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:00:00. > :00:36.GUNFIRE EXPLOSIONS
:00:37. > :00:54.Hello. We live tonight in the heart of Paris the Place de la Republique
:00:55. > :00:59.now a shrine to the victims of terrorism in this country, not just
:01:00. > :01:03.to the 129 killed in Friday's attacks but also to the 17 killed in
:01:04. > :01:07.January when gunmen attacked the offices of the magazine Charlie
:01:08. > :01:11.Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. Today, there have been a series of
:01:12. > :01:16.raids on suspected Islamic militants across France and 23 Beeb have been
:01:17. > :01:20.arrested in this country. There's been a major police operation across
:01:21. > :01:24.the border in Belgium. It is three days since the bullets and bombs of
:01:25. > :01:28.Friday night, designed to strike fear into hearts and minds
:01:29. > :01:31.everywhere. This country has been traumatised and changed by the
:01:32. > :01:33.attacks will stop this is the story of
:01:34. > :01:38.attacks will stop this is the story night from John Sweeney.
:01:39. > :01:45.Friday night, the end of the week. Paris takes to its restaurants, bars
:01:46. > :01:53.and clubs. In their midst, three teams of gunmen
:01:54. > :02:04.On the Boulevard Voltaire, the Bataclan musical is a venue for a
:02:05. > :02:10.sell-out concert. 1500 young people gathered to see the American rock
:02:11. > :02:15.band, Eagles Of Death Metal. Can you get me something out of the fridge,
:02:16. > :02:19.Sarah? Going to the gig, Michael and his French girlfriend, Sarah.
:02:20. > :02:22.Personally, identity know them that well. I've only had a few of the
:02:23. > :02:26.songs but it is one of Sarah's favourite band and we have been
:02:27. > :02:31.planning it for months. The couple are running late for the show. When
:02:32. > :02:35.we arrived, we could see a lot of couples kissing, people were happy.
:02:36. > :02:41.To be honest, I wanted to stand near the back. It was packed and I did
:02:42. > :02:44.not want to push to the front to dance so I stood at the back, near
:02:45. > :02:50.the doors. But Sarah was so excited to be there. She pushed me to go
:02:51. > :02:57.closer and have a dance. We were not drunk. Thank God. Four or five songs
:02:58. > :03:05.into the band's set, the gunmen burst in. GUNFIRE
:03:06. > :03:09.The killing had begun earlier that evening at a football match attended
:03:10. > :03:13.by 80,000 fans. The atmosphere before it kicked off
:03:14. > :03:17.was amazing. There were loads of French flags waving and it was a
:03:18. > :03:21.beautiful scene. France are playing Germany in a friendly at Paris's
:03:22. > :03:28.version of Wembley, the Stade de France. B huge bangs, an explosion.
:03:29. > :03:32.We all thought it was just fireworks, it could have been
:03:33. > :03:40.anything. We kept on watching the game. A suicide bomber detonated his
:03:41. > :03:43.device outside the stadium, killing a passer-by. It is the first murder
:03:44. > :03:56.of the night. Three minutes later, another suicide
:03:57. > :04:04.bomber blows himself up outside the ground. We could feel it, we could
:04:05. > :04:08.feel the seats moving. The French president Francois Hollande is that
:04:09. > :04:13.the game and soon learns that Paris is under attack. By the end of the
:04:14. > :04:14.night, it will be the city's greatest loss of life since the
:04:15. > :04:33.Second World War. Minutes after the stadium bombings,
:04:34. > :04:37.the shooting starts in Paris' Eastern district. Gun men get out of
:04:38. > :04:46.a car and start firing at Ringo Starr outside Le Carillon bar in Rue
:04:47. > :04:54.Alibert. I saw the killer, the terrorists, -- start firing at
:04:55. > :05:01.drinkers. I got out of my window and saw them. I saw them walk with a
:05:02. > :05:09.Kalashnikov, and just kill. I was like, my God, what is happening? One
:05:10. > :05:13.of the gunmen crosses the road and opens fire on the Petit Cambodge
:05:14. > :05:21.restaurant. Was he firing single shots? Like this, bang, bang, bang.
:05:22. > :05:31.Police counts more than 100 bullet holes. 15 people were injured. 15
:05:32. > :05:42.killed. I saw everything. It was horrible.
:05:43. > :05:45.This is a close-knit community. Sawdust covers the blood of those
:05:46. > :06:08.they knew. Ordinary people,
:06:09. > :06:11.an ordinary community, not a posh part of Paris by any means,
:06:12. > :06:14.and the people are devastated. People here,
:06:15. > :06:16.they know the people who were killed in the restaurant and there is
:06:17. > :06:22.nothing they can do about it. A few streets to the south,
:06:23. > :06:26.is the Rue Fontaine au Roi, The gunmen came from
:06:27. > :06:33.Le Petit Cambodge, this way, bullet And then the car stopped,
:06:34. > :06:42.two men got out, and they shot at that restaurant there,
:06:43. > :06:50.and you can see from the sawdust and the blood on the pavement they
:06:51. > :06:54.killed people there, too. Two men opened fire from a car,
:06:55. > :07:11.spraying bullets at the terrace People say the car with the gunmen
:07:12. > :07:21.came this way and they are firing They shoot up this
:07:22. > :07:24.hairdresser's here. On this side of the street,
:07:25. > :07:27.they shoot up the bakery. Next to the bakery, there is a bar,
:07:28. > :07:30.La Belle Equipe. There is a big game on,
:07:31. > :07:32.France versus Germany. At the end of it,
:07:33. > :07:58.19 people lie dead. The last restaurant attack is at
:07:59. > :08:01.Le Comptoir Voltaire. A suicide bomber blows himself up,
:08:02. > :08:09.leaving several people injured. By 9:40pm local time,
:08:10. > :08:24.two of the three teams Now, a third team walk through
:08:25. > :08:33.the front doors of the Bataclan Music Hall, where Michael and Sara
:08:34. > :08:39.are dancing just by the stage. I seen somebody with a gun firing
:08:40. > :08:42.indiscriminately into the crowd... We saw, like,
:08:43. > :08:46.people were like dropping on... Yeah, we seen people falling
:08:47. > :08:48.as he was firing into them, But so many people were pushing and
:08:49. > :08:55.trying to get towards the, trying to A gunman makes his way up to
:08:56. > :09:01.the balcony, All we could hear was the gunfire,
:09:02. > :09:09.which was pretty... Pretty steady,
:09:10. > :09:13.pretty intense gunfire. Occasionally, we could hear them
:09:14. > :09:15.reloading and they would empty And this is where we stay, we stayed
:09:16. > :09:25.there, like, for over an hour. I was lying over one side of Sara
:09:26. > :09:30.here, and to one side here was another girl, who I put my arm over,
:09:31. > :09:33.and then, behind her, There was a bomb at one point,
:09:34. > :09:48.a big explosion, and pieces of the plaster from the ceiling,
:09:49. > :09:51.like, were showering down on us. The smell, I thought we were
:09:52. > :09:53.going to die... Sulphur. Amid the shooting,
:09:54. > :10:01.Michael and Sara hear the killers praying in Arabic and shouting,
:10:02. > :10:05."Allah Akbar" - God is great. One lays the blame in French
:10:06. > :10:13.on President Hollande. "The reason we are here is because
:10:14. > :10:16.of Francois Hollande"? This young man, injured in the leg,
:10:17. > :11:01.struggles to get away. And this woman, desperate to
:11:02. > :11:07.survive, clings to a window ledge. Inside, Michael fears he and Sara
:11:08. > :11:13.will not survive. I was close enough to give her
:11:14. > :11:17.a little kiss, and to hold her. I just said, "I love you, you know,
:11:18. > :11:21.if I don't make it out of here alive, remember that, that I really
:11:22. > :11:24.love you and tell everybody back After she, after I said that,
:11:25. > :11:29.she looked at me, she kissed me and said, "This isn't
:11:30. > :11:33.where it is going to end, we are not going to die here, we will be fine,
:11:34. > :11:38.we will not die like this." It's a horrible moment, you are
:11:39. > :11:41.trapped here, but you have to put it through, it's going to be fine,
:11:42. > :11:44.you are going to make it out alive. On the street, police prepare
:11:45. > :11:51.to take the gunmen on. I park my bike here and I ran to
:11:52. > :12:00.the corner to have a good view He takes pictures, hiding
:12:01. > :12:12.in bushes across the road. I think I stayed there in the bushes
:12:13. > :12:21.for, like, two, maybe three hours. His photos capture police
:12:22. > :12:28.commandos taking up position. Some of the people who escape are
:12:29. > :12:35.afraid the police might shoot them. A lot of people screaming,
:12:36. > :12:38.their hands like that, "Don't kill us, don't kill us," and they are
:12:39. > :12:45.just running away, and they tried to find some help, there was blood,
:12:46. > :13:01.and they were completely shocked. Two-and-a-half hours after
:13:02. > :13:04.the gunmen opened fire, the police Eventually,
:13:05. > :13:15.the police secure Bataclan and start Slowly, they came in through
:13:16. > :13:20.the door, they had the big bulletproof shields, the helmets,
:13:21. > :13:25.big machine-guns, you know. And they came in, they told us,
:13:26. > :13:28.they motioned for us to stay where we were,
:13:29. > :13:32.they told us to move our hands, So we waved our hands and,
:13:33. > :13:37.obviously, a lot of people who I thought were alive and pretending to
:13:38. > :13:41.be dead weren't moving or anything. On the way out,
:13:42. > :13:45.the floor was thick with blood, there were bodies everywhere, we had
:13:46. > :13:48.to step over dead bodies, we had to Michael and Sara are now safely out,
:13:49. > :14:03.or so they thought. We were just outside in the street,
:14:04. > :14:07.just outside, once we got out, and we heard a massive explosion,
:14:08. > :14:09.like everybody was really frightened because we thought there
:14:10. > :14:11.was maybe another attack. Two
:14:12. > :14:13.of the gunmen blow themselves up. The third gunman is shot dead
:14:14. > :14:26.by the police. Among the 89 dead in the Bataclan
:14:27. > :14:30.massacre, Nick Alexander, Hundreds are injured,
:14:31. > :14:46.many critically. Responsibility is claimed
:14:47. > :14:51.by the so-called Islamic State. They want us to become
:14:52. > :15:03.an intolerant society, they want to polarise us because
:15:04. > :15:07.the more we become polarised, The more we burn those bridges,
:15:08. > :15:11.the more people are going to become The first to be named,
:15:12. > :15:23.Omar Ismail Mostefei, He lived here in Cucuron,
:15:24. > :15:30.15 miles south of Paris. A petty criminal,
:15:31. > :15:34.radicalised five years ago, he was On any standpoint,
:15:35. > :15:41.it's an intelligence failure, a massive intelligence failure,
:15:42. > :15:46.but what I think is that there will be always failure
:15:47. > :15:50.because these kind of attacks are, We could prevent a lot of them
:15:51. > :15:59.but not all of them. In an open society like ours,
:16:00. > :16:03.I think it's impossible. A key focus of the investigation
:16:04. > :16:11.is now in Belgium. At least three of those involved
:16:12. > :16:14.lived here and two cars used in On Saturday, Belgian police
:16:15. > :16:21.arrested several suspects. Here we have obviously a network,
:16:22. > :16:25.and probably a network They could have prevented them
:16:26. > :16:32.if they had succeeded A network which stretched all
:16:33. > :16:47.the way back to IS in Syria. In the aftermath of
:16:48. > :16:49.the Stade de France attack, security Did the attacker hide amongst
:16:50. > :16:56.the hundreds and thousands of refugees and migrants making
:16:57. > :17:04.their way to Northern Europe? Authorities in Greece
:17:05. > :17:06.and Serbia say the passport, possibly fake, had been used to
:17:07. > :17:13.enter their countries in October. This freedom of movement across
:17:14. > :17:20.Europe has raised security worries. The fact that borders
:17:21. > :17:25.of France now are extended to some Greek islands, or Italian islands,
:17:26. > :17:40.in the Mediterranean is a disaster. I mean, from a strictly security
:17:41. > :17:42.point of view, it's much better It's not the first time this year
:17:43. > :17:52.gunmen have brought terror to In January, brothers Cherif and Said
:17:53. > :18:03.Kouachi forced their way into the offices of the satirical magazine,
:18:04. > :18:11.Charlie Hebdo, and killed 12 people. This is the deep question here,
:18:12. > :18:14.why France is more to get it than Because of what we are -
:18:15. > :18:21.a secularist, very free, very liberal country, they just
:18:22. > :18:27.cannot accept that, they hate that. The way that we defeat what happened
:18:28. > :18:40.to us, the way we defeat Isis and terrorism is just to go
:18:41. > :18:43.on exactly as we did before. As hard as it is, we go to the shop,
:18:44. > :18:48.we go to another gig, we go and have a beer, we go and enjoy life and we
:18:49. > :18:56.don't let them rob us of that. President Hollande called the Paris
:18:57. > :19:01.attacks a declaration of war. Late yesterday, France struck back,
:19:02. > :19:05.launching its largest yet bombing How much more blood are we going
:19:06. > :19:13.to see on the streets of Europe? Three days on from the Paris
:19:14. > :19:38.massacre, the city is in mourning. For those countries taking on IS,
:19:39. > :19:42.and that includes Britain, the question is not
:19:43. > :20:03.if there will be another terror John Sweeney reporting. President
:20:04. > :20:06.Francois Hollande said France was committing to destroying the
:20:07. > :20:09.so-called Islamic State after Friday's deadly attacks, but it is
:20:10. > :20:16.clear they won't be able to do it alone. Belgium has moved centre
:20:17. > :20:20.stage. The French believe the plot may have been hatched there. Our
:20:21. > :20:29.reporter has spent the day in Brussels. What's been happening
:20:30. > :20:33.there? I'm in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels nicknamed "jihadi
:20:34. > :20:38.central" because of its links to this and other terror plots. It's
:20:39. > :20:44.felt like a place under siege today. Police vans have lined the streets,
:20:45. > :20:48.officers wearing flak jackets, carrying guns, wearing masks, they
:20:49. > :20:53.have been everywhere. For one part of the day, an entire street was
:20:54. > :21:01.cordoned off, large crowds gathered. I could hear explosives. It is here
:21:02. > :21:05.that the man said to have masterminded the Paris attacks,
:21:06. > :21:09.Abdelhamid Abaoud, was living before he left for Syria. Police named
:21:10. > :21:13.three brothers who had been living here as suspects, too. One of them
:21:14. > :21:19.is still on the run. Behind me is their home and this afternoon, one
:21:20. > :21:22.of the brothers, Mohammed Abdeslam, came out of the house after being
:21:23. > :21:26.released without charge. He came to the waiting press and said he didn't
:21:27. > :21:32.know about the attacks, his brothers had been acting normally, and his
:21:33. > :21:41.mother was devastated. And Belgium seems to be centre stage in all
:21:42. > :21:44.this. Why is that? Well, proportionately, Belgium has had
:21:45. > :21:48.more young men travel to Syria and Iraq to fight as jihadis than any
:21:49. > :21:55.other European country. The authorities here say they do have a
:21:56. > :21:59.problem. This afternoon, I spoke to a woman, the Deputy Mayor in
:22:00. > :22:03.Molenbeek, with responsibility for social cohesion, and she said in
:22:04. > :22:10.2010, she raised the alarm that there was a time bomb here. She
:22:11. > :22:13.said, "In Molenbeek area, 40% of the youth are unemployed." She said that
:22:14. > :22:19.was a problem. She said that she felt like the authorities had lost a
:22:20. > :22:24.generation. I also spoke to another man, he works to deradicalise people
:22:25. > :22:29.here. He said that Molenbeek has a history of jihadism. There are men
:22:30. > :22:33.here who fought in Afghanistan, in Chechnya, and in Bosnia. He also
:22:34. > :22:38.said Molenbeek is a place where criminals operate and that means you
:22:39. > :22:44.can get guns. He also said, though, that scholars here, with Islamic
:22:45. > :22:46.authority, in the mosques, were preaching anti-Isis messages, it
:22:47. > :22:56.just was not getting through to everyone. Thank you very much. David
:22:57. > :23:01.Cameron spent today meeting world leaders in Turkey, where the threat
:23:02. > :23:05.from the Islamic State falls to the top of the agenda. He recognises the
:23:06. > :23:10.group is now a threat. Have a listen. The horrific attacks in
:23:11. > :23:13.Paris on Friday night, so soon after the Russian airline disaster, and
:23:14. > :23:18.following on from the Ankara bombings and the attacks in Tunisia,
:23:19. > :23:21.and indeed the attacks in Lebanon, they underline the threat we all
:23:22. > :23:27.face, the threat to our values and to our way of life, and a threat
:23:28. > :23:34.that we must defeat together. David Cameron speaking from Turkey. How
:23:35. > :23:36.does this change what's happening in Britain? Let's speak to our
:23:37. > :23:43.political editor. What does it change? Our political centre here in
:23:44. > :23:46.London is closer to Paris than it is to British cities like Newcastle or
:23:47. > :23:52.Glasgow. So for British politicians as well as the public, this feels
:23:53. > :23:57.achingly near. There will be, we learned today, additional spies,
:23:58. > :24:00.there will be beefed-up airport security, more armed police, even
:24:01. > :24:05.guarding the England-France football friendly at Wembley tomorrow night.
:24:06. > :24:10.Most of that was already in train before these Paris attacks. The
:24:11. > :24:13.Government has been reshaping our Security Services in the face of
:24:14. > :24:18.this evolving threat from the so-called Islamic State. So, shock
:24:19. > :24:24.here, revulsion, absolutely, but a dramatic change in our policy? Not
:24:25. > :24:28.yet. It's no secret, Laura, that David Cameron has wanted to join the
:24:29. > :24:32.bombing of Isis in Syria, does this make it more likely? David Cameron
:24:33. > :24:36.has been arguing that for months, that it is not logical for British
:24:37. > :24:40.planes to be dropping bombs in Iraq but not in Syria, where IS have
:24:41. > :24:43.their headquarters. The simple fact is, before this attack, he didn't
:24:44. > :24:47.have the support of enough MPs in the House of Commons to be able to
:24:48. > :24:51.get that plan through. Although there is real anger, and this has
:24:52. > :24:55.changed the mood at Westminster, that has not changed the arithmetic
:24:56. > :24:59.to get him the support he needs to back bombing. The Labour Leader,
:25:00. > :25:03.Jeremy Corbyn, is seriously opposed to such a plan, as are the Liberal
:25:04. > :25:09.Democrats and many of David Cameron's own party. So, that desire
:25:10. > :25:13.that ministers still have is not going to become an effective plan
:25:14. > :25:18.any time soon. Ministers still do want to do it, and they will keep
:25:19. > :25:21.making the case, but even the scale of what's happened in the last 72
:25:22. > :25:29.hours won't make that wish come true. Laura, thank you very much.
:25:30. > :25:35.Well, let's talk to our security correspondent. It feels like -
:25:36. > :25:39.everyone has used this word - a game changer, in the way Isis is
:25:40. > :25:44.operating? That's right. What happened here in Paris is a
:25:45. > :25:47.departure which is really worrying European intelligence and Security
:25:48. > :25:51.Services. They have been worried about this threat from so-called IS
:25:52. > :25:54.for some time now. They were worried about something perhaps smaller,
:25:55. > :25:58.they were worried that IS was inspiring people perhaps in Britain
:25:59. > :26:01.or France to carry out attacks, something less sophisticated than
:26:02. > :26:06.what we saw in Paris. The amount of people involved, the fact that they
:26:07. > :26:09.seem to have come in many cases from Syria, that they had serious
:26:10. > :26:14.weaponry, the number of targets, all of that is worrying. Part also, of
:26:15. > :26:20.another friend which is disturbing people, that IS seems to be carrying
:26:21. > :26:23.out more activities out of its normal sphere of influence, so
:26:24. > :26:27.bombs, yes, in neighbouring countries like Lebanon and Turkey,
:26:28. > :26:31.but also think of that Russian airliner brought down over the
:26:32. > :26:35.Sinai, most probably by an IS bomb. You put all that together, and we do
:26:36. > :26:40.have a different threat environment and one which is certainly worrying
:26:41. > :26:44.people. And what does that mean in terms of what we change as our
:26:45. > :26:47.response, Gordon, from a security perspective? There is a lot of
:26:48. > :26:51.concern with the Security Services in the UK. They have been flat out
:26:52. > :26:55.at MI5 for some time. The kind of attack we saw in Paris is one that
:26:56. > :26:59.will worry them. Of course, people from the UK as well have gone to
:27:00. > :27:03.Syria, the fear is that they could be sent back to the UK for a similar
:27:04. > :27:08.attack. It is harder to get hold of these weapons in the UK than in
:27:09. > :27:11.France, that is one positive, but the threat level is one below
:27:12. > :27:15.critical where an attack is thought to be imminent. It is still a very
:27:16. > :27:18.serious threat environment in which the authorities are certainly
:27:19. > :27:23.concerned about something similar to Paris happening. Thank you very
:27:24. > :27:28.much. When they claimed responsibility for the attacks in
:27:29. > :27:33.Paris, Islamic State called them the first of the storm. The killings
:27:34. > :27:37.here were a first. IS hasn't hit a Western capital in this way before.
:27:38. > :27:41.Like the rest of us, police and Security Services here in France and
:27:42. > :27:48.around the world are struggling to work out what to make of them. Well,
:27:49. > :27:54.tonight, France remains a nation in shock and also in mourning. It's
:27:55. > :28:00.subdued but defiant. When daily life is under attack, simple things take
:28:01. > :28:03.on ever greaters importance - eating out, going to a concert, laughing
:28:04. > :28:07.with your friends - they become these little acts of resistance and
:28:08. > :28:12.France's message to the terrorists seem clear - you can hurt us, you
:28:13. > :28:17.can kill us, but we carry on, a spirit that was obvious even
:28:18. > :28:21.immediately after the attacks as football fans filed out of the Stade
:28:22. > :28:25.de France singing the La Marseillaise, the National Anthem.
:28:26. > :28:28.# Aux armes, citoyens Formez vos bataillons
:28:29. > :28:40.# Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons #.
:28:41. > :28:58.The first illustration shows Hitler and Himmler