mary's eastern part of the northern neck and extreme eastern charles county also getting a band of very heavy snow right now. now, the sometiming hourg timing it will be quickly exiting southern maryland by about 88:00 9:00. leaving in its wake 2 to 4 inch amounts in parts of the northern neck and eastern shore and southern maryland where temperatures are in the upper 20s. we're in the low 2e metro area would wr we'll dusting to maybe an inch. 2 to 4 in the darker blue zone includes the northern neck extreme southern maryland and lower part of the eastern shore. it's a very fast moving system. the ground temperatures are well below freezing. there is a very light snow we can just barely see it on the tower camera this will all be tapering off and ending by around 9:00 10:00. post your photos on instragram twitter, facebook. and the rest of the afternoon, near 30. 20s tomorrow morning under a cloudy sky. so it's going to stay frozen overnight and any snow in place will still be there tomorrow morning. they're 40 tomorrow afternoon. and with sunshine low 40s on friday with sunshine. low 4

more than double because of the recipe living in the context and i'm calling this out because the eastern neighborhood eir the final eir of the eastern neighborhood hierltd that potrero hill pedestrians injuries are 2.6 times greater than than the average in san francisco and the eastern neighborhoods plan attributed this greater occurrence of injuries to the esteem lack of signals in intersections as well the parking of large trucks that interfere s with calibration you saw a number of photos peppering any commute route is the muni line and the number of years this commission has not served me well, it goes if 20 to 40 minutes commute each way the 20 line is the only line that runs north and south the new lines run east and west i'd like to sum up on the parking study it was found there was payroll available parking spaces of 6 hundred during the day and 13 in the evening this is i guess hard to believe i don't believe we have that many haven't spaces in san francisco i think i've made my point commissioner, i urge you to take action. >> thank you. >> your time is up. >> thank you. >> go

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in fact, russia has ties to nearly every part of eastern europe.hanks to energy, economics and russian speakers and ethnic people who spread out in the region over the centuries. like in ukraine some fear an embolden president putin can use pro-russia groups to further destabilize the region and it's an enclaves like these where putin has an out sized influence. >> translator: my personal opinion is that russia has started to get involved in ukraine only to help. without any intention of repeating what happened in crimea. >> reporter: like many in bulgaria who impose tough sanctions to russia and blames recent tensions in ukraine on nato expansion to eastern europe, moscow's traditional church. >> translator: in my opinion the west won the cold war. and has since been trying to put russia in the corner. >> reporter: russia in the 1990s was a weak and many respect humiliated country that was not able to project fore us and not able to defend its interests as it saw them at the time. so when large numbers of former soviet satellites joined nato or jo

to insure the neighborhood plan lives up to its promises and not a one-sided proposition for the eastern neighborhoods thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. . >> hi can i project something my name is sarah i'm a 20-year resident of san francisco and 7 year resident of potrero hill neighborhood i live directly across the street from the project i have 3 points i wanted to make regarding the draft eir and state i'm not anti development i'm pro responsible development conclusions in the draft eir conflicts that the defendant plan and general plan, which many people have mentioned further the draft eir states aesthetics and noise and air quality s are considered quote less than impacts i drawing interest recent errors in the calculations of percentage of open space on packages 54 and 69 pardon me any phone rang 2, 3, 4 both plays 37.5 percent is the percentage of open space and actually, it's 26.8 percent when calculations are done the developer will be asking for a rear yard exemption it is important to look at the open space proposed for the project they claim they're providing 35 thousan

neighborhood was pushing it's very exciting when the eastern neighborhood come out we got the pdr a necessary idea to support it deserves strong support we don't know about the uses that can't compete against office space we wanted to succeed here's an example an important test of this it appears to use the inclusionary housing model something that's in demand you pay good rent the space appears flexible we're not banking on one income it could be moved at&t park and adapted the choice of participating with sf made a expiring the hottest stick out in town they've appeared to catch something something going on here that we can develop and nurture small-scale manufacturing we keep hearing when the american industrial center that was built decades ago it was a successful ecology is is going to work is this the solution to pdr who knows but we absolutely should try it it maidens and appears to bring all the possibility together in one place and one time it's one of the most existing things about the eastern neighborhood in a longest time. >> i'm ross i've come to lend my voice to this i

it is eastern time now. noon eastern time. michelle over to you. >> simon, it is noon here in the east coast of the united states. 6:00 p.m. in paris. the two hostage situations in france are over ending in a violent finish with multiple dead at this on it. unclear the actual number. the two kouachi brothers who police say are the terrorists who killed 12 people at the magazine charlie hebdo. both gentlemen are dead according to reports. they came out guns blazing at a location northeast of paris and shot dead. they were holding one

those in eastern virginia, predominantly, were supportive of the confederacy. so, when virginia takes her vote for secession, the last vote on april 17, 1861, the majority of of the virginia delegates will vote to secede from the united states and to join the southern confederacy. those voters from northwestern virginia, who were overwhelmingly against secession, they would come back to this side of the mountains in west virginia. they would have mass meetings, public meetings, to decide what northwestern virginia would do and they decided they needed to have a place for a more formal convention and wheeling would be the place rest to have that convention. it would be safe, given that it is this wedge of land between the great and powerful union states of ohio and pennsylvania. there were safety there. it was a place for them to meet, to formulate a plan, and to embark upon one of the most incredible experiments in our american history, and the only successful secession movement in american history. there were a lot of issues that brought this thing to a head.

and yet what's happened in eastern ukraine may have fundamentally changed the game. today a new cold war is brewing. it's 10:00 a.m. an atom morning autumn morning in tran sil transylvania. demonstrations of force like this have taken on a new urgency for the west. here, beside the carr carpathian mountains in romania, just a seven hour drive from moscow. romanians and other eastern europeans who remember russia aggression, willingness to stop an emboldened russian president vladimir putin. >> now this is a new cold war reality. now we live in a new cold war but it's a danger for real war. >> not everyone shares the former romania president's fears that russia and the u.s. are bound for armed conflict. yet an increasing presence has left no room for error. when russia launched an unusually large number of combat aircraft near nato air space. nearly 2 dozen russian bombers and fighters swooped over the north sea, the black sea, the gulf of finland and the baltic sea. that intercept was captured here on never-before-seen video recently declassified by the norwegian mil

and this project pdr within walking distance of each other it is exactly what is envisioned in the eastern neighborhoods plan when dan murphy talked to three and four it seems like 10 years ago he didn't have control of the property it was a vision tonsillitis that's the type of vision we appreciate in inform this is totally underutilized where you're walking or biking it is not assessable what is going to happy is decade what should and where it should happy it is being designed in accordance with what san francisco made take their own building and which was not in existence in when the term was put button is lexicon with the large alley and the plazas that serves as an interaction space those of you who are conversant with current work environments know the old cubicles and private offices are being torn down and have desks like this one that are there for five or six people or two or three people to sit around and discuss what they're doing that's what i envision with the alley and as well as inviting the neighborhood in this is an excellent project and royals our packets didn't contain

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paris holding hostage and then a second hostage to was the second place at a kosher market in the eastern side of paris a slight change surrounding both locations. the >>darya: 2 people have been killed at the close of markets standoff involving a man and woman who they believe were involved in the shooting of a policewoman and paris the day before. >> reporter: the latest happenings in the eastern part of parents and on going house the situation at a kosher deli and the journalists at the same says that he saw someone on a stretcher being taken away at a heavy police were response to the area police have just released the names and photographs of two suspects a man and woman the date what more information they say that they are heavily armed and that is a separate situation unfolding that surrounded the main to line suspect from charlie and the tears attack a french media report in this one house is involved in that situation because his interior minister spoke for some twisting out that there are time to establish a dialogue with the suspect inside of that building reporting live from p

the rain will be confined mainly to the eastern sections of the viewing area. at 7:00, spotty showers in southern maryland. the moisture moving eastward. there will be a distinct cut off line of precipitation and dry weather. at 10:00, along the i-95 corridor showers and heavier bands of rain over the eastern half of the viewing area. to the west, more in the clear as far as no rain. at 3:00 as the cold front is sliding through, could be an isolated sprinkle, but i think some of us will be getting sunshine. as i take you hour by hour, waking up tomorrow, walking the dog, you may and counter some showers, but i think at about lunchtime, 44 the temperature and the rain beginning to wrap up. 48 the high tomorrow afternoon. monday, for those of you heading out to the martin luther king parade or maybe to see the statue, partly cloudy unseasonal, 40 degrees at 11:00 and the afternoon high of 44 which is where we should be this time of year. tuesday, going back to work and school after the long holiday weekend, high of 47. increasing clouds, the next clipper moves in

sanchez we are here this is stripping not that uncommon south of market and the eastern neighborhoods before the eastern neighborhoods plan was adapted in 2009 much of that was m zion p that allowed everything so the old sty industrial district so what happened, you have a lot of old industrial buildings where back when there was innovate as much pressure it was not on the radar the tenants would move in if it says projecting office they allowed for the tenant improvements to take place this is a greater concern we're looking at the permits a legal change of use hadn't necessarily happened even if it is an office notice all over it i've gotten calls from people saying oh, it's an office building no, it's at complex analysis that the zoning administrator does to see if there's an existing legal use this has to show proposed office use and it's designed by planning and most of the time has plans that show where the office space is in the building it's a technical analysis there are buildings owners that are not sophisticated or savvy to the process this is not the exception 24 is how it

those in eastern virginia, predominantly, were supportive of the confederacy.o, when virginia takes her vote for secession, the last vote on april 17, 1861, the majority of the virginia delegates will vote to secede from the united states and to join the southern confederacy. those voters from northwestern virginia, who were overwhelmingly against secession, they would come back to this side of the mountains in west virginia. they would have mass meetings, public meetings, to decide what northwestern virginia would do, and they decided they needed to have a place for a more formal convention and wheeling would be the place rest to have that convention. it would be safe, given that it is this wedge of land between the great and powerful union states of ohio and pennsylvania. there were safety there. it was a place for them to meet, to formulate a plan, and to embark upon one of the most incredible experiments in our american history and the only successful secession movement in american history. there were a lot of issues that brought this thing to a head. it ca

rory challands is in porte de vincennes in eastern paris where five hostages were held by a gunman. lawrence lee is in dammartin-en-geole where the kouachi brothers were holding a hostage in a factory. rory it was a shock day, not one siege but two. tell us what happened where you were. >> reporter: well some normalities returning to this part of eastern paris as you can see the road that i'm standing on now has traffic flowing down it. for most of the day this was completely off-limits to car and most people. police cordon set up behind me. the whole area blocked off as the situation unfolded in a jewish supermarket not far away. it began with one hostage situation and then as the day progressed another one unfolded. both of those, now ended. my colleague simon mcgregor-wood can give you a summary of the day's events. >> reporter: just as darkness was beginning to fall french police launched an operation to end the siege at the kosher supermarket in porte de vincennes. a number of explosions were heard fist and then as you can see in this video, heavily armed policemen started to s

eastern time. and if a lot of these homes are still compromised or maybe even in worse shape than they were this morning, that could be a real danger. they're trying to get a head count of people that they are sure are in a safe place right now. right now, several people are stranded. they had to pull them out of their homes. they don't really have a count on the number of people stranded. but that high tide at 5:00 p.m. is a major concern. there could be the potential for more people to become stranded in their homes. >> brian todd reporting for us, thank you so much. the media has been given an exemption on the travel ban to do this kind of information gathering and dissemination as well. cnn's been very careful to get that kind of exemption before we venture out on the roads. chad myers is standing by live, our chief meteorologist. one of the things i'm concerned about is we all sort of thought that this weather emergency might be over by today or midday. and there are still blizzard warnings in

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the eastern part of long island into parts of massachusetts.ode island that is where we have the current heaviest snow bands right now where i'm standing in manhattan, in new york city. we're talking snowfall rates of an inch to two inches. some of the heavier bands have picked that up periodically. it's not been persistent. nevertheless the plows are really out in full force. if doesn't take long -- it doesn't take long for snow to cover the roadways. we're keeping a close eye on the storm from new york city and back to the studio. plenty more news and headlines coming up. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods will celebrate almost anything? unh-uh. number 44... whoooo! forty-four, that's me! get some cold cuts... get some cold cuts... get some cold cuts! whooo! gimme some! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. whoo! forty-four ladies, that's me! whoo...gonna get some cold cu

. >> moscow denies it soldiers have entered eastern ukraine.russia's foreign minister said the rebels have agreed to withdraw heavy arms from a previously agreed demarcation line. >> as i've artie said, we will work towards an immediate cease-fire in ukraine. -- as i've already said. we will talk about it within the framework of the normative format. this is our top priority. quick the so-called normandy or tech consists of russia, ukraine, france, and germany. they have met in this format several times before but have so far failed to find a lasting compromise. >> with crossover to simon who is standing by outside the villa where these talks are being held right now. the german foreign minister was due to make a statement. tell us more about that. >> the german foreign minister has just been speaking to the press in the last few minutes. he told us that he was hoping very much that the russian and ukrainian delegations have come here with the power and the will to constructively negotiate. he said that he would like of course to achieve a ceas

monday 9:30 eastern. al jazeera a >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ >>> hello again welcome back. let's have a reminder of the top stories here on al jazerra. at least nine people have been killed by a mortar strike on a trolley bus in donetsk. the city in eastern ukraine is a pro-russian separatist strong hold that happened just hours after calls for a new ceasefire in berlin, yemen's president has accepted demands from houthi rebels. the agreement comes as a leaked tape appears to show his predecessor has been plotting with rebels to under mine the government. japan says it's looking at all possibility to secure the release of two of its nationals taken by isil. they are threatening to kill the hostages until a $200 million ran sol is paid.

in the eastern zone, it's level one and two walls. you can see the waterproofing in the upper left-hand photo, the waterproofing waiting for reinforcing steel. that is the wall that runs parallel to beale street at the end of the train box. lower concourse work has moved into the eastern zone as well. ongoing structural steel erections, there are just some photos from the thompson metal fabrication folks, but we're still working in three or four different -- four different fabrication facilities from southern california to oregon and washington. the cast nodes as dennis were delivered to skanska. the barrettes were tested and passed with flying colors. no anomalis in the barrette pilots piles. shimmick choose to use a different subcontractor and were live clean bill of health you will start to see the pylon itself start to get constructed. looking forward this month and the next couple of months, i think i pointed most of this out -- the big goal is just to keep moving the lower concourse decking to the east from about where it is at

some people in eastern russia taking a very different approach to this weather. i want to show you what it actually looked like this past weekend. people decided to go in the water on sunday for a swimming competition. air temperatures negative 25 degrees celsius. water temperature, negative 1 to 2 degrees. but, you know people still decided to take advantage of that in terms of doing a competition for a good cause. participants were from russia france, and the u.s. and then after the competition, the swimmers were treated to hot soup and herbal tea. probably a little bit more time to thaw out from all that cold water. the cold air will still be in place as high pressure controls the weather in eastern china. driving in the northerly winds for eastern russia but also the main cause for the sea-effect snow coming in to the northern portions of japan, so we will see the air picking up in terms of the wind and we'll see the cold temperatures in place with the snow also increasing. now, we do have what's left over of mekkhala now a tropical depression bringing some r

we -- the eastern beaches and south shore we were expecting some significant erosion issues. and to be -- no houses were threatened generally by -- in those areas. but we haven't had a chance to even assess that. we'll wait until the wind stops blowing to look over those beaches. >> good luck to you and all of our friends in nantucket. thank you very much. thanks chief. and while new york city avoided the worst of the storm there's been major problems to the east on long island. andrew cuomo cautioned residents that despite the good news for new york city a better than expected forecast they should still be careful in the surrounding area long island and westchester. >> let's not lean too far the other way. if you are commuting from or driving in on the roads from long island, it is an ugly dangerous drive. if you're coming in from west chester north, it is a dangerous drive. the roads are passable passable does not mean they are clear. >> msnbc's adam reese is live in plain view new york. adam, what is the situation there? still heavy snow and winds? >> reporter: andrea i wa

we have more. >> reporter: in this part of eastern ukraine, peace didn't last long. a truce last december between pro-russians is no more. this heavy fighting around donetsk airport. hastily convened talks in berlin brought together ukrainians with a delegation from france and germany. it's automatic progress. >> they have timely been in agreement that the demarcation line mashed in the minsk agreement will be the line marking heavy weaponry it has to be withdrawn. >> but on the ground the rebels reportedly extended the area of control. the u.s. secretary of state accused them of violating a ceasefire plan. >> it's been about a 500 square mile extension of the so-called line. and trying to broaden the amount of charity held from the time that they signed an agreement and agreed to keep the line of control. so this is a very blatant. >> ukraine's president said its soldiers are fighting alongside the rebels. russia denies the allegations. >> concerning the flow of troops and weapons, we heard of it many times. show us the facts. no one is able to provide us with the f

you successfully prosecuted a number of terrorism cases in the eastern district of new york.ases against individuals that were plotting against the federal reserve bank so on. just this month you charged two al-qaeda fighters for attacking american troops in afghanistan and iraq. i have been impressed not only in your district but other parts of the country, where we have brought these terrorists to trial in our federal courts. we have shown the world we can do it. there have been convictions. bin laden's son-in-law being one. and then they have been locked up. >> senator it is certainly an important counter terrorism tool in the arsenal of tools that we have to deal with the every evolving threat. my view is if terrorists threaten american citizens here or abroad they will face am

eastern time.ust to give you a sense of how prepared up and down the eastern seaboard you have schools closed harvard and m.i.t. canceled classes. in new york city the u.n. gave itself the day off. we have the stock exchange that's closed. the subway. i think this is the first time due to snow that subway service in new york city which really got people around i believe, during some major storms in the past, that was shut down as well. it's against the law in many major cities to be outside or on the road at this point unless you are a first responder, joe. >> but how absolutely bizarre. we right nowing looking at a scene going down fifth avenue just passing the apple store on 59th and 5th and now going straight down south 5th avenue. willie, how bizarre is it though? it's one thing if you have abandoned streets in new york city and you're in the middle of a blizzard but how strange to be seeing these empty streets with no snow? it's out of a will smith movie. >> i was going the say it looks a litt

slam was approved it is in eastern selma i know there's discussions about the discussions of central selma and the pdr use this is in a district where office is principally permitted and encouraged if we're you know not approving that we're going against what we said we spent years on eastern neighborhoods trying to set rules and finally after many years we passed the rules and that conforms with the rules exactly, in fact, it actually gives some help to pdr by having a first floor or pdrs that doesn't currently have and will have in the future and it brings it below the cap of the large office space which helps the whole situation with prop m allocations it does a lot of good things their finding pdr tenant for that lower space bring in $1.5 million in development fees f this is a good project i mean, i think that even though we got the paperwork on the 31st of december it didn't making take too long to figure out what's going on here and it so you would it is a good project i'm very much in favor of that and hope we can get it done. >> commissioner hillis a question for staff could

it's a bit heavier in portions of burlington county, eastern cumberland county. you can see spots where the darker color indicates some heavier snowfall and that's approaching atlantic city right now. but still compared to where we thought we were going to be we're looking at much lighter snowfall totals for today and into this afternoon. temperatures right now, 25 degrees in philadelphia. add to that winds that are gusting to more than 20 miles an hour. and it feels like it is in the teens. so a snowy scene during the day today. but the shovel won't need as much work to get the stuff moved off the ground today because it will be light snow accumulating at 7:00 and 9:00. by lunchtime, gusty winds and the like will start tapering off as we head into the afternoon hours. a look at the future weather. we'll go through it hour by hour to show you how much you can expect. but first the latest from the traffic center. good morning, jillian mele. >> good morning, bill. let's take a love like. this is through the allegheny area. the surfaces that have been treated, they'

in eastern ukraine, fighting is heating up again, making it almost impossible to get aid to people strandedthe war. >> not far from here, there are communities that are completely cut off. people who are living here cannot get out anymore. >> and, how would you like a chip in your hand? not a potato chip, a microchip. at this swedish firm, they are replacing everything from id cards to door keys. welcome to our viewers on television -- public television in america and also around the globe. there is uncertainty surrounding the fate of two hostages held by islamic state. jordan has demanded proof that their pilot is a life before they agreed to do a prisoner swap to free him. earlier today, the wife of the japanese journalist made a personal appeal for his safe return. our middle east correspondent has the latest. >> and other torturous day of waiting for the father of the jordanian fighter pilot captured last month. he was shot down over northern syria during the bombing campaign against islamic state. tonight, appeals were made as fellow muslims to set him free. >> forgiveness is a quality

that would be sanctions for crimea and sanctions for the eastern part of ukraine.does not take much imagination to see why that would be interesting for the ministers and for europe. one reason is that sanctions on one of these two parts could be potentially used to have something to offer to russia in future negotiations. >> there is some effort underway to ease the tensions. thank you for bringing us up-to-date. >> freedom of speech -- not impressed this time, but germany. police have banned rallies by the anti-islamic movement in the city of dresden for security reasons. it says isis threatened to attack leadership. >> the marches have been steadily gaining support here and other parts of europe, especially in the wake of the paris attacks. after weeks of refusing to speak to the media, the leaders of the movement have agreed to talk to the press. >> dozens attended their first press conference in dresden. the group leader did not want to talk about himself, despite receiving death threats from islamists. >> no personal questions. we will only talk about pergida

eastern. we'll have coverage of that of course.'s bring in paul cruickshank who's been monitoring what's going on. >> i've been speaking to a senior belgian counter-terrorism official. he says this operation in this town is linked to a group suspected of traveling to syria to have connected with isis in syria and crucially that isis persuaded to return to europe to launch terrorist attacks. they have this group under surveillance for the last several weeks, perhaps longer. they were very worried about them. watching them very, very closely. they decided today to launch this operation. a lot of things happened very very quickly. it appears several of these suspects were killed in the raid. i understand there are other operations going on in other parts of belgium right now connected to belgians traveling to syria lipging up with terrorist groups there and coming back. this is very fast-moving, very serious indeed. this appears from what i'm being told to have been an isis directed group suspected of plotting attacks in belgium, in e

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eastern. senators mark kirk and robert menendez have induced legislation to impose new sanctions on iran if negotiators fail to reach a deal by june 30. the senate banking commit cree markup sanctions legislation sanctions legislation live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. before the senate confirmation hearing to be attorney general began we spoke to a capitol hill reporter for background. what are her call fixes to be attorney general? >> loretta lynch kenly currently is the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of new york based in brooklyn and has been there since 2010 and approved by the senate without a hearing for that spot. she has been a life long prosecutor and attorney. she previously worked for about a decade in that same office and she has prosecuted a large number of civil rights cases gang-related cases and other crimes and worked a lot with police, the f.b.i. and federal law enforcement agencies and she was born in north carolina and to pay rents who had humble beginnings and w

that is q&a tonight at 7:00 eastern. also, conversations with astronauts and private citizens who have flown into space. the program begins with walter cunningham, lunar module pilot on apollo seven in 1968 nasa's third civilian astronaut talked about the early apollo missions among the space race with the russians, and the future of nasa in a conversation at the explorers club in new york city in october. here is a preview. >> apollo seven to this day is the longest, most ambitious most successful engineering test flight of any new machine ever and the reason it was so loaded was because we had lost 21 months after the apollo one fire , a year and a half -- maybe a little less because there was another flight in there -- to go to the moon, and we had to do it supposedly by the end of the decade. so we were trying to make up for that. when we went out for an 11-day mission, none of us we were going to go 11 days. you could not do that on the first mission. we were actually surprised and a little year attended toward the

military assistance when requested to any middle eastern country threatened by aggression from the forcescommunism. under its terms, united states forces in 1958 responded to an urgent appeal for help from lebanon. why this interest in the middle east? one reason is its location. it is a world crossroads, a sea, land, and air bridge. connecting the three continents of europe, asia, and africa. then there is the area's immense supply of oils. from this supply it furnishes 3/4 of europe's oil needs and almost all those of the far east. in world affairs too, the states are playing an increasingly significant role. they frequently take a united stand on issues and exert a powerful influence on other states. thus the majority of nations in this area making up the arab bloc can have considerable impact on world attitudes and decisions. the area which for all these reasons figure so importantly in the course of world history today is not one solid entity. there are divisions, some of them deep and ancient, some born of the troubled present, which pit nations and groups of nations and groups with

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 cou

that's rory challands in eastern paris. the porte de vincennes area.et's go 40 kilometers north to dammartin-en-geole barnaby phillips our man there. you were pretty close by when the siege ended in the industrial complex. tell us how it went down. >> reporter: well there were a series of explosions and then a sustaining burst of gunfire. the latest report we had is it was the kouachi brothers who came out firing from the warehouse, the printing house where they had been holed up for much of the day. and they were subsequently killed by the police who surrounded the building. here in contrast to the situation in porte de vincennes all of the indications are that the only hostage who the suspects had was safe and is okay. there was a policeman injured here but it seems that it's all over at this stage. so when i was talking to you, david about 20 minutes ago, i was talking about 16 dead in two and a half days of chaos in paris, in the vicinity. now we have to revise that figure up to 20 dead including many civilians, including some police officers and i