that our correspondent lawrence lee, lawrence, i was thinking about other things, trying to get an idea of where we were when you were talking about it. that lawrence very close to where this is happening. >> you forgive me, i'm in the middle of a field. i'm sorry. it seems to be the case that well either the gunmen inside launched an assault of their own, or what people witness this believe, stun grenades launched by the military here who have been here obviously all day with a view to shocking the gunmen inside and then going in. that these are classic tactics by anti terrorism police. they use them all the time to try to end situations like this. if that does turn out to be the case, they are attacking with daylight in the hour. you would normally expect these things to happen in the early hours of the morning when the people get off of sleep. it does appear to be the case, so far as we can tell at the moment. it seems more likely than not at the moment, i'm saying only tentatively that the military and police are storming the building where the suspects are. >> lawrence, we have no

lawrence lee has more on the response to the attack. charlie hebdo is in our hearts it also means the magazine has our full support that was the offing by cartoonist for the news paper in the hours after the shootings. the next days is a deeper analysis, the flag over the presidential palace, the dove of peace with newspaper for wings. tribes by the signature maps in con presentational terms.

basically liberated, and you could see life coming back to normal very very quickly afterwards. >> lawrence leee for us thank you. >>> former sas special forces here in the u.k. robin is in the studio with us. we were just hearing from lawrence how it all unfolded in dammartin. do you think there is anything that could have been done to capture these two men alive. >> no not at all. they clearly wanted to die, and they got their mission completed by doing that. i don't think they expected to live as long as they did. and holing up was part of their martyrdom and they have achieved that. so if the security forces hadn't shot them it was probable they would have shot themselves. >> what have you made of the french response? >> i think the french response should be congratulated. they took a very difficult situation that was unfolding very, very quickly, very, very violent, and coordinated all of the different organizations very very well. and they managed to pin these people down on the move very very quickly. people were criticized and say oh they should have done this and why didn't they do tha

lawrence lee london. >>> rating stands at junk. peter sharp spoke to members of the public about what they thought of all of this. >> and the bad news just keeps on coming. shoppers in moscow now looking on as the country's credit rating tumbled into junk status. >> everything they say remains on the page. i don't see anything done to get life back to normal. >> the realization that it's going to get worse before it gets better. >> i think it's going to continue for several years we will fall further lind and then we will climb out of it, which is going to take years. >> down grading russia's status to junk will further down grade. what is junk bond status? bonds would now be worth just $262,000 that's a 74% loss in an investment made just six months ago. junk. >>> thomas levinson is an analyst for a local bank. >> i think it's a very difficult situation and i think that there is a acceptance that russian growth this year will contract quite sharply and indeed that is probably one of the main concerns of the credit rating agencies.

. >> we go to our correspondent lawrence lee who is near dammartin. resting in as much only really lawrence that it was pretty close to one of the world's busiest airports and where all of this happened. what is going on there now? >> reporter: well it's a over and the last thing we heard before we left the scene was a convoy of buses and police vehicles leaving. and you could hear cheering and it was the people cheering. the siege of the town has been clearly lifted as well and what has become i think the more likely story over the last hour or so remember when you were talking to the sas officer to say how brave it was of them for the police to launch an assault on the complex before dark that may not now have been what happened. there have been a variety of reports saying that the brothers came out shooting. and that would explain why the whole thing happened surprisingly early against the expectation of most people that the building would be stormed in the middle of the night. as tragic as the event was in paris, this one i would say, the authoriti

lawrence lee reports from dundee. >> a celebration of scotland's most famous poet and his homage to a meal made from a sheep's stomach. but never mind if outsiders find it hard to you understand, they're far more interested in public opinion within scotland. and it is more positive than ever before. >> i think its just a natural progression. the 19th century was the era of the great nation states. the 20th century saw a lot of them break up and finally in the 21st century scotland a member of the family of nations. >> one of two scottish cities that voted for independence in last september's referendum. their argument lost. scotland remains within the union, but for how much longer when the nationalists are now so popular. since they lost the referendum last september support for the scottish nationalists have risen and risen and risen again. and if the polls stay isothere at the moment, they'll win almost every single parliamentary seat in scotland in national elections in may. that would make them the third biggest political party in the whole of the u.k. and given the most extraord

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al jazeera's lawrence lee is in the danish capital copenhagen. >> they came with torches but insisted this was not a witch hunt. nobody looked like they were from the radical right wing but insisted they had enough, the stran of islam they said had a ten dance to outright violence. >> this is against an ideology that drives people who are vulnerable to that ideology, even born into it and forced to live by it to do some bad things. we don't hate anybody. >> of their march there pegida signs designed to separate them, but the interest was evident. there is no doubt the pegida movement is spreading to different parts of europe. these people would say they speak for a much bigger wens swebs that there areconstituency. that they are unable to assimilate. >> it's like child's play like children discussing and making everything very simple more than it is. a very simplistic way of looking into it. and i think that's very wrong to do that because we are talking about 1.5 billion people in the world who believe in islam. we are not terrorists. >> and this veteran newspaper editor also believe

lawrence lee reports. >> when attempted it was quick much earlier than many had expected. flashes, the sound of automatic gun fire and then silence. in all the end to the standoff lasted no more than 15 or 20 seconds but it had left dead the brothers the authorities had accused of the "charlie hebdo" massacre. the standoff lasted the whole day. touring rush hour in the morning we had seen lines of police vans tearing up the roadway to the small town of dammartin en goele. rumors emerged later disproves that the gunman had shot someone dead during a police chase but what was clear was that the suspects in the "charlie hebdo" massacre were holed up inside an industrial complex along with a hostage. we drove through dammartin with the police past shuttered homes and businesses. just the occasion person outside in a community under lock down. lines of buses could be seen, waiting to take children away, from an evacuated school. had the gunman taken children hostage it would have been an absolute nightmare of the authorities one they had to avoid at any cost. >> translator: i h

lawrence lee, al jazeera. >>> still to come. presidential candidates the not wait long to make a splash in 2013 chris christie, and mike huckabee joins the fray. david shuster has it all in presidential politics. >> i'm allen schauffler checking in on the tunnel project that is stuck dead and causing concern. cern. >> a judge today cleared the way for same sex couples to marry in miemedmiami-dade county. when the judge lifted her stay, the reaction, just a few hours later the first couples tied the knot. >>> the new republican led congress convenes tomorrow. republicans will steer the direction of both the house and senate and they have a packed agenda. libby casey is live for us. libby, we have seen plenty of discontent from republicans with president obama's goals. can we actually expect to see things getting done in this new session? >> reporter: well, tony, republicans will control the senate and have their biggest majority in the house. others they hope to use to win political points. >> republicans have a hefty to-do list

let's go to lawrence lee joining us from london. what can you tell us about charlie hebdo. >> the reputation partly saying what it feels about anyone regardless of the consequence, and the characterisitions of islam. while it's true that they conducted the attack... >> can i interrupt you and tell what is on the scene. one person is being stretchered out, put into an ambulance. these are the latest pictures coming out of paris. we spoke to an independent journalist saying that this scene - there's a lot of security on the scene at the moment. we saw some - we saw a police car riddled with bullets on the front screen. we are told the french minister is on the scene and francis hollande is on his way, calling for an emergency meeting of the cabinet. with this dash before we get to you, let's go back to paris, and french francis hollande is about to speak. let's listen in to what he has to say. we are trying to get a translation on what the president is saying but he's there on the scene, as you can see now, speaking to the press. we w

lawrence lee. >> an overwhelming amount of sympathy to these refugees, elsewhere very little. they don't know exactly what people's conditions are like. they have got all sorts of facilities to cater to people. and he was saying there is always going to be migrants, they have to sipt set up humanitarian corridors, they are respectful of the plight of refugees, to look after them here, put them on buses and send them to the holding centers where at least they'll be warm and dry and will figure out what to do with them after that. but given by and large it doesn't look like there are many people who have been badly hurt and the boat was rescued properly. as simon said in that report, the thing that was occupying people here isn't so much the human tragedy it's about what is a new tactic what in the world is europe going to do to account for traffickers jettison folks out to see in this particular way. >> lawrence lee. thnchts about southeast asia java sea crews recovered more bodies. five of the 21 bodies found today were still strapped in their airline seats. 162 people were on

. >> we can go to lawrence lee live in paris. just hours away from that meeting which can only be described as a crisis meeting for floinld froinld and francois hollande and his government ministers it can only be described as stormy indeed. >> there are no more attacks planned, now that they've ended with the ending of the two hostage situations yesterday i think what this weekend holds in store is perhaps very slightly more reflective. there are going to be some 16 demonstrations in support of the idea of "charlie hebdo" and freedom of expression and free a very large one here in paris which will include half a dozen or so european heads of state. and there will be a meeting regarding fame your of intelligence, obviously failure of intelligence because the attacks happened. but this will play out this weekend on the air waves and in the days and weeks to come is more with the failure of multiculturalism and the questions increasingly being raced is whether an interpretation of islam and western democratic values are compatible.

lawrence lee joins us now. lawrence what is happening with the ship now?reporter: well, it's -- it's being towed shiulie by an icelandic ship. in a sense it's a different sort of drama to the ones we have seen played out in the mediterranean in recent years. the refugees aren't really in immediate danger. they have got food and water. the boat is not going to capsize or anything like that and it will be several more hours until they get to port. we think probably midnight italian time which is almost nine hours from now. they are going to take the ship to somewhere -- there's more shelter, because it hasn't got any power and is basically bobbing around. and you can probably see the sea is very rough and it's very windy, but it doesn't look like anybody is going to die. the really really worrying news is is this now a new tactic by the traffickers, because this is the second in four days where they basically just let an enormous ship go and leave it to people to try to clear up the mess. is this something they are going to try to do over the winter this ind

lawrence lee has more on the response to the attack. charlie hebdo is in our hearts it also means the magazine has our full support that was the offing by cartoonist for the news paper in the hours after the shootings. the next days is a deeper analysis, the flag over the presidential palace, the dove of peace with newspaper for wings. tribes by the signature maps in con presentational terms. we have to continue to pattle. it is the beginning of the battle. the france's most respected newspaper has described this. so the media here has said the spirits of the magazine, it is right to say what it wants would be financially supported by the rest of the pead yeah. when you attack, the opinion the freedom we are sturdier, and ewith would be -- we will resume and press the freedom will be stronger and the human spirits armed police and guards. journalism is under attack here, but they are fighting back. >> france says it is pressed and therefore it's democratic values have come under direct attack. the french media is going to have a very im

lawrence lee al jazeera, dammartin. >> we're live now from dammartin where all of this went down, dana how do people feel now that the confrontation with the charlie hebdo suspects are now over? >> reporter: if you would have asked me the request about four hours ago i would have to tell you i don't have a clue. i've been here all day long for the hostage siege the gunshots and the explosions went off. no one could go out,and you can see a huge high school with a thousand kids locked down today. but slowly they sorted to emerge tonight, and we had a chance to talk to them in the center of town. i talked to one man who lived directly across from the print shop where the hostage taking occurred and where the police stormed the building later on. he was i think in shock. it was hard to talk to him. he seemed nervous and shaking. i asked him if he was angry that these meant had been under surveillance, and the police took their eyes off the ball in such a way that the intelligence were not on them. he said no, there are so many people here. i talked to a terrified parent. his kid was locke

lawrence lee, al jazeera southern italy. >>> financial aid to palestine maybe affected if it joins the international criminal court. the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. has now formally handed in the documents for membership. kristin saloomey reports. >> it's official. the united united nations now has palestine's application for international criminal court but where it goes from here is unclear. >> this is a formal step for which we will be going through it to seek justice through a legal option. it is a peaceful option. it is a sistlessed civilized option. it is an option anyone who upholds the law should not be afraid of. >> if the united states has its way, the international criminal court will investigate the 2000 war in gaza, and land they say belongs to the palestinians. and what court will ultimately comply is open to debate. while most countries already recognize palestine as a state israel doesn't. >> the government of israel is very upset because of this unilateral step. israel says the that palestine is not an independent state yet so they don't have the right to go to

lawrence lee has more. >> reporter: a sell bralth of scott land most famous poet and his homage to aiately made from a sheep's stomach. scottish national party, burns' supper, they are more interested in public opinion within scotland. it is more positive than ever before. >> i think it's just a natural progress. the 19th century was the era of the great nation state. the 20th century saw a lot of them in the 21st century. the family of nations. >> the burns supper is in dundee one of only two scottish cities which voted for independence in last september's referendum. their argument lost. scotland remains within the union. bur for how much longer when the nationalists are now so popular? since they lost the refer endsum last september, support for the scottish nationalists has risen and risen and risen again. if the polls say they are at the moment they will win almost every single parliamentary seat in scott lapped in national elections in may. >> would make them the third biggest political party in the whole of the u.k. and give them the most extraordinary leverage over the passag

lawrence lee reports. >> the fall of gadhafi has been the strength thing of strengthening. paris is that the increasing disintegration of libya into rival heavily armed factions is leading to an open supply route for weapons outside of libya and through niger and thus rearming groups in mali all over again. consequently announcing that france would be buying more drones and would be constructing a new military base. just outside the southern libyan border to block the routes being taken by heavily armed fighters. >> translator: we know that in southern libya there are very heavily armed hot beds. it is a refuge, we have set up a base and i will tell you something here in confidence if we can on the radio maybe they can listen to us. we will strike them every time they will come out of these places where they are hiding. that is why there is this base. >> reporter: tall same, the most cursory of looking at a plan shows the difficulty of policing libya's borders. the borders to the west and to the east are vast and unpoliced. the setup of the base is designed to take those di

lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: it's a full 8 years since the image of the dying alexander yenko emergedw of uk and russia and he had a rare isotope and killed in three weeks. rush shaun agents including this man were blamed and it was an execution ordered by the states after it transports he had been working for the british security agency mi-6 investigating alleged links between russia government and organized crime. but to the fury of the widow marina the government refused to hold inquery, the man in charge of the in quest the death and that was refused after not talking about the information. and after the jet was shot down over ukraine and they changed their minds and leaving many to decide the relations with russia got so bad there was no point in denying an inquiry to protect diplomatic relations, friends say it's about time. >> as the inquiry has an option of holding closed sessions where they will review the files of mi-6 whereas we know already from the judge there is a prim prima-facia evidence saying they sent it. >> reporter: inquiry will go in further with the uk and russi

lawrence lee he has more on the end of the manhunt for the charlie hebdo suspects. >> when it ended, it was quick and much earlier than many expected. flashes, the sound of automatic gunfire and then silence. in all, the end that the standoff lasted no more than 15 or 20 seconds but left dead the brothers the authorities accused of the charlie hebdo massacre. that the standoff lasted the whole day. during rush hour in the morning we had seen lines of police vans tearing up the motor way north of paris and into the small town of dammartin-en-gaulle. the helicopter am ambulance flew through the murk. the gunman hat shot someone dead during a police chase. what was clear was that the suspect in the charlie hebdo massacre were holed up inside an industrial complex along with a hostage. we drove through dammartin with the police, part shuttered homes and businesses, just the occasional person outside in a community under lockdown. lines of buses could be seen waiting to take children away from an evacuated school. had the gunmen taken children hostage, it would have been an absolute night

. >>> let's take you live now to lawrence lee in the southern italian region where the ship is expectedrive in the next hour. lawrence what is the update on the ship? what is happening to the ship right now? >> reporter: well, it's being towed in as simon said by that icelandic ship. the reason why they have chosen this port which if you imagine the boot of italy at the bottom there is an upturned u, where we are at the top of that upturned u, and they have chosen this because the ship has no power and can't steer itself. the seas are still rough, and they wanted to choose where for the ship to come that was flat and calm in order to dock it successfully. and that's they have chosen this remote commercial port. but outside of that everything -- insofar as it was a crisis for a while -- seems more or less to be under control now. we have just been talking to medics in the blue tents in the distance behind where they are preparing for these 450 or so refugees to come off of the ship, which will happen over there, and then they'll be walked down at the edge of the harbor there, and split i

. >>> lawrence lee is close to where the ship is being taken. >> reporter: if there's a piece of goodin this it's that the refugees who have been set adrift, they look like they are going to be okay. they are not going to die. it will be midnight before it gets in but we are being told they have been given food and water. the conditions probably on board are pretty horrible, but they will be safe. given that this is the second incident in four days in which a frighter has been set adrift at sea, for the italian coast guard to work out now is is this a new tactic. where they take a much bigger ship that can survive these conditions in the middle of winter without capsizing, fill it full of hundreds of terrified and stranded refugees and basically let it go for someone else to sort out. it's a completely new problem for frontex and the european union to get their heads around. they might have to move their operation to places like turkey where it appears these are being sourced. but it is shameless for the traffickers to be behaving like this. because if the italian coast guard doesn't

lawrence lee has more from the port where the ship docked. >> reporter: they have spent many days at sea, some in fear that they may be ship wrecked. coming off a vessel dined to carry cattle not people must have been an enormous relief and how exhausted they must have been. italian medics were ready for them with a level of sympathy towards the refugees, something many politicians lack. >> translation: we put them in corridors allowing them to arrive in a way that doesn't help the smugglers to prey on the people. >> reporter: they have been forced to board via helicopter in the dark and rough sea, after the passengers or the crew had abandoned the ship without power and left it to the mercy of the sea. it was the second such incident in four days after another vessel with 1,000 on board had to be rescued close to the italian coast before it too, became wrecked. the commander of the italian coast guard says that he believes the crew deliberately disabled the ship in the knowledge that the italian navy would perform a rescue. they are digesting the assumption that this is the traffick

which is all she said she wants, in moscow no doubt it will be billed as a pointless witch hunt lawrence leera in london. >>> u.s. secret service recovered a small drone that crashed on the grounds of the white house, the device did not pose any kind of ongoing threat and secret service said a hobbyist has come forward and taken responsibility the two foot long recreational aircraft. finally, a single engine plane has landed safely after taking a nosedive over the pacific ocean. it runoff of fuel off the coast of hawaii. the u.s. coast guard captured the dramatic moment when the pilot had a parachute system and extraordinary pictures as the plane hits the water t pilot coming out and rescued by a passing cruise ship that had been called to help. and a quick reminder you can keep up with the news on your weapon site on your scene, new and improved on al jazeera.com. that is al jazeera.com. >> taking often the pleasing name deflate gate because of the football used by the patriots in the game up to the super bowl. we're looking at cheating with no softballs. that's inside story.

lawrence lee out and about for us i know you'll be talking with somebody else, but let me put this toyou. we were hearing from our guest here that the muslim community is integrated. i know that's something that a lot of people would find rather contentious statement give us a sense of what you have been hearing from where you are. >> yes i think that was. well i mean, it can't be that true to say that the muslim community is integrated when so many particularly north africans live so far away from the center on the edges. i mean, this is not an opinion. it's relatively widely accepted by many people. and, indeed, the french prime minister said this morning that his opinion france was fractured. that was the word that he used. of course, throughout this weekend millions of french people i mean millions of french people are taking to the streets in support of the core founding principles of france. openness and democracy, charlie hebdo and all those things. there will be several heads of state from europe here tomorrow lending their support to france as well. the question really is whe

lawrence lee, al jazeera southern italy. >>> gunmen in nigeria suspected from being from boko haram have kidnapped boys from bourno state. it is close tote boko haram town of guoza. men gathered them outside the village and preached to them. >>> the ebola outbreak in west africa could be over by the end of this year. the u.n. missits december target to stop the spread of the virus but the view in ga ghana remains optimistic. >> i believe we'll do it in 2015 i believe we'll end ebola in 2015 and we're going to do it by working very closely not just with the governments of the countries. but the communities. >> the u.s. has imposed fresh sanctions on north korea targeting pyongyang's deference and finance industries. pyongyang has denied involvement. paul jadajean reports. >> the united states is not back away from its december 19th accusation that north korea is behind a cyber attack on sony pictures. the film studio has released its new comedy about two journalists enlisted to kill north korea's leader, kim jong-un. >> the company would love it if you would take him out. >> like for drin

. >> that is in paris which is where we find lawrence lee. that's not a sentiment being expressed in the french capitol is it? >> no, indeed. and the rally will be held here in paris which will have world leaders by the bucket load is described by the french government in historic terms. one of the biggest events in modern french history. if you feel that it's overblown it's worth bearing in mind that the french authorities have said that the founding principles of the country's democracy have come under attack, things like freedom of expression, freedom of the press things like this. french authorities will be delighted that people will come out across the country in rallies today in honor of the charlie hebdo and in honor of the dead. in one sense this has been very good for the authorities the opinion poles have shown support for franÇois hollande going up, and this idea has of unity. you wonder how many buy into the unity. >> we've seen so many bigwigs from different countries saying they're going to be there on sunday. david come ron ang

lawrence lee from dundee. >> burns night, a celebration of scotland's famous poet pays homage to a meal from a sheep's stomach. they're far more interested in public opinion within scotland. and it is more positive than ever before. >> i think its just a national progression. the 19th century was the era of the great nation states. the 20th century saw a lot of them break up, and finally in the 21st century scotland will stand up to the family of nations. >> in dundee one of two scottish cities that voted for independence in last september's referendum. their argument lost. scotland remains in the union. but how much longer now that the nationalists are so popular. >> since they lost the referendum last september support has risen risen and risen again. if the polls stay as they are for the moment they'll win almost every season parliamently. that will make them the third political party in the whole of the u.k. and give them extraordinary leave rage over westminster, which fought tooth and nail to deny them their dream of an independent scotland. yet all those people who voted for inde

lawrence lee has this report. >> who killed alexandar that's the question now being concerned by thisuiry in london. and the global interests in the death of a spy eight years ago, refuses to go away. he had been a russian agent has fought the chechyniaens in the 1990's. had become so disillusions with his mother land that he turned disdent and when he was ask to kill his friend the tycoon he had made his grievances public, and had even taken them up with a certain vladimir putin who had just become his new boss at the russian security service. >> you will need to consider whether his sustained public tax on the regime in general and on the f. ts.b. and mr. putin in particular, could have had an connection with his death. if it was revenge then the men asked to execute it were andre, and demeetry kofton. the inquiry heard that they traveled several times prior to his death and left a radio active trail behind them at this hotel in central london, radiation was found all over their bedrooms. it was suggested he might have been poisons not once but twice, the first time at the offices o

lawrence lee looks at the attack on the newspaper. >> reporter: the words don't just mean "charlie hebdo" is in our heart, but the magazine has the full support. that was the officer by this cartoonist in the hours after the shootings. the next phase is a deeper analysis. the "charlie hebdo" flag over the presidential palace the dove of peace, newspapers for wings, and the armed men described by a signature mouse in confrontational terms. plontu had known the men killed for 30 years. and your readers are saying if you want to kill them then you must - you should kill us as well. >> yes, we have to continue the battle. it is the beginning of the battle. >> reporter: la monde, france's most respected newspaper described it as its own september 11th it is now etched in the memories. as the reporters of "charlie hebdo" showed a resilience in defines defines defines -- defiance so says the mood of saying what the magazine wants, will be supported by the rest of the media. >> when you attack liberty of opinion, freedom, speech freedom, press freedom, we are going stronger and more cellular. an

ment lawrence lee has the story of the attack in a warehouse out of paris. >> when it was ended it was quick, much earlier than people had expected. flashes, the sound of automatic gun fire and then silence. in all the end to the standoff lasted no more than 15 or 20 seconds but it had left dead the brothers the authorities had accused of the "charlie hebdo" massacre. lines of police fans tearing up the motor way north of paris and into the small town of dammartin en goele. later this proves that the gunmen had shot someone dead during a police chase but what was clear was that the suspects in the "charlie hebdo" massacre were hold up along with a hostage. we drove through dammartin with police passed the shuttered community, community under lock down. lines of buses could be seen waiting to take children away from an evacuated school. had the gunmen taken children hostage it would have been an absolute nightmare for the authorities. one they had to avoid at any cost. >> translator: i hope the children are not shocked or anything else because we're really anxious as parents. >> transla

al jazeera al jazeera's lawrence lee is there. >> reporter: the reason why they have chosen this portwhich if you imagine the sort of boot of italy at the bottom it has an upturned u underneath it where we are is at the top of that urp turned u, and the reason they have chosen this is because the ship has no power and can't steer itself the seas are rough out there and they wanted to choose where that was flat and calm to dock it successfully. and that's why they have chosen this remote commercial port. but outside of that everything -- insofar as it was a crisis for a while, seems more or less to be under control now. we had just been talking to a group of medics in the blue tent. you may be able to see in the distance behind where they are preparing for these refugees to come off of the ship but then they'll be walked down to the edge of the harbor there, and split into three groups. people who can carry on moderately hurt and anybody worse, and then they'll be put in a variety of different places, but the doctors have been in tuch with the coast guard of the icelandic ship they don

lawrence lee reports. >> every year in this country more than 100,000 women report some form of domestic violence to the police. christmas in the new year usually see a spike in attacks. this woman's case is standard. the violence soon after she gave birth to their child. government cuts meant she didn't qualify for legal aid and she spent months hiding in fear of a man who would do her harm. >> i couldn't do anything. i was just having to put up with his abuse and veiled threats and everything. just have to put up with it, log it with the police and they couldn't always do anything, because i haven't got this order in place. >> the point of legal aid is to afford the poor the same rights as the rich. in the case of battered women that's supposed to mean the state's paying the legal fees of an impoverished victim who wants a court order against her abuser. >> it isn't that legal aid has been stopped here completely. it's the government cuts have made it more and more difficult for women to prove they're worthy of it. the result is many thousands of victims of domestic violence who escape

lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: the words don't only mean charlie hebdo is in our hearts it also meanshe magazine has our full support. that was the offering by one cartoonist for the newspaper in the hours after the shootings. the next day is a deeper analysis the charlie hebdo flag over the presidential palace the dove of peace with newspaper for wings, and the armed men in confrontational terms. he had known the men who were killed for 30 years. and your readerer is saying if you want to kill them then you should kill us as well. >> yeah we have to continue the battle. it is a big -- beginning of the battle. >> reporter: france's most respected newspaper has described this as its own september 11th. but just as the vigils in support of charlie hebdo have shown a resilience and defiance in the national mood so the media here has said the spirit of the magazine will be financially and physically supported by the rest of the media. >> when you attack liberty of opinion, of freedom, speech freedom, press freedom, we are going stronger and more -- cellular and we will be -- charlie hebdo

lawrence lee in paris. >>> afternoon tack by boko haram has killed more than 100 people.happened on the banks of lake chad. the fighters entered the area late last night. killing people, setting the to town on fire and moving onto other villages nearby. we are on the ground now with the latest. >> basically the attack on wednesday was more like boko haram trying to finish up what they couldn't finish over the weekend when they attacked the fishing community. by the way on lake chad which is bordering the countries of nigeria, chad and cameroon. basically they attached taxed the village and killed lots of people, some are talking about hundreds of people being killed. many of them drowned on the lake chad while trying to flee or trying to cross the without never to a neighboring country. then they came back over the -- on wednesday went in to the town and then started killing again. the other people who couldn't flee killed those who were able to escape, escaped and then burned down the whole town. then they moved to other villages fine other villages and attacked those vi

. >> let's go to lawrence lee standing by in london. lawrence, david cameron there weighing in on the incident there, obviously saying that britain stands with france. they both -- both countries sharing the values of freedom of speech and democracy. >> yes he isn't the only one. italy, spain germany the presidents of the european commission in various terms have all said how shocked and outraged they are by this. angela merkel made the point that was an attack on the freedom of the press. the point was made democracy and liberty would always win. that perhaps the most interesting observations yet have come out of the white house, where the spokesman according to the wires here are saying senior officials at the white house have been in close touch with their counterparts in france this morning. the united states stands that ready to work closely with the french in terms of the investigation into the attack. clearly, one of the things that i think the french government is going to have to work out is whether the attackers who seem to hav

now being evacuated, or will be evacuated from local schools by bus because our correspondent lawrence lee who went into dammartin with a police convoy was telling us that the town was pretty much under lockdown, no one could go in or out because of that job going situation with the two suspects. local authorities in dammartin now saying that students are going to be evacuated from a local schools by bus and there is a police presence at the schools, we understand. at the same time, a few moments ago, a reporter from paris jacki roland was telling us about a shooting, gunfire rather reported in a grocery store in the east of paris. this happened a few moments ago. french media reporting that gunfire has been heard at a grocery store in a suburb east of paris. barnaby phillips joining us now from dammartin-en-gaulle is following the latest developments. barnaby, first of all with the students and their evacuation. >> yes that's good news, because we saw these 12 buses driving up here about half an hour ago. we assumed that was what they were going to be used for. they drove in to the town j

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lee has disappeared momentarily. we'll get him back of course. jackie interesting lawrence was telling us that the prosecutor's office of this particular area denying that there'd been a fatality. french media have been roble the are are robles are are are are prosecution roble -- reporting that one person has been killed and two injured in the change of gun fire. >> there has been an official denial from the prosecutor's office that one person was killed. no comments about injuries. that is an official report. it's important in the very rapidly moving news situation, to distinguish between official and local media reports. the local media reports have until now been fairly consistent and accurate in terms of what is reported officially by the interior ministry. at the moment we don't have official reports of casualties or anyone being killed. we have media reports of a number of people injured in that siege situation in the light industrial zone. we had reports of one hostage held. obviously we'll give you the confirmation and further details when police or the prosecutor'

lawrence albert on facebook? children can't walk around in their own neighborhoods anymore? several people did raise concerns for the children's safety and defended cps. donna lee duff wrote, "remember the lyons sisters? god rest their souls." added caroline friedly, "cps has such a tough job. they never get thanked for all the kids they saved, only berated for the ones that slip through the cracks." andrea mccarren, wusa9. >>> quick look at your headlines if you're just getting home, the french president francois hollande is trying to calm his country in the wake of the terror attacks. >> the top al-qaeda commander calls the killing at charlie hebdo revenge for making fun of the prophet muhammad and victims of the newspaper attack are being laid to rest. the daughter of one slain cartoonist said they killed her father but not his ideas. >>> president obama signed off a on a bill that would -- off on a bill that would allow people to take time off as paid sick leave. >>> there were no people of color nominated for acting awards in the oscars announcements >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9 first alert weather. >> maybe a flake or two in the forecast on

lee. the president is venturing into territory in kansas. it is his second stop after iddaho on the post state of the union tour. he is in lawrence kansas. he knows most of the ideas will never reach his desk. and why will he pitch them to the american people? >> reporter: it is counter entu typh. why go to kansas and iddaho the red states. the president is a big ideas prophet sorial type leader. and they can unpack the big ideas and today on the middle-class economic cans the president made the argument that his policies now and his proposals later will grow the economy. take i a listen. >> we have put ourselves in a position in which the economy potentially can grow not just for next year or the year after that, but over the next decade and generate the kind of jobs that all of you will fill. so the verdict is in. middle-class economics works. providing opportunity for everybody works. ♪ >> reporter: you can tell the president wrapped up his comments here in ku, preaching the idea that more access to education and better child care for will help to grow the argument. it is an argument that the gop leaders will look hard at. >> talking