Underway. Reporter amateur footage shows two blackhooded gunmen making their escape. A policeman is spot at pointblank range. In french the men are heard to shout we have avenged the profit mohammed we have killed shob, before fleeing. Shob is thought to be this fan, editor in chief of the magazine. He was reportedly killed along with a number of his staff. Amid the chaos that followed the attack at about midday paris time the president arrived on the scene. Translator its an act of exceptional barbarity that has been committed against a newspaper, a newspaper that standings for freedom of expression. Reporter the president announced that france was on its high estate of alert. Translator we have launched a series of measures following this act of aggression to find the perpetrators. They will be hunted for as long as is necessary. Reporter as bullets were fired bystanders cowered behind parked cars. The police have not net confirmed how many people died in this attack. Translator a va
Austerity plans brings belgium to a standstill. Hello, Australian Police have stormed a cafe in sydney. Two hospital stadges are dead hh man haron monis. He is already under charges of attempting to murder his ex wife. Mmonis walked into the cafe, located at the end of martin place. Next door is the reserve bank of australia, directly opposite are the tv studios for the Australian Network channel 7. Other major buildings nearby include the world famous sydney opera house. Kim vanel reports. One officer appears to throw a stun grenade. In the crack of what was either gun fire or flash explosions. Paramedics were already there and quickly ran towards the building. One woman could be seen being carried out. The siege began during monday morning rush hour. A woman was summonings police, she had her phone to her ear. Police on motorcycles arrived and others on foot very quickly. She was telling them she had gone to go inside the cafe and the automatic glass sliding doors had been disabled a
Injustice. Police in belgium have killed two people in an antiterror operation its believed the suspects have links to armed groups in syria and were planning a largescale attack. The Prime Minister raised the Terror Threat to its second high left level. A third person was arrested during the operation 120 miles east of brussels. A Police Operation was underway to search the homes of 10 people who had returned from syria. Thats when the suspects opened fire at the police. Neave barker reports. Reporter belgium Authorities Say they have prevented an attack on what they called a grand scale. As shots ring out in the city, and flames engulf the ground floor of this building, you can clearly hear glass smashing. Federal police storming a bakery. Covered by snipers on surrounding roof tops. The police had been searching homes of around 10 people, they say they had recently come back from syria. During the investigation we found that this group was about to commit terrorist attacks in belgiu
Youre watching al jazeera. Lets bring you up to date with the breaking news out of france. Two brothers wanted over the attack on satirical french magazine Charlie Hebdo have been killed northeast of paris. Just minutes later, officer raided a jewish supermarket in eastern paris. The scene of another hostage crisis. The gunman there was killed. Four of his hostages also died. That man was wanted for gunning down a policewoman on thursday. Laurence lee reports now from northeast of paris where the hunt for the Charlie Hebdo suspects came to a violent end. Reporter when it ended it was quick and much earlier that many expected. Flashes, the sound of automatic gunfire, and then silence. In all the standoff lasted no more than than 15 to 20 seconds but it left the brothers dead accused of Charlie Hebdo massacre. The standoff lasted the whole day. During rush hour in the morning we saw lines of police vans tearing up the motorway north of paris and into the small town. A helicopter ambulanc
And an al quada affiliate says its behind suicide bombings at a half a in the lebanese city of tripoli. But first the france Prime Minister has warned that the country is at war with terrorism and radical islam. Manuel made the statement in a speech late on saturday. And it comes in the week of violence last week in which 16 people and three gunmen were killed. Now, after solidarity rallies across france on saturday, security is now at the highest level with the National Unity rally planned in paris later on sunday. 50 World Leaders are due to appear in the capital. And european interior ministers are also coming to paris, they are going to be talking about security. And Counter Terrorism efforts. We can go live now to our correspondent Rory Challands in paris. Rory, starting with that meeting of interior ministers who is coming and what do they hope to achieve . Reporter we have interior ministers coming from all over europe british interior minister germany many other countries as we