skyline. you can see they are backed up there. perhaps you can see all of the red lights. there are armed policemen just below me. i wouldn't say that they are quite waving everybody through, but they are letting the vast amount of traffic to go through. they are checking who people are, but they haven't yet prevented people from -- from going in. i would say their attitude over the last three or four hours had been more relaxed than it had been at the first part of the mourning when we got here and when things were at lot tenser at that stage. >> barnaby we don't know what has happened so far. we will be back with you in a moment. i want to play this again for our viewers. this was the moment probably five or six minutes ago when we believed something may be

happening? that industrial area. >> barnaby, we heard what was an

automatic weapon. that appears to be the ones -- robin -- have we got communication with robin in london? we don't see you at the moment but that is -- i think is called something like tap tap, where you squeeze an automatic weapon and you get single rounds fired off? >> it sounds like it was over very,

very quickly. as far as we know, there were only two hostage takers in the building. we could only sit now and wait for the results but it looks like two explosions, with gas with suppression devices and men have gone in behind that. we're going to wait, ever to wait and see what comes of it now. >> from what you've seen, heard and with your experience, many years experience in dealing with situations such as this, as you look to that, you were pretty certain where this was some kind of end game. >> yes. it looks like it. it looks from the limited coverage we have that that was an assault and it's finished. are we hearing more gunfire now? >> let's listen in. [ clicking ]

>> it doesn't so you didn't like gunfire. it looks like they've mounted quick and professional assault. the fact that it's gone quiet to quickly gives the indication that it's been successful and it's over. now, whether that means that we've got dead hostage takers and live hostages or something different, we just have to wait and see but every indication is that that was a quick and clinical assault. >> you see one man there. that there were two of them. this is the backside of that building that print shop, on that industrial zone. what would he do, he's retreating a little bit. what do you think that person might be part of there? >> he'll be part of the cordon group or the surveillance group essentially a circle around the

building maybe the support to the actual team. >> barnaby, you were listening to that? barnaby phillip our reporter with our cameraman? >> yes and our cameraman is showing you a helicopter which has just taken off from the area where it's taken place behind me. i was listening to what our expert was saying in london. it seems plausible but there is congestionure. the voices were most definitely not the voices of the police, they were the voices of the journalists, they were saying in french quick turn your camera this way or that way. someone was saying ooh-la-la.

since then. it has been quiet. >> we haven't heard anything since then. we've seen one man at the back of the building seem to move away. saying to us that he is pretty certain that that means the authorities have gone in. the amount of time passed, one minute, one minute 10 seconds between the first and last what we believe gunshots to be fired would suggest it was over quickly. let's go back and take another look at it. it doesn't last long. that was not the explosion and

gun grenade. that was the second time around, we thought was gunfire but identified quickly we he thought was camera shutters, cameras set off quickly. we're going to try to find that. apologies for that, just one of the things happened there when you're moving over a pretty quick situation there. lawrence lee close to where this is taking place in dammartin-en-gaulle. that what do you know, learns that. >> i'm standing in the middle of a farmer's field looking directly at the industrial complex, where the siege has been going on the last five or 10 seconds. the helicopter circled over. inside the complex. it is getting dark here. it is five past five dusk, we think it was a paraheadic

helicopter. was red. the army helicopters here for most of the day in the field some distance a were. prior to that, you've been that talking about the explosions that were heard. that we saw four men standing on the roof of a building adjacent to the one where we believe the suspect to hold up. that i am surmising but surmising at the moment that it looks slightly earlier than they might have anticipated storming the building when the suspects fired. the explosions sounded very much to me like they were stun grenades. >> that was lawrence lee pretty close to where all of this is unfold be. we brought you unfortunately the wrong pictures, but it would appear to be over at that building. we can bring you the pictures where our expert said they do

believe in fact the siege has ended in dammartin-en-gaulle. [ gunfire ] >> we have no official quite suration of what has been taking

place in dammartin but to remind you this is where those two brothers, who are suspected of having been responsible for the 12 deaths at the charlie hebdo magazine slightly more than 48 hours ago this is where police believe they have found them and they believe they were inside a print shop, having taken at least one person hostage. probably 20 minutes ago we hear what some believe could well be a stun grenade, we see a flash of light and smoke rising from that building, followed by rapid, but not incessant automatic fire. that our correspondent lawrence lee, lawrence, i was thinking about other things, trying to get an idea of where we were when you were talking about it.

that lawrence very close to where this is happening. >> you forgive me, i'm in the middle of a field. i'm sorry. it seems to be the case that well either the gunmen inside launched an assault of their own, or what people witness this believe, stun grenades launched by the military here who have been here obviously all day with a view to shocking the gunmen inside and then going in. that these are classic tactics by anti terrorism police. they use them all the time to try to end situations like this. if that does turn out to be the case, they are attacking with daylight in the hour. you would normally expect these things to happen in the early hours of the morning when the people get off of sleep. it does appear to be the case,

so far as we can tell at the moment. it seems more likely than not at the moment, i'm saying only tentatively that the military and police are storming the building where the suspects are. >> lawrence, we have no official confirmation of that, we are speculating at the moment, but often you can make an educated guess by the change in the operation around the area. we see a helicopter with that what else ever we seen? >> well, some men standing to the west of the building, there are four helicopters in a field three of them are army helicopters and they've been here most of the day. they've encircled the perimeter on the edge of the compound at the edge of the town. the rest of the town has been sealed off children were -- >> ok, lawrence, well, we see

the helicopter there. that problems with his communication. let's go to robin. i'm hopeful that you've been listening to all of that, former s.a.s. officer has been in -- hang on, i think we're going back to -- yeah, there is a second siege involving hostages, perhaps linked to this. in the east of paris, let's go to that picture. rory did i hear from my producer you've heard explosions? >> i couldn't, that's right. in the last minutes basically four very loud bangs coming as regular intervals between bangs. it's been quiet a number of hours, obviously it seems the assault that's taken place to the north of paris where the

suspects in the charlie hebdo shootings were holed up. another bang, seems to be about 100-meter away from me, but loud bangs reverberating around the streets. it seems police or someone is starting to move in a similar way that they did in the north of paris where lawrence and our other correspondents are there. >> we don't know, rory, that that is what's happened, but you have heard some loud bangs following what we've seen and heard in dammartin. as i was asking lawrence lee very often, a clue is a change in the activity, the behavior of the security force there is. are you able to sort of see what they're up to? >> here, do you mean in porte de

vincennes? >> yes. >> before the bangs happened, the police moved the spectators further down the road, really to where i'm standing here, the people that you can see behind me are the closest, other than the emergency services people who have been able to the cordon. that cordon was moved up the road a little bit. that happened about 10 minutes before that series, maybe four, then another fifth bang happens about a minute after the four regular bangs before that. >> rory, you were reporting to us roundabout 60 minutes ago it's been a busy hour, you were saying the only word from authorities there was the man believed to be in that jewish kosher supermarket had said that were any move made to go into the other place where the two brothers were being -- were holed up, if you like to call it

that that he would execute or kill any of the people that he had with him. >> that's exactly right yes. this has been tense but quiet for a good number of hours since about 1:30 in the afternoon. not very much information coming out of the area behind me inside the police cordon. that then about an hour ago the parissen police had heard from the police said he would move against the hostages if police moved in the charlie hebdo shootings. that that indicates there had been contact between the police and hostage taker and suggested that at least in terms of a shared ideology or shared motivation these two events have some sort of connection.

>> i remind our viewers that quarter past the hour, the moment there have been gunshots and that blasts heard the two sides, the two separate sides where hostages are being held in france or were being held in france within the last 15 or 20 minutes or so, this is dammartin-en-gaulle, to the north of paris and this is where the two gunmen believed to be responsible for the charlie hebdo shootings on wednesday were thought to be inside a building on an industrial estate some thumps of explosion and smoke seen, some automatic gunfire, we understand. that if was about 25-30 minutes ago. now and then at the other place the porte de vincennes in eastern paris, there have been

some explosions heard by our correspondent, rory there. our correspondent at dammartin-en-gaulle is lawrence lee. i know you're running across a farmer's field to get to the site. you have news for us. >> yeah, i think it's over, david. there's a group of 10 or slightly more men dressed in black, walking freely inside the perimeter of the industrial complex with "police" written on their backs. that they are not in combat positions, they are walking freely and stood down. agency reports have come out literally within the last couple of minutes that says it's over. i believe -- >> ok, we got the most important part there from lawrence, no official confirmation, but our

correspondent on the ground in dammartin-en-gaulle saying i think it is over. there have been sightings, he said through our view finder of police and security forces walking freely around the industrial area where these two brothers suspected of being involved in the charlie hebdo shootings on wednesday where they have been cornered by police authorities. that is dammartin. that that is the industrial area and you can see the lights of the emergency vehicles flashing there. dammartin-en-gaulle, our correspondent saying, i think it is over." barnaby phillips, our correspondent, we were seeing hem very close up at that point. i hope they've got the focus right, barnaby and we can come to a more reasonable shot. that there in dammartin, you can see this industrial area.

that what is going on there? >> what i can tell you that i've seen in the last few minutes and you can probably hear them is a large convoy. i'll get my cameraman to pan over, a large convoy of ambulances are going into dammartin. perhaps you can see them going up the ridge into the little town there with their blue lights flashing. they tore down the motor way and are headed to the industrial area where that printing complex is. lawrence said that french security men were now walking freely within the compound. i've seen that the french news agency has put out a report in the last few moments saying that french commandos stormed the building so we've got to be careful, we must not jump to conclusions, but things are pointing to the direction that the building that contained the

suspect has been stormed. we don't know the results of that action. >> now indeed, we don't. that we must, as you suggest treat it with caution. i'm wondering looking at a calf vavalcade of emergency vehicles approaching whether there are more casualties. >> we hope there aren't more casualty the. that this morning the situation was developing very fast, when the siege was just beginning. that there were large numbers of ambulances tearing in antout at that time. we know now that was precautionary reasons. no one to the best of our knowledge had been seriously hurt this morning. the french authorities had not taken any chances. that they had emergency medical care on stand by throughout the

day. it may be a those ambulances are rushing into town for precautionary reasons. it may be that people have been hurt in that gunfire and in the process of the building being stormed, which seems to have taken place some 20 minutes ago now. >> barnaby, thank you very much jib deed. i'm going to allow our production staff in just a minute to play out the moment when we think the siege ended and then i'm going to ask robin if he can hear me, a former member of the s.a.s., to comment about what he thinks may well have happened there being a veteran of similar situations during the course of a long military career with the special air service. this was probably about 40 minutes ago. somebody will give me the exact time in just a moment. this is a live shot over

dammartin-en-gaulle near charles de gaulle airport where the suspects in the charlie hebdo killings were cornered and this is what we saw and heard. [ explosion ] [ gunfire ] >> robin let me bring you in here. you and i agreed that it was probably automatic gunfire we heard there.

up suggest it was a stun grenade. if there are only or if there were only two men in there would you expect to hear that number of shots. >> yeah, they were single shots if they were shots, they were single shots so the person has to pull the trigger for each individual shot. a chance it was a combination of both, the stun degree he mades stun devices making bangs with the actions of the assaulters, so that combined, it doesn't seem to be excessive at all. it seems to be well-controlled. clearly, somebody's made a very strong decision to get this over with before dark. they coordinated the assaults together and carried out their actions. that now we have to wait to see the results but such a strong decision made at such an early stage can only from my point of view be congratulated.

>> when you've done this other thing, you would know men were coming from other parts of the building the top or side. we're looking at a live shot from the area. how essential obviously coordination is absolutely vital, but how essential is it that it's all over pretty rapidly? >> it's absolutely essential. you don't want to end up with a firefight inside a building with people behind doors and barricades. you enter all the access points, all the rooms as exactly the same point in time and get the situation over with as quickly as possible. from what we've seen, it looked like it was over within about 15 seconds, which is absolutely ideal. that. >> ok, thank you robin. you're staying with us, i know. i'm going to be told now which of our correspondents is available, whether it's roar in porte de vincennes or whether it

might go going to jacki roland in our paris bureau. let's go to jacki first. you've watched the pictures on french t.v. do they think it's all over? >> it does appear that some of the scenarios we've been looking at with various experts here on al jazeera during the course of the past hour or so did come to fruition. as soon as we started here in reports that apparently the tacker porte de vincennes, it appears to have played out simultaneously --

simultaneous assaults against the warehouse in dammartin fort kilometers to the north of paris, where police said that the two suspects in the charlie hebdo killings, the brothers, said and cherif kouachi have been holed up, while at the same time an assault at the kosher supermarket at porte de vincennes on the eastern outskirts of paris. police said the name was amedy coulibaly, and he was holding hostages and threats of killing them. that both assaults launched simultaneously to basically end both the hostage taking situations at the same time, so there would be no question about the attacker in porte de vincennes learning about the

situation in dammartin-en-gaulle and executing hostages. it seems the only option was to deal with both situations simultaneously. >> jacki, i don't know whether you can see it. i'm sure you're aware of it, because you're across the situation more than we are but french newspaper reporting the two suspects of the charlie hebdo attack have been killed. have you got any official word on that? >> no official word. we're hearing the same as you. we're hearing reports. i to have couch all these reports in saying these are only on french media. i cannot confirm them. reports we have been getting from french media is that the two suspects from the charlie hebdo killings on wednesday the brothers cherif and said kouachi who had been holding

hostages inside the warehouse have been killed. french media reporting again we're going to have to wait for confirmation of this, but they had been holding one hostage and according to french media that hostage was not killed in the assault. the information we've been getting from porte de vincennes was that during the assault on the supermarket a number of hostages were released. no further details from media or from police about what has happened to the armed man at the supermarket or no reports about any potential injuries or casualties, people there. as i say these reports the only reports we have so far from french media is that apparently, we're told, the kouachi brothers, the alleged office of the attack against charlie hebdo magazine on wednesday in which 12 people were killed, we're hearing reports that they were killed in that police assault against the warehouse in

dammartin-en-gaulle. >> ok, nothing official as yet jacki, but a well respected french media organization saying that the two suspects have been killed the men cornered in the dammartin-en-gaulle, north of paris, the other siege if you want to call it that, in porte de vincennes which is in the east of paris. let's go to that. rory has been our man there. as we look at this picture because it's better than the picture behind you we'll just bring your voice in. are you hearing anything official about what has happened there? you reported the sound of a number of large explosions, other report in the french media of what may have happened, anything official? >> yeah, the reports are coming

out in french media. there's nothing specifically official that i've seen that's come from the police itself or at least named police sources. what we are hearing from the french media is that this situation is pretty much over, as well, and that a number of hostages have been released the newspaper reporting that the two suspects in the charlie hebdo shooting are dead, also saying that the suspects in this hostage situation is dead, as well. i'll take you through the chronology of the situation over the last few minutes or so, because as i was listening on my ear piece to our reporters to the north of paris where as the police stormed the buildings there, that almost at the same time that that was happening police were moving spectators

where i am further up the street. the police here started moving spectators up the street, getting them further and further away from the hostage situation. about 10 minutes after that, there were four very loud bangs separated by two seconds between each then about a minute and then another fifth bang. after that, there were some ambulances and fire engines that moved down the street toward the kosher supermarket. a few minutes after that, we started hearing some hostages had been released and also the newspaper saying that the hostage taker here is dead. >> other media outlets saying blast, gunshots at both france hostage sites and as you say lemond suggesting that in two separate instances at two separate locations there may have been fatalities, indicating these could well be the hostage

takers. let's rejoin barnaby phillips, i believe it is to be barnaby phillips at dammartin-en-gaulle. that this is the first of the two sieges that we think came to an end. first of all are you hearing anything officially, secondly, what are you hearing and being told? >> i'm hearing that the french news agency a.f.p. is with its sources saying that the kouachi brothers are dead, as jacki was telling us from our paris bureau and that the hostage who they held and from the information we had all day that there was a host acknowledge that the hostage they held was not killed in the assault. the only known proportion to that information which sounds completely plausible is that we had some misinformation during the day. earlier in the day, we had supports that a civilian had been killed in dammartin. that that turned out not to be true. we had reports from the scene of

the siege in the porte de vincennes that two hostages had been killed there and later got the official statement saying no that's not true, either. i think we should wait for that official statement but the information is consistent with the pictures and the sounds and all the sources seem to be pointing in one direction which is that the building was successfully stormed by the french and jack see in the paris bureau was right once the gunman had drown the connection between his siege and any possible assault on the kouachi brothers here, once he had said that he would start to kill his hostages if this building here in dammartin was seized, was stormed, rather, well the that point, the french authorities had to do some very hard

thinking and knew they were going to ever to act deceasively in both cases and simultaneously that's the crucial point. >> barnaby, one of the ways we can tell before we hear officially whether the situation is returning to normality would be a check of charles de gaulle international airport and two runways reopened. we're waiting to hear things like that, aren't we? >> yeah, we are waiting for that kind of information. we'll let you know as soon as we can. it's not much help to you but i can see two or three planes coming in to land at charles de gaulle right now to the west of me. the airport has remained busy throughout the day. authorities stressed although they closed the two northern runways, they managed to divert

traffic on to the southern runways and there was no major disruption to flights but you're absolutely right, if the run that ways are back at full operation, that would give us an indication. i'm going to turn around, if you don't mind and look at the road. perhaps we'll get guy our cameraman to look at the road into dammartin. i think he's just helping us there. you can see, you can probably see the lights are cars going in and out of town. >> this is normal traffic now is it? >> i would say that's normal traffic, yes absolutely. that's not -- the vehicles you're seeing there don't belong to the authorities, they are not ambulances or police cars. have gone said that, i'm just now seeing, you are probably going to see some blue. >> we can see them, too yeah. >> good, ok, all right. three ambulances going into

dammartin. we were showing you earlier a larger convoy of ambulances going into dammartin, as well. on the whole it seems the vast majority of traffic is just the good people of dammartin going about their business. >> barnaby unnamed government source quoted by reuters you'll see this in a minute when you get a chance to look at your phone, the two charlie hebdo attack suspects in dammartin-en-gaulle killed by security forces, attributed to a government source. we'll come back to you. this is the kouachi brothers, said and cherif, a government source unnamed by reuters saying these two suspects have been killed. they are the two suspects of the killing at the charlie hebdo offers on wednesday. we're close to getting an

official named official telling that you say this has ended. this is a siege in a small french talk about about 40 kilometers, i've been corrected, i thought it was 30k's north of paris but close to charles de gaulle airport. the men were cornered, took a hostage. the suggestion not confirmed as of yet is that that hostage has not been killed. we don't know whether in fact he was wounded but we saw the bangs, smoke rising from the building a slight flash in the fading light and the sound of what we believe to be gunfire automatic fire coming from that building and then in apparent relaxation in the security around there. the kouachi brothers, we have been told by an unnamed government source, are dead. i want to tell you about the other siege there. you see the smoke and you can see a small amount of flames and

then we'll hear the automatic gunfire. that is dammartin-en-gaulle. this is as security forces moved in to end the siege. n gunfire ] forty kilometers south and east. that this is a suburb of paris.

>> that is the kosher supermarket in porte de vincennes, where another gunman, who it was suggested was related to the kouachi brothers, not relatives, but related a device was thrown in and the security forces go in, according to a government source. they say that the suspect in the porte de vincennes incident has been "neutralized." these are pictures we took from french television a while ago. you see that than, that is the special forces french van members of the police force.

i'm not sure whether that's us rolling the same picture again or whether that was a second explanation. ok, it was just the one explosion that we he recorded there. we're showing it to you for a second time. the suggestion is that the hostages that were held there in the porte de vincennes supermarket have been freed and that the hostage taker has been "neutralized." >> yeah, what it seems what it looks like is that there has ban coordinated assault by french police or two different sites separated by many kilometers. one of them taking place here where i'm standing in the east of paris, porte de vincennes another one happening way to the north of paris where the two

suspects in the charlie hebdo shootings have been holed up. as i was listening to the gunfire coming from the north of paris in my ear piece listening to you and our correspondents talking about that. the police here were moving people up the streets making that cordon, that security cordon a little bit wider, a little bit further out. some 10 minutes after that, there were four very loud explosions seemed to be flash bangers concussion grenades or something like that, and then a minute after that, a fifth one. now following that, we saw some ambulances and fire engines go part and then the french media started reporting that the situation here have been resolved the hostages were being freed and the hostage taker here like in the north of paris was dead. >> rory, thank you very much, indeed.

that's rory reporting from porte de vincennes. i should once again, at the risk of repeating myself, point out that i think this is still east of paris, point out there had been some supposed link between the man holing some number of hostages at the jewish supermarket there and the kouachi brothers, those suspected of killing the 12 people at the magazine offices of charlie hebdo on wednesday and that within a matter of minutes of each other those sieges were brought to an end by french security forces and an unnamed government source say the kouachi brothers, this is 40 kilometers north of paris are killed and the scene we see here, porte de vincennes the hostage taker there has been

"neutralized." it would appear both of those hostage taking situations have ended. we understand the fatalities were the hostage takers themselves. no official word that all of the hostages have been freed. rory tell us how it all started close to where you are. this is the eastern suburb of paris. that. >> sorry, were you talking to me there? >> yeah, tell us how it all began in that part of paris where you are. >> yeah, ok three that it began about 1:30 in the afternoon french time, when the gunman stormed into a kosher supermarket here in porte de

vincennes, took some five or six people hostage. there was gunfire reports of a number of injuries, but as far as we are aware no fatalities in the early sequence of this hostage situation. then the police arrived en masse, armed response unit, they put up a large police cordon around this whole area. they evacuated schools houses, got as many people as they could out of the area. then it essentially went quiet for about two or three hours, with the police standing off with the gunman inside. the police did release an identity of who they believed was responsible for this, a man called amedy coulibaly, also a woman, hayet boumddiene.

there was information came out that the police had been in contact with the gunman here. he had said that if the armed response units went and tried to storm where the kouachi brothers were holed up to the north of paris, then he, here in porte de vincennes would start shooting the hostages that he he had taken. that made it very clear really, that if the police were going to do anything to bring these two separate siege situations to some sort of conclusion, they had to do it simultaneous, they had to do it with a short a time frame as possible between the two situations. it was only 10 minutes after the gunfire erupted to the north of paris that the police stormed the buildings there that here in porte de vincennes the police moved against the gunman holed

up inside the kosher supermarket, and it seems like at the moment, as far as we're aware, both situations have been resolved with the death of the hostage takers, but as far as we're aware no deaths of hostages. >> rory, thank you very much indeed. that's rory in the east of paris. because a short while ago this happened at a jewish supermarket, where hostages were being held. french security forces going in and we understand according to unnamed official sources but quoted as saying that the hostage taker in there as they put it "neutralized," and the

hostages themselves able to get out. this has ban security nightmare for french authorities in many ways. as we go to jacki roland, a nightmare in terms of having to deal with it, but if the suspects have been killed and if there have been very few since wednesday, fatality it is, if any, as a result of all that we've seen, they would be thinking that it had gone pretty well so far relatively well. >> so far i think being the key words there yes. i mean, in terms of the casualties associated with the ending of these two different sees as we've been saying, reports now sourced to unnamed interior ministry officials saying yes the kouachi brothers dead, also a french media reports that the hostage taker at the supermarket dead, as well. we've been getting a few more details from the french media

about exactly how the siege ended in dammartin. obviously our cameras were looking from one particular angle and we were able to see the debt nations on the roof and smoke, and able to see figures outside the building. according to french media once those debt nations went off apparently reportedly, the kouachi brothers came running out of the building, opening fire. that that was when they were killed and there were also reports that one member of the french swat team engaged in that operation has been injured during the operation. those are all reports more in detail if you like being sketch in by french media as to how that played out. certainly from a point of view of ending these situations, the security forces certainly different spend too long. once there had been reports that the situation could last for hours, if not days, particularly because of the existence of

hostages, as well, because clearly the safety of the hostages was very important consideration for the security forces actually in carrying out those raised, but in fact, both of those situations resolved around about nightfall. certainly we can expect to see the french president and foreign minister prime minister con lating the security forces on ending the cries. the hostage in dammartin held by the kouachi brothers, it's reported was released unhurt. we actually saw some pictures of people fleeing from the supermarket during those shots that we were watching from french television at the end of the siege there. we're told that hostages were freed. we don't know he whether all were freed. certainly there haven't been reports of hostages killed or wounded. that we haven't heard anything about that yet. i think we can expect french politicians to praise the professionalism of the french security services, but certainly

the whole fallout of these incidents will go on for sometime to come. questions about the extent to which french people can feel safe in their own cities. also there will nevertheless be frustration that the security forces were not able to take these attackers alive because clearly the security forces, intelligence agencies would ever liked to question them to try to get names of other people. clearly there was at least some kind of informal network. police spoke about a link or connection between the presumed attacker at the supermarket named amedy coulibaly and the two kouachi brothers. that there was always a fear that there could be other attackers, other potential assailants out there other people who shared some of the

opinions motivations of the men involved in the siege events to the north and east of paris today, fears that there could potentially be a repeat of this kind of situation. >> jacki, thank you very much indeed. perhaps add to go that, i'm about to give you an update on the overall situation the reuters news agency saying the u.k. authorities ever stepped up security at jewish institutions because of what happened at that kosher supermarket. time to rub through what has been happening. it's been a very, very busy hour and a half since i came on air with the al jazeera news and headline news is that two hostage situations in and around paris have come to an end.

porte de vincennes in the east of paris gunshots and explosions heard at a coacher supermarket where an armed man had been holding multiple hostages. reports say he has been "neutralized." while nearly simultaneously the two brothers blamed for the attack on satirical magazine chill were killed. police moved in and blasts and automatic gunfire were heard that coming just before what happened at the other siege. said and cherif case cornered near the charles de gaulle airport. it had been named that the sole hostage taken there had not been harold. let's go to barnaby phillips in dammartin-en-gaulle following all of those they willments. we talked about the number of emergency vehicles going up the

road toward dammartin a small industrial area, part of this town. >> relatively well from the point of view of the french authorities in terms of where they are where they were this morning. that's right. the deaths of the two hostage takers who we believe are said and cherif kouachi not officially confirmed by a named government officer but everything is pointing in that direction. we've also heard in the last few moments that one police officer was injured. we don't know hoe seriously during the assault. we understand that a hostage who had been taken by the two suspects is safe, and we also have that little bit of detail which jacki was referring to earlier, that the kouachi brothers apparently came out of this printing warehouse where

they had been holed up for much of the day firing their guns and that is when they were killed. it seems that, i suppose, two and a half days of madness and frenetic activity in paris and the in the vicinity of paris has come to an end. i've just done a very quick tally, 16 deaths in all if you think of the 12 killed on wednesday, the police woman murdered on the streets yesterday and then today the three suspects killed, the one in paris that makes a total of 16. i think there will be some regrets amongst parts of the french intelligence establishment that they weren't able to talk to these suspects, they weren't able to find out what motivated them, who armed them where they worked, what

international connections they had. there will be from some frustrations about that and all other european capitals, indeed in the united states but i think also on the part of the french security forces, there will be some satisfaction, because once you had a hostage situation developing then you had two hostage situations developing simultaneously this could have ended more tragically and with more bloodshed than it seems to have been done. >> we are approaching the top of the hour here on al jazeera and as barnaby talks about the fact that the three hostage takers have been killed, 16 deaths in total over the course of the last 48 hours or so, it is worth reiterating that when police released picture of the man they believe to have taken the hostages in eastern paris in porte de vincennes they also

released a picture of his partner, believed by many people also to be his girlfriend. that woman has yet to be confirmed either to have been in that supermarket and either captured or killed or to be still on the run. that the headline news this hour the two sieges in france involving a number of hostages are both over, and we understand that all of the gunman, the three involved have been killed. i'll be back in a couple of minutes. minutes.

you are watching al jazeera, i'm david foster. these are the latest developments out of france. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: french police killed the two brothers suspected of being the charlie hebdo attackers. and in the eastern suberb of paris, police storm a supermarket, killing a gunmen holding hostages. it is being reported that a number of hostages have died. ♪ two incidents