20/11/2015 BBC News at One

170 people are taken hostage at a luxury hotel in the capital.

Reports say that three people were killed after gunmen entered,

shooting and shouting "God is Great" in Arabic. In the last hour,

80 hostages have been freed - others managed to escape

the assault, including 12 air crew from Air France.

I saw bullets on the ground so I closed the door of the lobby.

We didn't hear anything at the time in the gym but when I

We'll be bringing you up to date on this latest attack.

A week on from the Paris attacks - EU interior ministers meet

for emergency talks to tighten border security.

Here, a warning from a top police officer that budget

cuts could seriously undermine their ability to respond to terrorism.

NHS trusts in England rack up a ?1.6 billion

And the death of Leicestershire teenager Kayleigh Haywood -

Later on BBC London, the head teacher at a school where two pupils

were stad says it is as safe place. The former Premier League footballer

traffic to the UK now trying to stop others suffering the fate.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Gunmen have attacked a hotel in Mali and are reported to have taken 170

Gunfire has been heard inside the Radisson Blu Hotel

The hotel is popular with agencies like the UN and World Bank,

as well as foreign businesses and airline flight crews.

It's thought around ten gunmen stormed

the building - and reports say that three people have been killed.

In the last hour, around 80 of the hostages are

An elite anti-terrorist French police unit has now been sent to

Mali from France to help end the crisis.

Our correspondent, Richard Lister, has the latest.

Shielded by an armoured car, troops moved into position outside the

Radisson Blu Hotel. The footage is shaky but shows a major rescue

operation under way. Inside are 140 guests, 30 staff, and an unknown

number of heavily armed gunmen. Inside a Chinese tourist who heard

the sound of shooting films never see through the window, trying to

discover what is going on. It is not known what had happened to the

person who took these images. Another man, in the gym when the

gunmen arrived, had a lucky escape. I left from the gym and tried to go

to the lobby through the door. I opened the door a little bit and I

saw, on the floor, wallets. I walked out and was taken home. When I got

home, I heard some gunshots. In the streets, a woman flees to safety.

Some support initially indicate that some were released who could recite

the Koran. More hostages managed to escape. The hotel is in the middle

of the Bamako business district. As well as Chinese tourists, there were

Indian guests and French and Turkish aircrews. A local journalist said

the gunman arrived with diplomatic plates on Aaron SUV. -- on and on.

That is why they were not checked out. You are free to pass security.

It'll is known about the gunman. One report said they were heard speaking

English. -- little is known. To say they are fighting for freedom, is

lies. In fact they are murderers. They want to kill everybody who does

not share the Malaysian ideological. -- the Malian ideology. Special

forces are said to be working through the hotel floor by floor.

United Nation's peacekeepers, including French troops, have been

The country's stability has been repeatedly threatened by al-Qaeda

linked militants, prompting France and then the UN to intervene.

Our World Affairs correspondent, Paul Adams, reports.

UN troops on the ground in the vast desert wastes of northern Mali.

Still tackling an Islamist of urgency that gripped the area three

years ago. Those who launched the attack on the Madison almost

certainly had their roots here. -- the Radisson Blu Hotel. There are

several Islamist groups here, some loyal to Al-Qaeda rather than

Islamic State. Affiliations shift over time. A large UN presence, more

than 10,000 strong, are drawn from dozens of countries. It is a vital

mission. Mali is important because it has the regional impact, a global

impact. It would be interesting to see a larger European engagement in

this mission. In 2012, Al-Qaeda linked fighters and disaffected

nomadic Tuareg is captured large swathes of northern Mali. They

impose sharia law and in the agent city of Timbuktu destroyed shrines

and manuscripts they deemed idolatrous. The same tactics

deployed by so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The following

year France were asked to help. The operation Swift and successful, the

rebels were routed, melting away into the desert. The violence has

not stopped for that though she has seen other terrorist attacks in the

capital and beyond. With French troops still in the country is there

a link to last week's in ends in Paris? The group in Mali, all the

groups in Mali, almost certainly originated from Algeria in 2003.

They long predate the creation of the Islamic State. Militants have

been on the back foot for years. Today's events in Bamako show the

Islamist threat is still very real. Well, our security correspondent,

Frank Gardner, is here. People at home will be watching this

and thinking, can this be a coincidence? There is a shared

ideology between the people who have rated this hotel in Bamako in Mali

this morning and the people who carried out the attacks in Paris. It

is very unlikely this was operationally coordinated. That

would be big so-called Islamic State far too much. Mali has its own

local, domestic and regional problems with insurgency. They

predate the emergence of so-called Islamic State. There are a number of

Al-Qaeda linked groups that are still festering in that part of

north-west Africa. Just to recap, French forces in January 13 reverse

takeover by Al-Qaeda to the north of Mali. The country has been troubled

with terrorism since then. It is more stable but troubled by it. This

will most likely be a local or regional group. I'm sure it will be

congratulated by so-called Islamic State but very unlikely to have been

coordinated by them. Many thanks. Well, a week on

from the terror attacks in Paris, European Union interior ministers

are meeting in Brussels to consider The man suspected

of organising the Paris attacks is thought to have been able to return

from Syria undetected - and France is now demanding that EU citizens

should face checks as stringent We are at the Bataclan concert

Hall, scene of the deadliest attack. There will be a vigil here tonight

to remember the dead together with other vigils across Paris. The head

of the German security force has warned the Islamic State attacks

here in Paris on Friday could mark the beginning of what he called a

terrorist world war. Jenny Hill reports.

Germany, Europe, is getting used to this.

In Hanover on Tuesday night, a football stadium was evacuated, a

Even the head of German's Security service admits that

a Paris-style attack could happen again at any time.

TRANSLATION: We live in a world full

You can say what IS is doing is the beginning

Germany has to rethink its position on terrorism and security.

Today, its interior ministers are meeting to discuss strengthening the

EU's external borders, dealing with those who are financing terrorists,

and to talk about sharing information, in particular details

Passenger name records, we need to see immediate progress, the

The UK will be going ahead with obtaining records

from those who are operating to and from the United Kingdom.

TRANSLATION: Everybody knows what we want,

the strengthening of controls on the external borders of the EU.

With an increase in power for Frontex.

We also want controls for borders within the EU, because terrorists

Germany is nervous, a terror attack is considered almost inevitable.

The defence this country hopes for, a coordinated European response.

Police in Paris said three people were killed in the early morning

raid in Saint-Denis. One of them was a 26-year-old woman who blew herself

up. They believe she was the cousin of the ringleader of the Paris

attacks, who also died in police raid in Saint-Denis.

A woman, now labelled as Europe's first suicide bomber -

It has now been confirmed that she was at the flat raided by French

armed police on Wednesday morning, her passport was found.

Also there was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, identified as the most likely

organiser of last Friday's barbaric shooting and bombing spree in Paris.

You can hear what are thought to be her last words.

"Where is your boyfriend?", a policeman shouts.

"He's not my boyfriend", she replies.

Soon after there was an explosion, French police said a woman wearing

Hasna Aitboulahcen's mother lives in another Paris suburb where armed

We met a school friend of hers who said she could not

TRANSLATION: She loved life

and I don't think she had any intention to be a suicide bomber.

This neighbour said he knew the family well.

Hasna used to come here to his house to visit his daughters.

TRANSLATION: A year ago, a year and a half,

she was dressed in the European way with a handbag.

Suddenly she started wearing the hijab.

We really never suspected that she would become like that.

From speaking to several people we've built up a picture

of a young woman who enjoyed life in this deprived suburb of Paris.

Apparently, she had a difficult upbringing,

and the family have problems, but the people we've spoken to knew

a young woman who had nothing to do with the extremist violent ideology

How did a 26-year-old Frenchwoman become embroiled in modern France's

One week on from the Paris attacks, there is still intense police

activity, as you would expect. Last night alone across France there were

182 anti-terrorist police raids. They arrested 20 people and seized

76 weapons. Well, here the Home Secretary

Theresa May is being warned that further cuts to the police budget

in England and Wales could "very significantly" reduce their ability

to respond to Paris-style attacks. The warning - in a leaked letter -

was from one of the country's most The Government says the

counter-terror budget is protected. Our Political Correspondent Ben

Wright reports. Protecting our streets. Defending

their budgets. Ahead of the Government spending review next

week. The Paris attacks have sharpened the political argument

here about police numbers. In a leaked letter, a senior police

officer has warned that cuts to officer numbers will severely impact

on the ability of police in England and Wales to mobilise and mass if

there is a Paris style attack. A former Labour Home Secretary had

this advice. If I were Theresa May, apart from being angry there was a

leak, I would use that to be on the phone to Number 10 and number 11 and

say it is quite clear that if there are any further cuts to the police,

we will do further damage to our intelligence gathering, and that is

crucial to the counterterrorist fight. The Home Office budget is not

protected. One police and crime commission said forces responding to

a terror attack outside London would be overwhelmed. The very first

police who turn up would be shot down, including the armed response

unit is full but they are completely outgunned with people with automatic

weapons. Theresa May and George Osborne are still haggling over the

Home Office budget. Ministers insist the deficit must be tackled but

stressed the counterterrorism budget has again been protected. It is how

you spend the money which is important as the actual amount of

money. There will be more cuts. We know what public finances are like.

It is ever more important map police find ways to be more efficient, as

they have done in the past. Others say the terror threat should not

affect the argument about police numbers. The current service, it is

a ?17 billion operation and 200,000 staff. The idea that that kind of

operation cannot mobilise to tackle a major terrorist threat does not

strike me as very plausible. Maintaining security and reassuring

the public while cutting budgets is a difficult balance. The plans will

be revealed next week. As Muslims attend Friday Prayers

today, many in Britain are saying a special

prayer, calling for cohesion between Around the world, at least two

leading Islamic scholars have issued edicts condemning IS's

interpretation of Islam. Here in the UK, many Muslims say

they are worried about a backlash against them in Europe as

a result of the attacks in Paris. Our Religious Affairs correspondent,

Caroline Wyatt, reports. Many Muslims in Paris and elsewhere

were quick to show their revulsion at the horror unleashed

by the attacks a week ago. The so-called Islamic State, they

insist, does not represent them. Here in the UK, some Muslims say

already they are being targeted for Yesterday I was in

my local supermarket, grabbing some food, and a middle-aged lady with

her seven-year-old son barged into Some, like Zara, have helped set

up a campaign on social media. With a twitter hashtag not

in my name. It is about coming out there and

saying no, this is what our religion teaches us and this is what our

religion has warned us against, it has warned us against the likes of

Isis, and we have got to come out and openly expressed that viewpoint

to the world, that this is a war against Islam,

just as it is against humanity. As Muslims gather for Friday

prayers, many mosques around the UK will be saying a special prayer, not

just for the victims of the Paris attacks, but for solidarity between

all communities here, and those of all faiths and none. We unreservedly

condemn all sorts of extremism. What prayer for the nation has been read

out at over 200 mosques, including this one in Leeds, it asks for all

to remove prejudice from their hearts, and enable people to live

together in peace. Elsewhere, there were more calls for cohesion between

communities, after what Muslims say has been an increase in attacks. I

was born and raised in Scotland and I think of myself as a Scottish

Muslim and it really hurts me to the core, I would say, do not condemn

Scottish Muslims for the actions of others. Elsewhere, leading Sunni

clerics have spoken out in Cairo this week. We found that extreme fat

was well used to justify this large number of terrorist attacks and this

wave of extremism and intolerance, and it all started with a fatwa, an

idea, and then it was put into action. We need to counter these

ideas. Muslims here and across the world are all too aware that the

Paris attacks are unlikely to be the last. But many believe it is how

people respond to them that matters. Gunmen have attacked a luxury hotel

in Mali, 170 people were taken hostage, reports said three people

have been killed, some hostages have now been released.

Coming up - beleagured England turn to an Aussie coach to get

England's's cricketers won the toss and chose to bat as they look to

seal a one-day series victory over Pakistan. On a pitch right for

scoring in Dubai. -- ripe. The Metropolitan Police has issued

an "unreserved apology" to seven women who had long-term

sexual relationships with undercover police officers -

without knowing who they were. The force says the conduct

of the officers, who were trying to infiltrate protest groups,

amounted to a "gross violation The women are understood to

have received compensation. Our home affairs correspondent

June Kelly reports. Mark Kennedy in real life a police

officer, married with children, undercover he posed as an

environmental activist and a single man. He began a relationship with a

woman who does not want her identity disclosed. I was in a relationship,

for six years, with a man who I thought was like-minded, with whom I

had a lot in common, and in fact the person I have been in a relationship

with was a creative character, fictional. Like Lisa, Alison did not

realise she was living with a police by who she knew as Mark Cassidy. He

was completely integrated into my life, ingrained in all the

memorabilia of my life, or the family photos from that period. The

undercover officers had infiltrated campaign groups to gather

information, and a number of them began intimate relationships. Now,

Scotland Yard has apologised to seven women who were chipped, and

announced that the officer 's behaviour as abusive and

manipulative -- work dude. We have accepted those relationships should

not have happened and we have agreed a settlement with the women and part

of the process of settlement was a desire to be very public about the

apology we made, because what happened should not have happened.

Some of the women opted to go public at a news conference, as well as the

apology, the seven have received undisclosed damages. Belinda Harvey

was involved with this man, undercover name Bob Robinson, real

name Bob Lambert. The worst part of this is to recall that when he was

with me, he was at work and being paid. It is heartbreaking to

discover that he had a wife and children and he was going back to

see them, as well. Four years ago, Bob Lambert was confronted over his

past, Scotland Yard had already paid out to another woman he had had a

long relationship with, and in that case he had fathered a child.

Two men have appeared in court following the death

of the Leicestershire teenager Kayleigh Haywood.

Stephen Beadman who's 28 and from Ibstock,

Luke Harlow, who's 27 and also from Ibstock, has been charged with

grooming and two counts of sexual activity with a child.

Let's speak to our correspondent Daniel Boettcher.

What happened in court? 28-year-old Stephen Beadman appeared here in

court this morning, for a very short hearing, lasting just a few minutes,

he was wearing a grey sweatshirt and grey tracksuit trousers. He was

asked to confirm his name and date of birth, and his address. He was

told that he is charged with the murder and rape of Kayleigh Haywood.

15-year-old Kayleigh Haywood was last seen at around six o'clock last

Friday evening, just under a week ago, after she was dropped off

outside Ibstock community college. There followed extensive police

searches in a number of different areas and then late on Wednesday

evening, five days after she had gone missing, body was found near a

lake the Anfield is at the edge of the village of Ibstock. -- BR and a

field. Luke Harlow also appeared in court, is charged with one count of

grooming and two counts of sexual activity with a child. Both men were

remanded in custody and will next appear at Leicester Crown Court on

the 18th of December. Daniel, thanks for joining us.

Public sector borrowing rose by just over ?1 billion last month -

it's the worst October figure for six years.

It will put added pressure on the Chancellor George Osborne

who's due to give his mini-budget Autumn Statement next week.

Well, with me is Hugh Pym, our health editor.

Hugh, we'll talk in a moment more widely about that Autumn Statement,

but first our economics correspondent Andy Verity.

Despite the Treasury's efforts, borrowing is still up -

That's right. The borrowing they do is to plug the gap between the

income and the 1 hand and their spending on the other, and part of

the problem in October, they did not get the income they needed from tax

receipts, the other problem spending is going up. The Treasury would say,

if you look at the numbers of one month, you cannot draw any grey

conclusions, but if you look at the financial year to date from April,

which is the more reliable number, the overspend is coming down, but

only by a bit, about ?6 billion, and that is not fast enough to meet the

targets that the Chancellor has set himself. Why is that happening?

Because the spending has not been coming down, like he hoped. We are

getting tax receipts over the financial year, but the spending is

not falling as he hoped that is partly because of what the

government has done, it has ring-fenced the schools budget, the

health budget, and it is raising the basic state pension by at least 2.5%

each year even when inflation is negative, so it is increasing and

expanding its spending in areas like pensions and health and that is why

the numbers are not going the way they want.

Hugh, health itself is under great strain?

Even with a ring-fenced budget, the NHS is under immense strain, we have

had figures this morning demonstrating that. This is from

hospital trusts and Ambulance Services, saying they racked up a

deficit of ?1.6 billion for the first six months of the year, that

is more than the deficit, the overspend, for the whole of the

previous year. No .8 billion. There will be even more pressure on the

Chancellor to come up with even more money for the issue, and looking

further ahead up to 2020, the government commitment to provide ?8

billion in real terms more by that year annually. In the spending

review it seems the Chancellor will restate the commitment, but that

will be for the NHS England, the dominant health organisation, and

other areas of health spending might be cut, there is pressure for the

Treasury to find cuts in the local health budgets, for smoking clinics,

prevention, and so on, and also health education, possibly involving

nurses who get their Jewish and paid for by the government, possibly

having to take out loan stash you get there Jewish and paid for. The

haggling might go on for a couple more days before next week's

excitement. Many thanks. England's rugby union team has

appointed its first foreign coach. The Australian Eddie Jones -

who coached Japan at the World Cup He replaces Stuart Lancaster,

whose three-and-a-half-year tenure ended after England's failed

World Cup campaign. Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson

reports. England, the world's oldest, richest

rugby nation, more money, clubs and players than anywhere, and now under

foreign leadership. In Eddie Jones they have appointed rugby's man of

the world, the coach who lost the World Cup final with Australia, who

helped South Africa to win it for years later, ups and downs after

that, until he arrived at the World Cup this year with Japan. Somehow he

told them how to bait South Africa. COMMENTATOR: They are going to score

extra macro now at 55, ease with England. This is a very excited

opportunity, a hugely talented team and they have won two of the last

three under 21 cups and they have great talent. For me, this is a

great opportunity to catch these players. Two years ago he suffered a

stroke, he is famed for his intensity and dedication to detail,

by those who have been coached by him. He would be looking at many

different sports and teams and making sure whatever team he is in

charge of is at the forefront of what ever teams are doing around the

world in every area. The new man will shake things up, recently Eddie

Jones described European rugby as dour, but after the failure of the

World Cup, what does it say about English rugby that they trust him

instead of a home-grown coach? I think there are great coaches

working in the premiership, undoubtably, but you go back rightly

to the criteria, and international experience and successful

international experience at the level Eddie has got is what we were

looking for. In theory, you will lead England to the 2019 World Cup,

but in the modern way, English rugby is rebuilding, with imported steel.

And now we can have a look at the weather.

The article has arrived, we are getting reports of snow and ice in

Scotland. -- the Arctic air. Very slippery, that could cause some

issues, and following that, frost and ice, but we think the wind will

cause most issues as we go through the next 24 hours. The showers are

turning to snow and it feels cold out there, some sunshine of course,

but the showers will turn progressively more to snow, Northern

Ireland and down to Wales. The temperatures will drop away, and

with that added wind which is already picking up across the North,

and we will see gales blowing across many areas, even inland, blowing

snow around. Gusts of wind, 50 mph. Irish Sea coasts and North Sea

coast, potentially 70 mph. Looking at the band of snow, to relatively

low levels across Scotland, 5-10 centimetres over many hills, and

temporarily blizzard like conditions. This could also affect

the rush-hour in Northern Ireland and through the night over northern

England and Wales, as the bands of wintry weather go south.

Nevertheless, probably not at such low levels, the Chilterns might see

a dusting of snow, and those winds a real issue and they could bring down

trees, and the temperatures are falling low enough away frost. Ice

will add into the hazards, if you are travelling. An unusual

direction, the northerly, so watch out for that, it cold calls minor

structural damage. -- it could cause. The wintry mix in the south

and east, but then it blows away, and most of the showers will fall in

western and eastern coastal areas, and many of us will actually have a

decent day, just very cold. The coldest of the season by a long

straw, and it feels colder still because of the strength of the wind

which will ease in the afternoon, and that will continue to Saturday

evening and overnight. Still northerly, the next weather system

approaches, and there will be more of a risk of rain and slay,

especially over the hills, and a frosty start on Sunday morning, but

it means again many will escape the showers away from the coast and have

a fairly decent day. The wind is not as strong, that is some consolation,

but there is some more details on the website.

Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime.

Gunmen have attacked the lecturing hotel in Mali, 170 people were taken

hostage, reports have said three people were killed -- and attacked a

luxury hotel. 80 hostages have been freed. There were 12 aircrew from