rory challands live in the east of paris. okay.as going to go to london to talk to a former sms man there, but we have lost that connection. i can tell you more details have been emerging of the kouachi brothers. the two men accused of killing those 12 people on wednesday. they are now thought to be inside the print factory in dammartin. they have at least one hostage. >> reporter: these are two of the faces we have seen so much of over the last two days sharif kouachi, and said kouachi. both french nationals born to algearian parents. let's start with sharif he is the youngest. 32 years old. this was him ten years ago. an aspiring rapper with a criminal record for selling drugs. he met a man who he claimed taught him about suicide bombers and martyrdom. sharif kouachi ended up on trial after missing a flight to the middle east. he was described in court as a reluctant holy warrior, nevertheless he was jailed for three years. he served half of that sentence and was arrested again in 2010. police subsequently learned he had been bro

rory we'll leaving you now. rory challands reporting for us from the hostage area. >>> joining here in is the studio is a professor, and robin i'll cross over to you in just a moment, but first remi over to you, you heard our reporter talking about the situation going on a number of hostages now being taken. why do you think is happening right now? >> it is happening now because the situation in france has been quite interesting to follow. there has been a rise of islamphobic movement and the potential -- the release on wednesday on a very controversial book talking about the potential danger of an islamic month taking over france in 2015. there has been rise of those potential criticism of religious movements, and so i guess this has activated the -- the -- this cell into those actions. especially charlie hebdo was a newspaper that was a target for a very long time. that issued a caricature of [ inaudible ] just the day before. it showed the caricature of [ inaudible ] giving [ inaudible ] especially for your g

rory challands overlooking the place de la republic.his march has two routes which are being used both of them starting at place de la de la republic. one of them is northwest, and it makes its way toward place de la bastille where they will meet the end march, taking a bit of a more direct group passing through volume tear boulevard. tim friend is down amongst the crowd at the -- in the place de la republique. you have been talking to a lot of people. what are they saying about why they are there? >> reporter: they simply want to show that they are united in this belief freedom of expression is paramount, and that they have to defend their right. some of them have done it from the precarious position of the monuments in the middle of the square. i think you are seeing this shot of this picture, temporarily blocked out perhaps by an enthusiastic poster wafer, from my colleague rory chal and's above, up above from ground level. let's again talk to some of the demonstrators at ground level if we come back down again. they likewise have th

rory has been our man there. as we look at this picture because it's better than the picture behind you we'll just bring your voice in. are you hearing anything official about what has happened there? you reported the sound of a number of large explosions, other report in the french media of what may have happened, anything official? >> yeah, the reports are coming out in french media. there's nothing specifically official that i've seen that's come from the police itself or at least named police sources. what we are hearing from the french media is that this situation is pretty much over, as well, and that a number of hostages have been released the newspaper reporting that the two suspects in the charlie hebdo shooting are dead, also saying that the suspects in this hostage situation is dead, as well. i'll take you through the chronology of the situation over the last few minutes or so, because as i was listening on my ear piece to our reporters to the north of paris where as the police stormed the buildings th

there is certainly going to be no resolution to this soon. >> rory thanks for that rory challands atlace de la de la republic. live pictures from inside the grand synagogue in paris. you can see the french president there, francois hollande has just arrived at the synagogue. there is going to be a candle-lighting ceremony. we are going to hear from both president hollande and the prime minister. i think that's the back of the prime minister's head. yes, it is. >> that's the prime minister of isis isisis benjamin netanyahu. >> this way, please. this way, please. >> we will be hering from both of those leaders within the next hour. >> thank you. >> let's go to tim friend who is amongst the crowd and has been amongst the crowd all day, term. it's you have met a whole range of people there, and they are very clear about their reasons for being there. it's to show their unity over what happened last week. >> reporter: i think they successfully have done that not only in what they have said but simply by being here sometimes, paris can appear to be a very homogenous city. but today, we hav

rory it was a shock day, not one siege but two.l 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 storm the shop. inside a single gunman thought to be amedy coulibaly was holding a number of hostages he was also suspected of killing a police woman in pa

we can go live now to our correspondent rory challands in paris.tarting with that meeting of interior ministers who is coming and what do they hope to achieve? >> reporter: we have interior ministers coming from all over europe british interior minister germany many other countries as well. including eric holder from the united states. now, they have been invited by bernard the french interior minister, they are going to be meeting in the building down the road behind me in just a few hours time. two main reasons for this meeting, one is a display of solidarity really, to show that they are opposed to the kind of ideological violence that france has seen this week. another reason for this meeting is so that some kind of common response can be formulated. so these countries can pull together sharing information share tactics and their hope is that they can reduce the risk of being victim of this kind of thing a little bit more. now, another thing that we are hearing is that the next european council meeting, which is scheduled for february in brusse

and rory, let's first talk about the meeting of interior ministers, who is attending and what are theying to come out of the meeting? >> reporter: well, they have been invited by bernard the french interior minister. we are going to have british interior minister, german inning teen your minute minister, the danish one, italian one spanish from all over europe. and the united states as well, eric holder has arrived in paris to attend this meeting too. they have come eventually because they have been invite today this emergency meeting by bernard. and they are going to be dealing with two main issues. the first one is essentially to show solidarity. to show support for the efforts against the kind of violence the ideological violence that france has experience in the last week. and also secondly, to try and come up with some kind of coordinated effort. coordinated response. we are also hearing that until february when the european council next meets in brussels, they are going to be talking about exactly this same issue. >> and further more, of course, security is going to be seriously

paris to tell us more about the boost of security forces rory?reporter: well clearly the french government is not comfortable with relaxing at the moment because it still thinks it might be some sort of threat out there. and the reason it believes that is because there is a question that is hanging at the moment a video was released online in the aftermath of last week's violence which was an explanation from bali who attacked the jewish supermarket of why he was doing what he did. now, police and the government here don't know who films and who edited that video and don't know whether that person is a threat. so this is why we are seeing this big mobilization of troops and 10,000 due to be hitting the streets pretty soon a good number of those, about 5,000 troops and police are specifically going to be protecting jewish schools here in france there are about 700 of them and they are felt at the moment a particular target. >> rory thank you for the update and reporting from paris. meanwhile turkey's foreign minister says the suspected female acco

rory paris is on a high state after letter obviously.urity presence has been augmented significantly. we are hearing about hundreds of thousands of extra security measures being put in place indeed soldiers as well. >> reporter: yeah, this is pretty unprecedented in the security services here are on a mammoth footing. on a huge lockdown for today's event. sunday will see a vast rail of people coming in to the center of paris. some people are expecting up to a million people to be here in the center of paris showing their unity their support for what france would like to consider its core values. so the police and the army are going to have to make sure that those people are kept safe. added on top of that, we have, as you say a huge number of world leaders politicians coming from all over the globe to come and show their solidarity as well. so they have to be protected too. this is going to be a big big day for france's police. we have about 500 extra troops on the streets at least. it's going to be very difficult to make sure that every

rory what more can you tell us? >> michael: well it seems like a lot of bad feeling and squabbling going into this, and there has been no agreement in the talks themselves. the representatives of the different factions have all gone off in their separate course to their own separate destinations. they have called it a failure and blamed the russian separatists for nurture to call for a cease-fire and pulling back heavy weapons. these talks have been banned. they didn't happen on friday because leaders didn't show up. they said they would not speak with the representatives that were sent, saying that these men were too low level and what they want are the leaders from the donetsk people's republic and luhansk people's republic. and the republics said that they were not going to send their leaders until an agreement had been reached and shelling had stopped and they had pulled back from the borders of that region and effectively declared a cease-fire. it seems that both sides were demanding things that the other sides

let's go back to rory now in eastern paris. rory you are near that kosher supermarket where there was another hostage-taking situation. the hostage-taker killed but another one was named, hayat boumeddiene, presumably assumed to be his accomplice. what do we know about her, and i guess we obviously don't know where she is. >> reporter: no and that's the big question. police definitely want to track down this woman. the first that we knew of her and of her name was when the police earlier on today about an hour after the hostage situation developed here in eastern paris released two names and two photos as well. the names were amedy coulibaly, the suspect believed to be killed in the hostage situation here in eastern paris, and that woman, hayat boumeddiene. now, it's believed that she is amedy's girlfriend and the two were also wanted in connection with the shooting of two police officers yesterday. a shooting in which one police officer, a woman, lost her life. now, it's not known quite how closely she was involved in that sho

rory challands overlooking the place de la republique.e have yet to receive confirmation that they've reached the end of their march. we'll have more after the break. >>> hello there from doha. welcome to continuing coverage of the solidarity mars across france. organizers say up to 1.5 million people are on the streets of paris to show they are united despite three days of horror. dozens of world leaders are showing support from europe to africa the middle east and the members members. it's a simple message. the pen is mightier than the sword. the cartoonists and policemen killed at charlie hebdo magazine. >>> i am tim friend.

live to rory chal and where the march began.eally historic day for france 1.5 million people marching through the streets of paris. >> reporter: yeah. they are expecting maybe a million and as you say, the numbers that we think did turn out far in excess of that and very quiet there down there in the place de la republic. a few hundred people around the statue. i can see candles being left in memorial mem morium to the people who died this week. very different just a few hours ago, though. this place here was absolutely crammed full of people and noise, en after the march was supposed to have started. it doesn't look like people were moving but they were. it was just that as people left the square to head on down to the place de la nation there were thousands more coming in from the side streets arrange. it's a truly extraordinary day that comes at the end of what has been an extraordinary and traumatic week for france. >> arm in arm, shuffling, maybe a little uneasily but an historic moment numone the let's, presidents prime mi

rory challands is live for us in moscow.k us through this rory. >> reporter: it's not the first time that russia's media watchdog has made a warning like this. it sanctioned news week magazine in 2006 showing the danish cartoon saga. so what it has come out to do is just remind any media organizations working in russia that essentially, if they publish the charlie hebdo cartoons they may well find themselves falling afoul of russian law, which is particularly tight when it comes to perceived fanning of extremism, and that's where this would fall if any publication did so. russia, at the moment is trying to balance itself on a bit of a tight rope. russia is still a deeply conservative country and likes to think of itself along traditional lines, and so it doesn't want to do anything that would inflame the muslim community here in russia. it has many parts of russia with muslim majorities particularly down in the northern caucuses. those have been trouble spots in the past and could easily flair up again. so russia's position

. >> rory fanning, a former army ranger who served with pat tillman in afghanistan and left the army as a consciences objector a few days after pat tillman's death, sits down with anand gopal, author of "no good men among the living," about the afghan war to the eyes of the afghan people. it's about an hour 10 minutes. >> hey everyone, thanks for coming. my name is jason. i work at haymarket books but i had the privilege of putting together events for these children many others and have the opportunity for thinking of going to come and introduce the event. we vetted number of events like this and we'll have a few more and they've all been really exciting to be part of any want to say the things about why i think if it's like these are so important, particularly today. it strikes me just walking through the world how lonely it can be, to be an antiwar activist at this moment but if there's an antiwar movement it is received as a path away from vision. it's harder to see any sort of organized action. what we are left with is mainstream media is decent if they have any debates on any of

rory fanning a former army ranger who served with pat tillman in afghanistan and left the army as a conscientious objector a few days after tillman's death, sits down with anand gopal author of "no good men among the living" about the afghan war through the eyes of the afghan people. it's about an hour ten. >> okay everyone thanks for coming. my name is jason i work with haymarket books. i have the privilege of -- [inaudible] for these gentlemen -- [inaudible] like to take the opportunity to thank everybody for coming and introduce the event a little bit. we've had a number of events like this, and there'll a few more, and they've all been really exciting to be a part of and i just want to say a few things about why i think events like these are so important particularly today. you know, it strikes me just you know, walking through the world how lonely it can be and isolating it can be to be an anti-war activist. there's an anti-war movement out there, it's certainly receded away from vision. it's harder to see. any sort of organized action. and what we're left with is, you know is the mainstream

. >> rory challenge is live, what's the atmosphere like this morning? >> martine, people are hurrying to work as they usually do, the traffic is bad as it usually is but this is a country that feels very differently. you only have to look behind me, the posters cans and flags that were left, it is of course all over the national media this morning. i have a couple of newspapers here. this is liberation, which says, we are one people. that's something that is being expressed again and again and again in the french media. but it is also a time for reflection. after the traumas of last week, as this article says, it is now the hour of questions. and that's really what france is going to have to do now. it's going to have to ask itself some rather troubling questions and try to learn lessons from the experiences it has been through. >> as jacky said in her report, it is the job of the policy makers to uphold some of their democratic freedoms that are enjoyed in france today. well that's >> reporter: well that's the thing, you can do whatever you want about

let's bring in rory challands in moscow. they are not going to happen. why not, rory?> reporter: well it seems like there is a bit of gainsmanship going on this the donetsk people's republic representative. and the luhansk people's republic representative showed up and kiev never sent their representative. this we have heard was because the separatists representatives who had been sent weren't the right ones. they weren't the ones who signed the minsk memorandum back in september of 2014, and that according to the terms of the ukraine contact group was an incorrect protocol. so essentially they said they weren't going to turn up. what does this mean? does it mean the whole thing is abandoned? we'll have to wait and see. >> okay. then what do they take with them for the next talks? where to from here? >> reporter: well the former president of ukraine and is kiev's representative he has indicated that he is now going to be flying to minsk, and the representatives who have been sent from the separatists territory territories, they have said that they might head back to mi

rory challenge explains. >> reporter: 4,000 kilometers of hardened steel through 4,000 kilometers of deepest winter. the amor main line slices from the heart of siberia passing seven mountain ranges and 11 alpine rivers on its route. this is the project that is currently enjoying a second life. >> translator: changes are very visible and they're good changes in terms of freight traffic there's more work. >> freight is what ban was built for. this level of activity is a fairly recent boom. in the early 1990, ban was judged to be uneconomical. many of the mines that this had been built to service had never been properly exploited. and it looks like in the chaos of post-soviet russia, ban would die a hard deft. >> deep underground the next shift is already working. these days, extraction companies are exploiting siberia's mineral deposits as fras as they can. >> translator: we have huge reserves of coal which need to get to consumers. without ban we cannot deliver anything. our branch line is connected to ban, to local consumers foreign countries acknowledge china and japan. >> a coloss

rory challenge, al jazeera moscow. >> it looks like russia will not be alone in reaching for stars. new year appears to be, a place for new exploration. >> after a nine year journey for space nasa's new craft will make the closest ever approach to pluto this year. over 10,000 kilometers of the surface. letting us know little of a planet. >> pluto whether we call it a planet or not the furthest heavenly body in our solar system a large body will be visited by a spacecraft that we launched a decade ago to me that's mind boggling. >> in april another craft dawn is set to arrive at the planet seres, between thing planets of mars and jupiter. the problem of space debris will also get attention in 2015. threat to satellites and the european space agency is set to test new capture technology based on fishing nets. >> the net essentially opens up and being in space you don't have any problem with drag. and when the net reaches the body of the debris the net impacts on the debris and the masses continue their courses so they wrap around and they entangle the debris in a way that is impossibl

rory challands is in moscow. >> -- for bad loans. >> rory challands is in moscow. >> the burden are the gold price and western sanctions. they have hit the russian economy. so russia is essentially coming up with some plan to deal with this. it's what they have been announcing. budgetary cuts. >> across most mysteries, that happened in 2015 in 2016 and "18 there'll be a cut in each of those years, and on top of all of that cuts made and you can see that the russian government spending - why is it doing this? it is doing this because it needs a way to battle the banking crisis and state companies, other businesses. we need assistance. to get money. essentially they have run out. that's what the government needs cash for. it is running into a bigger problem. banks going bust. it's a crisis it doesn't want. >> a lot more to come. including the israeli president addressing the nation. we have the latest. >>> they've been close training partners why is sri lanka's government reviewing its relationship with china. >>> welcome back. the top stories - hezbollah says it's responsible for an atta

rory challenge has the story on protecting high security sites. >> the best way to resist is to be open as usual. but one of hungs of places hundreds of places to need an armed guard. >> 770 schools have been identified by security services and are being protected this morning. this represents a significant effort on behalf of the interior ministry we've employed police for protection of these schools and jewish places of worship in france. >> and an announcement that 10,000 troops are rapidly being mobilized throughout the country. >> the president asks the armed forces to participate because of the threats to our inflation. that's why we have agreed with the chief of staff of the armed forces to moiblgz moinldz no mobilize 10,000 to mobilize 10,000 men. >> prosecutors are investigating whether he might also have been involved in the shooting of a jogger on wednesday and a car bomb on thursday. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been to visit the jewish supermark where coulibaly and four of his hostages died. on last dlab last de la republic, for all the outpouring of so

rory challands in paris there. >> well, editor of lemond up in live from paris. good to have you with us, it's a unprecedented number of soldiers and police. is it just about security, or is it also about making people feel more confident as they go about their lives in france? >> i would say both. of course there is a security problem. and the jewish community are birdie with the hostage incident and the killing of teachers and students in a jewish schools three years ago. this is for the security side, but politically to show as quickly as possible that the french government's response to terrorism will be massive and immediate. you have to remember that the present prime minister was before home minister, and was very very strong on security issues. >> but can this level of security be sustained? it must be costing a fortune. >> of course, it's costing a fortune, but money is not the main ingredients. they're already involved in the middle east, and other places and they were in afghanistan before and they cannot be stretched in the limits of their capacities.

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. >> i'm rory challenge at the technology park ton outskirts of moscow, at the forefront of russia's innovation ambitions. >> and in sport one of the most senior figures at barcelona is sacked by the club. details coming up with raul. a roma family in france who lost their baby girl laid her to rest after the town mayor denied them a burial plot. barnaby phillips reports. >> bleak day bleak service tiny coffin on its is on its way for burial. the events after this baby passed away are also a scandal. funeral took place in visu. the roma family had wanted to bury their child in the nearby town of channelplan the mayor of champlan was reported to state that his cemetery was too crowded and the priority should go to those who pay taxes and the baby's family do not because they are roma. actions racist. >> it is very clear they don't want any roma dead or alive. that's all there is to it. >> translator: the family is suffering just as much pain as any french family losing a baby. it is unjust, inhuman. >> maria la penne has joined the course of condemnation. >> it's a very sad story. whe

web developer and recreational fisherman rory o'connor is in sarasota, florida, visiting his parentsernoon fishing off siesta key beach. while in the water, o'connor often mounts a portable video camera to his kayak. >> i fish alone. if i catch a big fish, nobody's going to believe me. plus i can brag to my other kayak fishing friends, hey, look what i caught. >> but o'connor has no idea of the heartbreaking fish story his camera is about to catch. he's been out for a few hours when he hears something, but this is no fish. >> i looked over my left shoulder, and i saw a dog. my first thought was why is he coming straight at me? you know, i was a little worried he was going to try to attack me or something, but as he got closer, i could tell he was really in distress, just by the look on his face. i knew he needed to get out of the water, so i just grabbed him by the collar and hauled him on to the back of the kayak. i have this little milk crate that i keep my fishing gear in. so, i went over to the nearest boat to ask them if maybe they had lost a dog. you didn't lose a dog, did you?

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

but as rory challands reports in the first of our two-part series on russian science, the country ising an uphill struggle. the opening roof let's in early winter chill into the observatory. barice is used to this. he is young, a potential future star but the 569 ron mer is already well aware of the challenges faced by russian scientists. challenges that go beyond having to wrap up warm. >> there is this gap between us and the developed countries. this requires a lot of resources. i think the main policy is that science is not very important. >> this observatory here was built in the 1950s, which was a golden period for soviet science lasting through until at least the 19 sents. the collapse of the soviet union dealt a crippling blow to research here all that money and prestige that had been lavished on signits just disappeared. it drove many of the scientists who had made soviet science world beating to leave for the west. hour are the ones who stayed and their protocol jays doing now? a spanish firm that monitors monitors academic journals puts only russia's dominance academy of sc

if you go to kenyata johnson johnson.com.net or.org you'll be redirected to the web page of rory if i bush challenging johnson for his second district council seat. johnson told "eyewitness news" today he's not worried about this. >> i run a clean campaign. this is about the issue that is matter to the voters and so that's not the type of campaign we operate. >> the campaign manager for if i bush gave us a statement tonight that read in part "our decision to redirect domain names associated with councilman johnson to rory if i bush.com was simple measure to let voters know that there is a better option to represent their voice" voice". >> what do you think about bush grabbing the kenyata johnson web domains is all fair in politics. connect with us on twitter and facebook and use the hash tag cbs3. let us know what you have to think. >>> gearing up for the nfl's premier event and they have a strong message about domestic violence this year. up next we'll take a look at the new tv ad that will hit the air that is sunday. see why it's already getting lots of attention and let us know wha

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as rory was alluding to the fact there are still divisions in french society, we have this report nowzana from one of the most culturally diverse cities in france. >> reporter: this large gathering was a show of defiance a message of solidarity and a condemnation of the resent killings in paris. but behind the slogans through was distrust and fear of one another and this is the second largest city. it has been one of the most diverse societies in the country with a large population along with a sizable jewish community. some of them chose to make their identity clear, i am charlie, i am the police and i am a jew is written on some posters and they say they have long felt like targets but the hose adjust targets at the grocery store on friday was for them a sign of what is to come. >> this could have happened to any one of us to one of our sons to one of our brothers so this is terrible and that's why all the jews flee from france and go to israel. >> reporter: the authorities have been trying to calm fears after the worst attack on french soil in decades and promises of increased poli

rory challenge has the story. >> ending the siege in the kosher supermarket in vincennes. police started to storm the shop. inside a single gunman, thought to be amedy coulibaly. he was also suspected of killing a policewoman early friday. police investigation against chairve and saidcherif and said kouachi. they only had a small window of opportunities to respond here at this supermarket. and that's exactly what happens. is herehere you see an explosion as police try break in. they fire through door as they try to enter. two police officers injured and a hostage taker killed during the shootout. al jazeera believes four were killed in the operation. rory challenge, al jazeera. >> on capitol hill today the house passed a version of the bill to approve the keystone pipeline. libby casey explains. >> reporter: long standing decision making process already underway, goes against the president's authority. one of the hurdles though to that approval process was cleared with the nebraska court decision and some house members say the white house should no longer delay. >> report

efforts have been made to restore former glories but as rory challenge reports in the first of our twopart series on russian science the country faces challenges ahead. >> the open roof lets in the atmosphere. challenges go beyond having to wrap up warm. >> we have to reduce this gap between us and developed countries. this requires a lot of resources in the budget located for science, so i think the main policy is that science is not very important. >> reporter: this observatory was built in the 1950s which was a golden period for soviet science lasting through until at least the 1970s but the collapse of the soviet union dealt a crippling blow to research here. all that money and prestige had had been lavished on scientists just disappeared. it drove many of the scientists who mate soviet science beating for the u.s. a spanish firm that monitors academic journals puts only russia's dominant academy of science, and ranked the country 15th for scientific research. the problem for some are not just about money thearl cultural andthey'recultural and structural as well. >> some programs i

rory challenge al jazeera paris. >> jiles de cocove, joins us now live from brussels. thank you very much indeed for speaking with us. you predicted months ago that there would be a major terror attack in europe as a result of europeans returning home from fighting in syria and iraq. why wernt measures put weren't measures put in place then to prevent an attack we saw in france? >> what did happen in france is not directly linked to the crisis in syria and iraq. ofof course it's more a previous generation of jihadists went to iraq indeed, but in the '90s. it is a pretty long process of radicalization of people with a criminal record. it is a problem of getting access to military weapons and it's a problem of the overall ideology which inspire people. >> but why aren't security measures more uniform across europe? i mean the u.k. for example has passed laws now stripping nationals of their leadership if they go and join syria but why are these measures so piecemeal? >> i wouldn't say so. on foreign fighters, europe has addressed the situation early. we started looking a

first to rory challands, our correspondent close to the interior ministry where the european community summit is under way. first of all, it's worth pointing out that the united states has representation for this meeting, in the form of attorney-general eric holder. >> yes, that's right. in the last 20 minutes there has been a succession of dark cars blacked out window choose the champs elysees and down the road to the interior ministry. we think there about 16 a-level ministers in there. some security and terrorism ministers as well. eric holder, as you say - shows that there is across atlantic an alliance here. people have come. high level dick gnatries have come to show solidarity and support. and to bolster possession and show that they are together with transas it combats the wave of idea logically inspired violence. they want to come to some sort of common resolution on how they'll combat it. that's what they've arrived at. they are invited by bernard cazeneuve, the interior minister. we think it will last an hour, and there'll be a short statement after it. another bit of inform

. >>> celebrating 40 years, built by the young communists after the fall of the are soviet union rorychallenge now explains. >> 4,000 kilometers of hardened steel through 4,000 kilometers of deepest winters the main line slices from the pacific coast to the heart of siberia passing seven mountain ranges and crossing 11 alpine rivers on its route. this is late soviet era hero project that is currently enjoying its second life. >> changes are very visible and they are good changes. in terms of freight traffic there is more work. >> freight is what it was built for but this level of activity is a fairly recent boom. in the lathe 1970s ban was judged to be uneconomical. never been properly exploited and it looked like in the chaos of post-soviet russia, ban would die a sorry death. after a six hour shift coal miners surface into the half-light of a minus 40° dust. deep undergrounds, the next shift is already working. these days extraction companies are exploiting siberia's mineral wealth as fast as they can. >> we have huge reserves of coal which need to get to consumers. without them we

my name is rory mcman. i looked on the liberty 7 case.er the raid they searched the headquarters the total take of what they recovered was a ceremonial sword. so that signaled to me that these people weren't much of a threat. >> the operation began when the fbi received a tip about a suspicious group of men. agents struggled to develop the case, so they turned it over to a seasoned hand. a professional informant. the closer. >> i didn't work only for the fbi. i work for different agencies. i work a lot of cases. i lost count. i don't know exactly. but there were a lot. >> and you're good at what you do. >> i'm good. i never lost a case. >> the fbi surveilled the group, taking these photographs. asad was ordered to get to know their leader narsil batiste, who run a construction business. >> time is 4:25 p.m. >> this is the recording of one of the first meetings between batist and asad, asad posed as member of al qaeda, batist said his grip on reality was tenuous. >> i heard you were close to the war. >> can have no way ... >> asad ordered

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. >> rory, thank you very much. our correspondent reporting live from moscow. >>> now to spain where thousands of supporters on the far left party have been rallying in the capitol of madrid. hoping to repeat the success of the party. they want to end the austerity measures imposed by international creditors. >> this is one of the big biggest demonstrations seen in years. we keep hearing people chanting that political slogan, yes we can. a slogan that worked for barack obama in the united states, and a slogan they hope will work here. they're hoping to translate this huge turnout of the demonstration this saturday into votes in an election later this year. certainly it's rising high in the opinion polls at the moment but it's still quite a long time until people will be going to the ballot boxes and choosing their next government. >> thousands of people in pakistan have staged protests against the bombing of a shia mosque. at least 59 people were killed in the attack on friday. we have the story. >> thousands of peo

al jazeera's recovery challengeal jazeera's rory challenge has more. >> one of hundreds of places the interior prints feels it minister feels it is vulnerable. >> 770 schools and places of worship have been identified by security services and are being protected this morning. this representatives represents a significant amount of protection for these jewish places of worship in france. >> reporter: and an announcement from the defense minister that 10,000 troops are being deployed across the country. >> security of sensitive parts of the country because of the threats to our nation. that's why we have agreed to the chief of staff of the armed forces to moibled 10,000 men who -- mobilize 10,000 men. >> clearly the government feels a threat remains who edited a film of amedy councilmember whether he or she is dangerous. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visited the supermarkets whering coulibaly and four of his victims died. vast demonstration have become an attraction in the days since. the newspapers bought have just one story. a sentiment is being expressed again and aga

rory challenge has the report. >> police launched an operation to end the siege at a kosher supermarket in vincennes. a single gunman, thought to be amedy coulibaly was holding a number of hostages. also suspected of killing a policewoman on thursday morning. he had reportedly threatened to start killing hostages if police launched an operation against cherif and said kouachi in dammartin whom he claimed to know. if the escalation in dammartin en goele they only had a small window of time to break this operation, as you see happen. they break through and try and enter. two police officers were injured and a hospital taj taker killed. al jazeera believes four were killed in the operation. rory challenge, al jazeera. >> for hannah kazi the first american muslim woman to serve in the counterterrorism center. frohana, there is a possible connection to yemen for these suspects. how sphant could that significant could that be? >> that's very significantly. the younger brother said before his death he had visited yemen in 2011. and the older brother had been there prior to that or at least the

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we are seeing the picture from my colleague rory chald aned view -- rory challands's view from up above. let's talk to some of the demonstrators at ground level as they come back down. they likewise have their posters up just for a second. why is it important to be here. why are you here? >> liberty for france. it's the whole story. and like drawing or writing, it's not surprising to see everybody outside today. my family was killed everybody here is normal just simple. families across the generation. one of the thing i noticed, across religion and france as well. well i have finished with the state of religion in 1798. it's an old story. for us there's a huge separation by the religion and the development. >> you're protecting the values of revolution. >> exactly. >> what is your message to the world leaders. thank you. the one who is the muslim - i want to give the message to all of the people whose life never support terrorism, that terrorist. islam never support, killed poem. islam means peace. >> tim friend among the millions that attend the rally. >> attorney-general eric holder i

rory challands our man there.'s go back to the beginning, because this didn't happen until several hours after the incident we were talking to lawrence about. this one didn't happen until several hours later, but there is a possible link between these two. >> reporter: yeah, the police have been talking about some sort of link between the hostage taker here in porte de vincennes and the kouachi brothers. they haven't said what that link is. they haven't said whether it was a direct relationship or a friendship or anything like that or just a similarity of aims or same lairty of motives and sympathies. one thing that did point to a link was several hours into the hostage situation here the police released information that they say the hostage taker had been talking to them and saying if armed police moved against the brothers then the hostage taker here would start shooting executing his hostages. so that meant that the police at least had to deal with these two different siege situations as a whole really because

rory challands explains. >> reporter: it seems there has been some gamesmanship going on with these talkspresents from the separatists flew in to minsk on friday morning and started waiting for the other parties to rife. but kiev representative never turned up. kiev says that is because the separatists sent the wrong people. it says they will only talk with the exact same individuals who were in minsk in september. so where does this leave us? well the representatives of the separatists territories say they are happy to leave minsk, but might come back on saturday. kiev has always suggested it might be having a change of heart and the former president may be heading to minsk on saturday in which he is fairly confident there might be some sort of ceasefire signs. but of course these talks have been fraught with uncertainty. we'll have to see what saturday brings. >>> fighters from islamic state of iraq and the levant killed more than two dozen soldierings in attacks in fallujah. a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives close to an iraqi army base killing 15 soldiers. at least ten isil