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This is BBC World News Today. The headlines: | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Officials in Mali say no more hostages are inside after a special | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
forces operation against the Islamist gunmen stormed the hotel. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Forces are going from room to room to find the gunmen. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
They are holed up the upper floors of the building. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
As Paris mourns its dead a week on, police confirm | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
a third body was found in the flat that was raided after the attacks. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
And European Union ministers agree to strengthen | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
the EU's external borders, with tighter checks on all passengers | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Mali officials say suspected gunmen who stormed a hotel in the capital, | :00:38. | :00:58. | |
It's thought at least 18 people have been killed, | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
but UN peacekeepers are saying that they have seen 27 bodies. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
We have not been able to confirm those reports. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Special forces raided the Radisson Blu | :01:11. | :01:11. | |
after up to ten gunmen stormed the building, firing automatic weapons | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Initially, the gunmen seized up to 170 people. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
The US-owned hotel is popular with foreign businesses | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
A group affiliated to al-Qaeda says it's behind the attack. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins has the latest. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Combined forces from Mali, the United Nations, France and some | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
US special forces moved in on the hotel as soon as it was clear. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Gunmen with grenades had shot their way in and taken hostages. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
The license plate was that of a diplomatic car. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
That is why they didn't check them out. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
When security forces got inside the hotel, they immediately | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
I heard gunshots very early in the morning. | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
I thought it was firecrackers and did not realise it was | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
a hostage situation. Thank God we are safe. | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
The soldiers were very professional. They took good care of us. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
I tried something, but then the soldier said, "Stay in the room!" | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Soon, security forces were bringing out dozens of hotel guests and | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Some reported the extremists shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
and releasing those who could recite verses from the Koran. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
The attackers would have known that the luxury hotel, | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
close to the diplomatic quarter of Mali's capital, Bamako, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
An eyewitness told the BBC it was just before 7am | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
when the attackers arrived in a large car with diplomatic plates. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
There were apparently up to 13 gunmen. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
At one point, they held up to 170 hostages. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Mali's security forces had responded quickly, working with French elite | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
police units, some UN blue-helmeted soldiers, | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Soon, there were reports of some hostages escaping, | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
including three Turkish Airlines staff, and of many others being | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
rescued by security forces as they moved through the hotel, floor by | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
floor. In Paris, the French president Francois Hollande made no | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
direct link with the attacks on his capital a week ago, but repeated his | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
conviction that greater force was needed against violent extremism. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
We see once again that the terrorists want to make | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
their horrific mark everywhere they can, by killing, by murder. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
So we must be firm and show our solidarity towards | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
In Mali, some survivors were still in shock. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
It remained unclear if all of the extremists had been found | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
and stopped. James Robbins, BBC News. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
We spoke a short time ago to Mali-based journalist | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Francois Rihouay as events were continuing to unfold in the hotel. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
We have now gone back to him for an update. The situation is looking to | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
have calmed down. It is quite in front of the hotel. Night is | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
falling. The Mali security forces and special forces are now coming, | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
but the last time we spoke, there was a huge panic movement because | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
people aware really on edge. It looks like now the final death toll | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
figure is 18 dead, according to a high security official I just spoke | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
to. Two terrorists were killed during the operation. Two terrorists | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
dead, but we do not know for sure the number of other attackers. What | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
is happening with that? We still have to figure out. The | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
investigation will start and that will be much longer. We will | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
investigate how they could get to this hotel and get this diplomatic | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
card, the black four by four they used to get into the hotel. | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
According to one of the French military sources I spoke to, it was | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
two attackers. There were only two attackers? Yeah according to the | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
people I spoke to. The last attack in Bamako when a restaurant was | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
attacked and killed five people, other people were not directly | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
involved in the attack but where helping and financing, hosting the | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
attackers. Francois, you report from Bamako, you are local to the area. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Does it surprise you that something like this has happened? Not that | :06:25. | :06:38. | |
surprising, since all Mali authorities have said that since the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
French intervention in the 20 13th, they have all this said it would be | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
a permanent threat, especially in the capital. The surprising thing | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
tonight is to figure out that it is the main hotel, the one thought to | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
be one of the most safe in the capital that has been attacked. That | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
the attackers could get in so easily... Foreigners who used to | :07:08. | :07:19. | |
come, it is frightening. Just a line from the French defence Minister, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
because he says at this stage, no French nationals were killed in the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Mali hotel attacks. But from the French defence minister. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Today's attack comes after a string of threats by Islamist | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
groups against the government and western interests in Mali. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
French forces have been stationed there since 2013 when they fought | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
successfully to push back Islamic militants who were controlling large | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has more details. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Parts of Mali have been a battle ground for more than four years. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
The UN's 10,000 peacekeepers there are fully stretched in this | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Their commander wants Europe to do more if terrorism is to be stopped. | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
Mali is important because it has a regional impact | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
and it also has a global impact, of course on terrorism and so on. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
It would be interesting to see a larger European engagement | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
It was swift military intervention by front that stopped most of Mali | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
Jihadists like these have been able to move across regional borders | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
It all began with the collapse of Libya in 2011 and the fall | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Weapons and insurgents flooded into the Sahara. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
In Mali, Islamist rebels took over most of the north of the country | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
French forces pushed them back but pockets of rebels and jihadists | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
In nearby Nigeria, the jihadist group Boko Haram has | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
wreaked havoc, killing more people last year than Islamic State did. | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
And in Algeria, where Western workers were killed recently in a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
hostage siege, remnants of Al-Qaeda survived in the mountains. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Further south, experts blame poor governance. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
I think it is the same story all over Africa. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
They are able to grow because, in most of the African states, the | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
There are thousands of young people who are unemployed and can be easily | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Mali will need more than military intervention to stop terrorism. | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
It needs secure borders, better governance and a stable | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
economy if more young men are not to be drawn into the murderous ideology | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
The Carlson Rezidor hotel group, which owns and operates the Radisson | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
Blu Hotel in Bamako, has set up an emergency family information number. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
It's based in France. The number to call is: | :10:08. | :10:26. | |
Stay up to date with the latest news out of Mali via the BBC live page. | :10:27. | :10:39. | |
Their update their very regularly coming from various sources as well | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
as testimony and interviews. Just head to the BBC website. | :10:47. | :11:00. | |
We turn now to what happened in Mali today to what happened in Paris one | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
week ago. Let me shortly be seen at Place de la Republique, where people | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
are holding flowers and candles. People coming out in force as part | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
of a display of defiance as the time of 9:20pm local time approaches. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
That was the time those first terrible attacks happened one week | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
ago exactly. People trying to show they are not afraid. They are coming | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
onto the street and making sure their voices are heard. It is one | :11:34. | :11:50. | |
week since the terrible things we saw. Inevitably, people are turning | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
their minds back to where they wear at this time last week. Some of them | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
were already inside the Stade de France Stadium to watch the national | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
team. Some were heading to bars and restaurants in this area. Some to | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
have a meal and meet friends. Some thought they were lucky enough to | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
have a ticket here at the batter clan to see the Californian band | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Eagles Of Death Metal. In the darkest corners of their minds, they | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
could not have imagined what would unfold over the course of the next | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
four hours. Extraordinary cruelty and barbarity. Eight, nine, possibly | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
ten gunmen on the loose in Paris. We have been reporting it through the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
course of the week how that has affected the city. Today, the death | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
toll went up to 130. One more person has died and still 90 people in | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
intensive care. Some 200 people injured, lives wrecked and destroyed | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
by the senselessness of what we saw. Behind me, a steady stream of people | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
filtering past the batter clan. Thousands of bouquets being laid all | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
along these railings. -- filtering past the batter clan theatre. Left | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
by friends and family and ordinary members of the public. Different | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
flags demonstrating the different nations and nationalities of those | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
who have come to pay their respects. Today has largely been about the | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
politics, because the interior minister Bernard Cazenove has been | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
to meet his colleagues in Brussels. They are talking about the need for | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
tighter controls at the borders of the 26th-country Schengen zone. They | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
decided those controls will be stiffened. Anyone coming into the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Schengen zone, whether or not they hold an EU passport, will be checked | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
and vetted properly and cross checked against the list of names | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
that they hold. There will also be tighter checks on the borders in | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
France in line with the three-month state of emergency which is now in | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
place, approved by the Senate just ate few hours ago. Intelligence | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
agencies talking about greater sharing of information in real-time, | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
so new databases to with that process. Here is our Paris | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
correspondence. They queued at Paris' Central Mosque | :14:18. | :14:30. | |
today for the simple comfort And no one, no matter how old | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
or how familiar, was exempt. It was a war zone, | :14:33. | :14:47. | |
just like a war zone. Not only by the type of injuries, | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
bullet injuries, ballistic trauma, but also because we had a huge | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
number of patients at the same time. And for different challenges, | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
different measures. The response from France this week, | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
a seven-hour raid In amongst the forces there was | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Hugo, who told his story to the BBC. When we got to the third floor, | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
we put explosives on the door, but when we detonated them, | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
the door did not totally collapse. We had to put another charge in, | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
but before we could detonate that, Since the attacks here last week, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
French forces have carried out almost 800 searches | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
and more than 100 arrests, but security on each street corner | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
is not the same as feeling safe. For a week, | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
the dead have been remembered here Tonight, they will be | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
honoured with defiance. Well-known artists | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
and musicians have called on Parisians to pack the city's | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
bars and restaurants at 9:20pm, Still forensically going on here in | :16:03. | :16:27. | |
front of the theatre. Not much to see. Frenzied work going on at the | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
apartment in Mali, where that leads took place on Wednesday. In | :16:35. | :16:46. | |
Saint-Denis. We suppose it ring leader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was in | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
that apartment. We now know that he was filmed within the metro system | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
where the black car was dumped on the evening of the attacks. | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Interesting that he was there at around 10pm, just as the attacks are | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
getting underway here, on the opposite side of the road. We also | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
know that the intelligence agencies were following his cousin, this | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
supposedly suicide bomber. She was already under investigation for | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
drugs. It was a drugs investigation. They thought they would go back and | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
see who she was in contact with. Sure enough, on choose day, she was | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
spotted going into this apartment with Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The raid | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
then started several hours later. We are hearing some extraordinary | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
detail from the commandos that went into that apartment. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
What was it like as you approached the flat? | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
When we arrived at the scene on the third floor - it was a | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
four-storey building, we wanted to put some explosives on the front | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
but when we released the chargers, the door did not fully open. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
So we had to put another charge in, but before we could detonate, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Were they speaking to you, did the shout at you? | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
The assault team, 1.5-2 metres away from the front door, | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
never heard the terrorists speak, but the sharpshooter heard one | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
She pretended that she wanted to give herself up. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
We think it was an excuse to get us to enter the flat | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
so that more policemen would die when Horrocks those of automated. | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
-- win her explosives detonated. Extraordinary details coming out of | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
that team. The fact that the team tried to conserve their arms. They | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
were there for the duration. They had reinforced the door of that | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
apartment to get in with explosives. I need to tell you, to clear up some | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
confusion, we have been talking about this woman as the suicide | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
bomber. There is some confusion over that this evening. Only forensics | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
were tellers whether she was wearing a suicide vest or indeed blew | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
herself up. There is a theory tonight in the French press that | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
perhaps she was not a suicide bomber and it was the third person, as yet | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
unidentified, that blew themselves up and she either was killed by that | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
explosion by the rounds. Some 5000 rounds that the police fired into | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
the apartment. So still some confusion there. Still a steady | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
stream of people walking up and down the street here and outside the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
batter clan theatre. -- outside the Bataclan theatre. It has been very | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
much the case this week. The state of emergency which has been in place | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
stopped big gatherings of people, but you can see there are still many | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
people gathering at Place de la Republique. These pictures and | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
images will be replicated in different parts of the city this | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
evening as France and Paris remembers, outside the bars and | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
restaurants, outside one of the churches here in Paris and also, I | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
would imagine, at the Stade de France, where those suicide bombers | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
blew themselves up. We will bring you all the news of the evening. We | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
are approaching the time when these attacks started, just after 9pm | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
local time. We will bring new reports from Paris as that time | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
approaches. I will hand you back to the studio now. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Let's just go back over what we know so far. | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
The authorities in Mali say more than 130 hostages | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
being held at a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako have now been | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
freed, more than seven hours after an attack by jihadist militants | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
State television in Mali says 18 bodies have | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
There are reports that the gunmen are still in the building, | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
A militant group linked to Al Qaeda, which was behind the deadly siege | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
at an Algerian gas plant two years ago, says it carried out | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
What back this woman is a security analyst in Mali. Thank you for | :21:22. | :21:36. | |
talking to us. You spent time focusing on security risks in places | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
like this. How much does what happened today surprise you, or does | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
it? It does not exactly surprised me. The timing is surprising, but | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
the fact that we were able to reach barnacle, to get into a high high | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
scale attack is not surprising. It is something we have seen them do in | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
the past. A similar modus operandi has been used in other locales and | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
barnacle has not been immune from these kinds of attacks. Given that | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
we have seen this kind of thing in the past, should there have been | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
better security and police? There should have been. I think the fact | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
that there was an ongoing security operation by the security forces for | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
the last month and a half it is a three-month operation, might have | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
taken away some of the people's fears. Or maybe a sense of being | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
secure had come through, but unfortunately, Bamako has always | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
been a target. It has always been very openly a target by militants. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Mali has been unstable for years. Operations by such groups have | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
really reached the border areas. The West and the southern areas, much | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
more in the last years. Bamako should have been more secure, | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
particularly this hotel. What do you know about the group claiming the | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
responsibility for the attack? Do they record? They do. The Arran | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
amalgamation of two different groups. The leader is the work very | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
well known worldwide jihadists. They were targeted by a drone attack in | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Libya a couple of months ago, and successfully, obviously. He is a man | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
that has targeted foreigners before. He is behind the attack that | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
happened in Algeria, in which... We have seen them take responsibility | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
for a lower scale attacks as well. Mine explosions targeting UN | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
personnel to an attack on a restaurant in Bamako last March, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
actually. The target foreigners as well. You focus on security risks. | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
What does something like this do to the advice that you're giving? It is | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
quite interesting, because they did target a Hotel that in terms of | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
security and even by the UN standards, was suggested by a place | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
that was quite secure. It is difficult to say. In Mali, it is a | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
constant threat. It is an issue that a lot of people must deal with. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
There will be repercussions and a follow-through from this attack. We | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
are going to the heightened security and an unsettled nation in terms of | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
what security forces were doing, why there was not enough security and | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
are the operations by the French forces as well as the other forces | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
and the UN personnel enough? It will be interesting. At the moment, it | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
has never been a stable place, so in terms of advice for people | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
travelling there, it has always been a higher risk. Briefly, what about | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
the timing of this? Do you think this was connected to what we saw in | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
Paris? I think there is a global terrorist movement towards France | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
just because of its involvement in so many different areas. I think | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
threats against the French in Mali have been going on for many years. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Specifically, a couple of days before the Paris attack, there was | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
another militant leader who threatened France and said they | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
would attack French interests in Mali specifically. We have to leave | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
it there. Bat-el Ohayon, thank you. We are right up against the end of | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
our programme. Thank you for being with us. Continuing coverage of the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
situation in the Mali and Paris on the BBC website. | :26:03. | :26:10. |