Support. Checks on people entering and leaving the border zone. Reporter with the days sport as French League football resumes amid high security. A week on from the attacks in paris a welcome to the news hour. A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for a hostage stand off in mallees capital which has left 27 dead. They burst through the Radisson Blu Hotel and took about 170 people hostage. Mali troops assisted by French Special forces have entered the hotel. The remaining hostages were freed. It is still unclear whether the gunmen remain on the top floors. The Peace Keeping mission is on the ground. Two of the attackers in the siege have been killed. Reporter soldiers held an employee of the radisson blu out of the building after a hostage situation at a lasted hours. Gunmen got inside shouting gold is great in arabic before taking 170 hostage. As the full extent of the attack became clear many here were in shock. As the malian president ial cut short a trip and influenc
I. S. I. L. French officials have identified a belgian man who fought in i. S. I. L. In syria as the chief architect of fridays attack in paris. Abdel hamid abaaoud has been linked to previous attacks. Also today during a joint session of the French Parliament the president asked to extend the emergency state for another three months. He says french war planes will continue to attack i. S. I. L. Targets in syria. One key suspect Salah Abdeslam remains on the loose. He has been a target of raids in brussels. Reporter in an session of French Parliament politiciansing sing the French National anthem. Then a standing ovation for president hollan debrox e. Translation france is at war. There have been at least 129 dead and numerous injured. It constitutes ana aggression against our country, against its values, against its youth. Reporter over night police executed 168 raids in 19 regions of france. Weapons seized, more than two dozen arrests. Police in neighbors belgium also rounded up peop
Will, of course, be uniting both the individual very personal grief of the bereaved families with a national sense of mourning two weeks after the attacks happened will all of the victims families be represented in this memorial today . The vast majority of families will be represented, also some of the people who were injured, who are well enough to be discharged from hospital will also attend. Notably, two families and one man who escaped from the bataclan have said they will not be coming because theyre criticising the french government for not, in their words, learning the lessons from the attacks in january of this year. They said back then the government made lots of promises about improving security, improving intelligence gathering in order to ensure that the french people would be safe. They said that what happened two weeks ago today illustrates that the government didnt make good on those undertakings, in particular, the sister of one of the people who died in the attacks ha
Leone. First, breaking news were getting reports that gunmen have attacked a hotel in mali. The attackers are said to have taken hostages in the capital while this follows a 24 hour siege and taking at another hotel in august in the central mali town. More on that when we get it. European union are holding emergency talks in brussels. Theyre discussing whether to boost the security and introduce border checks. Abdel hamid abaaoud entered france from syria undetected. He died in wednesdays assault. World powers urged to take joint action against Islamic State in iraq and the levant. The French Muslim Council is urging mosques to send a unified message during friday prayers. The countrys 2500 mosques have been asked to condemn all violence and terrorism. Cross over to brussels and speak to paul brennan to tell us about the meeting of the ministers and what theyre hoping to achieve. Reporter its an extraordinary meeting in the sense that it wasnt previously scheduled. It has been called b
Leaders meet. Reporter reporting from thailand where police are in a new push to try to stop the huge flow of drugs coming across the border from myanmar frances apartment is currently debating whether to extend the countrys state of emergency for three more months. President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency following last week attacks in paris. It will give the government more power to set curfews. The Prime Minister is speaking about the scale of the security risk. Translation we have to act with a maximum degree of caution and we have to understand that there is also the risk of chemical or biological arms involved. We have to be cautious about our frontiers from attack live to our correspondent in paris. The french government has been outlining the threat as they see it. Are they facing any resistance to this extension of the state of emergency . Reporter well, if there is any resistance that will become clear when the vote is taken in the middle of the afternoon aft