of a rice. why is the uk economy not snowing like other economies? hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we ll go to paris with the explosion and fire that we heard about earlier, it s a gas explosion but more details coming on all the time. initially city officials were talking about the fires, and we were seeing the pictures and apologies that the pictures are just flying around but these are life pictures coming from central pollys and that whole area is cordoned off. i am watching these pictures and they are still dealing with buildings that are on fire right there in the centre of the city. and let me tell you the latest that we are hearing from the mayor of that fifth district in central paris because he adjustments she has just been speaking and said that for people are in critical condition after this explosion occurred in their fifth district here in paris and you can see from the
you the latest that we are hearing from the mayor of that fifth district in central paris because he adjustments she has just been speaking and said that for people are in critical condition after this explosion occurred in their fifth district here in paris and you can see from the number of ambulances and emergency vehicles, it is a mess operation still ongoing there. they have been eyewitnesses speaking and said it was like hearing a little earthquake. at the moment the explosion happened. we also had accounts of areas of buildings collapsing there onto the streets. you see the hoses still being trained onto those buildings, so that operation is really still ongoing. that first, really broke the news only about 30 minutes ago so there still in the early stages of dealing with all of this and you