somehow by crippling no grimaud policy of france's president emanuel mccrone praised the swift action of the police. i want to salute their engagement and their professionalism but especially their courage. particularly the courage of an officer of the gendarmerie who volunteered to take the place of a hostage to. the attack is rampage began in the medieval city of kharkiv around lunchtime he then moved on to tribe. we went and started our shopping and after some time we heard an explosion well several explosions. so i went to see what it was about and i saw a man lying on the floor and another person very agitated with a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other yelling allahu akbar. the french government says the islamist governments connections are under close investigation police have detained a woman and a young man believed to be linked to him more than two hundred forty people have been killed in islam ist attacks in france since the beginning of twenty fifteen the government says the terror threat level remains high. correspondent he said louis is following the story for us

france's president emanuel mccrone has been holding talks with prime minister narendra modi on his first official visit to india fourteen agreements have been psion following the ninety minute long meeting the focus has been on trade security and fighting climate change india and france are also co-hosting the first summit of the international solar alliance an initiative launched on the sidelines of the paris climate conference in twenty fifteen. after twenty years of strategic partnership we are now opening up to a new era a new chapter of strengthening our strategic partnership with unprecedented alliances the pacific or the indian ocean cannot be places for hedging money powers we are building a strategic partnership in this respect this is also the purpose of our defense cooperation it was born a while ago and was also tested in difficult times but beyond political alternatives both in france and in india this proper ration in the defense field now has new significance. and how our cooperation in the defense sector is very deep and we can see no france as one of our more stressed of

the prime minister shortly we're waiting on that press conference as paul was saying there from emanuel mccrone the the president of france will take that as soon as it begins in the meantime let's speak with the u.s. a who joins us now live from paris he's special ist on national security and racism good to have you with us what do you make of this this ongoing situation in southwest of france. no not because information keeps coming out of the only. people. by the government you know they say it's an act of terror based on what you should go on and second. and not so if there was then what happened to all the measures the government has. mississippi emergency. and the problems given to the police. government. right now. or the middle of the participle to. call him to power little boy. with this kind of rhetoric i just thought it did again and again every time you speak about collusion ship. or a specific religion would become targets. because. we're going to have. the guys at the ministry hours but again i'm not surprised but the government action. in the next few hours is you know we're goin

imagine french president emanuel mccraw of course needs berlin to back his european reforms well sort of reactions have you been getting from there. but tickly of manu mccrone it is he said immediately after this became clear this is good news for europe the belgian prime minister shouts michel he said now get on germany do your job and sort of push europe a bit forward and of course e.u. commissioners and everybody else here congratulated berlin on the result of this this questioning the base is the basis of the social democrats so general sigh of relief because what europe really wants needs is german stability angela merkel has been the beacon of stability for so many years now and this would have been a really bad point for european politics for her to sort of leave the scene as she knows how to make compromises in europe she knows how to handle people she is a fantastic negotiator behind the scenes and everybody really relies on her to bring forth compromises in the future about the e.u. reforms about the brics seek new negotiations and of course about the deep divide that is opening up between western and eastern european states and bottle of briefly