:00:00. > :00:11.France has started three days of national murning for the victims of
:00:12. > :00:18.the terror attacks in the heart of the French capital.
:00:19. > :00:24.A wave of gun and bomb attacks across the city has left
:00:25. > :00:27.129 dead with hundreds more injured.
:00:28. > :00:29.Most of those killed were attending a rock concert.
:00:30. > :00:32.As the rescue operation got under way,
:00:33. > :00:35.amid widespread panic and confusion, the government immediately imposed
:00:36. > :00:43.TRANSLATION: We were piled up on each other. We heard the shots,
:00:44. > :00:50.people screaming as they were tortured. It was butchery, carnage.
:00:51. > :00:55.The man that was covering me was dead immediately. Was guy was badly
:00:56. > :00:57.hurt, but he was really moaning and complaining. So we tried to say
:00:58. > :01:07.shhh. One of the attacks happened
:01:08. > :01:09.at the Stade de France stadium, where France were playing football,
:01:10. > :01:20.and the president was in the crowd. TRANSLATION: It's an act of war that
:01:21. > :01:23.was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist Army, against France.
:01:24. > :01:25.There was news this evening of three arrests on the outskirts
:01:26. > :01:28.of Brussels, after Belgian police alerted the French authorities.
:01:29. > :01:31.There's a very strong police and military presence
:01:32. > :01:35.on the streets of the city, as the French try to comprehend the second
:01:36. > :01:43.France has started three days of national mourning, as millions of
:01:44. > :01:48.messages of sympathy and solidarity arrive from around the world.
:01:49. > :01:52.We'll have full details of the events of the past 24 hours,
:01:53. > :01:58.We'll be looking at the latest on the police investigation and we'll
:01:59. > :01:59.be considering the wider impact of what has happened here on the
:02:00. > :02:21.streets of Paris. Good evening from Paris, it's now
:02:22. > :02:24.known that 129 people were killed in last night's terror attacks and
:02:25. > :02:29.more than 350 were injured, when three teams of attackers launched
:02:30. > :02:44.gun and bomb attacks at several What happened according to experts
:02:45. > :02:48.today is that three teams, they believe there were three teams of
:02:49. > :02:51.attackers, who went on the rampage around this city last night,
:02:52. > :02:56.targeting cafes and bars, restaurants and one theatre, a
:02:57. > :03:01.Concert Hall in effect, just 50 yards away. Can you see the yellow
:03:02. > :03:05.lights. The crowd of people behind me gathering throughout the evening
:03:06. > :03:08.to lay candles and floral tributes. There have been lots of people here
:03:09. > :03:13.during the day. The atmosphere, I have to say, is quite tense this
:03:14. > :03:18.evening and people are openly expressing their concerns about what
:03:19. > :03:22.lies ahead. On network television earlier today, the president of the
:03:23. > :03:26.republic, Francois Hollande, said what had happened was a declaration
:03:27. > :03:31.of war by, he said, Islamic State. That was the start of the reasoning
:03:32. > :03:35.that people have been putting around what happened here.
:03:36. > :03:39.The shocking sequence of events started to unfold yesterday evening
:03:40. > :03:43.in several areas. At 9. 20 local time at the Stade de France stadium,
:03:44. > :03:47.where France were playing Germany, the first of three suicide attacks
:03:48. > :03:51.took place. Then a few minutes later, a gunman began shooting at a
:03:52. > :03:59.bar and restaurant, killing 14 people. Shortly afterwards, came
:04:00. > :04:04.another attack, at the Casa Nostra restaurant. At least five bodies
:04:05. > :04:12.there, witnesses say. Then two gunmen killed people at the bar
:04:13. > :04:16.called La Belle Equipe. At least 80 people were killed at the Bataclan
:04:17. > :04:20.theatre. Four gunmen stormed the venue where a rock concert was
:04:21. > :04:25.taking place. We'll have more on the detail of that sequence of events
:04:26. > :04:28.for you, but just to recap there on the reasoning of experts and
:04:29. > :04:32.analysts today, they are saying that Islamic State has brought this fight
:04:33. > :04:35.onto the streets of Paris and the streets of Europe because, they say,
:04:36. > :04:40.they are losing the battle in Iraq and Syria. They've been under heavy
:04:41. > :04:44.attack in recent months, led by the Americans, but crucially, and this
:04:45. > :04:47.is important to underline here, with strong support from the French
:04:48. > :04:51.government. They say that is the context in which we should consider
:04:52. > :04:55.what has happened here in the past 24 hours. It is the most serious
:04:56. > :05:00.attack on French soil since the end of the Second World War. Our Europe
:05:01. > :05:04.editor, Katya Adler, has been looking at the events for us. The
:05:05. > :05:06.night during which Paris came under attack and there are some
:05:07. > :05:18.distressing images in her report. This is how a regular Friday night
:05:19. > :05:24.in Paris, at a football match, a rock concert and round the corner at
:05:25. > :05:35.the local restaurant. Exploded into a waking nightmare. It all started
:05:36. > :05:40.just after 9pm. Chanting crowds here at the France-German friendly had no
:05:41. > :05:48.clue at first that this... EXPLOSION was the sound of a suicide bomber.
:05:49. > :05:53.Then a second. And a third. Blowing themselves up just outside the
:05:54. > :06:01.stadium: The French president there watching the game was ushered away.
:06:02. > :06:10.Daysed, fright -- dazed, frightened fans lingered at first, too scared
:06:11. > :06:19.to leave. Others belted out the French National Anthem. In part to
:06:20. > :06:26.give themselves courage, as they walked out the gates. Leaving
:06:27. > :06:34.footballers open mouthed watching news of the unfolding carnage. The
:06:35. > :06:40.cousin of one of the French players was killed, though he didn't know it
:06:41. > :06:45.yet. This man was near one of the bombers as he debt nayeded his
:06:46. > :06:50.suicide vest. His mobile -- detonated his suicide vest. His
:06:51. > :06:53.mobile phone stopped shrapnel slicing into his skull. Others
:06:54. > :06:59.weren't so lucky. In the space of a few hours, scores of people were
:07:00. > :07:04.killed in central Paris, in a series of coordinated attacks. This became
:07:05. > :07:12.a city of panic, as everyone wondered where and who would be
:07:13. > :07:17.next. Suddenly, news spread that revellers at a rock concert in the
:07:18. > :07:24.Bataclan theatre, had been taken hostage. Some concert goers managed
:07:25. > :07:29.to escape onto the streets. They were shot at as they left. This
:07:30. > :07:36.mobile phone footage shows their utter desperation. This girl tries
:07:37. > :07:41.to escape the blood shed inside by hanging outside the window. The
:07:42. > :07:45.ordeal ended when French forces stormed the building. But around 80
:07:46. > :07:50.innocent people had already been killed.
:07:51. > :07:54.TRANSLATION: We were piled up on each other. We heard the shots.
:07:55. > :08:04.People screaming, as though tortured. It was butchery, carnage.
:08:05. > :08:08.TRANSLATION: I saw two young men, no older than 25, with Kalashnikovs.
:08:09. > :08:12.They told us to lie down. There was one who kept gesturing for us to get
:08:13. > :08:18.down. We all lay down. The whole room lay down. I was under other
:08:19. > :08:22.people. They kept shooting. Meanwhile, not far away, those
:08:23. > :08:26.gunmen's associates continued the killing spree in a number of
:08:27. > :08:31.Parisian restaurants. Today, the place of mourning and media
:08:32. > :08:36.interest. Murdered while eating their evening meal, on a normal
:08:37. > :08:40.Friday night, it's hard to find a hipper, happier, more buzzing pocket
:08:41. > :08:45.of Paris than these streets, filled with young locals and tourists. The
:08:46. > :08:50.attackers didn't target glitzy Paris. With these shootings and the
:08:51. > :08:56.first suicide bombings on French soil, they want to make everyone
:08:57. > :09:03.feel afraid and exposed. The former owner of La Belle Equipe told me he
:09:04. > :09:08.was devastated. It's hell. The people I sold this restaurant to are
:09:09. > :09:11.like family. Seven of them were killed in the attack. In this
:09:12. > :09:16.neighbourhood all of us are like family. It's devastating." He said.
:09:17. > :09:20.Today the French president was defiant.
:09:21. > :09:24.TRANSLATION: It's an act of war. Faced with an act of war, the
:09:25. > :09:29.country needs to take the appropriate decisions. An act of war
:09:30. > :09:33.which has been committed by a terrorist organisation, IS, a
:09:34. > :09:39.jihadist army against France. An act of war, which has been planned,
:09:40. > :09:42.organised, prepared from the outside and with accomplices from the
:09:43. > :09:50.inside, which an investigation will identify. France has declared a
:09:51. > :09:53.state of emergency. Security is tight, with thousands of extra
:09:54. > :09:59.troops in airports, along French borders and across the country. Fear
:10:00. > :10:04.is everywhere, in and around France, with the investigation pointing to
:10:05. > :10:10.links in Belgium and beyond. Tonight, iconic buildings the world
:10:11. > :10:11.over sent a clear message of solidarity, as France mourns and
:10:12. > :10:18.prepares to bury its dead. Most of those who lost their lives
:10:19. > :10:33.were attending a rock concert, It's just over there, a few yards
:10:34. > :10:39.away. Around 80 people we think were shot dead. These gunmen went in and
:10:40. > :10:43.calmly reloaded their weapons and fired round after round. There was
:10:44. > :10:48.terror and panic there, according to lots of the eyewitnesses. Just to
:10:49. > :10:52.get a sense of where we are in Paris, in the south-eastern district
:10:53. > :10:56.of the city, just a few hundred yards away, behind me, the offices
:10:57. > :10:59.of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine. They were the target of a
:11:00. > :11:04.terror attack back in January of this year. We're in exactly the same
:11:05. > :11:18.part of the city as that. A few yards up along the boulevard this
:11:19. > :11:23.way, this is the Palace de-La Republique. People come here when
:11:24. > :11:26.they want to voice unity and express sympathy at times of great national
:11:27. > :11:33.significance and great national importance. So that is very close to
:11:34. > :11:38.the area where we are here, where the Bataclan theatre is. Our
:11:39. > :11:42.correspondent Lucy Williamson reports on the events that happened
:11:43. > :11:43.in the Bataclan theatre. Again, I should warn you, there are some
:11:44. > :11:48.distressing images in the report. They struck France
:11:49. > :11:51.when its guard was down. Their victims were vulnerable,
:11:52. > :12:00.wrapped up in the music Just before 10pm last night, the
:12:01. > :12:05.victims were dancing to an American rock band in the darkness of the
:12:06. > :12:09.Bataclan Concert Hall. Among them British tourist Hanna
:12:10. > :12:15.Corbet. I was having a great time. They were loving the crowd. We were
:12:16. > :12:19.loving the band. Suddenly, there was these fire crackers. It sounded like
:12:20. > :12:22.fire crackers. With her was her friend Jack. I remember just turning
:12:23. > :12:28.around to see where the sound came from. As I turned around, everyone
:12:29. > :12:31.was just like row afro, just dropping to the floor, so we
:12:32. > :12:35.followed suit. I remember looking up from the floor for a second and
:12:36. > :12:46.seeing just this guy walking around the edge of the room with a rifle.
:12:47. > :12:51.Yeah, like we, I think we both thought that was it for us. As
:12:52. > :12:54.machine gun sprayed the room and silence descended Hanna saw a chance
:12:55. > :12:57.to escape. Some people were frozen with fear. They weren't moving. It
:12:58. > :13:00.was disturbing that you were climbing over people. People just
:13:01. > :13:05.like you, people your age and having to climb over them to save your
:13:06. > :13:10.life. It's really quite disgusting, but I think that's what I will
:13:11. > :13:16.probably remember. In a different part of the hall, was Theresa. I got
:13:17. > :13:24.more or less buried under a man, who was shot in the head next to me. So
:13:25. > :13:32.I was underneath him. From there, nobody moved. So then we heard some,
:13:33. > :13:38.the terrorists were shouting "You stay down. You don't move. We'll
:13:39. > :13:42.shoot you." But they shot any way. Outside, as the clock ticked towards
:13:43. > :13:47.midnight, police moved into position. Metres away from them,
:13:48. > :13:55.hundreds of people were crammed onto the floor, desperately trying to
:13:56. > :14:00.survive. The man that covered me was dead immediately. One guy was badly
:14:01. > :14:07.hurt, but he was really moaning and complaining. We tried to say shush,
:14:08. > :14:12.quiet, keep it, you know, you're alive, don't move, stay. Don't move.
:14:13. > :14:17.Every time there was movement somewhere, there was more gunshots.
:14:18. > :14:22.It last aid lifetime, an -- lasted a lifetime, an eternity. It was
:14:23. > :14:28.probably an hour. Outside, emergency vehicles screaming through the empty
:14:29. > :14:38.streets began to hint at the toll being extracted here. Inside an
:14:39. > :14:42.explosion. And then escape. I had a view to the door, where they came
:14:43. > :14:46.in. Through that same door, then I had a view of the police force, who
:14:47. > :14:50.slowly made their way in and people are trying to make them signs to
:14:51. > :14:56.please help and get us out of here. They just said, whoever can get up,
:14:57. > :15:00.crawl, whatever - out, out, out. They emerged an eerie line-up of
:15:01. > :15:04.survivors. Behind them in the Concert Hall, more than 80 people
:15:05. > :15:08.dead. With them the bodies of the four attackers, one witness told
:15:09. > :15:12.French media there was a woman among them. What happened here on this
:15:13. > :15:19.Paris street will haunt France for years to come. A target so ordinary,
:15:20. > :15:23.seemingly so random, that singled out no specific group or person, an
:15:24. > :15:28.attack that expressed hatred for everyone in France. Caught in the
:15:29. > :15:32.massacre, British man Nick Alexander. His family described him
:15:33. > :15:39.as generous, funny and fiercely loyal. Gathered tonight at the place
:15:40. > :15:44.he died, people are contemplating a new kind of threat, a future that
:15:45. > :15:55.suddenly seems less certain and a Friday night that changed France.
:15:56. > :16:01.One of the strongest features of the day in Paris has been people's
:16:02. > :16:06.reactions, response to those in need. I'm not just talking about
:16:07. > :16:10.people here with flowers and candles. I'm talking about the
:16:11. > :16:15.response of thousands of people across the city, offering food,
:16:16. > :16:20.shelter, accommodation. Earlier, there was an appeal in Paris for
:16:21. > :16:24.blood donors. They had such a big response that they had to shut down
:16:25. > :16:29.the system and the website crashed which was taking all the donor
:16:30. > :16:31.offers. That gives you a sense of the willingness of people, the
:16:32. > :16:35.determination to help out. Our correspondent reports on the
:16:36. > :16:40.response of the people of Paris. a nondescript place holds endless
:16:41. > :16:44.grief. This was
:16:45. > :16:46.the Paris mortuary where survivors Many were told the identities
:16:47. > :16:51.of the dead may not be confirmed The city's hospitals took
:16:52. > :17:01.in 300 victims last night but, across this city, people are still
:17:02. > :17:08.searching, still uncertain. I'm looking for my sister-in-law,
:17:09. > :17:11.she says, I have a list of hospitals So the faces of the missing are now
:17:12. > :17:18.being spread across the Internet. Every image is somebody who's
:17:19. > :17:21.disappeared, posted by a relative There have been over 400,000
:17:22. > :17:29.tweets spreading the word. Elsewhere, Parisians were
:17:30. > :17:32.re-claiming their streets, lining up in their droves to donate blood,
:17:33. > :17:35.reasserting the city's humanity It's all we can do, the only
:17:36. > :17:43.thing to do right now, he says. TRANSLATION: I've never given blood
:17:44. > :17:46.before but you can't even ask yourself the
:17:47. > :17:50.question, you just have to do it. The brutality of what it witnessed
:17:51. > :18:02.on a November night is seared This area was full
:18:03. > :18:08.of people out dining last night when the gunmen drove through,
:18:09. > :18:10.spraying that restaurant with Outside the Casa Nostra restaurant,
:18:11. > :18:15.people were out there, They were shot at before
:18:16. > :18:23.the gunmen drove off up the street. By the tree was somebody terribly
:18:24. > :18:25.injured, he was shaking, Jean-Paul told me,
:18:26. > :18:30.and three dead on the terrace. Here, there was a girl wounded
:18:31. > :18:34.in her wrist. Julie was dining on the terrace
:18:35. > :18:46.of one of the restaurants that was She and her boyfriend survived only
:18:47. > :18:50.because, three minutes earlier, they'd argued,
:18:51. > :18:56.so she went inside to pay the bill. TRANSLATION:
:18:57. > :18:58.We'd started to hear shots. My reaction was to run but I
:18:59. > :19:02.couldn't see any way out. For three minutes, there was
:19:03. > :19:07.shot after shot after shot. Nearby, in the same squares that
:19:08. > :19:15.filled with people after the attacks on Paris at the start of
:19:16. > :19:18.this year, Parisians are gathering again, a little more sombre,
:19:19. > :19:27.a little less defiant this time. TRANSLATION:
:19:28. > :19:31.I would never have thought that this
:19:32. > :19:36.could happen in my I realise now that this can happen
:19:37. > :19:39.anywhere Today, it's been made clear that
:19:40. > :19:45.security measures are not working. We have to find other solutions or
:19:46. > :19:49.they have to prove to us that we can get out and do our shopping safely,
:19:50. > :19:52.normally. It will be Christmas soon
:19:53. > :19:54.and shops are crowded. We don't know
:19:55. > :19:58.if we can go there or not. And, along with that fear,
:19:59. > :20:02.this is a city experiencing again the bitter tang of grief
:20:03. > :20:25.and sadness at the carnage which, Earlier this evening, the president
:20:26. > :20:28.visited the wounded at a hospital. Damien is there. Not just the
:20:29. > :20:33.presidential visit but one of the saddest things to note is that lots
:20:34. > :20:37.of relatives and friends are looking for people they simply can't find.
:20:38. > :20:42.Exactly right. Many don't have the answers they are looking for
:20:43. > :20:45.because, if people disappeared in the chaos, there are many who have
:20:46. > :20:51.not been able to work out where they have ended up. We saw the president
:20:52. > :20:55.and Prime Minister, who came here earlier. They drove out in a
:20:56. > :20:59.motorcade after visiting the doctors and patients in the hospital. But
:21:00. > :21:03.there are many who don't have answers. The morgues have not been
:21:04. > :21:07.able to provide answers until they can carry out full identifications.
:21:08. > :21:13.What is noticeable tonight is that the mood is very different from what
:21:14. > :21:17.we saw at the beginning of the year after the attacks on the Charlie
:21:18. > :21:21.Hebdo magazine. Then there was a kind of defiance, people came out
:21:22. > :21:27.into the streets. Now it is much more subdued. That may be the impact
:21:28. > :21:30.of these attacks in the street, in public places, in restaurants, down
:21:31. > :21:36.the end of people's neighbourhoods, in the Bataclan Theatre. We spoke to
:21:37. > :21:41.people, women who told me they were too afraid to go outside, a man who
:21:42. > :21:45.told me his 11-year-old daughter walking down the street to school,
:21:46. > :21:49.he was unsure whether it was safe for her. France will have to grapple
:21:50. > :21:58.with these things in the days to come. Thank you very much, Damien.
:21:59. > :22:05.Let's talk a little bit about the investigation. That is now not just
:22:06. > :22:08.a national, French investigation, it is a global investigation. Although
:22:09. > :22:12.one of the most important developments of the evening came
:22:13. > :22:16.from rather closer to home, in Belgium, because three arrests were
:22:17. > :22:24.made in the outskirts of Brussels in connection with the investigation.
:22:25. > :22:27.Prints cost -- French prosecutors say that more details are coming
:22:28. > :22:29.together about the identities of some of the people they think were
:22:30. > :22:34.involved with what happened tonight. Our security correspondent,
:22:35. > :22:35.Gordon Corera, reports on the investigation into
:22:36. > :22:46.the attackers and their motives. Paris is no stranger to the horrors
:22:47. > :22:52.of terrorism, but this attack has shocked France, not just because of
:22:53. > :22:54.its brutality but also its sophistication. An urgent
:22:55. > :23:02.international investigation is underway.
:23:03. > :23:06.TRANSLATION: It is almost certain three coordinated teams were behind
:23:07. > :23:10.this act of barbarism. We have the right who they are, who are their
:23:11. > :23:16.accomplices, who commanded them, where they came from, how they were
:23:17. > :23:20.financed. The statement on the bless it onslaught in Paris... Today, this
:23:21. > :23:24.statement was posted online from the group calling itself the Islamic
:23:25. > :23:28.State. It said what tickled its soldiers were behind the attack, but
:23:29. > :23:35.who were they? Forensic work has been underway to identify those
:23:36. > :23:39.involved. They identify one of the attackers as a Frenchman from a pub
:23:40. > :23:44.Paris suburb, known to the authorities for extremist links. A
:23:45. > :23:50.Syrian passport was found and has been linked to the suicide bombers.
:23:51. > :23:54.Investigators say that the Syrian passport was in the name of a man
:23:55. > :23:58.registered as a riding as a refugee on a Greek island in October. They
:23:59. > :24:03.are investigating him and one other possible refugee. There were police
:24:04. > :24:07.raids in an area of the Belgian capital, Brussels, with reports that
:24:08. > :24:11.three of the attackers may have been from there. The French former top
:24:12. > :24:16.counterterrorism judge today told me this was an experienced group of
:24:17. > :24:21.killers. Varied professional, quite professional, not to use a rifle,
:24:22. > :24:26.but the coordination of the teams, you know, it represents some
:24:27. > :24:35.training and some professional scaling. -- professional skills. It
:24:36. > :24:39.was in January that the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo what
:24:40. > :24:43.targeted, but yesterday's attack was far more ambitious and
:24:44. > :24:46.sophisticated, with more attackers and targets. Details of the
:24:47. > :24:51.attackers are still emerging here tonight, with reports that one may
:24:52. > :24:56.have been a woman, another a young man aged between 15 and 18. They may
:24:57. > :25:00.have come from different countries, but they were equipped with similar
:25:01. > :25:05.Kalashnikovs weapons and suicide vests. The key question will be,
:25:06. > :25:10.what or who connected them all, and how far that trail leads from here
:25:11. > :25:16.to Syria. This strike by so-called Islamic State has rocked France but,
:25:17. > :25:20.with security at key sites tighter than ever, the real fear is of the
:25:21. > :25:28.unknown and of other cells that could still be out there.
:25:29. > :25:31.There's an intensive global effort going on to identify not only
:25:32. > :25:33.the attackers but also their network of collaborators.
:25:34. > :25:44.As that process takes place here in France, some community leaders in
:25:45. > :25:48.Paris have said they fear a tsunami of hatred towards France's Muslim
:25:49. > :25:51.community, which number around five million people, many of them living
:25:52. > :26:03.One community leader said that they feared a tsunami of hatred towards
:26:04. > :26:07.the French Muslim community as a result of the way the investigation
:26:08. > :26:13.is proceeding. Clear signs of alarm there among some people in France's
:26:14. > :26:17.Muslim community, who of course underlined very strongly, as they
:26:18. > :26:21.did in January when the other attacks happened, that they are
:26:22. > :26:25.fully embracing the principles of the French republic and they are
:26:26. > :26:31.repulsed by what has happened in the last 24 hours. It is important to
:26:32. > :26:35.underline that. Gavin Hewitt has been talking to some of France's
:26:36. > :26:37.community leaders. This is his report on the kind of things they
:26:38. > :26:45.have been saying. France has the largest Muslim
:26:46. > :26:52.population in Europe. Most are well integrated. In the past year, there
:26:53. > :26:56.have been a series of attacks, like at the satirical magazine Charlie
:26:57. > :27:00.Hebdo, carried out by extremists. Some of them grew up in the vast
:27:01. > :27:05.estates on the anonymous edges of French cities. Ten years ago, I
:27:06. > :27:09.watched the angry suburbs rebel. It prompted new efforts at integration
:27:10. > :27:14.but always there were flashes of tension. The uncomfortable truth is
:27:15. > :27:21.that there are today willing recruits for a more radical, violent
:27:22. > :27:26.Islamist ideology, and Muslims today were reacting to the horrific
:27:27. > :27:30.violence. TRANSLATION: Muslims in France are
:27:31. > :27:35.disgusted by this, what would you think? Do you think we like being
:27:36. > :27:40.pointed at? Everywhere we go, people give us a bad luck, they don't
:27:41. > :27:44.accept us for jobs. From conversations here, it is clear that
:27:45. > :27:49.some young people do feel isolated from French secular society and that
:27:50. > :27:51.some do have a sense of grievance about French foreign policy,
:27:52. > :27:56.especially in the Middle East, but people struggle to explain why
:27:57. > :28:01.people would come down here and just opened fire at people having a
:28:02. > :28:07.meal. Last night in this restaurant, a Muslim helped save the lives of
:28:08. > :28:13.two girls in one of the attacks. TRANSLATION: After a spray of
:28:14. > :28:16.bullets, I took the girls who were bleeding into the basement but why
:28:17. > :28:23.any of this took place, I have no idea. Earlier this year, President
:28:24. > :28:27.Hollande and European leaders linked arms in defiance against violence,
:28:28. > :28:29.but it has proved easy for extremists to paint President
:28:30. > :28:34.Hollande's intervention in the Middle East as part of a crusader
:28:35. > :28:39.campaign. 2000 French Muslims are thought to have joined the war in
:28:40. > :28:43.Syria. There are deep political divisions in France. The far right,
:28:44. > :28:49.led by Marine Le Pen, continues to pole strongly and already questions
:28:50. > :28:53.are being asked about whether any of the suspects travelled with recent
:28:54. > :28:58.groups of refugees. After the Charlie Hebdo killings, France came
:28:59. > :29:05.together, hoping that unity would defeat the extremists. It didn't
:29:06. > :29:09.work out that way. Gavin Hewitt, who has been looking
:29:10. > :29:16.at some of the reaction. This time last night, this part of the city
:29:17. > :29:20.was in absolute lockdown. Security forces, chaos everywhere, terror, as
:29:21. > :29:23.the attacks were taking place in that concert hall theatre behind me.
:29:24. > :29:31.There are new images emerging this evening. The publication Paris
:29:32. > :29:35.Match, one of the most famous publications in France, have been
:29:36. > :29:37.able to obtain images of the security forces under attack 24
:29:38. > :29:56.hours ago. Let's look at this. The ferocity and intensity of the
:29:57. > :30:01.exchanges of gunfire on that images that we have just received from the
:30:02. > :30:06.Paris Match magazine in Paris, showing the security forces under
:30:07. > :30:12.attack from the gunmen in the Bataclan Theatre last night just
:30:13. > :30:16.after 10pm, so pretty much 24 hours ago, exchanges of gunfire inside and
:30:17. > :30:22.then outside the theatre itself. We have just received those images.
:30:23. > :30:26.Katya Adler, how Europe editor, is with me. Given what you said earlier
:30:27. > :30:30.and what we have heard since, the question I would like to ask is,
:30:31. > :30:36.where does France go from here, given what the president has said?
:30:37. > :30:42.We have preparations for a memorial service at Notre Dame cathedral
:30:43. > :30:49.tomorrow. There is a lot of sadness here and fear as well. There is a
:30:50. > :30:52.big dose of defiance, even amongst witnesses, determination not to lose
:30:53. > :30:56.the joy for living that the city is famous for. Inevitably life is going
:30:57. > :30:59.to change. As you say, from the French president over and over
:31:00. > :31:04.again, we heard today that those attacks were an act of war. What
:31:05. > :31:07.will that mean exactly? What does it mean for France's foreign policy in
:31:08. > :31:10.the Middle East? What does it mean for civil liberties back here at
:31:11. > :31:14.home? We don't know how long the state of emergency will last here in
:31:15. > :31:18.France. We don't know how many other European or international links are
:31:19. > :31:22.going to appear. Details are coming out all the time. We know tonight,
:31:23. > :31:25.across France and beyond, families, the young and old are holding their
:31:26. > :31:31.breath and really hoping for the best. Thanks very much once again.
:31:32. > :31:34.In London, David Cameron chaired a meeting
:31:35. > :31:37.of the COBRA emergency committee and afterwards warned that we should
:31:38. > :31:46.He expressed solidarity and expressed sympathy with the French
:31:47. > :31:50.president and the French people. Saying that Britain was standing by
:31:51. > :31:53.to do all it could to help the French and certainly their
:31:54. > :31:56.investigation. There was an underlining too of the strategic
:31:57. > :32:00.bond between the two nations as well and the importance of working
:32:01. > :32:02.together. Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, has
:32:03. > :32:11.this report on the British reaction to the events.
:32:12. > :32:17.St Pancras EuroStar terminal today and no visible changes to security.
:32:18. > :32:21.There were some tearful reunions for those just back from Paris and the
:32:22. > :32:25.Prime Minister sounded a note of solidarity with France. Our hearts
:32:26. > :32:30.go out to the French people and to all those who lost loved ones. Today
:32:31. > :32:34.the British and French people stand together as we have so often before
:32:35. > :32:39.in our history, when confronted by evil. Government ministers arriving
:32:40. > :32:43.for today's COBRA emergency meeting in Whitehall, wanted to know if
:32:44. > :32:47.anything more should be done to stop a similar attack happening here in
:32:48. > :32:51.Britain? There's no doubt that last night was different. Some new
:32:52. > :32:54.tactics were employed. Of course, a huge number of terrorists were
:32:55. > :32:58.attacking at different sites. We're going to reflect on this and make
:32:59. > :33:05.sure our plans and our resources are fit for purpose. That includes this
:33:06. > :33:14.all too realistic exercise in London in the summer. It involved Scotland
:33:15. > :33:17.Yard's counter-terrorism specialist firearms officers, training to
:33:18. > :33:22.handle multiple attacks by well armed gunmen who are not afraid to
:33:23. > :33:26.die. Ever since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, Scotland
:33:27. > :33:30.Yard specialist units have been training intensively with the Army
:33:31. > :33:34.and Special Forces to cut down the amount of time it takes to bring an
:33:35. > :33:39.armed response unit onto the streets to stop the terrorists in their
:33:40. > :33:43.tracks. There was a genuine alert today at Gatwick Airport, with north
:33:44. > :33:47.terminal closed for several hours, after a suspected firearm was found
:33:48. > :33:50.in a waste bin. One man was arrested and flights were disrupted. The
:33:51. > :33:57.chances of such a terrorist attack taking place in this country are
:33:58. > :33:59.relatively lower. It is much harder to obtain the weaponry we've seen
:34:00. > :34:02.deployed in this attack in the United Kingdom. And really it's the
:34:03. > :34:06.machine guns that meant that these individuals were able to murder
:34:07. > :34:10.quite so many people in such a horrendous fashion. Tonight, in
:34:11. > :34:19.London's Trafalgar Square, a vigil for the victims. A reminder that
:34:20. > :34:27.Britain is not immune to attacks by those who wreaked such carnage just
:34:28. > :34:30.across the channel. Let's get a little more on the
:34:31. > :34:35.Our chief political correspondent, John Pienaar, is in Downing Street.
:34:36. > :34:42.More then on the Government's response from you? We saw there in
:34:43. > :34:46.that, I thought, deftly drafted statement from David Cameron,
:34:47. > :34:49.articulation of the deep sense of solidarity between Britain and
:34:50. > :34:53.France, solidarity which, if anything, if it were possible, could
:34:54. > :34:59.deepen with the news that one, and perhaps a number more, of Britons
:35:00. > :35:03.were among the many dead in Paris. Solidarity, which is very visible
:35:04. > :35:06.the length of this country tonight, with major buildings and land marks
:35:07. > :35:10.illuminated, like Tower Bridge across the River Thames here in
:35:11. > :35:15.London. Illuminated by the red, white and blue of the French flag.
:35:16. > :35:19.Meanwhile we are seeing security agencies of France and this country
:35:20. > :35:22.cooperating, showing that this solidarity is more than just a
:35:23. > :35:27.symbol. Very soon attention will turn to the question of whether
:35:28. > :35:30.David Cameron and his ministers arms will be strengthened by the events
:35:31. > :35:34.in Paris on Friday, as they formulate policy to confront and
:35:35. > :35:40.take on extremism, both in Syria and in this country. And on that, what
:35:41. > :35:43.are your thoughts on the way that these events could influence David
:35:44. > :35:46.Cameron's thinking and you know, what are the kinds of policy changes
:35:47. > :35:54.that you think he might be considering? Well, plans to refresh
:35:55. > :35:58.the powers of the police and security agencies, to intercept and
:35:59. > :36:03.monitor internet traffic are already before MPs. They got quite a broad
:36:04. > :36:06.welcome, but there are some on both sides of the House of Commons who
:36:07. > :36:08.would like to see the powers constrained, more powers for judges
:36:09. > :36:12.and less for ministers. The hope of ministers, including David Cameron,
:36:13. > :36:18.is that the events of Friday, the events of this weekend, will cause
:36:19. > :36:23.some of those doubters to hesitate and we could now see the possibility
:36:24. > :36:26.of air strikes against Syria, one of David Cameron's great aims, brought
:36:27. > :36:34.closer because of the awful events of Friday. Many thanks.
:36:35. > :36:39.To pick up on John's point, what experts have been saying today is
:36:40. > :36:42.that they believe this fight has been brought onto the streets of
:36:43. > :36:48.this European city, Paris, because of the fact that Islamic State has
:36:49. > :36:52.been struggling, losing the battle in Iraq and Syria under heavy attack
:36:53. > :36:55.from the air, led by the Americans, but crucially, the French government
:36:56. > :37:01.very strongly supporting lots of that initiative. Our Middle East
:37:02. > :37:03.correspondent reports now on the increasingly global threat that is
:37:04. > :37:16.posed by so-called Islamic State. Curdish forces taking back a state.
:37:17. > :37:21.They fled from here, but not before they'd torn the town apart. We don't
:37:22. > :37:24.know how many died under their year-long rule. But it isn't the
:37:25. > :37:29.only place where they are in retreat. In Syria, the Kurds and
:37:30. > :37:35.others with US air power have taken back miles of territory in the last
:37:36. > :37:39.week. On its home ground, the Islamic State is faltering. But
:37:40. > :37:43.further afield, it's bringing pain and terror. In Beirut, they're
:37:44. > :37:48.burying their loved ones, killed by IS suicide bombers. More than 40
:37:49. > :37:52.people killed in a busy shopping street on Thursday. Lebanon is in
:37:53. > :37:58.grief, it's one of the bloodiest attacks in years. In Egypt too,
:37:59. > :38:01.fresh tactics and fresh horror from Islamic State bombers who may have
:38:02. > :38:06.brought down a Russian passenger plane. The United States and Russia
:38:07. > :38:14.stood side by side in condemning IS and its new barbarism. We are
:38:15. > :38:19.witnessing a kind of medieval and modern fascism, at the same time,
:38:20. > :38:24.which has no regard for life, which seeks to destroy and create chaos
:38:25. > :38:30.and disorder and fear, and the one thing we can say to those people is
:38:31. > :38:36.that what they do in this is stiffen our resolve, all of us. Here in
:38:37. > :38:41.Iraq, the Islamic State behaves like an army. It captures towns and
:38:42. > :38:47.villages and sends men onto the battlefield. In Syria it has tasted
:38:48. > :38:51.defeat. It's far from beaten, but the Islamic State is under pressure.
:38:52. > :38:55.That may mean pay shift in tactics that increasingly the group will
:38:56. > :39:02.focus attacks outside of its home territory here in the Middle East.
:39:03. > :39:06.In Iraq and Syria tonight, the offencives against IS continue, but
:39:07. > :39:16.they don't end here. The frontlines in this war are now closer to home.
:39:17. > :39:20.As we speak, world leaders are gathering in Turkey, for the G20
:39:21. > :39:23.Summit. President Hollande was meant to be there. Understandably he has
:39:24. > :39:26.cancelled. He won't be going. The events in Paris clearly will
:39:27. > :39:30.dominate lots of the discussion that's going on there. And the
:39:31. > :39:35.implications for lots of France's allies. Our diplomatic correspondent
:39:36. > :39:39.is there to cover the summit for us. James, what are your thoughts on how
:39:40. > :39:46.these dreadful events in Paris will influence the agenda there? Tonight,
:39:47. > :39:52.I think it's more painfully clear than ever to the leaders travelling
:39:53. > :39:55.now here to Turkey, among them President Obama and President Putin,
:39:56. > :40:00.that they have to find some way of minimising the differences between
:40:01. > :40:06.them about how to tackle Islamic State, how to end the Civil War in
:40:07. > :40:11.Syria, how to slow the enormous flow of migrants as Syria empties out.
:40:12. > :40:14.But there are just a few positive signs that perhaps progress may be
:40:15. > :40:18.being made, signs from Vienna, where their foreign ministers have been
:40:19. > :40:22.meeting this evening. Philip Hammond was there too, to discuss a way
:40:23. > :40:25.forward for Syria. Signals that perhaps the Americans believe
:40:26. > :40:29.President Assad is now more willing to engage in serious negotiations.
:40:30. > :40:33.Philip Hammond talks about momentum. You have to set against that the
:40:34. > :40:37.fact that President Assad has little credibility and today, he actually
:40:38. > :40:41.insulted French law makers and journalists, who were in Damascus on
:40:42. > :40:42.a visit by saying to them that French foreign policies had brought
:40:43. > :40:50.terrorism to their door. Let's now talk to our North America
:40:51. > :41:03.editor, Jon Sopel, in Washington. Your sense, we heard from President
:41:04. > :41:07.Obama of course quite a while ago now, because he was one of the first
:41:08. > :41:12.to respond. But your thoughts on how the Americans are viewing these
:41:13. > :41:18.attacks here and how they might respond to them? I spent the morning
:41:19. > :41:22.with a very senior diplomatic and defence source. That was precisely
:41:23. > :41:26.the nature of the discussion. A very strong feeling that given what has
:41:27. > :41:31.happened in Paris, the need for Francois Hollande to make a strong
:41:32. > :41:36.response, but also, the downing of the Russian jet in Sinai will leave
:41:37. > :41:40.Vladimir Putin equally wanting to make a very strong stance against
:41:41. > :41:46.Islamic State, after the humiliation of that plane coming down. So, you
:41:47. > :41:50.have a coalescence of forces that will put pressure on President
:41:51. > :41:54.Obama. Until now the president has wanted to move with small
:41:55. > :41:57.incremental steps along the way. What people are expecting now is for
:41:58. > :42:02.something more profound. What does that mean? It might mean, for
:42:03. > :42:07.example, a speeding up of the time table to try to retake racka, one of
:42:08. > :42:12.the key bits of territory held by Islamic State. Because what the last
:42:13. > :42:18.24 hours have shown is that ISIS poses a serious and real threat way
:42:19. > :42:25.beyond the borders of Syria and Iraq and a growing feeling in Washington
:42:26. > :42:28.among the people I'm speaking to, that small, incremental steps are no
:42:29. > :42:34.longer enough. Thank you very much. We'll have more
:42:35. > :42:40.on the attacks in Paris in just a moment. I'll be talking to two young
:42:41. > :42:42.Parisians and asking for their reaction. Let's look at a few of the
:42:43. > :42:50.day's other news stories now. In Somerset, four people - two men
:42:51. > :42:53.and two women - have died Police said the aircraft had been
:42:54. > :42:57.heading from Surrey to an aerodrome in east Devon when it
:42:58. > :43:00.came down in a field near Taunton. The Cumbrian towns of Egremont
:43:01. > :43:03.and Kendal have been warned to take immediate action and prepare
:43:04. > :43:06.for flooding, as a band of very The Environment Agency has issued 11
:43:07. > :43:11.severe flood warnings for areas in and around the towns, indicating
:43:12. > :43:34.a possible danger to life. I'm joined by two young Parisian to
:43:35. > :43:42.have come to talk to us. Where were you last night? I was near this part
:43:43. > :43:46.of Paris at a concert. When did you start to hear about the reports of
:43:47. > :43:52.what was going on? Very quickly, because I phoned and I saw very
:43:53. > :43:56.quickly all the people in the concert knew about what happened,
:43:57. > :44:04.and we were very worried and we started to send texts to friends, to
:44:05. > :44:11.know where they were and if everything was OK. Did you have any
:44:12. > :44:16.friends at the concert? One of my colleagues was in the Bataclan just
:44:17. > :44:24.near. Fortunately, he is OK, but very shocked. What about you? Where
:44:25. > :44:32.were you last night? I am a citizen of this country. My state. In
:44:33. > :44:43.response of your question, might I say that I enjoy Paris... I'm sorry
:44:44. > :44:47.about the expression that was used. When you look at the way that
:44:48. > :44:53.Parisian 's have responded, what do you think about the way that Paris
:44:54. > :44:58.has responded? I don't know the way of other Parisians, but tonight I
:44:59. > :45:04.wanted to... I don't want to stay at home, I want to stay here, outside,
:45:05. > :45:11.because I want to show them Paris belongs to us, not to them. I think
:45:12. > :45:17.our freedom is stronger than that religion. What about the response of
:45:18. > :45:23.the president of the message he gave today on television? It is his job.
:45:24. > :45:27.I think he did a good job. Do you think he is doing a good job of
:45:28. > :45:32.leading at a very difficult time? Yes it is a difficult time, so...
:45:33. > :45:37.How do you think the government should react? He declared a state of
:45:38. > :45:42.emergency, introducing tough laws. What do you think of that? I'm not
:45:43. > :45:48.sure there is another possibility. It is a good thing. Does your family
:45:49. > :45:53.live in Paris? Where are your family based? My family doesn't live in
:45:54. > :45:59.Paris. Or your friends and colleagues, you work in Paris, are
:46:00. > :46:04.they staying at home, people not going out? It depends, but I think,
:46:05. > :46:13.in the next few days, people will go out again, to show Paris is Paris.
:46:14. > :46:17.And we have to show we are not afraid. We are not afraid. We are
:46:18. > :46:24.sad and that is all. A final message from you. What are you saying about
:46:25. > :46:30.the people of Paris? I don't understand. What are you saying?
:46:31. > :46:37.What are you saying to the people of Paris? A message of love. I like
:46:38. > :46:44.Paris. Thank you both very much. That's it from Paris tonight. 129
:46:45. > :46:51.people lost their lives. Injured in the attacks that happened last
:46:52. > :46:54.night, 24 hours ago. Underlining the enormity of what went on and, of
:46:55. > :47:00.course, the implications not just for France but for the rest of
:47:01. > :47:05.Europe as we see the rising global threat of what President Hollande
:47:06. > :47:09.said was a threat of war -- a declaration of war from extremist
:47:10. > :47:13.Islamic State. There will be more on the BBC news channel and more
:47:14. > :47:18.details and analysis on the BBC news website as well. But now, on BBC
:47:19. > :47:23.One, it is time for the news where you are, and we will leave you with
:47:24. > :47:26.some of the strongest and some of the searing images of the night that
:47:27. > :47:48.Paris came under attack. TRANSLATION: I saw two young men, no
:47:49. > :48:32.older than 25, with Kalashnikovs. They can do this again and again. We
:48:33. > :49:09.will be here. We will never give up. Good evening. The weather is causing
:49:10. > :49:13.a few problems and disruption through the rest of the weekend, all
:49:14. > :49:14.down to be remnants of ex-hurricane Kate moving