18/03/2017 BBC Weekend News

An airport in Paris has been entirely evacuated and all flights

redirected after a man was shot dead by security forces.

He wrestled a soldier to the ground and took her rifle.

Police said he was on a security watch list in a country that

remains on high alert for terror attacks.

Once again French security forces scramble to deal

with an incident in the capital, this time at Orly Airport.

These elite officers know that a man inside,

who tried to grab a soldier's gun, has been shot dead

but they don't know if there are any other suspects

still on the loose in the terminal, or if there are explosives.

Meanwhile, thousands of passengers poured out of the building

after being ordered to evacuate and are now stranded.

TRANSLATION: He was holding a soldier by the neck.

And at the same time, he was holding on to her weapon.

When we saw that, we realised it was really serious and reran away.

The security forces have not found any other suspect but say the man

who was killed was known to the intelligence agencies and had

shot and lightly injured a police officer in the city earlier.

Part of the airport may remain closed until this evening

with anti-terrorism officials now dealing with the case.

Gordon Brown has entered the debate on whether there should be a second

referendum on Scottish independence by calling for a "third

The former Prime Minister says it's possible to balance the call

for autonomy with the need for continued

He called for more powers to be devolved after Brexit.

Here's our Political Correspondent, Iain Watson.

This is everyone's flag. Everyone's country. Everyone's culture and

everyone's streets. At the 2014 referendum

he was credited Gordon Brown says voters in Scotland

shouldn't have a stark choice between independence

and the Conservative Under my proposals we keep the

Barnett Formula and keep the fiscal transfers, but we bring the powers

to deal with agriculture and fisheries back to the Scottish

Parliament. So you have the powers and you have the resources, the

Conservatives won't give you the powers, and the nationalists can't

raise the resources, we can do both. His solution is to strengthen the

Scottish Parliament after Brexit. It would take powers back

from Brussels, get control of VAT rates and negotiate treaties

with other European countries. So the world has changed, but it

hasn't changed the way that the Scottish National Party want it to

be. The world as changed in the sense that we've got to face up to

the post Brexit realities, but it doesn't make the case for

independence stronger. I'm afraid it makes the case weaker, but it does

make the case for what I am proposing.

Here at the SNP conference they are not too chuffed. They think Gordon

brown is trying to overshadow Nicola Sturgeon's big speech, but they say

even if his ideas were credible, Labour would simply have no means of

delivering them. The Labour Party is in third place in Scotland. It's not

even a political force. The Labour Party is divided in Westminster.

Labour basically couldn't deliver a pizza!

Nicola Sturgeon intends to keep her focus on full independence.

Live now to our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith, who is in Kirkcaldy.

So Sarah, why is Gordon Brown intervening now?

Well, he says that this third option, as he calls it, is an answer

to Scotland's constitutional question. So he's speaking out now

in the midst of this battle between Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May over

whether there will be another referendum on Scottish independence.

Gordon brown says that can be avoided if more powers were

transferred to the Scottish Parliament and people were to adopt

his plan, but the problem for the Labour Party is it is very difficult

to get voters to listen to them at a time when they are watching the

battle between the SNP and the Tories play out and there is a

credibility issue, Gordon brown is promising new powers for the

Scottish Parliament during the 2014 referendum and there is a perception

that they simply were not delivered so people may not believe him this

time that more powers would be coming to Scotland if there isn't a

referendum on independence. Sarah, thank you.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on the second day of their official

visit to Paris, have been meeting survivors of the Islamist attacks

Our Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, is in Paris.

It is 16 months since those attacks in November 2015. This city has been

reminded this morning of the nature of the threat and the need for

vigilance by the incident at Orly. But the military hospital in Paris

the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met two people caught up in the

attack on the Bataclan and a restaurant in the city that night.

They sat in a room with them. They heard about what happened that

evening. They heard about their recovery which has been both a

physical and a mental recovery from the trauma of those attacks. Also,

William and Catherine met veterans of World War II and that's a

reminder, you know, that Royal visits are about the bigger picture

of the relationship between two countries and the message of this

Royal visit, of course, is very much that the relationship between

Britain and France is so multi-layered, is so robust that

Brexit need make no material difference to it.

Nick, thank you. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. Hello there. A very good afternoon

to you. It is a cloudy story out there for most of us for the rest of

the day and if you're settling into take in some of the Six Nations

action expect cloudy skies overhead at our matches in Edinburgh, Paris

and Dublin. Could be just the odd spot of rain around as well. That

really is the story for most of us this afternoon. This from one of our

Weather Watchers in Worcestershire earlier on.