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At least 127 people are now confirmed dead

in the Paris terror attacks - in what the French President

called "an act of war" by so-called Islamic State.

Gunmen dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikovs

and suicide vests went on the rampage at six sites.

All eight attackers are dead - seven blew themselves up.

Police stormed a concert venue where at least 80 people died.

We all lay down, the whole room lay down,

I was under other people, and they kept shooting.

Bombs were detonated at the Stade de France stadium,

while the French team played Germany.

Islamic State says it carried out the attacks.

President Hollande said France would be pitiless

Charonne, TRANSLATION: This was an act of war that was committed by a

terrorist army, a Jihadist army, against France.

In London, David Cameron called the attacks sickening.

of the Government's Cobra emergency committee.

We are outside the Bataclan concert venue, where most of the victims of

last night's terror attacks were killed.

President Hollande has declared last night's attacks in Paris,

in which at least 127 people died, an "act of war".

He has declared a state of emergency. 127 people at least have

died and many more injured. Many of them critically ill. Francois

Hollande said it was organised and planned from outside France and IS

has claimed responsibility for the attacks saying they were a response

to French military action against Islamic State in Syria. Let's talk

you through the attacks as they unfolded last night.

The first of the attacks happened around 9pm

in the 10th Arrondissement, at Le Carillon bar.

Witnesses described a masked gunman with a rifle.

He opened fire then moved across the street to a Cambodian restaurant.

12 people are known to have died on this street.

came another attack at the Casa Nostra pizzeria.

Witnesses say they saw at least five bodies.

Then three suicide bombers blew themselves up

where a football match was being played.

from the La Belle Equipe bar in the 11th Arrondissement.

Finally, more than 80 people are known to have died after gunmen

stormed the Bataclan theatre where a rock concert was being held.

Our first report is from our Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson. It

was a night of horror for France. Terror attacks the aimed at its

softest targets. Swat teams teeming into the 11th area. Inside the

Bataclan were 100 hostages. TRANSLATION: We were piled up on

each other. We heard the shots, people screaming. It was butchery.

Carnage. I saw two young men 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 and they kept

shooting. 80 people died in the hall. Many more were injured. The

screams of emergency vehicles told of the panic and chaos inside. But

this was just the climax to terrorist attacks the Government

said were unprecedented. Four times last night gunmen entered local bars

and restaurants with machine guns. The scale of the plot slowly

becoming clear. At France's football stadium, the sound of three

explosions burst through the commentary. As Francois Hollande

watched the national side play Germany, suicide bombers had blown

themselves up outside. SPEAKING IN FRENCH. The president was rushed to

safety. The fear here greater than many can ever remember.

CROWD SINGS FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM. TRANSLATION: I was crossing the

street and straightaway, boom, it exploded, right in front of me.

Everything was blown to bits. I felt stuff flying around. This is the

cell phone that took the hit. It's what saved me. The question for

leaders across Europe, how do you protect every bar, every restaurant,

from attack. TRANSLATION: We wanted to be here among all those who saw

these atrocious things to say that we are going to fight and our fight

will be merciless, because these terrorists that are capable of such

atrocities need to know that they will be confronted by a France that

is determined, unified and pulled together and a France that will not

let itself be overawed, even if today it is expressping an infinite

amount of emotion at this tragedy, which was a barbaric act. As Paris

reels from its worst attack since the Second World War, 1,500 soldiers

are on the streets today to help protect the capital. Libraries,

swimming pools and markets are closed and border controls have been

introduced and the president announced a state of emergency. Here

the year is ending as it began with soldiers on the streets and terror

and anger rippling through its people. Since the attacks on Charlie

Hebdo in January, the question has been what next? This is the answer.

Francois Hollande described this as an act of war and will address both

houses of French Parliament on Monday. He has had no hesitation in

blaming what happened here on so-called Islamic State or known in

Arabic as Daesh. TRANSLATION: Dear come patriots. What happened

yesterday in Paris and at St Denis near the Stade de France, was an act

of war. And faced with war, the country must make the appropriate

decisions. It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army,

Daesh, a Jihadist army, against France. Against the values that we

defend throughout the world. Against what we are, a country that is free,

that talks to the whole of the planet. That the president Francois

Hollande. I am joined here in Paris outside the Bataclan concert hall,

where so many people died, by our Europe correspondent. You were here

just after the Charlie Hebdo killings in January, I suppose it is

fair to say people here, although they were on a state of high alert,

they were never expecting something like this in the same year? No, the

terrible thing is those attacks, the Charlie Hebdo offices are just a few

hundred yards up the road that way. Win a couple of minutes walk from

here. Not only another attack, but almost in exactly the same part of

Paris. You remember back then we saw pretty extraordinary scenes after

that set of attacks. Millions coming out in France, huge demonstrations,

enormous support, public support rallying behind republic can ideals.

Now will we see the same thing again? What has happened has been

the nightmare scenario for security agencies not just in France but many

capitals? Yes in the past year this sort of attack is precisely what

security agencies have been worrying about and trying to prevent and have

been preparing for. So the question is how did they not see this one

coming? The issue being large scale attacks on multiple locations, with

mull Peel public -- multiple targets in places where people gather. That

is why we have seen across Europe people talking about tightening

security. Thank you. 1,500 troops have been deployed on

the streets and people are queueing up to give blood, in case the

hospitals who are treating the many wounded run out of blood supplies.

Now a report on the theories about who carried out the attack from our

security correspondent. The scene The scene at the centre of the

worst of last night's Paris attacks, French security forces

assault the Bataclan theatre. S'il vous plait,

qu'est-ce qui se passe?! Some terrified hostages escape

through windows, but inside over 80 people were murdered by the gunmen,

who also set off explosives. Within hours, the group calling

itself Islamic State claimed it was behind the attacks, the worst on

France since the Second World War. They've been swiftly condemned

around the world. an attack not just

on the people of France, but this is an attack

on all of humanity and the universal values

that we share. We stand prepared and ready to

provide whatever assistance that the government and people

of France need to respond. It is the second time this year

Paris has suffered a rampaging attack

by Islamist gunmen inspired by terrorist groups

in the Middle East. In January, jihadists raided the

offices of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo,

and a Jewish kosher grocery. And in August, a man was overpowered

on a French high-speed train as he allegedly tried to shoot

passengers with an assault rifle. the Government convened

a Cobra crisis meeting. Ministers want to check that every

possible precaution has been taken to prevent a similar tragedy

happening here in Britain. We've already been trying

to prepare, we've got a heightened state of

readiness, more officers on patrol. Overnight, of course,

we've looked at that afresh, and whenever there is

something like this, we review our standards

and people will probably see in the next few days more police

officers at public events, they will see strengthened

policing at ports. French police and security forces

reacted quickly to the Paris attacks, but this was

still an intelligence failure. There are clearly gaps

in French security at Huge implications for the British

intelligence agencies from what happened. Here is our assistant

political editor Norman Smith. The Prime Minister has been chairing a

meeting of Cobra emergency committee? Yes, in the past few

minutes the Prime Minister has said we must be prepared for British

casualties from these attacks. Among the 127 dead there will be probably

be British victims. But he has been talking about how he need to stand

together with the people of France, saying your fight is our fight and

he has tweeted in French to underline that saying, we are

united, we are together. But also I think significantly trying to offer

a message of reassurance to people here about the security measures we

already have in place. The Prime Minister and the government have

decided not to increase the security level. It has already been raised

over the past year to severe. So we are already at a heightened state of

alert. David Cameron has decided not to raise it further, because I think

he is of the view we already have significant measures in place. Over

the sum tr police carried out a trial run for exactly this sort of

outrage, when they tried to rehearse what their response must be to an

attack, at different sites, a rolling attack, involving different

terrorists and on top of that we know that the government has

introduced quite a range of significant additional security

measures. You think a few weeks ago we had the Home Secretary unveiling

increased surveillance powers to make its easier for the Security

Service to access the internet chat of the e-mails and use of data by

terror suspects and on top of that we already have legislation passing

through Parliament to make it easier to close down those organisations

suspected of trying to put over extremist views. So there have been

a significant number of measures in place. So while you might expect to

see more police on the streets, there won't immediately be new

measures. Thank you. Our diplomatic correspondent

James Robbins is there in Antalya for us now.

James. There is a meeting of the G 206789

it will be an early opportunity for the heads of states to discuss the

events in Paris. -- G20. Yes, the scale of what has happened in Paris

has shocked world leaders, many of them making their way here to Turkey

for two days of talks, where the fight against extremism was already

pushing other subjects to the margins. I think now it will

dominate. President Obama said that the United States stood should tore

er to shoulder with France and that will be the theme. The meeting will

bring together leaders from 20 of the world's leading economy.

Francois Hollande will stay away to handle the crisis at home. But

others will try to produce a unified response to civil war in Syria and

how to drive IS out of the territory of Syria and Iraq. This country of

course, Turkey, has suffered extremism itself, mass casualties in

the Turkish capital and it borders Syria and Iraq. So it is rights at

the fulcrum of the war against extremism. A very unhelpful and

unwelcome remark from Sir y's president Assad who told French law

makers who were viz sifting that French -- visiting that French

policies contributed to this act of terrorism. We can be certain the

leaders here will say exactly the opposite and it will be a test of

whether they can bring together the policies of Russia with those of

President Obama. Thank you. Norman Smith said that the British

Government are warning there could be British casualties among the dead

and injured in the wake of these attacks in Paris.

And if you're concerned about loved ones in Paris,

you can contact the Foreign Office in London on 020 7008 0000.

of the situation here in Paris this lunchtime.

We are outside the Bataclan venue, where most of the victims died.

1,500 people has been in there watching a concert when four gunmen

came in. They have been retrieving bodies and carrying out forensic

work. At least 127 people are now

confirmed dead in the Paris terror attacks

in what the French President called an "act of war"

by so-called Islamic State. Gunmen dressed in black and armed

with Kalashnikovs and suicide vests All eight attackers are dead -

seven blew themselves up. Police stormed a concert venue

where 80 people died and scores were injured,

many critically. Bombs were detonated

at the Stade de France stadium, while the French team

played Germany. That is the latest. France is in a

state of emergency and three days of national

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