:00:00. > :00:00.attack on a hotel in Bamako. Now for a special edition of
:00:00. > :00:15.reporters. Hello, and welcome to this
:00:16. > :00:18.special edition of Reporters. I'm Christian Fraser,
:00:19. > :00:21.here in the Place de la Republique Following the shocking events last
:00:22. > :00:25.week in the French capital, we have a range of reports from
:00:26. > :00:28.our global network of correspondents as the country responds to
:00:29. > :00:31.the worst attacks on French soil Katya Adler reports on
:00:32. > :00:43.the night Paris came under siege. TRANSLATION: We all lay down,
:00:44. > :00:46.the whole room lay down. I was under other people
:00:47. > :00:50.and they kept shooting. We heard the shots, people
:00:51. > :00:54.screaming, as though tortured. Fears of a Muslim backlash,
:00:55. > :01:03.Gavin Hewitt investigates the impact People struggle to explain why young
:01:04. > :01:07.men would come down here and just The Belgian connection -
:01:08. > :01:12.Ian Pannell visits Molenbeek, the Brussels district where several
:01:13. > :01:15.of the attackers lived, If you were able to speak to Salah
:01:16. > :01:21.now, what would you say? TRANSLATION: I would ask him
:01:22. > :01:28.to surrender, to give an explanation, I would
:01:29. > :01:33.tell him the whole family is sad. One jihadist in a million migrants -
:01:34. > :01:36.Gabriel Gatehouse traces the route of the Paris bomber who
:01:37. > :01:43.entered Europe as a Syrian refugee. Quentin Somerville asks why IS have
:01:44. > :01:46.brought their jihad from The Islamic State is under pressure
:01:47. > :01:50.and that may mean that increasingly,
:01:51. > :01:56.the group will focus its attacks outside of its home territory, here,
:01:57. > :02:00.in the Middle East. Jayne McCubbin joins English
:02:01. > :02:12.and French football fans They are the worst attacks on
:02:13. > :02:23.French soil since Last week's terror attacks ripped
:02:24. > :02:27.through the heart of Paris when its guard was down, as
:02:28. > :02:30.people enjoyed a Friday night out, President Hollande said the bombings
:02:31. > :02:36.were a declaration of war by the so-called Islamic State and has
:02:37. > :02:39.placed the city under a state of Katya Adler reports on the night
:02:40. > :02:45.that Paris came under attack. Her report does contain
:02:46. > :02:49.some distressing images. This is how a regular Friday night
:02:50. > :02:57.in Paris at a football match, a rock concert and round the corner
:02:58. > :03:04.at the local restaurant... It all started just after nine
:03:05. > :03:13.in the evening. Chanting crowds here at the France
:03:14. > :03:17.versus Germany friendly had no clue Then a second, and a third,
:03:18. > :03:27.blowing themselves up The French President, watching
:03:28. > :03:37.the game was ushered away. Dazed, frightened fans lingered
:03:38. > :03:44.at first, too scared to leave. In the space of a few hours,
:03:45. > :03:49.scores of people were killed in central Paris in a series
:03:50. > :03:55.of coordinated attacks. This became a city of panic,
:03:56. > :03:57.as everyone wondered Suddenly, news spread that
:03:58. > :04:05.revellers at a rock concert here in the popular Bataclan
:04:06. > :04:09.Theatre had been taken hostage. Some concertgoers managed to
:04:10. > :04:17.escape onto the streets. This mobile phone footage
:04:18. > :04:25.shows their utter desperation. This girl tries to escape
:04:26. > :04:28.the bloodshed inside but around 80 innocent
:04:29. > :04:42.people had already been killed. TRANSLATION: We were piled up
:04:43. > :04:44.on each other. We heard the shots, people
:04:45. > :04:47.screaming, as though tortured. TRANSLATION: I saw two young men
:04:48. > :04:57.no older than 25 with Kalashnikovs. There was one that kept
:04:58. > :05:03.gesturing for us to get down. We all lay down,
:05:04. > :05:06.the whole room lay down. I was under other people
:05:07. > :05:10.and they kept shooting. Meanwhile, not far away,
:05:11. > :05:14.associates of those gunmen continued the killing spree in a number
:05:15. > :05:19.of Parisian restaurants. Murdered while eating
:05:20. > :05:21.their evening meal. On a normal Friday night it is hard
:05:22. > :05:26.to find a hipper, happier, more buzzing pocket
:05:27. > :05:29.of Paris than these streets, filled The attackers did not
:05:30. > :05:34.target glitzy Paris. With these shootings
:05:35. > :05:37.and the first suicide bombings on French soil, they want to make
:05:38. > :05:43.everyone feel afraid and exposed. The former owner of Bell Equipe
:05:44. > :05:45.restaurant, where 18 people were "The people I sold this restaurant
:05:46. > :05:55.to are like family. Seven of them were killed
:05:56. > :05:58.in the attack. In this neighbourhood,
:05:59. > :06:00.all of us are like family. Faced with an act of war,
:06:01. > :06:11.the country needs to take An act of war
:06:12. > :06:15.which has been committed by a terrorist organisation, IS,
:06:16. > :06:21.a jihadist army against France. An act of war,
:06:22. > :06:24.which has been planned, organised, prepared from the outside and with
:06:25. > :06:29.accomplices from the inside, which France has declared a state
:06:30. > :06:36.of emergency. Security is tight,
:06:37. > :06:39.with thousands of extra troops in airports, along French borders
:06:40. > :06:44.and across the country. Fear is everywhere in and
:06:45. > :06:46.around France, with the investigation pointing to
:06:47. > :06:51.links in Belgium and beyond. Iconic buildings the world over
:06:52. > :06:56.sent a clear message of solidarity as France mourns
:06:57. > :07:01.and prepares to bury its dead. So, what does this mean for the
:07:02. > :07:08.future of France and its relations Community leaders here
:07:09. > :07:13.in Paris have said they now fear The country is home to
:07:14. > :07:18.around five million Muslims. Many of them live in the suburbs
:07:19. > :07:20.of Paris. Gavin Hewitt has been speaking to
:07:21. > :07:23.some of them and finding out the impact
:07:24. > :07:29.of the attacks on French society. France has the largest Muslim
:07:30. > :07:32.population in Europe. But in the past year, there have
:07:33. > :07:39.been a series of attacks, like on the satirical magazine Charlie
:07:40. > :07:44.Hebdo, carried out by extremists. Some of them grew up
:07:45. > :07:47.in the vast estates on the anonymous Ten years ago,
:07:48. > :07:54.I watched the angry suburbs rebel. It prompted new efforts
:07:55. > :07:57.of integration, but always, like a new French law to ban
:07:58. > :08:05.the niqab, a face veil. Back then I met 26-year-old Anisa,
:08:06. > :08:09.outraged at The uncomfortable truth is that
:08:10. > :08:16.there are, today, willing recruits for a more radical, violent Islamist
:08:17. > :08:20.ideology and Muslims were reacting TRANSLATION: Muslims in France
:08:21. > :08:26.are disgusted by this. Do you think we like
:08:27. > :08:32.being pointed at? Everywhere we go,
:08:33. > :08:36.people give us a bad look. These days, when we go for jobs,
:08:37. > :08:38.they do not accept us. From conversations here, it is clear
:08:39. > :08:41.that some young people do feel isolated from French secular society
:08:42. > :08:46.and that some do have a sense of grievance about French foreign
:08:47. > :08:50.policy, particularly in the Middle East, but people struggle to explain
:08:51. > :08:54.why young men would come down here and just open fire
:08:55. > :08:58.at people having a meal. In this restaurant,
:08:59. > :09:02.Safer helped save the lives of two TRANSLATION: After a spray of
:09:03. > :09:09.bullets, I ran and took the girls who were
:09:10. > :09:12.bleeding down into the basement. But why any of this took place,
:09:13. > :09:16.I have no idea. Earlier this year,
:09:17. > :09:19.President Hollande and Europe's leaders linked arms
:09:20. > :09:22.in defiance against violence, but it has proved easy for extremists to
:09:23. > :09:25.paint President Hollande's interventions in the Middle East
:09:26. > :09:30.as part of a crusader campaign. 2,000 French Muslims are thought
:09:31. > :09:35.to have joined the war in Syria. In France,
:09:36. > :09:37.there are deep political divisions. The far-right led by Marine Le Pen
:09:38. > :09:41.continues to poll strongly, and already, questions are being
:09:42. > :09:44.asked as to whether any of the suspects travelled with
:09:45. > :09:49.the recent groups of refugees. After the Charlie Hebdo killings,
:09:50. > :09:54.France came together, hoping unity would defeat the extremists.
:09:55. > :09:58.It did not work out that way. Well, the attacks highlighted the
:09:59. > :10:06.failures of the French intelligence services and it's prompted a huge
:10:07. > :10:09.international police operation to catch the attackers still
:10:10. > :10:12.on the run. Part of that operation is focused
:10:13. > :10:15.on Belgium - in particular, the district of Molenbeek,
:10:16. > :10:18.in Brussels, called by some Several of the attackers have lived
:10:19. > :10:25.there, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Ian Pannell reports now
:10:26. > :10:29.on the Belgian connection This neighbourhood has become
:10:30. > :10:37.notorious for links to terrorism, home to at least three militants
:10:38. > :10:42.involved in the Paris attacks. But residents reclaimed
:10:43. > :10:44.the streets to cast a message of peace and solidarity
:10:45. > :10:51.with victims of terrorism. And overlooking the scene,
:10:52. > :10:54.high on a balcony, were relatives of One member of the Abdeslam family
:10:55. > :11:05.spoke exclusively to the BBC. He does not want to be
:11:06. > :11:07.identified because he is worried But he is a close relative
:11:08. > :11:13.of Brahim, who died in Paris, and his brother, Salah,
:11:14. > :11:16.who is a key suspect of the Paris If you were able to speak to Salah
:11:17. > :11:23.now, what would you say? TRANSLATION: I would ask him
:11:24. > :11:29.to surrender, to give an explanation, I would
:11:30. > :11:33.tell him the whole family is sad. We really hope he surrenders
:11:34. > :11:35.before the police kill him Both brothers were friends with
:11:36. > :11:42.Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a leading Islamic State fighter,
:11:43. > :11:46.also from Belgium. He is accused
:11:47. > :11:49.of organising the Paris attacks. Back in Molenbeek, we met Farid,
:11:50. > :11:53.a neighbour and shopkeeper who knew the alleged
:11:54. > :11:59.ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. TRANSLATION: The only change
:12:00. > :12:02.that was visible was that he started to grow a beard
:12:03. > :12:07.and he would go out less. But I knew him as
:12:08. > :12:10.a hard-working shop owner until one Six days of mourning and prayers,
:12:11. > :12:18.but doubts and fear linger about what may still come to pass,
:12:19. > :12:22.and questions persist about how to stop young men from
:12:23. > :12:26.places like Molenbeek embracing The news that the attacker who blew
:12:27. > :12:38.himself up at the Stade de France entered Europe as a refugee last
:12:39. > :12:41.month has huge implications Ahmed Almohamed was identified
:12:42. > :12:47.by fingerprints and passport details, found at the scene,
:12:48. > :12:51.matching those of a man who arrived Gabriel Gatehouse has been tracing
:12:52. > :12:55.his route We are heading to Medicine Island,
:12:56. > :13:04.a lump of scrub and rock But for those who dump their
:13:05. > :13:12.lifejackets here, this represents salvation, the entry point to
:13:13. > :13:16.Europe. They come in their thousands,
:13:17. > :13:20.fleeing violence at home. But now it seems one of them
:13:21. > :13:26.has brought the war with them. Well, it was on this rocky outcrop,
:13:27. > :13:29.we understand, that someone with a passport
:13:30. > :13:34.in the name of Ahmed Almohamed The passport may have been a fake,
:13:35. > :13:42.but we do know that one of the Paris attackers gained entry to the EU
:13:43. > :13:48.posing as a Syrian refugee - that is an earthquake for a continent in the
:13:49. > :13:53.midst of a migration crisis and for the people who continue
:13:54. > :13:58.to arrive every day. Because of the heavy war
:13:59. > :14:07.in my country. We may not know the true identity of
:14:08. > :14:16.the man named as Ahmed Almohamed. But
:14:17. > :14:19.his journey has injected fresh angst The Coast Guard brought
:14:20. > :14:26.Ahmed Almohamed to Leros. There, passengers go through
:14:27. > :14:32.a process of registration, Greek and EU officials take
:14:33. > :14:34.fingerprints and photographs and ask I have spoken to
:14:35. > :14:38.an official who has said that he remembers Ahmed Almohamed
:14:39. > :14:41.from his registration here. He has told me that he arrived
:14:42. > :14:45.on a boat with 70 or 80 other Syrians and immediately something
:14:46. > :14:49.did not feel quite right about him. He said that he kept himself to
:14:50. > :14:51.himself. He told me he would have highlighted
:14:52. > :14:55.his concerns to an intelligence More than 500,000 refugees
:14:56. > :15:04.and migrants have entered Europe Border forces across the continent
:15:05. > :15:10.are ill-equipped to conduct On a small island like Leros,
:15:11. > :15:17.they are simply not capable Many refugees in the last year have
:15:18. > :15:24.passed through Leros, We think all the time, maybe some
:15:25. > :15:35.of them are not really refugees. The police have told us they were
:15:36. > :15:37.not authorised to give interviews but one officer spoke to us
:15:38. > :15:40.off camera. He said specially-trained experts
:15:41. > :15:43.at key border crossings can help It requires resources, he told me,
:15:44. > :15:49.but if we wanted a safe Europe, The Paris bomber appears to have
:15:50. > :15:56.travelled across Europe From Leros, a man with a passport
:15:57. > :16:04.in the name of Ahmed Almohamed takes Serbia registers
:16:05. > :16:09.the same name entering On 8th October he turns up
:16:10. > :16:17.in a refugee camp in Croatia before crossing into Hungary,
:16:18. > :16:19.believed to be heading for Austria. Until last Friday,
:16:20. > :16:24.when he detonated a suicide vest On Leros, the never-ending stream
:16:25. > :16:33.of migrants continues unabated. Ahmed Almohamed may have been only
:16:34. > :16:37.one jihadist in a million refugees,
:16:38. > :16:40.but this crisis is an issue that is testing the very bonds that hold
:16:41. > :16:44.Europe together, and that question So, why have Islamic State brought
:16:45. > :16:53.their jihad or holy war Some experts are saying it is
:16:54. > :16:57.because the group is losing the battle in Iraq and Syria,
:16:58. > :17:00.after months of attacks led by the United States and strongly
:17:01. > :17:04.supported, of course, by France. Quentin Somerville looks
:17:05. > :17:07.at the increasingly global threat Kurdish forces taking back the town
:17:08. > :17:20.of Sinjar and in Iraq, the so-called They fled from here but not before
:17:21. > :17:26.they had torn the town apart. We still do not know how many
:17:27. > :17:29.died under their year-long rule. But it is not the only place
:17:30. > :17:33.where they are in retreat. In Syria, the Kurds and others with
:17:34. > :17:36.US air power have taken back miles On its home ground,
:17:37. > :17:40.the Islamic State is faltering. But further afield,
:17:41. > :17:43.it is bringing pain and terror. In Beirut,
:17:44. > :17:45.they are burying their loved ones More than 40 people were killed in
:17:46. > :17:53.a busy shopping street on Thursday. Lebanon is in grief, it is one
:17:54. > :17:57.of the bloodiest attacks in years. And in Egypt too, fresh tactics
:17:58. > :18:01.and fresh horror from Islamic State bombers who may have brought
:18:02. > :18:05.down a Russian passenger plane. The United States and Russia stood
:18:06. > :18:09.side-by-side in condemning IS We are witnessing a kind
:18:10. > :18:17.of mediaeval and modern fascism It has no regard for life
:18:18. > :18:24.and it seeks to destroy and create chaos and disorder and fear, and
:18:25. > :18:29.the one thing we can say to those people is that what they do in this
:18:30. > :18:36.is stiffen our resolve, all of us. Here in Iraq,
:18:37. > :18:39.the Islamic State behaves like an army, it captures towns and villages
:18:40. > :18:43.and sends men onto the battlefield. But in Sinjar and over the border
:18:44. > :18:47.into Syria, it has tasted defeat. It is far from beaten but the
:18:48. > :18:51.Islamic State is under pressure and That increasingly, the group will
:18:52. > :19:03.focus its attacks outside of its home territory, here,
:19:04. > :19:10.in the Middle East. In Iraq and Syria,
:19:11. > :19:13.the offensives against IS continue, The front lines
:19:14. > :19:17.in this war are now closer to home. Quentin Somerville, BBC News,
:19:18. > :19:19.Sinjar, in northern Iraq. Despite the shock and horror over
:19:20. > :19:22.what took place here in Paris, there were many moments this week
:19:23. > :19:24.of defiance and solidarity. The English and French football
:19:25. > :19:27.fans united as their national teams The stadium in London was
:19:28. > :19:31.filled with the sound of 70,000 This was the welcome Wembley gave
:19:32. > :19:40.to France, a national stadium seen with new eyes, a sport
:19:41. > :19:46.seen with new significance. They had been given the option
:19:47. > :19:52.to pull out, but refused. Outside, fans told me time and again
:19:53. > :19:57.this night, these tickets, were We are fighting for freedom,
:19:58. > :20:08.you know? We still have his war medals, so,
:20:09. > :20:17.absolutely. We could have been them,
:20:18. > :20:20.we could have been in Paris, any one We are here
:20:21. > :20:24.because everyone needs to be here, they need to come out and show that
:20:25. > :20:27.nothing is going to stop us. There was high-security, yes,
:20:28. > :20:29.but fear? "We have come from Paris",
:20:30. > :20:31.they shouted. Before they are joined by English
:20:32. > :20:36.fans, Alexia and her friends told me they
:20:37. > :20:49.would not be bowed by the terrorists, even though they
:20:50. > :20:52.had taken the life of their friend It is about standing altogether,
:20:53. > :21:01.not just France, but England as well, together, and,
:21:02. > :21:05.yeah, just show them that we want We cannot wait to sing
:21:06. > :21:25.La Marseillaise. Has
:21:26. > :21:28.a visiting team's anthem been sung The cousin of Lassana Diarra was
:21:29. > :21:35.also killed in the attacks, this was a moment to reflect, to
:21:36. > :21:40.take comfort in 70,000 voices united And after the anthem,
:21:41. > :21:48.and the applause... We thank you
:21:49. > :21:59.for showing your support. If we did not come, it would say
:22:00. > :22:07.that we are scared of terrorism. By coming,
:22:08. > :22:09.we show that we are brave. It was a night that sent out
:22:10. > :22:12.a clear message that life, this way We end tonight with some words
:22:13. > :22:22.from Antoine Leiris. He lost his wife at the
:22:23. > :22:36.Bataclan Theatre. He has written an open letter to his
:22:37. > :22:43.killers. He says he will never forget her but he handed little boy
:22:44. > :22:45.will not live afraid. -- he and his little boy.
:22:46. > :22:48.On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love
:22:49. > :22:51.of my life, the mother of my son, but you won't have my hatred.
:22:52. > :23:08.I don't know who you are and I don't want to know - you are dead souls.
:23:09. > :23:10.If the God for which you kill so blindly made us
:23:11. > :23:14.in his own image, every bullet in the body of my wife will have
:23:15. > :23:23.Therefore I don't give you the gift of hating you.
:23:24. > :23:25.Responding to hatred with anger would be giving
:23:26. > :23:28.in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.
:23:29. > :23:31.You want me to be afraid, to view my fellow countrymen with
:23:32. > :23:32.mistrust, to sacrifice my freedom for security.
:23:33. > :23:41.She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as
:23:42. > :23:46.beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago.
:23:47. > :23:52.Of course I'm devastated with grief, I admit this small victory,
:23:53. > :24:03.I know she will join us every day and that we will find ourselves
:24:04. > :24:15.in a paradise of free souls to which you'll never have access.
:24:16. > :24:17.The moving words of Antoine Leiris who probably sums up the thoughts
:24:18. > :24:21.and feelings of many who lost loved ones in last week's attacks. That is
:24:22. > :24:25.all for this week's Reporters. Goodbye for now.
:24:26. > :24:29.We will leave you with some of the images of the week when Paris came
:24:30. > :24:44.under attack. I saw two young men no older than 25
:24:45. > :25:08.with Kalashnikovs. They can do this again and again,
:25:09. > :25:34.but we will be here,