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

mohammed mera is also accused of killing three paratroopers last week.horities he killed them to avenge the death of killing children. outlaw platoon shawn marnell is here. thank you for joining us. >>> thank you for your insight in the developing story. breaking on the air today talk to me about the possible link in al qaeda. is there anything you have done to link to them? >> he has made two trips back to train with the county network al qaeda and the taliban. these guys have been training and doing what they do for the better part of 30 years against the russians and now us. they are good at what they do. these guys are ruthless people. they kill and torture local national afghans and we are seeing the same thing happen in france. >> the time that you spent there on the border in back stpakista he specifically claims to receive this training what did you ex can peer yens there? -- experience there? >> what we saw displayed by the fires in afghanistan is something we did not expect at all. >> your team came under fire? >> yeah. we had 85 percent casual

help to his brother mohamed was previously questions about sending goods from the front french city to iraq as a mother was released from custody without charge on friday one hundred mera died in a barrage of gunfire that is to lose apartments on thursday during a police. most scientists agree that global warming has a daily even partial seizures around the world yet the main news outlets appear to have gone cold about discussing it maybe out of the headlines but laurie oftenest asked people in new york if it's something that still burns their conscience. this year the u.s. saw its fourth warmest winter on record and europe saw a record breaking cold why is no one talking about the perils of climate change any more this week let's talk about that do you think it's still a threat to the planet yes over here especially what traffic. you know we use a lot of cars we like to pollute the earth here in the u.s. definitely you know what can you do i mean what can the individual. person do we can stop using plastic bags and turning the lights out we already knew that we really don't feel like that makes a big difference well no we do yes we do as much as we can but you know it