:00:12. > :00:18.Today at six, we are in the heart of Paris, a city in profound shock
:00:19. > :00:21.after the worst terror attack in Europe for over a decade.
:00:22. > :00:24.A wave of gun and bomb attacks across the city has left 130 dead,
:00:25. > :00:28.Most of those killed were attending a rock concert.
:00:29. > :00:32.As the extensive rescue operation got underway amid much confusion,
:00:33. > :00:37.the government immediately imposed a national state of emergency.
:00:38. > :00:44.I was under other people and they kept shooting.
:00:45. > :01:01.One of the attacks happened at the State de France football stadium,
:01:02. > :01:05.where France were playing and the President was in the crowd.
:01:06. > :01:10.It's an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army,
:01:11. > :01:14.There is a very strong police and military presence
:01:15. > :01:17.on the streets of the city as the French try to comprehend
:01:18. > :01:21.the second major terror attack this year.
:01:22. > :01:24.France has started three days of national mourning as millions of
:01:25. > :01:34.messages of sympathy and solidarity arrive from around the world.
:01:35. > :01:40.We will have full details of the events of the past 24 hours, we will
:01:41. > :01:44.have reaction here in France and from around the world and French
:01:45. > :01:47.prosecutors are preparing, in the next few minutes, to share the
:01:48. > :01:49.latest information they have about who they think might have been
:01:50. > :02:10.responsible. after suffering the worst atrocity
:02:11. > :02:28.Europe has seen for more than a The biggest attack on French soil
:02:29. > :02:34.since the end of the Second World War. A wave of gun and bomb attacks
:02:35. > :02:38.directed at bars and restaurants, a football stadium and a concert
:02:39. > :02:43.hall. If you can see the neon yellow lights over there, just over my left
:02:44. > :02:46.shoulder, that is the Bataclan concert hall, where most of the
:02:47. > :02:52.people lost their lives last night, at least 80 of them. We think 130
:02:53. > :02:57.people in total have died. There are hundreds injured and around 80
:02:58. > :03:00.people who are acutely injured and in a state of absolute emergency,
:03:01. > :03:06.according to the French medical services. President Holland
:03:07. > :03:13.addressed the French nation on television today and said in his
:03:14. > :03:16.view, it was a declaration of war by Islamic State -- Hollande. He
:03:17. > :03:20.ordered three days of national mourning and a state of national
:03:21. > :03:21.emergency. The shocking sequence of events started to unfold yesterday
:03:22. > :03:26.evening in several areas. At 9.20pm local time, at the Stade
:03:27. > :03:29.de France stadium where France were playing Germany, the first of three
:03:30. > :03:31.suicide attacks took place. Then a few minutes later,
:03:32. > :03:34.a gunman began shooting at a bar Shortly afterwards came another
:03:35. > :03:38.attack on the Casa Nostra pizzeria. At 9.36,
:03:39. > :03:45.18 people were killed by two gunmen The deadliest attack happened
:03:46. > :03:56.at the Bataclan Theatre, where Four gunmen stormed the venue, where
:03:57. > :04:08.a rock concert was taking place. And that is why so many people have
:04:09. > :04:13.gathered here, near the Bataclan Theatre, where all of those people
:04:14. > :04:16.were killed, and they are here to lay flowers, they have been gathered
:04:17. > :04:20.here most of the day. It is chaotic, it is very noisy, but this
:04:21. > :04:24.is where the people of Paris have decided to come this evening to show
:04:25. > :04:28.their respect and show solidarity. We will be reporting back, the
:04:29. > :04:31.nature of the reaction and of course the political reaction around the
:04:32. > :04:32.world, which is responding to the enormity of what happened here in
:04:33. > :04:37.Paris last night. Here's our Europe editor
:04:38. > :04:39.Katya Adler. I should warn you there are some
:04:40. > :04:53.distressing details in her report. This is how fun Friday night in
:04:54. > :04:58.French capital for football fans, concertgoers and people enjoying a
:04:59. > :05:08.quiet meal with friends exploded into a waking nightmare. It all
:05:09. > :05:14.started just after 9pm. The chanting crowds here at the friendly between
:05:15. > :05:22.France and Germany could have no clue here that this...
:05:23. > :05:25.EXPLOSION was the sound of a suicide bomber.
:05:26. > :05:29.Then a second, and then a third. Blowing themselves up outside the
:05:30. > :05:33.stadium. The French president, who had been watching the match, was
:05:34. > :05:40.ushered away. Dazed and Brighton fans lingered, too scared to venture
:05:41. > :05:43.outside. -- frightened brands. They were right to be scared. This man
:05:44. > :05:49.was near one of the bombers. His mobile phone stopped sharp shrapnel
:05:50. > :05:54.from slicing into his skull. Others weren't so lucky. In the space of a
:05:55. > :05:59.few hours, scores of people were killed in central Paris in a series
:06:00. > :06:05.of co-ordinated attacks. This became a city of panic, as everyone
:06:06. > :06:10.wondered where and who might be targeted next. Then suddenly, news
:06:11. > :06:18.spread that the revellers at a rock concert here at the popular Bataclan
:06:19. > :06:22.Theatre had been taken hostage. Some concertgoers managed to escape onto
:06:23. > :06:28.the streets. They were shot at as they left. This mobile phone footage
:06:29. > :06:33.shows their desperation. Almost too painful and powerful to watch. This
:06:34. > :06:38.girl tries to escape the bloodshed inside by hanging outside the
:06:39. > :06:44.window. The ordeal ended when French forces stormed the building. But
:06:45. > :06:48.around 80 innocent people had already been killed.
:06:49. > :06:53.TRANSLATION: We were piled upon each other. We heard the shots, people
:06:54. > :07:00.screaming as though tortured. It was butchery, carnage.
:07:01. > :07:05.TRANSLATION: I saw two young men, no older than 25, with Kalashnikovs.
:07:06. > :07:09.They told us to lie down. There was one who kept gesturing for us to get
:07:10. > :07:15.them. We all may then, the whole room lay down. I was under other
:07:16. > :07:19.people and they kept shooting. Meanwhile, not far away, those
:07:20. > :07:26.conmen's associates continue the killing spree in a number of Parisi
:07:27. > :07:29.and restaurants -- gunman's. Murdered, while eating their evening
:07:30. > :07:35.meal. On a normal Friday night, it is hard to find a hipper, happier,
:07:36. > :07:38.more buzzing the pocket of Paris than these streets, filled with
:07:39. > :07:45.young locals and tourists. The attackers did not target glitzy
:07:46. > :07:48.Paris. With these shootings and the first suicide bombings on French
:07:49. > :07:52.soil, they want to make everyone feel afraid and exposed. The former
:07:53. > :07:55.owner of the liability the restaurant, where 18 people were
:07:56. > :08:02.killed, told me he was devastated -- Bella keep. It is hell, he told me,
:08:03. > :08:06.the people I sold this restaurant to were like family. Seven of them were
:08:07. > :08:11.killed in the attack. In this neighbourhood, all of us like
:08:12. > :08:14.family. It is devastating. Clearly shaken last night, today, the French
:08:15. > :08:20.president was. TRANSLATION: It is an act of war. In
:08:21. > :08:24.the case of war, the country needs to take the appropriate decisions.
:08:25. > :08:33.An act of war that has been committed by a terrorist
:08:34. > :08:38.organisation, IS, -- IS, a Jihadist Army. An act of war that has been
:08:39. > :08:43.prepared from the outside and with accomplices on the inside which an
:08:44. > :08:46.investigation will identify. French authorities have already identified
:08:47. > :08:51.one of the attackers. A French national, they say, from just
:08:52. > :08:56.outside Paris. France has declared a state of emergency, security is
:08:57. > :09:00.tight. With extra troops in airports and along French borders and across
:09:01. > :09:03.the country. People hardly dare whisper it, but there is real fear
:09:04. > :09:07.on the streets here another planned attack could be just around the
:09:08. > :09:13.corner. Catty Adler, BBC News, Paris.
:09:14. > :09:16.As it was mentioned there, the biggest loss of life overnight was
:09:17. > :09:23.at this concert hall, this theatre, in the south-eastern section of
:09:24. > :09:26.Paris, not far from the Place de la Republique and not far from the
:09:27. > :09:30.Bastille, and not so far away from the spot we were broadcasting from
:09:31. > :09:35.back in January, when those dreadful attacks took place on the Charlie
:09:36. > :09:40.Hebdo magazine, it is in the same part of the city. If you are just
:09:41. > :09:45.joining us, it is that building over there with the very prominent yellow
:09:46. > :09:49.lights on it, that is the Bataclan concert hall, where dozens of people
:09:50. > :09:54.lost their lives last night when the gunman stormed in, they fired into
:09:55. > :09:59.the crowd, there were scenes of absolute terror and panic, as we can
:10:00. > :10:04.imagine, and then they calmly reloaded their weapons and carried
:10:05. > :10:06.on firing. Lots of ambulances and police services still in this corner
:10:07. > :10:12.today, which is why there are so many sirens going on. Lucy
:10:13. > :10:16.Williamson has more details on what happened at the Bataclan Theatre
:10:17. > :10:17.last night and again, some of the distressing images are in this
:10:18. > :10:19.report. They struck France
:10:20. > :10:22.when its guard was down. Their victims were vulnerable,
:10:23. > :10:27.wrapped up in the music in the darkness
:10:28. > :10:29.of Bataclan concert hall, dancing to
:10:30. > :10:35.an American rock band, having fun. An hour into the concert,
:10:36. > :10:41.she says the attackers stormed in shooting and she instinctively
:10:42. > :10:47.fell to the floor. I got more or less buried under
:10:48. > :10:51.a man who was shot in the head next to me and so I was underneath him
:10:52. > :10:56.and from there, nobody moved, so then we heard some terrorists,
:10:57. > :11:05.who were shouting, stay down, Inside the building,
:11:06. > :11:16.hundreds of people were crammed Some of those closer to
:11:17. > :11:21.the door managed to escape but Theresa was stuck too far away
:11:22. > :11:26.and trying desperately to survive. One guy was badly hurt,
:11:27. > :11:36.but really moaning and complaining and so we try to
:11:37. > :11:42.say, shush, quiet, keep it, you know, your life, don't move,
:11:43. > :11:46.because every time there was movement
:11:47. > :11:52.somewhere, there was more gunshots. Outside, emergency vehicles
:11:53. > :11:54.screaming through the empty streets began to hint
:11:55. > :12:01.at the toll being extracted here. And then police weapons appeared
:12:02. > :12:11.above her and Theresa escaped. I had a view to
:12:12. > :12:13.the door where they came in and through that same door, then I
:12:14. > :12:17.had a view of the police force, who slowly made their way in and people
:12:18. > :12:20.were trying to make them signs, They said whoever can get up, crawl,
:12:21. > :12:31.whatever, out, out, out. They emerged,
:12:32. > :12:33.an eerie line up of survivors and behind them in the concert
:12:34. > :12:36.hall, more than 80 people dead. With them,
:12:37. > :12:38.the bodies of the four attackers. One witness told French media
:12:39. > :12:42.there was a woman among them. What happened here on this
:12:43. > :12:44.Paris Street will haunt France A target so ordinary,
:12:45. > :12:49.seemingly so random, that singled out no specific group
:12:50. > :12:53.or person, an attack that expressed Ten months after the attack
:12:54. > :13:00.on Charlie Hebdo here, people are facing
:13:01. > :13:04.a new threat to their freedom, as they absorb the implications of
:13:05. > :13:21.a Friday night that changed France. Well, throughout the night and
:13:22. > :13:25.today, the people of Paris have been really trying to show their support
:13:26. > :13:30.and their solidarity for all of those affected by the attacks
:13:31. > :13:33.overnight. Victims of the attacks who managed to escape, some of them
:13:34. > :13:39.within seconds of losing their lives, and of course, the families
:13:40. > :13:42.of those who suspect that some of their loved ones were caught up in
:13:43. > :13:49.this and they might not see them again. Accommodation is being
:13:50. > :13:52.offered, food is being offered, all types of support. When there was an
:13:53. > :13:59.appeal for blood donors to come forward, there was such a response
:14:00. > :14:02.that the blood donation in service factories -- service in Paris
:14:03. > :14:06.couldn't cope, and indeed in other areas of France. That gives you an
:14:07. > :14:10.idea of the overwhelming response and the crowd behind us, in this set
:14:11. > :14:13.of streets, have all come here to lay flowers and show their respect.
:14:14. > :14:18.Our correspondent debuted grammatical as reports on the
:14:19. > :14:25.reaction of the people of the capital of France to what happened
:14:26. > :14:29.here last night. -- Damien Grammaticus. In a city still
:14:30. > :14:33.reeling, a nondescript place holds endless grief. This was the Paris
:14:34. > :14:34.mortuary where survivors and families came surging today. Many
:14:35. > :14:45.were told the identities of the dead confirmed until next week. It means
:14:46. > :14:50.Paris's agony drags on. The city's hospitals took in three victims --
:14:51. > :14:55.300 victims last night, and across the city, people are still
:14:56. > :14:58.searching, still uncertain. I am looking for my sister-in-law, she
:14:59. > :15:03.says. I have a list of hospitals but I don't know where she is. So the
:15:04. > :15:07.faces of the missing are now being spread across the Internet. Every
:15:08. > :15:12.image that of someone who has disappeared, posted by a relative if
:15:13. > :15:18.anyone has seen them. There have been over 400,000 tweets spreading
:15:19. > :15:23.the word. Elsewhere, Christians were reclaiming their streets, lining up
:15:24. > :15:27.in their droves to donate blood, reasserting their humanity in the
:15:28. > :15:33.face of horrors -- prescience. It is the only thing to do right now, he
:15:34. > :15:36.says. I have never given blood before, but you cannot ask the
:15:37. > :15:40.question, you just have to do it, you have to do anything you can to
:15:41. > :15:41.help, it is the right thing to do. Look around, there are so many
:15:42. > :15:52.people here. The brutality of what Paris
:15:53. > :15:56.witnessed on a November night is seared into its consciousness. The
:15:57. > :16:01.gunmen drove through and sprayed that restaurant with gunfire,
:16:02. > :16:07.shooting around here. People were out there sitting on tables -- at
:16:08. > :16:15.tables and they were shot at too. TRANSLATION: He was shaking and
:16:16. > :16:23.there were three dead on the terrace. There was a girl wounded in
:16:24. > :16:31.her wrist, she was taken to protect her inside and there was another
:16:32. > :16:35.victim there. Julie was dining on the terrace of one of the
:16:36. > :16:37.restaurants that was sprayed with bullets. She and her boyfriend
:16:38. > :16:45.survived only because three minutes earlier they had argued, so she went
:16:46. > :16:52.inside to pay the bill. TRANSLATION: We started to hear
:16:53. > :16:55.shots. My reaction was to run but I couldn't see anyway out. For three
:16:56. > :17:06.minutes there was shot after shot after shot. It just didn't stop. In
:17:07. > :17:08.a city full of grief and loss, there are still stories to move people. A
:17:09. > :17:18.little hope amid the carnage. I'm just going to give you the
:17:19. > :17:21.latest figures we have, the French prosecutor has been speaking in the
:17:22. > :17:28.last few minutes and these are the latest figures they are giving us.
:17:29. > :17:38.129 people were confirmed dead. 352 people injured. And 99 of those very
:17:39. > :17:44.seriously. 99 of them critically. 129 dead, 352 injured, 99 of them in
:17:45. > :17:48.a state of absolute emergency, which is the phrase the medical services
:17:49. > :17:54.here were using. Lots of them being treated of course in the city's
:17:55. > :17:58.hospitals and one of them, the president has been visiting in the
:17:59. > :18:05.past few minutes and Damian Grammaticas is there for us. Just a
:18:06. > :18:11.sense of the theme of your report which was the overwhelming response
:18:12. > :18:17.of the people of Paris? Yes, the president Francois Hollande was here
:18:18. > :18:22.along with the Prime Minister. We saw them dried out about 15 minutes
:18:23. > :18:28.ago in convoy. That visit was kept pretty low-key while they were in
:18:29. > :18:34.there. This hospital alone, there are 40 of those very seriously ill
:18:35. > :18:38.patients. The reaction across the city, the first thing to say is that
:18:39. > :18:42.there are still many people, as you saw in that report, who do not know
:18:43. > :18:46.what has happened to their loved ones. We saw people going to the
:18:47. > :18:51.mortuary, coming out upset because they will not be told for several
:18:52. > :18:55.days, that was the message, if there is not clear identification of the
:18:56. > :19:01.victims. That is a very, very difficult process for some of the
:19:02. > :19:05.families. Elsewhere, I have to say, going around the restaurants that
:19:06. > :19:10.were targeted in the areas that were hit, it's very clear that the shock
:19:11. > :19:14.is very deep. There were people we saw there who were saying to us that
:19:15. > :19:18.they do not want to go out of their front doors, they don't want to go
:19:19. > :19:22.out onto the streets. One man told me his 11-year-old daughter, she
:19:23. > :19:26.walks down this street every day to go to her classes and now he is not
:19:27. > :19:29.sure whether she should be doing that. That is the reality for people
:19:30. > :19:36.living around these areas, the events that they saw and the scenes
:19:37. > :19:41.that they witnessed outside at the restaurants on their doorsteps have
:19:42. > :19:47.really shaken them to the core. Thank you for now. Our correspondent
:19:48. > :19:51.at the Saint-Antoine hospital. The investigation clearly now is very
:19:52. > :19:55.expensive. It is global in its nature, it has to be, given the fact
:19:56. > :20:00.that people are already talking today about one of these gunmen
:20:01. > :20:03.having an Egyptian passport. We're talking about Syrian links. There
:20:04. > :20:09.have been reports in the past half hour or so about links to people who
:20:10. > :20:13.have been living in Brussels, so the Belgian connection is certainly
:20:14. > :20:16.being discussed as well. All of these things coming together but the
:20:17. > :20:20.prosecutors so far understandably being rather cautious about offering
:20:21. > :20:24.any theories, although we did hear the president speak very clearly
:20:25. > :20:28.earlier, saying that this was, in his view, a declaration of war,
:20:29. > :20:31.organised, he said, by Islamic State. He had no hesitation at all
:20:32. > :20:35.in saying that. Our Security correspondent
:20:36. > :20:37.Gordon Corera reports on the investigation into
:20:38. > :20:43.the attackers and their motives. Paris is no stranger to the horrors
:20:44. > :20:48.of terrorism, but this attack has shocked France, not just because
:20:49. > :20:51.of its brutality and the death toll, but also the sophistication
:20:52. > :20:56.of those who carried it out. Today this statement,
:20:57. > :21:00.posted online from the group calling itself Islamic
:21:01. > :21:02.State, said what it called "its Other IS supporters posted images
:21:03. > :21:09.of weapons and a sign saying they were going to burn Paris,
:21:10. > :21:12.although it's not clear if these France's former top counterterrorism
:21:13. > :21:17.judge told me those involved were They are very professional,
:21:18. > :21:27.quite professional. They knew not to use a rifle, a
:21:28. > :21:32.Kalashnikov... The coordination is of the teams,
:21:33. > :21:35.you know, represent some training Forensic teams
:21:36. > :21:39.at the scene have been working to Fingerprints suggest one
:21:40. > :21:45.of the individuals who attacked the concert was a Frenchman from a
:21:46. > :21:48.Paris suburb, who was known to the A Syrian and Egyptian passport
:21:49. > :21:56.were also linked to the suicide And Greek authorities are tonight
:21:57. > :22:00.suggesting that the Syrian passport was registered with someone arriving
:22:01. > :22:06.as a refugee in October. There were raids today
:22:07. > :22:09.in a Belgian town, with reports that three of the eight attackers
:22:10. > :22:13.may have been from the town. It was only
:22:14. > :22:17.in January that the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo were hit,
:22:18. > :22:20.while others struck a supermarket, but yesterday's attack was even
:22:21. > :22:24.more complex, with more individuals involved, more sites struck
:22:25. > :22:34.and the use of suicide vests. Details of the attackers are still
:22:35. > :22:40.emerging here tonight, with reports that one may have been aged between
:22:41. > :22:43.15 and 18. The signs are that some may have come into the country
:22:44. > :22:50.recently, with talk of a self-contained cell back from Syria.
:22:51. > :22:54.This strike by so-called Islamic State has rocked France, but the
:22:55. > :22:56.real fear here tonight is that there may still be others out there
:22:57. > :23:12.seeking to do the same. The latest from the French
:23:13. > :23:18.prosecutor for you, 129 people confirmed dead and 352 injured, 99
:23:19. > :23:22.of those very seriously injured. We are now being told too that the
:23:23. > :23:26.French prosecutor thinks there were three teams of attackers here. We
:23:27. > :23:30.have mentioned several locations of course, but they are saying that
:23:31. > :23:34.they think there were three distinct teams doing what they were doing
:23:35. > :23:41.last night, undertaking these atrocious attacks in several areas
:23:42. > :23:46.of Paris. And of course you can imagine today, as the city reacts,
:23:47. > :23:52.there is intense sensitivity in some quarters, not least among Muslim
:23:53. > :23:55.leaders, because France's very big Muslim community, 5 million strong,
:23:56. > :24:00.insisting and underlining all the while that they fully share the
:24:01. > :24:06.French values of equality, liberty and fraternity and that they are
:24:07. > :24:10.repulsed by all the acts they have seen this year, because of course
:24:11. > :24:14.there was the attack back in January too. But there are concerns and one
:24:15. > :24:20.community leader is saying today that he feared a tsunami of hatred
:24:21. > :24:22.towards France's Muslim community after the events of the last 24
:24:23. > :24:29.hours. Our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt
:24:30. > :24:32.has been speaking to people in Paris France has the largest Muslim
:24:33. > :24:36.population in Europe. But in the past year, there have
:24:37. > :24:45.been a series of attacks, like at the satirical magazine Charlie
:24:46. > :24:49.Hebdo, carried out by extremists. Many of them grew up
:24:50. > :24:52.in the vast estates on the anonymous Ten years ago,
:24:53. > :25:01.I watched the angry suburbs rebel. It prompted new efforts
:25:02. > :25:04.at integration, but always there The uncomfortable truth is that
:25:05. > :25:13.there are today willing recruits for a more radical, violent Islamist
:25:14. > :25:15.ideology, and Muslims today were Muslims in France are disgusted
:25:16. > :25:22.by this. Do you think we
:25:23. > :25:28.like being pointed at? Everywhere we go,
:25:29. > :25:30.people give us a bad look. These days when we go for jobs,
:25:31. > :25:33.they don't accept us. From conversations here,
:25:34. > :25:37.it is clear that some young people do feel isolated
:25:38. > :25:40.from French secular society and that some do have a sense of grievance
:25:41. > :25:43.about French foreign policy, But people struggle to explain why
:25:44. > :25:51.young men would come down here and just open fire
:25:52. > :25:59.at people having a meal. Last night in this restaurant, this
:26:00. > :26:02.Muslim man helped save the lives of After a spray of bullets I ran
:26:03. > :26:11.and took the girls, who were But why any of this took place,
:26:12. > :26:15.I've no idea. Earlier this year, President
:26:16. > :26:17.Hollande and Europe's leaders linked But it has proved easy
:26:18. > :26:21.for extremists to paint President Hollande's interventions
:26:22. > :26:23.in the Middle East as part 2000 French Muslims are thought
:26:24. > :26:30.to have joined the war in Syria. In France,
:26:31. > :26:33.there are deep political divisions. The far right, led by Marine Le Pen,
:26:34. > :26:37.continues to poll strongly. And already questions are being
:26:38. > :26:41.asked whether any of the suspects travelled with
:26:42. > :26:45.the recent groups of refugees. The fact is that France,
:26:46. > :26:49.like other European countries, has not yet found a way to integrate
:26:50. > :27:05.many of its young Muslims. Well, in London, David Cameron
:27:06. > :27:08.chaired a meeting of the Cobra emergency Cabinet committee and said
:27:09. > :27:12.that Britain should be bracing itself for news of British
:27:13. > :27:22.casualties in the events of the past 24 hours here in Paris, and he went
:27:23. > :27:25.on to confirm that the threat level in the UK remained at severe,
:27:26. > :27:26.meaning that a terror attack is thought to be highly likely at the
:27:27. > :27:30.very least. Our Security Correspondent Frank
:27:31. > :27:35.Gardner reports on the UK's St Pancras Eurostar terminal
:27:36. > :27:40.in London today, There were some tearful reunions
:27:41. > :27:58.for those just back from Paris. Our hearts go out to the French
:27:59. > :28:02.people and to all those who have lost loved ones. Today the British
:28:03. > :28:03.and French people stand together, as we have done so often before in our
:28:04. > :28:07.history, when confronted by evil. But Government ministers arriving
:28:08. > :28:09.for today's Cobra emergency meeting in Whitehall want to know what more
:28:10. > :28:12.can be done to stop There's no doubt that last
:28:13. > :28:15.night was different. Some new tactics were employed
:28:16. > :28:18.and of course a huge number of terrorists were attacking
:28:19. > :28:20.at different sites. We're going to reflect on that
:28:21. > :28:23.and make sure that our plans and That includes this all too realistic
:28:24. > :28:35.exercise in London in the summer. It involves Scotland Yard's new
:28:36. > :28:41.counterterrorism specialist firearms officers, training to tackle
:28:42. > :28:46.multiple attacks by well-armed Ever since the
:28:47. > :28:52.terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, Scotland Yard specialist units
:28:53. > :28:55.have been training intensively with the army and special forces to try
:28:56. > :28:59.to cut down the amount of time it takes to bring an armed response
:29:00. > :29:02.unit onto the streets to stop There was a genuine alert today
:29:03. > :29:08.at Gatwick Airport, with North Terminal closed after
:29:09. > :29:10.a man was arrested and a suspected The chances of such
:29:11. > :29:16.a terrorist attack taking place in It is much harder to obtain the sort
:29:17. > :29:27.of weaponry we have seen deployed in Really it's the machine guns that
:29:28. > :29:31.meant that these individuals were able to murder quite so many people
:29:32. > :29:34.in such a horrendous fashion. Monitoring that police exercise
:29:35. > :29:37.in the summer gives only a hint of the challenges of a marauding
:29:38. > :29:40.attack like the one in Paris. No one here is complacent about the
:29:41. > :29:43.chances of it happening in Britain. The number of terrorism-related
:29:44. > :29:46.arrests has been rising sharply. Our Chief Political Correspondent
:29:47. > :30:02.John Pienaar is in Downing Street. On John, your sense of David
:30:03. > :30:05.Cameron's response and what do you think the impact on the on the way
:30:06. > :30:09.the British government is now thinking? We heard there that David
:30:10. > :30:12.Cameron is at pains to express sympathy and solidarity with
:30:13. > :30:16.Britain's nearest neighbour. We know that one Briton was among the many
:30:17. > :30:20.dead in Paris. That figure could rise, not by many but enough to
:30:21. > :30:25.bring this outrage closer to home. Tonight in Downing Street, the
:30:26. > :30:28.French tricolour is flying alongside the union flag at half-mast, the
:30:29. > :30:32.London eye is lit up in red, white and blue, like the Eiffel Tower and
:30:33. > :30:36.solidarity is not merely symbolic. The intelligence agencies of the two
:30:37. > :30:40.countries are working together. In policy terms, there are powers in
:30:41. > :30:46.the pipeline for greater powers of surveillance to track and intercept
:30:47. > :30:51.surveillance. -- data. Some may have doubts, but as far as Syria is
:30:52. > :30:55.concerned, Downing Street have not been confident in putting it forward
:30:56. > :31:00.to the House of Commons but in light of this, and public reaction, that
:31:01. > :31:04.might change. John Pienaar, banks, his thoughts from Downing Street.
:31:05. > :31:09.Experts that they have been pointing out that in recent months, so-called
:31:10. > :31:13.Islamic State and their targets have been heavily focused in the Middle
:31:14. > :31:18.East, not least in Syria and Iraq, but they have really been hit very
:31:19. > :31:22.hard over recent months. There has been a lot of loss of life there,
:31:23. > :31:28.which is, partly, they say, to explain why they might be responding
:31:29. > :31:33.in this very violent and very angry and very daring way, coming right
:31:34. > :31:36.into the heart of western Europe. For example, they have been
:31:37. > :31:41.retaliating in the Middle East as well, in Lebanon on this week, 43
:31:42. > :31:45.people were killed by suicide bombers there and demonstrating
:31:46. > :31:52.really that IS is looking at new opportunities all the time to make a
:31:53. > :31:55.very big and brutal statement. Quentin Somerville reports now on
:31:56. > :31:59.the increasingly global impact of so-called Islamic State.
:32:00. > :32:02.Kurdish forces taking back the town of Sinjar, and in Iraq,
:32:03. > :32:04.the so-called Islamic State just got smaller.
:32:05. > :32:07.They fled from here but not before they had torn the town apart.
:32:08. > :32:11.We still don't know how many died under their year-long rule.
:32:12. > :32:15.But it isn't the only place where they are in retreat.
:32:16. > :32:19.In Syria, the Kurds and others - with US air power - have taken back
:32:20. > :32:26.On its home ground, the Islamic State is faltering.
:32:27. > :32:29.But further afield, it's bringing pain and terror.
:32:30. > :32:31.In Beirut, they are burying their loved ones,
:32:32. > :32:38.More than 40 people killed on a busy shopping street on Thursday.
:32:39. > :32:43.It is one of the bloodiest attacks in years.
:32:44. > :32:46.And in Egypt too, fresh tactics and fresh horror from Islamic State
:32:47. > :32:52.bombers who may have brought down a Russian passenger plane.
:32:53. > :32:54.Here in Iraq, the Islamic State behaves like an army,
:32:55. > :32:58.it captures towns and villages and sends men onto the battlefield,
:32:59. > :33:02.but in Sinjar and over the border in Syria, it has tasted defeat.
:33:03. > :33:06.It is far from beaten, but the Islamic State is under pressure and
:33:07. > :33:09.that may mean a shift in tactics and increasingly, the group will focus
:33:10. > :33:18.its attacks outside of its home territory here in the Middle East.
:33:19. > :33:21.The front lines in the fight against the Islamic State
:33:22. > :33:34.Quentin Somerville, BBC News, Sinjar in northern Iraq.
:33:35. > :33:41.Well, we were mentioning their that the French prosecutors have been
:33:42. > :33:45.giving their latest information. Katya Adler joins us now, what can
:33:46. > :33:49.you tell us about what they have been saying? What we have been
:33:50. > :33:54.hearing, first of all, of course the French prosecutors are saying that
:33:55. > :33:58.this investigation so far is barely a day old. They went through blow by
:33:59. > :34:04.blow, through the events last night once again. What they can now
:34:05. > :34:09.confirm is that the suicide bombers were all wearing the same type of
:34:10. > :34:13.suicide belt that contained exactly the same type of explosives, design,
:34:14. > :34:21.they said, to cause the maximum amount of death and damage. They all
:34:22. > :34:25.had the same detonator as well. One of the hostage-takers from inside
:34:26. > :34:31.the concert has has been identified as a young Frenchman, born in 1985,
:34:32. > :34:37.and known to the French authorities, we now know. He had a petty criminal
:34:38. > :34:41.record but never went to jail. He is known to have been radicalised back
:34:42. > :34:43.in 2010 but was never known to the authorities to have ever been
:34:44. > :34:49.involved in any kind of extremist activities. We then heard that next
:34:50. > :34:53.to the body of one of the suicide bombers, a Syrian passport was
:34:54. > :35:00.found. That Syrian passport belonged to a Syrian national born, we
:35:01. > :35:06.heard, in 1990, so both very young men and again, he was not known to
:35:07. > :35:10.the French authorities. We also heard of a Belgian link. There were
:35:11. > :35:15.two black cars involved in the shooting attacks on the restaurants.
:35:16. > :35:19.One of them has been linked to a Frenchman living in Belgium. The
:35:20. > :35:23.Belgians have launched a variety of raids today, including finding this
:35:24. > :35:27.man, who was carrying two other men in the car, trying to cross over
:35:28. > :35:31.this morning from France into Belgium. As we heard, this is an
:35:32. > :35:37.ongoing investigation in France and across the rest of Europe. Katya
:35:38. > :35:42.Adler, there thank you. While she was giving us at analysis, I have
:35:43. > :35:47.been joined by two Parisiens, who have come to say something about
:35:48. > :35:52.their experience last night. Where were you last night? We were at
:35:53. > :35:55.home, discussing the Syrian crisis. We have just come back from vacation
:35:56. > :36:01.and we were supposed to be at the concert. Why won't you there?
:36:02. > :36:14.Because we had a family obligation and we had to travel. What are your
:36:15. > :36:21.thoughts today? HE SPEAKS FRENCH.
:36:22. > :36:24.He is saying he really wants to be here just to show solidarity and
:36:25. > :36:28.sympathy for the victims and that he really felt he needed to come
:36:29. > :36:35.along. Anselmo coming your thoughts, when you see 70 people gathered
:36:36. > :36:41.here, Paris again after the attacks in January, what do you think? We
:36:42. > :36:45.have to resist. That is why we are here, we are here to show we are not
:36:46. > :36:52.afraid. We resist my living normally. Life has to go on. Do you
:36:53. > :37:07.agree? HE SPEAKS FRENCH.
:37:08. > :37:12.So he is saying that really there is a big difference in his view between
:37:13. > :37:16.what happened here today and what happened back in January, because,
:37:17. > :37:20.really, this is proving that it can happen to anyone and given that
:37:21. > :37:24.there were so many young people in the concert enjoying that concert,
:37:25. > :37:29.it really does show that everyone is vulnerable. Just a final message, if
:37:30. > :37:35.I may, did you know anyone who went to the concert last night? No, none
:37:36. > :37:39.of our friends, that we are aware Rob, at least. We called everybody
:37:40. > :37:48.last night, we try to reach out -- whereof. People were at the other
:37:49. > :37:55.restaurant attack, but they are fine. We are thinking of you, thank
:37:56. > :37:58.you very much for talking to us. Giving us their thoughts. Really
:37:59. > :38:02.quite representative of people who are talking to us today, just
:38:03. > :38:06.profoundly shaken by what has happened in the last 24 hours. Just
:38:07. > :38:12.to underline, if you are just catching up with the news this
:38:13. > :38:16.evening, the French prosecutor has confirmed 129 dead, 352 people
:38:17. > :38:21.injured, 99 of them very seriously. We will have more for you on the BBC
:38:22. > :38:25.News channel throughout the evening, there will be a special edition of
:38:26. > :38:30.Newsnight at 8pm on BBC Two and I will be back at 10pm on BBC One with
:38:31. > :38:35.the latest from the heart of Paris, but for now, I will leave you with
:38:36. > :38:36.some of the very painful and searing images of the night that Paris came
:38:37. > :38:38.under attack. TRANSLATION: I saw two young men, no
:38:39. > :39:54.older than 25, with Kalashnikovs. They can do this again and again. We
:39:55. > :39:56.will be here. THEY SING.