g g g g g gnfnfnfnfnfnfnfnfnn in ter of the european side of the story, security hahas come o the fore for the european union in recent years with attacks in france and belgium. yesterererererererererery y y yn the metro and airport in brussels. many of the leaders here were wearing white ribbons to commemorate that in talking about paying reform has gone on at the european level in terms of security, including tightening up security with the europe. those measures being strengthened. the european union has brought in name records so we know who is on flights around the european union. measures in plae dealing with taking down online join terrorls to organizations. th is starting to have an effect. issue ofint out the security has been brought up by theresa may...................wn solidarity yesterday over the poisoning of the russian spy in southwest england. theresa may came here hoping to get a strong message of you --ur states pointing the finger of blame at the russian federation. did manage to achieve that -- she did manage to acachieve tha. he was sn as a pitive for the u.k. and european union showing they can hold together on important matters eveven with brbrexit coming between them in political l areas. wewe will be crossing live to hr what french president emmanuel macron has to say. we are expecting to hear from him in the next 15 minutes or so on this ongoing situation. , sheng me in the studio has been keeping an eye on developments. take us through what happened this morning. >> these are the facts we have managed to piece together. some of them not confirmed officially. toe of them according security officials and eyewitness so we can see them as more solid. this morning, a man and a car opened fire on a group of french police out jogging. one of the officers was injured, shot in the shoulder. not seriously injured. that same car with the suspect fled in the direction of the supermarket in the small town of trebes in southwestern france. severalhohohohohohohohohohohohod fired. we have reports of a number of people injured. sources say two people have been killed in the shooting. that has not been officially confirmed. butt two people -- eyewitnesses didid see at least two peopople line in mobilized n the supermarket for, so that would seem to confirm that information. ththe situation is still not stabilized. of officers and security personnel have been rushed to the scene. french counterterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation into this. the french prime minister has terror.his an act of the prime e minister is heading there e as we s speak. some security sources are saying the shooter is alone inside the supermarket. that information has not been officially confirmed at this stage. reported r several minutes now without being officially contradicted. it would seem to be the case some of the hostages have been evacuated d d d d d d d d d d ds a fast-moving situation, very fluid. earlier, it was attributive to prosecutors that he claimed allegiance to the islamic state. therhahas been some backpedaling on that. our own terrorismsm expert sayse does not have that information, that the suspect has pledgdgdgdg it is unknown at this stage whether the e suspect was workig inside a known terror structure or was perhaps working on his own. that is a line of v v v v v v vy tive athe moment. anchor: thank you. let me bring in will get us -- will geddes, a counterterrorism expert based in londodon. out push now is to find who is the gunman, what motivated him. how difficult is it to access that information so quicklyly wn lives are at stakeke? puts a lot of pressure on the officers, doesn't it? >> it does, but they are experienced to keep thehehehehe. they will try to keep their visibility down to the minimum. anything that could antagonize the hostage-taker will be downplayed as much as inevitable individuals are volatilele. they c cld be aideded by some chemical enhancement or narcotic . itit is difficulult to say at te until they can determine at identitity whether there is any history of mental illness. i heard in a new report there are contradictory claims that this individual may not be representative of islamic stata. we have seen this before where islamic state may take claim that this is a soldier or supporter of daesh. we saw this one year ago one-year on the anniversary of the westminster attack. claims he was s doing it for , yet known toism be associated to him. it is an ambiguous term. individual may have made claimss vocally to witnesses. whether there is direct correlation may be relevant in terms of the tactics they want to employ, but not necessarily in terms of the wider threat. anchor: in terms of the investigation at the mpopower bg to neutralize the situation without further loss of life. same timetrying to establish who this person is and why he decided to do what he did. whatat sort of resources with te french police be w working with? 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