mohammed merah now dead. extremely dramatic end to the siege, as we were hearing from the interior minister. they sent a video probe into the bathroom where he had been hiding out in his grand -- ground-floor apartment. but as soon as commandos died in, he started firing. he jumped through the bathroom window, firing away the whole time. but then fell dead to the ground, having been killed by commandos. i think we can speak to our correspondent christian fraser who has been covering this for us. christian, a dramatic and bloody end to end a dramatic end of that was not without risk for those commandos. >> an extremely dramatic end. and just hearing details -- he was walking to the camera position where i am just around the corner from the apartment, and as he walked up the road it is clear he was still getting information from his officers. they stopped halfway up the road as the details were explained. when he came to the camera position, he laid out the extraordinary siege. it seems like the elite commando

this is mohammed merah: about in his car. he was a 23-year-old criminal with a string of convictions for robbery and violence, a french citizen trained in afghanistan who claimed he had orders from al qaeda. for hours, he negotiated with police. late last night, he told them it was against his conscience to surrender. there were attempts to break his resolve. flash grenades were thrown at the apartment. with no response to the night, the decision was taken to send and commandos. they entered through the front, blowing off the door. using fiber-optic cameras, they picked their way slowly through the apartment, trying to locate mohammed merah until they reached the governor. suddenly, he appeared, armed with a handgun, opening fire. two policemen were injured. mohammed merah jump from a ground floor window, wearing a bulletproof vest and firing wildly. outside was a marksman, who shot him dead. mohammed merah finished as he wanted, in a battle with police, with a gun. in three separate attacks, he had killed seven people. three

you can probably twitter that and find mohammed nuru there. the mere mention, he is out at every neighborhood, looking to make sure garbage is picked up, griffey is removed, making sure that our neighborhood in san francisco, every single member it is beautiful. because of his enthusiasm and his work ethic, he has increased the number of volunteers of volunteering along with the dpw crews in san francisco over the weekend to make sure our neighborhoods are beautiful. you have to appreciate his enthusiasm that so many of us are working alongside with them to make sure that this city stays beautiful. because of this, these are all the reasons and the reasons the major religions are the reasons of why i have chosen mr. nuru to be the next director of dpw. with that, i would like to introduce mohammed nuru to you. [applause] >> good morning. thank you all for coming out. thank you, mayor. thank you, naomi. ed reiskin, supervisor carmen chu, micro-deputy directors, thank you all for coming out. i am honored and humbled that i have spent to lead the

johanna, you first, then brine, then mohammed. >> first, i'm not quite sure that anything that mohammed said really contradicts my findings, because in the general political science literature, the association between regime type and violence is thought to be curved to linear. in the most repressive regimes you tend to see less violence than in transitional regimes and again, violence decreases again in liberal democracies. and we are only looking at democracies so far and it's possible that one, once we start looking at authoritarian regimes as well we will find more of a curved linear relationship. i also agree that the real world is messy, but we can still, if we have particular ideas about how it is messy, we can account for that in cross-national and longitudinal analysis. in our studies we count for things like concentration and country-specific effects and electoral institutions, and the economy, et cetera, et cetera. doesn't mean we necessarily captured everything but we certainly can capture a lot of variation associated with that messiness. also, the predictions that we make a

cal he'll mohammed is a slice of life.of the new york public library schomburg center for research in black culture. >> i want this center to be as aggressive and as well positioned as possible to be a resource to anyone who has questions about the kind of country we live in and the kind of country that we can live in. >> cal he'll mohammed is a respected scholar and author. is he also the great grandson of elijah mohammed, founder of the country of islam. >> given that i was want yet 3 years old when he passed, i have never tried to claim more connection to him than my biographical connection. >> as it turns out, mohammed took office during the same time the schomburg featured a special from its featured collection on malcolm x. >> my great grandfather malcolm x helped to create the space in this country necessary for the real change that took place in 1960s. >> keeping history like that alive for generations to come is only one of his goals. >> what's special and perhaps unique about kalil mohammed is that he is not only

when was the last contact made with mohammed merah? >> the french interior minister did not make it explicit but he said that they have not had contact for four hours. sometime overnight, contact was lost. that has led him to say in these separate radio interviews that they are not sure whether he is alive or not. he hopes he still is a live body also said -- but he also said mohammed merah had wanted to die with weapons in his hands. >> there have been explosions overnight. was the shooting between the commandos surrounding his flat or was that an attempt to flush him out? >> it difficult to say. even the interior minister referred to hearing gunshots but even he said it is not clear what the source was. however, in the last hour or so, the interior minister, who is here in toulouse, he arrived an hour or so ago, he is going into a military barracks. holding meetings. and the motorcade left and we saw it. we watched it drive up the road behind me. it turned right into the road where the apartment is. he moved right up a very close to

his name is mohammed merah, a 24 year-old spanish citizen who was arrested in afghanistan and is known to the intelligence services. as they try to force their way into the flat, there was an exchange of fire in which two policemen were shot. the gunman's brother was arrested in a second operation. his mother was brought to the scene to try to talk him out. we have spoken to the man who yesterday afternoon -- 10 days ago, mohammed merah came to to lose to find out how to disable a tracking device. this man has known him since he was a teenager. >> he seemed a bit more unruly than others and he did have a criminal record, but there was nothing that made me think he was capable of such atrocious acts. >> he was reminded about a conversation. >> president sarkozy has come here today to congratulate the police on a job well done, but serious questions will be asked. how did unknown fundamentalist who had long been under surveillance manage to kill seven people, and how he gather such an extraordinary arsenal of weapons that was found in the boot of his car without raising concerns of the s

his name is mohammed merah, a 24 year-old spanish citizen who was arrested in afghanistan and is known to the intelligence services. as they try to force their way into the flat, there was an exchange of fire in which two policemen were shot. the gunman's brother was arrested in a second operation. his mother was brought to the scene to try to talk him out. we have spoken to the man who yesterday afternoon -- 10 days ago, mohammed merah came to to lose to find out how to disable a tracking device. this man has known him since he was a teenager. >> he seemed a bit more unruly than others and he did have a criminal record, but there was nothing that made me think he was capable of such atrocious acts. >> he was reminded about a conversation. >> president sarkozy has come here today to congratulate the police on a job well done, but serious questions will be asked. how did unknown fundamentalist who had long been under surveillance manage to kill seven people, and how he gather such an extraordinary arsenal of weapons that was found in the boot of his car without raising concerns of the s

two weeks ago, mohammed merah appeared in court charged with a minor driving offense. it was a month -- the last opportunity to stop the man who would become the most dangerous killer in france. >> for the latest from the scene, we can cross now to our correspondent. what is the calculation of the police at this point? >> we have had a lot of police activity in the last hour. you will see behind me the street lights have been turned off. electricity has been cut in the neighborhood of his apartment. the gas has been turned off and we have seen the new swat teams. data communications in the area is switched off as well. of the signposts are they are running at of patients. the government has given them deadlines he and -- and he has missed them all. still the way. the priority is to get him out and insure they protect the police who are going in. what they do not know is what weapons are in and what explosives. they know he was a bomb maker, trained in afghanistan and their fear is he might try and take some of them with him in a final defiance standoff. >> there is mor

nobody has heard from mohammed merah for hours.that apartment last night and three explosions in the last hour. mohammed merah is a self proclaimed militant and is being blamed for a series of shootings in toulouse. >> they want to be specific that it's nearly over. police are inside the apartment now and very carefully going through. they're worried he could have set booby traps. >> if you're one of this group of police officers who is now entering this apartment, imagine, because their colleagues two days ago stormed that apartment in a night raid and were shot and injured. clear clearly it's history that it's an extraordinarily dangerous mission. the afp delivering the information that the standoff is now near over and police are inside that apartment. >>> hey, guys, i'm jeff corwin. i spend ten months on the road. rule number one, keep a carry on. if luggage is lost, it's not going to be mine. everything you need is in your carry on bag. i bring my vitamins with me. i prepackage everything. and i have it ready to go. and, of co

is a professor and academic political theorist at oxford brookes university and in leeds we have mohammed shafique he is the chief executive and founding member of the ramadan foundation all right gentlemen this is cross talk to me as you can jump in anytime you want roger i'd like to go to you first as i pointed out in the introduction this is an election year and we have seen elections all through europe since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight we've seen a significant drift to what i would call what most people would call the right ok and i must say that mr is not a cosy campaigning for reelection as pandered to the right trying to capture madame le pen's constituency and then we have this horrific incident massacre in toulouse what's the connection if any in your mind. well the connection between the massacre as you call it to lose those is. perceptible shift to the right i would say a nonexistent the fact is that the it remains to be seen how that terrible set of events in toulouse will impact on the election it could actually cut two ways you could actually. give a great

the suspected gunman, mohammed mera, a frenchman of algerian deseptember, has been cornered for almost 24 hours -- descent, has been cornered for 24 hours. he has bragged to negotiators he's trained with al qaeda. our correspondent in toulouse says president sarkozy has made it clear he wants the suspect kept alive. >> he wants mohammed mera put through the justice system so that they get the justice that they are looking for the family. so yes, that is the -- presumably that is the reason why they have taken their time with it. the other reason of course is because when they tried to assault the apartment today, when they tried to go in earlier this morning, two policemen were shot. so of course it is the safety of the policemen that's the priority here. he is cornered. he doesn't have very much room for negotiation. and they have brought his mother here to try and talk him out of the apartment. that hasn't worked. and as i say, the negotiations via a mobile phone that they got into the apartment early in the day have been on and off. at times he's told them that he intends to come ou

it's it's too early to say a person who could cut both ways ok mohammed in leeds made him look and say she's completely vindicated in her policies on immigration and the french identity project how do you feel about that she's been vindicated she claims. well i think it's very dangerous for marine le pen to jump on this bandwagon of pima nineteen muslims and immigrants what we've got to be very clear is that as france consider to be a massacre in toulouse they've got to deal with this in a responsible way and it's up to call attention to him particularly presidents because the affronts us alone to behave responsibly to tone down the rhetoric and to not demonize the whole community and faith system i roger is right this person who's carried out this terrible terrible crime killing muslim christian soldiers and those beautiful children of the jewish school only a few days ago had one mission and that was to. divide french society and we should not succeed in that and the likes of. pain. so cozy and others on the far right have got to be very careful in the record that they use and i you

accordinggto reports, he had a physical altercation witt zombbee mohammed.olice ooficer aaprehendeddthe assailant who confessed to the assault. he was charged. in court, the assailant testified it's agginst shaaia law to insult mohammed. he judge agreed. he disregarded the testtmony first lectured the victim &pcalling him a ""oofus." phristianity, he told the victim, is just a religion. but islaa is a culture. there are no first amendment protections when offeeddng muslimss the judge claimed. in other words, sharia law has priority. the judge never said a word to the assailant peacefully esolving differences. we are "ugly americans" because we're intolerant he told the victim. absolutely not. intolerant stoning homosexuals, beheading muslims who convert to jetliners into skyscrapers killing thousands. for more on this story and to read a comments visit behind tte headlines dot nnt. i'm mark hyman. coffee health benefitss the diseaseea hot up might help fight off... on fox 45 news at 5:33. 3 , 3 -

when we come back, we will be torn by the ousted president of the maldives, mohamed nasheed.tay with us. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> the tiny indian ocean state of maldives remains in a state of political turmoil seven weeks after the country's first democratically elected president, mohamed nasheed, was ousted in what he is described as a coup at gunpoint. in 2008, mohamed nasheed beat the longtime ruler of maldives, maumoon abdul gayoom, in the country's first free and alopen election. part of the vote, nasheed was the longtime pro-democracy activist who was jailed for six years. he insists the february 7 coup was led by supporters of the former dictator. the coup became news across the globe in part because nasheed had become an internationally recognized leader on climate issues as he urged the world to do more to save small island states from rising sea waters. >> ousted maldives president mohamed nasheed once held a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight

zula son of mohammed was there and at the mohamad son of mohammed same author mohammad son of morata ali i was a sixteen names of the sixteen victims here those who passed away unfortunately for mainstream media these people just don't matter as much that you have to infer by juxtaposing the extensive coverage of the killer versus the number that just gets thrown out there the number sixteen may be the viewers don't care either they think that it won't get good ratings this is information that is not easy to come by and it's understandable but now the information is out there now the other thing i'd like to mention is that we see a large amount of discussion that aims not to justify but to understand what is the could have led the staff sergeant to do such a thing the multiple tours the marriage was a financial woes a traumatic brain injury and he saw his friends leg blown off the day before the massacre and nobody out there is trying to claim that what he did was right try to defend it but we do see i think a genuine attempt to understand what turns a normal man into a monster and s

mohammed and dr. malif. they ran the underground clinic with 15 other volunteers, but they would go on video every day and say this is my case. this is why this person is injured and this is what i need to treat them, but i can't. plans were made to get cnn into homs. neal has faced the worst in iraq, afghanistan, and israel. and tim crockett, former british special forces and an expert in balancing safety with front line news coverage. >> for me, that was a very experienced, highly accomplished team. these are determined, forceful, strong willed individuals, but they're also smart individuals. >> we mapped out, literally mapped it out in every sense. >> do we have the right communications systems, how are we going to track the team? >> who are we going with, how are we getting there? ? >> if someone gets injured, what do we do? i will say this, with all of the preparation we do and all of the things we set up and the backstops we have, you're going into a war zone. you are on your own. >> i went to see my m

and also prophet mohammed met with a jewish guy. we would not have problem with jewish or christian. we're open. we're muslim. even the koran, you can choose what you want. we need to speak loudly about the dictator who is more than 50 years. you know how we use religion. gadhafi said al qaeda. mubarak said al qaeda. we have to speak loudly about those leaders with which we're receiving here with a red carpet. we give him the tools, money and it keeps coming. this is the truth. -- >> a question for the panel? >> my question, why do we have to protect about this one? why all the information? we talk about this one before enterprising, thank you. >> thank you. any of the panelists want to take that up? >> i can't answer your question. but i can at least say that gathering information and analyzing information from a quantitative point of view which is what i do and it takes a long time to make measures, to analyze them and understand what's going on. so sort of looking back we can see that there was some indicators that something was

mohammed and his family fled to jordan in fe jordan in fear for their lives. one year later, the regime continues its violent crackdown on the opposition. the number of people fleeing the country continues to rise. that is syria behind me. we're so close we can see the syrian network on our cell phones. since the uprising began a year ago, more than 7,000 people have made the dangerous journey from inside syria to the safety of jordan. most stay in small private homes provided by by charities like this one. almost all have horrifying stories from inside syria and don't want their faces to be shown. this man claims pro-government thugs known as shabitha attacked him at a protest. he says they tide an explosionive to his hand and blew it up. despite the deaths and suffering of the past year, mohammed says he would do the same again. "a lot of youths have died for the revolution the revolution in syria" he said. said. "they were kids just like me. they went to take part in those d.e.m. m d.e.m. most and they never came back." clarissa ward, cbs news, amman. >> pe

mohammed haroon ali was convicted in 2001 but the conviction was overturned. her father is former oakland raider fred biletnikoff and he says he is relieved. >> thank god we will -- it will be able to keep a person off the street and keep him away from somebody else's daughter. >> he wants people to remember his daughter as a brave, young woman. sentencing for mohammed haroon ali is in june. >>> crabber was convicted of catching crustaceans that were too small and too many of them. ktvu's david stevenson has been following the trial in san francisco. and explains how timing is everything for the bay area's crab industry. >> we apologize. those were the wrong pictures. we have david's report. let's go to it now. >> reporter: if crab fisherman, one of the rules, no matter what you find, leave the females and the runty males behind. >> we set a size limit for spawning purposes. >> reporter: a jury convicted tim lee estes in what prosecutors are calling a egregious violation of state law. tim lee estes brought 45,000 pounds of crab to this fishery in 2010. they in

merah, fired at them, the police fired back, and in the garage, mohammed merah rock is dead. there are at least two wounded police, one shot in the foot and the other suffering from shock. we did hear bursts of machine- gun fire in close proximity. we saw police scaling nearby balcony's. preparing to move in, and at the time, to see if the gunman was dead or alive. we know now clearly he was alive and he came out guns of blazing. there had been no contact or signs of life since yesterday evening. do remember, mohammed merah himself told police he wanted to die with his guns in his hands and it looks like now he had his wish, even though the police said consistently they would have preferred to have captured him alive and bring him to justice. nbc news, reporting from toulouse. back to you. >> here at home, at a shooting suspect in edgewood is behind bars. police arrested neal aaron turner and abingdon area, held without bail for the shooting of a 22-year old. he now faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault, and possession of a firearm in the commission of a fel

mohamed merah was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric . that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse is mary background she told me from now on anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promotes terrill hatred and violence will be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished. so that's in addition to sarkozy's policy of stripping foreign born criminals of their citizenship further tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france and promising to bar radical muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in the islamic conference next month the clearly appropriate thing the political extremist view is not occurring we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restricted to. what the french citizen any family came to france a very long