15/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

French Police say they're urgently looking for one of three brothers,

believed to have been involved in the terror attacks, which killed

He is one of four men identified by police. He was questioned and freed

in the hours after the attacks and is on the run. Police have recovered

two cars in different districts of Paris. Both had been rented in

Belgium. There is tension and anxiety in the heart of Paris. This

was a false security alert in one of the city's central squares. New

images have emerged of the moment the gunman opened fire in the

Bataclan Theatre and then exchanged shots with police. More of the

victims have been identified today, many in their 20 -- 20s and 30s. The

total stands at 129. At the cathedral in Notre Dame, a service

of remembrance as France marks the second day of national mourning.

We're at the cathedral of Notre Dame, where a service of

remembrance has taken place for the victims of Friday's terror attacks.

Police confirmed tonight that they are urgently trying to find one

of three brothers, believed to have been involved in

He's been named as Abdeslam Salah, and he's thought to have rented one

Police have warned that he's dangerous

We are also hearing that the French air force has been in action over

Syria, over the city of rack, bombing targets in that area. We

will have details on that as well. The focus

of the police investigation has also That's where

the French prosecutor says the Our first report is from our Europe

editor. The fear in everyone's art, is it my

turn now? This man, a Dell slams Halla, is now the most wanted man in

France. We now know that police stopped on Saturday near the Belgian

border, but then him go. His brother was one of the suicide bombers. The

manhunt has led to Belgium, where another brother and several others

have now been arrested. In this Brussels suburb, linked to terror

plots in the past. Increasingly it seems that plans to assault Paris

were made. France and Belgium are united in the

fight against terrorism. The attacks were carried out by a group of

individuals in Belgium who benefited from accomplices in France. The

29-year-old used to live here in the northern suburbs of Paris. This

neighbour described him as kind and said he was shocked to hear he was

involved in Friday's attacks. Several of his friends and family

members have now been detained. Slowly, a clearer picture is

emerging. Two cars, including this one, have been found. Police say

they were used in the attacks. There is new footage of the night's

horror. Survivors are sharing video of their ordeal. This, turning a

rock concert into a bloodbath. It is how the gunman hoped their murderous

message would never be forgotten. 129 people were killed on Friday. It

now seems the plan had been for a massacre on an even larger scale,

live on television. France's president was among the fans for

this televised football friendly. When three suicide bombers blew

themselves up outside. We now know they had tried to get in, hoping to

detonate their explosives in the middle of the crowd. In painful

times like these, resumes tend to gather around what is seen as a

symbol of their nation. Since Friday night, they have been coming here in

their thousands. The French are famous for their strong sense of

national pride, in their culture, their food and their flag. The three

coloured flag seemed to represent the three declared principles of

France, liberty, equality and fraternity. Principles the people

here today say were under attack on Friday night with the bombs and

bullets, principles the French authorities say they are now

fighting hard to defend. The French government has declared a war

against terrorism. It is sending thousands of extra troops across the

country. Can they keep every French man, woman and child safe? In every

restaurant, at every football match, and every rock concert. Tonight, in

Notre Dame cathedral, a formal memorial service to remember the

dead. A time to grieve, a time to reflect. France will be forever

change following Friday's attacks. With links to the atrocity

widening, the rest of Europe probably as well.

As we mentioned, some very important developments in what has been going

on today. Our chief correspondent joins us. This man is the subject of

an international manhunt. News tonight in what could be a hugely

embarrassing episode for French police. In the hours after the

attacks in Paris, they stopped a car heading towards the Belgian border.

They questioned one man, then they have been to others in the vehicle.

They questioned him for some period and then they examined his ID and

then they let him go. He now is the focus of the manhunt. He now is the

most wanted man in France. It turns out that his brother was one of the

suicide bombers in the attacks here. Of course, this now is, as I say, a

hugely embarrassing episode for the French police. We talk a little

about the nature to the French response to the attacks on Friday.

We are getting reports that the French have been in action with the

Americans over Syria. Officials have told us there has been massive air

strikes in Raqqa. They have gone after what we are told again is

Bertie targets, including a jihadists training camp, and a

munitions dump. They have been counting the number of raids. We

understand water and electricity has been cut. In the immediate aftermath

of the attacks, President Hollande promised that a war would be waged

and it would be a pittance. Tonight we seem to have heard of the first

episode of these massive air strikes. What people are telling us

here is that this has been one of the largest French air operations in

recent times. During the day, more of the victims

were identified, most of them young people in their 20s and 30s and many

of them attending the rock concert. Some 89 people were killed there.

The French authorities today are telling us around 90 people are

still being treated in intensive care units in the hospitals in

Paris. The special centre has been set for family and of those

accepted. With the kind of support that has been offered to their

families and loved ones, here is our this family has run their restaurant

for generations. Everyone around here loved the place and its owners.

They always had a smile for everyone. They were so kind, really

well-known around here. I have only lived it a couple of years. It

touches you. -- lived here. I feel grief. This man had a love of life.

Both these men were murdered at the Bataclan concert. The restaurant is

being here for 45 years, a fixture of this neighbourhood. The third

generation of the family to run the place. As one of the messages on the

wall puts it, there were no words to describe sadness and anger. This

little restaurant has drawn film stars, politicians and footballers.

They are a family crashed. It is a nightmare, obviously it is a

nightmare. We took -- baited over the restaurant two years ago and

were very hard-working. It has had an enormous impact on the family. It

is horrible. There are no words. It is something we cannot understand.

We never thought it would happen to us but it is everyone. Stories of

others like this 23-year-old are emerging as well. The American

exchange student was shot dead. She was very adventurous. She had a lot

of strength and determination. She was very giving. She was a beautiful

person. Jack MacNiven survived. Shot in the shoulder coming he called his

father at home in Guildford just after the attack. In a way, it was

quite hard to have received a phone call. It is just crazy. Two days on,

some families are still call. It is just crazy. Two days on,

for their loved ones, not sure if they are alive or dead. This is

where they come for answers. This woman was last seen in the Bataclan

concert Hall. We have to keep looking, we have had not had news if

she has died. I am still optimistic. Several people have not been

identified and are unconscious in the hospitals. I think we will find

her. There is uncertainty as to when the family will reopen the

restaurant. Another message put it that we are shattered, disgusted, at

this enormous injustice. There were several developments

in the police investigation today. Before we started talking about this

brother, now there is an international manhunt looking for

him. Police were trying to identify more of those involved. They found

weapons in an abandoned car, that was reported earlier today. There

was a lengthy statement from the French prosecutor about different

aspects of the investigation. The main conclusion from him was that

these attacks had been planned, he said, and prepared in Belgium, in a

certain part of Brussels, a suburb of Brussels.

Our security correspondent, Gordon Corera,

has the latest on developments in the police investigation.

The city of Chartres is famous for its cathedral. It was in this city

that Omar Ismail Mostefai came from. This rabbi said he knew little --

this imam said he knew little about him. This woman said she was a close

friend and said Chi was shocked by his role. What do we know about Omar

Ismail Mostefai? He was 29 years old and at come to the attention of

blues as a petty criminal and his links to Islamic radicalisation.

People are asking what drove him to attack the country in which he

lived. It is clear the investigation into the Paris attacks is not one

confined to France but is increasingly international. Back in

Paris, the debris of an evening out shattered by violence still litters

the area around the Stade de France Stadium. Three suicide bombers blew

themselves up here and, amid the debris, investigators found one

clue, a Syrian passport. It may well be faked. Investigations are ongoing

to confirm it was used by an attacker. It has the name of a

refugee who arrived on a Greek island on the 3rd of October. He

then seems to have gone to Macedonia and then Serbia where he claimed

asylum. It is one strand of an international investigation with

extensive bullies investigation in Belgium. Earlier this month a man

was arrested carrying weapons and explosives, now linked to be Paris

attacks. Abdeslam -- another man is on the run. Four other suspects have

now been identified. A former member of the French Secret Service told me

from his experience under cover it was no surprise this group was so

international. Jihadis International. We have two places in

an international context. I have been watching these connections for

a long time. They have the ability to have low scale warfare. There is

a fear that some of those involved in the attacks may still be at large

and that other cells could exist across Europe.

Let's talk a little more about this Belgian connection which has emerged

today, which everyone is underlining hours one of the main themes of this

investigation. One of the attackers is known to

have lived in Brussels, according to Belgian prosecutors, and another in

the nearby community of Molenbeek. The prosecutors feel that there is a

A total of seven men have been arrested in Molenbeek.

Our Europe correspondent, Alex Forsyth, reports on the Belgian

An anti-Terol operation in a neighbourhood now at the centre of a

major investigation. This was Molenbeek yesterday, where police

raided properties in connection with the Paris attacks. Today, this

Russell is suburb is quieter, but still key to the Belgian arm of this

enquiry. And those who have lived here long are reeling.

What happened yesterday, this man told me, was like nothing I have

seen before. There were lots of police and lots of weapons. It was

the first time we have seen anything like that. But to some, these scenes

are fast becoming familiar. Molenbeek, largely working-class

with a diverse population, has been connected with several cases of

extremism. Now Belgian authorities say one of the Paris gun men lived

here, and another elsewhere in Brussels. Belgian officials admit

there is a problem. TRANSLATION: The number of people

going to Syria has gone down, but those that goes still come from

Molenbeek and Brussels. We are making progress, but there is a lot

of work still to do, especially in those two areas.

This jihadi recruitment video was produced by a now banned Belgian

group. The proportions of Belgians joining Islamist organisations

overseas is higher than in those European countries. Earlier this

year, two suspected jihadi is were killed in raids in the Belgian town

of Fervier in the days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Both countries share quite the same problems, a fragile community coming

from North Africa, this problem of identity, currents to social

programmes and so on, and presence on the ground of charismatic figures

who can be leading figures in the most extremist part of the

community. Tonight, French investigators are in

Brussels as part of a joint enquiry into the Paris attacks. So far,

seven people have been arrested, and as Belgian links continue to emerge,

there is growing concern here over the scale and scope of

radicalisation. Alex Forsyth, BBC News, Brussels.

The biggest loss of life on Friday night was at a rock concert

Lots of young people there, but not all of them young. I spoke to one

man who was 61, he was there with friends enjoying the concert, and he

was telling me that the lights went off, they were confronted by

repeated gunfire, there was terror and panic. It took me by while to

realise what was going on. And clearly there was a stampede towards

the emergency exit as people realise the full extent of the horror

unfolding. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson tells us more now about

what happened at the Bataclan Theatre, and I should say there are

some distressing images in this report.

They thought they were fighting for hostages but the attackers

at Bataclan concert hall wanted only to kill, not to bargain or release.

On the faces of French security forces, the fear of human beings

Above them, the hall where captives lay praying and dying,

One man inside the building on Friday told French media

the attackers urged each other to cause maximum carnage.

That they didn't want to get out alive.

This is where terrified music fans lay packed on the floor.

Their attackers above them on this balcony.

Some victims managed to escape through the emergency exit.

I see the secure exit and I want to take this door.

The people, the spectators, the people, go down.

Some of those around him never made it out.

Briton Nick Alexander, described as everyone's best friend.

His girlfriend said she was heartbroken.

Valentin Ribet, a lawyer, who had studied at the LSE.

And Marie Mosser, a pianist, who friends said was brimming with

On a walkabout this morning, the French Prime Minister was stopped by

She was in the Bataclan and nobody is telling me anything.

Amid the confusion, the story of Friday night's massacre

from the memories and mobile phones of those who were there.

Much of it is too distressing to show, or even to describe.

Around Bataclan concert hall tonight,

the cafes that are open are largely empty, but the streets are full.

A quiet show of protest in the face of violence.

The gestures of a country trying to come to

They call it national mourning, millions of people,

each struggling with private horror and personal grief.

Among all the responses today from public figures, probably the most

prominent was the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who visited the

Elysee Palace and spoke to President Hollande. He said that in his view,

French security measures needed to be much tougher, and they needed to

be cooperation with other European partners.

Our Europe Editor, Katya Adler, is with me now.

What is your sense of that response tonight? I think the feeling is that

slowly the reaction of prescience is turning from anguished anger. This

year started with Charlie Hebdo, and it is ending with this, on a much

larger scale. And it seems that the police let one of the attackers slip

through their fingers, serious questions for French security and

intelligence services, and those questions are being echoed across

Europe, because the links to Belgium and Syria make all Europeans feel

exposed. The continent is reeling from the migrant crisis, so any link

or suggested link between someone coming over here from Syria could

have very dramatic consequences. We have already had French politicians

and Germans saying they've fear this could lay into the hands of the far

right, and calls for more Europeans to pull up the drawbridge on Europe.

If you look at the qualities of liberty, equality and fraternity,

can Europe remained true to those ideals but at the same time make its

citizens feel safer? Katya Adler, thank you. Our Europe

editor. As the investigation into the IS

attacks in Paris continues, there are new reports of IS

atrocities in northern Iraq. A mass grave - thought to contain

the remains of as many as 80 women - has been discovered

near the town of Sinjar, an area taken by Islamic State forces last

year but liberated this week. Local people report a wave

of brutality and mass executions, targeted against members

of the minority Yazidi community. Our Middle East correspondent,

Quentin Sommerville, has been to the site

and he sent this special report. Liberation from the Islamic State

comes at a terrible price. Sinjar is free,

but this was a crushing victory. A year under IS control, and barely

anything here survives intact. Day two of freedom,

and retribution begins. Sunni Arabs, targeted for their

perceived support of the militants. The bones and hair

of murdered Yazidi women found According to our information

from eyewitnesses, they forced them to convert to

Islam, and they refused that, so they shot them, and the young

girls they took for sex slavery. For the Islamic State, Yazidis are

pagans, to be enslaved or killed. But some escaped

and they are telling their story. One is too frightened

to show her face. She told me, they herded us like

sheep, and separated us into groups. They took the older women

and killed them. They were brought to this college

building on the outskirts of town, and here,

a selection process took place. Until now, it wasn't known what

had happened to the older women. It seems that for the Islamic State,

they simply weren't young enough to be sold as sex slaves,

they had no use. What happened here was inhuman,

it was beyond warfare, and may be further evidence

of a systematic plan by IS to The UN says that what happened

in Sinjar was likely genocide. For many that remained, it was

a year of living with daily terror. Kurds and Yazidis have taken

the town back, As a woman and as a soldier,

it hurt when we heard that Yazidi We have to liberate everywhere

and free all the Yazidi women We will fight until the last drop

of our blood. Here, they achieved a victory,

but it is incomplete. Hundreds of women are still missing,

lost to the Islamic State. Quentin Sommerville, BBC News,

Sinjar in northern Iraq. So, it is no surprise that the

actions of Islamic State in the Middle East and here in Europe are

dominating the agenda of world leaders who are meeting at the G 20s

are met in Turkey. They will also be discussing the Syrian conflict

there. David Cameron is attending. President Hollande was meant to be

there, but understandably he has cancelled.

James Robbins reports from Antalya on the global response.

First, Turkey's president asked the leaders to stand in silence

for the victims in Paris, in Ankara last month, and for all

The killing of innocent people based on a twisted ideology is

an attack not just on France, not just on Turkey, but it is

And tonight, news of the first French military response.

Ten fighter jets launched France's biggest raids in Syria to date, to

According to the French Defence Ministry, hitting a

command centre, a recruitment centre for jihadists, the munitions depot,

Coordinated with the Americans, this could be

In dozens of conversations outside the formal sessions, leaders debated

stepping up the fight against so-called Islamic State.

That, and ending the civil war in Syria, dominated a remarkable

half hour huddle between the American

A White House official said they agreed on the need for a Syrian

led, Syrian owned political transition.

That still remains a potential spoiler.

What about Russia's bombing in Syria?

Is it aimed at all who oppose President Assad?

Russia says no and insists its aim is the same as Washington,

David Cameron is sceptical ahead of his face to face talks

The conversation I will have with Vladimir Putin is to say, there is

one thing we agree about, which is that we would safer in Russia and in

Britain if we destroy Isil, and that is what we should be focusing on.

So there are signs of some new convergence over Syria, and several

Governments say that progress has been accelerated by shared anger

over recent extremist attacks culminating in Paris. But still

there are grave doubts about the possibility of sustaining

breakthroughs after so many past failures. James Robbins, BBC News.

We had a few words from David Cameron.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is in Downing Street.

What is the nature of the British response? That the world ring Terry

is hard to die just. We wonder what it changes here at home and what it

does not. -- the bewildering terror is hard to digester. An urgent

review of some of the arrangements we have in place, particularly

around larger events like football matches. There is worried about the

scale of this must be considered. There is some reshaping in terms of

some of the kinds of security measures we put into place in this

country. What is not different is the actual terror threat to us here

which officials describe as severe. That means an attack is likely but

it is not seen as being imminent at this stage. The Government's brought

belief that extremism must be tackled abroad but also at home.

With that the right military strategy as well as security

strategy in the Middle East. Ministers believe there is a case

for expanding British air strikes in Syria, as well as dropping bombs on

Iraq. They do not have political agreement to move forward on that.

As long ago as early summer when so many British lives were lost in

eight different sickening attack when people were killed on a beach

in Tunisia, David Cameron said that fanatics had declared the kind of

war on Britain. Is of that belief but there are things that may change

but the overall approach remains the same. This government, like others

in the West, does not pretend that the solution will be quick, or, or,

in any sense, straightforward. There will be more on the British

response tomorrow morning because David Cameron will be speaking about

the British response in the wake of the terror attacks. You can hear him

on BBC Radio four just after seven o'clock.

There are vigils being held across the city today, but

the biggest has been on the Place de la Republique where Parisians

often gather at significant moments in the nation's history.

It is really a place which embodies the values of the Republic, if you

like. I went there earlier today. There were lots of young people

there. I spoke to some of them, including a

singer called Maud, and she really did express very eloquently the

spirit of young Parisians today. We were having dinner,

and then we started, like, receiving messages saying, "Oh

my God, what is happening in Paris?" We hear shots and then we put

on the News Channel and just, It took us maybe one hour to

realise they were terrorist attacks. We are young,

we are the future of our country. If they want to break the country,

they have to break young people. I think, for them, music is no good,

fun is no good, love is no good. So,

I guess it was really significant I mean, in France,

liberte is one of the words that They will never be able to

take that away from us. Now they are saying, "Oh, my God,

we are in war!" I don't know if you are in war but I

guess we have to keep on living If we are scared, if we stay home,

if we don't keep on living, That was a singer here in Paris

talking to me a little earlier. So,

to summarise what we know tonight. 129 dead after the attacks

of two nights ago. French medical services are telling

us that 99 people are still in hospital, in intensive care, with

very serious injuries. As we have been

police are hunting for one of three brothers thought to be

Salah Abdesalam is thought to have rented one of the cars used

reporting, it has emerged he was stopped and questioned after the

attacks took place and he was freed. That will be a very big

embarrassment for the French police and security services. The focus of

the investigation today has moved to Belgium, where prosecutors say the

attacks were planned and prepared. tonight reports that the French air

force has been involved in a heavy bombardment in Raqqa. There will be

more response on the Paris attacks on the BBC News Channel. There is a

wealth of information and analysis on BBC News online.

But now, before we join our news teams where

you are, a sense at the end of this harrowing weekend of the many vigils

being held throughout this city for the victims of Friday's atrocity.