A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for a hostage stand off at an upmarket hotel in malis capital which left 27 people dead. Gunmen burst through the entrance to the Radisson Blu Hotel and took 170 people host inning. Troops assisted by French Special forces entered the hotel. All the remaining hostages were freed but its unclear whether gunmen were remaining on the top floors. The u. N. Peace keeping commission are also on the ground. Forces were going room to room. Reporter soldiers help an employee of the radisson blu out of the build after a hostage situation that lasted many hours. Gunmen had managed to get inside shouting god is great in arabic before taking around 170 people hostage. The full extent of the attack became claw p clear, many were in shock. As the malian president cut short a trip and flew home he tried to aassure people. According to the information we have, men were able to walk into the hotel. We activated our crisis scroll. The cell includes hea
Of statements which are supporting islam and the vast majority of muslim whose are repulsed by the situation and in fear like other french people about the future for this country. Indeed andrew thank you for that Andrew Simmons in paris there and the community where the police raids took place and the key planner of the paris attacks was killed and mohamed met some of them living in the neighborhood and they spoke about the difficulties of their daytoday life. All his life he has struggled with acceptance, a french all gaeran background he tells me he has never truly been allowed to asimulate. It was always difficult at school and called me the arab and it always has been hard to get a job with the face i have. Reporter born and raised in france he certainly sees himself as french but says his fellow countrymen and women only ever identified him as algerian and it was easy for him to deal drugs as easy as it was to slip into despair. Translator there was no activity for us, not even a
And fresh from celebrating his victory argentinas new president gets down to business starting with action against venezuela. Hello france has launched its first air strike against Islamic State of iraq and levante from the Aircraft Carrier and as Francois Hollande ramps up powerful western countries to fight i. S. I. L. With this in mind he started the week visiting the Bataclan Club with David Cameron and next travels to washington to meet barack obama on tuesday and wednesday he will meet the german chancellor Angela Merkel in paris and on to moscow to meet Vladimir Putin and this is the belgium capitol patrolled on the third day of lock down and schools and Metro Rail Network and museums all closed and more on that in a moment but first this report from Andrew Simmons in paris. Reporter in position and operational the Aircraft Carrier with war planes in action. The First Mission over iraq and syria are reported to have begun. The 20 aircraft on board this Nuclear Powered vessel tri
The German Parliament has approved the governments plan to send 1200 soldiers to support the fight against i. S. I. L. In a noncombat role and politicians debated the bill over the last couple of hours and a war ship and six aircraft were also part of chancellor Angela Merkels plan and applied for help after last months paris attacks and antiwar activists have been protesting against the plan and germany is the latest addition to the international antii. S. I. L. Coalition which includes dozens of countries and however not everyone has played a military role and not all at the same time so here is a break down for you. These are the countries that have been involved in fighting i. S. I. L. , there is 18 of them in all. These are the ones carrying out or supporting air strikes in syria and these are the countries that are striking i. S. I. L. Targets in iraq. There is a caveat as well, canada has since decided to call off their air strikes and instead increase its presence on the ground
Se sending more force to fight isil in syria. Im Barnaby Phillips in vienna at the opec summit. Oil prices are down, oilexporting countries are divided on what to do about it. Our top story this hour, four palestinians have been killed by Israeli Security forces in separate incidents across the occupied west bank. [ gunfire ] in bethlehem palestinians protesters threw stones at the israeli army. Earlier north of Ramallah A Palestinian man was shot dead after ramming his car into Israeli Soldiers. Two were likely injured. Stephanie decker joins us live now from ramallah. This is apparently getting worse by the day, steph. Get us up to date with the death toll so far. Reporter the death toll since the first of october when we really saw this wave of one on one violence start, these are huge numbers, but i think now were two months on. This is becoming a daily occurrence. It does go in waves. In a day like today, three separate incidents in separate parts of the occupied west bank. Last n