21/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

after authorities received specific information about the risk of a

Subways in the city are closed and heavily armed police and soldiers

The country's Prime Minister, Charles Michel, said there was

a fear that several individuals with arms and explosives could

Quiet on the streets of Brussels city centre this morning.

All the Metro stations closed, many shops, hotels, tourist sites

now guarded by soldiers or police and the Government's calling

on the organisers of any large events and gatherings in the Belgian

The decision to raise the security left to its highest,

threat alert level four, is said to be based on specific intelligence.

We have received quite precise information about the risk

of an attack like the one that happened in Paris.

We are talking about a scenario in which several individuals with

arms and explosives could launch an attack, perhaps in several places.

Since the Paris attacks, at least one of the suspects is known to have

headed towards Belgium, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, who, in the hours

after the attack, is reported to have been stopped by traffic police

He was released before Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest.

Last night police charged another man from the area in connection

In a city used to holding summits of EU leaders and NATO chiefs

this rare move to increase the security alert to its highest speaks

of the urgency and imminence of the threats officials say they've

There must be a nervous mood in the city. It's just before Christmas,

Brussels is usually busy especially on a Saturday. From what I have seen

this morning it's quiet. I have met people who didn't know this morning,

they were getting on a bus to go to Brussels who quickly said they would

go back home. It wasn't worth the risk. We have had a statement in the

last half an hour from the prosecutors office, more information

relating to that one suspect that was charged last night in connection

with terrorism activities, this is in connection with one of three

Stade de France bombers, this suspect, his property was certained,

there were weapons found, we are told there were no explosives found

at the property. The Belgian Prime Minister saying people should not

pan I can, the police and the military are on the streets but it's

a sort of countermessage when we are told this is the highest level of

threat for Belgium in many years. Thank you very much.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council

has unanimously approved a resolution calling on countries

to take all necessary measures to fight the Islamic State group.

The statement was drafted by France in response to the Paris attacks.

It describes Islamic State as an unprecedented threat to

David Cameron described the passing of the resolution

The Prime Minister is due to travel to Paris on Monday to hold talks

with the French President, Francois Hollande.

David Cameron said that the UN resolution showed the breadth

of international support for doing more in Syria and he pledged to

build support in Parliament for UK air strikes on IS in Syria.

And security forces in the West African country

of Mali are hunting three suspects connected to yesterday's attack

on a hotel in the capital, Bamako, in which 19 people were killed.

Two militants were killed when special forces stormed the building.

The President has declared a national state of emergency.

Four British tourists are among seven people who have died

after a helicopter crashed on a New Zealand glacier, earlier today.

Police said rescue teams had reached the crash site but were hampered

by bad weather conditions and that they would attempt to

The glacier, which lies next to the town of Fox Glacier on the remote

west coast of South Island, attracts thousands of tourists each year.

Our correspondent Keith Doyle reports.

At the crash site on the Fox Glacier, the helicopter's

The rest of the wreckage is in the crevice below.

All seven people on board died, amongst them four Britons.

The short flight to view the Fox Glacier is one of New Zealand's

most popular tourist trips and it was busy at the start

The helicopter, operated by the company Alpine Adventures, crashed

on Saturday morning local time around halfway up the glacier.

A paramedic and rescue teams were winched to

Police say recovering the bodies will be difficult

We have been over the site and there is no sign of life.

We hope to get in there and recover the bodies as soon

That may only be tomorrow morning if the weather permits.

The four British tourists who have died have not yet been named.

The other passengers were Australian and the pilot is thought to be

Local police say they are talking with embassy officials to notify

relatives, but that formal identification

Here the Foreign Office says it is liaising closely with the

New Zealand authorities and it's providing consular aid.

Our Correspondent Jon Donnison is in Sydney.

This is going to be a tricky recovery operation. It's going to be

difficult. It's very remote. I have actually been up on one of these

flights up that glacier a few years ago and can tell you even in Clement

weather it's pretty hairy, taking off and then flighting straight up

the face of a mountain and landing on the ice. There will be questions

asked about whether it was safe to take this flight when weather was

pretty bad, visibility was bad. I think the rescue operation could be

hampered for several days. They've had choppers up there today and

winched people down but this helicopter is wedged apparently down

pretty deep in a crevice so it could be sometime before we get formal

identification of the victims. We heard there in Keith's report that

the New Zealand authorities are liaising with the authorities in the

UK but it could be sometime before we get the bodies off the mountain.

Thank you very much. You can see more on all of today's

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