. >> the french in terror minister bernard cazenueve is on his way to the site.hat will be his role? >> the crisis cell is something that brings together very senior ministers and also the directors of the emergency services that we're talking about. we're talking about it is fire service, ambulance service and potentially the military, as well. we all saw this crisis activated two months ago when we would the series of shootings here in paris. that was the last time that we saw the french emergency services, security services mobilized to this kind of extent. so this is really the kind of gathering of top political military security emergency officials to respond to this kind of disaster. >> all right jacky rowland in paris. thank you. lets cross over now you to dominic cain who's been talking to us all morning from berlin. bring us up to date with details you've been hearing there that are emerging about the crash. >> three updates to bring you actually. in the first place the german government has set up a crisis response team, which it is sending to the incid

the french interior minister bernard cazenueve is there. this is the scene at the moment.rench president francois hollande confirmed the tragic events. >> it's tragedy a new aerial tragedy. we will make sure we know all the causes of what happened and share that information with all the concerned authorities german and spanish and contact all the families, as well. we're in mourning, because it's a tragedy that happened on our soil. i have the world to know if there are any consequences of the accident, it is in a zone very difficult to access. i don't know if there have been homes affected. we'll know this in the next few hours. in the meantime, solidarity is what we have to focus on. >> that was the french president, francois hollande coming out with the confirmation of the plane crash that had occurred a couple of hours ago on his country's soil. stay with us here at al jazeera. we will have more in just a minute or so to take you through the next couple of hours and of course bring you every detail as soon as we get it. we've got our correspondents in france and german

. >> the french interior minute at her bernard cazenueve is on his way to the crash site and the government is activate ago crisis cell. >> this crisis cell includes top politicians, notably the president himself and the interior minister, the prime minister, also top military officials, as well, because bearing in mind the difficult access to the site in the mountains, it's quite likely that military assets, like helicopters could be called upon but also heads of police, fire service ambulance and the last time we saw this kind of crisis cell come into operation was just over two months ago in paris at the time of those shooting attacks so again a very urgent situation for the french emergency services to respond to, and as i said quite possibly, the military, as well. >> juke key as you've been telling us, the plane crashed in the high alps in france. for those of us who don't know this area, we understand it's very mountainous tell us more about the area and its topography. >> it's extremely remote. the village of barcelonnette is accessible by mountain climbers or by helicopter. this is