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:00:08. > :00:11.At least 127 people are now confirmed dead

:00:12. > :00:13.in the Paris terror attacks - in what the French President

:00:14. > :00:22.called "an act of war" by so-called Islamic State.

:00:23. > :00:24.Gunmen dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikovs

:00:25. > :00:30.and suicide vests went on the rampage at six sites.

:00:31. > :00:37.All eight attackers are dead - seven blew themselves up.

:00:38. > :00:39.Police stormed a concert venue where at least 80 people died.

:00:40. > :00:47.We all lay down, the whole room lay down,

:00:48. > :00:55.I was under other people, and they kept shooting.

:00:56. > :00:57.Bombs were detonated at the Stade de France stadium,

:00:58. > :01:02.while the French team played Germany.

:01:03. > :01:05.Islamic State says it carried out the attacks.

:01:06. > :01:07.President Hollande said France would be pitiless

:01:08. > :01:22.Charonne, TRANSLATION: This was an act of war that was committed by a

:01:23. > :01:24.terrorist army, a Jihadist army, against France.

:01:25. > :01:26.In London, David Cameron called the attacks sickening.

:01:27. > :01:49.of the Government's Cobra emergency committee.

:01:50. > :02:03.We are outside the Bataclan concert venue, where most of the victims of

:02:04. > :02:05.last night's terror attacks were killed.

:02:06. > :02:07.President Hollande has declared last night's attacks in Paris,

:02:08. > :02:12.in which at least 127 people died, an "act of war".

:02:13. > :02:21.He has declared a state of emergency. 127 people at least have

:02:22. > :02:33.died and many more injured. Many of them critically ill. Francois

:02:34. > :02:38.Hollande said it was organised and planned from outside France and IS

:02:39. > :02:43.has claimed responsibility for the attacks saying they were a response

:02:44. > :02:48.to French military action against Islamic State in Syria. Let's talk

:02:49. > :02:56.you through the attacks as they unfolded last night.

:02:57. > :02:58.The first of the attacks happened around 9pm

:02:59. > :03:00.in the 10th Arrondissement, at Le Carillon bar.

:03:01. > :03:02.Witnesses described a masked gunman with a rifle.

:03:03. > :03:05.He opened fire then moved across the street to a Cambodian restaurant.

:03:06. > :03:07.12 people are known to have died on this street.

:03:08. > :03:11.came another attack at the Casa Nostra pizzeria.

:03:12. > :03:15.Witnesses say they saw at least five bodies.

:03:16. > :03:16.Then three suicide bombers blew themselves up

:03:17. > :03:28.where a football match was being played.

:03:29. > :03:33.from the La Belle Equipe bar in the 11th Arrondissement.

:03:34. > :03:40.Finally, more than 80 people are known to have died after gunmen

:03:41. > :03:48.stormed the Bataclan theatre where a rock concert was being held.

:03:49. > :03:59.Our first report is from our Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson. It

:04:00. > :04:15.was a night of horror for France. Terror attacks the aimed at its

:04:16. > :04:25.softest targets. Swat teams teeming into the 11th area. Inside the

:04:26. > :04:31.Bataclan were 100 hostages. TRANSLATION: We were piled up on

:04:32. > :04:40.each other. We heard the shots, people screaming. It was butchery.

:04:41. > :04:44.Carnage. I saw two young men with Kalashnikovs. They told us to lie

:04:45. > :04:50.down. There was one who kept gesturing for us to get down. We all

:04:51. > :04:58.lay down. The whole room lay down. I was under other people and they kept

:04:59. > :05:00.shooting. 80 people died in the hall. Many more were injured. The

:05:01. > :05:08.screams of emergency vehicles told of the panic and chaos inside. But

:05:09. > :05:21.this was just the climax to terrorist attacks the Government

:05:22. > :05:32.said were unprecedented. Four times last night gunmen entered local bars

:05:33. > :05:42.and restaurants with machine guns. The scale of the plot slowly

:05:43. > :05:44.becoming clear. At France's football stadium, the sound of three

:05:45. > :05:51.explosions burst through the commentary. As Francois Hollande

:05:52. > :06:08.watched the national side play Germany, suicide bombers had blown

:06:09. > :06:16.themselves up outside. SPEAKING IN FRENCH. The president was rushed to

:06:17. > :06:31.safety. The fear here greater than many can ever remember.

:06:32. > :06:48.CROWD SINGS FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM. TRANSLATION: I was crossing the

:06:49. > :06:53.street and straightaway, boom, it exploded, right in front of me.

:06:54. > :06:58.Everything was blown to bits. I felt stuff flying around. This is the

:06:59. > :07:08.cell phone that took the hit. It's what saved me. The question for

:07:09. > :07:13.leaders across Europe, how do you protect every bar, every restaurant,

:07:14. > :07:18.from attack. TRANSLATION: We wanted to be here among all those who saw

:07:19. > :07:24.these atrocious things to say that we are going to fight and our fight

:07:25. > :07:28.will be merciless, because these terrorists that are capable of such

:07:29. > :07:32.atrocities need to know that they will be confronted by a France that

:07:33. > :07:38.is determined, unified and pulled together and a France that will not

:07:39. > :07:44.let itself be overawed, even if today it is expressping an infinite

:07:45. > :07:51.amount of emotion at this tragedy, which was a barbaric act. As Paris

:07:52. > :07:57.reels from its worst attack since the Second World War, 1,500 soldiers

:07:58. > :08:01.are on the streets today to help protect the capital. Libraries,

:08:02. > :08:05.swimming pools and markets are closed and border controls have been

:08:06. > :08:09.introduced and the president announced a state of emergency. Here

:08:10. > :08:13.the year is ending as it began with soldiers on the streets and terror

:08:14. > :08:19.and anger rippling through its people. Since the attacks on Charlie

:08:20. > :08:31.Hebdo in January, the question has been what next? This is the answer.

:08:32. > :08:38.Francois Hollande described this as an act of war and will address both

:08:39. > :08:43.houses of French Parliament on Monday. He has had no hesitation in

:08:44. > :08:54.blaming what happened here on so-called Islamic State or known in

:08:55. > :09:04.Arabic as Daesh. TRANSLATION: Dear come patriots. What happened

:09:05. > :09:12.yesterday in Paris and at St Denis near the Stade de France, was an act

:09:13. > :09:18.of war. And faced with war, the country must make the appropriate

:09:19. > :09:24.decisions. It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army,

:09:25. > :09:31.Daesh, a Jihadist army, against France. Against the values that we

:09:32. > :09:36.defend throughout the world. Against what we are, a country that is free,

:09:37. > :09:46.that talks to the whole of the planet. That the president Francois

:09:47. > :09:50.Hollande. I am joined here in Paris outside the Bataclan concert hall,

:09:51. > :09:55.where so many people died, by our Europe correspondent. You were here

:09:56. > :09:58.just after the Charlie Hebdo killings in January, I suppose it is

:09:59. > :10:03.fair to say people here, although they were on a state of high alert,

:10:04. > :10:09.they were never expecting something like this in the same year? No, the

:10:10. > :10:13.terrible thing is those attacks, the Charlie Hebdo offices are just a few

:10:14. > :10:17.hundred yards up the road that way. Win a couple of minutes walk from

:10:18. > :10:23.here. Not only another attack, but almost in exactly the same part of

:10:24. > :10:27.Paris. You remember back then we saw pretty extraordinary scenes after

:10:28. > :10:34.that set of attacks. Millions coming out in France, huge demonstrations,

:10:35. > :10:38.enormous support, public support rallying behind republic can ideals.

:10:39. > :10:45.Now will we see the same thing again? What has happened has been

:10:46. > :10:52.the nightmare scenario for security agencies not just in France but many

:10:53. > :10:56.capitals? Yes in the past year this sort of attack is precisely what

:10:57. > :10:59.security agencies have been worrying about and trying to prevent and have

:11:00. > :11:06.been preparing for. So the question is how did they not see this one

:11:07. > :11:12.coming? The issue being large scale attacks on multiple locations, with

:11:13. > :11:18.mull Peel public -- multiple targets in places where people gather. That

:11:19. > :11:19.is why we have seen across Europe people talking about tightening

:11:20. > :11:39.security. Thank you. 1,500 troops have been deployed on

:11:40. > :11:45.the streets and people are queueing up to give blood, in case the

:11:46. > :11:49.hospitals who are treating the many wounded run out of blood supplies.

:11:50. > :11:52.Now a report on the theories about who carried out the attack from our

:11:53. > :12:01.security correspondent. The scene The scene at the centre of the

:12:02. > :12:04.worst of last night's Paris attacks, French security forces

:12:05. > :12:05.assault the Bataclan theatre. S'il vous plait,

:12:06. > :12:07.qu'est-ce qui se passe?! Some terrified hostages escape

:12:08. > :12:09.through windows, but inside over 80 people were murdered by the gunmen,

:12:10. > :12:14.who also set off explosives. Within hours, the group calling

:12:15. > :12:19.itself Islamic State claimed it was behind the attacks, the worst on

:12:20. > :12:23.France since the Second World War. They've been swiftly condemned

:12:24. > :12:27.around the world. an attack not just

:12:28. > :12:32.on the people of France, but this is an attack

:12:33. > :12:35.on all of humanity and the universal values

:12:36. > :12:40.that we share. We stand prepared and ready to

:12:41. > :12:43.provide whatever assistance that the government and people

:12:44. > :12:49.of France need to respond. It is the second time this year

:12:50. > :12:52.Paris has suffered a rampaging attack

:12:53. > :12:54.by Islamist gunmen inspired by terrorist groups

:12:55. > :13:01.in the Middle East. In January, jihadists raided the

:13:02. > :13:04.offices of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo,

:13:05. > :13:05.and a Jewish kosher grocery. And in August, a man was overpowered

:13:06. > :13:12.on a French high-speed train as he allegedly tried to shoot

:13:13. > :13:18.passengers with an assault rifle. the Government convened

:13:19. > :13:22.a Cobra crisis meeting. Ministers want to check that every

:13:23. > :13:27.possible precaution has been taken to prevent a similar tragedy

:13:28. > :13:29.happening here in Britain. We've already been trying

:13:30. > :13:33.to prepare, we've got a heightened state of

:13:34. > :13:36.readiness, more officers on patrol. Overnight, of course,

:13:37. > :13:38.we've looked at that afresh, and whenever there is

:13:39. > :13:40.something like this, we review our standards

:13:41. > :13:43.and people will probably see in the next few days more police

:13:44. > :13:46.officers at public events, they will see strengthened

:13:47. > :13:50.policing at ports. French police and security forces

:13:51. > :13:52.reacted quickly to the Paris attacks, but this was

:13:53. > :13:55.still an intelligence failure. There are clearly gaps

:13:56. > :14:14.in French security at Huge implications for the British

:14:15. > :14:18.intelligence agencies from what happened. Here is our assistant

:14:19. > :14:22.political editor Norman Smith. The Prime Minister has been chairing a

:14:23. > :14:28.meeting of Cobra emergency committee? Yes, in the past few

:14:29. > :14:33.minutes the Prime Minister has said we must be prepared for British

:14:34. > :14:38.casualties from these attacks. Among the 127 dead there will be probably

:14:39. > :14:43.be British victims. But he has been talking about how he need to stand

:14:44. > :14:53.together with the people of France, saying your fight is our fight and

:14:54. > :14:58.he has tweeted in French to underline that saying, we are

:14:59. > :15:02.united, we are together. But also I think significantly trying to offer

:15:03. > :15:05.a message of reassurance to people here about the security measures we

:15:06. > :15:08.already have in place. The Prime Minister and the government have

:15:09. > :15:13.decided not to increase the security level. It has already been raised

:15:14. > :15:17.over the past year to severe. So we are already at a heightened state of

:15:18. > :15:23.alert. David Cameron has decided not to raise it further, because I think

:15:24. > :15:28.he is of the view we already have significant measures in place. Over

:15:29. > :15:33.the sum tr police carried out a trial run for exactly this sort of

:15:34. > :15:40.outrage, when they tried to rehearse what their response must be to an

:15:41. > :15:44.attack, at different sites, a rolling attack, involving different

:15:45. > :15:48.terrorists and on top of that we know that the government has

:15:49. > :15:52.introduced quite a range of significant additional security

:15:53. > :15:57.measures. You think a few weeks ago we had the Home Secretary unveiling

:15:58. > :16:02.increased surveillance powers to make its easier for the Security

:16:03. > :16:07.Service to access the internet chat of the e-mails and use of data by

:16:08. > :16:12.terror suspects and on top of that we already have legislation passing

:16:13. > :16:18.through Parliament to make it easier to close down those organisations

:16:19. > :16:22.suspected of trying to put over extremist views. So there have been

:16:23. > :16:28.a significant number of measures in place. So while you might expect to

:16:29. > :16:29.see more police on the streets, there won't immediately be new

:16:30. > :16:36.measures. Thank you. Our diplomatic correspondent

:16:37. > :16:37.James Robbins is there in Antalya for us now.

:16:38. > :16:45.James. There is a meeting of the G 206789

:16:46. > :16:54.it will be an early opportunity for the heads of states to discuss the

:16:55. > :16:59.events in Paris. -- G20. Yes, the scale of what has happened in Paris

:17:00. > :17:05.has shocked world leaders, many of them making their way here to Turkey

:17:06. > :17:09.for two days of talks, where the fight against extremism was already

:17:10. > :17:15.pushing other subjects to the margins. I think now it will

:17:16. > :17:22.dominate. President Obama said that the United States stood should tore

:17:23. > :17:29.er to shoulder with France and that will be the theme. The meeting will

:17:30. > :17:32.bring together leaders from 20 of the world's leading economy.

:17:33. > :17:39.Francois Hollande will stay away to handle the crisis at home. But

:17:40. > :17:45.others will try to produce a unified response to civil war in Syria and

:17:46. > :17:52.how to drive IS out of the territory of Syria and Iraq. This country of

:17:53. > :17:55.course, Turkey, has suffered extremism itself, mass casualties in

:17:56. > :18:00.the Turkish capital and it borders Syria and Iraq. So it is rights at

:18:01. > :18:06.the fulcrum of the war against extremism. A very unhelpful and

:18:07. > :18:12.unwelcome remark from Sir y's president Assad who told French law

:18:13. > :18:15.makers who were viz sifting that French -- visiting that French

:18:16. > :18:20.policies contributed to this act of terrorism. We can be certain the

:18:21. > :18:25.leaders here will say exactly the opposite and it will be a test of

:18:26. > :18:38.whether they can bring together the policies of Russia with those of

:18:39. > :18:41.President Obama. Thank you. Norman Smith said that the British

:18:42. > :18:46.Government are warning there could be British casualties among the dead

:18:47. > :18:49.and injured in the wake of these attacks in Paris.

:18:50. > :18:51.And if you're concerned about loved ones in Paris,

:18:52. > :19:17.you can contact the Foreign Office in London on 020 7008 0000.

:19:18. > :19:27.of the situation here in Paris this lunchtime.

:19:28. > :19:37.We are outside the Bataclan venue, where most of the victims died.

:19:38. > :19:45.1,500 people has been in there watching a concert when four gunmen

:19:46. > :19:47.came in. They have been retrieving bodies and carrying out forensic

:19:48. > :19:49.work. At least 127 people are now

:19:50. > :19:52.confirmed dead in the Paris terror attacks

:19:53. > :19:55.in what the French President called an "act of war"

:19:56. > :19:58.by so-called Islamic State. Gunmen dressed in black and armed

:19:59. > :20:00.with Kalashnikovs and suicide vests All eight attackers are dead -

:20:01. > :20:10.seven blew themselves up. Police stormed a concert venue

:20:11. > :20:12.where 80 people died and scores were injured,

:20:13. > :20:23.many critically. Bombs were detonated

:20:24. > :20:25.at the Stade de France stadium, while the French team

:20:26. > :20:42.played Germany. That is the latest. France is in a

:20:43. > :20:44.state of emergency and three days of national

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