Hollande, Cameron visit Paris concert hall that was attacked

BBC correspondent Kevin Connolly said that alongside the expected comparing of notes on security co-operation and intelligence sharing between Britain and France, the meeting will raise the question of the scope of British air operations against IS targets in the Middle East.

A French-drafted resolution urging countries to “combat by all means this unprecedented threat” garnered universal approval tonight in the wake of the Paris atrocities.

A Commons vote on air strikes could be held as early as next week and Chancellor George Osborne said the deaths of 130 on the streets of Paris and the United Nations resolution backing “all necessary measures” were swaying the argument.

“If one looks again at the Paris attacks, what is one of the main concerns?”

Using the Arabic word for ISIS, President Hollande said: “We are convinced we must continue to hit Daesh in Syria”.

The PM vowed this week to lay out a “comprehensive” case in reply to the foreign affairs committee’s strongly-worded report that questioned the coherence of the Government’s approach.

Conservative MP Andrew Percy, one of 30 who voted against air strikes in Syria in 2013, suggested he could be won over this time.

Just over a week after terrorists attacked the French capital, Cameron met President Francois Hollande to discuss the worldwide response.

No arms or explosives were found in 19 raids across Brussels – including the Molenbeek area from where the Paris attack was planned – or two in Charleroi, they said.

Hundreds of troops have been on patrol as part of efforts to prevent a possible Paris style attack.

Citing a “serious and imminent” threat, Prime Minister Charles Michel announced that schools and universities in Brussels will be closed today, with the underground remaining shut. “School trips should go ahead”.

Cameron is preparing to set out his plan for tackling the ongoing crisis in Syria this week, in a bid to win support for air strikes against IS fighters based there.

“We have now got a stronger economy and we can choose, rightly, to invest more in our national security – more ships, more planes, a bigger navy, a bigger RAF, a better equipped army, better in terms of fighting cyber attacks and fighting terrorism”.

“People were playing dead and they were so scared – a great reason so many were killed was because so many people wouldn’t leave their friends”.

Ms Eagle said a decision on whether Labour MPs would be whipped would not be taken until Mr Cameron came forward with his proposals.

French police meanwhile released a photo of the third of three men who blew themselves up outside France’s national stadium during the rampage, which also targeted the Bataclan concert hall as well as a string of bars and restaurants.

“We have to defeat this evil”.