Continued to defile the corpses of his victims. French officials have now confirmed he died in this predawn raid in paris on wednesday. We know today that abaaoud, the orchestrator of these attacks, one of the organizers, because you have to be especially careful, was among the dead. Attention is turning to have one of the worlds most wanted man was able to travel to paris undetected by the authorities. Frances interior minister insisting that they had no knowledge he was in europe before fridays atrocities. It is only on november 16, that the attacks in paris, an Intelligence Agency from outside europe indicated that he was thought to be increased. In greece. Reporter abaaoud has been linked to a number of foiled plots, including the attack on the the foiled attack on the belgium train heading for paris. Violent acts planned overseas, perpetrated by inadist in jihadists european countries, trained to use weapons, then sent back to our territory to perpetrate their attack. Reporter inv
First, afghanistan, where there are real fears that Helmand Province could be in danger of falling under taliban control. Food and am mission supplies have been dropped by air into the city. This is under siege by a group of talibans fighters. More nato troops have rushed to the Southern Province to aid those afghan soldiers. Here is more. We did get before the night fall what the fighting was doing. Right now because of night fall, there is some sort of respite. But it looks like it will continue again tomorrow morning. As we have seen in the last two days, this onslaught has happened from the taliban. Helmand province has been occupied. This is the third city they would occupy. Some observers and ground sources are saying this the rapt of the Helmand Province. If they reach that, they would occupy one of the most important northern routes and the route between kandahar and kabul goes through that. Right now we do know that the ound forces are sort of in the police headquarters. The i
The swat team seems to be in the area. Apparently they were practicing not far from there, so the swat team managed to get on the spot. This is an ongoing situation. The area is obviously closed to the public. You mentioned about 20 victims, but no idea on how many casualties, how many injured people, how many dead people. Some people mentioned that the shooter went floor to floor to kill people, but these are just witnesses talking. The shooting happened close to the inland regional center, which seems to be a place offering educational classes for disabled people and helping more generally disabled people. There are a few sure elements by now. Considering what happened in colorado a few days ago with the shooting at planned parenthood, there is a whole panic around this. Catherine thanks very much for bringing us those details from california. Just to recap for you, reports of 20 victims at a shooting in san bernardino, a city that lies about an hour to the east of los angeles. Polic
Officeunmen stormed the of the satirical cartoon. There is doubt over whether or in northuclear test korea was really a hydrogen bomb. European shares plunge after the Chinese Market are shut down for the second day in a week. We will get the latest in our business update. First, our top story. We would go now straight to the region of northern paris where police have shot dead a man who was wearing a suicide belt. He was wearing a suicide belt while trying to enter a Police Station. Markus this seems to be a developing situation still. A man tried to get into a police in this area and appeared to be wearing a suicide vest. Reuters, the news agency, is reporting he had been shouting allahu akbar as he walked toward the Police Station. They are coding and interior mitchell they are quoting an interior official when they say that. He was shot just outside the Police Station. Police are now trying to heestigate whether or not was wearing a suicide vest. A bombve sent in Disposal Unit and
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