19/11/2015 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.

The man believed to be the ringleader of the Paris attacks

WAS killed in that massive police assault on Wednesday.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud's body was identified by his fingerprints.

France's interior minister says he was involved in four

of the six attacks foiled by French intelligence services

TRANSLATION: No information from any European country that he has went

through to arrive in France had been sent to us.

French MPs extend emergency powers in response to the terror threat.

One of the measures will allow off duty police officers to carry

Scientists predict an "antibiotic apocalypse" after

finding bacteria resistant to even the strongest drugs.

The French authorities say the extremist who is suspected

of having organised last Friday's massacre in Paris is dead.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in the massive police offensive

on a flat in northern Paris before dawn on Wednesday.

Officials say his body was found riddled with bullets and shrapnel.

He was identified by his fingerprints.

In France, in Belgium and beyond, security operations continue to hunt

And across Europe, police and intelligence services are

being given extra resources, while in Syria

and Iraq the military assault on the so called Islamic State continues.

Good evening from the city of Paris were the sound of sirens

reverberates again around here. So much police activity over the course

of the last week and around the country, 106 grades in all but it

was the one yesterday that was the main focus because intelligence told

police that it was an apartment in that suburb in which they might find

the ringleader Friday's attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The prosecutor

last night was not able to confirm he was there but today we have the

news that he was. They found a body, they tested the fingerprints and

although the body was riddled with bullets and shrapnel, he said they

were confident that they could identify the body as Abdelhamid

Abaaoud. He is a 28-year-old Belgian of Moroccan nationality. It will be

some relief to the police that they have managed to find the ringleader

after such a hard week but perhaps a concern to the French public that

even after Friday's attacks here is a man that was swaggering and still

walking around this suburb in full view of the public. Here is our

European correspondent. Sifting for clues, all day police

teams have been searching for clues. With the aid of DNA tests,

they now know the man they were hunting was killed here. It is not

clear if he died as the police stormed the flat or blew himself up.

Speaking today, the French Prime Minister announced the news to the

nation. TRANSLATION: We know today that

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the brains behind the attack, or one of the

brains, because we have to be extremely cautious, was among those

killed. The death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud has

also been confirmed on social media sites linked to the Islamic State

group. What made trouble French police is locals in Saint-Denis was

are saying he was seen openly following the Paris attacks. It

seems he felt safe and unconcerned. This is believed to be his cousin,

thought to be the woman who blew herself up in the apartment.

Upstairs was another man who says he exchanged hellos with her. She was

dressed in jeans and trainers, nothing out of the ordinary.

TRANSLATION: I could never have imagined she was a suicide bomber. I

was stunned after it happened. It is scary. They could be anywhere. Seven

men and one woman were arrested by police during the raid. There is

much evidence for French anti-terrorist teams to sift

through. Among it, new security camera footage of the attacks on the

cafes. Diners scramble for cover as glass shatters all around. The

attacker then walks up to the door and his gun jams as he tries to

shoot a woman lying at his feet. The man moved on and she made her

escape. Inside, a minute or so later, once the coast was clear,

people emerged from under the tables and in the corners where they had

hidden. And, of the three suicide bombers at the Stade de France, it

seems one may have had second thoughts. A new witness has told us

a man was inside the restaurant, in the toilets.

TRANSLATION: I found myself face with someone who was sweating all

over his face, profusely. He looked worried, anguished, like he was

asking himself lots of questions. He was staring at himself in the

mirror. Seconds later, the man walked out of the restaurant and

blew himself up, outside but not among the diners. The man who may

have orchestrated such terror is gone but the risks to France remain.

The confirmation that Abdelhamid Abaaoud was inside that

building means that one threat France -based has been eliminated.

What it does not change is the fact the general threat level for this

country and right across Europe has escalated dramatically, both in

terms of the number of possible And we know from the French

authorities that the list of known radicals and fanatics here in France

is quite extensive. They call it the list that they the Interior Ministry

and there are 10,000 names on it, all to a varying degree, some have

direct links to Syria and others have looked at the deals that you

can see from that list, the enormity of what the intelligence services

face here in France and with that in mind, the politicians were asked to

consider today extending the emergency powers for three months,

not surprisingly, only six MPs voted against it and back gives the police

sweeping powers. They are able to raid homes without judicial order,

they are able to tap phones, look at data and it is that ability to look

at data that they now have that led them, we believe, to camp one. The

discovery of the ring leader will raise questions and they were

talking about it today, how this man was able to travel to Syria from

Belgium -- temp one. Our security correspondent has been looking at

that issue and where the investigation might go from here --

Abdelhamid Abaaoud. They had elements of the same plan.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud himself claimed he narrowly escaped capture of

terror this police raid in January which disrupted and major gun attack

and killed two accomplices. This may well have marked our major missed

opportunity to stop him planning and organising another even larger

attack. Abdelhamid Abaaoud claimed he escaped Belgium in January and

went back to Syria. He then appears to have got back into Europe again

perhaps via Greece. The investigation. His ability to

travel. Failure to track him was

a costly one. three cars were used, all rented

in Belgium, the base for the plot. At the Bataclan Theatre,

a VW Polo was found. Eyewitnesses told the BBC they saw

a group of suspicious men in its This Renault was used

by the suicide bombers who attacked The last vehicle was abandoned,

used by the three-man team that Two men who use a car are still

on the run. French security services have been

using CCTV in form Phone records led them to this

apartment, one of at least two used as a safe

house in the run-up to the attack. The raid

in Saint-Denis yesterday claimed came after witnesses

placed him there and not in Syria. The cell may have been planning

a second wave of attacks. Today, the head of German security

services told the BBC that all The threat situation

is very serious. We have to assume something

like Paris can happen any time, whether in Paris, Brussels,

Berlin or London. Signs are that concerned in Italy

today where there was an alert on the Metro and after the

American FBI passed on warnings. Another sign of Europe,

not just France, remains on edge. It is a rainy night here in Paris,

quite miserable the weather, but you can still see people coming out to

contemplate the flowers and the candles. They are laying their own

messages here. Two women there. We have seen emotional scenes here

throughout the day. I saw one couple in tears as they were reading the

messages and I am sure as the week anniversary approaches, families

will come here. We will see quite emotional things tomorrow and

security will be stepped up and be very tight as well as people focus

on word they were last week as they headed out at the end of the busy

working week to the bars and the stadium. Still some questions for

police. We understand there was a third body in that raid yesterday

buried under the rubble. Who is that? Does it mean that there is a

suspect still on the run or was that the body of a suspect? That will be

pertinent to the Belgian authorities who say they still have a manhunt

underway in Brussels. Let us speak to our correspondent who was in

Brussels. More rates today and more arrests. Nine raids and nine

arrests, seven of those arrests connected to an investigation into

one of the Paris attackers but in fact connected to his travels to

Syria earlier this year, two of the nine arrests connected directly to

the attacks in Paris almost one week ago. No more detail from the Belgian

prosecutor 's office but as you say, what is clear is that Salah Abdeslam

is in Belgium and is in Brussels and that is where their hunt is

continuing. Whether or not it is Molenbeek or not we do not know.

There is not an overt security presence in Molenbeek at the moment

but we do know they are searching for him and they believe he is in

the country and there are rumours circulating on websites and social

media about various different sightings as well. We'll have to

wait and see what happens but they clearly believe he is in the

country. Reporting in Molenbeek as I was earlier in the week and you have

been there all art, it strikes me that there is this network there to

support the likes of the brother of Salah Abdeslam and himself. There is

a culture of secrecy that information is not shared within the

Muslim community and that is a problem for the Belgian authorities.

It is a big problem. There is a culture of secrecy, Molenbeek is

pretty much in the heart of Brussels, in the north-west of the

city, but parts of it feel very different and clearly younger people

there, second generation immigrants in general feel that they are not

part of the society in Brussels or the Belgian society that traditional

forms of authority, parental, or security, or nothing to do with them

and that does create a problem. You can walk around Molenbeek and you

feel relatively safe, it does not feel like the suburbs around Paris,

it is not as violent or difficult as that. Beyond the doors, the curtains

that you come up against, you have to wonder what is going on, clearly

the Belgian security services have tremendous difficulty penetrating

that and Belgian ministers have acknowledged those difficulties.

They have pretty much acknowledged that in some senses, in that

commune, that neighbourhood, it is out of their control and begin at

how the human intelligence to penetrate the plots that have sprung

up time and time again from this one small commune in Northwest Brussels.

Thank you Berry much. Jonny Diamond in Brussels. The manhunt for Salah

Abdeslam is still very much in play in Belgium and the network that

supported him, very much in focus as well. He was a brief look at some of

the other news. The Russian Foreign Minister said the Paris attacks have

helped western countries understand that the

priority in Syria is to fight Islamic State.

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov,

has said the Paris attacks have helped Western countries understand

that the priority in Syria is to fight Islamic State, and not to

Mr Lavrov stressed that the Syrian conflict could not be resolved

peacefully without the involvement of President Assad.

Israeli police say five people have been killed and several wounded in

In the first incident, in Tel Aviv, Israeli police say a Palestinian man

stabbed to death two Israeli men in an office building, where a group of

He was apprehended by Israeli security forces.

Later, police say three people were killed and others wounded

in the West Bank when a Palestinian opened fire on an Israeli minibus.

Police in Britain have arrested a Libyan man in his 50s

on suspicion of conspiracy to murder a female police officer,

who was killed outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.

Yvonne Fletcher died after being shot from

inside the building - as she was policing a demonstration against

The Metropolitan Police head of counter-terrorism said the arrest

Global health experts are warning the world is on the cusp

of a "post antibiotic era", after finding bacteria

resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.

It's being blamed on an overuse of antibiotics in farm animals.

The research is published in the Lancet.

One of the report authors says "all the circumstances are in place

for make the post-antibiotic world a reality."

This map from the Wellcome Trust estimates the number

of deaths that it's estimated will happen due to resistant bacteria

It estimates that 4 million people will die in Africa because

of antibacterial resistance-and almost 5 million in Asia.

Far fewer on other continents, although as Fergus Walsh reports,

this is far from being a problem just for the developing world.

In the war against superbugs, it is the bacteria that are winning.

This hospital in India where I filmed for Panorama is running out

There is a long list of antibiotics that Mohammed's bug

It is really concerning, in fact scary as the bug was showing

For the first time we are seeing this kind of report.

Mohammed's infection was resistant to a last-ditch antibiotic,

In China doctors say they have found more bugs that are resistant to it.

That resistance is spreading to other bacteria.

The E.Coli bacteria will not be treated

by the antibiotics you have been on before...

This is not just a problem for the developing world.

Keith has been on a succession of antibiotics in recent years

His doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London is convinced

the new drug resistant strains will end up here and make matters worse.

It takes about three years for it to transfer

around the world and about five years before we see it routinely

in our patients and we know that because that is what has happened

This type of transmissible drug-resistant infection.

To see this in this antibiotic is particularly

terrifying because that will mean we will have

That apocalyptic scenario is a way off yet but experts say it is

Modern medicine is utterly dependent on effective antibiotics.

Without them major surgery and much cancer treatment would

This is an issue that matters to us all.

Two thirds of all antibiotics are used in animals.

The new resistant bugs were first found in pigs in China so curbs

on antibiotic use in farming are essential

Let's talk to one of Britain's leading experts on this subject -

Professor Timothy Walsh from the University of Cardiff is

He had stayed up late. Thank you very much. Do you think this really

is a dramatic development, people are talking about it being

apocalyptic news? Yes, I think most of the watchers and listeners would

be desensitised because this kind of scenario has been in the press for a

few years, but this is a bit of a game-changer, because we were always

relying on that drug to treat serious infections and although some

bacteria to become resistant to colistin, it is usually a burden to

the organism and we never thought that the resistance would be able to

be passed from one bug to another and so it took us really by surprise

that this mechanism in fact could become mobile and in fact it seems

to have spread very rapidly throughout different bacterial

populations in China, amongst different sectors. Is the Chinese

government responding to this, I know you have made contact with the

Department of agriculture and health, what are they saying? One of

the leading authors in our group is a man who from the beginning has

made great efforts to contact the Chinese government to let them

know, particularly the Ministry of agriculture to let them know our

findings and our thoughts, we need to remove this drug colistin from

animal feeds. The Chinese government take it extremely seriously, we have

had meetings with the Ministry of health and the ministry about the

and they will continue tomorrow and probably into early next week and I

think we can expect some very good and clear resolution in the next

couple of weeks. And this is not a problem that is confined to China?

You have been looking at south Asia as a whole. That is right. The

information that we have and we need to ratify it would suggest in fact

that this particular type of resistance in the bugs like E. Coli,

we found them in different countries and including North Vietnam. It

looks like it is spreading outside China. China give a lot of their

chickens and pork into Hong Kong and I would imagine that it is the same

case there and like the doctors you interviewed in the clip suggests, it

is going to be about three to five years before it becomes global. An

hour ago I was talking to Jim O'Neill who is leading a UK review

into antibiotic resistance and he said he thought one of the big

problems was US agriculture and the fact that so many antibiotics are

given to animals there as well but there is not a sense of alarm at

all. No, I think different countries respond differently to this

particular crisis and I think it would be very helpful if our

transatlantic cousins would catch up to speed with the UK and take it as

seriously as we have. David Cameron has made great strides to tell

people about the importance of that and that is fantastic. The one thing

we do need to do as an international community is to align our efforts

and to tackle this with the same policies. At the moment different

countries are doing different things. We appreciate your expertise

and your time staying up so late for us in China. Thank you. Let us go

back to our top story looking at the Paris attacks and another Imp at,

because as people in Paris struggled to come to terms with what happened

last Friday, many parents and teachers have found themselves

having to explain the events to their children. Jenny

I love Paris because of its energy and inspiration.

But six days ago, all the things they love about Paris

After the attacks on Friday many schools were closed, but now they

are open again and I'm at one school in the city centre to hear how

I was in my apartment when it happened, so I heard noises

and I turned on the news right away to check what was happening.

More than 100 people called all six of us because we were at home

The first thing I noticed first of all was the streets of Paris

The Metros were empty and there was military everywhere.

I called my dad who was in Paris and he told me that if I was continuing

to be scared to not go out, I would let them win and I was on the point.

On Saturday, I stayed home but on Sunday I spent the day outside.

What has life been like being back at school?

The first thing I said was I'm glad you are safe, I'm happy to see you,

and it was more heartfelt than I have ever said it.

We all talked about it and asked each other how we were

doing and where we were and if everyone was safe.

I know some of my friends who have lost really important people

in their lives, because of the situation that happened,

so we just tell them that everything is going to be fine, it will be OK.

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