paris mourns the victims of yesterdays attacks which killed 129 people >> it's an act of war committed by a terrorist army. >> this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, arrests in belgium in connection with those attacks as police begin to identify perpetrators.

a timetable for new elections in syria. kurdish fighters who captured sinjar in iraq say they found mass graves of men and women killed by isil. sinj sinjar. >> at least 129 people were killed and 352 injured in the attacks in paris. police in belgium have arrested seven men linked to two cars thought to have been used in the attacks. isis has taken responsibility saying it's revenge for syria and iraq. the paris prosecutor said three teams appear to have carried out the attacks in six key locations. the night of violence began around 20 past 9:00 local time when the first of three bombs

went off outside a stadium. three suicide bombers and one other person died there. then they attacked a restaurant and a bar where at least 15 people were killed. five dead shot shortly afterwards at another restaurant. two kilometers gunmen killed 19 people in another restaurant and a few minute later, a suicide bomber set off a bomb but failed to kill anyone else. and then four attackers entered the concert hall killing at least 89 people during a two-hour siege. >> we'll be live in paris shortly but first this report from al jazeera. >>reporter: paris is in

mourning. at the bar where at least 12 people were killed, mounting tributes and stunned silence. she lives next door to the bar when the firing started, she rushed for cover. >> around 9:00 o'clock we had a lot of noise and panic. we went outside and saw people lying on the ground. the last body was only taken away early this morning. it's been really difficult for everyone here. >>reporter: this once vibrant neighborhood is now struggling to comprehend the mass murder that happened here. >> shot here and around the corner also. and they camed at a very popular district, one people use to go out on friday night. so i think because they were really sure that it would kill a lot of people there. >>reporter: imagine a busy friday night here in a trendy part of paris. it would have been bustling with

noise and color until the killers drove past firing indiscriminately into the crowd. one of a series of deadly and coordinated attacks. close to the bar people of paris line up to give blood. it's one way people feel they can help. the response has been overwhelming. the single most violent attack happened here at the bataclan concert hall where hundreds were attending a rock concert. this amateur footage shows people fleeing the building into the side street. a woman hangs from a first floor balcony. two other people drag a badly-injured man down the street. more than 80 people died here. the area remains sealed off while forensic teams gather evidence. and at another restaurant, more murders and more questions.

since the attacks ten months owing on charlie hebdo, france has been in a state of high alert. it's difficult to know what france can do next to keep its citizens safe. the paris prosecutor has been given further details of the investigation so far. >> a black car parked in front of the bataclan, three people burst into the room and shot into the area taking hostages in the audience in front of the band. we saw the most number of victims. the terrorists then talked about syria and iraq during the assault. three terrorists were killed. the first by the authorities while the other two blew themselves up. let's get more from paris now. hi there, david. talk us through what the mood is

like in paris right now. >> well, extraordinary scenes behind me. you can see about 200 people gathered in the main square here. they are standing in silent candlelit vigil. they're shocked and dismayed. they hope there are no more accomplices and killing teams out there but nobody really knows at the moment. there's a lot of false alarms. there was another fear of a shooting at the eiffel tower that is closed and no longer lit up. paris knows they're facing a very well organized enemy. the men who created the scenes of havoc over that night were seven cold hearted professional killers.

they were all armed with automatic rifles and they knew how to use them. they also had suicide vests filled with ball bearings, and a push button debt nater to increase the carnage and the maiming and killing. isil has claimed they are their soldiers. the point is how many more soldiers they have and if france is being singled out by this attack. we know arrests have been made in belgium. a car with belgium plates was seen leaving the focus of the attacks and it was found out that three men were arrested in that car. they did track them down in belgium and one of them was a frenchman in his 40s apparently who hired the vehicles which the gunmen used in their coordinated attacks here in paris on friday the 13th. an extraordinary effort is being

made by the french security forces, by the french army to try and keep calm here on the streets. and the people of paris and indeed the people of the whole of france are saying they will stick to their values. this will not change them. france will remain loyal to the values it has always kept and it will keep together. this will not disunite france. and what kind of response has there been more internationally to security? >> well, i think every single leader in the western world has expressed sympathy, especially perhaps president obama who made the clearest and most el quantity statement when he said this is an attack essentially on all of humanity. and one of the banners on the statue behind me sets we are

human. this is the point, they will not be deterred from their principles and their morality and ethics by such an attack but there is a sense of alarm and fear that the french intelligence services did not have any indication did not have any idea this attack was going to be launched. it's a remarkable feeling here in paris. they are trying to stay calm but there is fear on the streets. >> david chase there joining me live in the center of paris. david, thank you paris was already reeling from the charlie hebdo attacks in january. the french government is of course facing difficult questions over its ability to deal with threats to its security. >>reporter: paris under attack again. this time with more sophisticated and deadly effect. the president has called it an

act of war. >> faced with war, the country has taken appropriate steps. it's an act of war committed by a terrorist army, diash against france, the values we up hold throughout the world against who we are, a free country which speaks to the whole planet. this was the response of right wing opposition leader expected to do well with views like these in upcoming regional elections. >> islamic fundamental immust be destroyed. france must ban the organizations and deport foreigners an illegal immigrants with nothing to do here. >> we decided to hit isis in

iraq and syria and we are the mode we're in now >> does it surprise you that france has been singled out for these kinds of attacks? >> not much. not much. >> the government has put the army onto the streets but questions will be asked about its preparedness before these attacks. >> things have evolved into a much-more disturbing manner than i think anybody imagined. the french were expecting something fairly big. but sit the sheer sophistication of this series of attacks which really strikes you. >> and there's another disturbing possibility. a syrian passport discovered near the body of one attacker is said to match identification details recorded on the greek island of leros. the killer may have arrived among boat loads of refugees in october.

>> the streets of paris are stunned into an eerie quiet. >> in the immediate aftermath of those january attacks, people filled up here if the world leaders gathered as well. france stood united among its allies in defense of its freedoms. now such gatherings are banned. this feels like a far more fractured defensive france, a president promising to defeat the enemy outside. a rising opposition leader looking for the enemy within. a nation of deep disquiet. we're joined by a consultant fellow of international diplomacy. very warm welcome to the program. i can imagine that the next

week, days, months, in paris, france, the interfacial community are tender. what happens next? the policies that get put in place. they to be very careful not to alienate people within their society that hold a large part of the answer here. >> that's exactly what they should be doing and hopefully most of the politicians will do this. the only concern that i think exists is that there is an election coming up and there are many politician politicians on the extreme ends who want to exploit the fear and concern by trying to blame the ethnic

minority. >> it's an area of concern and whether or not this passport is genuine, i think that this is a very important wakup call for checking the security of people coming in. we allowed in knowingly at times some very extreme troublemakers and we've paid the price for that. so i don't think there's a problem if the security services and the border agencies investigate the people that are coming in for political asylum. it should be relatively easy to discriminate between a genuine asylum seeker and those with an

shadowed past. to find a different way? >> well, the ideal -- war has to go on. it's all very well, the president saying we're going to be merciless. it very much depends on how he's going to be merciless and what he needs to do is accept if we're going to confront daish rather than contain it, it's bleeding out terrorism every few months, if he wants to confront it, he really needs to push for an international strategy with everybody involved with a

political strategy and a military strategy. which must use state power not necessarily western state power but forces from the region to confront and to eliminate daish on the ground. if you eliminate daish on the ground, you win the ideal onlying cal war because that promises territory and promises estate and we need to nonstrait to them that they're not going to get that. the international community is united and will defeat them. thank you very much for joining us. you're watching al jazeera. still to come, praying for paris, france mourns the victims of friday's attacks and tributes paid around the world.

welcome back. the french president has described fridays attacks on paris as abact of war against its country. at least 129 people were killed at various locations across the french capital. and police in belgium have arresteded several people in connection with those attacks in paris. a car hired in belgium and found near the concert hall in paris is being investigated

meanwhile, progress at peace talks in vienna aimed at ending syr syria's war. john kerry and his russian counterpart led discussions and have agreed to begin negotiations by january and hope to hold new elections within 18 months. >> this political process has to be accompanied by a cease fire. at this time will help to end the blood shed as quickly as possible and help rapidly define who wants to be considered a terrorist and who is not understanding that daish and al nusra are clearly in that category now. >> we have reiterated that syria's future will be decided by the syrian people alone. also in in regard to the destiny of mr. assad and any other

politician in this country a shocking discovery made in sinjar. fighters have now found mass graves containing the body of those mercilessly targeted by isil for a year. >>reporter: after they advanced swiftly into sinjar, evidence of isil's brutality comes to light. a soldier places items that investigators say were found on this site. they include bones hair, and personal items. he says members of his family and relatives are buried here. he's angry about what happened. >> we understand this is war. we know people will die. but this is more. we will never forget what they did here. we will have our revenge. >> according to the u.n., isil killed at least 3,000 yazidi men

and women when it took control of this region in june, 2014. the i can't syazidi practice an religion that isil is against. >> as the kurdish go further into the town, it is very likely they'll find more mass graves. >> the head of the local intelligence department says it's further evidence of isil's violence. >> we keep finding evidence and this needs to be documented and recorded. it's up to this man to record that. he's from sinjar and worked with the icc for 13 years and advises

the government on war crimes and genocide. this grave contains 76 bodies including women and that it might qualify for genocide. >> these young girls managed to escape from isis and they came to our center for interrogation and gathering evidence. i am leading that project. they told us about this -- they've been there and they told us that they mentioned all the details. so this is evidence. >> given the ferocity of the u.s.-coalition air strikes, it's likely vital evidence of killings in this town will have been lost. but of the yazidi, relief that some evidence is being discovered it felt the pentagon says a u.s. air strike has killed the head of isil's libyan branch. he was previously associated

with al quaeda. five syrians and one palestinian arrested in connection with thursday's double bombings in beirut. it killed 43 people in a city controlled by hezbollah. world leaders arriving in turkey ahead of the next g-20 summit. global economic issues top of the agenda although likely overshadowed by events in paris. the french paris won't be at tenting the talks but is sending ministers in his place. security is of course high. 11 people arrested for protesting ten people killed after a train crash in eastern france. it happened near strasburg. technicians were testing the train at the time. local authorities have blamed

excessive speed. a frenchman in london has been arrested after being suspected of having a gun. the man discarded an item in a bin. they discovered what appears to be a firearm and have removed it for examination. they arrested the man from france on suspicion of firearms offenses. tens of thousands of protesters have clashed with police in seoul who are angry about a government plan to put state-issued textbooks into the schools. it's -- european union has announced the families of its staff working in brundi should temporarily plif the country. the decision was taken because of the worsening security situation there. at least 240 people killed in political violence since april

since the president began a controversial bid for a third term. violence has continued in the country. a global demand for palm oil is fuelling a development boom in africa. but the trade comes at a price and is threatening endangered wild life. conservationists fear the future is marked by disappearing forests and endangered wild life. >> we're doing our best to practice best management techniques for our forest. they are not only our forest. they belong to -- the jungle hats long been its greatest protector.

since national route 2 was expanded in august, each day the modern warld rolls into the modern willederness and over the planets second largest tropical forest. >> this forest is very large. i could walk for days and days and then come back. there's no concern about this forest. >> now along the new highway, a new threat has emerged. palm oil planations grown on what was once tropical forest land. makers of the oil used a staggering array of products from sweets to moistizers. indonesians burned so much forest land that some day they emit more green house gases than the entire united states. this forest has been clear cut in order to build palm trees for

palm oils. it used to be high jungle as in the back drowned. that's not a major problem yet as it has been in asia but it threatens to be. preservationists say the greatest new threat is agricultu agricultureal encroachment. >> many of the things that you've seen right now if you think about cam bode i can't, lots of land clearance. that would be very much a risk for africa, congo in particular in the next few years if that kind of thing is not well managed >> some palm oil companies say they've been especially careful to avoid that. >> there's a clear commitment to

ensure influx. prior to any related activities. >> two thirds of central africas forest land is ideal for the clock. in somber moments around the world, international landmarks have been lit up in the colors of the french flag. red, white, and blue. it's a show of solidarity and support as the country grieve ease the deaths of 129 people. let's take a look.

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