. But your thoughts on how the Americans are viewing these

attacks here and how they might respond to them? I spent the morning

with a very senior diplomatic and defence source. That was precisely

the nature of the discussion. A very strong feeling that given what has

happened in Paris, the need for Francois Hollande to make a strong

response, but also, the downing of the Russian jet in Sinai will leave

Vladimir Putin equally wanting to make a very strong stance against

Islamic State, after the humiliation of that plane coming down. So, you

have a coalescence of forces that will put pressure on President

Obama. Until now the president has wanted to move with small

incremental steps along the way. What people are expecting now is for

something more profound. What does that mean? It might mean, for

example, a speeding up of the time table to try to retake racka, one of

the key bits of territory held by Islamic State. Because what the last

24 hours have shown is that ISIS poses a serious and real threat way

beyond the borders of Syria and Iraq and a growing feeling in Washington

among the people I'm speaking to, that small, incremental steps are no

longer enough. Thank you very much. We'll have more

on the attacks in Paris in just a moment. I'll be talking to two young

Parisians and asking for their reaction. Let's look at a few of the

day's other news stories now. In Somerset, four people - two men

and two women - have died Police said the aircraft had been

heading from Surrey to an aerodrome in east Devon when it

came down in a field near Taunton. The Cumbrian towns of Egremont

and Kendal have been warned to take immediate action and prepare

for flooding, as a band of very The Environment Agency has issued 11

severe flood warnings for areas in and around the towns, indicating

a possible danger to life. I'm joined by two young Parisian to

have come to talk to us. Where were you last night? I was near this part

of Paris at a concert. When did you start to hear about the reports of

what was going on? Very quickly, because I phoned and I saw very

quickly all the people in the concert knew about what happened,

and we were very worried and we started to send texts to friends, to

know where they were and if everything was OK. Did you have any

friends at the concert? One of my colleagues was in the Bataclan just

near. Fortunately, he is OK, but very shocked. What about you? Where

were you last night? I am a citizen of this country. My state. In

response of your question, might I say that I enjoy Paris... I'm sorry

about the expression that was used. When you look at the way that

Parisian 's have responded, what do you think about the way that Paris

has responded? I don't know the way of other Parisians, but tonight I

wanted to... I don't want to stay at home, I want to stay here, outside,

because I want to show them Paris belongs to us, not to them. I think

our freedom is stronger than that religion. What about the response of

the president of the message he gave today on television? It is his job.

I think he did a good job. Do you think he is doing a good job of

leading at a very difficult time? Yes it is a difficult time, so...

How do you think the government should react? He declared a state of

emergency, introducing tough laws. What do you think of that? I'm not

sure there is another possibility. It is a good thing. Does your family

live in Paris? Where are your family based? My family doesn't live in

Paris. Or your friends and colleagues, you work in Paris, are

they staying at home, people not going out? It depends, but I think,

in the next few days, people will go out again, to show Paris is Paris.

And we have to show we are not afraid. We are not afraid. We are

sad and that is all. A final message from you. What are you saying about

the people of Paris? I don't understand. What are you saying?

What are you saying to the people of Paris? A message of love. I like

Paris. Thank you both very much. That's it from Paris tonight. 129

people lost their lives. Injured in the attacks that happened last

night, 24 hours ago. Underlining the enormity of what went on and, of

course, the implications not just for France but for the rest of

Europe as we see the rising global threat of what President Hollande

said was a threat of war -- a declaration of war from extremist

Islamic State. There will be more on the BBC news channel and more

details and analysis on the BBC news website as well. But now, on BBC

One, it is time for the news where you are, and we will leave you with

some of the strongest and some of the searing images of the night that

Paris came under attack. TRANSLATION: I saw two young men, no

older than 25, with Kalashnikovs. They can do this again and again. We

will be here. We will never give up. Good evening. The weather is causing

a few problems and disruption through the rest of the weekend, all

down to be remnants of ex-hurricane Kate moving