>> live from dw here in berlin this is your world news. welcome. >> this is our special coverage of ran -- france after the end of two terror-related sieges. >> the brothers wanted for wednesday's massacre at the charlie hebdo magazine were killed. police managed to free. to be a prospect -- hostage the suspects were holding. >> moments later, shots rang out at a kosher supermarket where hostages were being held. the hostage taker was killed, but at least for hostages are also dead. >> in a speech to the nation

president onslow hollande calls for unity and is france is still facing threats -- president francois hollande calls for unity and says france is still facing threats. >> welcome to the show. we begin with details of a story that is very much still in progress. >> of incidents just mentioned look very much like a coordinated effort. in the east of harris at least one and perhaps two gunmen took a number of hostages at a jewish supermarket. >> police stormed that building, shooting at least one hostage taker. at least for captives have died as well. >> will get the very latest. first, we have this report. >> this is the moment dozens of police officers stormed the supermarket.

it's not immediately clear how many hostages were being held in or if the for talent is occurred during the police operation. the survivors were rushed to safety. around 2:00 p.m. local time, at least one gunmen stormed a kosher supermarket just hours before the start of the jewish sabbath. the area was immediately put on lockdown. streets in the vicinity were blocked as police surrounded the crime scene. >> personally, i don't think it's a coincidence they chose to enter a kosher supermarket just before sabbath. it's clear the individual wanted to attract a maximum amount of attention. >> it's unclear how many hostage takers were involved, but police believe one suspect, amedy coulibaly, was responsible for

the murder of a policewoman in paris on thursday. a 26-year-old woman is also wanted by police in connection with the killing. this was a major police operation. one which our dw correspondent was very nearly caught up in. >> to come into the crime scene -- ok, this seriously got a little -- >> ok. >> you just saw him in that report. he is on the ground or us in eastern paris. you were ordering of the jewish supermarket when the assault started. walk us through, if you would what happened. >> i'm standing now right next to the metro station.

at the moment of the police operation, when the police operation took race, we were some 500, 400 meters down the road. about 700 meters down the road is the location where the police action took place, where the shooting took place and we already were thinking that something might happen as police forces cleared the middle-of-the-road and asked people to step backwards. as that happened, the explosions were heard. we heard gunshots, and then there was a moment of panic when police asked everybody and literally pushed people away from that location, and we had to retrieve it. we had to leave our camera equipment and everything behind, and we were seeking shelter in a small shop, a hairdresser's salon where a lady asked us inside and actually let us into her flat. we were observing run a window what happened next.

we could see how special forces, some 20, 30 and then in full battle gear, injured the building. there was another explosion, and we could see that two people were apparently dead on the ground. there was a black cover put over these bodies, which we could see. i was counting together with my colleagues -- we were counting 10 people who were not in police uniforms that left the building. if all of these 10 where hostages is unclear. the wrench president just gave a short speech to express his sadness about this incident, and he also can armed that four of the hostages at scene have died. >> we were watching the video earlier before going to air. the situation sounding more like baghdad or kabul than paris. what happened exactly? how many hostages are dead? we understand at least one

hostage taker has been killed. one is perhaps on the loose. the less in with some details if you could please. >> the hostage taker here apparently has been shot. that has not been confirmed, at least by the policeman i could talk to, but that is what we have heard in the wrench media. he has been shot. also numeral or hostages have been shot. that was information heard in the speech. that can be confirmed. apart from that, there's conflicting reports if the girlfriend of that hostage taker was actually in the location as well or if she was somewhere else. >> following this quickly moving story for us. they with us if you could. we'll be getting back to you later in this program. thanks for now, though. after an unprecedented manhunt

north of paris, police have shot dead the suspects in the killings at the satirical magazine charlie hebdo. the dramatic and to an hours-long siege came at that industrial complex. >> another gunmen associated with those assailants was also killed, but not before he took the lives of numeral or hostages at that kosher supermarket in eastern paris -- the lives of 4 hostages at that kosher supermarket in eastern paris. >> we will go live in just a moment, but first, let's look at this report. >> police moved in shortly after dark. they stormed the print shop where the alleged assassins were hiding. a few minutes later, the message came -- both had been killed. there hostage was free. throughout the day, the small town had been holding its breath. anti-terror police cordoned off the area.

schools were evacuated. police warned residents to stay home and keep window blinds closed. authorities tried to contact the armed men by telephone. it was unclear at first if the two were holding a hostage, but the police were confident the men were the suspected charlie hebdo killers, cherif and said kouachi. the brothers were on a u.s. no-fly list, and the french government confirmed both had been in contact with the islamic terror network al qaeda in yemen . by evening the people breathe a sigh of relief -- the nightmare that had held all of france in suspense since wednesday had come to a dramatic end. >> let's go live to max hoffman. he has been at the scene of that other hostage taking since earlier today. how did this all play out? you were there with each came to

an end -- when the siege came to an end. >> we came here about midday today. what you see now looks of course like a normal traffic seen in northern france and rural lands. but this was all full of lease cars. nobody was allowed to get through here except for journalists and, of course, police officers. everybody just waiting for something to happen because the industrial zone where the hostage takers were is about one point five or 1.8 kilometers in this direction. we could not really see it, but at one point, we heard explosions and a little smoke rising up, and that is when we knew that something happened. that is also when helicopters started flying above our heads and that is of course when we got the confirmation that the suspects of the terrorist attack for charlie hebdo were dead. >> the suspects apparently came out with their guns blazing. it looked very much like they were determined to die.

what do you think? >> that is what we have been hearing also. they were not ready to go to prison or this. they wanted to have a martyr's death. at least that is what has been transmitted. one french tv station managed to talk to them on their cell phones while they were over there, and that is when they confirmed that. we do not know exactly how everything went down in the end. there are reports that they did come out with guns blazing, but that has not officially been confirmed. there's many details to be sorted out still. a lot of information that we are waiting for has probably not even going to the police to tell us how this went down, but the interior minister himself or maybe the president of the republic, as we speak. >> thanks so much for now max. we'll be getting back to you later in this show. >> for a little operational

expertise, let's bring in the deputy director of the european policy college and former german police officer. with the teat of key suspects dead, can we really call this a successful end to the siege -- with the two key suspects dead. >> we still have to take notice that there have been further officers killed in this situation. the good thing is really that the current situation, the big operation is coming to an end. i've heard that there is still potentially one further suspect on the run. >> a lot of questions have been raised about how these guys got radicalized, their history, the fact that one of them may have traveled to yemen to train. any idea about where they got their weapons where they got their training? can forensics put his picture

together? >> after these terrorist attacks, there will be a lot of investigations necessary, and the question addressed to me at this point, i think there's no answer possible to this. to be trained in such a way to commit such terrible attacks i think there is one option that they have been trained in yemen or syria or somewhere else, but i think the other question, where they got the weapons from, unfortunately, it is so possible to get such weapons somewhere in europe. >> do you think that france is especially at risk among european nations for homegrown terrorism, or are other countries very much at risk as well? >> i think france has a really strong engagement in some of these countries. they may have a special risk, but, also, other european countries -- and this is not a new situation. they are well aware that other

countries have a severe risk. >> thank you very much. >> as our correspondent mentioned a short while ago the french president did give a statement to the nation. >> he described what happened at the paris supermarket as "an appalling anti-semitic act." he described the attack is as fanatics who have nothing to do with the religion of islam. he said once good cook with the challenges but that the country will continue to face that -- he said that france could cope with the challenges that the country will continue to face threats. >> france alone has seen more than 1000 of its young muslim citizens travel to syria to fight islamic state. between 3000 and 4000 european muslims in total are fighting for the caliphate together. every day that number grows.

>> they want to bring their jihad to europe. in the latest video released by the islamic state, militants have called on wrench jihadist to commit terrorist attacks at home and burn their passports. their goal is said to be to strike there in the hearts of the west. a video of the shooters in paris indicates they received military training. one of the brothers is believed to have visited an al qaeda training camp in yemen. they may have acted as lone wolves. experts see such attacks as especially risky. >> these are people of any age who have engaged with al qaeda or i.s. propaganda for years or even just short-term. they take it in, consumer, following here they are sort of stuck here in western society

even though they despise it. that may be for jobs or family reasons or because they are afraid to go to's area -- to syria. in some cases, security officials may stop them going. >> a dusseldorf mosque is home to an organization that advises those close to use in danger of extremism as part of a german-wide network aimed at helping to stop young muslims from radicalizing. around a dozen cases have been treated here anonymously. >> we now know that radicalization does not take place within a few weeks. instead, it is a process across years. we believe young people begin to stand out in some way during this process. certain things become conspicuous, and we must respond. in the past, that did not happen efficiently. >> german intelligence estimate that at least 550 german islamist have left the

country to wage jihad. around a third have returned, traumatized and with weapons training. security officials say it's only a matter of time before an attack occurs in germany. >> we've heard often from the authorities that they are at their limits and we are at capacity just in terms of evil. there is an enormous amount of work in surveilling german suspects around-the-clock. their offices must handle that first. >> security officials want to stop german islamists from leaving the country. the goal is to prevent extremists from going to training camp. >> were happy to be join now on set by the editor of the magazineomomomomomome to the program.

first off, the big question right now -- the men in rants in paris -- were they under the command of islamic state? >> i don't think so, that we do not have any substantial proof yet. i think this is more like a movement is on ideology, and we see that the islamic state is trying to rebrand or even claim ownership of these attacks it are on. we heard about a mosque in basel saying that this was just the beginning, and they would continue with the attacks on germany or whatever, great britain, allied forces, allied countries. this is a typical pattern. they are encouraging young people to do any kind of attacks, but they do not necessarily happen under the direct command, which is a big difference in the case of al qaeda. >> so there's no direct connection right now? >> i do not think so. there is a command structure here. >> this attack seems unusual.

the oaks and carried it out -- the folks who carried it out seem to have military training. witnesses say they were not excitable, not agitated but really on a mission. is this a new dimension? >> i think so. the mixture of jihadist ideology but at the same time, the extremely violent and extremely cold blooded execution of such an operation -- this is really remarkable. the jihadists we are dealing with are of a generation many security forces did not reckon with. they thought young recently radicalized jihadist just returning from syria would be the ones we have to deal with, but we are just realizing these people have been known for over 10 years. lived their life for a couple of years and people thought they were over it somehow, and suddenly, they returned with military equipment

. >> you talk about a second-generation movement, new methods. a journalist -- are journalists special targets and can we expect them to be attacked in the future? >> i think so. the role of the journalist has permanently shifted. they are no longer people that jihadists would like to win their minds, get them on their side, to have them report their story, but they have become an asset for abductions kidnappings, but i want to remind you that today in saudi arabia, a journalist was last publicly for having committed more or less the same offense insulting the profit -- proh phet. in libya too, tunisian journalists have been killed, so muslim journalist art in as much danger as western journalists and we should keep that in mind.

>> we will be getting to that story from saudi arabia later in the program. thanks for tipping us off to that. thanks so very much. >> muslims in germany say they are wary the paris -- worried the paris attacks will inflame anti-islam sentiment here. >> the german president made an urgent appeal to the population. he said, "don't let us be divided by hate." germany's justice minister says people of different religions in germany need to get to know each other better. >> a show of solidarity between german politicians and muslims. the justice minister paid a visit to berlin's largest mosque , a symbolic visit signaling willingness for dialogue and the hope that lujan and governments will not be swayed by terrorism. >> we should be engaging in regular conversations.

it is a prerequisite for keeping radical forces at bay. fears that have no basis in fact should not be allowed to grow and leverage. >> the imam here echoed those words and vehemently condemned the violence in paris, adding there can be no justification for terror and hate. many of the faithful here are concerned. they have heard about isolated attacks on wrench mosques over the last couple of days. it's possible that attacks will occur here as well. it has happened or with graffiti and things like that. we'll have to be more cautious. >> the justice minister delivered one very clear message to german muslims. >> freedom is invaluable but overwhelming surveillance is no answer to terrorism. that's just a form of activism, and activism will not stop a single terrorist.

>> that is why he is rejecting calls for tougher law enforcement -- for now at least. >> now to the story we were just hearing about in the muslim heartland of saudi arabia. authorities have started carrying out a sentence of 1000 lashes for a blogger found guilty of insulting islam, despite the international appeals for clemency. >> reports say the human rights activist was whipped for 15 minutes while shackled. he has been imprisoned since 2012 for criticizing saudi clerics. he is to receive 50 lashes for 20 weeks in what rights groups described as a barbaric act of cruelty. nigeria's military has launched an offensive to reclaim a northern town of radical islamist group boko haram. ground forces were supported by airstrikes in an effort to push militants out of the town, and a nearby military base was taken over the weekend. thousands of people fled and

hundreds were reported killed. human rights organization amnesty international has called it over from's deadliest massacre -- boko haram's deadliest massacre. >> we will be cap our top story right now with what we know. the french president has made a televised address to the nation after special forces stormed the sites of both islamist hostage dramas in and near paris. the suspects in the charlie hebdo massacre were killed, and the hostage they were holding was read. moments later, police in central eastern paris stormed a jewish grocery store where hostages were being held. 4 civilians there were killed. let's go back to outside that jewish supermarket in eastern paris. what is the latest? we understand that among the hostages at that establishment were children.

>> indeed. what i could observe is one baby, and i've heard reports that another two children were amongst the hostages. i just talked to a colleague from french television who gave me an interesting detail. he said they managed to get the hostage taker on the phone but after that interview, he forgot to switch off the own, so police and the tv station work able to listen on as the hostage taker apparently moved into prayers, and they took advantage of the situation. that is when they moved in to the building. when i listened and i could hear how max hoffman in the northeast of paris was explaining that the police were moving in, i was expecting something similar here . before hand, the hostage taker here was threatening to kill hostages here if the brothers were not freed. >> we have at least four

hostages dead. is that the situation right now? are there any more? how many survived? we understand police officers were ended as well -- wounded as well. >> i saw about 10 people leave the building. the numbers of hostages that are confirmed to be dead is apparently for -- 4. a fifth one is the hostage taker himself, and his girlfriend, an acquaintance apparently, is still on the run. those are the numbers i have at the moment. >> thanks so much for that for now. at the other seen, the site where the siege ended just hours ago, max hoffman is standing by tourists -- for us. we have a suspect at large, at least one. what can you tell us? is that affecting the situation where you are? >> the scene here is dying down.

after the whole intervention by the police was over, of course, they wrapped up and just left and went back to their bases, a back to paris. a lot of them came from the capital, of course, but also run the surrounding regions. the main question remaining is how did it all really go down? why did the police decide to go in when they did? did they decide to go in or just wait for the brothers to break down and come out? you have to keep in mind those two brothers were on the run for more than 50 hours. we do not know much how much they had to eat or drink how much they had slept what kind of psychological state they were in. if you think about that, it's always the miracle that the hostage they had apparently came out unscathed. at least that is what we are hearing. still waiting for official confirmation. maybe the president himself will shed light on that. >> thanks so very much.

>> leaders from across europe will be attending a mass rally in paris on sunday to commemorate the victims of these attacks. german chancellor angela merkel will president and the prime minister's of spain, italy, and britain. >> communities across the world have held a minute silence to remember the victims killed by gunmen in wins a's attack -- wednesday's attack in the french capital. that is all we have time for. thanks for joining us. stay with us. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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