Penalties for corruption. And the town of tadcaster in North Yorkshire will be reunified today when its only road bridge reopens, more than a year after it was destroyed by severe flooding. Good morning. Its friday 3rd february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. First to paris where there has been an attack at the Louvre Museum in the heart of the city. Its been described the french Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as being of a terrorist nature. Police say a man carrying two machetes and two backpacks shouted allahu akbar and tried to enter the underground Shopping Area outside the museum. A soldier opened fire and the man was seriously wounded. The backpacks did not contain any explosives. A huge Security Operation is underway, and the louvre has been evacuated. Its the latest Security Alert in a city which has become well used to them. The Louvre Museum houses some of frances most famous works of art, and is one of pariss most iconic landmarks a place which is a must
police and those pipe bombs. we were in that cemetery yesterday when those new ira members and their political wing were there . they were doing something that we were not allowed to film. they put umbrellas. they hid themselves away. they stopped all the journalists there from filming what they were doing. they set fire to something. behind a shed that the police had surveillance helicopters, surveillance drones overhead. and so what we understand now today is that the police realized and found out and went there and found these pipe bombs, which, of course, will be very dangerous. typically they used in dairy against the police , so the police are cracking down. president biden is unlikely to see any of that sort of potential for violence here in belfast. big security operation underway here and we understand now as well as doing the ribbon cutting at a new university campus here in belfast. he is going to have the opportunity to meet with representatives of all five political partie
for the monarchs of this nation. its most sacred duty is once again to provide a final place where the people of this nation can pay their final respects. ata at a conservative estimate, hundreds of thousands of mourners are expected to turn out to pay their respect to the queen over the coming days. our security correspondent frank gardnerjoins me now from clarence house. this will be a big security operation. this will be a big security operation- this will be a big security 0 eration. , , , operation. very big indeed. they have practised operation. very big indeed. they have practised and operation. very big indeed. they have practised and rehearsed i operation. very big indeed. they have practised and rehearsed for this ad nauseam, everybody knew it was coming. the current national terrorism threat level, and i m sorry to mention the six, is substantial. it s number three in a list of five. there is not node it to be any current terrorist plot.
forward with more photos and videos to help them piece together what happened and who is responsible, wolf. remember, the suspect or maybe more of them are on the loose. they don t have any leads yet. brian todd reporting for us. thank you. let s go live to london right now. our senior international correspondent is on the scene, matthew chance. so what is the latest response to this bombing, matthew? reporter: as you can see, there s a heavy police presence right behind me. we re about 100 meters or so from parson green tube station where that device exploded at 8:20 local time on that metro train. tube train as we call them here, at the height of rush hour. there were scenes of panic as people tried to escape the carriages onto the platform outside. a big security operation is
in the wake of what happened at the boston marathon, there will definitely be a beefed up police presence. no question. let s go to cnn s matthew chance there for us in london. matthew, tell us about the security preparations there. what s being done to keep runners and spectators safe for this race? reporter: it was already a big security operation of course. 35,000 people expected to take part in the london marathon here tomorrow on sunday locally. that security operation has been significantly stepped up according to the metropolitan police who are overseeing that. the police here in london. they for instance have taken away all of the garbage cans from the streets through which runners will pass and will deprive any would-be bombers of a place to hide a device of any kind. a big security operation. an increased state of vigilance and the public will see these compelling images coming out of