One week on from the paris attacks which left 129 people dead. France and the International Community are looking for a way forward. The French Muslim Council is urging mosque preachers to send a message of unity during friday prayers. The countrys 2. 5 thousand mosques have been asked to condemn all violence and terrorism in the wake of last weeks attacks. A draft resolution to ute u. N. In taking attackes against Islamic State in iraq and the levant. Emergency talks later in brussels and we will have more on that in just a while, but first investigators have confirmed Abdel Hamid Abaaoud was killed in a Police Operation earlier this week. Aborigine drew simmons has more on the man suspected of planning the paris attacks reporter in the aftermath of assault of special forces on this buildings, a positive description of the ring leader. The fingerprints of two bodies recovered from the rubble prove its Abdel Hamid Abaaoud. The other dead suspect was a woman believed to be his cousin. T
New measures against people trafficking in mall an is that and territorial issues dominant the agenda. In glitch two opposition leaders are hanged after their appeals for president ial clemency were rejected. Reporter sport live. A classical contest in spain. Barcelonia have been remembering the victims of the attacks. Details coming up later in the program. We begin in belgium where the capital is on the highest terror alert there is. Authorities say they have what they decide as precise information about a serious and imminent threat of attacks similar to those in paris. Brussels is in hock down. Armed soldiers out on the streets patrolling. The metro has been shut down. The alert level has been raised after a number of weapons were found during police raids on properties allegedly connected to the paris attacks. Three people have been arrested. The countrys p. M. Warned there was a risk of attacks in a number of different places simultaneously. Our correspondent in brussels is paul
Catastrophe Frances Parliament is getting ready to talk about extending the countrys state of emergency for another three months. The security measure was put in place after last weeks attacks in paris which killed at least 129 people. Now, if its extended the government will have more power to conduct searches and set curfews. At least two people were killed and eight were arrested in a sevenhour police raid in the paris suburb of st denis on wednesday. The police say the raid took out a terrorist cell that was ready to act, but Abdel Hamid Abaaoud the main suspect in fridays attacks was not among those arrested and his fate remains unknown. Reporter this is the man that French Security officials believe planned and organised last fridays attacks. Belgian born 27yearold Abdel Hamid Abaaoud seen here in video footage filmed perhaps in syria where he spent time fighting for islamic state. Date unknown. Translation i would like to send a message to those who stayed sitting. Stand up, spr
Investigator, whether abaaoud was in the are apartment, where the gun fight lasted several hours. The prosecutor believed he was but there was so much damage from the explosions inside the apartment right now, they have not been able to identify positively the bodies inside. [ gunfire ] french leaders have spoken of a war with those who carried out last fridays massacre. Today in the northern paris suburb of st. Denis, it sounded as one. The french authorities believed that abaaoud was september of carrying out attacks in the interest of Islamic State, this witness received on the 16th of november, and with great caution, we verified all the data particularly telephones and bank accounts. 4 30 a. M. , police fail when they try to blow the door open. The gunmen inside are alerted. The gun battle is on. In the first one hour 15 minutes, 5,000 rounds are fired. A female suicide bomber believed, say french media, to be the cousin eve of abaaoud, bs herself up. Others detained. Someone aske
Apartment will be very interesting to the police. Theyre having to throw the net very wide. At the moment in st denis it is still there is interest as to whether information about this apartment were getting some word from ap that one attacker may still be holed up in the apartment, identity unclear. I suppose youre not able to say whether thats the case or not because youre not getting any information from the police. Reporter its highly possible. Certainly when we on friday certainly on friday night when the attacks were going on, once it was over technical difficulties we heard the debt nations, since then, were now talking about a couple of hours since then, there was still a ve very, strictly enforced police cordon. It is not at all it is very of consistent with the behaviour of the police. There could still be suspect in there thank you for that. Our correspondent on the scene there, jacky rowland, explaining that it is very difficult to get around, roads have been cordoned off,