23/11/2015 World News Today

Brussels is to remain on high alert, and the subway and schools will stay

After raids overnight, a fourth suspect has been charged

Meanwhile, French police say an explosive belt has been found

I'm alive in Brussels. A city still on edge despite all those rates, the

missing Paris gunman, Salah Abdeslam, is still at large.

French warplanes have launched their first air strikes against Isis

from an aircraft carrier, which has just reached the region.

The BBC gains access inside the Mali hotel where 19 people died

during Friday's terror attack and we hear a survivor's story.

Also coming up, one of the last four surviving

Is there any hope that the species can be saved?

Within the last hour the Belgium Prime Minister has confirmed

that Brussels will continue to stay on high alert.

Schools, shops and the underground metro system are

closed again for a third day, with new warnings of possible attacks.

After raids overnight, a fourth suspect has been charged

A key suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, is still on the run.

We've also heard from French police that an explosive

belt, without a detonator has been found in a southern Paris suburb.

Good evening and welcome back to Brussels, a city that remains very

tense, still on high alert. You will see behind me outside the stench.

You are armoured personnel. -- outside the central station. That's

a scene that is replicated all around the city tonight with

soldiers and police dotted around in strategic positions. We have seen

and heard the evidence of more police raids today around the city

as police respond to calls from the public. There is a lot of anxiety,

although I would say that from time to time today we have seen crowds of

people at the bus stop. Some are trying to get back to an ordinary

way of life. Perhaps they are getting used to this heightened

sense of security? It is now the norm, it seems, here in western

Europe. We have had to Macri statements from the prosecutor and

the Prime Minister in the last hour or so. -- we have had two. The

prosecutor has told us that have been 16 arrests on Sunday, most have

been freed but one man has been charged in connection to the Paris

attacks so that makes four people are now charged with involvement

here in Belgium. Of the five arrested today, three have been

released. Police have told us today that they recovered some 26,000

euros in cash, around ?18,000, from one apartment and they continue to

question two of the people that they arrested. Meanwhile, as we have been

hearing, the Prime Minister has been giving his reaction to the current

threat. He has told us before that he is working with specific

intelligence and he doesn't think the rate we have seen over the past

24 hours have put that to bed. The threat level will be capped at four

at least for the Brussels area, the rest of the country is at three.

Clearly there is much focus on the Brussels area. Let's hear what the

Prime Minister had to say. TRANSLATION:

We are confirming that the stage level four threat,

so we are reducing the number of big events, public events,

in order to guarantee the security liberating our resources, police,

so that they can be President in The second point is to maintain

a strategy of optimum police Equally in Brussels, given that

it is at a level four threat. And the third point is toth

obviously for people to pay It has been decided that schools

will be opened from Wednesday so that we can put in place the right

measures around schools and that the It is also possible that

the opening of the Metro will be But, certainly from Wednesday

most of them will be open. The Belgian Prime Minister, Charles

Michel, urging patients from the public and also asking them to

remain vigilant as they go about their business in the city. He is

under enormous amounts of pressure, so, too, is the interior minister.

We wonder how long this is sustainable. There have been

complaints from the Belgian chamber of commerce who say it is starting

to affect business, and also what sort of message does it send to the

terrorists when a European capital can be closed down like this? Here

is our reporter. This city is searching

for a terror cell. It was the wrong night for this

driver to get close to the police. At night, security forces carried

out raids in several neighbourhoods. The government has shut

down the Metro and closed the This morning, Gabriel risked

a trip to the park with his two-year-old son, who's scared

of the soldiers on the streets. TRANSLATION:

They've got their heads covered The police patrol possible targets,

including The government's told everybody

to stay away from crowds. But the people in this line

can't help being in one place. They're queueing up

for the train to Paris. They are being checked very closely

when they get to the front Investigators believe that nine men

were involved in the Paris attacks. Last Wednesday, the police killed

the group's suspected ringleader, So, the only surviving

attacker is Salah Abdeslam. The police believe

he fled to Belgium. The authorities fear that

he or others may be ready Salah Abdeslam comes from the

Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels. This afternoon,

its residents felt uneasy. TRANSLATION:

Wherever you go in the world, The police will have to do

their checks. Their operations have yet to

uncover the main suspects. The city may not be able to return

to normal until it finds him. How long can this capital live

under a state of maximum alert? A city that remains on high alert.

Let's bring you one other news line that we have had from Paris this

evening. Police are saying that they have found something, a belt, but

may resemble an explosive belt in a Paris suburb. The object was found

in a dustbin and a police source said that according to their

enquiries, this is an unnamed police source talking to AFP, they believe

that Salah Abdeslam may have been in the area on the night of the

attacks. An interesting detail of there. No doubt we will hear more

about that over the course of the next few hours. If we do, we will

bring you news of that. For the moment he in Brussels, I will hand

you back to London. French warplanes have launched their

first mission against the Islamic State group from the newly deployed

aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle. The French military said the

aircraft struck targets in Iraq. The ship

in the eastern Mediterranean triples the number of French planes

available to strike IS. President Hollande had promised to

intensify operations against the TRANSLATION:

We will intensify our strikes. We will choose targets that inflict

the maximum possible damage And our aircraft carrier,

which is soon to arrive in place, has been clearly adapted to hit

Islamic State and to hit it hard. The British Prime Minister,

David Cameron, has promised increased cooperation with France

in the fight against the Islamic Mr Cameron visited the scene

of the worst of the Paris attacks He said both leaders had agreed that

Europe must do more to tackle the threat of fighters returning from

Syria, including increased sharing It is absolutely right to take

decisive action to stop terrorists when they are threatening

the lives of innocent citizens. The United Kingdom will do all

in our power to support our friend and ally, France,

to defeat this evil death cult. Funerals for the people killed

in the Paris attacks continued to In the central city of Bois,

mourners gathered for the burial of 24-year-old Anna Lieffrig-Petard

and her 30-year-old sister, Marion. They were killed

when gunmen opened fire on diners at the Le Petit Cambodge restaurant

in Paris ten days ago. 130 people were killed

in the attacks, and many of those who were injured

remain in a critical condition. The BBC has gained rare access to

the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako,

where 19 people were killed during an attack claimed by militants

linked to al-Qaeda last Friday. Russians, Chinese,

an American and a Belgian national Security forces in Mali are still on

the hunt for at least three jihadi fighters suspected to have been

involved in the bloody rampage. Our West Africa Correspondent,

Thomas Fessy, sent this TRANSLATION:

My manager and I led the guests through the kitchen so we

could take them to the base into. But the lift can only

take eight people. We were 20 or 25 of us, too many,

and the lift got stuck One gunman arrived and shot once,

to show that he was there Ali Uzbek was preparing breakfast

for the hotel's guests when he Now recovering from bullet winds

in the neck. And ordered every Friday morning

at the Radisson Blu. Here in the restaurant, the tables

are still set the way they were But when the shooting began,

hotel staff led them through But many of them were met by one

of the gunman right here as they were trying to access that

lift, and another one TRANSLATION:

There were French, English, I took the first bullet because I

was standing at the front. When he regained consciousness,

Ali and two female colleagues rushed into this office

and closed the door. TRANSLATION:

He opened the door and came in. One of the two women started

to scream when she saw him. I had told the other lady

to stay under the table. He looked at me,

but I faked being dead. He looked at me again,

and then left. 19 people from around

the globe died in this building. Ali waited eight hours until

soldiers were able to get to him. He said he kept praying

and thinking of his wife Four men have gone on trial in

connection with the multi-million pound jewellery raid in Hatton

Garden in London last Easter. Valuables and gems, worth an

estimated ?14 million were stolen. Our Home Affairs Correspondent,

Daniel Sandford, has this report. It was the Thursday night before

the Easter bank holiday weekend. The start

of what was to be the biggest Four men unloading a transit van

and, according to the prosecution, caught on CCTV entering the building

through the rear fire exit. Once in the building,

the prosecution say they disabled the lift on the second floor and

drops down from the ground floor to the basement where the safe deposit

vault is. There, they drilled three holes

in the massive concrete wall. But, then, hit the back

of the metal safe-deposit cabinets. And, so, the prosecution say,

on that first night the men failed to get right through into

the vault and, leaving through the But some of them went back two

nights later to finish the job. The prosecution say they took

an estimated ?40 million of diamonds, gold bars, jewellery,

watches and cash. Only one third

of it has been recovered. Four men have pleaded guilty to

the record-breaking burglary. The ringleaders, the prosecution

calls them, are men who brought it great deal of experience

in serious acquisitive crime. Including 76-year-old Brian Reader,

who was called the "Master" by the other men,

and went to the burglary by bus. The men on trial today were Carl

Wood, who is accused of being in the building when the drilling took

place. Bill Lincoln,

another alleged conspirator. John Harbinson, who is accused of

moving some of the stolen property, and Hugh Doyle, who is also accused

of helping move the jewellery. But Hugh Doyle, on the right,

and the other three in this trial, The case for

the prosecution continues tomorrow. One of the last four remaining

northern white rhinos in the world Nola, a 41-year-old female, had

been a popular attraction at the Her condition deteriorated

sharply after an operation. The other three white rhinos are

at a reserve in Kenya. The two females are incapable

of reproduction and the last male Northern white rhinos were declared

extinct in the wild in 2008, after extensive poaching

for their horns. Richard Vigne is

Chief Executive Officer at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy - a wildlife

reserve in Northern Kenya. To allow a species to get down to

as low as four remaining whole individuals, the chances

of saving it are pretty small. It's not completely the end

of the story. We're looking at artificially

assisted methods of reproduction, and there are various different

angles with regards to that. So, it may be possible to recover

this species from extinction. But the chances

of it happening are pretty small. There is a lot of debate

about what is a species and what is a subspecies and

everything else, but I think there are two really important points

here. Number one is that

the northern white rhinos used to exist across central and northern

Africa, as its name suggests. Now,

if we will be capable in 100 years' time of reintroducing rhinos

into that part of Africa where this species existed, that we have to

preserve its genetic make up. Because that genetic make up is

specifically designed to be able to exist within

the environmental challenges But without those genes then

the reintroduction of rhinos into central Africa in the future

is probably going to be impossible. What is happening to

the northern white rhinos, either side they are closely related

to southern whites, which is the species prevailant across South

Africa, is not really the point. It is the point, but it's more

a pointer for what is happening to thousands of other species across

the planet, including every single other species of rhino that exists

in Africa and in the Far East. The truth

of the matter is there has been a lot of press coverage about what

is happening to elephant populations in Africa and similar press

coverage with regards to rhinos. The truth of the matter is

that demands for rhino horn, demand for elephant ivory,

and increasingly affluent markets for those two products has driven

the price to stratospheric levels and that's what's driving

the poaching pressure. As I said earlier, if you look

at the thousands of other species across the planet, whatever they

happen to be, that are threatened by over exploitation by humans,

I think that's a pretty good signal Change is coming to Argentina,

where Mauricio Macri, the mayor of Buenos Aires,

has won the presidential election. His victory marks an end to 12 years

of centre-left government dominated by President Cristina Fernandez

de Kirchner and her late husband. Wyre Davies wasin the capital

Buenos Aires for the celebrations, Hello. So, the end of an era in a

sense. Tell us about Mr Macri? Mauricio Macri has certainly been

enjoying his moment. He was doing a very good impression of a grandad

dancing at a wedding last night at his victory rally. In many ways,

this was unexpected victory and Macri couldn't care less. He was

determined to show everyone how relieved and happy he was because he

had just defeated the dominant political movement that has

dominated Argentine politics for decades. Certainly for the last ten

years. Getting rid of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's successor.

Mauricio Macri dancing the night away in Buenos Aires last might.

Much to the pleasure, of course, of his many supporters. About 80% of

the Argentine population voted for him. Just under 50% for his

opponent. So, it was a close election. -- about 50%. Just before

he took to the stage, Mr Macri told supporters what is programme for

government would be. I hope that this joy,

this enthusiasm, this energy will help us quickly put the country on

the right path and for that we need to, as a government, correct the

things that they were doing badly. The dollar restriction was

a mistake as well as not giving information, not having access to

statistics, not having an independent central bank, they are

all things we are going to fix. We are going to provide

opportunities for those who want to and can invest in Argentina to be

able to so, starting with Over the next few days we

will be making a start. That something was quite something.

I just reading one comments describing Mr Macri as

uncharismatic. Does he have a problem his image?

No, I do think he is uncharismatic. He is a popular figure. He was the

outgoing Mayor of Brenna Suarez. He is the former President of a junior

football club, so I would not describe him as uncharismatic. --

Mayor of when sorrows. He has a big task ahead of him. The Argentine

government hasn't really publicised proper inflation figures, for

example. We don't how much money is left in the central bank. There are

a lot of criticisms of the current economy and things but he and his

economic team will have to get to grips with to tackle what is a

burgeoning economic crisis in Argentina. The mere fact that today

Mauricio Macri hold a press conference was a novelty because the

outgoing President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is so private

herself that she doesn't hold press conferences or hold herself to

public scrutiny. I think we will see a change of style of government, how

much change of the economy will be possible with the economic crisis in

the short term is open to question. Of course, all available that

Mauricio Macri is bringing in, the outgoing government also going to

want to see some of the hard fought for welfare programmes also being

guaranteed. Thank you very much.

A DNA study has confirmed that London was an ethnically-diverse

The analysis reveals what some of the very first Londoners looked

The first results are from four people.

Two were mixed race, another from Eastern Europe,

Our Science Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, has this exclusive report.

It's the most diverse city in the world.

People who have their roots from across

But 2,000 years ago, it was just the same.

That history is written in the bones of ancient human remains.

This is a skeleton of a 14-year-old girl, who lived in London 2,000

The DNA in her bones shows she grew up in North Africa.

But her mother was from southern or Eastern Europe.

She had blue eyes, like many people living in London

And her family had travelled across the globe to be in London.

Even though this was 2,000 years ago,

People are still able to move thousands of miles.

We think she may have been part of a military community, that her

father or indeed even her husband, although she was quite young, could

DNA was extracted from her teeth and bones and analysed

The researchers found out about two more of the very first Londoners.

Like the 14-year-old girl, one also had favourite in Africa and the

It's a boom town, of course, or a boom city.

It's a boom town, of course, Historian Michael Wood tells me

It's the most multicultural city in the world and what's great

about this is you just get that little hint of today's London

In the store room, there are skeletons of thousands more people.

Scientists hope to learn their stories, to,

and find out more about the history of the capital through their eyes.

Back to our top story and the lock down in Brussels.

People were being told by the police not to tweet

about their whereabouts or even about anything in particular.

That led to a massive outpouring of support on a line in the form of cat

pictures. Giving the people of Brussels a moment of fun and a bit

of an outlet for some of the tension that had been built up. The police

were very grateful. They tweeted this picture, I think we can just

show you. They wrote," for the cats that helped us last night, help

yourselves." Next the weather,

but for now from me